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The Phil Hendrie Show

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It occurs to me that this may be old news for most people, and that I'm outing myself as hopelessly behind the curve in my talk-radio obsession, but I just recently realized that the great Phil Hendrie is now on the air in the Twin Cities. Granted it's just once a week (Saturdays from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on KSTP), but any limited dose of Hendrie is extremely good news. (This is particularly so given that his show is only available on-line at a cost of $6.95 per month.)

For those unfamiliar with Hendrie's gonzo talk radio schtick, I'm not even going to bother attempting to describe his peculiar genius. That's because Paul Cullum does a better job than I ever could in his excellent L.A. Weekly piece this week detailing Hendrie's futile attempts to get an animated sitcom on the TV. It's not easily excerpted so just read the whole damn thing.

But here's one little, locally relevant tidbit about Hendrie's tenure at WCCO in the early Nineties.

The same day he got canned from [WSB AM in Atlanta], he was hired at WCCO in Minneapolis, which he describes as "like walking into a mausoleum." Despite a plaque behind the front desk commemorating the station's many 30-year employees, Hendrie lasted only a year, bailing for the warm weather and built-in insanity of Miami and the comedy-talk format of WIOD.

(Thanks to Nagel for the heads up.)

Posted by Paul Demko at June 14, 2004 3:47 PM

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