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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: orator on January 15, 2009, 06:00:37 AM
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What are some of the most creepy and disturbing calls you can remember?
One for me was when Tom was, I think, doing that lighthouse confessions segment. This one guy called up and kept going on about how he stole 20 bucks from his friend when they were younger. I don't know why, maybe just his general vibe, but that was the creepiest call ever.
Then another was when a guy called up (he sounded like a regular caller) and mentioned how he sold all his Apple stock a while back on the advice of someone, and he could've been a millionaire if he didn't take that advice. Tom basically says "tough luck, it happens", and the guy very quickly gets angry and tells Tom that he wishes he was the guy who mugged him in a parking garage.
edit: I forgot: spike calls don't count
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Do Fredricks of New Port Richey's calls count?
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Lighthouse confessions also produced that interminable call about the guy's girlfriend and the teacher. I'm still waiting for closure on that anecdote.
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I think the guy proudly running the "dead pool" at his office was pretty creepy and horrible.
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Pretty much any call from Tommert was creepy. His need to express his love for Tom. And his songs.
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Do Fredricks of New Port Richey's calls count?
Yes. The guy needs to go back in his cave.
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Do Fredricks of New Port Richey's calls count?
Yes. The guy needs to go back in his cave. learn how to quote posts properly too.
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Guy who likes scaring old people on the street.
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i would agree that the caller who confessed stealing money from his pal TWENTY years ago was off his rocker from the start. the apple guy creeped me out also- and he sounds EXACTLY like frank from weehawken (Tom mistook him for the apple guy once as well).
more recently, the woman who was turned on by Tom's voice. blegh.
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more recently, the woman who was turned on by Tom's voice. blegh.
I didn't think she was creepy, but then I'm a guy. Of course, she didn't sound sincere either. She could probably use a few pointers on delivery from Maya from Brooklyn.
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The guy who didn't wash his towels
The beer in the shower guy
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The guy who didn't wash his towels
I managed to miss this, despite being certain that I listened to that show. Can anyone tell me which episode/approximate time this call was?
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Re: creepiest calls?
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Do Fredricks of New Port Richey's calls count?
Yes. The guy needs to go back in his cave. learn how to quote posts properly too.
Martin is at least partially correct.
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Guy who likes scaring old people on the street.
The Kid's reaction to that caller was pretty great, though.
Also, I'm still amazed that shower beer is an actual thing. I mean, it's not just that one guy who does it. Other dudes enjoy a cold one in the hot shower and also reading Maxim Magazine, I guess. I don't know.
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The guy who didn't wash his towels
I managed to miss this, despite being certain that I listened to that show. Can anyone tell me which episode/approximate time this call was?
Best advice/worst advice was topic, i believe, and this guy's best advice was to wash his towels. I think.
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During Tom's audio cuddle party---
http://www.wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=12171&archive=14913&starttime=0:41:07 (http://www.wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=12171&archive=14913&starttime=0:41:07)
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Julie's calls because of her awkward pauses after every sentence, that and the loud swallowing noises she makes. It totally creeps me out. ughhh.....I can just hear her voice in my head right now.
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The hands-down winner for me is the smack-addicted Tom Waits fan who worked at that gas station. That guy was in a whole mess of trouble.
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The guy who didn't wash his towels
The beer in the shower guy
absolutely.
more recently, the woman who was turned on by Tom's voice. blegh.
I didn't think she was creepy, but then I'm a guy. Of course, she didn't sound sincere either. She could probably use a few pointers on delivery from Maya from Brooklyn.
she was creepy. her voice went from "hi, im calling a radio show to throw my two cents in" to "hey...im calling a late nite hotline...and i want to butter your bread."
and i still dont really get the maya from brooklyn thing either.
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jack nicholson should go shop for a coffin guy.. is that the same as beer in the shower? either way, him.
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Julie's calls because of her awkward pauses after every sentence, that and the loud swallowing noises she makes. It totally creeps me out. ughhh.....I can just hear her voice in my head right now.
You love it.
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jack nicholson should go shop for a coffin guy.. is that the same as beer in the shower? either way, him.
I believe shop-for-a-coffin guy was sittin' in his bedroom after a hard day enjoyin' a cold beer.
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jack nicholson should go shop for a coffin guy.. is that the same as beer in the shower? either way, him.
I believe shop-for-a-coffin guy was sittin' in his bedroom after a hard day enjoyin' a cold beer.
You all sound stupid.
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jack nicholson should go shop for a coffin guy.. is that the same as beer in the shower? either way, him.
I believe shop-for-a-coffin guy was sittin' in his bedroom after a hard day enjoyin' a cold beer.
You all sound stupid.
No, you sound stupid.
Anyway, the creepiest for me was the weird-sounding guy from Queens, whose name I can't remember, but who Tom decided was probably a major drug addict. Real or specious, those calls gave me the creeps. I'm not creeped out all that easily.
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jack nicholson should go shop for a coffin guy.. is that the same as beer in the shower? either way, him.
I believe shop-for-a-coffin guy was sittin' in his bedroom after a hard day enjoyin' a cold beer.
You all sound stupid.
No, you sound stupid.
Anyway, the creepiest for me was the weird-sounding guy from Queens, whose name I can't remember, but who Tom decided was probably a major drug addict. Real or specious, those calls gave me the creeps. I'm not creeped out all that easily.
That was Fred from Queens. Didn't he recently call in? Or was that a ghost of New Port Richey's future? OR did I dream all of that up?
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Fredericks after asserting Neal Pollack's superiority over Robert Pollard. His voice suddenly changes and he says 'Did I upset you?'... like he's inside Tom's head like Hannibal Lecter, and he's just discovered that Guided by Voices is his Achilles Heel.
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jack nicholson should go shop for a coffin guy.. is that the same as beer in the shower? either way, him.
I believe shop-for-a-coffin guy was sittin' in his bedroom after a hard day enjoyin' a cold beer.
You all sound stupid.
No, you sound stupid.
Anyway, the creepiest for me was the weird-sounding guy from Queens, whose name I can't remember, but who Tom decided was probably a major drug addict. Real or specious, those calls gave me the creeps. I'm not creeped out all that easily.
That was Fred from Queens. Didn't he recently call in? Or was that a ghost of New Port Richey's future? OR did I dream all of that up?
I believe he called and spoke to Fredericks during one of those freak free-for-alls that've happened on the last few shows.
Oh, and his name is Frederick from Queens. Show him some respect.
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It was a few months ago now, Jason called in towards the very end of the show with the most ominous tone. He said something that seemed very inside between Tom and him and then ended with "so I can laugh when I hear your voice" or something...
It's entirely possible I just wasn't getting it, but that call sounded waaaay creepy.
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Fredericks after asserting Neal Pollack's superiority over Robert Pollard. His voice suddenly changes and he says 'Did I upset you?'... like he's inside Tom's head like Hannibal Lecter, and he's just discovered that Guided by Voices is his Achilles Heel.
Perfect! Post of the week.
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In recent memory, it was that handicapped/aids prank call via the Volcano Suns people or whatever the connection was. I remember just being really creeped out by that at the time, and even more so once all the poo flew afterwards. How did the person on the phone not abort the mission like 2 words in is maybe the part that creeps the most. They thought that was working? YIKES.
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It was a few months ago now, Jason called in towards the very end of the show with the most ominous tone. He said something that seemed very inside between Tom and him and then ended with "so I can laugh when I hear your voice" or something...
It's entirely possible I just wasn't getting it, but that call sounded waaaay creepy.
was that the, "I wish I could shrink you and put you in my pocket so I could pull you out when I'm sad to make me laugh"?
yeah... though I thought it was kind of endearing as well
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The first hour of the show is usually pretty creepy all around.
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The first hour of the show is usually pretty creepy exhausting all around.
fun...but exhausting.
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In recent memory, it was that handicapped/aids prank call via the Volcano Suns people or whatever the connection was. I remember just being really creeped out by that at the time, and even more so once all the poo flew afterwards. How did the person on the phone not abort the mission like 2 words in is maybe the part that creeps the most. They thought that was working? YIKES.
Because that lady was genuinely crazy perhaps? I don't know, it was kind of scary and weird.
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In recent memory, it was that handicapped/aids prank call via the Volcano Suns people or whatever the connection was. I remember just being really creeped out by that at the time, and even more so once all the poo flew afterwards. How did the person on the phone not abort the mission like 2 words in is maybe the part that creeps the most. They thought that was working? YIKES.
Because that lady was genuinely crazy perhaps? I don't know, it was kind of scary and weird.
and she didnt sound mentally handicapped (as they intended). she sounded deaf.
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It was a few months ago now, Jason called in towards the very end of the show with the most ominous tone. He said something that seemed very inside between Tom and him and then ended with "so I can laugh when I hear your voice" or something...
It's entirely possible I just wasn't getting it, but that call sounded waaaay creepy.
was that the, "I wish I could shrink you and put you in my pocket so I could pull you out when I'm sad to make me laugh"?
yeah... though I thought it was kind of endearing as well
That was exactly it. "Endearing" huh? Sounds good.
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No Smokin' Joe's No Smokin' melt-down. Way unsettling. But I do think he's a good guy and felt bad for him when Tom would yell at him.
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Remember the guy who called up at the beginning of one of the shows this year who said he stole money from his friend?
He was doing his friend's paper route for him, and then kept the money? I think his name was Leo Carbone.
That guy.
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i was just talking about him todaybut referred to Leo as "some guy who called this radio show i listen to..."
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oh, god, I just listened to the call where James takes over the show for a couple minutes
so, so creepy...