First Calls: The Thrills, The Spills, The Horrors

[Bryan]

YES! You listen to Julie. She is a woman of the trenches.

Say what you want about her, but this girl is as entertaining as a powercaller and knows how to keep the show on it's toes.

If Erika is the Green Lantern, then Julie is Sinestro, that one with the yellow lantern.

What is Sinestro? Could you change it to Sinestra or Sinestralia? What is the Green Lantern? Why can't I be a red lantern?

[Spoony]

Thank you.

Once a member of the Green Lantern Corps, now their rival, operating under the illicit Yellow Spectrum of Colour.

It's that easy.

[Julie]

My first call was during a prolonged episode of Coffin Talk. While I was on hold, the show spiraled into a discussion of drinking alone, and who was stupid.

My roommate, oddly enough, had not let me have a beer earlier (he'd come back from the store with 3 six-packs) so I threw him under the bus and told Tom that my roommate was standing between me and a cold one. Tom demanded to speak with him and told him to Shop For A Coffin. The roommate says "your friend hung up on me. He's weird."

I let Roommate have my Best Show Fun Pack t-shirt, since he's an avid Scarface fan and I wanted to be a good sport, but he took a look at it and said "they got the phrase wrong. It's 'Say Hello To My Little Friend."

Pearls to swine.

That made me laugh! I wish we could throw people under a bus next time.

[Julie]

The first time I called was after drinking a bottle of rum left over from a holiday party. I wanted to ask Tom if Yetta could make a guest appearance sometime. Then I think I said the eff word because I'd been watching sopranos and forgot that it's illegal to say the eff word. Tom hung up on me and so I called back 11-20 times. Then Tom got on the phone off the air and yelled at me for bothering Mike. Tom scared me. I thought I wouldn't ever call again except the next week to appologize for being a huge jerk. But then a FOT told me that my calls would be good if I were more sincere^*. So I decided that I would make sincere and very bad calls every week until I was banned from making calls.













_{*Sincere=Insincere}

[dave from knoxville]

I sincerely love your calls, Julie, but I am also sincerely concerned for your liver.

[Julie]

I sincerely love your calls, Julie, but I am also sincerely concerned for your liver.

That's nice! But don't worry. I don't remember drinking as much as I say I do. Sometimes, I gargle with tequila before going home from work. I want to find out if my husband really can't stand me when I'm drunk or if he really can't stand me. The numbers aren't looking good, but my liver will be fine.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

My first call was like a "rookie hitting a double," as Tom put it.  It was a pre-topic call about John From Cincinnati.  I have an actor friend who was on the show and told me that David Milch seemed to be making the show up as he went along, which fit in with Tom's assessment.  I haven't been able to really live up to that first call - I since made 3 on-topic calls that were all pretty lackluster.  I think I just don't think fast enough for the topics.

[Julie]

My first call was like a "rookie hitting a double," as Tom put it.  It was a pre-topic call about John From Cincinnati.  I have an actor friend who was on the show and told me that David Milch seemed to be making the show up as he went along, which fit in with Tom's assessment.  I haven't been able to really live up to that first call - I since made 3 on-topic calls that were all pretty lackluster.  I think I just don't think fast enough for the topics.

Jason, maybe you should make up your own topic and call about that. It would be interesting and you wouldn't have to think fast if you already knew what to say.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Jason, maybe you should make up your own topic and call about that. It would be interesting and you wouldn't have to think fast if you already knew what to say.

We can't all have your gifts, Julie.

[Julie]

Jason, maybe you should make up your own topic and call about that. It would be interesting and you wouldn't have to think fast if you already knew what to say.

We can't all have your gifts, Julie.

It's not a gift, it's a curse.

[erechoveraker]

haha "11-20" times, that made me laugh out loud.

Julie, you started off as a contender for m(utant)oty, but in my book you're rookie of the year all the way now.

My schedule is kind of weird, and the last couple months I've finally been able to just sit and listen live, it's kind of an event now (thank you streaming xbox 360 technology!) where me and the missus sit around and laugh for 2.5 or so hours instead of watching awful tv. Part of me wants to call in sometimes, but most of the time I get that feeling is when I listen to an archived show - I STILL want to call in last August when Tom and Patton where going on about comic artists and the whole spending such and such hours drawing one perfect bicep, just for the reader to glance over the image with barely a notice. I'm not sure what I would have said had I called, but I know what they are talking about and it's really effing depressing.

I'm moving to the west coast very soon, which will possibly make listening live a little different/difficult, but I think I am close to making a call. I am sure there is a nervousness there, but I am pretty good with talking to strangers etc, and I think I could contribute too. As long as I didn't accidentally slip any toilet-talk in there - yikes.

[Cotton]

mine was pretty terrible. I guess my cell phone exploded or something while my (admittedly questionable) topic was ridiculed. Yeah.

[Steeley Chris]

I had my first call thrust upon me on this past Tuesday when Tom was talking about people leaving messes in movie theaters. My wife and her best friend decided that since I had worked in a movie theater for a few years that I would have some TBSOWFMU-worthy stories to tell, and the next thing I know the phone is thrust into my hand after our friend tells AP Mike that since I had worked in a movie theater for a few years that I would have some stories to tell (this was her first time listening so she doesn't know the quality of calls that Tom expects*). I had to tell Mike that I did not have any stories (only 'cause I freeze up when I'm put on the spot and although I do have a Ted Leo/movie theater story, it didn't fit in with the whole "people are animals" theme that Tom was running with) and I apologized for wasting his time and told him that I hope he get's to be mayor. Ew bouy. 


*but often doesn't get, and I didn't want to be a part of that. I'll call when I have something to contribute.

[Beth]

My first call was during the "getting to know you" thing. It was relatively uneventful, except I had to declare who my LEAST favorite Beatle was (I discovered to my surprise that it was actually Paul). Later, I heard the call on the podcast, and thought my voice sounded more pleasant than I thought it did.
I'd call again but I don't really feel like I have much to say.  Every now and then, I can be vaguely witty, but why should I waste Tom's time waiting for a tiny bit of wit to slip out? I just like to sit back and let the rest of you more snappy folks entertain me.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

unforunately, i dont think i'll ever call in.  ive always had this fear that i wont know what's going on.  once the phone rings, i turn the radio way down, then i fear that something will have happened that ive now missed, and WHO.  CARES.  

i miss Officer Tom.