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And I will admit, I fell for Hendrie . . . more specifically, I fell for Ted Bell, who was complaining to Phil that his wife was mad at him because he took a cell phone call during an intimate moment, and she shouldn't be mad because "I'm a busy man and can't stop my business just because we're doing it!"

"At Te-e-ed's, we want to put our meat in your mouth!"

My hand to God, I was picking up the phone to call Hendrie and tell that jerk what I thought of him . . . and then Doug Dannger, gay man and gay journalist, came on, and something whispered to me to check it out online.

I was THIS close to making an ass out of myself on national radio. Ah, well, there's always time for that later.

Yep. And Hendire is a riot, no question! :-)

Sometimes I am too cynical, I admit. I saw a documentary once called 'American Movie' about this independent filmmaker making what appeared to be one of the worst horror movies ever made. Throughout, I was convinced the whole thing had to be a put on. The guy was almost impossibly bad, and his friends/cast were almost like parodies.

It was all true.

Part of this habit of mine, and I freely admit I can be wrong about Savage, is my mentality from being a fan of pro wrestling since age 7 (30+ years). In wrestling, paying fans are derided as 'marks.' Its an old carny word and the definition ranges from 'paying fan' all the way down to 'sucker,' and down below 'idiot.' It's a pervasive mentality in the business. Anyway, wrestlers tend to grow so jaded about things that they come to recognize that everything is a 'work' - that is, a put on, predetermined, etc.

They go too far, but that doesn't make them wrong necessarily any given time. Pro wrestling mentality figures that most boxing events are 'worked,' most football games are 'worked,' many baseball games are 'worked,' etc. It's a funny kind of cynicism, to be sure. But its easier for them to believe that something is a put-on, rather than legit.

It's a mentality I share from time to time, I admit.