Mike is volatile, and so goaded he will spend considerably more time doing things that turn a lot of his audience off, instead of things that turn his audience on:
Mike is good at beating up on libs, recalling his boyhood past, and recounting the merits of dogs, boating and food. In fact, Mike Savage is so good at those things that he doesn't even have to try --that's how he built up a national audience, and before that, an audience in San Francisco, of all places.
So goaded, though, Mike will submit to his own natural vindictiveness, and he will spend time on things that turn his audience off:
Mike will lash out at people who his base might not devote listenership to, but with whom they share many, many ideas; Rush (listen to him very little --I hate golf), Levin (I listen), Hannity (nice, but a younger knock-off of Rush), BOR (whom I completely hate). These are just the first names that occur to me.
Levin should attack:
1. Small dogs, e.g. poodles
2. Yachting
3. Rockstar energy soda
4. Marin county
5. Meatballs
6. Fiji
7. Poetry
8. Skinny-dipping
9. Herbal nutrition stores
Use creative combo's:
"I was going to eat a plate of Italian meatballs washed down with stale, overpriced energy drink, but instead settled for grilled poodle." "I was going to run over poetry-spewing skinny-dipper from Marin trying to swim to Fiji, but I felt sorry for his little dog..."
Lots of combinations are possible --put your writer on it to include as many elements as possible in plausible combinations.
Mark, why do you put up with people who ASK YOU HOW YOU ARE...? Think up some savage retort, or simply hang up on them --they'll catch on....
You'd think the screeners would instruct the callers to avoid asking such like the Medved screeners do.
And then just listen to the crickets a little, and then since airtime is scarce, if they still don't wake up just say, "We must have lost his signal.." and MOVE ON.
I am so sick of people asking you how you are...you must be tearing your hair out.