It's that time.

Lock and load.

The Michael Vary Show is on the air. When I started in radio, I was told by a longtime radio insider, do not measure quality of your program based on the number of calls.

And, hold on, water break, wrong.

Do not measure the quality of radio based on the number of calls.

And he said, you know, if you're wise, you will study shows around the country.

And you will hear people who have a lot of calls, but it's terrible radio.

And Russ used to make fun of Alec Baldwin about this.

Alec Baldwin would say he could do a radio show.

He could do a radio show.

So they let him do a radio show.

And 15 seconds into it.

He said, do we have calls?

And it's a running gag in our business that it was the biggest flop ever.

It was worse than Barack Obama's first pitch at a baseball game that, you know, ended up in center field.

It was, oh, you have it?

Oh, here we go.

When we come back, oh, we have some time.

Oh, great.

We're going to, when can we take some calls, Ivan?

Whenever we want.

Do we have calls that are on there now?

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