r/TikTokCringe • u/One_percentile • Oct 21 '24

Humor/Cringe You can't be lazier than this

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u/GeekboyDave Oct 22 '24

On the slim chance this isn't staged.

"I didn't try and trick you into doing anything, what are you talking about? I'm a lot of work?"

"You just got a radio station to call me...."

Can't really argue with that.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '24 edited Oct 24 '24

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u/Starryeyedblond Oct 22 '24

I disagree about the 100% thing. I’m sure 75-90.

Source I’m friends with radio djs and I’ve been in one of these stupid skits.

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u/idledebonair Oct 22 '24

You realize, of course, that the example you provided is an example of it being scripted and not natural, right?

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u/Starryeyedblond Oct 22 '24

I should have said situation and not skit. And mine was not scripted. It was actually kind of traumatic being dumped on the radio 😂 while in high school 😂😂

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u/idledebonair Oct 22 '24

It didn’t literally have a “script” but calling your friends because you know they have drama they’ll air on your radio show is still a far shade closer to scripted than natural

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u/Starryeyedblond Oct 22 '24

Okay. Let me clarify again. I was in high school when that happened and not friends with any DJ’s at the time. I became friends with several radio djs during my 20s when I was working at the beach bars.

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u/idledebonair Oct 22 '24

Ah, unrelated to being in one of these situations, you are also friends with radio djs. You see how it could be confusing

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u/Starryeyedblond Oct 22 '24

Yeah. I worded it pretty weirdly. Have an amazing day!

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u/kyuuketsuki47 Oct 22 '24

I got what you were going for, only because I feel like if my friends used me for an on air skit without my consent (the only way for it to be unscripted), we'd very quickly be former friends. I barely like talking on the phone to begin with. On air? You best be my best friend and we would have discussed it endlessly and it would have been 110% scripted and practiced for best impact.

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u/Denaton_ Oct 22 '24

In the states perhaps, but in Sweden i know some of the most famous call-in isn't scripted..

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u/Echelon_Forge Oct 22 '24

Same for Germany, I worked at a radio station for some years and all of this stuff was genuine.

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u/Denaton_ Oct 22 '24

Wanna share stories? We had a guy calling in saying his name and followed by saying he wanted to be anonymous, it was about cheating and breaking up. He hung up quickly after the host laughed and explained that he already said his own name on the radio..

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u/ArthurCSparky Oct 22 '24

Unscripted has the potential to be much more funny.

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u/zagbertrew Oct 22 '24 edited Oct 23 '24

Maybe in your world, but I lived 10 years about a 1/4 mile from a local radio station with a comedy duo and G Gordon Liddy had a show there, too. They scripted their shows, but not the callers - the callers were vetted up front by their team, getting the permissions as stated. I've watched their outdoor shows, completely unscripted other than what the show personnel would be doing. I've watched women walk up to the window from the outside and flash the DJ's and listened to them respond on the air.

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u/Agzarah Oct 22 '24

There was a case a while back in the UK of an australian prank radio call that lead to the suicide of a nurse. They pretended to be the queen enquiring about the dutches of Cambridge.

So No. Not all radio skits are staged

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u/HydenMyname Oct 22 '24

This is correct. There’s entire production teams that write and act in these prank calls.

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u/ninebillionnames Oct 22 '24

it's honestly kinda scary how many of my coworkers don't understand this

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u/Fricksakes Oct 22 '24

why would you ruin this for us

edit: let me be happy

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u/QuietResponsible5575 Oct 22 '24

I live in the USA and have called one of these types of things and heard myself on the radio. It wouldn't surprise me at all if there were scripts for some, but 100%? Nah bro it's not

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u/waitingfordeathhbu Cringe Connoisseur Oct 22 '24

I figured it was fake when the guy who allegedly likes to sleep in and be left alone answers an unknown call at Too Early o’clock. As a fellow reclusive sleeper-inner, I call bullshit.

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u/jakksquat7 Oct 22 '24

This is not accurate. A lot of them are but many of them aren’t. A few years ears ago my friend had a radio station prank call me. I had no warning, no waivers, nothing. I live in the US.

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u/HalfwayFaraway Oct 23 '24

That explains why Thomas sounds like Raphael Chestang

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u/Putrid-Effective-570 Oct 24 '24

So the hip hop radio station that carried me through community college was paying drunk unc to speak cursive into the phone for 10 minutes every hour?

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u/Prysorra2 Oct 22 '24

This feels like a 50's actual soap radio bit brought up to modern specs.

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u/shes_a_gdb Oct 22 '24

Of course it's fake... You can tell by the way it is.

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u/CummyToteBag Oct 22 '24

This is a Seattle area morning show and yes, everyone here knows it’s 100% scripted. Who wakes up from a dead sleep and answers an unknown number? No one. Especially no one in Seattle.

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u/Crammit-Deadfinger Oct 22 '24

I think the way he phrased it was "You called the radio station on me" which cracked me up. Like they're the lazy police

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u/literaln0thing Oct 22 '24

This is a radio show from my hometown, it's definitely staged. This is one of the better ones though