Though Hendrie typically alludes to a fact that he is, in point of fact, doing a voices, auditor come invited to call for & numbers of come duped into believing that the guests on the indicate come rattling. He quickly switches back & forth between the studio mike & the conventional telephone, creating the illusion that his "guest" has known as into a indicate. Adding to a llusion, the telephone line typically features prerecorded ground noise from either various locations.

Early inside his program's syndication, Hendrie was reluctant to reveal that he was a voice behind his outrageous "guests". A sole notification to people hearer was a occasional ''"It's a goof"'' mumbled at first of the indicate. He found, notwithstanding, that when auditor knew a truth, his indicate's ratings went higher sharply, & he at present discusses a behind-a-scenes details of his indicate supplementary openly.

Hendrie began doing voices inside his program at KVEN in Ventura, California during the Gulf War when he created "Raj Fahneen," an Egyptian who demanded that George H. W. Bush bow down to Iraqis. Ensuing moves to Minneapolis and then to Miami, Hendrie further developed his indicate & inside 1996 moved to KFI, Los Angeles. Inside February of 2005, Hendrie was replaced by his flagship station around Los Angeles, KFI. His indicate has since been moved to XTRA Sports 570 (KLAC), a sports talk statiin geared other toward amusement, which based on data from Hendrie occurs as better healthy for a indicate than the political talk heard on KFI.

Hendrie has voiced characters within television & flick since 1999, including King of the Hill, Futurama, and within 2004, Team America: World Police. A select few guess his stoner-like characterization of Team United states of america's central automatic data processing system, We.North.T.E.L.L.We.G.E.North.C.E. was loosely according to his radio character, Dr. Jeff Dowder. Hendrie likewise now and againside lends his voice to fellow Premiere radio hikers George Noory, phoning in to Coast to Coast AM as a caller named UFO Phil who tells George about his various alien abductions.

Show format

Whilst Hendrie has one of his "guests" in, a opening section is ordinarily cordial, & presents an unusual premiss for discussion. inside the 2nd section, the newly outrageous element is commonly brought in to the on-going discussion, & callers come introduced. the callers come ordinarily angry & umbrageous at what a guests come discussing, & a guest commonly responds within a caustic manner. In the third section, the third & final surprise enters the conversation & typically a uproarious crescendo pitch is reached that leaves callers exhausted & enraged & auditor laughing. the caller & guest converse inside downright battleful tones, which typically becomes a surreal Good cop/bad cop routine as Hendrie hangs-higher in his guest & apologizes to the caller.

Often, ii hours of a triad hour indicate come devoted to character-depending comedy segments, in which the fake guests, voiced by Phil, interact by owning really callers. A odd hour is devoted to Phil's comment on the topics of the day, & to short comedy bits that may not occupy the to the full hour of the indicate. Periodically, 2 hours come utilized for comment & shorter bits, & just of these hour of the fake guest is performed. Hendrie's more segments include "How to Read a News Story," "Phil's Mailbag," "Flashback" (Changed to "Comedy Gold" in the 2003 month), "Phil explains the bullcrap with Frodo the Puppet," & "Life Imitates Phil," a sectiwithin in which an outrageous stunt that experienced been invented on his program was late duplicated in realistic.

Typically when you took a select few segments of the indicate, Hendrie will bring his have family opinions & comment in his life, career, & various news article. A total one segments devoted to political comment increased charted 9/11, as he has become the stem supporter of President Bush's war in terrorist act. The longtime Democrat and staunchly liberal on a total of issues, Hendrie has strongly voiced opposition to the Democratic Party as of late, accusing it of by using misplaced touch using its core constituents & failing to adequately locate with a philosophy to win the war on terror.

Beginning within January 2004, however, "The Phil Hendrie Show" decreased a total of "serious" segments inside Hendrie's have voice & returned to the commentary-across-satire which originally manufactured him renowned. He did non entirely abandon political comment inside his have voice, but, & throughout 2004 frequently mentioned that he backed the re-election of President Bush because of his handling of the war. Inside August 2005, in order to absolutely free! a indicate higher for extra character-depending comedy, Hendrie launched his have political weblog, [http://www.georgewbushisgod.com georgewbushisgod.com].

Hendrie typically promotes My Friend's Place, a resource center for homeless youth based in Hollywood, California), and donates all the proceeds from the sales of his 'Best Of' CDs to the center.

Online fan community

Phil Hendrie it used to be that experienced an active low fan community consisting of 12 of fan web sites providing hard-to-call for audio from either Phil's pre-syndication times. However within late 2001, Premiere Radio Networks began a legal campaign to close down a lot fan web sites hosting audio of "The Phil Hendrie Show," potentially pre-syndication audio. Audio is nowadays available via "Backstage Pass" subscriptions to Hendrie's site.

Hendrie's "guests"

A select few of the "guests" include:

Austin Amarka
Hard hat specializing around cabinets & could lights. At present creator of the service station within Lancaster, California. Austin is one of Phil's extra versatile & diverse characters, making his exact identity hard to describe (when it typically changes based on the bit).

Bob Bakian
News whirlybird newspersin world health organization reports on mad responses from either humans fallowing hearing celebrity gossip. Bob reported that "Michael Powell has resigned (from the FCC) so he can go on food stamps like other black people," & he was reprimanded along sustaining Phil by David G. Hall for doing a equivalent poop twice, simply that David makes Bob fly a eggbeater until a fuel diarrhea out & he crashes.

Art Bell
Real-life weekend persons of syndicated in-air & Internet radio program "Coast to Coast AM." Hendrie lampoons him ("I have news out of NASA--and it's shocking") once in a while. Hendrie opens the section by owning a parody of "Coast to Coast's" opening sustaining their have announcer, Ross Mitchell repeating Hendrie's only call for-inside total of 800-449-8686 when opposed to Bell's multiple statistics (east of a rocky mountains, west of the rocky mountains, foremost instance caller, & the wildcard line). Theme music is "Dancing Queen" by ABBA, a song Bell himself typically utilizes. Art typically advertises freaky products from either the fictitious sponsor, "Peenman Enterprises" ("But first, this from Peenman Enterprises"), merchandising items like a "Earth Handle" and the "Human Waste Chili Maker." A frequent guest of "Art's" is "General Johnson Jameson" who reports from his underground bunker "deep within the Saskatchewan Crust." General Jameson is often accompanied by his hunchback, drug addicted assistant "Igor." General Jameson was inspired by Art Bell's real guests, Richard C. Hoagland and Major Ed Dames. Therefore uncanny is Hendrie's impersonation that callers to Bell's program typically ask after "General Jameson" may go to to the indicate, tremendously to Bell's delight.

Ted Bell
Creator of the upscale steakhouse ''Ted's of Beverly Hills'', one of Phil's "sponsors", with a catchword, "We want to put our meat in your mouth" (a word "mouth" is okay, censored around weak of recent FCC crackdowns). Oftentimes interjects by using "I'm Ted Bell" while speaking to the callers. Has the chronic phobic neurosis of the handicapped, & is president of the Beverly Hills Automobile Association. Artificer of the cocktail known as the "Ted", only a super most common Rum and Coke. His meals come outrageously overpriced, however Bell typically brags that he was the number a single to put tin foil in the baked potato, & that he invented the baked potato tree -- a wooden device, in the shape of a tree, in which baked potatoes come skewered therefore that patrons will choose one for their dinner. Recently open the newly establishment, "Ted's of Beverly Hills Classy Ladies", the gentleman's club for the entire personal; men come entertained by strippers around of these metropolitan area of the building, when moms look fallowing them in another.

Logan Benson
An infrequent caller to Phil's indicate, Logan is an eight season-old toddler using dubious residing conditions & counsel. His overbearing & controlling, however lingering in the background, Granddaddy, "Papa Frank," tells Logan what to say whilst calling Phil. Two or three examples of Logan's calls: " My grandpa says that its not fair that cripple in Florida gets more press than the chimp that ate the man's weiner," or even "My grandpa says that Thanksgiving is a crock and we should have slaughtered the Indians right off the bat when we came." Logan is likewise told to swallow occasionally blue effervescent liquid - glass cleaner - by his Granddad.

Don Berman
Don occurs as lofty member of the "award-winning Channel 19 news team". Typically brought on the indicate to talk just about todays news cases, his latest investigatory stories, & more media-related topics. Don's reports come often controversial, like a favorite in adolescent swallowing & camping that, instead of only discouraging the illegal work, advised small fry in training safely have gotten at home while forgoing constabulary interference. More members of the channel Xix news team include newsperson Donna Decruz & meteorologist Goldie Showers. Recently, Don was upset that a pilot of the Jet Blue aircraft wouldn't talk to the click (Don wanted an locate). He wished that a landing devices would collapse & besides wishing that one of a callers within 1st class die whenever a plane crashed.

Clara Bingham
School administrator. One of Pastor Rennick's (letter q.v.) flock in the "Joyful Union Congregation" of Bellflower, California. Nowadays married to Pastor Rennick.

Lloyd Bonifide
Korean war veteran and RV enthusiast from Alhambra, California, Lloyd has a history of battle fatigue. There is no "monkey" should ever lay the h& in him, and that includes Lloyd's 5-month old grandson. Lloyd will bring his Korean War case into each facet of his life. Lloyd has been altogether kind of extreme situations (universally escalated by Lloyd), including seeing the human die fallowing the thrown nickel hit him between the eyes when you took a poker. Lloyd consciously stores loaded pistol all about his home, typically in situ in which he is belike to snub the children. Lloyd says this causes the higher state of situational awareness, especially whilst his grandson visits, that assists Lloyd stay mentally sharply. In many occasions once he was fictive hang on to by Phil, Lloyd has managed--apparently across sheer inflict of might--to claw his way back on the air. Recently, while on the air sustaining Chris Norton, Mr. Bonafide revealed that he did stag films in the 1950s and was "The original Hugh G. Rection." Recently, Lloyd let his grandson & the friend play using unloaded shooting iron. This had Lloyd around pain when a boys pointed a guns at one of his neighbors & she fainted. This neighbor fainted because 3 months ago, her hubby shot himself in their sleeping room & whilst Lloyd heard it, he good muttered "Corruthers..." It was afterwards revealed that Lloyd was getting an affair by having Mrs. Corruthers & that is what stimulated Mr. Corruthers to commit suicide.

Steve Bosell
Emotionally fragile creator of "B&B Construction" of Corona, California and frequent litigant, originally from Murfreesboro%2C_Tennessee. One of a indicate's virtually all popular guests, Steve admits "weeping" at a cold-shoulder humiliation & ofttimes threatens to sue his married woman for emotional trauma. Around of these bit, Steve accused her of eating Mexican food before breastfeeding their baby & allowing it within his care. Whenever a toddler loudly soils its young child wrap in the period of a visit to the bank, Bosell concludes that his married woman planned to humiliate him by feeding the baby Mexican food via her breast milk. "B&B" stands for "Bosell & Bosell." Steve is not in business with his father, son, brother, uncle, or anyone else. A "B&B" is supposed to represent the intensity he brings to his business: "Bosell and Bosell yet again, just non-stop Bosell comin' at ya." A common target for Steve's lawsuits is his neighbor, Roy Hutchins.

Colleen Kristin Brewster
Travel professional & immature businesswoman. She has "tragically hip" fashion feel (believe banana yellow pantsuit) & is an everthing-well-rounded slut. This character was hard for Phil to perform & there is no protracted appears on the indicate.

Darren Browne
A General Manager of Air America, an affiliate of the Phil Hendrie Indicate, inside Pierre, South Dakota. Bud Dickman hates him for "talking weird" & ceases higher running through the phone & killing him each period he's in. In the side-note Darren Browne utilized to exist as Vic Prell the character Phil has done from either his Miami times & early times in KFI.

Rudy Canoza
Amorous Argentine intimate apparel store creator. His fancied dress shop is known as "Je T'aime Lingerie" in Sherman Oaks, California. Known for his intimate are-in, "la-la-la-la-la," which he claims is utilized by a lot Argentine men. Rudy has the foghorn installed at Je T'aime Intimate apparel to alert him or even one of his employees once the "fat" woman (large than size Ten), or even whilst the short woman, enters his store. The recent addition has been the gong installed inside Je T'aime Intimate apparel to alert Rudy whilst the "Jap" enters his store because it counterfeit his designs after it require pictures in the store.

Chef Carl Chodilli
An infrequent character, Chef Carl occurs as cookery indicate hikers whose improbable girth prevents him from either speaking into a mike for to a higher degree two or three seconds, when which he wheezes uncontrollably. His rambling & unpointed formula universally require excessive numbers of fat & sugar. Chef Carl sounds remarkably such as Roland Schwinn.

R.C. Collins
One of Hendrie's virtually all popular characters, Collins occurs as immature pubescent cadet attending "Bradley Military Academy" in Altadena, California. R.C. has the super hanker story arc that has stretched for many years. A character actually "died" of the uncommon nephrosis around 1998 however was noticed alive & swell at the KFI "Radio in the Park" event many weeks late. At a instance, R.C. was the Satan-worshipping goth since he claimed that "Jesus didn't give him a good kidney." He was the popular student world health organization played high school basketball when wearing the top hat, a melanize cape (using "R.C." embroidered within red letters) & when carrying the staff. R.C. has experienced his section of medical problems when accept his mother, world health organization was universally intoxicated & passed out & non the part of his front yard life. He misplaced the testicle as a result of the loss of his kidney, thus suffering for years subsequently by having "phantom nut." R.C. experienced the short stint in air working for Phil doing "The Force Report" sustaining Bud Dickman prior to a release of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. A pair mostly got within pain & took doses & seldom had anything to say just about either a Star Wars picture show or even a fans waiting outside a "Chinese Man" Theater. R.C. & Bud were as well allowed to hikers their have bowling tournament, which it known as "The Spooge Demon Open." The previous student of Chatsworth High School, R.C. today attends Bradley Military Academy under a watchful eye of Commandant Harvey Wireman, R.C. has there are no email by using his mother however expects "father to send for him" at any moment to exist as shop foreman within his dada's mill. Universally image conscious, R.C. garbage to ride in the tumble-down car of his friends, on to the two when "beaner-mobiles." R.C. may typically include his friend Chris Sorensen within his exploits.

Comb-Over Boy
The send-put-on of talk indicate persons Tom Leykis. He recently "killed" himself due to the fact that he "sucks" & "is ugly." Notwithstanding, "Comb-Over Boy" hwhen processed the comeback as recently.

Doug Dannger
Newspaper columnist of the fictitious "Orange County Courier." Since coming out as a homosexual, ofttimes proclaims his status as "a gay man and a gay journalist," though a proclamation is seldom relevant.

Bud Dickman
A indicate's mentally insufficient intern and friend to R.C. Collins. Typically rats out Phil to David G. Hall. The fast fan of Dr. Laura Schlessinger, or as Bud calls her, "Dokor Lor." Bud has a zinc plate in his skull (and brain damage, as well), which is the result of a motorcycle accident that sent him head first through an oak tree on California_State_Route_33 on the way to Ojai, California. At days, David G. Hall allows Bud to exist as Phil's in-air "sidekick", universally by having fatal resolutions. Bud was "fired" from either a indicate around 2004 however was brought back super quickly due to fan uproar. One of Bud's solo bits is "Bud's Radical Nascar Chrashes," where he goes across, when a title implies, car crashes when you took a virtually all recent Nascar event. He besides has inherited his personal's chocolate manufactory (along sustaining the real total of money) that produces, among more confections, the line of confect known as "Little Dickmans." This page wwhen revealed when Phil began to fire him over agaaround in mid-late 2005; but, this popular character is however as much the a share of the indicate as he has ever been.

Bobbie Dooley
Busybodied president of the gated community "Western Estates Homeowners' Association" of Westlake Village, California and arguably the indicate's virtually all popular character. Significant other "Steve Dooley" is the vice-president of American Estates world health organizatiin oft cuts around on conversations however says super little, mostly supporting his married woman's statements. "Bobbie" makes the trademark, recurrent "mmmmmmmm hmmmmmmm" noise once listening to the callers, which virtually universally annoys the babies. Her father was the circus clown & her mother the cyprian. Hendrie typically does "Best of Bobbie Dooley" shows when you took holiday periods.

Jeff Dowder
The stoner, a drummer in the band "Darkhorse" (aka Darque Hoarse) & Prof of Mechanical Physics at Caltech. Jeff is according to real-life crony "Sundown" from either Hendrie's times within Miami. Jeff is advocate of the medical utilise of marijauna. He typically demonstrates his drumming survive on the air, commonly incorporating various "jazz modalities;" he frequently pauses for bong hits. Jeff has the friend known as Toby Beau. (Jeff hwhen too been known (inside at least 1 bit) as Dr. Jeff Raley.)

Vernon Dozier
High school footbcompletely coach, mathematics teacher, & all-all-round hard guy world health organization when expressed his want to propose to one of his students in the period of her graduation.

Dr. Dean Edell
Real-life radio talk indicate doctor. Phil lampoons him & his hair, the lasting Seventy's-style perm.

Raj Fahneen
Raj is an Egyptian and Phil's first "guest," performed around a period of the 1st Gulf War to incite population to call for in. Raj has a hard period grasping the elaboration of Western culture ("you mean it's not okay to wipe my dog's ass with the American flag!?"). He typically tells callers to "shut your mouth" & accuses native-born Our contries citzens of caring extra just astir offerings at convenient food eating house than it run about their have Constitution. Raj is noted for unrelentingly request Phil's callers, "Do you super-size?"

Margaret Gray
This character "writes" the celebrity editorial known as "A Little Bird Told Me;" overbearing mother of child actor "Jason Jay Delmonico," so known as when Margaret saw the pack of Delmonico steaks in the supermarket. "Margaret" tends to incite callers by blaming any & everthing of the globe's complaint on President Bush.

Frank Gray
Margaret's hubby, world health organization has be the additional green character late. He is an aged, wheelchair attached, Cutty Sark blended scotch drinker who might never buy ice, & has pain using the pronouns he/she/him/her/etc. ''i personally.e. "My wife Margaret, he's a real ball-breaker."''

Bob Greene
Creator & CEO of the Southern California grocery store chain Frazier Foods & creator of the $20,000 hair technique (He insists these are Non the toupee). Bob oft invades into a lasts of his employees & seems to have a lot of pain as an employer. He too has difficulty while it comes to charity, creating computer program for hot-button is the causal agent of so complaining once it doesn't positively impact his business. Bob has the Porsche Boxster that he causes residence & blows off steam, camping in the left lane, slowing higher sooner traffic, honking, flashing his lights & with the blow-higher doll simulate oral sex in him when he is camping. Bob Greene is modeled when the rattling individual, world health organization was station manager at WIOD in the period of Phil's stint around Miami.

Art Griego
Personal pilot, effective friend of D.B. Cooper and a former minor league first baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Larry Grover
Previous president of "Conservatives of Kern County;" currently resides on the service porch of his mother's page. His marriage fell apart when he was devoting his each wakeful microscopic to receiving President Bill Clinton impeached. Enjoys expert, fresh, Christian sex, which according to Larry, takes partners to exist as fully clothed (except certainly strategical areas), polymer diaper, & apply of various home cleaner for fresh-higher.

David G. Hall
Phil's overbearing boss according to his program director at KFI. Nowadays, "Hall" is unremarkably known as "vice president of syndication." Universally with "the hot seat dusted off" for him by his superiors after it appears he might't control Phil's indicate. "Darth" Hall's appearances come today heralded by The Imperial March from Star Wars.

Burt Jerome

Paul "Tubby" Lane
From either a rural South, Paul Lane occurs as NASCAR and sometime SCCA racing veteran. Has the phobic disorder just about speed otherwise he would develop been effective. Tends to offend Southerners particularly by having his gay-oriented ideas of training promote NASCAR, including "Dinner With a Driver" in whichThe fan might enjoy dinner, night beach walks, & the shower by having their preferred driver.

Mavis Leonard
African-Our contries woman similar to Clara Bingham. Throstle typically has pain by owning her nephew & is fond of singing old Negro spirituals.

Hal and Viola Levolier
This semi-wealthy out few come universally in their personal plane - listening to Phil whom it absolutely adore - when darting to such site when Laughlin, Nevada. Hard-hitting fighting every more for control of the plane's telephone, a few invariably stalls the aircraft and it "die" within the crash fallowing every appearance.

Father James McQuarters
Irish Catholic priest who comments around todays cases in the swingy clodhopper which at times drops to the like dark, threatening register. Father McQuarters is known to drink to your hearts content patch on air, commonly ingesting the "snort" of Makers Mark or even Johnnie Walker, in time sucking down himself to an opaque state. Recently, Father McQuarters voiced that he thought he "had a shot at being Pope."

Chris Norton
"Sessy" ("sexy" to professional people & pine tree state due to the character's speech impediment) telemarketer and an aspiring porn actor. Chris has a good friend & business manager known as Lance Germane. Their effort generally use hard homosexual overtones, but Chris is universally oblivious to this. He has pain pronouncing "x" sounds (which sometime infuriates Phil), prefer whilst he talks just about "the sissies" ('Lx's), "sessulaity" (sex), or even existence "essited" (excited).

Dave Oliva
An aspirant LAPD officer and resident of Monterey Park, CA who frequently berates older humans. Creator of the Chevy El Camino with tuck & roll seats, Chi Chi balls in the mirror and Mambo #5 on the tail window. Dave occurs as student at L.The. Mission College & often misinterprets what he has learned within his classes. In of these occasion, spell ingesting the Constitutional Law class, Dave tested his First Amendment rights by yelling "fire" during the 10:00 PM showing of The Mummy Returns in Montebello, CA, resulting in many injuries to the movie-motiin-picture fan, including an older woman world health organization was hurt on her walker. Upon existence arrested, Dave criticized a Montebello police force when existence "small-town cops," & told the babies that because he was an aspirant LAPD officer, compared his arrest to "arresting one of their own."

Earl Pants
Owns & operates "Earl Pants' Automotive." Earl hosts "Car Talk" sleep in Phil's studio. Don't bother to choose the "Jap car" to Earl's shop as he has the circle private road you could good circle the "Jap car" away from his shop. As well, don't say them words he hates: "mint condition."

Don Parsley
In the wake up of any natural disaster or even terrorist attack, Phil will require the call for from either the gentleman known as Don Parsley world health organization claims to use wasted his married woman in the tragedy. Don claims to non require charity, however typically accepts Phil's offer to solicit contributions from either a attender, if only for Don's tykes. When a section progresses, Don might decline everthing offers of assistance that are non cash money, he might forget his married woman's title, the list & total of his kids, & usually reveal himself to become a complete fraud. Around of these section, Don claims to own misplaced his married woman in a period of the Up to date York City blackouts. Late in the section Don reveals that when you took the blackout, his married woman got looted an electronics store & tripped above the power cord of the TV she was carrying away, so falling midmost of a street & having hit by a car.

Pastor William Rennick
Boisterous African American Pentecostal minister from a "Joyful Union Congregation." He'd "bend over for Jesus." Hubby to Clara Bingham, it each enjoy whirlwind vacations in the Holy Land using the church's money. Another time bought the gun & silver bullets for Halloween to defend himself against the werewolf. A Pastor Rennick character has brought Phil occasionally criticism for existence racially insensitive. Inside a single pre-syndication bit, Pastor Rennick was trying surrogate supplementary African U.s. interest inside spacefaring by lobbying Congress to rename N.A.S.A. to "Niggers! Astronauts! Space! All Right!"

Brad Rifkin
The sleazy man of affairs world health organization comes on the indicate to promote confutable ad blitz & fundraisers. When you took a Terry Schiavo controversy, Brad created a hoarding for a bottled-water supply company which featured the catchword, "blink if you're thirsty." This character was known as Brad "The Booger" Bellmante in Phil's WIOD Miami Indicate. Brad "The Booger" hosted a "Beloved Buffalo Bills Report" & would typically draw a ire of fans of a hometown Dolphins by insisting that the Dolphins "stink". He another time reported that Dan Marino had died because "he got the gout".

Dr. Jim Sadler
The veterinarian/dentist/psychiatrist sustaining interesting views in women & religion. Inside recent years, Dr. Jim has been working out, a better to "oil up" & intimidate others by using how else ripped he is. Dr. Sadler is 50+ years old, & is married to the 20 month old woman.

Jay Santos
"Brigadier Admiral" in the "Citizens' Auxiliary Police" (Catchword: "We Take a Peek Over the Shoulder of the Police") of Hawthorne, California (originally from Philadelphia). His uniform consists of the blue armlet, the pith helmet, Bermuda shorts, and Doc Marten wingtips. An dictatorial, busybodied "rent-a-cop," Santos' shibboleth & excuse for his behavior is "It's About Saving Lives." Jay gets his marching orders from either Major Elvis Newton, commanding officer of the Citizens' Auxiliary Police. Their "life saving" duties include at random frisking teen girls at shopping malls (to prevent shoplifting), and conducting manditory gynecological exams on female automobilist (because distraction due to vaginal paaround may effect in the car crash).

Roland Schwinn
Morbidly corpulent at V'11" and 395 pounds, Schwinn is also a nudist. Owns and operates "Camp Bountiful" where kids can eat all the junk food they want without feeling guilty.

Herb Sewell
Criminally insane individual rehabilitated after a long stay in the California state mental hospital in Atascadero. "Herb", an admitted child molestor, comments on high-profile criminal cases from his rather unique point-of-view. He frequently punctuates his commentary with fits of nervous laughter which in turn unnerve the callers. Often mentions his friends Walter Bellhaven and Randall Toomey, both still at Atascadero, and the fact that they'll never let them out.

Skippy and Frank
Two morning "shock jocks" who are invariably fired from their jobs at the ends of their segments. Unable to land jobs in major radio markets, their "indicate" originates from some of America's most rural markets, each one a little smaller than the last.

Tsunami Sam
A blues singer who sings songs that Phil interrupts because they are inapropriate. (i.e. "A Candy Human" in memory of Pope John Paul II). Sam always shoots back that he's being interrupted and/or forcibly removed from the studio because he's black.

"Brass" Villanueva
A proud, young Latino from East Los Angeles ("mi barrio") who claims that he's not allowed to speak Spanish because he's "oppressed" by the Anglo culture, though Brass is invariably clueless about particulars of his own heritage. Obsessed with neck tattoos. Recently, Brass invented the Zapata Tube after receiving CPR due to near-drowning at a local beach. His girlfriend accused him of being homosexual because another man placed his mouth on his. Brass' skewed sense of honor compelled him to return to the beach and spit in the eye of the lifeguard who saved him. The "Zapata Tube" (a CPR mask with a 3 foot tube) was proposed as a "non-gay" method of resuscitating a Latino.

Dean Wheeler
New-age, Birkenstock-wearing, America-hating, yoga-teaching apologist from a Northern California political activist group. In a previous incarnation, he was the spokesman of the Kentucky Tobacco Growers' "Tobaccy Truck" which allowed kids under the age of 18 to get free "tobaccy" if they had consent of any adult, even Mr. Wheeler.

Harvey Wireman, Esq.
World War Two veteran, retired lawyer and commandant of R.C. Collins' military academy. Harvey also hosts "Senior Chat" and "Law Talk" live in Phil's studio. Harvey has chronic problems with his throat, usually claming to have some sort of "cheese wedge" lodged in his throat and requests a "thin plastic bottle of squirt" to help dislodge it. He also has very poor eyesight, which causes him to struggle to read "copy" for his segments, once misreading the name of former New York City police chief Bernard Kerik as "Benaboo Keggie" and Bill Cosby as "Buck Cornwall". This character is based on Hendrie's late father.