New show clip
Updated out of nowhere! A new show clip on the Matt McBain Show Page !
Words couldn’t begin to describe…
…how terrible our tech guy is at work. Perhaps he’s just phenominally unlucky, like losing a coin toss 100 consecutive times unlucky.
Computers are bitches. Especially “shared” computers where lots of people use the same computer. I know from first hand experience. Somebody visits a questionable website just once and BAM virus or spyware! They should know better, but they don’t care because it isn’t their machine. And when you have around 20 computers being used daily by a bunch of different people, eventually hard drives are going to fail, power supplies will go out. Those things just happen.
I’ll try to remember everything that’s gone wrong with our machines in the past year or two. This will be a conservative account, seeing as how I’m sure to forget an instance or two. You tell me if it’s just bad luck.
- 6 new motherboards
- At least 5 failed hard drives
- 1 defective LCD monitor
- 7 new power supplies
- Replaced entire system except hard drive because it wouldn’t connect to the network
- Replaced hard drive for above system
- 1 Non-Genuine copy of Windows XP
- Whatever I forgot
Unfortunately it’s not just an excessivly high failure rate in the products this guy sells that leads me to believe that he’s a total d-bag. It’s the ridiculious crap that he and his employees say to people around here that don’t know any better. For instance.
“I’m installing Double Density Ram, so after this it will be twice as fast.”
“You can’t use that router because it will take up too many IP addresses.”
“That Windows installation is so old, it’s probably started deleting system files.”
If the above statements don’t mean anything to you, good. It just makes it all the more clear what kind of person or persons we’re dealing with here. Every statement is completely false, and every one I’ve overheard these guys saying to someone around here that has no idea about computers. To me that’s just taking advantage of somebody, unless they truely are that naieve.
So there’s one of two possibilities here. ONE: That I am actually better versed in technology than this guy and his employees. Or TWO: That this guy runs a shady business selling cheap and/or second hand crap as new and bluffs his way around it when things get sticky.
Either way, given his track record, I don’t know how we’re still doing business with him. But since the people calling the shots don’t know any better, I’ll have to continue to tolorate it. Just don’t touch my laptop!
01.23.07Kids these days.
So I’m doing the show right? And I get a lot of kids calling in, it’s just the way it goes.
Well this girl calls me and says, “Hey! Today is my friend’s birthday and she wants to hear ‘I’m In Love With A Stripper’.” This girl couldn’t have been but 12 or 13 years old. When I was 13, I was wishing I were old enough for somebody to give me a job. Oh well right.
I ask, “What? Is your friend really in love with a stripper or something?”
She says, “No, that was just her first slow dance song and she wants to hear it again.”
Wha!? Maybe it’s because I went to school in po-dunk ville USA, but that never would have gotten played at any of our school dances. And even if it were, I’d be pretty uncomfortable out there slow dancing to “I’m In Love With A Stripper.” What has the world come to!? I can’t believe I’m leaving my elderly years in the hands of these hoodlums.
12.13.06My second death threat.
It’s from the same guy though, so maybe it doesn’t count. I’m starting to think that this guy is the only avid listener of the show, ha ha.
Every time I put him on the air (a grand total of two times) I get people calling and saying what a douchebag he is and if I’m scared of him etc. If he weren’t threatening me with six sided dice (a.k.a. normal dice?) then maybe I’d be scared. For now I just call him, “My smallest fan.”
My first death threat.
I think I handled it well.
Check out the seldomly updated show page for the call.
New Show Clips!
New show clips are up on the Matt McBain Show page! Check them out before the world ends!
Fun commercial
Every once in a while, you get a chance to do a commercial that you can really have fun with. I wrote the copy for this and nabbed the sound effects. Brad voiced Kirk and I voiced all the other parts. My luck the client will hate it and they’ll want a boring spot with some cheezy background music, but oh well. That’s radio.
“The Show”
All right. I finally got around to getting the show online. I broke it down into seperate segments for each hour to make it easier to download. I’m not going to promise that I’ll get everyday’s show on there, but I’m going to do it as I have time. And I’ll try to get all the better than average shows, and of course some of those classic calls as well. Just click above on “The Matt McBain Show”. And enjoy!
Looks like no new job for me.
Well I never got a call back from the guys at Manhattan Broadcasting, so I’m guessing they filled the position with someone else.
Kind of an interesting story though. They actually offered the position to our night guy at the radio station, who has considerably less experience than I do. He’s never done music, never really done any imaging. He actually turned them down though, so he’ll still be working nights for us. But still, kinda weird that they chose him over me. Like I say you never know.
I’m not too bummed though, like I said, hopefully it’s all for the best. I just wanted to let everyone know that I won’t be going anywhere anytime soon. =)
07.17.06Job interview over.
Well I went in for the interview at Manhattan Broadcasting today. I don’t think it went too bad. But I don’t know how stiff the competition is either. They said they’re going to try to decide on someone by Friday. So until then, I’m just gonna go business as usual.
Pray for me and wish me luck. Not nessicarily that I get the job, but just that whatever happens, happens for the best. Thanks!