Request Line: Free Agency

INT. RECORDING STUDIO – EVENING The radio booth sits empty.  A pair of radio professional are chatting casually in the outer office in front of a massive new piece of equipment.  CONOR, THE INTERN: ...so when does she get back? PRODUCER: In two weeks.  It's been pretty great.  I've been letting the animals sleep upstairs,

Request Line: Delusions of Grandeur

INT. RECORDING STUDIO – NIGHT A producer sits outside the recording booth, sipping coffee.  A redheaded young man is seated inside the booth. PRODUCER: So I'll count it off, and then you'll be live.  I'll feed you a few interview questions to get things started, and then we'll start taking requests.  Sound good? —[door

Request Line: Outright Thievery

INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY A pair of radio professionals are standing outside the recording booth sipping coffee. CONNOR, THE INTERN: …but seriously, if there's anything here you actually care about, get it out of sight. PRODUCER: [picks up a gold-plated miniature Peabody Award replica and opens a desk drawer] CONNOR: …mmm, probably better if you

DFO Radio: Normal at Heart

Happy Valentine's Day!  My wife insists that this holiday is a ploy by BIG LOVE to make unattached people feel shitty.  I disagree, I think it's a naked cash grab (jots down note for a movie script about a bank robber who pulls his jobs in the nude).  Either way,

Request Line: Normal at Heart

INT. RECORDING STUDIO – EVENING Open on an empty studio.  The door opens and GARY KUBIAK and a PRODUCER step through, chatting happily.  GARY KUBIAK takes a seat at the booth. PRODUCER: ...and I'll be in here with you for the interview segment, and then I'll head out to the other side of

DFO Radio: Exit Music (For a Season)

This week's special edition of Request Line was intended to deliver some much-needed catharsis to those of us who witnessed the most inexplicable choke job in the history of the Super Bowl, and for myself I'm happy to say that it really did help.  I haven't felt much of an

DFO Insider Radio: Songs That Make You Want To Run Through a Goddamn Brick Wall

INT. DFO PRODUCTION OFFICE - DAY.  A pair of sleazy Hollywood producers emerge from an office.  The camera follows them in a classic Sorkinesque walk-and-talk.   RIKKI-TIKKI-DEADLY: And so after the trailer bombed, Sony tried to push the narrative that everyone who said anything negative about the film was a misogynist... DARKEST TIMELINE ZACH MORRIS: A misogynist? RTD: A