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[Kyrei]

It was interesting to see on this week's "Penn & Teller's Bulls [clap] hit" that "venting" actually increases and prolongs anger. The episode was on "Anger Mangement" and I couldn't help but think of many of the poor souls here on Dave's. In a (real) experiment, people were subjected to an anger inducing situation, then half were encouraged to take their frustrations out on a pillow. They were all then asked to fill a jar with hot sauce (ostensibly to be given to the anonymous person that made them angry) and fill in a small questionnaire that contained words with blank letters... (e.g. CHO_E, KI_ _, etc.)

The results were very strongly in support of the notion that those who were left to sit and stew about their anger, eventually letting it fade, chose less hot sauce, and filled in the words like this: CHOsE or KInd. On the other hand, the venters handed out much more hot sauce, and filled in blanks like this: CHOkE and KIll.

Neat huh? I wonder how psychotic this board is making many of us?

[Qinella]

[RACETRAITOR]

I haven't been enjoying Penn and Teller lately. It seems like all they do is pick an arbitrary idea and then insult one side as much as possible. I think it's stopped being useful like it was when they went after pseudoscience and religion. Plus, I really don't watch the show for nudity. Unless it's central to the topic, it really seems like a waste of time.

[Kyrei]

I agree, they are being too glib and "hey look at me be shocking" this season. I think the writing and creativity has really slid, and I blame it on the radio show, which I really enjoyed. I think it took away the thunder of the show. Penn needs to step back and regain perspective. This episode was one of the best of the season though, along with the "Butt-hole cleansing is bulls[clap]hit!" one. Of course the actual "breasts" episode was good, the rest is gratuitous.

[RACETRAITOR]

I think they're running out of topics.

The anger management one kind of bored me so I was surfing on the Internet while I watched it.

[mindmetoo]

[Kyrei]

[RACETRAITOR]

I encountered an interesting loophole in broadcasting law when I had a radio show in Edmonton. You can swear if it's the name of a band or a song. So for instance you can say "Anal Kent" on the radio if you're going to play one of their songs. Probably the only reason anyone would ever play an Anal Kent song, actually.

[Kyrei]

Once on my college radio I played an entire theme set of songs containing the word *beep* in the title (the "F"-word to be clear). Unfortunately that was the day a bunch of lil' ol' church ladies listened to my show and it was one of (I believe the 3rd to be precise) times I was thrown off the air. I manged to get suspended 5 times in 2 years for such silliness. Whoo Whoo... "Viva la Revolution"!

(pppssst... name the band that sang that and I'll give you a cupie doll).

[RACETRAITOR]

I did a midnight to 3 show for a few years and you wouldn't believe what we got away with. Our worst shows were New Year's Eve because we knew none of the station staff would be listening. I recall on-air karaoke, as well as letting my friend Adam rant when he was so drunk he could only make strange sounds. He was on air for about ten minutes with background music, and we even got him to interview a musician in that state. Another time, I decided to host a radio show dedicated to playing commercials, just introducing commercials like songs and playing them. It was during that show I invented my on-air persona Screamin' Dave, where I'd basically just move back from the mic and shout instead of talk. It was common we would run from midnight to 8 on New Year's Eve. Terrible, terrible radio. I can't believe we never got caught.

[Kyrei]

ahh... midnight college radio... good stuff.

"Coming to you live from the Mac campus, with 50-thousand milliwatts of power... CFMU.. the voice of Alternative Radio"... the average lightbulb put our more energy than we did, and was probably more interesting to listen to. My favourite time was interviewing "a band" called CRI - Cranial Rectal Inversion, which I still intend to use as a band name whenever I learn to play an instrument. Of course it was my buddy and I with lots of stupid accents doing the schtick, but one drunk fool kept calling us to see where they were playing. Hee hee... college fun. High on the radio.

[RACETRAITOR]

Our station had considerably more reach, covering all of Edmonton and a good half hour out of town, and now broadcasts online. I was told at one point, for my late-night slot, I could expect 75 listeners to tune in every hour.

Worst thing I ever did, I had my sister and her friend on the show and would force them to read PSAs about sex. They had to take turns, because every time they reached a sex-related word, they would burst into laughter and the other would pick up the slack. It would go:

A: This weekend, the Institute for the Study of...(laugh)
K: ...Sex is having a conference on...(laugh)
A: ...Sex and a woman's...(laugh)
K: ...agina. So if you're free...(laugh)
A: ...come down to room 222.

The lead singer of the Wednesday Night Heroes called in and was disguising his voice as a drunk old native guy (I said it wouldn't be pretty) complaining about the girls talking on the air. I knew who it was so I hit a button and put him on air. So now it was two girls giggling about a probably serious PSA with a guy doing an impression of a native calling them every name in the book. They didn't have headphones so they didn't know what was happening. I can't believe I got away with that.

[Kyrei]

However, back to the point of the thread: Venting=anger prolongation. So, for all you "i am only venting" posters out there... you are doing yourself a disservice. It turns out that the hippies were right and you should just let things slide... water on a duck's back...

*beep* that! It is much more fun and satisfying to scream, shout, beat the living shit outta something when anger strikes. Maybe we should start a poll about it.

[mindmetoo]

My own campus radio show days: we did a comedy radio show. Long story short, a midget wrestler and the owner of a show cat were both looking to sue us and the university.