Amy On The Radio

[ShayP]

I still didn't get the flaming hand scene....aside from (of course) the entire film. 

[ShayP]

Thank You ShayP, but it doesn't match my decor.

Why so formal after these years?  Just go with Shay....relax....can I get you a drink? 

[Walks_At_Night]

This is the type of guest Noory would have on for a segment. 

Amy is doing a fine job with the interview so far.  She's pretty good at it.   

[ShayP]

LMAO! @ "The women were just told to show up in the desert."

[Walks_At_Night]

LMAO! @ "The women were just told to show up in the desert."

Hey Baby.  You're looking mighty fine.  Wanna be in a major motion picture?   Show up in the desert Friday 'bout 2:00PM

[ShayP]

Too bad some of the west coast peeps aren't here.     Bitching about it being too early and such.   :

[Walks_At_Night]

Did Amy mention who the guest is tomorrow night?    I sometime  listen to  Mallaird  at 9PM on Tuesdays.

[ShayP]

Did Amy mention who the guest is tomorrow night?    I sometime  listen to  Mallaird thing at 9PM on Tuesdays.

I haven't heard anything yet.

[ShayP]

Okay...there's the open lines prompt again.  I heard that about 20 minutes in....first commented later. 

[Walks_At_Night]

Okay...there's the open lines prompt again.  I heard that about 20 minutes in....first commented later. 

She should fix that.........     I'm just happy there aren't prostate or storable food commercials.

[ShayP]

She should fix that.........     I'm just happy there aren't prostate or storable food commercials.

True....although I could use both....hmmm.

[ShayP]

It must be odd to....as a child....be connected with the worst movie ever.

[Value Of Pi]

Muchos gracias!

Oh no, I don't.

Thanks.
Haha, no it's not like that at all. I really, genuinely wish them all of my best. Especially Heather.

Whatever anyone wants to say about Heather---whatever criticisms or critiques or downright unfounded ugliness spewing hatred at wholesale, she's the absolute most dedicated person I've EVER known, to her role. When I'd take weekends, she didn't. She was a producer 24/7 and now, not only is she doing the show too, she's gonna do five hours of it. She just rolls that way. I totally admire her for that, and hope I can at least be half of that in trying to produce and do my own show.

That being said, I could not do a five hour show. Long ago I would have said, "yeah let's do this," but for me now, it's crazytalk. My ass doesn't want to sit in an office chair that long anymore. Like Art, I've got back problems. Two years ago, I flipped my car coming back from a 10,000+ mile road trip. Was run off the road 2 hours from home. I broke my neck and totaled my car. That sucked. I have a family to think about too and also, school. Point is, I just couldn't do it.

Say what you will, but from my gross observation, Heather is superhuman. She has always lived and breathed Midnight. She is in many ways a hero to me. She had all of two hours to prepare for the role she's in now before being plunged into the seat of host. I just couldn't do that. It's been four months on and I'm STILL prepping to do that on my own terms. She's done a damn fine job giving these extreme circumstances, if you ask me. Not saying that just to be professional or cordial. She's truly one hell of a lady.

As I said before though, me leaving the show from a cost perspective was only logical. The minute I joined the team, my goal was to only stick around as long as I was useful to the cause. Compensation was a bonus. I'd already done a month of work on news (wrote 80+ articles, played editor to the 3rd party DMN site, and was already helping with creating a database of affiliate contacts)-- all 3rd party work for no pay.

Art was more than generous. My only concern was doing whatever I could do to help everyone and make Art's life easier. I didn't do it for myself; I did it for Art. When I didn't think he'd seriously even consider putting me on-air, he did. The thought of doing news initially made no sense at all to me when he could have picked someone else more qualified to do it. I was prepared to just turn over the database of affiliates I had been helping with and say, "Good luck. I'm rootin' for ya," but Art wanted news, so I made it happen. If it weren't for Heather I probably wouldn't have had that opportunity; she didn't know me from Adam, but as I understand, she was the one who made the case to Art.

Cold Boring Facts About Cost of Doing Business
Prior to my role in MITD, I had an extensive background in managing cost centers for a fairly sizable tech corp. This part will probably bore the hell out of everyone. My job then was to justify cost of tech support through measuring and enforcing metrics like audits, policy, engineering, optimal fixes for a product line, and tech behaviors.

At the end of the day I made the shitty decisions like whether or not a line of business on the tech side or a product was feasible (defining product End of Life or EOL), as every call and service dispatch was a non-revenue generating expense. There's a lot of math and data that goes into it, but MITD was a LOT smaller scale so I only had my own metrics to choose to develop and account for. Most people know the basic formula for financial accounting in business: Revenue (R) minus Expenses (E)=Profit (P).

My Role as an Expense
If you want to look at it this way, the "news" product was a total cost center or expense (E), and comprised 50% of my role (attributing to the total the cost of goods sold, which Keith only knows). The other 50% of my role was terrestrial affiliate sales (the term 'sales' being a total misnomer). This is where it gets complicated.

With affiliates, you have two types of ads that are aired: (N) for Network and (L) for local inventory. For the most part, this was also split 50/50 between MITD and the affiliates. Affiliate coordination ('sales') only generated revenue POTENTIAL, as long as network (N) ad inventory was being aired. Sometimes larger markets didn't even air our ads, but it increased potential when marketing the show to other stations to say, "we have thus and such big station which just signed on." Again, only attributing to X.

While I don't know the entire ins and outs of the advertising side, I do know that being able to say, "we're on this many stations in these major markets" did have a large impact. In other words, it was all dependent on ad sales, so I didn't personally generate revenue. Just revenue potential (X). Defining and leveraging the rest of X was my job, through an even more complicated matrix of variables, which if I wanted to, could spit out reports to show where X's opportunities lie. This defined my personal metrics. Not going to get into all of that here.

So there you have it.

This largely made my job 100% a non-revenue cost center to the organization (with return on investment being a very marginal outlier at the end of the day after changes in the business). I knew that it would be a total cost center going into the role, so I did everything I could to leverage revenue potential and help the organization from my limited standpoint. I even made Keith invest in software to help me with this, because the marginal expense was worth it at the time.

Personal Cost-Benefit Analysis
On the other side of that, there was my own cost-benefit analysis of time invested doing news versus impact for ad sales and subscribers. Most affiliates didn't carry my news in the markets that would have mattered. News in that sense mostly complimented internet streaming for the network.

Doing the news took away roughly six hours of my day from research/fact checking to writing about 2,500 words of copy, to organizing everything down into packaged three minute segments, to doing the read, to what you heard on the radio.
Compared to the rest of the show, it wasn't that important. It was one more thing to have to manage, and by that point, I was already personally exhausted.

Keith left it open-ended for me (like the remote possibility of adding back news in the future) but at that point there was so much ambiguity that I just pretty much said, "It's cool. I think I'll do my own thing and not be a burden."

I saw it this way: The products I supported had a useful life that had expired. Again. No drama. No hard feelings. No F-U's.
Just. Pure. logic.

As an aside, I got the Keith stamp of approval on Twitter when I first announced that I was going to do my own show awhile back--- and that's saying a lot. He told me I was perfectly capable. That too, meant a lot to me. I never asked to be on DMDN because at that time, he was cutting other live shows. Again--- I absolutely did not want to be a burden. He's got enough on his plate. That's why I'm on DTRN.

I'm absolutely not being disingenuous when I say, "I wish them all the best."  I really do.

I'm reading this thread from the beginning (had no idea you had a show) and came upon this post, which is fairly jaw-dropping. Particularly the "My Role as an Expense" part and the "Personal Cost-Benefit Analysis" part. I'm thinking that maybe you really are a machine, like BGers joked about when you were reading the news.

But then I thought, no that's unfair, it's just a coincidence. Then again, how to explain the kind of stiff, coldly mechanical way you praise the job Heather has been doing? The consensus on BellGab is not favorable on Heather, so I wonder why you've gone out of your way to praise her on here, at a time when you're looking for listeners.

As I say, i just started reading and I haven't heard the show. I hope it's good and worth listening to and I certainly wish you luck. But first impressions are first impressions and it seems like this is the first time I've heard directly from you, even though I have heard you on the air. And my first impression is, hmm, Kinda Weird. Just my reaction, no explanations or response really necessary.

[ShayP]

I can't find this Master Chef she speaks about. 

[Walks_At_Night]

I can't find this Master Chef she speaks about. 

Looking - found Jackey

[ShayP]

Looking - found Jackey

Lovely woman.

[Walks_At_Night]

If the guest is going to stick around perhaps "Open Lines" isn't the phrase to use.   "We'll take calls for those that have questions for the guest" or some such.  Open Lines means the Wolfman calls in talking about the 5th dimension

[PrairieGhost]

Call the show (424) 253-0632 skype AmyOnTheRadio

[chefist]

Cool techno music...

[Étouffée]

Manos Returns Kickstarter is at $31,750.  Manos originally made me a MSTie, and I gave to the 2015 MST3k revival, so I think the handwriting is on the wall for another donation:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1840778752/manos-returns/description

[LouSheehan]

I wonder where the painting of "The Master" that was on the wall in the movie is today?

Good question, Brig.

[WOTR]

I wonder where the painting of "The Master" that was on the wall in the movie is today?

I had read that it is hanging on her wall...  I will see if I can find the link.

(At least I should catch the last half hour... How has it been?)

[WOTR]

Found it... I lied- her father painted it, but it ended up with the Warrens (at least Playboy seems to make it sound that way... Yes, Playboy.) 
"Joe Warren’s wife, Aimee, remembers the first time she walked into the Warren household. A four-by-five-foot painting of the Master hung over the couch, staring down visitors and upsetting children."

He also seems to still have the original robe.
From http://www.playboy.com/articles/the-battle-over-the-worst-movie-ever?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2&utm_content=em_button&utm_campaign=Email_9.24.15

[WOTR]

I still didn't get the flaming hand scene....aside from (of course) the entire film. 

I could be wrong... But I believe it was his left hand that burst into flame...  That was the hand that he used to caress "the master's" wife.  As crappy as tossing a barely burning hand at the foot of his wife tied to a post may have looked, I believe it was probably meant to convey that she would burn at the stake by the flame of the hand that had defiled her.

Could be wrong... Maybe it was just a pointless scene (like most of them in that movie...)

[ShayP]

I could be wrong... But I believe it was his left hand that burst into flame...  That was the hand that he used to caress "the master's" wife.  As crappy as tossing a barely burning hand at the foot of his wife tied to a post may have looked, I believe it was probably meant to convey that she would burn at the stake by the flame of the hand that had defiled her.

Could be wrong... Maybe it was just a pointless scene (like most of them in that movie...)

I welcome and accept your take on it.   

[PrairieGhost]

Thanks for listening!

[( Amy )]

Thanks for listening!

Thank YOU for listening!

Thanks to all for the participation (especially those of you who watched Manos for the first time just before the show). I'm still getting the hang of this.

Comments/feedback/questions/etc. always welcome.

Archives will be up in a few.

Cheers,

Amy

[LadyFish]

Really enjoyed listening to tonight's show! I think I'll buy the guest's book for my husband for Father's Day......he has been a big fan of the movie.

Does anyone remember when Art was doing on MITD, I think a truth or trash show, and some called in a scene similar to Manos? My husband just started cracking up because he recognized it right away.

[( Amy )]

Really enjoyed listening to tonight's show! I think I'll buy the guest's book for my husband for Father's Day......he has been a big fan of the movie.

Does anyone remember when Art was doing on MITD, I think a truth or trash show, and some called in a scene similar to Manos? My husband just started cracking up because he recognized it right away.

Ahem.

Reveal: That was me.

[( Amy )]

Really enjoyed listening to tonight's show! I think I'll buy the guest's book for my husband for Father's Day......he has been a big fan of the movie.

Does anyone remember when Art was doing on MITD, I think a truth or trash show, and some called in a scene similar to Manos? My husband just started cracking up because he recognized it right away.

I wrote an impromtu script for it. I think I still have it somewhere. Went off script by the middle. Trying not to crack up the entire time.