![]() "Everytime someone contacts us about it, we always tell them we can't take credit." "Unfortunately, someone recorded it and it's been floating around the web for years," said Alvarez. which conducted the very same "interview" with the Fab Four during the first flush of Beatlemania in early 1964, the questions read by each DJ, but the answers voiced by the Beatles themselves.) Alvarez was chagrined to afterwards realize the clip was actually a bit produced by another (as yet unknown) radio jock, and thus wasn't something the show would have reworked for its audience. by hundreds of radio stations across the U.S. I edited and produced it with our voices under the mistaken notion it was originally from an audio bit service." (That's far from unheard of: radio sometimes uses "open-ended interviews" in which individual stations' DJs pose questions from a prompt sheet to celebrities who are not actually in the studio but who have provided a set of pre-recorded answers a technique used, for example. "The bit came to us via email from a radio producer friend. Ron Alvarez (of KC and Ron) was kind enough to explain the origin of their clip. Do listen to both, because while what "Lois" (the cheating wife) says is the same in both clips, the DJ's patter with her is different from recording to recording, leading to the potential conclusion that various radio hosts have over the years edited this prank call recording by stripping out another radio host's portion and replacing it with their own to make it appear they themselves placed the call. Interestingly, so does a slightly different clipįrom an unknown source. A prank phone call from the late 1990s engineered by Oregon radio DJs K.C. ![]() ![]() Is it therefore not possible that our own marriages or long-term pairings might harbor similar dark truths?Īs to whether the yarn is truth or invention, while this anecdote does appear in a 1999 collection of "true" tales, our hunting around through a variety of media sources has failed to turn up the story and so confirm that it had indeed happened. ![]() To top it off, news of her hanky-panky is broadcast to all of Texas, making the husband's humiliation complete.Īs a cautionary tale, the story serves up a troubling question: How well do we really know our partners? While we would like to think we know them very well, the sad fact is spouses have cheated on spouses throughout history. Compounding the betrayal, her amour is not just some random man, but the husband's brother. In this tale of adultery revealed, that which was being kept hidden from an unsuspecting husband is provoked to the surface via a cruel prank, either the shock of the caller's message causing the faithless woman to blurt an embarrassing admission she otherwise would have kept to herself, or a sudden desire for revenge prompting her to counter news of her husband's perfidy with a confession of her own two-timing. Plays upon one of our deepest anxieties, that no matter how rosy everything seems in our primary relationships, those we hold dearest may be keeping terrible secrets from us. Origins: This legend about an adulterous affair revealed on a radio broadcast
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