Mike and Kate got the most scathing e-mail on Monday. They were talking about crayons and how Crayola changed the names of Indian Red to Burnt Siena because it was not politically correct to describe something as Indian Red.
Then they received this e-mail... apparently the person completely misunderstood the conversation."SUBJECT: INDIAN OCEAN RACIAL
Mike,
Even if Kate seem to one of those ditzi American girls, you still take the lead of
being a moron. First you are an Idahoan, that says it all when listening to your
gobble. Idahoans are the worst drivers around, hitting red lights all the time, or
can't stay in their own lanes, or don't do the speed limit, that would say, if you
have been out of state you may have noticed that.
Talk about you don't know a damn thing about ocean's. Indian Ocean
is not to bee seen as a racial term, it is actually an ocean. Then you want to compare that to
African American Black, as in "duh, we don't have African American black in our
crayon box". Frankly who gives what the name of the colors are, and I don't think
that a kid would give what the name of the colors were if he opened the box of
crayons.
Maybe you have racial issues that is why you would bring it up.
7 kids is what you have, you can't be anything but a Mormon obviously, or you are
trying to save energy by jumping in the sack with you significant other to create
heat and other things at the same time. You know there is something that is called
contraceptive. Maybe you tend to look at everything with a set of racial eyes.
No I don't think you are a fun character on the radio, and I don't think you have a radio personality
that fits radio, take a page out of the LA radio's climate and learn something about entertainment.
However, your executive producers may have a sandbox mentality so that is
why they think you two are the best thing since sliced bread.
Yes Kate, you are also not in the league of a good radio character, instead talking about how old you are
and that you have no relationship, or kids, and you are getting pretty old when it comes to your fertility
abilities, your eggs are getting old, you are most likely to get something scrambled because you are
getting older, that is not mean stricken it is actually the fact. Why don't you ask your friend who just got
a kid. You are going to have a lot more testing to be done because you are older whenever if ever you are going to get kids.
Hear about all the stupid stuff that you do, no it is not just bad luck, it is for a reason.
You both sound like a bunch of immature school kids on the radio.
Skit"
This was Mike's response to Skit......"Dear Skit;
Thanks for your e-mail, I think for you to write a scathing e-mail like this, you must be having a very bad morning or something. Obviously you didn't hear our conversation this morning because you have taken it completely out of context.....We never said anything about what great drivers we have in Idaho, so I don't even know what you are talking about there. As for the discussions about colors, we never said the Indian Ocean was racist, and yes Kate and I both know the Indian Ocean is a real ocean, we are after all both college graduates. Our discussion had you actually heard it, was about the names of crayons and how they had changed them because they could be deemed racist.....like "Indian Red", "Flesh" and "Black" just to name a few.....and just in case you didn't know, these were all actual Crayola Crayon colors at one time, that have all been changed to different names now as to not seem racist. I made the comment about African American black, because it made as much sense as a color name as "Indian Red"....And people do notice the names of colors in a box of crayons, I for one grew up with those colors, so I noticed when my kids started coloring and the names had all changed even though the colors stayed the same. From the tone of your e-mail, it sounds like you didn't even know that the names of the colors had changed over the years. So the comment was made for our listeners sake, to not name Indian as one of the colors, because it would be wrong, even though, according to Crayola, it was once considered a color.
As for stereotyping me as Mormon because I have 7 children......wrong again. I have 3 children from a previous marriage and my wife has 4 from her previous marriage. Religion had nothing to do with it....we just happen to like kids. Don't know if you know much about this area, but not everybody who lives here is Mormon, and not all Mormons have a bunch of kids. And yes, I do sleep with my wife, not because, as you said for the "heat or other things", but because I actually enjoy sleeping with her.....and yes Kate and I know what contraceptives are, it might even surprise you to learn that we have even used them on occasion......without permission from the Mormon church.
As for the show, sorry you don't like what you hear, and that's ok.......we already know that we can't please everybody, so we don't even try. And yes we know our show would not sound good in LA..... we don't do a show for LA....... people who live here, don't like LA radio. It's been tried numerous times before.....Rick Dees, Kevin and Bean, Mark and Bryan......they all failed miserably.......We do our show for our 13 listeners and family members that live here in the Treasure Valley......so far it seems to work, we have the 2nd longest running morning show in the state. We like it here.....we love living and working in Boise......We've both lived in various areas of the country.....LA, Denver, Sacramento, Spokane, Yakima, etc, and both of us agree, this is by far the best place we've ever lived and worked.
Any way, we're sorry about the way people drive here in Boise (?) Sorry that you think that I'm Mormon and have too many kids and don't know what contraceptives are for. We're sorry that you think that Kate is too old to have kids and that our conversation about crayons and the Indian ocean was racist.......but most importantly, we're sorry that you think our show sucks.
Thanks for listening
Mike and Kate
Mix 106 "
