Radio

Tomorrow, America's favorite radio station, The Ticket, will begin promoting a new app called, appropriately enough, Ticket Drops. Now all P1s (and even P2s) can turn their phones into a drop machine. Now you can be your own board op. Annoy everyone in your next staff meeting by repeatedly playing the Tony Romo "football" drop. Or how about nonstop Corby cackling? Fire it off as many times as you like. (If you don't listen to The Ticket, none of the foregoing will make sense to you. Just know this: there is a funny sports talk station in town. You can use your phone to play some of that station's funny audio clips.) And now I will tell you how this app came to be. If you care.

On how she got her start in Dallas radio.

Yesterday, while driving to our broadcast location to record the latest episode of EarBurner, I was listening to The Ticket, as is my custom. Just before parking, The Hardline went to commercial and I heard the familiar voice of Conrad, the guy who reads all the station's promo copy. Or most of it, anyway. I forget the first few lines of this particular promo -- which I had not heard before -- but the part that made my ears perk up was this: "Bruce Jenner has stopped training, and started trannying." You're better than that, guys. Fix it.

I'm not going to pretend I listened to Terry Dorsey more than a handful of times over the years. That may be overestimating it. But I always liked him, based on commercials like this one. He had a goofball energy that I appreciated. Dorsey was already missed by his fans and colleagues after his retirement last year. I'm sure they'd just started to get over it when this happened.

I wish I had a Gucci spaceship.