Delilah

[huntergrayson]

My mom and I mock her endlessly but there is something compulsively soothing about her and her program.

[nadia]

Oh man, I used to listen to her in highschool. In the dark, in my room, all alone. Yeah. Ahem....

I've happened across her show a few times in the past few months and I can't stand her now. I've always rolled my eyes at her callers though. Most are such sad sack losers and she's such a coddler with them.

[tacoflavored]

There are three stations around here that carry her (slightly out of synch) and they're clustered together on the dial so whenever Im flipping around at night I get this rapid-fire-repeat-triplecast of her whizdumb or whatever dentist's office music she's playing. Really, it's awesome. Oh, and somehow I'm not surprised to hear she had a "rocky" past. It's seems to be par-for-the-course for people trying waaayyy to hard to convince others of their wholesome, pious family goodness.

[minky]

Hey, everybody...let's set the night to music.

[footballerswife]

guinastasia said:

I'm guessing that was a fake story that someone sent in on a bet to see if she'd fall for it.

I'd like to believe it was fake, but unfortunately the woman sounded authentic. She was bawling, and Delilah was telling her how kind she was for giving her baby to someone who really wanted one. I guess that's true in some fucked-up way, but err-- surely there's something a bit wrong with giving your baby to someone you randomly met in a supermarket?

[kiwi]

Whoa, bizarre. I was just starting to think that Delilah was someone I'd hallucinated as a kid. Apparently not.

My parents used to turn her show on during epic car rides. They'd tweak the car stereo so it only piped into the backseat and then spoke in low voices. No matter how damn much I wanted to hear what they were talking about, Delilah always knocked me out cold. Damn you, Delilah! I'm sure those private parental conversations were very interesting!

HA! Awesomely, on her site it shows she was visiting the troops with John Popper, who I do believe was arrested for driving around in a car stocked to the gills with weaponry this past month. How awkward.

[carrier76]

OMG. I haven't checked this site yesterday and am so glad to see so many have funny Delilah stories. I am cracking up.

So she actually put a homosexual on the air? I had always wondered what her policy was about that. Because I've listened to her off and on over the years and I've never heard her put any gay people on, but I have heard her put plenty of people on who told stories where they clearly indicated that they were fornicating, or became a parent at 16, or are in some other romantic entaglement that falls short of the Light of the Lord.

Swanflake, I know, I was really surprised too. That's why I knew she was going to give the gay couple an Elton John song, because she couldn't come up with anything else. I knew she'd think, "Well gay people only like other gay people, so...." GUH. I hate her!!!!

This is brilliant:

Awesomely, on her site it shows she was visiting the troops with John Popper, who I do believe was arrested for driving around in a car stocked to the gills with weaponry this past month. How awkward.

Funny: last summer my friend and I were coming home from a Cardinals game, and we were listening to and mocking Delilah (as we do A LOT when we get together) and we decided we would send her this fake dedication via email. We wanted a dedication for our college friend "Pam" who always seemed like she had everything and was so great, blah blah, and it used to frustrate us (I think?) until we found out that she had grown up homeless, and lived in a box, etc. etc. We emailed it to her and waited....and NOTHING. She never played it! Bitch.

I hate the tone of voice in which she says "stories from the heart." It makes me want to choke someone.

And now I really wish I had a radio in this computer lab so I could listen to (and mock!) Delilah. By the way, doesn't she have a kid named Zach? Zach Attack?

[berrybearie]

carrier76 said:

And now I really wish I had a radio in this computer lab so I could listen to (and mock!) Delilah. By the way, doesn't she have a kid named Zach? Zach Attack?

I think so and one named "Shayla" or something like that.

[swanflake]

I'm going to start listening to her just so I can post about all the stupid things you hear on that show.

Tonight I listened for about 15 minutes and some woman called in saying that she was engaged. I think Delilah asked about the engagement ring--I'm not sure, but somehow the ring got brought up. The woman said that she didn't have a ring and immediately Delilah starts saying "Oh you have to have some BLING! You have to have some BLING! It's not official until you have some BLING!" and the woman kind of laughed and said that's not important to her. Delilah was again all "Blah, blah BLING!". Finally the woman was getting annoyed and said "Well, we really weren't near a jewelry store when he asked me..." and the way she said it made me think that she meant that metaphorically. Like they just felt there are more important things to life than an engagement ring. But no no no, Delilah just wasn't gonna play that.

Let me tell you, my sister just got married and in the months leading up to it I couldn't get away from hearing all of her "It's my day to be a Princess!" bullshit. My sister told us all she was getting married and then called again a few weeks later screaming "I'M ENGAGED!" like it was new news. Of course, she said that the difference was she finally had that ring to make it official! So tonight I wanted to rip Delilah's hair out when I heard her going off like that about The Hallowed Engagement Ring. It was really insulting anyway since this woman might've not been having the easiest time accepting that she won't have an engagement ring or a dream wedding because they have more important things to be spending their money on, and Delilah was just rubbing it in with that "YOU HAVE TO" shit. No, Delilah, she doesn't have to.

I'm going to listen again tomorrow night and recap my findings.

[Deleted]

Please do, Swan. And also give us a sample of some of the cheesetastic songs that she is playing.

I dont know if she is playing it still, but in the late 90s, when someone would call up with a particularly bad story, ie screwing around, divorce, etc., she would play "Whose Sorry Now" but Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb which is of course, the most awesome, cheesiest Someone Has Done Me Wrong song. And yours truly sang along at the top of her lungs. Still do, butnot as loud, I don't want to freak out the toddler.