The Rob Arnie and Dawn Show
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The Rob, Arnie, and Dawn Show is a syndicated morning radio show on KRXQ (98 Rock) in Sacramento, CA and KOZZ in Reno, NV.
The show's three hosts are Rob Williams, southerner Arnie States and Dawn Rossi. The show also has three tertiary members; as such, show host Rob Williams often states the show is quickly becoming a "morning zoo." Nick Beard, aka "Executive Producer Nick," is the show's former phone-screener, but now simply updates the show's website and performs other behind-the-scenes duties. "Lord Vader" is another regular voice on the Rob, Arnie and Dawn show. He is the show's censor, as Rob often says, "just in case [we] say poop." In addition is "Producer Megan," the show's new phone screener and regular voice on the show. She is referred to by Arnie as "Sweet Pants," or by Lord Vader simply as "Pants."
The show has existed in various forms within various cities in the western United States such as Reno, NV; Seattle, WA and Sacramento, CA. However, the show has found the greatest success in its present form - a call-in show in which the three main members of the show discuss anything and everything such as finance, politics, current events and sports. The dynamic of the three main members, as well as the high-level of interacivity with the audience is often seen as what gives the show its fanbase.
The show has numerous regular segments that include, but are not limited to:
Dr. Rob: a feature in which Rob Williams provides advice concerning finance, relationships and sometimes even pet care;
Bad News Over Happy Music: a feature in which Rob reads "awful horrible news stories" whilst playing various happy songs, reporting that "its not bad news unless it happens to you;
Listener Mail: where Rob reads emails sent in by listeners, crinkling and crumpling each paper to prove that they are not a "wacky sound effect show";
The Top 5 List: in which Rob and Arnie debate various trivial topics in an attempt to cobble together a list of five;
Beat Arnie: where a listener is pitted against Arnie in an attempt to win a prize pack - this feature opens with a song parody sung by Arnie himself;
Rob's Pile: where Rob reads various, unrelated news stories;
The Headlines: a feature in which Dawn reads news stories, which she rarely finishes;
Things That Bother Dawn: a feature where Rob reads various stories pertaining to Dawn's ridiculous paranoias in order to frighten her;
The "Win Our Crap" Game: where a listener attempts to answer a difficult trivia question in the pursuit of winning one of the show members' respective growing prize packs
The Rob, Arnie and Dawn show is on Monday to Friday from 5:00 AM to 9:50 AM, and can be streamed online via KRXQ and KOZZ's 'listen live' services.
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[edit] Regular segments
As Rob and Arnie always point out, the show does not do "shticks" or "bits;" they do "segments."
04:58am: Rob often points out how Dawn arrives at the studio at 4:58am, while he arrives around 3am to prepare the show and Arnie shows up around 4am to look at internet porn. Dawn will always respond with "we start at 5."
Arnie's Soda: There are times when Rob is speaking and Arnie takes a very loud sip of his soda into the microphone. Rob will always respond with an "excuse ME."
Dumb-Dumb: The nickname that Rob and Arnie give Dawn's husband, Gary. Rob and Arnie were friends with Gary before he dated Dawn and began making fun of Gary for being dumb once the dating did. They sometimes imitate him by using a "slow, dumb, caveman" voice, like Lenny from Of Mice and Men. They also refer to him as "Larry," "Barry," and "Jerry," but Dawn will always correct them, and sometimes add a "hi, baby, I love you," and make a kissing noise.
Friends of the Show: Rob and Arnie refer to celebrities that they have met once or have seen in public as good "Friends of the Show." For example, Arnie noticed Nicole Kidman in a shopping mall once and later claimed that they go shopping together all the time. Dawn, meanwhile, will debunk all of their claims, for they really do not have any celebrity friends.
Hitting Arnie: Arnie sometimes claims that Rob takes him into the office during the breaks and after the show and beats him, which is not true.
Natalie Gulbis: The famous female golfer that shot down Arnie live on the air. Anytime she is mentioned on the show, Nick will begin telling the story about how one day in 2003, Rob and Arnie were playing golf in Sacramento and met her. On one of the holes, Rob made a poor golf shot and Arnie helped in searching for the ball. He ended up noticing Natalie was playing on another hole and they, apparently, met eye contact. For the next two weeks, Arnie bragged on the air how Natalie gave her the look and how he was going to ask her out. Natalie ended up calling the show, in which Arnie asked her out, but Natalie referred to her career and how she'd rather wait for a better time before having someone else in her life. Rob, meanwhile, recorded this conversation and had Nick create a sound file that Rob could always play when Natalie Gulbis is mentioned on the show, including a "bomb dropping" sound effect mixed in.
Grudge Humps: Rob and Arnie refer to women that they either find somewhat attractive or very attractive, but they feel on hearsay are a horrible person, as a "grudge hump," or a woman they would have angry, violent sex with. Rob will play a "punching" sound effect as the "grudge humps" are mentioned and Dawn will always be the disclaimer as she states that the women "are asking for it." Arnie will sometimes go a bit too far as he will come up with very violent and surreal actions to do to the women, such as hitting them with the kitchen sink or shoving a swing chain down their throat. Rob and Arnie's "Grudge Humps" include Tara Reid, Jessica Alba, Jennifer Aniston, Hilary Duff, Paris Hilton, Reese Witherspoon, and several others (which they include on their "Grudge Humps" page on their website).
The scotch tape: During Listener Mail, Rob may sometimes "accidentally" rip an e-mail in half (he really tears in half on purpose) and complain about the cheap paper that Producer Nick prints the e-mails out on. Rob then produces a scotch tape dispenser (which Arnie had stolen from an unknown employee of the radio station) and tapes the letter back together.
The spatula: Whenever Producer Nick is addressed or mentioned on the show, Arnie will bang or tap on Producer Nick's window with a spatula. Producer Nick usually responds in a very agitated way; he sits in the next room that has a very large window that views RAD in the studio and he can also hear everything RAD says through speakers, so there is no need for Arnie to bang on the window.
Year of the Horrible Caller: Rob and Arnie have always disliked a lot of the calls that they get on the show, but they have declared 2006 as "the year of the horrible caller." They sometimes even add a bit about how if you walk into your local Chinese deli/restaurant and notice the calendar on the wall, there is a picture of a caller with a bump on his head as the symbol for "the year of...". Dawn will always speak up, defend the caller and state that this is not "the year of the horrible caller."
[edit] More Regular Routines
For these daily segments of the show, expect these lines (or a variation of them) to be stated every time.
[edit] Dr. Rob
[edit] Beginning
- Rob plays a slow disco song with a Barry White-like voice as Dawn exlaims an "owww!!"
BARRY WHITE VOICE: "And now, baby, here's Dr. Rob..."
ROB: "Hello."
BARRY WHITE VOICE: "...the Doctor of Love..."
ROB: "...and other stuff. You can e-mail us, rad@robarnieanddawn.com." (Either mentions that Listener Mail is later or they already did Listener Mail and crumples an e-mail into the microphone)
ARNIE: "You know what, Rob, that sounds like an e-mail sent to you by a listener who needs your help."
DAWN: "Which makes it Listener Mail..."
[edit] During
- For each e-mail, Arnie will state the "e-mail sent by a listener" line.
- As Rob, and sometimes Dawn, gives advice to the letter writer, Arnie will almost always come up with a funny, sometimes hurtful, solution that would not help the letter writer.
[edit] End
- A graduation-type theme plays.
RADIO VOICE: "Dr. Rob is not a real doctor. He possesses no credentials, diplomas, or degrees. He only plays a doctor on the radio. Most of the time...HE'S FULL OF CRAP."
- At this point, Arnie will most likely deliver a huge punchline about the letter.
[edit] "Bad News Over Happy Music"
- Every couple of days, Rob reads horrible stories about death and such, while happy music plays, normally kiddy music. at the beginning, when Rob introduces the segment, Dawn cries and Arnie always states something bad both the FCC and the radio station does to them. The last story is always labled as "tough", and that Dawn should "bear down". She never does, and at the end of the last story, she breaks down. When Rob asks her is "bearing down" helped, she replies no. To end the segment "Its not bad news...unless it happens to you"
[edit] Listener Mail
[edit] Beginning
- Rob plays the beginning of "Please Mr. Postman" (by The Marvelettes), while Dawn sings along (horribly).
ROB: "You can e-mail us directly at rad@robarnieanddawn.com, here's the sound of Listener Mail Letter Number..."
ARNIE: (exclamating a usually long and exaggerated) "ONE!" (as Rob crinkles and crumples a paper into the microphone very loudly).
ROB: "As you can hear, we're clearly not a wacky, DJ, sound effects show..."
- (Bicycle horn sound effect)
DAWN: "Yes, we are."
ROB: "We actually take the e-mails you send us and print them out on..."
DAWN: "...computer paper."
ROB: "And how does everybody know that, Dawn?"
DAWN: "Cuz you crinkle, crankle, crumple and sizzle..."
- Rob makes a "sizzling" noise with the paper into the microphone.
ARNIE: "HOT!"
ROB: "FIRE!"
ARNIE: "HOT!"
ROB: "FIRE! ...each and every one of them. And then, to protect you from identity theft, we pretend to shred your letters live on the air."
- At this point, Arnie comes up with his Sound Effect of the Day, followed by Producer Nick's sound effect of the day.
[edit] During
- After each e-mail is read and answered, Dawn "shreds the letter," but, as seen in one of their Video Files, Dawn holds a stack of blank paper in her lap and shreds those instead of the actual letters, which Rob just crumples up into a ball and tosses.
- For each listener e-mail, Arnie exlaims the number of the letter. Special ones include:
2. "TWOOOO!"
4. "FORE!" (as in golf)
5. "FIVE-UH!"
6. "SIX-SIX-SIX!"
8. "OCHO!"
9. "NINER!"
10. "TEHHN!"
18. "My favorite number, EIGHTEEN!"
- Arnie declares Tuesdays as "Boombox Tuesday," where he plays a CD on a boombox. He and Dawn enjoy this segment while Rob loathes it, often stating how he hates it.
- Arnie declares Fridays as "Autographed Guitar Request Friday," where he takes a valuable autographed guitar off of a wall of the radio station and plays "song requests" and improvisational songs on it. He has had no lessons at all and has no idea how to play the guitar. Rob also hates this feature, but Arnie and Dawn love it.
- Fridays are also declared by Producer Nick as "Showdown Friday," where he takes two objects from the radio studio and throws one of them at the other. The "surviving" object is declared the winner.
[edit] New Movies (Only on Fridays)
ROB: "It is Friday morning, which means new movies in stores and new movies in theaters..."
- Dawn, at this point, will try to calmly ration with Rob and Arnie about how listeners know that Rob and Arnie know that new DVDs come out on Tuesday. A listener called in years ago and (possibly rudely) told the show that new DVDs came out on Tuesday. Rob and Arnie will always ignore this little speech.
ROB: "We will start with videos that you can rent or buy..."
ARNIE: "AND, YES, WE KNOW THEY CAME OUT ON TUESDAY!"
- Rob and Arnie will proceed to mock listeners with polite phone calls and public confrontations that end with the "listener" telling Rob or Arnie that DVDs came out on "T-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-Tuesday," which Rob or Arnie will then explode at the "listener." They will repeat this for each DVD announcement.
[edit] "Ever been there?"
When Rob mentions a foreign country, Arnie will usually ask if Rob as ever been there. Rob will respond with a different anwser depending if he has been there or not, to which Arnie will either reply:
- If Rob hasn't been there: Gorgeous!
- If Rob has been there: What'd you bring me?
[edit] "New York City?!"
Whenever Rob mentions "New York", Arnie and Dawn (and sometimes even Rob) will all exclaim "New York City?!" If Rob didn't join in, he will pause for a second and then say "Busch League."
