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their sexual relationships.
"I think Randy is incredibly talented and good at what he does, but I also think he's a male chauvinist pig." Bailey said. "I don't know if that's what he is or if that's his persona on the radio."
Dailey said he thought Miller was chauvinistic when a woman called up on the show asking for advice about her parents. She asked her if she had any clothes on.
"I appreciated his sense of humor," Dalley said. "It's just that occasionally he would say some humorous things I thought were potentially hurtful."
Miller said he was not on a mission to hurt people's feelings.
"Most of the stuff we do is tongue in cheek, and hopefully people can take it with a grain of salt," he said. "We're just having fun, sometimes at other people's expense. But we don't try to single out one group."
Miller said he thought people sometimes took his comments too seriously. One time he was talking on the air to a man he had met before. He was holding up a man's shirt, referring to the man's appearance the day they had met.
He asked the man whether he had bought his suit at Wal-Mart. Soon after that the station got a call from a representative protesting the comment
"It ites to the point where after a while you think: Man, why don't I just play a record and shut up?" Miller said. "But I can't do that."
Andy Taylor, Caney freshman, said he started listening to Miller's show last semester when he came to KU. He liked listening to the show because it was interesting to find out whom Miller would cut down next, he said.
Taylor recalled a time when Miller was ridiculing the Future Farmers of America.
After it,
"It was so crude it was hilarious," Taylor said. "He reminds me a lot of David Letterman."
A family man at home
One person who can put Miller into perspective is his wife, Renee.
Renee Miller described her husband as the juggernaut of comedy. He is the same person at home on the air — a wild man.
"He just has a great sense of humor," she said. "When he's home he's always in a good mood."
He does, however, have a serious side, she said, especially when considering jobs and negotiating contracts.
Renee Miller met her husband nine years ago in Pittsburgh when he was working at a radio station there. After two years of dating, they were married.
They now have a 20-month old daughter, Charisley, who Miller named after a girl he knew in the first grade.
"I kind of have two kids," Renee Miller said referring to her daughter and her husband. "My daughter gets into less trouble than he does."
in less trouble than she did. Renee Miller said her husband was a devoted father. Charlise Miller is daddy's girl.
"She has him wrapped around her little finger." she said.
His climb to the top
When Randy Miller was 14 and his voice still was changing, he was a dice jockey for his high school radio station in Knoxville, Tem. A year later, he got a job as a dice jockey for BWIR, a small station in Knoxville.
He was born and raised in Knoxville and lived there until he was 19, when he went to the University of Tennessee. He attended college for about two years while working at two radio stations. He dropped out after realizing that he did not need a radio education to get a radio job.
Among Q104 likes Miller for his craziness, at least two other Kansas City radio stations fired him for it.
Miller was fired from both KKCI-FM and KZZC-FM. At KKCI he was fired because of the way he handled a woman who was complaining about a song she found offensive. Both times she called asking for station officials and Miller pretended to be the station official she wanted. He then played the offending song and her complaints on the air.
A year later, KZC2-FM fried Miller after he made an April Fool's announcement about a benefit concert for the homeless Future Farmers of America. Miller said that Bob Seger would be touring and that $5 tickets be obtained at Corky's Records & Tapes in Mission.
"I expected maybe 50 people to buy that . . . and I guess there were hundreds that showed up," he said.
Instead of a ticket, people were given a piece of paper that stated You are an alumnus and included a $1 discount off a Bob Seger album at the store record.
"Well, people were not happy, as you can imagine," Miller said.
About 300 unhappy people, many of whom had driven from other towns to get the tickets, marched to the station wanting Miller's head.
"As I remember one guy telling me," Miller said, "a guy with about three teeth in his head. 'Hey budy, you don't mess with Seger.'"
Miller said he received a police escort home that day.
More crazy stunts
Promotion directors Freeman said Miller's salary doubled at the next station he was hired at in San Diego and again when he came to Q104 in February 1869. Miller now earns $300,000 a year, Freeman said.
He said the revenue at Q104 had increased 30 percent in the first six months that Miller started working.
Freeman said that he appreciated Miller's humor but that one thing about Miller slightly bothered him. Miller develop promotion ideas on the air and makes promises to the public that have not been cleared yet.
He recalled a time, two weeks after the capture of Gen. Manuel Noriega in Panama, when Miller promised that he would go to Panama and give 10,000 White Castle hamburgers to Panamanians.
"Well, immediately, I hear this and I get on the phone and start working." Freeman said. "He creates this stuff and we don't even have it approved yet."
Freeman had to get approval from the U.S. government, obtain passports that usually take 40 days, and try to contact the necessary people in Panama, a country that had no working government at the time.
"Maybe if he could at least give me a day's notice before we do these things." Freemain said.
Miller might make Freeman's job difficult at times, but he hopes Miller will stay at Q14 when his 2-year contract ends in February 1991.
Miller said he had never signed a contract for more than two years because something better could come along.
"I've been lucky enough in my career to have offers consistently," Miller said.
Although Q104 plays pop music, Miller said he liked only some pop songs.
"Thankfully I don't have to listen to every song completely," he said. "I just listen to the end so I know when to talk."
Miller said he liked country music, rock and barber shop but if it were up to him, he would not play any music on his show.
Miller likes talking. Who will he talk to next? What will he say next? What stunt will he pull next? No one knows, except maybe himself.
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