"Your mic is on."

August 29, 2006 10:46 PM

“Of course brothers hafta be, you know, protective. [ZIP] Except for mine. I gotta be protective of him. Ugh, yeah. He’s married, three kids, but his wife is just a control freak.”
posted by delmoi (26 comments total)

And these people are who?
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:49 PM on August 29, 2006

What? Who? Why? Who cares!?
posted by loquacious at 10:52 PM on August 29, 2006

I love that the canned audience applause for Bush is timed just perfectly after Kyra delivers her insult.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:52 PM on August 29, 2006

So the woman with the control freak wife affair thing is the anchor? Holy mother of god.
posted by mathowie at 10:56 PM on August 29, 2006

I think she was talking about her brother's wife being a control freak, so it's not like an affair. In some ways that's probably worse though.
posted by delmoi at 10:59 PM on August 29, 2006

I just love how fast this made it to her Wikipedia page. Then how the entry was quickly edited from anecdotes to mishaps but still cited by a Wikipedian as unbalanced.
posted by HyperBlue at 11:05 PM on August 29, 2006

News flash : woman loves her husband, but hates her sister-in-law. No, really?

Wake me up if you find something that challenges my prejudices. Otherwise, let me sleep.
posted by suckerpunch at 11:06 PM on August 29, 2006

I loved it. LOL
posted by bim at 11:16 PM on August 29, 2006

After I heard the clip this afternoon, I pictured her brother working away at his desk, at whatever job he had. Doop-e-doop-e-doo, work work work. Email from buddy arrives. He listens to clip of his sister on the air, and puts his head in his hands, leaning against the desk. His cellphone starts ringing. His deskphone starts ringing.
posted by GriffX at 11:20 PM on August 29, 2006 [3 favorites has favorites]

I liked it. It reminded me a little of a (nationally) notorious incident on Australian telly. YouTube link here
posted by bunglin jones at 11:25 PM on August 29, 2006

loquacious, report back to J-school. There are five W's, dammit, FIVE!!!
posted by rob511 at 11:26 PM on August 29, 2006

Where and when I care little about. I have a Time Machine and an El Camino. And I've never intentionally set foot within 5 miles of a J-school - I'm allergic to bad coffee.

And, well, the old GJ-school is right here in my lap. Kenneth?
posted by loquacious at 11:35 PM on August 29, 2006

Better version of the clip that's longer and not out of sync.
posted by Rhomboid at 11:38 PM on August 29, 2006

Never mind idle gossip in the ladies room, listen to dubya! At one point in his speech on that clip, he makes yet another Freudian slip. He says: "The engineers are working to damage... to repair the damage to the levees..."

Another glimpse into the evil mind...
posted by flapjax at midnite at 12:09 AM on August 30, 2006

Darn, I was hoping based on the headline that this was Jeb talking about W.

(I know, 3 kids, but still)
posted by Flashman at 12:13 AM on August 30, 2006

This is still my favourite open mic blunder
Listened to on repeat it's a beautiful bit of found poetry.
[MP3 file, and it's from Drudge (sorry, he's the first Google result, and I gotta split for work)]
posted by Flashman at 12:19 AM on August 30, 2006

loquacious, report back to J-school. There are five W's, dammit, FIVE!!!

There are four lights.

(oh, and nine planets.)
posted by eriko at 5:06 AM on August 30, 2006

Never mind idle gossip in the ladies room, listen to dubya! At one point in his speech on that clip, he makes yet another Freudian slip. He says: "The engineers are working to damage... to repair the damage to the levees..."

Another glimpse into the evil mind...

Yes, misspeaking is a sure sign of evil. And the "Freudian slip" claim holds up well, too -- I'm sure on a subconcious level he really prefers that the levees are damaged, not repaired.
posted by pardonyou? at 6:24 AM on August 30, 2006

Here's how the transcript should have gone:

COWORKER: “Yep.”
KYRA: “But they… are out there.”

Thankfully, “Mom” seems to approve (“good vibe”)

Then, Kyra again: “Of course brothers hafta be, you know, protective. [ZIP] Except for mine. I gotta be protective of him. Ugh, yeah. He’s married, three kids, but his wife is just a control freak.”

WOMAN: Kyra—
KYRA: Yeah baby—OH MY GOD!
BANG! slump, thud
WOMAN: NO!
BANG! slump, thud

[sound of washing hands]

posted by Pastabagel at 6:54 AM on August 30, 2006

That's going to be an amusing family dinner on Sunday. "So ... see anything good online recently? No? You're broadband was disconnected? I have no idea how that happened."
posted by ToastedWoobie at 8:39 AM on August 30, 2006

Can I have my 2 minutes back please?

No?

OK, just asking.
posted by anomie at 9:57 AM on August 30, 2006

You know, usually there's an audio guy. Generally, his job is to monitor the feed to make sure this shit doesn't happen. Or if it does, it's not going out over the air for as long as this did. He should probably be giving the unemployment office a call right about now.
posted by ninjew at 10:10 AM on August 30, 2006

ninjew, they probably got rid of that audio guy, so they could take the money they saved, and use it for upper management bonuses.
posted by QIbHom at 11:26 AM on August 30, 2006

The guy/gal probably did it on purpose on his/her way out the door after being effed around one too many times by management. The levels on Bush dropped way off as her mic was picked up. Then again, they probably have software that automates the bed/voice-over levels so they can pay trained monkeys to sit in their control room.
posted by Fezboy! at 11:36 AM on August 30, 2006

Yes, misspeaking is a sure sign of evil. And the "Freudian slip" claim holds up well, too -- I'm sure on a subconcious level he really prefers that the levees are damaged, not repaired.

pardonyou?: I'd like to think flapjax at midnite was being facetious.

(Also, I'd like to thank flapjacks at midnight for being delicious.)
posted by gigawhat? at 11:55 AM on August 30, 2006

David Letterman's Top Ten List of Kyra Phillips Excuses, as read by Kyra Phillips.
posted by kirkaracha at 3:05 PM on September 1, 2006