WYYY, Madame Psychosis's show
read on-air some parodic thing where he’d pretend to be his own dad apotheosizing some sort of thick-necked historic athletic figure the dad’d admired and had by implication compared with woeful distaste to the pencil-necked big-headed asthmatic little kid staring up through Coke-bottle lenses from his digital keyboard
Context
A whole radio format built out of father-disappointment. On "Those Were the Legends That Formerly Were," tech students take the mike to impersonate their own fathers extolling some thick-necked sports hero and, by implication, finding the actual pencil-necked son wanting. The raw calls the weekend variants "patricidal formats" outright: the sons get to ventriloquize the disappointed father and mock him in a silly cartoon voice, a ritualized revenge on every dad who compared his boy unfavorably to a real man. The theme's father-hunger flipped into comedy — the ache to be seen turned into a bit you perform for laughs.