"Screw You!"

----Yeah, I know, not the most Christian or nicest thing to say, especially at around 7am, on the air, and to the co-host of all people.

As my mentor has said in the past, to make a morning show (or any radio show) work between co-hosts, there has to be a balance. One person has to be all about the ideas, while the other has to be the one who is quick to respond. In our situation, I've been figuring out more and more that I believe the co-host is the idea man, while I'm the one to respond, 9 out of 10 times with something good to say (sometimes it's an off day and I say something ridiculous, but it happens).

The other factor for our show is that we realized from the get-go that it was as if we were the good-cop/bad-cop situation, the co-host being the bad while little 'ole me playing the good. So you can definitely see where my outburst of "screw you" came as a little shocker to the co-host, even if I was playing around...or at least defending myself without actually screaming or going girly-whiny on him. Shoot, I even surprised myself after I said it over the air, because it's not in my nature to really do that, but I think if you tick somebody off just enough, even the good-cop will snap at you. All in all, I think I became a little frustrated after I responded to a story he was talking about, and then he retorted with some smart-a** comment, as if trying to make me seem like some complete idiot on the show. Now, I know he was probably kidding, but after blowing this type of behavior from him off at times (a thing I picked up from hanging out with my guy friends over the years), you can only bite your tongue for so long until you tell the person "screw you" and, yes, proceed with flicking him off (thankfully we work in radio. And yes, I know, it's another thing that isn't so "Christian" of me to do).

When we finished that little break, the co-host surprisingly said that I may not want to use such harsh language in the future, which I proceeded with a "well then lets not try to make me seem as if I'm some freakin' idiot on the air, OK." Thankfully, I performed all of this with a smile on my face and playful anger...even if inside I wanted to be really pissed off at him. Once again, all was back to normal after that, but I think the co-host may want to re-think some of the retorts he has in the future, because this good cop is not one to be walked on. Plus, I don't think he wants me to pull out the "The Notebook" crying incident on the air--won't show him as a manly-man after that story is told.