The Regular Callers (KABC days)

"Mr. K” encourages (and sometimes tolerates) an exceptional degree of participation by his listening audience. On at least two occasions, he has invited interesting listeners/callers as guests in studio and once had Ernest, a frequent caller, sit in and take calls right along with Mr. K.

Mr. K has several regular callers who have become running gags on the show. These includes: Mr. Non-Sequitur, who spouts off disjointed phrases that have nothing at all to do with each other; Mr. Doubletalk, a man who often repeats what he says twice; Ralph, an alleged gym buddy of Arnold Schwarzenegger, and whose accent is often mocked; The Belly-Aching Truck Driver, who expresses disdain to any potential employers as well as expressing strong opinion towards NAFTA; Billy, who always starts his call by saying "Hi April . . . Hi April . . ." (referring to April Winchell) even when she is not a guest that night.

In addition, he had a handful of regular callers to his show, including: Bubbles, (a young enthusiastic woman who cries easily); Casper, (who has told some interesting stories on air of being a gay street-hustler in the 70’s[4]); Ernest (who Mr. K refers to as “his most confused listener”); Mae, (as Mr. K says - “my oldest documented listener”, at 97 years old); Mike, (who won a $100 cash bet between him and Mr. K earlier this year); Rita, (whose stated goal is to improvise a joke/routine about the previous call right before her call); Skipper (who calls Mr. K “little buddy”, a reference to the TV show Gilligan's Island); as well as Zan (who believes in various conspiracy theories including those involving 9/11 and man never having landed on the moon). One can see pictures of many of the above-mentioned callers at "Mr. K" website[5].

A still mentioned caller from the past is Freddy, a militant who believed that everything is a conspiracy to get rid of African-Americans (Freddy Andersen died October 2, 2005^[6]) A recording of a 10 minute long call of Freddy is at Mr K's website [7]