Chapter 36 midnight radio

Spring is here, and the rapeseed flowers in the south of the Yangtze River are about to bloom, and the annoying spring heart is moving. The "Eden" night hotline by the West Lake must be about to be blown up on these most difficult spring nights. Every time I go to Hangzhou, if it is ten o'clock at night, if I sit in the car, I will definitely not miss the "Garden of Eden".In this Call in radio program, the host answers listeners' "sexual, health and emotional problems" online.It’s not that the host Wan Feng provided so much useful knowledge when answering the above questions, but I have already passed the time of not being confused on these questions.

In 2010, the reason why the show was full of entertainment was due to the interaction between the host and the callers.Most of the questions asked by the callers, whether they are about sex, health or emotions, are specific and technical, and the answerers usually give the same moral answers in general. It's bashing.For example, when a listener asked what to do about pubic lice, the first reaction of the host was to chase after the other party and ask, "Do you have unclean sex?" "Have you messed around?" In fact, I think such Technical problems or the technical nature of the problem always made the host very impatient. Sometimes, Wan Feng simply asked people to "go to the bookstore to look through books", "buy DVDs and study", or go directly to the hospital.Of course, his reason is also very real - "I'm not a doctor".

In the relationship between the host and the audience, guests, or callers, the host is usually the one who takes the absolute initiative and has the upper hand (a recent exception is that Zhu Jun, the host of CCTV's "Art Life", was "molested" by the guests).On the other hand, under normal circumstances, the callers in the Call in program are more or less masochistic, looking for fuss, looking for discomfort.This established relationship, coupled with proactively preempting the absolute high ground of morality (absolutely impossible to be a guest/caller of Andy Lau or Tony Leung and their inevitable evasion when stating the above technical issues), made Wan Feng in the show Zhong often gets angry, and the more he speaks, the more angry he becomes, until he can't contain his anger.

Answering irrelevant questions and shouting loudly can certainly hit the questioner's thinking and make him suddenly realize the non-dual law of prajna and emptiness in "sex, health and emotional aspects". Not only can't fit into the situation at all, but also completely listen to "Eden" as an entertainment program.Whenever there is a witty remark, the taxi drivers in Hangzhou are often overjoyed and almost lose control of their driving. This is a situation I have experienced many times.It is said that many boarding students in Hangzhou also have this kind of experience, that is, the whole dormitory is listening, and the whole building is listening, and the whole building is laughing, shaking the whole dormitory building. The popularity of "Eden" is not limited to Hangzhou, it is said that the program is also exported to Northeast and other places.

In the summer of 2001, Li Hangyu and I ran a magazine in Hangzhou. At my active suggestion, the first issue featured Wan Feng and his program as the cover story, titled: "Old Cynical Youth - Wan Feng".At that time, I thought I had discovered the most entertaining radio host in China, but Wan Feng himself was seriously upset because he "entertained" his serious work. For three days, his fans also expressed their moral solidarity through the hotline. The momentum was chilling and even more touching.In my estimation, those should be the three days with the highest degree of moral stance and question-and-answer agreement between the host and the audience in the history of "Eden", and of course, it may also be the three days with the least entertainment.For this misunderstanding, I still feel a pity when I think about it, far more than the regret that the magazine was later discontinued (due to other things).

Thankfully, my friends and I have recently discovered a nightly radio show that's not nearly as entertaining as "Eden," and features several stand-up stars on different bands and times.In other words, compared with Wan Feng, the genre is different.The identities of the callers of such programs are unknown except that they are sick, but the hosts responsible for answering the calls are all doctors—to be precise, they are all professors or director-level doctors—more precisely, they all speak Cantonese but Doctors with the same accent of a certain area in the Cantonese dialect area, and, almost without exception, specialize in Xiasanlu.Wan Feng said: "I am not a doctor", and these professors and directors shouted in unison: "I am a doctor, and I am the doctor you are looking for"-this not only distinguishes the two programs The genres are different, and it has created their respective splendor in terms of entertainment.

Compared with the Hangzhou school style, the Cantonese school hosts are not guarded. They say what they have to say, go straight to the point, without a word of nonsense, and fully embody the pragmatic style of the Cantonese people.As for their entertainment, it's not all because their accents can say bacteria as "celery," make "testicle" sound like "dog pill," or "turn off your radio, please" as " Fuck your radio, please," or because these anchors sometimes have a whim, and the sneaky caller goes silent: "Oh, you have an enlarged prostate, so lose some weight first"—these are all very important, of course. It's fun, but the essence of entertainment lies in their highly consistent basic theories: Take prostate disease as an example, anyone who watches pornographic videos, masturbates, rides a car, drives, drives, normal or abnormal sexual behavior - in a word , Anyone who can get an erection is at risk of suffering from prostate disease, and all prostate diseases have the possibility of deteriorating to cancer. More importantly, if you don't seek medical treatment from him, you will usually die. Seeking medical treatment elsewhere can cure it, but the possibility of recurrence is extremely high.

Every midnight, the air in the Pearl River Delta is filled with such sounds.In this warm and humid spring night, the voice that thinks it is entertainment is subconsciously settling into preaching, and the voice that thinks it is preaching is inadvertently evaporating into entertainment—for inspiration, I have to lead the latter as a fellow.