True Stories of the Local Media
Along with some of the other things they teach you in news reporter school, they teach you to have someone spell out their name on tape so that if you use a sound bite from them, you'll have the correct spelling as they gave it to you. So one of our videographers went to cover a "street baller" tournament here in town... I think it might have been part of the "And One" caravan.
He starts to interview this guy, and he asks him: "First, could you spell your name please?"
The guy goes: "Yeah, dawg. H. O. T, S. A. U, C. E."
There is a long pause. (A spelling-in-my-head pause.) You can see the camera move, as though the videographer were poking his head around the side in puzzlement.
"...Hot Sauce?"
"Yeah, Dawg. What?"
It was the most hilarious beginning to an interview I've seen in quite some time.