From Blatherwatch We always suspected… that actors might be being hired as callers for talk radio shows, but then we said “nahhh…”
Now that callers are becoming a thing of the past for talk radio, it can be revealed talk syndicators of Rush and Sean have hired ringers (so to speak).
Via Tablet Magazine:
If [the actor] passed the audition, he would be invited periodically to call in to various talk shows and recite various scenarios that made for interesting radio. He would never be identified as an actor, and his scenarios would never be identified as fabricated—which they always were.
“I was surprised that it seemed so open,” the actor told me in an interview. “There was really no pretense of covering it up.”