Genesis of His Original Show

The creation of his show was explained, by this call/question which Germain fielded at 10:41 pm on Nov 28th, 2006:

Caller: “Getting into the radio field, when did you decide not to have a screener?”
Mr. K: “Well, here’s the thing, before I was an on-air personality, I was a behind-the-scenes guy, and one of the things I did as a behind-the-scenes guy was screen calls, and people used to come and watch me screen ‘cause they thought it was pretty entertaining, so my idea was to host a show where I basically screen the calls live on the air.”
Caller: “Did they deter you from that?”
Mr. K: “Who?”
Caller: “Like you know, management, when you . . . ?”
Mr. K: “No, I pitched my boss at the time on the idea, and he said, all right, lets give it a shot, and he put me on at 2 in the morning on a Sunday, and figuring that if it blew up on the launch pad, no one would be the wiser for it – under the cover of darkness.”
Caller: “Any reason why more hosts don’t do that?”
Mr. K: “Because they can’t.”
Caller: “Meaning . . . a little deeper?”
Mr. K: “No, I don’t think they have the skills to do it, I think that most hosts have a lot of skeletons in their closets or issues that they don’t want to talk about. Most talk radio is issue-oriented, specific issue, here's the topic, we are going to talk about gays in the military for the next hour and if people were to call up and be off-topic, it would be distracting from their show, so if I did that kind of a show, and occasionally I do that kind of a show, ah, most hosts would need the crutch of a screener.”

[One can see Germain in action at his former station, KABC in this July, 2006 clip provided by guest, comedian April Winchell[1].]