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White Philly Sports Talk Radio Producer Invents Racist Black Character and Poses as Longtime Caller

A white producer for a Philly radio station posed as a black caller and was pretty racist about it.

Ah, talk radio. It has been and always shall be the impregnable fortress of the mouth-breather. It is the ideal setting for this sad, twisted tale of a white producer posing as an over-the-top shuckin'-n-jivin' black man who frequently calls into Philadelphia's 97.5 The Fanatic.

The website Crossing Broad published an expose on "Dwayne from Swedesboro", a caller who turns out to be the creation of 97.5 producer Pat Egan. "Dwayne" often calls in to Mike Missanelli's show. Here's a sample of his work:

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"Look man, I ain't gonna lie to ya, the paternity test was a big relief. It's like I didn't think that kid was my kid, but then it's that little bit of fear like, oh snap, Dwayne could be paying for this for 18 years."

Dwayne even had his own Twitter feed, featuring a black man holding a hockey stick, rocking a "Where all the White Women at?" t-shirt. Everything seems on the up-and-up so far, right?

Alas, a former 97.5 intern tipped off the website that Dwayne wasn't all he was cracked up to be. It snowballed from there, according to Kyle Scott:

"Several insiders confirmed that Dwayne was in fact a well-known fake caller amongst 97.5 staffers… except Missanelli. In fact, Dwayne (and potentially other callers) may exist solely to get a reaction out of Missanelli, some say."

The man in the Twitter photo is Nosike Onyemaobim, one of Egan's men's league hockey teammates.

Scott emailed Missanelli, Egan and fellow producer Jason Myrtetus to confirm the story, and they discussed the email on Missanelli's show:

"Dwayne from Swedesboro being accused of apparently not being a real person, so Dwayne from Swedesboro, if you're out there and you can put this to rest, we'd love to hear from you right now because there's a gossip stream that is gonna label you as a fraud. But our program director, he met him."

After the show, Egan came clean and admitted to Scott that he was, in fact, Dwayne from Swedesboro. Surely we can now expect Egan to take full responsibility for his radio minstrel act, right?

@BroadStOracle I expect people to play the race card but all my calls, went with the exact opposite to distance myself from him.
— Pat Egan (@Pat_Egan) August 22, 2016

After all, it wouldn't be talk radio without a white man accusing someone of playing the race card.