"Hi, how are you?": polite or boring?

[breadboy09]

I think the guys were right on. People call, supposedly, to contribute to the show, not to find out how the hosts are doing. They generally talk about how they are doing in the first segment, or in the CWTTAB segment. It's like in the classroom when a student asks a question that was already explicitly answered by the teacher. It is unnecessary, ruins the flow, and often upsets many other people.