"Sometimes you just have to get it off your chest," Snitker said.
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Or if you absolutely have to get it off your chest, maybe pick someone trustworthy, who you know will not spill the secret — like your cat.
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If you've been holding back from saying something, the highly emotional energy in the air may now find you feeling ready to get it off your chest.
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It's best to rant your rant, get it off your chest, and then be done with it so that whatever was bothering you doesn't bog you down. 3.
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If you feel like asking something and want to get it off your chest, you might as well ask now and say what you got to say because later you're going to wish you would have.
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Charlemagne asks him "get it off your chest, I don't understand the angle" and Birdman kind of repeats himself, saying he doesn't have a problem and wanted to say face to face to respect his name.
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A typical programme begins with a 90-minute segment called Get It Off Your Chest, a less serious show in which callers are invited to call the station to discuss whatever they want. This section includes phone, text-in competitions and callers to the show randomly winning small prizes.
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Get It off Your Chest was an occasional segment that allows callers to call in and "confess their sins". Spoony describes the segment as "radio's most dangerous confessional". The confessions vary from caller to caller, and can vary in seriousness. Most calls are typically for minor acts, such as petty thefts (or borrowing without returning) or lies.
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The show usually begins with Spoony discussing the major news topics and current events for the day and setting an agenda for discussion. Each show from Tuesday to Wednesday typically revolves around two or three topics. Fridays are open to any topic (see below) that a listener calls in about, SMS's, or emails to the show. The show also includes a number of regular and semi-regular segments including Brush with Fame, Get It off Your Chest and Spoony's War on Error.
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Then because of something he heard on Capital Radio's late night phone-in show,Anna And The Doc, he decided to write a radio play, again on spec, called Get It Off Your Chest. This was immediately commissioned by the BBC for Radio 4's Afternoon Play and was the start of a number of other radio plays throughout the earlier 80s – No Get Out Clause, Son From Soho and Still Life. It was these plays that brought his writing to the attention of Julia Smith and Tony Holland who were in the process of developing a long term drama (i.e. a soap) for the BBC.
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In one instance, a caller confessed to an elaborate lie to an ex-boyfriend about giving birth to a child of his (which was actually miscarried) and subsequently putting the child up for adoption."Should Big Brother Be Cancelled and Jane's Disgusting Confession" 2006-07-03 podcast (MP3) The caller admitted to faking documentation (such as borrowing a friend's ultrasounds and photos) and that she never intends to confess the truth to him, despite losing significant sleep over it. As of 10 July 2008, "Get it off your chest", has returned and will become a regular Thursday segment. The same night marked the first time ever on the show, where no callers had called for the topic.
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