"Ties Across the Cumberland" was done the Friday before Fathers Day in (without pulling tape out) probably 1998. Darrell -a father of four- was speaking out against giving ties to dads. We decided to start a campaign to stop the presenting of ties for Fathers Day. Listeners were asked to drive across one of the bridges over the Cumberland River headed into downtown and give me ties. We demanded ties that had been gifted to fathers or ties that had misguidedly already been purchased by kids. The idea was that we were hoping to tie the ties from a post on one side of the bridge in a chain going across.

I started accumulating ties immediately and had a rope of ties about 40-50 feet long in no time. As one might guess, not everyone in Nashville listened to our show. It seems that a lot of folks driving across the bridge thought I was a homeless guy that was planning on jumping off the bridge - presumably using the collected ties to hang myself. On top of that, there's a traffic light right after the bridge in downtown. Traffic started to back up onto the bridge during the show. There were a few drivers that were distracted by me and rear-ended stopped cars. I saw one accident happen myself. The red pickup was obviously listening to the show. The driver and passenger yelled my nickname to me as they drove by. We watched each other as they went past me and slammed into the car stopped in front of them. Ooof.

Metro Police nicely asked me to untie all my ties and get off the bridge.