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[csberry]

It's just a matter of time until I start posting clips from the old RoadKill tapes. Any requests:

RoadKill Gets Arrested at the Airport
RK Looks for Honest People (and can't find any in Nashville)
RK Squeezes the Charmin
RK Gives Johnny and June Carter Cash Roses at the Airport
RK Gets a Spa Makeover
RK Converts Listeners
RK Spreads Rumors at Fan Fair (Includes Chicken Clucking Contest)
RK Gets Victims to Bounce Ball
RK Rides His Bike Into Work Day (13 miles of hilly Nashville)
RK Does Sonny & Cher Around Nashville
RK Cheers Up Wayne (Grumpy boss of a listener)
RK Gets Roughed Up After the Country Music Awards
RK Goes to a Nude Camp
RK Goes for the Full Monty
RK Reads a Faerie Tale to Kids
RK Goes to the Dentist
RK's First Bit - Lottery & Bobbing for Rubber Ducks
RK Drives a Monster Truck
RK as a Bride
Ties Across the Cumberland (and RK's first brush with the law)
RK Rolls the News Guy's House
RK Tries Boxing
RK Relives Watergate
RK Pitches a Song on Music Row

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Here are my requests:

[fettman.livejournal.com]

RK Looks for Honest People (and can't find any in Nashville)
RK Squeezes the Charmin
RK Spreads Rumors at Fan Fair (Includes Chicken Clucking Contest)
RK Gets Victims to Bounce Ball
RK Does Sonny & Cher Around Nashville
RK Gets Roughed Up After the Country Music Awards
RK Pitches a Song on Music Row

Re: Here are my requests:

[csberry.livejournal.com]

RK Looks for Honest People
This bit is THE BEST RK EVER! This "stunt" was one of the best examples of what made listening to "AnKarlo Mornings" so fantastic. This happened right after Bill Clinton had the testimony where he talked about "It depends what the meaning of 'is' is." crap. We wanted to know how much people really tell the truth. I was sent out into the streets of Nashville trying to find someone that wouldn't lie. I would approach someone on the street and tell them that I was polling people on what the Houston Oilers should be renamed now that they were in Nashville, what their favorite present was, some other dumb opinion question. While waiting for Darrell to come to me on air, I would be smoking a cigarette. I would then talk to Darrell over the mobile phone (the "RoadKill Sprint PCS Digital Phone" as we were paid to say - it always made me feel like a NASCAR driver). I would say that I hadn't been smoking and state that I hadn't touched cigarettes at all. Darrell would then talk to the victim about the subject I used as the front. After that, he'd ask the victim if I had been smoking.

Want to know how many told Darrell that I had been smoking?

RK Squeezes the Charmin
For Charmin's 70th anniversary I went down to the local Kroger and bugged shoppers about their feelings towards Charmin. I was in a particularly goofy mood that day and love to listen to this one. I already have this cut on my computer. Likely to be posted soon.

RK Spreads Rumors at Fan Fair
Did this a couple of times at the annual country music Fan Fair. Millions of country fans from across the nation descend upon Nashville for opportunities to meet the stars. It has been one of those events that points out the difference in the accessibility to country versus other genre stars. I went there, circulated among the tourists trying to spread rumors about country stars. This year I also asked people waiting in line if they were entering the Chicken Clucking Contest (which didn't exist) and had them demonstrate their chicken clucking abilities for our listeners. It's so much fun ridiculing tourists.

RK Gets Victims to Bounce Ball
Silly stunt in the first few months of doing stunts.

RK Does Sonny & Cher Around Nashville
Don't remember a lot about this other then the sensation of walking into a busy coffee shop and belting out the first verse and chorus of "I've Got You, Babe" ...and having people join in.

RK Gets Roughed Up After the Country Music Awards
One of the few fictional stunts we did. I wrote this idea that Darrell had sent me to the CMA awards. Supposedly I didn't come into work. They got concerned and called my cellphone. A drunk or high RK answers the phone and mutters a lot of nonsense. We discover that I have been beaten up by Garth Brooks and locked into a paint closet in the back of the Grand Ol' Opry. Good bit.

RK Pitches a Song on Music Row
The first RK stunt to have a huge impact with listeners (both the listeners remembering it and those who heard about the stunt and then became regular listeners). This stunt made us realize that we had some cool listeners (more than the conspiracy theorist/militia types that WTN had listening to their station at the time). We weren't on the air for a year yet with Darrell when this happened. A month or so before this stunt, we had written a song on the air with the audience: A Bottle of Beer and a Can of Spam. Callers gave us lines and we pieced the best suggestions together and recorded it in the studio. On this morning, I was going door-to-door on Music Row trying to talk to A&R people. One of the VPs from Warner Brothers Nashville snagged me in the street and invited me to his office. I then pitched the song to him and one of their A&R ladies while on the air.

Re: Here are my requests:

[fettman.livejournal.com]

I would have ratted on ya. LOL!

Re: Here are my requests:

[csberry.livejournal.com]

It is amazing the extent that people were willing to bend the truth when replying to Darrell's questions. People were more concerned about not getting me in trouble than they were in telling the truth.