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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

[ex-allenb.livejournal.com]

BWAH HA HA HA HA!!! "Ties across the Cumberland???" That's GREAT!!! lol!

[peteydaddy.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to see any of them. Post! Post!

[csberry.livejournal.com]

"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.

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[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.

[fettman.livejournal.com]

Oh, my goodness. I gotta hear this one too.

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[fettman.livejournal.com]

I would have ratted on ya. LOL!

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[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.