This stunt is the epitome of what we wanted the RoadKill stunts to be - funny but insightful. Sure, there were plenty of mornings that it was silliness for silliness sake, but mornings like this is what we wished for when looking for inspiration.
Background info...
This was during the Lewinsky Era. Clinton had just given his testimony that was filled with such comments as "It depends on what your definition of 'is' is." Conservatives were screaming bloody murder and there were people defending Clinton by saying that it's okay to lie. So, I was sent into downtown Nashville with a pack of cigarettes. My mission was to grab people to do a person-on-the-street phone interview with Darrell about ...something, it didn't matter. The trick was that I would smoke a cigarette while we waited to go on the air. That person would hear me argue with Darrell and lie about smoking. Darrell would then talk to them and ask if I had been smoking.
Let's just say that a lot of people are willing to lie for strangers.
RoadKill Looks for Honest Folk(it's 11.3MB)