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And now...a story!
Ok, so I'm driving back from Pullman this morning (I had to drop my Dad off at work to get the car so I could move out) listening to oldies, as I sometimes do, when the daily trivia question comes on the radio. Question: In 1998 a man's death was caused by this, the only death of its kind in the history of the United Staets. So immediately I'm like "oh, I know the answer," but since this is oldies 101, a fairly large radio station based out of Spokane that broadcasts all over Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho, I'm like "but there's no way I'm going to get through." (everyone knows where this story is going now, right?) However, since I figured no body else would get the answer, I start trying to call. Well, on try #11 I actually get through! Since this is a fairly big radio station I figure there are three or four people sitting on the phone lines screening stupid answers, so I casually tell the guy I think the answer is death by sleepwalking because I heard about this guy (while watching TV last summer) who ran out onto a highway in his sleep and got hit by a semi truck. This ended up not being the right answer, so I said thank you and we hung up. Well, I now have to know what the answer is, so I stick around and keep listening. So they go back to taking callers and I think to myself after hearing a "hello" that hmm...this guy's voice sounds familiar. Well, turns out that guy "screening" me was actually the DJ, so everything I said over the phone was also played on air. You'd think if they were going to do that they would have told me to turn off the radio playing in the background and they would have chatting with me for a few seconds to make sure I didn't say something like "FUCK, I'M ON THE RADIO, HI MOM, WOO!!!" (of course I guess that's what the recording was for, thank you Janet Jackson). For those of you who were wondering, the answer was death by sticky note, some guy got a paper cut at the office and was allergic to two of the ingredients in the sticky part. The lady who got the answer needed a million hints to get it too (I assume the DJ got tired of person after person saying "was it spontaneous human combustion?"). So ya, there's my radio story. Hope everyone was somewhat ammused. :)
Ok, so I'm driving back from Pullman this morning (I had to drop my Dad off at work to get the car so I could move out) listening to oldies, as I sometimes do, when the daily trivia question comes on the radio. Question: In 1998 a man's death was caused by this, the only death of its kind in the history of the United Staets. So immediately I'm like "oh, I know the answer," but since this is oldies 101, a fairly large radio station based out of Spokane that broadcasts all over Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho, I'm like "but there's no way I'm going to get through." (everyone knows where this story is going now, right?) However, since I figured no body else would get the answer, I start trying to call. Well, on try #11 I actually get through! Since this is a fairly big radio station I figure there are three or four people sitting on the phone lines screening stupid answers, so I casually tell the guy I think the answer is death by sleepwalking because I heard about this guy (while watching TV last summer) who ran out onto a highway in his sleep and got hit by a semi truck. This ended up not being the right answer, so I said thank you and we hung up. Well, I now have to know what the answer is, so I stick around and keep listening. So they go back to taking callers and I think to myself after hearing a "hello" that hmm...this guy's voice sounds familiar. Well, turns out that guy "screening" me was actually the DJ, so everything I said over the phone was also played on air. You'd think if they were going to do that they would have told me to turn off the radio playing in the background and they would have chatting with me for a few seconds to make sure I didn't say something like "FUCK, I'M ON THE RADIO, HI MOM, WOO!!!" (of course I guess that's what the recording was for, thank you Janet Jackson). For those of you who were wondering, the answer was death by sticky note, some guy got a paper cut at the office and was allergic to two of the ingredients in the sticky part. The lady who got the answer needed a million hints to get it too (I assume the DJ got tired of person after person saying "was it spontaneous human combustion?"). So ya, there's my radio story. Hope everyone was somewhat ammused. :)