This was going to be a Cubs rant but they won so I had to change the rant.

Hello, I'm zman977. My name stands for my on air name, I am a radio peronality, in other words I'm broke, and the 977 part is the frequency of one of the radio stations I work for. I just finnished watching the Cubs beat the Cardnals on a Neffi Perez (SP) grand slam. At first I thought I was going to have to do some Cubs bashing after they blew a one run lead in the bottom of the ninth with two out and two stirkes but that idea was canned when the Cubs decided to actually not blow a lead this time. So I'll have to think of something elce to rant about. I know. Working in radio I do get some strange phone calls. My favorite ones are the people who will call during a sports broadcast like a NASCAR race and request a song. Now I can hear the race in the back ground so I know they are listening. The funny part is they cannot figure out that we cannot interupt a sports broadcast to play a song. There are also the people who will call during severe weather warnings to request songs. "I know a tornadoe is haeding right for my house and will kill my whole family but I just have to hear the new Brooks & Dunn song". Another one that gets me is the peole who will call a station and request a song that is completely off the format. Calling a top forty station and requesting Bary Maniloe. That actaully has happend. Again, you can hear the station in the back ground. I politely tell the person that we don't play anything that old. When I am actually thinking, "idiot. Do they hear what we are playing?" I also like the people who will call us and ask if they won the tickets when there is no contest going on. They apparetnly think by just asking if they won a contest they will trick us in to thinking that we must be running one. I also like it when telemarketers will call the request lines and try to get us to buy something. I like to tell them that I cannot take phone selisitations and then I transfer them to my boss and of course they hang up. I also like the people who will call on Sundays and ask to talk to Rick Dees during the broadcast of the Weekly top forty. They often sound shocked that it is a program that we recieve on CD. I'm sure everyone who works with the public has their own stories of those speical people. Those are just a few we deal with in radio.