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Last week, when I was returning to Kansas City from Buffalo, I was scanning the radio dial in Nowheresville, Illinois. I came across a passable radio station that played a mix of oldies, album-oriented classic rock and alternative rock from the early 1990s.
Not too strange, until I heard the commercials ... for State Farm Insurance, farm implement dealers, and old folks' homes. Seemed very unusual for a rock station.
After the commercials ... hospital admissions were read. Hospital admissions, as in "Eleanor Klopp, 83, of East Nowheresville, was admitted to Nowhere County Regional Medical Center on September 3." Huh? Never heard hospital admittals read on the radio before.
The reading of hospital admissions went on for about ten minutes, and it was followed by ... obituaries! Ten minutes of death ... who died, when they kicked the bucket, their age, their church, their spouse, their maiden names if any, survivors, funeral and wake locations and times, and so on.
After the obituaries, the just-out-of-college DJ announced "Simple Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd as the next tune.
Very, very strange. I'm surprised there wasn't tradio thrown in there somewhere, with folks calling up to sell tractors, chainsaws and guns between twofers of the Rolling Stones and Boston.
Not too strange, until I heard the commercials ... for State Farm Insurance, farm implement dealers, and old folks' homes. Seemed very unusual for a rock station.
After the commercials ... hospital admissions were read. Hospital admissions, as in "Eleanor Klopp, 83, of East Nowheresville, was admitted to Nowhere County Regional Medical Center on September 3." Huh? Never heard hospital admittals read on the radio before.
The reading of hospital admissions went on for about ten minutes, and it was followed by ... obituaries! Ten minutes of death ... who died, when they kicked the bucket, their age, their church, their spouse, their maiden names if any, survivors, funeral and wake locations and times, and so on.
After the obituaries, the just-out-of-college DJ announced "Simple Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd as the next tune.
Very, very strange. I'm surprised there wasn't tradio thrown in there somewhere, with folks calling up to sell tractors, chainsaws and guns between twofers of the Rolling Stones and Boston.