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trickester: I ever tell you guys about my ethically dubious radio show back in college? The Mad Dad Hour? tricktster: it was an entire radio show built around perpetuating a very simple joke, but it was uniquely powerful in its capacity to prompt the reaction | was looking for. S0 my slot was at the tail end of rush hour, and i got a fair number of listeners/callers who were on the way home from the office. And like, I'had alot of callers, who almost all wanted to request songs that really didn’t fit with the aesthetic. | had pitched a power pop show when i got my slot, but the callers were not having it; they invariably wanted classic rock. this made sense in a way. if you think about the demographics of the people who listened to the radio for music in 2010 instead of their ipods or cds or whatever, you'd expect them to skew older right? accordingly, i quickly realized that almost all of the people who called to request songs were Dads of a Certain Age. It was honestly annoying at first - I'm all for most classic rock, but that wasn’t what the show was supposed to be.