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And so one day, when i was feeling particularly annoyed with requests that just did’t fit thematically, i came up with the joke that rapidly became the only reason | kept the show going. Per station rules, | had to play a certain number of pre-recorded PSAs during my show, and before | cut to one | was supposed to read out the song titles and artists for all the music i had played before the break. So this one day when i had to inform the world before the break that the song they just heard was, per a listener’s request, Hey Jude by the Beatles, | decided to do a goof. | said: “and finally, that last song you heard was Hey Jude, which was of course written and performed by the Rolling Stones. *I barely had time to get the ads going before the phone started ringing. See, | had been assuming people would realize i was making an obvious joke by claiming one of the most well-known Beatles tracks was a Stones song, but i had failed to consider that my listeners were mostly 55-70 year old dads who were irritated from a long day in the office. And when those dads heard me, a millennial woman, get the artist of an extremely well-known beatles song WRONG???! they HAD to call in to correct my ignorance. never in a polite way either, it was condescending and annoyed or nothing. and like, they were just SO personally insulted by my inaccurate reporting that it took a massive amount of effort for me to avoid cracking up during the call