who are the 3am djs and are you ok

serious question for whoever runs the overnight shift on lil rawkers. i've been up way too late this week because my upstairs neighbor took up tap dancing (a grown man, on hardwood floors, at midnight) so i've been listening to the stream til like 4

and around 3 the vibe gets weird. in a good way. last night somebody played a polka cover of a metallica song and then a whale sound effect and then just went right back into normal rock like nothing happened. nobody said anything about it i need to know if that was on purpose

this kind of thing has a history with me. when i was 11 i called our local station at 2am to request "eye of the tiger" because i

the 3am shift at a community station is usually one volunteer who signed up for it because nobody else would. by that hour I'm pretty sure theyre the only person left in the building, so who's going to stop them... whale sound is a bold choice though. I checked my watch the last time something like that happened, an actual watch with hands, and it was 3:17 on the dot. some part of me thinks they plan it...

...by that hour I'm pretty sure theyre the only...

lol i did the 4am slot at a college station for like a semester and nobody stopped me from playing a 40 minute whale song album twice in a row. one guy called in to say thanks, and i still think about him

the one caller is the real story here somebody was awake at 4am, actually listened to forty minutes of whales, then heard it start over and decided that deserved a phone call i hope that guy's doing ok, wherever he is

i used to drive past this little AM station on route 9 at like 3am coming back from my aunts place, a cinderblock shack with ONE blinking red light on the tower and a hand painted sign that just said WE'RE ON. and somebody always was. classic rock, swap shop ads, a guy reading the farm report to nobody the building got knocked down a couple years ago and i still get weirdly sad about it

that whale caller probably wasnt calling about the whales tbh. he wanted proof somebody was on the other end. and somebody was

also you could say the whale loop was a deep cut thats intellectual humor dont @ me

oh the farm report to nobody... that one gets me!! my late husband used to leave the radio on in the garage overnight and i swear the same man read hog futures at 4am for twenty years... i never knew his name... and you're probably right about the whale caller, some people just need to hear a voice back... i watched a Dateline last week where the whole case came down to a night shift DJ remembering a song request, isn't that something!! anyway i'm up at 3 most nights now myself, watching for the herons on the pond out back... Just my two cents!!

wait watching for the WHAT, you cant just trail off like that at 3am, thats how half those Dateline episodes start lol

the song request thing is wild tho. those night guys remember everything because nobody else is calling, so every caller sticks. my cousin did overnights at a college station for a semester and he said the same four people called every single night. one lady requested Moon River so many times they just started playing it at 3:15 without her asking

and real question since its the thread title, are YOU ok?? up at 3 most nights is a lot. not judging, ive been there, but i was mostly running on gas station coffee and bad decisions. i used to tell people i was a night owl but really i just didnt give a hoot about sleep. thats intellectual humor btw, look it up

anyway if youre up tonight put on the overnight guy and call