After landing in CT last week, I was stuck in traffic – shock! – and was station surfing on my radio… landed on 95.1, which was very faint seeing as I was still east of Hartford. They were playing something Rock-ish and then all of a sudden, I heard Howard and Artie arguing with Robin over something. I didn’t think twice about it, since I used to listen to Howard in the car for years, but then Artie swore a bit. “Wait, why is he on now? And on WRKI??? Wait, how can they swear on FM???” And then the signal dropped out. Then it came back.

That’s when I noticed a car next to me: it had a Sirius antenna on the trunk. Obviously, the driver was using an FM blaster to listen to Sirius and I was close enough to pick up the blasting signal, as we were all in stopped traffic… the end result is that I heard “Fuck” via my FM radio – can you imagine the fun you could have with people if you got a more powerful blaster and sat in traffic? Mind boggling. The FCC would be powerless to field the complaints too… in fact, if you hated a show on FM, you could do this to people, generate complaints (and fines) and the FCC would jump on the show.

Of course, Howard was on terrestrial radio again this morning, which is what reminded me of the story – was very strange to hear him call into another radio show even if it was for just a few minutes…