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Memphis website named to Rock radio station's 2007 Top Ten List

 

(Springfield, MA) As the days of the calendar become fewer there is a need to summarize the events of the past year. Lists are often the tool used for this task, counting the passing years top grossing movies, richest people, and biggest news stories.   WAQY, Rock 102 in Springfield, Massachusetts decided to create a list of the Top 10 Interviews the comedy team of Bax & O'Brian conducted on their morning show. Their April interview with the creators of the Memphis based website Street-people.com made the list.  All ten honorees for the 2007 Top Ten Bax & O'Brian Interviews will be revealed this week with encore broadcasts of their interview.

 

The creators of Street-people.com where interviewed on Rock 102 during a trip to New England to promote the site and wrangle up original bum stories from the original colonies.   The tour created an enormous amount of attention as television news crews and newspaper reporters from the region followed the team from the website around for an entire day as they interviewed bums.   "It was an unexpected experience to have that much media attention" commented one of the founders, "I think it showcases the feeling expressed on the site that people feel how we address the problem is not working and they are looking for a process that will be effective."

 

The creators of the site surmised that Bax & O'Brian picked the interview as one of the top ten of the year because Springfield is having problems dealing with an expanding populations of street people that have brought lawsuits against the city for shutting down shelters.   The interview was peppered with off color comments about bums, their body odor, and the suggestion to give all homeless people in Massachusetts bus tickets to Connecticut thus solving Springfield's and all the other cities in Massachusetts street people problem. "I think the serious nature of the topic mixed with our ability to talk about it in bad taste made for an interesting interview generating responses both positive and negative" commented the creators, "plus we gave them free t-shirts."

 

The interview will receive an encore presentation in December when Bax & O'Brian present the top interviews of the year.   The interview can be heard by fans of Street-people.com as it is available online at www.rock102.com

 

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