Launched two years ago, the show is heard on 250 radio stations and logs in about 4,000 calls nightly, plus another 500 or so faxed song requests and late-night musings that eat up three rolls of fax paper. What they didn't figure on was the growing multitudes of the awake and mostly working loyal late-nighters for whom the show is a reliable backdrop. Appearances are also made by employees known to listeners as Patrick the Phone Guy, Roy the Mail Boy and sports announcer Jim Shortz.
Some listeners come and go.
Garner says Kinko's employees are surprisingly communicative. Garner, who grew up in Canyon, Texas, says highlights have included Garth Brooks coming on the show for the world premiere of his Fresh Horses album. Other guests have included Randy Travis, John Anderson, Al Jackson, Vince Gill, Naomi and Wynonna Judd, Martina McBride and Dwight Yoakam. But what we have put together is a new network of listenership that had never been catered to before.