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"Were you planning on stopping by the protest?" DeFede queried.

"I might."

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"I won't hold you to it," he added sarcastically.

Following the mayor's call, others phoned in to vent sundry outrage. Around 8:00 a.m., a guy named Julio suggested, "We need a Boston Tea Party in this town. Taxes are out of control."

After a half-dozen others whined about traffic and high rents, producer Sandler relayed a manager's complaint that DeFede wasn't repeating the station's call letters often enough. "That's Radio 101," she said.

So how long will DeFede be in this class?

"I don't know that I want to be waking up at 4:00 a.m. in ten years," he says. "For now I have three jobs. That way I can be fired from one and still be covered."