INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY

Once again, all the lights are…wait, it turns out the lights are actually on this week.  Though, as usual, it remains completely silent.  DJ 3000′ boots up…

…to see a familiar face lounging on the sofa, a textbook open in his lap. 

DJ 3000′: HEY! I DIDN’T EXPECT YOU TO ALREADY BE HERE.

HUNTER RENFROW: [glances up] Oh, yeah. I have a social studies exam coming up and figured I could work pretty efficiently here.

DJ 3000′: WHAT’S THE MODULE THIS SEMESTER?

HUNTER RENFROW: Ancient Cultures.

DJ 3000′: AH. I’D OFFER TO HELP, BUT…YOU KNOW. DIFFERENT TIMELINE AND ALL THAT.

HUNTER RENFROW: It’s cool, I don’t terribly mind learning about this stuff.  It’s hard to appreciate fiction about alternative histories without knowing what happened in the real one.  I will say that all that Cleopatra and Marc Anthony and Augustus Caesar stuff sounds like something a bunch of writers at HBO would have come up with.

DJ 3000′: YEAH, WE’VE GOT SOME STUFF LIKE THAT TOO.  LIKE, THE STORY IN THAT TV SHOW SHOGUN IS SUSPICIOUSLY SIMILAR TO WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN JAPAN DURING THAT ERA. SO MUCH SO THAT I’M SUSPICIOUS THAT JAMES CLAVELL MIGHT HAVE BEEN ONE OF MY FELLOW TRAVELERS.

HUNTER RENFROW: We’re doing the AFC East for Request Line this week, right?

DJ 3000′: YEAH.

HUNTER RENFROW: I was thinking about Good Friday and all that, and how the Brady/Belichick years were a lot like the Roman Empire around the time of Jesus Christ.

DJ 3000′: REALLY. HOW SO?

HUNTER RENFROW: Well, you’ve got your New England Patriots, who were obviously Rome.  Completely dominant in every way.

DJ 3000′: OKAY.

HUNTER RENFROW: And then you’ve got the Miami Dolphins, who were like all the different provinces. They hated Rome but they couldn’t really do anything about them, so they mostly just paid tribute and got on with their lives.

DJ 3000′: I GUESS, SURE.

HUNTER RENFROW: And then you’ve got the Buffalo Bills, who were like the various groups that rebelled against Rome’s rule, including the Christians, but kept getting put down again and again and fed to lions and stuff.

DJ 3000′: THIS IS TURNING INTO A FAIRLY TORTUOUS ANALOGY.

HUNTER RENFROW: But I’m not sure how the Jets fit in. There’s not really much comic relief in this [pats textbook] or any of the biblical stuff.

DJ 3000′: THERE’S ACTUALLY A BOOK CALLED “LAMB” THAT ADDS ANOTHER DISCIPLE WHO FILLS IN SOME OF THE GAPS IN THE GOSPELS AND ACTS AS COMIC RELIEF. IT’S BY AN AUTHOR NAMED CHRISTOPHER MOORE, HE’S ALL THE RAGE IN THE CLUBHOUSE RIGHT NOW.

HUNTER RENFROW: [whirls around to regard DJ 3000′ with widened eyes] Clubhouse?

DJ 3000′: OH JEEZ WOULD YOU LOOK AT THE TIME WE’VE GOT TO GET ON THE AIR.

HUNTER RENFROW: Wait, no, I want to know more about this clubhouse…

The “ON AIR” display lights up and DJ 3000′ fires up the “Hunter Renfrow” voice module. 

DJ 3000′: Gosh folks, it looks like it’s time for another divisional edition of Request Line – featuring the AFC East. You all know the drill at this point, we’re looking for songs that relate to the teams, history, and players of the New England Patriots, the Miami Dolphins, the Buffalo Bills, and the New York Jets.  I’ll get us started with a self-contained DOUBLE SHOT of Bill-y Bragg’s “A New England”.

Today’s theme is the AFC East.  We’re looking for songs that have anything to do with the teams in the division (New England Patriots, Miami Dolphins, Buffalo Bills, New York Jets).  Please post links as “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb25jQ06J_4” and they should embed in the comments after you refresh.  Last week’s puzzle answer of “Gotta Boogie” by Weird Al Yankovic was (sort of) solved by SonOfSpam. Off we go!