The two are often playful and seldom serious, and the two men D & W listeners hear on the radio are the same men outside of the studios, according to Rock 107's news director and regular D & W contributor Ruth Miller.

"I'm the easiest person to make laugh, but with them it's genuine," Ms. Miller said. "Nothing is scripted and they don't mind when I get a good joke in on them. Every day is always so different here, it's never the same. You never know what they are going to do."

Both Mr. Daniels and Mr. Webster said they understood early on that surviving on radio would not be easy.

With that in mind, they created numerous characters and bits for their show, such as the Scranton Dopes (a pair of doughnut-eating police officers which drew the ire of local officials), Crockett and Hot Tubs (a take off of the "Miami Vice" characters), and Walter Nepasky, a fictional local guy.

"That's the beauty of our show," Mr. Webster said. "We are local guys, Jay has been here long enough to be considered local and I'm from here and we know what works in Northeast Pennsylvania."

D & W has found many other ways to grab the attention of listeners as well as ratings.

"There was the time when we were in a plane with the Golden Knights, a sky diving team, and John was sitting near the door with two seat belts on," Mr. Daniels recalled.

Mr. Webster said he was both scared and frozen stiff and "I literally had to go home and change my pants."

Once, when Mr. Webster's children were ill, he decided to broadcast from his house. Big mistake, he said.

"Well, you have to understand, my kids tell their friends I'm a bouncer at a gay bar, so it's not like they are proud.

"Anyway, I'm at home and the kids are making sure to make all of this noise, I made breakfast and they're banging on the table and all of this is on the air. Finally, I go to use the bathroom."

What happens next, Mr. Daniels said, was probably another first in radio history. "You hear the toilet flush," Mr. Daniels said. "This was no prop, no sound effect. It was the real thing."

During one show, frequent guest, Colin "Danger Boy" Joyce, was handcuffed to a pole in downtown Scranton.

The idea was to see if a good samaritan would use the key, which hung nearby, to release Mr. Joyce.

"Police officers drove up, took a look at him, laughed and drove off," Mr. Daniels said. A listener finally unlocked the handcuffs, but only after a dog had attacked Mr. Joyce, Mr. Webster said.

"Danger Boy did a lot of crazy things. During one show, he stuffed 40 cigarettes in his mouth and stood in the center of Keyser Avenue in Scranton. He wasn't a smoker, it was just a stunt and he was sick for days."

Wild times with D & W have made extra-long days much easier, said Mr. DiRienzo, who also hosts an overnight show at Rock 107.

"It's two guys who genuinely like what they're doing," Mr. DiRienzo said. "You don't have to stroke their egos at all," he said. "They listen when someone tells them something and nothing is ever taking personal."

The only thing that's off-limits is religion, Mr. Daniels said. Otherwise, everything is fair game, guests included.

"My daughter wanted to come with me to listen to me while I was on the show," Josette Funichello said this week. Mrs. Funichello is a former news director for the station and was once a frequent guest of D & W.

She was dubbed the "radio floozy" by D & W. "We thought of other names, but radio floozy stuck," Mr. Webster said.

Recently, they replayed a sketch with Mrs. Funichello about the difficulty in getting an object inside the hole of a lifesaver. The off-color bit raised eyebrows, but not much else. But, another guest nearly resulted in the demise of D & W.

"I almost got fired when I went down to see this woman at a gentlemen's club in Wilkes-Barre and invited her on the show," Mr. Webster said. "She came in and got mostly naked and let me tell you, it was downhill from there.