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The following program is distributed by the National Federation of community broadcasters. Yeah. I go on the road looking for trouble and whenever I find someone I stop. I suppose that's why they call me bloodhound a rag doll. But then my business is trouble. What are your quick to do. It would be to say what am I not equipped to do. If your engine blows up I cannot rebuild it for you. If your transmission goes bad there's very little that I can do. If your spark is gone I can restore it if you're suffering from fuel starvation and I can make sure the gaskets your carburetor. I find that most people invent fairy tales about what they think is wrong with their car mechanical ignorance is tantamount. We have a crisis of. Mechanical knowledge in this country. You tell a person's automobile. No I don't know anything. I suppose that's why I'm also known as the scourge of the Tobruk in the long
delayed. You see I prevent telling. How did you first get into this line of work. When I was 17 I decided I wanted to become a general. I enlisted you know nothing. I love adventure glory as might. Be. The taters. So when the Army lost the glory and adventure they lost Sargent little. And now the world. As the road Ranger I'm going to venture my daily diet again. What's your relationship with the Highway Patrol. We have very good relationship. It took us a little while to get used to one another I suppose a costume for seder or suddenly appearing on the highway he gave some reservation. I'm not some kook from connectivity and certainly no history of mental illness or anything like that. They like to say that I'm eccentric. I think perhaps there's profit in being eccentric. Perhaps it will allow me to eventually succeed and do what I set out to do which is
to clean up the American auto repair and history and educate the public on how to troubleshoot their cars next year. Finances permitting I'm going to make a very bold effort. To become a national character. I suppose it's addictive once you've got a taste of it. So I'm going to set out across the United States as the rain. Maybe I'll charge money maybe I won't. Maybe the nation will be generous enough to indulge me and I will give them a lot in return. I'd like to be. The ONLY in this century. That ever came close to being you know a living legend. One who puts on a weird costume like the Scarlet Pimpernel or the Lone Ranger or whatever just sets out. And does things his way. What do you. Mean do you listen to the radio or sing or
anything. While I'm driving I'm always looking for trouble my eyes water. Left right behind me at all times as I see what's going on around me. Oh OK. What were the something just before I broke up with Daniel and were coasting and the engine cut out. I had gasoline so the only thing I could have. You're. Not exactly. I suspect that your problem is most likely fuel starvation. The way that you test a belter sets you remove it and you try to. Breathe through it. It should be like inflating a paper bag or blowing through a soda straw. This one. Is like trying to inflate a baseball. By no stretch of
imagination can one put six gallons an hour through this. Rock. How long will it take you to install that fuel filter. Well it took two minutes for it out it'll probably take about three minutes put back in because I have to check the hoses and make sure they're not going to late. This is not something I recommend amateurs do. It's something I want to be done with a great deal of caution. And to change someone's filters to incur a very great legal responsibility as well as a moral one. And you're willing to take that responsibility. Well my business is trouble. It's expected of me. I will put it all back together because I will start with an Oh. I think my work is done.
I noticed someone just went by and didn't wave. Yes happens thousands of times every day. Usually they yell my old silver Where's Tonto is very popular and many people are just saying the first 10 bars of the William Tell Overture fair and square. The man with the mask. That music block to help. I've yet to make an impression on the television networks I have a musical signature and it is in fact the War of 1812 Overture. I like to think that it is separate but equal. How did you pick your model. I come from a military background I wanted some string words that would act as a positive reinforcement I am kind of a prisoner of virtue if one calls oneself the champion of the stranded traveler the bloodhound of breakdown and you have models like who tries whens. Then you do everything that you can to earn those names and models reputations. That's a very positive form of reinforcement.
It keeps me straight. Would you miss the stereo in going national. Yes but if I do I shall return. Thanks. Thanks. Produced by Dave and the Kitchen Sisters. Wow. The following program is distributed by the National Federation of community broadcasters.
Texas is good. Oh here's us and I love it. We're sleeping aid New York on red. Man I go there in the morning. And play that night and it's a TALK OF THE TOWN a big thing. I never touch so we'll. Shoot a game up in the middle. As for what to do. Levi you can do it without a wrist. I can't believe it. But I'll show you then you know. How to cut the bone in that pocket one hand jacked up. What would be the best shot they are one handed and very hard shot with two. All right all right.
I had an injury on the left hand. Stuck a match on a dime I'd kept blue two fingers and thumb out often. I figured I didn't have the hand to go some other route. Oh I'm a play one handed to use a rail a particular area for rest that's easy. It's not one hand it just she. Was just hardest part douche pistol shot. I'm six just to start going to seven. Then I had to dump a poor rooms you know. When green painted and you could see in I had a bad name poor. Reputation. Fight Yeah. Card. Just got my blood is like a man on a dragon which you know gets new blood you've got to live and let it get to play sometime ever day a little.
The footballer shot I'll show you that in a minute. First we're back to Bo. I'm going to show you how the Oakland Raiders beat Philadelphia for the quarterback. It was 14 another Oakland. Met Ralph Greenleaf a world champion one of 20. Travel around him six years. Show me what you want to know. He was a machine a wooden human. Thousands of them that he was on morphine and. Camp attendant misses some day but I will be there to see it. He did. So he heard came true. The Killers forgot I guess it's a lone lone
hand you have to travel you know. Hit the road start playing exhibition hitchhiking went around as a one armed band. Didn't like that name much changed to the greatest ever. That's what they call me. Yeah it's a long story but it's been really been an arrest. You're going to make a move in Hollywood. Stay McQuinn going to play my part but he does the Robert Redford legend of Ernest Morgan. I. Make you another one. In the picture of The Hustler. Power when your man looked like he was making the shots but he didn't become He's a great actor but far from being a good poker player so he could make good use of what I'm going to do. OK make the shot. As well we've got a fellow here Ernest Morgan will make it for him. So here is one of the shots of me just this
past. Fall. Once in a while a mess as you noticed. Yes we would like to know. A bit on TV. Hustle all over the country and West AC never forget you. I'm just about burnout. And a mouse and a half a million dollars often and I know he's going to have a rotten kilo nets. So OK. I got a sheen of guns women people today with IT WILL BE BLOOD shit. Somebody has to win. Got to be a good fella. How BP of other minus a broken heart get back to him. I broke a mammoth sandwich on coldest
night in the world can just go to chick. You now no groceries and 7 kids wait not. A broke nigga. He cried. Drop down. I give the money back. Do. Not brag and only as a player in a world to get it back down but earnest Morgan aerated don't nobody to give it all back to. You. Well. I didn't get to play the show and play pool. I will live 10 days. That somebody just grows on you and it's like he's in love with somebody which I haven't been mean someone a man but as a strong leader in the face I would take none for I'd do it over and over lived a million years.
Nothing like it. Thank you. Thank you. The following program is distributed by the National Federation of community broadcasters. And I really category but I learned that the Miss America Foundation is so much different than many of the others. It really emphasizes the total rather than just the physical.
I think you know I want to be a big girl I want to be here and there is no image to fit into. There is no mold. There's no weight height. You know there is no such thing as California program lost 60 pounds lost lost 30 came back up and became health. So I've been around a long time. What is training and how
does one train for being missed. Tell You. What the results. Are and. If you would take.
Half of the pie 50 percent is talent and if you take the other half of the pie and cut it into thirds and personal interview fall into the other half. I'm the musical director and I've been with the Miss California pageant for over 30 years. Have you had any people that were really exceptional singers or dancers that you've worked with. Yes there have been many good ones. I there's not no one that stands out in my mind I can remember them from one year the next. It gets to the point where they all look the same they're all beautiful and they're fun to work with. Was you.
It is our seat that if a man can go to college because of football basketball or whatever any young woman to complete her career goals in their heads. More than really title are being placed on a pedestal it involves scholarships and intellect and poise and personality. It was something for me and I just entered because my mother thought it was a good idea. In preparation of a talent the one bit of advice we do give a young lady is not to sing and dance and play the piano and recite a short piece all at one time. What are you doing for the talent. I write poetry and I've been involved with creative writing for a number of years and I wrote in a original monologue and it captures some of the idealism of young women today it's not really a feminist type of poem but it shows
both sides that happiness is in your own backyard or are in the family but that the world's your oyster too. As a woman I'm happy about it. I know I'm there and we're continuously growing more concerned over the welfare of our country. I'm concerned about the welfare and. Unemployment. And the education systems in the United. I'm truly concerned about. Country. Yesterday I saw an older woman sitting by herself in a park. She was sitting by the pond with the bag of bread crumbs feeding the ducks. Each time a little child went by she smiled. Probably because she hoped for his future. Each time a fluffy gray squirrel ran up which I think our program is today I think we obviously are feminist. The idea of like the IRA are equal rights for
women. That's what we're all about. And if we're not helping to improve their lives then who in the world through her eyes. I wish everyone could look at our country a little differently. It's so sad to hear people mocking our leaders swearing at the way things are. I just can't help remembering the way things were and appreciating how far we've come. I have faith that as you are reading this now there is already a cure for cancer. I want us as brothers and sisters to look at every situation through the eyes of that woman on the park bench smiling at the good. Faith that the bad will become improved. We need to stand together as a united nation. A proud nation a good nation. I have read this book. You are living in a better tomorrow because I know I am living in a better today. Somewhere in the world a Tupperware party if they would have been cleaned up and.
I'm like you don't know what you're talking regular. She's like You morrow and I'm joyful. That's lucky Laurel. I think still like them people are just Tupperware people do you know what I mean. I'm an addict. A Tupperware addict. I'm ordering much more than I need and I can't stop myself. It's a part of my upbringing. Part of my heritage. The town only. And this is a pocket comb before you can massage your scalp or scrub your vegetables or pet your cat. Please use it for only one of those things. This might be a fact that you don't know you do not burp square containers only round SEALs do you birds this. This is probably my seventh or eighth Tupperware party and it every time a party you feel like you need to buy one thing for the hostess. So here I am a poet I think it takes a lot of courage to have a Tupperware party as you know I'm going to use the temple and I don't ever wear that I've had for 30 years I guess and most of it's good yeah. My mother always
used Tupperware and I remember after every holiday like at Passover and rush on it all the leftover Simonis filled the fish went into the Tupperware containers. These are our ultra clear counterparts. When President Reagan was in the hospital when she was going up the steps she had a container full of jelly beans and it was a Tupperware kind of part that was given to them by Justin Dart you know jarred industries and Kraft and we're all one big family now did you know that. So they came out with their new better and she's just I'm dark it was a very special man. He was instrumental in Ronald Reagan's drive for governor and had a significant part to play in President in the order and you can lay toothpicks on the side here too used to serve you. It really brightens up your Monday morning. Even a brand new person that's been at the job market for a while and family has been take advantage over and sure come in to rally and everybody makes you feel really special because you had
a good week. And you have a new baby and a lot of bills and I need a job that I could be home with the children but can I make some money for me. We came to the country 14 years ago because we knew it was the land of opportunity. Several really showed us it was tomorrow's much wealthier in Tupperware what used to be a deputy sheriff I had done that for 10 years. After six months I quit that security job I had the money. I love the positive input instead of the negative notes I used to have in law enforcement. Me as your husband he does all my ordering hurts my son now that I took over most of my friends it is sat back and waited for me to fail and he was doing that at first because he just didn't see any future in this. Now you should talk to him like it's really an advantage to have a husband that's involved.
I don't have that privilege just laughs it doesn't another plastic ball party there are also many more women in the business and there are but when they come in if they do well they go to the top. They will move faster than a woman does their wife and they want to know and sell a million in the quarter this year. Not too bad for a moment where you know it's an opportunity to join to be a top were doing so well you wouldn't have anything to bargain for. And one of the fringe benefits of tempering. Your buying power to buy Tupperware. The gifts that you earned the last contest we have ironed of Merican in Oregon and I'm sure a lot of them $900 said of North china crystal dinner. My station to station your feminine things that women love.
Man writes Here you go to prevention. You can walk into the auditorium the first day and you can cut the excitement with a knife. That's called Jubilee. One is in Utah the other isn't the world headquarters in Orlando Florida. OK. Looks like a rally which lasted for two and a half hours tonight. Here it goes on for three days. There were seven hundred took of her ladies in the room and they brought out the food and there's no stopping her tonight. And pretty soon some is at the podium says Oh my goodness we've got the salt and pepper shakers and then they throw the trumpets everything they drop the screen down they show our new song every day can you really keep us entertained. Sure. It was called The Big Country Jubilee and everybody dressed in you know like Hee Haw and one whole distributorship went as Dolly Parton's. I got that feeling. Not if you're the type of person that likes to sit at an airport and watch people. This is a job for you. Why am I retiring from Tepper where you have to pay a dragon have to wear out your house every night right into that car and into somebody else without them. It's a real chore. It changed my
life. It gives me a left over mentality. Actually most people are potential Tupperware dealers. They really are. Yeah yeah yeah.
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Series
The Kitchen Sisters
Episode
The Road Ranger ; The Legend of Ernest Morgan ; Miss California ; Tupperware
Title
"The Kitchen Sisters, Reel 1"
Producing Organization
KUSP
Kitchen Sisters
Contributing Organization
KUSP (Santa Cruz, California)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/380-51hhmnbg
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Description
Episode Description
This asset contains four episodes of The Kitchen Sisters. In The Road Ranger, the Sisters accompany Alan Little, the Road Ranger of Santa Cruz, as he drives out in search of drivers in distress who need his help. In The Legend of Ernest Morgan, one-handed pool shark Ernie Morgan talks about his life traveling the bars and pool halls of America. In Miss California, the Sisters explore the world of beauty pageants. In Tupperware, they attend a Tupperware party.
Asset type
Episode
Genres
Documentary
Interview
Topics
Biography
Local Communities
Media type
Sound
Duration
00:27:40
Credits
Interviewee: Little, Alan, 1948-2004
Interviewee: Morgan, Ernie
Interviewer: Silva, Nikki
Interviewer: Nelson, Davia Lee
Producer: Silva, Nikki
Producer: Nelson, Davia Lee
Producing Organization: KUSP
Producing Organization: Kitchen Sisters
AAPB Contributor Holdings
KUSP-FM
Identifier: 251 (KUSP Archive)
Format: 1/4 inch audio tape
Generation: Master
Duration: 00:26:58
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APA: The Kitchen Sisters; The Road Ranger ; The Legend of Ernest Morgan ; Miss California ; Tupperware; "The Kitchen Sisters, Reel 1". Boston, MA: KUSP, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-380-51hhmnbg