Le Show; 2003-06-29

From deep inside your radio. Ladies and gentlemen, a special edition of La Show. We're in the midst of the 20th year of this broadcast. And it struck me that while I'm not in the La Show Dome today, you who are might want to be treated. Let's put it that way to some of the parts of the broadcast that either you haven't heard or you haven't heard in a long time. So that's the agenda. Re-runs from the Dusty Archives today on Hello, Welcome to La Show. From the newest of the new addresses on a rodeo drive in Beverly Hills, a selection of four designer boutiques inside one fabulous storefront Lou, boutique interior, direct from the second floor.

This is strictly from Blackwell. I am Blackwell, and joining us today, a very special guest, a young man involved in the musical theater. I do not know him from there. I have not seen him in the theater. We will talk, we will have good conversation about the theater currently in Irma, La Doose. And what a delight that this show has been brought back at the James Francis Castinatheira Mr. Bobby Boucher. The James Francis Castinatheira in is at La Marada. In the city of La Marada, and they're wonderful to us out there. It's a very, very fabulous facility. Before we talk about this show, just welcome, welcome to Strictly from Blackwell. Thank you. I'm very excited. Thank you for it. I just wanted you to land a little bit before we get into the show talk. I've been doing a lot of just print interviews about this show. And this is the first time I've ever really been put on the spot about it.

And I'm excited. You were doing a show that's now about 25 years old. You don't look older than about 29. 34. Amazing. Well, you know what it is. You got to get up for that performance. And that's keeping you up. I've heard that. Well, I mean in the theater. In the audiences, especially the La Marada audiences has been so they've turned out almost on mass. I mean, we're almost three quarters, mostly filled. But when now and people, I think the word of mouth for us in Irma is, and also the wonderful meal. You're doing it in the theater in La Marada, which to me, I would not do a dinner theater in a Hollywood, in a Sherman Oaks, in a studio city, in a Westwood, no way would I do dinner theater in a Westwood. I would do it in La Marada, interesting. Well, Westwood has the younger kids. And with much more mobility in their limbs and in other interests, La Marada is a lot

of older folks who really want to see a show, but they also want to eat, really. They want to sit down and they want to have a good meal and they want to see a good show and they want to pay no more than $20, $25 for the experience. $27.99 with show, with gratuities, with, by the way, choice of condiments on the salad. Plus, it's not the entire show. You don't have to see the entire show. You couldn't if you wanted to. It's an abridged kind of dinner theater thing. This is a secret. I don't know. I'm telling tales out of school. This is like what they do in Las Vegas where they show you just the creme de la cream of the production and you're seeing the best numbers and the best moments and the best characters and the best costumes and the best sets and yet you're out in an hour. Yeah. And Robert Plarrie of Hogan's Heroes staged it for us. Did he direct this production? Well, someone who worked with him in the production and rolling hills staged it.

Bob Lamond. Bob Lamond is Lamond, red-headed gentleman. Red-headed, big, burly, Russian bear of a loving pussy cat, the way he treated us. It was a great experience for us, I mean. How many in the company? Well, in the original company or in our company? In your production. Well, both, both. We have plenty of time. The original Broadway production was a bit sealed in Keith, Michelle. Had about 40-50 people and I'm, again, guessing, I don't remember exactly. I didn't want to study the original that closely. By the way, so they had about 40-50 people in their production. Ours is the more scaled down if you will. Vegas, as you say, production, we have seven people in it. I did not know Elizabeth Seale was in the original production. She was Irma and Irma LaDouc. What is a doose? Well, I have heard, now this is what I remember from people I knew in the original production at the time that it came out, which was that it was French slang of a sort for a tart,

a prostitute. Right. Is that true? Is that really what the show was about? Exactly. And people are eating and so we play down that and have sort of, we have fun with, we have fun with her being a prostitute. And when you say that eating, I have not been to the facility that you're doing the show at. Could, can you tell us what kind of... I brought you a menu. This is wonderful. And, and just come anytime and see the show and on us and have a wonderful prime rib dinner. I'm just looking at the menu here, the backstage cut, which is the regular prime rib, which is 1395, I define anyone to find a regular prime rib of this quality, and I've not had the meat there, but I mean, just looking at the menu, you can tell that there was the quality of the food in the presentation of the show, which I do want to see. But I don't think anywhere in Lama Rada, you can get a regular prime rib for that, I

don't know. I don't care. You couldn't get a better prime rib from this, whether there was a show or not. People who've seen this show just come back to eat. They say it's worth it just for the food. Right. Okay. This twin bill, which is double lamb chops, which I love, I love those, when they do the medium-rare for you. Well, they're butter-flad, so you want to get there, you know, and it's not plenty of time to hear the overture. Okay. They've been for a longer time. There is the leading man, the leading lady, steak and lobster, which I think is a kind of California modern, but now classic cooking. We have a thing where the claws on the leading lady or the lobster is already cracked. So during, let's say, Irma's, from a prison cell, the number that I do, nested my character. It's, you know, when you play a role, you just don't know anymore because when you're really good, you feel that that happens more. You get that identity crisis of am I the character, am I me?

Yeah. I have known this at times, it is a wondrous feeling. You play nested, your big songs are what, Bobby? From a prison cell. That's the name of the song. That's the name of the song, and what do you do it? In a prison cell near the salad bar, which is right near the pit or the orchestra. So people could be just building a wonderful salad. You could go back for seconds during the number and there's four choices of dressing. You do how many shows a week? We do, oh gosh, we do, it varies. You do two a night, right? It depends on the special. You know, if it's fish, we do two shows. If it's meat, we'll do usually one show. Because it's heavier. It's heavier. People don't want to sit through, oh, so we cut the show even more. We should mention the name of the theater.

This is the James Francis, because in a theater, it is on Cool Ridge Street, Cool Ridge Street. Like the president. Right, but with an R. Right. And right there, he just really can't mess it and there's parking. There is parking. In the saviour, across the street, you're going for the show and $3 and that's it. I was reading a little bit about your background. And you have interesting, should we say interesting parents, I mean, is this fair to say to people? Well, you mean my biological parents, I have a feeling you're talking about that. It's something I'd like to talk about, you know, but I gave a lot of flack about. Anyway, I am in fact, in actual, in my biological parents, were John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe. Interesting. And we've heard of the president and the movie star. When you say they were your parents, did you, Evan, did you know them?

Of course, when they passed away, that was very young. But you couldn't know those people, you know, they were so much in the public eye. So who, who did you grow up knowing as a moment? I asked for interesting, because I did not grow up with both of my regular parents. So it would be interesting, I think, for the listeners to know this about you. Well, my legal parents, and I love them and everything, it's not, you know, since I found out about, they didn't know I was related to John F. Kennedy or Marilyn Monroe. So they adopted you? Well, yes, but they can't face that. That's such a modern thing for them. They just say, no, I'm actually their biological son. And I love them and if I'm living under their roof, I, I, you pay them their respect that they deserve and pretend to be biologically related to them.

This is, you know, I've known you for a very short period of time, but there is an integrity to you and an authority and a belief in yourself, which I think why are so many people not blessed with this? I think it's in the genes. I tell, again, back to that again, and then I'll get off of this. Marilyn had certain qualities, vulnerability, a mix like Javada Viva. I feel that, naturally, and with Jack, of course, Jack was in the Navy and he liked salty language. I like salty language. So you can trace that right back. That is so fascinating and it is not in your program notes. So somebody going to, the James Francis, just in a theater to see, Irma Ladouse, why now such a classic play and a modern dress? Why not something that was, you know, not that I'm saying I like the current Broadway because

I think Broadway is dying the same way the fashion business is dying from a certain kind of critical mentality that says, yes, we know what is best for you, Mr. and Mrs. theater, buyer, and fashion goer. But what I'm interested in is why this show now? This show, we wasn't the show we wanted to do. It was not. We wanted to do a company. We couldn't get it because another dinner theater in La Marada was doing it. There are two. There is. Well, we don't want to mention it. When they come on the plug, we'll mention the name. I see Marilyn. I see Marilyn in your eyes now, the minute, thank you. Interesting. Bobby, say the last name again, I do not remember the pronunciation. Boucher.

Boucher French. Not, is that the name of the people that raised you because, of course, Jacqueline Bouvier, Kennedy is the association I'm making. That's just a happy coincidence. No, the Boucher, I made that name up when I went into the business. People who raised me, not my biological parents, their name is Lucas, Richard and Gloria Lucas. And I was Robert Lucas, Bobby Lucas. And so hence, Bobby Boucher, I feel you were a Leo, right? I'm just springing that on you now. Okay. Fair enough. Bobby Boucher, currently appearing in Urban La Duce, quickly, is it more fun to be doing a musical than a straight play in a dinner theater? I love a musical. I can't hear, when I hear an orchestra strike up and overture to a South Pacific or a Recalmy Madam, my heart leaps up.

Especially now, when you can also be cutting into a piece of succulent roast beef or a cape on at the same time. So these are like two of the great experiences of life. They really are. Combined. But we'd all get arrested. Bobby, I see a sense of humor in you that I feel needs to be brought out a little more. You're a very serious young man. It's interesting, because I think, again, this is something I think I feel I got from my dad. And again, not my dad who raised me. Your biological father, John F. Kennedy. I feel like to put a little something back into the community that I, in fact, was born into a family that had great wealth, although I was raised by people who never made more than $30,000 a year. And so I feel I have the commitment, just through my bloodline, too, you know, giving something back.

What I hear is a simply fabulous production of Emma LaDuce. The three-piece ensemble provides music that is what, piano, organ and harp, organ and harp, to give a very full feeling to the show. First show every evening is 8 p.m. 8 p.m. Come in. Get your hands damp. Sit down. Have your rib. Have your two cocktails, compliments of the show. See a fabulous, entire Broadway show in about 40, 45 minutes. Get your check paid in, out, home. By 9, 9, 15. By 9, 15. The very latest. Let's get some on-course. And then come sometimes we get a lot of on-course. We'll do some of the songs, the hit songs that are in the non abbreviated productions. You would do what is an on-course? Well, we do from a prison cell. That song again, but with the other singers and some of the original accompaniment. I can't think of a better way to spend the Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday evening. I would say, you know, a Friday or Saturday night, I want to be on the west side of Los

Angeles with something not as happening. But during the week, what a fabulous idea to take the family into the car and go down to La Marrata and see Bobby Boucher in Emma LaDuce. It is a family show, of course. Oh, it's a big family show. We do a show at five in the afternoon on Saturdays and Sundays. And a lot of people bring their kids in there, and their pajamas, and the kids will be yelling and it'll be great. That, to me, sounds like a must for a Saturday or Sunday with the family. Bobby Boucher, I cannot thank you enough. It is a pleasure to meet you. I hope we can get you up here in Hollywood one day to do television and movies. Oh, God forbid, the ambence and theater should call you. Oh, well, I'd love to play something like the ambence, and although I find the acoustics, you know, at a James Franciscus dinner theater, it's strangely enough to be superior. Okay, Bobby Boucher, on stage, in front of the food at the James Franciscus dinner theater in Emma LaDuce.

Next time, fashion's in swimwear resort wear 84, a personal view, until in strictly from black, bye-bye. I'm not going to leave you alone, but I say it was my time, but I say I had it come.

I say this what you are, I'm living through a line, I'm fucking up the way, I live tomorrow, a solo poster, I'm better, I wish to fly. One door of us and another shits behind one's own sunset, another's up to your eyes, as the world flows to you, and forth, come, do your way, the love comes to you, and shadows and disguises, but never neglect the precious dream of us. Treasured moments, they're on the way, it's got their way, believe that. There's this rust to my face, short my shoulders, to say it doesn't matter.

I say it was my time, I say I had it come. I say this what you are, I'm living through a line, I'm fucking up the way, I live without tomorrow, a solo poster, I'm better, I wish to fly. One door of us and another shits behind one's own sunset, another's up to your eyes, as the world comes to you, and forth, come, do your way, the love comes to you,

and shadows and disguises. From the edge of America from the home of the homeless, I'm Harry Shira welcoming you to this golden only edition of the show, and one of the special features I think you've only ever had the opportunity to hear at once, you're going to hear it again today, the anatomy of a political commercial.

In about 1994, the gentleman named Jean Bicknell was running for Governor of Kansas, he was taping a political ad, 30 second TV spot, and his consultant couldn't be in the studio with him, he was, the consultant was somewhere else that day, on the other end of a phone line, and we listen in as they're just about to start take two. Oh, I see, like this. Like this. Whatever you're ready. This is take two. I'm Jean Bicknell, first Bill Graves distorts his own record, and now he's attacking me personally, but that's what Paula, okay, here we go, keep rolling. This is take three. I'm Jean Bicknell, first Bill Graves distorts his own record, and now he's attacking me personally,

but that's what professional politicians do. Well, I'm not perfect, but I'm a businessman. I'm not a professional politician that has wasted your tax dollars on t-shirts, $500 fancy split-stools, and trips to Puerto Rican gambling casinos. Okay, this is going to start over. This is take four. I'm Jean Bicknell. I'm Jean Bicknell, first Bill Graves distorts his own record, and now he's attacking me personally. But that's what professional politicians do. This is take five. I'm Jean Bicknell. Well, first Bill Graves distorts his own record, and now he's attacking me personally. But that's what professional politicians do.

Well, I'm not perfect, but I'm a businessman. I'm not a professional politician, that is okay. This is take six. I'm Jean Bicknell. First Bill Graves distorts his own record, and now he's attacking me personally. But that's what professional politicians do. Well, I'm not perfect, but I'm a businessman. Not a professional politician who has wasted your tax dollars on t-shirts, fancy $500 footstools, and trips to Puerto Rican gambling casinos like Bill Graves has. He has spent more money than all of the other Kansas Secretary of State's combined. Alect me, Governor. I won't waste your money, and I won't dance around the truth. Jean Bicknell? Hello. Yeah. 38, I'll pick it up.

Okay, we'll get it down. Here we go. This is take six coming up. Eight. Eight. Okay. How's that? This is take eight. I'm Jean Bicknell. First Bill Graves distorts his own record, and now he's attacking me personally. But that's what professional politicians do. Well, I'm not perfect, but I'm a businessman. I'm not a professional politician that has wasted your tax money on t-shirts, and fancy $500 footstools, and trips to Puerto Rican gambling casinos like Bill Graves has. He spent more money than all of the other Kansas Secretary of State's combined. Alect me, Governor. I won't waste your money, and I won't dance around the truth. There's one little stutter. What about the time? 35. I've got to speed it up.

Here we go. This is take nine. I'm Jean Bicknell. First Bill Graves distorts his own record, and now he's making personal attention. This is take ten. I'm Jean Bicknell. First Bill Graves distorts his own record, and now he's attacking me personally. But that's what professional politicians do. Well, I'm not perfect, but I'm a businessman. I'm not a professional politician that has wasted your tax dollars on t-shirts, and fancy $500 footstools, and trips to Puerto Rican gambling casinos like Bill Graves has. He spent more money than all the other Kansas Secretary of State's combined. Alect me, Governor. I won't waste your money, and I won't dance around the truth. Little angry? Okay. I'll soften it up, but that's about the right speed, isn't it? Yeah, I'll just take one of those out.

Ten. This is take eleven. I'm Jean Bicknell. First Bill Graves distorts his own record. This is take twelve. I'm Jean Bicknell. First Bill Graves distorts his own record, and now he's attacking me personally. Well, that's what politicians do. Jean continues to soften it up moments from now here on the show. Time now for Dr. Manford Weichner in the Health File. Dr. Weichner is a fellow of the American Association of Medical Broadcasters, as well as recipient of White House Honors for growing record-large tomatoes. Dr. Weichner. Thank you very much, Tim, and welcome to your friends too, the capacious confines of the Health File. My friends, there's new information on the medical impact of one of our old dietary stand-by's new clues to what you might call the Mind Butter Connection. It appears to your friends that recent research tells us that butter is now better for our hearts, for our immune systems,

and not incidentally for our dairy industry than our margins and other spreads based on soluble oils. Of course, if you've been keeping yourself consistently nestled within the Health File, you know that these reports, like those about the health effects of caffeine, can shift more quickly than an HMO doc's attention. My best recommendation while the scientists and the lobbyists and all the other is to take the next 20 years to battle this thing out, have your bread, Nick could, who needs a spread, and leave all the oils for your minivan. You're listening to Dr. Manfred Weichner in the Health File. Dr. Weichner regrets that he cannot read your letters personally, but he's glad to announce that he now has an internet page, which he also regrets he cannot read personally. Address hellfire.org. Dr. Weichner. And we thank you Tim, Tim is leaving us today to pursue a master's degree in broadcasting, and we wish him and you well. Addictions we know are harder to break than Tupperware tumblers and the needs of victims of addictions that are,

to say at least not classic addictions of the province of our guest today here in the beanbag chairs of the floor of the Health File, he's Dr. Morris Sterling, who's in private practice in Beverly Hills, Dr. Sterling, welcome. Thank you, all the dust for purposes of clarity, I should point out that it's sterling Morris. I'm in the 350 building, Dr. Sterling is in the Wilshire Camden building for who he's getting each other's mail, and he's an endocrinologist so you can imagine the confusion. Imagination reels, and the heart says, I'm sorry for the mix up. Dr. Morris, you're helping people cope with a very, very long addiction at the moment, aren't you? I certainly am. Well, the statistics indicate that a large portion of the population is capable of consuming and driving enjoyment from moderate amounts of the AirJ Simpson trial. There are persons who, we think through an outfall to their own, have become, and the preferred description is physiologically habituated to the trial. This week obviously was a crisis period for many of them that I see in my practice. When you say habituated, I know we denizens of the cramped quarters of the Health File tend to think of withdrawal symptoms that may range from blood pressure changes to complete epidural neuropathy.

Is that what these patients are suffering from and is methadone or a methadone-like replacement substance available? Some of my people were able to subsist on the maintenance dose of the Colin Ferguson trial, one of those available. But overall, yes, this week with two days of the Simpson trial not conducted, patients were presenting with increased anxiety, sweats, not the clothing, the symptom. That's correct. Headaches, gastrointestinal upsets, skin eruptions, and in one case, an acute attack of aplastic anemia. Not more as I know we have these friendly debates occasionally when we run into each other at nibblers, but wouldn't the mind-body connection come into play here? The diagnosis of zinc perhaps or some keylated iron? You know, despite what you and I might think, Dr. Weissner, this has turned out to be quite intractable condition. I've tried modernities ranging from high carbohydrate diets to intravenous pro-tech. And we still have patients losing employment, dissolving, or harming relationships, engaging in petty crimes to maintain this habit.

Pety crimes? Yes, at least, locally, which is the only figure that I'm aware of. Thefts of portable televisions are up 200% over a similar period during the Menendez trial. And, of course, if I'm not mistaken, that trial wasn't on television. Exactly. But are you saying that, in the case of this particular addiction that acts only choices, habit management is supposed to de-habituation? We find you get about the same amount of people able to stop with the help of therapy, some electro shock, as you find with cigarette smokers. For the rest, the most effective approach I've been able to advise so far is recovered memory therapy. You use hypnotic or similar mesmocostartic methods to elicit early memories of trauma? Yes, particularly sexual and cult-induced ritual abuse. And do these experiences turn out to be common among such Simpson edits? Well, I don't know if any of them have actually had the experiences, but visualising them in the therapy setting. It's the only thing we've found that's actually more interesting to these people than the trial.

Their actual own lives come in a distant third. Dr. Morris, what's the long-term prognosis for Simpson trial addicts? A simulation of the mainstream abetted by videotapes of the trial to watch and strictly define doses, perhaps? Not to mention there is a challenging and daunting syndrome. The good news is we've got, until at least September, to come up with something to take these people safely into the rest of their lives. Dr. Sterling Morris, thank you for bringing information and your own healing warmth into the cardboard vastness of the health file. It was a non-habitual pleasure. And so friends, the clock applies. It's all too tight, compressive time to the favourite brow of the health file. I wish you mega doses of vitamin L for love. I wish you only regularly shaped fruits and vegetables at the health food store. And let's agree right now to meet the very next time we venture under the colour-coded tabs of the health file. So long.

The swans have come back to Capastronome, with robins, with an insane sense of God knows when. There's another TV movie starring the listener, Marano. Larry King is getting married again. This is the first time I've ever had a baby. This is the first time I've ever had a baby. I wish you only regularly shaped fruits and vegetables at the health food store.

I wish you only regularly shaped fruits and vegetables at the health food store. This is the first time I've ever had a baby. This is the second time I've ever had a baby. I wish you only regularly shaped fruits and vegetables at the health food store. And I wish you only regularly shaped fruits and vegetables at the health food store. The nates I would Have a dozen misses, my snows something Is it more well equipped? The middle bell, the middle bell College students of how they raise defenders The rooster's got his eye up on the head

He looked at spring his shoulder pants and since his benders Because Larry King's getting married again Larry King's getting married again Gotta do it just for more time Larry King's getting married Larry King's getting married again This is Lesho spending some time going back in time over the past 20 years And now we return to anatomy of a political commercial Jean Bicknell still trying to record that political commercial for his 1994 run for the Kansas governorship Is now reaching takes that number in the double digits

Okay, I got it I got it, let me have it 15 This is 15 I'm Jean Bicknell First Bill Graves distorts his own record And now he's making personal attacks on me That's okay This is take 15 I'm Jean Bicknell First Bill Graves distorts his own record And now he's attacking me personally But that's what professional and career politicians do Well, I'm not perfect, but I'm a businessman I'm not a politician who has wasted your tax dollars on fancy $500 footstools Or trips to Puerto Rican gambling casinos He spent more of our money than all the other Kansas Secretary of State's combined I like me governor, I won't waste your money, and I won't dance around the truth What do you think? Okay

I got it Yeah Okay I'll lighten it up This is 15 or 16 This is take 16 I'm Jean Bicknell First Bill Graves distorts his own record, and now he's attacking me personally But that's what career politicians do Well, I'm not perfect, but I'm a businessman I'm not a career politician who has wasted your tax dollars on fancy $500 footstools Or trips to Puerto Rican gambling casinos like Bill Graves He spent more of our tax... Nevermind Going right on This is take 17 This is take 16 I'm Jean Bicknell First Bill Graves distorts his own record, now he's making... This is take 18 I'm Jean Bicknell First Bill Graves distorts his own record, and now he's attacking me personally But that's what professional and career politicians do

Well, I'm not perfect, I'm a businessman I haven't wasted your tax dollars on fancy $500 footstools Or trips to Puerto Rican gambling casinos like Bill Graves He spent more of our money than all the other Kansas Secretary of State's combined Elect me governor I won't waste your money, and I won't dance around the truth Hello Yeah Another one Thanks Okay, this is what 19 Okay This is take 19 I'm Jean Bicknell If you stumble it all just stops Okay I'm Jean Bicknell First Bill Graves distorts his own record, and now he's attacking me personally But that's what career politicians do Well, I'm not perfect, but I'm a businessman

I'm not a career politician From CPR Condental Public Radio This is Said and Dunn Said and Dunn CPR's weekly magazine of the arts and the artsy I'm Chris Edwards The 90s have already spawned two powerful cliches of our technological future The information superhighway is perhaps a metaphor with an overactive pituitary But the 500 channel universe is coming to cable television quicker than you can say monthly surcharge Irresipkin reports from the edge of the video frontier Visually, the control room at Deuteronomy Entertainment isn't very different from thousands of similar rooms at television networks and stations all over the country But this master control center on the outskirts of Oram, Utah is the birthplace of a new TV network

One of the hundreds of specialized channels we've been promised for its retinue with three years And so it sounds different from ordinary control rooms because it's quiet It's the nerve center of the quiet channel We looked at the television environment, the way the viewer looks at it A million channels all gacking away at you Kid McBride is executive vice president of Deuteronomy Entertainment and creator of the quiet channel You're clicking around on the remote, you've got a friend who's come over or your kid wants to tell you something You don't really want to turn the TV off, you might miss something but you want to click onto something quiet Well quiet is our middle name, it's our reason for being It's our brand identity and in a 500 channel world, brand identity is a very important thing to have I mean who knows what's on CBS or HBO tonight, you know what's on the quiet channel Peace and quiet Give me 24 seconds of that shot until the plane comes into it, okay?

Now, putting together 24 hours a day of quiet television isn't as easy as it sounds Much scenic footage, which would otherwise be perfect for the channels, quiet nature segment, is tied to expensive soundtrack rights The idea for quiet morning and quiet night, the network's two daily signature shows was to put a live camera outside someplace quiet That meant the network had to headquarter someplace small and out of the way That's our commuter, but I mean there was nothing here You know, I like to joke that before we came in, the town didn't have a three-pronged plug It was almost that bad, I mean we had to ship equipment in, we had to import crew, we had to import pizza for the crew to eat the whole angelata But you watch quiet morning or quiet night and you'll have to agree this is a damn quiet place Except the midday and that's when we go to tape programming But in the age when nearly everybody has a mute button

Why do they need a quiet channel, can't every channel be quiet? Sure, you can turn the sound off But you still got video that's active and frantic on the other channels We're the only channel, we're the only network that's really TV for the other side of your brain We're alpha wave television and we're a go Early technical problems made for noisy reception of some test cable systems But a new and improved quiet channel should be ready to roll down the super highway Early next year Okay, and a very slow fade starting now I'm a recipient in Oran, Utah And for this week we've said and done about everything that's been said and done Said and done is made possible in part by a grant from in part the partnership foundation Putting up half the money for half the credit

I'm Chris Edwards Join me next week when we take another snapshot of the world of a lively arts On said and done Have a creative week This is CPR Continental Public Radio From the late Holmes Tuttle collection Western America's leading active archive of historic storylines Come tales of action, adventure and intrigue, 3,000 miles west of our nation's executive mansion Hellcats of the White House, the Bel Air Year Our story opens in the living room of the Reagan's Bel Air home at 668 St. Cloud Place The address having been changed from 666 so as to avoid satanic implications Ron is in his favorite chair, watching an old movie on cable

Nearby, Nancy sits, ministering to herself with an electric toenail de-brighter You know what really puts straw in my case dream money The fact that the cable keeps going out No, heck no, we're not paying for it No money, here's what sticks in my crawl Lewis had his universal studio tour open for what 20 years now I guess so, something like that And not once as he even brought up the subject of designing a ride around one of my movies Well, I mean, I ran the screen actor's guild just like he told me This is the thing, so darn You know, Ronnie, if we did pay for cable at least we could call up and complain I think the friends who bought us this house and paid for our utilities would feel insulted, mummy

And I'll just watch you You know, Mr. President, I... George Yeah, Ron, now how you hate to be interrupted when you're not at chasins But this, this Walsh report is gonna come out today And, George, I know it's not your job anymore But at this point you may really be out of the loop But you feel me in on this Walsh thing Just a, just a summary of a briefing digested view It's the Orion Contra report whose head we've been holding under the water for the last six months It's coming out today Well, listen, George Yeah Between the earthquake out here and that woman who cut off her husband's horses This report will drop faster than death-bellied days readings the year after I left the show Wow

Your people are putting out a statement? Yeah, yeah I thought we could do a joint one, you know, get even more credibility than either of us individually Ronnie, the cable's back on George, I'll tell you something Yeah This whole situation remains me of the time Dick Widmark got a burr under his saddle about purse Westmore doing his makeup First was tied up on some other picture while he Westmore was gonna work on Widmark Dick wanted purse and Zenick tried everything So you think that each of us issuing an attack on the Walsh report might just be seen as I don't know, self-serving, disinformation While if we put out a joint statement or, you know, a video press release together You know, Judge Walsh would be on the first train to deep duty bill Anyway, the punchline of the story is... Which one of the Westmore's ended up working on Dick Widmark mommy?

Beats me! Yeah, because he kind of lets you off the hook But he really gives me a good pop So I don't know, Jim Baker thought you just might want to do a joint thing With us parting shot of a bitter old man kind of line Well, but George, they just did. I'm not bitter Yeah, no sir, you're not the bitter old man, Judge Walsh he is Well then, let him issue his own statement Yeah, I hate that Secret service makes me have it, George Let me just see who it is You know... Hello Mr. President Hi Yes sir, I wanted this be of infamy to stay in with my leader Well, thanks, Ali. You know that a free Nicaragua and a more moderate Iranian leadership are the lasting monuments to your brave efforts

You carried the ball on one of the most important plays your coach ever called And I was doing it for the gipper There you go, any hope? Perse says, next time, why don't you bring your own puff There wasn't a straight face in the whole makeup trailer Sir, the ending of that story is so rollicking It makes this marine wish he'd heard it from the start Me too So, soldier, what can I do you for? Well, sir, as you probably are in a position to deny knowing Oh man, Walsh, she's taken one more shot at us today And well, this marine wanted to know if there was anything my commander needed me to do You know, sir, if you told me to stand on your head in the corner, you'd do it I know, Ali, but do gone it I can't for the life of me see why Why I'd want you to do that

Ronnie, the cable's gone out again Sure, you make an excellent point But you know, the thought occurred to me maybe at a time like this When we all need to stand tall together Maybe you'd want to contribute in some small way to the campaign I'm waging to remove at least one Senate seat From the grip of those who always blame America first Contribution Yes, sir Ali, I hate to admit it, but Nancy handles a checkbook around here Hey, could put in a good word with her for you You know, I was thinking, sir, you wouldn't even have to leave your house We could do it right there If you just wanted to tape a TV commercial for my campaign You know, nothing fancy just a 60 or 30 to 20s and a 10 Well, I know something, Ali The last time I did a commercial for something G.E. was still making their light bulbs in this country Think of a story about that Jim de Nofrio as a friend I worked with G.E. Big lumberjack of a fella

Oh, I left George Bush dangling Hold on a sec, Ali Sure, if you told me to stand on my head and hold on, I... You know, I mixed up pressure and conditions I don't fuck collateral Adolfo Adolfo? My fitting isn't till Friday Adolfo, you know the country fella Oh Mr. President, today I call you because the watch reported is going to hurt you No, don't you worry about that, we'll be here My lawyers have a statement going out that'll have Judge Walsh looking sillier than... ...and Fred McMurray in his last three pictures Huh You doing okay with all the... whatever Sir, I thought on this occasion when old comrades come together again To fight against our common foe That this would be a good time to inquire about the final cash disbursement that my organization has been waiting for since 1989 Now, Edwardo, I'm shocked to hear that

You know what? Walsh, sir Darn, if I don't have Ali Norse on the other line You remember Ali? Yes, sir No buts about it, let me just conference you two fellas together and see if we can bust a few heads for you on this Hold on Honey, we can't conference incoming collars Our friends didn't want to pay for that Hmm, oh yeah You know something, mommy What's that, Ronnie? Whose earthquakes can fiddle with our cable, but... Sitting here with you In our little chaining city on a hill I feel like we're survivors We are dear It's just the... What, Ronnie? Ooh, maybe I'm just being stubborn But... Dogon and I think Newt Rockney all American would make for one hill of a theme park attraction Of course it would, honey

Of course it would Does Rudolph all really do fittings on Fridays? Next time, rehearsing for Oscar night on Hellcats of the White House, the Bel Air Years Meanwhile, back in the world of real politics, here's Gene I'm Gene Bicknell First Bill Graves distorts his own record and now he's making personal attacks against me But that's what professional politicians do This will take 21 I'm Gene Bicknell, first Bill Graves distorts his own record and now he's making... This will take 22 I'm Gene Bicknell, first Bill Graves distorts his own record and now he's attacking me personally But that's what career politicians do

I'm not perfect, but I'm a businessman I'm not a career politician who has wasted your tax dollars on fancy $500 foot stools or trips to Puerto Rican gambling casinos Like Bill Graves He has spent more of our money than any of the other Kansas second liver Here we go This is take 22 I'm Gene Bicknell I'm Gene Bicknell First Bill Graves I'm Gene Bicknell First Bill Graves distorts his own record and now he's making personal attacks I'm Gene Bicknell So you need breath, relax Okay I'm ready This will take 25 I'm Gene Bicknell First Bill Graves distorts his own record and now he's attacking me personally But that's what career politicians do

I'm not perfect, but I'm a businessman I'm not a politician who has wasted our tax dollars on fancy $500 foot stools or trips to Puerto Rican gambling casinos like Bill Graves He has spent more of our money than all of the other Kansas secretary of states combined I like me governor I won't waste your money And I won't dance around the truth What do you think? Shit Okay, here we go This is take 26 I'm Gene Bicknell First Bill Graves distorts his own record and now he's attacking me personally Well, I'm not perfect because that... Okay, here we go Take 26, 27, whatever it is I'm Gene Bicknell First Bill Graves distorts his own record Now when you stop caring about what take it is, it's all over

Final total by the way ladies and gentlemen, 39 takes That's why political advertising costs so much He's not perfect, but he's so close And I'm not sure I want to vote for Gene Bicknell But I would like to take another look at that $500 foot stool That sounds good That's the last time I got this I don't want to be a big fan of that But I don't want to be a big fan of that You know, I'm just a kid I'm just a kid

I don't want to be a big fan of that But I don't want to be a big fan of that That's why I'm not perfect I'm not perfect I'm Gene Bicknell Well, Dusty Archive Material ladies and gentlemen returns to the Dusty Archives, and that concludes this edition of La Show. The program returns with a brand new, undusty edition next week at the same time over these same stations over NPR worldwide throughout Europe. On the U-SEN 440 cable system in Japan, around the world through the facilities of the American Forces Network, up and down the east coast of North America via the shortwave giant WBC, who the planet 7.415 megahertz, across North America via Sirius satellite radio, I think it's channel 160, you tell me, department. And around the world, whenever you want to, via the internet at two different locations, harryshure.com and kcrw.com.

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