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Listen, Dan, let's start with you. Do you feel your broadcasts are over-covering the Monica Lewinsky story? To this story, with all due respect to the participants, it's more confusing than a fire drilled at the sperm bank. I'm Harry Scherer for details on how to order my CD. It's this stupidity stupid. See your membership letter. Subscribe by the end of our winner drive and you're entered in our remaining KCRW Grand Vacation sweepstakes as well as our new Palm Pilot sweepstakes. Your drive has been rescheduled for 526 subscribe now. In 10 seconds it'll be 10 a.m. That's time for a show with KCR's KCRW's Inner Divorce. Inner Divorce. That's a concept for Valentine's Day ladies and gentlemen. I'm just kidding. I'm really kidding. It's Valentine's Day and you know how very very precious that is. It's second only to Mother's Day because I basically bought

Hallmark stock when I was very young. No happy Valentine's Day, everybody, especially people who care about it. Like me, like me, myself. Ladies and gentlemen, let's let's move on. This is move on day. The gardens have been stacked and what that means simply is our long national wet dream is over. It is move on day except for a few people who are refusing to let go. Dan Quail. James Carville. And me, that's good company. Dan Quail. Well, actually, I think that that in the month to come, especially as we approached the year 2000, get your computer check now, won't you? That we are going to see a a certain number of Republicans who will find it amusing and or in their interest to cast their opponent as a member of the party of perjury and obstruction. You heard it

here first. Now you didn't hear it here first. You heard it somewhere else before. And but you know, everybody else is going to be moving on because because it's tough to know where the anger is going to flow. And you don't want it, you know, you don't want to be in the way when it suddenly comes down on you Friday. Of course, when the Senate voted not to remove from office the president of the United States was a major day in the history of the last year. It was the first day that predictions made on television turned out to be true. It was the first victory in the whole scandal for the proponents of conventional wisdom, which, you know, reaffirmed everybody in Washington's belief in the way the system is supposed to work. We hear now a lot about from the defeated. A lot about the heroes. A lot about Henry Hyde and James Senson Brenner and all those guys we've come to know and know as heroes. And

yet when when the story came out in the New York Times since denied that the White House was planning retribution, I guess, specifically against the House managers. The Bill Clinton was in one of his angry moods was a vowing retribution. Everybody, mainly Democrats, but smattering of Republicans, just like the removal vote, everybody sped to the microphones to explain, well, this would be stupid. Like that would prevent them from doing it. But no, this would be stupid. Why devote scarce political resources and money to trying to defeat the managers, most of whom come from safe districts. So, ladies and gentlemen, question of the hour would be, do heroes come from safe districts? Our long national wet dream is over. Hello, welcome to the show.

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And I dig in my head, I'm going down to the wonderland But here in Santa Monica, the home of the homeless, there's a special quality to the plans for the millennium approved this week by the Santa Monica City Council, the Council of the homeless, the planting of 2000 trees in public spaces throughout the city. See, that's the reason they don't have the millennium when it really should be held, because then they'd need an extra tree. There's a piece of art piece so big you can't see the trees, like an art piece of the forest would be appropriate, don't you think?

Especially mine, oh, there I go, there's a booklet being published, a tale of 2000 trees, which I guess is the story of how they planted 2000 trees, here's something that will really put the city on the map, they're going to design a Santa Monica 2000 computer screen saver. Now, computers don't need screen savers anymore, do they? No, they don't. So this would be a good idea for the millennium, a screen saver. There'll be a millennium, millennium, but puts tie, a millennium emphasis on the ads promoting the bus system, that is so fine, and a fireworks display. But to just take a little time out from those bus ads to note the millennium, that is so, hey look, it's better than a London where they're building this big millennium dome, that they still have no idea.

The guy who isn't charge of it had to resign because of not a sex scandal, a finance scandal, and they have no idea what's going to go in it. It's a dome, much like the Lesho dome here, but they have no idea except all, you know, stuff that will show off how great England is in the next millennium, like, for instance, some of that good TV they're producing now. Back to this, back to what's dominated our consciousness, ladies and gentlemen, because so much of it has been based on smart people acting stupid. Yeah, that's sort of the theme of my book, thank you for mentioning it. Most recently, of course, for the president, the victory party on the White House lawn after he was impeached, just in case he hadn't ticked off every Republican yet, just catching those stragglers, it was, of course, not a victory party. But as a Republican activist complained to the New York Times this week about the frustration at Bill Clinton's continuing behavior, he doesn't act impeached.

Everybody along the political realm is, of course, trying to position themselves in what I guess could be best described as don't blame us mode. But the White House press secretary Joe Lockhart said this week that the White House would be a no-gloting zone. And even though James Carville went on television this morning declaring that his war on Ken Star is not yet over, and people in Washington are saying, well, really? Clinton's are going to go try to get a Democratic House, and in the year 2000, how odd for them to do that, how odd for them to start caring about whether there are Democrats in the House. This is a new development. But ladies and gentlemen, my favorite development of the week, well, you know, we talk about heroes and guts, and guys who stood up for principle.

And if I'm not wearing a hat, so my hat's off. My hat started off, but it's off again to representative Bob Barr of Georgia, who just weeks after it was revealed that he gave speeches to the concerned citizens councils in Georgia, which are believed to be segregationist in leaning. Bob Barr of Georgia stood up on the Senate floor in the well, in the well of the Senate, and get well, Senate, to say, well, to quote a plaque that was on his office wall. I forget the quote. I forget the actual content of the quotation. I just remember the author. He has a plaque on his office wall with a quotation by Martin Luther King. He did not, however, clarify whether it hangs above or below the Confederate flag, but still, you know, still he, he, a major contribution, you know, better that than going after Tinky Winky.

Or maybe not. Anyway, it's a gloat free zone, or maybe it isn't. It's another episode of Clinton, something moments from now here on the show. All right. Oh, sweet little thing. You become a sweet taste in my mouth now, and I want you to be my spouse. So we can live happily yet in a great way, roomy house.

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Clinton something. Okay, we send the peacekeeping troops to Kosovo, but unlike Bosnia this time we preceded with a bill in Congress that supports the mission. Well, I'll do his spec misses. That idea sounds worse than gumbo in the braska. You know, Republicans are going to bat that sucker in the head like a slow-moving nutrient. And that is the idea. We get them on record being against peacekeeping. Then we send the troops anyway. Executive prerogative. No war power needed when there's no war. Pretty damn good. Mr. President, what do you think?

It's fine. I don't see the protestant legislative liaison on the same page. Well, I'll do my next meetup press on how the Republicans are not only Clinton-hades, they're peace haters. That'll drive merry nuts. Oh, they're all Kosovo. People will love it, don't you think, sir? It'll be great. Social security has turned in a lot, have daredest to present our program before they make a move. Yeah, I think that was Dickie Morris' idea. You know, old white power trend still has Dickie on the payroll over there. You know, they share a taste and told. Jim, don't go there, okay? What they're trying to do is fake us into repeating our healthcare misstep and put out this whole big plan. So we'll need a plan. No, Jim, always send up to the Capitol is a blank piece of paper accompanied by a two-sentent statement. You're legislators. Legislate. Oh, pretty cold. Hey, Mr. President, cold it in a gator's gizzard, huh?

Yeah, yeah, it's cold. Hey, sir, I hope you don't mind my saying it. I know he's supposed to be in a no-glot mode, but the fuck, guy who's just pulled off the most stunning escape access, Houdini. You're looking mighty down. You know, Mr. President, things could be worse. You could be Republican. I know that, Carville, and don't get me wrong. I may be down, but I'm not feeling impeached. That's the spirit. Well, what is it, Bill? I'm just thinking what a long, strange trip it's been, you know? I've heard those words all my life, and yet this is the first time I've ever really understood them. What a long, strange trip it's been. It's the grateful dead. They took a lot of acid. What's to understand? It's the overness of it. I mean, I know it's not over. I mean, Bob Barn can star. And all my other enemies whose names don't rhyme aren't going to give up. I know that.

Oh, no, sir. They're going to come at you with more of that crackpot x-file stuff. And so many Jane Does, they're going to have to number them like the Super Bowl with Roman numerals. Bill, are there more Jane Does? Oh, do respect misses it. If don't ask, don't tell us. Good enough for the military. It's good enough for the White House. At least while all corporate cue ball he has in the room. And don't get me wrong. You know, it's great that we're getting everybody focused back on the major problems that we face on the eve of the 21st century. Whether it be cost of all and saving social security or our new initiative on uniforms for school teachers. We doing that? Is it been pulled through the roof, James? It sounds tough on teachers without ticking off the NEA. But I don't know, man. The last 13 months have been one hell of a downer. But think of it, Carville. For more than a year, people weren't talking about my policies or my programs or my appointments or my legislative success rate.

No, but they were just talking and thinking and concentrating on me, right? Well, sure, but what? Well, once you really get that, man, you know, really internalize that fact. That is an amazing high. I mean, don't get me wrong. I'm profoundly sorry. Oh, save it for the book. Okay, James, we got a preliminary game plan to take us through the end of the Mexico trip. Oh, we're going to get the usual Dung Flores over certifying Mexico as being our ally and war on drugs, ain't we? Well, yeah. You know what? We got these people who think we killed Vince Foster and a bunch of other people in Little Rock. Have we got good mob connections? And that if Linda Tripp hadn't gone to Radio Shack, she'd be at Forest Lawn right now, right? Oh, don't get hung up on them. So they only asserted a country. Well, hell, let's get somebody into Mafia to knock off Bob Bar, huh?

We're already taking the heat. We might as well get some of the fat. You kidding, right? Forget Kathleen Willey. Does Linda Tripp have a cat? What about at least getting that goddamn Ken Star's tires slashed? Okay, James, he's in full vent mode. Go run in an Israeli election and we'll talk Tuesday, all right? You got it, Mrs. Sir, you go ahead and glow to little, all right? I'll keep you secret. Yeah, all right. Bill? Yeah, he'll. Look, this last year has been hell for all of us. Yeah, although it's also been an amazing time. I know, I know, but look, Bill, if I've learned one thing from the past year, it's this. You should have what you want. Really? You know what I mean. Oral sex. Hillary, are you sure? Oral sex with an overweight gal. It's okay. I've made some calls.

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Except that... Anybody in here? Brother Wallace. Yeah. You know, my door is always open. I was walking by, Daniel, and I realized that I hadn't stopped in to congratulate you in person. Well, you did get my email, though. Michael, I have a confession to make. I haven't met my email since it snowed in braces counting. When was that? Never did. Well, how am I supposed to know that? Oh, you're not, sir. But I am. So, congratulate me, eh? Well, sure it was not easy. This was something none of us wanted to do. It was oiled, it's dirty, and crab trapped cruel. But I had a choice. Either go with the tabloid flow, or get washed away by it. Like a heifer? Down a gully. Brother, rather, what the hell are you talking about? You're making Henry Hyde sound tongue-tied.

Well, thank you, sir, please. Yeah. What I'm talking about is by way of touching your congratulations. Oh, sure. The CBS Evening News own the Clinton-Lowinsky story. It was ours, New Car Tighten, Heart Attack True. But wait a minute, Daniel. You're saying to me that this network owned that story? Not ABC or MSNBC or the Fox News channel, or CNN or The Washington Post or The New York Post or The New York Stinking Times for that matter? Don't bug up a good thing, Brother Wallace. You came in here to congratulate me. Yes, sir, on your work for 60 minutes, too. It's first-rate stuff, Daniel. Not quite seafar. But definitely a cut above stall. Ah, well, that's a whole different breed of horse-flush, sir. Thank you. You know, doing this crappy Clinton story, even this old Texas honey down to Washington every time the lens a Graham looked dough-eyed, did take a bite out of my ability to eagle-eye the editing. But well, maybe that's a good thing, Daniel.

Or maybe not. Anywhere, yeah. What are you writing? Voice Tracks for 62? No, sir. 48 hours, promos? No, sir. Evening news, teases. I'm running a book proposal, Michael. Hell, you should be, too. This network is tragically underrepresented on the best settler lists, sir. Now, this isn't about individual ego anymore. This is about maximizing cross-media synergy, you know, a multi-platform environment. And that's as plain as a person's sister. Oh, Daniel. That's what I need at my age to be writing a book. I want to eat good food. Go to the dog show, head out to the sound whenever possible. Michael, sir. Brother Broko is churning his news broadcast into a virtual infomercial for his book. And it's all over the best settler list, like ants on roadkill. Well, other Jennings is being a little more tasteful. Well, sure. He's got gals to impress.

But the points the same, sir. The news isn't just promoting the books. The books are promoting the news. Without a best settler or two out there, we're fighting the ratings battle of the next millennium. More crippled than a club-footed mule. All right, Daniel. So, what's your best settler about? The greatest American news stories of the century. Mm-hmm. I write them up. And, Quizai, you are their style. You know, present tense. First person. Make it so vivid the reader could swear he saw it on our news. Call it virtual scuff your shoe leather reporting. And color it gold. Well, brother, rather this would seem a golden opportunity to focus all our energies back on what we do best. And what you're always talking about, taking the time to do the best reporting in the business so that the, well, the next time something big breaks, maybe we will own it. Michael, sir, it would be charlotte. It should mean not to accept your congratulations most graciously. Well, but I do gotta get myself in the frame of mind

to write the sample chapter on the Hindenburg. No, all right, Daniel. We'll make us see the humanity, will you? Yes, sir, brother Wallace. I can hear music in his own way out there. And I can hear half the voices out of him there. It makes me want to tell his praise. I feel crazy. And I want to get out of the door. Guess I think that I'm open to why. A big time there are names. It must be a street for him. And I want a second line. Gonna have a good time. I get excited with everything you're doing.

I make them want to get out with it. Have a whole life. We gotta go dancing. Out at the street. A big time there are names. We're going to a street for him. And we're going to a second line. We're going to have a good time. Get me. Get me. Yeah. Yeah. Get me. Never mind us, yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, I told you last week I had one of the great epiphonetic NPR experiences when I visited NPR in Washington.

I actually saw a Corva Coleman newscast this week. I got close one more time close to the flame. I was visiting WBOR Boston. And I actually got to see the car talk guys rehearsing, laughing at each other. Very impressive. You'll laugh at this. I'll laugh at that. I thought, you know, who knew? That's it for Move On Day. Who knows what we'll have to talk about next week. And this program returns at the same time over these same stations over NPR Worldwide throughout Europe on the U.S.N. 440 cable system in Japan on shortwave on WBCQ, the planet at 7.415 MHz around the world through Armed Forces Radio. And on your computer whenever you wanted at www.HarrySherer.com. But rest assured, I will be very grateful if you join me then. In fact, in fact, it would be just like the United States certifying Mexico as a partner in our drug control effort and a few degree to join with me then.

Would you? All righty. Thank you very much. The email address for this broadcast is lumeilatinterworld.net. The show comes to you from century of progress. This productions and originates through the facilities of SAS, the satellite service of KCRW Santa Monica, a forward-looking community recognized around the world as the home of 2000 trees and the home of the homeless. This year celebrate both Mardi Gras and Valentine's Day kiss an Indian. Monica Mania from Lesho by Harry Sherer with Cover Art by Robbie Connell.

Listen. Dan, let's start with you. Do you feel your broadcasts are over-covering the Monica Lewinsky story? To this story, with all due respect to the protesters, it's more confusing than a fire drilled at the sperm bank. I'm Harry Sherer. For details on how to order my CD, it's this stupidity stupid. See your membership letter. Subscribe by the end of our winter drive and you're entered in our remaining KCRW grand vacation sweepstakes as well as our new Palm Pilot sweepstakes. The subscription drive has been rescheduled for February 26th. Subscribe now or send back your renewal by that date. You're entered in the special sweepstakes for one of the four Palm Pilots, the same kind Bill Clinton used. Stay tuned for the show. Ladies, gentlemen, all honesty. Doesn't that make you think of, doesn't the phrase Palm Pilot sound just a least bit suggestive to you?

Anyway, the media landscape this week gave us an object lesson. If only we can understand it. If only. To basically a pseudo story competed for a space and time with a non-story. The pseudo story is the tale long suppressed allegedly, an interview that is to say not yet broadcast by NBC. In the can for some days and weeks, but not yet broadcast. Made it into the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal this week. And then onto the front page of the Washington Post, the subject of that interview. Juanita Broderick, Jane Doe number five, who now claims, now says.

Let's be fair. Now says that Bill Clinton forcibly had his way with her 20 years ago. Bruised and bit her lip so hard to forcer that it ended up bruised. As Clinton watchers may well note, first documented instance of inviting someone else's lip. Anyway, this story, she had sworn out an affidavit denying that this ever happened. And then when offered immunity by Ken Star, reversed herself. These dang affidavits. So that story was, and Matt Dredge in the Dredge Report had for weeks been beating the drums about, where's the NBC interview and generating a heap of email and phone calls to NBC. So there's the pseudo story. Maybe it happened, maybe it didn't. It was 20 years ago.

It provides a clue into the president's character or it doesn't. And then the non story is Hillary Clinton going to run for Senate in New York. No real indication that she is. Just some faints and whispers and fakes and hints. So which one gets the lion's share of the Sunday morning? Well, which one gets all the attention on the Sunday morning chat shows? And which one gets the covers of time and newsweek? That's right. The non story. Now, the more conspiratorially minded among us might say that that's merely another example of the media bending over, I guess in this case, forward to protect Bill Clinton. Of course, I haven't noticed the media trying to protect Bill Clinton all that much in the last year or so. So let's let's look a little deeper by which I mean a little shallower. The wanting a broad rigged story is about the past.

Everybody knows that Bill Clinton is at the very least on this sexual scale. Not... Well, not the guy you'd want to be... If they had guys as a den fathers of Girl Scout troops, you wouldn't put him at the top of the list. Let's put it that way. We know that. It's old news. If it be news, whereas the Hillary story, if it were true, would mean... Well, it's good news for the future of the news media because it's a great story that they get to cover all next year, especially if Rudolph Giuliani gets in the race. Well, once again, the media demonstrate a strong bias in favor of better stories for themselves. Don't you think? Hello, welcome to the show. What a beauty.

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Ain't got nobody to tell my daughter to. I need somebody. Child, I need somebody. I need somebody. Show me the way back home. Tell me, baby, girl, won't you give me a chance? Tell me, baby, girl, like I'm a woman. Child, you know I need somebody. You know I need somebody. You know I need somebody. Hey, hey, show me the way back home. I need somebody. I need somebody. Hey, hey, show me the way to go home.

I need somebody. I need somebody. I need somebody. I need somebody. Someone's been sending me flowers or what a sweet thing to do. Every new day brings another bouquet and I don't know who to say thank you to.

Sometimes they're thrown through my window or down through my chimney they fall. Sometimes at night when I've turned out the light they come through a crack in the wall. Now that my house is a garden bursting with blossoms in blue, I stand there for hours admiring my flowers. I'd like to lie down but there just isn't room. Someone's been sending me flowers more than I ever have had. Remarkable stuff but enough is enough. If I see another bouquet I'll go mad. He started by sending me blue bells.

Oddly enough they were grey. Each faded blue had a nasty perfume. Besides being grey they were paper mache. They followed a garden of fungus and then as a tropical treat. He sent me a plant that proceeded to pant and later began to eat meat. The cactus corsage touched me deeply. Beautiful plant in its prime. I felt much the same when the rock garden came. One rock at a time. Somebody madly adores me, I know not whom to suspect. Since I cannot afford to be madly adored, I do wish you'd stop sending flowers.

Collect. Thank you so much. Oh gosh, it sounds like I'm at the bottom of a bathtub here today. It's bathtub-phonic sound and it's only affecting me. I hope. Yeah, I'm assured that it only affects me. So if I do strange things with my voice it's because I'm listening to myself in bathtub-phonic sound. There's always a technical surprise when you visit the Lachodome. Please don't. Singer's song right, hello, anyway from the edge of America from the home. Of the homeless, I'm Harry Scherer feeding, feeding back myself to you. Singer's songwriter, Johnny Mitchell, has put up a Hollywood, put a Hollywood Hills home that she owns on the market. Good choice because hard to sell houses you don't own.

At $829,000, Mitchell was ready to give up music two years ago. But then this is the real estate column, ladies and gentlemen. Then she met her daughter for the first time since giving her up for adoption in 1965. Mitchell has credited much of her new enthusiasm for music to her renewed relationship with her daughter, according to the real estate column. The Hollywood Hills home that Mitchell is selling was purchased about two years ago as an investment. It doesn't say what she paid, so we don't know if she made her lost money. She gutted the house, built in the 70s, when they knew what guts were about, and turned it into a mix of country and contemporary styles. It's a little bit country, it's a little bit contemporary, with open beams and city views. They're having an open beam. Behind gates and up a private drive, the house has three bedrooms, a family room, and a bonus room, in about 2,500 square feet. On the half-acre grounds are winding, tree-lined paths, a fountain, and patios. The master suite has a balcony and wood-burning pot-bellied stove.

Better than a pot-burning wood-burning stove any day. Well, Mitchell remodeled and expanded the house, but never lived in it herself. No. Actor comedian David Spade, a Saturday Night Live regular who went on to play the sarcastic office manager, David Finch, in just shoot me, has purchased a Beverly Hills home for slightly more than three million dollars. Spade is only 34 years old. That's a million for every decade he's been on the planet. He was almost a game, but he bought a house with six bedrooms and eight baths and about 6,000 square feet, a bedroom per thousand. I do the math for you. That's why I read these. So, built in the 1960s, the house was remodeled in 1995. It's on about half-an-acre behind gates, with a pool and several fireplaces. And ER star Noah Wiley, who last year signed a four-year multi-million-dollar pact with Warner Brothers to remain with the show, unlike George Clooney, who's leaving, has purchased actress Bowde, just to keep you up to date, ladies and gentlemen,

in case you miss all this stuff, has purchased actress Bowde Derek's Santa Inez Valley home, and some adjacent acreage for just under $2.5 million. Derek, 41, really, is leasing a house in the area. Senior late husband, John Derek, had quietly put their 31-acre home on the market before he died last May. Wiley also bought an adjacent 13.8 acres at the couple owned. Is he purchased the house and 13 acres for $2.5 million? That's a long drive, it's far away. His new home on a knoll with valley and mountain views as a 5,000 square foot main house two caretakers apartments, a barn and horse arena, a horse arena. Built in 1973 and refurbished after the Derek's bought it, the main house has a master suite, an office, two guest suites, and a media room. I guess you can monitor the horse arena from. Congratulations to him, congratulations to David Spade and good luck, Joni.

That's all we can say, really. Some people have already declared defeat, ladies and gentlemen, in the wake of Bill Clinton's acquittal, or they sent its failure to find, to convict, however you'd like to construe that. Conservative leader Paul Weirich, who was known, I think, first for being a direct male maestro on the right, and then started his own right wing conservative, TV channel, now called America's Voice. He's created a firestorm on the right by declaring that the culture war has been lost, and he no longer believes there is a moral majority. Weirich wrote in a bitter post-impeachment letter addressed dear friend, quote, politics itself has failed, and politics has failed because of the collapse of the culture.

The culture we are living in becomes an ever-wider sewer. Suffice it to say, the United States is very close to becoming a state totally dominated by an alien ideology and ideology bitterly hostile to Western culture. Unquote. Efforts to win the GOP presidential nomination by conservatives, he suggests, are virtually certain to be rejected by a cultural collapse of historic proportions, a collapse so great it simply overwhelms politics. What steps can we take to make sure we and our children are not infected? He asks, we need some sort of quarantine. You know, you get a little heady on that rhetoric, and sometimes, sometimes you can't come down. We need to drop out of this culture, he says, and find places even if it is where we physically are right now, where we can live godly, righteous, and sober lives. Paul, Bill Bennett, guys, what can we do?

What can we do to get you to not disapprove of us so bitterly? What can we do? I don't swear on the air. You want, I don't know, more country music, with that help? Seriously, really, I don't, I, I, I, I, I... I chafe under such a... denunciation. Paul Wyrer, Bill Bennett, what can we do? What would you like us to do? I recycle? Is that a bad thing now? Let me know guys, because I really, in the meantime, this just in, politicians and lawyers, this may explain more than it attempts to. Politicians and lawyers may be blessed with the gift of gab, but many have bad breath. Professor Mel Rosenberg, a microbiologist, told the British Dental Association Conference this week that politicians, lawyers, judges and teachers were more likely to have dragon mouth because they were forever talking. Their mouths dry out as they talk, and when your mouth dries out the saliva, the body's

mouthwash cannot carry away the bacteria. Also the movement of the tongue airs the smelly gases and sends them out. And that just comes right through the TV. That's the, that's the amazing part. So I didn't go to the OJ Simpson auction, ladies and gentlemen, I was busy on, well, first of all, nobody sent me money for me to bid. And second, I was busy standing in line, not in line, standing in a microphone. Well in a virtual line, I'd been invited to participate in, maybe you saw it, the CNN town meeting on, I don't even know it, I don't even think they had a topic. I think the topic was, let's spend some money and look serious, but you know, after the impeachment, what I guess was the topic? And they had a dozen or two dozen people gathered in half a dozen locations around the country. So there are some of the more distinguished citizens of Los Angeles and some people

from every, really, walk of life, everybody from clergy people to politicians to pundits and media, people with bad breath based on their professions, basically, and the same in other cities, including Wisconsin and South Carolina, New York, and Washington, DC. And so to get on the air, you had to stand at a microphone and then signal, you'd signal to a crew member that you wanted to, you had something to say on the topic that was under discussion because we were watching the program live. The signal to a crew member, they wave you up to a microphone. You then stand at the microphone while the crew member negotiates with the producer in Washington. We have somebody in Los Angeles who wants to say something. Well, but the producer in Washington is also hearing that from South Carolina and New York and Wisconsin. And more importantly, still, he's got two dozen people in Washington who want to talk. And when people in Washington want to talk, they really want to talk.

So by the time you get to say what you wanted to say, there are three topics down the line. I literally spent ten minutes standing in a microphone in order to say three sentences. So you know my breath was good. Unlike right now. Anyway, so I did not get to go to the OJ auction, it was at the same time. But you probably know by now that a gentleman by the name of Christman from Philadelphia bought OJ Simpson's Heisman trophy. Some people from Colorado Springs spent about $16,000 to buy plaques and stuff to burn on the steps of the courthouse. But this was a guy who bought the Heisman trophy because he wanted to impress his girlfriend. He says, yesterday I was a nobody. Today I'm the Heisman guy and tomorrow I'll be a nobody again. That's just the way America is right now. This guy is good. What impresses Mr. Christman about his purchase is the history of it all.

He says, it's representative of our whole pop culture. That's what makes it invaluable. It's like owning Clinton's blue dress. Clinton's blue dress. Maybe Paul Weirich's right. And ladies and gentlemen, because we're always trying to make things better, the Miss America pageant is moving to 8 o'clock this year in an attempt to boost sacking ratings by snaring more little girls. It will run from 8 to 11 instead of 9 to midnight. The show's likeness loses girls 7 to 11, a target audience for the pageant, according to pageant chief Robert L. Beck. The contest has been in a ratings nose dive setting a new low in each of the past three years. The changes made to try to drum up viewers, including the call in poll and the introduction of 2P swimsuits, didn't help. Yeah, I know what would help, but then it would be on the Playboy channel.

And then, then we'd have a culture war. I am alone, some I'm brave. I spend my time driving my truck around town on Saturday. I moved here from the city. I thought that maybe all of my luck would change here in Boomtown, but it seems my face is wrong, I don't fit in, because I don't have cowboy, cowboy lips, cowboy, cowboy lips. And I'm with all my buddies, my snakeskin roots, and my belt buckle shine. But they don't talk to me.

Even when I know their song, I'm in the wrong key, because I don't have cowboy, cowboy lips, cowboy lips, cowboy lips, cowboy lips are all right. Gimme cowboy lips, cowboy lips are all right. Gimme cowboy lips, cowboy lips are all right. When I'm an honky-tonkian, I smoke my marbles with the filters off.

It makes me cough. Well, I can stomach, low star beer, but not shots of rye. I can only get by cowboy, cowboy lips, cowboy lips, cowboy lips are all right. Gimme cowboy lips, cowboy lips are all right. Gimme cowboy lips, cowboy lips are all right. Gimme cowboy lips, cowboy lips are all right. Gimme cowboy lips, cowboy lips are all right.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to resume our count, see how Tom Broca is doing. His back up in the ratings as leader of the Nightly News broadcast, even though all three Nightly News broadcasts are down in the ratings over the past year, but Tom Broca, back in the lead again, let's see how many times this week on Wednesday night, he said the word tonight during the NBC Nightly News. Good evening. It is the new battleground after impeachment, Social Security and Medicare, or the future of no taxes now. NBC's David Bloom tonight on the president doing what he does best, campaigning. David Bloom with White House tonight. Thanks very much. Tonight in collaboration with the Wall Street Journal, NBC's Lisa Myers points out, however, that not all of these changes are welcome news.

And the top federal health officials today sounded another kind of warning about a growing threat from bacteria that cannot be killed by antibiotics. That's a good news. That's the bad news. The good news is that the threat is contained for now. NBC's chief science correspondent Robert Bicell tonight. The news is that I can't talk. And still ahead of night, lives change forever. NBC News in depth. And fire on the water, a new report tonight on what caused this cruise ship to go up in flames off the coast of Florida. NBC News in depth tonight, the family and the anguish of violent crime. Tonight, two families make emotional pleas to stop the hate. We begin our in depth reporting tonight with NBC's Kelly O'Donnell. Got some hotspots making news tonight, another disaster at sea making news tonight. NBC's Robert Hager is in Miami tonight. NBC's Jim Oble at tonight on a new definition of the postgraduate. I'm Tom Broca, and I'll see you back here tomorrow night. I'm sorry.

No, it's all right, Tom. It was a lovely note of candor on your part, and I think we all appreciate that. Whenever and wherever. It's the 13 tonight's, ladies and gentlemen, so that's low. He's up in the ratings even with just 13 tonight's. That's very, very something. I mentioned last week this, there's a row in Britain over the use of genetically modified foods, foodstuffs, food items, seeds, seed stock, what they call GM over there. And even though the rest of the world doesn't seem to care very much, it is a big debate in Europe, of course, the United States is in the lead with the wide-scale commercial planting of GM crops genetically modified with Calgine's flavor, saver, tomato, no, no ease. That's why you pronounce it that way. Flavor, saver, modified to keep fresh longer. American shoppers have hardly noticed.

China loves transgenic crops. In Brazil, some farmers grow fumo luoco, crazy tobacco, genetically engineered by an American tobacco company to generate more nicotine. Modified potatoes have been grown in Russia to try to withstand unfavorable elements and parasites. Gee, wouldn't you think they'd modify them to put more nicotine in them? Habit-forming potatoes. But there is strong opposition, India is fighting to prevent companies like Monsanto from selling GM seeds to its farmers, fearing both that ancient forms of agriculture will be destroyed, and that onerous contracts, Monsanto, when you buy their seeds, they come around to see that you're not giving them, you're not saving seeds, and that you're not lending them or giving to other farmers, because then they can't sell those seeds anymore. So it could be onerous. And some British scientists are in trouble already for perhaps spreading genetically modified seeds into the environment.

In a wacky way, their employees were pictured on the front of a newspaper eating genetically modified tomatoes. Seeds included. This company is being investigated by the British government's health and safety watchdog for possible breach of regulations governing the escape of genetically modified organisms into the environment. Officials fear the seeds of the tomatoes could have passed straight through the digestive systems of the staff and germinated in a sewage farm. If they were knowingly eating the tomatoes, including the seeds, then they're probably bringing about a release to the environment, says Professor John Barenger. It's probably, he says, a breach of containment. That would be the conclusion, I suppose. And ladies and gentlemen, some show business news for you, some fabulous show business news.

NBC, you may have been aware last weekend, they had this mini series, was it last weekend or the weekend before, we can before I think, called the 60s, kind of thing they put on during sweeps, had very impressive numbers of viewers. But more to the point, the CD soundtrack of the songs from the 60s just raced up the charts, burned up Amazon.com, much like my book, it's this stupidity stupid, now on sale. Wow, did he get that in? And NBC, heartened by this, has issued marching orders that a lot of its TV movie development and other show development for that matter, should be guided by the desire to enhance this new revenue stream, i.e. sell more soundtracks, sell more songs, get shows with songs that they can sell. Because the network is sort of desperate for another revenue stream, just selling advertising is not enough anymore, apparently, in the new multi-channel universe.

And so, based on the success of the 60s, they've already put into development in mini-series called the 70s and other possibly more fanciful projects to enhance that new additional revenue stream are surely on the way. From NBC Tele Records, comes the next great CD soundtrack of one of your all-time favorite TV shows, the first ever full-length CD featuring Tom Brokow, the NBC Nightly News, singing songs in the Kiewel, Laurel Canyon Boulevard, a large mod Boulevard, I love LV. I think most people who watch nightly news don't even know that I sing. And yet, it's something I do during each broadcast, and I'm a tween star, he's just too.

It's a keep myself on the earth. We brought you musical highlights from your favorite TV movies and shows. Now, for the first time, musical highlights that you've never enjoyed till now. Is it true, lovely, is it true, lovely tonight, if you like, you could wear the lady, you could wear the lady like you. My musical taste, I guess, is my new sense all over the map. Love me, or leave me, or let me be lonely, you won't be, leave me, but I love you only. I'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else.

Signs in the Kiewel is not sold in any store, except the NBC stores, and even there it's often not available. You could order now, and have the musical styling of America's most watched news anchor to enjoy before or after the NBC nightly news. Go 1-866 NBC Tiant, that's 1-866 NBC Tiant, to order Tom Broca's songs in the Kiewel, for even more delays, go online at NBCTVMusic.com slash Broca's slash HTML. The thing is, I never get to say to the nightly news audience, now I get to say to you, the paying customer.

I love you, songs in the Kiewel from NBC Tell Records, it's must-buy music. Now my room has got to window, but the sun never comes through, you know it's always dark and dreary, since I broke up with you baby, I live on a lonely and a new, I love your words and say I do, but I feel so sad and blue, you know it's all because of you, I could cry, I could cry, oh I need somebody, cause I live on a lonely and a new, oh yes

son, now you know my covers, they feel like lid, and my pillow, I feel like stone, but I've tossed and turned a little every night, I'm gonna use to being alone, live on a lonely and a new, my love, don't say I do, but I feel so sad and blue, you know it's all because of you, I could cry, I could cry baby, I could cry, oh I need somebody, cause I live on a lonely and a new, oh yes now I've been so sad and lost some, since you left this town, you know if I could

live on a lonely and a new, my love, don't say I do, but I feel so sad and blue, and it's all because of you, I could cry, I could cry baby, oh I need somebody, cause I live on a lonely and a new, oh yes as you may have missed this week ladies and gentlemen, a parliamentary committee in Moscow

finished its work on Monday, the preparatory work for impeaching President Boris Yeltsin and began preparing a motion to remove him from office, a move that is expected to fail. The Communist Party member who led the impeachment hearings said leaders of the Parliament's lower house will receive the Commission's findings in a few days and the entire body will probably begin reviewing the motion in two weeks. The impeachment commission set up last summer says Yeltsin should be held accountable for instigating the 1991 Soviet collapse, I thought that was Reagan. Using force against hard-line lawmakers in 1993, launching the botched war in Chechnya, bringing the nation's military to ruin and committing genocide against the Russian people. Last time I looked they were still there, but you never know, the motion to oust Yeltsin must win a two-thirds majority in the lower house considered unlikely, then it would go

to the constitutional and supreme courts and it would have to win passage in the upper house of Parliament, so the 450 member Duma, the lower house, takes up the issue in mid-March. Some scholars say the impeachment process is so complicated, it may not be complete before Yeltsin's second term expires. Story that obviously missed by most of the media and drastically in need of greater depth, don't you think? We do here. From CPR, got mental public radio in Washington, this is beside the point. Beside the point, more than the usual amount of time, with more than the usual person in the news, I'm a Viva Schlarmann.

What's the possible exception of Susan Carpenter-McMillan? Nobody has rocketed more fame, thanks to the Clinton and Lewinsky scandal than Congressman Henry Hyde. Once the best kept secret in Illinois since Abe Lincoln's barber, Congressman Hyde became the thocus of both praise and blame for his role spearheading the Clinton impeachment. Now he's got another impeachment on his mind that of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Congressman Hyde, welcome to beside the point, thank you, Ms. Schlarmann, call me a Viva. Oh, I would if I could pronounce it. Representative Hyde, how did you get involved in the impeachment of Boris Yeltsin? Well, I'll tell you the guides on his truth, I was so exhausted from the impeachment process in this country, all I wanted to do was to have a youthful indiscretion.

But I saw that the Russian government was going through this process, and I thought that nothing was more important for the Russian democracy in these early days of gestation and corruption than the rule of law, than the sacredness of the oath, the ability to have an impeachment process that people can look back at a hundred years from now and say, you know, maybe we were wrong back then. So they called you, well, not really, I called them just to offer my expertise, my services, and not least of all my rhetorical database. As in, if this Duma, that's their parliament, does not see fit to impeach and remove this president for these abuses of power, I doubt very seriously that we will have a Russia

that is worth fighting for. Hmm, that was a variation on something you said in the U.S. Senate. Well, that's right, it makes it, you know, it makes it much easier to accept that verdict if you're able, as I am now, to look back at that whole process is not so much a botched attempt to remove an American president as so much as a dress rehearsal, Congressmen hide. You're among other things, an expert at counting the votes. What do you think the chances are that Boris Yeltsin will be removed from office? Not good, not good, I'm not kidding myself here, the chances of that are lower than those of the U.S. Senate validating our parking charges. You know, Mr. Lorman, that the House managers had to park in the Senate garage every day

for more than a month, and their parking attendance treated us as if we were tourists from a... I don't know. Tourists from my district, just something that didn't make the mainstream media though, though I do think it was on the drudge report. You know, Congressmen hide, there's always been a debate about whether Bill Clinton's prosecutors are motivated by politics or principle. Well you know it's interesting that people behind the impeachment of Yeltsin, they have nothing to gain. He's down in the polls, yes, but he still controls the secret police and the not-so-secret police for that matter. I think this is behavior that is high and noble and true, and of course I want to be a part of that. And also, you know, there have been all these rumors about this so-called Russian Mafia. In my visits to Moscow and I've made a few, I haven't been even able to find Italian

food, let alone a Mafioso-type figure. 20 or 30 years ago, Congressman, you have believed you'd ever be going to Moscow to help try to house the top official in the Kremlin? You know, I've thought about that. I'd either have been executed or depending on the timing being declared a national hero, and of course, that's not the reason that you take on a task like this one. Well, what is the reason? Oh, I don't know, you know, polls can go up or down, but some basic things just don't shift with the winds. What's right is right, what's wrong is wrong. An honorarium is an honorarium, it's certainly nothing like a stipend. Mr. Congressman, I know that making predictions is almost as an estimate of you is following up on the predictions you do make, but how would you rate President Yeltsin's chances

at this point in the process? Well, that's the point, really. We're not in the process yet. We're still at the point where, with all due respect, we're at the mercy of the Duma because they make the rules, and after all, I'm a visitor in their country, and most of them, despite what we see in the mainstream media, really don't speak that much English. So for example, once again, I don't think we're going to be able to call fact witnesses, and if we are able to, I don't think we're going to want to. So right there, you have to wonder about the process. And how long do you think the process will take? The election for President Yeltsin's successors only a year away? Well, of course, that depends on whether Mr. Yeltsin and his defenders resort to the kind of legalistic hair splitting that's very odd, troublesome, coming from a system with

almost no enforceable laws. So you know, sometimes you just have to be grateful that you brought along a boom box and a cassette of men of La Mancha. Congressman, I thanks for taking time out from your recess. To speak with us today. If I took any pleasure in this sad process, this would have been my pleasure. And until next time, that's all there is beside the point. We had help today from the Edison Foundation helping public radio engineers find just the right plugs. I'm a Viva Schlarman, hoping you'll find us the very next time we're beside the point. This is CPR, I can't know the public radio. Blackbird singing in the dead of night, take these sunken eyes and learn to see all

your life, you are only waiting for this moment to be free, blackbird fly, blackbird fly, into the line of a door, blackbird fly, blackbird fly, blackbird fly, blackbird fly, into the line of a door, blackbird fly, blackbird singing in the dead of night, take these sunken eyes and learn to see all your life, blackbird fly, blackbird fly, blackbird

We're only waiting for this moment to arrive. Ladies and gentlemen, from the Frontiers of Science, there is no medical evidence to support a belief in the healing power of religious faith according to a new study by American researchers, quote, even in the best studies, the evidence of an association between religion, spirituality and health is weak and inconsistent, unquote say the researchers in a report in the British Medical Journal of the Lancet. The study is a comprehensive, this is a quote, comprehensive though not systematic review of the empirical evidence.

Well, how about five dollars more and do systematic as well, babe? Backed by Dr. Richard Sloan, a psychologist at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, in conjunction with a team of psychiatric and public health professionals from Columbia University. The project was undertaken in response to evidence of a growing belief in the United States that spiritual faith can help people recover from illness and disease, a belief given increasing credibility by the American medical fraternity. The report says studies which claim faith, church attendance and prayer promote good health failed to consider variables such as age and lifestyle, for instance, one frequently cited study showed a positive association between church attendance and health. But one of the authors of this study said that finding was probably due to a failure to take into account the fact that people in poor health were less likely to go to church. But aren't they more likely to go to faith healing services?

I don't. I don't know. That's why I'm not published in the Lancet. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to just go monitor the sales rating of my book on Amazon.com every minute of the day for the next week, and that'll keep me busy. You know what you can do. So hey, why don't we meet here next week at the same time over these same stations for another edition of the show on NPR Worldwide Threat Europe on the USEN 440 cable system in Japan, shortwave, the WBCQ, the planet 7.415 megahertz around the world via the Armed Forces network, and on your computer, whenever you want it, at www.HarryShera.com. And it'd be just like, Joni Mitchell staying interested in music, if you'd agree to join with me then. All righty, thank you very much, uh-huh. Take care of me.

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