Le Show; 1989-02-26; 1989-03-05

Cutters, please love receiving your pledge, but only cash pays the bills. Please return your check with your pledge slip today. This is Alex Trevor, and I'm Lane Neary. Join us later today for all things considered. We'll give you more than just the latest news. We'll have the story behind the headlines. National Public Radio's all things considered, coming up later today on this station. Stay tuned for the show in 10 seconds, it will be 11 o'clock. Keep on running.

Hello everyone, I'm Oriyan Samuels, and along with Max Armstrong, we'll spend the next hour bringing you up to date on the top stories in Agra Business. That means we'll check that cash cattle and hog market, those federally inspected slaughter numbers from around the country. We'll stop by the Chicago Board of Trade where there's a fairly bullish soybean market today, and at the Mercantil Exchange live cattle futures moving lower. The weather, well, we'll cover that for you and all of the other Agra Business Highlight. But after the show, with Mr. Scherrer. The town is muddled, out in the street. The town is muddled, out in the street.

That's where I found my man control. That's where you found one where the day of right peace and joy is completed. Keep our spirit, keep our street. Since May, that's trouble, most every night. Since May, that's trouble, most every night. Where once we dance, that's sweeter it's worth. And with wine and carrot. Where the night's a rainbow, the joy is completed. Keep our spirit, keep our street.

That's where I found my man control. That's where I found my man control. That's where I found my man control. Who's there with the thing, with liberty, a thousand years old man. Who's there with the thing, with liberty, a thousand years old man.

Who's there with the thing, with liberty, a thousand years old man. And with liberty, a thousand years old man. Who changed her brother, running with rage. Who changed her brother, running with rage. That's where I found my man control. When I break the bread, the joy and the flame. Keep us, keep us, keep us, keep us, keep us, keep us. When I break the joy and the flame. Keep us, keep us, keep us all the street. This is the fun thing about compact discs, ladies and gentlemen.

The very, here we go. Because they're flawless. Yeah. Let's get dirt on the laser. They decide not to start. Thank you very much. Have fun. Enjoy the show. I wish you'd known me when I was alive. I was a funny fella. The grey would doot and all of them are. I wore a drunks red nose for the plots. Oh yes, the word the comical breeze. With a choke for the flock and a hand up your fleece. True in the drink and the lipstick and grease paint. From the cart, what runs in my dirty dog collar. Now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead. And I'm going on to meet my reward, I was scared, I was scared, I was scared, I was scared.

And I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead. So there it was on the water bed. Drinking a collar of a mystery brand. Reading an airport, not a land. He said before it had really begun. I prefer the water about my son. I've been waiting through all of this unbelievable junkyard. Wonder if I should have given the world to the monkeys. Now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead. And I'm going on to meet my reward, I was scared, I was scared, I was scared, I was scared.

And I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead. And I'm going on to meet my reward, I was scared, I was scared, I was scared, I was scared. I was scared, I was scared, I was scared, i was scared, i was scared. And I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead. I'm sitting here on the top of the world. I hang around in the longest night until each beast has gone to bed. And then I say, got dressed and moved out the light.

While you lie in the dark, pray for it. And you beg and you promise to bargain and you plead. Sometimes you confuse me, sense the clause. It's the big white beard, I suppose I'm going up to the pole. And you folks die of cold. I might be gone for a while if you need me. Now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead. And you're all going on, you need to watch how you're scared. Are you scared, are you scared, are you scared? And say, got dressed and moved out the light. And say, got dressed and moved out the light.

And say, got dressed and moved out the light. Well we can look forward, I guess, to more of those delightfully inexplicable delays. Now that at least one major chain of record stores here in the Southern California area. And I say record stores, advisedly, because they've announced that they'll no longer be selling records. Got to get a CD, huh? No, don't shop at that store. It would be my friendly advice to you babe. And by babe, I mean, hello, welcome to the show. And I now realize why public radio harangs you so often for money, it works. I came on here last week and made a, I thought a pleasant cross between pathetic and nagging plea for mail.

Just mail, no money. And it poured in, it veritably tumbled upon my tussled head. So it works to bother you, I guess. But thank you for being bothered upon sufficiently to write in such quantities. Now we weren't running a contest, but if we were the letter from the farthest distance away, wow, I don't even know, I can't even speculate as to how this happened. But Mr. Barry Dingell from Thailand, from Sapan, Kuwait, a lot of words I can't pronounce. I don't know which of them is the city, but from Thailand, I know the country, Thailand. He wrote from Thailand, some lovely Thai stamps. If I knew my Thai history, I'd know who was depicted on them too. But anyway, Thailand, the winner this week, farthest mail from, they're from. Not the nicest, a lot of nice mail, including one.

And I don't read the Wall Street Journal, I guess, often enough. So I would have missed this if a listener didn't send this in. This is an advertisement in the career's section of the Wall Street Journal. There's an opening for those of you who are academically oriented at Washington State University. And the chair, it's an open, it's an adult funded chair, the Taco Bell Distinguished Professor. One of the country's leading hospitality programs invites nomination and application for the Taco Bell Distinguished Professor. This individual will be responsible for developing, for learning to read, first of all, for developing a curriculum in which, in quick service, restaurant management, conducting leading edge research on industry issues and maintaining liaison. With industry leaders and associations, the Taco Bell Distinguished Professor applications are now in order. And in order.

So many things to talk about this week, a very, very busy week. Some things that were on my mind, first of all, for a while. And I guess, time enough to mention them. First of all, have I brought this up before? If so, somebody write me from Thailand and tell me. Why, what is the association now in television advertising between dogs and beer? What's the deal there? Are dogs like some symbol of manhood, good cheer, able to hold your, what is the deal? Why can, why can spuds drink and not john tower? In other words, what would be the deal there? Um, John McFarland, Robert McFarland, John Tower, Robert McFarland, Robert McFarland, former national security advisor to president, what was his name Reagan? Was sentenced this week for his part in the Iran Contra affair, that nutty affair. He got two years probation and 200 hours of community service.

So look for that drug prevention public service film that he'll be producing. Then there's the, oh, the whole, I guess I should call it the nomenclature issue. We have here in Southern California, an agency we've had it for about 25 years responsible for doing something about the air pollution problem, which you may have heard at times is quite serious in portions of our lovely region. The air quality management district, which I thought was an optimistic enough title, but they've now decided they're doing radio advertising. And they've decided that air quality management district is too forbidding to bureaucratic to, I don't know, tangled a web. So they now call themselves in the radio. They say, here's good advice from the AQMD, the clean air people. What clean air people?

The clean air people. Yeah, that's right. That is right. Senator Goldwater this week defended John Tower by saying a lot of people shack up. Wasn't the Republican Party supposed to be the party of morality? What happened there? They lost Pat Robertson on that one. They really did. He said, well, we're supposed to be talking about family and values. Yeah, that's right. But a lot of people shack up. And the Bush administration has begun to refocus the fight. It appears they now know they're going to lose the tower nomination, but they're going to fight on the issue of fairness. And that makes sense. The people who ran an entire campaign based on Willie Horton should be bringing up the issue of fairness at this point in time. Why don't we ask Willie Horton who he wants for defense secretary? But you can see the difference between the Bush approach, so to speak, and the Reagan approach. Reagan would have been on the air by now making a nationally televised speech going over the heads, so to speak, of the Senate. But it's just hard to imagine George Bush coming on television and saying, come on now. Let's win this one for the Gipper's friend.

George Bush. George Bush. George Bush. George Bush. George Bush. George Bush.

George Bush. George Bush. George Bush. George Bush. George Bush. George Bush. George Bush. George Bush. George Bush.

George Bush. George Bush. George Bush. George Bush. George Bush.

George Bush. George Bush. George Bush. George Bush. George Bush.

George Bush. George Bush. George Bush. George Bush.

George Bush. George Bush. George Bush.

George Bush. George Bush. George Bush.

George Bush. George Bush. George Bush.

George Bush. George Bush. George Bush.

George Bush. George Bush. George Bush.

George Bush. George Bush. George Bush.

George Bush. George Bush. George Bush.

George Bush. George Bush. George Bush. George Bush. George Bush. George Bush. George Bush.

George Bush. George Bush. George Bush. George Bush. George Bush. George Bush.

George Bush. George Bush. George Bush.

George Bush. George Bush. George Bush.

George Bush. Dance of the damned, circle of fear, barbarian queen, too. Wizards of the lost kingdom, too. Twice dead. Twice dead, too. But wait, there's more. Blind fear.

Suns of steel. Martians go home. Snake Eater. Snake Eater's revenge. Midnight, matinee. What? Phantoms. The gun runner. The Punisher. Lethal attraction. Now I'm not sniggering, they will work very hard. Beverly Hills Vamp. The Toxic Avenger. Part 2.

Evil Clutch. Rabbit Grannies. Stuff Stephanie Indian Cinerator. The Jitters. The Dead Pit. Beverly Hills Bratz. See? See what I mean? Shadow Zone. Now we know you didn't like my stepmother's an alien, but would you pay $5 for my mom's a werewolf? Lobster man from Mars. The murdered house. But wait, there's more.

Girls don't kill. She didn't know that love and death were two different words. Kind of a dyslexic premise. The Naked Cell. Okay, so interested. Night Children. Black Forest. The Rage in Space. Beverly Hills seems to be hot. Zone. Zone is hip.

Phantoms are big. There's one more. The Chill Factor. And the Chinatown connection. See, it's kind of like a French connection in Chinatown. Watch for them. Wait for them. Now you know, because... Miles, because I read the trades for you. If you don't know me by now, You will never, never, never know me. That's all the things that we've been through.

You should understand me. Like I understand you. Now girl, I know the difference between right and wrong. I ain't gonna do nothing to break up our happy home. Oh, I don't get so excited. I come home a little late at night. Cause we're only at Black Children. When we hug you, put some fire. If you don't know me by now, If you don't know me, You will never, never, never know me. I know you won't. Cause you don't know me by now, You will never, never, never know me.

We all got a home for you. I've got mine. Woman you got yours too. Just crushed in me. Like I crushed in you. As long as we've been together, It should be so easy to do. Just get yourself together. Oh, it might as well say goodbye. One good is a love affair. When you can't see out of life. Cause you don't know me by now. Cause you don't know me. You will never, never, never know me.

You know you won't. If you don't know me by now, You will never, never, never know me. If you don't know me by now, You will never, never, never know me. We hate to blow anyone's cover here on the show. But when you get a hold of information that could make tomorrow's headlines, I am reliably informed that Salman Rushdie is in fact,

Salman Rushdie, the author of the Satanic verses, is in fact in hiding. We all know he's in hiding. I happen to know his hiding place. He's playing back up power forward for the Los Angeles Clippers. Chips fall where they may. Or the clips for that matter. Salman Rushdie, after hearing the Foreign Secretary of Britain, saying in a broadcast to Amd at Iran that he thought the book was offensive, Salman Rushdie from hiding called a member of Parliament and said he thought maybe Britain was backing away from defending him. How would he think that? Where would he get that idea? You know, ladies and gentlemen, let's keep this in perspective. Great Britain is a country where the BBC is not allowed to interview people who support the Irish rebellion. Not allowed to interview them, not allowed to put them on the air. There's a blasphemy law in Britain. It just doesn't happen to apply to Islam yet. You know what I'm saying?

It's an ad in Fridays, New York Times, to all Americans, members of the writers guild, condemning Iran for the murder threat. Standing up for the civilized principle that you, you don't kill a writer. You just kill what he writes. I believe that's the principle, guiding principle of the writers guild. And of course now there's, oh, I'm also in possession of part of this wave of mail. And speaking of mail, any comments, criticisms, suggestions, threats? Lesho 1900 Pico Boulevard, PICO Boulevard, Santa Monica, California 90405. One of my favorite restaurants asks, not from the restaurant itself, from employees. If Salman Rushdie kills himself, will he be eligible to collect these five million dollars? And will he be eligible to go to Islamic Heaven? So any Islamic scholars in the audience who want to deal with that, you may. Then there's of course a subsidiary controversy

that is spun off the Salman Rushdie affair, like a LeVernin Shirley from a Happy Days. And that is the Kat Stevens affair. I don't know if you're aware of this Kat Stevens, who is now a devout Muslim and changed his name to Yusuf Islam, came out and endorsed the Ayatollah's death threat. And in the intervening time, a lot of radio stations have banned Kat Stevens' music, his records. There's a radio station here in Los Angeles where the afternoon host wanted to organize a burning of Kat Stevens records to protest Kat Stevens endorsing the death threat on Salman Rushdie. And the morning man got suspended because he refused to play a promotional announcement promoting the proposed burning of Kat Stevens records. Now I, you know, this is censorship of censorship of censorship.

I think the only way to deal, and finally deal with this whole problem, is just to collect all the newspaper stories. On that affair, that radio station affair. And burn those papers. I'm organizing a little campaign to collect them. So if you have any of those stories, bring them here at the station, won't you? Send them to the list, show Nazim, at the above mentioned address. Meanwhile, I'm not going to jump on that bandwagon of banning Kat Stevens' music. But I do understand that he's, you know, for a while after he converted, he really dropped out of the music business. Now I understand that he's re-recording all of his old songs with new lyrics. And we thought we'd give one of them a spin here today. You have this freedom of speech thing going for too long.

We cut off your hands. We tear out your tongue. Cause the way you treat the profit. Cause the way you treat the profit, they can't stand among you. I would say to them, but a lot more now. So this will be beaten into pouches only when we need to climb out. I put up with your lies. But now we reach the end. Just an expression of regret. Won't let your life extend. And just an expression of regret. You don't have to pretend.

It'll never happen again. No, no, no, no. You don't have to pretend. It'll never happen again. Man and man. Man and man. Man and man. The aisle told us right. Baby you're wrong. We who we for all those years now will be strong on. The Western beneath. Never really climb. So the way you treat the profit, they can't stand. They can't stand among you. And it's time you ride.

And I'm crazy for your family. You make me wanna laugh. You make me wanna cry. When I'm still kid, I feel a... Oh, you, you... Hold me tight. When I'm still kid, I feel a... Oh, you, hold me tight. Ooh, ooh, hey, hey! I wanna take you out and show you around the world. Think thing it'll be okay. If I could only wake you from your swamp or curl. Say that man is a fit to it forever. That man is a sinner. Everybody in this place. Think things get in my face.

I love you forever. And anytime you call. It's a madness for your big face. You make me wanna live. You make me wanna die. When I'm still kid, I feel a... Oh, you, hold me tight. Ooh, ooh, hey, hey! I wanna take you out and show you to the girls. Think thing they'll hold you tight. If you could only see the way the kingdom swirls. Think thing it'll hold you tight. That man is a fit to it forever. That man is a sinner. For they can see down today. Think things get my eye. I love you forever. Yes, I love you forever. And anytime you ask.

I'm crazy for your big face. You make me wanna live. You make me wanna cry. I'm gonna still kid, I feel a... Oh, you, hold me tight. Ooh, ooh, hey, hey! You make me wanna die. Ooh, ooh, hey, hey! Ooh, ooh, hey, hey! You make me wanna die. I wanna enter you to take you to the brink's place. I wanna enter you to tell me what's your big face. I wanna enter you to make that man sing like that. Don't you think it's time you met something they'll keep playing? You make me wanna live. You make me wanna cry.

I'm gonna still kid, I feel a... Ooh, ooh, hey, hey! Ooh, ooh, hey, hey! Ooh, ooh, hey, hey! You make me wanna live. Ooh, ooh, hey, hey! Ooh, ooh, hey, hey! I wanna go. You make me wanna leave. You make me wanna leave! Ooh, ooh, hey! Ooh, ooh, hey! Ooh, ooh, hey!

Ooh, ooh, hey! Ooh, ooh, hey! Ooh, ooh, hey! I mean, it would make just as much sense to call them a dirty air people, wouldn't it? I'm thinking, you know, I'm skipping around here now. I think really the only thing that Pat SayJack needs to put him over the top is a crazy woman invading his house every month or so. Just to get him a little more ink. What do you think?

I thought so. What about Willie Hartman for Secretary of Defense? He's tough. They don't even have to let him out. He could do it from inside. It's all speculation, all idle speculation, and I'll do more of it if they let me. Next week at this very same time over a continually surprising proportion of these same stations. In the meantime, would you just work extremely hard to make this an entirely pleasurable week for yourself? Thank you so much. The show comes to you from century of progress, productions, and originates through the facilities of SAS, a satellite service of KCRW in Santa Monica. Now, if you would be so kind, please stay tuned for Tim Houser and Sunday Sings Jazz.

He and it are next. Have you hit the wall yet? Well, if you have. Why don't you refresh tonight at 11 p.m. when the show is repeated over this very same station? It being KCRW Santa Monica, Community Service of Santa Monica College at 89.9 FM, National Public Radio for most of Southern California. Ladies and gentlemen, the announcement I'm going to play for you now just before Tim Houser's program is labeled, a label right here on the cartridge, says the name of this announcement. It is called Long Pitch Nag. Here it is, fear of listening, pleasure. Douglas MacArthur said, I shall return.

And he did. On March 17th, the swallows will return to Capastrano. The Chicago Seven returned, as did the Jedi and a man called Horse. Now it's your turn. You made our 1989 fun drive the most successful ever. Your contribution is an investment with significant returns of programming you return to again and again. And to deduct your pledge means a nice tax return. So be like the Magnificent Seven or Martin Gare and return KCRW Service. Return your pledge slip with your pledge today and make it many happy returns for KCRW. Thank you. Thank you.