Le Show; 2003-02-16

Attention up, link this is WWL-TV, audio center, New Orleans, Louisiana, wenseless show will originate in one minute from Mark. From deep inside your radio, well ladies and gentlemen, do you have your duct tape yet?

Not duct tape by the way, a lot of people were making that mistake and there is no tape that will actually at ease adhere to a duct, it's just the grease level is is prohibitive. So don't go asking for duct tape because you'll be in for you'll be you'll go home crying. But if you have your duct tape as recommended by the Department of Homeland Security this week, you may have already discovered in which case you're not listening to me now that if you seal every room in your house with plastic sheeting and duct tape, before you're saved from anything, you will probably asphyxiate from the lack of air getting into the domicile and question.

At least that was what was said this week by experts when asked, what about this duct tape thing? So a Tom Ridge has now backed away or duct away from the back, either duct away from the back tape or backed away from the duct tape, we're checking on that for you right now ladies and gentlemen, back in the newsroom and of course there is no newsroom. But it's it's a time of it's an interesting moment in American history because and I'm just judging by the zeitgeist or by any guys, but we seem to be more certain what to do about Iraq than what to do about Michael Jackson. Hello, welcome to the show. Get on out of that babe and wash your simple head.

Can't you hear that alarm clock? I say get out of that babe and get prepared to go to work. If I only had a dollar by some having days, having had to square me for many, many days, I can heal my stomach growling and there's nothing I can do, pray to the Lord to people that it will never happen to you, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, If I only could find a dollar, I'd buy some ham and egg.

I'd just as soon as settle for a big fat chicken leg. And see there's no depression, and there's a lot of work to do. Pretty lot of people, it will never happen to you. Lemon eggs, lemon eggs, lemon eggs, lemon eggs. Lemon eggs, can't you hear me calling you? Lemon eggs, lemon eggs, lemon eggs, lemon eggs. Can't you hear me calling you and me? Yes, Colin response, the theme of this morning's.

And today is, hello, welcome to the show from the other edge of America, from live from the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana. And it is carnival time as probably the fattest man in show business, Big Al Carson has musicalized, it is carnival time. And I've given up when people ask me, or even when they don't, especially when they don't ask me to explain the attraction of carnival time in New Orleans, except to say that it's just refreshing to be someplace where, at least for a little while, all the insanity is benign. You see what I'm saying? It was pouring rain last night. And people were half naked marching down the street with satirical hand-wrought floats drawn by horses, separated by the best marching bands in the land. But that's not entertainment. Ladies and gentlemen, from a listener.

And listeners are now getting into this, this whole act of spotting items that are close enough for journalism. And by the way, before I get to those, I'm, I'm heartened and dismayed. Simultaneously, the mark of a true adult mind, that so many of you rode in last week to say, Harry, at least Emerson, was at the UN in October of 1962. Now, I'll just say, I was pointing out the inaccuracy of the Associated Press, which is a large international organization with a deep, and possibly even redundant staff. I'm a guy sitting in my house with a computer, okay? And I'm not in the news business either. So, but I hope all of you wrote to the Associated Press too. That's all I can say. And I was also upgraded by a member of the journalism fraternity who says that this whole idea of close enough for journalism

is nitpicking. The idea that I would upbraid, you know, second use of that in an hour, upbraid the Associated Press for getting the year wrong by three on a caption when Adelaide Stevenson was at the UN for a very dramatic moment, being analogized to the moment when Colin Powell went to the UN, a newsworthy moment in itself, that I'm nitpicking, that that's not real journalism, but it's about, well, how about this? Accuracy on the little facts is what gives, here's an old fashioned way of looking at it. Accuracy on the little fact is what gives them the privilege of thinking that we believe them when they tell us about the big facts. You see what I'm saying? Now, the new fashioned way of saying that is, no, they buy that credibility with good haircuts and shiny desks. So, you know, either way, it works. From the New York Times online, we're not sure if this appeared in the print edition,

but it did appear online, thanks to a listener. Quote, two years ago, Alan Greenspan provided crucial support for Mr. Bush's first period, first round of tax cuts that support help Republicans win over wavering Democrats and push through the tax cuts, even though Democrats had a slim majority in the Senate at that time. Listener points out correctly, the Republicans had a slim majority in the Senate at the time, the tax cut was passed. The last vote by James Jeffords of Vermont before he switched from Republican to independent, thus tipping the balance in the Senate was for the tax cut. Thank you for that. And also, another listener writes about the welter of news stories that greeted the first tape. We now believe, we are now led to believe there's a second Osama bin Laden tape that's been released. But the first bin Laden tape, we know what happened with the interpretations of that one. But according to the Washington Post translation of it, deep in the story,

bin Laden claims that 94% of his people survived the U.S. attack on Afghanistan. And listeners suggest that would be a good example of burying the lead. We got 6%. What's his problem? I do not understand, ladies and gentlemen. And then the annals of justice, the Federal Appeals Court in St. Louis ruled this week that officials in Arkansas, where justice really lives, don't you think, can force a prisoner on death row to take anti-psychotic medication to make him sane enough to execute. Without the drugs, Charles LeVern Singleton, well, don't name your, don't give your boy child a girl's middle name if you don't want him to be psychotic, ladies and gentlemen, that's just good advice. Charles LeVern Singleton could not be put to death under United States Supreme Court decision that prohibits the execution of the insane. Quote, Singleton presents the court with a choice between

involuntary medication followed by an execution and no medication followed by psychosis and imprisonment. Judge Roger Wollman wrote for the majority in ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. Judge Wollman said the first choice involuntary medication followed by an execution was the better one. At least when the drugs were generally beneficial to the prisoner, he said courts did not need to consider the ultimate result of medicating the prisoner. Eligibility for execution is the only, is the only unwanted consequence of the medication he wrote. Well, memory loss, but if you're going to be executed, I guess, that's a side effect you can, you can live with, you can put up with. Couldn't we find just a middle way that doesn't, isn't as stark as this, maybe just requiring the Charles Laverne to appear on Dr. Phil and then kill him? Well, not kill Dr. Phil. I didn't say that, did I? No, but just, or be on the radio with Dr. Laura for three hours. Man, that would cure him.

That, he'd be run into the chamber after that. It's this medication. You know, let's get back to the talking therapy if we can for these guys. Please, ladies and gentlemen, technology, technology can be wonderful, but technology does have its own imperatives. And those, mainly the imperative of technology is if you've got it, you must use it. You cannot not use it. You need to go no further to see this law in action than your television set. Every year, you can just guess what the new machine is that they've bought in every television network across the country because that's the machine that they'll be using to go from one shot to another or to put a piece of graphic information on the screen and take it off. A few years back, it was,

look, we can make it look like a page turn. And again, and again, and again. Look, we can make little animated things run on this screen and run off. Look, we can make the scores appear at the bottom of the screen and squeeze the game so it looks grotesquely distended. Well, okay. You're doing that once a quarter in a basketball game to tell us the scores of other games that's arguably useful. But yes, now, of course, you've used the same technology constantly throughout a game to tell us what's going to be on your network next February, over and over again, with little animated things to say to our eyes. Look, don't look at the game. Look at here at the bottom of the screen. We're telling you about a new exclusive movie we got rights to for a week. Technology, of course, also sometimes brings countermeasures. So I make an open call this week to all those technologically minded listeners.

Come up with some way to... something we can do to just remove that bottom strip. I know we'll miss all the alerts on CNN. But something must be done. It's not just me. How about Laura Bush? First lady Laura Bush, who is rarely outspoken in her public remarks, said this week she thinks constant news alerts on TV about terror are frightening people. Really? See, if you could just cut off the bottom of your screen where all that stuff happens, you'd relax. And you'd get to see the game. Quote, it's a little bit like crying wolf, she said in Manhattan, where they know from wolves. Now, it hasn't happened yet. What's the it in that sense? Referring to the frequently labeling of TV reports with, quote, news alert and similar phrases Laura Bush added, quote,

I think the media needs to be very, very responsible. It's about 50 years too late, lady. At the same time, she echoed advice from Homeland Security Department that people should stock a few day supply of food and water and have a radio. So they can keep in constant contact with the news, which is the new stuff that's scaring them. Excuse me, Mrs. Bush. Bush's remarks were a brief aside, I see, talk about literacy initiatives for executives of the Hearst Corporation. Hearst, you know, Hearst has done so much to encourage literacy through the years. Starting that war, that was good for literacy. Though she mentioned no news organization by name, she appeared to be criticizing the 24-hour cable news networks. A news alert might be that Michael Jackson or some other celebrity did something or it might be that the Columbia just fell apart, she said. In some ways, I feel like we're making people really nervous because everything is the same in an attempt to get people to watch Laura Bush ladies and gentlemen. Fox News Channel Chairman Roger Ails sat at Bush's table and was an advisor to Bush 41.

He told the New York Daily News afterward that the cable networks are damned if they do or damned if they don't flag breaking news as alerts. That's right. All that criticism of not telling us they were alerts. We remember that, don't we? Ails said viewers want news alerts and they'll switch to the animal planet channel to find them if they have to. Of course, there the news alert is Westminster Dog Show, one by Terrier, which is not as alarming oddly enough, except to those of us who like the standard poodle. Nonetheless, something that will cut the bottom of the screen off without distending it the way they did for the games. Speaking of Fox, ladies and gentlemen, my network of choice has made news all over the place this week. I think that's what they made all over the place. A contestant on Fox's American Idol worked as a stripper. She made it to the final three on the reality show's first edition and a contestant on the network's Joe Millionaire had a career

as a high school cheerleader and bondage and fetish movies. But it is absolutely unacceptable for a contestant on the current edition of American Idol to have appeared on a porn site four years ago. Frenchy Davis got kicked off the show for just that. 19 Entertainment, the company that produces American Idol, and Fox abruptly pulled Frenchy Davis off the American Idol broadcast Tuesday night because she'd appeared on a porn site that caters to male fantasies about young girls. Davis, a 23-year-old Harvard University student, was over 18 when she took the porn job. No trace of her remains on the American Idol website. Fox and 19 Entertainment had known for weeks about Davis's work on the porn site according to The Washington Post. She volunteered the information and filling out paper work required to participate in the show. She was upfront and honest about it, one source said. I don't think Fox likes you to be that way, do they?

I don't know. After having this information all the time, Fox and 19 made the decision to disqualify her because, according to The Source, it took that long to have the requisite number of meetings. Or an advertiser blew a fuse, according to The Washington Post. According to The Source, the party's determined that it's one thing to perform in a strip club and another to pose on a website geared toward male fantasies about underage girls. The contestant on Joe Millionaire was apparently a mature cheerleader in bondage. Davis said she took the topless job to earn money so she could re-enroll at Harvard University where she is a theater arts major. On the American Idol website before she was this existed, Davis said one of her proudest moments in life was getting back to school after not having the money and not being there for a year. The efforts to reach Davis were unsuccessful. The theater arts department at Harvard University said,

I can't give any information out on Frenchy Davis. 19 entertainment issued a statement saying it will, quote, endeavor to do all in its power to help Frenchy further her music career, unquote. But you know, there's been a power shortage at 19. So now, just let's, let's, let's not pass any judgments yet, ladies and gentlemen, because the, the high moral and ethical standards of Fox Fox's television operation are highlighted not only by that decision, but by this one. Fox has agreed to air outtakes that Michael Jackson selected from his controversial interview with the British journalist. A two hour special tentatively titled Michael Jackson take two, the interview they wouldn't show you is scheduled to air this coming Friday. Networks are rushing to air Michael Jackson related material during this February sweeps month.

You may have noticed that the original ABC interview with Michael Jackson has been airing this past weekend pretty much relentlessly and then ABC airs it again Monday night against NBC's date line about Michael Jackson's face. But this is Fox we're talking about. Angered by how interviewer Michael Bashir portrayed him. Michael is his first name. That's what it says here. But I'm not sure that's right. Anyway, as an odd man, child who says he sometimes innocently let children sleep in his own bed. Jackson came forward with video tape, tape taken during the Bashir interview by his own production company. Michael has cameras. Jackson's British publicist said the footage clearly shows that Bashir was actually continuing to praise Michael's abilities as a father. And Bashir making many statements about how he feels it is a pity that the world is so quick to criticize Michael. Something journalists never do. Lighter their subjects while they're trying to get them to open up. Fox spokesman said he didn't know how much the network paid

for the video. ABC paid a British television company nearly five million to show the original interview and a few hundred thousand more to rerun it. Fox's special does not feature any new interview material with Jackson. He was reportedly ready to give an interview to 60 minutes and Bradley went up to Neverland and had to walk away. Empty handed. A Jackson representative. Oh, and the Fox show will also include an interview material with the mother of his first two children, Debbie Rowe. So Fox, you see, you know, it's Martin Bashir. That's what I thought. It said Michael in the AP story. I predict said a Fox spokesman. No, sorry, Jackson, Jackson spoke. I predict this will change ABC's policy and how they receive this stuff in the future. It's going to blow viewers minds as to what Bashir said relative

to what came out in the 2020 special. The interview with Debbie Rowe was by a quote outside journalist we brought in to ensure objectivity according to Jackson's publicist. Jackson's publicist hired a journalist to interview the mother of Jackson's first two children, ladies and gentlemen, to ensure objectivity. I think we all feel better now, especially Frenchy. And now for a regular feature of this broadcast, the apologies of the week. A lot of sorrow in the air. It's going around. Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Common Police Judge Joseph Jaffe, who pleaded guilty in federal court to extorting money in exchange for judicial favors, has apologized. In his first formal statement, since he was indicted,

Jaffe, his voice choking with tears, said he was sorry because I have disgraced myself, my family, my friends, and my colleagues on the court bench, particularly my close friends on the bench, and my two mentors. He expressed regret that he'd let the public down. I apologize to the public for violating my oath of office and to an attorney lit against her witness. He also expressed regret that he'd let the public down. He acknowledged the humiliation he'd caused the federal bench and several hours after reading the prepared statement to a reporter he asked the newspaper not to use it. So he's sorry that he's sorry. The plight of British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell, facing three new charges over his arrest for drunk driving last month in Hawaii, took some of the lustre away from his initial speech of the year. He held a news conference to apologize for his behavior in Maui and reaffirm his plan to remain premier.

There was an enormous error in judgment and that will not happen again. He said, certainly as I've been around the province, I've had an awful lot of people coming up and asking how I'm doing and asking me to keep on and stay the course, which of course, if he'd done, he wouldn't have been arrested for drunk driving because he came to the Canadian for you. By the way, speaking of Canadians, do you see the story? This is not an apology yet. The Canadian pacifist who objected that her local school board had included on a list of words her third grader was expected to learn to spell the word gun. He shouldn't be expected to learn to spell that word. That is the problem. So much violence has caused by people who know how to spell gun. In a January 30th story in a sports section, the Sacramento Bee, now acknowledges it in an accurately portrayed Los Angeles Lakers guard Colby Bryant as drunk. The story was intended as a humorous feature here. These amateurs toying around with humor again about how Bryant could avoid food poisoning in Sacramento, given the baudi severed the last time the Lakers played in Sacramento.

Since the story was published, however, Bryant's attorney said that Bryant does not drink. In addition, the Bee's sources for the story now says source for the story now says through spokesman that he was misquoted. And he did not see Bryant at his restaurant. The night Bryant became ill. The source Jeff Wong was first quoted by the Bee last May. That quote was not questioned until now and was relied upon for the story. The story was intended as a tongue-in-cheek article. Nonetheless, it did not meet the Sacramento Bee's reporting standards and was misleading to readers or misreading to leaders. We apologize to Bryant and to our readers, says the Bee. And Kentucky, a leader of the House of Representatives, has managed to keep his job after an emotional apology for rigging a budget bill to accommodate his pet project, renovation of the center that contains the home of the University of Kentucky's basketball team. Representative Joe Barrows survived a close vote to hold on to his position as majority whip.

He stunned his colleagues by announcing to the House that he had slipped into the budget bill 1.4 million for debt service on bonds to complete the renovation of the arena that violated an agreement. The Democrats had with the Republicans to submit a lean budget bill. Of course, thank God this stuff doesn't happen in Washington. Or we'd be in debt. I did what I thought was a good thing, but in retrospect, obviously a very stupid thing to do. Barrows said Republicans politely applauded. And President Kim Dae-jung acknowledged that his government, he's the outgoing president of South Korea, his government had received assistance from Hyundai, which had many contacts in North Korea in the process of setting up the summit two years ago, three years ago, between the two Koreas. President Kim said the government should reveal the whole truth behind this now that has been made public and he would bear any responsibility. Hyundai has said that funds were transferred. There was a Nobel Peace Prize given to Kim Dae-jung for holding this sunshine summit.

It's now revealed that monies changed hands to get the North Koreans to meet with the South Koreans. Something apparently we won't do. We're above doing things for money. So that, you know, a Nobel Prize for a peace meeting that happens just because some funds are exchanged. I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, that whole... There's a stink. There's a leak about the whole Nobel thing now. I think Henry Kissinger should give his back. I don't know what to do. I don't know whether I'm going to come

and I just don't understand this. I'm a confusion baby. Confusion. Won't be the man that has a baby. I don't know what to do. I don't know whether I'm going to come and I just don't understand this. I'm a confusion baby. Confusion. I don't know whether I'm going to come and I just don't understand this. I'm a confusion baby. Confusion. Confusion. Confusion. Confusion. Confusion. Confusion. Confusion. Confusion. Confusion. Confusion. Confusion, baby, confusion, oh. Confusion, baby, confusion, oh. Confusion, baby, confusion, oh.

Confusion, baby, confusion. Having helped the man who has confused, Confusion as I, she keeps me guessing I'm missing my confusion, me or mine One minute I'm a happy, next minute I'm blue Confusion, baby, I don't know what to do I don't know whether I'm going or coming I just don't understand it's the wrong of confusion, baby Confusion, baby, confusion, oh Confusion, baby, I don't know Well, just in case, ladies and gentlemen, that you're confused by what's going on with regard to the impending Or is it impending or is it just impending war on Iraq? It's some guidance

Rupert Murdock has given his full backing to war, praising George Bush as acting morally and correctly And describing Tony Blair as full of guts He's full of guts He's, we're going to add a limb to support Iraq The media Tycoon said he was completely behind Mr. Bush and Blair as they faced opposition from Germany and France Much of the world he said cannot accept that America is the only superpower Murdock was unequivocal about war with Iraq We can't back down now I'm sorry, we can't back down now He said the price of oil would be one of the war's main benefits The greatest thing to come out of this for the world economy if you could put it that way Said Rupert Murdock would be $20 a barrel for oil That's bigger than any tax cut in any country His comments come just after a week after he told Fortune magazine that war could fuel an economic boom And there's no doubt that President Bush will be reelected since Murdock if he wins the war with the Iraq and the US economy remains healthy

He will either go down in history as a very great president or he'll crash and burn Good, Rupert, thank you for that And a leading figure in Iraq's opposition Criticized What are now known to be America's plans to install a US military governor in Baghdad to rule post-war Iraq Probably Tommy Franks According to the reports I've read Describing the plans as quote an unmitigated disaster quote deeply stupid and quote a mess In an interview with the British newspaper the observer Kanan Makia An adviser to Iraq's main opposition group Iraq National Congress in America now appeared to have dumped its commitment to bring western-style democracy to Iraq Under pressure from Saudi Arabia and the Arab Gulf states Washington is apparent to leave Iraq under the control of Saddam Hussein's Baf party That's Baf with two A's Baf

Probably just attribute to the late Dolly the sheep Quote this would be an unmitigated disaster for the long-term relationship between the US and the Iraqi people Said the opposition leader the Iraqi opposition is going to become anti-American the day after liberation It is a great irony The plan is bizarre He said of leaving the Ruling infrastructure intact with two top officials in each Iraqi ministry replaced by US military officers It is Bafism said the opposition leader with an American face The White House has been badly stung by his criticism It urged him last week not to publish an opinion piece arguing it would be quote counterproductive And today on on television kind of Lisa Rice in describing what the United States would do for Iraq You know humanitarian aid blah blah blah Liberation did in fact omit any mention of installing democracy there It's a it's a time of much confusion

We need some guidance and fortunately Tom Broca was on hand this week to give it to us Remember this you can never love your dog dogs enough That's not we news for this Tuesday I'm Tom Broca He's headed he's headed straight for Dan country don't you think? He's he's moving so fast into Danville because what was it two weeks ago he told us to hug our children Now he's reminding us it's we need to hug love our dogs more Atts it's called the information age ladies and gentlemen because we get so darn much information Anyway the the situation in Iraq you know there was a new report by Hans Blix and Muhammad al-Baraday at the UN Security Council on Friday The US was disappointed it seemed to slow the momentum at least on the part of other nations To get behind the US Britain and Rupert Murdoch and certainly must have spawned at least one phone call in the bush house hold this weekend Eagle and limbo hey 43 how you holding up

Forty one never in my life did I want more to be 42 you know to be to be president of the time in history When when the prestige and leadership of this country not yet been solid by those who wore sneakers in the oval office Bad week as Brad well let's just say I'm I'm feeling a little let down by Blixie at this point Blixie Hans Blix I'm not Whistling Blixie at the moment if you get my drifting I mean who's team is he on anyway I if I had players like that on the Rangers They'd have been looking at a classy fastball quicker than you can say Classy fastball I think it's good for his credibility overall Not to be seen as too close to our position and then every jot and tittle Now I'm a Christian man for it what I'd appreciate it if you didn't use that kind of language

But see this is exactly what Rumsfeld and Cheney warned us about the start Colin would get us ensnared in the world of diplomats and diplomatresses And we'd be mired in that quick sand faster than you can say I know quick sand Yes sir and yeah it's like Blair Rabbit and the and the Briar patch Colin's a good man I mean about what Dick Cheney calls the Canopy Munching Treaty Writers You know pretty soon it's March Blixie makes another report Our biggest ally on the continent of Europe continues to be Spain I mean it's getting too hot for the hazmat suits and I'm looking at opinion polls If I look to the opinion polls that are dropping like Enron stock options Well that counts your blessings he didn't get stuck with any of those Well that's only because mother told me to sell them There you go one member of this family understands economics listen here 43 And sold a bill of goods by our good friends Rumsfeld and Cheney

So you're trying to do something that's not easy Yeah and they're telling you it should be like rolling dash on a budget But this is tough stuff here yeah don't get down on yourself Don't give up on Colin he's a persuasive S O B in a long run He just he just wears you down by the time he's through with our French and German friends They'll be dying on unhappy meals and memorizing Lee Hazelwood songs He just got to sit tight Okay look at here 41 first thing a I'm not getting down on myself A sub one I am getting down on Colin he talked us into a policy word The word the word the only fellow that can make it work is guess who Colin Yeah how does that make me look like the guy that was smart enough to stick with Colin Did y'all want to work on the Osama tape? No I know he went out there bit the bullet for the team For a couple of days there'd be people were actually believing it Yeah I know but you can't buy that kind of credibility

Well you can and you have so stick with it And just the utter contempt of that guy what guy been losing That's what I call him I mean just to almost plagiarize what I said to the Iraqi people about our sharing common interests And then to just twist it into his own evil words Well now next to trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction Plagiarism does seem kind of a minor offense Well I got mace suspended enough times but yeah you're right 41 I got to stay focused and determined I got to stay the strong leader there you go I got to be the ball Sure networks If it means saying to Colin here's the ball big fella Top of the ninth base is loaded nobody out Can't decide about jam here but I got to do it I thought you were the ball If I kind of look blixie in the eye and tell him You're either with us or with the terrorists

I got to do it now look son You got new Europe and the whole Iberian peninsula behind You don't forget that Thanks 41 I won't Listen I'm sorry if it makes you happy You can you can say titty in front of me Tittle anything about him Get my love to mom and say hi to Laura Bye Hello Hello Hello it's me

It's me I thought about us for a long long time Maybe I think too much but something's wrong Something here that doesn't last too long Maybe I shouldn't think of you as my heart And I can't help it baby I see anyone as much as I do you I take for granted that you always stay I take for granted that you just don't care Sometimes I can't help seeing all the way through baby You know what?

Oh yeah, it's important to me That you know you are free Cause I never want to make you change For me be your change, don't change For the world, don't change No, no, don't change Stay as sweet as you are baby But one thing I want you to do is Think of me, think of me baby You know I'd be with you if I could Come around and see you once in a while If you ever need a reason to smile

I'll spend the night if you think I should Well, it's important to me That you know you are free Cause I never want to make you change Don't change baby, I'll keep everything safe Stay as sweet as you are baby But girl, don't you move to forget And I'll come and ride Come around and see you ever once in a while

If you ever need a reason to smile Just don't change, don't change, don't change Keep everything the same, don't change, don't change Think of me, don't change, don't change Ladies gentlemen, while you're not changing The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation is weeks away from making a final decision on the long-sought plan for what to do with the World Trade Center site But a power struggle is taking place over just how much of the designs will ever be built The Development Corporation has called two final design concepts for the Trade Center site from nine proposals

Expect to select a plan by the end of the month Beyond that the future is hazy, two views of what comes next are contending the Development Corporation which has strong personal ties with the White House against the state's top economic development official along with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey executives and developers and others The Development Corporation wants a strong ongoing role The Port Authority wants the $120 million yearly lease money from the developer Larry Silverstein to continue even though the buildings aren't there anymore Mayor Bloomberg wants to take control of the site from the Port Authority in exchange for the land beneath the city's airports So it's very complex and you know, as suggested here once before there's a much simpler way to get this whole thing resolved Every week, Casey, Cory, and Carla

take just a someplace and turn it into real someplace else Come on and watch, as they embark on another mad-gab marathon of redesign on deadline We're exchanging solids This is our biggest project of all and it's not easy to get a mayor out of town Especially when the mayor is Mike Bloomberg and the town is New York Well fortunately he's got a fundraiser and white sulfur springs Or at least he thinks he does Yeah, there actually aren't any donors anywhere near the resort But by the time he figures that out we'll be well on our way We've only got three days to redo the World Trade Center site So, let's get way busy It's a bustling city But nobody bustles harder than the exchanging solids team First, we had to decide how to design the space It'd be cool to have a mixed-use mid-sized tower here, wouldn't it? Yeah, but we want that street to cut through the site

and reestablish the historic grid, don't we? cement cutters Watch your fingers I will if you watch yours I'll pour the asphalt Cool That would give me time to get the striping machine Dude, now I know why this is usually a union gig Now, call me a girl But I think we need some shopping You're a girl And we don't do malls But what about an outdoor bazaar under a way cool awning Outdoor shopping Sweet Sweet Awning question

Striped or solid Woo I won't strive way festive Yeah, but solid is easier to work with Hmm I'm gonna say this is supposed to be easy Meanwhile, the clock was ticking on that mid-sized mix-use tower Korea designed a Japanese-style open platform tower In case he was cladding it in a spackled drop cloth But, wouldn't you know it? Uh-oh The spackling gun's blocked This is gonna throw us so off Well, I could try hand-spackling it as soon as I finish with this transit tunnel Yeah, but if there's no tower We don't need a tunnel I'm um, I'm spackling We decided on a one-acre memorial park So Casey spent that night siding the ground While Cory got up early And gathered children's drawings of the twin towers from 30 schools

And that afternoon, there I was Stapling them to the masonite wall of memory And I sank into the ground on piano legs She's seven hours to go We've got a pretty cool-looking mega parcel here Yeah, you know, as far as I can see, we've only forgotten one thing Hey, the paper mache curbing was set an hour ago Yeah, but... Signage Hey, Casey, that's not how you spelt inter-burrow It is now Well, the mayor's back And he's looking at the project for the first time And? Well, I wish I could run my whole administration like this But seriously, you did get permits for all this

We sure did, from the food channel No, I've said So, you like it? Well, it'll take a little getting used to That's a yes Well, that's this week's show Next time, join us in historic Venice, Italy We're going to redesign it to stop the sinking And we're going to do it in just 72 hours And we're going to do it in just 72 hours Ladies and gentlemen, there's more benign insanity right outside

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