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Les is a consummate newsman...when the news is farm related. As Johnny says, Les's stories have that unmistakable 'barnyard aroma.'
Andy has an assignment for the News Beacon of the Ohio Valley. Mrs. Carlson is a big supporter of a local children's hospital. The Hospital is in dire need of community support. Andy hands Les the info and tells him to go down there and do a story on it. Now.
Les, in an inspired bit of delegation, hands the story to Bailey. Truth be told (which doesn't happen a lot in this episode) Les would much rather be working on saving the endangered Rutabaga (yeah, you'll have to talk to Lester about that one).
Bailey goes to the Hospital. After being battered around a bit by the administrator, she's finally given a tour. Upon her return to the station, Bailey writes a beautiful, heart-string tugging story about her experience. Too bad it's all a lie.
Les doesn't know it's a lie, so he's more than happy to read Bailey's story on the air...after a threat from Andy.
Suddenly people are afraid of losing their jobs, the station is in fear of losing its license...this is AWFUL!!
Three minutes later, everything's fine. To find out exactly HOW everything could turn out so well...you're going to have to watch! Or, better yet, why don't you LISTEN!? We've got all the answers this week...even if very few of them are true.
Oh, and as a bonus, we've got a five minute-plus report on the Whoopee Cushion! And we're not the least bit sorry about it!! (You can thank us later).
Push 'play' fellow babies...somebody will be with you shortly to tell you fibs and fallacies...but you're gonna love it!!
WATCH ALONG DETAILS...
[Want to watch along with us? It's a blast!! We highly recommend the 'Shout Factory' boxed DVD set of the entire WKRP series. For reasons you'll have to listen to in the "Prolog" episode, all streaming versions of the original "WKRP in Cincinnati" have had the original music cues removed. Generic music beds and stings were used in place of the original music for the syndicated version of the series. 'Shout Factory' has been able to restore an estimated 85% of all WKRP music cues to the original "as-aired" content for their DVD release. They've also restored scenes that had been cut to shorten episodes for syndication. The original eps ran 25 minutes. The syndication eps were shortened to 22 minutes. Over 88 episodes that's more than four hours of lost content, including the performance by "Detective" at the end of "Hoodlum Rock." Get the COMPLETE series...get the Shout Factory DVDs. The Shout Factory complete series box has a release date of 2014. All individual seasons of Shout Factory disks were released starting in 2015.]
The WKRP-Cast is a weekly re-watch podcast spending time with the original "WKRP in Cincinnati" which aired from 1978-82. New episodes every Tuesday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Hey Fellow Babies!! We talked to Gary Sandy. Don't miss our exclusive interview with Andy Travis now available from the WKRP-Cast. Wherever you get your podcasts.
THE WKRP-CAST IS IN RE-RUNS!!
If you are new to the WKRP-Cast, welcome and thanks for listening. You might be thinking, "hey, aren't they missing some shows?" It does look that way but rest assured, there is a WKRP-Cast episode for EVERY SINGLE EPISODE of WKRP.
Some episodes may currently be unpublished because we are in re-runs. They will all be coming back in the next few weeks. Subscribe in your favorite Podcast Player and you'll get updates when they are re-released.
Les is a consummate newsman...when the news is farm related. As Johnny says, Les's stories have that unmistakable 'barnyard aroma.'
Andy has an assignment for the News Beacon of the Ohio Valley. Mrs. Carlson is a big supporter of a local children's hospital. The Hospital is in dire need of community support. Andy hands Les the info and tells him to go down there and do a story on it. Now.
Les, in an inspired bit of delegation, hands the story to Bailey. Truth be told (which doesn't happen a lot in this episode) Les would much rather be working on saving the endangered Rutabaga (yeah, you'll have to talk to Lester about that one).
Bailey goes to the Hospital. After being battered around a bit by the administrator, she's finally given a tour. Upon her return to the station, Bailey writes a beautiful, heart-string tugging story about her experience. Too bad it's all a lie.
Les doesn't know it's a lie, so he's more than happy to read Bailey's story on the air...after a threat from Andy.
Suddenly people are afraid of losing their jobs, the station is in fear of losing its license...this is AWFUL!!
Three minutes later, everything's fine. To find out exactly HOW everything could turn out so well...you're going to have to watch! Or, better yet, why don't you LISTEN!? We've got all the answers this week...even if very few of them are true.
Oh, and as a bonus, we've got a five minute-plus report on the Whoopee Cushion! And we're not the least bit sorry about it!! (You can thank us later).
Push 'play' fellow babies...somebody will be with you shortly to tell you fibs and fallacies...but you're gonna love it!!
WATCH ALONG DETAILS...
[Want to watch along with us? It's a blast!! We highly recommend the 'Shout Factory' boxed DVD set of the entire WKRP series. For reasons you'll have to listen to in the "Prolog" episode, all streaming versions of the original "WKRP in Cincinnati" have had the original music cues removed. Generic music beds and stings were used in place of the original music for the syndicated version of the series. 'Shout Factory' has been able to restore an estimated 85% of all WKRP music cues to the original "as-aired" content for their DVD release. They've also restored scenes that had been cut to shorten episodes for syndication. The original eps ran 25 minutes. The syndication eps were shortened to 22 minutes. Over 88 episodes that's more than four hours of lost content, including the performance by "Detective" at the end of "Hoodlum Rock." Get the COMPLETE series...get the Shout Factory DVDs. The Shout Factory complete series box has a release date of 2014. All individual seasons of Shout Factory disks were released starting in 2015.]
The WKRP-Cast is a weekly re-watch podcast spending time with the original "WKRP in Cincinnati" which aired from 1978-82. New episodes every Tuesday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Hey Fellow Babies!! We talked to Gary Sandy. Don't miss our exclusive interview with Andy Travis now available from the WKRP-Cast. Wherever you get your podcasts.
THE WKRP-CAST IS IN RE-RUNS!!
If you are new to the WKRP-Cast, welcome and thanks for listening. You might be thinking, "hey, aren't they missing some shows?" It does look that way but rest assured, there is a WKRP-Cast episode for EVERY SINGLE EPISODE of WKRP.
Some episodes may currently be unpublished because we are in re-runs. They will all be coming back in the next few weeks. Subscribe in your favorite Podcast Player and you'll get updates when they are re-released.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, everybody, This is very sandy, and thank you very
much for listening to the wuk RP Cast.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
So just sit right down, relax, open your ears real wide,
and say.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Weather today in the greater Cincinnati area. Are you awake?
Are you awake now?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could
not explain his nudity.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Same what dear God, She's gonna kill us all.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Welcome to the WKRP Cast. My name is Alan Stairs.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
And I'm Donna Stair. This is the fourth and final
season of our week by week, episode by episode.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Rewatch join us for this final season as we're getting
into the music, the.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Trivia, and the fun of WKRP.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
So, fellow babies, stay tuned and stay cool. It's time
for the WKRP Cast.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I'm a WKRP Simpson.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
No, Welcome back to another WKRP cast this week. I
have no idea who to believe? What is our episode? Donna?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
We are going to be talking about, dear liar. The
air date was March twenty fourth, nineteen eighty two. Written
by Steve Marshall, executive story consultant Lisa Leven, directed by
Frank Bonner. When Mama Carlson wants a story done about
a local children's hospital. Andy hands it to Less. Less
(01:24):
won't touch such a non ag reporting, so he hands
it to Bailey. Bailey writes a touching description of her
experience at the hospital, Too bad. It's a lie. Les
doesn't know it's a lie when he reads it as
his own on the air.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
This is the show's second week at nine pm on Wednesday,
and nobody cares. Tonight's episode, Dear Liar will only rank
number fifty five out of a total of sixty nine
shows for the week. Baker's Dozen, now following WKRP at
nine point thirty, drops to number sixty five for the week.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
The topic of this week's episode is truly ripped from
the headlines. We've mentioned the Washington Post scandal they allude
to in past podcast episodes. It was a huge story
in nineteen eighty one. We'll go over what happened again
once we get there.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
We're getting down to the wire, Fellow Babies. Only four
more episodes of the series to go. No one with
the show knows if they're canceled just yet. It hasn't
been officially announced. The ratings this spring have been abysmal,
so it wouldn't be a shock.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
The network seems intent on running off whatever audience might
be trying to tune in each week. Hugh Wilson said
he was exhausted. He was tired of fighting with the network,
tired of not being able to find an audience, just tired.
The laughs are still solid and the characters are still sharp,
(02:58):
but you can kind of tell the end is near.
You probably didn't see this one when it first aired.
Very few people did. Now is a great time to
get into the final episode, directed by Herb himself. Mister
Frank Bonner.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Surely we open up in this studio, and since we're
in this studio, it's time for a poster watchy, But wait,
what's this? Looking at all of our usual poster spots,
we don't have a single new poster this week. Starting
to the far left, we've got the door's red wedge
poster on the door in the production room. The tubes
are under the record library, and Bob Seeger is under
(03:38):
the window.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Looking at the studio door. We've got both the Grover
Washington Junior and George carlm posters we saw last week.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
That's what Joe House is a place to keep your
stuff while you go out and get masta up.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Quarter Flash is over the Cincinnati map to the right
of the door, and Mary Anne Faithful is under quarter Flash.
So we've seen all of these posters. But what about
the album cover there in Johnny's hand. It's time for
a studio album cover.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Watch Woo the pink album cover Johnny's holding is for
do the Bird from novelty hit maker Didee Sharp Dedi,
whose real name is Dion LaRue, was a backing singer
at Cameo Records in nineteen sixty one. She was only
sixteen years old. In nineteen sixty two, Dede was tapped
(04:31):
to sing lead on a novelty tune called Mash Potato Times.
It referenced the James Brown song and dance move. James
(04:55):
had released Mash Potatoes USA in nineteen fifty nine. The
song and accompanying dance move were staples at Brown's concerts.
Sharpe's single would go to number two in March of
nineteen sixty two and launch Dee Dee into the wildest
year of her young life.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Three months later, in June, she went top ten again
with Gravy for My Mashed Potatoes another novelty. Of course,
I'm a.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Mast I'm on again.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
You ride yet again?
Speaker 6 (05:35):
A ginniginniginni.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yes, record execs of the time were shameless. In October
of nineteen sixty two, Dee D would have the number
five hit Ride. Then in March of nineteen sixty three,
one year after the success of Mashed Potato Time, Dede
would release the album Johnny's Holding, featuring the number ten
(06:01):
hit Do the Bird.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Day.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Although the record company would keep pumping out new d
D product throughout nineteen sixty three and sixty four, her
top ten run was over.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Can you imagine like being the hottest recording artist on
the planet for eleven months and then boom, You're gone.
As we fade up in the studio, Less is at
the mic and on the air. Johnny's sitting next to
Less on the console, reading the back of that Deedie
Sharp album.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
And so the delicate balance of the ecology is about
to be upset again, and that which we have always
taken for granted may no longer be I refer, of course,
to the lowly route.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Bega Less brings his left hand up from under the desk.
He is holding a large Route.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Bega and isn't it nice of him to have visuals
for a radio news report.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I also like that we have in the script here
that that's a large rout of Bega. I really don't know.
That might be a medium sized ruteb.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I'm not familiar with Rudebega's Rudebega sizes.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
It does look like a very large one.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
It's big, whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Johnny looks up at the mention of Rudebega and chuckles.
Speaker 9 (07:29):
And now a special look at this episode's bandage placement
for the five time Buckeye News Awk Award winner less Nessman.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
This is the less Nessman bandage report.
Speaker 9 (07:39):
Now here's Donna Staiir with her report about less ness.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Men back of left hand.
Speaker 9 (07:46):
This has been a look at the bandage placement boys
Silver Sow and Copper Cobb Award winning journalist less ness Man.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Now, those are actually like a few on the back
of his.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Head, a little round band aid, remember.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Those, Yeah, the little for a puncture one.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Yes, So he's got like three or four of them
on the back of his left hand. The little round
ones maybe bull teeth maybe.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Bull teeth puncturing the back of his hand Less continues.
Speaker 8 (08:12):
Experts predict that within this century the Route Baker will
disappear from the national diet. And why you ask why
consumer disinterest, hapathy and in some cases believe it are
not open contempt. No, how have we arrived at this
pretty past?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Tell us lest Johnny jumping in on Lessa's news story
seems to be flattering to Less. Johnny's getting him fired up.
Less becomes more and more excited as he continues, he's
really starting to preach us all this week.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
For my five part Gloves Off no Holsbard commentary, Routebager,
the Vanishing Vegetables.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Say a lawyer, brother, I believe.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
Helleluyah Johnny Fever Radio broadcast.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Less passes the mic over his head to Johnny.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Okay, I've said it before, but I'm gonna say it
again because we're almost running out of time for me
to say it. No radio station ever did this with
a microphone. The newsperson at least had their own mic.
They've probably got their own studio. Even tiny small market
stations had a newsroom. Oh well, I guess we've been
doing it this long on WKRP. We'll let it go, Amen.
Speaker 10 (09:21):
And thank you lester Nessman patron saint of the perpetually
Strange here on WKARP. Now that you got all us
vegetable worshippers whipped into a frenzy, let's take a little ride,
shall we.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Johnny begins playing Mustang Sally by Wilson Pickett. Les is
smiling as he makes notes on a chart hanging from
the bulletin board.
Speaker 10 (09:41):
This one goes out to a special little tomato that's
dear to the Doctor's heart Less.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Looks at Johnny and does his little snake last well.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Johnny goes into his Mustang Sally by Wilson Pickett. This
is the second cut from Picket that we've heard on
Johnny's show. He opened the episode Doctor Fever and Mister
Tide with Pickets hit Land of a Thousand Dances. This
one was a cover written and first recorded by a
guy named Mac Rice in nineteen sixty five. There is
(10:10):
a cool story associated with it. Rice was visiting singer
Della Reese, who was thinking about buying a new Lincoln
Continental for her drummer Calvin Shields. It was his birthday.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Rice and other band members were giving Shields a hard
time about it. Shields told Rice he'd prefer a smaller car,
and if it was his choice, he'd take a Ford Mustang.
Rice asked a what the Mustang was brand new and
Rice had never heard of it. From that conversation, Rice
(10:43):
envisioned a woman with her new Mustang and all she
wanted to do was well, you know.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
Oh, you do it around.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Rice called an early version of the song Mustang Mama.
His friend Aretha Franklin suggested Sally for the main character,
probably because Rice had taken part of the chorus from
a children's game song called Little Sally Walker.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Guy's hanging with Della Reese. He's friends with Aretha Franklin.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
So Picket's version will go to number twenty three on
the US Hot one hundred. There are other versions of
the song, and Felix Cavaii of the Young Rascals says
the Young Rascals recorded both versions of Sally and Land
of a Thousand Dances before Picket, but Atlantic Records shelved
those and gave the songs to Picket. The twenty ten
(11:48):
version of the Rolling Stone List of the five hundred
Greatest Songs of All Time, LISZT Pickett's recording of Mustang
Sally at number four forty one and man.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Do I love the stuff we find doing research for
this show, can we talk about rutebega's fella babies? Less
is not lying? We found a Washington Post article from
February of nineteen eighty five decrying the same thing, the
possible end of the rude bega. They claim it had
(12:17):
fallen out of culinary favor but was still around. Rude
begas are a hardy root vegetable also known as yellow
turnips or swedes. Because the word rudebega comes from a Swedish.
Speaker 11 (12:31):
Wordsin first d curni busdigg first, rude beegas most likely
aren't as popular as they once were because of their
strong flavor.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Rudebegas can still be found as part of the regional
cuisine in cold climate areas of the United States. Rude
begas are also very popular in Canada.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Shout out to our Canadian WKRP cast listeners, it's beaudy way.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Rude beggas are grown in every Canadian province except Saskatchewan.
We don't know what's wrong with Saskatchewan. They need to
get on the under stick here with the rudebeggas.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Need to get on there.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Canadians consume more than seventy thousand metric tons of rude
begas a year. Yeah goodness, and they export another thirty
thousand metric tons, primarily to the United States. So Canada
a huge thank you from Lesnsman and the w Kerp
cast for keeping the Rudebegga alive.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
And well, the door to the studio opens and Andy enters.
He's looking snazzy, wearing light brown pants and a matching jacket,
a plaid shirt with a darker brown knit v neck vest.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
And you know, we've noticed Andy hasn't been wearing his
very tight jeans and western shirts in quite a while.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
And you pointed out that even though he's not wearing
his tight jeans, the pants that he is wearing they're tight.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Pretty tight. And the coat that he has on in
this episode, it's got that.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Stitching to tack back has that Western motif. It goes
down into a point in the middle of its back.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Yeah. So he's in Santa Fe, right, He's still get
the Santa Fe any I think?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
So Andy tells Less he's supposed to clear these little
surprise documentaries with him first, so they wouldn't be surprised
Johnny's holding the Ruta Bega, as he tells Andy, Less
is really onto something this time.
Speaker 10 (14:32):
You know that they are clubbing baby rudebega's for their skins.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I don't want to hang around Johnny all the time.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
It would be scary to be inside his head, though,
wouldn't it?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Clubbing the poor baby Ruda Vegas. So Johnny tosses the
rude Bega to Less. They are getting more mileage out
of his one prop. Somebody ran down to a grocery
store and paid fifty cents for that thing. Les catches
it and tells Johnny this is serious, that's debatable.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Less.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Andy has his seat on the stool.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Less, your stories always seem to have kind of a
housewik with this barnyard aroma. Yeah, you never see to
do any people's stories.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Less Less turns to Andy and asks like what. Andy
shows a piece of paper to Less and tells him
like this. Less takes the paper.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
That's the number for the North Side Children's Clinic. They
got some sort of money crisis down there.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Well, so what Andy points at the paper and he
tells Less he wants him to do a story on that.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Oh, give me a break, Andy tells Less, This is
a chance to do something nice, look good during the
ratings period, and it will make a poor little old
lady very happy. Johnny, and let's give Andy a look.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Little old lady, this is a cut project of a
mother Carlson.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Less starts to protest, but Andy cuts him off.
Speaker 12 (15:58):
Less Sure, I know it's hard to believe she's more
interested in sick kids than ruda Bega's at his her station,
So let's make her happy.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Who knows, Maybe sure'll put some walls up for your office.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Andy has his hand on Lessa's shoulder, still holding his
rude bega. Les tells Andy he'll find a way to
work it in.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Andy makes one more comment before leaving the studio.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
John play it hits you.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Kind of gets a feeling he's just given up on that,
hasn't he. He just says it just because he just
has to. Johnny turns to less and starts to take
the rude Bega from him. You know, I like to
eat those things raw with a little Salt's starts hitting
Johnny over the head with the green levian of the
rude Bega. As Less as whacking Johnny in the head.
We head into our theme ukrg Senson.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
We come back from commercial in the bullpen, where Herb
has his briefcase open on his desk. He's checking off
a list as he packs. Venus enters from the studio hallway.
Herb asks Venus to come over and help him out.
Venus wants to know with what my convention kit checklist here?
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Just read that off.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Herb gives Venus a paper. Venus begins reading joy.
Speaker 10 (17:11):
Buzzer, righty leather tie that lights up?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Got you tie the lights up?
Speaker 4 (17:19):
It's very serious packing. Herb holds up a bow tie
to his neck and pushes a button. The tie as advertised,
lights up.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Duck call, duck call.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Herb pulls out a little red horn and blows it
and as we're watching her pack.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
It's time Herb darlik vation alert.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
This doesn't look like a coat that we've seen before.
It has a tight checked pattern that will make you
dizzy if you look at it too long. The colors
blend from yellow to blue to brown when he moves.
The lapels are some of the whitest we've seen on
one of Herb's coats. Those things almost shoulder to shoulder.
He's put an equally busy shirt under this active jacket.
(18:06):
It's a multi colored crosshatch pattern over white. The tie
is thankfully a solid brown, and the pants are blue.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
The tie is like a place to look where you
don't get nauseous. It's a safe spot in the middle of.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
His You feel yourself about ready to fall over.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Look at the tie.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Whoopy cushion cushion, A whoopy cushion?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Oh, Herban Venus begin looking around for the whoopee cushion.
Venus tells Herbie still has time to pick one up
on the way to the bus station, because you can
just stop in any gas station and grab one of those.
Venus gets up to leave.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Okay, I'll tell Jennifer to call you a cab.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
This isn't what Herb in mind. Venus walks out the
glass doors.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
I love that response. Herb turns back to the desk
and closes his briefcase. When we hear a loud the
whoopee cushion has been located.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Where you are you in the level.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
You knew we were either going to talk about joy
buzzers or whoopee cushions, right, Well, we chose the whoopee cushions.
And there's a great story. The first recorded use of
a whoopy cushion goes to fourteen year old Roman emperor
Marcus Aurelius Antonius. At dinner parties in about the year
(19:33):
two hundred and eighteen CE, Marcus would slip animal bladders
filled with air under the seat cushions of his guests.
Where it is Marcus was a spoiled brat, known to
be pretty unlikable all the way around, not surprising he was.
He was assassinated at age eighteen. I don't know why.
(19:54):
That's rid us.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
We're brutal back then.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
The whoopee cushion would not be revived for seventeen hundred years,
and it's said that he was emperor for them, and
that's what he's remembered for.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
They said he was really just a really lousy guy.
So I don't feel terrible about it.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Somebody wrote about this and it made it made it
in history.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Some historian did this as his doctoral thesis, the whoopee
cushion in Ancient Rome. But I love the next part
even better. In nineteen thirty, it was a Canadian company
that reinvented the emperor's air bag between rudegas and whoopee cushions.
This is the all Canada show Today. Employees of the J. E. M.
(20:46):
Rubber Company of Toronto were goofing around with scraps of rubber.
They developed an inflatable bag that would emit an unmistakable
fart sound when deflated. Now, fart gags were all read
commercially available, but the J. E. M. Rubber bag delivered
a loud, realistic blast. No other fart sound device even
(21:11):
came close for total authenticity.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
I'm just thinking being a part of the quality control
team member for that. Listen to this one.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
How loud?
Speaker 4 (21:24):
That's not realistic? How about this?
Speaker 13 (21:27):
That's it?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
You can't hear that across the room. We need a
louder one.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
The owner of j EM really thought they had something.
In nineteen thirty, he approached the man known as the
father of novelty pranks. His name was Soren Sorenson Adams,
better known as SS. He was the owner of S. S.
Adams Company. SS was the man who had invented more
than six hundred and fifty classic gags, including the joy Buzzer,
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sneezing powder, the stink bomb, the dribble glass, and the
classic can of nuts filled with snakes. Can you imagine
being related to this guy?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
You would not want SS coming over for family gatherings.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
It's like, let's he got to clisss.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Look out, what is he bringing this year?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
When SS was presented with the JEM fart bag, he
said pass. He thought it was too lude and vulgar
to be a hit.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
And he did not say pass gas, He just said ass.
J EM would not give up. They were producing quality
gas blasts and they were sure they had a hit
on their hands. They decided to mass produce on their own.
It didn't take long for JEM to catch the attention
of SS's biggest competitor, Johnson Smith and Company. Johnson Smith
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added Jem's product to their catalog under names like Poo
Poo cushion and Boo Boop a doop. And I transcribed
that one from the article It's Boop boop a doop.
The term whoopee cushion with the ee at the end
of it first emerged in about nineteen thirty two. The
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name may have been inspired by the Eddie Cantors song
making Whoopee. It was spelled the same way another season.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
Another reason for making whoopee.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
The original whoopee cushions sold for twenty five cents by
mail order. A deluxe model, set to be quote superior
in every way, went for a dollar twenty five.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Well, I want the superior far it sounds how.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Could you go? How could you go with the regular
when you knew a deluxe existed.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
The original jem whoopies stopped production around the time of
World War II. The factory sold to Dayton Rubber in
nineteen forty four. Modern day Whoopee cushions are basically the
same design, but made over. If you're in the market
for a high tech Whoopie device, don't miss the Iphart app,
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available for your iPhone in the app Store.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Now, before we pass on this topic, we've got one
other Whoopie tidbit. Comedian Karen Elaine Johnson had the rep
for passing gas backstage before performance. It was due to
her awful nerves. It happens so often her comedian friends
started calling her Whoopie. She loved the name, rebranded herself
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Whoopy with an eye. Oh, and she also added Goldberg because,
as she said, it sounded classy. That's where Whoopie got
her name. All of the sound effects in the preceding
story were made using an actual whoopy cushion.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Less enters the bullpen from the studio hallway door. He's
still holding his routebaga reservoir. Herb pulls out his hand les,
grabs it, and we hear less yelps. Bailey enters through
the glass doors as Herb is laughing loudly.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Tell you what I'll be.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
Thinking of you four working stiffs while I'm whooping it
up an acron Okay.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Herb puts his hand on Bailey's back and we hear another.
Bailey jumps and smiles as Herb walks out.
Speaker 14 (25:17):
I think whooping is against the law on Act.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Now, just how convenient is it for Herb to have
a convention this week? It leaves Frank Bonner free to
direct the episode. Funny how that worked out.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Can you imagine being at this convention? Hundreds of Herbs?
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Who's Herb? Everybody's sitting around, and Herb's probably at a
table all by himself.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Do you think or do you think they're just all
like Herb?
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Maybe? Well, that's a scary thought.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Herb might be their king. You don't know, he may
be like revered among the group he's convention. Maybe maybe
less walks by Bailey heading to his desk. He doesn't
even acknowledge the whooping comment, which was pretty funny.
Speaker 14 (25:58):
That was a joke.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
He sits at his desk, not saying anything. Bailey asks
him if something's wrong. Well, Let's tells Bailey, he's working
on something really important.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Now.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
It's going to be this year's entry for the Buckeye
Newshawk Awards competition. Mandy wants me on some depressing hospital story.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
And just in case you're a little sketchy on these
specifics of the Buckeye Newshawk Award, you remember Andy explained
the parameters during Mama's review h It is.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Given for the best news story specifically dealing with or
related to tap root vegetable production in the Tri state
area and in certain parts of northern West Virginia.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
That is so specific, I think Less is probably the
only one submitting a story each year. Bailey tells Les
she'll do the hospital story.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
You're not ready for field reporting.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Let's pick up the phone and begins dialing. Bailey leans
over her desk, giving Less a real challenging look.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Who is not ready?
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Let's tells Bailey he meant it was a pretty dull story.
That's all.
Speaker 14 (27:01):
There are no dull stories, only dull reporters.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Less, thanks for a moment about this statement.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Well that's true.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Les hangs up the phone. He hands the paper with
the clinic's phone number on it to Bailey.
Speaker 8 (27:13):
Do you want, Bailey, why don't you write something up?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
And uh, I'll look it over.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
If it's good enough, maybe I'll let.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
You do it on the air.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Bailey takes the paper with the phone number.
Speaker 14 (27:24):
Good enough. Well, this will be the best starring story
you ever saw.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
We'll see.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Bailey gets her coat. She thinks, Less, you.
Speaker 14 (27:32):
Won't be sorry.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Just wait to read it.
Speaker 14 (27:34):
You are gonna love it.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Bailey leaves the bullpen. Less holds the rootabaga up and
looks at it with determination.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Now to save the rootabaga.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Before we leave the bullpen, we have to do something
we haven't done in a while. A bullpen poster watch.
Speaker 8 (27:51):
Yay.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Something we've noticed about the posters, especially in the third
and four seasons, are the way they migrate. Posters normally
first appear in either the studio or the studio hallway.
If they make it around here to the bullpen hallway,
we've probably already seen them. That Big Stones Tattoo You
poster is a good example. It's been kicking around the
station for several weeks and we first saw it in
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the studio.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
This week. Something entirely new has appeared in the bullpen.
If you look high on the glass to the left
of the main doors, there's a square poster. The image
looks like the gas tank of a motorcycle with a
logo on it. We searched for this one fairly extensively.
We even did a Google image search with no luck.
We handed it over to the accountant of Rock to
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see what he could do. Hernandez has the touch. He
said he did a Google search on albums with motorcycle
gas tanks on the cover. Well, we'd done almost the
same search with no luck, but he was able to
find it.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
This is a promo for the band Doc Holiday. It's
promoting their second studio album called Doc Holiday Rides Again.
They were his seven and rock outfit from Warner Robbins, Georgia.
The name was in honor of American gunfighter and dentist
John Henry Holliday. A guy named Bruce brookshere was lead guitar,
lead vocals and he wrote every song on the album.
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Although the first album experienced a little bit of chart success,
this one didn't go anywhere. Doc Holliday did work extensively
as a touring band. They opened for some of the
biggest acts of the eighties, including Black Sabbath, April Wine,
Lover Boy, and Stevie ray Vaughan, among several others.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
We transitioned to an office we've never seen before. It's
buzzing with activity. The carpets of flat gray, and the
walls are institutional looking panels. We hear a voice over
a loud speaker saying someone has a phone call. Three
women are sitting at desks, looking busy. One woman is
speaking very loudly on the phone.
Speaker 13 (29:52):
At those prices, I could buy the launder bat across
the street and washing myself.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
She angrily hangs up. Bailey walks up to her desk
and says hell, Hello. The woman greets her with HI.
Speaker 13 (30:03):
I came in a bad time, didn't I sure, but
there's never a good time around here anyway.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
You know.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
There are three women in there, and Bailey walks up
to the one that just angrily hung.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Up, the song making all the noise.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
I would have gone to one of the other two.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
She does seem like the one in charge, though, and
I think it's just because she's so loud.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Maybe so.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Hospital manager Edna Perkins is being played by Barbara Cason.
Barbara started her career on television in nineteen sixty nine.
She made her big screen debut in a nineteen seventy
US film called The Honeymoon Killers. She was a series
regular in nineteen seventy three on a single season of
something called The New Temperatures Rising Show. It was a
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medical sitcom starring Clevond Little. Barbara also did forty four
episodes of Carter Country in nineteen seventy seven through seventy nine.
Barbara's last regular gig was on thirty episodes of The
Gary Shandling Show as Gary's mom Ruth. Her final appearance
on Gary Shandling was in May of nineteen ninety, and
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Barbara passed away in June of nineteen ninety. She was
sixty one years old.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
The woman looks at Bailey, Miss Nicholson. Bailey corrects her
quarters Bailey. The woman introduces herself as Perkins, Edna. She
shakes hands with Bailey. Bailey begins talking to Edna, but
she's interrupted.
Speaker 14 (31:21):
On behalf of the station I would like to send yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Bailey sits, drapes her coat on an empty chair next
to her, and gets out a notebook and pencil.
Speaker 13 (31:31):
Well, it must be rating tah for baby pardon now,
isn't that when you radio and TV people crawl out
of the woodwork and get interested in the community.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Bailey tells the woman she is being a bit cynical.
Speaker 14 (31:42):
No, cynicism kind of goes with a territory.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
She's very cynical, to the point of almost being off putting.
This is unusual. If you work in a place that
relies on donations and public support, you need to be
a friend to the media, all media. The media can
make your case for you, to the whole region. Also,
a ratings period wouldn't mean going to a children's hospital,
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like Herb said in The Consultant. When it's ratings, you
need to go to Hooker City. Herb knows how this works.
Speaker 10 (32:11):
Every time it's a rating period, they pick some lurid
subject like prostitution or lose housewives.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Loose housewives, Yes, children's hospital.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
No.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Edna asks Bailey why she's here. Bailey tells her she'd
like to find out everything she can about their operation.
Speaker 7 (32:32):
Would yes, then I will be able to write my
story and solve your problem.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
This is a bit arrogant on Bailey's part. She can
tell the story, but solving the problem might take more
than just WKRP, and more than just one story. Eda
leans back in her chair and crosses her arms.
Speaker 13 (32:50):
We have twelve wards full of sick and damaged children
and barely enough money to care for.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Bailey begins writing frantically.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Story properly.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
You know it might be time for Edna to find
a new job. She should not be dealing with the
media or the public.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Bailey puts her pencil down, takes off her glasses, and
looks at Edna.
Speaker 7 (33:10):
Contributions are down. But I thought people always gave money
to crickly children.
Speaker 13 (33:17):
Edna tells Bailey they did, but now they waste it
on frivolous stuff like food, clothes brand.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
As we've mentioned in previous episodes, this was a period
in US history where we were experiencing high inflation and
a fairly sizable recession. Charitable donations were down across the board.
As Edna is speaking, a man in a white coat
pops in and puts a file on her.
Speaker 6 (33:41):
Desk, were good, he said, thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
The hospital worker is being played by Bill Ewing and
the non speaking secretary is being played by Susie Ewing.
Bill has sixteen acting credits on his IMDb profile. His
first role was a guest part on a TV series
called Dan August nineteen seventy. Bill had one series regular part.
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He was a caveman on the nineteen seventy four to
seventy five sitcom Coorg seventy thousand BC. He played Bach.
Susie Ewing is uncredited in this episode, but thanks to IMDb,
we know that's her playing one of the secretaries. She's
in the blue top at the right hand desk behind Bailey.
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We only see her from behind during the establishing shot.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Susie was an original member of Dean Martin's gold Diggers
in the late nineteen sixties. Her claim to fame she
was the shortest gold Digger at only five foot two.
She also holds the record as performing the longest as
a gold digger. Susie has fourteen total credits on her
IMDb profile. Big news about Bill and Susie. They had
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just gotten married the month before this episode aired on
Valentine's Day of nineteen eight eighty two. The Valentine's Launch
must have worked. Bill and Susie are still married and
to each other.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
The secretary who speaks is being played by Iona Morris.
Iona was born in nineteen fifty seven in Columbus, Ohio.
Her first role of any kind was on the original
Star Trek in nineteen sixty six, when she was only nine.
She was uncredited as a little African American girl. After
Star Trek, she was a voice in a nineteen seventy
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Christmas movie, then a voice in a nineteen eighty TV series.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
This is Iona's first on camera appearance as an adult.
Iona stays pretty consistently busy throughout the next forty years
or so. She racks up a total of one hundred
four acting credits on her IMDb profile, but most of
those are for voice work. Iona's last TV appearance was
a twenty twenty episode of Blackish. She also performed on
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a podcast series in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
One, and Intel's Bailey It's Tough All Over. Bailey tells
Edna she thinks her story will make more people aware
of the problem. Edna interrupts her as a phone begins
ringing in the office.
Speaker 13 (36:11):
Honey, excuse me, but there is nothing your station can
do that's going to bring the kind of money that
we need.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Bailey begins to say something, but Edna jumps in.
Speaker 8 (36:19):
We need a.
Speaker 13 (36:20):
Research lite, we need hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment.
Speaker 6 (36:24):
We need somebody who adds to the phone.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Edna tells Bailey they need to be able to do
the kind of work here that will really help kids,
and not just put band aids on them.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
Wow, with that attitude, Edna should not be doing this work.
Bailey tries again.
Speaker 14 (36:42):
Yes, but a story on the radio can really help.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Edna tells Bailey there have been umpteen stories written about them.
Speaker 14 (36:48):
Do you think one war will hurt?
Speaker 8 (36:50):
No?
Speaker 6 (36:50):
I just don't believe it will help.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Bailey tells Edna she believes it will help.
Speaker 13 (36:54):
You do do yes, because if it won't, I really
don't have time.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Bailey puts her glasses back on, picks up her pencil,
and looks back at Ednas. Bailey is not given up.
Speaker 8 (37:05):
No.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
They look at each other for a bed of battle
of wills. Edna finally throws her pencil down on her desk.
Speaker 6 (37:11):
Oh, what the hell come on, I'll show you around here.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Edna heads for the door. Bailey gets up and grabs
her purse, coat, notebook, and pencil.
Speaker 14 (37:18):
Have you ever been to a children's hospital before?
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Bailey shakes her head no. As they leave the office,
we transition to the bullpen. It seems to be later
in the morning after Bailey's visit. She's at Lessa's desk,
sitting behind his big manual typewriter, looking very contemplative. She
sits up and begins typing. Jennifer comes into the bullpen
through the glass doors.
Speaker 6 (37:41):
Bailey, how about lunch?
Speaker 8 (37:44):
You know?
Speaker 6 (37:45):
Lunch is that light meal people eat around noon?
Speaker 8 (37:50):
Have it what?
Speaker 4 (37:50):
Jennifer says? Oh, maybe she'll see what Andy's doing. She
heads back to the glass doors Jennifer. Jennifer stops and
turns around.
Speaker 14 (37:59):
Have you had lunch?
Speaker 8 (38:02):
No?
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Well, how about it?
Speaker 14 (38:05):
I need more time with this story anyway.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
Good idea.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Bailey gets her code and begins telling Jennifer about her
visit to the North Side Children's clinic. As the two
leave the bullpen, Bailey's telling Jennifer what she saw on
her tour. They pass Andy on his way into the bullpen.
Andy goes over to a filing cabinet and pulls out
a drawer. He looks around, making sure no one is
near As he digs in the drawer. He pulls out
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a sucker, takes the wrapper off and puts it in
his mouth.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Ah, so he has a secret candy stash.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Is this the first time we've ever seen Andy with
a sucker?
Speaker 4 (38:41):
I think?
Speaker 3 (38:42):
So he walks over to the wall monitor and turns
up the sound less his voice comes out of the speaker.
Speaker 8 (38:48):
And finally, there's the story of Floyd Lattimore of Terry Howti,
Indiana in nineteen thirty nine grew a Ruda Bega that
looked exactly like Deano Roosevelt. In my four PM report
islexamine the root causes show.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
Let's quickly unpack Lessa's news story. Franklin D. Roosevelt was
the thirty second President of the United States who served
from nineteen thirty three until nineteen forty five. FDR is
the reason we have a two term limit on the presidency.
More interesting than the FDR rudebaga would be its location.
Speaker 8 (39:26):
Terry how To Indiana? Where is that again, Terry how
To Indiana?
Speaker 4 (39:30):
We're pretty sure less is going for Tara Hate Tara
Hate is situated along the Wabash River, within five miles
of the westernmost border of Indiana. The name is a
French phrase that means highland. It was named by the
fur traders and early explorers to the area. Ta Hate
is a city of just over sixty thousand as of
the twenty ten census. This is interesting. Remember how Cincinnati
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is called the Queen's City. Being declared a queen city
must have been a big deal at one time. Tara
Halt's nickname is Queen City of the Wabash.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
And home of the FDR Rudebega. It's on one of
those brown signs as you go into town and unhappy,
Andy turns the volume down on the monitor. Then he
walks over to Less's desk. He roughly picks up the
Rudebega and goes to the studio hallway door. Still amazed
at the mileage are getting out of this prop? Andy
stands holding the Rude beggas staring at the door. He's
waiting for Les to come through. We got about a
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three second wait before the door opens. Less enters the bullpen.
He's still holding his news report in his hand when
he comes face to face with an unhappy Andy. Udebega
Less says hello and goes around Andy headed for his desk.
Andy follows him.
Speaker 12 (40:42):
I thought we hadgreed not to mention vegetables on your
newscast last until after he did the hospital store.
Speaker 4 (40:46):
Less opens the door to his office and goes in.
He begins to respond, but Andy doesn't let him get
a word in.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Listen, I told you this was important a mother, carls.
That makes it important to me last year.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
Andy has followed Less into his office. Now we've seen
it Andy's temper before, and he is pretty imposing here.
He has Less backed against the wall of the news office.
Speaker 12 (41:07):
So you will not mention Rude Bega's on this station
until app you've done the other story.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Got it?
Speaker 8 (41:12):
But I promise my fans that at four o'clock I'll
all right.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Hospital at too. Rudebega's at four deal.
Speaker 4 (41:17):
Less looks down as if he needs to think about this.
Andy once again pulls out one of the biggest Less carrots.
Speaker 8 (41:23):
He has.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
My set of walls sure would look good in him, Liss.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
Either walls or a helicopter will always get Nessmond's attention.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Less looks at Andy for quite a while, sizing him up.
Then feel Andy nods his head and turns to go
forgetting he's carrying the rudebagga. Andy Less motions to the
rude Bagga. Andy hands it over and then leaves the bullpen.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
Don't take less as rudebiul oh.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Leave Less's rudebega. Less sits at his desk with a
concerned look on his face. He slams the paper he's
holding down at his desk and he rolls his chair back.
That's when he notices Bailey's notes sitting by the typewriter.
He scans the paper and the typewriter, then looks at
it more closely. We see him start to grin and
impish little grin. That's when we get a positively fiendishoo.
Speaker 4 (42:13):
We transition to the studio hallway as Andy is coming
through the door. As we get a nice wide shot
of the entire hallway. Hey, it looks like we need
to do a quick hallway poster watch. Starting from the left,
we see a lot of things we've already discussed. Craft
work and acdc's for those about to rock are on
the angled wall to the far left. The commodores are
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still get it, still still above the doorway. The oversized
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Steve Martin Brothers poster through the door. The Ringo cops
stand up continues to ask us to stop and smell
the roses. We've got double red rocker. This week we
saw Sammy's standing Hampton poster in the studio, and here's
another one out here in the hallway. Shalamar is also
a repeat. The green square to the right under Sammy
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seems to be the only new thing in the hallway.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
The green square is a promo for a new album
from The Whispers called Love Is Where You Find It.
We've met this R and B and soul group out
of Los Angeles in the past. This is a promo
for their eleventh studio album. It hits number one on
the Billboard Top Soul Album's chart, and it peaks at
number thirty five on the Top two hundred album chart.
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The cuts in the Raw, the title track, and Emergency
were all released as singles. Indeed, Love Is Where You
Find It will be certified as the whispers third Gold record.
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In November of nineteen eighty two, Andy.
Speaker 4 (44:11):
Comes around the corner into the hallway. He's walking slowly
listening to less Read Bailey's report about the children's medical clinic.
Speaker 8 (44:19):
My tour of the wards was something I'll not soon forget.
Everywhere I looked were young faces filled with promise that
will not be realized, dreams that will never come true.
Speaker 4 (44:34):
Andy takes a seat on the window sill outside the studio.
He watches Less through the studio window as he finishes
up his report.
Speaker 8 (44:42):
But the event that summed up the experience for this
reporter came as I was about to leave. I felt
a tug on my skirt.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
So as we suspected, Less has stolen Bailey's story without
changing a word of it, or for that matter, even
pre reading it.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
At my shirt.
Speaker 8 (45:07):
And look down into the face of a little boy
named Bobby. He's ten years old and unable to speak.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
And this comes down the hallway with a muggy coffee.
He wordlessly looks at Andy. Then he looks through the
studio window at Lass.
Speaker 8 (45:23):
But he reached up and he handed me a picture
he had drawn, a crude rendering of a flower.
Speaker 3 (45:31):
This is a well written story, and it's becoming very moving.
Speaker 4 (45:35):
I'm surprised that they believed Les wrote this. It doesn't
sound like.
Speaker 3 (45:39):
Something his capabilities, But since they've never heard him do
a story about other human beings before maybe he rose
to the occasion.
Speaker 4 (45:48):
We cut to the lobby where Bailey and Jennifer are
just returning from lunch. Bailey is telling Jennifer lunch was sensational.
Speaker 3 (45:56):
Lithuania and just in case you were looking for a
good Lithuanian luncheon Cincinnati, check out Laslow's Iron Skillet on
Ohio Pike or the Mecklenburg Gardens restaurant on University.
Speaker 4 (46:09):
Less's voice is coming over the lobby monitor. Jennifer asks
Bailey to please turn down the volume. Jennifer goes through
the door leading to the bullpen. Bailey reaches for the
volume knob when she suddenly recognizes the words Lessa's saying.
Speaker 8 (46:23):
Or in this primitive drawing, Bobby had managed to convey
a sense of the true beauty that dwells within his soul.
Speaker 3 (46:31):
Jennifer comes back into the lobby and goes to her desk.
Bailey looks in Jennifer's direction, Oh my god.
Speaker 8 (46:38):
Speaking as someone who someday hopes to bear children.
Speaker 3 (46:45):
Unless Pause is realizing the mistake he's made. In the
studio hallway, Venus gives Andy a confused look. Less it
been sounding coherent, but now he's back to weird bear.
Speaker 8 (46:55):
Children on my shoulders.
Speaker 5 (46:58):
Men do that?
Speaker 8 (46:59):
You know? I would like to say that I'll never
forget little Bobby and I'll cherish his flower always. This
is less nessman reporting.
Speaker 4 (47:16):
Out in the lobby. Bailey has told Jennifer the truth
about Less's report.
Speaker 6 (47:20):
You mean less stole your story.
Speaker 4 (47:23):
Bailey says, yes, word for word. Jennifer slaps her desk
and stands.
Speaker 6 (47:28):
Well, I'm going right back there right now and tell
him exactly what I think of that.
Speaker 4 (47:31):
Bailey stops Jennifer. Jennifer tells Bailey she's right. Bailey ought
to be the one to tell him.
Speaker 7 (47:37):
I'm not going to tell him, and Jennifer, I wish
you wouldn't say anything.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
Jennifer looks at Bailey like she might be missing something.
Speaker 6 (47:44):
Bailey, you have to stand up for what's yours.
Speaker 3 (47:47):
Jennifer stares at Bailey, Brown's furrowed, not sure she heard
this correctly. What Bailey tells Jennifer she made it up.
Speaker 14 (47:54):
There's no picture, no flower, and no.
Speaker 4 (47:58):
Bobby.
Speaker 9 (47:59):
Right.
Speaker 3 (48:00):
Jennifer takes Bailey's hands in hers.
Speaker 6 (48:02):
Oh, Bailey, we could lose our license over this.
Speaker 3 (48:05):
Screen fades to black as we go to commercial.
Speaker 4 (48:08):
Now, whoa hold on a minute. When Jennifer said the
station could lose their license over this falsified story, it
made us stop and say, huh. It didn't sound right,
or at least it sounded like a huge overreaction. If
radio stations lost their license every time they put something
inaccurate on the air, we wouldn't have a lot of
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radio stations left. We went to the source, the FCC
Radio Station rule Book, to check this out.
Speaker 3 (48:37):
It turns out there is a regulation regarding hoaxes. It's
in that same section of the federal regulations where we
found the station ID, paragraphs seven to three point one
two one seven. The rule says, if you put something
on the air that's intentionally misleading and it causes an
immediate panic or it diverts first responders, then yes, you
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could get in as the radio station causing the panic.
But even then you wouldn't lose your license. The most
you'd be on the hook for would be some pretty
stiff fines.
Speaker 4 (49:08):
The regulation was created as a response to the national
panic caused by Orson Wells nineteen thirty eight Halloween broadcast
of War of the Worlds. If Wells had done something
like that. Under the new rule, even he wouldn't lose
his license, but he would have to cough up some
serious bucks.
Speaker 3 (49:28):
This is not to say that you can make up
whatever you want and call it news, but there is
a process. A station regularly broadcasting misinformation might receive complaints
to the FCC. Enough complaints would trigger an investigation. If
the FCC found a pattern of misinformation, especially when it
results in something like donations or business transactions, then the
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misinformation would be investigated.
Speaker 4 (49:54):
We come back to mister Carlson's office. Mister Carlson is
on the phone and Andy is sitting on the couch.
Speaker 5 (50:01):
He did well, I mean, I know he did. I
know all about that. Matter of fact, I was kind
of behind the whole thing myself. You do, Oh sure,
anything you want?
Speaker 1 (50:15):
Hello?
Speaker 8 (50:20):
Bye? Ma.
Speaker 4 (50:22):
Mister Carlson hangs up the phone. He turns to Andy.
Speaker 1 (50:26):
She wants me to give Less array.
Speaker 3 (50:27):
The door opens. Ana Less walks into mister Carlson's office.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
I just got off the phone with several contractors.
Speaker 8 (50:33):
Here are three competitive bids.
Speaker 3 (50:34):
Let's toss you some papers on Carlson's desk. Art looks
at Less confused for what walls.
Speaker 1 (50:41):
Of course, walls.
Speaker 3 (50:44):
Let's tell him. Andy promised walls in exchange for the
hospital story. Art leans back in his chair.
Speaker 5 (50:49):
Look, I don't know about walls last, but I do
know that you're going to be earning an extra twenty
five dollars a week effective right now.
Speaker 3 (50:56):
Okay, this is a prey significant rays, but Less doesn't
let on. He turns and leaves the office.
Speaker 4 (51:05):
Mister Carlson turns to Andy.
Speaker 5 (51:07):
You know, I think walls for him would be a
good idea big padded ones about that thing.
Speaker 4 (51:12):
Mister Carlson holds his hands up. Palm's facing each other
about ten inches apart. Andy laughs. The door to the
office opens and Jennifer comes in.
Speaker 6 (51:22):
The Cincinnati Inquirer just called.
Speaker 15 (51:24):
They want to run bait our hospital story in tomorrow
morning's feature section.
Speaker 4 (51:29):
Andy and mister Carlson jump to their feet for batim.
Speaker 6 (51:33):
I'll accept the part about less bearing children.
Speaker 3 (51:37):
Art and Andy are thrilled.
Speaker 5 (51:39):
Hot dog, we're finally gonna get this thing on the
map in this town.
Speaker 3 (51:41):
Andy asks Jennifer if she's told Less yet.
Speaker 6 (51:44):
She tells him no, No, I thought i'd better tell
you first.
Speaker 3 (51:47):
Jennifer's standing there wringing her hands, Andy tells Art this
may be the public service campaign they need to tie
the station into.
Speaker 1 (51:56):
This could be very, very.
Speaker 6 (51:57):
Big or not.
Speaker 4 (51:59):
Andy looks at you, Enifer, and asks why not?
Speaker 6 (52:01):
Well, we might just be exploiting that little boy.
Speaker 4 (52:04):
Andy and mister Carlson tell her, oh, no, the best
thing that ever happened to me, and they begin making plans.
Speaker 5 (52:11):
We get him up here, and then it takes some
pictures of it right underneath the calliners. Heck, we've probably
can take them out to lunch?
Speaker 3 (52:16):
Who are treaty to even take him to lunch? Jennifer
can't stand it. She's about to burst. I have something
to tell you, arn't and Andy turned to look at her.
Speaker 15 (52:25):
However, I promised that I wouldn't, so I guess I shouldn't,
even though I should.
Speaker 3 (52:32):
Jennifer walks out of the office when Andy asks Carlson.
Speaker 1 (52:35):
Did you understand that perfectly?
Speaker 3 (52:39):
And he's shaking his head.
Speaker 1 (52:40):
What's just about less having babies?
Speaker 4 (52:44):
This little twist about printing the story illustrates something unique
about the period. At this time, print was still considered
the only reliable news media. Print was where real news
was disseminated. It was well known at the time, many
local news broadcasts across the country would use the newspaper
as a source for their reporting. Newspapers had bigger news budgets,
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a bigger reporting staff, and more capability when it came
to gathering news. Radio stations couldn't put as many people
on the streets, so they relied on the newspaper to
fill in.
Speaker 3 (53:18):
Here where a newspaper has seemingly been scooped by a
radio station, the newspaper's offering to give the story credibility.
They're saying, without really saying it, your story will get
wider distribution and be believed by more people if we
print it in the newspaper. Now, forty years later, as
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traditional print is almost nonexistent and anyone with a YouTube
channel can claim to be reporting the news, we still
tend to give more credibility to print outlets. Something reported
by the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal
carries more weight than reports from a radio, TV or
cable news outlet.
Speaker 4 (53:58):
Back in the bullpen, Less than Bailey are arguing. As
they come through the door. Bailey follows Less over to
his desk.
Speaker 6 (54:05):
Gotten thing to do?
Speaker 8 (54:06):
Less?
Speaker 6 (54:06):
That was my story.
Speaker 14 (54:07):
I never said you could do it on the air.
Speaker 7 (54:09):
Yes, you did, if it was good enough, Remember well
it needed work, hogwash.
Speaker 14 (54:14):
You didn't change a calma, mister.
Speaker 4 (54:16):
Carlson and Andy come running into the bullpen and they
head right over to Less.
Speaker 1 (54:20):
If we got some good news for you.
Speaker 2 (54:22):
Your story about little Bobby is going to appear in
tomorrow's Cincinnati inquir and.
Speaker 8 (54:26):
It's going to read buy less Ness. But news director,
do you care if your radio?
Speaker 4 (54:31):
Andy is clapping, a huge smile on his face.
Speaker 3 (54:35):
Andy turns to Bailey. Bailey is moving towards her desk
as she says, congratulations, less plus you smile fades watching
Bailey walk away.
Speaker 8 (54:45):
You know, Bailey helped me with some of the basic research.
Perhaps I should share the byeline with her.
Speaker 3 (54:50):
Andy tells less that's very nice of him. Bailey tells
them all it's okay. She claims she didn't do all
that much.
Speaker 1 (54:56):
Of course you did.
Speaker 14 (54:57):
No, I didn't did, didn't did?
Speaker 3 (55:00):
He tells him to play nice. Carlson is so excited.
Speaker 1 (55:04):
Look, I got to call mom back.
Speaker 5 (55:06):
Learnt know what's happening here?
Speaker 3 (55:07):
Oh boy, Art claps his hands and runs out of
the bullpen.
Speaker 4 (55:11):
Andy looks at Bailey and tells her if she did
have something to do with this, she should take part
of the credit. Bailey stands and looks at Andy.
Speaker 8 (55:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (55:20):
Bailey quickly leaves the bullpen through the studio hallway door.
Andy looks at Less and asks what's wrong with her?
Speaker 1 (55:27):
Perhaps she's not ready for the limelight.
Speaker 4 (55:29):
Andy offers to talk with her about it.
Speaker 8 (55:31):
Oh no, no, no, that's all right. I'm the news director.
I know how to handle my reporter.
Speaker 4 (55:35):
Less heads after Bailey. Andy pat's Less on the back
and tells him he did a super job.
Speaker 1 (55:40):
Believe me, Andy, it was nothing.
Speaker 4 (55:41):
Less leaves the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (55:43):
I'm a little shocked at how completely Less is really
just stealing that story.
Speaker 8 (55:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (55:49):
I kind of was like, oh, come on, not at
any point saying oh it's not mine or I didn't
write it, or.
Speaker 4 (55:54):
I didn't go there willing to take full credit.
Speaker 3 (55:57):
Yeah, full like that hole. She's not ready for the limelight.
Less wants the limelight. Lets finds Bailey in the studio hallway,
sitting in the windows sill. Less slowly walks up to
Bailey and has a seat beside her.
Speaker 8 (56:07):
Bailey, you shouldn't have done it, Less, it's just the
Travis had me up against the wall, and someone mentions walls.
Speaker 1 (56:14):
I guess I go a little crazy.
Speaker 14 (56:17):
I mean, you really shouldn't have done it.
Speaker 8 (56:19):
Less, I've never done it before, and I promise I'll
never do it again.
Speaker 1 (56:24):
But now the newspaper's involved.
Speaker 8 (56:27):
You know how long I've been trying to get something
into print?
Speaker 3 (56:29):
Because getting something in print means it's real news.
Speaker 4 (56:33):
Bailey tells Less he can't let them run the story.
Less promises he'll tell Andy the truth after the story runs.
Speaker 14 (56:41):
But you don't know the truth.
Speaker 6 (56:42):
Do you want to hear it?
Speaker 8 (56:43):
No? What I really want is Bobby's flower picture.
Speaker 4 (56:46):
Less tells Bailey it would make a great companion piece
for the article. Bailey stands and begins to pace around.
She tells Less he can't have it.
Speaker 3 (56:56):
Let's ask Bailey what she wants. He tells her the
sky's the limit. Bailey tells Less she doesn't want anything.
Speaker 8 (57:03):
I'll give you ten dollars.
Speaker 3 (57:06):
Okay, So Less his sky not quite as high as
you might imagine.
Speaker 6 (57:11):
Les thirteen fifty ls. The story is a lie.
Speaker 3 (57:16):
Less doesn't believe it. He does his snake laughs.
Speaker 8 (57:22):
Kidding.
Speaker 3 (57:23):
Bailey shakes her head.
Speaker 7 (57:24):
No, this is kidding.
Speaker 3 (57:25):
Bailey continues shaking her head. No, now Less has always
struggled with joking around.
Speaker 7 (57:31):
Not at all.
Speaker 1 (57:32):
I never know when you people are trying to kid me.
Speaker 3 (57:35):
Bailey's looking at him very seriously.
Speaker 1 (57:38):
This isn't kidding.
Speaker 3 (57:39):
Bailey continues shaking her head until the newsbeacon finally understands, oh.
Speaker 4 (57:45):
My, we cut to mister Carlson's office. Mister Carlson is
in his chair and Andy's on his desk because eighty
six episodes in and Andy still hasn't figured out furniture.
Both of them are holding their heads in their hands.
Oh Less is standing with his arm propped on the
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back of Carlson's chair. Bailey is on the couch.
Speaker 7 (58:09):
Well, I was going to rewrite it, I think, do
you think? Well, I'm pretty sure I would have heard
if he hadn't stolen it.
Speaker 4 (58:17):
Bailey glares it. Less Less goes into attorney mode.
Speaker 1 (58:21):
Objection, one does not steal what is on one's desk.
Speaker 4 (58:26):
Okay, sure it was on his desk, but he didn't
write it, so he should not have read it.
Speaker 3 (58:31):
Less cross his arts office as he questions Bailey, his
palms together.
Speaker 8 (58:36):
Did you or did you not knowingly commit falsehoods to paper.
Speaker 7 (58:41):
I did.
Speaker 8 (58:42):
There, you have it, the journalistic integrity if my news
department has been come from it.
Speaker 12 (58:46):
Well, le's while we're on a subject of journalistic integrity,
I want you to go to your desk, get out
your dictionary, and look up the word plagiarism.
Speaker 3 (58:53):
All right, This doesn't even pause. He immediately right out
of the office. And I'm a little concerned about a
journalist who doesn't know the meaning of plagiarism. That's a
bit scary.
Speaker 4 (59:08):
Yeah, Bailey looks at Andy, and mister Carlson, that's.
Speaker 1 (59:11):
For you, young lady.
Speaker 5 (59:13):
Do you have any idea how serious this is?
Speaker 4 (59:17):
Mister Carlson turns to Andy and asks quietly, truthfully, it's
not all that serious. There's no law against writing fiction.
If she'd have put it on the air and claimed
it as fact, then it's more of a problem. Andy
looks at mister Carlson, Well, I think it.
Speaker 1 (59:35):
It can be straightened down, if you'll just to give
Bailey myself a few moments along, Just make it quick.
Speaker 4 (59:44):
Mister Carlson leans back in his chair, puts his hands
in the back of his head, and yawns. He's ready
to take a short nap. Andy taps mister Carlson on
his shoulder. Sure in here, mister Carlson stands, He shuffles
a little, and then he tells him he'll be right
outside if they need him. He leaves his office and
closes the door behind him.
Speaker 3 (01:00:03):
Andy asked Bailey, if she wasn't planning to use the story,
why did she write it that way?
Speaker 14 (01:00:09):
Because I didn't know any other way.
Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
Andy tells her there must have been a dozen other
ways to write it.
Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
Why didn't use a real kid?
Speaker 3 (01:00:16):
Bailey stands and walks over to Andy.
Speaker 7 (01:00:19):
I went down there expecting to see little kids with
high temperatures and casts on their arms, and I saw
a four year old burn victim. I saw a six
year old girl with leukemia. I saw a little boy
who was allergic to his own skin. Bailey, I couldn't
pick out just one, and I couldn't begin to describe
them all, so I just put them all into.
Speaker 4 (01:00:42):
Bobby.
Speaker 3 (01:00:43):
This monologue is one of the best things Jan Smithers
has ever done on the show. She's passionate and very believable.
Andy nods his head, saying he understands.
Speaker 14 (01:00:53):
The only thing I really made up was that stupid
flower picture.
Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
It was a nice touch, though, Bailey.
Speaker 4 (01:01:00):
Less is back. The door opens and Less walks in
with a dictionary open in his hand. He reads aloud
with authority.
Speaker 8 (01:01:07):
Plagiarism an act or instance of plagiarizing something plagiarized.
Speaker 4 (01:01:19):
Okay, that doesn't tell us a whole lot. Less snaps
the dictionary shut, walks out, and closes the door behind him.
Andy just sits and stares at the closed door.
Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
Some things you just can't believe are happening around you
for the benefit of Less. This might be what Andy
was wanting him to find. Plagiarism is the act of
taking someone else's work or ideas and attempting to pass
them off as your own.
Speaker 4 (01:01:43):
Bailey turns back without a comment about Less.
Speaker 14 (01:01:46):
So do what my two weeks notice?
Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
Or do I leave now? Wow?
Speaker 4 (01:01:49):
The station losing its license, people losing their jobs. They're
attaching a lot of weight to a single news story
read once on the air. Andy stands and asks, that's
what Bailey's talking about.
Speaker 14 (01:02:01):
Seems to me that something like this came up at
the Washington Post.
Speaker 4 (01:02:05):
Andy nods's head, saying, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
Woman made up a story about an eight year old junkie, right.
Speaker 14 (01:02:10):
And I believe the woman was fired for yes.
Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
If you remember, we told the story of Janet Cook
and her fictional eight year old heroin addict in the
episode The Consultant. Cook's lie was intentional, and she carried
it far beyond anything either Lesser Bailey is doing. She
created Jimmy, an eight year old African American boy in Washington,
d C. Who she claimed was addicted to heroin. She
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wrote beautifully in her story Jimmy's World, about the needle
marks freckling his young brown arms. It was great writing,
but entirely fiction.
Speaker 4 (01:02:47):
Cook's story was not only printed, but it also caused
a major stir in the community. Washington, d C. Mayor
at the time, Mary and Barry, was outraged to think
something like this could be happening in his town. Sure
they had a heroin problem in the metro area, but
an eight year old it was too horrible to even consider.
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Barry assigned the entire police force to find Jimmy. They,
of course could not. As a matter of fact, they
didn't find any juvenile heroin addicts of any kind anywhere
in Washington.
Speaker 3 (01:03:27):
Even after the fureror had caused, Cook continued to stand
by the story as fact. Her managing editor, famed reporter
Bob Woodward, backed up her claims. Ben Bradley, the Post
executive editor, also supported his reporter. The story was submitted
to the Pulitzer Prize committee and won. Cook was awarded
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the Pulletzer for feature writing in April of nineteen eighty one.
The hooplas surrounding the Pulitzer is what eventually unmasked.
Speaker 4 (01:03:59):
Janet also been lying about her credentials. Past employers and
educational institutions who saw the Pulleitzer reports noted Janet had
lied about her degrees and awards. When confronted with these lies,
she also admitted to faking the Jimmy story. She returned
the Pulletzer, the first person in history to have done so.
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Village Voice reporter Teresa Carpenter, who lost to Cook, was
then awarded the prize. Bradley publicly apologized to the city
and the world. Janet was, of course, fired by the
Washington Post.
Speaker 3 (01:04:38):
Bailey tells Andy the Post had to fire their liar. Well, yeah,
Cook completely fabricated her story, won major awards, and continuously
lied about it for months. Bailey, who actually created a
composite of what she saw and then came clean about it.
Immediately thinks she's in the same boat. Les said it
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journalistic integrity. You don't understand by Andy's trying to calm
her down. He tells her to sit. Bailey sits on
the couch furniture reverse. Andy sits on the arm next
to her. Andy tells her they are not the Washington Post.
Speaker 12 (01:05:15):
So there's Washington Post integrity, there's WKRP integrity.
Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
Andy tells her they have their own brand of this
stuff around here, which brings us to the line of
the episode.
Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
This is the station that has employed Herb Tarley for
the last sixteen years. Don't talk to me about integraty.
Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
Yes, if you've got Herb on staff, you can't be
talking much about integrity.
Speaker 4 (01:05:40):
Bailey tells Andy she wants their news to have real
weight to it.
Speaker 8 (01:05:44):
So so do I.
Speaker 3 (01:05:45):
But we have Captain rud of beget here for a
news director.
Speaker 1 (01:05:50):
Bailey, but he screwed up around here. That makes it normal.
Speaker 4 (01:05:54):
Andy puts his arm around Bailey and gives her a pet.
Bailey lets out a big sigh.
Speaker 14 (01:06:00):
So what do we do about the license?
Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
We keep her mouth shut and we never mention it again.
Speaker 4 (01:06:06):
They throw this license thing around like somebody from the
FCC could stop by tomorrow and shut them down. The
process of a station losing their license takes months. There
would first need to be thousands of complaints from listeners
to get the process in motion. Those would be followed
by hearings, a probationary period finds, and ultimately, after all
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of that, they probably wouldn't actually lose their license. Bailey
asks Andy about the newspaper. He tells her he'll take
care of it.
Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
Andy assures her it's okay. Bailey begins to leave and
Andy says her name.
Speaker 1 (01:06:43):
She turns, you ever to do that again? To be
the best looking reporter on the unemployment line.
Speaker 3 (01:06:48):
Bailey nods right. She opens the door to leave, but
turns back. She considers something in Andy's comment best looky.
Andy smiles at her, and she walks out.
Speaker 4 (01:07:00):
Into the lobby. Jennifer's at her desk reading the newspaper.
Andy is leaning over her shoulder reading Johnny enters the
lobby and heads to the coffee maker.
Speaker 1 (01:07:09):
Promise, what did you do to nestamun.
Speaker 4 (01:07:11):
Andy says nothing and asks why we came.
Speaker 1 (01:07:14):
In this morning? He said he was through with vegetable
stories forever. Oh fantastic.
Speaker 4 (01:07:19):
Johnny turns and gives Andy a serious look.
Speaker 1 (01:07:22):
Blood of the rude Begga's on your hands.
Speaker 3 (01:07:24):
Put the rude begga throughout the entire episode. I love
how they've carried it through.
Speaker 4 (01:07:32):
Well did you see it?
Speaker 15 (01:07:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:07:34):
It is pretty serious.
Speaker 4 (01:07:35):
It was worth keeping in the episode.
Speaker 5 (01:07:37):
I think.
Speaker 3 (01:07:37):
Bailey comes into the lobby and Jennifer holds up the paper,
excited to show Bailey.
Speaker 6 (01:07:42):
Oh, Bailey, did you see it? See what you're byline?
Speaker 3 (01:07:45):
Bayley looks at Andy a little surprised. I thought you
said you took Keva, and he tells her he did.
He points to the paper.
Speaker 1 (01:07:51):
I wrote that little love prologue right there.
Speaker 3 (01:07:54):
Bailey puts on her glasses and reads aloud.
Speaker 7 (01:07:56):
The following article by WKRP reporter Bai Quarters describes her
thoughts and feelings after touring North Side Children's Clinic. The
character of Bobby is actually a composite of all the
children's quarters met that day, and they still wonder run yep.
Speaker 3 (01:08:12):
These days, due to hippa and underage privacy laws, you'd
have to create a fake name or a composite to
even attempt a story like this, we hear aloud fight.
Speaker 4 (01:08:24):
And see Edna from the North Side Children's Clinic come
into the lobby. She's carrying a large flat package wrapped
in brown paper. Bailey introduces her. Edna turns to Bailey.
Speaker 6 (01:08:36):
Well, I just wanted to thank you for the story.
Speaker 13 (01:08:38):
We loved it.
Speaker 4 (01:08:38):
Bailey lowers her head and apologizes for the part about
the flower.
Speaker 13 (01:08:43):
Sorry, that flower picture was worth six thousand contributions this.
Speaker 4 (01:08:48):
Morning, So Edna's cool with bending the rules a little bit.
Bailey looks shocked, saying she didn't even really get a picture.
Speaker 6 (01:08:55):
No, you got about eighty seven of them right here.
Speaker 4 (01:08:58):
Edna hands the thick flat pack over to Bailey.
Speaker 3 (01:09:01):
Man, Edna's done a one eighty henji yeah, and it
tells Bailey she taped the show when it ran, then
she played it back for the kids, so they wanted
to do these for you. Bailey leads ed over to
some of the lobby chairs and they both have a seat.
Speaker 14 (01:09:13):
Oh, they also sent some.
Speaker 6 (01:09:16):
For the funny man who read your story.
Speaker 3 (01:09:21):
Ed It pulls out a smaller package and Bailey tells her, yeah,
that would be less even lass.
Speaker 1 (01:09:26):
Does anyone have any idea how he's taking the.
Speaker 3 (01:09:27):
Article, smiling with a dreamy look in her eyes. Jennifer says,
very suicidal.
Speaker 1 (01:09:34):
Not really.
Speaker 10 (01:09:36):
When he came in the booth a few minutes ago,
he said we should watch for his byline tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (01:09:40):
Oh, this can't be good. A concerned looking Andy moves
to turn the volume up on the wall monitor. We
hear Less's voice.
Speaker 8 (01:09:48):
It's difficult to describe the feelings this reporter had as
he walked through the pins. But I felt a tug
on my pant leg. I look down into the face
of Harold, a little razorback hog blind since first.
Speaker 4 (01:10:10):
Johnny and Jennifer are laughing as Andy runs quickly out
of the lobby. We hear Andy showing as he runs
through the door.
Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
Such a fun episode, and the station gets to keep
its license and everybody's happy.
Speaker 4 (01:10:23):
The next time we go to the store, I want
to see if I can find a rutabaga.
Speaker 3 (01:10:27):
We got to check into those ruta bagas, see how
big those dudes are. All right, So what is up
for next week? Donna?
Speaker 4 (01:10:33):
We will be discussing the creation of Venus. While Andy
and Venus are playing jokes on each other at the
radio station, Mama Carlson visits and then quizzes them. Venus
lets it slip. He used to be a teacher. Andy
and Venus tell the story of how Venus went from
school teacher to DJ.
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Speaker 1 (01:12:09):
I almost got them babies Booker,
Hi, everybody, This is very sandy, and thank you very
much for listening to the wuk RP Cast.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
So just sit right down, relax, open your ears real wide,
and say.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Weather today in the greater Cincinnati area. Are you awake?
Are you awake now?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could
not explain his nudity.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Same what dear God, She's gonna kill us all.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Welcome to the WKRP Cast. My name is Alan Stairs.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
And I'm Donna Stair. This is the fourth and final
season of our week by week, episode by episode.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Rewatch join us for this final season as we're getting
into the music, the.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Trivia, and the fun of WKRP.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
So, fellow babies, stay tuned and stay cool. It's time
for the WKRP Cast.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I'm a WKRP Simpson.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
No, Welcome back to another WKRP cast this week. I
have no idea who to believe? What is our episode? Donna?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
We are going to be talking about, dear liar. The
air date was March twenty fourth, nineteen eighty two. Written
by Steve Marshall, executive story consultant Lisa Leven, directed by
Frank Bonner. When Mama Carlson wants a story done about
a local children's hospital. Andy hands it to Less. Less
(01:24):
won't touch such a non ag reporting, so he hands
it to Bailey. Bailey writes a touching description of her
experience at the hospital, Too bad. It's a lie. Les
doesn't know it's a lie when he reads it as
his own on the air.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
This is the show's second week at nine pm on Wednesday,
and nobody cares. Tonight's episode, Dear Liar will only rank
number fifty five out of a total of sixty nine
shows for the week. Baker's Dozen, now following WKRP at
nine point thirty, drops to number sixty five for the week.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
The topic of this week's episode is truly ripped from
the headlines. We've mentioned the Washington Post scandal they allude
to in past podcast episodes. It was a huge story
in nineteen eighty one. We'll go over what happened again
once we get there.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
We're getting down to the wire, Fellow Babies. Only four
more episodes of the series to go. No one with
the show knows if they're canceled just yet. It hasn't
been officially announced. The ratings this spring have been abysmal,
so it wouldn't be a shock.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
The network seems intent on running off whatever audience might
be trying to tune in each week. Hugh Wilson said
he was exhausted. He was tired of fighting with the network,
tired of not being able to find an audience, just tired.
The laughs are still solid and the characters are still sharp,
(02:58):
but you can kind of tell the end is near.
You probably didn't see this one when it first aired.
Very few people did. Now is a great time to
get into the final episode, directed by Herb himself. Mister
Frank Bonner.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Surely we open up in this studio, and since we're
in this studio, it's time for a poster watchy, But wait,
what's this? Looking at all of our usual poster spots,
we don't have a single new poster this week. Starting
to the far left, we've got the door's red wedge
poster on the door in the production room. The tubes
are under the record library, and Bob Seeger is under
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the window.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Looking at the studio door. We've got both the Grover
Washington Junior and George carlm posters we saw last week.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
That's what Joe House is a place to keep your
stuff while you go out and get masta up.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Quarter Flash is over the Cincinnati map to the right
of the door, and Mary Anne Faithful is under quarter Flash.
So we've seen all of these posters. But what about
the album cover there in Johnny's hand. It's time for
a studio album cover.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Watch Woo the pink album cover Johnny's holding is for
do the Bird from novelty hit maker Didee Sharp Dedi,
whose real name is Dion LaRue, was a backing singer
at Cameo Records in nineteen sixty one. She was only
sixteen years old. In nineteen sixty two, Dede was tapped
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to sing lead on a novelty tune called Mash Potato Times.
It referenced the James Brown song and dance move. James
(04:55):
had released Mash Potatoes USA in nineteen fifty nine. The
song and accompanying dance move were staples at Brown's concerts.
Sharpe's single would go to number two in March of
nineteen sixty two and launch Dee Dee into the wildest
year of her young life.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Three months later, in June, she went top ten again
with Gravy for My Mashed Potatoes another novelty. Of course,
I'm a.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Mast I'm on again.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
You ride yet again?
Speaker 6 (05:35):
A ginniginniginni.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yes, record execs of the time were shameless. In October
of nineteen sixty two, Dee D would have the number
five hit Ride. Then in March of nineteen sixty three,
one year after the success of Mashed Potato Time, Dede
would release the album Johnny's Holding, featuring the number ten
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hit Do the Bird.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Day.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Although the record company would keep pumping out new d
D product throughout nineteen sixty three and sixty four, her
top ten run was over.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Can you imagine like being the hottest recording artist on
the planet for eleven months and then boom, You're gone.
As we fade up in the studio, Less is at
the mic and on the air. Johnny's sitting next to
Less on the console, reading the back of that Deedie
Sharp album.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
And so the delicate balance of the ecology is about
to be upset again, and that which we have always
taken for granted may no longer be I refer, of course,
to the lowly route.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Bega Less brings his left hand up from under the desk.
He is holding a large Route.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Bega and isn't it nice of him to have visuals
for a radio news report.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I also like that we have in the script here
that that's a large rout of Bega. I really don't know.
That might be a medium sized ruteb.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I'm not familiar with Rudebega's Rudebega sizes.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
It does look like a very large one.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
It's big, whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Johnny looks up at the mention of Rudebega and chuckles.
Speaker 9 (07:29):
And now a special look at this episode's bandage placement
for the five time Buckeye News Awk Award winner less Nessman.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
This is the less Nessman bandage report.
Speaker 9 (07:39):
Now here's Donna Staiir with her report about less ness.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Men back of left hand.
Speaker 9 (07:46):
This has been a look at the bandage placement boys
Silver Sow and Copper Cobb Award winning journalist less ness Man.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Now, those are actually like a few on the back
of his.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Head, a little round band aid, remember.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Those, Yeah, the little for a puncture one.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Yes, So he's got like three or four of them
on the back of his left hand. The little round
ones maybe bull teeth maybe.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Bull teeth puncturing the back of his hand Less continues.
Speaker 8 (08:12):
Experts predict that within this century the Route Baker will
disappear from the national diet. And why you ask why
consumer disinterest, hapathy and in some cases believe it are
not open contempt. No, how have we arrived at this
pretty past?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Tell us lest Johnny jumping in on Lessa's news story
seems to be flattering to Less. Johnny's getting him fired up.
Less becomes more and more excited as he continues, he's
really starting to preach us all this week.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
For my five part Gloves Off no Holsbard commentary, Routebager,
the Vanishing Vegetables.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Say a lawyer, brother, I believe.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
Helleluyah Johnny Fever Radio broadcast.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Less passes the mic over his head to Johnny.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Okay, I've said it before, but I'm gonna say it
again because we're almost running out of time for me
to say it. No radio station ever did this with
a microphone. The newsperson at least had their own mic.
They've probably got their own studio. Even tiny small market
stations had a newsroom. Oh well, I guess we've been
doing it this long on WKRP. We'll let it go, Amen.
Speaker 10 (09:21):
And thank you lester Nessman patron saint of the perpetually
Strange here on WKARP. Now that you got all us
vegetable worshippers whipped into a frenzy, let's take a little ride,
shall we.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Johnny begins playing Mustang Sally by Wilson Pickett. Les is
smiling as he makes notes on a chart hanging from
the bulletin board.
Speaker 10 (09:41):
This one goes out to a special little tomato that's
dear to the Doctor's heart Less.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Looks at Johnny and does his little snake last well.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Johnny goes into his Mustang Sally by Wilson Pickett. This
is the second cut from Picket that we've heard on
Johnny's show. He opened the episode Doctor Fever and Mister
Tide with Pickets hit Land of a Thousand Dances. This
one was a cover written and first recorded by a
guy named Mac Rice in nineteen sixty five. There is
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a cool story associated with it. Rice was visiting singer
Della Reese, who was thinking about buying a new Lincoln
Continental for her drummer Calvin Shields. It was his birthday.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Rice and other band members were giving Shields a hard
time about it. Shields told Rice he'd prefer a smaller car,
and if it was his choice, he'd take a Ford Mustang.
Rice asked a what the Mustang was brand new and
Rice had never heard of it. From that conversation, Rice
(10:43):
envisioned a woman with her new Mustang and all she
wanted to do was well, you know.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
Oh, you do it around.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Rice called an early version of the song Mustang Mama.
His friend Aretha Franklin suggested Sally for the main character,
probably because Rice had taken part of the chorus from
a children's game song called Little Sally Walker.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Guy's hanging with Della Reese. He's friends with Aretha Franklin.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
So Picket's version will go to number twenty three on
the US Hot one hundred. There are other versions of
the song, and Felix Cavaii of the Young Rascals says
the Young Rascals recorded both versions of Sally and Land
of a Thousand Dances before Picket, but Atlantic Records shelved
those and gave the songs to Picket. The twenty ten
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version of the Rolling Stone List of the five hundred
Greatest Songs of All Time, LISZT Pickett's recording of Mustang
Sally at number four forty one and man.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Do I love the stuff we find doing research for
this show, can we talk about rutebega's fella babies? Less
is not lying? We found a Washington Post article from
February of nineteen eighty five decrying the same thing, the
possible end of the rude bega. They claim it had
(12:17):
fallen out of culinary favor but was still around. Rude
begas are a hardy root vegetable also known as yellow
turnips or swedes. Because the word rudebega comes from a Swedish.
Speaker 11 (12:31):
Wordsin first d curni busdigg first, rude beegas most likely
aren't as popular as they once were because of their
strong flavor.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Rudebegas can still be found as part of the regional
cuisine in cold climate areas of the United States. Rude
begas are also very popular in Canada.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Shout out to our Canadian WKRP cast listeners, it's beaudy way.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Rude beggas are grown in every Canadian province except Saskatchewan.
We don't know what's wrong with Saskatchewan. They need to
get on the under stick here with the rudebeggas.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Need to get on there.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Canadians consume more than seventy thousand metric tons of rude
begas a year. Yeah goodness, and they export another thirty
thousand metric tons, primarily to the United States. So Canada
a huge thank you from Lesnsman and the w Kerp
cast for keeping the Rudebegga alive.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
And well, the door to the studio opens and Andy enters.
He's looking snazzy, wearing light brown pants and a matching jacket,
a plaid shirt with a darker brown knit v neck vest.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
And you know, we've noticed Andy hasn't been wearing his
very tight jeans and western shirts in quite a while.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
And you pointed out that even though he's not wearing
his tight jeans, the pants that he is wearing they're tight.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Pretty tight. And the coat that he has on in
this episode, it's got that.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Stitching to tack back has that Western motif. It goes
down into a point in the middle of its back.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Yeah. So he's in Santa Fe, right, He's still get
the Santa Fe any I think?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
So Andy tells Less he's supposed to clear these little
surprise documentaries with him first, so they wouldn't be surprised
Johnny's holding the Ruta Bega, as he tells Andy, Less
is really onto something this time.
Speaker 10 (14:32):
You know that they are clubbing baby rudebega's for their skins.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I don't want to hang around Johnny all the time.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
It would be scary to be inside his head, though,
wouldn't it?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Clubbing the poor baby Ruda Vegas. So Johnny tosses the
rude Bega to Less. They are getting more mileage out
of his one prop. Somebody ran down to a grocery
store and paid fifty cents for that thing. Les catches
it and tells Johnny this is serious, that's debatable.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Less.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Andy has his seat on the stool.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Less, your stories always seem to have kind of a
housewik with this barnyard aroma. Yeah, you never see to
do any people's stories.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Less Less turns to Andy and asks like what. Andy
shows a piece of paper to Less and tells him
like this. Less takes the paper.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
That's the number for the North Side Children's Clinic. They
got some sort of money crisis down there.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Well, so what Andy points at the paper and he
tells Less he wants him to do a story on that.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Oh, give me a break, Andy tells Less, This is
a chance to do something nice, look good during the
ratings period, and it will make a poor little old
lady very happy. Johnny, and let's give Andy a look.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Little old lady, this is a cut project of a
mother Carlson.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Less starts to protest, but Andy cuts him off.
Speaker 12 (15:58):
Less Sure, I know it's hard to believe she's more
interested in sick kids than ruda Bega's at his her station,
So let's make her happy.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Who knows, Maybe sure'll put some walls up for your office.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Andy has his hand on Lessa's shoulder, still holding his
rude bega. Les tells Andy he'll find a way to
work it in.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Andy makes one more comment before leaving the studio.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
John play it hits you.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Kind of gets a feeling he's just given up on that,
hasn't he. He just says it just because he just
has to. Johnny turns to less and starts to take
the rude Bega from him. You know, I like to
eat those things raw with a little Salt's starts hitting
Johnny over the head with the green levian of the
rude Bega. As Less as whacking Johnny in the head.
We head into our theme ukrg Senson.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
We come back from commercial in the bullpen, where Herb
has his briefcase open on his desk. He's checking off
a list as he packs. Venus enters from the studio hallway.
Herb asks Venus to come over and help him out.
Venus wants to know with what my convention kit checklist here?
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Just read that off.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Herb gives Venus a paper. Venus begins reading joy.
Speaker 10 (17:11):
Buzzer, righty leather tie that lights up?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Got you tie the lights up?
Speaker 4 (17:19):
It's very serious packing. Herb holds up a bow tie
to his neck and pushes a button. The tie as advertised,
lights up.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Duck call, duck call.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Herb pulls out a little red horn and blows it
and as we're watching her pack.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
It's time Herb darlik vation alert.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
This doesn't look like a coat that we've seen before.
It has a tight checked pattern that will make you
dizzy if you look at it too long. The colors
blend from yellow to blue to brown when he moves.
The lapels are some of the whitest we've seen on
one of Herb's coats. Those things almost shoulder to shoulder.
He's put an equally busy shirt under this active jacket.
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It's a multi colored crosshatch pattern over white. The tie
is thankfully a solid brown, and the pants are blue.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
The tie is like a place to look where you
don't get nauseous. It's a safe spot in the middle of.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
His You feel yourself about ready to fall over.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Look at the tie.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Whoopy cushion cushion, A whoopy cushion?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Oh, Herban Venus begin looking around for the whoopee cushion.
Venus tells Herbie still has time to pick one up
on the way to the bus station, because you can
just stop in any gas station and grab one of those.
Venus gets up to leave.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Okay, I'll tell Jennifer to call you a cab.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
This isn't what Herb in mind. Venus walks out the
glass doors.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
I love that response. Herb turns back to the desk
and closes his briefcase. When we hear a loud the
whoopee cushion has been located.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Where you are you in the level.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
You knew we were either going to talk about joy
buzzers or whoopee cushions, right, Well, we chose the whoopee cushions.
And there's a great story. The first recorded use of
a whoopy cushion goes to fourteen year old Roman emperor
Marcus Aurelius Antonius. At dinner parties in about the year
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two hundred and eighteen CE, Marcus would slip animal bladders
filled with air under the seat cushions of his guests.
Where it is Marcus was a spoiled brat, known to
be pretty unlikable all the way around, not surprising he was.
He was assassinated at age eighteen. I don't know why.
(19:54):
That's rid us.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
We're brutal back then.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
The whoopee cushion would not be revived for seventeen hundred years,
and it's said that he was emperor for them, and
that's what he's remembered for.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
They said he was really just a really lousy guy.
So I don't feel terrible about it.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Somebody wrote about this and it made it made it
in history.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Some historian did this as his doctoral thesis, the whoopee
cushion in Ancient Rome. But I love the next part
even better. In nineteen thirty, it was a Canadian company
that reinvented the emperor's air bag between rudegas and whoopee cushions.
This is the all Canada show Today. Employees of the J. E. M.
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Rubber Company of Toronto were goofing around with scraps of rubber.
They developed an inflatable bag that would emit an unmistakable
fart sound when deflated. Now, fart gags were all read
commercially available, but the J. E. M. Rubber bag delivered
a loud, realistic blast. No other fart sound device even
(21:11):
came close for total authenticity.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
I'm just thinking being a part of the quality control
team member for that. Listen to this one.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
How loud?
Speaker 4 (21:24):
That's not realistic? How about this?
Speaker 13 (21:27):
That's it?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
You can't hear that across the room. We need a
louder one.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
The owner of j EM really thought they had something.
In nineteen thirty, he approached the man known as the
father of novelty pranks. His name was Soren Sorenson Adams,
better known as SS. He was the owner of S. S.
Adams Company. SS was the man who had invented more
than six hundred and fifty classic gags, including the joy Buzzer,
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sneezing powder, the stink bomb, the dribble glass, and the
classic can of nuts filled with snakes. Can you imagine
being related to this guy?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
You would not want SS coming over for family gatherings.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
It's like, let's he got to clisss.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Look out, what is he bringing this year?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
When SS was presented with the JEM fart bag, he
said pass. He thought it was too lude and vulgar
to be a hit.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
And he did not say pass gas, He just said ass.
J EM would not give up. They were producing quality
gas blasts and they were sure they had a hit
on their hands. They decided to mass produce on their own.
It didn't take long for JEM to catch the attention
of SS's biggest competitor, Johnson Smith and Company. Johnson Smith
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added Jem's product to their catalog under names like Poo
Poo cushion and Boo Boop a doop. And I transcribed
that one from the article It's Boop boop a doop.
The term whoopee cushion with the ee at the end
of it first emerged in about nineteen thirty two. The
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name may have been inspired by the Eddie Cantors song
making Whoopee. It was spelled the same way another season.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
Another reason for making whoopee.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
The original whoopee cushions sold for twenty five cents by
mail order. A deluxe model, set to be quote superior
in every way, went for a dollar twenty five.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Well, I want the superior far it sounds how.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Could you go? How could you go with the regular
when you knew a deluxe existed.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
The original jem whoopies stopped production around the time of
World War II. The factory sold to Dayton Rubber in
nineteen forty four. Modern day Whoopee cushions are basically the
same design, but made over. If you're in the market
for a high tech Whoopie device, don't miss the Iphart app,
(24:07):
available for your iPhone in the app Store.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Now, before we pass on this topic, we've got one
other Whoopie tidbit. Comedian Karen Elaine Johnson had the rep
for passing gas backstage before performance. It was due to
her awful nerves. It happens so often her comedian friends
started calling her Whoopie. She loved the name, rebranded herself
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Whoopy with an eye. Oh, and she also added Goldberg because,
as she said, it sounded classy. That's where Whoopie got
her name. All of the sound effects in the preceding
story were made using an actual whoopy cushion.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Less enters the bullpen from the studio hallway door. He's
still holding his routebaga reservoir. Herb pulls out his hand les,
grabs it, and we hear less yelps. Bailey enters through
the glass doors as Herb is laughing loudly.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Tell you what I'll be.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
Thinking of you four working stiffs while I'm whooping it
up an acron Okay.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Herb puts his hand on Bailey's back and we hear another.
Bailey jumps and smiles as Herb walks out.
Speaker 14 (25:17):
I think whooping is against the law on Act.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Now, just how convenient is it for Herb to have
a convention this week? It leaves Frank Bonner free to
direct the episode. Funny how that worked out.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Can you imagine being at this convention? Hundreds of Herbs?
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Who's Herb? Everybody's sitting around, and Herb's probably at a
table all by himself.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Do you think or do you think they're just all
like Herb?
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Maybe? Well, that's a scary thought.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Herb might be their king. You don't know, he may
be like revered among the group he's convention. Maybe maybe
less walks by Bailey heading to his desk. He doesn't
even acknowledge the whooping comment, which was pretty funny.
Speaker 14 (25:58):
That was a joke.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
He sits at his desk, not saying anything. Bailey asks
him if something's wrong. Well, Let's tells Bailey, he's working
on something really important.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Now.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
It's going to be this year's entry for the Buckeye
Newshawk Awards competition. Mandy wants me on some depressing hospital story.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
And just in case you're a little sketchy on these
specifics of the Buckeye Newshawk Award, you remember Andy explained
the parameters during Mama's review h It is.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Given for the best news story specifically dealing with or
related to tap root vegetable production in the Tri state
area and in certain parts of northern West Virginia.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
That is so specific, I think Less is probably the
only one submitting a story each year. Bailey tells Les
she'll do the hospital story.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
You're not ready for field reporting.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Let's pick up the phone and begins dialing. Bailey leans
over her desk, giving Less a real challenging look.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Who is not ready?
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Let's tells Bailey he meant it was a pretty dull story.
That's all.
Speaker 14 (27:01):
There are no dull stories, only dull reporters.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Less, thanks for a moment about this statement.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Well that's true.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Les hangs up the phone. He hands the paper with
the clinic's phone number on it to Bailey.
Speaker 8 (27:13):
Do you want, Bailey, why don't you write something up?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
And uh, I'll look it over.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
If it's good enough, maybe I'll let.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
You do it on the air.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Bailey takes the paper with the phone number.
Speaker 14 (27:24):
Good enough. Well, this will be the best starring story
you ever saw.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
We'll see.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Bailey gets her coat. She thinks, Less, you.
Speaker 14 (27:32):
Won't be sorry.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Just wait to read it.
Speaker 14 (27:34):
You are gonna love it.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Bailey leaves the bullpen. Less holds the rootabaga up and
looks at it with determination.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Now to save the rootabaga.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Before we leave the bullpen, we have to do something
we haven't done in a while. A bullpen poster watch.
Speaker 8 (27:51):
Yay.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Something we've noticed about the posters, especially in the third
and four seasons, are the way they migrate. Posters normally
first appear in either the studio or the studio hallway.
If they make it around here to the bullpen hallway,
we've probably already seen them. That Big Stones Tattoo You
poster is a good example. It's been kicking around the
station for several weeks and we first saw it in
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the studio.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
This week. Something entirely new has appeared in the bullpen.
If you look high on the glass to the left
of the main doors, there's a square poster. The image
looks like the gas tank of a motorcycle with a
logo on it. We searched for this one fairly extensively.
We even did a Google image search with no luck.
We handed it over to the accountant of Rock to
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see what he could do. Hernandez has the touch. He
said he did a Google search on albums with motorcycle
gas tanks on the cover. Well, we'd done almost the
same search with no luck, but he was able to
find it.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
This is a promo for the band Doc Holiday. It's
promoting their second studio album called Doc Holiday Rides Again.
They were his seven and rock outfit from Warner Robbins, Georgia.
The name was in honor of American gunfighter and dentist
John Henry Holliday. A guy named Bruce brookshere was lead guitar,
lead vocals and he wrote every song on the album.
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Although the first album experienced a little bit of chart success,
this one didn't go anywhere. Doc Holliday did work extensively
as a touring band. They opened for some of the
biggest acts of the eighties, including Black Sabbath, April Wine,
Lover Boy, and Stevie ray Vaughan, among several others.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
We transitioned to an office we've never seen before. It's
buzzing with activity. The carpets of flat gray, and the
walls are institutional looking panels. We hear a voice over
a loud speaker saying someone has a phone call. Three
women are sitting at desks, looking busy. One woman is
speaking very loudly on the phone.
Speaker 13 (29:52):
At those prices, I could buy the launder bat across
the street and washing myself.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
She angrily hangs up. Bailey walks up to her desk
and says hell, Hello. The woman greets her with HI.
Speaker 13 (30:03):
I came in a bad time, didn't I sure, but
there's never a good time around here anyway.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
You know.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
There are three women in there, and Bailey walks up
to the one that just angrily hung.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Up, the song making all the noise.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
I would have gone to one of the other two.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
She does seem like the one in charge, though, and
I think it's just because she's so loud.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Maybe so.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Hospital manager Edna Perkins is being played by Barbara Cason.
Barbara started her career on television in nineteen sixty nine.
She made her big screen debut in a nineteen seventy
US film called The Honeymoon Killers. She was a series
regular in nineteen seventy three on a single season of
something called The New Temperatures Rising Show. It was a
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medical sitcom starring Clevond Little. Barbara also did forty four
episodes of Carter Country in nineteen seventy seven through seventy nine.
Barbara's last regular gig was on thirty episodes of The
Gary Shandling Show as Gary's mom Ruth. Her final appearance
on Gary Shandling was in May of nineteen ninety, and
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Barbara passed away in June of nineteen ninety. She was
sixty one years old.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
The woman looks at Bailey, Miss Nicholson. Bailey corrects her
quarters Bailey. The woman introduces herself as Perkins, Edna. She
shakes hands with Bailey. Bailey begins talking to Edna, but
she's interrupted.
Speaker 14 (31:21):
On behalf of the station I would like to send yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Bailey sits, drapes her coat on an empty chair next
to her, and gets out a notebook and pencil.
Speaker 13 (31:31):
Well, it must be rating tah for baby pardon now,
isn't that when you radio and TV people crawl out
of the woodwork and get interested in the community.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Bailey tells the woman she is being a bit cynical.
Speaker 14 (31:42):
No, cynicism kind of goes with a territory.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
She's very cynical, to the point of almost being off putting.
This is unusual. If you work in a place that
relies on donations and public support, you need to be
a friend to the media, all media. The media can
make your case for you, to the whole region. Also,
a ratings period wouldn't mean going to a children's hospital,
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like Herb said in The Consultant. When it's ratings, you
need to go to Hooker City. Herb knows how this works.
Speaker 10 (32:11):
Every time it's a rating period, they pick some lurid
subject like prostitution or lose housewives.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Loose housewives, Yes, children's hospital.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
No.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Edna asks Bailey why she's here. Bailey tells her she'd
like to find out everything she can about their operation.
Speaker 7 (32:32):
Would yes, then I will be able to write my
story and solve your problem.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
This is a bit arrogant on Bailey's part. She can
tell the story, but solving the problem might take more
than just WKRP, and more than just one story. Eda
leans back in her chair and crosses her arms.
Speaker 13 (32:50):
We have twelve wards full of sick and damaged children
and barely enough money to care for.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Bailey begins writing frantically.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Story properly.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
You know it might be time for Edna to find
a new job. She should not be dealing with the
media or the public.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Bailey puts her pencil down, takes off her glasses, and
looks at Edna.
Speaker 7 (33:10):
Contributions are down. But I thought people always gave money
to crickly children.
Speaker 13 (33:17):
Edna tells Bailey they did, but now they waste it
on frivolous stuff like food, clothes brand.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
As we've mentioned in previous episodes, this was a period
in US history where we were experiencing high inflation and
a fairly sizable recession. Charitable donations were down across the board.
As Edna is speaking, a man in a white coat
pops in and puts a file on her.
Speaker 6 (33:41):
Desk, were good, he said, thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
The hospital worker is being played by Bill Ewing and
the non speaking secretary is being played by Susie Ewing.
Bill has sixteen acting credits on his IMDb profile. His
first role was a guest part on a TV series
called Dan August nineteen seventy. Bill had one series regular part.
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He was a caveman on the nineteen seventy four to
seventy five sitcom Coorg seventy thousand BC. He played Bach.
Susie Ewing is uncredited in this episode, but thanks to IMDb,
we know that's her playing one of the secretaries. She's
in the blue top at the right hand desk behind Bailey.
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We only see her from behind during the establishing shot.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Susie was an original member of Dean Martin's gold Diggers
in the late nineteen sixties. Her claim to fame she
was the shortest gold Digger at only five foot two.
She also holds the record as performing the longest as
a gold digger. Susie has fourteen total credits on her
IMDb profile. Big news about Bill and Susie. They had
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just gotten married the month before this episode aired on
Valentine's Day of nineteen eight eighty two. The Valentine's Launch
must have worked. Bill and Susie are still married and
to each other.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
The secretary who speaks is being played by Iona Morris.
Iona was born in nineteen fifty seven in Columbus, Ohio.
Her first role of any kind was on the original
Star Trek in nineteen sixty six, when she was only nine.
She was uncredited as a little African American girl. After
Star Trek, she was a voice in a nineteen seventy
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Christmas movie, then a voice in a nineteen eighty TV series.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
This is Iona's first on camera appearance as an adult.
Iona stays pretty consistently busy throughout the next forty years
or so. She racks up a total of one hundred
four acting credits on her IMDb profile, but most of
those are for voice work. Iona's last TV appearance was
a twenty twenty episode of Blackish. She also performed on
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a podcast series in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
One, and Intel's Bailey It's Tough All Over. Bailey tells
Edna she thinks her story will make more people aware
of the problem. Edna interrupts her as a phone begins
ringing in the office.
Speaker 13 (36:11):
Honey, excuse me, but there is nothing your station can
do that's going to bring the kind of money that
we need.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Bailey begins to say something, but Edna jumps in.
Speaker 8 (36:19):
We need a.
Speaker 13 (36:20):
Research lite, we need hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment.
Speaker 6 (36:24):
We need somebody who adds to the phone.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Edna tells Bailey they need to be able to do
the kind of work here that will really help kids,
and not just put band aids on them.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
Wow, with that attitude, Edna should not be doing this work.
Bailey tries again.
Speaker 14 (36:42):
Yes, but a story on the radio can really help.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Edna tells Bailey there have been umpteen stories written about them.
Speaker 14 (36:48):
Do you think one war will hurt?
Speaker 8 (36:50):
No?
Speaker 6 (36:50):
I just don't believe it will help.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Bailey tells Edna she believes it will help.
Speaker 13 (36:54):
You do do yes, because if it won't, I really
don't have time.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Bailey puts her glasses back on, picks up her pencil,
and looks back at Ednas. Bailey is not given up.
Speaker 8 (37:05):
No.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
They look at each other for a bed of battle
of wills. Edna finally throws her pencil down on her desk.
Speaker 6 (37:11):
Oh, what the hell come on, I'll show you around here.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Edna heads for the door. Bailey gets up and grabs
her purse, coat, notebook, and pencil.
Speaker 14 (37:18):
Have you ever been to a children's hospital before?
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Bailey shakes her head no. As they leave the office,
we transition to the bullpen. It seems to be later
in the morning after Bailey's visit. She's at Lessa's desk,
sitting behind his big manual typewriter, looking very contemplative. She
sits up and begins typing. Jennifer comes into the bullpen
through the glass doors.
Speaker 6 (37:41):
Bailey, how about lunch?
Speaker 8 (37:44):
You know?
Speaker 6 (37:45):
Lunch is that light meal people eat around noon?
Speaker 8 (37:50):
Have it what?
Speaker 4 (37:50):
Jennifer says? Oh, maybe she'll see what Andy's doing. She
heads back to the glass doors Jennifer. Jennifer stops and
turns around.
Speaker 14 (37:59):
Have you had lunch?
Speaker 8 (38:02):
No?
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Well, how about it?
Speaker 14 (38:05):
I need more time with this story anyway.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
Good idea.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Bailey gets her code and begins telling Jennifer about her
visit to the North Side Children's clinic. As the two
leave the bullpen, Bailey's telling Jennifer what she saw on
her tour. They pass Andy on his way into the bullpen.
Andy goes over to a filing cabinet and pulls out
a drawer. He looks around, making sure no one is
near As he digs in the drawer. He pulls out
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a sucker, takes the wrapper off and puts it in
his mouth.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Ah, so he has a secret candy stash.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Is this the first time we've ever seen Andy with
a sucker?
Speaker 4 (38:41):
I think?
Speaker 3 (38:42):
So he walks over to the wall monitor and turns
up the sound less his voice comes out of the speaker.
Speaker 8 (38:48):
And finally, there's the story of Floyd Lattimore of Terry Howti,
Indiana in nineteen thirty nine grew a Ruda Bega that
looked exactly like Deano Roosevelt. In my four PM report
islexamine the root causes show.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
Let's quickly unpack Lessa's news story. Franklin D. Roosevelt was
the thirty second President of the United States who served
from nineteen thirty three until nineteen forty five. FDR is
the reason we have a two term limit on the presidency.
More interesting than the FDR rudebaga would be its location.
Speaker 8 (39:26):
Terry how To Indiana? Where is that again, Terry how
To Indiana?
Speaker 4 (39:30):
We're pretty sure less is going for Tara Hate Tara
Hate is situated along the Wabash River, within five miles
of the westernmost border of Indiana. The name is a
French phrase that means highland. It was named by the
fur traders and early explorers to the area. Ta Hate
is a city of just over sixty thousand as of
the twenty ten census. This is interesting. Remember how Cincinnati
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is called the Queen's City. Being declared a queen city
must have been a big deal at one time. Tara
Halt's nickname is Queen City of the Wabash.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
And home of the FDR Rudebega. It's on one of
those brown signs as you go into town and unhappy,
Andy turns the volume down on the monitor. Then he
walks over to Less's desk. He roughly picks up the
Rudebega and goes to the studio hallway door. Still amazed
at the mileage are getting out of this prop? Andy
stands holding the Rude beggas staring at the door. He's
waiting for Les to come through. We got about a
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three second wait before the door opens. Less enters the bullpen.
He's still holding his news report in his hand when
he comes face to face with an unhappy Andy. Udebega
Less says hello and goes around Andy headed for his desk.
Andy follows him.
Speaker 12 (40:42):
I thought we hadgreed not to mention vegetables on your
newscast last until after he did the hospital store.
Speaker 4 (40:46):
Less opens the door to his office and goes in.
He begins to respond, but Andy doesn't let him get
a word in.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Listen, I told you this was important a mother, carls.
That makes it important to me last year.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
Andy has followed Less into his office. Now we've seen
it Andy's temper before, and he is pretty imposing here.
He has Less backed against the wall of the news office.
Speaker 12 (41:07):
So you will not mention Rude Bega's on this station
until app you've done the other story.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Got it?
Speaker 8 (41:12):
But I promise my fans that at four o'clock I'll
all right.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Hospital at too. Rudebega's at four deal.
Speaker 4 (41:17):
Less looks down as if he needs to think about this.
Andy once again pulls out one of the biggest Less carrots.
Speaker 8 (41:23):
He has.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
My set of walls sure would look good in him, Liss.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
Either walls or a helicopter will always get Nessmond's attention.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Less looks at Andy for quite a while, sizing him up.
Then feel Andy nods his head and turns to go
forgetting he's carrying the rudebagga. Andy Less motions to the
rude Bagga. Andy hands it over and then leaves the bullpen.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
Don't take less as rudebiul oh.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Leave Less's rudebega. Less sits at his desk with a
concerned look on his face. He slams the paper he's
holding down at his desk and he rolls his chair back.
That's when he notices Bailey's notes sitting by the typewriter.
He scans the paper and the typewriter, then looks at
it more closely. We see him start to grin and
impish little grin. That's when we get a positively fiendishoo.
Speaker 4 (42:13):
We transition to the studio hallway as Andy is coming
through the door. As we get a nice wide shot
of the entire hallway. Hey, it looks like we need
to do a quick hallway poster watch. Starting from the left,
we see a lot of things we've already discussed. Craft
work and acdc's for those about to rock are on
the angled wall to the far left. The commodores are
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still get it, still still above the doorway. The oversized
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Steve Martin Brothers poster through the door. The Ringo cops
stand up continues to ask us to stop and smell
the roses. We've got double red rocker. This week we
saw Sammy's standing Hampton poster in the studio, and here's
another one out here in the hallway. Shalamar is also
a repeat. The green square to the right under Sammy
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seems to be the only new thing in the hallway.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
The green square is a promo for a new album
from The Whispers called Love Is Where You Find It.
We've met this R and B and soul group out
of Los Angeles in the past. This is a promo
for their eleventh studio album. It hits number one on
the Billboard Top Soul Album's chart, and it peaks at
number thirty five on the Top two hundred album chart.
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The cuts in the Raw, the title track, and Emergency
were all released as singles. Indeed, Love Is Where You
Find It will be certified as the whispers third Gold record.
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In November of nineteen eighty two, Andy.
Speaker 4 (44:11):
Comes around the corner into the hallway. He's walking slowly
listening to less Read Bailey's report about the children's medical clinic.
Speaker 8 (44:19):
My tour of the wards was something I'll not soon forget.
Everywhere I looked were young faces filled with promise that
will not be realized, dreams that will never come true.
Speaker 4 (44:34):
Andy takes a seat on the window sill outside the studio.
He watches Less through the studio window as he finishes
up his report.
Speaker 8 (44:42):
But the event that summed up the experience for this
reporter came as I was about to leave. I felt
a tug on my skirt.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
So as we suspected, Less has stolen Bailey's story without
changing a word of it, or for that matter, even
pre reading it.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
At my shirt.
Speaker 8 (45:07):
And look down into the face of a little boy
named Bobby. He's ten years old and unable to speak.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
And this comes down the hallway with a muggy coffee.
He wordlessly looks at Andy. Then he looks through the
studio window at Lass.
Speaker 8 (45:23):
But he reached up and he handed me a picture
he had drawn, a crude rendering of a flower.
Speaker 3 (45:31):
This is a well written story, and it's becoming very moving.
Speaker 4 (45:35):
I'm surprised that they believed Les wrote this. It doesn't
sound like.
Speaker 3 (45:39):
Something his capabilities, But since they've never heard him do
a story about other human beings before maybe he rose
to the occasion.
Speaker 4 (45:48):
We cut to the lobby where Bailey and Jennifer are
just returning from lunch. Bailey is telling Jennifer lunch was sensational.
Speaker 3 (45:56):
Lithuania and just in case you were looking for a
good Lithuanian luncheon Cincinnati, check out Laslow's Iron Skillet on
Ohio Pike or the Mecklenburg Gardens restaurant on University.
Speaker 4 (46:09):
Less's voice is coming over the lobby monitor. Jennifer asks
Bailey to please turn down the volume. Jennifer goes through
the door leading to the bullpen. Bailey reaches for the
volume knob when she suddenly recognizes the words Lessa's saying.
Speaker 8 (46:23):
Or in this primitive drawing, Bobby had managed to convey
a sense of the true beauty that dwells within his soul.
Speaker 3 (46:31):
Jennifer comes back into the lobby and goes to her desk.
Bailey looks in Jennifer's direction, Oh my god.
Speaker 8 (46:38):
Speaking as someone who someday hopes to bear children.
Speaker 3 (46:45):
Unless Pause is realizing the mistake he's made. In the
studio hallway, Venus gives Andy a confused look. Less it
been sounding coherent, but now he's back to weird bear.
Speaker 8 (46:55):
Children on my shoulders.
Speaker 5 (46:58):
Men do that?
Speaker 8 (46:59):
You know? I would like to say that I'll never
forget little Bobby and I'll cherish his flower always. This
is less nessman reporting.
Speaker 4 (47:16):
Out in the lobby. Bailey has told Jennifer the truth
about Less's report.
Speaker 6 (47:20):
You mean less stole your story.
Speaker 4 (47:23):
Bailey says, yes, word for word. Jennifer slaps her desk
and stands.
Speaker 6 (47:28):
Well, I'm going right back there right now and tell
him exactly what I think of that.
Speaker 4 (47:31):
Bailey stops Jennifer. Jennifer tells Bailey she's right. Bailey ought
to be the one to tell him.
Speaker 7 (47:37):
I'm not going to tell him, and Jennifer, I wish
you wouldn't say anything.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
Jennifer looks at Bailey like she might be missing something.
Speaker 6 (47:44):
Bailey, you have to stand up for what's yours.
Speaker 3 (47:47):
Jennifer stares at Bailey, Brown's furrowed, not sure she heard
this correctly. What Bailey tells Jennifer she made it up.
Speaker 14 (47:54):
There's no picture, no flower, and no.
Speaker 4 (47:58):
Bobby.
Speaker 9 (47:59):
Right.
Speaker 3 (48:00):
Jennifer takes Bailey's hands in hers.
Speaker 6 (48:02):
Oh, Bailey, we could lose our license over this.
Speaker 3 (48:05):
Screen fades to black as we go to commercial.
Speaker 4 (48:08):
Now, whoa hold on a minute. When Jennifer said the
station could lose their license over this falsified story, it
made us stop and say, huh. It didn't sound right,
or at least it sounded like a huge overreaction. If
radio stations lost their license every time they put something
inaccurate on the air, we wouldn't have a lot of
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radio stations left. We went to the source, the FCC
Radio Station rule Book, to check this out.
Speaker 3 (48:37):
It turns out there is a regulation regarding hoaxes. It's
in that same section of the federal regulations where we
found the station ID, paragraphs seven to three point one
two one seven. The rule says, if you put something
on the air that's intentionally misleading and it causes an
immediate panic or it diverts first responders, then yes, you
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could get in as the radio station causing the panic.
But even then you wouldn't lose your license. The most
you'd be on the hook for would be some pretty
stiff fines.
Speaker 4 (49:08):
The regulation was created as a response to the national
panic caused by Orson Wells nineteen thirty eight Halloween broadcast
of War of the Worlds. If Wells had done something
like that. Under the new rule, even he wouldn't lose
his license, but he would have to cough up some
serious bucks.
Speaker 3 (49:28):
This is not to say that you can make up
whatever you want and call it news, but there is
a process. A station regularly broadcasting misinformation might receive complaints
to the FCC. Enough complaints would trigger an investigation. If
the FCC found a pattern of misinformation, especially when it
results in something like donations or business transactions, then the
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misinformation would be investigated.
Speaker 4 (49:54):
We come back to mister Carlson's office. Mister Carlson is
on the phone and Andy is sitting on the couch.
Speaker 5 (50:01):
He did well, I mean, I know he did. I
know all about that. Matter of fact, I was kind
of behind the whole thing myself. You do, Oh sure,
anything you want?
Speaker 1 (50:15):
Hello?
Speaker 8 (50:20):
Bye? Ma.
Speaker 4 (50:22):
Mister Carlson hangs up the phone. He turns to Andy.
Speaker 1 (50:26):
She wants me to give Less array.
Speaker 3 (50:27):
The door opens. Ana Less walks into mister Carlson's office.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
I just got off the phone with several contractors.
Speaker 8 (50:33):
Here are three competitive bids.
Speaker 3 (50:34):
Let's toss you some papers on Carlson's desk. Art looks
at Less confused for what walls.
Speaker 1 (50:41):
Of course, walls.
Speaker 3 (50:44):
Let's tell him. Andy promised walls in exchange for the
hospital story. Art leans back in his chair.
Speaker 5 (50:49):
Look, I don't know about walls last, but I do
know that you're going to be earning an extra twenty
five dollars a week effective right now.
Speaker 3 (50:56):
Okay, this is a prey significant rays, but Less doesn't
let on. He turns and leaves the office.
Speaker 4 (51:05):
Mister Carlson turns to Andy.
Speaker 5 (51:07):
You know, I think walls for him would be a
good idea big padded ones about that thing.
Speaker 4 (51:12):
Mister Carlson holds his hands up. Palm's facing each other
about ten inches apart. Andy laughs. The door to the
office opens and Jennifer comes in.
Speaker 6 (51:22):
The Cincinnati Inquirer just called.
Speaker 15 (51:24):
They want to run bait our hospital story in tomorrow
morning's feature section.
Speaker 4 (51:29):
Andy and mister Carlson jump to their feet for batim.
Speaker 6 (51:33):
I'll accept the part about less bearing children.
Speaker 3 (51:37):
Art and Andy are thrilled.
Speaker 5 (51:39):
Hot dog, we're finally gonna get this thing on the
map in this town.
Speaker 3 (51:41):
Andy asks Jennifer if she's told Less yet.
Speaker 6 (51:44):
She tells him no, No, I thought i'd better tell
you first.
Speaker 3 (51:47):
Jennifer's standing there wringing her hands, Andy tells Art this
may be the public service campaign they need to tie
the station into.
Speaker 1 (51:56):
This could be very, very.
Speaker 6 (51:57):
Big or not.
Speaker 4 (51:59):
Andy looks at you, Enifer, and asks why not?
Speaker 6 (52:01):
Well, we might just be exploiting that little boy.
Speaker 4 (52:04):
Andy and mister Carlson tell her, oh, no, the best
thing that ever happened to me, and they begin making plans.
Speaker 5 (52:11):
We get him up here, and then it takes some
pictures of it right underneath the calliners. Heck, we've probably
can take them out to lunch?
Speaker 3 (52:16):
Who are treaty to even take him to lunch? Jennifer
can't stand it. She's about to burst. I have something
to tell you, arn't and Andy turned to look at her.
Speaker 15 (52:25):
However, I promised that I wouldn't, so I guess I shouldn't,
even though I should.
Speaker 3 (52:32):
Jennifer walks out of the office when Andy asks Carlson.
Speaker 1 (52:35):
Did you understand that perfectly?
Speaker 3 (52:39):
And he's shaking his head.
Speaker 1 (52:40):
What's just about less having babies?
Speaker 4 (52:44):
This little twist about printing the story illustrates something unique
about the period. At this time, print was still considered
the only reliable news media. Print was where real news
was disseminated. It was well known at the time, many
local news broadcasts across the country would use the newspaper
as a source for their reporting. Newspapers had bigger news budgets,
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a bigger reporting staff, and more capability when it came
to gathering news. Radio stations couldn't put as many people
on the streets, so they relied on the newspaper to
fill in.
Speaker 3 (53:18):
Here where a newspaper has seemingly been scooped by a
radio station, the newspaper's offering to give the story credibility.
They're saying, without really saying it, your story will get
wider distribution and be believed by more people if we
print it in the newspaper. Now, forty years later, as
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traditional print is almost nonexistent and anyone with a YouTube
channel can claim to be reporting the news, we still
tend to give more credibility to print outlets. Something reported
by the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal
carries more weight than reports from a radio, TV or
cable news outlet.
Speaker 4 (53:58):
Back in the bullpen, Less than Bailey are arguing. As
they come through the door. Bailey follows Less over to
his desk.
Speaker 6 (54:05):
Gotten thing to do?
Speaker 8 (54:06):
Less?
Speaker 6 (54:06):
That was my story.
Speaker 14 (54:07):
I never said you could do it on the air.
Speaker 7 (54:09):
Yes, you did, if it was good enough, Remember well
it needed work, hogwash.
Speaker 14 (54:14):
You didn't change a calma, mister.
Speaker 4 (54:16):
Carlson and Andy come running into the bullpen and they
head right over to Less.
Speaker 1 (54:20):
If we got some good news for you.
Speaker 2 (54:22):
Your story about little Bobby is going to appear in
tomorrow's Cincinnati inquir and.
Speaker 8 (54:26):
It's going to read buy less Ness. But news director,
do you care if your radio?
Speaker 4 (54:31):
Andy is clapping, a huge smile on his face.
Speaker 3 (54:35):
Andy turns to Bailey. Bailey is moving towards her desk
as she says, congratulations, less plus you smile fades watching
Bailey walk away.
Speaker 8 (54:45):
You know, Bailey helped me with some of the basic research.
Perhaps I should share the byeline with her.
Speaker 3 (54:50):
Andy tells less that's very nice of him. Bailey tells
them all it's okay. She claims she didn't do all
that much.
Speaker 1 (54:56):
Of course you did.
Speaker 14 (54:57):
No, I didn't did, didn't did?
Speaker 3 (55:00):
He tells him to play nice. Carlson is so excited.
Speaker 1 (55:04):
Look, I got to call mom back.
Speaker 5 (55:06):
Learnt know what's happening here?
Speaker 3 (55:07):
Oh boy, Art claps his hands and runs out of
the bullpen.
Speaker 4 (55:11):
Andy looks at Bailey and tells her if she did
have something to do with this, she should take part
of the credit. Bailey stands and looks at Andy.
Speaker 8 (55:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (55:20):
Bailey quickly leaves the bullpen through the studio hallway door.
Andy looks at Less and asks what's wrong with her?
Speaker 1 (55:27):
Perhaps she's not ready for the limelight.
Speaker 4 (55:29):
Andy offers to talk with her about it.
Speaker 8 (55:31):
Oh no, no, no, that's all right. I'm the news director.
I know how to handle my reporter.
Speaker 4 (55:35):
Less heads after Bailey. Andy pat's Less on the back
and tells him he did a super job.
Speaker 1 (55:40):
Believe me, Andy, it was nothing.
Speaker 4 (55:41):
Less leaves the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (55:43):
I'm a little shocked at how completely Less is really
just stealing that story.
Speaker 8 (55:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (55:49):
I kind of was like, oh, come on, not at
any point saying oh it's not mine or I didn't
write it, or.
Speaker 4 (55:54):
I didn't go there willing to take full credit.
Speaker 3 (55:57):
Yeah, full like that hole. She's not ready for the limelight.
Less wants the limelight. Lets finds Bailey in the studio hallway,
sitting in the windows sill. Less slowly walks up to
Bailey and has a seat beside her.
Speaker 8 (56:07):
Bailey, you shouldn't have done it, Less, it's just the
Travis had me up against the wall, and someone mentions walls.
Speaker 1 (56:14):
I guess I go a little crazy.
Speaker 14 (56:17):
I mean, you really shouldn't have done it.
Speaker 8 (56:19):
Less, I've never done it before, and I promise I'll
never do it again.
Speaker 1 (56:24):
But now the newspaper's involved.
Speaker 8 (56:27):
You know how long I've been trying to get something
into print?
Speaker 3 (56:29):
Because getting something in print means it's real news.
Speaker 4 (56:33):
Bailey tells Less he can't let them run the story.
Less promises he'll tell Andy the truth after the story runs.
Speaker 14 (56:41):
But you don't know the truth.
Speaker 6 (56:42):
Do you want to hear it?
Speaker 8 (56:43):
No? What I really want is Bobby's flower picture.
Speaker 4 (56:46):
Less tells Bailey it would make a great companion piece
for the article. Bailey stands and begins to pace around.
She tells Less he can't have it.
Speaker 3 (56:56):
Let's ask Bailey what she wants. He tells her the
sky's the limit. Bailey tells Less she doesn't want anything.
Speaker 8 (57:03):
I'll give you ten dollars.
Speaker 3 (57:06):
Okay, So Less his sky not quite as high as
you might imagine.
Speaker 6 (57:11):
Les thirteen fifty ls. The story is a lie.
Speaker 3 (57:16):
Less doesn't believe it. He does his snake laughs.
Speaker 8 (57:22):
Kidding.
Speaker 3 (57:23):
Bailey shakes her head.
Speaker 7 (57:24):
No, this is kidding.
Speaker 3 (57:25):
Bailey continues shaking her head. No, now Less has always
struggled with joking around.
Speaker 7 (57:31):
Not at all.
Speaker 1 (57:32):
I never know when you people are trying to kid me.
Speaker 3 (57:35):
Bailey's looking at him very seriously.
Speaker 1 (57:38):
This isn't kidding.
Speaker 3 (57:39):
Bailey continues shaking her head until the newsbeacon finally understands, oh.
Speaker 4 (57:45):
My, we cut to mister Carlson's office. Mister Carlson is
in his chair and Andy's on his desk because eighty
six episodes in and Andy still hasn't figured out furniture.
Both of them are holding their heads in their hands.
Oh Less is standing with his arm propped on the
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back of Carlson's chair. Bailey is on the couch.
Speaker 7 (58:09):
Well, I was going to rewrite it, I think, do
you think? Well, I'm pretty sure I would have heard
if he hadn't stolen it.
Speaker 4 (58:17):
Bailey glares it. Less Less goes into attorney mode.
Speaker 1 (58:21):
Objection, one does not steal what is on one's desk.
Speaker 4 (58:26):
Okay, sure it was on his desk, but he didn't
write it, so he should not have read it.
Speaker 3 (58:31):
Less cross his arts office as he questions Bailey, his
palms together.
Speaker 8 (58:36):
Did you or did you not knowingly commit falsehoods to paper.
Speaker 7 (58:41):
I did.
Speaker 8 (58:42):
There, you have it, the journalistic integrity if my news
department has been come from it.
Speaker 12 (58:46):
Well, le's while we're on a subject of journalistic integrity,
I want you to go to your desk, get out
your dictionary, and look up the word plagiarism.
Speaker 3 (58:53):
All right, This doesn't even pause. He immediately right out
of the office. And I'm a little concerned about a
journalist who doesn't know the meaning of plagiarism. That's a
bit scary.
Speaker 4 (59:08):
Yeah, Bailey looks at Andy, and mister Carlson, that's.
Speaker 1 (59:11):
For you, young lady.
Speaker 5 (59:13):
Do you have any idea how serious this is?
Speaker 4 (59:17):
Mister Carlson turns to Andy and asks quietly, truthfully, it's
not all that serious. There's no law against writing fiction.
If she'd have put it on the air and claimed
it as fact, then it's more of a problem. Andy
looks at mister Carlson, Well, I think it.
Speaker 1 (59:35):
It can be straightened down, if you'll just to give
Bailey myself a few moments along, Just make it quick.
Speaker 4 (59:44):
Mister Carlson leans back in his chair, puts his hands
in the back of his head, and yawns. He's ready
to take a short nap. Andy taps mister Carlson on
his shoulder. Sure in here, mister Carlson stands, He shuffles
a little, and then he tells him he'll be right
outside if they need him. He leaves his office and
closes the door behind him.
Speaker 3 (01:00:03):
Andy asked Bailey, if she wasn't planning to use the story,
why did she write it that way?
Speaker 14 (01:00:09):
Because I didn't know any other way.
Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
Andy tells her there must have been a dozen other
ways to write it.
Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
Why didn't use a real kid?
Speaker 3 (01:00:16):
Bailey stands and walks over to Andy.
Speaker 7 (01:00:19):
I went down there expecting to see little kids with
high temperatures and casts on their arms, and I saw
a four year old burn victim. I saw a six
year old girl with leukemia. I saw a little boy
who was allergic to his own skin. Bailey, I couldn't
pick out just one, and I couldn't begin to describe
them all, so I just put them all into.
Speaker 4 (01:00:42):
Bobby.
Speaker 3 (01:00:43):
This monologue is one of the best things Jan Smithers
has ever done on the show. She's passionate and very believable.
Andy nods his head, saying he understands.
Speaker 14 (01:00:53):
The only thing I really made up was that stupid
flower picture.
Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
It was a nice touch, though, Bailey.
Speaker 4 (01:01:00):
Less is back. The door opens and Less walks in
with a dictionary open in his hand. He reads aloud
with authority.
Speaker 8 (01:01:07):
Plagiarism an act or instance of plagiarizing something plagiarized.
Speaker 4 (01:01:19):
Okay, that doesn't tell us a whole lot. Less snaps
the dictionary shut, walks out, and closes the door behind him.
Andy just sits and stares at the closed door.
Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
Some things you just can't believe are happening around you
for the benefit of Less. This might be what Andy
was wanting him to find. Plagiarism is the act of
taking someone else's work or ideas and attempting to pass
them off as your own.
Speaker 4 (01:01:43):
Bailey turns back without a comment about Less.
Speaker 14 (01:01:46):
So do what my two weeks notice?
Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
Or do I leave now? Wow?
Speaker 4 (01:01:49):
The station losing its license, people losing their jobs. They're
attaching a lot of weight to a single news story
read once on the air. Andy stands and asks, that's
what Bailey's talking about.
Speaker 14 (01:02:01):
Seems to me that something like this came up at
the Washington Post.
Speaker 4 (01:02:05):
Andy nods's head, saying, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
Woman made up a story about an eight year old junkie, right.
Speaker 14 (01:02:10):
And I believe the woman was fired for yes.
Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
If you remember, we told the story of Janet Cook
and her fictional eight year old heroin addict in the
episode The Consultant. Cook's lie was intentional, and she carried
it far beyond anything either Lesser Bailey is doing. She
created Jimmy, an eight year old African American boy in Washington,
d C. Who she claimed was addicted to heroin. She
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wrote beautifully in her story Jimmy's World, about the needle
marks freckling his young brown arms. It was great writing,
but entirely fiction.
Speaker 4 (01:02:47):
Cook's story was not only printed, but it also caused
a major stir in the community. Washington, d C. Mayor
at the time, Mary and Barry, was outraged to think
something like this could be happening in his town. Sure
they had a heroin problem in the metro area, but
an eight year old it was too horrible to even consider.
(01:03:10):
Barry assigned the entire police force to find Jimmy. They,
of course could not. As a matter of fact, they
didn't find any juvenile heroin addicts of any kind anywhere
in Washington.
Speaker 3 (01:03:27):
Even after the fureror had caused, Cook continued to stand
by the story as fact. Her managing editor, famed reporter
Bob Woodward, backed up her claims. Ben Bradley, the Post
executive editor, also supported his reporter. The story was submitted
to the Pulitzer Prize committee and won. Cook was awarded
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the Pulletzer for feature writing in April of nineteen eighty one.
The hooplas surrounding the Pulitzer is what eventually unmasked.
Speaker 4 (01:03:59):
Janet also been lying about her credentials. Past employers and
educational institutions who saw the Pulleitzer reports noted Janet had
lied about her degrees and awards. When confronted with these lies,
she also admitted to faking the Jimmy story. She returned
the Pulletzer, the first person in history to have done so.
(01:04:23):
Village Voice reporter Teresa Carpenter, who lost to Cook, was
then awarded the prize. Bradley publicly apologized to the city
and the world. Janet was, of course, fired by the
Washington Post.
Speaker 3 (01:04:38):
Bailey tells Andy the Post had to fire their liar. Well, yeah,
Cook completely fabricated her story, won major awards, and continuously
lied about it for months. Bailey, who actually created a
composite of what she saw and then came clean about it.
Immediately thinks she's in the same boat. Les said it
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journalistic integrity. You don't understand by Andy's trying to calm
her down. He tells her to sit. Bailey sits on
the couch furniture reverse. Andy sits on the arm next
to her. Andy tells her they are not the Washington Post.
Speaker 12 (01:05:15):
So there's Washington Post integrity, there's WKRP integrity.
Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
Andy tells her they have their own brand of this
stuff around here, which brings us to the line of
the episode.
Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
This is the station that has employed Herb Tarley for
the last sixteen years. Don't talk to me about integraty.
Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
Yes, if you've got Herb on staff, you can't be
talking much about integrity.
Speaker 4 (01:05:40):
Bailey tells Andy she wants their news to have real
weight to it.
Speaker 8 (01:05:44):
So so do I.
Speaker 3 (01:05:45):
But we have Captain rud of beget here for a
news director.
Speaker 1 (01:05:50):
Bailey, but he screwed up around here. That makes it normal.
Speaker 4 (01:05:54):
Andy puts his arm around Bailey and gives her a pet.
Bailey lets out a big sigh.
Speaker 14 (01:06:00):
So what do we do about the license?
Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
We keep her mouth shut and we never mention it again.
Speaker 4 (01:06:06):
They throw this license thing around like somebody from the
FCC could stop by tomorrow and shut them down. The
process of a station losing their license takes months. There
would first need to be thousands of complaints from listeners
to get the process in motion. Those would be followed
by hearings, a probationary period finds, and ultimately, after all
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of that, they probably wouldn't actually lose their license. Bailey
asks Andy about the newspaper. He tells her he'll take
care of it.
Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
Andy assures her it's okay. Bailey begins to leave and
Andy says her name.
Speaker 1 (01:06:43):
She turns, you ever to do that again? To be
the best looking reporter on the unemployment line.
Speaker 3 (01:06:48):
Bailey nods right. She opens the door to leave, but
turns back. She considers something in Andy's comment best looky.
Andy smiles at her, and she walks out.
Speaker 4 (01:07:00):
Into the lobby. Jennifer's at her desk reading the newspaper.
Andy is leaning over her shoulder reading Johnny enters the
lobby and heads to the coffee maker.
Speaker 1 (01:07:09):
Promise, what did you do to nestamun.
Speaker 4 (01:07:11):
Andy says nothing and asks why we came.
Speaker 1 (01:07:14):
In this morning? He said he was through with vegetable
stories forever. Oh fantastic.
Speaker 4 (01:07:19):
Johnny turns and gives Andy a serious look.
Speaker 1 (01:07:22):
Blood of the rude Begga's on your hands.
Speaker 3 (01:07:24):
Put the rude begga throughout the entire episode. I love
how they've carried it through.
Speaker 4 (01:07:32):
Well did you see it?
Speaker 15 (01:07:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:07:34):
It is pretty serious.
Speaker 4 (01:07:35):
It was worth keeping in the episode.
Speaker 5 (01:07:37):
I think.
Speaker 3 (01:07:37):
Bailey comes into the lobby and Jennifer holds up the paper,
excited to show Bailey.
Speaker 6 (01:07:42):
Oh, Bailey, did you see it? See what you're byline?
Speaker 3 (01:07:45):
Bayley looks at Andy a little surprised. I thought you
said you took Keva, and he tells her he did.
He points to the paper.
Speaker 1 (01:07:51):
I wrote that little love prologue right there.
Speaker 3 (01:07:54):
Bailey puts on her glasses and reads aloud.
Speaker 7 (01:07:56):
The following article by WKRP reporter Bai Quarters describes her
thoughts and feelings after touring North Side Children's Clinic. The
character of Bobby is actually a composite of all the
children's quarters met that day, and they still wonder run yep.
Speaker 3 (01:08:12):
These days, due to hippa and underage privacy laws, you'd
have to create a fake name or a composite to
even attempt a story like this, we hear aloud fight.
Speaker 4 (01:08:24):
And see Edna from the North Side Children's Clinic come
into the lobby. She's carrying a large flat package wrapped
in brown paper. Bailey introduces her. Edna turns to Bailey.
Speaker 6 (01:08:36):
Well, I just wanted to thank you for the story.
Speaker 13 (01:08:38):
We loved it.
Speaker 4 (01:08:38):
Bailey lowers her head and apologizes for the part about
the flower.
Speaker 13 (01:08:43):
Sorry, that flower picture was worth six thousand contributions this.
Speaker 4 (01:08:48):
Morning, So Edna's cool with bending the rules a little bit.
Bailey looks shocked, saying she didn't even really get a picture.
Speaker 6 (01:08:55):
No, you got about eighty seven of them right here.
Speaker 4 (01:08:58):
Edna hands the thick flat pack over to Bailey.
Speaker 3 (01:09:01):
Man, Edna's done a one eighty henji yeah, and it
tells Bailey she taped the show when it ran, then
she played it back for the kids, so they wanted
to do these for you. Bailey leads ed over to
some of the lobby chairs and they both have a seat.
Speaker 14 (01:09:13):
Oh, they also sent some.
Speaker 6 (01:09:16):
For the funny man who read your story.
Speaker 3 (01:09:21):
Ed It pulls out a smaller package and Bailey tells her, yeah,
that would be less even lass.
Speaker 1 (01:09:26):
Does anyone have any idea how he's taking the.
Speaker 3 (01:09:27):
Article, smiling with a dreamy look in her eyes. Jennifer says,
very suicidal.
Speaker 1 (01:09:34):
Not really.
Speaker 10 (01:09:36):
When he came in the booth a few minutes ago,
he said we should watch for his byline tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (01:09:40):
Oh, this can't be good. A concerned looking Andy moves
to turn the volume up on the wall monitor. We
hear Less's voice.
Speaker 8 (01:09:48):
It's difficult to describe the feelings this reporter had as
he walked through the pins. But I felt a tug
on my pant leg. I look down into the face
of Harold, a little razorback hog blind since first.
Speaker 4 (01:10:10):
Johnny and Jennifer are laughing as Andy runs quickly out
of the lobby. We hear Andy showing as he runs
through the door.
Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
Such a fun episode, and the station gets to keep
its license and everybody's happy.
Speaker 4 (01:10:23):
The next time we go to the store, I want
to see if I can find a rutabaga.
Speaker 3 (01:10:27):
We got to check into those ruta bagas, see how
big those dudes are. All right, So what is up
for next week? Donna?
Speaker 4 (01:10:33):
We will be discussing the creation of Venus. While Andy
and Venus are playing jokes on each other at the
radio station, Mama Carlson visits and then quizzes them. Venus
lets it slip. He used to be a teacher. Andy
and Venus tell the story of how Venus went from
school teacher to DJ.
Speaker 3 (01:10:53):
That's going to do it for this episode of the
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Speaker 8 (01:11:28):
Bye, now, may the good news be yours.
Speaker 3 (01:11:38):
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Speaker 1 (01:12:09):
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