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The hard part about time travel
is that it often leaves me in the dark.
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Fortunately, there always seems
to be someone around to offer me
a helping hand...
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or paw.
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But no matter whether my
faithful companion has two legs or four,
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it doesn't really matter.
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I usually wind up doing
the dirty work myself.
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But that's okay,
because helping people out...
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is like music to my ears.
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Chick!
Huh?
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Chick!
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Earth to Chick.
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Stop clowning around
and read the commercial.
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Today.
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I'm sorry.
Um, what were you saying?
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You see that piece of paper
in your hand?
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- Uh-huh.
- Read it.
Into the microphone.
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Oh, my God. I'm a deejay.
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So...
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So, come taste
the hottest new flavors...
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at the coolest place in town,
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at Boorman...
Boor... Boor... Boor...
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Boorman's Frosty Freeze
Ice Cream.
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Pistachio, coffee,
and now tutti-frutti.
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Chick, may I see you
for a moment?
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- Right now?
- No.
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After Ike gets out of office.
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Right.
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So, Eisenhower
was still president.
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That meant I was
somewhere in the '50s.
Well, it was a start.
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Man, I never thought I'd live to see
Howlin' Chick Howell play Pat Boone.
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We're talkin' weird.
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Sometimes, you know,
weird things just happen.
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Yeah, like unemployment.
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Particularly to deejays
who go blank on the air.
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Every once in a while you meet
someone who instantly rubs you
the wrong way.
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You don't know why.
They just do.
And for some reason,
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you just wanna
rub 'em back.
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Do you know why my father
started this station?
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- As a tax dodge?
- Because he loved music.
And so do I.
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And so do I.
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I think that makes it unanimous.
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- They told me you never took anything
seriously. Now I believe them.
- I take lots of things seriously.
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- Name two.
- Quantum physics and time travel.
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No wonder you've had 12 jobs
in the last eight years.
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What are you so wound up about?
Come on. It's only... rock and roll.
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Three words.
"Chick, you're fired"?
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Your record's ending.
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Will suddenly bring showers
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Rain to grow
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The flowers
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Man, you've really got it bad
for her, don't you?
Who?
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Rachel.
Rachel?
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Uh... Uh, forget it.
No. No way.
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Nice try, Kemo Sabe,
but old Brian knows all, sees all.
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Ever since you've been here,
you've been makin'
goo-goo eyes at her.
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I have?
Mm-hmm.
But I'm tellin' you.
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She's only got time
for one thing in her life...
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to carry on the work
of her sainted father.
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And that's it.
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Hey, what are you doin'?
Uh, just gettin' ready...
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to spin some more
stacks of wax.
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Just do your sign-off
and get out of here.
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I got a shift to do.
Mouths to feed.
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Cars to pay off.
Homes to repair.
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This is... Howlin' Chick Howell...
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on, um,
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"fow"...
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uh, WOF,
730 AM,
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signing off.
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Couldn't think of
anything snappy to say.
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Sometimes happens.
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Man, you've really got it bad.
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Now, now, Fred.
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I appreciate
your opinion,
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but no matter how many editorials
you publish, I am not gonna
stop playing rock and roll.
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I'm not asking you to change
everything you do, Rachel.
Just don't play those records.
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You talk about rock and roll
like it's some kind of
contagious disease, like... like...
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Chicken pox?
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No, I think
it's just inappropriate.
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And so would your father.
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You don't know the first thing
about what my father
would say to this.
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Rachel, I am not
the only one worried...
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about what rock and roll
is gonna do to the kids in this city.
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You... You don't
seriously believe...
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that-that music is a threat
to the kids, do you?
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- Chick, stay out of this.
- Believe it, Sam.
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A lot of people did
back in the '50s.
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Well, that's ridiculous.
Chick.
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You think it's ridiculous
to be concerned about
the welfare of our children?
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Or the undermining
of family values?
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No, it's just that...
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What we're talking about,
it's just music.
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What we are talking about...
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is the future of America.
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Is this guy a dinosaur or what?
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Oh, you think that's funny?
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No, sir.
I don't think it's funny.
Well, I do!
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So did I.
I thought it was hysterical.
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I think what Rachel
is trying to say...
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is that the idea that music...
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can make people
misbehave is wrong.
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And even if it were true,
which it isn't,
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isn't this just simply a matter
of... of people not...
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listening to a particular radio station
that might be playing music...
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that they might not want
heard played?
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You don't have kids,
do you, Mr. Howell?
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You can't watch 'em
24 hours a day.
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Soon as you turn your back,
they do exactly what they want.
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And then some.
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I'm sure that you
and the other parents...
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have instilled in your children
proper family values...
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so that they know what's right
and what's wrong,
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so that no matter
what they listen to,
they'll do the right thing.
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Rachel, I didn't want
to have to do this.
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Here comes the windup.
You leave me no choice.
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Here comes the pitch.
I'm pulling my advertising.
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From now on, my paper
and my hardware store will do
their radio spots elsewhere.
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Oh, come on, Fred!
And believe me,
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so will a lot
of other businesses.
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I carry a fair amount
of weight in this town.
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Yeah, and a lot of it's
hangin' over your belt.
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Go ahead. Pull your advertising.
See if I care.
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You may not. But what about
all the other people who work
for you and their families?
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I'm not gonna stop
playing rock and roll.
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- Maybe you won't have a choice.
- What do you mean by that?
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I mean that tomorrow
at the city council meeting,
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I intend to propose a law
that will ban rock and roll
from being played over the airwaves.
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You can't do that!
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Good-bye, Fred.
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Can he?
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I don't know. Uh, maybe they could
pass some kind of weird blue law.
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What are you looking at?
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I was just thinking that you...
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handled that... well.
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Thank you.
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Oh, and Chick...
Yes?
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If you're late again tomorrow,
you're fired.
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Sounds like love to me.
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Can you believe her?
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Who?
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Who... Rachel.
Uh... Oh. Oh.
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Uh, well, Ziggy figures
there's a 92.4% certainty...
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that you're here to save her.
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Well, I hope she doesn't die,
because the way I feel right
now, I just might let her.
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No, she doesn't die.
But the station does.
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In about a year.
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And then after that,
her life goes right downhill.
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So in order to save Rachel,
I gotta save the station.
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Yeah. You gotta make
the station number one.
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The only way to do that
is rock and roll.
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Holy mackerel!
Look at this beautiful 'Vette!
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"Chick Howell." Oh, that's...
This is your car.
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Uh-oh.
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Why do I get the feeling
this is not gonna be so easy?
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You're on time!
2:46 to spare.
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Do you have even
the faintest idea of what
your first record is going to be?
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Something, uh, by the Beatles.
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Who are the Beatles?
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Oh, you mean... you mean
Buddy Holly and the Crickets,
don't you?
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Uh, right. Yeah. Right.
Beatles, Crickets...
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they're all related.
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Yeah.
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Buenos dias.
Boy am I glad to see you.
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I gotta play some music, Al.
I don't remember anything.
What about this?
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Ah, no good.
That's a "No."
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Johnny Horton,
"The Battle of New Orleans"?
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Sam, get real.
I don't remember any music, Al.
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This is not about music.
This is about talking.
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We got the team
to make the girls scream. The man
of the hour with the radio power.
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The doctor of love that knows...
What's the matter?
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Say it out loud. You gotta
get this in two minutes, Sam!
We got the team...
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that makes the girls scream...
You got a piece of paper
and a pencil?
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Get a paper and pencil.
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You're going on the air.
We got the team...
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Hey!
Didn't you see the movie?
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Good morning, Peoria!
Ow!
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This is Howlin' Chick Howell...
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comin'to you live on WOF.
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Would you excuse me,
folks, for just a second?
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Correct me if I'm wrong,
but is there a dog in here?
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Excuse me. Is there a dog...
Would you get off my lap...
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Oh... Oop... Oop. Sorry.
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Sorry.
My mistake, folks.
That's our advertising manager.
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Would you let go of my leg?
Let go! Would you let go...
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And stay out!
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Great.
Finally, a parking space for me.
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And speaking of space,
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how about
those Russians, huh?
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Hey, I had a great idea.
Instead of monkeys,
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why don't we stick old Khrushchev
on the end of a satellite
and throw him into orbit?
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I mean, how many Alfred Hitchcock
look-alikes do we need, anyway?
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Talk about your Vertigo.
Whoa!
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And don't look down!
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But enough chat-chit.
Let's put on a hit.
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Goodness gracious,
it's Jerry Lee Lewis,
"Great Balls of Fire,"
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which is probably what old Nikita baby
will be singing upon reentry.
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I just made a complete
and total idiot out of myself.
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Well, if it's any consolation,
I think they liked it, Sam.
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This is great, Al.
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Flash. President Eisenhower,
in a surprise move,
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resigned from office this morning
in order to join a Buddhist monastery.
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Said Ike,
"I just like being around guys
with less hair than me. "
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Something...
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just hot off the presses.
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This just in from Washington.
The F.T.C. announced yesterday...
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a campaign to end
misrepresentation in advertising.
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Executives at the Himalaya
Bra Company...
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could not be reached
for comment.
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Ooh!
And neither could my girlfriend.
Neither could my girlfriend.
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- I'm dyin', Al.
- Don't quit now, Sam.
You're on a roll.
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Say anything.
Tell 'em something
you know about.
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Something I know about?
Uh...
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Boy, have I got a surprise
for you campers.
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The Invisible Man has dropped by
to say a few words.
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So tell me, Viz,
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what's your favorite part
about being invisible?
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Women's dressing room
at Landon's Department Store.
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And-And, uh, what's the worst part?
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Trying to find my mouth
with my cigar.
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And that's nothing compared
to when you get the Invisible Girl
in the backseat of the car.
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And that's nothing compared
to when you get the Invisible Girl
in the backseat of the car.
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Al, this is incredible.
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I feel like a different person.
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It's like I've been given...
a license to play.
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To be... a-a completely
different person.
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Well, like, you know,
like they're gonna say in the '60s,
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like, "Let it all hang out," like.
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Man, you are on fire.
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Well, y...
Sometimes you just
get lucky, that's all.
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Whoa!
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Then again,
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sometimes you don't.
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I remember where my father
built this console.
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- He did it in our garage.
- Ow!
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- You all right?
- Yeah, yeah.
236
00:18:09,574 --> 00:18:13,101
- Started like the guys
at Apple, huh?
- What's Apple?
237
00:18:15,013 --> 00:18:17,846
Uh, no, no. "Wapple."
238
00:18:17,916 --> 00:18:22,979
WAPL. It's a radio station
I worked for in upstate New York.
239
00:18:23,054 --> 00:18:25,045
Oh.
240
00:18:26,491 --> 00:18:29,517
I used to sit
and watch him for hours.
241
00:18:29,594 --> 00:18:35,464
He was determined to have
the number-one radio station
on Earth... or at least Peoria.
242
00:18:35,533 --> 00:18:37,626
Is that what you want?
243
00:18:37,702 --> 00:18:43,106
No. I want to have
the number-one radio station
in the universe.
244
00:18:43,174 --> 00:18:46,371
But right now, I'd settle for just
getting right back on the air.
245
00:18:49,013 --> 00:18:51,345
Maybe I can help you with that.
246
00:18:55,954 --> 00:18:58,980
I can't believe that you did it.
247
00:18:59,057 --> 00:19:01,890
Well...
248
00:19:07,198 --> 00:19:09,189
Oh, my God!
249
00:19:09,267 --> 00:19:13,169
- What?
- Sam, you gotta see this.
250
00:19:13,237 --> 00:19:16,434
What is it, Al?
It is. It's Chubby Checker!
251
00:19:16,507 --> 00:19:19,738
Chubby Checker?
I can't believe it!
252
00:19:19,811 --> 00:19:22,075
Do I know you?
Friend of yours?
253
00:19:22,146 --> 00:19:25,172
- Sam!
- Uh...
254
00:19:25,249 --> 00:19:27,183
Yes! It's Chubby Checker.
255
00:19:27,251 --> 00:19:31,347
- Huh?
- Come on, baby Let's do the Twist
256
00:19:31,422 --> 00:19:34,653
"The Twist"!
257
00:19:34,726 --> 00:19:36,785
It's a pretty good demo,
but I was just tellin' him...
258
00:19:36,861 --> 00:19:39,261
I don't think it's really...
it really has what it takes.
259
00:19:39,330 --> 00:19:42,322
- The Twist?
- Say, can I borrow that
for my act?
260
00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:46,234
Uh, sure.
But I-I got it from-from you.
261
00:19:46,304 --> 00:19:49,068
Sam! Sam! If you want
this station to be number one,
262
00:19:49,140 --> 00:19:51,074
tell her
to play that demo!
263
00:19:51,142 --> 00:19:54,202
If you want this station
to be number one,
you gotta play this demo.
264
00:19:56,014 --> 00:19:57,914
That's good. I like that.
265
00:19:57,982 --> 00:19:59,916
Okay, I'll give it a play.
266
00:19:59,984 --> 00:20:04,751
I mean, assuming I can still
play rock and roll
after the council meeting.
267
00:20:04,822 --> 00:20:08,417
Believe me, nobody is gonna pass
a law banning rock and roll.
268
00:20:12,797 --> 00:20:16,426
- Hey, I like that. That's good.
- Come on, baby
269
00:20:44,695 --> 00:20:48,256
I can't believe it!
Without rock and roll,
I am dead.
270
00:20:48,332 --> 00:20:52,200
It was my ticket to number one!
The station was actually
starting to make money with it.
271
00:20:52,270 --> 00:20:55,603
Now what am I gonna do?
Play classical or jazz?
272
00:20:55,673 --> 00:20:58,665
I'll be lucky if I don't have
to sell the station in a year.
273
00:20:58,743 --> 00:21:00,768
She could hold out
another 18 months...
274
00:21:00,845 --> 00:21:03,712
if she doesn't eat
or pay any salaries.
Well... Maybe...
275
00:21:03,781 --> 00:21:07,717
I had Ziggy run some figures,
and it's grim with a capital "G."
276
00:21:07,785 --> 00:21:10,413
Maybe...
maybe you can make an appeal.
277
00:21:10,488 --> 00:21:13,685
With whom?
The Supreme Court?
That'll be quick.
278
00:21:13,758 --> 00:21:16,750
No, no, no, no.
With rock and roll, I had a chance.
279
00:21:16,828 --> 00:21:22,266
Now all we can do is
pull up the drawbridge,
get ready for the dark ages...
280
00:21:22,333 --> 00:21:24,631
That's it.
What?
281
00:21:24,702 --> 00:21:28,035
Sam, I don't like
that look in your eye.
282
00:21:28,106 --> 00:21:32,338
We're gonna go back
and pull up the drawbridge.
Sam!
283
00:21:37,815 --> 00:21:40,978
Mr. Mayor.
Leland.
284
00:21:41,052 --> 00:21:43,418
Sheriff.
Well, you did it, Fred.
285
00:21:43,488 --> 00:21:45,979
Yes, we did, didn't we?
Got the headline all ready.
286
00:21:46,057 --> 00:21:49,515
"Rock and Roll
Is Told to Stroll."
287
00:21:49,594 --> 00:21:51,528
Before you know it,
he'll be buckin' for your job.
288
00:21:51,596 --> 00:21:53,257
Just tryin' to move up
in the organization.
289
00:21:53,331 --> 00:21:55,925
Oh, well, in that case...
Millie, three more menus,
290
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,468
and give Leland the bill.
291
00:22:04,308 --> 00:22:06,970
Sam, I think this last leap
back in time...
292
00:22:07,044 --> 00:22:10,036
has added more holes to that
Swiss cheese brain of yours,
293
00:22:10,114 --> 00:22:13,049
because this... this is
completely harebrained.
294
00:22:13,117 --> 00:22:15,517
Chick, your record's ending.
295
00:22:23,227 --> 00:22:25,457
Okay, okay.
296
00:22:25,530 --> 00:22:29,466
Ladies and gentlemen, this afternoon
the city council passed a law,
effective immediately,
297
00:22:29,534 --> 00:22:32,594
that forbids the airplay of music
known as rock and roll.
298
00:22:32,670 --> 00:22:37,198
Now, we here at WOF believe
that is wrong,
299
00:22:37,275 --> 00:22:42,042
and accordingly, we intend
to keep playing rock and roll...
300
00:22:42,113 --> 00:22:44,911
until we can persuade them
to change their minds.
301
00:22:44,982 --> 00:22:46,176
So with that in mind...
Damn it!
302
00:22:46,250 --> 00:22:50,346
Honey!
It's only music!
303
00:22:50,421 --> 00:22:52,286
That they're not allowed to play.
304
00:22:52,356 --> 00:22:54,688
...In a non-hysterical way
what we're going to do.
305
00:22:54,759 --> 00:22:57,319
Coming to you live...
almost live...
306
00:22:57,395 --> 00:23:01,525
from the interstellar, out-of-the-cellar,
stand-up-and-tell-her rock group,
307
00:23:01,599 --> 00:23:05,558
Bill Haley and the Comets,
Comets, Comets, Comets!
308
00:23:17,281 --> 00:23:20,546
I want him off the air now.
Break down the door
if you have to. Just do it.
309
00:23:20,618 --> 00:23:24,213
Honey, they're not bank robbers.
Theora...
310
00:23:24,288 --> 00:23:26,222
That's private property, Fred.
311
00:23:26,290 --> 00:23:29,088
With private citizens who are
openly breaking the law.
312
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:31,651
Which you are sworn to uphold.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
313
00:23:31,729 --> 00:23:36,496
Look, I'm not gonna tell anybody
to go bustin' down any doors,
particularly with a reelection coming up.
314
00:23:36,567 --> 00:23:39,331
Now, bad publicity
is something none of us needs.
315
00:23:39,403 --> 00:23:42,133
But that's exactly what this
will be if we don't do
somethin'about it.
316
00:23:42,206 --> 00:23:45,539
Maybe we can do this
another way.
What do you mean?
317
00:23:45,610 --> 00:23:48,238
I mean, there's more than
one way to skin a cat.
318
00:23:57,521 --> 00:24:01,389
Well, if we're gonna
go down in flames,
319
00:24:01,459 --> 00:24:03,689
I'll help you
pick out the records.
320
00:24:14,671 --> 00:24:17,265
This one is really wild.
321
00:24:21,743 --> 00:24:24,111
That's perfect.
322
00:24:29,086 --> 00:24:34,285
I'd like to read you something
that, uh, we dug out of the news files
here from the Peoria Dispatch.
323
00:24:34,358 --> 00:24:38,556
It was written a couple of weeks
ago by your friend and mine,
Frederick R. Beaman.
324
00:24:38,629 --> 00:24:42,588
"I am not against music.
I love music.
But rock and roll is not music.
325
00:24:42,667 --> 00:24:47,798
"It is nothing more than the half-articulate
speech of a group of people
of extreme dress and style...
326
00:24:47,872 --> 00:24:51,933
whose radical intention
is to excite and inflame
the youth of our community."
327
00:24:52,009 --> 00:24:54,034
Now I would like
to read you something...
328
00:24:54,111 --> 00:24:58,514
written by a group
of long-haired,
weirdly dressed radicals...
329
00:24:58,582 --> 00:25:01,210
in 1791.
330
00:25:01,285 --> 00:25:03,412
It's called
the First Amendment.
331
00:25:03,487 --> 00:25:06,251
"Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion...
332
00:25:06,324 --> 00:25:10,192
"or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof,
or abridging the freedom of speech,
333
00:25:10,261 --> 00:25:13,424
"or of the press,
or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble...
334
00:25:13,497 --> 00:25:16,091
and to petition the government
for a redress of grievances."
335
00:25:16,167 --> 00:25:19,967
Now, I believe in the freedom of the press,
and I believe that Mr. Beaman
has a right to print...
336
00:25:20,037 --> 00:25:22,505
whatever he wants to
about rock and roll.
337
00:25:22,573 --> 00:25:25,235
But the First Amendment also
guarantees freedom of speech.
338
00:25:25,309 --> 00:25:30,246
And since Mr. Beaman also admits
that rock and roll is at least
in some form speech...
339
00:25:30,314 --> 00:25:33,772
uh, "half articulate speech,"
to be exact...
340
00:25:33,851 --> 00:25:37,548
then I guess that rock and roll
is also guaranteed
by the First Amendment,
341
00:25:37,621 --> 00:25:41,455
and we'd just like
to exercise that right.
342
00:25:41,525 --> 00:25:43,925
But, hey, enough seriousness.
343
00:25:43,994 --> 00:25:46,929
It's time to get back
into the swing of things,
344
00:25:46,997 --> 00:25:51,161
and what better way
than by taking a sea cruise?
345
00:25:54,438 --> 00:25:57,635
Oh, that was good!
346
00:25:57,708 --> 00:26:01,075
Yeah.
347
00:26:08,853 --> 00:26:11,287
It's your station.
My hero.
348
00:26:12,356 --> 00:26:17,020
WOF.
Oh, hello, Fred.
349
00:26:17,094 --> 00:26:20,996
- No, we're perfectly serious.
- Old man rhythm is in my shoes
350
00:26:21,065 --> 00:26:24,967
- Well, you know where to find us.
- It's no use sittin' here and singin'the blues
351
00:26:25,035 --> 00:26:27,629
So be my guest
You've got nothing to lose
Damn!
352
00:26:27,705 --> 00:26:31,573
Won't you let me take you
on a sea cruise
353
00:26:31,642 --> 00:26:33,940
Ooh-wee
Ooh-wee, baby
Fred Beaman, I hate you!
354
00:26:34,011 --> 00:26:37,071
Ooh-wee
Ooh-wee, baby
355
00:26:37,148 --> 00:26:39,378
Ooh-wee
Ooh-wee, baby
But the question is,
356
00:26:39,450 --> 00:26:41,475
I mean, why does he
hate you and rock and roll?
357
00:26:41,552 --> 00:26:43,417
I don't know.
358
00:26:43,487 --> 00:26:46,581
You know, I think until he got
on this kick, nobody paid
much attention to him.
359
00:26:46,657 --> 00:26:48,989
And now he sorta likes
being the focal point.
360
00:26:49,059 --> 00:26:53,553
Yeah, I guess so...
Oh, damn.
The lights went out.
361
00:26:53,631 --> 00:26:56,259
No kidding.
You got any kind of a backup?
362
00:26:56,333 --> 00:26:58,665
A-A generator or something?
363
00:26:58,736 --> 00:27:02,297
Uh, there's a civil defense
generator in the basement,
but I don't know how to work it.
364
00:27:02,373 --> 00:27:05,171
I don't even know
if it does work.
Only one way to find out.
365
00:27:05,242 --> 00:27:07,642
Chick!
366
00:27:07,711 --> 00:27:10,612
Sorry. I was just
trying, uh, find, uh, the door.
367
00:27:10,681 --> 00:27:14,173
Doorknobs are usually placed
a little lower, aren't they?
368
00:27:15,553 --> 00:27:19,284
They're off the air.
369
00:27:19,356 --> 00:27:21,654
Front page
tomorrow, Leland.
370
00:27:21,725 --> 00:27:23,852
No more rock and roll in Peoria.
371
00:27:25,696 --> 00:27:30,531
All righty.
Here's where we separate
the men from the boys.
372
00:27:39,043 --> 00:27:43,207
Okay, so I'm only... 12.
373
00:27:45,783 --> 00:27:48,183
Okay. All right.
374
00:27:49,487 --> 00:27:51,478
All right.
375
00:27:53,624 --> 00:27:56,218
Ouch!
376
00:27:56,293 --> 00:27:58,227
Come on.
377
00:27:59,697 --> 00:28:01,858
All set?
Okay, on three.
Yep.
378
00:28:01,932 --> 00:28:05,732
Ready?
One, two, three!
379
00:28:09,006 --> 00:28:10,940
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
380
00:28:11,008 --> 00:28:12,999
Let there be light.
381
00:28:18,349 --> 00:28:22,012
Good evening, Peoria!
382
00:28:22,086 --> 00:28:24,418
Yes!
I know what you're thinking.
383
00:28:24,488 --> 00:28:27,685
You're saying to yourselves,
"Hey, where's my good old buddy
Howlin'Chick"...
384
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,627
"been for the last
hour and a half?"
385
00:28:32,696 --> 00:28:35,187
Well, the honest truth is,
I was kidnapped by spacemen,
386
00:28:35,266 --> 00:28:38,064
taken somewhere into the future
and forced to eat Chinese food
for a week.
387
00:28:38,135 --> 00:28:41,036
Oh, and I'm still hungry.
388
00:28:41,105 --> 00:28:44,939
Mmm. But now the good news is,
I'm back. And I know exactly what
all the hits are gonna be in the future,
389
00:28:45,009 --> 00:28:47,944
and here's one right now.
390
00:29:04,161 --> 00:29:06,755
Next time,
391
00:29:06,830 --> 00:29:11,665
I get a generator that can work
the transmitter and the air conditioning
at the same time.
392
00:29:11,735 --> 00:29:14,363
Yeah, I'll drink to that.
393
00:29:14,438 --> 00:29:16,872
Maybe I'll let you buy me one
after this.
394
00:29:16,941 --> 00:29:21,571
Ooh, yeah
Just like this
395
00:29:21,645 --> 00:29:24,113
Uh, the... phone.
396
00:29:26,016 --> 00:29:28,177
WOF.
Rachel? Fred.
397
00:29:28,252 --> 00:29:30,379
Welcome back.
398
00:29:30,454 --> 00:29:34,652
I don't know how you did it, but it
sure was a slick trick. Unfortunately,
you're still breaking the law.
399
00:29:34,725 --> 00:29:37,785
Now, I've been talking to
some of my fellow advertisers.
400
00:29:37,861 --> 00:29:42,423
You keep this up, and they might
not go back to you even if you
do drop rock and roll.
401
00:29:42,499 --> 00:29:44,433
I'm afraid that's right, Rachel.
402
00:29:44,501 --> 00:29:46,594
Now, I'm holdin' 'em back
for right now,
403
00:29:46,670 --> 00:29:48,695
but I don't know how
much longer I can do it.
404
00:29:48,772 --> 00:29:53,607
Tell him he'd better try harder, because as
soon as we hang up, we're gonna call every
newspaper, radio and TV station in the state.
405
00:29:53,677 --> 00:29:56,578
We'll find out how much
he likes bad P.R.
406
00:29:56,647 --> 00:29:59,207
Oh, Fred, in about ten seconds,
407
00:29:59,283 --> 00:30:02,013
I'm gonna call every news
organization in this state.
408
00:30:02,086 --> 00:30:04,748
I'll be seeing you
on the front page.
409
00:30:22,873 --> 00:30:24,898
Damn!
410
00:30:38,922 --> 00:30:41,356
You mind if I ask you
a personal question?
411
00:30:44,094 --> 00:30:46,528
Well, since my saying no
probably won't stop you,
412
00:30:48,165 --> 00:30:50,065
go ahead.
413
00:30:50,134 --> 00:30:52,534
Why are you doing this?
414
00:30:54,171 --> 00:30:56,002
Seriously.
415
00:30:58,642 --> 00:31:01,110
There was a poem...
416
00:31:01,178 --> 00:31:03,908
in high school, I think,
that I never forgot...
417
00:31:06,250 --> 00:31:08,184
until now.
418
00:31:12,389 --> 00:31:14,755
I think it ended with...
419
00:31:17,461 --> 00:31:22,763
"And everywhere, the ceremony
of innocence is drowned.
420
00:31:22,833 --> 00:31:26,701
"The best lack all conviction,
421
00:31:26,770 --> 00:31:31,070
while the worst are full
of passionate intensity."
422
00:31:33,711 --> 00:31:37,647
I guess I just think it's time
for the best to exhibit
a little passionate intensity.
423
00:31:44,088 --> 00:31:46,352
And now it's your turn.
424
00:31:48,759 --> 00:31:51,922
Well,
425
00:31:51,995 --> 00:31:56,762
I think it's partly because
it's what my father would've done.
426
00:31:56,834 --> 00:32:01,134
- Sounds like he was a great guy.
- Oh, he was.
427
00:32:01,205 --> 00:32:05,005
He had great plans
for this place.
428
00:32:05,075 --> 00:32:08,408
He wanted to be the first
to broadcast in stereo.
429
00:32:08,479 --> 00:32:12,142
Oh! Oh!
And he always used to say,
430
00:32:12,216 --> 00:32:15,811
"The future of radio
is FM, Rachel."
431
00:32:15,886 --> 00:32:20,949
FM.
He was such a dreamer.
432
00:32:21,024 --> 00:32:23,993
Oh, I'm not sure
that's such a bad dream.
433
00:32:24,061 --> 00:32:26,427
Chick!
Chick, the record.
434
00:32:28,732 --> 00:32:31,860
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa!
435
00:32:31,935 --> 00:32:33,960
Yeah, well, you know,
for the last couple of minutes,
436
00:32:34,037 --> 00:32:37,996
you folks have been listening
to something by, uh,
Dull Needle and the Statics.
437
00:32:38,075 --> 00:32:42,034
A lot of people find it repetitive.
I like to think of it as just
plain, old daring.
438
00:32:42,112 --> 00:32:44,546
Okay. For all you dancing machines
out there who didn't rest,
439
00:32:44,615 --> 00:32:47,106
here's a little change of pace
to help you catch your breath.
440
00:32:47,184 --> 00:32:52,850
No, it's a request that's
just come in from, uh, me,
441
00:32:52,923 --> 00:32:56,654
and I'd like to dedicate it...
442
00:32:56,727 --> 00:33:00,686
to the girl I'd most like to share
a civil defense shelter with.
443
00:34:25,649 --> 00:34:27,844
What'd you do that for?
444
00:34:27,918 --> 00:34:30,716
For taking advantage of me
in a weak moment.
445
00:34:30,787 --> 00:34:33,187
Advantage?
Well, yes.
446
00:34:33,257 --> 00:34:35,885
What would you call it?
I'd call it love.
447
00:34:38,028 --> 00:34:40,588
- We were dancing, and...
- No, no, no, no.
448
00:34:40,664 --> 00:34:42,632
I would call it
rampaging hormones.
449
00:34:46,003 --> 00:34:48,267
I think you were
starting to enjoy it,
450
00:34:48,338 --> 00:34:51,364
and you got scared.
451
00:34:51,441 --> 00:34:55,104
- Maybe I just didn't like it.
- She's lying, Sam.
452
00:34:55,178 --> 00:34:59,808
It's like in the third grade.
You only pull the pigtails
of the one you love.
453
00:34:59,883 --> 00:35:02,477
Maybe you were afraid
of liking it too much.
454
00:35:03,587 --> 00:35:06,920
That is the most ridiculous thing
I have ever heard.
455
00:35:10,928 --> 00:35:12,862
Good, Sam.
Now, come on.
Make a move.
456
00:35:12,930 --> 00:35:16,957
- Is it?
- Now, go in for the kill.
457
00:35:18,368 --> 00:35:21,826
Yeah, that-that's it.
Now move in real fast,
like you're gonna kiss her real hard,
458
00:35:21,905 --> 00:35:23,429
but then...
459
00:35:32,382 --> 00:35:35,943
Looks like you've already
got the hang of it.
460
00:35:37,621 --> 00:35:41,785
Uh...
461
00:35:41,858 --> 00:35:44,418
Well, geez louise.
Uh...
462
00:35:44,494 --> 00:35:48,658
Seems like you've got
everything under control here.
463
00:35:51,335 --> 00:35:54,896
Maybe you should put on
a long-playing record.
464
00:35:57,641 --> 00:36:01,304
There he goes.
465
00:36:02,713 --> 00:36:05,147
Uh-oh.
Hey, you can't do that!
466
00:36:05,215 --> 00:36:07,581
Oh, good try, folks.
467
00:36:16,426 --> 00:36:18,690
Oh, boy.
468
00:36:19,963 --> 00:36:22,022
What?
469
00:36:22,099 --> 00:36:24,829
We're not... We're not
broadcasting anymore.
470
00:36:24,901 --> 00:36:28,166
Sam, they've cut
the transmission cables.
471
00:36:28,238 --> 00:36:31,799
It looks like we're
off the air permanently.
472
00:36:39,882 --> 00:36:44,251
Rock, rock, rock and roll!
Rock, rock, rock and roll!
473
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:47,551
Looks like they cut
our transmission cable.
474
00:36:47,623 --> 00:36:49,557
I just said that.
475
00:36:49,625 --> 00:36:53,459
Of all the lowdown, sleazy,
cheap things to do...
476
00:36:53,529 --> 00:36:58,193
You can say that again.
You cooked up this whole thing
just to get me alone with you.
477
00:36:58,267 --> 00:36:59,529
What?
What?
478
00:36:59,601 --> 00:37:01,535
I knew I should never
have listened to you!
479
00:37:01,603 --> 00:37:04,595
Me? You're the one
who wanted to do this.
480
00:37:04,673 --> 00:37:07,141
You're the one who wanted
to barricade us in here.
481
00:37:07,209 --> 00:37:10,667
Rachel!
How do I know that
we're even off the air?
482
00:37:10,746 --> 00:37:12,771
Look at the meters!
Listen to the radio!
483
00:37:12,848 --> 00:37:16,716
How do I know you didn't just rig this up
this afternoon when you were fixing it?
484
00:37:16,785 --> 00:37:19,618
Right. I suppose I made
a deal with Beaman
to call you on the phone?
485
00:37:19,688 --> 00:37:23,818
I wouldn't put it past you!
Now I'm gonna lose my radio station,
and it's all because of...
486
00:37:23,892 --> 00:37:27,191
Oh, hell. It isn't because of you.
God, I should've done what they said!
487
00:37:27,262 --> 00:37:30,891
I should've stopped
playing rock and roll.
Ooh! That's blasphemy.
488
00:37:30,966 --> 00:37:34,527
Next thing you know, she's gonna be
stepping on Elvis's blue suede shoes.
489
00:37:37,373 --> 00:37:41,070
Look, Rachel,
I know what you're thinking,
490
00:37:41,143 --> 00:37:43,873
but now's the time
when you gotta hang tough.
491
00:37:43,946 --> 00:37:47,040
It's no use.
You can't fight city hall.
492
00:37:47,116 --> 00:37:50,552
Sure, you can.
You just gotta keep
pluggin'away at it.
493
00:37:50,619 --> 00:37:54,316
Don't let 'em wear you down.
They're human. They get tired.
494
00:37:54,390 --> 00:37:57,223
They wanna go home too.
495
00:37:57,292 --> 00:38:00,659
But to make this station
number one...
496
00:38:02,264 --> 00:38:05,825
Is that... Is that really
what this is all about?
497
00:38:10,172 --> 00:38:13,903
- No.
- Attagirl.
That's the way to talk.
498
00:38:16,145 --> 00:38:18,136
I didn't think so.
499
00:38:22,151 --> 00:38:24,642
Phone.
500
00:38:24,720 --> 00:38:27,280
When it rains, it pours.
501
00:38:32,828 --> 00:38:34,762
Calling to gloat, Fred?
502
00:38:35,831 --> 00:38:40,325
No, not exactly. We're just kind of
wonderin' when you're gonna come out
now that you can't broadcast anymore.
503
00:38:40,402 --> 00:38:42,666
I'm not coming out, Fred.
504
00:38:42,738 --> 00:38:45,400
If I have to make an antenna
out of bobby pins,
505
00:38:45,474 --> 00:38:48,170
I'm going back on the air...
with rock and roll.
506
00:38:48,243 --> 00:38:50,609
I don't think that's
such a good idea, Rachel.
507
00:38:50,679 --> 00:38:54,046
Sheriff Foley here is about
to run out of patience.
He might just arrest you if you do.
508
00:38:54,116 --> 00:38:57,051
Tell Sheriff Foley to take
his nightstick and shove it...
509
00:39:02,591 --> 00:39:04,957
Jake?
510
00:39:05,027 --> 00:39:07,188
That was great.
511
00:39:09,264 --> 00:39:11,960
You said,
"When it rains, it pours"?
512
00:39:12,034 --> 00:39:15,026
Yeah.
What kind of gutters
are on this building?
513
00:39:15,103 --> 00:39:17,833
I don't know.
They're sort of old and green.
Copper!
514
00:39:17,906 --> 00:39:20,636
Oh, we may be on the air
sooner than you think.
515
00:39:22,411 --> 00:39:27,280
Rock, rock, rock and roll!
Rock, rock, rock and roll!
516
00:39:27,349 --> 00:39:31,843
Rock, rock, rock and roll!
Rock, rock, rock and roll!
517
00:39:36,158 --> 00:39:39,992
Rock, rock, rock and roll!
Rock, rock, rock and roll!
518
00:39:43,065 --> 00:39:45,556
Sam, your face
is gettin' kinda pink.
519
00:39:45,634 --> 00:39:48,569
It's gonna match
your shirt in a minute.
520
00:39:48,637 --> 00:39:50,935
Al, why am I doing this?
521
00:39:52,007 --> 00:39:56,205
Uh, you need to get
one more merit badge
before you make Eagle.
522
00:39:56,278 --> 00:39:58,678
You know what I mean.
Rachel already stood up to Beaman.
523
00:39:58,747 --> 00:40:01,773
She proved she can turn
this station around.
524
00:40:01,850 --> 00:40:05,115
She can, if the Mongol horde
down there will let her.
525
00:40:07,122 --> 00:40:11,320
You don't have any horde
repellent on you, do you?
526
00:40:11,393 --> 00:40:13,953
What?
Hit it!
527
00:40:14,029 --> 00:40:17,328
Okay!
528
00:40:17,399 --> 00:40:21,062
Hey. Look, Sam!
I'm... I'm leaping!
529
00:40:21,136 --> 00:40:24,264
No you're not leaping.
You're standing too close
to the antenna. Move away.
530
00:40:24,339 --> 00:40:27,103
- Huh?
- Move away.
531
00:40:27,175 --> 00:40:29,268
Come on. Move away.
532
00:40:30,913 --> 00:40:32,210
See?
Rats.
533
00:40:34,483 --> 00:40:39,045
Mr. Beaman, what exactly
prompted your campaign
against rock and roll?
534
00:40:39,121 --> 00:40:41,055
It's simple.
I'm an American.
535
00:40:41,123 --> 00:40:46,356
I want to keep what's good
and right about America intact.
Anything that threatens that, well...
536
00:40:46,428 --> 00:40:49,829
I'm a fighter, not a watcher.
You can say that again.
537
00:40:49,898 --> 00:40:52,799
Dagnabbit, if they keep this up,
I'm gonna have to change my name to...
538
00:40:58,974 --> 00:41:01,738
They're back on the air.
Damn it to hell!
539
00:41:09,685 --> 00:41:13,815
But hey, I know how much you
love old Howlin' Chick...
540
00:41:20,696 --> 00:41:23,961
But what you're really here for is,
uh, rock and roll.
541
00:41:57,532 --> 00:42:00,194
Mayor, you oughta consider
rescinding your law.
542
00:42:00,268 --> 00:42:02,202
We're not rescinding
anything!
543
00:42:02,270 --> 00:42:05,706
If you'd done what you were supposed
to do and arrested Rachel when I told you,
none of this would've happened.
544
00:42:05,774 --> 00:42:08,937
Arresting somebody's the last thing
we should do. That's liable to set
this whole thing off.
545
00:42:09,011 --> 00:42:14,108
I think Jake's right, Fred.
The last thing we need in front
of all this press is trouble.
546
00:42:14,182 --> 00:42:16,810
My God. Some of this press
is even national.
547
00:42:16,885 --> 00:42:20,719
What we need is to show them
that we know how to handle
things like this!
548
00:42:20,789 --> 00:42:24,816
If you don't, I do.
Fred, what
are you doing?
549
00:42:46,181 --> 00:42:48,172
Someone's trying to get in!
550
00:42:52,454 --> 00:42:56,720
- Leave my station alone!
- You broke the law, Rachel!
551
00:42:56,792 --> 00:42:59,784
A stupid law, Fred!
Couch. Come on.
552
00:42:59,861 --> 00:43:02,386
Sam, forget the couch.
That's not gonna stop Beaman.
553
00:43:02,464 --> 00:43:04,898
Oh, I think
I'm gonna get a hernia.
You got any better ideas?
554
00:43:04,966 --> 00:43:09,164
- Well, I'm just following you!
- I got Ziggy workin' on it.
555
00:43:09,237 --> 00:43:11,865
As a matter of fact, look!
556
00:43:13,008 --> 00:43:16,375
Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
Come on.
I know a way to stop Beaman.
557
00:43:20,449 --> 00:43:22,417
Frank, stop it!
558
00:43:33,628 --> 00:43:36,392
I'd like to read you something
we found in our news files...
559
00:43:36,465 --> 00:43:38,592
dated August 16, 1945,
560
00:43:38,667 --> 00:43:41,761
the day after theJapanese surrendered,
and World War II ended.
561
00:43:41,837 --> 00:43:44,271
"The guns are silent now,
562
00:43:44,339 --> 00:43:46,933
"and so are many of the men
whose hands once held them.
563
00:43:47,008 --> 00:43:50,375
"Never again will they see
their wives or mothers.
564
00:43:50,445 --> 00:43:52,777
"Never again will they hear
their children laugh.
565
00:43:52,848 --> 00:43:56,181
"And never again will they smell
the sweet scents of home.
566
00:43:56,251 --> 00:43:58,116
"And for what?
567
00:43:58,186 --> 00:44:01,485
"For what did
these husbands and fathers,
these brothers and sons,
568
00:44:01,556 --> 00:44:04,821
"give their lives so many
thousands of miles from home?
569
00:44:04,893 --> 00:44:09,159
"I say it was for one word,
and that word is 'freedom.'
570
00:44:09,231 --> 00:44:11,324
"The freedom to pray.
571
00:44:11,399 --> 00:44:14,459
"To write, to speak,
to feel, to be.
572
00:44:14,536 --> 00:44:17,972
"As we see fit, and not as others
would dictate to us.
573
00:44:18,039 --> 00:44:21,167
"To this freedom, which has been
so dearly bought for us,
574
00:44:21,243 --> 00:44:25,771
"it is up to us, the living,
to dedicate our lives
and our futures...
575
00:44:25,847 --> 00:44:28,145
to its eternal protection."
576
00:44:31,052 --> 00:44:33,953
These words were written
by Frederick Beaman,
577
00:44:34,022 --> 00:44:37,958
the editor
of the Peoria Dispatch.
578
00:44:38,026 --> 00:44:41,985
And I sincerely hope
that Mr. Beaman...
579
00:44:42,063 --> 00:44:45,658
would see it in his heart that...
580
00:44:45,734 --> 00:44:48,567
all we are looking for here...
581
00:44:48,637 --> 00:44:52,300
is... a little freedom too.
582
00:44:52,374 --> 00:44:55,832
But, uh, this is different.
583
00:44:55,911 --> 00:44:57,879
We-We fought for freedom.
584
00:44:57,946 --> 00:45:00,471
Thi... This is...
585
00:45:02,651 --> 00:45:06,246
Come on, Fred.
Let's go home.
586
00:45:42,057 --> 00:45:44,116
Why haven't I leaped?
587
00:45:44,192 --> 00:45:46,956
I don't know. Oh.
588
00:45:47,028 --> 00:45:50,293
According to Ziggy, uh,
589
00:45:50,365 --> 00:45:53,061
Rachel sticks with rock and roll,
and WOF becomes...
590
00:45:53,134 --> 00:45:56,126
the number-one
station in Peoria!
591
00:45:56,204 --> 00:45:59,537
And a year later,
she and you get married!
592
00:45:59,608 --> 00:46:04,713
Married?
Is that a proposal?
593
00:46:05,580 --> 00:46:10,074
Well?
Well, uh, I just think we should get
to know each other a little better.
594
00:46:10,151 --> 00:46:13,416
Fine.
You can buy me breakfast.
595
00:46:14,188 --> 00:46:16,622
After you finish your shift.
596
00:46:24,132 --> 00:46:26,965
Don't say a word.
597
00:46:46,454 --> 00:46:48,922
Omeyn
598
00:46:50,525 --> 00:46:53,688
And today, Karen Basch
is a bat mitzvah.
599
00:46:57,766 --> 00:47:00,326
Rabbi. Nu?
600
00:47:05,473 --> 00:47:07,805
Oy vey. I'm the rabbi.