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Good evening.
I'm Helen Mirren.

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And you're watching
"Documentary Now!", season 53.

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In 1983, German filmmaker,
Rainer Wolz,

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set out into the punishing
Ular Mountains of Russia

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with an uncompromising vision.

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But over the grueling months
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truth and fiction blurred,
as did man and nature.

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Witness "Soldier of Illusion."

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In the eastern part of Russia,

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between the Ular Mountains
and the Volga River,

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live the Dushkir people,
an indigenous tribe

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that populates most of
the desolate terrain

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between Russia and Kazakhstan.

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In 1982, revered
German filmmaker, Rainer Wolz,

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came to this brutal part
of the world

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with a film crew
and a single-minded vision.

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Two decades later, Rainer has
returned to the Dushkir Valley

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to retrace the arduous steps
of his ambitious plans.

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Rainer: The last time I stood
on these ignorant stones,

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I was a younger man,
filled with Bavarian pride.

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I had taken two jobs at once,
with the vinegar of the pompous

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declared I could shoot
both projects at the same time,

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on the same location.

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One was a film chronicling
the life of

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the Dushkir people during their
Tusian sheep breeding season.

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[Sheep bleating]

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The other was a CBS sitcom
called "Bachelor Nanny",

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the story of a single guy who,

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after agreeing to take
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has to juggle babies and babes.

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[Bird screeches]

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[Choir singing]

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[Cheers and applause]

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Hello!

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But when a camera
is brought into nature,

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like the tool given
to the Jester Monkey,

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the very state of nature
is changed.

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A wilderness with a camera in it
is no longer a wilderness.

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It's something else.

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And when you add
another camera to that,

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you are adding a camera
to a new thing,

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which is a wilderness
with already a camera in it.

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Each lens distorts
the previous distortion.

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What you are left
with at the end

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is not a wilderness anymore,

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but an illusion
resembling a wilderness.

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[Sheep bleating]

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Narrator: Rainer has been living
among the Dushkir

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for several months,
building trust among the natives

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and collecting footage
for his documentary.

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Meanwhile, Alan Yaffa,
head of comedy at CBS,

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has arrived
to supervise production

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on Rainer's other project,

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the sitcom pilot
for "Bachelor Nanny."

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Alan: A couple years ago,
I inherited a slate of shows

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that were so Hiroshima like

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in terms of how
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let me just say this.

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I wouldn't screen
that season's pilots

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for Helen Keller.

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On the off, off chance
that her nurse or whatever,

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on the off chance that
her friend wrote with her finger

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on Helen Keller's palm
what was happening,

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and Helen could
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I wouldn't even risk that.

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So I needed new material,
and I went looking for it.

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And I got my hands on a hot spec
called "Bachelor Nanny"

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by this fresh new voice,
Mark Pomerance.

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He's 40, white, Jewish,

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worked on eight other series,
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So I wanted to bring
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who could take this material off
the page and make it all happen.

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Alan Yaffa at CBS,
and Sharon Schuster

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at Lorimar, who I love.

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Everyone loves Sharon.

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They came to me with this piece,
"Bachelor Nanny",

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after seeing
a three-hour film of mine,

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"The Trials of Master Pfreim."

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And I said, "I can do the pilot
but I must shoot it here,

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where the Volga River
meets the Ular Mountains,

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where Russia meets Asia
and the ancient past

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meets the present misery."

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And for my fee, I ask nothing.

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So Yaffa said, "Okay, cool."

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[Sheep bleating]

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Narrator: One of the first
challenges the production faced

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was finding a space
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in a region devoid
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Rainer: In order to construct
the proper television studio,

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we considered using this
abandoned Soviet mine in Torkik.

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At one time the sixth largest
source of boron in Eurasia.

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[Speaking indistinctly]

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The acoustics are very good.

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La! La! La!
Oh! Oh! Oh!

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In the silence,
we can hear the anguish

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of the men mining boron
decades ago.

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And maybe, we can hear
our own heartbeats.

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We could build
a Jacuzzi set here.

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Oh, yeah, yeah --

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The tunnel of the mine
was deep and treacherous

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but the cast, crew,
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would have to be secured
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They ascend this wall 24 meters,

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then on the ridge,
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and that's quite perilous.

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Oh, ya.

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We explained
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that we planned on having
four sets of bleachers

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for live studio audience
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[Speaking indistinctly]

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Ah, we will have
a big laugh,

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like "Ha! Ha! Ha!"
Look at the Bachelor Nanny."

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And little laughs like,
"Ya ya, that's a funny one."

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And if someone walks
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-Oh yeah.
-...it will be

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a, "Whoop, whoop,
whoop, whoop!"

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[Speaking native language]

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Narrator: With the boron mine no
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Rainer would now have to build
the entire sitcom set outdoors,

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in the punishing landscape
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[Choir singing]

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[Shouting in native language]

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And pull! Pull! Pull!

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Pull!

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Not bad. Retrieving the line,
retrieving the line.

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[Shouting indistinctly]

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[Rope straining]

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Watch the balls!
Watch the balls!

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My documentary on the Dushkir

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and pre-production
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worked symbiotically
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stopped making their
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and instead made
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for "Bachelor Nanny."

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[Speaking native language]

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[Chuckles]

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[Sheep bleating]

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This will be the bar area.
Bachelor pad needs a bar.

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Okay.

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Back, get more please.

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[Motor starts]

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Good! Perfect!

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[Sheep bleating]

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Narrator: With set construction
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Rainer and Yaffa
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So, I'm in -- [Coughs]
Pardon me.

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I'm in bed one night,
and I'm flipping around,

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and I see this comedian
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Gary Jacks.

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We have somebody new for you
to meet this evening.

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-You know, just the other night,
I was in bed with my girlfriend,

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and she said "Honey, do you ever
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when we're making whoopy?"

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[Laughter]

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And I said, "What?"

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And I took out
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because I'm a gentleman, right?

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[Applause]

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He was funny.

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We had found our bachelor.

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Narrator: Comedian Gary Jacks
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after a 35-hour journey.

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This is a good place
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By the water.
Kind of hungry.

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As the series lead and number
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Gary would have to win
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by participating
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known as the Wolf Game.

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[Speaking
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[Growls]

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[Chuckles]
This is so weird!

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Okay, what do I do?
What do I do?

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He's a wolf.
You must kill him.

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He's a wolf,
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with this
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Okay. You are a wolf,
and you must die!

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[Groans]

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[All shouting]

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The wolf was your brother!
You killed your brother!

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You told me
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You must beg the wolf
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I'm so sorry.
Please forgive me.

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I didn't even know
I had a brother --

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The wolf spirit
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To celebrate,
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and Gary Jacks signed
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He was now a part of the tribe.

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Gary: This is kind of like
the holy grail

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if you're a comedian.

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If this gets picked up, which,
you know, I think it will,

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this is going to be a long road
but ultimately a good one.

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I'm excited.

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When it came to
Bachelor Brian's

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best friend, Gordy,
we and the network agreed,

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former child star
Kevin Butterman,

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better known as
Little Randy Sullivan from

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ABC's "The Sullivan Kids",
of course.

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Now, Kevin's career had
evaporated with adulthood,

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and I knew that
he would bring to Gordy,

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the desperate longing
of a broken man.

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Shooting on location.

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I've never shot
on location before.

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Kevin: I've got to tell you,
I've never been more excited

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to do a pilot than I am
this one, with Rainer Wolz.

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A dream catcher necklace.

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About seven years ago,

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I wondered into what I thought
was a porno theater,

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and it turned out
to be an art house cinema.

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And I wanted to go there
to see something naughty.

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I did, you know, I was
in a place in my life where...

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You know, whatever.

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A double feature came on,

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"The Bavarian Widow Cole"

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and "The Cruel Pubescence
of Anst Dangler",

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both by Rainer Wolz,

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and, oh, God I just...

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I felt like a kid again.

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Just thinking, "Who made this?"

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I got to work with this guy.

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Narrator: Rainer had found
his two leads,

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but casting
the series' love interest

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was proving to be complicated.

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April, well,
she is a no nonsense

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yet attractive woman
with plenty of comebacks.

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She's Shelley Long pretty

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but with a tougher
attitude basically.

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Someone who has seen it all,

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but also knows her way
around the bedroom.

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Narrator: To calm rising
tensions between the Dushkir

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and the "Bachelor Nanny"
production, Rainer and CBS

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give the role of April
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a strange soul called Masho.

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Rainer: Masho? Masho?

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Look into the camera.

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No, don't look at me.
Look at the camera. Perfect.

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The whole ecosystem of
the "Bachelor Nanny"

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was based on
the adorable twin babies

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that the bachelor
has to raise.

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The youngest set of multiples
within 500 miles

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were Nanct and Danct,
two mute Dushkir boys.

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They would play our baby girls.

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Nanct and Danct are perfect.
I'm happy.

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Why do you think
I need four twins?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I know, good,
you're right.

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Okay, find another set of twins.

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So we would cast
the spinster sisters Brunsk,

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whom God has been unkind to,
as our backup babies in case

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Nanct and Danct get colicky
and screamy on tape night.

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Yeah.

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It's good, it's good.

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My assistant director
was known only as Half-Tone.

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He had lived in a monastery
in Bavaria from the age of 10,

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after having ecstatic visions
of a voluptuous Virgin Mary.

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In 30 years of friendship,

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Half-Tone has never slept
in my presence,

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nor said anything to me

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to suggest he has
experienced sleep.

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We were filming a hair
and makeup test one day

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when nature reared
her monstrous head.

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Two bears,
Kamchatka brown bears,

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had entered out base camp.

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We could tell from
the tight ribs against their fur

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that they were hungry
and enraged.

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[Bear breathing heavily]

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[Sighs]

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[Bear snarling,
people scream]

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Our Dushkir crew,
nurtured from birth

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by the brutality of the Ular
plains, fled to higher ground.

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[Bear snarling]

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Reinhart, my camera operator,

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knowing the importance
of the camera test

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to the decision makers
in Burbank,

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moved to protect the camera.

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The ferocious creature's
claws buried themselves

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in Reinhart's flesh,
puncturing his lung.

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Our boom operator,
Henri, froze.

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It was just him and the bear.
Surely he would be next.

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But then, Half-Tone,
in a holy rage

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and armed with
a solingen Bowie hunting knife,

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attacked the male
bear and his girlfriend.

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[Bear growling]

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[Knife plunging]

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[Screaming]

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After the violence that
Half-Tone committed that day,

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I would only ever show this
footage to CBS head of comedy,

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Alan Yaffa.

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The shirt is good, right?
You like the shirt?

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The makeup test
would prove successful.

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Is that a bear?
Yeah.

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However,
the orgy of violence

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that followed it
would be another story.

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Jesus Christ.

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Half-Tone's attack
was so swift and brutal...

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What happened?...that the Kamchatka bear

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and his girlfriend survived
68 stab wounds

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before escaping
to the safety of death.

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Ah!

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No one can see this.

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I agree.

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I will destroy
the footage.

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But it will continue
to haunt us forever.

321
00:18:21,361 --> 00:18:22,579
Are they going to try
something different

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with Gary Jacks' hair?

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00:18:24,799 --> 00:18:26,453
Yes, of course.

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Okay.

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[Shouting in native language]

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[Groans]

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Rainer:
His encounter with the bears

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had rocked Half-Tone
to his very marrow.

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[Speaking native language]

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Rainer:
From that day forward,

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he only wore the prescribed cowl
of his former monastery.

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Well, 'cause then it's like this
is my friend's place.

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Narrator: The ill-fated bear
attack eats into

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valuable prep time,
reducing Rainer's

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two-week rehearsal period
down to only three days.

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He and the actors
now focus on scene work

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and building chemistry.

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Rainer: Action.

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00:19:13,239 --> 00:19:16,155
Gordy, I'm telling you,
this landlady --

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"lady" is in quotes --

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this woman is the reason
earplugs were invented.

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Enter Masho,
with a plunger.

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Line, Masho.

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-[Speaking native language]
-So, you need a plunger.

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Did your after shave melt
the pipes?

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Friend of my friend line.

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00:19:34,782 --> 00:19:37,176
My friend,
she is a 10.

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00:19:37,306 --> 00:19:38,742
How are you not
thanking God

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this babe lives
in your basement?

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Off stage we here babies
crying, wah, wah.

351
00:19:44,487 --> 00:19:46,359
Maybe we should
block her?

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00:19:46,489 --> 00:19:48,404
Yes! She cannot
see the babies.

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-[Speaking native language]
-Were those babies?

354
00:19:51,625 --> 00:19:53,366
Your lease says no babies.

355
00:19:53,496 --> 00:19:57,370
No. That's a song from my
favorite album, "The Crybabies."

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Giggle, giggle
from the audience.

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00:19:59,502 --> 00:20:01,852
Thanks for the plunger.
I'll see you soon.

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00:20:01,983 --> 00:20:04,986
And that -- this door's
going to open -- right, okay.

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00:20:05,116 --> 00:20:08,555
-We'll fix it on today.
-Okay. Yeah.

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Masho, out.
Babies, stop crying.

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00:20:12,254 --> 00:20:16,171
Whew! That was a close call.
She almost saw the twins.

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Gordy reenters with the twins
wrapped in baby swaddles.

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They each
have pacifiers.

364
00:20:21,350 --> 00:20:23,744
Boy, these pacifiers
really work.

365
00:20:23,874 --> 00:20:25,485
I should get one
for my ex-wife.

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Gigantic laugh!

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00:20:27,878 --> 00:20:30,577
And...that's the blow!

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00:20:30,707 --> 00:20:33,667
And with that,
we fade to commercial.

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Okay! Okay!

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00:20:36,191 --> 00:20:37,323
-Okay.
-I love it.

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00:20:37,453 --> 00:20:38,759
-It's perfect.
-It's perfect.

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-The pace is awesome.

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Narrator: Just as the cast
is finding its groove,

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the production receives
a surprise visit.

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-Rainer: Who is here?
-[Speaking native language]

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00:20:48,899 --> 00:20:51,032
Gary Jackson.Who's Gary Jackson?

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00:20:51,162 --> 00:20:53,817
[Speaking native language]

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00:20:53,948 --> 00:20:57,604
Oh, Gary Jacks.
That's Gary Jacks. Yes.

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00:20:57,734 --> 00:21:00,128
Gary Jacks.This is Gary Jacks.

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00:21:00,259 --> 00:21:01,521
-Yeah.
-How's it going, guys?

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00:21:01,651 --> 00:21:03,566
Narrator: Under Andropov,
the Soviet Union

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had outlawed indigenous
activities and games.

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Footage of Gary Jacks
playing the Wolf Game

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00:21:10,312 --> 00:21:12,923
had fallen
into the hands of the KGB.

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00:21:13,054 --> 00:21:14,882
They're saying they will
shut down filming

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00:21:15,012 --> 00:21:17,101
and expel all of us.

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00:21:18,929 --> 00:21:22,281
Or they can take Gary Jacks.

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00:21:23,151 --> 00:21:25,414
If we promise not to make
an international incident

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00:21:25,545 --> 00:21:27,590
out of it, they...

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00:21:27,721 --> 00:21:29,940
they will let us continue.

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00:21:33,683 --> 00:21:35,642
[Sheep bleating]

392
00:21:35,772 --> 00:21:38,079
Uh, can I have
a word with you?

393
00:21:38,209 --> 00:21:39,472
Yeah. Yeah.

394
00:21:39,602 --> 00:21:41,387
In here? Sure.

395
00:21:41,517 --> 00:21:44,955
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
everything's fine.

396
00:21:45,086 --> 00:21:46,653
They're saying that...

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00:21:46,783 --> 00:21:47,828
[Continues inaudibly]

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00:21:47,958 --> 00:21:49,569
[Speaking foreign language]

399
00:21:49,699 --> 00:21:52,920
Hey, hang on.
Rainier, what's going on?

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00:21:53,050 --> 00:21:56,706
Rainer: Gary Jacks,
a frequent guest of Merv Griffin

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00:21:56,837 --> 00:21:59,318
and "The Tonight Show",

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00:21:59,448 --> 00:22:02,321
was whisked away
to a fate unknown.

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00:22:06,455 --> 00:22:10,459
With less than a week to go
before tape night,

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00:22:10,590 --> 00:22:14,985
we seemed destined to be another
carcass on the shores of Hades.

405
00:22:17,292 --> 00:22:22,558
Then, with a trepidation
of the inevitable,

406
00:22:22,689 --> 00:22:29,217
I realized I had the man in mind

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00:22:29,348 --> 00:22:31,915
who would take his place.

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00:22:32,220 --> 00:22:35,441
Man: Hey! Rainer!

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00:22:35,832 --> 00:22:37,356
[Speaking native language]

410
00:22:40,402 --> 00:22:42,361
I am the sun!

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00:22:47,061 --> 00:22:51,152
Rainer: In just a short time
with the Tusian mountain sheep,

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00:22:51,282 --> 00:22:54,285
it was deeply impressed upon me
how enormously stupid

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00:22:54,416 --> 00:22:57,506
these foul creatures
actually are.

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00:22:57,637 --> 00:23:00,291
I was equally amazed
with the majestic heights

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00:23:00,422 --> 00:23:02,381
of the Dushkir
people's patience

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00:23:02,511 --> 00:23:05,558
in abiding by
their wooly companions,

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00:23:05,688 --> 00:23:09,997
for I would have abandoned
the little morons long ago.