Amusement Park
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"Amusement Park" — a scene from the classic radio show “Fibber McGee and Molly”. Public-domain recording, real voices.
Transcript
0:00 This is it, chum.
0:01 Really, Mr. Mills?
0:02 10,000 broadcasts.
0:04 That's a mess of downbeats, isn't it?
0:05 You ain't fakin', mammy.
0:11 Look, William.
0:12 William Randolph.
0:14 Let's not kid the public.
0:15 Or ourselves, either.
0:17 To do 10,000 broadcasts, do you realize you'd have to broadcast once every day for 27 years?
0:22 Sure, and we've only had broadcasting for about, uh, well, less than 20 years.
0:27 Yeah, so who's pulling whose leg?
0:30 Look, little man.
0:33 Who said anything about one broadcast a day?
0:36 I've been a staff leader and musical director in my day.
0:39 Oh, you mean before you went slumming and came with us, huh?
0:44 Yeah, and that meant I did as many as 12 shows a day.
0:47 Add that up and you get about 4,000 a year.