GE 1997-8 Season 4 Episode 1: Intro
Note: this is not a transcript, but a working draft of the script, so there may be differences in the aired version.
PAUL: Hello, Bonjour, Blessuth Canada, Iceland and all points in between !
My name is Paul Moth. We have returned.
On today's show: summer cabins become a thing of the seasonal past;
youngsters get a smoking lesson as we celebrate Nfld Industry; roll up
a good new book and get high on modern Canlit.
All this, for you, with me, on The Great Eastern, Nfld.'s Cultural Magazine.
SFX: THEME UP AND OUT
Whew ! What a summer it has been.
More tourists than you could squeeze into a government-funded hotel renovation.
Even ignoring fire regulations.
And the disasters. Well, you must be as tired hearing about them as we are.
One catastrophe some of you may not know about is that, unfortunately, we
no longer will be carried in Canada on the CBC AM band. However, there
will be partial distribution of our show on something called Radio One and
Radio Two. I am assured by those in the know that this is a top-rank service
and eventually it will reach most Canadians.
Thankfully, there will be no similar disruption to our Icelandic services.
Anyway, a big nautical hello to you.
And, speaking of that wonderful isle, what a week we had over there !
I've just returned from our annual "Last Saturday in August in Iceland"
show. Reykjavik always blows me away. And this year, more than ever.
On a personal note for Kristin, I know she's listening.
DROY-mahr MEE-nir UR-thoo ath VERoolayka. Taak K-EYE-RRleya. (My dream
came true. Draumar mķnir uršu ([like the eu in deux]) uaš veruleika.
Thanks a lot, thanks much, gee, thanks a lot. Takk kęrlega.)
Also on last week's show, you may remember that we enjoyed a visit
from Newfoundland Trivia expert Rock Hiscock. Rock fielded a question
concerning Canadian Prime Minister MacKenzie King and his interest in
the occult.
(deep breath)
We are now obliged to make an apology and clarification with regards
to Rock's answer to that query.
And let me first off admit that, though I may have egged Rock on, I
did not "bait" him as some have suggested.
Anyway, Rock's insinuation of questionable or inappropriate relations
between Prime Minister King and his beloved dog, Pat, is entirely
supposition on the part of Mr. Hiscock.
Furthermore, there is no evidence of a continuing "cult of the dark
arts" or "hidden world of secret societies" governing the country
from beneath Ottawa.
Michael Enright, the former host of the celebrated radio program
As It Happens, is not a "Grand Master Freemason."
Perrin Beatty, President of our sister broadcaster The CBC, is not "a
Jesuit appliance under the remote control of an alternate, second papacy".
Mr. Hiscock was stretching the truth when he suggested he served in
the capacity of Best Boy in a false lunar landing staged by NASA in
1968 near Fermeuse on Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula. NASA assures
us they do not have a "drama department".
The Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland apologizes to The
Ottawa-Carlton SPCA, The Masonic Order, The Society of Jesus, The
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, IATSE, Beatty
Appliance of .... Ontario, and the Broadcasting Corporation of
Canada for these errors and any distress they might have caused.
Whew.
Now, recorded in my Reykjavik hotel room was this group from
Finland. Here is Anjellin Tee-tot, with "Gouktelogiovcci."
Gooktelojovechi
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