GE 1998-9 Season 5 Episode 26: Paulitorial
Note: this is not a transcript, but a working draft of the script, so there may be differences in the aired version.
PAUL: One moment please.
That good old radio standby.
I hope our local audience will humour me here a moment
as we say goodbye to our foreign listeners. This is our
last live broadcast to the mainland, and I would be remiss
in not mentioning this fact to you.
It has been another memorable year. It seems we run in to
each other quite regularly.
Ah, the joys of hearing from Saskatchewan farmers on holiday
in the Cook Islands; from the guy who heard the show for the
first time while driving to Ann Arbor, Michigan and cried with
delight; from fans who've been with us from the first summer
and who are now part of the family; from the same failiar
names who enter the contest each week, and also have a personal
note for us; who send birthday cards, and Christmas cards, and
Valentine's Day cards, and baseball cards, and smut.
And just look at all this .... stuff I've accummulated over
five years.
Wow ... we've been together for five years.
Hard to believe.
You know what they say, the five year mark in a relationship
is the watershed.
So, I mean, now that we're here, at the end of the season, after
five years, maybe the idea of a trial separation isn't such a
bad thing. To see where we're at.
You'll linger over the repeats during the next couple of weeks,
remembering some of the good times we've had. After that, who
knows what will happen. Maybe you'll find another show to listen
to. I'll have to live with that. Maybe I'll find a new audience.
Whether we get back together or not depends on many things,
most of them out of our control.
If we're lucky enough to survive this experiment, though, there's
one ground rule I'm going to insist upon. You can't tell me what
shows you listened to, and I won't tell you about ... anyway.
I have not ... and will not ... forget you. I'm wearing something
of yours now, (sniff) just to remember you by, until we meet again.