A Prairie Home Companion Page #3

- I been thinkin' about him all day long.

- Yeah.

Rusty always comes to my mind.

Does it?

# Go tell Aunt Gladys #

- # Go tell Aunt Gladys #

- That's it!

# Go tell Aunt Gladys #

# The old brown dog is dead #

# An old brown dog named Rusty #

# An old brown dog named Rusty #

# An old brown dog named Rusty #

# He just laid down and died #

- Ruff! Ruff!

- Right on cue.

- It was... I mean...

- Bow wow wow!

- Ow, ow, ow!

- Bark bark bark!

- Oooowww!

- How-ow!

I don't know if we were

harmonizing with him...

or he was harmonizing with us.

# Oh, he died from chasin' squirrels #

Ladies and gentlemen...

# He died from chasin' squirrels #

This is not a test.

# He died from chasin' squirrels #

We're at two minutes from broadcast.

# He ate one and got sick #

# Must've been a bad one #

- # Must've been #

- Ha ha!

# A bad one #

# It must've been a bad one #

# He just laid down and died #

Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

Oh, God! This is it!

Oh!

I'm going into labor!

Oh! Uh... oh, my gosh!

I can feel it!

My baby's coming out!

It's going to come out on

this dirty make-up room floor!

Oh! Oh! Whoa!

Just take it easy.

Just kidding.

- Ohh! You...

- You phony!

Get her up out of there.

You were fakin'? !

I was callin' 911!

I'm sorry.

They just wouldn't pay attention.

- I had to think of something...

- I'm going to work.

- Oh!

- Didn't mean to scare you, Donna.

Wilmer Scott.

- Let's go.

- Garrison!

Wilmer Scott was the one

who hypnotized the chickens...

- There you go.

- on the show.

He did like, what,

four of those chickens in a row.

- Four or five of them.

- Who was Wilmer Scott?

He was the host of that

Rise and Shine Show.

Early in the morning. 5 A.M..

That's, uh, what, uh,

G.K. got started in radio.

Right. Gospel show.

And he hypnotized chickens

on the radio?

No, but he did

the chickens on this show.

On this show?

Not on that Rise and Shine Show.

OK.

All right, let's dim the house lights.

You remember when

he did those chickens?

- Hypnotized them?

- Yep.

Chinese chickens, right?

Kung Pao, I believe.

With the little... didn't they have a little...

Here we go. Over here.

Piscacadawadaquoddymoggin.

Pisca what?

The sponsor. 5 A.M..

Rise and Shine Show.

What was it called?

Made of buffalo grass...

And thirty seconds to broadcast, please.

Sassafras, and natural grain alcohol.

What was it called?

Piscacadawadaquoddymoggin.

No, it's

Piscacadawadaquoddymoggin.

- Places, please.

- OK. Places.

That's what I said.

Remember the jingle?

How it went?

# Piscacadawadaquoddymoggin

Medicinal Formula #

Standin' by.

Here we go.

It was what Wilmer Scott

had in his coffee cup...

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