This is just some slowed Youtube of a broadcast and my speakers playing prepared Suno jazz, recorded with my phone, my other hand on the speed controls over at the video. My arm is dead. Worth it. [Intro] [upbeat ragtime piano enters with brass accents and woodblock] [audience applause] [Spoken] Hi, how are you? Thank you very much, Murph. Thank you all. Thank you. Leave alone then, really. It's impossible to pick up a newspaper these days without reading something about a protest, or a march, or a demonstration. This group is protesting another group's march and demonstrating against their bonfire and their rally. The pickets are against the pickets, they're picketing the pickets now. There's even one group that next week is having a parade to protest the fact that they can't get a parade permit. Now that's kind of strange. [piano flourish] It's really, it's getting just a little bit out of hand. The Hertz Rent-A-Pickets are doing wonderfully, of course. But the signs are what really scare you from time to time. "Let's get out of Vietnam," "Let's get out of the UN," "Let's get out of the street, we're blocking the traffic." [piano sting] "Ban the bomb," "Bomb the ban." "Genghis Khan is alive in Argentina." [piano trill] He is not. "Join the Mothers' March on Scurvy." It's gotten very strange. I actually even saw one guy with a sign that had nothing on it, absolutely blank, except down in the bottom it said, "Your grievance in this space, call Judson 4-414." [Musical Interlude] [fast-paced piano melody with brass hits and drum fills] [audience laughter and applause] [Spoken] But, uh, it is a little strange about these groups. We always talk about extremism and radicals, and I thought to clear a little of the air about it, we invited a fellow with us here tonight who's a member of one of these so-called radical groups. He's the local chapter head of the John Birch Society. His name is Lyle O. Higbee. The O stands for Old Glory. He's a veteran of two wars, the Depression, and a Mets double-header. Let's give him a nice welcome, Lyle O. Higbee. Thank you. Thank you. [Piano sting] Thank you very much. My name is Lyle Higbee, I'm the head of the local chapter of the John Birch Society. I'm what you might call your local chapter head. And that's a New York chapter that takes in New York, New Jersey, and parts of Idaho. [piano accent] We had a little trouble making up the zones, you understand. But we're working off an old Lewis and Clark map, you understand. [piano trill] About the only thing the Attorney General will let us have, quite frankly. But we're very well known in the area. We won the mixed bowling league last year. That's pretty important, pretty progressive for an outfit like ours. Of course, I feel that what we need is a little more progress here in the 19th century. [piano flourish] Lot of good things coming along through the Industrial Revolution's right around the corner. Steam engine will be finished next week. Lot of good things coming along for the ladies. At this time, I was going to have a guest speaker for us tonight. I'd invited the head of the Ku Klux Klan, the Grand Imperial Almighty Omnipotent Invincible Stomper. [piano sting] However, his wife won't let him out of the house tonight. [Musical Outro] [brass fanfare, piano chords, woodblock strike] [audience laughter and applause]
