It’s night time in the big city.

Something isn’t quite right.

Nobody will answer the phone.

“Every place I go, and I go a lot of places, people say hello.”

It’s night time in the big city.

A man bangs the 8 ball into the corner pocket.

Neon sputters and goes out.

(Smells Like Teen Spirit (instrumental) – The Bad Plus)

Bob reads from William Shakespeare “As usual, Willie the Shake / Sheik said everything you need to say, so for the next hour we’ll just be presenting footnotes of a musical variety on the subject of youth and age, young and old…”

It’s night time in the big city

A storm is coming

A woman wonders.

(Dragnet Theme in Background)

“This is the city: Los Angeles, Ca...Sometimes you want to know about more than just the city, you want to know about the whole state. That’s where I step in, I host the radio show.”

It’s night time in the big city

A woman dances beneath a strobe light

A man rolls a joint on the second Johnny Winter album

“It’s October, or as I like to call it, Rock-tober. Which of course means next month is Roll-vember…May you never hear surf music again. That’s actually Jimi’s thought, not mine.”

It’s night time in the big city

Vandals deface a wall

There are no stars in the sky.

“Here at TTRH, we’ve always aspired to be the Cadillac of radio shows. So it’s only apropos that we take one of those baby’s out on the road!”

It's night time in the big city

Two high school kids steal a case of beer

Sneakers hang from a phone wire

What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!

how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable!

in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!

the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.

It’s night time in the big city

A man’s wife confronts his mistress

There’s a low cloud cover

Two runaways sleep in a doorway

“This week we’ve got kind of a controversial subject…Something you’re not allowed to do inside a restaurant, or even a bowling alley. It didn’t used to be that way. It was something you used to be able to do right out in public. You didn’t have to hide in your own house doing it. Today’s show is all about smoking. We’re not here to encourage it or to glorify it. You’re smart enough to look up all the facts…So sit back, smoke em if you got em, and enjoy the next 60 minutes as we blow a few musical smoke rings your way.” (background intro music is Smoke Gets in Your Eyes/Coleman Hawkins)

It’s night time in the big city

Thunder echoes through the streets

A man rents a hotel room under an assumed name

“Every week we tell you that we specialize in dreams, schemes, and themes. Every week we play a theme. The show itself is kind of a scheme. Well that leaves one subject left.”

It’s night time in the big city

A woman cuts pictures of places she’ll never visit out of a magazine

I wonder if there’s any cake left

“Let’s get this party started!”