Small Town News: KPVM Pahrump (2021) s01e03 Episode Script

1
Welcome back to News 25. Tonight, beginning at 6 PM,
Eric Trump, the president's son, will be speaking at
the Make America Great Again rally.
And, in more local news,
a guest at a local business
is surprised by a person
who was reportedly waiting to rob them.
Speaker (on PA): Are we excited to see Eric Trump in a few minutes?
(crowd cheering)
♪
Ronda: I think that during a political season,
we always get pretty excited
if a presidential candidate
comes into town, to Pahrump.
Or even their representatives come in.
For instance, when Hillary was running,
Bill Clinton came,
and we covered that. I got my picture with him.
Yeehaw, you know? It was great. (laughs)
I-- you know, just the fact that they're coming to Pahrump.
Pahrump, Nevada. Small little place.
Just shows you that we do make a difference.
("The Star-Spangled Banner" playing)
-(anthem ends) -(crowd cheering)
(news theme playing)
♪
You are amazing people who love this nation.
And guys, you look at the radical left.
They're the least tolerant people.
It's not a holiday tree.
It's a damn Christmas tree! Call it a Christmas tree!
(crowd cheering)
We're fighting for something that we love,
and that's called the red, white, and blue.
(crowd cheering)
♪
Deanna: I don't fan-girl over politicians.
To me, if you're, you know, a 4H kid
or you're the president, you're pretty much equal.
-(crowd cheering) -Eric Trump: God bless you, Nevada, God bless Pahrump.
-We love this place. -(cheering)
Deanna: So when I knew that Eric Trump was coming,
I did a post on our local Pahrump Facebook page
saying, "what's a question you would like to ask Eric Trump?"
So, we got a lot of interesting, um, answers.
Some of them were legitimate, and some of them were crazy.
You know, like, "What's it like to have,"
you know, "Satan as your father?"
You know, things like that.
So nice to see you. How's everything?
-Deanna: Pretty good. How you doing? -Eric: I'm doing very well.
Deanna: Question from one of our viewers which is,
"What can we do to ensure a fair election?
-One that is embraced by both sides?" -Yeah. Well, first of all,
we can have governors actually conduct honest elections.
Some states' governors are great,
and some states' governors are a disaster. So, second of all,
we're gonna have such a great turnout that even if they cheat,
it's not gonna matter.
(Deanna speaking)
Thanks, everyone. Thanks so much.
-Deanna: Thank you. -Eric: You guys are the true road warriors.
Thank you, man.
-How we looking? You feel good? -Oh, man, I'm loving it.
I am constantly being accused
of being biased, but yet
it's like, okay, well,
there's always two sides to a pancake, okay?
Yeah. We cover
Trump rallies, Biden rallies
because, in Pahrump, pro-Trump news always sells.
The goal is get it
the same on each side. But the thing of it is,
you can never get an equal
cooking of a pancake
on both sides. You just can't.
You may have butter in the pan on the first side,
and no butter on the other side.
You guys feel good?
(Vern speaking)
-Trump Force One, I like that! Good to see you, man! Take care. -Vern: Yeah.
(laughs) He acknowledged my hat.
Trump Force One. (laughs)
(indistinct chatter)
♪
Vern: Let me see. Look up, Deanna!
I'm trying to send Ubaldo something right now.
Ubaldo: I'm right here. What do you possibly need to send me?
I was gonna send you a picture of a dog.
-Ubaldo: Of a dog? -Yeah.
Ubaldo: Three, two
Well, President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden
are in Cleveland, Ohio today for their first of three debates,
35 days before the presidential election.
It's scheduled to run 90 minutes.
And a local man gets additional charges
after he is arrested for making a terrorist threat.
(interviewer speaking)
Eunette: Yeah.
Eunette: Well, gotta stay up on current events.
And always, during political coverage,
try to convey non-verbally
the nonpartisan objectivity. (laughs)
Well, all journalists, we all have to be unbiased.
We all have to make sure that our opinions
are not those that are represented on air,
and that it's neutral information that we're sharing.
Stay up on current events and try to be neutral. (laughs)
Unbiased, fair, balanced, objective.
♪
That's always the goal
of any journalist.
I gotta put on my, uh, my Trump-wear.
It's like a major sporting event.
(laughs)
Hi, puppy!
(applause on TV)
-Deanna: Here it is. -Chris Wallace: Gentlemen,
a lot of people have been waiting
for this night, so let's get going.
(interviewer speaking)
(laughs)
Do you really wanna know?
Donald Trump: It's China's fault. It should've never happened.
Joe Biden: I wanna make sure--
Wallace: Mr. President, can you let him finish?
Biden: He doesn't know how to do that.
Ronda: Oh my God, what a disaster.
-Exactly. -Biden: I know how to do the job.
Really? You had 47 years,
and then you had another eight in office.
-I want to hear this. -(debate continues)
Vern: This election, it's not so much for Trump.
It's about what his political stance is.
He believes in businesses, but under
a Biden administration, we have higher taxes
and more cost of operation.
That means to me that the people who I love and care for
and work for me cannot work for me
because I can't afford 'em anymore.
That's what it always comes down to.
If my costs go up, employees go down.
-Trump: The radical left-- -Biden: Would you shut up, man?
Wallace: Gentlemen, we have ended this segment.
We're gonna move on to the second segment.
Biden: That was really a productive segment, wasn't it?
♪
(phone ringing)
Hello, KPVM. Telemarketers.
-And you'll get that all day long, too. -Okay.
Alright. There's also a couple of people who called.
One of them, he's a veteran, a retired veteran.
-Mm-hmm. -So he is gonna be ranting and raving all the time.
And so whenever there's a news story
and they're bashing Trump, you're gonna get calls from him.
Don't call the cops. He's not really gonna come
and blow up the station.
(laughs)
I'm Memorie, and I've worked here for, um
a year and six months.
I'm on both ends of the spectrum,
so I'm an account executive. So I have my sales clients,
meaning I go out, I sign agreements, I write scripts,
I record TV and radio commercials,
I get everything set up,
and then I'm the administrative assistant, so I do the books.
So, I'm like
Ronda: So, for radio,
you must make sure your
scripts are approved by your clients
before they go to voiceover
because it's wasting time and money.
I tend to go to Ubaldo and load all kinds of stuff on him.
Here, I got all this! Here you go, take care of it!
Ronda: The fall for us
is usually a very busy time, even without political season.
We're just such a small station
that we're splintered in so many ways,
just trying to you know.
Take care of everything.
And that's it. Thank you, everyone, for being here.
Before we break away, I need a cookie order for this week.
-So who needs Crumbl? -Ronda: Oh my gosh, I can't even think.
♪
Ronda: That's Foxy.
-Hi, Foxy! -(dogs barking)
We're at the shelter. We're gonna do Save A Pet.
-Hi! We got dogs. -Darbie: Hi, guys.
Deanna: I'm gonna play with dog toys.
Our goal of every newscast
is to get information out there,
but during election season, we have to balance
what is happening nationally
and what's happening locally.
Oh my god. It's the coronavirus right here. Look.
It's COVID.
-I've been infected. (laughs) -Darbie: Can I see it?
-(dogs barking) -Did you get infected?
Darbie: Working with my mom is really fun.
-Don't throw COVID at me! -Darbie: Ew!
-(laughter) -I've been doing the Save A Pet
since I was 15.
Today, we are joined with six-week-old kittens.
My mom started working for KPVM in 2006,
and then I started coming with her on my summer vacations
from school then, and then,
I actually got hired on as staff around 15.
Is there a hound dog in there? Looks like a hound dog-- Oh!
Darbie: I was helping Ronda like file things for the sales.
I was helping my mom carry equipment.
"I'm going to go see a car accident!"
That's what I did. Other people were hanging out with friends,
but I was gonna go see car accidents.
-(laughs) -Alright, go.
Hi, I'm Darbie here at Desert Haven Animal Society, and today,
we are joined with Black Diamond.
Deanna: Alright, I'm good with him.
Okay, hang on. "I gotta go."
"I gotta go! Gotta go!"
Throw him the coronavirus.
The cor-- (laughs) The coronavirus?
(Darbie grunts)
Wallace: This debate is being conducted under health and safety
Sorry to make you guys relive this. (laughs)
-Biden: The American people -(tape glitching)
(audio skipping)
Still trying to figure out how to keep everything fair
and kind of in the middle.
I'm not a person who can handle
confrontation, so this isn't
good for me. (laughs)
-(audio skipping) -I just hope I don't mess it up too much.
Ubaldo: Five, four, three, two.
Well, President Donald Trump
and former Vice President Joe Biden
were in hi-- Ohio last night for the first of four
presidential debates.
Missey: The candidates were socially distanced
and opted not to shake hands prior to the debate,
but did offer each other a polite greeting.
The first question of the debate asked about
the nomination of Justice Barrett to the Supreme Court.
We won the election, and therefore we have the right
-to choose her. -We should wait
and see what the outcome of this election is
'cause that's the only way the American people get to express
-their view. -Okay.
Great job. I love it.
Missey: I'm still learning, but I'm feeling great.
I'm having fun. I like everybody that I work with.
I feel very lucky to have landed where I've landed,
and I'm having-- I'm having a blast.
Ubaldo: Thirty for Missey.
(laughs) People get mad if you smile during a sad story.
-(laughs) -I don't know why.
(happily): Nye County deputies were called
to respond to a domestic dispute!
Ubaldo (on PA): Three, two
Nye County deputies were called to respond
to a Beatty hotel for a domestic dispute in progress.
Ubaldo: Forty-five for two-shot.
-She beat up her boyfriend. -She does not look happy.
She wasn't. He looks even less happy, I'm sure.
Ah. These are silly little songs.
When you're doing the weather, a typical workday for me
at KPVM is typically very short.
And so, I write fake theme music for fun.
(playing piano)
Well, I was gone six months before they knew I deserted ♪
That town for this town that you never heard of ♪
Pahrump is the name, with a capital P ♪
I got me a job on KPVM TV ♪
Life is good ♪
As you make it ♪
If I don't know how, man, I'm sure that I can fake it ♪
Risking your receiver ♪
Well, I know I'm gonna make you a believer ♪
Channel 25 ♪
It's news for all of Nye ♪
In Pahrump and Vegas, Nye ♪
Pahrump and Vegas ♪
Hoo! Channel 25 ♪
That's how that-- But, I picture it more, like, with organ
just 'cause it's, you know, "Wah-konk! Ka-tonk-tonk!"
Vern: Are you able to start
one day a week technical directing with Ubaldo?
I can't have him not being backed up.
-John: At this moment, I wouldn't say I could. -Vern: Yeah. Well, not now.
-John: Yeah. -It's a three-week training process, minimum.
-Yeah. -Can you handle that?
-I'm gonna say yes. -Okay.
Vern: For KPVM to be successful,
everybody does contribute to help each other.
So John's very interested in doing it,
but John is somewhat like me.
You know, we're older guys,
so the problem is that, you know,
there's 14 buttons going on at one time,
and we kinda go
one We're like a one-finger typer,
where these young kids are like octopuses.
They don't even have to look at things.
They just make it happen.
With the scripts, I set the font size to 12.
Now, when Eunette's here,
we put it to size 18 because she's blind.
-Okay. -Deanna: So, John,
come over here really quick
and I'll show you these things.
So we're on auto. Auto.
-And then, we're gonna zoom out. -Auto. Okay.
This still looks crooked, but that's only because of the,
-well, um -The crookedness.
The crookedness. It's only because of the crookedness.
It's very chaotic here. (laughs) You know?
I haven't found a day yet where it's like,
"Okay, here's a typical day." You know?
Like, it's always like some emergency,
and like, so you gotta be willing to step up.
"Yeah, I can do that. Sure." You know?
So, the on-and-off switch right here,
zoom here, and you also have a zoom here.
-And then I know. -That's a lot of buttons.
So, you know, we did have camera people at one time.
-What happened to them. -Ubaldo: No idea.
I know Reid died.
Ubaldo: Huh.
(wind blowing)
(insects chirping)
Kalif: You know, I went down to Texas
and bought a range. Right? The whole range,
and I put it here in Pahrump, right? So,
Second Amendment Gun Shop is coming.
Second Amendment Guns is a new client for me.
They had called and asked
to have a meeting.
Kalif: It's gonna be a range.
There's also gonna be a coffee bar.
Just like a fun gun shop where everybody to meet,
-you know, be together. -Memorie: Mm-hmm.
-So, starting on the radio? -Let's start on the radio
-103.1. -Right. Yeah.
I got them signed, I, um, I got, I wrote the script.
I have a 17-year-old kid who has these voices,
and so when I was thinking about Second Amendment,
I was thinking a certain tone,
and I know that he could get
that tone of being the tough guy.
Brian: Well, my name is Brian Wilson.
Memorie is my mother.
She's been my mother for 17 years.
She is my birth mother. (laughs)
I love doing voices.
I like changing my voice to make jokes.
(deeper): So, I can get my voice very deep
and ready for this kind of ad.
(higher): Or I can go really high-pitched
and then I can do pretty much anything.
(normal): I sometimes do an Arnold Schwarzenegger impression.
(as Schwarzenegger): You go down. You go down to-- Get to the choppa. Come on!
(grunts) Come on! Get out of here!
(normal): Uh, I haven't worked on it much, but
Okay. Tell me when.
And in five, four, three, two, one.
(deep voice): Second Amendment Guns & Accessories
is coming to Pahrump.
We're bringing an indoor shooting range, classroom,
coffee bar, and a wide variety of firearms and ammunition.
Become a founding member, be a part of
the Second Amendment movement.
-Engineer: Sounds good. -Memorie: Want him to do it again one more time?
-Engineer: I don't think he needs to actually. -Okay.
I've had one-take wonders, and he's one of them.
-Let him go. -Yeah.
-Engineer: You're good. That's it. -That's it?
-Awesome. That was quick. -Memorie: Alright!
It gave it the whole effect. The whole
(deep voice): Second Amendment Guns.
(normal): So-- And, I'm proud. I like to hear it.
(laughs) That's my baby, so it's exciting.
♪
Deanna: Alright, here we go. We're gonna start.
Three, two, one.
It's John Kohler from KPVM, Channel 25 News,
and everybody's getting their America on today,
I can tell you what. It's early voting.
So, important election this year.
It's important that everyone votes, and we hope you do.
Deanna: There we go. We're good.
Is that my boyfriend over there again?
That's my boyfriend!
Who's your boyfriend?
-(John laughing softly) -Deanna: He's right there. See him?
He's usually so excited to see me and everything. "Hi, Deanna!"
See that red guy? That's my boyfriend.
-(John laughing) -Been my boyfriend for many years,
but I guess he's pro-Trump now, so kind of upset about that.
(John laughing)
John: Deanna's a cool chick,
and really knows this town.
I mean, she's got this thing wired.
She knows everybody here. I mean, just everybody.
Deanna: I'm just gonna go say hi to them really quick, okay?
-Hi, guys! How you doing? -Couple: Hello. Good.
Deanna: Hey, good to see you.
So I'm gonna come by on Tuesday and grab a little bit
from you guys, maybe talking about things.
(volunteer speaking)
-Deanna: You're not gonna be down here? -I will be here.
Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm just grabbing sound bites from everybody
because we haven't had any at all. I mean, we've been trying
to get in touch with the Biden-Harris campaign forever,
and we can't get anything from them.
So, unfortunately, during this election,
the Nye County Democrats
were not interested in going on camera at all.
We just figured that Nye County was a wash
because we're always Republican,
but I really want to represent both sides as much as I can.
-It's important to me that we do that. -(bell ringing)
Alright, thank you, guys. Bye-bye.
♪
-John: Where are we going? -Deanna: Save A Pet.
There's an orange and white little
tabby in there we'll grab.
Normally, my daughter Darbie
does Save A Pet for the news broadcast,
but she's not feeling well, so today,
we're gonna have John do it.
John: I'm not a cat guy.
We had about four of them that were real marginal animals.
-Deanna: He's never gonna make any friends. -John: Vindictive, you know?
-Deanna: Vindictive? -John: Yeah! I'm serious! These cats would
find my shoes and take a shit in them and stuff like that,
you know? These cats
-sucked! -It was not cats. It was Missey. Sorry.
You know, I'd come home, and they'd be starting to hunt me, you know?
-She's a chiweenie, right? So happy! -Yes, she is.
-(dogs barking) -Are we probably gonna be in the yard out here?
Deanna: We're in the cat room.
♪
(meowing)
Deanna: Here we are. Hey, you grab the kennel card?
So it's probably orange tabby.
Says you chubby.
-Deanna: And it probably is -(laughs)
Man was giving the cat water, and the cat attacked him?
-Yeah. -He's angry.
So, you ready to put him on your shoulder?
-Shoot -Oh, you are?
-(meowing angrily) -Darbie always gets scared of the cats, too, 'cause
she's always afraid that they're gonna rip her throat out.
-(nervous laugh) -We'll see. Here we go.
We're gonna try it. Three, two, one.
This is my buddy, Chubby.
He's got a couple friends here in the cat room
at Desert Haven Animal Society.
Lillian: We got a cat that was needing a home.
It's been here for months, and Deanna is the one
that helps us get the animals seen on TV
and get-- help us get them adopted.
Yay.
Sandy: Deanna helps out the whole town.
She does things for the homeless,
people who needs their car fixed and can't afford it.
If people need to get to the doctor,
all they have to do is reach out.
She really is an amazing woman.
-We love Deanna to death. -Lillian: We love her.
-I'll pay you later. -Lillian: Okay.
(John laughs)
(rooster crowing)
Deanna: Are the script lead-ins all written, Missey?
Missey: I-- Yes, everything's there.
And then, um, okay.
Ubaldo (on PA): Five, four,
three, two
Well, there's an orange and white kitty
at Desert Haven Animal Society
that would love to make you his forever home.
John Kohler introduces us to Chubby.
-Announcer: Today's Save A Pet is proudly sponsored by -(laughing)
-Ubaldo: I'll fix that script real quick. -(laughing, indistinct)
-John: What? -introduces us to Chubby?
-(laughter) -I didn't say "his chubby." I just said
(wheezing laughter)
-I thought it helped. -Deanna: Oh no!
-John: Did you say "his chubby"? -No!
John: Oh, good. (laughs)
(wind blowing)
Vern: There's a rally tonight in Las Vegas
for President Trump,
and Donald Trump Jr.'s there,
so I'm gonna head on out
to Vegas and, and cover the event.
I am all about it.
It draws an audience to the station,
and now with the Vegas expansion,
if I can increase the size of my audience, it's huge.
I'll also take my shotgun microphone
because we're gonna have to do an interview with Donald Trump Jr.
That's a big pole, isn't it?
-(radio playing) -(shuts door)
Brian (on radio): Second Amendment Guns & Accessories
is coming to Pahrump.
♪
Deanna: Well, Don Jr. came and I knew that Vern would like to go,
and I finally got an interview
with the only Democrat group that
responded to our request.
Woman: We got this little group together here
in this town because Pahrump, Nevada,
is a very small town.
We have under 40,000 people.
And our job is to get
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris elected.
Here here, here here.
We're not the only group in town,
but right now, I believe we're the only girls that drink
a lot of wine and curse a lot.
-(indistinct chatter) -Deanna: Three, two, one.
Tell me what is going on with
-What's the name of the group? -Bitches for Biden.
This is a very calm example of what we do inside the house.
(group member speaking)
Well, we're not swearing because we're wearing the mask.
We're not drinking as much either, you know.
(overlapping chatter, laughter)
The group came about here in Pahrump
because one of our members,
she called me one morning and she said,
"I can't stay in this town anymore,
all the Republicans." And I said, "Honey,
"why don't you come over on Thursday? I'll get a couple
"of the girls together that all feel the same way.
"We'll have a couple of glasses of wine, and we'll just rage
to each other." Which we did, and it was wonderful.
Deanna: So, your group has all women.
-Are men involved? -Ladies, do we want any men here?
-Woman: Yeah, what the hell? -There you go. That's what they said.
(group member speaking)
Yeah, bring a bottle of wine.
-There's quite a few single women here, too, so -Deanna: I was gonna say.
-Especially if they're single, right? -Right.
Deanna: Alright. Bye, Kelly. Bye-bye.
-(jet roaring) -(crowd cheering)
Vern: I'm probably gonna go straight to setting up
because it's just about showtime. In about 10 minutes,
my friend Donald Trump Jr.'s gonna be out.
He knows I'm here, and he's gonna be talking to me right after the show.
-Host: Make sure Nevada turns red again! -(crowd cheering)
(applause)
Let us welcome Donald Trump Jr.!
(cheering)
(applause, music playing)
(cheering continues)
Donald Trump Jr.: I like it a lot.
Vern: True and true,
I would consider myself
more of a photog than anything else.
A photographer. I videotape news.
Showing the crowd, showing individuals,
showing signs, showing tractors.
I'm good at it.
Trump Jr.: Get out there, fight for your country,
fight for your children, fight for our freedoms,
because it's worth it, and when we win,
you will still recognize the country you know and love.
-If they do, you won't. -(cheering)
Thank you, Nevada!
-(cheering continues) -Thank you, Las Vegas!
Here, I'm gonna go inside, get an interview.
(crowd chatter)
(security speaking)
(Vern speaking)
(security speaking)
Not a problem. Yep.
One at a time? Yeah, gotcha.
(crowd chatter)
(clears throat)
(reporter, security speaking)
(crowd cheering)
(clears throat)
(cheering, applause)
-Thank you. -Thanks, man. Appreciate it.
Trump Supporter: Thank you! Thank your father!
(indistinct chatter)
(Vern speaking)
♪
Do you want to talk about the interview, how I basically
told them that they fucked up by not letting me interview him?
(crowd chatter)
You know, it's like I wanted an interview for a small-town city,
and they wouldn't give it to us. It was pretty rude.
I don't have the juice that I have in other areas here,
so, obviously, we missed the interview here.
-Michael! -Michael: Oh, hey, bro!
I know. You gotta get me in, bro.
(indistinct)
-I mean -(indistinct)
That's 2,700,000 people I just missed a message on.
I'm the only Republican broadcaster in Nevada.
(inaudible)
Exclusive.
I just got burned.
The opportunity that I had
for getting their message out to the world
came and went.
♪
I'm trying not to
take the doom and gloom.
I really am. But,
under a Biden and Harris administration,
it's gonna take away
the ability to operate
for KPVM.
It's just not gonna be worth it,
so I'm at a point where
if Trump came in,
then I'm probably gonna be around
for another four more years.
If Biden and Harris comes in, um
as soon as I can, I think I'm out.
(alarm blaring)
(alarm stops)
Exclamation point. (clicks tongue)
(piano playing)
John: I wrote a song the other day.
It's about a guy that's trying to get a date with this girl.
It's just, uh
I took a ride downtown to see a girl I know♪
At the Burger Barn ♪
She gimme napkins and then ♪
She touches my hem and I'm ordering ♪
This could be love and I know it ♪
I'm scared I'm gonna blow it ♪
So now, I'm asking her out ♪
Said, "Baby, hop in. Let's go for a spin" ♪
That's the words that I wanna get out ♪
Instead, I sing la-la-like you a lot ♪
La-la-la, think that you're hot ♪
You need soliloquy, baby, that ain't me ♪
La-la-la ♪
Oh, but that look in your eye, it makes me tongue-tied ♪
La-la-la It's kind of a la-la-la song.
La-la-la. That could work someday. I don't know.