Small Town News: KPVM Pahrump (2021) s01e04 Episode Script
Trunk or Treat
1
Reporter 1: Let's take a look at the election countdown now.
Reporter 2: It's anybody's race in all of these states right now.
Reporter 3: After a season of charged political rhetoric
Reporter 4: Stress, hopeful, anxious
Reporter 5: Could be a constitutional crisis.
Reporter 6: The races are tight now.
Where we go from here, nobody's quite sure.
Reporter 7: It's the Super Bowl of all elections.
Reporter 8: This weekend may be the last weekend of America.
(insects chirping)
("True" by Spandau Ballet playing)
Deanna: Go look at him, Missey.
He's not gonna run up to you or anything.
When Missey first moved here from Alaska,
she had no furniture inside her house at all
except for a karaoke machine,
which I thought was so interesting,
and so we were singing karaoke
and we were playing Spandau Ballet,
and a tarantula started walking in the house,
and she started screaming, going,
"What's that? What's that?" And I go, "It's a tarantula!
Don't hurt it!"
I know this much is true ♪
(music stops)
-(screams) -(laughing)
-(music continues) -(laughing)
Deanna: Man, that gets you every time! Every time!
Why don't you let him crawl on your hand? Put your hand down.
Hoo, hoo, hoo ♪
-(song stops) -(screams)
(laughing)
(song continues)
She's going to sue us.
(news theme playing)
♪
You know, casual Friday. (laughs like Elvis)
(all laughing)
I used to do an act with a couple of other big dudes
that had Elvis suits, and we called it the Portly Presleys.
And we did an awesome Christmas album called
"We Three Kings" and whatever.
I haven't put on the Elvis suit in about five months.
It's like-- this felt pretty good.
If you have an Elvis costume,
you sort of, you know, drag it out every now and again, so I do.
-(rhythmic knocking) -Woo-hoo!
(beep)
(laughs like Elvis)
(laughter)
We do the casual Friday, I just threw on this old thing.
-Vern: You're looking mighty fine today, sir. -(laughs)
-You gonna do a little bit of weather today? -Yeah, we're gonna do weather.
-Maybe do a little -(indistinct)
-maybe a little shaking? -(laughs) Yeah.
-A lot of shaking, man. -I love it.
Lot of shaking. (laughs)
Welcome to KPVM.
(news theme playing)
Ubaldo: In five, four, three, two, one.
(imitating Elvis): Good evening, Nevada. It's John Kohler
from KPVM, channel 25 news.
It's casual Friday, and I put on this old thing.
-What do you think? -Ubaldo: I was not expecting that.
No, but I'm not surprised 'cause that's John,
and I love John. (laughs)
It creates a good work environment.
It's Halloween. What are you gonna do?
Alright, let's take a look at the weather.
It's gonna be a fever up in Fernley.
-72 degrees for a high -(Missey laughing)
-You get to sleep with that tonight. Sorry. -(laughs)
Uh-huh-huh-huh. What do you think?
We do this every Friday? I could. It would be fun.
-(laughs) Halloween weekend! -Thanks, El-- Thanks, Elvis,
for the weather. Alright, so, Halloween.
We have a couple Halloween events.
Of course, the one that we are doing here
at KPVM TV and Ace Country Radio.
Missey: Trunk-Or-Treat. All the fun starts at 5:00.
Bring the kids. Lots of fun things to see there,
including me and Deanna in costume.
That's all I'm saying about that.
And we'll be giving out lots of candy.
Deanna: Trunk-Or-Treat is when people park in one general area,
and then they hand out candy. We live in a rural area,
with fences around us and dogs and guns,
so people don't go up to people's houses
trick-or-treating.
This year with COVID and the election
coming up in the coming days,
we need Trunk-Or-Treat more this year than usual.
I want it to be a little bit of a break.
It's just fun, you know?
We hope you have a great Halloween weekend,
and happy Nevada Day. Once again, I'm Deanna.
-I'm Missey. Have a safe weekend. -Good night.
I was charming, didn't you think?
-Ubaldo: Yeah. I think we're good. -Alright.
♪
Ronda: For Halloween, I understand that there's little maids
and there's, like, all these little sexy costumes or whatever,
but Halloween should stay scary.
The costumes should be super scary.
If I could, I'd still go trick-or-treating,
if I had a Halloween costume.
I was gonna ask you about that, if you were available
to do any Trunk-Or-Treat this weekend. I bought candy.
I couldn't find a Halloween costume this year.
I needed a sleeveless dress
only about to here
because the last time when I went trick-or-treating,
I dressed up as a $2 crack-hoe.
-(laughs) -I probably made
three dozen little kids cry.
Made a couple of 'em pee their pants.
-I had fun. -Yeah, maybe I shouldn't have you do Trunk-Or-Treat.
(laughs)
♪
Shamus: My name's Shamus McCord.
I'm an account executive here at KPVM
TV and Ace Country Radio.
I grew up on the Yakama Indian Reservation
in Washington State.
Hey, here's you a good joke.
Native Americans, do you know why they don't like snow?
Because it's white, and it's on their land.
(laughing)
Today, we are waiting for
our favoritest person that the station has.
Hi. My name is Barbara Teicher-Cates,
and this is "The Barbara Teicher-Cates Show."
I'm singing along ♪
I'm singing my own songs ♪
Shamus: She's one of my clients.
Part of our business at KPVM is
we do shows in the newsroom.
She pays for the recording, the commercials,
production
Then we air the show after midnight,
about 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning.
I'm a singer, songwriter,
recording artist, and actress.
And I come from Woodland Hills, California.
And if y'all wanna know where that's at,
that's near Disneyland, far away from Disneyland.
Introducing Rootin' Tootin' Feerzar. He's my puppet,
and he's gonna announce my songs.
Shamus: One of the songs, she claims
that she used to date Michael Jackson.
-(playing piano) -Well, me and Michael Jackson ♪
Me and Michael Jackson was ♪
Ice skating around ♪
Well, me and Michael Jackson ♪
The other song is about a spaceship,
aliens, and a little house.
Little house, the alien, and the spaceship ♪
Went wandering back through the air ♪
Shamus: She is coming in
to sign a new agreement,
so we can set up to record her next
"Barbara Teicher-Cates Show."
And God bless each and every one of you. Thank you so much.
Bye, everybody! Bye! Bye, everybody!
♪
Ronda: Vern, I need you to come in here.
'Cause he wanted to coordinate with you
and what you wanna do.
-It's not like any other election we've done. -Yeah.
It's the first year we're Vegas and Pahrump, so it was like,
well, how are we gonna deal with that?
'Cause we haven't even talked about it,
so I told him you probably had already thought
about whatever you wanna do.
Vern: We cover the presidential election live.
A live show's very huge.
It's real time, real action.
There's a lot of elements. Everybody's gotta be on their game.
There's no mistakes.
I'm gonna bring in a national feed
piped into ours,
so we can flip back and forth
between the national feed and the local feed.
But I've gotta go into the back and see what I have in tools
to do an SDI switch.
Ronda: What we need to know is
-are we going on the desk like you normally do? You two? -Deanna: Yeah.
I don't know if Vern's joining as well, right?
-Are you joining as well? -Yeah, I probably will.
The night of the election, I'll be on TV.
That's a lot of fun
because you get to talk about what's happening.
You get to banter. You get to discuss.
You get to disagree.
Um, you know, if my emotions get too high,
I'll excuse myself
because they don't need to see that.
Deanna: Vern is
Vern is hard to handle, and somebody that
probably should take a long vacation during election season.
And it doesn't matter what election it is,
but of course, presidential elections are way worse.
Ronda: (laughing) I was just gonna
-Is that sugar-free whipped cream? -Deanna: No.
(gasps) Deanna!
What? It's low carb.
Oh.
Deanna: I think I have Reddi-wip breath now.
Shamus: Yes, Barbara.
I can do that. Yep, not a problem.
Barbara's not showing up today,
which is kinda typical of what she does.
♪
I'm gonna just send her
a copy of her DVD.
(line ringing)
Deanna: I've been trying to get in touch with her,
and she has been kinda outta phone range.
(line ringing)
Eunette disappeared.
She's had some family things going on,
but during the time that she disappeared,
she's not very good at communication.
-(line stops ringing) -Eunette (on phone): Hello?
-You answered! Hey, how are you doing? -Yay!
Eunette: Hey, um Not well.
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
Missey: We wanted you to know we're thinking about you.
Eunette: Thank you both.
We're thinking about you, and I want you to know
-take all the time you need, okay? -(GPS on phone)
-Eunette: Oh -(GPS continues)
Sorry, hold on. I have my navigation
to the hospital, and
It's okay. Just take all the time you need, okay?
And let us know when you're coming in, okay?
(clicking on phone)
Eunette?
I appreciate Eunette because she's happy and cheerful,
and so whatever time she needs,
just send me a text and let me know, and then we're good.
Eunette: I miss you all, too, and I love you.
-I truly do. Thank you so much. -Deanna: I do, too. Alright.
-Bye-bye. -Eunette: Alright, bye-bye.
-We got to talk to her! -I'm glad we got to talk to her.
-I know. -I'm glad she picked up, poor thing.
Yeah, because I've been leaving messages and text messages and
-Well, there's a lot going on. -I know.
-(machines whirring) -Ubaldo: Hey, Vern.
-Vern: Hi, man. -Ubaldo: So,
-the plan is -Wait a minute. What's this here?
Yeah, so here's the national feed.
Now, if we go connect up in your room
the other end of this cable,
when we are live in the studio,
you control if we're going to the national feed,
or if we're going to stay on a local feed.
Every election night
is very challenging because we always have
the challenges of technically getting it off.
On air, appropriately, so that
it airs properly.
Ubaldo: I'm confused on why I need to be switching.
-There's nothing playing at 7:00 in the studio. -Vern: But there is.
There's election coverage.
Is that what you're missing?
(machines whirring)
You can do all the college you want,
but you'll never be successful
because they don't teach success in college.
They teach you a trade.
This place is a place of learning.
Ubaldo: We'll take out the studio feed because nothing inside
the physical studio will be happening at 7:00.
-Vern: There will be. -What-- what's up?
You have a live, you have a, you have live political coverage.
So, what happens if we got rid of the studio completely?
-Could just treat-- -But that's your studio feed.
That's why we take this, put it in here
-(clears throat) You're missing one thing. -Okay.
You have live guests from 7:00
-to 10:00 in the studio. -Oh, do we?
-That's what you're missing. -I was not aware of that.
That's why you need to be able to switch between
the national feed
-and the guests in the studio -And the guests inside the studio.
-coming in. -Okay. Because nobody told me about that part.
Yeah, that's kinda what I was trying to explain to you,
but I didn't do a good job.
Yeah Okay.
Sounds good.
Vern: In order for the election night broadcast
to be successful,
you just kinda need a very long cable
that will run from master control to studio control,
and then he can switch between what's on the set
and what's on the national feed.
See how easy that was?
♪
Deanna: Everybody was told to set up by 4:00.
That didn't happen.
Oh my lord, help me.
Is that a separate Trunk-Or-Treat than you?
We gotta have 30 feet between the cars.
Glad you guys are here!
I have to make sure these cars are separated
'cause I don't know what they're doing!
You know, at a certain point, you can't control people.
Guy with the light's right there,
he's gonna put them out.
And then, um
And then they need us to remove that trailer,
and then drop it off tomorrow.
If you wanna pull up next to that bush there,
that'll be good.
(laughs)
-Man: You wanna take care of that? -John: Sure.
There's no lights in Pahrump,
but we're inviting kids out into the dark,
so Rent 2 Go brought us this light.
(generator starts)
Alright! Hoorah!
Man: That's how you operate it.
Pretty easy, pretty simple.
John: Yeah. Anyway, I'll be bringing it back later tonight,
when we get all our stuff back down.
When we first moved here, Deanna was nice enough
to kinda like open the town to us basically.
Like, she's involved in all kinds of things,
and that puts you in touch with all kinds of people,
and that's sort of what we wanted.
I find, in volunteering, you meet just like the nicest people.
(laughs)
Deanna: Alright, let's see what this looks like.
♪
Oh no!
They should never give me a hot glue gun
-because I did burn myself by the way. -Missey: Well, you haven't used
-a hot glue gun till you burn yourself. -Deanna: Yeah, yeah.
Missey: So let me help you put it on, okay?
Deanna: Help! I'm stuck!
I have to put the straps over it somehow.
-Missey: I don't think it's gonna happen that way. -Deanna: Oh, it fell.
-Missey: What fell? -Deanna: My light!
-(laughing) -No, it's on this side. It's right here.
-Well, looks like Deanna's bent over, like usual. -Deanna: What did you say?
God dang, it's hot as heck in here!
-(John laughs) -Hi, Shamus!
What are you doing, Shamus?
It's good that you're in such a good mood though.
How many cans of spray paint died to make your box look good?
Are you gonna do a whole comedy show while we're here!?
John: I don't know. Wow, I like your knobs.
(laughs) That sounded dirty, didn't it?
♪
(indistinct chatter)
Shamus: We went and gave a bunch of little kids candy.
Even some grown folks.
It was actually kinda fun.
♪
Deanna: We had a really good Trunk-Or-Treat evening.
We had lots of people. It was really good.
And then we rolled a trailer.
♪
(clank)
John: Oh. I don't know what happened.
I went to change lanes, and something just
bumped, and, and the thing came off
the trailer hitch, and I look, and flipped over, and so
then I'm dragging this light rack
down highway 160. I'm like, oh crap.
(Deanna speaking)
-Mine! -John: So then, people started showing up,
and it's Halloween, so they're in costume. There's a guy
with a pirate suit on. Came across,
"Hey! You guys need any help?"
Somebody showed up looking like a mass murderer.
He's got blood all over his shirt. What is going on?
(laughing)
And then, it was like, well, alright here. We're doing this.
♪
Man, that could've gone a whole lot different, but in the end,
was just, ooh! Flipped it back over,
and attached it onto another truck.
I wasn't gonna move it again. Somebody else took it over,
and there it was.
I'm like, jeez, this is really embarrassing.
(insects chirping)
Ubaldo: Do you know if Eunette's gonna be here today?
Deanna: She told me that she was.
Ubaldo: Okay, sounds good. I'll get set up for her.
Deanna: I'm gonna go back over to my bag of chicken
and my rotten salad. It's disgusting.
Eunette is coming to anchor.
She's been gone since October 20th.
Eunette: I was going through a really hard time.
My family, we've suffered some
serious losses,
and it's been very, very difficult.
(office chatter)
(excited greetings)
(Deanna speaking)
Vern: So, tell me.
(Vern speaking)
(Eunette and Vern speaking)
Vern: Aw
I'm sorry for your loss there.
This is a beautiful program.
♪
Eunette: After Uncle Jerry was
buried, just a few days later,
my aunt, his sister,
passed away suddenly, and
three or four days after I got back from my aunt's funeral,
my cat collapsed.
First pet I ever had.
-Vern: We missed you around here. -I missed you all, too.
I really do.
I mean, you seem like-- Can you do this tonight?
-Yes, definitely. -Vern: Alright.
I need to focus on something I love
other than grieving. -Vern: Alright.
-Thank you. -Thank you. You bet.
-Love you lots. Alright. -Love you, too.
♪
Ubaldo (on PA): Are you ready? You wanna reset your prompter?
Eunette: Thank you.
♪
Ubaldo: Eunette, can you talk real quick?
Eunette: Testing, testing, one, two.
-Pilgrim's pride is penalized as a result-- -Ubaldo: Good, good.
Eunette: I just, you know,
appreciate being able to have
this network as well.
This is another family for me,
and so I believe we're all, collectively, looking forward.
Together, looking ahead toward,
you know, a more positive future.
-(bang) -Friggin' fly.
(footsteps approaching)
-Hi there. I finally get to see you. -Hey, Deanna.
-What are you doing? -I'm good, how are you?
-Just-- -There's a fly in the office, so I'm not that good.
-Huh? Oh. -There's a fly.
-Fly. What are you up to? -Mm
You going through a lot of crap?
-You gonna be okay? -(sighs)
-Come here. -Thank you.
(muffled breathing)
-(indistinct) -You gonna be okay?
Ubaldo: Okay, we're starting.
-Twenty seconds after this one plays. -(Deanna laughs)
Andy, Andy. Did you even get to play with Eunette at all today?
Okay, come on. Hold on. Okay, I made it. Okay.
-Hi. What's this? Are you okay? -She's grunting.
Grunting usually means that she loves you
and she wants you to hold her.
(wind blowing)
(Eunette speaking)
It's just been difficult all around.
We worry about you. That's all. Everybody's worried.
Just let us know where you are.
-Just put it in writing, drop it in an email. -Okay.
And copy me or Ronda. Probably be better to copy Ronda.
-'Cause we don't wanna worry about you. -Okay.
In this world today, we don't know where
this whole election's gonna end up,
and everybody's vulnerable. So,
I want to make sure that everybody is safe wherever they are.
So, that's the key. You cool with that?
Yes, thank you.
Uh, there's a light on. I'll
take it in. I just got back, so
Engine light gone on?
I don't know what it is.
I'll take it in. I literally just got back.
My truck light went on, and it was the gas cap.
Huh.
Yeah.
(sighs)
Okay.
So, what else?
♪
Doggie, doggie, doggie! Doggie, doggie, doggie.
If anything happens, call 911.
Barbara?
I knew Barbara was
going to swing by the station.
Little house, the alien, and the spaceship ♪
Went wandering back through the air ♪
She did not show up, so I thought I would check on her.
(knocking)
(dog barking)
There's a dog barking! (laughs)
♪
I thought her dog was friendly,
but they're barking. Barbara!
-Barbara: Yeah? -It's Deanna!
Does your dog bite? I forgot.
(Barbara speaking)
Just wanted to say hi.
I have kind of a personal relationship with her
ever since she was kidnapped by aliens.
I see ships outside of my house in the sky at night.
These are peaceful
extraterrestrials or Martians or whatever you wanna call them.
They are peaceful.
Deanna: I'm one of the very few people who kind of
sympathize and realize that this woman
has had a hard life and occasionally she needs to,
you know, be checked on, see if she's okay.
-What's the squeegee for? -(barking continues)
Deanna: I didn't know if your dog was gonna bite me.
Oh no. I'm very careful. I even went out the other door
-because I didn't-- -I thought I met your dog before.
-Yeah, you did. She loves you. -Yeah. Okay, good.
So, how are you doing? What's going on with you?
Nothing. Just working on my songs.
Yeah? Did you write any new ones?
Uh, no. Just about the same ones.
I got a song about a dog that I used to have.
-Another song about that. I got a lot of songs I wrote. -Yeah? Any more sightings?
Yes. Here. Two.
-Yeah? -I was looking out the window,
and I said, "Wow! Wow!" I said, "That's a spaceship!"
To my boyfriend. He goes, "Yeah?"
Next thing, this big bright light lit up the whole house,
and it came down, the light.
Then, they were about this tall.
The aliens, you know-- kinda like extraterrestrials,
and I yelled out, "What are you doing here?"
"Well, we seen you singing!" You know, "I wanna meet you!"
There was six of them. They were dancing around and going,
"Whoa! Look at this! Wow!"
And they were all happy, dancing around.
Alright, so then you think
-that we have aliens that are on Earth right now? -Uh-huh.
-(barking continues) -Do you think one of them
might've served four years in the White House?
No! (laughs) No.
They've got homes under ground,
and they can go in the water with their spaceship.
They're down in the ocean.
So, okay. So are you planning on doing any more stuff at the station?
Any more shows, or what are you gonna do?
Um, yeah, as soon as I get some more money up.
I'm staying out here for a while, trying to keep it down.
You know, I mean, it's nice and quiet over here.
I don't-- Nobody bothers me, and I got some good neighbors
with the farm animals.
And I love my neighbors dearly.
♪
Deanna: Pahrump is unique
for many reasons.
But I really think the thing
that drew people here is people
need each other and look out for each other, you know?
Alright. Well, it's good to see you.
-Thank you so much for coming out. -Thanks, Barb.
Barbara: Bye, Deanna.
Bye, thank you.
(engines revving)
-(cheering) -(cars honking)
♪
(honking continues)
(thunder rumbling)
Deanna: Welcome. It's Monday, November 2nd.
We're so glad that you could join us
and you had a happy holiday weekend.
-I'm Deanna O'Donnell. -I'm Missey Kohler. Thanks for being here.
-(click) -Deanna: Well, voting tomorrow is from 7:00 AM
until 7:00 PM at various community centers throughout Nye County.
(continues, indistinct)
(thunder rumbling)
Some of them Armageddon clouds. Hyuk hyuk hyuk!
Yeah
Ronda: I think the world is
working on fear
and expectation of the things to come.
It's the fear of COVID
or the presidential election.
Everything's just so frantic out there.
-(thunder rumbling) -Vern: That thing comes this way,
it'll create a tornado coming through like a dirt devil.
And then after that, it'll be perfectly calm.
Ronda: So I don't know what to expect or what's gonna happen.
-Deanna: See that bush? Stand right next to that bush. -John: There?
The bush between the cactus and the other bush.
What's it saying on the WeatherBug up there?
-You have National Weather Service? -(thunder rumbling)
You know as a weatherman, make yourself familiar with those.
If you, you know, feel free. (blows)
John: I'm hoping that, you know,
everybody has their poop in a scoop and can
get our America on and decide,
okay, this is the direction we're going
and go in that direction.
Socked in with clouds just all of a sudden. Dark clouds,
it could be some interesting stuff coming our way.
It could go any way (laughs)
I feel. I bought more toilet paper. (laughs)
You know, that seemed prudent.
Deanna: I don't think that there is a person,
a human being, that is going to save the world.
I don't agree with Vern on Trump
or any of that.
I would rather champion and volunteer
and get involved in more of a movement than I would a person.
(thunder rumbling)
Gee whiz, man.
I hope that there's not gonna be a civil war.
Sometimes I hope that, oh my gosh, I hope
everybody just goes back to bed and forgets all this.
Sometimes, that's how I hope things are.
-(thunder continues) -It's coming.
♪
Interviewer: Any predictions for tomorrow? Big day tomorrow.
Shamus: A white guy's going to win the election.
Well, it's-- Hold on.
One is white, one is orange.
An old man is going to win the election.
Barbara (singing): Bop bop bop she-bop, oh baby, bop bop bop she-bop.
Well, me and Michael Jackson ♪
Was ice skating around ♪
Me and Michael Jackson ♪
Was ice skating around ♪
When he kissed me on the cheek ♪
He tied up my ice skates ♪
He asked me out to lunch ♪
He asked me to come home with him and sing ♪
And sing and sing ♪
Oh bop bop bop she-bop, oh baby, bop bop bop she-bop ♪
(Deanna laughs)
(wind blowing)
Reporter 1: Let's take a look at the election countdown now.
Reporter 2: It's anybody's race in all of these states right now.
Reporter 3: After a season of charged political rhetoric
Reporter 4: Stress, hopeful, anxious
Reporter 5: Could be a constitutional crisis.
Reporter 6: The races are tight now.
Where we go from here, nobody's quite sure.
Reporter 7: It's the Super Bowl of all elections.
Reporter 8: This weekend may be the last weekend of America.
(insects chirping)
("True" by Spandau Ballet playing)
Deanna: Go look at him, Missey.
He's not gonna run up to you or anything.
When Missey first moved here from Alaska,
she had no furniture inside her house at all
except for a karaoke machine,
which I thought was so interesting,
and so we were singing karaoke
and we were playing Spandau Ballet,
and a tarantula started walking in the house,
and she started screaming, going,
"What's that? What's that?" And I go, "It's a tarantula!
Don't hurt it!"
I know this much is true ♪
(music stops)
-(screams) -(laughing)
-(music continues) -(laughing)
Deanna: Man, that gets you every time! Every time!
Why don't you let him crawl on your hand? Put your hand down.
Hoo, hoo, hoo ♪
-(song stops) -(screams)
(laughing)
(song continues)
She's going to sue us.
(news theme playing)
♪
You know, casual Friday. (laughs like Elvis)
(all laughing)
I used to do an act with a couple of other big dudes
that had Elvis suits, and we called it the Portly Presleys.
And we did an awesome Christmas album called
"We Three Kings" and whatever.
I haven't put on the Elvis suit in about five months.
It's like-- this felt pretty good.
If you have an Elvis costume,
you sort of, you know, drag it out every now and again, so I do.
-(rhythmic knocking) -Woo-hoo!
(beep)
(laughs like Elvis)
(laughter)
We do the casual Friday, I just threw on this old thing.
-Vern: You're looking mighty fine today, sir. -(laughs)
-You gonna do a little bit of weather today? -Yeah, we're gonna do weather.
-Maybe do a little -(indistinct)
-maybe a little shaking? -(laughs) Yeah.
-A lot of shaking, man. -I love it.
Lot of shaking. (laughs)
Welcome to KPVM.
(news theme playing)
Ubaldo: In five, four, three, two, one.
(imitating Elvis): Good evening, Nevada. It's John Kohler
from KPVM, channel 25 news.
It's casual Friday, and I put on this old thing.
-What do you think? -Ubaldo: I was not expecting that.
No, but I'm not surprised 'cause that's John,
and I love John. (laughs)
It creates a good work environment.
It's Halloween. What are you gonna do?
Alright, let's take a look at the weather.
It's gonna be a fever up in Fernley.
-72 degrees for a high -(Missey laughing)
-You get to sleep with that tonight. Sorry. -(laughs)
Uh-huh-huh-huh. What do you think?
We do this every Friday? I could. It would be fun.
-(laughs) Halloween weekend! -Thanks, El-- Thanks, Elvis,
for the weather. Alright, so, Halloween.
We have a couple Halloween events.
Of course, the one that we are doing here
at KPVM TV and Ace Country Radio.
Missey: Trunk-Or-Treat. All the fun starts at 5:00.
Bring the kids. Lots of fun things to see there,
including me and Deanna in costume.
That's all I'm saying about that.
And we'll be giving out lots of candy.
Deanna: Trunk-Or-Treat is when people park in one general area,
and then they hand out candy. We live in a rural area,
with fences around us and dogs and guns,
so people don't go up to people's houses
trick-or-treating.
This year with COVID and the election
coming up in the coming days,
we need Trunk-Or-Treat more this year than usual.
I want it to be a little bit of a break.
It's just fun, you know?
We hope you have a great Halloween weekend,
and happy Nevada Day. Once again, I'm Deanna.
-I'm Missey. Have a safe weekend. -Good night.
I was charming, didn't you think?
-Ubaldo: Yeah. I think we're good. -Alright.
♪
Ronda: For Halloween, I understand that there's little maids
and there's, like, all these little sexy costumes or whatever,
but Halloween should stay scary.
The costumes should be super scary.
If I could, I'd still go trick-or-treating,
if I had a Halloween costume.
I was gonna ask you about that, if you were available
to do any Trunk-Or-Treat this weekend. I bought candy.
I couldn't find a Halloween costume this year.
I needed a sleeveless dress
only about to here
because the last time when I went trick-or-treating,
I dressed up as a $2 crack-hoe.
-(laughs) -I probably made
three dozen little kids cry.
Made a couple of 'em pee their pants.
-I had fun. -Yeah, maybe I shouldn't have you do Trunk-Or-Treat.
(laughs)
♪
Shamus: My name's Shamus McCord.
I'm an account executive here at KPVM
TV and Ace Country Radio.
I grew up on the Yakama Indian Reservation
in Washington State.
Hey, here's you a good joke.
Native Americans, do you know why they don't like snow?
Because it's white, and it's on their land.
(laughing)
Today, we are waiting for
our favoritest person that the station has.
Hi. My name is Barbara Teicher-Cates,
and this is "The Barbara Teicher-Cates Show."
I'm singing along ♪
I'm singing my own songs ♪
Shamus: She's one of my clients.
Part of our business at KPVM is
we do shows in the newsroom.
She pays for the recording, the commercials,
production
Then we air the show after midnight,
about 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning.
I'm a singer, songwriter,
recording artist, and actress.
And I come from Woodland Hills, California.
And if y'all wanna know where that's at,
that's near Disneyland, far away from Disneyland.
Introducing Rootin' Tootin' Feerzar. He's my puppet,
and he's gonna announce my songs.
Shamus: One of the songs, she claims
that she used to date Michael Jackson.
-(playing piano) -Well, me and Michael Jackson ♪
Me and Michael Jackson was ♪
Ice skating around ♪
Well, me and Michael Jackson ♪
The other song is about a spaceship,
aliens, and a little house.
Little house, the alien, and the spaceship ♪
Went wandering back through the air ♪
Shamus: She is coming in
to sign a new agreement,
so we can set up to record her next
"Barbara Teicher-Cates Show."
And God bless each and every one of you. Thank you so much.
Bye, everybody! Bye! Bye, everybody!
♪
Ronda: Vern, I need you to come in here.
'Cause he wanted to coordinate with you
and what you wanna do.
-It's not like any other election we've done. -Yeah.
It's the first year we're Vegas and Pahrump, so it was like,
well, how are we gonna deal with that?
'Cause we haven't even talked about it,
so I told him you probably had already thought
about whatever you wanna do.
Vern: We cover the presidential election live.
A live show's very huge.
It's real time, real action.
There's a lot of elements. Everybody's gotta be on their game.
There's no mistakes.
I'm gonna bring in a national feed
piped into ours,
so we can flip back and forth
between the national feed and the local feed.
But I've gotta go into the back and see what I have in tools
to do an SDI switch.
Ronda: What we need to know is
-are we going on the desk like you normally do? You two? -Deanna: Yeah.
I don't know if Vern's joining as well, right?
-Are you joining as well? -Yeah, I probably will.
The night of the election, I'll be on TV.
That's a lot of fun
because you get to talk about what's happening.
You get to banter. You get to discuss.
You get to disagree.
Um, you know, if my emotions get too high,
I'll excuse myself
because they don't need to see that.
Deanna: Vern is
Vern is hard to handle, and somebody that
probably should take a long vacation during election season.
And it doesn't matter what election it is,
but of course, presidential elections are way worse.
Ronda: (laughing) I was just gonna
-Is that sugar-free whipped cream? -Deanna: No.
(gasps) Deanna!
What? It's low carb.
Oh.
Deanna: I think I have Reddi-wip breath now.
Shamus: Yes, Barbara.
I can do that. Yep, not a problem.
Barbara's not showing up today,
which is kinda typical of what she does.
♪
I'm gonna just send her
a copy of her DVD.
(line ringing)
Deanna: I've been trying to get in touch with her,
and she has been kinda outta phone range.
(line ringing)
Eunette disappeared.
She's had some family things going on,
but during the time that she disappeared,
she's not very good at communication.
-(line stops ringing) -Eunette (on phone): Hello?
-You answered! Hey, how are you doing? -Yay!
Eunette: Hey, um Not well.
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
Missey: We wanted you to know we're thinking about you.
Eunette: Thank you both.
We're thinking about you, and I want you to know
-take all the time you need, okay? -(GPS on phone)
-Eunette: Oh -(GPS continues)
Sorry, hold on. I have my navigation
to the hospital, and
It's okay. Just take all the time you need, okay?
And let us know when you're coming in, okay?
(clicking on phone)
Eunette?
I appreciate Eunette because she's happy and cheerful,
and so whatever time she needs,
just send me a text and let me know, and then we're good.
Eunette: I miss you all, too, and I love you.
-I truly do. Thank you so much. -Deanna: I do, too. Alright.
-Bye-bye. -Eunette: Alright, bye-bye.
-We got to talk to her! -I'm glad we got to talk to her.
-I know. -I'm glad she picked up, poor thing.
Yeah, because I've been leaving messages and text messages and
-Well, there's a lot going on. -I know.
-(machines whirring) -Ubaldo: Hey, Vern.
-Vern: Hi, man. -Ubaldo: So,
-the plan is -Wait a minute. What's this here?
Yeah, so here's the national feed.
Now, if we go connect up in your room
the other end of this cable,
when we are live in the studio,
you control if we're going to the national feed,
or if we're going to stay on a local feed.
Every election night
is very challenging because we always have
the challenges of technically getting it off.
On air, appropriately, so that
it airs properly.
Ubaldo: I'm confused on why I need to be switching.
-There's nothing playing at 7:00 in the studio. -Vern: But there is.
There's election coverage.
Is that what you're missing?
(machines whirring)
You can do all the college you want,
but you'll never be successful
because they don't teach success in college.
They teach you a trade.
This place is a place of learning.
Ubaldo: We'll take out the studio feed because nothing inside
the physical studio will be happening at 7:00.
-Vern: There will be. -What-- what's up?
You have a live, you have a, you have live political coverage.
So, what happens if we got rid of the studio completely?
-Could just treat-- -But that's your studio feed.
That's why we take this, put it in here
-(clears throat) You're missing one thing. -Okay.
You have live guests from 7:00
-to 10:00 in the studio. -Oh, do we?
-That's what you're missing. -I was not aware of that.
That's why you need to be able to switch between
the national feed
-and the guests in the studio -And the guests inside the studio.
-coming in. -Okay. Because nobody told me about that part.
Yeah, that's kinda what I was trying to explain to you,
but I didn't do a good job.
Yeah Okay.
Sounds good.
Vern: In order for the election night broadcast
to be successful,
you just kinda need a very long cable
that will run from master control to studio control,
and then he can switch between what's on the set
and what's on the national feed.
See how easy that was?
♪
Deanna: Everybody was told to set up by 4:00.
That didn't happen.
Oh my lord, help me.
Is that a separate Trunk-Or-Treat than you?
We gotta have 30 feet between the cars.
Glad you guys are here!
I have to make sure these cars are separated
'cause I don't know what they're doing!
You know, at a certain point, you can't control people.
Guy with the light's right there,
he's gonna put them out.
And then, um
And then they need us to remove that trailer,
and then drop it off tomorrow.
If you wanna pull up next to that bush there,
that'll be good.
(laughs)
-Man: You wanna take care of that? -John: Sure.
There's no lights in Pahrump,
but we're inviting kids out into the dark,
so Rent 2 Go brought us this light.
(generator starts)
Alright! Hoorah!
Man: That's how you operate it.
Pretty easy, pretty simple.
John: Yeah. Anyway, I'll be bringing it back later tonight,
when we get all our stuff back down.
When we first moved here, Deanna was nice enough
to kinda like open the town to us basically.
Like, she's involved in all kinds of things,
and that puts you in touch with all kinds of people,
and that's sort of what we wanted.
I find, in volunteering, you meet just like the nicest people.
(laughs)
Deanna: Alright, let's see what this looks like.
♪
Oh no!
They should never give me a hot glue gun
-because I did burn myself by the way. -Missey: Well, you haven't used
-a hot glue gun till you burn yourself. -Deanna: Yeah, yeah.
Missey: So let me help you put it on, okay?
Deanna: Help! I'm stuck!
I have to put the straps over it somehow.
-Missey: I don't think it's gonna happen that way. -Deanna: Oh, it fell.
-Missey: What fell? -Deanna: My light!
-(laughing) -No, it's on this side. It's right here.
-Well, looks like Deanna's bent over, like usual. -Deanna: What did you say?
God dang, it's hot as heck in here!
-(John laughs) -Hi, Shamus!
What are you doing, Shamus?
It's good that you're in such a good mood though.
How many cans of spray paint died to make your box look good?
Are you gonna do a whole comedy show while we're here!?
John: I don't know. Wow, I like your knobs.
(laughs) That sounded dirty, didn't it?
♪
(indistinct chatter)
Shamus: We went and gave a bunch of little kids candy.
Even some grown folks.
It was actually kinda fun.
♪
Deanna: We had a really good Trunk-Or-Treat evening.
We had lots of people. It was really good.
And then we rolled a trailer.
♪
(clank)
John: Oh. I don't know what happened.
I went to change lanes, and something just
bumped, and, and the thing came off
the trailer hitch, and I look, and flipped over, and so
then I'm dragging this light rack
down highway 160. I'm like, oh crap.
(Deanna speaking)
-Mine! -John: So then, people started showing up,
and it's Halloween, so they're in costume. There's a guy
with a pirate suit on. Came across,
"Hey! You guys need any help?"
Somebody showed up looking like a mass murderer.
He's got blood all over his shirt. What is going on?
(laughing)
And then, it was like, well, alright here. We're doing this.
♪
Man, that could've gone a whole lot different, but in the end,
was just, ooh! Flipped it back over,
and attached it onto another truck.
I wasn't gonna move it again. Somebody else took it over,
and there it was.
I'm like, jeez, this is really embarrassing.
(insects chirping)
Ubaldo: Do you know if Eunette's gonna be here today?
Deanna: She told me that she was.
Ubaldo: Okay, sounds good. I'll get set up for her.
Deanna: I'm gonna go back over to my bag of chicken
and my rotten salad. It's disgusting.
Eunette is coming to anchor.
She's been gone since October 20th.
Eunette: I was going through a really hard time.
My family, we've suffered some
serious losses,
and it's been very, very difficult.
(office chatter)
(excited greetings)
(Deanna speaking)
Vern: So, tell me.
(Vern speaking)
(Eunette and Vern speaking)
Vern: Aw
I'm sorry for your loss there.
This is a beautiful program.
♪
Eunette: After Uncle Jerry was
buried, just a few days later,
my aunt, his sister,
passed away suddenly, and
three or four days after I got back from my aunt's funeral,
my cat collapsed.
First pet I ever had.
-Vern: We missed you around here. -I missed you all, too.
I really do.
I mean, you seem like-- Can you do this tonight?
-Yes, definitely. -Vern: Alright.
I need to focus on something I love
other than grieving. -Vern: Alright.
-Thank you. -Thank you. You bet.
-Love you lots. Alright. -Love you, too.
♪
Ubaldo (on PA): Are you ready? You wanna reset your prompter?
Eunette: Thank you.
♪
Ubaldo: Eunette, can you talk real quick?
Eunette: Testing, testing, one, two.
-Pilgrim's pride is penalized as a result-- -Ubaldo: Good, good.
Eunette: I just, you know,
appreciate being able to have
this network as well.
This is another family for me,
and so I believe we're all, collectively, looking forward.
Together, looking ahead toward,
you know, a more positive future.
-(bang) -Friggin' fly.
(footsteps approaching)
-Hi there. I finally get to see you. -Hey, Deanna.
-What are you doing? -I'm good, how are you?
-Just-- -There's a fly in the office, so I'm not that good.
-Huh? Oh. -There's a fly.
-Fly. What are you up to? -Mm
You going through a lot of crap?
-You gonna be okay? -(sighs)
-Come here. -Thank you.
(muffled breathing)
-(indistinct) -You gonna be okay?
Ubaldo: Okay, we're starting.
-Twenty seconds after this one plays. -(Deanna laughs)
Andy, Andy. Did you even get to play with Eunette at all today?
Okay, come on. Hold on. Okay, I made it. Okay.
-Hi. What's this? Are you okay? -She's grunting.
Grunting usually means that she loves you
and she wants you to hold her.
(wind blowing)
(Eunette speaking)
It's just been difficult all around.
We worry about you. That's all. Everybody's worried.
Just let us know where you are.
-Just put it in writing, drop it in an email. -Okay.
And copy me or Ronda. Probably be better to copy Ronda.
-'Cause we don't wanna worry about you. -Okay.
In this world today, we don't know where
this whole election's gonna end up,
and everybody's vulnerable. So,
I want to make sure that everybody is safe wherever they are.
So, that's the key. You cool with that?
Yes, thank you.
Uh, there's a light on. I'll
take it in. I just got back, so
Engine light gone on?
I don't know what it is.
I'll take it in. I literally just got back.
My truck light went on, and it was the gas cap.
Huh.
Yeah.
(sighs)
Okay.
So, what else?
♪
Doggie, doggie, doggie! Doggie, doggie, doggie.
If anything happens, call 911.
Barbara?
I knew Barbara was
going to swing by the station.
Little house, the alien, and the spaceship ♪
Went wandering back through the air ♪
She did not show up, so I thought I would check on her.
(knocking)
(dog barking)
There's a dog barking! (laughs)
♪
I thought her dog was friendly,
but they're barking. Barbara!
-Barbara: Yeah? -It's Deanna!
Does your dog bite? I forgot.
(Barbara speaking)
Just wanted to say hi.
I have kind of a personal relationship with her
ever since she was kidnapped by aliens.
I see ships outside of my house in the sky at night.
These are peaceful
extraterrestrials or Martians or whatever you wanna call them.
They are peaceful.
Deanna: I'm one of the very few people who kind of
sympathize and realize that this woman
has had a hard life and occasionally she needs to,
you know, be checked on, see if she's okay.
-What's the squeegee for? -(barking continues)
Deanna: I didn't know if your dog was gonna bite me.
Oh no. I'm very careful. I even went out the other door
-because I didn't-- -I thought I met your dog before.
-Yeah, you did. She loves you. -Yeah. Okay, good.
So, how are you doing? What's going on with you?
Nothing. Just working on my songs.
Yeah? Did you write any new ones?
Uh, no. Just about the same ones.
I got a song about a dog that I used to have.
-Another song about that. I got a lot of songs I wrote. -Yeah? Any more sightings?
Yes. Here. Two.
-Yeah? -I was looking out the window,
and I said, "Wow! Wow!" I said, "That's a spaceship!"
To my boyfriend. He goes, "Yeah?"
Next thing, this big bright light lit up the whole house,
and it came down, the light.
Then, they were about this tall.
The aliens, you know-- kinda like extraterrestrials,
and I yelled out, "What are you doing here?"
"Well, we seen you singing!" You know, "I wanna meet you!"
There was six of them. They were dancing around and going,
"Whoa! Look at this! Wow!"
And they were all happy, dancing around.
Alright, so then you think
-that we have aliens that are on Earth right now? -Uh-huh.
-(barking continues) -Do you think one of them
might've served four years in the White House?
No! (laughs) No.
They've got homes under ground,
and they can go in the water with their spaceship.
They're down in the ocean.
So, okay. So are you planning on doing any more stuff at the station?
Any more shows, or what are you gonna do?
Um, yeah, as soon as I get some more money up.
I'm staying out here for a while, trying to keep it down.
You know, I mean, it's nice and quiet over here.
I don't-- Nobody bothers me, and I got some good neighbors
with the farm animals.
And I love my neighbors dearly.
♪
Deanna: Pahrump is unique
for many reasons.
But I really think the thing
that drew people here is people
need each other and look out for each other, you know?
Alright. Well, it's good to see you.
-Thank you so much for coming out. -Thanks, Barb.
Barbara: Bye, Deanna.
Bye, thank you.
(engines revving)
-(cheering) -(cars honking)
♪
(honking continues)
(thunder rumbling)
Deanna: Welcome. It's Monday, November 2nd.
We're so glad that you could join us
and you had a happy holiday weekend.
-I'm Deanna O'Donnell. -I'm Missey Kohler. Thanks for being here.
-(click) -Deanna: Well, voting tomorrow is from 7:00 AM
until 7:00 PM at various community centers throughout Nye County.
(continues, indistinct)
(thunder rumbling)
Some of them Armageddon clouds. Hyuk hyuk hyuk!
Yeah
Ronda: I think the world is
working on fear
and expectation of the things to come.
It's the fear of COVID
or the presidential election.
Everything's just so frantic out there.
-(thunder rumbling) -Vern: That thing comes this way,
it'll create a tornado coming through like a dirt devil.
And then after that, it'll be perfectly calm.
Ronda: So I don't know what to expect or what's gonna happen.
-Deanna: See that bush? Stand right next to that bush. -John: There?
The bush between the cactus and the other bush.
What's it saying on the WeatherBug up there?
-You have National Weather Service? -(thunder rumbling)
You know as a weatherman, make yourself familiar with those.
If you, you know, feel free. (blows)
John: I'm hoping that, you know,
everybody has their poop in a scoop and can
get our America on and decide,
okay, this is the direction we're going
and go in that direction.
Socked in with clouds just all of a sudden. Dark clouds,
it could be some interesting stuff coming our way.
It could go any way (laughs)
I feel. I bought more toilet paper. (laughs)
You know, that seemed prudent.
Deanna: I don't think that there is a person,
a human being, that is going to save the world.
I don't agree with Vern on Trump
or any of that.
I would rather champion and volunteer
and get involved in more of a movement than I would a person.
(thunder rumbling)
Gee whiz, man.
I hope that there's not gonna be a civil war.
Sometimes I hope that, oh my gosh, I hope
everybody just goes back to bed and forgets all this.
Sometimes, that's how I hope things are.
-(thunder continues) -It's coming.
♪
Interviewer: Any predictions for tomorrow? Big day tomorrow.
Shamus: A white guy's going to win the election.
Well, it's-- Hold on.
One is white, one is orange.
An old man is going to win the election.
Barbara (singing): Bop bop bop she-bop, oh baby, bop bop bop she-bop.
Well, me and Michael Jackson ♪
Was ice skating around ♪
Me and Michael Jackson ♪
Was ice skating around ♪
When he kissed me on the cheek ♪
He tied up my ice skates ♪
He asked me out to lunch ♪
He asked me to come home with him and sing ♪
And sing and sing ♪
Oh bop bop bop she-bop, oh baby, bop bop bop she-bop ♪
(Deanna laughs)
(wind blowing)