Radio Script

brandon: Well Cobi, I'm going to New York with you. You know Bucky Harris, the Yankee's manager, gave me a job as coach for as long as you're on the team.

Cobi: Look brandon, if you're the coach, you must know all the players.

brandon: I certainly do.

Cobi: Well you know I've never met the guys. So you'll have to tell me their names, and then I'll know who's playing on the team.

brandon: Oh, I'll tell you their names, but you know it seems to me they give these ball players now-a-days very peculiar names.

Cobi: You mean funny names?

brandon: Strange names, pet names...like Dizzy Dean...

Cobi: His brother Daffy.

brandon: Daffy Dean...

Cobi: And their French cousin.

brandon: French?

Cobi: Goofè.

brandon: Goofè Dean. Well, let's see, we have on the bags, Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third...

Cobi: That's what I want to find out.

brandon: I say Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know's on third.

Cobi: Are you the manager?

brandon: Yes.

Cobi: You gonna be the coach too?

brandon: Yes.

Cobi: And you don't know the fellows' names?

brandon: Well I should.

Cobi: Well then who's on first?

brandon: Yes.

Cobi: I mean the fellow's name.

brandon: Who.

Cobi: The guy on first.

brandon: Who.

Cobi: The first baseman.

brandon: Who.

Cobi: The guy playing...

brandon: Who is on first!

Cobi: I'm asking YOU who's on first.

brandon: That's the man's name.

Cobi: That's who's name?

brandon: Yes.

Cobi: Well go ahead and tell me.

brandon: That's it.

Cobi: That's who?

brandon: Yes.

Cobi: Look, you gotta first baseman?

brandon: Certainly.

Cobi: Who's playing first?

brandon: That's right.

Cobi: When you pay off the first baseman every month, who gets the money?

brandon: Every dollar of it.

Cobi: All I'm trying to find out is the fellow's name on first base.

brandon: Who.

Cobi: The guy that gets...

brandon: That's it.

Cobi: Who gets the money…

brandon: He does, every dollar. Sometimes his wife comes down and collects it.

Cobi: Who's wife?

brandon: Yes.

brandon: What's wrong with that?

Cobi: Look, all I wanna know is when you sign up the first baseman, how does he sign his name?

brandon: Who.

Cobi: The guy.

brandon: Who.

Cobi: How does he sign...

brandon: That's how he signs it.

Cobi: Who?

brandon: Yes.

Cobi: All I'm trying to find out is what's the guy's name on first base.

brandon: No. What is on second base.

Cobi: I'm not asking you who's on second.

brandon: Who's on first.

Cobi: One base at a time!

brandon: Well, don't change the players around.

Cobi: I'm not changing nobody!

brandon: Take it easy, buddy.

Cobi: I'm only asking you, who's the guy on first base?

brandon: That's right.

Cobi: Ok.

brandon: All right.

Cobi: What's the guy's name on first base?

brandon: No. What is on second.

Cobi: I'm not asking you who's on second.

brandon: Who's on first.

Cobi: I don't know.

brandon: He's on third, we're not talking about him.

Cobi: Now how did I get on third base?

brandon: Why you mentioned his name.

Cobi: If I mentioned the third baseman's name, who did I say is playing third?

brandon: No. Who's playing first.

Cobi: What's on first?

brandon: What's on second.

Cobi: I don't know.

brandon: He's on third.

Cobi: There I go, back on third again!

Cobi: Would you just stay on third base and don't go off it.

brandon: All right, what do you want to know?

Cobi: Now who's playing third base?

brandon: Why do you insist on putting Who on third base?

Cobi: What am I putting on third.

brandon: No. What is on second.

Cobi: You don't want who on second?

brandon: Who is on first.

Cobi: I don't know.

Cobi: Look, you gotta outfield?

brandon: Sure.

Cobi: The left fielder's name?

brandon: why.

Cobi: I just thought I'd ask you.

brandon: Well, I just thought I'd tell ya.

Cobi: Then tell me who's playing left field.

brandon: Who's playing first.

Cobi: I'm not... stay out of the infield! I want to know what's the guy's name in left field?

brandon: No, What is on second.

Cobi: I'm not asking you who's on second.

brandon: Who's on first!

Cobi: I don't know.

Cobi: The left fielder's name?

brandon: Why.

Cobi: Because!

brandon: Oh, he's centerfield.

Cobi: Look, You gotta pitcher on this team?

brandon: Sure.

Cobi: The pitcher's name?

brandon: Tomorrow.

Cobi: You don't want to tell me today?

brandon: I'm telling you now

Cobi: Then go ahead.

brandon: Tomorrow!

Cobi: What time?

brandon: What time what?

Cobi: What time tomorrow are you gonna tell me who's pitching?

brandon: Now listen. Who is not pitching.

Cobi: I'll break your arm, you say who's on first! I want to know what's the pitcher's name?

brandon: What's on second.

Cobi: I don't know.

Cobi: Gotta a catcher?

brandon: Certainly.

Cobi: The catcher's name?

brandon: Today.

Cobi: Today, and tomorrow's pitching.

brandon: Now you've got it.

Cobi: All we got is a couple of days on the team.

Cobi: You know I'm a catcher too.

brandon: So they tell me.

Cobi: I get behind the plate to do some fancy catching, Tomorrow's pitching on my team and a heavy hitter

gets up. Now the heavy hitter bunts the ball. When he bunts the ball, me, being a good catcher, I'm gonna throw the guy out at first base. So I pick up the ball and throw it to who?

brandon: Now that's the first thing you've said right.

Cobi: I don't even know what I'm talking about!

brandon: That's all you have to do.

Cobi: Is to throw the ball to first base.

brandon: Yes!

Cobi: Now who's got it?

brandon: Naturally.

Cobi: Look, if I throw the ball to first base, somebody's gotta get it. Now who has it?

brandon: Naturally.

Cobi: Who?

brandon: Naturally.

Cobi: Naturally?

brandon: Naturally.

Cobi: So I pick up the ball and I throw it to Naturally.

brandon: No you don't, you throw the ball to Who.

Cobi: Naturally.

brandon: That's different.

Cobi: That's what I said.

brandon: You're not saying it...

Cobi: I throw the ball to Naturally.

brandon: You throw it to Who.

Cobi: Naturally.

brandon: That's it.

Cobi: That's what I said!

brandon: You ask me.

Cobi: I throw the ball to who?

brandon: Naturally.

Cobi: Now you ask me.

brandon: You throw the ball to Who?

Cobi: Naturally.

brandon: That's it.

Cobi: Same as you! Same as YOU! I throw the ball to who. Whoever it is drops the ball and the guy runs to second. Who picks up the ball and throws it to What. What throws it to I Don't Know. I Don't Know throws it back to Tomorrow, Triple play. Another guy gets up and hits a long fly ball to Because. Why? I don't know! He's on third and I don't give a darn!

brandon: What?

Cobi: I said I don't give a darn!

brandon: Oh, that's our shortstop.

Zoot Suit Riots

The Zoot Suit Riots

The Zoot Suit riots were a series of riots that broke out in Los Angeles, California during WWII. The riots happened between American Sailors, Marines and Mexican Americans. The riots were in part of the effect of the Sleepy Lagoon Murder trial. After the Sleepy Lagoon case, a series of violent incidents erupted between Mexicans wearing Zoot suits and U.S. service personnel in San Jose, Oakland, San Diego, Delano, Los Angeles, and cities and towns of California. The most serious of the break outs in Los Angeles. The first in the series of riots accured on May 30 1943, the altercation involved a dozen sailors and soilders. The second of the series took place four days later on the night of June 3 1943, about eleven sailors got off a bus and started walking along Main Street in Downtown Los Angeles, ast some point they ran into a group of young mexicans dressed in Zoot Suits and got into a verbal agument.

 The riots ecalated over the ensuing days, thousands of white service men joined the attacks marching down streets, entering bars and movie theaters and assaulting any young latino males the encountered. In one incident sailors dragged two Zoot Suits on stage while the movie was being played, stripped there clothes off in front of the audience and procceded to urinate on the suits. Although police accompaniend the rioting servicemen, they had orders not to arrest any of them. After several days of rioting more than 150 people had been injured and police arrested more than 500 Latinos on charges ranging from rioting to vangrancy. Journalist Carey McWilliams Wrote, "Marching through the streets of downtown Los Angeles, a mob of several thousand soldiers, sailors, and civilians, proceeded to beat up every zoot suiter they could find. Pushing its way into the important motion picture theaters, the mob ordered the management to turn on the house lights and then ran up and down the aisles dragging Mexicans out of their seats. Streetcars were halted while Mexicans, and some Filipinos and Negroes, were jerked from their seats, pushed into the streets and beaten with a sadistic frenzy." The Zoot Suits riots was caused by racism and hatred.

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