Request Line: Do Your Job

INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY

We join our regularly scheduled program in progress…

PRODUCER: …but I think it’s great that the team kept you on the payroll.

JIM MCNALLY: Yeah, well, those ticket stubs aren’t going to sort themselves.

PRODUCER: No, I suppose that’s true.  Unless everything were done electronically, you know, using barcodes and such.

DJ3000: [quietly writes a database management program out of boredom]

JOHN JASTREMSKI: Well, you know, the Patriots are a throwback organization.  We keep it real, you know what I mean?

PRODUCER: I guess it seems a little like busywork, is all I’m saying.

JIM MCNALLY: To you, sure.

JOHN JASTREMSKI: I mean, seriously.

JIM MCNALLY: This guy.

JOHN JASTREMSKI: Right?

JIM MCNALLY: Listen, if you can find someone that will pay you fifteen large to spend sixteen weekends of the year in a room matching ticket stubs to the original printouts, you should definitely go for it.  We’ve got a pretty good thing going.

JOHN JASTREMSKI: And all we had to do was sign an N…D…oh shit.

JIM MCNALLY: So…wait, did you read that thing?

JOHN JASTREMSKI: I mean, I kinda did.

JIM MCNALLY: Shit shit shit shit shit.

JOHN JASTREMSKI: We’re not supposed to talk about our work for the organization.  Publicly.

JIM MCNALLY: Shit.

JOHN JASTREMSKI: Okay, okay, okay. [to PRODUCER] So what we’re gonna need you to do right now is to retract this interview.

PRODUCER: Retract it?

JIM MCNALLY: Yeah man.  Just work some of your producer magic and erase the part where we talked about what we do for the Patriots.

JOHN JASTREMSKI: And then what he just said, retract that too.

JIM MCNALLY: Huh?

JOHN JASTREMSKI: [stage whisper to JIM MCNALLY] We’re not even supposed to say we work for the Atriots-Pay. 

PRODUCER: Guys, this interview has been going out over the airwaves for the last ten minutes.  Did you really not know that?  We’re live right now.  I can’t just…take it back.

JIM MCNALLY and JOHN JASTREMSKI both sit tight-lipped in their chairs. 

PRODUCER: Are you guys…clamming up on me? Oh man, just like a couple of Bostonians.  [chuckles at his own joke as they remain silent] Okay, I guess you are.  Well, I suppose that means we’ll be getting to the music.  Today’s theme is “occupations”.  Give us a call with songs about specific occupations, like architects, or matadors, or secretaries.  I’ll get us started with one from Radiohead.

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