GK: Fred Newman is down at the Gateway Arch by the Mississippi ----- Fred? Can you hear me?
FN: -----ewman at the Ga------- ver shore------
GK: Can you hear me, Fred?
FN: --------------------clear.
GK: Okay, so you can hear me?
FN: Affir------------------------out.
GK: People have parachuted onto the Gateway Arch and people have parachuted from it but today Fred will become the first person to leap from the arch holding a parasol and plummet down and land, we hope, on a barge full of wet sponges floating down the river. Are you ready, Fred?
FN: Ready for what?
GK: You're up on the Gateway Arch with your parasol and you're going to jump down-----
FN: I'm going to what?
GK: You're going to jump down and land on that barge loaded with wet sponges-----
FN: You must think I'm nuts. No, I'm going to jump with this bungee cord around my waist and land on a three-hundred foot long bagpipe floating down the river playing the St. Louis Blues.
GK: Okay. Sorry I got that wrong.
FN: One. Two. Three. (SFX FALLING)
TR, RD, GK: BAGPIPE "ST. LOUIS BLUES"
(I hate to see that sound effects man, jump down.
I hate to see that sound effects man, jump down.
(SFX: LANDING, AND BAD CHORD)