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Monte: Well, I had a dream last night, that we were on ol' Johnny Carson's show. Just us three sitting there talking, face to face and nose to nose. He said, "Monte, tell me, what's it like where you live, a way up there in Alaska?" I said "Johnny," 'cause that's what they call him, I said "Johnny, its funny you should aska." [silence] Well, he didn't laugh either. I said, "Now seriously John, all kidding on a level, there's only one of two things you gotta be. One of those things is nuts, the other one is crazy.' "You got to be crazy Well, he looked at me, kinda stupefied, I don't think that was the answer he expected at all, but I just sat there, waiting for the next question, fielding him, as they would say. Just kinda gettin' him off the wall. He said, "Well, what about those winters you have up there? I hear they're kind of long, and freezing." I said, "John, you'd be amazed, in the southern part of our state, how really nice it can be." He said, "Oh yeah? You mean down there by Juneau? That part that you call southeast?" I said, "No, I mean the part that we call Maui, Kona, Waikiki, you know what I mean? You got to be crazy, Tell 'em honey. Joanne: You see, then John looked at me, as if to say 'well, in which one those categories do you go?' And I thought of summertime, and the pints of blood I've given those dang misquitoes. I said, "John, I've swatted, I've brushed, I've slapped, I've killed them by the fives and tens. I've covered myself with bug dope, but they just send the suicide squad in. "You got to be crazy Both: Well I'm totally crazy and I'm totally nuts and there ain't no other place like it in the whole, wide world! [end of of song, applause] This is a song by Joanne & Monte, an alaskan singer/songwriter couple from their album 'Alaska, Where We Live." |