- Dave: [to Jimmy] Usually when I'm confused, you're the - you're the one I go to. And... generally speaking, you manage to confuse me even further. But some - somehow, it all - it always helps me to figure out what - what I - what I should do. Um... well, here's the - here's the situation, as I understand it. Um... Lisa has decided that she wants to have a baby, but that she - she doesn't want to get married. Now, I know that if you were awake, you would probably say something like, "Well, son, why - why milk the cow when you got a fridge full of steaks?" And I would probably say, "That makes absolutely no sense, sir." And then after, you would say, "Oh - well, it sure sounded like it made sense when that guy Chuck Connors said it in that movie Chinatown." And then I'd be forced to say, "Well, sir, Chuck Connors wasn't in the movie Chinatown." And I'm sure you would come back with, "Well, Dave, if I wanted to have this conversation, I'd have hired that guy Siskel Ebert to do your job." And I would say, "Sir, Siskel and Ebert are two guys," and I'm sure you would then come back with, "Dave, just 'cause the man is fat is no reason to make fun of him."
- Dave: For once, can't you be sincere and normal?
- Bill McNeal: Not in real life, no.
- Dave: What do you mean, "in real life"?
- Bill McNeal: When I'm on the air, I open up completely, really bare my soul.
- Dave: You do news, weather and traffic.
- Bill McNeal: Yes, but I mean it.
- Lisa Miller: I want to have a baby.
- Dave: When?
- Lisa Miller: Right now.
- Dave: I don't think you're taking into account the gestation period.
- Bill McNeal: I'd like to take a moment right now to rap to a solid dude out there who's goin' through some tough times. When I think of my personal heroes, who do I think of? Thelonious Monk, of course; John Coltrane, Jack Kerouac, Carl Vonnegut - and that slow-walkin', smooth-talkin' badass they call simply Jimbo. This one goes out to you, my man. Let's take a slow ride with Foghat.
- Dave: You can't just make a decision this big in the blink of an eye.
- Lisa Miller: Maybe you can't make a decision this big in the blink of an eye, but I can. Every decision I've ever made was like that. I remember exactly, April 26, 1983, I was on the university steps eating a cheese and steak sandwich when it hit me: radio journalism.
- Dave: What were you thinking before?
- Lisa Miller: That I should have had some ketchup for my cheese and steak sandwich.
- Catherine Duke: [talking to Jimmy] ... but most of all, I admire how you stick it to Bill day in and day out. Man, how you make that guy sweat! You know what you should do? Tell him he's fired, but that you won't fire him if he can tell you why he's being fired.
- Lisa Miller: You could quit your job, just like John Lennon.
- Dave: Yeah, that worked out well for him, didn't it?
- Joe Garrelli: How do you feel?
- Jimmy James: How do I feel? I feel like crap! How do you think I feel?
- Joe Garrelli: What was it like?
- Jimmy James: Well, I was in a dark corridor, and there was a bright light at the end, and as I was walking towards the bright light I hear Dave and Lisa arguing. "I want a baby." "When?" "Right now." And on and on and on. I listened for a second, and then I started *running* towards the bright light. But then I heard music. Slow Ride, you know, from Foghat? And I decided, if only I could hear that one more time, and so I came back.
- [Bill plays Slow Ride]
- Jimmy James: Yeah, that's the one. All right, I heard it. My work is done.
- [Slumps down]
- Matthew Brock: Doctor! Doctor!
- Jimmy James: Gotcha!