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Mm, let's see.

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It's such a beautiful
night and it's so clear.

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It's what I love about Arizona.

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I live in Virginia now.

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And though we have our
share of clear nights there,

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we don't take them quite as much
for granted as I think we might

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or as I used to do when
I lived in Arizona.

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One of the things that I
remember about a clear night,

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when I was a child, was
going to the drive-in movies.

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And we usually went whenever
my mother had her Sunday church

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group over for a meeting.

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And they would, the
ladies, would, kind of,

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rotate these meetings
among themselves.

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And she would have this meeting
about twice a week which,

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of course, meant it's sort of--

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I don't think they ever
really did any business.

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[LAUGHTER]

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They ate a lot.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And I just remember
that the house

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was cleaned up days beforehand.

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And she cooked and
cooked and cooked.

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And afterwards, we would come
back and eat all the leftovers.

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But my father would
take my brother

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and me and we'd flee, when
the ladies started arriving,

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and we'd go to the
drive-in movies.

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There's really something
to be said for seeing Ten

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Commandments under an open sky.

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[LAUGHTER]

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The Red Sea parted
under the stars.

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Pretty awesome [INAUDIBLE].

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And the other thing I remember
is The Revenge of the 50-Foot

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Woman, which is a wonderful--

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[LAUGHTER]

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Seeing a 50-foot woman
under the open sky

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was pretty amazing too.

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So the drive-in in Akron,
Ohio, they're all closed

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now but, the one we used
to go to was the Montrose.

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So this is "Two for
the Montrose Drive-in".

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'Tupperware.

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Three days before it
was pick up and scrub,

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the tops of
doorjambs wiped clean

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for white gloves come
to test disarray.

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Dad packed up the kids and
fled the cheddar cubes,

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plastic forks
suspended in Jell-o,

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that was judgment,
ambrosia and trident.

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But oh, it was delicious
at the drive-in.

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Sliding in pajamas
down into the pit,

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waking just in time to see great
Pharaoh crowned and Charlton

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Heston rosy in his holy rags.

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Now, that was a good story,
that kept us awake until the end

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credits.

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The moon huge as
it wandered down

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the black gullet of avenue.

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Bright eyes following
the windshield.

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We made it home to the
ruins of the feast.

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Crustless sandwiches
smelling faintly of ocean.

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Platoons of celery,
mince, and dip.

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They always finished the cake.

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[LAUGHTER]

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The soggy lemon crescent
lolling in the red bottom

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of the drained punch bowl.

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And the house a mess.

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We ate like kings for days.

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Charlton Heston's Holy Rags.

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Our lucky man puts in
his first appearance.

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We cheer, ski the
front seat's vinyl

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into the plushy pit
beneath the dash.

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Just as sure as we're missing
the chalky mints, discreetly

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placed between the moistened
lips of the Reverend

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Sisters of the
Eastern Star, he'll

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save us from plopping
frogs or locusts, clouds

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of hissing told-you-sos,
invading bed or pajama cuff.

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This time around, though,
he's neither good nor wise.

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He tromps palatial corridors,
a smooth-cheeked boy

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in Roman bronze, all
greed and good looks.

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No green smoke
wiggling over a host

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of snakes ready to be
turned into walking sticks.

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Instead, he lifts his
hand and an urn, kicked,

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stutters across the tiles.

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The car speaker crackles scorn.

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What brand of
righteousness is this?

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Squeamish, we stuff our
mouths with more buttered corn

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and count the things gone wrong.

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There's a sister
rotting away in a cave,

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too many sweaty people being
whipped, that skinny stranger's

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burning gaze.

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And then, just when
we begin to doubt him,

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we watch as doubt struggles up
to crouch inside his own baby

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blues.

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Oh, now he rises to
his chiseled best,

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takes redemption's arrow
deep into his manly chest

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as rain comes down in torrents.

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Lightning timed to tell
each flash of news.

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The rock rolled back, the
lepers' new-washed skin.

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And through it all,
the tears, the flood,

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Thy Kingdom Come in
gold and cobalt streaks,

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he stands aglow with blessedness
with could it be remorse?

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Whatever for?

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And in an instant he
suddenly grows old."

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