" Ruth-Anne." " "Pele the conqueror" in the C's." " Where do you keep the dental floss?" " It's down there." "Waxed or unwaxed?" "What's the difference?" "Depends on how close together your teeth are." "I almost forgot." "You got a package." " Package?" " COD." "It's out back." "Here it is." " This is for me?" " Yep." " What is it?" " At first I thought it was a mistake." "McDermot's snowmobile chassis come in boxes this size but he ships by rail and this came by truck." "It's from Tooley!" " Friend of yours?" " Yeah." "It could be a wardrobe or maybe a refrigerator." "Whatever it is weights a ton." " It's human remains." " What?" "You mean a body?" "Yeah." "Whose body?" "His." "NORTHERN EXPOSURE 4x04 "HEROES" Subtitles subXpacio" " Excuse me." " Come in." "Good morning, friend." " Good morning." " Can I get you something?" " Where am I?" " You're at the Brick." "The Brick." " In Sicily, right?" " Yes, sir." "Where's the beach and Cinzano umbrellas, olives and all that?" "You did say Sicily, right?" " Alaska." " Alaska...?" "Of course!" "If I were in Sicily, you'd be speaking Italian." " I guess." " Alaska..." "That's cool." "Bears, penguins, pipelines..." "Have you got a phone here?" "Right around the bar just beyond the pool table." "Would you do me a favor?" "If a guy called Mink, who's supposed to be an artist's manager calls for me, tell him to get lost." " Mink?" " I mean, hey man a guy gives you his word, he follows through, right?" " Without question." " Right." "Totally." "So if he calls, I don't even want to know about it." "Alright." "If this Mr. Mink calls who will he be asking for?" "Order up!" "How about that drink?" "Tequila and OJ." "I'll see what I can round up." "So this is Tooley?" " Yep." " You guys were good friends?" "The best." "Since way back in JD." "We lived off and on together since." "We were living in an abandoned boxcar when he told me about Sartre." " Sartre?" " Yeah." " Really?" " Don't let the clothes fool you." "There is a real renaissance man." "Philosopher, artist, musician." "After the Sooline days, we were living in Skokie, in a halfway house for about a year." "He picked up the blues harp..." "Man could he wall that thing!" "You see this tattoo on his left arm?" "Most people think the ink pricker misspelled "murder"." "In Kentucky there was a filly he always had his eye on." "Always came in dead last, unless it was raining." "Then his "mudder" would skate on in while the others slogged along." " How come you never talked about him?" " He was a big part of my life." "A major influence." "The things we shared, that he taught me..." "I guess bringing him up was just too personal." " So what do you want to do with him?" " Bury him I suppose." " He didn't leave a note?" " No." "We had a pact." "You had a pact?" "It's kind of hazy." "Last time I saw him he was herding sheep." "We were sitting on a hill drinking a 12 pack of malt liquor and a pint of sloe gin." "You know, contemplating our mortality." "We said something about doing right by one another." "Seems simple enough." "You'd think, but Tooley worked on a lot of levels." " A complex individual." " Yeah." "Hello, darling." "You got any Ernie Balls?" " Who?" " Ernie Balls, electric guitar strings." "No, I'm afraid I don't have any." "How about picks?" "Any kind, polymer, nylon, plexi, agate..." "I'll go see what I can find." "I'll have to check downstairs." "Be right back." "You wanna toss me some matches love?" "Yeah some matches." "Must have left my lighter in the Brick." "You in detox?" "You're one of those..." "Sign language?" " No, no..." " No." "No, no..." "My name's Shelly Tambo." " Tambo?" " Yeah." "Did I do you on the Wonderland Tour?" "But I'm one ofyour biggest fans." "I've got all your records." "Cool!" "I've always wanted to ask you this one question, but I never thought I'd get the chance to meet you like this." "Shoot." "On the cover of "Metal Image"." "You were dressed in your gig stuff," " ...all the chains and leather..." " Yeah." "Except you were wearing a smiley face button, only it's upside down." "Was that 'cause an upside-down smile's a frown?" "I thought maybe it was because you lost Freddy as soon as it came out." " Freddy?" " Your first drummer." "Freddy Bonner." "Your twin." "Him!" "That cheeky sod wanted a solo in every set we did." "Diabolical liberty." "If he hadn't ditched the band first" "I'd seriously have considered giving him the boot." "Sorry, but all I could find was a few old banjo picks." " You can have them if you want." " Thanks, man." "They're awful dusty." "Have you got a doctor or something around here?" "Dr. Fleischman's office is just down the street." "Later." "Bye." " Hey." " Morning." "Indian." "For real?" "That's karma, man!" "Because I dig the Indian sound." "Those tom toms, wooden flutes, gourd pipes, drums..." " Totally cool." "Do you play?" " Piano." " No drums?" " I have friends who play drums." " Really?" " Marilyn..." "Can I help you?" "Yeah but if I have to take off my shirt it's between you and me." "I haven't had my chest waxed in weeks." "It's not a problem for me Mr...?" "I like this guy!" "Brad Bonner." "He plays guitar." "You say the tingling occurs in the thumb and first 3 fingers?" "Yeah, basically." "Sometimes when I get on stage it goes to sleep on me." "Really screws up my hammer ons." " What?" " The hammer ons." "You know Eddie's big thing on the Van Halen album." "Blew all the wannabes away..." "I see what you mean." "Does that cause any numbness in your palm?" "Yeah." "That's it." "I told Mink about this a month ago and he just told me to stop sleeping with my hands under my butt." "The ligaments in the wrist are swollen and impinge the nerve." "It's called carpal tunnel syndrome." " You said you played the guitar?" " Yeah, you could say that." "How would you hold the instrument when you play?" "At the height you're holding it you have to fold your wrist over." "You gotta try and keep a neutral position when you play." "Like higher." "Say chest level." "Yeah?" "No, no, no." "There looks all wrong man." "Alright." "Maybe it wasn't the axe at all, maybe it was the dogs." " The dogs?" " I had these dogs." "Great Danes." "They used to yank like hell, it really bagged on my hands." "What happened to them?" "Let me have your wrist." " I set them free." " Free?" "Yeah, like in the lion movie." "Right." "This obviously may not be the look you're after but it should do." "Just wear it throughout the day, especially when you rock out." "I like it!" "It's got that real road warrior look, man." "Yeah." "Dateline:" "Mesopotamia, 3500 BC." "That's when the multifaceted sounds we call music got its humble beginnings." "It seems clappers were sent out to the fields to scare evil spirits away." "These clappers got into the beat of their duties, from there horns, reeds, strings and the whole orchestral gestalt." "So, born as staving off death, music continues to nourish us in a variety of different forms as different colors of the spectrum." "Riding high on that metal wavelength of that spectrum is the one and only Brad Bonner, lead vocalist and axe man for the band "Serpent Cathedral"." " Welcome, Brad." " How's it going?" "It's going good." "It's a long way from the lute to the screaming Stratocaster." "Who were some of your influences?" "Where do you come from?" "Musically?" "Chili Peppers, U2, Pearl Jam's ok." "Considering your heavy distortion, grunge sound, I was wondering if maybe you were influenced by some of the greats:" "Hendrix or Tommy Bolin." " Hendrix?" " Yeah." "Purple Haze, Woodstock?" ""Star Spangled Banner", You know, head band..." "You mean that black dude, right?" "He wrote the "Star Spangled Banner"?" " Well no..." " Whatever." "I make a point of never listening to music released before 1987." "You see, my sound comes from deep inside of me." "I don't want to pollute my musical groundwater." "Right, right." "How long you gonna stay in our fair flower of a city?" "Until last night I didn't think I could get out fast enough." " Yeah?" " Yeah, but all that's changed." " Really?" " I got this great idea for a gig." " In Cicely?" " Alaska." "It won't be your standard rock fest." "Norway." "This will be deeper." "A kind of cultural, of great cultural..." " Significance." " Totally significant." "It'll just be me, right?" "And some Indian drummers rocking out." "Like a real meeting of the musical minds." "Real cultural exchange stuff." "That's great." "I can't wait to hear that." "This next cut is for to my visiting friend Tooley." "A new sound, for these airwaves at least, the title track off Cathedral's LP entitled "Mondo Rondo", you got it: "Mondo Rondo"." "Crank it up." "Excuse me." "Sir!" "Mr. Bonner." "Hi, I'm Ed." "I just heard you on the radio." "C, C, B flat." "You got a pen man?" " Something to write with?" " No." "Can you remember something?" "C, G,..." " B flat." " I got it." "I heard you are playing with some Indians and I'd like to film it." "No can do." "I want this thing pure." "No MTV stuff." "Like a cultural, you know tradeoff." "No." "Like cameras and lights will mess up the purity of it." "I can shoot it ambient." " Ambient?" " That's without lights." " Yeah." "Ambient is without lights." " It wouldn't cost you anything." " No?" " The Coast Guard down at Yakataga they were gonna get rid of all their 16 mm stock." "But instead of dumping it, they gave it to me." "Yeah?" "Maybe we could get the whole thing down on film." "Maybe it wouldn't mess up the balance of the whole cultural thing." "That's important to me." "Balance culture and media." "Robert Flaherty did it once up here "Nanook of the North", 1922." " Oh it's been done?" " Sort of..." "That was a film." "Maybe we could expand the performance thing." "Show how I came up with the idea, do a bit of background." "A sort of Cicely solo tour about me." "About me and Alaska." "Yeah." "There's too much stuff here just for a video." "It's much bigger than that." "I think it's feature length, like that Madonna thing." " "Truth or Dare"." " 'Cept this would be about something." "Like "We are the world", but instead of 40 guys singing it'd just be me and the Indians." "A sort of..." " "I am the world"." " Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Yeah..." " "I am the world"." " Yeah!" "I got a big problem, Tooley." "I got options but the pieces don't want to fit." "Option number 1: cremation." "You're a well traveled guy." "Where am I gonna spread you?" "Burial at sea?" "That's a nice choice." "But there's seven of them, which one do I choose?" "Mummification: interesting but since the Cult of Osiris is history, there's nobody to do it up right." "I couldn't get the palm wine and spices for the job anyway." "Each answer only rattles the question harder." " Hi, Chris." " Hey, Brad." "Eddie." " Hey, Chris." " What are you guys doing out here?" "I heard you had a dead guy out here." "I thought we'd do the real thing." "Stop by have a look at him, pay my last respects, that whole scene." "Yeah." "Thanks." "Ok Eddie, I think we should get a shot of me and the dead guy." "Tooley." "The name's Tooley." "Right, me and Tooley and bring Chris in as well." "Alright, here we go." "Death, what a scam." "Society wants us to buy into that whole dead" " ...and gone routine." " Right." "It all started coming together for me when I was a punk." "I had this idea that when you kicked, your spirit got booted into machines, engines... but then I got hip to the idea it's way more than that." "I mean what comes down when you die, is that you end up in the thing you dug the most before you die." "Right, right..." "Like little bits of me will end up in my hum buckers man and in my strings and out there with all the Cathedral punters." "Like what you're slant is we all get fragmented, redistributed, yeah?" " Like a chain letter." " Right." "Whatever." "Maurice, maybe you can help shed some light on something." "I mean you being a former national hero and all." "You've probably been the object of some female adoration." "You got that right." "4 in the side pocket there." " It's Shelly." " Yeah?" "And this Brad fellow." "I've never seen here like this." "It's like she's under some sort of spell." "Yeah, I've noticed." "You have?" ""Spell" is a very apt way of putting it." "5 down there." "It's an interesting phenomenon to witness, especially first hand." " What is?" " The effect that public celebrity can have on the fair sex." "A woman is God fearing, church going, with a puritan demeanor and a husband to boot, can suddenly be turned into a libidinous..." " ...sex fiend." " Sex fiend?" "I've often wondered why women feel that it's important to have sex with a famous man." "5 in the corner over there." "Damn!" "I think maybe they feel notoriety might rub off on them or it could be basic biological drive." "That Darwinian stuff." "Procreation with the alpha male." "I never came to a satisfactory answer." "But I had a hell of a lot of fun." "Your shot." "I realize your tastes in vino never made it past the screwtop variety, but all Ruth-Anne had was cooking sherry." ""Salutes chalutes"." "Down the hatch." "That's not bad." "Reminds me of that stuff we used to ferment in the squirt bottles." "Our meal sizzles." "Remember the night we were out by the beltline?" "We had a campfire going and I was making the "Chris-burger"." "You told me 2 pounds of ground beef would never cook even." "Would I listen?" "There was the "Chris-burger" on the open flame, charcoal black on the outside, red raw in the inside." "Just like you said, man." "I knew I needed that little something extra." "That little something special to make it uniquely mine." "So I basted my culinary delight with the hooch we had handy." "If you hadn't grabbed me by the Levis when that ever clear went up," "I'd have been burned black as my boots, a regular crisper critter." "Just one of the many times you saved my ass." "Soups on." "What are we gonna do with you Tooley?" "Good evening, sir." "Nazarene party?" " Could be." "I'm not really sure." " This way." " Here we are." " I don't want someone's seat." " Feel free to sit." " Are you sure?" "Ok." "Thank you." " Tight fit." " Care for a cocktail?" " Or see the wine list?" " Do you have anything on tap?" "I'm afraid not." "Try the O-5 Gethsemane private reserve cab." "It's drinking well now." "Goes nicely with a shank of lamb and bitter herbs." "I'll try that." " Peter." " Chris." " That's James." " Hi." "Philip, Mathew, Mark, Luke, John..." "Mathew, Mark, Luke and John?" "You guys aren't the...?" "No!" " So what brings you here?" " Not the sweet bread I hope." "No, I have a dead friend I need to bury." "You want the meaning of life?" "Yeah, I think so." "You came to the right place." "Hey, guys!" " Dinner's on me tonight." " Way to go Judas." " Unleavened bread?" " Sure." "Why not?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "Yeah, thanks." "I like that." "Great." "Thanks, Jim." "Riveting stuff man." "Top notch." " Marilyn..." " Next!" "Come on in Don." " Any calls for me?" " No." " Good." " Ok." " This is Don Clearwater." " Hi, Don." " Marilyn." " He does weddings, hunting ceremonies, harvest..." "Cool!" "Christmas and Easter I do a special program over at Redeemer Baptist Church in Sleetmute." "Just a minute, before we get started." "Ed." "I just got to say I'm way into this thing we're gonna do." "You and me we're not that different." "You people wear skins, I wear skins." "I dig music, you dig music." "This is gonna be a real gast." "Let's see what you do." "Woh, cut, cut, Eddie." "Eddie..." " He's really good." " Yeah, he is." "He's tall." " How tall?" " I don't know." "Taller than me?" "A little." "Thanks for stopping by man, that was totally cool." " Cheers." " Bye, Don." " Bye, Marilyn." " Bye, Don, I'll let you know." "Marilyn, there are people with drums lined up out here." " It's auditions." " Auditions?" "We needed a private space to check out the local traps men." "Traps men?" "Drummers." "You were out to lunch." "Look." "This is a doctor's office." "Sick people come here for treatment..." " What about my patients?" " You don't have any." "I might." "Ed would you stop?" "Alright." "Obviously I'm not gonna win this one." "Ok. 20 minutes, then I want my office back." " Thanks, Dr. Fleischman." " Marilyn?" "Next." "Hey, Chris." "Hey, Joel." "Did you know that when other slaves died the ancient Gauls would dig a hole in the ground, a big shaft put the body in standing straight up and down?" " Who did that?" " The Gauls." "Was there any choice of final internment for the Hebrew world?" "Yes, the basic burial was your primary choice." " In the ground?" " Within 2 days." "Which is why I wanted to talk to you about your friend and his casket." " Tooley." " Right." "I just don't want to have any knee jerk decisions being made." "Eternal rest isn't something you should rush into." "I understand but but in the eyes of the Attorney General it is." "If Tooley wasn't embalmed you'd have to have him in the ground within 24 hours." "Shoddily embalmed you'd have 48 to 72 max." "Seeing as he was dead before he mailed himself to you" " I'd say we're pushing it." " I know." "It's my responsibility to tell you that aside from the law we have certain health risks to consider." "A body begins breaking down as soon as a person dies." "Granted in Tooley's case it's been slowed down a little..." "Unless you know his entire medical history you can transmit any number of things: hepatitis or..." "What you're saying is sooner than later on this deal." "This is what I'm saying." " You're right." " Ok." "Thank you." "1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4!" "Guitar solo coming up." "Hold it!" "That's gonna be bitching tomorrow!" "That's so totally cool!" "Seeing as I'm on a wireless here, maybe during your solo" "I could bounce back and mingle make that exchange more upfront." "Ok." "Maybe while I'm grooving your sound" "I can bang something, like maybe one of them." "That's cool." "Cheers." "Alright then?" "From the top." "1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4!" " Are you coming into bed?" " In a minute." " Do you think I blew it?" " Nice." "Not a wrinkle." "Maybe I should have kept it all sweaty like he left it." " He?" " Brad wears this on his arm for when he's sweating like a pig on stage." "He wipes his face with it." "He gave you his dirty hanky?" "Well..." "I was clearing his table so I sort of put a plate on it." "Ok." "I kipped it." "You stole it?" " Well yeah." "I guess." " I must say" "I don't much like the way you've been acting." "I know I shouldn't have swiped it, but it was his hanky." "And it was just sitting there." " What?" " From the moment he came to Cicely you've been following him around like he's the lead dog." " So?" " People are noticing." " People?" " I'm noticing." " You're jealous?" " No." "I'm not jealous." "I'm embarrassed." "Embarrassed?" "You and I are practically husband and wife." "So what?" "So if you behave unseemly it's unbecoming to you and it reflects poorly on me." "You're trying to tell me if I act like a dork..." " ...people will think you're a dork?" " Well..." "Well, la de dah!" "Too bad for you." "I'm not implying that..." " You just got to understand." " You just get this" "I'm me Holling, not you." "This is my life." "If I'm some kind of squeeze that's my problem not yours." " Shelly..." " If that's unseemly or unbecoming, I'm just sorry you see it that way." "Thank you, Marilyn." "That was really nice." "Thank you all for coming out on such short notice." "We had to hurry this thing along, so thank you again." "And let's just get on with it." "We're gathered here today to mourn the passing of Brian Grady O'Toole." "Tooley was born of good Irish stock down in the vicinity of New Orleans, Louisiana." "He is survived, last I heard, by his mother, 7 brothers and 2 sisters." "Even though he left the family nest at the age of 11, he had a sense of family values," "which stayed with him until his final days, final days which came way too soon, believe me ladies and gentlemen." "And," "and, for the people who" "remember him, the most fondly..." "I can't do this." "I can't." "It just doesn't feel right." "I've known this guy my whole life." "This is crazy." "Hey, Brad!" "You made it!" "Darn right, but I'll tell you what you have to wait all bleeding day for a cab around here." "My feet are killing me." "Where are my skin pounders then?" "That's what I wanted to talk to you about." "Before I forget." "The post show party, I'd like you to film that because the fans get totally out of control." "Yeah, I bet." "That's the thing." "There's not gonna be a meet and greet after the show." "Because there's not gonna be a show." "Say what?" "The Indians won't play with you anymore." "They don't want to play with me?" "They said you're very good but you're like a pebble." "I'm like a pebble?" " A pebble in a shoe." " They said I'm a pebble in a shoe?" " Yeah." " That's it." "I'm like a pebble in a shoe..." "Great." "I guess this means you'll pull the plug on the film." "Yeah..." "Great." "Wonderful." "A bloody pebble in a bloody shoe..." "That's wonderful!" "Last week, we're down at the sea in Galilee and he says, "I know this great spot for carp. "" "We cast our nets and sit there all day, in that blinding sun." "What did we get?" " Bupkis." " That's why they call it fishing..." " ...not catching." " Yeah, yeah." " You guys are all fishermen?" " Most of us." "Luke's a physician, Matt's a tax gatherer, Philip is..." " ...a blacksmith?" " Shepherd." "Fun's fun but tomorrow's a workday." "Chris, it's been a pleasure." "If you ever make it to Bethany, look me up." "Ok, Peter." "I'll do that." "Take care." "He's a nice guy." "You want to do some real fishing you ought to come up to Alaska." "We got king salmon, halibut..." " The show's starting." " What show?" "Good evening, ladies and brethren." "Welcome." "I want you to all kick off your sandals and lay back." " Tooley." " 'Cause it's Showtime at the Last Supper club." "That's my friend Tooley!" "It's me, Chris, your buddy!" "He can't hear you." "He's dead!" "Yeah..." "I'm hip to the fact that there's a dude in the audience that is breaking his teeth over the meaning of life." "That's me." "He's talking about me." " Let me tell you about it." " Tell us baby, tell us." "It ain't love." "It ain't beauty." "It ain't the whole truth and nothing but the truth." " Tell us baby, tell us." " If you really want to know the meaning of life." "Take those old records off the shelf" "I sit and listen to them by myself." "Today's music ain't got the same soul." "I like that old time rock and roll." "Don't try to take me to a disco." "You won't even get me out on the floor." "In ten minutes I'll be looking for the door because I like that old time rock and roll." "Still like that old time rock and roll." "that kind of music just soothes the soul." "I reminisce about the days of old with that old time rock and roll." "Maybe you could cut Brad's footage together with the stuff you shot on that anthropologist." "who visited in last spring." "Start an "interesting people I have known" sort of thing." "No." "This was supposed to be one man's vision of... breaking that cultural barrier." "Sort of like "Fitzcarraldo", music instead of a boat." "Something like that you couldn't cut together with anything else." "I'm sure something will come up." "Greta needs this before noon so you better get a move on." "Yes, ma'am." " Bye." " Bye." " Eddie, I've been looking for you." " You have?" "Yeah." "I've been figuring" "I've got these tunes I composed for the Cicely gig." " And all the choreography." " Right." "Maybe this cultural tradeoff thing a bit small really." "In metal you do everything big." " Yep." "Big stage." " Big sound..." "Big hair..." "Even though Alaska is big, the planet is even bigger." "The planet is big, it's round." "It's..." "Global?" "So I thought if the planet is so totally global why limit yourself?" "Right." "So I called Mink and I said, "Phase 2:" "Bonner the early middle years, Global"." "I'm going Slavic for this unity gig, this commonwealth for independent..." "We're gonna plug into peace." "And rock out." "Sounds like a very worthwhile idea." "It is a very worthwhile idea." "And I'm gonna need all the film you shot." " You will?" " Yeah, for the intro of my piece." "You want to use my stuff, for your intro?" ""Brad Bonner, Global"." "Well, alright!" "We're talking about a one shot buy out, no residuals." " Yeah!" " Yeah!" "Chris?" "Chris?" "I'm down here." " Hi." " Hi." "What are you doing?" "I just wanted to get down in here, feel it for myself." "See what it's like to be 6 feet under, where Tooley will spend eternity." " How is it?" " Cold and dark." "Even with the top open like it is." " Are you coming out of there?" " I suppose." "It's just spirit taking wing, the heart shutting down..." "It's all so biological." "I can handle that." "But releasing Tooley..." "That's hard." "I like having him around again." "I don't want him to move on." "I guess he wants that though." "To be let go." "I just" "I don't know how to do it right." "You won't." "He did." "Yeah, but Tooley can't tell you." "What am I gonna do?" "What do you want to do?" "Shelly..." "Brad's booking out on us." "I hope that makes you happy." "I'm fixing him some munchies for the road, if that doesn't embarrass you too much." "No, I think that's real neighborly." "Can I help?" "I don't think it takes 2 people to pack a lunch." " Hello, Holling." " Ed!" "Brad!" " Has my ride shown up yet?" " No." "I haven't seen anybody." "I'll take a tequila for the road, two limes and salt." "I'll see what I've got back there that hasn't been opened." " Shelly!" " I wrapped up some food and stuff..." " ...in case you get hungry." " Alright chow!" "And I made this card for you." "I did the picture myself." ""The moon tonight, I don't hear you talking, the man at the door, he can't hear you knocking, so what's there to do but keep on rocking?"." "That's deep!" "Did you write that?" " You did." " Yeah right!" "Last of the lot." "It's on the house." " Thanks." " Sorry, no limes." "Brad, I just couldn't keep this." "Not that you don't have a million more just like it but I just couldn't." " I kipped it." " That's very something of you." " Do you have to go so soon?" " Yeah," " I got this commonwealth gig in..." " Europe." "Yeah, whatever." "I can't waste anymore time messing around here." " I've got the world to save!" " Rock on!" "Right on!" "I think that guy's looking for you Brad." "Right." "Keep rocking." "I'll see you in the record stores." "Yeah!" "Bye." "Bye." "Brad!" "Wait a sec." " You forgot your food." " Yeah, thanks." "Bye." "Now it's just gonna be Cicely again." "Just plain old Cicely." "The day after Christmas doesn't feel this glumpy." "This was his." "Thanks Ed." "I want thank everybody for showing up today." "I apologize for leaving you hanging back at my funeral by the book." "That may have fizzled but as the stalwart Scot, Robert Burns said," ""Try, try again"." "Seeing how this release we've arranged for Tooley was inspired by Maggie O'Connell" "I've asked her to come up here and say a few words." " Maggie." " Thanks, Chris." "Well," "I don't know if I've ever had and real heroes in my life." "Maybe Amelia Earhart, Georgia O'Keefe, Chrissie Evert... but they were more influences." "But with Tooley," "Chris had a real life hero, real flesh and blood." "Someone who taught him, inspired him, someone he could point to and say," ""I want to have his wisdom, his courage," "I want to be just like that"." "You're a lucky guy." "Thanks." "10 centuries back, the fallen Viking warrior was let go released to the second death adrift a burring boat, solo." "His helmet and his shield across his barrel chest." "Tooley wasn't Scandinavian but he did embody the spirit and the physique of the Norsemen." "And true, we have don't have a boat to set aflame." "But we have the fling, which Webster's describes as a brief time of wild pleasures." "In a handful of seconds" "Tooley will experience things we can only imagine." "He will soar like an albatross and plunge like a grayling into crystal waters." "To start on a fling of his own to places we can only ponder in the daylight and experience in our dreams." "Ready, Ed?" "Ready!" "In another life, my friend." "Ripped by subXpacio and TusSeries"