Episode 3: WEIRST CASTINGLorie, you haven't

served yourself anypotato chips.

Really?I love them too.I love mangoes,

pineapples,kiwis, papayas,

all kinds ofexotic fruit.

By the way John, afriend of mine is

looking to interview

interesting people for

his radio program.

Thanks. Everything iswonderful, but I don'tcare for potato chips

much.

My parentsalways

encouragedme to eat

them. Oops.We have tobe careful.

I prefer fruitsalads.

Especially whenthey have tropicalfruit coming from

South America.

Don't worry aboutthat. I like to hearabout exotic fruit.

We don't want to makeJohn feel bad.

It's about the ordinary things that

people do. He wants to find somebody

to help develop his program and he'sinterviewed about 20 people and..

That's great! Maybe I'm the

one he's looking for. When

can I meet your friend, Gerry?

I'll call him

this

afternoon.

I'll getback toyou atdinnertime.

Ah, that's great.

That evening.. Right. He is expecting yotomorrow at nine in the

morning. Here's the address.

His name is DJ William

S

So Gerry, what

about thatappointment?

The next morning

Ah, great.Thanks!

That's right. Myname is John.John Mendes.

Hey cats, that was Grateful Dead, sho

last year, live, Irvine. And now, ladies

and gentlemen, welcome to "Endles

Casting", a live broadcast.

Today, our guest comes from

abroad, and he just could be the %

next person that we have join

so John, I know you're a sociologis

and you're studying... you're

researching discrimination.

Isn't that topic a bit old

$4

I think it's very old-

fashioned, but...

Welcome. M

Mendes, isn'

what is revolutionais the way I'mconducting my

research.

That sounds interestinJohn. So what's novel

Well, I'm using theethnographic method, so

I'm getting different jobsnormally reserved for

discriminatin eo le.

I've been a bellboy, asalesman, a clerk at a rentalagency and a cashier at a

supermarket.

I see. So John, tell meabout your life. Iunderstand... I

understand you belongto a cannibal tribe

You bet I do. But you don't

have to worry. We only eat

people on specialoccasions and when we

Besidesare in our country. you're too thin. You're nottasty enough. You wouldn't

Is that right? But tell me John,what do you hope to accomplish

with your research?

Well I'm studying

the state ofdiscrimination in this

country.

Ok, so listen. Onelast question. Do you

have any experienceas a radio

announcer?

Yeah, Iknow, I

know you

are.

be on our menu.

Well, thank heavens. I wasstarting to picture what thatwould be like. You know I'mkidding, right John?

Well, Um... Um... l...haven't but...

I'm sorry John. That's arequirement, so we'll keeplooking and, hope you keepdoing your research. Thanks

for coming by.

Thankyou verymuch.

And ladies and

gentlemen,

thanks for

joining us today

on "Endless

Casting". And

now we return

to Classic

Rock, on

KROB.