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Written by: artistharry [11/10/11, 02:07] Action: [ Reply ] [ Quote ] |
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Episode Three The third part of Billy’s epic adventure along Route 66 sees the comedian journey westward into the wide open spaces of the blue-skied cowboy states. He meets characters he deems ‘queer and plain crazy’, hears atomic-sized secrets, unearths a ghost town and listens to the sounds of a magic whistle. Starting in Oklahoma, Billy feels the wind crashing down the plains as he goes to meet the new faces of cowboy country, describing them as: “Ranch hands from New York, with dreadlocks, baseball hats and low-slung jeans.” And he goes on a cattle drive to the city stockyards with Stan, the owner of the ranch. Known locally as ‘Cow Town’, the stockyards process 18,000 cattle a day. Billy jokingly says: “It’s a bit like the Vatican really, it rules itself and the city would love to get rid of it.” Billy witnesses the incomprehensible gabble of the cattle auction, which is “like listening to a blue-grass banjo”, as he discovers that cattle auctions are serious business, particularly as Oklahoma is suffering drought as badly as it did during the Great Depression when the entire state turned into a dustbowl. |
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