CJOM – Radio Stoner – Brings in Ram Dass
CUE BABA RUM DASS (and Captain Canada) By Stephen Weir A mostly true dialogue exercise written February 2022 for University of Windsor creative writing course A scene from a meeting in the Viscount Hotel’s top floor boardroom. The owner, Jeff Silver of Windsor’s money losing FM station is bringing his team upstairs to meet Baba Ram Dass. The Guru of all things hip is about to arrive to reveal his cosmic plan to save the station. Sunflower Sue, the only female deejay in the Detroit/Windsor market has just ended her shift. Jeff has ordered her to work with Mike, the only blind record librarian in North America, to clear out the furniture, it was going to be a sit on-the-floor meeting. “Sunflower, be a doll and move all the furniture out into the hall. Mike, tie up your dog and make sure he doesn’t piss on the floor, I don’t want that stack of BBMs getting soaked.” ordered Jeff. He is new to Windsor . He made his fortune building the VOCM radio network in Newfoundland.