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Career Day

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The setup

A carpet salesman discovers the downside of sharing Career Day with a fighter pilot.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Two parents visit their children’s class to explain their jobs. Captain Jack Kelly thrills the students and their teacher with tales of flying, souvenirs and a promised look at his plane. Carpet salesman Glenn Corbin struggles to make flooring equally exciting, and the pilot’s friendly attempts to help only make the comparison worse.

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Meet the cast. 6

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Highly quotable.

I really wish I had gone first!

I don’t think that question is for me.

ScriptEnglish · 45 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

  1. 00:04

    Teacher ?

    Okay, class, class, today is career day, and Julia and PJ's dads have come to talk to you about what they do for a living. Mr. Kelly is a fighter pilot in the United States Air Force.

  2. 00:19

    Students ?

    Wow!

  3. 00:20

    Teacher ?

    And Mr. Corbin sells carpet. Okay, Okay, um, Mr. Kelly, why don't you go first?

  4. 00:33

    Glenn Corbin ?

    Uh, are you sure you don't want me to go first?

  5. 00:34

    Teacher ?

    No, we're fine.

  6. 00:35

    Glenn Corbin ?

    Oh, I think it would be better if I went first.

  7. 00:38

    Teacher ?

    I'm sure it doesn't matter.

  8. 00:40

    Captain Jack Kelly ?

    Hello there, kids. My name is Captain Jack Kelly, but you can call me Cougar.

  9. 00:45

    Students ?

    Hi, Cougar.

  10. 00:47

    Captain Jack Kelly ?

    I'm a pilot in the United States Air Force, the greatest air force in the world. I've flown over 100 missions, and one time, a bad guy shot my wing off, and I had to jump out of my plane and use my parachute.

  11. 00:57

    let's

  12. 01:01

    Captain Jack Kelly ?

    Let's see, if I had to sum up my job, I'd say that I get to move faster than any human being on Earth. My life's like a video game, and I'm proud that I get to keep the world a little bit safer for squirts like you.

  13. 01:11

    Teacher ?

    Thank Thank you, Captain.

  14. 01:16

    Captain Jack Kelly ?

    Call me Cougar, darling.

  15. 01:17

    Teacher ?

    Oh, well, thank you, Cougar. Well, Mr. Corbin, whenever you're ready.

  16. 01:28

    Glenn Corbin ?

    Uh, hey there, kiddos. My name is Mr. Corbin, but you can call me Glenn. I am a carpet and flooring salesman for Carpet Solutions, and I really wish I had gone first. I really do.

  17. 01:46

    Teacher ?

    You're doing great.

  18. 01:47

    Glenn Corbin ?

    Okay. There are over 15 different kinds of carpets. wool uh wool blend acrylic acrylic blend i uh i also sell uh linoleum

  19. 02:04

    P.J. ?

    this is so boring

  20. 02:06

    Teacher ?

    pj that is no way to talk to your father

  21. 02:09

    Captain Jack Kelly ?

    oh now that's right troops you know let's focus up here carpet's important i'll never forget the time when i walked down that long red carpet when i met the president but

  22. 02:20

    Students ?

    Wow! Wow! Wow!

  23. 02:23

    Captain Jack Kelly ?

    that's my story I'm so go on

  24. 02:25

    Glenn Corbin ?

    yeah I'm done

  25. 02:27

    Teacher ?

    great yes okay now we asked each of our guests to bring something from their jobs let's start with Captain Cougar

  26. 02:45

    Captain Jack Kelly ?

    yeah hey well I hope y'all don't mind but I thought I might I might bring some genuine Air Force pilot's wings for my new co-pilots.

  27. 02:54

    Students ?

    Whoa!

  28. 02:55

    Captain Jack Kelly ?

    Oh, oh, slow down now. There's plenty to go around, plenty to go around. Matter of fact, I thought that maybe I'd just bring a pair for yourself here, lady.

  29. 03:04

    Teacher ?

    Oh, I do might like a pair. I do might like a pair. Listen to my grammar. Your teacher is flustered. Well, um, I'm going to her today. Mr. Corbin, what did you bring?

  30. 03:21

    Glenn Corbin ?

    Oh, uh, it is a, uh, a book of carpet samples.

  31. 03:28

    Teacher ?

    Do you want to show the class?

  32. 03:30

    Glenn Corbin ?

    No.

  33. 03:32

    Teacher ?

    Okay, well, now it's time for questions. When we heard we were having such special guests, we wrote down questions for them. Okay, the first question is for Captain Kelly, Cougar. How fast does your plane go?

  34. 03:49

    Captain Jack Kelly ?

    Well, my plane goes about Mach 2, which is around 1400 miles per hour or well or about as faster than three times as fast as Harry Potter though

  35. 04:00

    Teacher ?

    let That's me find a question here for for mr. Corbin there has to be a question here mr. Corbin okay here's one for mr. Corbin um mr. Corbin um what is the coolest trick you've ever done in your carpeting store

  36. 04:26

    Glenn Corbin ?

    I don't think that question is for me.

  37. 04:28

    Teacher ?

    No, no, no, that's what it says.

  38. 04:31

    Glenn Corbin ?

    Well, it's not really a trick, but if you can get a customer to start thinking about the possibility of flooding, you might get them to upgrade to a water-resistant fiber.

  39. 04:43

    Teacher ?

    Wow. Cool beans. Just for fun, Cougar, what is the coolest trick you've ever done in your plane?

  40. 04:55

    Captain Jack Kelly ?

    Well, I'm a little biased, but I'm going to have to pick the cougar. A triple barrel rolling version. It also happens to be named after me.

  41. 05:04

    Students ?

    Yay!

  42. 05:05

    Thank you. I love you.

  43. 05:06

    Teacher ?

    Well, I think that our guests both have very interesting jobs. Now, kids, if you want to see Mr. Corbin's carpet samples, you can come up and look at them. and And cougar's plane is in the parking lot, so...

  44. 05:22

    Glenn Corbin ?

    These might not be here when you get back. I only got a half hour for lunch.

  45. 05:27

    Thank you for coming.

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