The Owl

from The Scambot Holiday Special by Mike Keneally

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Narrator: The boy falls peacefully asleep.

The elder peers out the window and across the cold, blinding spotlights over the parking lot at the lodge, and he sees a baby owl sitting on his horse’s head.
Yes!!
Of course!!
And at once, he turns on the Motorola in the hotel room...well, what do you know...it’s the credit sequence to The Scambot Holiday Special.

Audience: (laughter)

(laughter)

Narrator: And then Scambot appeared on the screen and said…

Scambot: No!!

Audience: (gasp)

Scambot: It’s not madness to have hope.

Narrator: And a single, shining owl feather...the legendary Feather of Holiday Hope...appeared in the room and hovered, amusingly, above the boy’s face, rising and falling in mid-air, buffeted by the mild breeze of the young one’s snores. And with relief and gratitude, the elder understood at once that their quest, the meaning of which had been a complete mystery to him until that moment, was finally, blessedly, at its end.

The King Family:

Have a happy holiday
Holiday, holiday
Holly, holly day
And if you have a happy holiday
You

Audience: (applause)

Announcer: This has been The Scambot Holiday Special! Thanks for listening! Good night.

Mike Keneally: voices, instruments and effects
Recorded and mixed by Mike Keneally at Chatfield Manor

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from The Scambot Holiday Special, released December 6, 2008

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Mike Keneally San Diego, California

Mike Keneally has been a lot of things in his 35 year career: stunt guitarist/keyboardist, singer/songwriter, orchestral composer, producer, music director, painter, and more. After getting his start in Frank Zappa’s legendary 1988 big band, Keneally released his first solo album hat. in 1992. Since then he has released dozens more and is working on a new double album.

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