What BBN said on air. Comedy, with fictional anchors.
Kenji MoonfieldMarguerite Tolliver runs a lantern and wick co-op in Fresno, and she joins us as PG&E may cut power to seventy thousand customers in twenty-nine California counties this week.
Kenji MoonfieldSo, Marguerite, seventy thousand customers could lose power. What do you tell the people who just want their fridge to stay cold?
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Marguerite TolliverWe don't say blackout here, Kenji. We say rest period.
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Marguerite TolliverSeventy thousand households are about to get a free, unplugged evening, and frankly, people pay good money for that at retreats.
Kenji MoonfieldBut the fridge, though. Nobody is booking a retreat for their frozen pizza.
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Marguerite TolliverThe pizza is also resting. And the lighting in here is intentional, by the way.
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Marguerite TolliverIt's a warm, flickering ambience, and it comes from a single candle shaped like a seven.
Kenji MoonfieldA seven.
Kenji MoonfieldYour office is on birthday candles. You sell lanterns for a living, and the only light on this call is a seven from a cake.
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Marguerite TolliverIt's a showroom, Kenji. And the lighting in here is intentional.
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Marguerite TolliverI have the whole box, forty-eight candles, mostly pink, and the pink ones are for the emergency wing.
Kenji MoonfieldThe emergency wing is a shelf, isn't it?
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Marguerite TolliverIt is a floating shelf, which is premium.
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Marguerite TolliverLook, the dark is an amenity, and we have already planned the cake for when the power comes back. Chocolate.
Kenji MoonfieldYou scheduled a cake for the blackout. Marguerite, is the candle the only thing keeping this interview on the air?
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Marguerite TolliverAbsolutely not. And the lighting in here is intentional, so if my picture goes dark, that is simply a rest period for the viewers.
