THE DAVE EMORY TOUR DIARY,
thus entitled: DOOMSDAY, CAR BOMB, CONTINUING
DAY 12:
At the U.S./Canadian border at Port Huron, Pastor Dick is denied access to the country on effuse and indecipherable religious grounds. The jack-booted and heavily armed guards who interrogated him must have said something pretty serious in that windowless room, because he makes a run for the U.S. side of the border and into the nearest waiting cab before anyone else in the crew can so much as blink an eye.
But the show must go on, so it is decided to fly Family Radio Network personality Harold Camping to Toronto from Oakland via supersonic airliner so that he may take Pastor Dick's place at the pulpit and puppet show. Due to a stroke of good fortune, Dick had actually faxed Camping his script for the show so his old friend could proof-read it for him, and thus Camping was already well-versed in the material when he was hastily called in for the reading. Aside from some obvious gaffs, he pulls it off and the Toronto audience is none the wiser. But the stereotypes about non-demonstrative Canadians prove true, and the show is greeted cooly with most material hanging limply in the air. Afterwards, numerous folks from the small audience say they love the show, and take offense at being characterized as "stupid, lifeless and dead idiots" by Camping during one of his more off-color moments.
It is during this show, in the middle of "180-G" that one of Peter's onstage 16mm projectors comes crashing down to the floor while running a film loop. The stand has collapsed. One feed arm breaks and part of the case disintegrates, but somehow the machine still runs, and even the film it was running escaped relatively unscathed.
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