On today's show we have a man who claims to have been booed from the stage for a poor performance during a signing concert. The news article said:

SCOODNIK, RI - During a recent gathering of the New England Assn of Signers at Providence's McFoos Auditorium, the entertainment portion of the three-day event turned out to be an event all by itself. When singers began to perform their music totally in sign language to the mixture of deaf and signing-proficient audience members, a chorus of boos and cat calls, then flying vegetables, started and ultimately caused the singer-signers to stop and run off stage totally humiliated.

Ronald Brown, tenor singer-signer section leader, was later asked about the incident. "I thought the performance was going well, and then all of a sudden tomatoes and even Brunswick stew cans came flying!"

Please welcome Mr. Ronald Brown, the leader of the singer-signers that performed at the hard-of-hearing place in Rhode Island.

Thank you. And, by the way, it was a sign language convention.

What, that's better?!

(gleefully)

Butta Bing! Anyway, Mr. Brown, thanks for coming.

How did you hear about what happened?

Someone found the story on-line somewhere.

Oh. And did the story mention how I was almost decapitated by a can of Brunswick stew traveling well over 80 miles per hour? Did it mention that? I wonder who was going to pay the medical bills if I had been hit? Huh?

Hold on, Mr. Brown. We are not here to pick a fight. We're just interested in getting more of the details of what happened.

Well, OK. What is it you want to know?

More of the details, like I just said. And, what was with the Brunswick stew thing?

Oh. I guess it was someone's idea of throwing a lot of vegetables at once, or something. Not just tomatoes.

Well?

Oh! You want details now?

Yeah.

The way I remember it, we had just begun to sign a song and -

Hold on, please. What type of "song" is it that has no music at all?

Look. We were hired to get up there and make music. How do you make music for people who cannot hear? You do sign language.

But shouldn't the song have had real music too?

What for? They couldn't have heard it.

Maybe they could have. Haven't you ever heard of people "feeling" a beat?

I think that is just an expression, you moron.

Hey! Let's cut the insults. Anyway, why did they get so worked up and start to throw things if not because they knew you had no music?

Well, I don't know. Maybe someone told them there was no music.

That's lame, Brown. You know that's a bunch of crap.

Did you hear about the can of stew that almost hit me? I could have been killed!

Did you get paid after you guys ran off?

Hey! We didn't run off. We just exited, stage right.

So, did you get paid?

Not a dime.

I thought so. OK, that about wraps up the-

You didn't even ask how we signer-singers avoid singing out of tune.

What? Does that even make sense here?

Oh my goodness, yes! One false hand gesture and the attentive audience member perceives the off-key pitch like a fingernail on a chalk board. They hate it.

Ah, Mr. Brown, I guess I don't appreciate the finer points of singing without any sounds.

I guess not. You're uncultured, aren't you?

Your mother's uncultured.

I heard that!

Come on! This whole subject is too stupid even for us to be interested. I think we're through.

Is that so!?

Yes, it's so. Goodbye.

Beg pardon?

Please leave!