we're here actually right on the main street of traverse city. behind me is the state theater which is the home of the traverse city film festival. it operates all year round. it was one of these boarded up movie theaters in a michigan downtown a number of years ago. a bunch of us got together and decided let's get this thing opened back up and let's bring some good movies to town. since then it's -- it's sold over 400,000 tickets in 2 1/2 years. seven day a week basis. >> larry: i spoke in traverse city, michigan. it was a convention there some summers back. had a lot of fun. you took some flak when you started this. there were signs saying, go back to clint, commie, and other stuff. how is it doing since then? >> yeah. quite well. the first year i was new here and people -- they didn't quite know. i'm from downstate, you know, the flint/detroit area, and this county here is fairly conservative county. it voted twice for mr. bush and once for mr. mccain and i decided to come and live amongst them. and so at first they didn't quite know what was

pretty cool the it's funny, i'm a native here and i often traverse this beautiful, beautiful city andind a cable car at a spop -- stoplight and i look and see one of the brake men saying give me the green light, give me the green light. then i look closer and realize the rider's having so much fun, it's such a vibe. it's not really a cable car, it's more of a cable bar. >> ♪ i'm ready to go right now ♪ ♪ i'm ready to go right now ♪ i'm ready to go right now ♪ a little bit faster ♪ a little bit slower ♪ i'm ready to go right now ♪ i'm ready to to right snow ♪ ♪ i'm ready to go right now ♪ i'm ready to go right snow ♪ ♪ i'm ready to go right now ♪ ready to go right now i'm ready to go right now ♪ ♪ [ringing bells] ♪ i'm ready to go right now ♪ ♪ i'm ready to go right now ♪ i'm ready to go right now ♪ i'm ready to go right now [applause] >> beam me up, scotty jim scotty from koit and the koit martini posse. wow, i'm so thirsty now. ladies and gentlemen, today this man's plans are to shuck -- chuck the whole quiet storm thing and make some noise. local sales manager of the quiet storm, kb

provide, we have a better shot at than, say, other places where large distances have to be traversed in most american cities to kind of get to the places you want to get. here in san francisco, we have been blessed by the geometry where our trips are short where 40 years ago we realized that this was the way we will have to kind of meet our future. the iron call part of that is at the same time europe also discovered that and they made strides to towards actually implementing these alternative choices, we have found it very difficult to kind of wean ourselves from the convenience of being able to. i say it is still convenient to drive. as long as the alternatives are not just as convenient, we won't be able to make our case about our travel modes as contribution to the detriment of the environment or to the detriment of our health as we all know the sun is by date getting madder at us and angle grier at us and we are getting fat. we got to do something about it. this is the time to do it. we have the best opportunity here with these four guests from the german marshall fund and i was hoping that supervisor