I was cooking myself a hot dog in the kitchen when I heard applause coming from the living room. This wasn’t the normal type of applause you hear for human beings or great performances; this was applause that jumps up and down, grabs the surrounding countryside by the throat and points wildly at the stage. I ran in and found the TV still on from watching Dragnet. But the sound was incredibly loud coming from the TV speaker, sounded like a million hands clapping.

So amazing did the reception seem that I didn’t touch it, didn’t try tofigure out where it was coming from or how to control it. Besides, I was also getting a terrific picture in full living color; hands clapping and sending out energy ripples, expanding and multiplying in a hypnotic manner. The room was filled with the sound of applause, sending shivers up ipy spine. Then from out of the clapping you could hear a drum, one drum laying down a beat. It was Ringo Starr, sitting at a drum set as the applause faded, knocking out, smiling, bobbing his head up and down at the camera.