Dragnet News

The Big Broadcast is a Sunday night tradition for families throughout the WAMU listening area.

If hearing Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks rap doesn't blow your mind, seeing them do so as part of an elaborate song & dance music video for their 1987 spoof Dragnet might be enough to make it explode Scanners -style. This actually happened, folks.

At an investors' meeting on the Isle of Man for the start-up the father had suggested, Israel's CFO got wind of another company, Debit Direct, whose preposterous plan to compete with Western Union and MoneyGram wasn't entirely clear, but whose pitchman, a six-foot-six venture capitalist named Jack O'Halloran, hugely impressed A Israel-telling him ... (more)