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The Bailout Boys

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Released on 03/20/2009

Transcript

(film reel rolling)

[Voiceover] What's your idea this time?

[Voiceover] Look, if we'd been in business

during the California Gold Rush, where would we have gone?

California, right?

[Voiceover] Alright.

[Voiceover] Payrolls so heavy

we'd strain ourselves stealing them.

(laughing) You just keep thinking, Butch.

That's what you're good at.

[Voiceover] Well, that oughta do it.

(explosion)

[Voiceover] Think you used enough dynamite there Butch?

(laughing)

Well, we gotta do something.

Whatever it is that you come up with is fine with me,

but whatever it is that you come up with, it better be now.

[Voiceover] Boy, I got vision,

and the rest of the world wears bifocals.

(zapping noise)

(mysterious sound)

Now you trust us, and the government trusts you.

So anything you tell them, they gotta believe it, right?

They forget all about the years of thieving and robbing.

There's something out there that scares you, huh?

[Voiceover] They're not going for it.

[Voiceover] Who are those guys? (laughter)

I couldn't do that, could you do that?

How can they do that?

There's some hankies there in the top drawer

you can use to gag me.

[Voiceover] You're beginning to get on my nerves.

I'm sorry, I'm getting mean in my old age.

Tell them that. (bell chimes)

But you're still nothing but two-bit outlaws on the dodge.

Your times is over.

Don't you get that?

Let's get outta here.

(gunshots)

[Voiceover] I don't ever want to hear

another one of your ideas, alright?

[Voiceover] Alright.

[Voiceover] Okay. (wind howling)