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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:14,056 --> 00:00:16,808 It is my pleasure and privilege 4 00:00:16,892 --> 00:00:20,896 at this very, very solemn moment 5 00:00:21,355 --> 00:00:25,651 to introduce a young man and his wife, 6 00:00:26,777 --> 00:00:28,487 who saw fit 7 00:00:28,570 --> 00:00:31,198 to put down in music 8 00:00:31,823 --> 00:00:33,242 and lyrics 9 00:00:33,325 --> 00:00:37,746 so that it will never be forgotten in our country 10 00:00:38,330 --> 00:00:39,498 by anyone... 11 00:00:39,581 --> 00:00:42,751 the tragedy of Attica State. 12 00:00:42,834 --> 00:00:45,170 There is no more that I can say, ladies and gentlemen, 13 00:00:45,254 --> 00:00:47,965 I would like to introduce to you, 14 00:00:48,048 --> 00:00:51,343 John and Yoko Lennon. 15 00:01:01,979 --> 00:01:04,481 One, two, three, four. 16 00:02:31,026 --> 00:02:32,361 You have to understand 17 00:02:32,444 --> 00:02:35,113 where the "Mike Douglas Show" sat in culture in 1972. 18 00:02:35,197 --> 00:02:38,575 It was the most popular show in daytime television, 19 00:02:38,659 --> 00:02:40,744 seen by about 40 million people a week. 20 00:02:40,827 --> 00:02:43,455 Quite often 60% of the audience in New York 21 00:02:43,538 --> 00:02:46,333 was watching the "Mike Douglas Show." 22 00:03:04,851 --> 00:03:08,438 The booking of John and Yoko was a really unusual story, 23 00:03:08,522 --> 00:03:11,942 because we were both told that they had contacted us 24 00:03:12,025 --> 00:03:13,944 and we contacted them. 25 00:03:32,045 --> 00:03:33,588 We heard that on February 4th, 26 00:03:33,672 --> 00:03:36,591 just 10 days before these shows were about to air, 27 00:03:36,675 --> 00:03:39,428 Senator Strom Thurmond went to John Mitchell 28 00:03:39,511 --> 00:03:41,596 and wanted to warn the Nixon administration 29 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:45,392 that John and Yoko were about to take sides. 30 00:03:48,061 --> 00:03:50,355 When President Nixon leaves for Peking on Thursday 31 00:03:50,439 --> 00:03:52,983 he will travel on his specially equipped 32 00:03:53,066 --> 00:03:54,568 Boeing 707 Air Force One. 33 00:03:54,651 --> 00:03:56,194 The government of the People's. 34 00:03:56,278 --> 00:03:57,195 Republic of China 35 00:03:57,237 --> 00:03:58,780 and the government of the United States 36 00:03:58,864 --> 00:04:01,575 can have differences without being enemies in war. 37 00:04:01,658 --> 00:04:04,286 Attorney John Mitchell resigned today 38 00:04:04,369 --> 00:04:07,748 to run the Presidents campaign for reelection. 39 00:04:19,885 --> 00:04:21,136 A Federal court order 40 00:04:21,219 --> 00:04:22,679 which calls for large scale busing 41 00:04:22,763 --> 00:04:25,265 went into effect today in Augusta, Georgia. 42 00:04:25,348 --> 00:04:27,350 Although there were several false 43 00:04:27,434 --> 00:04:28,393 bomb threats yesterday, 44 00:04:28,435 --> 00:04:29,811 no incidents were reported today. 45 00:04:29,895 --> 00:04:31,938 George Wallace appears no longer worried 46 00:04:32,022 --> 00:04:33,607 that he might need to soft pedal busing 47 00:04:33,690 --> 00:04:37,068 for fear it would conjure up the old one issue image. 48 00:04:49,539 --> 00:04:50,874 Well, I happen to believe 49 00:04:50,957 --> 00:04:52,292 that the death penalty is a deterrent 50 00:04:52,375 --> 00:04:54,336 and I think the majority of people 51 00:04:54,419 --> 00:04:55,295 believe the same thing. 52 00:04:55,337 --> 00:04:57,631 REPORTER". Everybody knows that food prices are going up. 53 00:04:57,714 --> 00:05:00,842 The question is how much will consumers stand for 54 00:05:00,926 --> 00:05:01,843 in this election year. 55 00:05:13,772 --> 00:05:15,023 The Nixon administration announced 56 00:05:15,106 --> 00:05:16,858 that American ground troops in Vietnam 57 00:05:16,942 --> 00:05:19,236 would no longer be used offensively in combat, 58 00:05:19,319 --> 00:05:21,112 but they would fight only on the defense. 59 00:05:21,196 --> 00:05:23,490 We're here to fight dinks and that's why we're here. 60 00:05:23,573 --> 00:05:25,033 We're gonna go out and fight them. 61 00:05:25,116 --> 00:05:26,159 Attack bombers 62 00:05:26,243 --> 00:05:28,078 bristling with their deadly cargo 63 00:05:28,161 --> 00:05:29,162 are screaming skyward 64 00:05:29,204 --> 00:05:31,248 from the deck of the aircraft carrier, Constellation. 65 00:05:31,331 --> 00:05:32,958 You read in the newspaper 66 00:05:33,041 --> 00:05:34,334 that the war is over. 67 00:05:34,417 --> 00:05:36,837 I don't know if it's Congress, Senate, 68 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:38,630 but the war is not over. 69 00:06:04,030 --> 00:06:06,825 We'll be right back. 70 00:06:17,836 --> 00:06:19,921 The idea of John Lennon 71 00:06:20,005 --> 00:06:20,922 being a mediator. 72 00:06:20,964 --> 00:06:23,925 Yeah, that's sort of funny, isn't it? 73 00:06:24,009 --> 00:06:26,094 Okay. B's rolling only. 74 00:06:26,177 --> 00:06:29,973 Why don't you go up to Wes. What lens do you have now? 75 00:06:30,056 --> 00:06:32,434 28 to 135. 76 00:06:33,727 --> 00:06:36,396 Marker. Marker. 77 00:06:37,439 --> 00:06:39,274 Marker. 78 00:06:47,157 --> 00:06:50,452 This is funny. I haven't seen this whole thing 79 00:06:50,535 --> 00:06:52,996 in all these years. 80 00:06:53,496 --> 00:06:57,167 How on earth did you get on this? 81 00:06:57,250 --> 00:06:58,710 Out of the blue, uh, one day. 82 00:06:58,793 --> 00:07:02,172 I-I'm in my apartment, in New York City, 83 00:07:02,255 --> 00:07:04,299 and I get a phone call, 84 00:07:04,382 --> 00:07:08,094 and I answer it and it said, "Hello, this is Yoko." 85 00:07:08,178 --> 00:07:10,096 And Yoko's a Japanese name, 86 00:07:10,180 --> 00:07:14,100 so I said, Yoko who? 87 00:07:14,184 --> 00:07:16,353 And of course I thought it was a scam. 88 00:07:16,436 --> 00:07:17,938 I thought it couldn't be real. 89 00:07:18,021 --> 00:07:21,733 But, um, I called this person back. 90 00:07:21,816 --> 00:07:25,362 And much to my amazement, it really was Yoko Ono. 91 00:07:25,612 --> 00:07:26,905 George Carlin has a question. 92 00:07:27,030 --> 00:07:28,907 I was going to ask whether or not biofeedback 93 00:07:28,949 --> 00:07:30,867 could help you remember the question you were going to ask. 94 00:07:34,496 --> 00:07:36,873 Some food isn't even food, it's just all chemicals. 95 00:07:36,957 --> 00:07:39,793 The voice said "Hi, this is John and Yoko." 96 00:07:39,876 --> 00:07:46,049 And I'm thinking, "Okay, this is a prank phone call, 97 00:07:46,132 --> 00:07:49,552 but I'll listen." 98 00:07:49,678 --> 00:07:52,138 John, rock and roll, rock and roll. 99 00:07:52,222 --> 00:07:54,057 There you go. Into the cabbage! 100 00:07:54,140 --> 00:07:58,311 Yoko said we're doing this show on Mike Douglas, 101 00:07:58,395 --> 00:08:00,689 you know, this a... afternoon show 102 00:08:00,772 --> 00:08:06,194 and we're bringing on people like in the movement 103 00:08:06,277 --> 00:08:07,278 to talk about the movement. 104 00:08:07,362 --> 00:08:09,823 And on the show that we're having you on, 105 00:08:09,906 --> 00:08:12,909 we're having Bobby Seale and Jerry Rubin. 106 00:08:12,993 --> 00:08:14,828 And I'm like, what? 107 00:08:14,911 --> 00:08:16,454 We're Mike's co-hosts this week 108 00:08:16,538 --> 00:08:20,041 and with us on today's show will be my hero, 109 00:08:20,125 --> 00:08:20,917 Chuck Berry. 110 00:08:20,959 --> 00:08:22,127 David Rosenboom. 111 00:08:22,210 --> 00:08:26,256 As I recall, they did have an agenda 112 00:08:26,339 --> 00:08:28,800 and they did discuss the agenda, uh, with me 113 00:08:28,883 --> 00:08:33,138 and the agenda had to do with making the world better. 114 00:08:33,221 --> 00:08:35,306 The booking was terrific for the show 115 00:08:35,390 --> 00:08:36,975 because it got us great ratings, 116 00:08:37,058 --> 00:08:38,184 but it also fit their agenda 117 00:08:38,268 --> 00:08:41,271 which was to get their message to middle America. 118 00:08:41,354 --> 00:08:43,106 Here is Ralph Nader. 119 00:08:48,319 --> 00:08:50,113 Okay. 120 00:08:50,196 --> 00:08:52,198 Running for president? 121 00:08:52,282 --> 00:08:52,824 No. 122 00:08:52,866 --> 00:08:56,327 Well, the Mike Douglas week of shows was memorable 123 00:08:56,411 --> 00:08:57,912 in a 50-year span. 124 00:08:57,996 --> 00:09:01,332 It was memorable because it couldn't happen today 125 00:09:01,416 --> 00:09:03,752 on network or cable, 126 00:09:03,835 --> 00:09:06,046 daytime television shows. 127 00:09:06,129 --> 00:09:07,505 But it was also memorable then. 128 00:09:07,589 --> 00:09:09,299 It was a real breakthrough then. 129 00:09:15,638 --> 00:09:17,140 Ooh. Look at that dress! Hmm. 130 00:09:17,223 --> 00:09:19,517 And we not gonna talk about that hair. 131 00:09:24,439 --> 00:09:26,399 When I got to the studio, 132 00:09:26,483 --> 00:09:30,987 I got a glimpse of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. 133 00:09:31,071 --> 00:09:37,452 I said, "Oh, my goodness. This is exciting!" 134 00:09:38,870 --> 00:09:40,955 Hanoi charged that American jets today 135 00:09:41,039 --> 00:09:44,918 bombed and strafed populated areas of North Vietnam. 136 00:09:45,001 --> 00:09:47,462 It happened on a Sunday morning. 137 00:09:47,545 --> 00:09:50,215 They said about 9:35 a.m., 138 00:09:50,298 --> 00:09:52,759 planes dove through the cloud... 139 00:09:52,842 --> 00:09:56,554 the cloud cover at that time, and attacked the hospital, 140 00:09:56,638 --> 00:09:59,265 dropping eight demolition bombs 141 00:09:59,349 --> 00:10:01,768 and four anti-personnel bombs. 142 00:10:10,985 --> 00:10:12,904 Welcome to the "Mike Douglas Show." 143 00:10:12,987 --> 00:10:15,323 - This is John Lennon. - And Yoko Ono. 144 00:10:15,406 --> 00:10:18,076 Now, here's Mike. 145 00:10:19,369 --> 00:10:21,955 Hey, I'm really excited about this week. 146 00:10:22,038 --> 00:10:23,373 I was in Boston last night 147 00:10:23,456 --> 00:10:27,335 and, uh, I had what they call a press conference. 148 00:10:27,418 --> 00:10:28,461 And when I mentioned the fact 149 00:10:28,545 --> 00:10:30,463 that I was about to begin a week 150 00:10:30,547 --> 00:10:33,466 with the two people I'm going to introduce, 151 00:10:33,550 --> 00:10:34,467 pencils were dropping. 152 00:10:34,509 --> 00:10:37,929 And... and it turned into about an hour session 153 00:10:38,012 --> 00:10:39,973 on just talking about these people. 154 00:10:40,056 --> 00:10:41,432 They're not only superstars, 155 00:10:41,516 --> 00:10:43,726 but they're really two very warm human beings. 156 00:10:43,810 --> 00:10:46,062 And I know that you're going to enjoy meeting them 157 00:10:46,146 --> 00:10:47,772 and getting to know them a little bit better. 158 00:10:47,856 --> 00:10:50,608 So, ladies and gentlemen, welcome with us... 159 00:10:50,692 --> 00:10:52,735 ah, by the way, the song I just sang 160 00:10:52,819 --> 00:10:54,195 is... is written by this gentleman 161 00:10:54,279 --> 00:10:56,030 who's coming out right now. 162 00:10:56,114 --> 00:10:57,574 I wanted to tell you that. 163 00:10:57,657 --> 00:11:00,743 Here is John Lennon and Yoko Ono. 164 00:11:21,931 --> 00:11:24,267 Good afternoon. You sang it very well. 165 00:11:24,350 --> 00:11:25,018 Thank you. 166 00:11:25,059 --> 00:11:26,269 I wrote the middle eight actually. 167 00:11:26,352 --> 00:11:28,646 - Did you? - Yeah. 168 00:11:29,522 --> 00:11:32,025 At least you didn't sing, uh... Normally they sing "Yesterday" 169 00:11:32,108 --> 00:11:33,943 which is Paul's song, and then saying, "Here, he wrote it." 170 00:11:34,027 --> 00:11:35,820 But I wrote the middle eight of "Michelle" so we're okay. 171 00:11:35,904 --> 00:11:37,197 You wrote the middle eight? 172 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:39,032 Yeah, but sometimes you write different bits, you know? 173 00:11:39,115 --> 00:11:41,034 That's usually the toughest part of a song, actually, 174 00:11:41,117 --> 00:11:42,660 what they call the release, the middle eight. 175 00:11:42,744 --> 00:11:44,662 Well, yeah, 'cause once you get the first inspiration, 176 00:11:44,746 --> 00:11:45,622 then you get stuck. 177 00:11:45,663 --> 00:11:47,624 I think we pinched it from a Nina Simone song, 178 00:11:47,707 --> 00:11:48,583 I'm not sure though. 179 00:11:48,625 --> 00:11:50,627 Some people only remember middle eight, you know, songs. 180 00:11:50,710 --> 00:11:52,545 That's true. I know that you both have 181 00:11:52,629 --> 00:11:56,257 some very sincere thoughts about life and people, 182 00:11:56,341 --> 00:11:59,010 and that people mean a great deal to you. 183 00:11:59,093 --> 00:12:00,094 That's perfectly obvious. 184 00:12:00,136 --> 00:12:02,639 What would you like to talk about this week, John? 185 00:12:02,722 --> 00:12:08,144 Love, peace, communication, women's lib. 186 00:12:08,228 --> 00:12:09,229 - Racism. - Racism. 187 00:12:09,312 --> 00:12:11,189 - War. Prisons. - And about prison conditions. 188 00:12:11,272 --> 00:12:12,982 -And Drugs? Drugs. -And life in general. 189 00:12:13,066 --> 00:12:14,651 - Drugs. Anything. - Talk about... 190 00:12:14,734 --> 00:12:15,735 You know... whatever... what... 191 00:12:15,777 --> 00:12:16,986 that's what's going on now, right? 192 00:12:17,070 --> 00:12:18,696 And also to show the future direction, you know? 193 00:12:18,780 --> 00:12:19,781 Because the future direction 194 00:12:19,864 --> 00:12:21,491 is actually beautiful, you know, 195 00:12:21,574 --> 00:12:24,244 because people getting very pessimistic these days. 196 00:12:24,327 --> 00:12:26,996 But actually it's gonna be... be very beautiful, 197 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:29,082 and we want to show that to people. 198 00:12:29,165 --> 00:12:33,127 John and Yoko had really conceived a five-show arc. 199 00:12:33,211 --> 00:12:36,881 So over a period of about five and a half weeks, 200 00:12:36,965 --> 00:12:39,217 we taped those shows. 201 00:12:39,342 --> 00:12:42,136 This is the first show, and you can see them 202 00:12:42,220 --> 00:12:44,013 trying to find their comfort level with Mike, 203 00:12:44,097 --> 00:12:48,393 and Mike trying to be a gentle and warming host. 204 00:12:48,476 --> 00:12:49,978 I know we have a man on later today 205 00:12:50,061 --> 00:12:51,562 whom you both respect a great deal. 206 00:12:51,646 --> 00:12:53,064 - Yeah. - In fact, all of us do. 207 00:12:53,147 --> 00:12:54,774 - It's Ralph Nader. - Right? Yeah, and he's great. 208 00:12:54,857 --> 00:12:57,819 We'll he's... he's a kind of guy that sets an example. 209 00:12:57,902 --> 00:12:59,445 He does something. I mean, that, that's... 210 00:12:59,529 --> 00:13:01,072 I wish he'd run for office. 211 00:13:01,155 --> 00:13:02,031 Well, I asked him today, 212 00:13:02,073 --> 00:13:03,408 when are you gonna run for president? 213 00:13:03,491 --> 00:13:04,575 - Did you? - You know? 214 00:13:04,659 --> 00:13:06,452 She could minister of peace, and I'll be minister of music. 215 00:13:06,536 --> 00:13:08,329 That would be marvelous. 216 00:13:13,376 --> 00:13:14,585 And we have people like Bobby Seale 217 00:13:14,669 --> 00:13:18,089 and Jerry Rubin and, you know, just very interesting people. 218 00:13:18,172 --> 00:13:21,175 You can see that Yoko is a bit nervous. 219 00:13:21,259 --> 00:13:23,136 John is trying to feel his way. 220 00:13:23,219 --> 00:13:26,639 They obviously had an agenda and ideas of things 221 00:13:26,723 --> 00:13:28,683 they wanted to get out on the show. 222 00:13:28,766 --> 00:13:29,767 I really do fall for images. 223 00:13:29,851 --> 00:13:32,812 Like when I first met Jerry Rubin. I was terrified. 224 00:13:32,895 --> 00:13:34,647 I thought I'm gonna meet a bomb-throwing freak. 225 00:13:34,731 --> 00:13:36,858 Even when I first met the guy called Frank Zappa, 226 00:13:36,941 --> 00:13:38,318 I was terrified. I really thought he... 227 00:13:38,401 --> 00:13:40,194 - They were terrified of us. - And they were terrified too, 228 00:13:40,278 --> 00:13:42,113 - so we're all sitting there... - They were terrified of you? 229 00:13:42,196 --> 00:13:43,573 Oh, yeah. So we're all sitting there, 230 00:13:43,656 --> 00:13:45,325 and then I say, "Well, uh, you seem quite all right." 231 00:13:45,408 --> 00:13:46,617 And they said, "Well, you're not bad." 232 00:13:46,701 --> 00:13:48,202 So we relaxed, you know? And we believe in images 233 00:13:48,286 --> 00:13:50,079 that we should know better about, 234 00:13:50,163 --> 00:13:51,164 that have built up for us. 235 00:13:51,205 --> 00:13:52,623 We thought we'd give him a chance to sort of, 236 00:13:52,707 --> 00:13:54,000 to show what they're actually doing 237 00:13:54,083 --> 00:13:55,335 and what they actually think now, 238 00:13:55,418 --> 00:13:57,754 not two years ago or three years ago, 239 00:13:57,837 --> 00:14:00,173 but now and what their hopes are for the future. 240 00:14:00,256 --> 00:14:02,258 One of Mike's greatest attributes 241 00:14:02,342 --> 00:14:06,179 was he was never terrified to be around celebrities 242 00:14:06,262 --> 00:14:08,264 or to be talking to celebrities. 243 00:14:08,348 --> 00:14:09,265 He felt right at home 244 00:14:09,307 --> 00:14:11,351 and he made them feel at home with him. 245 00:14:11,434 --> 00:14:12,435 We have a canvas here. 246 00:14:12,518 --> 00:14:14,520 I'd like to point out what the purpose of this is. 247 00:14:14,604 --> 00:14:17,482 Oh, yes. Yes, you see, we were thinking that 248 00:14:17,565 --> 00:14:19,734 we would have something like this 249 00:14:19,817 --> 00:14:21,944 that people can draw on... 250 00:14:22,028 --> 00:14:22,987 all of us would draw on 251 00:14:23,029 --> 00:14:24,280 - so that... yes. - And the guests, right? 252 00:14:24,364 --> 00:14:26,949 So it's a painting that goes on growing. 253 00:14:27,033 --> 00:14:28,076 And in the end of the show... 254 00:14:28,159 --> 00:14:29,577 - End of five days. - We can auction it, 255 00:14:29,660 --> 00:14:31,537 - and give that money... - Oh, to charity. 256 00:14:31,621 --> 00:14:32,663 Donate that money to charity. 257 00:14:32,747 --> 00:14:34,332 - To charity. - We'd have a... a canvas 258 00:14:34,415 --> 00:14:36,417 that had not only real people on, 259 00:14:36,501 --> 00:14:39,462 but show biz people as well, and all the... whoever the stars 260 00:14:39,545 --> 00:14:40,963 or the performers that come on each day, 261 00:14:41,047 --> 00:14:42,799 we ask them all to sign, and you and the producer, 262 00:14:42,882 --> 00:14:44,217 I'm gonna have the names or... 263 00:14:44,300 --> 00:14:45,635 Is it... is it necessary to draw? 264 00:14:45,718 --> 00:14:47,303 - Or can you just sign your... - You can draw a name, 265 00:14:47,387 --> 00:14:48,638 - or draw a circle. - Well... yes. 266 00:14:48,721 --> 00:14:49,931 Signing name is an art, too, isn't it? 267 00:14:50,014 --> 00:14:51,974 - Sure. - So you can do that too. 268 00:14:52,058 --> 00:14:53,267 - Draw a circle is enough. - Yeah. 269 00:14:53,351 --> 00:14:55,103 -All right, fine. That's... - So when, when we doing it? 270 00:14:55,186 --> 00:14:56,437 Well, shall we do that quickly? 271 00:14:56,521 --> 00:14:57,939 Now are we gonna do it? Shall we start it then? 272 00:14:58,022 --> 00:14:58,898 What color do you want? 273 00:14:58,940 --> 00:15:00,191 I don't know what I'm gonna draw. 274 00:15:00,274 --> 00:15:01,484 Well, um, I... oh, any color. 275 00:15:01,567 --> 00:15:03,528 You have to choose your own color. 276 00:15:03,611 --> 00:15:04,654 Who's gonna break it in then? 277 00:15:04,737 --> 00:15:06,280 - Can you see this? - Let's... let's Yoko start. 278 00:15:06,364 --> 00:15:07,824 Okay, you start it, it's your idea, right. 279 00:15:07,907 --> 00:15:09,617 Oh, okay. 280 00:15:11,953 --> 00:15:13,121 - Okay. - Oh, that's... 281 00:15:13,204 --> 00:15:14,205 You gonna do the next one? 282 00:15:14,247 --> 00:15:15,623 Yeah, can I take a different color? 283 00:15:15,706 --> 00:15:16,666 Sure, sure. 284 00:15:16,707 --> 00:15:19,001 I'll take green, all right? 285 00:15:19,669 --> 00:15:20,628 Everybody's an artist. 286 00:15:20,670 --> 00:15:22,755 Who told everybody that they weren't an artist? 287 00:15:22,839 --> 00:15:24,132 Some teacher when you're about 12, 288 00:15:24,215 --> 00:15:25,716 somebody says to you, "Oh, you're an artist." 289 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:28,010 "You're not. You're a chemist and you're a scientist." 290 00:15:28,094 --> 00:15:30,471 So this show would just be a... 291 00:15:30,555 --> 00:15:31,597 a show of all of us, you know? 292 00:15:31,681 --> 00:15:34,475 You're gonna be participating a lot... a lot of things too, 293 00:15:34,559 --> 00:15:37,228 so you have to be prepared for that. 294 00:15:37,311 --> 00:15:38,604 You wanna put your name on, Yoko. 295 00:15:38,688 --> 00:15:39,981 - Oh, okay. - Make it more... 296 00:15:40,064 --> 00:15:41,983 worth a dime more... when we sell it. 297 00:15:42,066 --> 00:15:45,278 Do we pass it around the audience or... or what? 298 00:15:45,361 --> 00:15:46,404 Yeah. 299 00:15:46,487 --> 00:15:47,405 Why don't we find out 300 00:15:47,447 --> 00:15:48,865 if anybody really has artistic ability? 301 00:15:48,948 --> 00:15:50,324 -Yes. - Everybody does. 302 00:15:50,408 --> 00:15:52,160 - Please. - You wanna take it out, John? 303 00:15:52,243 --> 00:15:54,036 Anybody is an artist. 304 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:56,539 Artist is a frame of mind. 305 00:15:57,457 --> 00:15:58,291 Please pass it on. 306 00:15:58,332 --> 00:16:00,334 While you're passing this on, 307 00:16:00,418 --> 00:16:02,420 would you please touch each other? 308 00:16:02,503 --> 00:16:04,297 - Come on, don't be shy. - Don't be shy! 309 00:16:04,380 --> 00:16:06,757 Touch a stranger, it's great! 310 00:16:12,138 --> 00:16:15,183 Okay, this is great. 311 00:16:15,475 --> 00:16:17,310 The show was actually taped 312 00:16:17,393 --> 00:16:18,394 in a basement studio, 313 00:16:18,436 --> 00:16:20,354 1619 Walnut Street in Philadelphia. 314 00:16:20,438 --> 00:16:24,317 And walking John down for one of the evening tapings, 315 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,487 he said to me, you know, this is so comfortable for me 316 00:16:27,570 --> 00:16:29,363 because it reminds me of the Cavern Club 317 00:16:29,447 --> 00:16:33,201 where we as the Beatles had started out in Liverpool. 318 00:16:33,284 --> 00:16:34,869 Were people terribly surprised, 319 00:16:34,952 --> 00:16:38,498 because you are hip, contemporary people, 320 00:16:38,581 --> 00:16:40,124 - and, that you... 321 00:16:40,208 --> 00:16:41,167 - John. 322 00:16:41,209 --> 00:16:44,378 That you accepted the convention of marriage. 323 00:16:44,462 --> 00:16:47,590 Do you think that yours is an aesthetic marriage 324 00:16:47,673 --> 00:16:48,674 as well as physical? 325 00:16:48,716 --> 00:16:50,468 - Oh, sure, yeah. - Yes. 326 00:16:50,551 --> 00:16:51,427 It was a mind marriage. 327 00:16:51,469 --> 00:16:53,930 Our minds met before our bodies did. 328 00:16:54,013 --> 00:16:55,264 - I mean, that's for sure. - Hmm. 329 00:16:55,348 --> 00:16:56,974 For those of you who don't... don't know this story. 330 00:16:57,058 --> 00:16:58,893 Yoko was having an art show in London, 331 00:16:58,976 --> 00:17:00,394 at a gallery called lndica Gallery. 332 00:17:00,478 --> 00:17:03,105 I heard about this, was gonna be this Japanese chick 333 00:17:03,189 --> 00:17:04,941 in black bags down at the art gallery. 334 00:17:05,024 --> 00:17:06,025 It's gonna be a happening. 335 00:17:06,067 --> 00:17:07,443 And everything... when I got there, 336 00:17:07,527 --> 00:17:09,487 everything was white... white canvases, 337 00:17:09,570 --> 00:17:10,446 white this, white that. 338 00:17:10,488 --> 00:17:13,574 And there was this board with hammer and a nail. 339 00:17:13,658 --> 00:17:15,409 So I said, "Can I hammer a nail in?" 340 00:17:15,493 --> 00:17:16,786 She says "No." And then the owner says, 341 00:17:16,869 --> 00:17:19,080 "Come on, come on, you know, he might buy something." 342 00:17:19,163 --> 00:17:20,748 So the owner... the owner knew who you were? 343 00:17:20,831 --> 00:17:22,124 Yeah, the owner of the gallery, knew... 344 00:17:22,208 --> 00:17:23,042 he knew me, yeah. 345 00:17:23,084 --> 00:17:24,627 She did not know who you were at that meeting. 346 00:17:24,710 --> 00:17:25,253 No, no. 347 00:17:25,294 --> 00:17:26,504 But I had a nice feeling about him. 348 00:17:26,587 --> 00:17:28,297 I thought, "Oh, rather nice," you know? 349 00:17:28,381 --> 00:17:29,632 Anyway, they... the guy says to me, 350 00:17:29,715 --> 00:17:32,051 John says to me, uh... or she says, "Okay, 351 00:17:32,134 --> 00:17:34,720 well give me five shillings then, to hammer a nail in." 352 00:17:34,804 --> 00:17:36,847 That's about a dollar, you know, more than a dollar. 353 00:17:36,931 --> 00:17:38,182 It's five dollars or something. 354 00:17:38,266 --> 00:17:39,517 I just had to charge, you know? 355 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:40,601 So I said, "Listen, 356 00:17:40,643 --> 00:17:42,395 I'll give you an imaginary five shillings 357 00:17:42,478 --> 00:17:44,939 and hammer an imaginary nail in. 358 00:17:45,022 --> 00:17:45,773 Is that okay?" 359 00:17:45,815 --> 00:17:48,067 And that was the... her... her whole trip 360 00:17:48,150 --> 00:17:49,527 is this "Imagine this, imagine that." 361 00:17:49,610 --> 00:17:50,611 It was imagining, imagining. 362 00:17:50,695 --> 00:17:52,029 So I was thinking, "Oh, here's a guy" 363 00:17:52,113 --> 00:17:54,490 "who's playing the same game I'm playing." 364 00:17:54,574 --> 00:17:55,908 And I was really shocked. You know? 365 00:17:55,992 --> 00:17:57,201 I thought, who is it, you know? 366 00:17:57,285 --> 00:17:58,744 Also, the first thing that was in the gallery 367 00:17:58,828 --> 00:18:01,664 as you went in, there was a... a white stepladder, 368 00:18:01,747 --> 00:18:04,375 and a painting on the ceiling, or... 369 00:18:04,458 --> 00:18:05,334 A ceiling painting. 370 00:18:05,376 --> 00:18:07,128 A framed piece of white, something. 371 00:18:07,211 --> 00:18:09,505 And a spyglass hanging down. 372 00:18:09,589 --> 00:18:10,881 So, most of the art those days 373 00:18:10,965 --> 00:18:12,508 was art that put everybody down, you know, 374 00:18:12,592 --> 00:18:14,176 - like make people upset. - Uh-huh. 375 00:18:14,260 --> 00:18:16,178 - Yeah. Yeah, yeah. - So I was anti-art, 376 00:18:16,262 --> 00:18:18,014 because I'd been five years in art school, 377 00:18:18,097 --> 00:18:19,390 and they're all phonies, you know? 378 00:18:19,473 --> 00:18:20,474 And I really was against it. 379 00:18:20,558 --> 00:18:21,809 But... I'd become interested again 380 00:18:21,892 --> 00:18:23,311 by looking around galleries, and was there... 381 00:18:23,394 --> 00:18:25,104 I walked up this ladder, and I picked up the spyglass. 382 00:18:25,187 --> 00:18:28,482 You're balancing there, and it's in teeny little writing, 383 00:18:28,566 --> 00:18:29,442 it just said "Yes." 384 00:18:29,483 --> 00:18:30,943 - It said "Yes?" - And that made my... 385 00:18:31,027 --> 00:18:32,028 - it said "Yes." - Yes. 386 00:18:32,069 --> 00:18:33,821 It made my decision to go and see the rest of the show. 387 00:18:33,904 --> 00:18:35,364 If it had said "No," or you know, uh-huh... 388 00:18:35,448 --> 00:18:37,074 - Something sarcastic. - Something nasty, 389 00:18:37,158 --> 00:18:39,410 like you know, rip off or whatever, 390 00:18:39,493 --> 00:18:40,953 I would have left the gallery then. 391 00:18:41,037 --> 00:18:43,122 Because it was positive, it said "Yes," I thought, 392 00:18:43,205 --> 00:18:46,626 okay, it's the first show I've been to that said something, 393 00:18:46,709 --> 00:18:47,627 you know, warm to me. 394 00:18:47,668 --> 00:18:49,754 So I... then I decided to see the rest of the show, 395 00:18:49,837 --> 00:18:50,713 and that's when we met. 396 00:18:50,755 --> 00:18:52,298 - What was your... - If it had said "No," 397 00:18:52,381 --> 00:18:53,257 I would have walked out. 398 00:18:53,299 --> 00:18:55,259 What was your impression of Yoko at that meeting, John? 399 00:18:55,343 --> 00:18:56,344 Well, she was very serious, 400 00:18:56,427 --> 00:18:59,347 and not at all impressed by who I was, you know, 401 00:18:59,430 --> 00:19:00,306 which I didn't mind, 402 00:19:00,348 --> 00:19:01,891 because it was a change not to be known, you know? 403 00:19:01,974 --> 00:19:03,893 Does that... is that a welcome thing for you, 404 00:19:03,976 --> 00:19:06,395 when somebody is not terribly impressed by you 405 00:19:06,479 --> 00:19:07,396 and just accepts you. 406 00:19:07,438 --> 00:19:10,858 I don't want people to just, uh, react to me and it... 407 00:19:10,941 --> 00:19:12,360 people, some... I guess you have the same. 408 00:19:12,443 --> 00:19:16,656 People think that... that you want them to... to do something 409 00:19:16,739 --> 00:19:17,740 or say something special. 410 00:19:17,782 --> 00:19:19,158 You don't... you want them to be themselves. 411 00:19:19,241 --> 00:19:20,534 And therefore you can be yourself. 412 00:19:20,618 --> 00:19:22,286 And don't you find that when people meet you, 413 00:19:22,370 --> 00:19:23,788 and they want so to say the right thing, 414 00:19:23,871 --> 00:19:26,290 and almost always it comes out backwards, doesn't it? 415 00:19:26,374 --> 00:19:27,458 - Oh, yeah. - What are some 416 00:19:27,541 --> 00:19:28,959 of the incredible things people have said to you 417 00:19:29,043 --> 00:19:30,544 - upon first meetings? - I don't know, the... 418 00:19:30,628 --> 00:19:33,589 our main problems are things like getting in the taxi, 419 00:19:33,673 --> 00:19:35,007 and the taxi driver is so frantic 420 00:19:35,091 --> 00:19:37,009 that he's driving on the sidewalk. 421 00:19:38,636 --> 00:19:40,596 Which is a very dangerous driver. 422 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:42,431 It's very hard to get anywhere, 423 00:19:42,515 --> 00:19:43,599 and I think that's all this... 424 00:19:43,683 --> 00:19:44,934 And the waiters be... bring, 425 00:19:45,017 --> 00:19:46,018 you know, something wrong, 426 00:19:46,060 --> 00:19:47,728 because they weren't you... listening to the orders... 427 00:19:47,812 --> 00:19:49,605 The waiters don't hear what you're ordering, 428 00:19:49,689 --> 00:19:51,065 I'm talking, and I know they're not listening, 429 00:19:51,148 --> 00:19:53,234 because they're only saying, "Oh that's him? Is that him? 430 00:19:53,317 --> 00:19:54,652 "ls that him?" And they're looking at me 431 00:19:54,735 --> 00:19:56,904 right in the eye, and I'm saying I'd like a, you know, 432 00:19:56,987 --> 00:19:58,989 a... a medium-rare steak and some French fries 433 00:19:59,073 --> 00:20:01,909 and an elephant's leg, and a policeman's hat, please. 434 00:20:01,992 --> 00:20:03,327 And they say, "Yes, sir, yes, sir!" 435 00:20:03,411 --> 00:20:04,745 Because they're not hearing me. 436 00:20:06,622 --> 00:20:07,915 A policeman's hat and... 437 00:20:07,998 --> 00:20:09,125 We'll be right back. 438 00:20:15,256 --> 00:20:17,717 What we're really focusing on that February 439 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:22,513 of 1972 because if you don't understand what 1972 is like, 440 00:20:22,596 --> 00:20:27,226 you don't understand why these shows were so transgressional. 441 00:20:27,309 --> 00:20:33,315 Well, 1972 was the Nixon era. 442 00:20:33,399 --> 00:20:35,818 Richard Nixon, the pits, uh, 443 00:20:35,901 --> 00:20:38,696 he was a very vengeful, uh, president. 444 00:20:38,779 --> 00:20:41,949 And he was afraid of what he called the liberal media. 445 00:20:42,032 --> 00:20:46,454 And he was afraid of a young generation uprising. 446 00:20:46,537 --> 00:20:49,206 It was, uh, a time of considerable fracturing. 447 00:20:49,290 --> 00:20:53,127 I mean, uh, we... we were... we had made it out of the '60s 448 00:20:53,210 --> 00:20:56,172 by the time that... that, uh, I was on the shows. 449 00:20:56,255 --> 00:21:02,219 But the aftermath was still quite, uh, quite... 450 00:21:02,303 --> 00:21:03,012 disturbing. 451 00:21:03,053 --> 00:21:05,681 This was the context in which the '60s, 452 00:21:05,765 --> 00:21:07,057 we... in which we lived. 453 00:21:07,141 --> 00:21:11,562 Aside from the news which everybody saw at night, 454 00:21:11,645 --> 00:21:12,730 bringing these ideas, 455 00:21:12,813 --> 00:21:17,234 I think more the ideas and the conversations, uh, 456 00:21:17,318 --> 00:21:21,572 into the living rooms of... of women was really... 457 00:21:21,655 --> 00:21:22,531 it was really important. 458 00:21:22,573 --> 00:21:25,409 I remember overhearing one of the producers say 459 00:21:25,493 --> 00:21:27,203 to John and Yoko backstage, 460 00:21:27,286 --> 00:21:29,497 do you have any friends that aren't political? 461 00:21:29,580 --> 00:21:33,083 Yeah. It was something they were trying to get away with. 462 00:21:34,376 --> 00:21:37,171 And it was basically housewives 463 00:21:37,254 --> 00:21:41,383 or people who were at home who wanted to be entertained. 464 00:21:41,467 --> 00:21:43,928 It was an entertainment variety kind of thing. 465 00:21:44,011 --> 00:21:47,681 So I really didn't even have a clue that they were having 466 00:21:47,765 --> 00:21:51,560 all these almost counter cultural figures. 467 00:21:51,644 --> 00:21:53,437 I mean, it was really interesting 468 00:21:53,521 --> 00:21:56,482 to see Ralph Nader so young. 469 00:22:01,362 --> 00:22:04,156 It's been almost a year since we've seen this next gentleman 470 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,701 on our show, and in that time he's gotten his fingers 471 00:22:07,785 --> 00:22:09,662 into a lot of new pies. 472 00:22:09,745 --> 00:22:10,579 He's an attorney. 473 00:22:10,621 --> 00:22:11,747 He's from the nation's capital. 474 00:22:11,831 --> 00:22:16,710 And recently he's been called "The man who makes waves." 475 00:22:16,794 --> 00:22:18,379 Here is Ralph Nader. 476 00:22:19,755 --> 00:22:22,299 Mike Douglas watched the evening news. 477 00:22:22,383 --> 00:22:23,467 He probably said to himself, 478 00:22:23,551 --> 00:22:25,094 I think I want this guy on the show. 479 00:22:25,177 --> 00:22:29,139 And he doesn't over talk and he smiles once in a while 480 00:22:29,223 --> 00:22:32,852 and he's concise enough for daytime TV. 481 00:22:32,935 --> 00:22:36,564 It helped that he had a staff member, Erni Di Massa, 482 00:22:36,647 --> 00:22:40,901 on the show who was very, uh, persuasive 483 00:22:40,985 --> 00:22:45,281 in getting citizen group voices on the show. 484 00:22:45,364 --> 00:22:49,952 I might say you also had Roger Ailes. 485 00:22:50,035 --> 00:22:51,495 Roger Ailes, who started 486 00:22:51,579 --> 00:22:53,414 as a public relations man on the "Mike Douglas Show" 487 00:22:53,497 --> 00:22:55,416 met Richard Nixon on the "Mike Douglas Show." 488 00:22:55,499 --> 00:22:58,043 Went to work for him, got him elected president. 489 00:22:58,127 --> 00:23:00,921 Then later in his career, started Fox News, 490 00:23:01,005 --> 00:23:03,340 which is a pretty incredible transition 491 00:23:03,424 --> 00:23:04,383 when you think about it 492 00:23:04,425 --> 00:23:07,261 from the "Mike Douglas Show" to Fox News. 493 00:23:08,053 --> 00:23:10,556 One of the stories is that Roger Ailes 494 00:23:10,639 --> 00:23:11,891 was actually behind the scenes 495 00:23:11,974 --> 00:23:14,143 trying to get John and Yoko booked 496 00:23:14,226 --> 00:23:15,311 on the "Mike Douglas Show" 497 00:23:15,394 --> 00:23:16,896 with the hope of convincing them 498 00:23:16,979 --> 00:23:20,983 to become Republican backers of Richard Nixon. 499 00:23:21,066 --> 00:23:22,526 I remember being on the stage 500 00:23:22,610 --> 00:23:26,113 and I watched this young guy in the back. 501 00:23:26,196 --> 00:23:27,072 He was going like this, 502 00:23:27,114 --> 00:23:30,576 constantly absorbing the details 503 00:23:30,659 --> 00:23:33,412 of the television experience. 504 00:23:33,495 --> 00:23:35,539 I could just see him saying to himself 505 00:23:35,623 --> 00:23:39,752 someday I'm gonna make sure that television 506 00:23:39,835 --> 00:23:45,758 is a major tool of right-wing politicians. 507 00:23:45,925 --> 00:23:48,969 ' " 508 00:23:52,765 --> 00:23:55,517 - Stop him! - Stop him. 509 00:23:55,601 --> 00:23:57,728 Would you do us the honor, uh, Ralph? 510 00:23:57,811 --> 00:23:59,939 Yes. Indeed. Yes, yes, yes. 511 00:24:00,022 --> 00:24:00,856 This is gonna go... 512 00:24:00,898 --> 00:24:03,275 be auctioned off at the end of the week. 513 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:06,487 And all the money will go to charity. 514 00:24:07,988 --> 00:24:10,282 - That's beautiful. - Oh, look at that! 515 00:24:10,366 --> 00:24:11,992 - Yes. - That's the yin yang sign. 516 00:24:12,076 --> 00:24:13,035 - Yeah. - Actually... 517 00:24:13,077 --> 00:24:14,578 Yin and yang is like positive-negative, 518 00:24:14,662 --> 00:24:16,830 - black-white, right. - Going back to... 519 00:24:16,914 --> 00:24:17,623 R. Nader. 520 00:24:17,665 --> 00:24:19,667 The nat... natural balance of things. 521 00:24:19,750 --> 00:24:20,793 Can I ask you something? 522 00:24:20,876 --> 00:24:23,545 You know, the small book you gave us before the show, 523 00:24:23,629 --> 00:24:25,422 that... that book was to, um, 524 00:24:25,506 --> 00:24:27,257 help people... students organize, right? 525 00:24:27,341 --> 00:24:28,926 That's right. Action, Action for a Change. 526 00:24:29,009 --> 00:24:31,553 It's to show them how they could do it themselves, like... 527 00:24:31,637 --> 00:24:32,721 - Exactly. - Right? 528 00:24:32,805 --> 00:24:34,223 So what kind of thing do you tell them? 529 00:24:34,306 --> 00:24:35,683 I know something about tax and all, well... 530 00:24:35,766 --> 00:24:37,935 Well, first, it makes a very important distinction. 531 00:24:38,018 --> 00:24:39,186 - Yeah. - Everybody... 532 00:24:39,269 --> 00:24:41,772 most everybody wants peace and justice and equity. 533 00:24:41,855 --> 00:24:45,609 However, the most important first step is to develop 534 00:24:45,693 --> 00:24:48,237 the instruments that will lead, uh, to these objectives. 535 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,239 So the first part of the book is, uh, devoted 536 00:24:50,322 --> 00:24:53,909 to showing exactly, step by step, how they can organize. 537 00:24:53,993 --> 00:24:57,538 Well, it's one of the reasons I went on the "Mike Douglas," 538 00:24:57,621 --> 00:24:58,580 so, so enthusiastically. 539 00:24:58,622 --> 00:25:02,084 We were beginning the drive to organize students 540 00:25:02,167 --> 00:25:06,422 in large numbers to contribute through their student dues, 541 00:25:06,505 --> 00:25:10,551 a few bucks each year into a non-profit group 542 00:25:10,634 --> 00:25:11,510 that they would run. 543 00:25:11,552 --> 00:25:14,221 And this book came out, it was a manual. 544 00:25:14,304 --> 00:25:18,976 It was very detailed by Donald Ross, bless his soul. 545 00:25:19,059 --> 00:25:21,478 He showed the students how to do it. 546 00:25:21,562 --> 00:25:24,356 For example that, uh, they spend on the average 547 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,985 about $250 a year on soft drinks, cigarettes, 548 00:25:28,068 --> 00:25:29,153 uh, and candies. 549 00:25:29,236 --> 00:25:32,948 Now if they just spend 37>, or 2% of that, two, three, 550 00:25:33,032 --> 00:25:35,075 four dollars a year, they could develop 551 00:25:35,159 --> 00:25:37,578 the strongest democratic force in the state. 552 00:25:37,661 --> 00:25:39,413 - Yeah. - And they could also work 553 00:25:39,496 --> 00:25:41,040 with people who aren't students. 554 00:25:41,123 --> 00:25:42,249 - Yeah. - Retired people 555 00:25:42,332 --> 00:25:44,501 who have a lot of time and a lot of talent 556 00:25:44,585 --> 00:25:45,294 on their hands. 557 00:25:45,335 --> 00:25:46,879 - It's a great resource. - You tell 'em to register 558 00:25:46,962 --> 00:25:47,796 to vote, as well? 559 00:25:47,838 --> 00:25:49,590 - Register to vote. - Because that's been a great 560 00:25:49,673 --> 00:25:51,050 - change in the whole... - Exactly. 561 00:25:51,133 --> 00:25:52,718 Movement people, a lot of people were saying, 562 00:25:52,801 --> 00:25:54,261 uh, voting's irrelevant and... a few years ago. 563 00:25:54,344 --> 00:25:56,764 And, uh, a lot of movement people have decided 564 00:25:56,847 --> 00:25:57,723 that voting is relevant, 565 00:25:57,765 --> 00:25:59,308 'cause it's the only chance they're gonna get. 566 00:25:59,391 --> 00:26:00,893 - Of course. - Like if you want to beat 567 00:26:00,976 --> 00:26:02,561 the Establishment, you got to know how it works. 568 00:26:02,644 --> 00:26:04,480 Well, you'll be more likely to want to vote, 569 00:26:04,563 --> 00:26:05,773 particularly at a younger age, 570 00:26:05,856 --> 00:26:07,399 if you know what the issues are, 571 00:26:07,483 --> 00:26:09,902 and if you can push for a real choice 572 00:26:09,985 --> 00:26:11,028 between different candidates. 573 00:26:11,111 --> 00:26:12,946 At least if you, if you're registered to vote, 574 00:26:13,030 --> 00:26:14,198 it doesn't say you have to vote. 575 00:26:14,281 --> 00:26:16,075 At least you have it, and then if somebody comes, 576 00:26:16,158 --> 00:26:17,701 if there's somebody around that you can believe in, 577 00:26:17,785 --> 00:26:19,578 you've got that vote but if you don't register, 578 00:26:19,661 --> 00:26:22,081 and it comes and you want to do something, it's... 579 00:26:22,164 --> 00:26:22,998 you've missed it. 580 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:24,666 And somebody put it very succinctly, 581 00:26:24,750 --> 00:26:25,751 Richard Neville of... of OZ, 582 00:26:25,793 --> 00:26:27,586 which is an underground scene in London. 583 00:26:27,669 --> 00:26:29,129 He said, "Well, we all made a mistake." 584 00:26:29,213 --> 00:26:31,173 We should have voted. We should have registered. 585 00:26:31,256 --> 00:26:32,716 Because there's... there's one inch 586 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,719 in which we breathe difference between the two parties... 587 00:26:35,803 --> 00:26:37,679 And everybody's saying, "They're all the same." 588 00:26:37,763 --> 00:26:38,680 They are all the same! 589 00:26:38,722 --> 00:26:40,474 But there's that one inch in which they let you breathe. 590 00:26:40,557 --> 00:26:43,727 And if you vote, you broaden out the difference 591 00:26:43,811 --> 00:26:46,230 between the parties in the right way 592 00:26:46,313 --> 00:26:49,066 for the next election and the next election. 593 00:26:49,149 --> 00:26:51,068 I mean, that was a very astute comment. 594 00:26:51,151 --> 00:26:54,196 Democracy means, in a word, self-government. 595 00:26:54,279 --> 00:26:56,824 And anytime we delegate our responsibilities, 596 00:26:56,907 --> 00:26:58,367 - it's for convenience. - Yeah. 597 00:26:58,450 --> 00:26:59,701 How about the organizing housewives? 598 00:26:59,785 --> 00:27:02,412 You know, they're just sort of, very vast amount 599 00:27:02,496 --> 00:27:04,790 of silent majority there, you know? 600 00:27:04,873 --> 00:27:06,583 And they're sort of... they don't have 601 00:27:06,667 --> 00:27:08,418 the direct communication society. 602 00:27:08,502 --> 00:27:09,711 They're sort of isolated people. 603 00:27:09,795 --> 00:27:11,547 I've never thought of housewives 604 00:27:11,630 --> 00:27:12,548 as a silent majority. 605 00:27:12,589 --> 00:27:14,842 - Well, maybe at home 606 00:27:14,925 --> 00:27:17,010 they might say a lot, but they don't have a chance 607 00:27:17,094 --> 00:27:19,555 to say it in the society and also, they don't have 608 00:27:19,638 --> 00:27:22,516 a direct sort of horizontal contact, you know? 609 00:27:22,599 --> 00:27:24,143 - Yes. - They're in the house. 610 00:27:24,226 --> 00:27:25,060 They're isolated. 611 00:27:25,102 --> 00:27:27,729 If you can get a housewife's manual or something 612 00:27:27,813 --> 00:27:28,689 to help the cause, 613 00:27:28,730 --> 00:27:30,607 what could they do for pollution, you know? 614 00:27:30,691 --> 00:27:32,234 Well, actually, we're just working on that. 615 00:27:32,317 --> 00:27:35,779 What you have to do is step back and start by trying 616 00:27:35,863 --> 00:27:36,738 to help organize people 617 00:27:36,780 --> 00:27:41,034 and trying to get them to see citizenship as a profession, 618 00:27:41,118 --> 00:27:41,869 as an expertise. 619 00:27:41,910 --> 00:27:43,203 And this could be a great country, 620 00:27:43,287 --> 00:27:46,039 and it can contribute to the world in magnificent ways, 621 00:27:46,123 --> 00:27:47,374 because we've got the affluence 622 00:27:47,457 --> 00:27:50,002 and we've got the intelligence and the know-how, 623 00:27:50,085 --> 00:27:52,880 but we're not in effect letting people 624 00:27:52,963 --> 00:27:53,839 control their destinies. 625 00:27:53,881 --> 00:27:55,424 I was just thinking, does Ralph Nader 626 00:27:55,507 --> 00:27:57,634 make a New Year's resolution? 627 00:27:57,718 --> 00:28:00,053 - Do you do such things? 628 00:28:00,137 --> 00:28:00,846 Yeah, actually. 629 00:28:00,888 --> 00:28:03,599 What... what were yours, or what was yours? 630 00:28:03,682 --> 00:28:06,894 Try to find a 36-hour day. 631 00:28:08,020 --> 00:28:10,981 I'm looking for a 48-hour day. 632 00:28:11,064 --> 00:28:16,236 As the Romans used to say, tempus fugit. 633 00:28:16,987 --> 00:28:17,696 Time flies. 634 00:28:17,738 --> 00:28:19,198 Ralph, you must get an awful lot of mail. 635 00:28:19,281 --> 00:28:20,699 Where, where can people write you? 636 00:28:20,782 --> 00:28:23,368 Well, you can go to Nader.org, and by the way, 637 00:28:23,452 --> 00:28:26,830 sign up to receive free, electronically every week, 638 00:28:26,914 --> 00:28:30,083 my weekly column, which started in 1971. 639 00:28:30,167 --> 00:28:32,044 - And that's it? - Just like that. 640 00:28:32,127 --> 00:28:33,003 Thank you, Ralph Nader. 641 00:28:33,045 --> 00:28:35,756 And stay with us. We'll be right back. 642 00:28:40,928 --> 00:28:42,930 Yoko, you have some, some great ideas 643 00:28:43,013 --> 00:28:44,514 - in your book "Grapefruit." - Thank you. 644 00:28:44,598 --> 00:28:47,100 And one of them involves a... a teacup. 645 00:28:47,184 --> 00:28:48,894 - Yes, well see... - Tell, tell us about it. 646 00:28:48,977 --> 00:28:51,730 This is a cup. And it's broken. 647 00:28:51,813 --> 00:28:54,358 Through the five days, we want to mend it, 648 00:28:54,441 --> 00:28:57,194 and all of us participate in mending it. 649 00:28:57,277 --> 00:28:59,154 By the end of the five days, 650 00:28:59,238 --> 00:29:01,782 this cup would be a whole cup, I hope. 651 00:29:01,865 --> 00:29:03,158 It's not as easy as you thought, right? 652 00:29:03,242 --> 00:29:04,493 It's not that easy as you think. 653 00:29:04,576 --> 00:29:06,161 What is the point behind this, Yoko? Is it... 654 00:29:06,245 --> 00:29:07,996 Yeah, I'll hold them. You tell... you explain yourself. 655 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,290 - Hold it like this. - I'll hold it like that. 656 00:29:10,374 --> 00:29:12,626 And are we out of time? 657 00:29:12,709 --> 00:29:15,921 That's fine. Um, we'll go through the next day. 658 00:29:16,004 --> 00:29:18,257 Okay, we have four more shows in which to complete it. 659 00:29:18,340 --> 00:29:21,093 I would like to take this opportunity to thank 660 00:29:21,176 --> 00:29:23,178 my co-host and my co-hostess, 661 00:29:23,262 --> 00:29:25,055 John Lennon and Yoko Ono, 662 00:29:25,138 --> 00:29:25,847 Ralph Nader. 663 00:29:25,889 --> 00:29:29,309 - We'll see you tomorrow. 664 00:29:37,943 --> 00:29:40,153 People tend to think Woodstock 665 00:29:40,237 --> 00:29:42,447 three years earlier was a big deal. 666 00:29:42,531 --> 00:29:46,201 But this was the best minds of the counterculture. 667 00:29:46,285 --> 00:29:48,829 Yoko had a lot of confidence 668 00:29:48,912 --> 00:29:50,497 bringing these radical people 669 00:29:50,580 --> 00:29:55,377 into this very, uh, middle class Amer... 670 00:29:55,460 --> 00:29:58,714 middle America space, putting that and seeing 671 00:29:58,797 --> 00:30:00,257 let's see what happens when we do this. 672 00:30:00,340 --> 00:30:04,553 In the environment where there weren't very many choices, 673 00:30:04,636 --> 00:30:06,680 uh, in TV, 674 00:30:06,763 --> 00:30:08,765 to get the opportunity, that John and Yoko had, 675 00:30:08,849 --> 00:30:13,061 the "Mike Douglas Show" and then to use it as a platform 676 00:30:13,145 --> 00:30:16,648 to bring the counterculture to people 677 00:30:16,732 --> 00:30:20,277 in a way that was actually quite friendly. 678 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:21,236 It was approachable. 679 00:30:21,278 --> 00:30:24,323 Well, I think John and Yoko reflected the importance 680 00:30:24,406 --> 00:30:28,118 of what you call the ephemeral and what I call, 681 00:30:28,201 --> 00:30:32,497 say, the spiritual and philosophical 682 00:30:32,581 --> 00:30:33,790 aspect of living. 683 00:30:33,874 --> 00:30:37,252 John Lennon and Yoko Ono didn't want us 684 00:30:37,336 --> 00:30:39,004 to talk about their music. 685 00:30:39,087 --> 00:30:41,131 That spoke for itself. 686 00:30:41,214 --> 00:30:43,633 I think for your... 687 00:30:44,009 --> 00:30:45,260 your general audience, 688 00:30:45,344 --> 00:30:49,431 those audiences that watched Mike Douglas. 689 00:30:49,514 --> 00:30:51,516 And to see... 690 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:56,271 Yoko, in particular, speaking up or even... 691 00:30:56,355 --> 00:30:58,315 in a sense, answering, uh, 692 00:30:58,398 --> 00:31:03,070 a question that had been put to... to John Lennon, 693 00:31:03,153 --> 00:31:06,239 I don't think it was a turnoff to... 694 00:31:06,323 --> 00:31:07,574 in particular to women. 695 00:31:07,657 --> 00:31:11,036 Now some men might have got turned off! 696 00:31:12,496 --> 00:31:15,499 The government's top mental health officials said today 697 00:31:15,582 --> 00:31:17,542 that marijuana laws are too strict. 698 00:31:17,626 --> 00:31:19,127 The report cites studies however 699 00:31:19,211 --> 00:31:23,715 that indicate motorists have their driving ability impaired 700 00:31:23,799 --> 00:31:24,716 by marijuana use. 701 00:31:24,758 --> 00:31:26,343 You'll drag for two seconds, 702 00:31:26,426 --> 00:31:28,178 then you'll hold for 15 seconds, 703 00:31:28,261 --> 00:31:29,096 then you'll exhale 704 00:31:29,137 --> 00:31:30,639 - and relax for 20 seconds. - Okay. 705 00:31:30,722 --> 00:31:32,933 The smoking is carefully supervised 706 00:31:33,016 --> 00:31:34,309 by medics and psychiatrists. 707 00:31:34,393 --> 00:31:37,771 Marijuana, the study has found, dulls the senses. 708 00:31:37,854 --> 00:31:40,023 Many drivers drift across the center line, 709 00:31:40,107 --> 00:31:42,067 their ability to react impaired. 710 00:31:42,150 --> 00:31:45,445 The central nervous system's processing centers 711 00:31:45,529 --> 00:31:47,531 are affected... 712 00:31:50,867 --> 00:31:51,952 I... I thoroughly... 713 00:31:52,035 --> 00:31:54,037 I thoroughly enjoyed yesterday's show. 714 00:31:54,121 --> 00:31:55,288 - Oh, we did too. - Did you? 715 00:31:55,372 --> 00:31:56,832 We did too. And we'd just like to say, 716 00:31:56,915 --> 00:31:58,333 you know, we... we sometimes get very nervous 717 00:31:58,417 --> 00:32:01,461 doing these things, and, uh, it's a very relaxing show. 718 00:32:01,545 --> 00:32:02,879 Yes. You made us very relaxed. 719 00:32:02,963 --> 00:32:04,423 - Thank you. Thank you. - And that's so nice. 720 00:32:04,506 --> 00:32:06,091 We've got such an interesting thing going. 721 00:32:06,174 --> 00:32:07,592 - The teacup... - Yes, oh, where is it? Oh! 722 00:32:07,676 --> 00:32:09,302 - It was interesting. - Oh, there it is, yeah. 723 00:32:09,386 --> 00:32:10,220 Am I supposed to... 724 00:32:10,262 --> 00:32:11,430 - Oh, it stayed a bit. - Yes. 725 00:32:11,513 --> 00:32:12,597 Well, it stayed together anyway. 726 00:32:12,681 --> 00:32:14,391 Well, I have to explain it. Oh, it did stay together. 727 00:32:14,474 --> 00:32:15,892 She has a lot of funny ideas, you know? 728 00:32:15,976 --> 00:32:17,978 Now, this is, uh, a sculpture and also, this is, uh, 729 00:32:18,061 --> 00:32:19,104 a sculpture called mend piece. 730 00:32:19,187 --> 00:32:20,856 And we're all going to mend it together. 731 00:32:20,939 --> 00:32:21,940 One piece every day? 732 00:32:21,982 --> 00:32:23,233 Yes, one piece every day. 733 00:32:23,316 --> 00:32:25,193 And in the end, probably we'll have a nice cup. 734 00:32:25,277 --> 00:32:26,695 Do you want me to... 735 00:32:26,778 --> 00:32:27,529 Yes, you can... 736 00:32:27,571 --> 00:32:29,656 And also, meanwhile, while John is doing that, 737 00:32:29,739 --> 00:32:33,368 uh, we're going to the next audience piece, um, 738 00:32:33,452 --> 00:32:36,538 which is, um... yesterday, we did this touch piece, 739 00:32:36,621 --> 00:32:38,039 - remember? - Oh, yeah, this, this was... 740 00:32:38,123 --> 00:32:39,458 Everybody touching each other? 741 00:32:39,541 --> 00:32:41,209 And you called this... they called this an... an event. 742 00:32:41,293 --> 00:32:42,335 - Yes. - You want to try... 743 00:32:42,419 --> 00:32:43,420 what are we gonna do today? 744 00:32:43,503 --> 00:32:44,921 Now, the minute, uh, when I raise my hand... 745 00:32:45,005 --> 00:32:46,548 - Listen to this. - Please start to shout, 746 00:32:46,631 --> 00:32:49,634 right away, start shouting the first word that came to you. 747 00:32:49,718 --> 00:32:50,927 - Until... - And don't be shy now, 748 00:32:51,011 --> 00:32:52,220 - don't be shy. - Wait a minute... 749 00:32:52,304 --> 00:32:53,763 - Keep on shouting. - Now, wait a minute... 750 00:32:53,847 --> 00:32:55,307 - Keep on shouting... 751 00:32:55,390 --> 00:32:56,683 You're on television, coast to coast. 752 00:32:56,766 --> 00:32:58,310 Well, yes, I'm sure truly beautiful people... 753 00:32:58,393 --> 00:33:00,812 - You'll never hear it. - So it'll be all right. 754 00:33:00,896 --> 00:33:02,564 One, two, three! 755 00:33:02,647 --> 00:33:03,857 Mama! 756 00:33:05,984 --> 00:33:08,987 Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. 757 00:33:09,070 --> 00:33:10,363 MAN 2; Hey, hey, hey! 758 00:33:10,447 --> 00:33:12,157 - Okay. Clears the air. - Exactly. 759 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:14,034 I think... yes, it did clear the air, didn't it? 760 00:33:14,117 --> 00:33:15,368 - Who said "Fatso?" 761 00:33:15,452 --> 00:33:17,329 - No, no. - No, it wasn't you, was it? 762 00:33:17,412 --> 00:33:20,457 What... what... why do you call 'em "events" and... and, 763 00:33:20,540 --> 00:33:22,209 - I want to start with her. - Oh, because, uh... 764 00:33:22,292 --> 00:33:23,835 it's a... it's... it's a kind of thing... 765 00:33:23,919 --> 00:33:25,212 a "happening" is a bit more theatrical, 766 00:33:25,295 --> 00:33:28,548 but this is something that includes people in it, 767 00:33:28,632 --> 00:33:29,883 that's not... has no calculation, 768 00:33:29,966 --> 00:33:32,719 it's just that people who follow their own instinct 769 00:33:32,802 --> 00:33:34,304 and it has freedom in it, you know? 770 00:33:34,387 --> 00:33:37,015 Yeah. Whenever we have co-hosts on the show, 771 00:33:37,098 --> 00:33:39,059 we always explore their interests, 772 00:33:39,142 --> 00:33:41,228 and also book the show, uh, 773 00:33:41,311 --> 00:33:44,397 to make them happy, Jerry Rubin, who's an out... 774 00:33:45,565 --> 00:33:46,399 Oh! 775 00:33:46,441 --> 00:33:47,359 Ain't it funny? 776 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,277 You did that and the audience didn't react. 777 00:33:49,361 --> 00:33:49,903 I know. 778 00:33:49,945 --> 00:33:52,364 Mike developed a very interesting relationship 779 00:33:52,447 --> 00:33:54,449 with John over the course of the week. 780 00:33:54,533 --> 00:33:55,575 You can see in the first show, 781 00:33:55,659 --> 00:33:56,952 there's a little bit of tenseness. 782 00:33:57,035 --> 00:33:58,286 And it starts to warm up and warm up. 783 00:33:58,370 --> 00:34:00,413 We're gonna spend the day talking, one of the shows, 784 00:34:00,497 --> 00:34:03,333 talking about the Beatles, but, uh, will the Beatles 785 00:34:03,416 --> 00:34:04,334 ever, for any reason, 786 00:34:04,376 --> 00:34:05,585 - for a charity reason... - Yeah. 787 00:34:05,669 --> 00:34:07,963 Or anything ever perform together again? 788 00:34:08,046 --> 00:34:08,755 Let's say this. 789 00:34:08,797 --> 00:34:10,799 There's no reason why they never should do it again, 790 00:34:10,882 --> 00:34:13,218 but there's also no reason why they should. 791 00:34:13,301 --> 00:34:14,344 And like, anything's possible. 792 00:34:14,427 --> 00:34:17,389 And, uh, just to get it straight, once and for all, 793 00:34:17,472 --> 00:34:19,140 we're not all at each other's throats. 794 00:34:19,224 --> 00:34:22,143 When those court cases... it gets, you know, 795 00:34:22,227 --> 00:34:23,228 when lawyers get involved, 796 00:34:23,270 --> 00:34:24,813 it looks vicious and it gets in the paper. 797 00:34:24,896 --> 00:34:28,441 But, uh, I talk to Paul about once a week. 798 00:34:28,525 --> 00:34:30,485 He called me two days ago to say he'd just been 799 00:34:30,569 --> 00:34:32,737 to dinner with Ringo and he was just going 800 00:34:32,821 --> 00:34:33,738 to dinner with George. 801 00:34:33,780 --> 00:34:35,240 And I said, "Well, you better catch George" 802 00:34:35,323 --> 00:34:36,575 'cause he's on his way over here, 803 00:34:36,658 --> 00:34:38,201 "and then he's going to Bangladesh." You know? 804 00:34:38,285 --> 00:34:39,703 We're having a quite normal relationship. 805 00:34:39,786 --> 00:34:41,162 And you know what each other is up to. 806 00:34:41,246 --> 00:34:43,039 But musically, we're, we're... musically we feel as though 807 00:34:43,123 --> 00:34:44,583 we can express ourselves better as individuals, 808 00:34:44,666 --> 00:34:46,376 that's all, you know? And it came to a head. 809 00:34:46,459 --> 00:34:48,295 And we're all friends, you know? 810 00:34:48,378 --> 00:34:49,462 But we just... you never know 811 00:34:49,546 --> 00:34:50,964 what's gonna happen in the future, but, uh... 812 00:34:51,047 --> 00:34:52,632 When you were with the Beatles, 813 00:34:52,716 --> 00:34:54,426 you... you didn't express yourself 814 00:34:54,509 --> 00:34:55,510 politically at all, did you? 815 00:34:55,594 --> 00:34:58,013 Well, let's say, uh, it was a slow development. 816 00:34:58,096 --> 00:35:02,100 But, uh, on our first tour, there was a... 817 00:35:02,183 --> 00:35:04,978 a sort of unspoken thing that, uh, Mr. Epstein 818 00:35:05,061 --> 00:35:07,355 was preventing us talking about the Vietnam War. 819 00:35:07,439 --> 00:35:10,775 And, um, before we came back the second time to America, 820 00:35:10,859 --> 00:35:11,860 George and I said to him, 821 00:35:11,901 --> 00:35:13,403 "We don't go unless we answer that question, 822 00:35:13,486 --> 00:35:14,487 what we feel about the war." 823 00:35:14,571 --> 00:35:15,864 'Cause you were being asked about it. 824 00:35:15,947 --> 00:35:17,490 Because we were being asked about it all the time. 825 00:35:17,574 --> 00:35:18,992 It was just silly, and we had to pretend 826 00:35:19,075 --> 00:35:20,702 to be like, you know, in the old days when artists 827 00:35:20,785 --> 00:35:22,329 weren't meant to say anything about anything. 828 00:35:22,412 --> 00:35:25,040 But we spoke our minds after that, you know? 829 00:35:25,123 --> 00:35:26,875 And also, the Beatles were really 830 00:35:26,958 --> 00:35:28,418 a social event, you know? 831 00:35:28,501 --> 00:35:29,377 It was a fantastic thing 832 00:35:29,419 --> 00:35:30,920 that we changed the society in a way. 833 00:35:31,004 --> 00:35:32,505 In that sense it was political, I think. 834 00:35:32,589 --> 00:35:34,090 I think something like that comes along 835 00:35:34,174 --> 00:35:36,134 once about every 20 or 30 years. 836 00:35:36,217 --> 00:35:37,218 Well, I thought it was 10, 837 00:35:37,260 --> 00:35:39,304 because there was 10 years between us and Elvis. 838 00:35:39,387 --> 00:35:41,181 And there's 10 between him and Johnnie Ray. 839 00:35:41,264 --> 00:35:42,766 I'm not doing... saying anything demeaning 840 00:35:42,849 --> 00:35:44,059 - about El... Elvis, but... - Yeah. 841 00:35:44,142 --> 00:35:45,769 But, I don't... I haven't seen anything 842 00:35:45,852 --> 00:35:47,646 as big as the Beatles. I mean... 843 00:35:47,729 --> 00:35:48,730 Well, I don't know. 844 00:35:48,772 --> 00:35:50,023 Well, maybe I'm still an Elvis fan. 845 00:35:50,106 --> 00:35:52,984 I think he's pretty damn big, you know? 846 00:35:53,068 --> 00:35:54,110 - Yes. - I suppose the Beatles 847 00:35:54,194 --> 00:35:55,862 - are like that in a way, too. - And he has surprised 848 00:35:55,945 --> 00:35:57,572 everyone because I remember when he happened, uh, 849 00:35:57,656 --> 00:36:00,075 all the critics were saying it would be an overnight thing, 850 00:36:00,158 --> 00:36:01,826 that in a year, nobody would ever hear of him. 851 00:36:01,910 --> 00:36:03,370 And he's certainly fooled a lot of people. 852 00:36:03,453 --> 00:36:05,038 You know, the reviews of our second record 853 00:36:05,121 --> 00:36:06,039 was below par Beatles. 854 00:36:06,081 --> 00:36:07,707 This was in England before we'd even made it here. 855 00:36:07,791 --> 00:36:10,085 They were already saying, you're on your way out. 856 00:36:10,168 --> 00:36:11,294 This is on our second record. 857 00:36:11,378 --> 00:36:15,340 So, I mean, any... they've been saying rock and roll was dead 858 00:36:15,423 --> 00:36:17,384 since it began. You know? It'll never die. 859 00:36:17,467 --> 00:36:19,427 Like jazz, it's like the people who said jazz 860 00:36:19,511 --> 00:36:21,221 is immoral, or jazz is dead. 861 00:36:21,304 --> 00:36:23,390 You know, that it's a... it's a certain form of music 862 00:36:23,473 --> 00:36:24,516 that'll go on and on forever. 863 00:36:24,599 --> 00:36:26,267 - I don't see any reason... - Is it fair to say, 864 00:36:26,351 --> 00:36:27,811 John, that you have become very political 865 00:36:27,894 --> 00:36:29,187 and even radical in your thinking? 866 00:36:29,270 --> 00:36:31,314 - Is that your next question? - Well, I don't know, Mike. 867 00:36:31,398 --> 00:36:32,232 Yes, it is. 868 00:36:32,273 --> 00:36:33,733 How do you expect me to remember all that? 869 00:36:33,817 --> 00:36:35,443 - I've got to write it down. - I just want... 870 00:36:35,527 --> 00:36:36,528 No, but see the thing is, 871 00:36:36,569 --> 00:36:37,946 because the world's, uh, you know, be... 872 00:36:38,029 --> 00:36:39,072 become a bit more mature too, 873 00:36:39,155 --> 00:36:42,283 but we were interested in, um, you know, the aspect 874 00:36:42,367 --> 00:36:45,161 of say female liberation, things like that, 875 00:36:45,245 --> 00:36:47,789 that people are not too interested in the times, 876 00:36:47,872 --> 00:36:49,499 in the days of Beatles, let's say, you know? 877 00:36:49,582 --> 00:36:51,376 - And we are grateful so... - Also it was a develop... 878 00:36:51,459 --> 00:36:53,044 - a personal development. - It's a development. 879 00:36:53,128 --> 00:36:55,505 I mean, I was 20... let's say I was 25 or something, 880 00:36:55,588 --> 00:36:57,257 and we were busy in our own lives, 881 00:36:57,340 --> 00:36:58,800 'cause it's a lot of pressure that we have... 882 00:36:58,883 --> 00:37:01,720 hardly had to time to think, never mind be political. 883 00:37:01,803 --> 00:37:04,180 But we were conscious of our connection with youth 884 00:37:04,264 --> 00:37:08,852 and the fact that we were changing people's hairstyles 885 00:37:08,935 --> 00:37:09,811 and their dress styles. 886 00:37:09,853 --> 00:37:13,022 And that was the revolution we were into at the time. 887 00:37:13,106 --> 00:37:14,816 You're responsible for bringing 888 00:37:14,899 --> 00:37:15,859 these two people to us, 889 00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:18,111 so why don't you handle their first introduction 890 00:37:18,194 --> 00:37:19,654 to nationwide television? 891 00:37:19,738 --> 00:37:21,114 Chris and Joanna, 892 00:37:21,197 --> 00:37:22,365 and, uh, beautiful singers 893 00:37:22,449 --> 00:37:23,700 and, uh, they have a story to tell, 894 00:37:23,783 --> 00:37:25,452 and they're gonna come on now and do it. 895 00:37:25,535 --> 00:37:26,953 Here they are, Yellow Pearl. 896 00:37:27,746 --> 00:37:32,083 But the real story happened before this. 897 00:37:36,421 --> 00:37:38,548 That's what got us in trouble. 898 00:37:40,884 --> 00:37:45,388 Usually, people know very little about... 899 00:37:45,805 --> 00:37:46,598 Asians... 900 00:37:46,639 --> 00:37:48,933 and this is a song about our movement, 901 00:37:49,017 --> 00:37:52,353 about our people's plight in America. 902 00:38:33,353 --> 00:38:34,312 Chris ljima 903 00:38:34,354 --> 00:38:35,772 was a pretty exceptional person, 904 00:38:35,855 --> 00:38:36,898 both politically. 905 00:38:36,981 --> 00:38:39,901 He went to Columbia University, 906 00:38:39,984 --> 00:38:40,985 but he also loved music. 907 00:38:41,069 --> 00:38:46,449 I had never seen an Asian American sing like him 908 00:38:46,533 --> 00:38:47,700 or play like him. 909 00:39:07,971 --> 00:39:14,227 We had a long drive from New York to Philadelphia. 910 00:39:14,310 --> 00:39:15,311 John and Yoko were sitting 911 00:39:15,353 --> 00:39:16,563 in the front of the limousine... 912 00:39:16,646 --> 00:39:21,776 a very long stretch, with, uh, Jerry Rubin. 913 00:39:21,860 --> 00:39:24,779 And Chris and I in the backseat saying, 914 00:39:24,863 --> 00:39:27,866 we... we... 'cause we did... we did all this material 915 00:39:27,949 --> 00:39:28,700 all the time. 916 00:39:28,741 --> 00:39:29,784 So what are we going to sing? 917 00:39:29,868 --> 00:39:32,871 And we said, "Well, if we get one song to sing, 918 00:39:32,954 --> 00:39:35,582 we should sing 'We Are The Children, "' 919 00:39:35,665 --> 00:39:37,625 because that tells our story. 920 00:39:56,269 --> 00:39:56,853 Yeah. 921 00:39:56,895 --> 00:39:58,104 Of course, we were two hours late. 922 00:39:58,187 --> 00:40:01,482 There were people outside the theater gathered, 923 00:40:01,566 --> 00:40:03,735 waiting to see John Lennon. 924 00:40:03,818 --> 00:40:06,738 As soon as we get in there they wanted to see us, 925 00:40:06,821 --> 00:40:08,364 what we're going to do immediately. 926 00:40:08,448 --> 00:40:12,410 So we sang the song, very simply, uh, you... 927 00:40:12,493 --> 00:40:16,831 and we got to the part, "Watching war movies 928 00:40:16,915 --> 00:40:17,916 with a next-door neighbor." 929 00:40:20,919 --> 00:40:22,754 And boom, director comes up 930 00:40:22,837 --> 00:40:24,839 and says, "Excuse me. 931 00:40:24,923 --> 00:40:27,258 What other songs do you have to sing?" 932 00:40:27,342 --> 00:40:28,968 Chris and I look at each other. 933 00:40:29,052 --> 00:40:31,095 Uh, we're going to sing this one. 934 00:40:31,179 --> 00:40:36,100 "Well, well, you know there's a couple of lines in there 935 00:40:36,184 --> 00:40:38,853 that will upset the housewives 936 00:40:38,937 --> 00:40:39,938 of the Midwest." 937 00:40:39,979 --> 00:40:42,899 "Watching movies with a next-door neighbor, 938 00:40:42,982 --> 00:40:45,318 secretly... uh, rooting 939 00:40:45,401 --> 00:40:47,111 for the other side" 940 00:40:47,195 --> 00:40:49,072 seems subversive. 941 00:40:49,155 --> 00:40:52,116 And then, John Lennon 942 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:57,080 and, uh, comes up trying to mediate. 943 00:40:57,163 --> 00:40:59,040 And I'm thinking, would he change his words 944 00:40:59,123 --> 00:41:02,502 from strawberry to raspberry if somebody asked him to? 945 00:41:02,585 --> 00:41:05,630 And then the director again came at us and said, 946 00:41:05,713 --> 00:41:09,050 you know, "Well, what other songs can you sing?" 947 00:41:09,133 --> 00:41:11,386 I try to be accommodating myself 948 00:41:11,469 --> 00:41:14,263 and be a good Asian, I guess. 949 00:41:14,347 --> 00:41:15,223 H's my upbringing. 950 00:41:15,264 --> 00:41:18,601 But all of a sudden, I just... something took over me 951 00:41:18,685 --> 00:41:19,727 and I said, 952 00:41:19,811 --> 00:41:22,647 "You, you put us in concentration camps, 953 00:41:22,730 --> 00:41:26,401 and you're saying we can't sing this song?" 954 00:41:27,276 --> 00:41:30,571 And I turn around and I walk out 955 00:41:30,655 --> 00:41:31,489 towards the door. 956 00:41:31,531 --> 00:41:34,409 And the director comes running after me and says, 957 00:41:34,492 --> 00:41:36,035 "No, no, no, no. 958 00:41:36,119 --> 00:41:39,372 You can sing anything you want." 959 00:41:39,664 --> 00:41:41,541 And I'm like, "Oh." 960 00:41:41,624 --> 00:41:47,463 I still had my finger pointed at him, like, "Oh, my God. 961 00:41:48,339 --> 00:41:49,048 Did I do that?" 962 00:43:13,758 --> 00:43:14,967 That poor director 963 00:43:15,051 --> 00:43:16,052 on the "Mike Douglas Show," 964 00:43:16,135 --> 00:43:18,805 did he know what he was walking into? 965 00:43:18,888 --> 00:43:22,767 Well, he deserved it. 966 00:43:38,533 --> 00:43:40,827 If you didn't know that was John Lennon 967 00:43:40,910 --> 00:43:41,661 and Yoko, 968 00:43:41,702 --> 00:43:44,413 were you ever able to sort of get a bead on them 969 00:43:44,497 --> 00:43:45,706 as human beings? 970 00:43:45,790 --> 00:43:48,084 Yoko had a lot of confidence 971 00:43:48,167 --> 00:43:49,085 in what she was doing. 972 00:43:49,127 --> 00:43:52,255 She was a performance artist extraordinaire. 973 00:43:52,338 --> 00:43:53,840 And I think for John and Yoko, 974 00:43:53,923 --> 00:43:57,718 they were very aware also of this performance 975 00:43:57,802 --> 00:43:59,595 between the movement in a way 976 00:43:59,679 --> 00:44:03,808 and the greater audience that they were reaching. 977 00:44:03,891 --> 00:44:08,187 I didn't sense them in any way competitive. 978 00:44:08,271 --> 00:44:10,940 I felt that they were very appreciative 979 00:44:11,023 --> 00:44:12,817 of each other's questions. 980 00:44:12,900 --> 00:44:15,403 One of them is a superstar. 981 00:44:15,486 --> 00:44:19,824 The other is very important artist. 982 00:44:19,907 --> 00:44:23,452 And yet it was equals right away. 983 00:44:23,536 --> 00:44:24,537 They combine beautifully. 984 00:44:24,579 --> 00:44:27,248 It was like one plus one equals three. 985 00:44:27,331 --> 00:44:29,041 There was such a camaraderie 986 00:44:29,125 --> 00:44:30,793 between the two of them. 987 00:44:30,877 --> 00:44:33,337 And Yoko was Yoko, you know. 988 00:44:33,421 --> 00:44:35,464 She's gonna answer. She's gonna do her thing. 989 00:44:35,548 --> 00:44:39,051 But it was okay for him the way she was. 990 00:44:39,135 --> 00:44:42,638 Somebody asked her, where do you get your ideas? 991 00:44:42,722 --> 00:44:44,849 And she kind of laughed and said, 992 00:44:44,932 --> 00:44:48,394 "I... ideas just come." 993 00:44:48,603 --> 00:44:50,813 When have we really seen, 994 00:44:50,897 --> 00:44:51,981 you know, somebody like Yoko 995 00:44:52,064 --> 00:44:55,568 who's like very frank and outspoken 996 00:44:55,651 --> 00:44:57,778 be an equal? 997 00:44:58,487 --> 00:44:59,906 She was who she was. 998 00:44:59,989 --> 00:45:03,034 And she was an equal to a rock star. 999 00:46:08,266 --> 00:46:10,351 Here's a man that I know very little about, 1000 00:46:10,434 --> 00:46:13,896 other than what I have read in newspapers and magazines, 1001 00:46:13,980 --> 00:46:16,816 and what I've heard on television. 1002 00:46:16,899 --> 00:46:18,609 And, uh, quite honestly, 1003 00:46:18,693 --> 00:46:20,194 my feelings are quite negative. 1004 00:46:20,278 --> 00:46:21,487 One of the hardest thing 1005 00:46:21,570 --> 00:46:24,198 for Mike to handle and for the staff to handle, 1006 00:46:24,282 --> 00:46:25,157 the producers to handle, 1007 00:46:25,199 --> 00:46:26,742 was the presence of Jerry Rubin. 1008 00:46:26,826 --> 00:46:30,204 Jerry Rubin had a persona from the media 1009 00:46:30,288 --> 00:46:32,373 which was, uh, pretty wild, 1010 00:46:32,456 --> 00:46:33,457 and John actually talked 1011 00:46:33,541 --> 00:46:36,043 about himself being scared of Jerry. 1012 00:46:36,127 --> 00:46:39,714 Jerry Rubin had a very interesting approach 1013 00:46:39,797 --> 00:46:40,756 to politics. 1014 00:46:40,798 --> 00:46:44,260 A flair of theater really and of humor. 1015 00:46:44,343 --> 00:46:48,097 The Yippies, you know, this liberated White people 1016 00:46:48,180 --> 00:46:50,099 that were going to do magical things. 1017 00:46:50,182 --> 00:46:53,561 Well, Jerry Rubin was a confessed street fighter. 1018 00:46:53,644 --> 00:46:54,979 He believed in demonstrations 1019 00:46:55,062 --> 00:46:57,857 to get attention of the establishment, 1020 00:46:57,940 --> 00:47:00,359 to arouse the masses of the people. 1021 00:47:00,443 --> 00:47:03,612 And when he got invited on these national shows, 1022 00:47:03,696 --> 00:47:05,740 I'm sure that there is a lot of nervousness 1023 00:47:05,823 --> 00:47:08,951 as to whether he was going to disrupt the show. 1024 00:47:09,035 --> 00:47:11,704 Mike also felt pretty strongly 1025 00:47:11,787 --> 00:47:13,539 that Jerry had a lot of opinions 1026 00:47:13,622 --> 00:47:14,623 and a lot of things to say 1027 00:47:14,665 --> 00:47:17,418 that were not in Mike's best interest 1028 00:47:17,501 --> 00:47:18,502 in terms of his audience, 1029 00:47:18,544 --> 00:47:22,590 and so this was a moment of, uh, trepidation 1030 00:47:22,673 --> 00:47:24,008 for all parties. 1031 00:47:38,689 --> 00:47:42,234 What... what the... what is the new Jerry Rubin thinking 1032 00:47:42,318 --> 00:47:43,319 about these days? 1033 00:47:43,361 --> 00:47:44,278 I'm glad you asked that. 1034 00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:47,073 Uh, we're gonna support Nixon for President, 1035 00:47:47,156 --> 00:47:49,742 because, uh, by going to China, 1036 00:47:49,825 --> 00:47:52,036 he's furthering communist revolutions 1037 00:47:52,119 --> 00:47:53,037 throughout the world. 1038 00:47:53,079 --> 00:47:56,123 I can just imagine Roger Ailes watching the show 1039 00:47:56,207 --> 00:47:57,458 and hearing that. 1040 00:47:57,541 --> 00:48:00,211 I'm just kidding. I'm really just kidding. 1041 00:48:00,294 --> 00:48:01,170 I'm really just kidding. 1042 00:48:01,212 --> 00:48:02,797 What he's... what he's really done 1043 00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:04,465 is automate the war in Vietnam 1044 00:48:04,548 --> 00:48:07,426 so that it's machines killing people, 1045 00:48:07,510 --> 00:48:08,386 uh, created a situation 1046 00:48:08,427 --> 00:48:11,055 where 43 people can be murdered at Attica, 1047 00:48:11,138 --> 00:48:12,014 um, created a situation 1048 00:48:12,056 --> 00:48:14,642 where four kids can be killed at Kent State, 1049 00:48:14,725 --> 00:48:15,684 and people are afraid. 1050 00:48:15,726 --> 00:48:17,269 So, um, I'm working very hard 1051 00:48:17,353 --> 00:48:18,771 with people all over the country 1052 00:48:18,854 --> 00:48:19,563 to defeat Nixon. 1053 00:48:19,605 --> 00:48:20,940 I think that's the most important thing. 1054 00:48:21,023 --> 00:48:22,483 So you're not gonna vote for him, though? 1055 00:48:22,566 --> 00:48:23,859 No, no, not gonna vote for him at all. 1056 00:48:23,943 --> 00:48:25,361 What's different in you and the movement? Right? 1057 00:48:25,444 --> 00:48:27,822 Let's say people thought the movement had died, you know? 1058 00:48:27,905 --> 00:48:29,323 Yes. What is the movement? 1059 00:48:29,407 --> 00:48:31,575 What is... what... A, what is the movement, 1060 00:48:31,659 --> 00:48:32,493 and B, did it die, 1061 00:48:32,535 --> 00:48:35,871 and what are the differences in it now than four years ago? 1062 00:48:35,955 --> 00:48:37,665 - Can you explain that? - Wow, I need an hour! 1063 00:48:37,748 --> 00:48:39,375 Well, the movement is everybody I hope 1064 00:48:39,458 --> 00:48:40,501 watching television, you know? 1065 00:48:40,584 --> 00:48:41,877 It doesn't have any narrow definition. 1066 00:48:41,961 --> 00:48:43,254 Now the way the movement's changed, 1067 00:48:43,337 --> 00:48:47,842 is um, the rhetoric has gone calmer, 1068 00:48:47,925 --> 00:48:49,885 because their oppression is so heavy, 1069 00:48:49,969 --> 00:48:53,389 that anybody who does anything gets arrested, jailed, killed, 1070 00:48:53,472 --> 00:48:55,099 that people are like very pessimistic. 1071 00:48:55,182 --> 00:48:56,934 Wherever you go right now, there's tremendous pessimism. 1072 00:48:57,017 --> 00:48:58,269 You mean youth in general, 1073 00:48:58,352 --> 00:48:59,603 whether they're ranting or anything, 1074 00:48:59,687 --> 00:49:01,355 just youth in general, we noticed that amongst youth. 1075 00:49:01,439 --> 00:49:02,982 Just totally pessimistic. Like there was no hope. 1076 00:49:03,065 --> 00:49:04,150 Whether they're political youth 1077 00:49:04,233 --> 00:49:05,568 or just musical youth, 1078 00:49:05,651 --> 00:49:07,736 there seems to be such an atmosphere 1079 00:49:07,820 --> 00:49:08,737 of apathy around 'em. 1080 00:49:08,779 --> 00:49:10,948 This is the only place in the world, 1081 00:49:11,031 --> 00:49:11,740 if I may say so, 1082 00:49:11,782 --> 00:49:13,492 where a man can say something like this on television, 1083 00:49:13,576 --> 00:49:14,827 and not go... and not go to jail. 1084 00:49:14,910 --> 00:49:17,079 -And also I admit that your... - No, wait a minute. 1085 00:49:17,163 --> 00:49:18,789 I got five years in jail facing me 1086 00:49:18,873 --> 00:49:21,542 for saying things like this, so it's not so true. 1087 00:49:21,625 --> 00:49:24,712 I only hear you say what you are 1088 00:49:24,795 --> 00:49:25,671 against in this country. 1089 00:49:25,713 --> 00:49:27,214 What are you... what do you think this count... 1090 00:49:27,298 --> 00:49:30,384 what do you think is right about this country? 1091 00:49:30,468 --> 00:49:31,719 I think what's right is the fact 1092 00:49:31,802 --> 00:49:33,053 that there are people in the country 1093 00:49:33,137 --> 00:49:34,805 who want to change it. 1094 00:49:34,889 --> 00:49:37,349 What was your home life like? 1095 00:49:37,433 --> 00:49:38,434 Well, it was... 1096 00:49:38,517 --> 00:49:40,019 Now, this is a very interesting moment 1097 00:49:40,102 --> 00:49:43,189 because Mike asked a very honest question 1098 00:49:43,272 --> 00:49:44,273 and was trying to find out 1099 00:49:44,315 --> 00:49:46,609 about Jerry's background, his upbringing. 1100 00:49:46,692 --> 00:49:48,486 Hey, I'm not going for laughter here. 1101 00:49:48,569 --> 00:49:49,570 No, it's a good question. 1102 00:49:49,612 --> 00:49:51,113 It's... I read that in a magazine. 1103 00:49:51,197 --> 00:49:52,865 Uh, my father's a truck driver. 1104 00:49:52,948 --> 00:49:55,826 Um, and a Teamster and, uh, oppressed, 1105 00:49:55,910 --> 00:49:58,078 because he worked like all around the clock 1106 00:49:58,162 --> 00:49:59,079 for very little money. 1107 00:49:59,121 --> 00:50:02,249 My mother was, uh, unhappy as a housewife, you know. 1108 00:50:02,333 --> 00:50:06,170 And, you know, and that's what I learned. 1109 00:50:06,253 --> 00:50:07,254 I saw it and was a child, 1110 00:50:07,296 --> 00:50:09,256 and I was forced to go to school, which is boring, 1111 00:50:09,340 --> 00:50:11,717 and which doesn't really educate you. 1112 00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:13,636 And, uh, that's where the rebellion began. 1113 00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:17,389 Mm-hmm. And your parents are no longer alive? 1114 00:50:17,473 --> 00:50:18,849 No. 1115 00:50:18,933 --> 00:50:22,353 And, you know, I think that the system killed my parents, 1116 00:50:22,436 --> 00:50:24,647 just like I think it killed all of us. 1117 00:50:24,730 --> 00:50:26,273 But he's talking about the system, 1118 00:50:26,357 --> 00:50:27,983 and he's not talking about the people. 1119 00:50:28,067 --> 00:50:29,568 You have trust in people, don't you? 1120 00:50:29,652 --> 00:50:30,861 Oh, yeah. I wouldn't be doing this 1121 00:50:30,945 --> 00:50:32,154 if I didn't have trust, you know? 1122 00:50:32,238 --> 00:50:33,280 And you really do love people. 1123 00:50:33,364 --> 00:50:34,907 I mean, the reason for you to come on the show 1124 00:50:34,990 --> 00:50:36,325 that you know it's going on at 4:30 1125 00:50:36,408 --> 00:50:39,370 and is not an audience that is geared to see you. 1126 00:50:39,453 --> 00:50:41,372 Is there a reason for me to believe 1127 00:50:41,455 --> 00:50:42,498 that you have trust in enough 1128 00:50:42,581 --> 00:50:43,958 of those people that are gonna watch you? 1129 00:50:44,041 --> 00:50:45,417 - Absolutely, yeah. - Yes. 1130 00:50:45,501 --> 00:50:46,961 - As well as... -And change, you know. 1131 00:50:47,044 --> 00:50:48,629 The so-called movement and so called youth? 1132 00:50:48,712 --> 00:50:49,922 I have... we have a tremendous faith 1133 00:50:50,005 --> 00:50:51,507 in the people in this country. 1134 00:50:51,590 --> 00:50:52,466 But no age group. 1135 00:50:52,508 --> 00:50:54,176 I think this is a beautiful country, 1136 00:50:54,260 --> 00:50:55,761 with full of possibilities, you know? 1137 00:50:55,844 --> 00:50:58,597 The children of America want to change the country, 1138 00:50:58,681 --> 00:50:59,890 and are going to change it. 1139 00:50:59,974 --> 00:51:00,849 That's what's beautiful. 1140 00:51:00,891 --> 00:51:03,185 You know, that there is a future. 1141 00:51:04,436 --> 00:51:06,605 We are completely out of time. 1142 00:51:06,689 --> 00:51:07,773 Thank you, John. Thank you, Yoko. 1143 00:51:07,856 --> 00:51:09,775 Thank you, Jerry. See you tomorrow. 1144 00:51:14,196 --> 00:51:16,448 The Georgia legislature, Governor Jimmy Carter 1145 00:51:16,532 --> 00:51:18,951 had some praise for Alabama Governor Wallace. 1146 00:51:19,034 --> 00:51:20,828 Carter's statement overshadowed. 1147 00:51:20,911 --> 00:51:22,830 Wallace's standard campaign speech, 1148 00:51:22,913 --> 00:51:27,376 which was interrupted repeatedly by applause. 1149 00:51:27,710 --> 00:51:29,044 Hey, Mr. President. 1150 00:51:29,128 --> 00:51:30,170 The shouts came 1151 00:51:30,254 --> 00:51:31,714 from Lieutenant Governor Lester Maddox, 1152 00:51:31,797 --> 00:51:33,340 who told the standing-room-only crowd 1153 00:51:33,424 --> 00:51:37,720 that George Wallace could be elected president. 1154 00:51:38,345 --> 00:51:40,306 So welcome please, John Lennon 1155 00:51:40,389 --> 00:51:42,099 and his wife, Yoko Ono. 1156 00:51:59,033 --> 00:52:00,701 Hey. 1157 00:52:00,784 --> 00:52:04,747 Are you going to tell them what the song is about? 1158 00:52:04,830 --> 00:52:06,206 Okay- 1159 00:52:06,290 --> 00:52:08,167 Today's my... today's my turn 1160 00:52:08,250 --> 00:52:10,836 - and, um... - Today's her turn to sing. 1161 00:52:10,919 --> 00:52:11,629 Yes, right. 1162 00:52:11,670 --> 00:52:13,631 - And it's a song that... - With the mic, please. 1163 00:52:13,714 --> 00:52:18,344 It's a song that I dedicate to the sisters in the world 1164 00:52:18,427 --> 00:52:20,137 called "O Sisters, O Sisters." 1165 00:52:20,220 --> 00:52:22,556 Some people thought she was singing about nuns, 1166 00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:24,016 but it's not about nuns. 1167 00:54:25,846 --> 00:54:28,182 So one of the things we did with the co-hosts 1168 00:54:28,265 --> 00:54:29,808 on the "Mike Douglas Show" was ask them 1169 00:54:29,892 --> 00:54:32,561 to give us a list of people they'd like to meet. 1170 00:54:32,644 --> 00:54:34,021 John and Yoko obviously had 1171 00:54:34,104 --> 00:54:35,355 a very strong political agenda, 1172 00:54:35,439 --> 00:54:39,276 but John also had some musicians he wanted to meet, 1173 00:54:39,359 --> 00:54:42,070 and at the top of that list was Chuck Berry. 1174 00:54:42,154 --> 00:54:45,949 On the day of the show, the taping of the show, 1175 00:54:46,033 --> 00:54:48,368 I just by total random chance 1176 00:54:48,452 --> 00:54:50,746 happened to be in the green room 1177 00:54:50,829 --> 00:54:53,582 when John and Chuck encountered each other 1178 00:54:53,665 --> 00:54:54,541 for the first time. 1179 00:54:54,583 --> 00:54:57,586 It was a very powerful moment to watch. 1180 00:54:57,669 --> 00:55:00,255 I think it's interesting that you... that you chose... 1181 00:55:00,339 --> 00:55:02,174 chosen the guests that you have this week 1182 00:55:02,257 --> 00:55:03,091 to be on the show. 1183 00:55:03,383 --> 00:55:05,177 And I wish we could have photographed 1184 00:55:05,219 --> 00:55:07,179 the meeting between John and Chuck Berry. 1185 00:55:07,262 --> 00:55:08,722 - Oh, yeah. - Oh, that was beautiful. Yes. 1186 00:55:08,806 --> 00:55:10,307 Because he was really the guy that started 1187 00:55:10,390 --> 00:55:11,642 - the whole thing... - Oh, yeah. 1188 00:55:11,725 --> 00:55:12,142 The whole rock and roll thing. 1189 00:55:12,184 --> 00:55:13,477 I mean, I don't think there's any-there's any group 1190 00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:16,146 in the world, uh, White or Black, 1191 00:55:16,188 --> 00:55:18,440 but mainly the white kids were really turned on 1192 00:55:18,524 --> 00:55:19,525 by Chuck Berry, you know? 1193 00:55:19,566 --> 00:55:21,985 And, uh, he was putting out great records in the '50s. 1194 00:55:22,069 --> 00:55:24,488 And not one of us from Beatles to Stones to... 1195 00:55:24,571 --> 00:55:25,489 you name any top group 1196 00:55:25,531 --> 00:55:26,949 and they've all been influenced by him, 1197 00:55:27,032 --> 00:55:28,283 all done his numbers on records. 1198 00:55:28,367 --> 00:55:29,910 There was one of his records right then. 1199 00:55:29,993 --> 00:55:31,328 Yeah. That... that was him escaping now. 1200 00:55:31,411 --> 00:55:31,954 Yes. 1201 00:55:31,995 --> 00:55:33,247 - He was - - And he's fantastic. 1202 00:55:33,330 --> 00:55:34,665 When we met today, I hadn't met him. 1203 00:55:34,748 --> 00:55:35,958 George and Ringo met him at some showbiz party 1204 00:55:35,958 --> 00:55:37,459 a long time ago in London. I'd never met him. 1205 00:55:37,501 --> 00:55:39,127 Today, he walked in the door. 1206 00:55:39,211 --> 00:55:40,128 And I just, you know... 1207 00:55:40,170 --> 00:55:41,588 - Yeah. - I went, "Chuck Berry," 1208 00:55:41,630 --> 00:55:43,006 "my hero." It just came out, you know? 1209 00:55:43,048 --> 00:55:43,465 That's marvelous. 1210 00:55:43,507 --> 00:55:44,800 And he just gets over and he hugs me. 1211 00:55:44,842 --> 00:55:46,093 I was really thrilled, you know? 1212 00:55:46,093 --> 00:55:47,511 - And we were playing... - He's so together. 1213 00:55:47,553 --> 00:55:48,720 In the back there playing the dressing room. 1214 00:55:48,720 --> 00:55:49,888 He just grabbed me backstage, says, "I hope" 1215 00:55:49,930 --> 00:55:50,848 we have a... "he said, "Boy, John Lennon. 1216 00:55:50,848 --> 00:55:51,932 "I hope we have a chance to rap." 1217 00:55:51,974 --> 00:55:53,308 He's the greatest rock and roll poet. 1218 00:55:53,350 --> 00:55:54,560 And I really admire him, you know? 1219 00:55:54,852 --> 00:55:56,937 Do you feel the same today as you did 1220 00:55:56,979 --> 00:55:58,230 years ago in Liverpool 1221 00:55:58,313 --> 00:55:59,523 - about rock? - When I... 1222 00:55:59,565 --> 00:56:00,399 when I hear rock, 1223 00:56:00,858 --> 00:56:02,985 good rock of the caliber of Chuck Berry, 1224 00:56:03,443 --> 00:56:04,736 I just-I just fall apart 1225 00:56:04,862 --> 00:56:06,363 and I have no other interest in life. 1226 00:56:06,405 --> 00:56:07,739 You know? The world could be ending 1227 00:56:08,031 --> 00:56:09,992 if rock and roll is playing. You know? 1228 00:56:10,075 --> 00:56:10,951 It's a disease of mine. 1229 00:56:10,993 --> 00:56:12,619 In the... in the days when he was writing 1230 00:56:12,703 --> 00:56:13,620 and doing those songs, 1231 00:56:13,662 --> 00:56:14,872 those songs didn't have messages. 1232 00:56:14,955 --> 00:56:16,456 - The me... the lyrics were... - But his lyrics 1233 00:56:16,540 --> 00:56:18,584 were very intelligent lyrics in the '50s. 1234 00:56:18,667 --> 00:56:21,587 When people were just singing virtually about nothing, 1235 00:56:21,670 --> 00:56:23,463 he was writing social comment songs. 1236 00:56:23,547 --> 00:56:25,215 He was writing all kinds of songs 1237 00:56:25,299 --> 00:56:26,675 with incredible meter to the lyrics, 1238 00:56:26,758 --> 00:56:29,636 which influenced Dylan and me and many other people. 1239 00:56:29,720 --> 00:56:31,096 The meter of his lyrics was tremendous 1240 00:56:31,179 --> 00:56:32,598 - and that was in '50s. - Do all the songs... 1241 00:56:32,681 --> 00:56:33,807 do all the songs that you write 1242 00:56:33,891 --> 00:56:36,018 or have written in the past, John, have a message? 1243 00:56:36,435 --> 00:56:37,269 Well I think, uh... 1244 00:56:37,603 --> 00:56:38,854 Well it has a spirit, every one. 1245 00:56:38,937 --> 00:56:40,397 In that way, every song will have a message. 1246 00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:41,815 You know? I don't sit down and say, 1247 00:56:41,899 --> 00:56:43,233 "What's today's message?" You know? 1248 00:56:43,317 --> 00:56:44,735 I'm either writing about something that happened, 1249 00:56:44,818 --> 00:56:48,614 uh, you know... I, I'm either writing about what's going on 1250 00:56:48,697 --> 00:56:51,074 in the world or what's happening to me, basically. 1251 00:56:52,492 --> 00:56:54,453 If you were try... to try and give rock and roll 1252 00:56:54,536 --> 00:56:56,580 another name, you might call it Chuck Berry. 1253 00:56:56,663 --> 00:56:58,123 - Right. - Here he is, 1254 00:56:58,206 --> 00:57:01,043 - Chuck Berry. 1255 00:59:00,412 --> 00:59:01,413 - Hello, John! - Hello! 1256 01:00:11,733 --> 01:00:13,985 I nearly got the words... words right, right? 1257 01:00:14,069 --> 01:00:16,905 Did you really invent r0... you invented rock and roll, 1258 01:00:16,988 --> 01:00:18,365 - didn't you? - Well, I say, 1259 01:00:18,448 --> 01:00:19,324 I'll answer for him. 1260 01:00:19,366 --> 01:00:20,742 He did. You're one of the all-time greats. 1261 01:00:20,826 --> 01:00:23,370 I've heard more people, before I ever met you, Chuck, 1262 01:00:23,453 --> 01:00:25,997 I... your, you know, your reputation precedes you 1263 01:00:26,081 --> 01:00:27,624 - wherever you are. - You know, rock and roll, 1264 01:00:27,707 --> 01:00:29,960 you mentioned rock and roll, it's named rock and roll. 1265 01:00:30,043 --> 01:00:33,463 But gee, some of our ancestors, 1266 01:00:33,547 --> 01:00:34,589 some of the people before me, 1267 01:00:34,673 --> 01:00:37,259 the people that, uh, intrigued me with music 1268 01:00:37,342 --> 01:00:40,720 were Louis Jordan and T-Bone Walker, 1269 01:00:40,804 --> 01:00:42,681 and, uh, Freddie Slack, 1270 01:00:42,764 --> 01:00:44,933 these people that I heard, Glenn Miller, 1271 01:00:45,016 --> 01:00:48,937 uh, I should never forget the beats that they had in. 1272 01:00:49,020 --> 01:00:50,480 - You know? And the big bands. - Yeah. 1273 01:00:50,564 --> 01:00:52,941 And they're the ones that really put 1274 01:00:53,024 --> 01:00:54,025 the spirit here. You know? 1275 01:00:54,067 --> 01:00:55,694 You made some record with big bands, right? 1276 01:00:55,777 --> 01:00:57,362 - One. 1277 01:00:57,445 --> 01:00:59,739 - Yeah. 1278 01:00:59,823 --> 01:01:02,242 John said your music had a message. 1279 01:01:02,325 --> 01:01:04,452 - Do you think it did? - It is a message. 1280 01:01:04,536 --> 01:01:05,745 I really try to make a message. 1281 01:01:05,829 --> 01:01:09,666 I really, I can't sing a song, "Oh, baby, oh, oh baby. 1282 01:01:09,749 --> 01:01:10,417 Don't go. 1283 01:01:10,458 --> 01:01:12,502 Don't go because you know I love you so." 1284 01:01:12,586 --> 01:01:14,671 I mean, that's understood. You know? 1285 01:01:14,754 --> 01:01:17,924 But he was writing good lyrics and intelligent lyrics 1286 01:01:18,008 --> 01:01:20,093 in the '50s when people were singing, 1287 01:01:20,177 --> 01:01:21,178 "Oh, baby, I love you so." 1288 01:01:21,219 --> 01:01:23,054 And it was people like him that influenced 1289 01:01:23,138 --> 01:01:24,681 our generation to try and make sense 1290 01:01:24,764 --> 01:01:26,558 out of the songs rather than just say, 1291 01:01:26,641 --> 01:01:27,642 "Doo wah daddy." You know? 1292 01:01:27,684 --> 01:01:29,060 You know something that occurred to me? 1293 01:01:29,144 --> 01:01:30,270 When, whenever I see you, 1294 01:01:30,353 --> 01:01:33,148 you're one of the few people who can go away 1295 01:01:33,231 --> 01:01:34,441 from a recording studio 1296 01:01:34,524 --> 01:01:35,942 and do your thing and it sounds 1297 01:01:36,026 --> 01:01:38,612 at least remotely like what you recorded. 1298 01:01:38,695 --> 01:01:39,613 Some of these groups, 1299 01:01:39,654 --> 01:01:42,073 they get out of the studios with all the gadgets 1300 01:01:42,157 --> 01:01:43,950 and all the things happening 1301 01:01:44,034 --> 01:01:44,743 and they can't... 1302 01:01:44,784 --> 01:01:46,745 they can't make that sound again and without... 1303 01:01:46,828 --> 01:01:47,871 Mike, since you mentioned it... 1304 01:01:47,954 --> 01:01:49,372 the age of a recording studio. 1305 01:01:49,456 --> 01:01:50,916 I would much rather perform, 1306 01:01:50,999 --> 01:01:55,462 um, live than... I'd rather perform live 10 times 1307 01:01:55,545 --> 01:01:56,463 than make a recording. 1308 01:01:56,504 --> 01:02:00,133 Because somehow, playing to a wall or playing to a mic, 1309 01:02:00,217 --> 01:02:02,886 and that's all, is, uh, it's fictitious. 1310 01:02:02,969 --> 01:02:05,263 - You know? It's not real. - You're a people lover. 1311 01:02:05,347 --> 01:02:06,431 - That's what. 1312 01:02:06,514 --> 01:02:07,891 - You better believe it. - You got to hear 1313 01:02:07,974 --> 01:02:09,267 that breathing and see those faces. 1314 01:02:09,351 --> 01:02:11,311 To look in somebody's eyes and see them bright 1315 01:02:11,394 --> 01:02:14,022 when, uh, when you're striking a note or something, 1316 01:02:14,105 --> 01:02:15,899 it just calls for another note. You know? 1317 01:02:15,982 --> 01:02:18,109 Don't ever play the same or do something different. 1318 01:02:18,193 --> 01:02:19,736 You know? If you can't do something different 1319 01:02:19,819 --> 01:02:21,238 wiggle or something. Don't do the same thing. 1320 01:02:21,321 --> 01:02:22,781 - You know? Keep it different. - I don't... 1321 01:02:22,864 --> 01:02:24,491 I don't know if the viewers out there realize this, 1322 01:02:24,574 --> 01:02:26,618 but this is a first, Chuck Berry 1323 01:02:26,701 --> 01:02:28,203 and John Lennon appearing together. 1324 01:02:28,286 --> 01:02:29,663 In fact, they met only this afternoon. 1325 01:02:29,746 --> 01:02:31,331 - You know, I can never hit... - This is a first 1326 01:02:31,414 --> 01:02:32,749 - on television. - I can never shake 1327 01:02:32,832 --> 01:02:34,626 - this guy's hand. 1328 01:02:34,709 --> 01:02:37,587 Chuck Berry! John Lennon and Yoko Ono! 1329 01:02:37,671 --> 01:02:39,172 We'll be right back! 1330 01:02:45,804 --> 01:02:48,974 When I got the call and heard 1331 01:02:49,057 --> 01:02:50,976 that they were going to do this, 1332 01:02:51,059 --> 01:02:53,353 it blew my mind 1333 01:02:53,436 --> 01:02:59,401 because Mike Douglas was an afternoon show 1334 01:02:59,484 --> 01:03:00,402 that was bland. 1335 01:03:00,443 --> 01:03:02,904 Yoko, you mentioned you wanted to have someone on the show 1336 01:03:02,988 --> 01:03:04,948 to talk about macrobiotic, uh, foods. 1337 01:03:05,031 --> 01:03:07,117 And so, my next guest will do just that. 1338 01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:09,369 In fact, she's even going to demonstrate 1339 01:03:09,452 --> 01:03:12,872 how to make a macrobiotic dish. 1340 01:03:12,956 --> 01:03:16,543 Greet Hilary Redleaf. 1341 01:03:19,212 --> 01:03:21,006 Oh, here's the moment. 1342 01:03:21,089 --> 01:03:27,012 Sweet John, he even rises from his seat, as does Chuck. 1343 01:03:27,804 --> 01:03:30,348 What is uh, a macrobiotic diet? 1344 01:03:30,432 --> 01:03:33,101 Well, it's a different way of looking at food. 1345 01:03:33,184 --> 01:03:35,270 It's not with vitamins and minerals. 1346 01:03:35,353 --> 01:03:37,564 It's a way of balancing one's food 1347 01:03:37,647 --> 01:03:38,898 with one's environment. 1348 01:03:38,982 --> 01:03:41,151 Frankly, I was nervous. 1349 01:03:41,234 --> 01:03:42,777 I was clinging to... 1350 01:03:42,861 --> 01:03:45,572 just be here. 1351 01:03:45,655 --> 01:03:46,573 This is gonna be fine. 1352 01:03:46,614 --> 01:03:48,158 And how did the whole thing start originally? 1353 01:03:48,241 --> 01:03:51,286 Well, all countries have macrobiotic diets. 1354 01:03:51,369 --> 01:03:53,455 In our industrialized society, 1355 01:03:53,538 --> 01:03:55,332 we have frozen everything, 1356 01:03:55,415 --> 01:03:56,833 - flown everything to us. - Yeah. 1357 01:03:56,916 --> 01:03:59,377 And native cultures eat what's around them. 1358 01:03:59,461 --> 01:04:00,545 And when it's cold in the winter, 1359 01:04:00,628 --> 01:04:02,630 they eat what they have to keep them warm. 1360 01:04:02,714 --> 01:04:04,966 They don't eat, uh, you know, ice water 1361 01:04:05,050 --> 01:04:06,468 because they don't have freezers. 1362 01:04:06,551 --> 01:04:07,594 You know? In the winter and... 1363 01:04:07,677 --> 01:04:09,012 Everything's natural, you know. 1364 01:04:09,095 --> 01:04:11,639 Naturally in warm, um, climate, 1365 01:04:11,723 --> 01:04:13,099 you need more sugar. You know? 1366 01:04:13,183 --> 01:04:14,809 -And so... - Natural sugar. 1367 01:04:14,893 --> 01:04:16,019 The, the nature is naturally, 1368 01:04:16,102 --> 01:04:17,854 you know, it's sort of balancing it. 1369 01:04:17,937 --> 01:04:19,230 'Cause nature makes a balance. 1370 01:04:19,314 --> 01:04:20,190 The seasons change. 1371 01:04:20,231 --> 01:04:22,275 And if we can concentrate and make an effort 1372 01:04:22,359 --> 01:04:25,070 in our cooking, we can balance ourselves 1373 01:04:25,153 --> 01:04:25,945 with the seasons 1374 01:04:25,987 --> 01:04:27,989 and with the environment around us 1375 01:04:28,073 --> 01:04:30,617 and make harmony with nature 1376 01:04:30,700 --> 01:04:31,868 and, and have peace. 1377 01:04:31,951 --> 01:04:34,746 You know, farm to table, 1378 01:04:34,829 --> 01:04:36,915 you know, organic food. 1379 01:04:36,998 --> 01:04:42,253 I mean, in 1972, this was very far out. 1380 01:04:42,337 --> 01:04:43,671 - May I call you Hilary? - Please. 1381 01:04:43,755 --> 01:04:45,006 Can we go over here? I understand 1382 01:04:45,090 --> 01:04:46,132 we're gonna prepare something. 1383 01:04:46,216 --> 01:04:47,342 - Yes. - And why don't we all... 1384 01:04:47,425 --> 01:04:48,718 Shall we all go in the kitchen? 1385 01:04:48,802 --> 01:04:50,303 So, we finally get over to this part 1386 01:04:50,387 --> 01:04:52,597 and I don't even know how I knew 1387 01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:54,516 how to do this, to be honest. 1388 01:04:54,599 --> 01:04:55,850 You can share mine. 1389 01:04:55,934 --> 01:04:56,810 You have to have it. 1390 01:04:56,851 --> 01:04:58,395 We don't have much to... what are we going to make? 1391 01:04:58,478 --> 01:05:01,106 We're going to make something called Hijiki egg roll. 1392 01:05:01,189 --> 01:05:03,400 - A what? - Hijiki egg roll. 1393 01:05:03,483 --> 01:05:04,192 Hijiki egg roll. 1394 01:05:04,234 --> 01:05:06,986 We have to have a calm, peaceful, loving attitude 1395 01:05:07,070 --> 01:05:08,071 about this, or else the food 1396 01:05:08,154 --> 01:05:09,697 - is gonna be very chaotic. - Oh, Joe... 1397 01:05:09,781 --> 01:05:11,491 Joe, we have to have a calm, peaceful, loving attitude. 1398 01:05:11,574 --> 01:05:13,076 Can you play something that's calm and peaceful? 1399 01:05:13,159 --> 01:05:15,370 Because... that's part of the vibration in the food, 1400 01:05:15,453 --> 01:05:17,914 because if you have to make something, 1401 01:05:17,997 --> 01:05:20,708 the cook's intention and concentrated effort 1402 01:05:20,792 --> 01:05:21,793 goes into the final product. 1403 01:05:21,876 --> 01:05:23,294 - So with that in mind... - No, you're right 1404 01:05:23,378 --> 01:05:24,671 - about that. - Is that seaweed 1405 01:05:24,754 --> 01:05:26,172 - that I'm looking at? - This is seaweed. 1406 01:05:26,256 --> 01:05:27,173 This is called hijiki. 1407 01:05:27,215 --> 01:05:29,008 And this is the first ingredient. 1408 01:05:29,092 --> 01:05:32,220 And we soak it in water until it looks like this. 1409 01:05:32,303 --> 01:05:33,304 It kind of puffs up a lot. 1410 01:05:33,388 --> 01:05:36,182 Then we have carrots and we try to maintain 1411 01:05:36,266 --> 01:05:38,351 the balance that nature creates. 1412 01:05:38,435 --> 01:05:39,769 And as you see, some are cut. 1413 01:05:39,853 --> 01:05:42,689 Okay. Now, Mike is gonna help me cut onions. 1414 01:05:42,772 --> 01:05:44,274 - Is he? 1415 01:05:44,357 --> 01:05:45,817 He was eating them today, right? 1416 01:05:45,900 --> 01:05:46,901 - Yeah. - Okay. 1417 01:05:46,943 --> 01:05:48,153 Why do I always get the onion? 1418 01:05:48,236 --> 01:05:51,072 John was definitely... he was beautiful. 1419 01:05:51,156 --> 01:05:53,116 He was really interested in it. 1420 01:05:53,199 --> 01:05:53,867 Yoko, too. 1421 01:05:53,908 --> 01:05:55,577 Chuck was like along for the ride. 1422 01:05:55,660 --> 01:05:56,953 What's John making? He have to - 1423 01:05:57,036 --> 01:05:58,455 After she's finished, you're gonna... 1424 01:05:58,538 --> 01:05:59,747 you're gonna fry them up. 1425 01:05:59,831 --> 01:06:02,292 - I'm gonna fry them up? - Yup. 1426 01:06:03,126 --> 01:06:04,210 You know, this, this looks like 1427 01:06:04,294 --> 01:06:05,837 a soul brother pizza, really. 1428 01:06:07,172 --> 01:06:08,882 - A soul brother pizza? - Yeah. 1429 01:06:08,965 --> 01:06:10,091 Right. Would you like? 1430 01:06:10,175 --> 01:06:11,301 Yes, I would love it. 1431 01:06:11,384 --> 01:06:13,261 - Didn't eat today. - Thank you. 1432 01:06:13,344 --> 01:06:14,637 You dip it in the sauce, okay? 1433 01:06:14,721 --> 01:06:16,681 Well, how do they taste? 1434 01:06:17,515 --> 01:06:18,892 - How is it going? - You see, 1435 01:06:18,975 --> 01:06:20,351 this is gonna become part of your body 1436 01:06:20,435 --> 01:06:22,228 so it's important that you have... 1437 01:06:23,354 --> 01:06:24,647 It's important that you get to know it. 1438 01:06:24,731 --> 01:06:27,233 - What part? - Your blood. 1439 01:06:27,317 --> 01:06:28,485 - Your muscles. - This is goo- 1440 01:06:28,568 --> 01:06:29,777 - my muscles? - Well, sure. 1441 01:06:29,861 --> 01:06:31,613 I think you should chew it a lot. 1442 01:06:31,696 --> 01:06:33,156 Yes, and you should chew it well. 1443 01:06:33,239 --> 01:06:34,449 How come it gets larger as I chew? 1444 01:06:34,532 --> 01:06:35,533 Hilary Redleaf. Thank you. 1445 01:06:35,575 --> 01:06:37,702 Hilary, thank you. It's beautiful food. 1446 01:06:37,785 --> 01:06:39,162 Thank you. 1447 01:06:42,457 --> 01:06:43,666 So this is an artifact 1448 01:06:43,750 --> 01:06:47,629 that I didn't even remember that I had, 1449 01:06:47,712 --> 01:06:50,215 and it's the pay stub 1450 01:06:50,298 --> 01:06:53,092 from the honorarium that I received 1451 01:06:53,176 --> 01:06:54,385 for being on the show. 1452 01:06:54,469 --> 01:06:56,179 It says, "Mike Douglas Entertainment" 1453 01:06:56,262 --> 01:06:59,557 on the top, so maybe that's why I kept it. 1454 01:06:59,641 --> 01:07:02,894 Like, okay, this really happened. 1455 01:07:03,478 --> 01:07:07,524 I cashed the check. 1456 01:07:25,124 --> 01:07:27,544 Tell me what I'm getting into. 1457 01:07:27,627 --> 01:07:31,798 You're about to see something very new and unusual, 1458 01:07:31,881 --> 01:07:36,719 how someone might be able to learn to control aspects 1459 01:07:36,803 --> 01:07:37,804 of their brain waves, 1460 01:07:37,845 --> 01:07:39,973 which is related to their general state, 1461 01:07:40,056 --> 01:07:42,809 by putting electrodes on Mike Douglas 1462 01:07:42,892 --> 01:07:46,396 for a little demo and then on John and Yoko. 1463 01:07:46,479 --> 01:07:47,605 I'm gonna then join them 1464 01:07:47,689 --> 01:07:49,566 and play a little bit on a keyboard. 1465 01:07:49,649 --> 01:07:50,900 Sort of an envelope around it 1466 01:07:50,984 --> 01:07:53,486 to make it a musical experience. 1467 01:07:53,570 --> 01:07:55,613 And we're going to have to do this quickly 1468 01:07:55,697 --> 01:07:58,992 in a very compacted TV show time frame. 1469 01:07:59,075 --> 01:08:01,703 Why didn't you say this 50 years ago? 1470 01:08:04,122 --> 01:08:05,039 David, welcome. 1471 01:08:05,081 --> 01:08:07,625 - Thank you. Thank you. 1472 01:08:07,709 --> 01:08:09,877 Yes, can you explain to our viewers 1473 01:08:09,961 --> 01:08:11,879 please what biofeedback is? 1474 01:08:11,963 --> 01:08:15,717 Biofeedback is a new process, uh, that's been made possible 1475 01:08:15,800 --> 01:08:19,220 by advances in technology, by which a person can listen 1476 01:08:19,304 --> 01:08:22,599 to his own internal physiological processes. 1477 01:08:22,682 --> 01:08:25,518 And, uh, by listening to it, he can learn about it 1478 01:08:25,602 --> 01:08:27,186 and, uh, begin to learn to control 1479 01:08:27,270 --> 01:08:28,730 some that he may not be in control of. 1480 01:08:28,813 --> 01:08:31,649 Do some people respond to this better than others? 1481 01:08:31,733 --> 01:08:32,692 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. 1482 01:08:32,734 --> 01:08:33,776 For example alpha brain waves, 1483 01:08:33,860 --> 01:08:35,737 there's been a lot of publicity about that. 1484 01:08:35,820 --> 01:08:38,031 And we know that if you're high strung 1485 01:08:38,114 --> 01:08:39,616 and nervous and things like that, 1486 01:08:39,699 --> 01:08:41,618 uh, you may have a hard time at first. 1487 01:08:41,701 --> 01:08:42,577 You can learn to do it. 1488 01:08:42,619 --> 01:08:43,870 It may take you a little longer. 1489 01:08:43,953 --> 01:08:45,288 You have to learn how to be a person 1490 01:08:45,371 --> 01:08:47,123 by not trying to be a person, you know? 1491 01:08:47,206 --> 01:08:48,458 What would it be like if a stone 1492 01:08:48,541 --> 01:08:50,710 had to try to be a stone, you know? 1493 01:08:50,793 --> 01:08:53,546 You know, why is a stone a stone? 1494 01:08:53,630 --> 01:08:54,213 Yeah. 1495 01:08:54,255 --> 01:08:56,507 David played me a tape of he and his friends performing 1496 01:08:56,591 --> 01:08:58,051 with the alpha wave on the head. 1497 01:08:58,134 --> 01:09:00,928 And, uh, I think they used a keyboard as well. 1498 01:09:01,012 --> 01:09:02,972 And I was asking him, uh, could I do it 1499 01:09:03,056 --> 01:09:04,432 with a guitar and rock and roll? 1500 01:09:04,515 --> 01:09:07,685 And if we could learn it, we could do it eventually. 1501 01:09:07,769 --> 01:09:08,603 It'd be fantastic. 1502 01:09:08,645 --> 01:09:12,857 The process of doing it was a bit scary, 1503 01:09:12,940 --> 01:09:15,276 that could we make this work? 1504 01:09:15,360 --> 01:09:17,403 Of course, we were audacious. 1505 01:09:17,487 --> 01:09:19,322 We wanted to do these things. 1506 01:09:19,405 --> 01:09:21,115 So let's, so why not try it? 1507 01:09:21,199 --> 01:09:22,241 I have to put some paste on it 1508 01:09:22,325 --> 01:09:24,243 so it makes a good electrical contact. 1509 01:09:24,327 --> 01:09:26,037 I hope my Alpha's all right. 1510 01:09:28,331 --> 01:09:30,124 He might be. That machine... 1511 01:09:30,208 --> 01:09:31,459 What's the song called, this one 1512 01:09:31,542 --> 01:09:33,294 I referred to that you composed? 1513 01:09:33,378 --> 01:09:34,712 - What, this thing? - Yeah. 1514 01:09:34,796 --> 01:09:35,838 This thing we're gonna do now? 1515 01:09:35,922 --> 01:09:37,340 This is going to be improvised completely 1516 01:09:37,423 --> 01:09:38,716 out of whatever comes out of our head 1517 01:09:38,800 --> 01:09:39,634 and whatever David 1518 01:09:39,676 --> 01:09:41,052 - does on the keyboard. - All right. Yeah. 1519 01:09:41,135 --> 01:09:42,178 Complete improvisation. 1520 01:09:42,261 --> 01:09:43,846 This is... see, David was talking to us 1521 01:09:43,930 --> 01:09:45,890 also privately about a lot of this, 1522 01:09:45,973 --> 01:09:48,393 the state of alpha is often a state 1523 01:09:48,476 --> 01:09:49,477 that musicians will get into 1524 01:09:49,560 --> 01:09:50,812 when they're jamming, you know? 1525 01:09:50,895 --> 01:09:52,230 Whether it's rock and roll or jazz. 1526 01:09:52,313 --> 01:09:53,773 And they'll get into a certain jam session, 1527 01:09:53,856 --> 01:09:55,692 and then the music will sort of take them higher. 1528 01:09:55,775 --> 01:09:57,568 And uh, that state of mind 1529 01:09:57,652 --> 01:09:58,528 is the state of mind 1530 01:09:58,569 --> 01:09:59,904 that gives you the control over this. 1531 01:09:59,987 --> 01:10:02,156 - You know? - That's wild. 1532 01:10:05,785 --> 01:10:08,538 Now turn on the sound and see what... 1533 01:10:08,621 --> 01:10:11,958 -Am I star... 1534 01:10:13,710 --> 01:10:15,503 There goes Yoko. Hear it? 1535 01:10:15,586 --> 01:10:17,547 Hear that sound? 1536 01:10:18,131 --> 01:10:19,048 You hear it? 1537 01:10:23,052 --> 01:10:25,930 That is eerie, isn't it? 1538 01:10:53,166 --> 01:10:56,002 There was a meeting of minds 1539 01:10:56,085 --> 01:11:00,256 and spirits and creative energies. 1540 01:11:00,339 --> 01:11:05,303 A very wonderful, resonant unity. 1541 01:11:36,209 --> 01:11:40,213 John and Yoko achieved a very significant focus 1542 01:11:40,296 --> 01:11:42,465 in a really short period of time. 1543 01:11:42,548 --> 01:11:44,592 I only wish we could have done it 1544 01:11:44,675 --> 01:11:46,677 for a longer period of time. 1545 01:12:01,025 --> 01:12:03,820 I just have enough time to thank Chuck Berry, 1546 01:12:03,903 --> 01:12:06,405 Hilary Redleaf and David Rosenboom. 1547 01:12:06,489 --> 01:12:08,908 And, of course, Yoko Ono and John Lennon 1548 01:12:08,991 --> 01:12:10,993 and Chuck, thank you for joining us. 1549 01:12:11,077 --> 01:12:12,119 This was really a first today, 1550 01:12:12,203 --> 01:12:13,996 you two guys together, were too much. 1551 01:12:14,080 --> 01:12:15,915 Thank you. Bye-bye. 1552 01:12:18,292 --> 01:12:21,087 Yes, I think there was a utopian agenda. 1553 01:12:21,170 --> 01:12:24,549 There was an idealism that came out of that time 1554 01:12:24,632 --> 01:12:28,553 that John and Yoko were absolutely, um, 1555 01:12:28,636 --> 01:12:30,513 promoting and pushing 1556 01:12:30,596 --> 01:12:33,349 and saying, "Why not?" 1557 01:12:36,227 --> 01:12:37,728 The White House said Mr. Nixon made 1558 01:12:37,812 --> 01:12:39,772 an announcement today which puts him squarely 1559 01:12:39,856 --> 01:12:41,858 on the side of those who oppose busing 1560 01:12:41,941 --> 01:12:46,028 as a means to achieve racial balance in schools. 1561 01:12:46,112 --> 01:12:47,738 I've called on the President 1562 01:12:47,822 --> 01:12:49,824 to end the busing 1563 01:12:49,907 --> 01:12:51,826 by executive order. 1564 01:12:51,951 --> 01:12:54,120 What followed were some of the most violent 1565 01:12:54,203 --> 01:12:56,247 protests against busing that have yet 1566 01:12:56,330 --> 01:12:58,207 to be seen in the North. 1567 01:13:01,836 --> 01:13:04,839 Hi. Welcome back. Uh, Yoko, why don't you, uh... 1568 01:13:04,922 --> 01:13:06,465 if you will start at the beginning. Tell... 1569 01:13:06,549 --> 01:13:08,217 because maybe somebody hasn't been with us, 1570 01:13:08,301 --> 01:13:11,512 - uh, might just be joining. - This cup is a broken cup. 1571 01:13:11,596 --> 01:13:13,556 Every day we're just sort of putting it together. 1572 01:13:13,639 --> 01:13:15,391 May I ask you something? Because even though 1573 01:13:15,474 --> 01:13:16,350 I know you very well 1574 01:13:16,392 --> 01:13:18,352 and I still haven't quite understood it. You see? 1575 01:13:18,436 --> 01:13:20,062 - I know you broke it. - Why has she broke it 1576 01:13:20,146 --> 01:13:21,564 - in the first place? - But sticking it 1577 01:13:21,647 --> 01:13:23,065 together again, now, what, what's the... 1578 01:13:23,149 --> 01:13:24,150 Well, the idea is that, uh, 1579 01:13:24,233 --> 01:13:26,652 - you start with a broken cup. - The actual doing it? 1580 01:13:26,736 --> 01:13:27,987 The actual physically doing it? 1581 01:13:28,070 --> 01:13:31,240 Right. And also, everybody doing it together, actually. 1582 01:13:31,324 --> 01:13:32,575 Now, you should do part of it... 1583 01:13:32,658 --> 01:13:34,118 - Well, we should. - We should tell 1584 01:13:34,201 --> 01:13:35,578 the young people around the country 1585 01:13:35,661 --> 01:13:36,871 not to break mama's china - right? 1586 01:13:36,954 --> 01:13:38,497 This is what you do with the broken one there. 1587 01:13:38,581 --> 01:13:39,999 No, but try with a broken one. You know? 1588 01:13:40,082 --> 01:13:41,500 - I see. - Already broken. 1589 01:13:41,584 --> 01:13:42,793 What's this? Is this for me? 1590 01:13:42,877 --> 01:13:44,462 I live with her, you know? I still don't get it. 1591 01:13:44,545 --> 01:13:46,255 Yes, that is actually, a present for you. 1592 01:13:47,048 --> 01:13:50,384 - You should read it. - It says "a box of smile. 1593 01:13:50,468 --> 01:13:51,761 Yoko Ono. 1967." 1594 01:13:51,844 --> 01:13:53,471 Now what am I... do I smile as I look in it? 1595 01:13:53,554 --> 01:13:55,598 Well, why don't you open it and see what it is? 1596 01:13:55,681 --> 01:13:57,058 - Okay. - You might just smile in it. 1597 01:13:57,141 --> 01:13:58,893 It's not a jack in the box, now? 1598 01:13:58,976 --> 01:14:00,978 Well, let's see. 1599 01:14:01,062 --> 01:14:03,522 Yeah. Oh, there is a smile. Yes. 1600 01:14:03,606 --> 01:14:05,232 Really? ls there a smile in it? 1601 01:14:05,316 --> 01:14:07,151 - But it's mine. - Oh, great. 1602 01:14:07,234 --> 01:14:08,069 Yeah. That's nice. 1603 01:14:08,110 --> 01:14:09,570 Well, I thought maybe we should all put 1604 01:14:09,654 --> 01:14:11,155 - a smile in it. You know? - Okay. 1605 01:14:11,238 --> 01:14:12,490 - Instead of autographs. - We put one in. 1606 01:14:12,573 --> 01:14:14,700 That's a present for you from both of us. 1607 01:14:14,784 --> 01:14:17,036 - Yes. - And there's our smile. 1608 01:14:17,119 --> 01:14:19,205 Can I have one more, John? 1609 01:14:19,288 --> 01:14:20,706 - There we go. - There's one with teeth. 1610 01:14:20,790 --> 01:14:22,333 You know, as you watch these shows, 1611 01:14:22,416 --> 01:14:24,418 you're going to see the comfort level growing 1612 01:14:24,502 --> 01:14:27,755 between John and Mike actually becoming friends. 1613 01:14:27,838 --> 01:14:29,840 And John is very open. 1614 01:14:29,924 --> 01:14:31,342 You know what I'd like to ask, John? 1615 01:14:31,425 --> 01:14:32,969 I haven't found out... I've read... 1616 01:14:33,052 --> 01:14:34,971 I was reading the book, "The Beatles." 1617 01:14:35,054 --> 01:14:37,390 Oh, the Hunter Davies book, you mean? 1618 01:14:37,473 --> 01:14:38,808 Yes. And, uh, 1619 01:14:38,891 --> 01:14:40,935 your father left you and your mother 1620 01:14:41,018 --> 01:14:42,520 - at a... at a very tender age. - Yeah. 1621 01:14:42,603 --> 01:14:44,188 And you were... you were raised by an aunt, 1622 01:14:44,271 --> 01:14:45,731 - weren't you? - I was raised by my auntie. 1623 01:14:45,815 --> 01:14:47,942 My father and my mother split when I was about four. 1624 01:14:48,025 --> 01:14:49,527 I had... I spent some time with mother 1625 01:14:49,610 --> 01:14:51,821 up till about four, then my father split. 1626 01:14:51,904 --> 01:14:53,572 He was a merchant seaman. You know? 1627 01:14:53,656 --> 01:14:55,825 You can imagine and it was 1940s 1628 01:14:55,908 --> 01:14:56,784 in the war and all that. 1629 01:14:56,826 --> 01:14:59,161 He left and I was brought up by an auntie. 1630 01:14:59,245 --> 01:15:02,123 -And then I, uh... -And then he... didn't he, uh... 1631 01:15:02,206 --> 01:15:03,457 He turned up after I was famous. 1632 01:15:03,541 --> 01:15:05,084 - After you were famous. - You know, which I wasn't 1633 01:15:05,167 --> 01:15:06,961 - very pleased about. 'Cause... - And you didn't really open 1634 01:15:07,044 --> 01:15:09,088 the door to him right away at that point, did you? 1635 01:15:09,171 --> 01:15:10,840 He knew where I was all my life 1636 01:15:10,923 --> 01:15:13,759 up till I was... I mean, I lived in the same house 1637 01:15:13,843 --> 01:15:15,344 in the same place and he knew I was living 1638 01:15:15,428 --> 01:15:17,471 with that auntie for most of my childhood 1639 01:15:17,555 --> 01:15:19,974 up till 24 or 25 it was before I really... 1640 01:15:20,057 --> 01:15:21,600 - we made it big. - And he never visited you? 1641 01:15:21,684 --> 01:15:23,436 And I thought it was a bit suspicious that he turned up 1642 01:15:23,519 --> 01:15:25,104 - after I'd made it. You know? - Yeah. 1643 01:15:25,187 --> 01:15:26,939 He looks like a little one of me, only. 1644 01:15:27,023 --> 01:15:28,816 He's only five foot tall. You know? 1645 01:15:28,899 --> 01:15:30,109 - Five feet? - He's 5'1". 1646 01:15:30,192 --> 01:15:31,527 What is he... what is he doing now, John? 1647 01:15:31,610 --> 01:15:34,113 Uh, I guess he's retired. He just married 1648 01:15:34,196 --> 01:15:36,782 a 23-year-old girl. You know? 1649 01:15:36,866 --> 01:15:39,118 He's had another son, so he's getting on fine now. 1650 01:15:39,201 --> 01:15:40,619 See what you're in for? No, no, no. 1651 01:15:40,703 --> 01:15:42,413 They're a lot of ravers, those Lennons. 1652 01:15:42,496 --> 01:15:44,165 Hey, yeah, we can't talk about that. 1653 01:15:44,248 --> 01:15:45,249 How old is your father now? 1654 01:15:45,332 --> 01:15:47,752 I guess he must be in his 60s. I really don't know. You know? 1655 01:15:47,835 --> 01:15:50,046 And then, uh, when I was 16, I reestablished 1656 01:15:50,129 --> 01:15:52,923 a relationship with my mother for about four years. 1657 01:15:53,007 --> 01:15:53,924 She taught me music. 1658 01:15:53,966 --> 01:15:55,468 She first of all taught me the banjo. 1659 01:15:55,551 --> 01:15:56,886 And from that I progressed to guitar. 1660 01:15:56,969 --> 01:15:59,055 She... the first song I learned was "Ain't That a Shame," 1661 01:15:59,138 --> 01:16:00,598 an old rock hit, Fats Domino. 1662 01:16:00,681 --> 01:16:02,516 And then unfortunately, she was, uh, run over 1663 01:16:02,600 --> 01:16:05,561 by an off-duty policeman, who was drunk at the time. 1664 01:16:05,644 --> 01:16:08,481 And in spite of all that, I still don't have a hate 1665 01:16:08,564 --> 01:16:10,649 for pigs attitude or hate cop attitude. 1666 01:16:10,733 --> 01:16:12,943 But, uh, it was very hard for me at that time. 1667 01:16:13,027 --> 01:16:14,820 And, uh, I really had a chip on my shoulder, 1668 01:16:14,904 --> 01:16:17,198 and it still comes out now and then. You know? 1669 01:16:17,281 --> 01:16:19,408 Because it's a... it's a strange life to lead. 1670 01:16:19,492 --> 01:16:21,869 But in general, uh, I've gotten my own family now. 1671 01:16:21,952 --> 01:16:23,954 - Not these days. - That's Yoko and she made up 1672 01:16:24,038 --> 01:16:25,581 - for all that pain. - Interesting that we were 1673 01:16:25,664 --> 01:16:26,916 talking about your aunt because, uh, 1674 01:16:26,999 --> 01:16:28,584 this is a very interesting quote. 1675 01:16:28,667 --> 01:16:30,044 - I know. I guessed it. - May I? 1676 01:16:30,127 --> 01:16:31,545 - Go on. - Did you? "I never forgave 1677 01:16:31,629 --> 01:16:34,006 her for not treating me like a genius 1678 01:16:34,090 --> 01:16:36,133 or whatever I was when I was a child." 1679 01:16:36,217 --> 01:16:38,594 Her husband died and she was looking after me on her own. 1680 01:16:38,677 --> 01:16:40,721 She wanted to keep up this semi-detached house 1681 01:16:40,805 --> 01:16:43,390 and not go down. And so, we took in students in. 1682 01:16:43,474 --> 01:16:46,685 And she always wanted me be a rugby type 1683 01:16:46,769 --> 01:16:47,937 or a chemist. You know? 1684 01:16:48,020 --> 01:16:49,480 And I was writing poetry and painting 1685 01:16:49,563 --> 01:16:51,774 and singing since, uh, since she had me. 1686 01:16:51,857 --> 01:16:53,526 And all the time I used to fight and say, 1687 01:16:53,609 --> 01:16:54,527 "Look, I'm an artist. 1688 01:16:54,568 --> 01:16:56,570 Don't bug me with all this maths and don't try 1689 01:16:56,654 --> 01:16:58,948 and make me into a chemist or a vet. 1690 01:16:59,031 --> 01:17:00,407 I can't do it. You know? I have to be..." 1691 01:17:00,491 --> 01:17:02,868 And I used to say, "Don't you destroy my papers." 1692 01:17:02,952 --> 01:17:04,411 You know? I'd come home when I was 14 1693 01:17:04,495 --> 01:17:07,623 and she'd rooted all my things and thrown all my poetry out. 1694 01:17:07,706 --> 01:17:09,208 I said, "One day I'll be famous 1695 01:17:09,291 --> 01:17:10,417 and you're going to regret it." 1696 01:17:10,501 --> 01:17:12,253 But the best quote she ever said was, 1697 01:17:12,336 --> 01:17:14,088 "The guitar's all right for a hobby, John, 1698 01:17:14,171 --> 01:17:15,548 but you'll never make a living at it." 1699 01:17:15,631 --> 01:17:17,925 - Oh. Oh. - So, some fan in America 1700 01:17:18,008 --> 01:17:20,052 had that framed on steel and sent it to her. 1701 01:17:20,136 --> 01:17:21,428 She has it in the house I bought her 1702 01:17:21,512 --> 01:17:23,973 and she has that looking at her all the time. 1703 01:17:27,393 --> 01:17:29,395 Here's a young lady that I got to know 1704 01:17:29,478 --> 01:17:31,063 when we worked together in Las Vegas. 1705 01:17:31,147 --> 01:17:33,315 She creates an excitement when she works. 1706 01:17:33,399 --> 01:17:34,775 And you'll feel it immediately. 1707 01:17:34,859 --> 01:17:36,443 - Oh, I agree. - Yes. And she's got 1708 01:17:36,527 --> 01:17:39,572 the ability to sing opera if she were taught about it. 1709 01:17:39,655 --> 01:17:41,240 - Oh, sure. Yes. - But believe me, 1710 01:17:41,323 --> 01:17:42,700 you're going to hear more soul now 1711 01:17:42,783 --> 01:17:44,160 than you've heard in a long time. 1712 01:17:44,243 --> 01:17:45,744 Here's Vivian Reed. 1713 01:17:50,082 --> 01:17:53,294 Uh-uh, you can get nastier than that. Do it again. 1714 01:18:00,676 --> 01:18:04,555 Coming into show business is not easy. 1715 01:18:04,638 --> 01:18:08,225 I think the biggest thing for me is that women 1716 01:18:08,309 --> 01:18:10,477 were starting to come into their own 1717 01:18:10,561 --> 01:18:16,567 and... which really at that time or at any time 1718 01:18:16,817 --> 01:18:19,528 was very important and is important 1719 01:18:19,612 --> 01:18:22,114 because back then 1720 01:18:22,198 --> 01:18:23,991 we were not taken seriously. 1721 01:18:24,074 --> 01:18:27,036 It was a man's world. 1722 01:20:06,552 --> 01:20:10,180 - Yes! 1723 01:20:11,974 --> 01:20:13,892 When I look at myself singing. 1724 01:20:13,976 --> 01:20:17,771 "His Eye is on the Sparrow," I sang it... 1725 01:20:32,870 --> 01:20:36,081 And that worked for me back then. 1726 01:20:36,415 --> 01:20:39,001 But today... 1727 01:20:39,084 --> 01:20:40,127 I go-.-... 1728 01:21:02,399 --> 01:21:04,276 There's a difference. 1729 01:21:04,360 --> 01:21:05,778 There's a difference. 1730 01:21:09,239 --> 01:21:10,699 Vivian Reed. 1731 01:21:10,783 --> 01:21:12,785 We'll be right back. 1732 01:21:22,169 --> 01:21:23,712 The man we're going to introduce 1733 01:21:23,796 --> 01:21:25,172 is a good friend of ours 1734 01:21:25,255 --> 01:21:26,965 and also of yours I hope. 1735 01:21:27,049 --> 01:21:28,634 The man is Bobby Seale, the chairman 1736 01:21:28,717 --> 01:21:30,969 of the Black Panther Party and here he is. 1737 01:21:31,053 --> 01:21:32,179 Bobby Seale. 1738 01:21:42,606 --> 01:21:45,067 I had no idea 1739 01:21:45,150 --> 01:21:50,155 that Bobby Seale was gonna be on this show. 1740 01:21:50,239 --> 01:21:52,032 I said, "Bobby Seale, what?" 1741 01:21:52,116 --> 01:21:55,619 Did you really do standup comedy at one time, 1742 01:21:55,702 --> 01:21:57,329 as John pointed out? I wasn't aware of that. 1743 01:21:57,413 --> 01:21:59,248 - Did I get it right? - Yeah, I did do that. 1744 01:21:59,331 --> 01:22:01,875 - Yeah. - That's tough, isn't it? 1745 01:22:01,959 --> 01:22:02,918 - Reality? 1746 01:22:02,960 --> 01:22:05,421 - Not to me. - Mike had a comfort level 1747 01:22:05,504 --> 01:22:06,755 with Bobby Seale that he did not have 1748 01:22:06,839 --> 01:22:09,758 with some of the other guests that John and Yoko brought. 1749 01:22:09,842 --> 01:22:11,218 And actually, Mike to me, 1750 01:22:11,301 --> 01:22:13,137 felt a little more comfortable than Bobby felt. 1751 01:22:13,220 --> 01:22:17,433 You group is into some very new and positive projects. 1752 01:22:17,516 --> 01:22:19,268 Now the food program and the... 1753 01:22:19,351 --> 01:22:20,686 and the addition of the shoe program. 1754 01:22:20,769 --> 01:22:24,898 Well actually, we have, uh, 15 survival programs. 1755 01:22:24,982 --> 01:22:27,401 Uh, we have a sickle cell anemia foundation 1756 01:22:27,484 --> 01:22:28,485 and we work in conjunction 1757 01:22:28,527 --> 01:22:30,946 with the Mid Peninsula Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation, 1758 01:22:31,029 --> 01:22:32,739 uh, implementing the slide elution method 1759 01:22:32,823 --> 01:22:34,158 in all our clinics where we've tested 1760 01:22:34,241 --> 01:22:36,660 nearly 30,000, uh, Black people in this country. 1761 01:22:36,743 --> 01:22:38,287 Are you getting any government help? 1762 01:22:38,370 --> 01:22:41,081 No. The press done one of the dirtiest things 1763 01:22:41,165 --> 01:22:43,041 to the Black Panther Party five years ago 1764 01:22:43,125 --> 01:22:44,585 when it first started when they first said 1765 01:22:44,668 --> 01:22:46,503 that the Black Panther Party picked up guns 1766 01:22:46,587 --> 01:22:48,714 to go into the white community to kill white people. 1767 01:22:48,797 --> 01:22:50,007 Now, we've been here five years 1768 01:22:50,090 --> 01:22:51,592 and we've never done that and that was never 1769 01:22:51,675 --> 01:22:52,968 our intention in the first place. 1770 01:22:53,051 --> 01:22:55,804 Our intention was to defend ourselves against unjust 1771 01:22:55,888 --> 01:22:57,931 brutalizing racist attacks that occur 1772 01:22:58,015 --> 01:22:59,433 upon Black people in the Black community 1773 01:22:59,516 --> 01:23:01,518 on the part of the police and other races. 1774 01:23:01,602 --> 01:23:03,479 Only that negative action that they're... 1775 01:23:03,562 --> 01:23:05,481 that negative attack, that aggression they put up 1776 01:23:05,564 --> 01:23:07,691 on you to kill you, at that point we was teaching 1777 01:23:07,774 --> 01:23:09,818 people that, to defend ourselves even with guns. 1778 01:23:09,902 --> 01:23:11,153 But the main thing is this here, 1779 01:23:11,236 --> 01:23:12,696 you don't want to defend yourselves with guns. 1780 01:23:12,779 --> 01:23:14,448 You defend yourselves also with these basic programs 1781 01:23:14,531 --> 01:23:16,492 'cause violence is also manifested in hunger, 1782 01:23:16,575 --> 01:23:17,701 - is it not? - Yeah. 1783 01:23:17,784 --> 01:23:19,369 Violence is also manifested in rats and roaches 1784 01:23:19,453 --> 01:23:21,413 and dilapidated living conditions, right? 1785 01:23:21,497 --> 01:23:22,706 You see what I'm talking about? 1786 01:23:22,789 --> 01:23:24,124 That's a form of violence that comes 1787 01:23:24,208 --> 01:23:25,459 - from the whole system. - Now, this film 1788 01:23:25,542 --> 01:23:27,878 that you have brought. It's, uh, on the Richmond Program. 1789 01:23:27,961 --> 01:23:29,838 Uh, it is silent so will you comment 1790 01:23:29,922 --> 01:23:31,215 - on it when we roll it? - Yes, I will. 1791 01:23:31,298 --> 01:23:33,425 Okay. Will you... will you roll it please, Don? 1792 01:23:33,509 --> 01:23:36,553 Uh, this is, um, a free food program 1793 01:23:36,637 --> 01:23:38,096 in Richmond where we gave away 1794 01:23:38,180 --> 01:23:40,933 some, um, 750 bags 1795 01:23:41,016 --> 01:23:44,353 of groceries plus free brand new shoes that we had. 1796 01:23:44,436 --> 01:23:46,355 brand-new shoes you're giving away. 1797 01:23:46,438 --> 01:23:48,899 It ain't secondhand though. That was... 1798 01:23:48,982 --> 01:23:50,442 This is Elbert Howard, who is speaking 1799 01:23:50,526 --> 01:23:52,736 to the people there. People talk about freedom this, 1800 01:23:52,819 --> 01:23:54,488 freedom that, freedom must ring out in the land. 1801 01:23:54,571 --> 01:23:56,073 We say okay, we want some free medicine. 1802 01:23:56,156 --> 01:23:59,785 We need some free clothing. We need some free shoes. 1803 01:23:59,868 --> 01:24:00,744 We need some free bread. 1804 01:24:00,786 --> 01:24:02,454 We need some free medical care, etcetera, etcetera, 1805 01:24:02,538 --> 01:24:05,457 etcetera, to actually implement some real freedom. 1806 01:24:05,541 --> 01:24:08,126 He was all about defining freedom 1807 01:24:08,210 --> 01:24:12,714 the way Marcus Cicero, the ancient Roman lawyer, did. 1808 01:24:12,798 --> 01:24:14,424 Best definition I've ever heard. 1809 01:24:14,508 --> 01:24:18,178 He said, quote, "Freedom is participation in power." 1810 01:24:18,262 --> 01:24:22,057 To hear him speak on this with such eloquence 1811 01:24:22,140 --> 01:24:25,269 and talk about the things that he had established 1812 01:24:25,352 --> 01:24:26,478 inside of the Black community 1813 01:24:26,562 --> 01:24:31,400 and galvanizing Black people to, "Come on, let's do this." 1814 01:24:31,483 --> 01:24:32,651 Are you getting good reception, 1815 01:24:32,734 --> 01:24:33,652 good reaction to that? 1816 01:24:33,694 --> 01:24:35,195 Would you say Black people come in and help? 1817 01:24:35,279 --> 01:24:36,738 Definitely. But, see, you're going to get 1818 01:24:36,822 --> 01:24:38,282 very good reaction. If you have 5,000 bags 1819 01:24:38,365 --> 01:24:39,616 of groceries and you put leaflets out 1820 01:24:39,700 --> 01:24:41,118 with 5,000 bags of groceries to be given away 1821 01:24:41,201 --> 01:24:42,828 and all these people are hungry you're going to get 1822 01:24:42,911 --> 01:24:45,205 good response 'cause they're going to come down, right? 1823 01:24:45,289 --> 01:24:47,082 I was impressed. I gotta tell you, 1824 01:24:47,165 --> 01:24:49,334 I found a new respect for that man. 1825 01:24:49,418 --> 01:24:52,879 We'll continue. Just a minute. We'll be right back. 1826 01:25:00,387 --> 01:25:03,724 John Lennon and Yoko Ono! 1827 01:25:03,807 --> 01:25:05,475 Hello, hello. 1828 01:25:05,559 --> 01:25:08,437 Hello? ls the mic on? 1829 01:25:14,484 --> 01:25:16,987 My favorite song. 1830 01:28:04,780 --> 01:28:06,615 Am I? 1831 01:28:36,770 --> 01:28:37,687 A year and a half ago, 1832 01:28:37,729 --> 01:28:39,689 the Reverend Daniel Berrigan began serving a three-year 1833 01:28:39,773 --> 01:28:41,316 prison term for destroying draft records 1834 01:28:41,399 --> 01:28:44,820 at Catonsville, Maryland as a protest against the war. 1835 01:28:44,903 --> 01:28:47,322 Last month, he was granted parole, 1836 01:28:47,405 --> 01:28:49,574 and today he left prison. 1837 01:29:16,977 --> 01:29:20,647 My co-hosts this week are really involved. 1838 01:29:20,730 --> 01:29:22,148 It's been an education all of this week, 1839 01:29:22,232 --> 01:29:25,151 finding out about the many interests they have. 1840 01:29:25,235 --> 01:29:28,196 Here are John Lennon and Yoko Ono. 1841 01:29:49,301 --> 01:29:51,303 They're marvelous, just marvelous. 1842 01:29:51,386 --> 01:29:52,512 Are going to put another piece? 1843 01:29:52,596 --> 01:29:54,347 - Uh, this is the last day. - Going to finish it today. 1844 01:29:54,431 --> 01:29:55,307 I'm going to explain 1845 01:29:55,348 --> 01:29:57,475 that, um, this was a broken cup. 1846 01:29:57,559 --> 01:29:59,060 It was all broken in the beginning 1847 01:29:59,144 --> 01:30:01,646 and, uh, it's just about to be finished. 1848 01:30:01,730 --> 01:30:04,274 - Um... - John, Yoko doesn't go around 1849 01:30:04,357 --> 01:30:05,275 breaking china at home 1850 01:30:05,317 --> 01:30:06,735 just to put it back together, does she? 1851 01:30:06,818 --> 01:30:08,236 - Nothing like that? - Uh, occasionally, 1852 01:30:08,320 --> 01:30:09,696 I have to let her. You know how it is. 1853 01:30:10,488 --> 01:30:12,782 - This side. Very good. - Back now. 1854 01:30:12,866 --> 01:30:14,743 It's going to make it. Right? 1855 01:30:14,826 --> 01:30:16,786 - Oh. - Hey, hey. 1856 01:30:16,870 --> 01:30:18,663 Oh, great. 1857 01:30:18,747 --> 01:30:20,248 Hey! Hey! 1858 01:30:22,792 --> 01:30:24,002 We've got a marvelous show today. 1859 01:30:24,085 --> 01:30:25,462 We got one of the most brilliant young 1860 01:30:25,545 --> 01:30:27,172 comedians that-that I've known. 1861 01:30:27,255 --> 01:30:28,381 I've known him for a long time. 1862 01:30:28,465 --> 01:30:30,008 - His name is George Carlin. - Oh, great. 1863 01:30:30,091 --> 01:30:31,509 - He'll be with us today. - Very grand. 1864 01:30:31,593 --> 01:30:32,969 And a medical discussion of, 1865 01:30:33,053 --> 01:30:34,554 of heart and blood pressure with 1866 01:30:34,638 --> 01:30:37,849 a Dr. Gary Schwartz of Harvard University. 1867 01:30:37,933 --> 01:30:38,850 So, sounds like a very 1868 01:30:38,892 --> 01:30:40,602 - exciting show, doesn't it? - Very exciting idea, yes. 1869 01:30:40,685 --> 01:30:42,145 Who are some of the other people that-that 1870 01:30:42,228 --> 01:30:44,022 you listened to when you were in Liverpool just starting? 1871 01:30:44,105 --> 01:30:45,690 Uh, well, there was Bo Diddley, 1872 01:30:45,774 --> 01:30:47,317 Little Richard, Elvis, of course, 1873 01:30:47,400 --> 01:30:48,777 Gene Vincent when he was alive, 1874 01:30:48,860 --> 01:30:51,029 Eddie Cochran when he was alive. 1875 01:30:51,112 --> 01:30:52,489 Uh, before that we used to listen 1876 01:30:52,572 --> 01:30:54,324 to a lot of, uh, blues, you know? 1877 01:30:54,407 --> 01:30:55,408 Uh, some of T-Bone Walker 1878 01:30:55,450 --> 01:30:56,952 that Chuck Berry mentioned and, uh... 1879 01:30:57,035 --> 01:30:59,245 - And Elvis. - Sleepy John Estes. 1880 01:30:59,329 --> 01:31:00,914 We-we listened to blues at first. 1881 01:31:00,997 --> 01:31:01,998 When I went to art school... 1882 01:31:02,082 --> 01:31:03,333 I was at art school for five years. 1883 01:31:03,416 --> 01:31:04,793 When I went to... this is a sort of college. 1884 01:31:04,876 --> 01:31:07,504 I went in there, they would only allow jazz to be played. 1885 01:31:07,587 --> 01:31:09,047 You know, they wouldn't allow rock and roll 1886 01:31:09,130 --> 01:31:10,548 and it was frowned upon those days. 1887 01:31:10,632 --> 01:31:11,925 So we had to con them into letting us 1888 01:31:12,008 --> 01:31:13,969 play rock and roll there on the record player 1889 01:31:14,052 --> 01:31:15,095 by calling it blues. You know? 1890 01:31:15,178 --> 01:31:17,222 So, we'd have blues sessions and then gradually 1891 01:31:17,305 --> 01:31:18,890 slip in the rock records. 1892 01:31:18,974 --> 01:31:22,310 You-your real intention was to-to have it happen big 1893 01:31:22,394 --> 01:31:23,895 here because that's what really 1894 01:31:23,979 --> 01:31:25,563 makes a person a-a superstar. 1895 01:31:25,647 --> 01:31:26,982 It has to happen in America for you. 1896 01:31:27,065 --> 01:31:29,025 In the early days, we didn't even dream of it. 1897 01:31:29,109 --> 01:31:30,360 - You know? - Didn't you? 1898 01:31:30,443 --> 01:31:31,861 I mean, we didn't think we'd, uh, you know, 1899 01:31:31,945 --> 01:31:33,655 we-we couldn't think in terms of going to America. 1900 01:31:33,738 --> 01:31:34,990 I mean, that was like a dream. 1901 01:31:35,073 --> 01:31:36,574 Uh, I mean, you think locally. 1902 01:31:36,658 --> 01:31:38,284 First of all, it was making it big in Liverpool. 1903 01:31:38,368 --> 01:31:39,744 - Yes. - And then being the best 1904 01:31:39,828 --> 01:31:41,204 group in the... in the county. You know? 1905 01:31:41,287 --> 01:31:43,665 Then being the best group in England, 1906 01:31:43,748 --> 01:31:44,749 and then we got to Scotland 1907 01:31:44,833 --> 01:31:46,251 and break them in and things like that. 1908 01:31:46,334 --> 01:31:49,170 And your goal is always, you know, just a few 1909 01:31:49,254 --> 01:31:51,381 yards ahead rather than right up there. 1910 01:31:51,464 --> 01:31:52,757 Originally, Paul and I wanted to be 1911 01:31:52,841 --> 01:31:54,134 sort of Goff in and King of England. 1912 01:31:54,217 --> 01:31:56,469 You know? Carole King and Gerry Goff in 1913 01:31:56,553 --> 01:31:58,388 were writing good songs a long time ago. 1914 01:31:58,471 --> 01:31:59,472 - Yes. -And Paul and I 1915 01:31:59,556 --> 01:32:01,391 used to think, well, I'm sure we could do it 1916 01:32:01,474 --> 01:32:02,976 if we just worked at it. 1917 01:32:03,059 --> 01:32:04,519 And we wanted to, you know... 1918 01:32:04,602 --> 01:32:05,812 Our goal was to be as big as Elvis, 1919 01:32:05,895 --> 01:32:07,647 but we didn't actually think we were going to do it. 1920 01:32:07,731 --> 01:32:08,982 - You know? - You got bigger. 1921 01:32:09,065 --> 01:32:10,775 - Well, I don't know. - Oh, yes. Oh, yes. 1922 01:32:10,859 --> 01:32:14,195 How long did you really think it was going to last, John? 1923 01:32:14,279 --> 01:32:16,823 Well, you see, that was one of them questions, actually. 1924 01:32:16,906 --> 01:32:17,991 - Yeah. - Oh, really? 1925 01:32:18,074 --> 01:32:19,659 You know, they used to always ask us, uh... yeah. 1926 01:32:20,702 --> 01:32:21,953 But I wonder about that though. 1927 01:32:22,037 --> 01:32:23,038 But we never thought of it. 1928 01:32:23,121 --> 01:32:25,582 We thought that, uh, as long as we could make... go on... 1929 01:32:25,665 --> 01:32:27,250 as long as we wanted to go on, 1930 01:32:27,333 --> 01:32:31,713 that we could always make and write good enough music 1931 01:32:31,796 --> 01:32:32,797 to get an occasional hit, 1932 01:32:32,839 --> 01:32:34,549 not saying that every song would be number one 1933 01:32:34,632 --> 01:32:36,634 and it would be Beatlemania for all our lives. 1934 01:32:36,718 --> 01:32:37,886 I think we could have sustained 1935 01:32:37,969 --> 01:32:39,220 making the occasional hit record 1936 01:32:39,304 --> 01:32:41,765 for years and years to come. Because I think... 1937 01:32:41,848 --> 01:32:43,850 You're saying that, uh, by... you know, 1938 01:32:43,933 --> 01:32:44,934 in 30 you won't be singing. 1939 01:32:45,018 --> 01:32:47,103 Yeah, but, yeah, that's a great one to remind me. 1940 01:32:47,187 --> 01:32:49,773 Thanks. When-when, when we did earlier interviews 1941 01:32:49,856 --> 01:32:52,233 when I must have been about 25 or 24 or something, 1942 01:32:52,317 --> 01:32:54,652 I used to always say, "Well, one thing I won't be doing" 1943 01:32:54,736 --> 01:32:56,237 is singing "She Loves You" when I'm 30. 1944 01:32:56,321 --> 01:32:58,031 What I really meant, I had some idea that I wouldn't be 1945 01:32:58,114 --> 01:33:01,618 what I was, whatever I was at 30 and it was th... I'm 31 now. 1946 01:33:01,701 --> 01:33:04,329 I was 30 when I first decided to, you know, 1947 01:33:04,412 --> 01:33:07,207 let's, uh, finish this now, go on for a new life. 1948 01:33:07,290 --> 01:33:08,958 Someone once reviewed The Beatles 1949 01:33:09,042 --> 01:33:11,086 and it could possibly have been after 1950 01:33:11,169 --> 01:33:12,712 - one of your early movies... - Yeah. 1951 01:33:12,796 --> 01:33:15,840 And they referred to you as the Groucho of the group. 1952 01:33:15,924 --> 01:33:16,758 Oh, really? 1953 01:33:16,800 --> 01:33:18,510 I can't do it even. 1954 01:33:20,929 --> 01:33:22,263 Yoko, would you introduce 1955 01:33:22,347 --> 01:33:23,973 - our next guest for us? - Yes. Our next guest 1956 01:33:24,057 --> 01:33:27,102 is, um, assistant professor of personality psychology 1957 01:33:27,185 --> 01:33:29,062 in the department of social relations. 1958 01:33:29,145 --> 01:33:30,814 He's here to discuss people's ability 1959 01:33:30,897 --> 01:33:33,691 to lower their blood pressure at will, 1960 01:33:33,775 --> 01:33:35,902 which is very interesting, you know. 1961 01:33:35,985 --> 01:33:38,696 Greet Dr. Gary Schwartz. 1962 01:33:49,457 --> 01:33:52,460 What does it feel like watching this? 1963 01:33:52,544 --> 01:33:56,131 It's nostalgic, um, at multiple levels. 1964 01:33:56,214 --> 01:33:58,758 Can you explain the term biofeedback? 1965 01:33:58,842 --> 01:34:01,678 Because on Wednesday's show we did something that was, uh, 1966 01:34:01,761 --> 01:34:03,638 very interesting, which we'll get into. 1967 01:34:03,721 --> 01:34:04,973 But explain that for me, please. 1968 01:34:05,056 --> 01:34:08,768 The term biofeedback was a term coined 1969 01:34:08,852 --> 01:34:12,647 to express the use of equipment 1970 01:34:12,730 --> 01:34:13,982 for providing information 1971 01:34:14,065 --> 01:34:16,276 about what goes on inside of you, 1972 01:34:16,359 --> 01:34:18,319 things that you're not normally aware of 1973 01:34:18,403 --> 01:34:19,404 like the beat of your heart, 1974 01:34:19,487 --> 01:34:20,864 your blood pressure, your brain waves. 1975 01:34:20,947 --> 01:34:23,074 And it would present it to you in a way such as a- 1976 01:34:23,158 --> 01:34:27,203 a meter, or a light, or in your case, musical notes. 1977 01:34:27,287 --> 01:34:29,664 Were you getting into that with the people 1978 01:34:29,747 --> 01:34:31,749 lowering their own blood pressure at will? 1979 01:34:31,833 --> 01:34:33,751 - Yes. - That's really good. 1980 01:34:33,835 --> 01:34:34,836 How did that start? 1981 01:34:34,878 --> 01:34:36,004 I mean, the yogas and all that 1982 01:34:36,087 --> 01:34:37,505 had been doing it and everybody thought 1983 01:34:37,589 --> 01:34:38,840 only the mysterious East could do it. 1984 01:34:38,923 --> 01:34:41,217 And there the West came along and says, "No, 1985 01:34:41,301 --> 01:34:42,177 anybody can do it." 1986 01:34:42,218 --> 01:34:43,678 Well, the Westerners were really ignorant, 1987 01:34:43,761 --> 01:34:45,513 that is the scientists, of what was going in the East. 1988 01:34:45,597 --> 01:34:48,057 That is, they knew of it but they didn't believe it. 1989 01:34:48,141 --> 01:34:48,850 Yeah. 1990 01:34:48,892 --> 01:34:50,143 But in the late '50s and early '60s, 1991 01:34:50,226 --> 01:34:53,980 a number of creative and, uh, sort of bold scientists said, 1992 01:34:54,063 --> 01:34:56,649 "Look, some of these things must be possible" 1993 01:34:56,733 --> 01:34:58,902 and we have to just develop procedures for looking 1994 01:34:58,985 --> 01:35:00,486 "at it carefully and making it easier." 1995 01:35:00,570 --> 01:35:02,071 I felt like I was with peers. 1996 01:35:02,155 --> 01:35:04,699 I felt like I was interacting with people 1997 01:35:04,782 --> 01:35:09,412 who were thinking about this as deeply as I was. 1998 01:35:09,495 --> 01:35:12,123 It was a delight to have a conversation with them. 1999 01:35:12,207 --> 01:35:14,876 I mean, if you can control your blood pressure, 2000 01:35:14,959 --> 01:35:16,544 I mean, it's-it's obvious to me 2001 01:35:16,628 --> 01:35:17,879 that you can control everything. 2002 01:35:17,962 --> 01:35:19,297 It's just learning how to do it. 2003 01:35:19,380 --> 01:35:20,965 There'd be no reason for us to be able 2004 01:35:21,049 --> 01:35:22,383 to just control one part of our body. 2005 01:35:22,467 --> 01:35:24,427 We must... we obviously control it all, right? 2006 01:35:24,510 --> 01:35:27,722 Sure, but on the other hand it's very good that our bodies 2007 01:35:27,805 --> 01:35:28,890 are built to keep things going 2008 01:35:28,973 --> 01:35:30,266 - in spite of our minds. - Right. 2009 01:35:30,350 --> 01:35:31,726 If you had to worry all the time about 2010 01:35:31,809 --> 01:35:33,436 keeping your heart rate going and your blood pressure 2011 01:35:33,519 --> 01:35:35,855 going you'd never get anything done. 2012 01:35:35,939 --> 01:35:37,482 This may have been the first time 2013 01:35:37,565 --> 01:35:38,691 that I was in a green room. 2014 01:35:38,775 --> 01:35:43,488 And I'm in this room with this young skinny guy... 2015 01:35:43,571 --> 01:35:45,114 his hair was longer than mine... 2016 01:35:45,198 --> 01:35:48,826 um, who introduced himself as George Carlin, 2017 01:35:48,910 --> 01:35:51,955 and I did not know him from a hole in the wall. 2018 01:35:52,038 --> 01:35:54,832 I last, uh, had him on the show 2019 01:35:54,916 --> 01:35:55,917 when we were in San Diego 2020 01:35:55,959 --> 01:35:57,085 before a young college audience 2021 01:35:57,168 --> 01:35:58,461 and he just absolutely destroyed... 2022 01:35:58,544 --> 01:36:00,922 - He's great, isn't he? - He's just marvelous. 2023 01:36:01,005 --> 01:36:01,923 He's, uh, he's original. 2024 01:36:01,965 --> 01:36:03,216 He writes a lot of his own material 2025 01:36:03,299 --> 01:36:05,093 and he has a great rapport with America's youth 2026 01:36:05,176 --> 01:36:07,553 because he's concerned about conditions. 2027 01:36:07,637 --> 01:36:09,264 Here's George Carlin. 2028 01:36:14,686 --> 01:36:16,479 George himself had changed 2029 01:36:16,562 --> 01:36:20,024 from a three-piece suit, wearing-a-tie comedian 2030 01:36:20,108 --> 01:36:22,777 into kind of this, uh, what he used to call 2031 01:36:22,860 --> 01:36:25,363 the hippy dippy weatherman kind of persona. 2032 01:36:25,446 --> 01:36:29,742 And, uh, it sort of fit where we were at the times. 2033 01:36:29,826 --> 01:36:32,954 If Sister Nathaniel could see that. 2034 01:36:33,037 --> 01:36:34,706 I never had good handwriting 2035 01:36:34,789 --> 01:36:36,332 and she would always hold up, 2036 01:36:36,416 --> 01:36:37,583 "Whose homework is this? 2037 01:36:37,667 --> 01:36:39,711 I can't read the name on this." 2038 01:36:39,794 --> 01:36:41,129 It was really fascinating. 2039 01:36:41,212 --> 01:36:43,214 George had started doing the show in the Cleveland days. 2040 01:36:43,298 --> 01:36:45,842 Had followed the show to Philadelphia. 2041 01:36:45,925 --> 01:36:47,593 And as George's persona changed, 2042 01:36:47,677 --> 01:36:50,346 Mike's relationship with George never changed. 2043 01:36:50,430 --> 01:36:53,474 George, you've undergone some changes... 2044 01:36:53,558 --> 01:36:54,142 Yeah. 2045 01:36:54,183 --> 01:36:55,435 In the last couple of years. 2046 01:36:55,518 --> 01:36:56,853 - Mm-hmm. - Each time I've seen you, 2047 01:36:56,936 --> 01:36:58,479 that's been a... you've been a little bit different. 2048 01:36:58,563 --> 01:36:59,939 Has this made you, uh, a better person 2049 01:37:00,023 --> 01:37:00,940 or a better performer? 2050 01:37:00,982 --> 01:37:03,234 All of my bits used to be ladies on quiz shows, 2051 01:37:03,318 --> 01:37:04,319 or newsmen, or disc jockeys, 2052 01:37:04,402 --> 01:37:05,820 and I was hiding behind these things. 2053 01:37:05,903 --> 01:37:07,322 I didn't know it consciously. 2054 01:37:07,405 --> 01:37:08,448 But television rewarded that. 2055 01:37:08,531 --> 01:37:11,409 See, that's one facet of my comedy is I am a mimic. 2056 01:37:11,492 --> 01:37:13,995 And they rewarded that so much for me, 2057 01:37:14,078 --> 01:37:16,414 and starting in 1965, that I just forgot myself 2058 01:37:16,497 --> 01:37:18,583 and I was not in my act anymore. 2059 01:37:18,666 --> 01:37:20,460 And that was not the reason I went into this. 2060 01:37:20,543 --> 01:37:22,628 As anyone knows, you go into as self-expression, 2061 01:37:22,712 --> 01:37:25,131 and once you're not doing that, forget it. 2062 01:37:25,214 --> 01:37:26,090 So it just dawned on me. 2063 01:37:26,132 --> 01:37:27,967 I said, "Hey, wait a second now. Look here." 2064 01:37:28,051 --> 01:37:29,052 And, uh, it worked out fine. 2065 01:37:29,135 --> 01:37:30,845 It only took about a year to turn things around 2066 01:37:30,928 --> 01:37:32,805 the way I, uh, feel happy now 2067 01:37:32,889 --> 01:37:35,558 that I'm in control of what happens to my life 2068 01:37:35,641 --> 01:37:37,518 and career instead of drifting. 2069 01:37:37,602 --> 01:37:38,895 One of your idols... excuse me. 2070 01:37:38,978 --> 01:37:40,063 - Pardon me. - I'm sorry. 2071 01:37:40,146 --> 01:37:41,147 Was there a lot of pressure, 2072 01:37:41,230 --> 01:37:42,899 I mean, just to become yourself? 2073 01:37:42,982 --> 01:37:44,484 Oh. Uh, well, I was ready for that. 2074 01:37:44,567 --> 01:37:46,819 It was one thing is I wasn't in my act anymore. 2075 01:37:46,903 --> 01:37:48,905 Secondly, I discovered I didn't want to be an actor. 2076 01:37:48,988 --> 01:37:50,531 All my life I'd grown up saying, "Well, I'll become 2077 01:37:50,615 --> 01:37:52,825 a disc jockey, and that'll get me to be a comedian, 2078 01:37:52,909 --> 01:37:54,243 and then that'll get me to be an actor." 2079 01:37:54,327 --> 01:37:56,454 I always thought actor was the end of the road for it. 2080 01:37:56,537 --> 01:37:58,414 And I found out one day I hated it 2081 01:37:58,498 --> 01:37:59,916 and I want to write. Let me write down. 2082 01:37:59,999 --> 01:38:01,501 "Phil comes in and walks like a chicken." 2083 01:38:01,584 --> 01:38:03,836 I don't want to do it. Let me write that. 2084 01:38:03,920 --> 01:38:04,921 I'd like to write the jokes. 2085 01:38:05,004 --> 01:38:07,048 So when I discovered that and I wasn't in my act, 2086 01:38:07,131 --> 01:38:08,466 I was freed and I was free to change. 2087 01:38:08,549 --> 01:38:10,718 And then there was a couple incidents in nightclubs 2088 01:38:10,802 --> 01:38:12,387 where I had grown too far so far, 2089 01:38:12,470 --> 01:38:13,888 - you know, to stay there. - Yeah. 2090 01:38:13,971 --> 01:38:15,098 And, uh, I had little incidents 2091 01:38:15,181 --> 01:38:17,892 that weren't much really, but, uh, it served as a basis 2092 01:38:17,975 --> 01:38:21,646 for some of the things I do in my shows now. 2093 01:38:21,729 --> 01:38:23,898 It was like a variety, uh, 2094 01:38:23,981 --> 01:38:26,901 a very creative kind of variety show. 2095 01:38:26,984 --> 01:38:30,655 And I don't know if such a... 2096 01:38:30,738 --> 01:38:32,740 if such a thing could be recreated partly 2097 01:38:32,824 --> 01:38:34,909 because you have to have a John Lennon 2098 01:38:34,992 --> 01:38:37,328 and a Yoko Ono along with a Mike Douglas. 2099 01:38:37,412 --> 01:38:40,373 You probably have been seeing many people creeping around 2100 01:38:40,456 --> 01:38:42,667 with cameras all week taking pictures, 2101 01:38:42,750 --> 01:38:44,752 but one of them belongs to us. 2102 01:38:44,836 --> 01:38:46,504 The rest of them are just people taking... 2103 01:38:46,587 --> 01:38:47,839 Are you going to give us copies? 2104 01:38:47,922 --> 01:38:49,173 Oh, yeah. You'll love them too. 2105 01:38:49,257 --> 01:38:51,342 These are pictures that have been taken 2106 01:38:51,426 --> 01:38:53,928 throughout the five shows. 2107 01:38:54,011 --> 01:38:55,054 Oh, I like this bit. 2108 01:38:55,138 --> 01:38:56,264 To John and Yoko. 2109 01:39:33,926 --> 01:39:37,597 US' 2110 01:40:16,886 --> 01:40:19,430 John Lennon, Yoko Ono. 2111 01:40:23,768 --> 01:40:25,436 What would you say to a student 2112 01:40:25,520 --> 01:40:26,771 who watched this appearance 2113 01:40:26,854 --> 01:40:28,940 and said, "Yeah, but that was '72", 2114 01:40:29,023 --> 01:40:30,608 the world was full of promise, 2115 01:40:30,691 --> 01:40:32,610 gas was 25 cents a gallon, 2116 01:40:32,693 --> 01:40:33,653 John Lennon was alive, 2117 01:40:33,694 --> 01:40:35,905 I don't have those opportunities anymore"? 2118 01:40:35,988 --> 01:40:37,532 Well, you have to keep trying. 2119 01:40:37,615 --> 01:40:40,451 Go with your vision and you can think about life 2120 01:40:40,535 --> 01:40:41,536 as kind of like two circles. 2121 01:40:41,619 --> 01:40:44,705 One of them has all the things that you're most inspired by 2122 01:40:44,789 --> 01:40:46,207 that are right at the center of your vision, 2123 01:40:46,290 --> 01:40:48,960 and the other is the things you have to do to survive. 2124 01:40:49,043 --> 01:40:52,713 And your goal in life is to make those two things overlap 2125 01:40:52,797 --> 01:40:54,632 as much as you possibly can. 2126 01:40:54,715 --> 01:40:57,718 You know, I remember back to the '60's 2127 01:40:57,802 --> 01:41:01,639 and in particular the '70's, where young people thought, 2128 01:41:01,722 --> 01:41:03,683 okay, we can do this, we're going... 2129 01:41:03,766 --> 01:41:08,145 we're going to do big things, where they had hope. 2130 01:41:08,229 --> 01:41:09,522 But I think the difference 2131 01:41:09,605 --> 01:41:15,570 between the youth then and the youth today 2132 01:41:15,653 --> 01:41:20,533 are the youth today, they don't play. 2133 01:41:20,616 --> 01:41:23,327 I watched you 50 years ago, 2134 01:41:23,411 --> 01:41:24,287 30 year-old Ralph Nader 2135 01:41:24,328 --> 01:41:29,834 making incredibly prescient point after point after point. 2136 01:41:29,917 --> 01:41:34,088 And 50 years later things are, pardon my French, 2137 01:41:34,171 --> 01:41:35,089 still fucked up. 2138 01:41:35,131 --> 01:41:37,216 How do you maintain optimism? 2139 01:41:37,300 --> 01:41:38,134 How do you do it? 2140 01:41:38,175 --> 01:41:39,969 Well, young people are known to be cynical. 2141 01:41:40,052 --> 01:41:42,555 And I say to them, you know, if you're cynical, 2142 01:41:42,638 --> 01:41:45,808 you're a quitter and you're gonna make things worse 2143 01:41:45,891 --> 01:41:48,019 for you and your close friends, 2144 01:41:48,102 --> 01:41:50,187 not just for the world at large. 2145 01:41:50,271 --> 01:41:53,649 So try to be skeptical because skeptical asks 2146 01:41:53,733 --> 01:41:55,901 the same questions that the cynic asked, 2147 01:41:55,985 --> 01:41:59,238 but they charge back and try to change things. 2148 01:41:59,322 --> 01:42:02,658 You know, as, uh, Norman Cousins once said, 2149 01:42:02,742 --> 01:42:06,162 "Nobody's smart enough to be a pessimist." 2150 01:42:06,245 --> 01:42:08,205 Let's talk about the other idol, 2151 01:42:08,289 --> 01:42:10,249 the other world entertainment superstar. 2152 01:42:10,333 --> 01:42:11,917 - I'm not being facetious... - Yeah. 2153 01:42:12,001 --> 01:42:13,377 Here, is Mike Douglas. 2154 01:42:13,461 --> 01:42:14,879 You know, it's really interesting 2155 01:42:14,962 --> 01:42:17,465 when you look back at these shows 50 years later, 2156 01:42:17,548 --> 01:42:19,800 that everybody remembers these shows 2157 01:42:19,884 --> 01:42:20,885 because of John and Yoko. 2158 01:42:20,926 --> 01:42:23,262 But the host of this show, Mike Douglas, 2159 01:42:23,346 --> 01:42:24,221 was an amazing man. 2160 01:42:24,263 --> 01:42:27,808 The fact that anybody wants to look at this 50 years later, 2161 01:42:27,892 --> 01:42:30,353 really has a lot to do with who that man was. 2162 01:42:30,436 --> 01:42:33,147 There was a lot going on in these things. 2163 01:42:33,230 --> 01:42:34,649 They're more than a time capsule. 2164 01:42:34,732 --> 01:42:37,526 They're a signpost and a warning sign. 2165 01:42:37,610 --> 01:42:40,571 They were like canaries in the mines, so to speak. 2166 01:42:40,655 --> 01:42:42,823 They were seeing the possibilities 2167 01:42:42,907 --> 01:42:45,034 of both concerns and opportunities 2168 01:42:45,117 --> 01:42:50,039 and were encouraging us to look forward. 2169 01:42:50,331 --> 01:42:51,999 It's a long process, 2170 01:42:52,083 --> 01:42:53,417 change... it-it took us 2171 01:42:53,501 --> 01:42:56,087 how many centuries to get here, 2172 01:42:56,170 --> 01:42:57,505 to really crawl out of, 2173 01:42:57,588 --> 01:43:00,675 and to understand the system that we live in, 2174 01:43:00,758 --> 01:43:03,219 and how we're going to change it 2175 01:43:03,302 --> 01:43:06,430 to make a more human world. 2176 01:43:06,514 --> 01:43:10,476 What better to work for than that? 2177 01:43:10,559 --> 01:43:14,230 US' 2178 01:43:43,426 --> 01:43:44,802 All right. Who would like 2179 01:43:44,885 --> 01:43:45,886 to ask a question of John? 2180 01:43:45,928 --> 01:43:48,848 I see a hand way in the back, the very last row. 2181 01:43:48,931 --> 01:43:52,101 You see it? On the right-hand side? 2182 01:43:54,228 --> 01:43:56,355 - Oh, hello. - Oh, hi. 2183 01:43:56,439 --> 01:43:57,857 Will you and your band be going 2184 01:43:57,940 --> 01:43:59,275 on tour in the near future? 2185 01:43:59,358 --> 01:44:01,402 Uh, we-we both, we-we'd like to. 2186 01:44:01,485 --> 01:44:03,612 It really... we have to get permission to work here. 2187 01:44:03,696 --> 01:44:06,157 You know? Every time... Like if we do this show 2188 01:44:06,240 --> 01:44:08,159 we have to... we ask for permission to work. 2189 01:44:08,242 --> 01:44:09,618 We'd really like to get on the road again. 2190 01:44:09,702 --> 01:44:11,495 - It really depends on the... - You only have to do that... 2191 01:44:11,579 --> 01:44:13,372 you only have to do that every few months, don't you? 2192 01:44:13,456 --> 01:44:15,166 Something like that. Yeah. For something like a tour 2193 01:44:15,249 --> 01:44:18,002 we'd have to apply for a kind of special visa or something. 2194 01:44:18,085 --> 01:44:19,503 Are you planning to do that, John? 2195 01:44:19,587 --> 01:44:21,589 We-we'd like to if it... if it's all right 2196 01:44:21,672 --> 01:44:22,923 with the people in the visa office. 2197 01:44:23,007 --> 01:44:24,425 What are your... what are your immediate plans 2198 01:44:24,508 --> 01:44:27,261 - when you leave here? - Uh, recover. 2199 01:44:31,932 --> 01:44:33,851 First hand I saw was that young lady right there. 2200 01:44:33,934 --> 01:44:36,979 What was the biggest hit record you made? 2201 01:44:37,062 --> 01:44:38,731 Biggest of all your hit records, which one? 2202 01:44:38,814 --> 01:44:40,065 - Oh, um, I really don't know. 2203 01:44:41,776 --> 01:44:43,068 It could be probably something like 2204 01:44:43,152 --> 01:44:44,695 "I Want to Hold Your Hand" or "She Loves You." 2205 01:44:44,779 --> 01:44:46,280 L-I can't... it was one that you don't expect. 2206 01:44:46,363 --> 01:44:47,698 I really don't know which one it is. 2207 01:44:47,782 --> 01:44:49,283 I've forgotten offhand. 2208 01:44:50,409 --> 01:44:52,536 I'd like to know if you've heard the new 2209 01:44:52,620 --> 01:44:55,039 McCartney album and if so, how'd you like it? 2210 01:44:55,122 --> 01:44:56,665 - The Wings one? - Yeah. 2211 01:44:56,749 --> 01:44:58,542 I quite enjoy some it, yeah. 2212 01:44:58,626 --> 01:45:00,002 You know, I think it's, uh, 2213 01:45:00,085 --> 01:45:02,046 I don't... it's very hard to, you know, 2214 01:45:02,129 --> 01:45:03,756 - uh, listen to your friend. - How did you like it? 2215 01:45:03,839 --> 01:45:05,132 - How did you like it? - Not much. 2216 01:45:05,216 --> 01:45:06,967 Some of it's all right. I thought it was getting better. 2217 01:45:07,051 --> 01:45:08,636 Some of it wasn't as good and some was better. 2218 01:45:08,719 --> 01:45:10,095 I think he's going in the right direction. 2219 01:45:10,179 --> 01:45:11,972 You think he's getting ba... you think he's getting it back? 2220 01:45:12,056 --> 01:45:14,892 I think he has to. He's got it there somewhere. 2221 01:45:14,975 --> 01:45:16,101 Is he your best friend, Paul? 2222 01:45:16,185 --> 01:45:19,355 I guess, uh, in the male sex, he-he-he was. 2223 01:45:19,438 --> 01:45:20,356 I don't know about now 2224 01:45:20,397 --> 01:45:22,858 because I don't see much of him now. 2225 01:45:24,443 --> 01:45:25,903 There was something in the... 2226 01:45:25,986 --> 01:45:27,029 in the Philadelphia paper here 2227 01:45:27,112 --> 01:45:28,531 which I... which I... can I get in on this? 2228 01:45:28,614 --> 01:45:29,907 - Yeah. Yeah. - Oh, yes. Go ahead. 2229 01:45:29,990 --> 01:45:33,077 This is... this is interesting because I wrote this down. 2230 01:45:33,160 --> 01:45:34,995 The quote is "Yoko is a quiet, 2231 01:45:35,079 --> 01:45:37,289 sweet girl in public, all right." 2232 01:45:37,373 --> 01:45:38,749 - Oh, that's what that is. - Oh, that one. 2233 01:45:38,833 --> 01:45:41,085 "But at home with John it's kvetch, kvetch, kvetch." 2234 01:45:41,168 --> 01:45:44,296 Now, that means, that means nag, that word. 2235 01:45:44,380 --> 01:45:45,965 That-that story is a lunatic story. 2236 01:45:46,048 --> 01:45:47,174 I thought it must have come... 2237 01:45:47,258 --> 01:45:48,342 Now let-let me, give it me. 2238 01:45:48,425 --> 01:45:49,760 It's incredible what they're saying. 2239 01:45:49,844 --> 01:45:50,761 They're saying about... 2240 01:45:50,803 --> 01:45:52,096 this-this is one of those stories, 2241 01:45:52,179 --> 01:45:53,180 I thought it must have come 2242 01:45:53,264 --> 01:45:54,807 from the Holly... "National Enquirer" or something. 2243 01:45:54,890 --> 01:45:56,934 It says things like... It says, uh, has a pa... 2244 01:45:57,017 --> 01:45:58,310 It's supposed to be the inside story. 2245 01:45:58,394 --> 01:45:59,937 It's from the "Los Angeles..." 2246 01:46:00,020 --> 01:46:00,855 This market. 2247 01:46:00,896 --> 01:46:02,356 "Yoko wanted... "It says, "Yoko wanted to call. 2248 01:46:02,439 --> 01:46:05,568 The Beatles 'Yoko's Husband and his Three Sidemen."' 2249 01:46:11,574 --> 01:46:13,409 Would you wait until the boom gets to you... 2250 01:46:13,492 --> 01:46:14,368 would you mind standing? 2251 01:46:14,410 --> 01:46:15,953 Like a lot of times people say you know, 2252 01:46:16,036 --> 01:46:17,288 about demonstrations at all and like 2253 01:46:17,371 --> 01:46:19,790 how everybody should rush out and go to demonstrations 2254 01:46:19,874 --> 01:46:21,625 and everything and it's gonna help. 2255 01:46:21,709 --> 01:46:23,043 But I don't know if it really helps. 2256 01:46:23,127 --> 01:46:24,712 And I want to know like what I can do, 2257 01:46:24,795 --> 01:46:26,630 like me, just personally, like to help 2258 01:46:26,714 --> 01:46:28,048 people, you know, how I can do it. 2259 01:46:28,132 --> 01:46:29,383 Do you want to that? 2260 01:46:29,466 --> 01:46:30,801 You should first start, uh, I think, 2261 01:46:30,885 --> 01:46:31,886 you know, we can all do it. 2262 01:46:31,969 --> 01:46:35,180 But, uh, if we can't solve our own personal problems, 2263 01:46:35,264 --> 01:46:36,640 we can never solve a big problem. 2264 01:46:36,724 --> 01:46:39,852 All we have to do is convince one person, 2265 01:46:39,935 --> 01:46:41,312 and that's all you have to do. 2266 01:46:41,395 --> 01:46:44,690 And, uh, if everybody convinced one person, 2267 01:46:44,773 --> 01:46:46,817 the whole world is going to be convinced. 2268 01:46:46,901 --> 01:46:47,902 You see? It's that simple. 2269 01:46:47,943 --> 01:46:51,030 People tend to think that, uh, somebody will save them, 2270 01:46:51,113 --> 01:46:53,407 whether it's a president or a, you know, 2271 01:46:53,490 --> 01:46:54,575 whoever your hero might be. 2272 01:46:54,658 --> 01:46:57,202 Somebody's going to come out of the blue to save you. 2273 01:46:57,286 --> 01:46:59,163 And there's only people can save us, 2274 01:46:59,246 --> 01:47:00,372 only us all deciding to do 2275 01:47:00,456 --> 01:47:01,999 something about anything, whatever it is, 2276 01:47:02,082 --> 01:47:03,125 just even making that decision 2277 01:47:03,208 --> 01:47:05,628 I want to do something is a start. 166924

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