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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eric Hirshberg: So I assume that Norman\Ndoesn't need much of an introduction,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but TED's audience is global --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's diverse --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I've been tasked\Nwith starting with his bio,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which could easily take up\Nthe entire 18 minutes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so instead we're going to do\N93 years in 93 seconds or less.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You were born in New Hampshire.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Norman Lear: New Haven, Connecticut.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EH: New Haven, Connecticut.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NL: There goes [70] seconds.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EH: Nailed it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You were born in New Haven, Connecticut.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your father was a con man,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got that right.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was taken away to prison\Nwhen you were nine years old.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You flew 52 missions\Nas a fighter pilot in World War II.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You came back to --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NL: Radio operator.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EH: You came to LA\Nto break into Hollywood,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,first in publicity, then in TV.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You had no training as a writer, formally,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you hustled your way in.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your breakthrough --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your debut --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a little show\Ncalled All in the Family.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You follow that up with a string of hits
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that to this day is unmatched\Nin Hollywood:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sanford and Son,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maude,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good Times,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Jeffersons,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One Day at a Time,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to name literally a fraction of them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not only are they all commercially --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not only are they all\Ncommercially successful,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but many of them push our culture forward
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by giving the underrepresented\Nmembers of society
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their first prime-time voice.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have seven shows\Nin the top 10 at one time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At one point,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you aggregate an audience of 120\Nmillion people per week,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,watching your content.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's more than the audience\Nfor Super Bowl 50
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which happens once a year.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NL: Holy shit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EH: And we're not even\Nto the holy shit part.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You land yourself\Non Richard Nixon's enemies list --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he had one.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's an applause line, too.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're inducted into the TV Hall of Fame\Non the first day that it exists,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then came the movies.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fried Green Tomatoes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Princess Bride,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stand By Me,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Spinal Tap.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again, just to name a fraction.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then you wipe the slate clean --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,start a third act as a political activist\Nfocusing on protecting the first amendment
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the separation of church and state.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You start People For The American Way;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you buy the Declaration of Independence
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and give it back to the people;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you stay active in both entertainment\Nand politics until the ripe of age of 93,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you write a book
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make a documentary\Nabout your life story.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And after all that,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they finally think you're\Nready for a TED Talk.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NL: I love being here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I love you for agreeing to do this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EH: Thank you for asking.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's my honor.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So here's my first question.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Was your mother proud of you?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NL: My mother ...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what a place to start.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me put it this way,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I came back from the war,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she showed me the letters\Nthat I had written her from overseas,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they were absolute love letters.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This really sums up my mother.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were love letters,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if I had written them to --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were love letters.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A year later I asked my mother\Nif I could have them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I'd like to keep them\Nall the years of my life ...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she had thrown them away.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's my mother.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The best way I can sum it up\Nin more recent time is --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is also more recent times --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a number of years ago,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they started the Hall of Fame\Nto which you referred,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was a Sunday morning
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I got a call from the fellow who ran\Nthe TV Academy of Arts and Sciences,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was calling me to tell me\Nthey had met all day yesterday
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he was confidentially telling me\Nthey were going to start a hall of fame
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and these were the inductees.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started to say Richard Nixon
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because Richard Nixon --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EH: I don't think he was on their list.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NL: William Paley who started CBS,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,David Sarnoff who started NBC,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Edward R. Morrow,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the greatest of the foreign\Ncorrespondents,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Patty Chayefsky --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the best writer\Nthat ever came out of television --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Milton Berle,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lucille Ball
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EH: Not bad.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NL: I call my mother immediately\Nin Hartford, Connecticut.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Mom, this is what's happened,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're starting a hall of fame,"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I tell her the list of names and me,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she says,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Listen, if that's what they\Nwant to do, who am I to say?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NL: So that's ...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's my Ma --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it earns that kind of a laugh
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because everybody\Nhas a piece of that mother.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EH: And the sitcom Jewish mother\Nis born right there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So your father also played\Na large role in your life,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mostly by his absence.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tell us what happened when\Nyou were nine years old.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NL: He was ...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was flying to Oklahoma
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with three guys that my mother said,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Don't --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't want you to have anything\Nto do with them,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't trust those men."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's when I heard,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe not for the first time,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Stifle yourself, Jeanette, I'm going."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he went.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It turns out he was selling --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,picking up some fake bonds,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which he was flying\Nacross the country to sell.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the fact that he was\Ngoing to Oklahoma in a plane,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he was going to bring me\Nback a 10-gallon hat,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just like Ken Maynard,\Nmy favorite cowboy wore.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know this was a few years after\NLindburgh crossed the atlantic--
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean it was exotic\Nthat my father was going there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when he came back,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they arrested him as he got off the plane.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That night newspapers\Nwere all over the house,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my father was with his hat\Nin front of his face,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[manicled] to a detector.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my mother was selling the furniture\Nbecause we were leaving --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she couldn't afford --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she didn't want to stay\Nin that state of shame,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Chelsea, Massachussetts.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And selling the furniture,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the house was loaded with people,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the middle of all of that,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some strange horse's ass\Nput his hand on my shoulder and said,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, you're the man of the house now."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm crying and this asshole says\N"You're the man of the house now,"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think that was the moment
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I began to understand the foolishness\Nof the human condition.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So ...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it took a lot of years to look back at it\Nand feel it was a benefit,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EH: Well it's interesting\Nyou call it a benefit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listening to you --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NL: Benefit in that it gave\Nme that springboard.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean that I could think
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how foolish it was to say\Nto this crying nine year old boy,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"you're the man of the house now."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I was crying and then he said,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And men of the house don't cry."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I ...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So ...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I look back and I think
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's when I learned\Nthe foolishness of the human condition,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's been that gift that I've used.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EH: So you have father who's absent,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have a mother for whom\Napparently nothing is good enough.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you think that starting out as a kid\Nwho maybe never felt heard
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,started you down a journey
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that ended with you being an adult
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a weekly audience\Nof 120 million people?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NL: I love the way you put that question.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I guess I spent my life wanting --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if anything, wanting to be heard.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think ...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a simple answer,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was what sparked --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's are other things, too.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When my father was away,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was fooling with a crystal radio set\Nthat we had made together,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I caught a signal that turned\Nout to be Father Coughlin on --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yes, somebody laughed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But not funny,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this was a horse's--
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not a horse's ass --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was very vocal\Nabout hating the New Deal
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Roosevelt and Jews.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First time I ran into an understanding
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there were people\Nin this world that hated me
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I was born to Jewish parents.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that had an enormous\Neffect on my life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EH: So you had a childhood
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with little in the way of strong\Nmale role models,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except for your grandfather.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tell us about him.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NL: Oh, my grandfather.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well he was the way I always talked about,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that grandfather.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were parades,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lots of parades when I was a kid.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were parades on Veteran's Day,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on President's --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there wasn't a President's Day.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was for Abraham Lincoln's birthday,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,George Washington's birthday
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Flag Day,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and lots of little parades.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My grandfather used to take me,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we'd stand on the street corner,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he'd hold my hand
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I look up and I'd see a tear\Nrunning down his eye.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he meant a great deal to me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he used to write Presidents\Nof the United States,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every President --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every letter started,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"My dearest, darling Mr. President,"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he'd tell him something\Nwonderful about what he did.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when he disagreed\Nwith the President he also wrote,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"My dearest, darling Mr. President,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,didn't I tell you last week...?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I would run down the stairs\Nevery now and then
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and pick up the mail --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were three flights up,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,74 York Street, New Haven, Connecticut --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'd pick up a little white envelope\Nreading, "Shia C. called at this address,"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's the story I have told\Nabout my grandfather --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EH: They wrote him back\Non the envelopes --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NL: They wrote back.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I have shown them myself,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going way back to Phil Donahue\Nand others before him,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dozens --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,literally --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of interviews in which I told that story.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This will be the second time I have said\Nthe whole story was a lie.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The truth was my grandfather\Ntook me to parades,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we had lots of those.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The truth is a tear came down his eye.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The truth is he would write\Nand occasional letter
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I did pick up those little envelopes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, "My dearest darling Mr. President",
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the rest of it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a story I borrowed from a good friend\Nwhose grandfather was that grandfather,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who wrote those letters.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I mean, I stole Arthur\NMarshall's grandfather
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and made him my own.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Always.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I started to write my memoir --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even this, how about that?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even this I get to experience.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I started to write the memoir
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I started to think about it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then I ...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did a reasonable amount of crying
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I realized how much\NI needed the father,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so much so that I appropriated\NArthur Marshall's grandfather.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So much so,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the word "father" --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have six kids by the way,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my favorite role in life,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and husband to my wife Lynn --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I stole the man's identity\Nbecause I needed the father.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I've gone through a whole lot of shit
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and come out on the other side,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I actually --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the best thing --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the worst thing --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,word I'd like to use about him\Nand think about him is rascal.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fact that he lied\Nand stole and cheated,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and went to prison ...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I submerge that in the word "rascal".
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EH: Well there's a saying that amatuers\Nborrow and professionals steal.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NL: I'm a pro.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EH: And that quote is widely\Nattributed to John Lennon,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it turns out he\Nstole it from T.S. Eliot.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you're in good company.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EH: I want to talk about your work.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Obviously the impact of your work\Nhas been written about
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm sure you've\Nheard about it all your life:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what it meant to people,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what it meant to your culture,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you heard the applause when I just\Nnamed the names of the shows,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you raised half the people\Nin the room through your work.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But have there ever been any stories\Nabout the impact of your work
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that surprised you?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NL: Oh, god --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,surprised me and delighted me\Nfrom head to toe.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was an evening wtih Norman Lear\Nwithin the last year
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that a group of Hip-Hop\Nimpressarios and performers,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Academy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The subtext of "An Evening With ..."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was "what do a 92-year-old Jew" --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then 92 --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and the world of Hip-Hop\Nhave in common?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Russel Simmons was among seven on stage.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when he talked about the shows,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he wasn't talking about the Hollywood\NGeorge Jeffereson in the Jeffersons
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the show that was\Nthe "Number Five" show
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was talking about a simple thing\Nthat made a big --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EH: Impact on him?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NL: An impact on him --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was hesitating over the word, "change."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's hard for me to imagine,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, changing somebody's life,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that's how he put it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He saw George Jefferson\Nwrite a check on The Jeffersons,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he never knew that a Black man\Ncould write a check.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he says it just\Nimpacted his life so --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it changed his life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I hear things like that --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,little things --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I know that there isn't\Nanybody in this audience
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that wasn't likely responsible today for\Nsome little thing they did for somebody,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as little as a smile\Nor an unexpected "hello,"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's how little this thing was.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It could have been the dresser of the set
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who put the checkbook on the thing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and George had nothing to do while\Nhe was speaking so he wrote it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EH: So in addition to the long list\NI shared in the beginning,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I should have also mentioned\Nthat you invented Hip-Hop.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NL: Well --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EH: I want to talk about --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NL: Well, then do it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)