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[ cheers and applause [ cheers and applause jimmy oh my goodness, thank you very much, i love you oh, i love you please have a seat thank you very much. I love you welcome, relax, enjoy yourself welcome, everybody welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show. Thank you so much for being here thank you for watching at home you guys [ cheers and applause im very excited about this. It chapter 2 comes out this weekend. [ cheers ] when they heard that, actual clowns were like, oh, come on i was just starting to get work again. I mean come on [ laughter ] lets get to some news here. I read that President Trump promised that if hes reelected, hell build 500 miles of border wall yep, and if hes not reelected hell just draw a wall with a sharpie. [ laughter ] but this is odd. [ light laughter ] i didnt do it. Thats the way the wall was. [ laughter ] but this is odd right here, the Trump Administration Just Announced that theyre rolling back efficiency standards for lightbulbs it was a confusi
[indiscernible] he can call superwoman and super dog it wont do him no good i found out why from a russian spy he aint nothing but a comic book gonna pull him off the stand clean up the land gonna have us a brandnew day and what is more i got the fantastic four and spiderman to help him on his way i said come out with your hands held high drop your guns, reach for the sky aintu surrounded and you got a chance gonna send you back to texas, make you work on your ranch yeah ah, yeah, agriculturalm in worker. [applause] lordy, lordy, [laughter] gave me an f. F. Thank you. I needed that. Got himself in a terrible jam way down in vietnam. Put down your books pick up your gun where gonna have a lot of fun what are we fighting for . Me, i dont give a damn aint no time to run under why to wonder why we all gonna die. There is plenty good money to be made supplying the army with the tools of the trade 2, 3, what are we fighting for . Dont ask me, i dont give a damn next up is vietnam open up the
[applause] gave me an m m thank you, i needed that. 2, 3, 4 [laughter] [applause] please welcome to the stage mr. Peter yarrow singersongwriter and political activist and the executive director of the Grammy Museum at l a live joining mr. Country joe mcdonald for our next panel. [applause] well, joe, on behalf of everyone here i want to thank you for exercising your freedom of expression and freedom of speech. Thank you very much. [applause] 50 years. And boy, for those of us who were alive back then and remember that song and remember those days, that was one song that could always get a response going and it did even here. Interesting, huh . Look, every generation has a sound track. Every historical era has a sound track. Every historical moment. Every movement. Music has played a vital part in americas history. Its been there from the revolutionary times and it goes right through our history even today. And almost always the music was creative, expressive, and sometimes controversia