Guests will ferrell alan cumming comedian, Jessica Kirson and featuring the legendary roots crew questlove 1161 steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause [ cheers and applause jimmy thank you very much, everybody. [ cheers and applause hi hello. Welcome to the tonight show, everybody. Youre here. [ cheers and applause thank you so much for watching thank you for being here well last night was the fifth democratic president ial debate because after a full week of impeachment hearings, what better way to relax than watching 10 democrats yell at each other [ laughter ] its been nonstop politics all week seriously, i think im watching way too much news. Last night, i listened to Rachel Maddow talk for an hour, then i realized my tv wasnt even on. [ laughter ] on last nights debate, Pete Buttigieg did very well yeah yeah, he tried to separate himself from the field by claiming that he was the least wealthy person on stage. [ light laughter ] then he added, but that could
Alan cumming comedian, Jessica Kirson and feuring the legendary roots crew questlove 1161 steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause [ cheers and applause jimmy thank you very much, everybody. [ cheers and applause hi hello. He. [ cheers and applause thank you so much for watching thank you for being here well last night was the fifth democratic president ial debate because after a full week of impeachment hearings, what better way to relax than watching 10 democrats yell at each other [ laughter ] its been nonstop politics all week seriously, i think im watching way too much news. Last night, i listened to Rachel Maddow talk for an hour, then i realized my tv wasnt even on. [ laughter ] on last nights debate, Pete Buttigieg did very well yeah yeah, he tried to separate himself from the field by claiming that he was the least wealthy person on stage. [ light laughter ] then he added, but that could change after my parents give me my allowance. [ laughter ] thatd be n
Viewers to stick through other commercials through the final segment in the defeat of measure. The story appeared a few minutes before 7 00 and was introduced by dan rather who replaced turk on tight to the year before. Other countries have done it for years but in this country the conversion of the metric system system didnt draw many and only inched along rather said. He has more on what it takes to kill the meter. After a lot of who plot the tax dollars spent to tell us why we needed to go match rick is a metric system that is about to go a new victim of the Ronald Reagan budget cut back. But he wasnt talking about the metric system. But he did is be founded something called the u. S. Metric board the lady that was playing one of those earlier. They interviewed a few folks about these issues including these two who are arch enemies of the match rick system. Tom wolfe was working on vanities but his big success after that point had been the right stuff about astronauts so he got on a
And im not being snotty. It was a different kind of war. The people were not engaged by it. In vietnam, you had some songs, but theyre songs in which two groups are warring with one another. Give peace a chance, and whats the im an oaky from ma skokie. Iraq and afghanistan dont produce a lot of songs. Again, because in a way they were invisible, and in a way, we know about them, were not as a nation engaged in it. We dont have a citizen army anymore. That gets in the way of that. So in world war i, you have a mix. Really, in the middle between the two wars, and it shows. There were songs about mom, and there were songs about sweetie. Soldiers singing im going to pin the medal on the girl i left behind, in world war i. There are other differences between world war i and world war ii, love songs that ill save for a few minutes. But its the mother song that i want to get to. Again, its the idea of staying out of it, delivering a kind of anthem, in the way that the first song is an anthem,
In that those who didnt participate, meaning the civilians left at home, especially in the u. S. Where the war didnt come here, so the civilians didnt have a context of this ultimate suffering that the soldiers went through. And so to the people at home who were waiting for their men to come home, they came back. It was a sensationalism in the sense that you guys were heros in the war. Now lets get on with our lives because ive been waiting for you. And i think that that idea of civilians wait iing, it kind of steam rolls soldier memory. The soldiers arent waiting in the same sense that the civilians are. Their experiences are, oh, great, lets move on. Save that title. Steam roller of memory. Someone else had a hand up. Pete . I think i think it says that because at least this is one what im thinking. In world war i, theres nothing sensational about american involvement. You would think americans were god on earth in world war i for saving everyone. In the context of the larger story o