these shows to inform and to uplift. you want the truth? you can t handle the truth. to engage with issues that affect society. so here we go. they can improve and disrupt. to be an american art form. you re watching a bad late night tv talk show. i m just kidding with you. it s exciting. it s electric. you are correct, sir. it s part of american culture. prepare to have your minds blown. i m happy to report to you today that the state of the un continues to be good. here s the home that cost its happy owners just $29,000. enjoy real big bakes for television at a small picture price. the year zero for late night television. in those days, the ownership of television sets wasn t great. growing up in nebraska, television will eventually come. television shows ended around 11:00. i can t imagine not being able to turn on a tv and see something. that is so crazy to me. there would be a flag waving. it would go to a test pattern for about 30 s
three-year-old why we re matching in these streets. how do i explain to my three-year-old what his death has done to me. how do i explain to my three-year-old another black man was killed by police? they killed him. shot him in the back in cold blood and now he s anger and pain and i don t know why we re shocked. it s not knew. just more of the same. history repeats itself. and yet we never learn. perhaps the only way to know is if we let this city burn. how do i explain to my three-year-old why i m marching in these streets. what s her name! how do i explain to my three-year-old what his death has done to me? how to explain to my three-year-old another black man was killed by police. summer of 2020, america s reckons. but heats be clear. this is now of policing. this is if first time he saw them. like a spider-man movie this is just another movie. pay more attention this time. baby this is my last impression it s also not the first time we tried to figure
in to see. the years of the 60s which end in a few hours have a bad reputation that is not entirely justified. some things got worse, obviously. but tv and other news coverage is better, not worse. we simply developed more demanding standards. when i think of tv, i think of the 70s. what is this world coming to? the american public was hungry for more. more was allowed that hadn t been before. it was the last decade where it was a campfire television, where there was one in the living room. i want to watch an all-black show for a change. oh, where are you going to find one? here s one. the los angeles lakers against the milwaukee bucks. young people were interested in relevant things. and so television began to reflect that. this is cbs. really it was very simple. you had three channels plus pbs. when the decade turned over into the 70s, television was very rural. hee haw! the beverly hillbillies. cbs had the beverly hillbillies.
television. we have seen the news, and it is us. slowly, but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us, and what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! as you begin the 80s, in the television world, the landscape was, on any-given evening, nine out of ten people were watching only one of three networks. more than 30 million people are addicted to it. social critics are mystified by its success. what is it? it s television s primetime prairie pot boiler, dallas. a move like that will destroy all of viewing and it will ruin our family name. i assure you a thought like that never crossed my mind. brother or no brother, whatever it takes i will stop you from destroying ewing oil. in terms of a weekly-one-hour show that literally captivated america for 13 years. dallas is a television show, which in some ways is rooted in the 1970s. and one of the crazy things that emerges is this character, jr ewing as a pop phenomenon. tell me, jr,
and the cicadas are coming out, about a trillion of them. had in true 2021 style, what do you do if you find yourself in a cicada storm. we ll talk about it. it is sunday, may 9th. we wish all who celebrate a happy mother s day. thanks for waking up with us, and happy mother s day to you, christi. thank you, boris. happy mother s day to everybody out there. as far as i know, i think everybody just wants some sleep, so just from everything i have seen on instagram, just give me some sleep and a little bit of time by myself, which is counter productive as a mother, but whatever, it s just what we need sometimes. the perfect gift. and we also needed to know what was going to happen with this rocket, right? everybody was talking about it yesterday. the hours of guessing and uncertainty, they re over, this out of control chinese rocket did make a crash landing overnight. yeah, u.s. space command has confirmed the long march 5b rocket entered the earth s atmosphere over the a