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Episode #3986 The New Phil Hendrie Show Radio Archive Hour · The World of Phil Hendrie

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Speaker 1: Welcome to today's featured Radio Archive Hour. Stephen Bozell is
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Speaker 1: with us, folks. And this is from, let me look
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Speaker 1: at the.
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Speaker 3: Notes, Bud.
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Speaker 2: These would be right over here.
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Speaker 1: And then I understand that.
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Speaker 2: Let me just see.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, right there.
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Speaker 1: Bud, your finger's in the way. Yes, this is the.
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Speaker 3: Right there.
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, from September 2003. Steve Bozell is suing the
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Speaker 1: Jerry Lewis telethon because he says he was traumatized and
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Speaker 1: his kid was traumatized when Jerry, poor Jerry... Toward the
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Speaker 1: end of his life, he had to take steroids, and
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Speaker 1: so he was kind of bloated. And Steve was traumatized
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Speaker 1: by seeing Jerry Lewis bloated.
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Speaker 2: Basically, that's it.
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Speaker 1: More traumatized than he says his kids were. Here's Steve,
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Speaker 1: you dumb guy.
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Speaker 2: Jerry Lewis' telethon was... It.
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Speaker 3: Was this weekend.
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Speaker 2: This past day, was it?
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Speaker 3: It was yesterday, sir.
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Speaker 2: All right, now, Mr. Lewis has a telethon for muscular dystrophy.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and as I was telling your producer, I think
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Speaker 3: that to pretend to help children... and do what he
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Speaker 3: did yesterday to traumatize millions of American children.
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Speaker 2: All right, this is the point that I wanted to
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Speaker 2: get to.
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Speaker 4: You're accusing Jerry Lewis of traumatizing millions of American children,
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Speaker 4: and you've also accused him in the draft here of
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Speaker 4: your class action lawsuit of hypocrisy?
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Speaker 3: That is correct, yes, sir.
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Speaker 2: Were you watching with your kids?
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Speaker 3: Yes, I was watching with my son, Steve Jr., and
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Speaker 3: my daughter. My son is 10. My daughter has just
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Speaker 3: turned 7. I'm a little bit nervous.
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Speaker 2: You're doing very well.
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Speaker 3: I had showed them Jerry Lewis movies. I'd showed them
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Speaker 3: a couple of the films. And I told my children
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Speaker 3: that he was funny and that we were going to
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Speaker 3: have fun watching him on this telephone. I had gone
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Speaker 3: in to get some iced tea, and the show came on,
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Speaker 3: and my daughter was crying, and my son followed her
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Speaker 3: into the kitchen.
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Speaker 4: Now, your daughter was crying after the Jerry Lewis telethon started?
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Speaker 3: That is correct.
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Speaker 2: Now, what did she say?
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Speaker 3: I wrote it down for my attorney. She said that, Daddy,
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Speaker 3: there is a monster on TV, and my son was
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Speaker 3: also crying.
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Speaker 2: Now, your daughter thought she saw a monster on TV,
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Speaker 2: and it was Mr. Lewis. Is that correct?
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Speaker 3: That is correct.
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Speaker 4: Now, let's explain to people. Jerry Lewis is suffering from
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Speaker 4: what is called cardio....
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Speaker 3: I don't know what it's called, and I think you're
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Speaker 3: sidetracking the issue.
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Speaker 2: Well, we need people to know that Mr.
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Speaker 4: Lewis is bloated from the steroids that he's taking because
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Speaker 4: of this disease.
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Speaker 3: That may be, and I don't think that that has
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Speaker 3: anything really to do with what I'm talking about. If
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Speaker 3: he comes on TV looking like a freak or whatever.
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Speaker 2: This is what I'm having a problem with. He doesn't
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Speaker 2: look like a freak.
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Speaker 3: But to my daughter, he looked like a freak. And
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Speaker 3: he comes on there, and she said he looked like
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Speaker 3: a monster. And my son said that he looked like
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Speaker 3: a monster. That traumatizes millions of children. And when you
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Speaker 3: have millions of children watching and waiting to send money,
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Speaker 3: and you come out to look like a monster, and
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Speaker 3: you've done this nation a disservice... And I didn't let
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Speaker 3: my children watch, and as a result, they did not watch.
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Speaker 3: My daughter had a difficult time sleeping. My son had
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Speaker 3: a difficult time sleeping.
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Speaker 4: Your kids had a difficult time sleeping because Jerry Lewis
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Speaker 4: was bloated due to his steroids.
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Speaker 3: That is correct, because, again, I think you need to
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Speaker 3: understand the hypocrisy of saying you care about kids, and
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Speaker 3: then you come out on television, and you look like
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Speaker 3: a carnival freak. I think it is a disservice to
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Speaker 3: every child. and the Dystrophy Association.
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Speaker 4: Now, I saw the draft of the proposed class action
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Speaker 4: lawsuit that your attorney faxed to us. $ 60 million.
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Speaker 2: You're not going to get $ 60 million.
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Speaker 3: No, I understand that, sir, but it is a symbolic number.
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Speaker 3: I just think it's wrong, as I have said to
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Speaker 3: my wife, and I've said also to Jim Kruger, who
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Speaker 3: runs the paralegal in the office there, that these celebrities
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Speaker 3: who look like sideshow freaks....
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Speaker 2: You know how offensive that is, sir?
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Speaker 3: Forgive me, Mr. Henry, but I'm trying to show you.
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Speaker 4: No, but to say a celebrity looks like a sideshow
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Speaker 4: freak is insensitive.
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Speaker 3: Well, these people make an awful lot of money, Mr. Henry.
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Speaker 3: Believe me, they're, you know, they're.
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Speaker 2: It's not just those people. It's not just the celebrities.
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Speaker 4: It's the people out there who don't have any celebrity
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Speaker 4: that suffer from these diseases.
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Speaker 2: Whether it's, you know, a Jerry Lewis who had to
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Speaker 2: take these steroids. It's bloated his body.
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Speaker 3: You look at this man, Mr. Douglas, this Kirk Douglas gentleman,
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Speaker 3: who comes out looking like a sideshow freak.
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Speaker 2: Mr. Douglas had a stroke.
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, I understand that.
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Speaker 2: But I don't like the term sideshow freak is all
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Speaker 2: I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: I'm saying that that's how the child sees it, when
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Speaker 3: Kirk Douglas comes. And you say he had a stroke.
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Speaker 3: My understanding was that a door hit him or something.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry?
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Speaker 3: My understanding, Mr. Douglas, we're talking about Kirk Douglas? Yeah.
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Speaker 3: That a door hit him?
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Speaker 2: You mean that his mouth got that way from a
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Speaker 2: door hitting him?
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Speaker 3: No, sir. All right.
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Speaker 2: That was a stroke that he had.
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Speaker 3: The point is, I don't think these people should be
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Speaker 3: allowed on television. You've got a lot of children out
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Speaker 3: there who have nightmares, and I think it was very
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Speaker 3: selfish of Mr. Lewis to come on looking like some
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Speaker 3: kind of a monster from the monster movies. and for
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Speaker 3: my children to feel that. And that's what I said
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Speaker 3: to my attorney, and that's what I also said to Mr. Kruger,
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Speaker 3: but I haven't gotten a call back from him. All right,
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Speaker 3: our number is, Mr.
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Speaker 2: Kruger's not related to the Muscular Dystrophy Foundation.
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Speaker 3: No, but he is a big supporter of, he gives
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Speaker 3: a lot of money to the telethon.
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Speaker 2: All right, our number is 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 5: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 4: I'm speaking, by the way, with Stephen Bozell. He is
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Speaker 4: a construction contractor, a citizen out in Corona, California. His
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Speaker 4: daughter and son, he said, were traumatized by seeing Jerry
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Speaker 4: Lewis on television yesterday.
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Speaker 2: You're claiming that he looked like a monster to your daughter?
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Speaker 3: That is correct.
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Speaker 2: Now, for those of you who don't know, Mr. Lewis
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Speaker 2: suffers from a.
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Speaker 4: Cardiophibrosis, which is literally fibroids that are on the heart
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Speaker 4: or around the heart. He has to take steroids. Steroids,
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Speaker 4: for those of you who don't know, will bloat the skin.
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Speaker 5: Uh.
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Speaker 3: i thought so good at interjected record i think what
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Speaker 3: you're saying is important and i think what you're saying
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Speaker 3: can be educational to a lot of people but i
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Speaker 3: think it's irrelevant to what we're talking about right now
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Speaker 3: i don't care what he has uh.
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Speaker 4: you said that mister kirk douglas the great actor looked
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Speaker 4: like a somebody banged on the face with a door
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Speaker 4: the man had a stroke i have if i.
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Speaker 3: Don't have the right information forgive me but that doesn't
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Speaker 3: make any difference what does make difference what makes a
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Speaker 3: difference sir is that kirk douglas will come out and
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Speaker 3: With the face thing, you know, with that face.
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Speaker 2: He had a stroke. That's what makes it difficult for
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Speaker 2: him to talk.
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Speaker 3: He talks like he's retarded. He has a face that
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Speaker 3: looks like someone hit him with a bat. And for
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Speaker 3: children to look at that. on a national television broadcast,
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Speaker 3: or the Academy Awards, or whatever else you want to say.
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Speaker 3: I think of all American children who've been scarred by
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Speaker 3: seeing Jerry Lewis come out looking like a carnival freak.
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Speaker 4: I really got a hard time with carnival freak. Because,
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Speaker 4: you know, there are people who have suffered that.
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Speaker 3: I understand that. But please understand, I'm saying this, and
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Speaker 3: the telethon should have been rated R. Because with him
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Speaker 3: looking like a monster, many of the monster shows now
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Speaker 3: are rated R.
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Speaker 2: All right. A lot of monster shows, sir. Those are movies.
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Speaker 3: I understand that.
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Speaker 4: I want to get into what happened to your daughter.
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Speaker 4: You say she came in and said, Daddy, there's a
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Speaker 4: monster on TV.
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Speaker 3: That's correct. And the problem is, and again, why I
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Speaker 3: brought this up with your producer, the night before, I
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Speaker 3: had shown the kids the movie Superman with Christopher Reeve,
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Speaker 3: and then I turned the movie off, and I knew
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Speaker 3: they'd do this to me. I knew that this would
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Speaker 3: happen to me. I flipped on to Channel 9 News...
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Speaker 3: And they've got Christopher Reeve now sitting in a chair
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Speaker 3: with a tube in his neck. And he looks, and
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Speaker 3: the head's all bald. And I said to my son,
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Speaker 3: I made the mistake of telling my son that that
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Speaker 3: was Superman there. And I thought he cried, he was traumatized,
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Speaker 3: because Superman looked like some kind of a retard sitting there.
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Speaker 2: You know, you're mixing a lot of words here, sir.
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Speaker 3: Well, I'm trying to get my side.
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Speaker 4: But you're mixing a lot of words. He looked like
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Speaker 4: a retard sitting there. You know, the man was paralyzed.
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Speaker 3: I understand that. But please, again, the other thing, too,
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Speaker 3: and I think Christopher Reeve and I said to my
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Speaker 3: wife and she thought it was funny and I thought
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Speaker 3: it was funny because we tried to lighten it up.
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Speaker 3: And I told the kids that Christopher Reeve ought to
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Speaker 3: shut the hole under his nose and he should shut
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Speaker 3: the one in his neck. It's because of the two holes.
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Speaker 3: And my wife thought it was funny, and I thought
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Speaker 3: it was funny, but my child, you know, my children
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Speaker 3: didn't laugh.
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Speaker 2: Well, I've got to agree with you kids.
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Speaker 4: I don't find that funny at all, sir, making fun
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Speaker 4: of someone's malady like that.
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Speaker 3: I'm not making fun of the malady. I'm trying to
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Speaker 3: say it. for the children.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 4: Should Jerry Lewis have been on television last night in
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Speaker 4: that bloated condition if it scared kids? Ardella, you're on
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Speaker 4: the Phil Henry Show with Stephen Bozell.
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Speaker 3: Hello. Hi.
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Speaker 5: I think that Mr. McCullough should have been teaching children
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Speaker 5: to understand and appreciate kids. the goodness and kindness that Mr.
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Speaker 5: Lewis has provided over the years, that this illness and
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Speaker 5: the medication that he took makes him look like this,
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Speaker 5: and his children need to learn love and understanding for
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Speaker 5: other people in this situation.
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Speaker 3: I don't understand. What do you mean?
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Speaker 2: Did you hear what the lady said?
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Speaker 3: I don't know what she's getting at. That's apparent.
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Speaker 5: You need to teach your children to understand that people
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Speaker 5: have these conditions.
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Speaker 3: Well, ma'am, if you go out in the world, it's
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Speaker 3: not very likely you're going to see a guy that
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Speaker 3: looks like some kind of a blimped-out freak like Jerry Lewis.
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Speaker 3: I'm afraid you do. Well, I don't know. I've never
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Speaker 3: seen anything like that, and my kid has not had either.
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Speaker 5: Have you ever been to a care center or visited
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Speaker 5: older people in a care center?
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Speaker 3: No, ma'am, and I dare say most children haven't either. Well,
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Speaker 3: I think all children need to. They need to experience
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Speaker 3: that to understand.
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Speaker 5: I think what they should.
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Speaker 3: Do is that they should not be allowed on television
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Speaker 3: until they're being retarded or whatever's wrong with them goes away.
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Speaker 2: They're not retarded.
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Speaker 3: I mean, whatever's wrong with them.
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Speaker 4: Jerry Lewis, Christopher Reeve, Kirk Douglas. These are people that
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Speaker 4: are movie stars, celebrities that have suffered physical maladies.
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Speaker 2: Mr. Stephen Bozell.
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Speaker 4: Is contemplating a class-action lawsuit against Jerry Lewis for getting
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Speaker 4: on his television show last night as he said, looking
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Speaker 4: like a, quote, sideshow freak, end quote, which I think
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Speaker 4: is cruel. But he says that Mr. Lewis is even crueler,
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Speaker 4: subjecting America's children to looking at him. He is suing,
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Speaker 4: or is contemplating suing Mr.
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Speaker 2: Lewis.
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Speaker 4: For $ 60 million, which is the amount of money that
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Speaker 4: he made on his telethon last night. Phil Henry's show,
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Speaker 4: should these people stay off of television for a while
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Speaker 4: until kids are.
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Speaker 2: You wanted to say what?
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Speaker 3: Well, I don't allow my children to watch shows. You take,
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Speaker 3: for instance, The Incredible Hulk, because I know it would
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Speaker 3: scare them. So why does Jerry Lewis get to walk
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Speaker 3: out on TV looking like a freak like the Hulk?
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Speaker 3: There's no rhyme or reason to any of that, and
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Speaker 3: that's why I'm talking to my attorney about it.
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Speaker 2: Phil Henry's show. The world-famous Phil Henry's show. The Phil
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Speaker 2: Henry Show is back.
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Speaker 6: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 2: Tell us a story. You have somebody in your office
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Speaker 2: with a malady?
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Speaker 3: We have a gentleman in our office who wears these...
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Speaker 3: Have you ever seen these huge, thick Coke bottle glasses?
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Speaker 2: Reading glasses.
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Speaker 3: No, these are eyeglasses that he wears, and they're big, thick. And,
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Speaker 3: you know, you feel so sorry for the guy. And, again,
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Speaker 3: I've had my co-workers say that they're uncomfortable working around
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Speaker 3: him because he looks like some... I mean, they've used
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Speaker 3: the term four-eyed freak. I say to them that he's
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Speaker 3: just a man who has a vision problem. But they'll
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Speaker 3: say they're uncomfortable working around him. He looks like a
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Speaker 3: four-eyed freak. They want to be moved to another workstation
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Speaker 3: and this. What am I supposed to say?
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Speaker 2: Well, the man's wearing really thick glasses.
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Speaker 3: He wears these, yeah, eyeglasses. And I've just got another gal.
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Speaker 3: My wife works with two women in her office. One
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Speaker 3: of them, has what's called a wandering eye, or I
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Speaker 3: don't know if you've ever seen that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a muscle imbalance in the eye.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's very, very, again, she says she's some
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Speaker 3: Marty Feldman-looking freak, and she doesn't want to work with her,
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Speaker 3: and she's got another woman who's got a Marty Feldman-looking
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Speaker 3: freak eye, too. What do you say? How do you
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Speaker 3: do it? My feeling is you have to go after
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Speaker 3: the problem at the root, and that's why we're suing Mr.
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Speaker 5: Lewis.
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Speaker 3: He can't come out on the stage like he did
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Speaker 3: last night. looking like out of a monster movie without
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Speaker 3: the children being afraid.
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Speaker 2: Well, Mr. Bozell, our number is 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 4: If you tell the children it's a malady and not
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Speaker 4: a monster, I think that might do some good.
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Speaker 3: Tracy, go ahead.
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Speaker 2: You're on the Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 3: Hi.
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Speaker 2: Hi.
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Speaker 7: My question is, what is wrong with this man?
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Speaker 3: He has some kind of a fibrosis, ma'am, that makes
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Speaker 3: him have steroids. The steroids have bloated him.
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Speaker 7: No, no, no, I'm not talking about Jerry Lewis. I'm
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Speaker 7: talking about you.
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Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong with me. I'm a father that loves
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Speaker 3: his children, that's all.
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Speaker 7: Well, you know what, sir?
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Speaker 3: I mean, I hope you love your kids. If you
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Speaker 3: don't love your kids, that's your business. But I love
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Speaker 3: my children.
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Speaker 7: I certainly do love my children. I love my children
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Speaker 7: probably just as much, if not more, than you do.
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Speaker 3: But the point is... I doubt that.
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Speaker 7: The point is, is that you are teaching these children...
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Speaker 7: to be afraid of these people. You are not teaching
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Speaker 7: these children to understand what is wrong with these people.
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Speaker 2: That's exactly right.
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Speaker 4: For instance, you can say they have a physical malady
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Speaker 4: and they're people to be helped and assisted.
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Speaker 3: Mr. Henry, most monster movies that you see, the person
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Speaker 3: who's the monster.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, but you know what? In a monster movie, it's
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Speaker 7: all made up. And you don't have to let your
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Speaker 7: children watch these things. I don't understand why you are
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Speaker 7: allowing your children to watch these things in the first place.
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Speaker 3: So now you say it's pornographic? Is that it?
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Speaker 8: No, no, no.
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Speaker 7: What I'm saying is it's your fault. If you don't
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Speaker 7: want your child watching these things... Then you are the adult.
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Speaker 7: You make the decision to take this stuff away from them.
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Speaker 3: Then if you go to the video store and you
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Speaker 3: rent a movie that you think is Cinderella and you
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Speaker 3: bring it home and it turns out to be some
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Speaker 3: John Holmes porn movie where he's put three different lesbians
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Speaker 3: or whatever, am I going to yell at you for
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Speaker 3: exposing your child to that? No, you didn't know. You
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Speaker 3: were taken by surprise. Same with me watching the Jerry
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Speaker 3: Lewis telethon. It's completely different.
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Speaker 7: Jerry Lewis has a disease. And this is something that
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Speaker 7: you have to teach your children.
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Speaker 3: You know what?
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Speaker 7: My niece has had.
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Speaker 6: Cerebral palsy since the day she was born.
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Speaker 3: She's had what, ma'am?
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Speaker 7: She's had cerebral palsy ever since the day she was born.
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Speaker 7: She had to have.
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Speaker 3: Do you let her out?
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Speaker 7: Pardon me?
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Speaker 3: Do you let her out? Do you let her out
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Speaker 3: on the street just so people see that?
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Speaker 2: Well, of course we do. Why wouldn't she let her?
16:04
Speaker 2: The girl's got to go to school. Why wouldn't she
16:06
Speaker 2: let her out?
16:07
Speaker 3: Because those are the people.
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Speaker 7: Because she's a normal human being that has a condition.
16:13
Speaker 3: When she was two years old, she had to have
16:15
Speaker 3: a complete.
16:17
Speaker 3: Does she hit her chest with her wrist and all
16:19
Speaker 3: of that, or what does she do? No, she doesn't.
16:20
Speaker 7: She used to have epilepsy as well, and when she
16:22
Speaker 7: was two years old, because she was being on so
16:24
Speaker 7: much phenobarbital, they took her off of it and split
16:27
Speaker 7: her brain in half.
16:28
Speaker 3: And those people, too, because every time they fall on
16:30
Speaker 3: the ground, you've got to put a spoon down their
16:31
Speaker 3: throat so they don't swallow it. No, no, no.
16:34
Speaker 7: You know, contrary to popular belief, you do not shove
16:36
Speaker 7: anything down an epileptic's mouth. You let them ride out
16:39
Speaker 7: the stroke or whatever it is they're having, and then
16:42
Speaker 7: you deal with it. Obviously, you don't know squat about anything.
16:47
Speaker 7: And I pray to God that Jerry Lewis.
16:50
Speaker 2: Turns around and sees your ass.
16:52
Speaker 3: But Mr. Lewis has a disease. He shouldn't be on television.
16:55
Speaker 3: That's the point we're trying to make.
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Speaker 6: That's not the point.
16:58
Speaker 3: You know what?
16:59
Speaker 7: This is a free country. And it is a free country.
17:02
Speaker 7: will of every human being in it to do as they.
17:06
Speaker 8: See fit, not what you see fit.
17:08
Speaker 3: I've been trying to make this point. Every monster movie,
17:10
Speaker 3: the monster has a disease, too. Jason Voorhees has his
17:15
Speaker 3: all messed up in the head. Also, Freddy Krueger was
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Speaker 3: in a fire. Tell me that's not no disease. No, ma'am, I.
17:22
Speaker 4: Are you hearing what the lady is saying? What do
17:24
Speaker 4: you mean Freddy Krueger had a disease?
17:26
Speaker 3: Every monster movie, the monster has a physical affliction, is
17:29
Speaker 3: what I'm trying to say.
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Speaker 7: Well, you know what, sir?
17:31
Speaker 3: Do you feel sorry for Freddy Krueger? No, you don't. No,
17:34
Speaker 3: you don't, ma'am. You don't feel sorry for Jason Voorhees.
17:36
Speaker 3: You don't feel sorry for Michael Myers. You don't feel
17:39
Speaker 3: sorry for.
17:40
Speaker 2: We got all the monsters. You want me to feel
17:41
Speaker 2: sorry for Godzilla, too?
17:43
Speaker 7: Listen, you're the one who's got the serious malady, and
17:46
Speaker 7: in the end, I hope you get yours.
17:49
Speaker 3: Well, ma'am, you want me to be sodomized? She didn't
17:52
Speaker 3: say that. You know what?
17:54
Speaker 7: After a $ 60 million suit that you think you're going
17:58
Speaker 7: to win, you are going to be sadly mistaken. And
18:01
Speaker 7: I hope that in the end you get yours for
18:03
Speaker 7: all of this. And if you think this is going
18:05
Speaker 7: to help your business, well, think again.
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Speaker 2: All right, listen, Tracy, thanks a lot.
18:10
Speaker 3: Wait a minute. I want to say something.
18:11
Speaker 2: No, the lady's gone.
18:12
Speaker 3: I wanted to get the last word, and you didn't
18:14
Speaker 3: allow me to. And it makes me look like a fool.
18:18
Speaker 2: Mr.
18:19
Speaker 4: Bozell, you're saying some things here that people are reacting to,
18:22
Speaker 4: and we have to give them the opportunity to react to.
18:24
Speaker 4: Stephen Bozell is on the line with us, and he's
18:27
Speaker 4: talking about Jerry Lewis' telethon yesterday, which featured, of course, Mr.
18:30
Speaker 2: Lewis, who is on steroids.
18:32
Speaker 4: He was in a very different state physically than we're
18:34
Speaker 4: used to seeing him, his face and his body having.
18:38
Speaker 2: Been bloated by the steroids that he's on.
18:40
Speaker 4: It's the result of treatment he is receiving from a
18:42
Speaker 4: condition called cardiophibrosis, And you say that the children were
18:47
Speaker 4: crying because he looked like a monster.
18:49
Speaker 2: Now, you say... That's correct.
18:51
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying it's bad, but I'm saying that
18:54
Speaker 3: every monster movie that's ever been, the monster has a
18:56
Speaker 3: physical disease. Well, Mr.
18:58
Speaker 4: Lewis is not out committing homicide with a machete. Jason
19:03
Speaker 4: Voorhees did.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't matter, Mr.
19:06
Speaker 4: Henry.
19:06
Speaker 3: I know that he's a good man. My kids don't.
19:08
Speaker 2: Well, then tell them that he's a good man.
19:10
Speaker 3: They don't know the difference.
19:12
Speaker 2: Well, look it, pal, this is not, you're not going
19:14
Speaker 2: to sue.
19:15
Speaker 3: I think when you talk, here's the thing you're trying
19:17
Speaker 3: to say. The kid's all on the kid. It's all
19:18
Speaker 3: on the kid, and it's all on the kid. It's
19:20
Speaker 3: on the adult, and yeah, it's on me, but it's
19:23
Speaker 3: also on Jerry Lewis.
19:24
Speaker 2: All right, here's Joan. Let's go to Joan. You're on
19:27
Speaker 2: the Phil Henry Show, Joan.
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Speaker 8: Hi. Hi. I'd like to speak to the gentleman. Well,
19:32
Speaker 8: I wouldn't call him a gentleman. I'd like to speak
19:34
Speaker 8: to the person that's phoned in about Jerry Lewis.
19:37
Speaker 2: I tell you what, Joan, could I have you hold on?
19:39
Speaker 2: You'll be our first caller. We have to break for
19:41
Speaker 2: a commercial.
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Speaker 4: Yes, okay.
19:42
Speaker 2: All right, dear, will you hold the line?
19:43
Speaker 3: Yeah. Joan, my name is Stephen Bozell.
19:45
Speaker 2: Hold on, Mr. Bozell, and we'll talk with you as well.
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Speaker 7: Okay.
19:47
Speaker 4: All right, Joan will be up next. I didn't see
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Speaker 4: the break sign coming up. Jason Voorhees was sick in
19:53
Speaker 4: the head. Yeah, and he had a machete taking it
19:55
Speaker 4: out on people. Should Jerry Lewis have been on television
19:58
Speaker 4: yesterday looking like a, quote, carnival freak, end quote? It
20:02
Speaker 4: scared at least this gentleman's children. Phil Henry Show.
20:04
Speaker 2: The Phil Henry Show.
20:05
Speaker 3: Food bar.
20:06
Speaker 2: Food bar. The Phil Henry Show is back. Stephen Bozell
20:17
Speaker 2: is with us. He was upset.
20:19
Speaker 4: He said his children were upset seeing Jerry Lewis on
20:21
Speaker 4: TV yesterday looking bloated.
20:23
Speaker 2: You've used terms like sideshow freak, carnival freak.
20:26
Speaker 4: I think all of it is very offensive to anybody
20:28
Speaker 4: suffering from a malady like this.
20:31
Speaker 3: You have to understand.
20:32
Speaker 4: Although I know what you're saying, it's not what you think.
20:35
Speaker 4: It's what it looks like to children. Now I'm going
20:37
Speaker 4: to go back to Joan. Joan, go right ahead. Thanks
20:40
Speaker 4: for hanging on.
20:41
Speaker 8: Thank you. Um, Steve.
20:44
Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am.
20:45
Speaker 8: Um, do you have a wife?
20:48
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, I do. My wife's name is April.
20:50
Speaker 8: Does she have any say in this?
20:52
Speaker 3: And we named our daughter after her. I'm sorry?
20:54
Speaker 8: Do your wife have any say in what you are doing?
20:58
Speaker 3: Uh, when it comes to the boy, I'm pretty much
21:00
Speaker 3: in charge of the boy.
21:01
Speaker 8: I'm on about the children.
21:03
Speaker 3: Well, yes, ma'am. I'm talking about my boy. Certainly my
21:06
Speaker 3: daughter comes more under the influence of her mother for
21:09
Speaker 3: dresses and things of that nature.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, well, I don't want to know all about that.
21:13
Speaker 8: I just want you to answer. I feel so sorry
21:16
Speaker 8: for you, you know, and I feel sorry for your children.
21:20
Speaker 3: I feel sorry for Jerry Lewis coming out looking the
21:23
Speaker 3: way he does.
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Speaker 8: Let me just finish what I'm going to say.
21:26
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 8: Okay, thank you.
21:28
Speaker 3: Are you an English woman, ma'am? Pardon? Are you an
21:30
Speaker 3: English woman, ma'am? You sound like you're an English woman.
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Speaker 8: I'm Welsh, but I live in Canada.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yes, ma'am. Right.
21:37
Speaker 8: I was always taught right from a child to look
21:43
Speaker 8: and feel sorry in a way for people that have
21:46
Speaker 8: a disability because they themselves can't help it.
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Speaker 3: How do you look at it? Well, my wife was
21:52
Speaker 3: angry at me for allowing the kids to see a
21:54
Speaker 3: monster on TV.
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Speaker 8: Why didn't you turn it off?
21:57
Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am, I do, but Jerry Lewis tricked me into
22:00
Speaker 3: thinking there wouldn't be no science show freaks on his show.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, but you know something? Jerry Lewis can't help having
22:08
Speaker 8: this disability. He's got an illness that he's taken steroids for.
22:12
Speaker 3: Oh, there we go. See, every time somebody looks like
22:15
Speaker 3: a sideshow freak, well, I got an illness. But he
22:17
Speaker 3: does look.
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Speaker 8: Like a sideshow freak. And I'm disgusted with you for
22:22
Speaker 8: even saying that word.
22:24
Speaker 3: Did you ever see, because you're English, have you ever
22:26
Speaker 3: seen the Elephant Man show?
22:28
Speaker 8: I'm not on about the Elephant Man. I'm on about
22:30
Speaker 8: Jerry Lewis at the moment.
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Speaker 3: I see very little difference.
22:33
Speaker 8: Don't sidetrack something.
22:34
Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am, but I'm trying to say that the Elephant Man,
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Speaker 3: Jerry Lewis, or what have you, is all.
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Speaker 2: Wait a minute. You can't say that Jerry Lewis looks
22:40
Speaker 2: like the Elephant Man.
22:41
Speaker 3: No way.
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Speaker 8: No way.
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Speaker 3: Not to me, but to my daughter, who cried.
22:47
Speaker 7: Oh, for God's sake.
22:48
Speaker 8: You know what? I'm really and truly so mad with
22:52
Speaker 8: you that you are putting the words in your children's
22:56
Speaker 8: mouth saying that he looks a freak. He can't help it.
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Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am, but you being an English lady, you must
23:03
Speaker 3: have heard of the elephant man and all the things
23:07
Speaker 3: he done.
23:08
Speaker 8: Oh, come along. I think Jerry Lewis, you know what?
23:12
Speaker 8: I'm so proud of Jerry Lewis.
23:15
Speaker 3: Are you related to him?
23:16
Speaker 8: He has done a fantastic work.
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Speaker 2: Yes, he has.
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Speaker 4: He's raised $ 60 million he raised yesterday in the telethon.
23:23
Speaker 3: And that's the other thing that I'm thinking.
23:25
Speaker 8: And you're after it just to get the money.
23:27
Speaker 3: Can you imagine? I said a joke to my kids,
23:29
Speaker 3: and they were not laughing, but I tried to help them.
23:31
Speaker 3: I said, can you imagine Jerry Lewis saying, hey, lady,
23:33
Speaker 3: I'm not an animal. Hey, lady, you know how he
23:35
Speaker 3: done that? But they were upset, and they were crying.
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Speaker 4: The kids were crying, and I think the point everybody's
23:42
Speaker 4: trying to make is you're going, oh, my God, Jerry Lewis,
23:44
Speaker 4: he looks like a freak.
23:45
Speaker 2: I mean, they could have said, oh, you know, he's
23:46
Speaker 2: got a disease, and that's why he looks the way
23:48
Speaker 2: he does.
23:48
Speaker 4: I'm sure the children would not have reacted the way
23:51
Speaker 4: that you do.
23:52
Speaker 3: Every time somebody does something like a monster, it's a disease.
23:56
Speaker 3: Tell me something. Alcoholism. Tell me.
23:58
Speaker 8: Have you ever been sick in your life?
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Speaker 2: Ma'am.
24:02
Speaker 8: Have you ever been sick in your lifetime?
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Speaker 3: No. Have I ever been sick looking like a freak? No, ma'am. No, no, no, no.
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Speaker 6: I didn't ask you that question.
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Speaker 8: I asked, have you ever been sick in your life?
24:15
Speaker 3: You mean mentally or how do you mean?
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Speaker 8: No, with an illness.
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Speaker 3: Ma'am, okay, now I heard the lady in the background
24:24
Speaker 3: say that I'm stupid.
24:25
Speaker 8: No, listen, I never said that. What I'm saying to
24:28
Speaker 8: you is I had a husband 10 years ago. who'd
24:33
Speaker 8: done everything he could for his children. And he died
24:37
Speaker 8: of cancer, melanoma.
24:39
Speaker 3: And if you had.
24:39
Speaker 8: Seen him before he died because of the drugs that
24:43
Speaker 8: he was on, I would never have called him a freak.
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Speaker 2: We're sorry to hear that, Joan.
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Speaker 3: I would have never called him a freak.
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Speaker 8: And you were calling someone that has an illness? And
24:53
Speaker 8: he's taking steroids to help himself.
24:55
Speaker 3: Did your husband drink, ma'am?
24:57
Speaker 2: Why do you keep asking if her husband drank?
24:59
Speaker 3: Because he's an English person.
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Speaker 8: I beg your pardon?
25:02
Speaker 3: All them Englishmen drink, don't they?
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Speaker 7: Oh, no, no, no.
25:05
Speaker 2: Will you come on?
25:06
Speaker 8: You know what?
25:07
Speaker 3: This English gal doesn't know anything about Jerry Lewis because
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Speaker 3: she's from the English state and they don't know nothing.
25:12
Speaker 3: I'm not from England. Are you French?
25:15
Speaker 2: She's from Wales. I'm not from England. You just got
25:18
Speaker 2: that nice Welsh lady to say, be you.
25:22
Speaker 3: I know how to spell it.
25:27
Speaker 2: What are you crying about?
25:28
Speaker 3: Because Jerry Lewis comes out looking like the Elephant Man,
25:32
Speaker 3: and everybody's yelling at me.
25:35
Speaker 4: Jerry Lewis comes out looking like the Elephant Man, and
25:38
Speaker 4: everyone's yelling at you.
25:39
Speaker 3: Yeah.
25:40
Speaker 4: Could you have done it any better? If you look
25:43
Speaker 4: back on yesterday, Mr. Bozell, could you have done it
25:45
Speaker 4: a better way? Could you have said to the children,
25:47
Speaker 4: he's sick?
25:49
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know. Now my kids think
25:55
Speaker 3: I'm going to stick a severed head in their bed.
25:57
Speaker 2: Well, all right. Let me go over here to Mary.
26:02
Speaker 3: Hi, Mary.
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Speaker 2: You're on the Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 6: Yes, I'm still on the phone.
26:05
Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 3: Go right ahead.
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Speaker 6: I think this man's children should be taken away from
26:10
Speaker 6: him if he has to cry over this.
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Speaker 3: Oh, bullcrap.
26:12
Speaker 6: This man has a very... He's very spineless. I want
26:16
Speaker 6: to tell him I had brain cancer.
26:18
Speaker 3: I'll bet.
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Speaker 6: I had to take steroids. I do not drink. I
26:22
Speaker 6: do not smoke. I did look like the elephant man. Now,
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Speaker 6: I want to ask this gentleman one question.
26:28
Speaker 3: Are you running around scaring kids?
26:30
Speaker 6: I want to ask this gentleman one question.
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Speaker 3: Okay, that's fine, but were you running around scaring kids?
26:35
Speaker 5: No.
26:35
Speaker 6: No, I did not. And, you know, I live in
26:37
Speaker 6: Boca Raton in Florida, and not one child looked or
26:41
Speaker 6: pointed or cried.
26:43
Speaker 2: Well, you put a.
26:44
Speaker 3: Bag on your head, right? Did you put a bag
26:46
Speaker 3: on your head?
26:46
Speaker 6: What is wrong with this family that these children are
26:49
Speaker 6: acting this way? Let me make my point, though.
26:51
Speaker 3: Go ahead.
26:52
Speaker 6: I want to know how would this man handle it
26:56
Speaker 6: if something happened to his wife that was debilitating?
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Speaker 2: All right, Steve, answer that question.
27:03
Speaker 3: I bet you didn't have to buy a costume for Halloween.
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Speaker 2: Answer the lady's question, okay?
27:07
Speaker 6: I didn't have hair.
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Speaker 3: I was bloated.
27:10
Speaker 6: I had a large dent in my head because they
27:13
Speaker 6: had to take part of the skull out. And I
27:15
Speaker 6: did look like the elephant man.
27:17
Speaker 3: And I was in a wheelchair. Did you keep a
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Speaker 3: bag on your.
27:20
Speaker 4: Will you answer the lady's question? What would you do
27:23
Speaker 4: if your wife was looking like Jerry Lewis?
27:26
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have married her. No.
27:28
Speaker 6: I've been married for 25 years, and my husband's stuck
27:33
Speaker 6: by me every minute of the day.
27:36
Speaker 4: So what if your wife got sick today and bloated
27:39
Speaker 4: up like Jerry Lewis?
27:41
Speaker 3: Okay. I'd try to make money on it, I guess.
27:44
Speaker 3: This man should not have children. I said I'd take
27:49
Speaker 3: her over to a place where you can look at
27:51
Speaker 3: her for a quarter or something. Is that what you're
27:53
Speaker 3: asking me?
27:53
Speaker 6: This man should not have children.
27:56
Speaker 3: Mr.
27:56
Speaker 2: Bozell, are you listening to what you're saying?
27:58
Speaker 3: The lady asked me what would I do if my
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Speaker 3: wife had to take.
28:01
Speaker 6: You would put the wife, the mother of your children,
28:03
Speaker 6: who you have loved, in a sideshow? What kind of
28:07
Speaker 6: a person are you?
28:09
Speaker 3: Have you no sympathy?
28:10
Speaker 6: Have you no love?
28:11
Speaker 3: Have you no mercy? I'd take her to the doctor
28:14
Speaker 3: and I'd have treatment, but in the time it took
28:16
Speaker 3: for her to shrink down to normal size, what's wrong
28:19
Speaker 3: with that?
28:21
Speaker 2: Put her on display for a quarter?
28:23
Speaker 7: You know what?
28:23
Speaker 6: If you don't know the answer to that question, then
28:26
Speaker 6: there is no help for you.
28:29
Speaker 3: Okay, ma'am. That's fine, ma'am. But what do I say
28:32
Speaker 3: to a little boy who looked at me and said
28:34
Speaker 3: he doesn't want to carve a pumpkin for Halloween because
28:36
Speaker 3: they look too much like Jerry Lewis? What do you
28:38
Speaker 3: say then to a child who would say that to you?
28:39
Speaker 6: I'll tell you exactly what you say to him. Jerry
28:42
Speaker 6: Lewis is sick. He is taking steroids. He has to
28:46
Speaker 6: take these steroids to stay alive. Which would you prefer,
28:50
Speaker 6: the man to die... Or the man to live. If
28:53
Speaker 6: he was your uncle or your father.
28:55
Speaker 3: There's a third option.
28:57
Speaker 4: No, there is not a third option.
28:59
Speaker 3: Or do you want to have people looking for a coroner?
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Speaker 6: You don't celebrate Halloween because you're so afraid to let
29:06
Speaker 6: your kids out of the house. You have a very
29:09
Speaker 6: warped sense of life.
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Speaker 3: You were asking a very hypodermical question. How would I
29:13
Speaker 3: know what I would do with a circus freak for
29:15
Speaker 3: a wife?
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Speaker 6: Oh, come on. You answered the question. You put her
29:18
Speaker 6: on the sideshow. What kind of a man are you?
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Mary. Mr.
29:23
Speaker 4: Bozell, I appreciate you being on the program. I don't
29:26
Speaker 4: see any court accepting a lawsuit like this.
29:28
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I've got a very good attorney, Dolores Blasney,
29:31
Speaker 3: and she tells me that we've got a very, very
29:33
Speaker 3: good case. She has not won a case yet for me,
29:36
Speaker 3: and we've sued probably in the last three years. Several years.
29:40
Speaker 3: hundred people, but this one, God, I feel so good
29:43
Speaker 3: about it. I just do.
29:45
Speaker 2: Okay, well, good luck.
29:47
Speaker 3: Good luck to you when I have my $ 60 million,
29:49
Speaker 3: and you'll be doing what? Hey, lady, I'm a pumpkin. Hey, lady,
29:53
Speaker 3: I'm a pumpkin. My kids just walked by. Hey, lady,
29:55
Speaker 3: I'm a pumpkin. She's crying, bitch.
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