For one extraordinary week in February 1972, the Revolution WAS televised. DAYTIME REVOLUTION takes us back in time to t | dG1fR2tqaVJsVFZWblE
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00:00I'm 31 now and I've grown up in many ways and you have to be more politically aware in a
00:05day and age like this. It's almost impossible to close your eyes to it.
00:12It was a time of considerable fracturing.
00:14And you're reading the newspapers that the war's over, but the war's not over.
00:21You have to understand where the Mike Douglas show sat in culture.
00:25Here is John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
00:27It was the most popular show on daytime television.
00:30When President Nixon leaves for Peking on Thursday...
00:32Yoko said we're doing this show on Mike Douglas.
00:35Having Bobby Seale and Jerry Rubin and I'm going like, what?
00:42Here is Ralph Nader.
00:43Is it a running for president?
00:45No.
00:46John Lennon and Yoko Ono didn't want us to talk about their music. That spoke for itself.
00:55What would you like to talk about this week, John?
00:58Love, peace, communication, drugs, drugs, anything.
01:08When I got to the studio, I got a glimpse of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
01:13I said, oh my goodness, this is exciting.
01:18They did have an agenda and the agenda had to do with making the world better.
01:23Yeah, it was something that we were trying to get away with.
01:26Well, young people are known to be cynical and I say to them,
01:30nobody's smart enough to be a pessimist.
01:36People tend to think that somebody will save them.
01:39And there's only people can save.
01:41It's only us all deciding to do something about anything, whatever it is.
01:44Just even making that decision, I want to do something as a start.