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00:00Parents of the past generation have done a shitty job, and the kids know it.
00:08I know it's running.
00:09I know it's running.
00:10Well, the summer of 69, there was a feeling that anything was possible.
00:24I knew there were other people who had video equipment.
00:27It was new.
00:28It was breakthrough.
00:29What we really need is a revolution.
00:30We've really got all the other countries saying, we want money, we want guns, we want dynamite,
00:34lollipops, acid, dope, everything.
00:35We want to have control over our own bodies and our own destiny.
00:39We know that once the people are armed, those people cannot be oppressed.
00:54Up the stairs came this guy in a suit and tie.
00:58CBS was the most powerful network.
01:01I thought the video freaks had a life force.
01:05We were radicals, but we were working for CBS.
01:16I thought it was a total corruption.
01:21We weren't finished.
01:22We'd just begun.
01:23It's a little bit of math, a little bit of copper wire.
01:32We were going to transmit to the people.
01:35Well, what's happening right now is something new and something astounding.
01:38Do you have any ideas about what we can do with this television station?
01:43It's your television station.
01:45Meaningful work is more satisfying than money.
01:48I just saw a flying saucer.
01:51I looked up and there I was, and then we fainted.
01:56A lot of people said in the early days that the video freaks could be one of the sign
02:01posts toward a future in which we all have video cameras.
02:07Now I see it came true.