you know uh uh we did something fun today here's you know if you work in an office building
and you're looking for fun I mean the kind of fun that busts up the daily boredom of
your of your job there in the office building do what we do here at 30 Rockefeller Plaza
now this this building Paul will back me up on this is nothing if not an intricate Maze
of elevator activity there are elevators going up we yeah we got them coming down as well
and there there must be hundreds of elevators and we spend a lot of our day in the elevator
so here's what you do if you're like us just get in there with a group of friends and maybe
maybe Maybelline maybe a stewed and Maybelline and Maybelline Maybe and maybe a stooge from
another floor now when you hop in by predetermined signal try and get the control panel to slide
open yeah do like that in the control panel will just drop right open if it's a GE elevator
like you have here you reach in and you grab the toggle switch that's marked lights you
throw the light switch the lights go off and you just scream like lunatics it's a lot of
fun and then you fun and then look at the Stooges face again there's a real excitement
and comedy in the building
okay here it's uh viewer Mail Time ladies and gentlemen I have in my hand foreign
person on the elevator a group of friends three get on they now they know what they're
going to do they turn out the lights and scream wouldn't that be fun so they got it yeah yeah
did you do that today we do it every day we do it we do it every damn day and we love
it uh letter number one Dear Dave actual letters did I point that out recently on your show
I saw a Hal Gurney Network time killer of course Hal Gurney our Emmy award-winning director
and racing Legend Hal Gurney uh call me crazy but isn't that what your whole show is sincerely
Jeff Pearson White River Johnson Vermont well well no Jeff that certainly is not true our
program is very carefully crafted and we take a lot of pride in it let me show you an actual
breakdown now of an average show and you'll see that it's a lot more than just a Time
killer I'll use this giant production chart here Bailey if you can't get in here on this
and we'll take a look at how this works this is this is an outliner rundown for uh any
show that we've done over the last 10 years we usually lead off the program by stalling
like that elevator story then yeah then we then we go from that we go to a Time killer
and now the next block is what we call padding and that leads directly into the filler now
now from the fitter we go right into a Time waster and and that's followed by more stalling
and then of course at the end of the night we finish up with some dead air so that's
that's how we put a show together
[Applause] [Music] we had some dead air right there a minute ago a little earlier than we
planned on it but well hell we'll take it anywhere we can get it that dead air is not
easy to come by
uh Dear Dave letter number two begins what would happen if he would put the wrong side
up on a package of microwave popcorn Corey Johnson Malone Wisconsin uh kind of a a cooking
question the wrong side up on microwave popcorn uh Jesus you know Corey I don't I don't think
it really makes any difference um I believe nothing would happen it's simply just cooking
instructions
[Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] within three feet of the window but yet there was
actual broken glass sound waves sound waves are a very powerful force and I don't believe
we fully understand them yet we'll ask Carol gold when she comes out here about sound waves
and dead air
speaking of dead air get ready for some big dead air
good morning Morty let me know when the rocket gets here
okay he's not here we had a little scheduling mix up uh Dear Dave letter number four begins
uh do you ever have the urge to go back to the 70s just wondering sincerely Jazz man
John Nichols Rutherfordton North Carolina huh
thank you
and and thank God it didn't go through the window we'd be fishing this baby out of the
Hudson
[Music] so so you mean we're only up to letter number three hey perhaps wishful thinking
on my part letter number three Dear Dave uh why can't you do this stupid show in five
days do you have another job wash cars or something I want to know I don't like the
repeats Wally M Osman Folsom California Wally I'm sorry but again you apparently don't understand
how television is produced it takes a great deal of work and uh the home viewer hardly
ever gets to see all of the amount of work that goes into producing the show for example
we use Monday to prepare for the week ahead how about this one when I look good in this
page new one all right here this one this one but the sort of okay hey do you like this
one here no all right maybe I could wear this one on the Wednesday show no okay I think
you're gonna like this one no no okay here how about this one no too flashy all right
this one no not enough light ah how about this one yeah that'll be good for Anton all
right God in heaven I love that all right now we're talking how about this one yeah
no no okay here this one oh it makes you look Norwegian foreign [Applause] [Music]
I think the Jukes are beginning to regret the gig here we go [Music]
all right letter number four Dear Dave do you ever have the urge to go back to the 70s
yeah you remember this one Deja Vu just wondering sincerely Jasmine John Nichols Rutherfordton
North Carolina
I'm sorry John if if you thought we were going to get a be doing some kind of little silly
uh skit here with uh comedy makeup and dresses from the 70s and Goofy clothing from the 70s
well you're wrong We're not gonna do a little I'm sorry we're not there'd be no there'll
be no little comedy skit about how silly we dressed in the 70s I'm sorry damn yeah
[Applause] hey everybody look it's those actors who are in The Mod Squad [Applause] can I
have your attention excuse me these are not the people you're thinking of you're thinking
of Clarence Williams III Michael Cole and Peggy Lipton that's not who these people are
I'm sorry sorry hey everybody Edward from Medical Center [Applause] all right maybe
this one [Applause]
okay um that's our viewer mail for another week we're going to do a commercial and then
we'll continue with Dave's dead air hour right after you watch it