tonight I guess you know why you're all here it's viewer mail night this is Thursday the
night that we answer our voluminous quantity of viewer mail and let's get
right to it shall we our first letter comes to us from Baton Rouge Louisiana uh Dear Dave
the weather is getting cooler and fall is once again upon us I think it would be appropriate
for Paul to do a rendition of his song fall uh thank you Donald Haas or haste Baton Rouge
Louisiana this is a great idea this is uh Paul's second big hit Paul do you remember uh fall I can
think back on on the fall yes I'd be thrilled all right do do a little of your uh this is
off the Bermuda album isn't it well it says you know in the old days when you had a hit and you
followed it up another hit the second hit was always very similar to the first because you
wanted people to remember who you were sure you know so this is a song that I was up at a very
lovely part of Upstate New York I went up there you know the Berkshires say and I was looking at
the uh the foliage and it's so beautiful and it struck me kind of a swinging Melody okay
goes like this fall
oh that's all yeah
all right means a lot to me okay
all right oh boy you've given me the reason to live thanks Paul letter number two deer
Dave minis the time you cut from the studio to a pre-recorded videotape why is it whenever we
return from the tape back to the studio you are brought to tears time after time we catch you
wiping your watery eyes with a corner of a handy index card now David is it really the content of
the tape that causes your breakdown a concerned fan Michael Rowe New York New York well uh no
Michael it isn't always the pre-recorded pieces that cause this uh take a look at
this videotape from one of our isolated cameras and I think you'll see what causes it sometimes
so let's take another tour of my New York really great show so far Bean Paul how you doing move
over there would you we have reached the depths tonight what's it on your time [Laughter] when
did you get that haircut do you do that yourself huh nice Bowl nice Bowl on top do you know why
oh listen I'm sorry Dave Shea go ahead shake with me come on let's be friends [Laughter]
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soon Goodwill Industries if there ever was one
good luck turkey
well I hope you enjoyed that at home as much as we did here in the studio
I certainly did thank you so much let's uh letter number three a Dear Mr Letterman how
do you feel about this is strange sort of a uh oh I see it's written in the margin Dear
Mr Letterman how do you feel about Bob Eubanks Mitzi in Star Ohio well Mitzi like many Americans
I held no definite opinion of Bob Eubanks and until this morning's paper hit the newsstands
and uh well quite frankly I have nothing but the highest admiration for this great man of action
crew unconscious game show host Eubanks lens jumbo jet with 367 aboard so
seems to be a rash of that let's see letter number four dear David my friend and I are
having an argument he says that it really is New York City outside your window but I say it is not
but merely a bunch of black construction paper cut out into the shapes of various skyscrapers
with maybe four or five people holding flashlights up to the little holes and
flicking them on and off to look like the city lights I don't buy it Dave love Donna a pollock
uh well Donna I'm afraid your friend is right this actually is New York out there and that's
the skyline and uh see there's an apartment building right over there um I think this file
videotape ought to convince you if you're easy to convince so watch closely won't you foreign
ER this is Bob from NBC calling yes hello Bob
well minutes yes of course Bob we'll get to it right away bye now goodbye
come on dear it's time oh that we have to do this every night yes dear I know but it's only an hour
a night and that extra 15 a week really helps yeah I guess you're right by teen lousy dogs ready go
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when are they going into repeats
so we achieved that wonderfully lifelike effect well this brings us to letter number
five boys and girls Dear Dave I watched your show ever since I was a kid I grew up on your
show and also Mash I wanted to thank you for all the good clean American valves
good clean American yep good clean American valves uh that you taught me thank you Dave
well signed Brian thank you Brian uh you know good clean American valves
are one of our most precious resources so I'd like to take this opportunity to
once again pay tribute to those various Mechanical Devices which open and close
to control the flow of fluids in pipes and tubes all across this great land of ours
bucket truck disc type then found relief valve packless type Radiator Supply valve
non-vacuum vent valve float operated valve type EB thermostatic steam track
thank you
I see here where Bob Eubanks did it again Paul the uh apparently brought in another jumbo jet
well God bless Bob Eubanks is all I can say we uh we have a fine show folks uh we're gonna go
away here for a minute or so it'll be a commercial it'll be something interesting something something
maybe you want to purchase for the home tomorrow when when the stores open up and after that then
we'll come right back and we'll chat a little bit with Andy Kaufman so come on back folks