but seriously thank you for being in the trouble to be here although a lot of you i
think were just picked off the street how much time do we have ladies and gentlemen
anybody have any
you know uh we have a dog from maryland what was your question well islands and
um heard that you used turtle races and i was wondering if that was true
is it too late
thanks for being here on my last show
uh all right settle down this is not an auction okay
let's let's see anybody somebody right there right there yeah yes
let me just say we're 10 minutes into this and these have been two tremendous questions
this woman right here yes you yes what is your name alex nice to see you where are you from
did you well that's something
as you can tell huh uh what do you do for a living you're retired you have a family what's going on
sell real estate
what about your governor fat boy how's that doing
what can i
that's right i run right across from there to there that's exactly right
we uh uh normally i would just go backstage and we would start the music and start the theme and
uh everything would we begin but tonight we have prepared a little special opening presentation
so uh for just the beginning of the show if you'll just sit there and watch your monitors
and then this we call it a cold opening because it precedes uh the opening of it ah cold
because it comes out of out of nowhere ah yes it's cold
so uh all you have to do is watch the monitors and then after that the
little presentation what would you call a little skit little something a little cold
will begin and then you can begin to react but if if you
uh want to see what's going on then we have to be quiet for i don't know it's about 28
seconds or something like that so that'll happen and then the regular show will start
and listen thank you very much this is uh i think maybe the most important show of my life
we'll see what happens god bless everybody
our long national nightmare is over our long national night in arizona letterman is retiring
just kidding right