Daytime Revolution | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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.