| But say what you want about American folks. |
| Yeah. |
| You can say what you want about Americans. |
| You can call them smart. |
| Dumb. |
| Ignorant, innocent, naive, gullible, easily led. |
| Whatever you want. |
| You’re gonna have to deal with them. |
| You’re gonna have to deal with them because you’re in the television business now. |
| You got the All-Suicide Channel on cable TV. |
| You need these people as viewers. |
| You need people looking in. You got to worry about your ratings. |
| You’re going to have to be thinking about sweeps months. |
| Most folks know what sweeps months are now. |
| Those are the more important ratings months of the year when they put on all their biggest attractions and their hottest stars trying to pump the ratings up a little bit, get the local stations to adjust their advertising rates. |
| You’re going to have to compete with the mentality of network television. |
| And I think on an All- Suicide Channel. |
| During sweeps months, you’re going to have to go with mass suicides. |
| Big public events where hundreds of people kill themselves all at the same time right on live TV. |
| Now, I’ve been wrestling with a way to do this. |
| I’ve been trying to figure this out. |
| I swear to God this is the truth. |
| I’ve been trying to figure this part of it out for six months now. |
| And I only recently have it so I’m going to tell you about it. |
| Now, we’re going to have to get lots and lots of people to kill themselves on demand. |
| How are we going to do this? |
| That’s the question. |
| How are we going to get large numbers of people to commit suicide at a time and place of our choosing? |
| And I mean large numbers, because don’t forget besides sweeps, we’re going to have to be thinking about 24-hour a day programming. |
| So to make this work. |
| We need organization. |
| You need a system. |
| You can’t just sit around the studio all day long and wait for people to drop by and commit suicide. |
| What we have to do is build up a large pool of hopeless people. |
| Suicide volunteers. |
| People with no hope. |
| People whom society has given up on. |
| Fate has given up on or who have given up on themselves. |
| Rock bottom. |
| Dead end. |
| Totally fucked-up people with no hope and no reason to live. |
| Now we got our share of them. |
| Folks. |
| Think of it as a pyramid. |
| That will give you a visual fix on it. |
| Think of it as a pyramid. |
| The pyramid of the hopeless. |
| We are going to start building this pyramid at the very base, naturally. |
| And the bottom layer is going to be homeless people. |
| God knows we’ve got plenty of them. |
| Nobody gives a fuck about them. |
| Nobody’s got a plan. |
| Nobody’s got any money. |
| Nobody’s got a program. |
| Nobody gives a fuck about homeless people. |
| We don’t know how many we have even. |
| We know 500.000 of them are veterans. |
| Because we’re so good to the veterans in this country. |
| And we know about a 1.400.000 of them are children. |
| There, so we got a million and a half children. |
| And then God knows how many more we got. |
| Totally fucking hopeless – [fart sound] – in the pyramid they go! |
| Now, the next group we are going to put in here, these are the people in prison with these long sentences they’ve been given. |
| Many of them deserved. |
| I’ll grant you that. |
| I’m sure half the people in prison are in there for things they really did. |
| That’s not a bad average. |
| One out of two. |
| But nobody gives a shit about these people. |
| Nobody’s going to hire them if they do get out. |
| They’re never going to get out. |
| Rehabilitation doesn’t work. |
| And the judges give them these fucking draconian sentences. |
| 40. 50. 60. 70. 80. 100 year sentences. |
| Life term. |
| Double life. |
| One guy about a month ago was given three consecutive life terms. |
| Plus two death penalties. |
| How the fuck do you serve that? |
| Even David Copperfield can’t do that shit. |
| In order to do that. |
| You’d have to be a Hindu. |
| Then you got the people on death row. |
| They ain’t going anywhere – [fart sound] – In the fucking pyramid they go! |
| Now, the next layer, this group is self-selected. |
| Self-selected and a bit controversial to some ears, I guess. |
| These are the people who claim to be depressed, okay? |
| Apparently in this land of plenty, this richest nation in the history world we’re so proud of saying that. |
| Some supermarkets have a hundred thousand items in them. |
| We have 19 million Americans claiming to be depressed. |
| And some of them take medicine for it. |
| Sometimes the medicine makes one of them commit suicide and that depresses the shit out of the rest of them. |
| Then you have these people who only think they’re depressed. |
| They think they’re depressed because they saw the commercial on TV and the doctor looked like a good guy, the music sounded kind of peppy and what the fuck, some of these pills will probably just pick me right up. |
| Totally fucking hopeless mindset – [fart sound] – In the fucking pyramid! |
| Up at the very top we are gonna put the people who are truly sick. |
| The terminally ill. |
| Unfortunately, no hope for a lot of them. |
| Hundreds of thousands of them. |
| There’s no cure for what they have. |
| Some of them say there is no cure because nobody’s looking for one. |
| There ain’t enough people sick with it so there ain’t no money in the fucking cure. |
| Then there’s people who’ve got… there’s a cure, but they don’t have the money for it. |
| There are the other ones there’s a cure but they’re too far gone. |
| There’s other ones there’s a cure but there is no social means to get to it. |
| So these people ain’t going anywhere. |
| They should be allowed to commit suicide. |
| Boom. |
| In the fucking pyramid they go. |
| Now, think of what you got here, folks. |
| Think of yourself as the executive vice president of programming at the All-Suicide Channel. |
| Think of what you have to work with in the pyramid of the hopeless. |
| You have homeless. |
| Imprisoned, condemned, depressed and terminally ill people. |
| And I’m going to bet you anything. |
| In this depraved culture of ours. |
| Bet you anything, with the reality show mentality we have on the All-Suicide Channel. |
| You could get 500 of these hopeless people to hold hands and jump into the Grand Canyon. |
| I’ll fucking bet you. |
| I’ll fucking bet you you can get that done in this country, write this down. |
| I’ll bet you. |
| For money, for money, for money. |
| You got to give them something. |
| You know, you got to… Oh, Shit, they’re Americans, they’re for sale. |
| Give them a little something. |
| Americans will do anything but you got to give them a toaster, don’t you? |
| Give them a little prize of some kind. |
| Everybody wants a gizmo. |
| Give them a gizmo. |
| Give them a cell phone. |
| Give them a laptop. |
| Give them a cell phone that takes a picture of a laptop. |
| Give them a laptop that takes a picture of a cell phone. |
| Give them one of them three-wheeled vehicles. |
| Give them an all-terrain vehicle. |
| Give them one of them riding lawnmowers. |
| Give them a snowblower. |
| Give them an outdoor barbecuer or a jet-ski. |
| Give them one of those things they buy for themselves when they are trying to take their minds off how badly they’re getting fucked by the system. |
| I know what you do. |
| Just before these people jump, you give them a hat with a camera in it. |
| And you tell them it’s jump cam. |
| Tell them you’ll send the video home to the family. |
| T-Shirt. |
| Who don’t want a T-shirt? |
| Everybody does. |
| Give them a nice T-shirt. |
| “I committed suicide and all I got was this stupid, fucking T-shirt!” |
| All right. |
| Now… If you want to really raise the profile of this promotion, get some of those evangelical Christians to volunteer for it and you call it, “Jump for Jesus”. |
| “Jump for Jesus”. |
| They would bite. |
| They would go for it. |
| Hey, you got to be fair. |
| Got to be fair about these Christians. |
| They come in for a lot of abuse these days. |
| So you do have to be fair. |
| All a Christian really wants out of life is to die. |
| And go see Jesus. |
| Give them a helping hand. |
| Do the Christian thing. |
| Tell them it’s a shortcut to heaven. |
| Mention the word martyr. |
| It works on the Muslims. |
| It works on the Catholics. |
| It might work for these folks, you never know. |
| Hey, hey, I know. |
| Give them a little encouragement. |
| “Go on you fanatical fuck, he’s down there. |
| He’s down there. |
| He’s down there. |
| He’s at the bottom of the canyon. |
| Look for the man with the glowing head.” |
| Oh, you could have a lot of fun with a channel like that. |
| But you know something, folks, maybe you don’t want to be on cable. |
| Maybe you don’t want to be on cable. |
| It is a limited audience. |
| You might want to widen out and get more people looking in and you’re going to have to go to the broadcast networks. |
| One of the big broadcast networks. |
| And I don’t know about you, but when I think about suicide and broadcast network television. |
| I’m thinking FOX. |
| Huh? |
| I’m telling you FOX. |
| If the people at FOX ain’t sitting around having meetings on an idea like this. |
| They ain’t doing their god damn jobs over there. |
| So you put this thing on FOX, get Budweiser to sponsor it. |
| Budweiser and a whole bunch of car companies so people can be thinking about drinking and driving at the same time. |
| Ain’t that fun? |
| Isn’t it fun to watch the sporting events on American television? |
| “Drink this! |
| Drive that! |
| Fuck you!” |
| They don’t care. |
| They don’t give a shit about you. |
| And then every now and then they qualify the whole message. |
| “Drink responsibly.” |
| [long fart sound] So you put this thing on FOX. |
| And if you do, if you do or on any broadcast network, you’re gonna have to bring in that younger audience. |
| Everybody knows that. |
| That’s what the advertisers are looking for is these 18 to 24 year olds. |
| You’re going to have to get young people interested in this. |
| You know how you get young people interested in suicide? |
| You don’t call it suicide. |
| You call it “Extreme Living”. |