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  • I want to talk about something.

  • It's important to me.

  • Ah, Monday is a personal revelation.

  • Monday and I spoke about this, uh, this week.

  • Monday I realized a childhood dream of mine.

  • That's right.

  • Ah, zip line over my studio audience wearing a helmet that shoots smoke.

  • It's something I've always wanted to D'oh!

  • I dreamed about it.

  • And then finally, we made it happen.

  • We did it on Monday, and it was an amazing night of television.

  • Take a look.

  • So that was just the start, you know?

  • Then I thought, OK, that was kind of fun.

  • Why don't we try and improve on this throughout the week?

  • So I started taking suggestions from you.

  • The audience.

  • I ask people to go to late night underground dot com and submit your ideas for what I could do and add to the zip line stunt.

  • And a lot of people wrote in and sent the's a rodent or e mailed in.

  • Whatever you kids call it today blogged in with your slash net or dot.

  • Anyway, I don't know what's going on.

  • Uh, and some of them were pretty good.

  • Uh, and so we took some of the suggestions two of them that I took.

  • I added last night last night, in addition to the helmet that should smoke, I war rocket boots.

  • And when I got to the bottom, I crashed into giant bowling pins.

  • There's a lot of fun, and those were suggestions that were sent in.

  • Some new suggestions came in, Uh, Marcus parkas sent this one.

  • Ah, and I think this is beautifully illustrated.

  • Again.

  • The idea is, OK, it's me wearing an Evel Knievel outfit, But look at this illustration.

  • He has me.

  • It's really beautiful.

  • Nice crotch shot of me coming down, and I really thought that was very nice.

  • Well, here's where I'm going with all this.

  • We showed some last night, and there was one that was my favorite, my favorite from last night.

  • It's beautifully drawn, and it's such a cool, fantastic idea.

  • I really like this.

  • This guy, Jack.

  • See, Gregory thought that I should come in on the zip line and I should save Abraham Lincoln from John Wilkes Booth right there.

  • Peyote, John Wilkes Booth and save our 16th president.

  • I thought that was a very cool idea.

  • I thought it was dramatic.

  • It's it.

  • Kids can learn something about history because that's almost how Lincoln was saved.

  • And I thought maybe tonight we should try and use the zip line to save Abraham Lincoln.

  • Don't you stay here creating Ford's Theatre right there?

  • Yeah, there's there's best Lincoln we could get.

  • And here's of course, the nefarious booth.

  • Frustrated Southern sympathizer.

  • It's a northern crowd for Yuh on you're gonna approach.

  • And I am going to try and save Lincoln in the nick of time on the zip line.

  • Before I do that, I gotta strip down.

  • Theo, could you hold that, please?

  • Thank you.

  • Okay.

  • All right.

  • You have to boil your hands later.

  • All right.

  • Course.

  • Putting on the rocket boots and putting on the rocket helmet right here.

  • Getting everything ready.

  • All right.

  • Strap that stuff on right here.

  • Now, folks, we have to pay for this.

  • This isn't cheap.

  • So strap this on.

  • It's gonna get me about $900.

  • I'm not kidding.

  • Prepared me for the way.

  • Let us set the scene.

  • First of all, Booth starts sneaking up on Lincoln to commit the terrible Uh huh.

  • What the hell are you doing?

  • You're like a cat getting ready to pee.

  • What?

  • Okay.

  • Whatever way.

  • Don't have a lot of time to talk about this.

  • Ever.

  • So Okay, Booth preparing to shoot Lincoln, and he has to go to the bathroom.

  • All right, let's get ready.

  • Now Give me a jet engine Sound, please.

  • There we go.

  • Let's initiate Helmet and Groot rockets.

  • Initiating a helmet and rockets way You're alive and well, congratulations.

  • Enjoy your second term.

  • We'll take a break, please, And don't come back.

I want to talk about something.

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