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So I'd like you to stay on.
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Of course.
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Thank you, Max.
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This has been
the "UBS Evening News"...
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with Howard Beale.
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The initial response to the new
"Howard Beale Show"...
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was not auspicatory.
:32:24
The press was,
without exception, hostile...
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and industry reaction negative.
:32:28
The ratings for the Thursday
and Friday shows...
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were both 14,
but Monday's rating dropped a point...
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clearly suggesting the novelty
was wearing off.
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Did you know there are
a number of psychics...
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working as licensed brokers
on Wall Street?
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Some counsel their clients
by use of tarot cards.
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They're all pretty successful,
even in a bear market and selling short.
:32:49
I met one of them last week
and thought of doing a show around her.
:32:52
"The Wayward Witch of Wall Street."
Something like that.
:32:55
But if her tips were any good,
she could wreck the market.
:32:58
I called her this morning and asked her
how she was on predicting the future.
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She said she was
occasionally prescient.
:33:06
"For example," she said,
"I just had a vision of you...
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sitting in an office
with a craggy, middle-aged man...
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with whom you are
or will be emotionally involved."
:33:16
And here I am.
:33:20
She does all this with tarot cards?
:33:23
This one operates
on parapsychology.
:33:26
She has trance-like episodes
and feels things in her energy field.
:33:31
- This lady could be very useful to you.
- In what way?
:33:34
You put on a news show.
:33:37
And here's somebody who can predict
tomorrow's news for you.
:33:40
Her name, aptly enough, is Sibyl.
:33:42
Sibyl the Soothsayer.
:33:44
You could give her
two minutes of trance...
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at the end of the "Howard Beale Show,"
say once a week, Friday...
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which is suggestively occult,
and she could oraculate.
:33:53
Then next week everyone tunes in to see
how good her predictions were.
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Maybe she could do the weather.