:56:02
You charge by the hour?
:56:05
My father was a-- [ Clears Throat ]
a mechanical engineer.
:56:08
Most ingenious man
I ever knew.
:56:10
My father left us
when I was five years old.
:56:12
He was not the most ingenious man
I ever knew.
:56:14
Let's get back to Brown &Williamson.
If you decide to go on 60 Minutes,
:56:18
I gotta know everything
about why you were fired.
:56:21
- Why?
- They're gonna dig up
stuff from your past.
:56:25
They're gonna throw it at you.
I gotta know what they're gonna throw.
:56:29
You understand?
:56:33
I drink.
:56:35
- Couple of occasions
more than I should have.
- Um-hmm.
:56:41
I was cited for shoplifting
once, but it was a mistake.
:56:47
Pushed Liane one time. We were both
stressed out because of the pressure.
:56:50
She went to her mother's.
[ Clears Throat ]
:56:53
I got, uh, fired,
because, uh,
:56:55
when I get angry, I have
difficulty censoring myself,
:56:58
and I don't like
to be pushed around.
:57:01
I'm not pushing you around.
I'm asking you questions.
:57:07
I'm just a commodity
to you, aren't l?
:57:09
I could be anything, right? Anything
worth putting on between commercials.
:57:13
To a network, probably,
we're all commodities.
:57:15
To me, you're not a commodity.
What you are is important.
:57:19
You go public, and 30 million people
hear what you gotta say,
:57:23
nothing-- I mean nothing--
will ever be the same again.
:57:26
- You believe that?
- No.
:57:28
You should. Because when
you're done the judgement...
:57:31
is gonna go down in the court
of public opinion, my friend.
:57:35
And that's...
the power you have.
:57:37
- You believe that?
- I believe that?
:57:41
- Yes, I believe that.
- You believe that...
:57:42
- because you get information out
to people, something happens?
- Yes.
:57:45
Maybe that's just what you've been
telling yourself all these years...
:57:48
to justify having a good job.
:57:50
Having status.
:57:52
Maybe for the audience
it's just voyeurism, something
to do on a Sunday night.
:57:55
Maybe it won't
change a fuckin' thing,
:57:57
and people like myself
and my family...
:57:59
are left hung out to dry,
used up, broke, alone.