it could well have been the last apollo. >> that put the apollo program on hold. frank gorman became very instrumental in reviewing the hold issue. >> nasa, especially investigators themselves, that kept the outside without the slightest idea was going on. that was one of the hallmarks of the confidence that the public had in nasa at that time. we were able to get a team together and point out the failures and fix it. >> reporter: congress helped convince the government and the public although there would always be risks nasa could learn from its program. and the program should go ahead. the launchpad disaster may have allowed nasa to get to the moon faster than scheduled. >> we had an opportunity to learn from that mistake. very tragic and sad mistake. but to actually accelerate the program. i don't think i'm alone in having said that the fire really did make it possible to meet kennedy's goal to land on the moon by the end of the decade of the '60s. >> reporter: apol to 4, 5 and 6 were unmanned missions to test the safety of the rocket. it took almost two years

eugene cernan was part of apollo 10.was on the crew of apollo 10 which got almost to the surface of the moon, but not quite. it was a test run. they called it, as you can see up here, the brochure celebrating the successful mission. it was the dress rehearsal for the moon landing. one thing i love is a letter that eugene cernan wrote to his mother the night before he left on the apollo 10 mission. it says, "dear mom, as you are reading this now, god willing, we are on our way and almost to the moon. mom, i have wanted to write this to you to say i love you very much and always will. i want you to be happy and excited about this flight as i am. it has to be the most challenging adventure of my whole life. you know i would never go anywhere or do anything that was deliberately dangerous. i want to go on this mission so very much. nothing of this nature is without a little apprehension. but this makes the reward even more meaningful. think of us when you look up at the moon at night. take care. i love you. be proud, happy,

and then there is apollo. apollo is, after all god of the sun-- sole in italian. sole also stands for "one"-- that is "solo"-- and apollo is one. apollo is unique. apollo is alone in all this, just as venice is alone-- unique in the world. venetian artists--giorgione, veronese, tintoretto and above all, titian-- transformed these public personifications and made them private, poetic, and desirable-- paintings commissioned by men who were proud of their sophistication. the venus of urbino is domesticated. she's brought indoors. she's put into the context of the bedroom. two handmaids are in the background. one of them kneels over a marriage chest-- a chest that would hold a trousseau. a marital theme is established there as surely as it is established by the myrtle plant that is silhouetted in the background. the myrtle-- a plant in perpetual bloom-- a symbol of perpetual love. the dog asleep at her feet-- a symbol of fidelity. as overtly sensual as her appeal is this venus invites us to celebrate marital love. the attributes around her make this very clear yet she

eugene cernan was part of apollo 10.rew of apollo 10 which got almost to the surface of the moon, but not quite. it was a test run. they called it, as you can see up here, the brochure celebrating the successful mission. it was the dress rehearsal for the moon landing. one thing i love is a letter that eugene cernan wrote to his mother the night before he left on the apollo 10 mission. it says, "dear mom, as you are reading this now, god willing, we are on our way and almost to the moon. mom, i have wanted to write this to you to say i love you very much and always will. i want you to be happy and excited about this flight as i am. it has to be the most challenging adventure of my whole life. you know i would never go anywhere or do anything that was deliberately dangerous. i want to go on this mission so very much. nothing of this nature is without a little apprehension. but this makes the reward even more meaningful. think of us when you look up at the moon at night. take care. i love you. be proud, happy, and excited.

can't you get a telescope strong enough to see the apollo stuff on the moon. >> we researched it, andsolve the images of the moon to a tight enough resolution to see actual footprints or apollo hardware. >> stephen: would you be open to the idea that it didn't happen, or are you-- do you want to prove it? see? see, see. >> in this i have to admit to some bias that we've already been there. i believe absolutely unequivocally that of course we went there. >> stephen: then are you unqualified to have to check. how i do know are you not going to bring a piece of equipment up there. i can't trust you now. are you like evolutionary scientist, they will do anything to prove that it's real. they are-- how i do know they're not burying dinosaur bones in the earth. can you bust evolution? >> yes, we could but it would be the most boring show ever it would take years and years and years and would be very slow there would be a lot of fruit flies. >> stephen: just take a glass of water, put a little lid on top, come back in half an hour f it's not a tiny dolphin, then it did not adapt. >> i don't

apollo mission, astronauts, golf, not drinks of n.a.s.c.a.r. races. commercializing space means that. it will become commercial. >> here is jim and i when we test the lunar module. >> it's a far cry from apollo 9st astronaut's day. >> when you see a creative lander on the moon and have a close up and there is budweiser or n.a.s.c.a.r., or an advertising symbol. there's a little ambiguity into the game. >> sponsors are money, and it is the key to developing pace and all that comes with it. innovation is the key to the future. >> they see likes of up to s and settlements. who knows. >> jacob ward joins us from san francisco. this is mined boggling when we see all the money and competition. the concept of competing for something which no market exists. how does that work? >> well, i mean, ali, at this point what we are talking about is competition as normalizing force, a stabilizing force. most companies would tell you they are grateful to the other for existing. there's a legitimizition of ambitions in the fact that there's two crazy people in the room,

. >> craig, we're thinking of the apollo mission some 40 years ago, kind of brings back to that time, don't you think. >> reporter: they are talking about that a lot because last time that the agency was thinking about getting out of the low earth orbit and going out into deep space was 1972, apollo 17 mission. so it has been some 42 years. there has been a polo commanders here talking about that abe nasa, they are talking about that. they are going back to that spirit of the apollo missions and to think about the shuttle missions that they have launched, that was 30 years of the low earth orbit. new they are kicking out to deep space and they are excited about that here. >> definitely exciting. >> very exciting time. >> thanks very much, man, have a great day, we will get back to you. >>> before you walk out the door we will get a check of traffic and wet are together on the three's. >> but first here's is what coming up tonight on cbs-3. >>> yes, he is. >> has to look out for paparazzi, that is for sure and it seems like everybody is posting pictures of their elf on the shelf on lin

far more similar to the apollo capsules. >> we needed to go back to the apollo capsule so we could withstand the reentry temperatures. >> reporter: not only the shape but also the materials. apollo's heat shield was made from something called avcoat. >> it hadn't been made in 40 to 60 years so that technology was not available right now. we had to resurrect it. that's what we have been doing for the past few years. >> reporter: with orion safely back on earth, the team at nasa ames will examine that heat shield and prepare for the next mission in 2018. another unmanned test flight on the road to sending humans deeper into space. >> we look back 20, 30 years from now, we can trace it all back to the day where it started out with orion. >> reporter: jonathan bloom, abc 7 news. >>> a number of homeless people forced out of an encampment in san jose called the jungle have not moved too far away, near story road and center road. city officials say they want people to transition into an alternative housing but not everyone is using those resources. one group has set up near coyote creek and others

but i really asked him about apollo eight. apollo eight was the first time that any human had ever left the orbit of the earth and had gone into another planet's or being's orbit. they orbited the moon. some of you may remember this. it happened in 1968, at the end of 1968, a difficult year. for doing this, he and his two copilots became the man of the year for time magazine. as they went around the dark side of the moon, they came around and saw an earthrise. no one had ever seen earthrise before. and they saw the earth in its beauty, it's blue and white. no human had ever seen the earth in that picture before. 240,000 miles away. and he put his thumb up and he realized that the thumb, as small as it is, was able to block the entire earth. he realized how small and insignificant the earth really is. what is the likelihood that life would exist on any one planet, any one solar system, any one galaxy? very, very small. as i thought about it, i thought it is similar to bringing 57 human beings together, in philadelphia, for four

program for the apollo heat shield.the orion heat shield, there are over 300,000 of these individual cells that are all filled by hand. >> he's using the venerable facility at nasa's ames research center to torch small sam prime ministers of the heat shield with blistering hot gasses moving at hypersonic speeds in a vacuum. it's as close to a real re-entry from space as you can get on the ground. >> this is a four-inch diameter puck. the orion capsule is five meet centers diameter. we really rely at the end of the day on a flight test to tell us how those parts of the system will work. >> eft1 or exploration flight test 1, will subject a orion capsule to a real-world trial by fire on its maiden voyage, giving nasa the data they need and a big milestone. bill hill is a nasa associate administrator. >> eft1 is absolutely the biggest thing that this agency is going to do this year. >> orion is slated to orbit the earth twice, once at an altitude of about 500 miles. then it will get a lift from a second-stage booster to 3,6

went to the moon twice on apollo -- apollo 10 and apollo 17. fate touched ralph hall's life.lives by giving ralph hall to us. he is america's best. he's texas' best. ralph, we love you. god bless you. fair winds and following seas. mr. barton: i thank the gentleman from sugar land. , mr. ecognize mr. green green. mr. green: thank you, mr. speaker. i'm not so sure about a noted texas landmark but i want to thank you for asking and scheduling this special order for our good friend, ralph hall. i rise to pay tribute to a great american who dedicated his life to protecting and serving our nation in the great state of texas, representative ralph hall, a true gentleman. ralph began his commitment to service second decades ago when he joined the united states navy. served as an aircraft carrier pilot in world war ii, returning to texas after the war, ralph became -- began private law practice in rockwall, texas, are we served as county judge in the 1950's and represented that area in the texas state senator -- texas state senate from 1962 to 1972. that's when i first met ralph hall,

different from apollo to right the craft. and what you will see now after lockheed martin is keeping it powered up to take on the heat shield it will take about six hours to retrieve orion. they are going to come out and toe it into the flooded out well deck of the u.s.s. anchorage. >> a final splash down target in the specific with a lathd of 23.6 north latitude, 114 .6 west longitude. a bull's eye for american sprays craft. once again at 10:29 a.m. central time, 8:29 a.m. pacific time. at a point west of baja california. 630 miles southwest of san diego. >> and there is one of the helicopters. they will drop smoke to help the six small boats find the orion. they will toe it back into the flooded well deck of the u.s.a. anchorage and begin the journey back to san diego. if they need to they can crane it into a second ship they have. they are hoping this way to be able to toe it into the well deck. it should be back in san diego probably by the end of the weekend, early next week and they want to have it then on a flat bed tr

we also did apollo.hink this program focuses too much of their resources on a not reallyt does provide that broad benefit. if it goes forward, they are spending $60 billion that would get you a vehicle farther from earth, granted, then we have gone since apollo, but that was 50 years ago. nowre doing is commercially and we are spending $3 billion to get people to this day station using a private sector. a why would we be setting technology in place today and using engines that are already 40 years old to go on a trip to mars that is 20 years away and we do not have any of the resources to fulfill that over that period of time? i think it is a mismatch of resources with the important overall work of nasa. >> they say this is a step toward landing on mars. how significant do you think it is? is that an incorrect characterization? >> i think it is. they say it is the first step to mars. we have rovers on mars, we have a space tatian wrote we are learning how to live and work in space to get us farther. this

this program -- apollo.ogram is focusing too much of nasa's limited resources on a purpose that does not provide that broader benefit. forward, $60 billion, that would get you a vehicle further from earth than we have was since apollo, but that 50 years ago. we are doing this commercially billion tonding $3 get people to the space station using the private sector. why would we be setting technology in place today, and using engines that are already trip to old, to go on a mars that is 20 years away and we don't have any of the resources to fulfill that over that period of time? i think it's a mismatch of resources. stepey say this is a towards landing on mars. how significant do you think it is? is that an incorrect characterization? >> i do. i've heard them say it is the first step to mars. we have rovers on mars. we have a space station where we are learning how to live and work in space, to get us further. this is a test of a flight that will go for four hours and go no further than certainly satellites w

they said no, we're back in the apollo mode and back in the energy. even though it is years away to get to mars they are still raising the, you know, the public's awareness of what they are doing and they are sparking that energy into science and space exploration and this younger generation. a a lot of things going on there. >> you can tell craig is excited. >> we appreciate the insight. thanks, craig reporting from cape canaveral live. >> thanks, craig. >>> 7:19. let the get to katie. >> we will start off guys with a local view here for you here up at the poconos where unis is popping over the horizon. beautiful colors, anytime you have clouds out there it can help create some very vibrant views. as we take this live look at jack frost big boulder things are off to a nice start. you can see is what left of the same front that crossed through our area here in part what we are seeing win issues coming in around florida. for us, quiet day, beginning of the next system that will affect us and it is in the until tomorrow evening, but we have a nice 36 ho

(laughter) >> jon: you live in the apollo theater?yeah, john, it's rent-controlled. >> jon: i didn't know that. but, look, the timing of the trip is perfect. they saw just how mad black people have been the last few weeks and knew it was time to pounce. i mean, look at the shirt william wore in brooklyn. (laughter) >> jon: i don't understand why you seem bothered by all this. did you want them to pick you? >> no, i just wanted them to watch my one-woman show -- jessica williams and will and kate plus mate. >> jon: i'm sorry that didn't pan out. >> me, too. >> jon: i'll hang out with you. >> what? no, you're, like, 60 and live in new jersey. >> jon: what? sorry mr. drummond, keep fishin'. fishin'. >> jon: jessica williams, vo: the lenovo yoga 2-in-1. with 4 different modes, there's a new way to make this holiday one to remember. expert service. unbeatable price. best buy. ♪ ♪ [laughter] ♪ with t-mobile and iphone 6 you can make wi-fi calls beyond the reach of cellular networks. hey brandon what's up? so you can talk from down here. smi

went to the moon twice on apollo -- apollo 10 and apollo 17. fate touched ralph hall's life. fate touched our lives by giving ralph hall to us. he is america's best. he's texas' best. ralph, we love you. god bless you. fair winds and following seas. mr. barton: i thank the gentleman from sugar land. , mr. ecognize mr. green green. mr. green: thank you, mr. speaker. i'm not so sure about a noted texas landmark but i want to thank you for asking and scheduling this special order for our good friend, ralph hall. i rise to pay tribute to a great american who dedicated his life to protecting and serving our nation in the great state of texas, representative ralph hall, a true gentleman. ralph began his commitment to service second decades ago when he joined the united states navy. served as an aircraft carrier pilot in world war ii, returning to texas after the war, ralph became -- began private law practice in rockwall, texas, are we served as county judge in the 1950's and represented that area in the texas state senator -- texas state senate from 1962 to 1972. that's when i fir

and our space program and mercury, gemini, and apollo, it was all white.start out all test pilots. all male. and with the very first class of astronauts selected in 1978. those 3 5 brought in, six women, people of color, people of many religions. so that opened up the avenue of space exploration to the average man and woman. people who, never dream of it before. a young man or woman now, the one can look at nasa and see somebody who looks like them. and they can say, you know, i can do that. >> you referenced how the space shuttle program opened it up to all of us. and i take your point -- there are a lot of people dreaming now, not kids per se, but dreaming that at some point in their lifetime they will get to devil rays on your set. that took a setback here in california, the mojave desert. the accidents -- what's your sense of where we are in this effort for citizens to travel into space? >> we're still moving along. we had double setbacks. we lost a robotic vehicle right here on the east coast when we lost orbital sciences antares with our cargo module

(laughter) >> jon: you live in the apollo theater?yeah, john, it's rent-controlled. >> jon: i didn't know that. but, look, the timing of the trip is perfect. they saw just how mad black people have been the last few weeks and knew it was time to pounce. i mean, look at the shirt william wore in brooklyn. (laughter) >> jon: i don't understand why you seem bothered by all this. did you want them to pick you? >> no, i just wanted them to watch my one-woman show -- jessica williams and will and kate plus mate. >> jon: i'm sorry that didn't pan out. >> me, too. >> jon: i'll hang out with you. >> what? no, you're, like, 60 and live in new jersey. >> jon: what? sorry mr. drummond, keep fishin'. >> jon: jessica williams, hey rich, what's that in your hand? my at&t cell phone bill. verizon bill? yeah. that's cool. nooo... how much are you spending per month? $110 bucks $120 bucks $260 what if sprint could cut your rate plan in half? and give you unlimited talk and text in the u.s., and match your data. goodbye verizon. i am done with at&t. don

apollo missions, astronauts, a bit of golf. now it's sports drinks.ializing space means just that. commercial. >> here is jim and i when we were testing the lunar module. when you start seeing a really creative innovative lander on the moon, and you have a close-up on it and there's budweiser, you know, or nascar or some other advertising symbol, there's a little bit of -- you know, puts some ambiguity into the game. >> reporter: but he says sponsors are money. and that's the key to developing commercial space and all that comes with it. >> innovation is the secret to the future. that's what will enable my grandkids to look up on the moon and see lights of towns and settlements, and cities maybe. who knows. >> jacob ward joins us from san francisco. it's mind boggling when you see

and just like apollo, a spectacular view as the parachutes deployed, slowing orion to a gentle splashdown right on target 600 miles off san diego. >> orion is back on earth. america has driven a golden spike as it crosses a bridge into the future. >> reporter: today's mission critical to prepare for eventually carrying astronauts to an asteroid or even mars. >> before we put humans on board we want to look at the test data and have an opportunity to actually change the spacecraft, its design, its construction. >> reporter: for nasa today was about proving it still has the right stuff. >> -- we started with all the apollo guys still there, so we've kind of now finally done something for the first time for our generation. >> reporter: the first manned test flight could be six to eight years away. and consider this, if the first mission to mars is 20 years away, that means those astronauts today are in preschool. there are many more years ahead of tests and hurdles, brian. >> tom costello down at the kennedy space flight center in florida. tom, thanks. >>> president obama today announced his

. >> reporter: the o'ryan is the first spaceship since the apollo moon mission more than 40 years ago designed to carry humans into deep space. this time, mars is the destination. whether permitting, it will launch from cape canaveral thursday morning for the first test flight. >> we haven't had this feeling in awhile, since the end of the shuttle program launching an american spacecraft from american soil and beginning something new. >> reporter: the test flight will not carry a crew. the mission team can see if everything works without worrying about loss of life. the flight will last four and a half hours. in that time, nasa will evaluate the o'ryan system, frefrg the parachute to the heat shield. after soaring 3600 miles above earth, the capsule will be sent through temperatures nearing 4,000 degrees fahrenheit before slashing down off the coast of san diego. nasa's administrator says it's building on the apollo. >> when neil armstrong set foot on the moon, he admitted there's another place to go, that's mars. >> reporter: nasa expects that to happen after 2030. they hope to turn

making great are progress and like you i remember staying up all night to watch the apollo launch.rful now to have real-time pictures as opposed to artist renditions. >> i keep thinking of that deserves faking about my tintin books about space explorers on the moon. >> that is the real earth sliding away in real-time. >> the distinction is we have seen these images many times before but not with an amount of weight like this. this is the first test to push out one of the following test -- two years out is to go to the moon and not land. close enough to land on the moon and close enough to get in orbit around the mood just to test out the systems. there is orion at nasa again. we are looking for those two side boosters to drop off the stage two burn start any moment here and then they have a burn cut off. there it is right now. you can see the boosters coming off now and drifting away from the main rockets. no men on board. >> or women. >> thank you. [laughter] >> would you suggest we need an international cooperation to go further into space or can it be the united states alone? th

on apollo, knew we were involved in a risky business. things of this kind, you will have failures. if human life is involved, you will have people dying. that's the price of advancing. >> but critics say that's exactly the problem. high. >> we want to build a spaceship that is 100% space. >> and space companies are forced to cut safety corners to reduce costs. >> if you try to get to 100% reliability, those last few percentage points cost you a lot of money, so at some point to continue the cost of development, you sacrifice a point or two of reliability and accidents. >> but many in the try, including the ceo of moon express says the private sector can and will build spaceships. >> sometimes people die, but that's okay, because that's what they have chosen to do. if we don't take risks, we're not going to move forward. >> virgin galactic isn't giving up. it's already working on a new spaceship to spaceship two. unofficially called by his nickname, hope. the ceo of virgin galactic joins me by phone now from the facility at the mojave air

on her skirt, she has the apollo 17 mission patch.ogether this exhibit and thinking about the future of space explanation, it established more of a foundation. even though the space program has moved on, things are very different now. in the future, they're going to be very different. there is this beginning, this pioneering spirit mr. armstrong and cernan were part of with graduates of purdue. if it were not for them and that. ofistory -- period history, we would not be where we are now to explore. long, american history tv is featuring lafayette and west lafayette, indiana. in august 1859, lafayette was the first site to officially deliver the u.s. mail by air. enabling, the mail never reached its final destination in new york but landed instead near crawfordsville, indiana, due to bad weather. it made the rest of the journey by train. together with our comcast cable our staff recently visited many sites exploring the rich history of lafayette and west lafayette. learn more about these cities all weekend on american history tv. t -1

that is the farther a spacecraft built for humans will have gone since the days of apollo.asa says oryan will take americans in the solar system to mars by the 2030's. >>> pretty exciting stuff. >> forecast looks good for thursday down there, partly cloudy, mainly dry. so all good. >> what about our forecast for tomorrow. >> partly cloudy, mainly dry here. it is completely dry tomorrow, which is nice, because it has been a damp two days. storm tracker six live double scan is showing the rain has finally exited the region and great night to go take a look at on holiday houses, the action cam is checking out levittown bucks county. the jackson family home, plum ridge drive, looking beautiful all deck out for the holiday season. and temperatures, now are beginning to drop, starting to see a little bit more like christmastime. philadelphia is currently 41 degrees. allentown 36. reading 36. wilmington 38. millville 42 degrees. wind are diminishing but we have a breeze right now at 10 miles an hour. that makes it feel like 34 degrees in philadelphia with a wind chill feeling like

the goal was achieved in the apollo missions, to beat the russians. without anything to do after that we had no real direction of what to do next. couple that with the fact that there was no longer good strong support in congress and no definitive path put forward by the office of the president. so this has been a slow start. but the realization is that if we want to maintain our superiority in space exploration we really have to get ourselves back on track with making it possible for crude explorations of near space and deep space using the infrastructure that nasa can build to make this kind of thing work and if we can get the support we need for that including the funding, then that means that we can continue in that position of superiority and space exploration. >> we'll see how this goes. derek pitts, it's good to see you. that's it for now. thursday on "consider this," higher faster stronger. redefining what the body can do. the conversation continues on our website, aljazeera.com/considerthis. we'll see you next time. >> tonight new york city i

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apollo is back with us.ckets often work in a team a lot like football in a sense. there is different positions. one is called the wire, the stick, the shade, the steer. and they exploit those and how they take advantage of you. >> which one will you be right now? >> i'll be the quarterback. i'll show you kind of how i would steal. but first i'll show you a name on some pocket. usually a mannequin. if you'll turn around first, so in the back here, this is considered the kick. in your front pocket, do you have anything inside of there right now? >> i have a credit card. >> okay. what do you think would be the hardest thing for me to take? >> probably the credit card. >> that would be rather difficult for me. but if you check this way, turn toward the front, your inside jacket pocket, would you mind stepping on the other side of me? >> sure n for me to steal this without doing the kind of stealing i've been doing, i would have to distract you. one way would be to hand the bag across. as i pass that to him, i ca

very similar to the old apollo capsules. they had a trial by far.nd this orion capsule will do something very similar as well. >> we will keep watching with the clock going down. and we'll stay with you as this clock continues to count down. >> t minus one minute. >> range status. >> range green. >> we've got further than we did yesterday with the towndown. one or two stops. eventually they scrubbed for the day. but it looks as though we're going to get orion off this morning. orion sitting on top of its delta 4 rocket. currently the biggest, most powerful rocket in the world. when it lifts off, you'll see the flame. it will sit on the pad for a very short moment. then it will be up and away. big, bright light on the bottom. the men here at the kennedy space center -- we're about five miles away. we'll feel it and we'll see it. and i'm going to keep quiet just for a moment so you can watch the countdown. >> the igniters have been lit. >> ten, nine, eight, seven, six. >> five, four, three, two, one. and liftoff. at dawn. the dawn of orion. and a new

of the apollo. day,erformers, to this rubbed the stump of the tree for good luck, even now, just before they perform. broadway, i was torn. i was trying to figure out what would symbolize broadway. and the thing that i thought was most enduring, and we can argue this one all night, is the , which iphantom mask thought people would recognize most, sort of emblematic we -- emblematically broadly. >> what is the one object you mention that you did not have? isn't there one you mentioned? isn't there one? >> one that -- yes. find isthat i could not the famous robbie thompson baseball. theund the bat, which is in hall of fame. but the 1951 ball that unfortunately stole the pennant from the brooklyn dodgers, no one seems to know where that ball is. theory which was propounded by a "wall street journal" reporter in a wonderful book is that it was caught by a nun at the polo grounds who was not supposed to be there that day, and subsequently disappeared. what was 102, the last thing you cut? corrects that i

the reason i insist -- i have done probably two specials at the apollo. my last special was like in south africa. south africa and the apollo. because sometimes i do things that are critical of black culture. critical of my people as a whole. when you do jokes like that, it is important to cut to a black face laughing to signal that this is not racist. black people can be racist against their own people, too. >> you did a whole nine minutes on that. >> we can be just as racist as anybody else. it is kind of to relax the audience. black people laugh better than white people. they are just better laughers. black people laugh with their feet. they are really into it -- it is the mouth, and the feet. white people kind of just laugh from their neck up. >> seinfeld says you can do race better than anybody else. you can put it in a way that people can to the truth of the race in america. >> maybe. i am from that era. i was bused to school in 1973. we tend to think racism is older -- >> you were bused to a white, irish catholic community. >> irish and italian kid