I'm kind of intrigued by this guy (this Pillow Guy) Mike Lindell. He reminds me of certain folks I've observed or encountered in life who had loads of money, insane ideas and the willingness to write a check to anyone who indulged their whims and wishes, no matter how looney. When Howard Hughes was sitting naked in a bed in a blacked-out hotel room, ordering his well-paid employees to preserve his urine in Mason Jars, none of them said, "Uh, Mr. Hughes, I don't think you want to do that."
Here, Zachary Petrizzo writes about Lindell's recent rally in South Dakota where he expected 30,000 people to show up in a hall that could accommodate 3,200…which turned out okay because only 1,500 showed up. Interesting that his opening act was Joe Piscopo. That was probably a real good booking for Joe.
I've been watching CNN's The Story of Late Night as it attempts to cram nearly seventy years of TV history into six hours, each interrupted by ten minutes of commercials. You could do six hours just on Jack Paar and not say half of what oughta be said. It's like a lot of documentaries I've seen lately or even been in. You can almost hear the filmmakers saying to each other, "Wouldn't it have been great if we'd done this fifteen years ago when 85% of the people we'd like to have interviewed were alive?"
That said, they have a lot of great clips. Wish some of them were longer. And I'll have more to say as the series progresses.