“Nah, I was upstairs.” Alan had such an amazing, shameless delivery of his lines. Absolute legend.

Wow! Pat & Kenny had their fingers on the pulse on what was going on in 2002.

George Clarke is a hero. Love the way he wants to redirect the attention to the prerecorded bit as soon as possible, much to the amusement of Letterman himself.

I believe that was one of the overall funniest Late Night mailbags they ever did. Every skit and letter an absolute hoot! Plus fun with Alan to start us off (Big Red was great as usual). They poked fun at certain celebrities but also poked fun at their own show with the traffic violation punishment. Classic.

I think I recorded that week of Hollywood Squares.

The sergeant at arms of our town's Dave Letterman Club #2 (the first one collapsed due to infighting) crocheted us a replica of the CBS mailbag. It was 9 feet long because Helen "wanted to use up all the old scouts linen" because it was taking up too much room in her garage since Gary went off to college. It was dingy white, with green speckles. I think it was mold? So I want to know if the CBS mailbag was moldy too. Also: do we still get discounts at the CBS store with our club cards?

Dave's infamous knuckle crack. 3:50

4:24 Fun fact: Winona is a real city in Minnesota and it's located in Winona County. Winona is a legendary figure from the Dakota Sioux lore.

Dave drunk on pyramid harkens back Hollywood of yesteryear…a glorious time indeed.

Time to close up the old CBS Mailbag for this week. We'll be right back with Al Gore.

Everyone in the Hollywood Squares "evil dictators" panel has died.

How Human Nature Works Human nature is the desire to receive, also called “desire to enjoy,” and it functions by receiving what is beneficial to itself and rejecting what is harmful. Everything in our lives is built upon this calculation where we first try to distance ourselves from harm, and then seek how to draw ourselves closer to what is beneficial. Human nature also includes a multilayering of systems that work simultaneously on still, vegetative, animate and human levels. One of those systems is our bodily one, which operates involuntarily. If our bodies are healthy, then they know what is good for them and draw that goodness to themselves. After the bodily system, there is the emotional system, which also functions relatively according to instinct. From the emotional system, we move to the mind, and from the mind to the intellect, and so on. That is, we have systems over systems that concurrently work on receiving what is beneficial and rejecting what is harmful. Such is human nature and the essence of our lives. Our every desire, thought and action operates according to the calculation, “How can we receive what is most beneficial to us and reject what is harmful?”

MikeMack!

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