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Leona Campbell Calls Miss Cleo
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The premise
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An intrigued Leona Campbell phones Miss Cleo during a live psychic infomercial. Instead of asking about her own future, she wants to know why the spirits gave no warning about September 11. Cleo struggles to steer the conversation toward a personal reading, while Leona compares her evasions to a friend who repeats the answers on Jeopardy. A final question about Osama bin Laden brings their call to an abrupt end, leaving Leona to find something else on television.
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Was you working on September the 10th?
That's a big thing for them to miss, isn't it?
Script
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- 00:01
Miss Cleo
Hello, darlings. This is Miss Cleo coming to you live from our studio. And it is very special and commercial. I'll be taking calls and giving psychic readings live on the air.
- 00:11
Leona Campbell
Oh, my goodness, would you look at that?
- 00:15
Miss Cleo
I can tell you things about the future that you'd never learn on your own.
- 00:19
Leona Campbell
Really?
- 00:21
Miss Cleo
So call me now.
- 00:23
Leona Campbell
I'm going to do that.
- 00:26
Miss Cleo
Operators are standing by. oh and we have our very first caller hello caller
- 00:32
Leona Campbell
hello is this cleo
- 00:34
Miss Cleo
yes baby it is
- 00:36
Leona Campbell
oh you're the one that can see into the future
- 00:39
Miss Cleo
yes darling you got the right cleo
- 00:41
Leona Campbell
oh honey can i ask you a question one was you working on september the 10th
- 00:49
yes
- 00:57
Miss Cleo
Well, yes, yes yes
- 01:00
Leona Campbell
really you didn't see anything strange gonna happen on that next day
- 01:07
Miss Cleo
Um, uh, no.
- 01:09
Leona Campbell
Nothing? You could go on TV and maybe warn people about... Oh, wait, was you working September of the 9th? And maybe you got a message from the spirits saying something like, Hey, Cleo, get your American flags while they still chew. Do you remember them saying anything like that?
- 01:39
Miss Cleo
No, darling, no, no.
- 01:41
Leona Campbell
Well, that's a big thing for them to miss, isn't it?
- 01:45
On
- 01:46
Miss Cleo
Well, honey, tell me,
- 01:48
Leona Campbell
what about on September the 8th, do you remember getting any psychic messages like, three more days till Gary Conrad ain't in the headlines?
- 02:01
Miss Cleo
Caller, listen to me, caller. Okay, now the psychic world and the spiritual world can be very, very tricky, okay? And I didn't think to ask about that kind of information, you see.
- 02:14
Leona Campbell
That'd be the first thing I'd ask every day, you know, just in case. I'd say, spirits and historical tragedies coming up soon.
- 02:25
Miss Cleo
I did feel something, okay, because I got a lot of bad, bad vibes on that day.
- 02:31
Leona Campbell
So do you know who you remind me of? My friend Zelda. She does that same thing. We like to watch Jeopardy together. You ever seen that show?
- 02:41
Miss Cleo
Yes.
- 02:42
Leona Campbell
It's with Alex Trebek. He sure looked like he smelled good, didn't he? but anyways they'll come over we watch that program and she says the answers at the same time alex says them so you can't even tell if she's smart or she's just being real tricky that's who you remind me of honey
- 03:03
Miss Cleo
yo okay well let me tell you something okay i'm not tricky okay i am a certified psychic so if you have any personal questions pertaining to your personal life please ask me now okay
- 03:13
Leona Campbell
yeah i sure do honey my husband he's been so irritable lately
- 03:20
Miss Cleo
yes i see that in the cards in fact i know you've been married for a very long time
- 03:24
Leona Campbell
yes we have we've been married for
- 03:26
Leona Campbell
six years
- 03:27
Miss Cleo
65 years
- 03:28
Leona Campbell
that's what i'm talking about right there does that same thing but anyway honey i love my husband
- 03:37
Miss Cleo
i know i see that
- 03:38
Leona Campbell
i love him and i was wondering if you could could tell me where I could find Osama bin Laden
- 03:44
to
- 03:52
Leona Campbell
Cleo We got disconnected Soon I didn't get a chance finish asking my questions.
- 04:02
Come on, turn around.
- 04:07
Leona Campbell
Oh, my goodness! Look at them girls! They have gone wild!
- 04:13
Hey, hey! Whoo!
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