He really seems to be. I never heard of him until a couple of months ago he started coming up in YT recs. Seems like a lot of history was made on his show. Yet all your hear about is Johnny.
This man was one of the quickest wits and best conversationalists that was ever on the tube. I rate him & Paar as the two greatest talk show hosts ever.
The thing about Cavett is, his format was the great thing. Just have a show where there is one guest for the whole hour. Or two. And all they do is talk. None of the stupid Fallon game show gimmicks. Just talk. It's really the format that was great. I adore Cavett, but it's the format we miss.
Me too. He was (is) such an intelligent, humble interviewer. He was utterly professional in his research but also in reading the reactions of his guests, who were often so famous that they often had every reason to be very guarded, so that he could defuse anything and bring out the best in them for the context. Pretty special guy - and there's really been no one like him since, more is the pity.
I agree the format was great but it cant work today because people nowadays have the attention span of a nat, at least that is what producers and directors think \
Ben Fitz I think the producers are terrified of losing peoples attention - but a lot of people are able to follow Cavett type stuff. The trouble is there are no performers like Welles or Brando or Marx.
Give Cavett some credit - he *was* the format (to paraphrase Mcluhan) - Fallon would have suited that format like an overweight gorilla wearing a plus-size condom.
To OrphanSeasun: The first part of your statement is true: producers and executives do seem to have given up on long-form discussion, possibly due to the loss of a captive audience because of the proliferation of different venues. However, it is not at all true that there are no longer genuinely intellectual and truly interesting celebrities willing to open up. Some outstanding examples in my mind include Tom Hanks, Alec Baldwin, Sara Silverman, David Mitchell, John Hodgman, Marc Maron, Anthony Bourdain. There are many others whom I suspect fit this category, but are not showcased because they're not expected to. I believe one reason such people don't easily come to mind is that the top of the entertainment industry is much better now at manufacturing and promoting talent and do not have to rely on people of true genius to come up with content; manufactured celebrity drowns out those who are truly talented.
Wow, Dick Cavett, my favorite talk show host of all time, was suffering depression, wow! ♥️👍🏼👍🏽💕🙏❤️ such a bright mind, so funny! I love all of his showsM.
Dick Cavett's show was before my time, but I was watching his interview with Janis Joplin and was really impressed with the interaction. I came to this video to see a little more of this man. I feel like I could learn a lot about engaging with people by watching him.
Outy Man the title is a bit misleading, as it is how to influence your friends. but this is small book written ages ago and packed with wisdom in how to connect with people. you may give it a ago. cheers
I couldn't agree more. Cavett was a master of the art. Rose tends to interject far too often, and not to good effect. He could learn a hell of a lot from Cavett.
I knew a man who could walk in a room and stop time. He had the power to vanish everyone in the room. Yet his truthfulness and honesty is unforgettable. 🙏 for ✌ and ❤ till me met again.
As a pro I'm sure Cavett has developed a tool bag of comebacks and quotes for various occasions and is delighted when an occasion presents itself for just right one. You'd be crazy to go in front of any audience without any rehearsal after all of course. Space is definitely there though for new things to happen, and as he observed about Groucho the speaker is as surprised as anyone else. The self-effacement, and perhaps gosh-wow fannish starry-eyedness, are Cavett's saving graces from being insufferably pompous. Well, I did get the book (and two of the DVD sets), and it's all very enjoyable!
I believe all the present so-called presenters should do their homework: they have to watch and analyze every show Dick Cavett ever made! For the sake of their education. Brilliant mind, great diction, decent humor! Quite rare today.
Yo le recuerdo en sus entrevistas a Rudolf Nureyev, muy agradable y simpático. Nos hacia reír con sus sutiles preguntas y no menos hábiles las respuestas de Nureyev.
Dick is a great clown that admires comedy and rock and roll and a spectacular critic. Im also a Nebraska native. I wish he could interview Kiss that will be in Lincoln July 2016 with 2 imposters that image Peter Chris and Ace Frehlly trademark makeup catman and space ace.Seen them original 4 in Lincoln 74 tho my fav. Celebrity i met was George Burns at pershing auditorium at 13yrs. old my pop was a famous photo journalist journal star.40 yrs. Wish i met Dick hes such a trip.
Cavett has courageously dealt with bouts of clinical depression, an illness that first affected him as a freshman at Yale. In 1980 he experienced what he characterized as his "biggest depressive episode". While on board an SST before take off, Cavett broke out into a sweat and became agitated. He was removed from the plane and taken to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, where he later underwent electroconvulsive therapy.
Charles Peete "Charlie" Rose, Jr. (Henderson, Carolina del Norte; 5 de enero de 1942) es un locutor y periodista de la televisión estadounidense. Desde 1991 ha sido anfitrión de Charlie Rose, un programa de entrevistas transmitido nacionalmente por la PBS desde 1993. También trabaja en This Morning de CBS, desde enero de 2012. Rose, junto con Lara Logan, ha sido anfitrión del revivido clásico de la CBS Person to Person, un programa de noticias en el que las celebridades son entrevistadas en sus hogares, mientras que Edward R. Murrow fue originalmente su anfitrión de 1953 a 1961.
The hosts on talk shows today are immature and just silly, and the guests worse. Where are the authors like a Capote or a Mailer or actors like an Orsen Wells or Hepburn. Even a boxer like Ali was witty and interesting. The talk shows now are so pathetically bad I don't even turn them on anymore.
Your comment is interesting You state how bad they are and then state you don't even turn it on. If they are so bad it wouldn't even occur to me that you would even think of turning it on. i Disagree. I do watch them even when I know the conversation are fake. I liked Ferguson because he is witty.but I know the lines he says are not spontaneous and were all written either for him or by him.before the show. He always started the interview the same way and he would casualty say some meaningless thing like you were on vacation and it would lead to some witty comment. If the witty comment was planned then the whole conversation was planned. So I know it's fake but I still like it I agree Cavett was great and he had a show where the conversations were authentic. He states he wasn't a intellectual but since I'm not that was a good thing. He was and is intelligent but so was Carson. A lot of the time they even had the same type of guest. Wells and Hepburn were on Carson as well. The difference was that Carson was interested in giving his audience a pure entertainment experience and Cavett was more into communications and he was very good at it. I liked Carson but I felt that the shows after a while just became too repetitive I didn't feel that way with Cavett. so I usually ended up watching him.
What I meant when I said, "I don't even turn them on anymore," is, I tried watching them and wish I could watch them but they are unwatchable. For me at least.
bornbillsmith good comment bornbill. i have a question about when you said: "I liked Ferguson because he is witty.but I know the lines he says are not spontaneous and were all written either for him or by him.before the show." which lines? his questions and responses? the interview itself? the monologue?
bornbillsmith everything? like when he shreds then throws out the questions? i never watched the monologue. he seemed very spontaneous. all fake you say? he was a good faker.
He had the best talk show on TV ever... because he simply let the famous guest talk and didn't interrupt them... I find his book "Talk Host" boring as hell except for a few insights into John Wayne... For Wayne was nothing like the man he portrayed on the screen. Wayne was an intellectual, and lover of music and art and a very kind person. Most of this book is just rambling this and that mostly of his affection for Carson and Groucho Marx
I very much enjoy Dick Cavett although, with regret, I wasn't watching him when he was on. As an aside, there is just a LITTLE bit of Vincent Price going on here.
I find that a lot of people in the 20th century got into celebrity-dom with the adolescent motivation to get girls :D ....From Jack Nicholson (I don't remember his exact statement) to Dick Cavett to Rock-stars! The internet must have changed things a lot- I mean 'celebrity' today just means dumb and shallow for the most part
ahmed barakat oh wow- Bruce Lee?? Really?? Haha- It's so hard to imagine the same guy famous for that quote on water to have had such a motivation for stardom- but ya I guess times were different back then- nowadays you're already 'famous' through social media- So fame is cheap today. Hence the lesser demand. Thanks for sharing the info :)
+Vinay Seth The amazing part was Cavett didn't even care about rock stars the question was asked by Alec Baldwin in a previous interview. He said he didn't like rock music so someone like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin would be like someone in there 30's/40's meeting some big name today (Cavett was 32 at the time when he started). From understanding more about him it was the old guys who really meant a lot.
_The Dick Cavett Show_ was the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks, including: ABC daytime, (March 4, 1968-January 24, 1969) originally titled _This Morning _ ABC prime time, Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Fridays (May 26 - September 19, 1969) ABC late night (December 29, 1969 - January 1, 1975) CBS prime time, Saturdays (August 16 - September 6, 1975; this version was actually more of a variety show) PBS, early evenings, weeknights (October 10, 1977 - October 8, 1982) USA Network prime time (September 30, 1985 - September 23, 1986) ABC late night, Tuesdays & Wednesday nights (September 22 - December 30, 1986) CNBC (April 17, 1989 - January 26, 1996) TCM (2006-2007)
you may be mu best friend. The position is open. Dick Cavett can deliver that, and it sounds 'best of' glib, but guileless. someone else could do it and it would be like wet vines.
The point about him being an intellectual, I disagree with him, as I think he is. I would modify that by saying he is an interesting intellectual, who can make others become more interesting, even when, or especially when discussing mundane things.
I always thought it was very exploitive the way he would drag a half dead Groucho Marx in front of the cameras, and let the once sharp minded funny man ramble incoherently for 90 minutes!
Groucho and Dick Cavett were friends. Groucho had suffered a stroke in 1970 Dick wasn't being exploitive, he was being respectful. Check out when Dick had Groucho on his show in 1969 and you will see a big difference in Groucho's persona. Groucho was already 79 years old by the time the 1969 show aired.
I'm fascinated by this guy. He may be the most underrated "talk show" host ever.
He really seems to be. I never heard of him until a couple of months ago he started coming up in YT recs. Seems like a lot of history was made on his show. Yet all your hear about is Johnny.
Underrated in that there are 500 million videos of him being honored as being the best talk show host ever? 😂
Underrated??? Wow. Why? Because you say that?
@@gabrielfigueroa5654 it's a way for people to feel less informed. They find out about something way after it happened then they say underrated
Underrated is just another overused Millennial word, like "literally."
There were lots of great talk shows. But Dick Cavett was the best.
Dick Cavett, legend 💖
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He has defined excellence in the interview format !!!!
This man was one of the quickest wits and best conversationalists that was ever on the tube. I rate him & Paar as the two greatest talk show hosts ever.
So well said & well put ! With Cavett and Paar, it was about having a real actual conversation.
AGREE
He interviewed the biggest and brightest, and they all respected him, most notably Welles and Brando.
The thing about Cavett is, his format was the great thing. Just have a show where there is one guest for the whole hour. Or two. And all they do is talk. None of the stupid Fallon game show gimmicks. Just talk.
It's really the format that was great. I adore Cavett, but it's the format we miss.
Me too. He was (is) such an intelligent, humble interviewer. He was utterly professional in his research but also in reading the reactions of his guests, who were often so famous that they often had every reason to be very guarded, so that he could defuse anything and bring out the best in them for the context. Pretty special guy - and there's really been no one like him since, more is the pity.
I agree the format was great but it cant work today because people nowadays have the attention span of a nat, at least that is what producers and directors think
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Ben Fitz I think the producers are terrified of losing peoples attention - but a lot of people are able to follow Cavett type stuff. The trouble is there are no performers like Welles or Brando or Marx.
Give Cavett some credit - he *was* the format (to paraphrase Mcluhan) - Fallon would have suited that format like an overweight gorilla wearing a plus-size condom.
To OrphanSeasun: The first part of your statement is true: producers and executives do seem to have given up on long-form discussion, possibly due to the loss of a captive audience because of the proliferation of different venues. However, it is not at all true that there are no longer genuinely intellectual and truly interesting celebrities willing to open up. Some outstanding examples in my mind include Tom Hanks, Alec Baldwin, Sara Silverman, David Mitchell, John Hodgman, Marc Maron, Anthony Bourdain. There are many others whom I suspect fit this category, but are not showcased because they're not expected to. I believe one reason such people don't easily come to mind is that the top of the entertainment industry is much better now at manufacturing and promoting talent and do not have to rely on people of true genius to come up with content; manufactured celebrity drowns out those who are truly talented.
Great Interview, 👍🏽👍🏼👍🏽👍🏼👍🏽👍🏼
I am currently watching all his shows. Brilliant format. He was a superb interviewer..
I'm watching all his interviews too.
Charlie was such a good interviewer.
I can't believe how young he looks. He's in his '70s here and he could easily pass for '50s.
Also the beard really suits him.
Nah I don't think
I see it as a good looking 70's here
Toupee
My computer exploded after watching these two powerhouses of conversation.
Cam RSR Rose is actually a terrible conversationist. Dull questions and always interrupting his guests. Cavett is great though
Wow, Dick Cavett, my favorite talk show host of all time, was suffering depression, wow! ♥️👍🏼👍🏽💕🙏❤️ such a bright mind, so funny! I love all of his showsM.
Dick Cavett... what a witty and sensible character, greatness all around.
Nobody could do a one and one interview better than Charlie Rose. When you were on his show , you know you had made it.
Nobody except dick cavett lol
Bette Davis interview = my all time favorite
Great interview gentlemen, Mr. Rose and Mr. Cavett. I thank you so very much.
Dick Cavett's show was before my time, but I was watching his interview with Janis Joplin and was really impressed with the interaction. I came to this video to see a little more of this man. I feel like I could learn a lot about engaging with people by watching him.
kappelmeister123 - Thanks, I will!
Outy Man Have you read Dale Carniege's book?
***** - I have not. What's the title, subject?
Outy Man the title is a bit misleading, as it is how to influence your friends. but this is small book written ages ago and packed with wisdom in how to connect with people. you may give it a ago. cheers
***** - Thanks, Mahir! I'll check it out!
I wish it was Dick Cavett interviewing Dick Cavett instead. A distinct trademark of his show was hearing the guest's voice.
I couldn't agree more. Cavett was a master of the art. Rose tends to interject far too often, and not to good effect. He could learn a hell of a lot from Cavett.
UA-cam: please upload more Dick Cavett shows. With James Mason for example.
I would love to see Jack Paar with Dick Cavett.
Wow, Cavett has aged well.
As I do when I take off my hat, you make a good point ! He's always been handsome, fit & trim ! Bless his heart !
A great man.
Long live freedom and democratic equality
I knew a man who could walk in a room and stop time.
He had the power to vanish everyone in the room.
Yet his truthfulness and honesty is unforgettable.
🙏 for ✌ and ❤ till me met again.
I've been looking for an intelligent, interesting man like Dick Cavett my whole life.
Now he's a spokesman for NY realtors in cab videos. Long live Cavett!
As a pro I'm sure Cavett has developed a tool bag of comebacks and quotes for various occasions and is delighted when an occasion presents itself for just right one. You'd be crazy to go in front of any audience without any rehearsal after all of course. Space is definitely there though for new things to happen, and as he observed about Groucho the speaker is as surprised as anyone else. The self-effacement, and perhaps gosh-wow fannish starry-eyedness, are Cavett's saving graces from being insufferably pompous.
Well, I did get the book (and two of the DVD sets), and it's all very enjoyable!
“I’ve had a wonderful evening and this wasn’t it.”
I believe all the present so-called presenters should do their homework: they have to watch and analyze every show Dick Cavett ever made! For the sake of their education. Brilliant mind, great diction, decent humor! Quite rare today.
conversational TV. Who could imagine.
I LOVE DICK CAVETT SO MUCH
Yo le recuerdo en sus entrevistas a Rudolf Nureyev, muy agradable y simpático. Nos hacia reír con sus sutiles preguntas y no menos hábiles las respuestas de Nureyev.
Dick is a great clown that admires comedy and rock and roll and a spectacular critic. Im also a Nebraska native. I wish he could interview Kiss that will be in Lincoln July 2016 with 2 imposters that image Peter Chris and Ace Frehlly trademark makeup catman and space ace.Seen them original 4 in Lincoln 74 tho my fav. Celebrity i met was George Burns at pershing auditorium at 13yrs. old my pop was a famous photo journalist journal star.40 yrs. Wish i met Dick hes such a trip.
Letterman
Cavett
Paar
Snyder
The Mount Rushmore of talk show hosts
Cavett has courageously dealt with bouts of clinical depression, an illness that first affected him as a freshman at Yale. In 1980 he experienced what he characterized as his "biggest depressive episode". While on board an SST before take off, Cavett broke out into a sweat and became agitated. He was removed from the plane and taken to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, where he later underwent electroconvulsive therapy.
Charlie just loves the sound of his own voice....let them talk already!
LEGEND !!!!
Charles Peete "Charlie" Rose, Jr. (Henderson, Carolina del Norte; 5 de enero de 1942) es un locutor y periodista de la televisión estadounidense. Desde 1991 ha sido anfitrión de Charlie Rose, un programa de entrevistas transmitido nacionalmente por la PBS desde 1993. También trabaja en This Morning de CBS, desde enero de 2012. Rose, junto con Lara Logan, ha sido anfitrión del revivido clásico de la CBS Person to Person, un programa de noticias en el que las celebridades son entrevistadas en sus hogares, mientras que Edward R. Murrow fue originalmente su anfitrión de 1953 a 1961.
Good conversation...!
"everything German except invasion " I must use that sometime
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Glad Rose didn't harass him!
The best latenight host of all time
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Cavett said the most interesting and best guest was Katherine Hepburn.
DICK CAVETT
19 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 1936
85 AÑOS (86)
The hosts on talk shows today are immature and just silly, and the guests worse. Where are the authors like a Capote or a Mailer or actors like an Orsen Wells or Hepburn. Even a boxer like Ali was witty and interesting. The talk shows now are so pathetically bad I don't even turn them on anymore.
Your comment is interesting
You state how bad they are and then state you don't even turn it on.
If they are so bad it wouldn't even occur to me that you would even think of turning it on.
i Disagree.
I do watch them even when I know the conversation are fake.
I liked Ferguson because he is witty.but I know the lines he says are not spontaneous and were all written either for him or by him.before the show.
He always started the interview the same way and he would casualty say some meaningless thing like you were on vacation and it would lead to some witty comment.
If the witty comment was planned then the whole conversation was planned.
So I know it's fake but I still like it
I agree Cavett was great and he had a show where the conversations were authentic.
He states he wasn't a intellectual but since I'm not that was a good thing.
He was and is intelligent but so was Carson.
A lot of the time they even had the same type of guest.
Wells and Hepburn were on Carson as well.
The difference was that Carson was interested in giving his audience a pure entertainment experience and Cavett was more into communications and he was very good at it.
I liked Carson but I felt that the shows after a while just became too repetitive
I didn't feel that way with Cavett. so I usually ended up watching him.
What I meant when I said, "I don't even turn them on anymore," is, I tried watching them and wish I could watch them but they are unwatchable. For me at least.
bornbillsmith
good comment bornbill. i have a question about when you said: "I liked Ferguson because he is witty.but I know the lines he says are not spontaneous and were all written either for him or by him.before the show."
which lines? his questions and responses? the interview itself? the monologue?
genius mchaggis Everything
bornbillsmith
everything? like when he shreds then throws out the questions? i never watched the monologue. he seemed very spontaneous. all fake you say? he was a good faker.
articulate
How true ! Articulate, intelligent, thoughtful & perceptive !
He'd better be. he's an Ivy league grad.
Where can i watch ALL the Dick Cavett shows?
What a marvellous face he has . Could easily have played Saruman in
LOTR or a Saint ?
*marvelous
"my" best friend. "mu best friend" is something else, although that position too, is 'open'.
too deep! :-)
1:54 Well, he got his wish
He had the best talk show on TV ever... because he simply let the famous guest talk and didn't interrupt them... I find his book "Talk Host" boring as hell except for a few insights into John Wayne... For Wayne was nothing like the man he portrayed on the screen. Wayne was an intellectual, and lover of music and art and a very kind
person. Most of this book is just rambling this and that mostly of his affection for Carson and Groucho Marx
I very much enjoy Dick Cavett although, with regret, I wasn't watching him when he was on. As an aside, there is just a LITTLE bit of Vincent Price going on here.
He is a little Pricey...
Rose
Long live communism and eugenics
You never made a mistake. That didn't last long
I find that a lot of people in the 20th century got into celebrity-dom with the adolescent motivation to get girls :D ....From Jack Nicholson (I don't remember his exact statement) to Dick Cavett to Rock-stars! The internet must have changed things a lot- I mean 'celebrity' today just means dumb and shallow for the most part
Vinay Seth I also read in Bruce Lee's biography that impressing girls was his main motivation to become a celebrity
ahmed barakat oh wow- Bruce Lee?? Really?? Haha- It's so hard to imagine the same guy famous for that quote on water to have had such a motivation for stardom- but ya I guess times were different back then- nowadays you're already 'famous' through social media- So fame is cheap today. Hence the lesser demand.
Thanks for sharing the info :)
+Vinay Seth The amazing part was Cavett didn't even care about rock stars the question was asked by Alec Baldwin in a previous interview. He said he didn't like rock music so someone like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin would be like someone in there 30's/40's meeting some big name today (Cavett was 32 at the time when he started). From understanding more about him it was the old guys who really meant a lot.
+Colin Zeta Hmm that seems reasonable.
What was the original air date for Cavett?
_The Dick Cavett Show_ was the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks, including:
ABC daytime, (March 4, 1968-January 24, 1969) originally titled _This Morning
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ABC prime time, Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Fridays (May 26 - September 19, 1969)
ABC late night (December 29, 1969 - January 1, 1975)
CBS prime time, Saturdays (August 16 - September 6, 1975; this version was actually more of a variety show)
PBS, early evenings, weeknights (October 10, 1977 - October 8, 1982)
USA Network prime time (September 30, 1985 - September 23, 1986)
ABC late night, Tuesdays & Wednesday nights (September 22 - December 30, 1986)
CNBC (April 17, 1989 - January 26, 1996)
TCM (2006-2007)
you may be mu best friend. The position is open. Dick Cavett can deliver that, and it sounds
'best of' glib, but guileless. someone else could do it and it would be like wet vines.
The point about him being an intellectual, I disagree with him, as I think he is. I would modify that by saying he is an interesting intellectual, who can make others become more interesting, even when, or especially when discussing mundane things.
I always thought it was very exploitive the way he would drag a half dead Groucho Marx in front of the cameras, and let the once sharp minded funny man ramble incoherently for 90 minutes!
Groucho and Dick Cavett were friends. Groucho had suffered a stroke in 1970 Dick wasn't being exploitive, he was being respectful. Check out when Dick had Groucho on his show in 1969 and you will see a big difference in Groucho's persona. Groucho was already 79 years old by the time the 1969 show aired.
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What are you expecting me to do? After 14 years of games.
Charlie Rose doesn't seem to listen to Cavett
It’s crazy that rose abused so many women for so long 🤨
famous for doing nothing...I guess that's some kind of talent.
GEORGE CARLIN?
So why are all of you showing up in my life.? To help? How?
Stop talking Charlie.
It's a conversation - stop commenting John.
R.I.P Dick Cavett
He's still alive.
that isn't even funny. at least guess the date.
What is the point of interacting with me in disguise?
Best talk show host interviewer most intellectual is Chelsea Handler, hands down.
Good one.
Yes. She is definitely on of the four smartest people to have ever lived.
Well, perhaps not. She is good, but certainly not in Dicks league.
hmm.. so performers need an occasional memory wipe like droids
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Man, Cavett is pretty boring here. Even though he comes from my generation, I prefer Letterman and the more modern style.
Zzzzzz.
Sorry it didn't have your requirement of car chases and explosives.
If you have no appreciation of conversations I can see why you are bored.
Wow - the two worst interviewers on the planet interviewing each other. I wonder if they knew the other one was even in the room...
@@WYO_Cowboy_Joe We can't all be as superior as you and your talk show.
@Jason Bouphasavanh Not ded yet...
@Jason Bouphasavanh Ok! You too.
Ha ha ha ha ha - what planet are you referring to, the one you live on, or earth?
@@Hithere-ek4qt Ask your mom.