disagree?
- Socrates, for one.
- Socrates?
Socrates. In his day,
work was for slaves.
For inferior beings who
did all the menial tasks
so that the superior
Greeks would be free to pursue art
and philosophy
and statecraft.
All through Europe, up to the 20th
century, if work was so noble,
how come you never
saw any of the nobility doing it, hmm?
What is with these Eskimos
and superior Greeks?
This is the United States.
And this is today.
People think differently, Michael.
Not everybody.
You can't change the world
you live in, Michael.
And everybody knows
that work is good for man.
Like everybody in your
grandfather's village
knew that they were safe
from the Turks?
Are you sure you don't
want to be a lawyer?
Here you go.
Good luck.
Whoa!
Whoa!
Hey, wanna go around it
and not through it?
I'm sorry.
Hey, man, come on.
Get out of the way!
Trying to get through.
Oh my God.
Are you okay?
Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
- Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
- Are you sure?
Long as I don't have
to sit down for the next 20 years,
I'll be okay.
I'm fine.
I'll be all right. It's like somebody
used a pineapple as a probe.
Pillow pillow, put the pillow down.
Put the pillow down.
Put the pillow down.
That's it. That's it.
You are not going
back to that job.
No, it's just I did
too many miles the first day.
My body will adjust.
Make me a drink.
Until the pain set in,
I really enjoyed the day.
It was nice riding out
there in the open air,
and the people going by,
all the activity.
The trees passing by.
Heck of a lot nicer
than that damned exercycle.
You know, sitting there
looking at nothing but reruns on the...
television.
- Oh oh oh! That's it!
- What is it?
That is it. Michael, come on
out here, would you?
Hurry up, quick. This is the new
business that I'm going into.
Here, listen to this idea.
Video bicycle tours.
We make videos of what
a biker would see
while he was riding
through London
or Rome,
the French countryside,
whatever, you name it.
We sell those videos
to the people that own
the exercycles.
They go home.
They put it into their set
and instead of boring exercise,
every workout becomes a holiday.
- Do enough people own these exercycles?
- There must be millions.
Wait a minute.
We could develop
a luxury exercycle.
You know, with the TV set
built right on it.
Two, three of 'em.
Yeah, different points of view.
Left, right and center.
Sensational.
You could go around the world
without ever leaving your bedroom.
Sunday we'll take the camera,
we'll go to the park
- and we'll try it out on my bike, huh?
- Okay, sounds great.
One problem, I don't think
you'd use your video camera on the bike.
The picture would get wobbly.
I know how to fix it.
- Why don't you let me handle it?
- Well, thank you, Michael.
As a matter of fact,
a buddy of mine is in film school.
He could probably
loan us some of his equipment.
- I'll go check it out.
- Yeah.
- Help me up. Help me up.
- All right.
Yes!
- Shut up!
- Okay, help me down.
Are you ready?
I am ready.
Okay, come ahead
when you're ready. Go ahead.
Looking good.
That's beautiful.
- Millie, your son is a genius.
- Hey, I just provided
a little technical
assistance, Dad.
You have come up with a terrific idea.
This thing could work.
Of course it could work,
but I'll tell you what's really great.
It takes hardly any capital.
We start out making the videos,
we sell them to the video stores,
then later we expand
- into the exercycles with TVs attached.
- Sound great.
Yeah, there's only
one problem, though.
I mean, merchandising
is a cinch.
It's just I've got to find
someone to take care
of the production
of the videos themselves.
Someone who has a certain
technical knowledge about filmmaking,
and, of course,
someone who wouldn't mind
traveling
all over the world
to those exciting
and exotic locations.
You wouldn't
have any idea where I might find
such a someone,
would you,