Volume 2: Knocking on Heaven's Door Chapter 59: Leaders Must Have a Spirit of Contract (Part 2)
Dennis held a cigarette in his mouth and looked at Catherine, who was looking arrogant across from him: "Miss Catherine, have you ever lied?"
"Yes, my parents taught me not to lie since I was young. No matter what mistakes I made, I should tell them immediately. Lies will only make the mistakes more troublesome. I have tried it and I think they are right, so I will never lie again."
"How did you do the experiment? You told them you didn't eat the ice cream secretly, but you ended up sending yourself to the emergency room?" Dennis asked, slowly approaching Catherine.
Catherine stared at Dennis and smiled coquettishly: "No, when I was eleven, I lied to my parents and said that a boy kissed me forcefully. After that day, the boy never dared to appear in my sight again. The boy didn't kiss me forcefully. He just ran to my side and whispered in my ear that I was wearing ugly clothes. It's a pity. In fact, I have some feelings for the boy, so do you want to get closer?"
Dennis quickly distanced himself from Catherine and said self-deprecatingly, "This is why I rarely date girls from private high schools. People are always willing to believe the lies of rich and beautiful girls. So, what can I do for you, ma'am?"
"I'm going to call my father, and then you can convince him to believe the comedy that poor Tommy said, and ask him to help me contact Nickelodeon." Catherine picked up the phone and dialed a number: "Dad, I'm very happy in the summer camp, of course, and I encountered a very interesting thing. Yes, it's very interesting, so interesting that I... I want Nickelodeon to interview everything that happened here. I'll let my subordinate Dennis tell you."
Catherine handed the receiver to Dennis. "You'd better convince my dad to agree to help contact Nickelodeon, otherwise you will see my lies like that boy did back then."
"Mr. Nunn, you can call me Dennis. I'm the chief of the St. Vincent National Police Department and a loyal subordinate of your daughter, the Minister of Defense. This country is like a primitive tribe. Sir, we high school students are worshipped as gods by the black people in this country. Your daughter now leads the largest armed force in this country. I'm not kidding, it's true. Before we came here, this country didn't even have toilets." Dennis took the receiver and said:
"So Defense Minister Catherine thought she should ask Nickelodeon to help record her summer camp experience. After all, I think since the founding of the United States, there has never been news about a high school student attending a summer camp and governing a country. No, no, no, I'm the real Defense Minister. I'm also the real National Police Chief. I'm in charge of 17 police stations and solve countless cases every day. This country is not experiencing genocide now because of us American high school students."
Catherine looked at Dennis with disgust. After talking on the phone for a few minutes, Dennis hung up and looked at Catherine: "Your father said he can help contact the TV station, but the specific fees need to be paid by the summer camp. Don't think that he will pay the bill just because his daughter is in the summer camp."
"There are no toilets in this country?" Catherine's eyes widened and she asked Dennis, "Without us, there will be genocide? What's even more embarrassing is that my father actually believed you."
Dennis grinned. "Rich people all over the world want to hear about other people's miserable lives. Only when others live in misery can they be happy and then have a little bit of sympathy. In Warwick, every time the county councillors visit, Tommy, Pam's family and I will describe ourselves as miserable. If you want a flush toilet, you have to tell others that you don't know what a toilet is. This will make them interested in treating you like a monkey, giving you a flush toilet, and then watching you laugh at your helplessness in front of the toilet. This is the survival wisdom . Learn from it, sweet girl."
"If you were really smart, you wouldn't have been poor for so long." After listening to Dennis's smug explanation, Catherine mercilessly mocked him, "So do you know what a toilet is?"
Dennis said: "Of course I don't know. Growing up, every time I wanted to poop, my father would take me to the front door of the city hall to do it."
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Nickelodeon is located in One Astor Place in Midtown Manhattan, New York, a 54-story office building surrounded by Broadway theaters, and the density of artistic population may be the highest in the world.
People who work in this building once joked that accidentally spilling a cup of coffee out of the window could scald at least seven Broadway musical actors.
At this moment, in the conference room on the twelfth floor of the building, the roar of the channel director was heard: "Four hundred and sixty thousand paying subscribers! Four hundred and sixty thousand fucking paying subscribers! This is the perfect answer you have given to Disney Channel in this fight!"
Several producers of Nickelodeon's popular shows sat in their seats with their heads down and remained silent, allowing their boss to vent his anger with profanity and sarcasm.
Disney Channel started its test broadcast half a year ago. It can be said that from the moment it was established, it was intended to compete with Nickelodeon for the market.
So in order to suppress Disney's subscription volume, Nickelodeon has been making various efforts over the past six months, but it is obvious that Disney is more prepared. With sixteen hours of programming a day and programs that are more in line with the tastes of teenagers and young people, Disney has won 460,000 channel subscribers in just half a year.
Nickelodeon was founded in 1979 and currently has only 1.8 million subscribers, and has just barely achieved profitability. At this rate, Disney will be able to devour them alive and then pull them out intact in two years at most.
"Disney's American Heritage is a documentary variety show featuring real-life teenagers that includes treasure hunting, historical exploration, and scenic wonders. It is full of fun and has historical depth. Not only have countless families subscribed to Disney Channel for that show, but it has also received unanimous praise from various newspapers and magazines. Elton, you seem to have more say than me about this show, because it was this show that made your Are You Afraid of the Dark? a shit show in the same time slot." The director looked at his own variety show producer Elton with an unpleasant expression:
"How did you come up with the idea of launching a horror, suspense and mystery show for the vast number of American teenagers? Did you think that their lives under the control of their parents weren't scary enough? What's even more fucking weird is that you actually persuaded me to agree to this request, which now seems absolutely stupid."
"Sir, I think..." Elton wanted to explain.
The director interrupted him directly and said in a cold tone: "I don't want your opinion. What I want to tell you is that either you can quickly come up with a program that is deep and attractive enough to compete with Disney Channel's American Heritage, or write me a letter of resignation so that I can save some money as headhunting funds to poach Disney producers to work for me."
After he finished speaking, the director turned around and walked out of the conference room. Elton exhaled, cursed softly, and walked back to his own office. The assistant came over and said, "Boss, our previous client called and said that there is a summer camp that wants to cooperate with us and promote their students."
"Don't bother me, let me think about how to write a resignation letter without using swear words but with vicious words, Butch. " Elton leaned back in his chair irritably, with his hands behind his head and his legs resting on the table.
The assistant took out the phone records he had made earlier and insisted, "Boss, I think you can take a look at the information records I made before you write your resignation letter."
