IMPETUS FOR THE CHALLENGE

Recently, the television program, 60 Minutes, interviewed Sheriff Harold T Butt, Jr. Sheriff Butt requested that his old friend, Leslie Stahl to conduct the interview.

Butt also agreed to purchase all the commercial time for the show, so the interview could run uninterrupted. Butt's purpose for granting his first interview in over 20 years was to announce the details of his new, patent pending fundraising concept, called the StompOut Tobacco Challenge.

The following is an excerpt from that interview:

Cut to a beautifully appointed, huge office/library located inside the main house at the Butt Estate.

Leslie Stahl is sitting on an easy chair that is so large it seems to swallow her entire body. Sheriff Harold T. Butt, Jr. is sitting across from her at his desk. On the credenza behind him, and hung on the walls in the office, are some of the many awards Butt has received.

Decorations of the office include hundreds of photos of Butt's wife, kids, Butt posing with every president from Eisenhower through to Biden, as well as every celebrity from movies, TV, theater, and music.

TRANSCRIPT OF SHERIFF HAROLD T. BUTT, JR.* INTERVIEW ON 60 MINUTES.

EXPLAINING HIS IMPETUS FOR THE STOMPOUT TOBACCO CHALLENGE

PLEASE NOTE, CLICK ON THE WORDS WITH YELLOW FONT FOR CLARIFICATION ABOUT THE BUTT FAMILY AND THEIR ROLE IN THIS NONPROFIT PROJECT.

A camera is in a vehicle traveling along a winding road from the entrance of the vast estate. The camera was on a swivel and the vehicle moved quickly, heading towards a mansion.

At the entrance of the Estate is a large sign, overhead, carved into a large piece of wood, that says, Butt Family Ranch, one-quarter of a mile up the road is the Butts' Main House, which is an iconic southern United States mansion.

The camera swivels left to right showing the viewers beat beautifully appointed, beautiful grounds, sprawling lawn, and beautiful landscaping as far as the camera can see, we also see several barns, horses, cows and other animals and small buildings.

{There's an overlay on the screen, which includes the famous 60 Minutes Stop Watch and the words:

60 Minutes, Tonight Leslie Stall Interviews Sheriff Harold T. Butt, Jr.}

As the camera gets closer to the mansion, the video transitions, and we are now insides an enormous office located inside the main house at the Butt Estate.

Leslie Stahl is sitting on an easy chair that is so large it seems to swallow her entire body. Sheriff Harold T. Butt, Jr. is sitting across from her at his desk. On the credenza behind him, and hung on the walls in the office, are some of the many awards Butt has received.

Decorations of the office include:

Hundreds of photos of Butt's wife, kids,
Butt posing with every president from Eisenhower through to Biden, as well as
Tons of photos with Butt and his celebrity friends from movies, TV, theater, and music.
Photos from his basketball career, etc

After the camera checks out the office a little, it focuses on Stahl. She's looking into the camera as she speaks.

60 MINUTES INTERVIEW AT THE OFFICE OF SHERIFF HAROLD T. BUTT, JR.

"Welcome to America's favorite news program, 60 Minutes. My name is Leslie Stahl, and tonight we take you to the home of Sheriff Harold T. Butt Jr for an exclusive interview. Butt, known as Harry by his friends and fans, has a very important announcement. So significant, in fact, he's allowed cameras into his home for the first time since he began his illustrious career. Butt first came on to the scene as a collegiate athlete and professional basketball hero add, soon thereafter, as one of America's favorite stage, movie, and TV actors.

The screen changes from focusing on Leslie to photos in sequences with Butt’s life story.

Playing basketball at UCLA
Playing for the Celtics
Vietnam Physician

“Harry, thank you so much for inviting our viewers into your home. We're certain that there are millions of fans from around the world, have tuned in to tonight's show.

Harry, I'm not sure if you know this, but this is the 100th time you have granted me an interview over the past 50 years. The world, as do I, awaits your monumental announcement, so let's not keep your fans waiting any longer."

The camera moves away from Stahl and focuses on Butt. He is sitting at an oversized antique desk. He looks at the camera. His demeanor is very calm. He smiles.

"Leslie, my friend, how the hell are you? Oops. Darn it. Didn't mean to curse. "

Stahl laughs, and we hear laughter from a few of the people off camera. Stahl smiles and says.

"Harry, our producers are running this interview live, but between you, me and our tens of millions of viewers, there's a 5-second delay added for bleeping purposes."

Butt replies, "now that is a helluva good plan."

Harry is now smiling.

He quickly composes himself and calmly continues.

"You see Leslie, I've done a terrible disservice to my fans and friends around the world. I'ma talking about how I made my hankering for tobacky part of my public life.

Yah see, the missus and I have come up with a plan to try and help those who took up tobacky because of my influence.

That's why I invited you here today.

I'ma inviting everyone to come over to a new website, stompouttobacco.org. We're'a gonna ask every single one of ya to sign our anti-tobacco petition.

Leslie, we're a hopin' and a prayin' that somehow our website will get one of them viruses.

Off camera, Butt's wife says, "no honey, we want the website to go viral."

"What? Oh yeah. We need help makin' our website to go a'viral.

And to help make that happen, we're gonna give everyone in the world that signs that their petition, a reward. Yup. Everyone. I don't care how many people join us. A million. A zillion. We're gonna give all of yuh a free, special gift for joining with us.

Leslie, if we catch a break and this trying gets that viral thing. Millions of people, from all countries, will sign our tobacky sucks petition."

Butts' wife interrupts with her sweet sounding southern accent, "sweetie pie, remember, language… "

Butt continues, “sorry dear, ah, you know what all know I mean. How tobacky sucks the life out of people.”

Now, Butt stands up and points his paw at the camera, he raises his voice. He's angry.

{At the bottom of screen for the last 15 seconds of the Butt interview, have the following words}

- Visit www.stompout.org Today - Sign The Petition - Get Your Reward -

"This petition is just the first step. We've got many more to follow, because it's time to be bold.

We gotta change the way things are done. Yah see, them Tobacky lobbyists keep paying greedy politicians to make laws that have only one purpose. Allowing big tobacky to continue making money, for selling nothing but sickness and death.

Now, we'za gonna pay YOU to join with us, to work together to get politicians to, once and for all, end their sickening partnership with big tobacky.

What do ya think of that Mr. and Mrs. Big Tobacky?"

Butt still standing, walks away from the camera. The camera spins back around to Stahl. We can hear Butt stomping away, speaking, but his words are not intelligible.

BACK AT THE 60 MINUTES STUDIO

Stahl is now back at the TV studio, sitting in a news person's style chair in front of an enormous poster of a photo from her interview with Butt (like they do on 60 Minutes TV show)

"Folks, we hope that you enjoyed our interview of Sheriff Harold T. Butt, Jr.

Our producers and I checked out Butt's website, and we all signed his petition.

CUT TO SCREEN VIDEO OF PAGES FROM THE WEBSITE IN THE BACKGROUND AS STAHL SPEAKS. GO TO PETITION AND SIGN WITH FICTITIOUS NAME. THEN CLICK THROUGH TO SIGNATURE PAGE TO SEE SIGNED PETITION.

“True to his word, Butt gave each of us a significant reward for signing. With a promise of more rewards to come soon.

Folks, don't miss out on this chance to join with people from around every country to do something unified saber good for the world. Will Butt put the tobacco industry out of business? Only time will tell. Good night."