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May 14, 1968
New York City



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Joe Garagiola: "How about this new organization, 'Apple'?"​

John Lennon: "Oh yeah. Well you see, our accountant came up and said, 'We got this amount of money. Do you want to give it to the government or do something with it?' So we thought..."

Garagiola: "Which government?"​

Lennon: "Oh... Any old government."

(laughter)​

Lennon: "So we decided to play businessmen for a bit, because, uhh, we've got to run our own affairs now. So, we've got this thing called 'Apple Records' which is going to be very musical and all that. Very exciting, quite grand."

Paul McCartney: "If you want to do something, normally you've got to go to big business and you've gotta go to 'them,' the big people, you know."

Lennon: "You don't even get there. Because you can't get through the door 'cuz of the color of your shoes."

McCartney: (laughs) "But you know, people are normally... Big companies are so big that if you're little and good it takes you like 60 years to make it. And so people miss out on these little good people, all those cracking musicians out there."

Lennon: "It just takes 'em longer."

McCartney: "So we're trying to find a few."

Lennon: "We really wanted to make it this sort of umbrella type thing, y'know, have a boutique or a film studio or what have you. But we thought it'd be better to plant a seed and see what grows before investing in an orchard."

(laughter)​

Garagiola: "Was it tough for you to get started?"​

Lennon: "Well, no tougher than anybody else, you see, but George said, 'I'm sick of being told to keep out of the park.' That's what it's about, you know. We're trying to make a park for people to come in and do what they want."

McCartney: (comical voice) "Symbolically speaking." (laughter)

Garagiola: "Is he the spokesman, would you say, John?"​

Lennon: "Well, if his spokes are working, he is. And if mine are..."

(laughter fades)

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