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America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Sebastian Gorka: "Russia Is Doing What It Always Does"
"Way to start is the floor is yours. Tell us your opinion. Your stance on what's happening in Ukraine and how we should think about it. Right, so I don't want to disappoint you, but I'm not of the Lindsey Graham, you know, let's start World War three variety of people when it comes to Ukraine. But for those who are not familiar with my background, I served as former strategist in The White House to president Trump. I am a legal immigrant to the United States, but my parents lived under a communist dictatorship. My father was actually betrayed by Kim philby, one of the west's greatest double agents arrested and tortured at the age of 20 and given a life sentence in a communist political prison. He was liberated by freedom loving revolutionaries in 1956 and escaped to the west. So that's my perspective. That's what I bring to the table. But irrespective of that. Let me be clear. Russia has not been provoked into a war, a Russia hasn't been surrounded by NATO and has deployed to save ethnic Russians and destroy bioweapons labs. Russia has been doing what it has always done, whether it was under the tsars, whether it was the Soviet Union or under a neophyte czar, and that is, of course, Vladimir Putin. This is the aggrandizing territorially of the Russian Federation from a man who, by the way, is a former KGB colonel, and I remember the good old days as a child of the Cold War, when all conservatives hated all KGB colonels, the idea that he is some champion for the west standing up against globalists is utterly asinine. This is a man who persecuted Christians. This is a man who is creating his own globalism, but under the Fiat of the Kremlin. And let's be clear here. Russia is doing what it always does. Violence against civilians to create large amounts of Russian territory. And for the record
The Charlie Kirk Show
Futurist Joe Allen Joins Charlie to Explore A.I. Armageddon
"Us as Joe Allen, Joe Allen is one of the clearest thinkers on artificial intelligence. He's an AI expert, futurist, transhumanism, ponder, and editor at war room. Joe love watching you on Bannon's program. We have limited time. So I want to dive right into it and this has been the interview I've been waiting to have in the last couple of days because a friend I really trust that I grew up with sent me an urgent message two days ago. I said, Charlie, you got to check out this chat GPT thing, whatever. And I said, what do you mean, he said, do it? And I did, and quite honestly, I haven't been able to stop thinking about the implications of it. And I have nothing but questions and no one's really been able to calm me down from what I know it means. So Joe, first explain to our audience, what does artificial intelligence and then you can act as a pseudo therapist to me? Well, to start off with Charlie, I'm always a Debbie downer, so I can't take you off this ledge, but maybe I can help get your feet firmly planted. Artificial intelligence is, you know, in essence, it's a software system, but what makes artificial intelligence more advanced or less deterministic than normal computer programming is we've always known it is that artificial intelligence is non deterministic. The output can't necessarily be directly predicted from the input it varies from iteration to iteration. And what that means is that it is a little closer to what in 1956 John McCarthy defined as artificial intelligence, which is a sort of human level, artificial system that is able to think on in reason in the same ways that a person could.
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"1956" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Which is usually the case only for retired players. Edit needs an update now because it's a few years old and he has continued to play. That's right. All right, so 1956, Jackie and Willie. Jacob writes one common misconception about the end of Jackie Robinson's career with the Brooklyn Dodgers is that he couldn't stand the idea of putting on a giant's uniform so he chose to retire instead of accepting a trade across town to Brooklyn's hated rivals. In reality, the 38 year old Robinson had already decided to retire before the trade was made on December 13th, 1956, when the giant sent journeyman pitcher dick littlefield and $30,000 to the Dodgers in exchange for Robinson's contract after the news broke, Robinson initially expressed some interest in joining the Giants and playing alongside Willie Mays. For his part, will he maze was overjoyed at the prospect of playing with Jackie Robinson, Bill nunn junior of the Pittsburgh courier interviewed Robinson over the phone in persuaded him to release a telegram that maize had sent, which read, quote, I've always admired and respected your talent to inability, the knowledge that we will be teammates is an indescribable pleasure. I am looking forward to some memorable days following your guidance. I hope to reach some of the heights that make your records stand out like a Pinnacle. It's one of my greatest thrills and happiest moments to be able to say, welcome Jackie to the Giants. But Jacob writes, Jackie Robinson had already made his decision and even after the giant suffered to double his salary to $60,000, he announced his retirement in an exclusive article in look magazine on January 22nd, 1957. The Dodgers giants trade was voided in Jackie and Willie never became T Bates in 1957, what would become both teams final season in New York City before moving to California and run Shelton was growing up in California as a big fan of the Dodgers and Jackie Robinson because his mother had gone to Jackie Robinson's high school in Pasadena a couple of years before Jackie did. So I'm sure he would have been excited if Jackie had made it out to San Francisco with the Giants. But that didn't happen. So he called it a career, but would have been quite a thing to see Willie mason check it around to his teammates and as we discussed in our episode some time ago about the Willie Mays documentary on ESPN. There was some strange relationship later between those guys because Jackie was critical of Willie for not using his platform to be even more vocal and outspoken than he was. But there was a lot of admiration there, obviously, from Willie to Jackie, certainly at that point. So would have been an interesting chapter of baseball history if Jackie rampton had gone elsewhere and kept playing, but we think of him as a Dodger only or at least during his time in the integrated majors. Yeah. All right, a couple of quick follow-ups for you before we wrap this thing up first. I have another update to the ongoing saga of the chicken tenders at the Toronto Ritz Carlton that Brandon Belt cited as so scrumptious. We speculated that these might have played some small part in his deciding to sign with the Blue Jays, like that famous quote from crash Davis. You never handle your luggage in the show, somebody else carries your bags, you hit white paws for batting practice and the ballparks or what cathedrals the hotels all have room service and the tenders are delicious. I think that very last line may have been cut from the final script. And then we got a personal testimonial from listener Brian who wrote in with a wonderful memory of visiting Toronto from Detroit as a ten year old in 1988 to attend a wedding and while he was there, having chicken tenders at the Ritz Carlton that lingered in his mind for decades to come, sadly, however, we have to issue a retraction here. We got an email from Andrew, who wrote, I have the sad duty of letting you know that Brian's memories of chicken tenders in 1988 are incorrect in at least one respect. They couldn't have been at the Ritz Carlton because there was no Ritz Carlton in Toronto then, the Ritz Carlton in Toronto didn't open until 2011. The likeliest scenario is that he's remembering a dinner at the four seasons, which would have been the top hotel in Toronto at the time. It's always possible that the Ritz raided the four seasons for kitchen staff when they first opened in the legacy has continued that way, Andrew signed off pedantically yours, but hey, we're all about accuracy here. We appreciate the correction. I put this to Brian, who acknowledged that he must have misremembered and maybe in multiple ways. It was his dad who thought it was the Ritz, so Brian's dad is the real culprit here. Brian's dad also corrected Brian that it was not a wedding, but a bar mitzvah. We have not fact checked that claim, probably more difficult to disprove. So it's possible that chicken tenders are just delectable everywhere in Toronto, the famous Toronto attendees, it's also possible that Brian has misremembered how tasty the tenders were, but look, I like this. This is why, when players tell stories about their careers, when you check the actual details, you find out, well, actually it couldn't have happened in that game because those two players weren't ever in the same game or that guy was not teammates with that guy or, well, it couldn't have been that inning because this other pitcher was pitching. There's always something off, right? Memory is fallible. Rob neyer refers to efforts to verify those claims as tracers, maybe we need to rechristen them tenders. So no harm done, we also got another email from a Toronto resident named Sean, whose message had the subject line, how can you not be pedantic about hotel chicken tenders? Great question. You can't not be in Sean is actually a hotelier, so he confirmed that not only did the Toronto Ritz not open until 2011, there was not a preexisting one in town or anywhere in Canada prior to that time. He also notes that speaking of Toronto pricing, I'm not sure how familiar you are with the market, but the closest proper house listed for
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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"Fun. I'm sorry. I'm guessing there's a little bit of a gap between the young guys and the veterans and then the veterans and you. But there's a couple of other guys on this team that have been in the league since it started in 2010. But yes, they are significantly younger than I am. They're still in their 30s, which is which is good, but they've been around just as long as I have an experienced in this league just as much as I have. So they're looked at as the veteran corps and when I was not playing due to health reasons and I was just a coach those guys became that veteran presence to go to in the Clubhouse and on the field. So, you know, I pay them the respect that they do as veterans and I don't step on their toes, I let them lead the Clubhouse. I'm just an extra hold head that sits in the corner. Yeah. We asked richel about this when he was on last year, but just the way the game has changed since he came up since you came up. I mean, it's a completely different in so many ways. But I wonder when you're playing against younger guys and obviously you're holding your own more than that. But what do they do differently than you did when you came up or your contemporaries at that point or are you impressed by just how good they are, how hard they throw, what have you had to do to adjust to kind of keep pace with the way that the game has evolved in the past couple of decades? The preparation is definitely significantly different now than when I came up all the exceptional things that have come from the Jaeger program with the resistance bands and then drive line with the weighted balls and the pliable or warm up system and all of that kind of stuff. So just looking at that and understanding that dynamic and how that has influenced both training prior to during and post game has been been wonderful to see, but there's a fine line that needs to be crossed by every player individually as to what's the right amount what's too much and what's not enough. I'm curious when the day eventually comes when you decide that you are done playing, what do you think the future holds for you? Is it further time in baseball in a coaching capacity or do you think you might entertain something else? There's lots of avenues that are that are there. You know, I've had conversations throughout my career about scouting, post playing about coaching post playing, you know, all the possibility of just stepping away. I don't think the last one is very entertaining. But yeah, there's always been the conversation there about what's next and luckily I haven't had to face that thought process yet, but yeah, I don't think stepping away from the game would be very entertaining for me at the moment, but there is the avenue of the possibility of scouting or coaching either here in Australia or possibly trying to go back state side or internationally and being involved with an organization somewhere along the way. I've read that you have been a bartender and a retail salesman and a banker, you worked at a bank, so you've tried out a few other careers, but I guess none of them quite clicked. No, they certainly didn't all my attention like baseball does. That's for sure. Well, we're glad that you found your way to baseball and baseball found its way to you and it's been really an incredible career and you're epitomizing the tear the uniform off me type guy here. I hope that you're able to hold off that moment for a while yet, so we will be following your continued exploits and we wish you the best and thanks so much for joining us despite Dave 16 to 18 hour time difference here. We appreciate it. It's been an absolute pleasure as I appreciate the chance to come on here and speak with you both. And yeah, just want to say thank you very much for the props and yeah, I do appreciate it. How's the Australian WEC team this year? It actually looks pretty good. They just announced the selection roster the other day. That's pretty exciting news for everybody. So yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing what happens going forward and the whole preparation to that and the team that's available to go away should be should be exciting. So fingers crossed some of the young up and coming players both in Pro Bowl and college get the opportunity to experience that because it's a wonderful process and playing in Japan will be an eye opening experience for some of those guys that haven't done it before. All right, thank you, Chris. Appreciate it, guys. Have a wonderful day. All right, well that was wonderful and wet us now conclude with the past blast. This is episode 1956 and it comes from 1956 and as always from our frequent past blast consultant Jacob Pam ranki, who is Sabres director of editorial content and chair of the black Sox scandal research committee. Speaking of saber, by the way, as you noted, Chris offspring has been around so long that he has a safer bio.
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"1956" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"A cup named after you a trophy is named after you now right a joint the Kent ox spring cup can you explain what that is? So Sydney and Canberra are on a three hours drive apart and it's linked by a single what used to be just a single highway. It used to be called the Hume highway cup so it's kind of into league rivalry, the local Derby, whatever you want to call it and somebody pointed out that the Hume highway doesn't actually link Sydney and camera. There's another road that you've got to take. So they decided to change it and the fact that Stephen Kent, the other gentleman, who the cup is named after and myself have been in the league since it started again in 2010. We've been the stalwarts for both cities. So yeah, they just decided to name it the kennox spring cup, the KO cup, and yeah, both of us were extremely honored and surprised when it happened, but yeah, it's a wonderful testament and then very thankful for it. And we touched on this a little bit, but as you said, you and your wife have been married almost 20 years and together a lot longer than that, Mandy. And you have three kids together. So what sort of sacrifices have you had to make over the years playing in as many places as you've played in terms of not being able to see them as much as you'd like or them traveling to see you? I mean, how hard has that been at times? I've been a big test while they are relationship, especially early on when she was still working here in Australia and I was spending my full time in America and focused on that. But she's always been supportive right from the very word go. She was like, no, you've got to go and do this and see where it's going to take you and see what this becomes. And obviously the further along you go and the more success you have then traveling together becomes a lot easier and we started to spend more time together in O 5 when a second year on the 40 man roster had better income. And yes, she's traveled with me ever since until children got to a schooling age and then it was decided that they would come back here and do schooling and yet they've still continued to travel as much as I can with me. So the biggest sacrifice is this time away from one another and time away from your family, but at the same time what it's brought us is some life experiences that our children would never have gotten had it not been for baseball in the places that I've gone. And I told you that I was going to ask this so via email, but I know that you've said in other interviews that you tried when you first came to the U.S. and you were playing baseball tried to use a little less Australian slaying and lingo just to kind of fit in or not confuse people, but I very much enjoy Australian slang. I think it's maybe the best kind of slag and I've watched a lot of Australian TV shows and whenever my wife and I watch one if we watch the bachelor Australia or something then for a while after that we're like calling each other lyric and bogans and saying passion and all this stuff that I didn't know before but it's wonderful. So is there any Australia specific baseball sling or do you mostly just use American terms just with a different accent? You know what? We had training last night for the blue socks and I asked some of the veteran guys that I'd been around with and you know what? We all came up with nothing. Just Christmas. You know how you get put on the spot and you like I know there's an answer to this and so I'm sure there is some slang and if I come up with it I'll email you and let you know but last night we were just all looked at one another and went there's nothing that kind of jumps out at us, but we do use a lot of nicknames out here and it's generally related to either your name or where you're from or something or something that you've done to make an idiot of yourself or anything like that. So but more so it's just a lot of straight up terms but I can't think of anything off the top of my head I apologize for that. No, if any existed, I'm sure you would be aware of it at this point. So when you say other veteran guys, what are you talking about relative to you in terms of age and experience here? She's
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"1956" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"First time I'd been selected to an all star team. You're going to start the All-Star Game. Correct. I was supposed to start the All-Star Game and any before that about a series or two before the all star break you generally have the coordinators come to town and everything and happen to be that the pitching coordinator was in town at that stage and I kind of just said, you know, what's my chances of September call up or being added to the roster in the postseason or anything like that. And he's like, to be honest with you, he's like, you're probably about 7 or 8 names down the list of those that are looking at going to the big leagues any time soon, and he's like in a September call up, you probably not even in the top ten. That was the gut punch to realize, no matter what I do, like there's always somebody who's picked to be in front of you who's a possibly a prospect within that organization. If you've come from another one, and as a free agent signing, it's extremely difficult. Unless you've had extended experience in the big leagues to stay there and get back there unless there's a lot of things that fall your way to open the doorway for you to get back there again. So that was my eye opening experience. And I understood why, but it didn't mean I had to like it. Right. I think that's understandable. I'm curious, you know, as you've moved around and gained experience and now being back in Australia sort of what role do you find yourself occupying with some of the younger players because I would imagine I mean obviously you're still pitching and playing and you don't have to transition away from that before you're ready, but I would imagine that there are a lot of young guys who look to you and your experience and potentially see it as a guide to how they might progress their own careers. Most definitely the younger players use me as a sounding board for different questions and different possibilities that they're faced with and different avenues that they may have to look at going down whether you go the college route, whether you go the pro ball route early, you know what to do in regards to if you've got multiple teams looking at you before signing and even just the mundane stuff like how to how to deal with the day to today grind of baseball and playing multiple games over like a weekend series and just how to deal with not feeling a 100% they come to me for a number of reasons. One, the fact that I'm still playing and still able to get it done at the highest level here in this country and two because you know I've coached at this level I've coached internationally I've been on the national team for a long time. So they definitely come looking for advice and guidance quite often and I feel privileged and honored that they think that they can come to me and ask questions. It's fantastic. Yeah, we get questions every now and then about whether the player coach could come back or the player manager and you've been a player coach at various levels and on various teams so quite some time ago you started being the pitching coach for Sydney. So how does that work exactly? How does that affect your relationship with other guys on the team and how does it affect your own preparation? I mean, is it just a ton of extra time? Is it hard to do both of those jobs? It is, it is Tom consuming. You know, you have the postgame meetings with the other staff and then you're talking about the roster for the next day and all of those kinds of stuff. So that adds to your day, probably more so at the end when you're starting to look back and analyze the game, but also prior to your talking about planning and who's going to feel which role and who needs to do what and it also takes you away a little bit from the player side of things. You no longer viewed as a player, you're more viewed as a coach, even though you're running out there and taking the field together with the rest of the team. So I would assume it's very difficult in today's game with the amount of information and data that's provided to those guys prior to a game and just to in game strategy would be very different now than it was when I was originally doing it in like 2010, 11 type thing. Yeah. And it had been a few years since you had last played at this level. And of course, there is the pandemic and everything. But how did you decide to come back for another year here? And you've pitched very effectively. Did you have any doubts that you still could, of course, a tough sell to your family at this point? Did you just want to officially become the oldest player in APL history, which you have done now? What were your relations for coming? Yeah. So I've read. For returning yet again. I was just playing local baseball here in Sydney just at the local level. And yeah, it was just enjoying it, having a good time. I enjoy being around the younger guys and guiding them and helping them and just bicycle is just, you know, who I am and what I love to do, I get up every day thinking about it still, you know, at this age I still read MLB and baseball reference and all of those types of things and obviously your page as well and actually listen to this podcast. Prior to being on, so I appreciate that. But yeah, I just started playing again and body felt good and the stats reflected the opportunity to come back and play and the blue Sox asked me what I consider it if I was interested and I was like well you know if I can do it I will but I don't want to be a guy that just because of the experience takes up a roster spot for a young guy so that was an honest conversation that we had and yeah, long story short I come back healthy. I feel really good health wise and the results show that I'm healthy for the first time in a couple of years. Yeah and even if not everyone in Australia is into baseball for people who are into baseball, they would know your name because you've been a pretty important figure in Australian baseball and you're international heroics and the Olympics and the world baseball cup and everything else and you have
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"So he's the triple-A all structural basement four years on growing. He's not getting the shot in the big leagues. Well, he's back up to Brooks Robinson. And rather than sit on the bench in the majors, where he'll get rusty, he's going to be sharp playing in triple-A, and if Brooks gives her, he's ready to go, right? So for the time he gets a shot in the big leagues, he's 32 years old. And you know, that's sort of thing happens all the time and crash could have been one of those. You get 21 games and you get 5 at bats and you go zero for 5 and you hit the ball hard three times. Nobody notices. So you don't think it was that he couldn't hit a slider or something. It was that the big club had Carlton fisk behind the plate the whole time. Well, I want to keep it a mystery and an unknown so that you and I can have this conversation. Right. Speaking of how convincing Costner was, right? He's often cited as one of the better ballplayer actors and sometimes Tim Robbins gets some grief you do defend him in the book and his mechanics. But I wonder what you think matters more to a sports movie or show, actors who are athletes or who can convincingly fake it or writers who are athletes, right? Because I think I would be more likely to enjoy bull Durham with a bunch of guys who couldn't convince me that they were ball players if it was still written by you who was a ballplayer and knows that life and it's clear the authenticity that comes through there because we talk often on the show about movies or TV shows or commercials or whatever it is where if you're someone who is very clued to baseball, you watch it and you think that's not right you know something sets off an alarm in your head and you're thinking whoever wrote that doesn't know baseball, they're trying to fake their way through this thing. So I think your background is maybe more important than whether the actors could convincingly bring that to life, but what do you think? Well, you have to start with the writer and but then the other shooter fall the actors better be convinced. I mean, you can't watch a dance movie if they can't dance. So, but you can't, you know, I couldn't write a war movie. I've never been in war. The oldest adage is write what you know, of course. So it starts with that. And I think most sports films are written from the fans point of view. I think I talk about that in the book and I try to write them from the participant's point of view. Because the fan and the player see are watching a different game. Having got over that hurdle, you really have to have television covers baseball and sports so thoroughly. And so well. That we now see instant replay in slo-mo and 14 angles and 20 camera, you know, you can't fool an audience the way you could before televised sports, you know? Nobody know what it looked like in the 40s or even the 50s. So I think you've got to have athletes and there's very few actors who are good enough athletes. Very few. Yeah. Kevin's a rarest of creatures. I was going to ask you about that cliche, write what you know, which is probably what if crash Davis were an old writer, and we're schooling some young writer on the way up. He would probably tell them to say that. But it's also true. So you knew minor league baseball and you knew crash and nuke equivalents, but what made you think you knew and could write a character like Annie? Well, good question. I talk about this in the book. She based on a lot of women and she's based on no particular women. And she's a work of the imagination. She takes a little of that woman a little of that one. You know, I was in my 20s in the mid to late 60s. And 70s. And it's hard to describe the 60s and 70s to people today assassinations. The war in Vietnam, the draft, acid rock, sex, drugs, rock and roll, the civil rights movement was on fire cities were on fire. Quite literally on fire. The river in Cleveland was on fire and they couldn't put it out. I mean, the whole country was on fire. Chicago was on fire and I got political convention. So and during all that time, I'm making my living as a baseball player. And the women of that time, you know, everybody was looking for Terra firma. And women seemed to find it in some men in eastern philosophy and others found it in drugs and others found it in whatever sex political commitment. The whole range, the whole range. And now it's 20 years later. What are those people doing? And in many women had opted to not have conventional sort of marriages and families, or they'd tried and they hadn't worked. That's the more common one. And Andy's one of those women, 20 years later. And she's living alone and she's teaching in junior college and she's obviously very bright and she's people say she's a little wacky, not to me. I think she just, you know, she's got her own evolving worldview and she's on its journey in a search and that's who she is. She's fun and she's funny and she's sexy and she's open minded and non judgmental for all her eccentricities. So that's who she is where she comes from. I'm not sure, but all of that. Yeah, it's funny you mentioned that that late 60s atmosphere, the lead of the story in the Stockton evening in Sunday record about the ports beating the Orioles goes the younger generation is causing upheavals everywhere even in baseball and the Stockton ports had a quote unquote riot last night in surprising the parent Baltimore Orioles, so I don't know. Questionable lead and comparison there to other rights. I'm smiling at that because wow, young people are rioting. Yes. Odd way to put the state of the world in 1969. I mean, was it a young person who was assassinated king that happened during spring training? Is it a young people who initiated the draft and got us into Vietnam? Was it young people were interestingly though? I can't wait for the link for you to sing. How rare is it for the stars of a movie to be as invested in playing their parts and getting a movie made as Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon were for bol Durham because as you tell it in the book, the movie doesn't get made without Costner being its biggest booster and Susan Sarandon doesn't play any without going to great lengths to overcome the studio's reluctance to cast her. So they were real partners for you. They were in Kevin was I mean, she was the late partner, but Kevin was in early and very with great strength and commitment in passion. And as I say in the book, I mean, we wouldn't have got to the finish line or it's the starting line without him. And Kevin and I are still good friends and talk about another movie. So yeah, the question about movies made some time ago is always could this get made today, but boulder I'm barely got made at the time as you talk about in the book. And when I talked to authors, I try to ask them about things that they don't describe in great detail in the book, but to wet the appetites of people who haven't had the chance to read it yet. Could you just give a brief recap of the many ways that the movie almost didn't get made or almost didn't get made with you behind the camera for the duration at least? Yeah, I'll try to be brief because there's a few pages it's sort of like a thriller in the book.
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"And many other movies and most recently the author of the book, the church of baseball, the making of both Durham. Welcome Ron, you've made it to the show for a show, at least. Oh, well, I'll do any show we'll do, you know? Good. In the book, you describe some studio executives who'd sometimes tell a writer that they loved their screenplay even if they hadn't read a page when I say I loved your book, rest assured I really did read the whole thing, cover to cover it. So I got the sense that you tend to look forward to new work more than you look back at old work and that you wrote the book in part to be the final word on the film so that when someone asks you about bull Durham you could say I wrote a whole book about it. It's all in there. And if so, maybe that backfired because here I am asking you to look back again because of the book. So thanks for indulging me. You definitely backfired. I've had more phone calls since the book than before, so anyway. Well, we got to ask him one question at a time and I will start with a baseball question, though much as boulder is about more than baseball your book is about more than baseball or boulder. It's also about inspiration and writing and how messy the act of creation could be. But I will try not to ask you questions that you get all the time and this one hopefully isn't one that you hear too often. I wanted to ask about a baseball game that you didn't write about in the book, but that I stumbled across while looking up a story you did mention in 1969 you were on the Stockton ports, which was the 8 ball affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles and the best team in the California league at the time. You finished 81 and 59. But in early June of that year, I discovered the Orioles themselves were in the area on a West Coast road trip and on June 1st, they beat the angels and on June 3rd, they beat the a's and June 2nd looks like an off day, but it wasn't really, because that day the Orioles visited Stockton to play an exhibition game against the ports, just to drum up interest in their low level affiliate and according to the Stockton evening and Sunday record infielder ran Shelton felt it would be a thrill and an honor to play against the mighty Orioles. And they were mighty, the Orioles were the best team in baseball that year. They were 35 and 15 at the time and would go on to 109 games in the AL pennant, but you guys beat the Stockton beat the mighty Orioles three to two. And I'm sorry to say that you went zero for four in that game. But you must have done something good because Earl weaver said, I'm not judging the ports on one game, but several impressed me, I liked your second basement. That's you. That was me. That was me, yes. I made some I remember well, you know, those memories never leave you. I remember I made some very good plays in the field and I hit the ball hard even if I didn't get any yet so I might have I remember my buddy Ralph and then Freddie got the winning hit, you know the Orioles also then came play us in Rochester and we beat them and Rochester tooth on two O and two and all against the mighty and they had their books Robinson Frank Robinson Powell, you know, they had the four 20 game winners in 69. I think Paul Blair David Johnson and the greater weaver and they're pitching coach George bamberger. And they played, they played their superstars through two at bats. So the fans could see they didn't just show up and play their second string. And they were very classy organization, very classy. Yeah, and we get hypothetical questions every now and then about, well, how would a major league team do against a league that's a much lower level? And at least for a day or two, it can be a pretty even matchup. Now, I don't know, maybe you were more motivated as the minor leaguers in that matchup and the Orioles were thinking I wish we'd had a day off here, but still, even so. I'm sure I'm sure that they wish they had a day off and they came all the way from Oakland and a bus, so that's amazing. Look, I think we weren't more motivated. Every day you play, you're trying to win and do the best you can. So it was just more interesting than playing, you know, the biggest real bears on that particular evening. By the way, what newspaper was after because there's a guy writing a book about Earl weaver. The Stockton evening and Sunday record, I can send you a link if you'd like. Simon link, because I'll give him that because he was asking me about my connections to a weaver. Yeah. Well, he was an admirer, evidently, the ports turned a couple of double plays that day, so maybe you were involved in those. We led the league in double plays. I'm very proud of that stuff. All right. Well, yeah, I mean, you were motivated to beat the big leaguers, but the big leaguers were probably motivated not to be shown up by meat, right? By the butcher's, so. Let me just add how classy these guys were, you know? They're like movie stars. They come to tiny stock and they were respectful, they dressed in, you know, they never left anywhere without a sport code in a tie. That was the organization back then. They came and visited us in the Clubhouse. They tipped the Clubhouse boys better than they'd ever been tipped. They were respectful. I just was knocked out by that it would expect it to be looked down upon from these great heights, but never forget how classy they were. Yeah, you used some memories from that season in Stockton in boulder and the scene where the manager throws the bats in the shower with something that happened in Stockton. And I know that bull Durham isn't the kind of sports movie that ends with a big dramatic game, but this may be imagine a scene in boulder where the parent club comes to town and crash gets one last chance to face big league competition without quite having the Hollywood ending of making it back to the show. Maybe it's just, you know, the big leaguers stop by Durham for a day. Yep. Well, Durham now is a triple-A town, so right. Of course. And I read also that on the Monday when you played the Orioles 3314 fans showed up and saw the
The Tech Guy
"1956" Discussed on The Tech Guy
"No, Mike is on your right arm on your left. I don't know where anybody is, but it is the podcast version of the radio show, which, as you know, I did, and you helped me towards the end for 19 years. We got to episode 1955. This is episode 1956. A little bit different, a little bit different format. We're still going to take calls, we're still going to talk tech. We're going to hear from many of our contributors. Next week, Chris Mark, we're going to give us a photo assignment. Samuel salmon, our car guy was at CES. He's going to call in about 45 minutes to talk about what he saw at CES. Exciting stuff. CES is the big story this week. In Vegas, it used to be the consumer electronics show. And then for some reason, it's weird like prints. They decided, oh, don't call us that. Just cause CES. That's what we are now. So you know what that means, we're going to call it the show formerly known as CES, which is not great. But that's where they have a bunch of consumer electronics. Yeah, and I think to just set expectations, I do this every year. People ant loves it and spirits with this today and the other on the other side of the camera. Yeah. Ant loves it. He loves going down there. A lot of people love CES. I think mostly they love it because it's a social event. I don't actually think there's that much important stuff. Maybe the TV stuff, Scott Wilkinson is going to give us a TV update, I think, as well. But mostly what you see at CES is crap. That companies are hoping somebody will buy, and if they do, then they'll make it. And that's really the history of CES. It was a dealer's show where technology electronics dealers would go to the show. They'd see stuff. They'd say, yeah, I'll take 10,000 of those for my store. And then the manufacturer would go home and said, good, you get it in the November. Because most of the stuff at CES, you don't see it until later. If at all, yeah. I'll give you some examples of things that CES PC gamer. This was a great little article on PC gamer on give her credit. Katie wickers, the tech that went too far at CES. Apparently there was a lot of stuff having to do with P? Oh, I think this is interesting, Leo. So that is a I'm showing if you're watching the video. By the way, we will continue to do audio and video. Of course, you have to subscribe to the podcast, but you'll have the choice when you subscribe.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Equality Vs Equity
"Senator Cruz, I want to close. You and I have a lot to argue about bob Nixon, but we're not going to do that today because COINTELPRO started in 1956. But we'll come back to that another time. I want to talk to you about CRT. Because you went to Harvard Law School and somehow you avoided getting brainwashed by the crits who were there. I went to Michigan and the crits were not there at the time. I think they're probably there now. I'm jumping out here to page two O 7. You talk about CRT, critical race theory, dying. I mean, critical legal theory dying, but critical race theory was resurrected. Would you first tell people what you think the left means when they say racial equity? I have a theory, but I want to hear what senator Cruz's theory is. Well, look, the word equity and they play lots of games with language, but instead of equality, we all support equality, quality is the right thing that we should treat everyone fairly, not discriminate based on race. The left is replaced the word equality with equity. And by equity, they mean actively and aggressively engaging in racial discrimination, actively and aggressively discriminating against what they view as the oppressor class and the left today wants to discriminate against anyone they disfavored and there's an entire chapter in the book that explains the origins of critical race theory. You may be sitting at home thinking, where did this stuff come from? And the origins it's a Marxist theory. It's based on the teachings of Karl Marx, Karl Marx viewed the world in an economically deterministic way. He defied it, divided the world into the owners of capital and the workers. And the owners of capital he argued are inevitably and unalterably oppressing the workers and the answer is a communist revolution to forcibly redistribute all the well.
The Dan Bongino Show
Joe Concha: The Reality of 'Best Books' Lists
"I've written a couple of books myself I Jim have I told you this I'm going to write another one I know I told you I did I not tell you I was never good at I did right I just said that I had an idea and I can't get it out of my head so I'm going to write another one I'll tell you about it But Joe be prepared You are again you're not a died in the wool liberal who genuflects at the altar of Joe Biden and Barack Obama You know your book's gonna be attacked right No matter how good the sales are I could have listeners go out right now and you should buy two and 3000 copies of the book right now on the phone You know The New York Times no matter what happens even if they decide to put you on the list there's gonna be an asterisk next to it and it's gonna say something like bulk sales bulk this is what they do You're anticipating this You understand this right No matter how good it sells they are gonna attack you Oh I embraced The New York Times doing that That's fine guys Go ahead Keep me off your New York Times Best Seller list All I go by is Amazon Because Amazon I used to be a sports columnist It's quite simple When you're doing baseball scores it's who scored more runs That's it So who's selling more books Yeah And if you want to tell me there's some sort of methodology that The New York Times uses No there is no methodology It's who sold the most books and then who should go on this list And if they keep me off of it believe me That's the first column that I'm writing about And I'll run to Fox News and your show tomorrow and we'll talk about hey I don't get it Joe is at number one or number three in terms of most books sold in the week but then The New York Times kept him off for some reason or put an asterisk next to it with no explanation behind it Go ahead guys This is why The New York Times has an endorsed a Republican presidential candidate since 1956 We're talking Ike Dwight D. Eisenhower and The Washington Post has never endorsed a Republican presidential candidate gee I wonder why that is Yet they're seen as the pillars of journalism and objectivity Well you think they would maybe endorse I don't know Reagan over mondale or Georgia Where we are at this point It's not journalism Dan it's activism And we all know it Yeah
AP News Radio
Barack Obama wins Emmy for narrating Netflix national parks series
"Former president Barack Obama has won an Emmy Award With the latest Barack Obama's work on the Netflix documentary series our great national parks has earned him an Emmy for best narrator The creative arts Emmys were handed out Saturday in Los Angeles Obama is the second president to win an Emmy after Dwight Eisenhower was given a special award in 1956 The late Chadwick Boseman also won for outstanding character voice-over for the animated show what if it was one of his last projects before he died in 2020
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Highlights the Evil Work of Alfred Kinsey
"Alfred Kinsey. It is part of the agenda to sexualize your children. Kenzie said the only unnatural sex act is that which you can not perform. Doctor Kinsey is an evil man. Highly influential in the field of child sexuality and child psychology. One of his disciples was a guy by the name of, I think it was, was it Alfred miss John money? I know money was the last name. Kinsey was a sinister person. He was born in 18 94 to 1956. There's something called the Kinsey institute at Indiana University, where it has two women looking like they're in a romantic relationship together, exploring sexuality relationships and well-being. The fact that Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has the Kinsey institute. I mean, Kinsey was as close to an intellectual defender of pedophilia that you will find. That is still considered to be acceptable and decent society. Mackenzie institute at Indiana University it has an about, it says our mission is to foster and promote a greater understanding of human sexuality and relationships through research outreach education and historical preservation. Their logo is the flower of Aphrodite in Greek mythology Aphrodite is the goddess of desire love sexuality and maternal reproduction. You guys can see it for yourself.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Biden's Response to Russia Is Historically Weak
"Joe Biden suggested that we were pulling out of Afghanistan. This is going to free up our hands to deal with Russia. There's only one problem. The pullout from Afghanistan actually incentivized. The war between Russia and Ukraine because after all, where Joe Biden has been clear he has been wrong and where he has been unclear, he has provoked conflict. So no wonder Russia thought that Joe Biden was a weak horse. After all, Joe Biden had basically been a Russia defender in the 2012 election. You'll recall that he was ripping on Mitt Romney for suggesting that Russia was a geopolitical threat. Here's Joe Biden's circa 2012. Governor Romney's answer I thought was incredibly revealing. He acts like he thinks the Cold War is still on, Russia is still our major adversary. I don't know where he's been. I mean, we have disagreements with Russia, but they're united with us on Iran. The only way we're getting one of only two ways we're getting material into Afghanistan to our troops is through Russia. They are working closely with us. They've just said to Europe, if there is an oil shutdown in any way in the gulf, they'll consider increasing oil supplies to Europe. That's not this is not 1956. This is not 1956. It says Joe Biden. Don't worry. Rush will take care of the oil for the Europeans. Russia will help us with Afghanistan. And then of course, Russia helped us with Syria by basically taking Syria off the hands of president Obama to the wild cheers of people like Joe Biden. And in 2014, Russia invades Crimea. And Joe Biden has some words for Russia. That's pretty much all he has for Russia. So his vice president when that administration did nothing over the invasion of Crimea. Here was Joe Biden circa 2014. I want to make it clear. We stand resolutely with our Baltic allies and support of Ukrainian people and against Russian aggression. As long as Russia continues on this dark path, they will face increasing political and economic isolation. There are those who say that this action shows the old rules still apply. But Russia can not escape the fact that the world is changing and rejecting outright. Their behavior. Of course, that was a lie. It turns out that the steps that The White House pursued, under vice President Biden, were extraordinarily weak. And basically they announced a Visa ban on a couple of Russian and Ukrainian officials. And they canceled a couple of talks on trades and commercial ties. That was pretty much all of the things. And by the way, they then proceeded to deny lethal aid to Ukraine.
AP News Radio
Celtics great Russell, 11-time champ, dies at 88
"I Mike Gracia reporting Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell one of the greatest players in NBA history dies at 88 Bill Russell the greatest winner in NBA history who anchored the Boston Celtics dynasty to 11 championships in 13 years died Sunday He was 88 Russell's family posted the news on social media without disclosing the cause of death After leading the university of San Francisco to NCAA championships in 1955 and 1956 and the U.S. to the Olympic gold medal at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics Russell joined the Celtics I had never seen the Celtics play when I got here And I played against Heinz in college But I met a couple of occasions And we had an immediate affinity The Celtics were guided by coach and general manager red arbok Russell would win He would make the great play He didn't care whether he went to league in scoring a rebounding or this or that all he wanted to do was be instrumental in winning Russell was a 5 time most valuable player and a 12 time all star Russell was also a leading voice for civil rights He was at the March on Washington in 1963 and at the 50th commemoration of the march We can never accept the status quo until
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
In Every Generation There Are Russian Tanks in Some City
"We are back with Dennis prager. His latest book is the rational pass over Haggadah that Dennis, will you explain to us why this exegetical work on the oldest holiday that is still being kept has relevance talks to the moral challenge of what we are witnessing on the Eurasian continent today. Well, the obvious issue that it celebrates the liberation of slavery, so it's unfortunately as germane as ever. But I want to point out something that I point out in the book that is exactly deals with an issue you raised with me last segment. So you were talking about your baggage of being the child of people suffered terribly under communism in Hungary and which saw Russian tanks in Budapest in 1956. And now there are Russian tanks in Ukraine in 2022. So there is a line in this ancient text that in the book is for people of all faiths like my rational Bible series. This is the rational Passover I got a series. It's for Jews, non Jews, and atheists. So there is a line in this ancient text and the whole ancient text is there, and Hebrew and translation. And there is a famous line that famous among Jews who to pass over satyrs. In every generation they arise to annihilate us. Someone arises to annihilate the Jews. And I deal with that question is, how did they know this 1800 years ago? And it's still true. It's amazing. We went from Hitler to Khomeini, and then Khamenei. So. I just realized you can almost say in every generation there are Russian tanks in some
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Jim Hanson's Advice for Ukraine on 'Peace Negotiations'
"Jim on Monday they were reports that president zelensky was being invited to the quote neutral territory of biello Russia, which is just an appendix of Russia, by the way, run by a thug who just is a puppet of Putin. For peace negotiations, as soon as I heard that, I tweeted out, yeah, I remember when the Russians invited the revolutionary prime minister of Hungary during the freedom fight of 1956 to the neutral territory of the Yugoslav embassy in Budapest for negotiations with Moscow. What happened for those who are not familiar and the cabinet members of the revolutionary free Hungary were kidnapped from the territory of the Yugoslav embassy with the approval of the Yugoslav administration, taken to a graveyard, bound together with wire and shot and killed and dumped into a mass grave. So I actually tanked president zelensky, I told him, don't do it. Your advice to this administration in Kyiv when it comes to peace negotiations on neutral territory? Yeah, no. That's pretty straightforward. You can't trust them. And for a long history, best predictor of future is past behavior. But what they're going to have to look for is they're going to have to weigh how much damage they're willing to accept. The Ukrainians. The Ukrainians before they do that and the problem and my wife Samantha and rose Russian studies major. The first thing she reminded me in all of this is think with a Slavic mind not western eyes. On both sides. Yes. And these guys will absorb a lot more damage than we would. And so we're saying, well, it'd be crazy to do that. No, we might think it's crazy. They don't. So Putin will do worse things and zelensky and Ukrainians will absorb worse things than we can imagine. So I think they need to be smart and decide maybe if there is an off ramp, we try to see it beforehand without all that population being susceptible to being crushed by Putin's Vlad the vicious
The Charlie Kirk Show
COINTELPRO: The Counterintelligence Program of the FBI
"COINTELPRO was a series of FBI projects that were covert and honestly illegal projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation. Aimed at surveilling infiltrating discrediting and disrupting domestic American political organizations. COINTELPRO went from 1956 to 1971. And some of their targets were the Nation of Islam was Martin Luther King Jr.'s organization, the southern pastor leadership conference or whatever the name was. And the only reason we ever learned about COINTELPRO. The only reason we were able ever able to get to the bottom of pros, operations. Was not because of some cross examination from Congress, was not because of a lawsuit. It was about something that I don't support, which was breaking and entering into a federal building. So during the famous Muhammad Ali Frazier fight, which was one of the most watched sporting events to date, on March 8th, 1971, a group of activists broke into the small two man office at the Federal Bureau of Investigation in media, Pennsylvania. They stole more than 1000 FBI documents that revealed years of systematic wiretapping, infiltration and media manipulation designed to suppress dissent. The citizens commissioned to investigate the Federal Bureau of Investigation. As the group called itself, forced its way in at night with a crowbar while much of the country was watching the Muhammad Ali Frazier fight. When agents arrived for work the next morning, they found the cabinets virtually empty virtually emptied, within a few weeks the documents began to show up, mailed anonymously in Manila envelopes with no return address newsrooms of major American newspapers. From that point forward after 1971, COINTELPRO was sunsetted and the government, the federal government's effort to wiretap an infiltrate American political organizations seemingly
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"Can you give me some sense. Some of these other players that were on these angels teams in the late. Fifties journeymen perhaps Players coming down players going up constitute the the The rosters for me and maybe a couple of names that stand out as as being supporting players for him while they were cast-offs and i liked his any went from cast-offs to being chance they all had a little bit of a chip on their shoulders including belco. They all had something to prove. Dave hillman who i live in kingsport tennessee. Dave also lives in kingsport. Dave by the way turns ninety four this month of september. He's oldest living new york met. Dave won twenty one games for the angels fifty-six he went on to have a pretty decent career with the cubs cubs. Were so bad. It's not necessarily reflected in his record gene. Mock was the second baseman and to me the players. He was like a second manager. Mock at the end of that season was taken up to the by the red sox and was with the red sox organization that he got in the managing i in minneapolis and then of course he moved on to manage with the phillies. A lot of other clubs in the majors you had players like bob speak speak had been with the cubs the previous year nineteen fifty five and in the month of may set a record hitting eleven home runs in that loan month of may they. There was players. Like elvin happy catcher. He had been one of the rotating coaches with the cubs in the sixties. They had dick drought who was prior to Trying to think of the woods the pitcher for the cubs who came along. He held the strikeout record for single. Game dick drought until woods came along years later dick. They thought he was going to be a great pitcher in the majors. He won fifteen games as a rookie but then he came up with arm trouble. Jim bolger was an outfielder. He had a great year in fifty six. He bounced around with several other teams in the majors. None of these guys went on to become a great Stars in the majors but several went on to become managers. Like mock elvin tabby. Jim fanning who became a manager of the montreal expos and also a great scout. He was a catcher on that team so they had a lot of talent. Probably left out. If you guys. George freeze best known probably for his brother. Jean freeze had been in the majors of the mock was the second bilko was at first galloway. The center fielder had been starry. Starting senator for the cubs two straight years fifty five fifty six so they had a lot of talent. Their utility man was a guy named piper. Davis piper davis was known willie. Mays called him a second father he actually taught. Willie mays how they hit and he was willie. Mays manager with birmingham black barons in nineteen forty eight paper. Davis led the league in pinch hitting in nineteen Fifty six any batted three sixteen overall so they had some outstanding players. They had a pitcher named red adams. Who won well over two hundred games in the minors had a cup of coffee in the majors that became a great pitching coach with the dodgers under his tutelage. You had guys like tommy john. Bob welsh don sutton come out well. Read adams always had a sore when he pissed in one game against the hollywood stars he shut him out after the game Bobby bragan went up to the manager of the stars went to read atoms instead. Read have you ever had worse stuff than you had today. He's against bobby. But i didn't need it. That's i have so many other spin off questions a throw at. You are around that around the team but fifty six though right What was it about that season that sort of clicked. I mean they dominated. They won the league while the regular season by sixteen games. Hundred seven wins. I mean was there anything in the water and the air going on at the season's around those the season prior and after weren't all that bad but they were certainly not nearly as dominant. was there. Anything sort of special. Maybe it was bilko specifically but what was it about fifty six that kinda just that clicked in and i got another question after that. Which kind of maybe sets the tone for how we how we offer for the story. I think it was a combination of things. Tim but it was bilko. Course was the centerpiece. He was this guy on a pedestal. Phenomenal year that none of the other players could believe he was having. They knew he had ability but it was like it was all coming together for him that year and these other players were in all of them i think he lifted up the rest of the team. Jean-marc had his greatest year. Jim bolger had as great as year. Dave hillman has some all the guys in. This team had the head career years that season. And that's why they won the pennant by sixteen games the it all clicked you know. Bill remained in la the next year. The dodgers by the way had bought the rights to wrigley field. They were preparing to move out. Fifty eight so goco hit fifty six runs the following year and fifty seven but the angels were not as dynamic team. I think it was mocks. Leadership bills tremendous power. And then all these other guys just kind of getting on this bandwagon and they're having this great year. And i i like to refer to them the last great minor league team because soon after that you had expansion come in and you while you did have here and there are some good minor league teams. Come along in future years and pawtucket. They had a team with jim. Rice and fred land in spokane. They had teams what some of the future dodger stars. But i think the number of of players you had at that time the league at that time he was still i very strongly and just how team dominated at lay. I think it makes it the last great minor league team. How so here. Here's the question that that may be kind of concert Get us into the cul de sac of this. Because i could go on all kinds of specific questions but what what what was the what was the feeling amongst the players the management the fans the media around this time i mean obviously fifty-six great season great story and bilko local celebrity at a crackling rivalry with the stars around this period of time. But i'm just wondering how ominous or excited or some combination thereof was the feeling around this not lasting somehow right maybe major league baseball truly coming to the west coast and as i said before colonizing how much did people know or think they knew how many the signals were obvious and people recognize that. This was not going to end. I must say well but it was not going to go on as it was idyllic as it might have been or felt as it might have been for too much longer. They were looking over their shoulders at the major leagues. The dodgers in particular they knew that the dodgers or some team from new york because new york had three teams. You only had sixteen major league teams at that time. Three of them were in new york. In fact for many years up until milwaukee moving west up until the boston braves moving west of milwaukee you had.
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"In the national and american leagues is manager and fifty. Six bob shopping Had this quote more people in la today no bill and marilyn monroe. That gives you some idea. As to celebrity. There was a sports columnist named ned. Cronin the la times he wants wrote remember. Nineteen fifty six was an election. Year is an our was running against stevenson. And so crumlin suggested that there'd be a ticket of mantle and bill manno was for president bill for vice president he wrote a vote against bill vote against mantle and bilko is a vote against home mother and bottled beer. Mickey is a sense to get the ballot. A very man and woman who can tell the difference between third base three basit and across a come watts book of course is a cinch to sweep california and since the vice presidential candidacy seems to be a matter of grave concern. Richard nixon was the vice president under president eisenhower. And that's what he's referring to their campaign and a campaign issue stirring dimensions it is comforting to have a nominee who's popular with one and all except possibly the pitcher stout. Steve has threatened with the cafeteria while taking a turn at bat so yes he was extremely popular. Even hollywood stars fans I remember talking with west parker. I was out on the west coast and visiting dodger stadium in west parker one to meet me and members of the bilko family. We were there. For Steve's induction to the shrine of the terminals which is a part of the baseball reliquary. Poor man's cooperstown and so. The family Steve of course long since passed away but This was two thousand fifteen after the book came out and we're in l. a. and west parker comes to the ballpark. He was an outstanding first baseman for the dodgers and he wanted to meet me and he wanted to meet the family. He was a hollywood stars. Fan growing up but it was also a bilko fan because bilko just cut across it matter who you rooted for. You liked steve local. He was a kind of guy you connected with He had these monstrous home runs. He was the hero of a lot of kids whether or not they were angels fans. I got a couple of questions about the composition of the team and bill clinton particular. You look at fifty six fifty seven fifty five fifty seven his three seasons in los angeles a couple of things. Stand out to me. It's a number one and thank god for things like baseball reference dot com with. Don't forget don't forget the hyphen between baseball and reference. The his stats. Just stand out. Just like i mean egregiously so versus the rest of the team. I mean maybe. Jim bolger on on that fifty six team. You know a look pretty sterling as well. But i mean this is a guy who you know lead on in so many different sort of batting categories. Let alone i. I'm assuming he was less a fielder than he was. Sort of a a a a an offensive threat is as a batter. But i'm just my immediate question is with stats like this. Especially his long balls. I mean fifty. Five home runs in a season in fifty six and and almost around the same output in the years prior and following. Was he not getting another look at the national league to go back up for his second cup of coffee or was. I'm just curious. Because i mean maybe i'm looking at this. Do more modern lens right. I'm surprised he stayed for three years. And the pcl given the kind of output he was put now. Here's what happened to him in fifty six. He was having this great year. He was box office okay. He was the box office wherever they play. The angels gave him a great contract and they He signed a waiver to wear. No big league team could draft him. He wanted to stay in the west coast. Why well his salary with angels was around fifteen thousand dollars that was double what the major league minimum was at that time. So bill code been in the major leagues. At that time he would have been making half of that in fact when he returned to the major leagues nineteen fifty eight. He took a pay cut. In addition his endorsements personal appearances was another fifteen to twenty thousand dollars. Bilko was making between thirty and thirty five thousand dollars. That doesn't sound like a lot of money today. but keep in mind. What mickey mantle. His salary was in nineteen fifty. Six mickey mantle. Salary was thirty five thousand dollars. So steve bilko between his endorsements in salary was doing as well as mickey mantle was just on a salary mantle of course was picking up some endorsements on top of that. That'd give you an idea. He signed a two year waivers so he can stay in. La miracles flosse was. Why did he want to go back to the big leagues at the major league minimum and sit on the bench as he was with the cubs or with the other team. If he was gonna go back to the majors he wanted to start. He wanted to play every day where he felt he could do in the majors what he did in the minors. What's interesting now. The reds cincinnati reds drafted him. They didn't keeping they sent him out to the dodgers. The dodgers had gil hodges and had norm locker so they were pretty well taken care of it at first base even though hodges was in the twilight of his career but Bilko they they acquired bilko primarily because there was a referendum about Shebeens ravine the land. There where they were going to build dodger stadium. It was in danger of not passing and the and the dodgers acquired biblical to help them at the gate. And at the ballot box they won the referendum by about twenty six thousand votes buzzy pervasive. The general manager later said they would not have won that. Referendum and the rights to build the ballpark dodger. Stadium more they did. Without steve bilko so gokul basically said that should name a street. There they don't have one but there should name street. They're called local way because he paved the way for dodger stadium. Yeah it's interesting that to a very controversial and still resonates today in terms of of that land and the displacement of the of the families that that grew up there. And all of that right so i but you can imagine how contentious a situation that That story that was and but that you're also now hinting at what was to come right. I mean so. Do you think bilko. And then i want to get to the other members of the team and maybe this applies to this as well players in the two teams in los angeles and perhaps even the seals up and sit in san francisco. Were there was any inclination that this pacific coast league thing was going to be. Potentially you served by a bigfoot team or to kind of invading their territory so to speak and maybe not a bad idea perhaps stick around because perhaps they could hook up with said major league team when one appeared or.
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"Josh gibson. Although i didn't know much about josh gibson at that time so these players that you would see as they were It was like in the movies they were. They were much larger than life. Not only because your kid but because These guys were not well known outside of the areas where they played when they came to us. We then sort of adopted is if they're your own and think that's one of the great things about minor league baseball and one of the reasons that i've written so much about. The miners is when the players passed through these small towns these towns connect with those players. And then they could they associate with these players as they go on in their careers. They become part of that town. So when the angels had and i was even younger a gene baker an outstanding shortstop black shortstop joined the angels in nineteen fifty now. I was just thinking about this the other day. I remember baker plane. I was six years old Six and seven. He played with angels for four years. He wasn't called up until fifty three and when he went up he went same time as ernie banks and he was a better shortstop by the way then ernie banks but he was older more experienced and he moved the second base and so any banks and gene baker became the first all black double-play combination so baker. I started to follow him with angels where he became. Initially my favorite player with the cubs. And then of course ernie banks took over and he became mr cobb and he became my favorite as well but the players you it was like you discovered these players when you're a small kid and then they you follow them on through their career. And that's that's the way it was Through for some other guys who came from the angels went on up. I didn't remember seeing frankie bomb. play with angels. but he went on to star for the cubs. And because i knew he played for the angels while i automatically followed him. One of my books is. I did with ransom jackson and that book is called accidental big leaguer and he was a two time all star for the cubs then went on to play for the dodgers in the actually replace with jackie robinson. When jackie retired. I wrote a book again with a ransom jackson. And i i. I heard of ransom because he played for the angels and i might not have done the book except that i was so fascinated with his history. He played college football at tcu and texas up played in the same backfield as bobby lane. A great quarterback in at texas nfl. So i write about ransom. And you know i kinda get my fill the cubs in the early fifties. So yeah it's it's it's been a Writing about all these books particularly the fifty six angels was You might say a love letter. Fact i had. Somebody told me that the book read like a love letter. that's fine. i hope it conveyed some of the passion that i felt at that time. Let's let's talk about bill because it sounds like he's not only star but also indicative of the types of players that were sprinkled around this angels team and maybe even by extension some of the other p. c. l. clubs too because this is a guy right who got his start with the cardinals right in in the national league. What forty nine to. Fifty four had a fairly significant cup of coffee with the cubs and then effectively. Got if you will sent down right do the angels which interestingly and maybe we'll get into this but either rejuvenated his career or prove the national league or types wrong about his abilities or or maybe combination of the two. But but i'm getting a sense that kind of alluding to are my observations earlier right this this pacific coast league right was just as stocked with quote unquote major leaguers as the major leagues themselves. Whether they were going up or down or frankly just not given a fair. Shake in the other You know the those other leaks a well. That's kind of break. It down this way. Bilko broken with the cardinals at age twenty. He was thrown into the middle of pennant race in nineteen forty nine. The cardinals were nipping. Talk with the dodgers. The dodgers wound up winning the pennant. Boko did quite well. In the brief period of time he was playing near the end of the season he they had some injuries in bill was at first base and he he might say carrot his wait a one thousand nine hundred thousand season. They played belco up as if he was going to be the next lou. Gary the next jimmy fox the publicity that bill was tremendous. He came to spring training in the eyes of the cardinals overweight. They also tried to make him a poll hitter. He was not a pull hitter as power was left center and right center so they wound up at enjoyed sale. I write about this in the book. They wind up putting him in a sweatsuit to lose this weight and he lost a tremendous amount of weight in short period of time. It was something you wouldn't see today. It was just ridiculous but here was a guy to that could hit a garage. Yola said he could hit a ball where fence with his elbow and they were trying to mak- poll hitter album so the combination of making him a pull hitter Finding him if he was over a certain weight that they unspecified for him it played with the guy's head and he was bilko was a simple guy he wanted to be loved. He wanted to succeed. He wanted to lose weight as his managers wanted him to do but it didn't help. He was a great beer drinker too by the way but he just couldn't do it so he wound up after a few failures with a car. Knows in one thousand nine hundred. Eighty three is batting cleanup for the car. And he's there with stan. Musial rich hanes Having a great year and he drove in eighty four runs as a rookie. Hit twenty. one home runs batting. Average was two fifty one. He did lead the league in strikeouts. But if i gave you the number one twenty five. That's nothing compared to what these guys strike out today. So bill cla had a great rookie. Season is so happened that the cardinals did not have a black player and on the west coast. There was a first baseman named tom. Allston would hit quite a few home runs in san diego which was ballpark. Very friendly to left-handers. The cardinals made tom ulsan their first black player while he was gone. Head to head. The bill on the cardinals decided to keep all standing. Get rid of bill. That's how he wound up with the cubs while the cups had a pretty good first baseman named de fandi Better fielder than bill. But not as good a hitter. Goco didn't get a chance to play much at all. Although ransom jackson saw play enough to wear. I remember talking with ransom about bill. He said he said he hit the ball like the old cartoons where they have. The baseball goes off screaming in the distance. And that's the way bill was. He was a great power hitter. Come the fifty five season. The cubs sent him down. Sending them to los angeles built. Bilko did not want to go. He is from nanna coke pennsylvania. He did not want to play on the west coast. He had previously played in the minors in rochester. Much closer to his home so he didn't want to go to los angeles until the manager there at the time. Bill sweeney said to him. I'm not going to bother you about your weight. I'm gonna leave you alone. I don't wanna know what you wait. Well that was music to bills ears. Nobody was going to be nagging him about his weight while he had a great season that first year he at the thirty thirty seven home runs that was nineteen fifty five in one thousand nine fifty six. He's like babe. Ruth he wants to triple crown on the west coast. It's fifty five home runs. Leads the league in hitting hundred sixty. Four runs batted in so. I'm ten years old when bilko has this Ruthenian type season in los angeles. So who do you think. I think he is babe. Ruth and i wasn't the only one you've heard of bobby grinch who is a fine ball player was baltimore. Orioles and the california angels riches a couple years younger than i. He wrote one on the blurbs for the book and he said that to him steve. Bilko was babe ruth mickey mantle and ted.
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"Left california to go to university of oklahoma. So i could be part of a great football program. There but wilkinson was in his last year of as coaching. When i was a freshman i went back to california to go to junior college because my girlfriend that time was dating someone else and i didn't want her to so eventually we got married. I returned oklahoma when in the sports writing and found out. I was a neat. Need a little bit more money to raise a family that i had so i went into the corporate world but When i did that i had already started some things that i wanted to complete the research on the local book. Bill died in nineteen seventy six. So i see seventy eight. I interviewed him in seventy six november at went to nanak pennsylvania. So i'm glad i started in. That was the beginning Two of my books. Bill clinton club and left on base in the bush. Leaks were started in the seventies so for many years. I had these two books hanging up there. There were kinda guerrillas on my back. And finally i finished them after i retired from the corporate world and the along with those two. I've done three other books. So i think that's great. Because you've essentially you kind of started in earnest in in in what you thought was a was a passion or calling realize sort of the realities of life and and having a fledgling journalists in my early years as well and then kind of fleeing to the semi saferworld of of corporate advertising and then then by extension media technology investments in that kind of stuff. But you know this podcast in a in an odd way. Sort of a away for me. Although i'm not retired per se from the day job it's at least it allows me to proverbially. Scratch that each in audio form with with an you know a topic and a zone of interest for for whatever reasons around teams and leagues stuff. Because nobody else is writing about him talking about him. Well there are more options today to do what you're doing when i was younger. You didn't have all these opportunities to branch out now as a college student. I wanted to be both a sportswriter sportscaster. But at that time you didn't have very many is doing both. It's only been more recent years that some of the sports writers got into sportscasting. You went one way or the other at that time I wound up going into sports. Writing because i just liked the printed word better and i felt i had a great talent in that area and i also didn't feel that i had realized all my potential as a writer when i went into the corporate world in fact when i went into the corporate world i was working fall mark. I was bored. So i would go out to royal stadium which was new at that time. i did some work for the royals. I also use that opportunity to do. Allow the interviews for the book because the players billy martin while he was a manager at the time but a lot of the people. I wanted to interview come through kansas city joe garage yola for example of who i interviewed extensively steve vocal so i use that time out at royals stadium together a lot of the material and then when i started to travel a lot more in the corporate world because left hallmark to go to goodyear turn rubber company. I would use my Trips when i was in the area of somebody i wanted to talk to those blair so on one. It was a blessing on the other hand. It really slow up the completion of the books. Yeah but you see kids out there. You're listening right That's the great way to kind of get sort of the side-hustle paid for by the man. If you will without sort of leaking out right. I guess the only other i guess sports related kind of realm of that would be. Maybe the refereeing thing right which tends to be you have to kind of more that has to be more of an officially you know sanctions thing so that you know both corporate environments kind of a you know a can can handle each other with schedules and that kind of stuff. But but i mean you you're describing frankly A way to kind of keep the. I don't know the the passion the side project the whatever you know in the background and you know kind of your work to live so to speak but then also live to work somehow right well you in the corporate world. Of course. I had to keep some of these things under the radar. There were some people. I could be a little bit more open with I remember the vice president of public relations at goodyear who was a big sports fan and he knew i was so working on a book when they hired me and to him that was i think one of the reasons are hired me because he liked the stories that i was telling me about what i was working on and i think he wanted to provide a vehicle for me to finish what i started so it it for some people. It was helpful others. You just didn't want him the whole lot whole lot about what you're doing but growing up in los angeles Back to the beginning Went to games wrigley field and that is where most people with homerun derby the original home. Run derbies where wrigley field. Los angeles louder. Your television movies. Ronald reagan was in the one where he plays. Grover cleveland alexander A that was filmed at wrigley field. So all your movies were filmed wrigley field. That's where i went to games as a kid with my father and my brother. And i really fell in love with a ballpark and i'll end became a cubs fan because the angels at that time were a cubs farm team. Yeah and that was that was going to be sort of the. How did this the idea of the of of doing this book sort of get started. Well you know we had a conversation a number of months ago with the Dan taylor about the hollywood stars and the thing that that kind of struck me in that conversation and maybe this sort of the sort of the on ramp to to this conversation is we'll get to the rivalry and all that stuff in los angeles in the second. But i almost got the feeling doing the research that the angels were the more if you will hollywood of the teams versus say that the interestingly named hollywood stars in terms of how many stars and filmings and those kinds of things when you mentioned homerun derby i get the feeling that wrigley field in. La was more. I guess connote noted or overlapping. We'd be with the entertainment industry. Or do i have that wrong. Or maybe maybe it was more fondly or deeply remember. Perhaps from the start you more field was located in hollywood and and it was also owned by a group of movie stars so it was more hollywood. You might say if more glamorous more the actors and actresses went to games there in hollywood the wrigley field of course and as compared with gilmore field. Was the bigger star as a ballpark. But the fans of the angels were more blue collar types groucho marx however went to games at wrigley field and there were a few others. Believe necking cole. Also went to games at wrigley field. But your basic clientele was quite different. When the stars it was more glamor the hollywood type the entertainers and over at wrigley field. You had people like my father who was a minister. I remember one time going to a game. Actually we're going to game a wrigley field. You'll moorefield and my father. An angels fan and his friend and also minister was a hollywood stars fan and they started needling each other and my dad said to him is gene. How can you be. How can you be a christian pull against the angels. So there was this rivalry. He was kidding of course but There was this rivalry. And i went to games really field if i mean. It was a beautiful ballpark. You're close to the action. You're closer to the action gilmore field. In fact you're right on top of it there. It was a smaller ballpark. Wrigley field was built in nineteen twenty five it was really the original wrigley field because a cubs. The cubs called their park which was built earlier. They call it cubs park until nineteen twenty six when they renamed at wrigley. So you're ever in a trivia contest wanna know the original wrigley.
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"So. Not not our favored. I would say will say that pond she told was my like charlie in this movie. You know how like charlie wrong series the hero. Yeah cheetos was my charlie in this movie but he was the only piece of this movie that i could stand art. Noise sound is all that is the rating. I give this movie l. The trouble don't watch it. Just listen to out it. And you don't it and i've been meaning to wash the mr science soda more that way and may maybe a honeybee. You might wanna watch it that way. I don't know that's on netflix I had been meaning to to ratings system so i guess we'll start off with noise rating. He gets one far. No he's come up with something else for a good minute which hopefully will be next week next week. It will be rodin also from nineteen fifty-six also is the say is god's allowed godzilla adjacent godzilla related. It is by toho directed by ichiro honda and after he gets his introductory movie. Then we see rodin in godzilla. Movies nice include up to up to the current era he appears in godzilla king of monsters from a couple of years ago and A number of dan's appear in the very most recent thing. The godzilla singular point anime. Siri rodin has some staying power back to japan. And back to toho pictures with dan next well so i will say when i saw it came from beneath the sea. I didn't believe you when you said. I hate this movie more. I'd have to say you were right. Precious you're right. I hated this movie more. So sorry so when it goes to beasts you prefer ones from twenty thousand fathoms than to ones from hollow mountains. Indeed i do. Yes i do okay. Good to know who had in mind may note future reference Once again we'd like to beg everybody to send us a message at Monster movie fun time. Go at gmail.com or go to our anchor page anchor dot fm slash m. m. ft and leaves voicemail. If you leave us voicemails might use it in. The show can be internet famous. So thank you for joining us We may have a halloween october project. Coming up bit of a side thing here same channel. I will give more information about that. Let's say next week or yeah. Unlike a plan. Sounds like a plan beyond the lookout for halloween. Shit baby and as always. We won't see you but you will hear us next time on monster movie fun time. Go monster movie fun time go..
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"New workers are set out. Jimmy feeds a calf and gets a note delivered to him in a very rude way from loretta. Some kid just like quit throws a rock at him or something then waves note at him. It's a note from cerita asking him to meet her at the graveyard. So cerita is a seat goff. Who hangs out at the graveyard cut. And then the ponchos There mentioned already that they chose gov and then we see that they are at the abandoned house right and pancho tells punchy to wait here until the shot will stick in the ground. He says weights here to the shadow. Hits this rock for not go till jimmy. I want to say here punchy. Ito is the best actor in this movie. Yup yup he's given it all get one hundred percent down. He is the best. Here's immediately worried. But he does at the graveyard. Jimmy checks gun. In cases as a trap pulled his gun on sereda who sells. Please come sit on my aunt. Maria maria his grave. It's it's okay. She loved me. she won't mind. Okay yes about the ranch. And jimmy thinks she wants to get rid of him which she does. He gets all metal. You're trying to get rid of me too. And she's like no no trying to get rid of you is all around is super fucking hard for me. She doesn't want to end up either. A widow or the wife of her. So she's worried one of them is going to kill the other but you know. She's really lucky they might kill each other his and up dead so but she's she's really seems more concerned about jimmy's wellbeing then briquets geneva nice to her. That's true but you know. She stays in this abusive relationship because she doesn't know any better than we see poncho in the swamp and then a shadow looms over him and he screams and his hat gets left behind. We cut you punchy waiting and the shadow hits the rocky kicks. The rock and runs runs back. Philippi says the puncher backed. But they're not back just one of them's back who jimmy Tells flea bay that. He's leaving his giving the ranch to philippi. He's not going to sell it as just gonna give it to fully bay and he's just sure that enrico will calm the fuck down if he leaves town give me. I guess a ponchos aren't back yet. He's wondering if they are back. Philippa threatens to kill enrica and once you come visit me in prison. Because i'm gonna go kill him. And then he comes in all distraught. That papa didn't come back. let's go. They leave on cheeto behind and go looking for them and find his hat for and yelling said half found yelling. Punchy here string noises quicksand. Who's in the quicksand. Now we have punchy to- being a bad ass that's dirt count. She took being about us. And then i wrote down. I wonder if his backwards from carrying this whole movie but they throw the hat away. They don't want punchy toe to see it because he'll get upset and then they just lie to him. Yeah which is. I what the whole man not healthy. Not okay i. I didn't like the way any adults really treated. Paunchy this move out. You know like none of them and then i wrote down mountain exclamation point. I think we sort of have a pan over the mountain. And a bump bump yes and then it's Nighttime and everybody sleeping in hammocks your i like their on gilligan's island or some shit. This is a really rinky-dink ranch. Where but he just sleeps in hammocks wall and pacheco punchy to- tries to sneak out and Someone is gonna leave the dom pedro tomorrow. I guess either a. is gonna leave him down patriot. Just it's it's so. Yeah but it's like a woman it's a woman who says who says oh there must be maria then yeah and she's like I think she actually woman with a name. This movie yeah. I isn't this where she also tells him about his dad. Well that's at the festival. Yeah maria tries to feed punchy toe the same scene she tried to feed punchy though. He's not She does say. Don don pedro will care for him and Jimmy wants to make sure. No one will bother philippi. When i go and i also have written down. There's twenty minutes left in this movie. i'm starting to. I don't want to see this monster so jimmy says goodbye punchy toe and tries to act like nothing is wrong or he's just all like hey what's the matter. Are we friends. My father is missing and you what that was. My friend are leaving town and of course fricken miserable. Yeah just they're the worst the worst so it goes and talks to cerita seizes. Cerita says. won't i ever see you again. You told him to leave town. You're worried is going to get killed. And now you want. If you're going to see him again went. And am i right. Women can't live with him. Can't replace subservient robot duplicates so then we get the the festival. The festival in the wedding are the same day but the festival does not seem to be because of the wedding. Just decide to have the winning on as they neared weird big heads. I meant to try to look it up to find out. The estimate at i forgot causes moves now worth. Yeah totally not that. There's a weird big head festival going. On some kind of precision that enrico checks checking cons checking cows ticking counsel don and wreak so. The wedding is in like two hours. But dan rea. Que goes the check on his cows and is planning a stampede. He wants his workers to stampede. Jimmy's cattle ohio. And he he's going to take his own cattle to the train. That has been scheduled to take. Jimmy's cattle away. Why why can he not just sell his own. Cattle in a normal way like normal is mismanaged. Muscle.
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"Yes that's right but you know it's a he. He led his own insecurities. Turn it into a self fulfilling prophecy. You just been more chill the whole time. They would have just been friends and not left him behind. He thinks oh well yes. She wouldn't have been outlook you know. Sure when she wouldn't have that wandering. I in gay weren't such a dick. Yeah but in town the guy in the shop insists on cash. He will give jimmy credit. It's implied that that standard to give people credit but he won't give jimmy any cash and they're like this is all cash we have going to the bank. They go the banks. No while give you the lengths of kinda screwed at this point but fully while he was in the bank fully bay found to workers who willing to wait for their double pay. They're willing to wait till after the cattle or soult. Yeah but aren't the to you workers This is yes. I think we we find out a little later that they are secretly double agents. Yeah cadillac industrial spies. Working don injury k. like you do also What is his name Philippi is writing a donkey instead of a horse. Jimmy's riding a horse and heat like whips this donkey. It's like to like make him go. Of course and at first. I was like each because it just looks horrible. Like when you know you're seeing someone like whipping animal but then it did it again. Another time movie. And i was like slapped at ass and i was like why is on with me. This was so boring. I had to like find ways entertain by so what was he hitting a donkey. Yes so so slap that ass has a double meaning yet and we don't have time for what is wrong with you. It's we try to keep these podcasts. At about it howard i. Let's take a little break to talk about our sponsor anchor honeybee. Were making a podcast. Yeah we are making a podcast anchor to do we. Are you know why we're using anchor to do it. Because it's free it is. You can use anchor to make a podcast yourself. It has creation tools. Allow you to record and edit your podcast right from your phone or your computer. Amazing anchor is really cool because they will distribute your podcast for you. So it'll be heard on spotify apple. Podcasts a lot of other platforms as well. You can make money from your podcast with no minimum listenership chain everything you need to make a podcast in one place. Download the free.
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"And welcome to monster. Movie fun time go. I'm precious and i'm honeybee today. We have the beast of hollow mountain. And i'm so sorry lart noise that's to say well. It may not surprise you to learn. This movie was featured on mystery science theater. Three thousand on One of the two most recent seasons surprised there will not be the last movie that we see. That's been on there but it is the i it is also our first True color movie in gain as opposed to the colored in one. Yeah you could definitely tell at when when i saw the one that was colored in. I couldn't tell until you said something but this new then then watching this like. Oh yeah. I could definitely tell it. The other one was just like the few colours. It's in color so it's got that going for it off it and we're done here just kidding on that is about it. Oh my god okay. So this from nineteen fifty six. As i said color seventy nine minutes directed by edward nassar and it appears they pulled a dracula on this one and filmed a spanish language version at the same time directed by ismael rodriguez. This is based on a story by willis o'brien who we know as a special effects guy from king kong and son of kong but he did not actually work on. It's weird yeah. This same premise will be filmed years later in nineteen sixty nine under the title of the valley of gandhi and that is also credited as you know from the same story by willis. O'brien and that one is ray harry house joint. So once again willis does not actually work on. It hasn't died at this point. I'm not sure why he ended up not doing it. There seems to be no record of why he didn't do it. Weird it was soon just inspired people. Yes yes he just had the idea of cowboys versus dinosaurs. Basically so the effects were actually by jack raven. Henry sharp and louis dewitt. I don't have a budget. I don't have a box. office feature. Monster is a toronto source. Rex forty feet. Apparently i a death counter like to e yeah I'm going to give it a racism factor of two okay based on our lead woman. being played by patricia. medina a british person pretending to be mexican. it's called acting. Is that what it is. It's not called brown faints. Because that's what i base and also the Portrayal of poncho. I found a little. It was real actor define job. But it's a stereotype. And i didn't care for it. Yeah i agree. I also didn't care for it. And also i wrote down several times. Like uae is pancho screaming that they align quit screaming everything. While i didn't care for it. I did ended up having some sympathy for his character and his whole situation. But we can get to that in a minute. So yes patricia. Medina as a mexican lady guy madison as a white guy living in mexico. Carlos priebus also known as oscar weber. What he's half german and half mexican so depending on the movie. He changes his name. I think so. Also known as oscar von weber. If is german enough for you. Wore carl weber. If you just want hint of german okay. We'll see him again in black scorpion. Oh this is the first dinosaur and cowboy movie. I am told. I guess that. I mean there's at least one the valley of Juan g ooh And i think there is more recent low budget called like cowboys versus dinosaurs. And there might be more that i am unaware. Well it would be great if there was any walking dinosaur in the movie. Yeah yeah that's why. Hello takes a while to get to the beast. So once again we have a beast that They're trying to hide what it is. And i'll tell us right upfront. Which at first. I was excited about. Because i had no idea what it was going to be and i was like i liked that idea of like. Ooh i don't know what is it blue yards. I had seen on mystery science theater. So i already knew right. That's that's fun that you didn't know yeah. It was excited. That i didn't know but eventually i don't give a shit what it is. I hope just indus breaking movie. I don't even care anymore. I don't even wanna see the beast. He's not even a problem. Well let's get into it. This is film in cinemascope so very impressive. At the time i guess we start off with the three horsemen riding along and a important sounding narrator telling us that we are deep in the back country of mexico and he talks a little bit about hollow mountain in the swamp and yvo and legends that in times of drought the beasts appears and the camera focuses in arts on a cow skull. Don don and the cowboys are doing some tracking. Looks like i think. They're looking for their missing cows and they see signs big. They see signs of a big struggle and some tracks and Talk about the shadow of that curse mountain. One of the guys that I think disappears later you because he quits now because he gets eaten. No one fucking gets eating in this they separate and there's some kind of a weird howl which i guess is the beast yeah sounds like a wail sound. Well i guess they didn't want to give away at this stage. What the piece was stereotypical dinosaur row. L- or or and then we have philippa quicksand. I just look say believe bay. Who calls is the has to be. The american guy says philippi. The whole movie sleepy sleepy.
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"1956" Discussed on KSFO-AM
"Alert. Yeah. Yeah, that I remember because I watched that as a kid and that was a shocking ending. Yeah. Sneaking fatalism. Yeah, because it was because it was so charming. And you got Paul Newman riding a bicycle. Raindrops Keep falling on my head doesn't fit with the ending that much And they jump off that cliff into the water you think will drown drown? Albert Fall's gonna kill you, right? 12, the good bad and the slow paced 1966. What do I know? I tried to watch it and it just I like it, but you have to be. You have to be not modern patients for drama. Sometimes it plays like the like. The Western is opera building areas of violence and suspense with editing time to the rhythms of Ennio Morricone score. Yeah, I appreciate that the wrong mood. I'm an idiot. When the switch had probably pistol with me at best, maybe shoot me number 11 The man who shot Liberty Valance 1962 Love that movie so much 10 Meeks cut off from 2010 don't know it when you come to the mix, cut off. Cut off your Meeks from 2010 interesting survival on the Oregon trail. Okay, It's the theme there. Nine. The naked spur. 1953 don't know It's por minute. Don't know it. I want to see my spur. That's just girls and cowboy hats. Number eight. There you go. Jack Rio Bravo! 19. Number eight for Rio. Bravo. Yeah. There you go. Sean would be worth it. If you're going to pick one of those movies, we recommend it If it's number eight often check that so good. 1969 is the wild bunch in at number seven. I don't think I've seen it in the end. If I had I've forgotten, but 100% score for Rio. Bravo on rotten tomatoes. Yeah, that's rare. It's It's that good. Um, uh And you, You see why Angie Dickinson was a sex symbol? Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. Sixties Oh, my God. Hello. Number six Red River from 1948 back to, um Howard Oh, Howard Hawks Western with John Wayne, number five. McCabe and Mrs Miller from 1971. I don't know that one. You is that a John Wayne McCabe and Mrs Miller, Robert Altman. Warren Beatty plays McCabe. Don't Fast talker falls in with and falls in love with Mrs Miller. Julie Kristy of Madam who offers to improve business at his low rent brothel. They really made being a whore. Uh, charming in your old timing Westerns. Yeah, you're very clean and pretty and respectable and not part what it would have been like, I don't think it would have been gruesome lot of stinky mouth breathing gals who had given up on life. That's your taste. Yeah, Number four. He says, trying to rescue the podcast 1939 stage coach. I knew that was gonna be in the top five, because if you're a critic, and you don't put that in your top five, you get shot. Is there such a thing as a perfect movie, If not stage coach comes pretty close. John Wayne is the Ringo Kid Fugitive from the law, etcetera, etcetera, a young John Wayne. And that one your top three Once upon a time in the West 1968. That was the first movie her Sergio Leoni made after the dollars trilogy. Um, minus his signature star Charles Bronson plays a gun slinger known only as harmonica. I don't think you want to know why he plays an instrument. I'll give you a guess who's locked into a battle of wills with Frank Henry Fonda merciless hired gun with whom harmonica has a mysterious history. Henry Fonda merciless hired gun to losing out on the number one slot only because I think it's newer Unforgiven 1992. I mean, that's on the shortlist of great greatest movies a short time. I think it may be a perfect movie. Yeah, it's phenomenal. It's long as hell. Settle in, Um not for the kids, not hold Lord. No Gene Gene Hackman gives clinics were quite the kick in there. It's that's That's a gruesome scene. Yeah, you got ladies the evening getting slashed up. Oh, yeah, That's right. Oh, yeah, people begging for their lives as they they bleed out in the sun. Yeah, that's that's rough. Yeah, but it's It's a story of redemption, Hate and can You change really? And no poisoned hogs. Cruel lawman. Popular poison. She got the fever. Better separate them out with the others. Number one. It almost had to be 1956. The searchers John Wayne, John Ford. Um, just you know, it's the all time classic Western. The searchers. As the comedian Dmitry says the search party is the least fun party. Armstrong and Getty..
Radio From Hell
James Randi, Magician and Paranormal Debunker, Dies at 92
"Oh, he was one of a kind. He will be missed. And He was truly amazing person. Yes, the amazing Randi. James Randi, the magician who escaped from jail cells. Underwater coffins straitjackets before becoming a scientific skeptic bent on debunking those who peddle the paranormal and supernatural. He was 92 years old. Age related causes is what they say His death was in a Twitter post pendulum of Penn and Teller called Randy quote our inspiration, our mentor and your friend. He appeared on on occasion on the Showtime documentary, Siri's Penn and Teller. B s in 56 Amazing. Randi appeared live on the Today show 1956. Surviving for 100 for minutes in a sealed metal coffin submerged in a swimming pool. Two better, a record that was held by Harry Houdini. Two decades later, he escape from a straitjacket while suspended upside down over Niagara Falls. On these escapes that he did. We're dangerous. They were very dangerous, but he managed them. He was a Toronto native. He grew up loving magic. He had great stories about going to see. Blackstone. Blackstone was a very famous magician at the time and what a great magician he was. But then Randy sort of became a well known atheist. And if you want to see a really touching sweet movie that's fascinating. What's it called Anonymous wires on honest liar. One a slider? Yeah, it's all about him in its life. Well, Yeah, he started out as a magician. But then he formed James Randi Educational Foundation, and it's about Debunking. Shysters people who use magic essentially on and mental ism to take advantage of people. He particularly hated Uri Geller, the spoon Bender from Israel. He hated Yuri Geller and James Randi said anybody convention spoon. I can show anybody how to do it. He doesn't do it with the power of his mind. It's a trick. It is a trick. And Randy was just incensed about it. He hated Yuri Geller so much, he said. When I die, and I'm cremated, I want somebody to throw my ashes in Yuri Geller. Well, you've said that about your
The Morgan Show with Morgan White, Jr.
Boston's Harvard Law School students pay tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"Car, but then SKW Visi Boston's news radio. Good morning. I'm Tom Huff. Here is what's happening. The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, BBC TV's Christina Rex tells us Ginsberg briefly briefly attended attended Harvard Harvard Law Law School. School. Justice Justice Ruth Ruth Bader Bader Ginsburg Ginsburg started started her her loss loss schooling schooling here here at at Harvard Harvard Back Back in in 1956. 1956. Eventually, Eventually, she she moved moved to to New New York York to to finish finish her her law law studies. Students here at the college tonight. Tell me, they're shocked and saddened by the news of her death. It's gonna take a while to process. The news of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is death hit Harvard students deeply as they got news alerts on their phones first found out I couldn't believe it because I think RBG fact that she's continued to stick with that and continue to fight. For us kind of. I kind of thought that you know she'd win. Keep going. This makes the Supreme Court one of the most important issues in the presidential election. Kent Green Fields of BC Law is a former Supreme Court clerk, he says Ruth Bader Ginsburg, affectionately known as RBG is an idol for young girls. My home It'll daughter knows who RBG is, and is saddened by the news to May. And I think they're know the story of my daughter is the story of a millions of little girls around the country. She she looks like this frail little woman, but she was a fierce warrior for justice. I think that many of us who loved her and loved her work just to really just wanted her to live forever. The thought on so many people's minds right now, what does
The Morgan Show with Morgan White, Jr.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87
"Tells us Ginsberg briefly attended Harvard Law School Justice Riveter. Denver started her loss schooling here at Harvard Back in 1956. Eventually, she moved to New York to finish her law studies students here at the college tonight. Tell me they're shocked and saddened by the news of her death. It's gonna take a while to process. The news of Supreme Court. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is death hit. Averred students deeply as they got news alerts on their phones found out I couldn't believe it because I think RBG fact that she's continued to stick with that and continue to fight for us. Kind of thought that You know she'd win. God. This makes the Supreme Court one of the most important issues in the presidential election. Kent Greenfield. The BC law is a former Supreme Court clerk, he says Ruth Bader Ginsburg, affectionately known as RBG is an idol for young girls. My home It'll daughter knows who RBG is and is saddened by the news today. And I think they're know the story of my daughter is the story of a millions of little girls around the country. She she looks like this free a little woman, but she was a fierce warrior for justice. I think that many of us who loved her and loved her work just just wanted her to live forever. The thought on so many people's minds right now, what does this mean for RBG Supreme Court seat
All Things Considered
MLB Marks The 100th Anniversary Of The Negro Leagues
"Baseball is marking the anniversary of the Negro leagues created 100 years ago. The league's showcased black baseball players players who couldn't play on the major teams because of the color of their skin. Only a few members of the leagues are alive to celebrate the centennial Michigan radios, Doug Tribute spoke to the only surviving team owner and others about the legacy of the legendary leagues. In 1920 owners of independent black baseball teams from the Midwest gathered in Kansas City, Missouri. At that meeting they created the Negro National Leagues had no idea they were making history. They didn't care about making history. Bob Kendrick heads the Negro Leagues Baseball museum there, he says. Faced with segregation, black owners and players kept pushing for organized baseball. These athletes never cried about the social injustice. They went out and did something about so you won't let me play with you and I create my own And they did today. Stars like Josh Gibson, Buck Leonard and Satchel Paige are enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame, but thousands of black and Latino players endured bigotry and racist taunts. It was Tear before the players at that time. Many Forbes owned the Detroit Stars from 1956 to 1958. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that players try of them. They had nowhere to stay because of the discrimination, so they slept in the buses. And they couldn't go in places to eat so one person would go to the back door. When get food for all the players. Pedro Sierra pitched in the Negro leagues for several seasons in the 19 fifties. He grew up in Cuba and says it was tough to adjust to segregation and racism he saw in the US It wasn't easy to see all the problem with the raise. I know all about it, herb artist. But I hadn't experienced today. Sierra lives in New Jersey In 1954 he signed with the Indianapolis clowns at the age of 16. His salary was less than 5% of what white players were earning dollars a month a month, $100 a month. And I look back and say, Oh my God. Jackie Robinson played briefly in the Negro leagues. Then, in 1947 he broke baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in Cleveland, Larry Doby became the first black player in the American League. Coming seasons brought many more signings. But many Forbes sympathizes with the many athletes who were good enough to play in the major leagues, but never got a shot. Unfortunately, some of the good players by the time the time Came. They were too old to play. The last league folded in the early 19 sixties, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum estimates there are about 100 former players still alive. Forbes is 88 worries about being one of the last left to tell the story. And I just want a if I'm worthy of represent and speaking about the Negro League because When I got involved, things was easier for me. Then it wass father one before me. Many Forbes will keep sharing her stories with younger generations and others will to Major League Baseball has a day to honor the league's set for next month. The museum has pushed back its year long celebration of the centennial to next year and renamed it Negro Leagues. 101
Monocle 24: The Globalist
Hollywood filmmakers try to please China's censors
"We're heading back to China. Now for the end of today's logos to discuss its growing importance to international TV and movie producers. Now, here's a spoiler alert game of thrones is quite popular there as it is in the rest of the world. But in China, it's trademark sex and violence generally ends up on the clipping room floor unless than ten years ago. China was pretty cut off from the rest of the cinematic world. But today, it is the world's second biggest movie market. I'm producers are increasingly adopting their scripts on their plots to appeal to Chinese viewers. I get past Beijing sensors will Diane why Liang is the an international bestselling author and a commentator on China and joins me. Now. Welcome diane. What was this at ten years ago that kind of made the Chinese authorities change their minds by allowing in known Chinese entertainment. I think it's because of one China. Began to develop and the Chinese citizens began to have more money, and they demand more entertainment and China was an still is thirsty for content and Hollywood or western media had been producing content. I so long and so trying to is a big market and consumers have great desire of absorbing these content. So from at that time and China began to build multiplex and today China more than twenty five screens a day. And so it's the fastest growing film market in the world and lots of Hollywood blockbusters actually have bigger openings in China than in the entire North America. So in the way, it's consumer driven. It's a comic striven as China was. Getting richer. And I also the case that's a customized back to the eighty and the Soviet Union and things like that and kids in Russia were kind of trying to get American pop music. And I don't think American pop music was delivered propaganda, but it was kind of accidental propaganda. But I guess as as China became richer and the lives depicted in in kind of western movies. No longer looked as different perhaps became less dangerous in the minds of Chinese sensiti. Think in a way China's open up and said a lot of the content are as you said very similar to what the Chinese filmmakers are making. But on the other hand, and there is a better, storytelling sometimes, and sometimes and people do want when you go to film, you want to be entertained you want to be taken to a different world. So the some of the Hollywood movies do offer that different world feeling to the Chinese and one of the reasons Chinese market is growing very fast. And is because streaming service is very much censored in China. You don't get Netflix. You don't get lot of the. Content. Western audience can stream online so people still go therefore to cinemas to have that great experience. So one of the things that are that are Tahboub from the sensors perspective while themes while ideas, subjects aren't they allowing Chinese viewers? See, well, I so in China, no one can give a definitive list, but in general politically sensitive content as censored and Saxon violence and also to some extent homosexual -ality, for example, the behoove me rhapsody. A was a quite a few minutes out of the film when it was released in China. So in some ways, some of the fans in China argue that was improvement that that movie was even released in China. And of course, some. Were very upset that they were missing many minutes of the film. So give us an insight into the average Chinese cinema goer or consumer and what they're thinking about when they're making choices about what to watch. Are. They still interested in in Chinese content on what level is their interest in external content. Absolutely. They are definitely interested in homegrown content. And there has been smash hit of Chinese making wondering earth, which is actually coming to Netflix.
24 Hour News
Ernest Hemingway story from 1956 set to be published for first time
"The Federal Reserve's leaving its benchmark interest rate unchanged while signaling further gradual, rate, hikes in the coming months, ahead as long as the economy stays healthy the Fed's decision left the central bank's key short-term rate at one point, seven five percent to two percent which is the level hit in June when the fed boosted the rate for a second time this year in, June the fed, projected four, rate, hikes this, year and private candidates expect the next hike to occur at the September meeting in a brief policy. Statement the fed notes strengthening labor market economic activity. Growing at a strong rate and inflation that's reached the central bank's. Target of two percent annual gains A story by. Ernest Hemingway the takes, place during World War Two and it was. Written in nineteen fifty six is being published for the first time the strand magazine says a room on the. Garden side appears that it's summer edition. The story draws upon Hemingway's experiences as a correspondent and combatant during World, War, Two a room on the, garden side is set in Paris in nineteen forty four right after the city was liberated from that to control the, Hemingway societies Colonel contributed the afterwards saying the story contains all the trademark elements readers love in Hemingway Hemingway wrote other World War Two stories over, the last decade, of his, life, some of, them he admitted could be shocking he told his publisher you can always publish them after I'm dead Brixton's closing all of its one hundred remaining shopping mall stores the retailers filing. For chapter eleven bankruptcy, protection again after first filing for bankruptcy in twenty fourteen and says it will focus solely on its thirty thirty-five airport locations and online sales for. Stone CEO says the situation in malls has. Been extremely challenging and, the decision.