35 Burst results for "1961"
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Rep. Greg Steube: We're 3 Years Past Trump, Yet Biden Blames Trump
"Keep in mind, I know they're trying to blame Trump for all of this, but that was a bipartisan piece of legislation. You got to love the revisionist history in this nonsense. I always shocking to me like even now we're almost three years past Trump being president and the left and progressives when things aren't going their way like boot edge edge blamed Trump for the derailment of the railroad in Ohio. It was Trump's fault. And you would have thought after the first 6 months, CNN and progressives in the last would have been like, okay, we can't keep blaming Trump because we've been in control of the administration now for what is almost three years, but nope, they can't help themselves because they don't want they'll never take responsibility for any mistakes. They will always blame other people despite the fact the first four years I was in Congress, which was the last four years up to this January. Democrats control the house, the Senate, and The White House, and suddenly a lot of these economic decisions are coming to roost.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Russian Jet Collides With U.S. Drone Over Black Sea
"It's interesting CNN has a very different take on what happened over the Black Sea. They're saying that the Russian fighter jet force down a U.S. Air Force drone. The propeller was damaged in the attack. Fox News is saying it was just a midair collision. But CNN has categorized it as intentional. The air force issuing a statement accusing the Russians of acting in a reckless environmentally unsound and unprofessional manner. So there you go. Several times before the collision, the SU 27s dumped fuel and flew on and flew in front of the MQ 9 in a reckless environmentally unsound unprofessional manner the longer statement goes on that general James hecker, the commander of U.S. air forces in Europe. I want to go
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Donald Trump Reflects on Last Election Against Joe Biden
"Some audio, by the way, of a president Trump, also a talking about Joe Biden cut number three. We had an election that was not a good situation, not good at all. You've seen a lot of the reasons where it's a disgrace. We got more votes than any sitting president in history by a lot. By millions, we got 75 million votes more. That's what they report. They say the other guy got 80, I don't think so. I don't think so. He did one hell of a job from his basement.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"1961" Discussed on ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"Everybody. Good to have you with us. So Joe Biden. Sitting down for an interview with Kal Penn. Was he with that? Did he play in was it the white castle movie? Kumar and all those guys, I can't remember. I don't know, all these old comedy shows from the 90s. It is what it is. Anyway, cow pen is out there doing an interview with Joe Biden. And Joe Biden made a shocking revelation. Now, when it comes to telling lies, nobody does this better than the big guy. I mean, he's told some whoppers, and we can start with corn pop, the gang member, his make believe friendships, he had with the Amtrak train conductor. He said he used to be a truck driver. It goes on and on and on. So anyway, Biden has now come out and he's announced that he was actually supportive of gay marriage back in 1961 when he was a student in high school. Here's a clip of that interview. All right, well, you know what I'll come back to that in just a moment to cut number 11. Every auntie and uncle that I have is beyond disappointed that there hasn't been a wedding yet. But Cardi B is going to marry us apparently officiate our wedding, which would be nice. But my question for you, mister president, is you codified support for same sex marriage and interracial marriages like ours. I'm curious what your evolution was like on marriage equality. And what the federal government might be able to do to protect LGBTQ, Americans, especially trans kids who are dealing with all these regressive state laws that are popping up right now. I can remember exactly what my epiphany was. Okay. How do you thought much about it, tell you, Jews and I was a, I was a senior in high school. And my dad was dropping me off, and remember about to get out of the car and I looked to my right, and two well dressed men in suits, kissed each other. Give each other a kiss. And then one went, looked like he was heading to the department building, one looked like he has Hercules corporation building. And I never forget I turned and looked at my dad. He said, Joey, it's simple. They love each other. It's simple. No, I'm not joking. It's simple. They love each other. And it's never been, it's never been, it's just that simple. It doesn't matter whether it's whether it's same sex or heterosexual couple. You should be able to be married. What is the problem? So listen to your auntie and your uncle, get married. Do it now. Don't wait. Transgender kids is a really harder to think what's going on in Florida. This is my mother would say close to sinful. I mean, it just terrible what they're doing. It's not like, you know, a kid wakes up one morning and says, you know, I decided I want to become a man or I want to become a woman or I want to change. I mean, what are they thinking about here? The human beings, they love their feelings. They have inclinations that are, I mean, it's just to me is, I don't know, it's cruel. And the way we do it is we make sure we pass legislation like we passed on same sex marriage. You mess with that, you're breaking the law and you're going to be held accountable. All right, so there's a lot of a lot to unpack here, but the president is a liar. But I'm just going to give, let's give him the benefit of the doubt for just a moment. Let's just say that's true that he really did accept same sex marriage back in 1961 as a teenager. If that's the case, then why in 1973, did Joe Biden openly oppose gays in the military in Congress? And he also said that gays were security risks within the federal government. In the 1990s, he voted for the defense of marriage act. Which, by the way, was signed by William Jefferson Clinton, a Democrat president. In 2008, he opposed, redefining marriage. This is all very well documented. Biden also supported a measure to defund schools that presented homosexuality as a positive lifestyle alternative. So again, going back to what he told us that he was actually pro gay marriage when he was a teenager in 1960 one, then why was he so adamantly opposed? To gay marriage. And gay people working in the government. So Joe Biden is either a liar or a hypocrite, or maybe he just forgot, as senile people do from time to time. But it's not a good look for this president. His voting record was clearly anti gay and homophobic again using the words of the Democrats, right? Because any time you stand up for traditional marriage or any time you stand up and you've got a problem with children being present when grown men and dresses spread their legs and children stuff dollar bills in their crotches, all of a sudden, you're the immoral person for opposing that. So there you go, folks. Joe Biden in his own words. Oh, Biden also had something to say about these puberty blockers and he says it is now a sin. To ban these things, cut number 15. A transgender kids is a really harder to think. What's going on in Florida? Is this my mother would say close to sinful? I mean, it's just terrible what they're doing. It's not like, you know, a kid wakes up one morning and says, you know, I decided I want to become a man or I want to become a woman or I want to change. I mean, what are they thinking about here? The human beings, they love they have feelings they have inclinations that are just to me is, I don't know, it's cruel. And the way we do it is we make sure we pass legislation like we passed on same sex marriage. You mess with that, you're breaking the law and you're going to be held accountable. All right, there you go. So he believes that if you oppose these gender mutilation surgeries, if you oppose these efforts by the radical section gender crowd to mutilate the bodies of young children, then you are committing a sin against God. Do you understand where we are in the country right now? This is just mind boggling. And one of the things they haven't done are studies on how many people who have undergone these procedures actually regret these procedures once they get older and actually understand what they've done. And by the way, these are all irreversible surgeries. Once it is snipped off, it's not growing back. Hate to break it to you. But they're not going to do those kinds of studies because we have seen and again, this is we have no documentation because no studies have been done. But by and large, most of these people who have been through these kinds of surgeries that have come forward afterwards say they regret doing what they did. And now have to spend the rest of their life taking medications. But Biden, what doesn't want to talk about that? So now understand where we are in the culture. So if you oppose, if you oppose letting kids go to drag shows, you're in a moral person. You're a sinful person. If you oppose letting kids as young as 6, 7 years old, whack off their private parts, you are the immoral person. You are the sinful person. According to the left, if you have a problem and again, in some circles of the left, if you have a problem with pedophilia, you are the person who is immoral, you are the person who is sinful. Now, many of you are saying, well, Todd, this is outrageous. Well, of course it is. But let me explain how we got here to this point. We got here because nobody said anything. Nobody stood up. Nobody pushed back. We allowed ourselves to be bullied into this position. Now we got a story. I'll give you a great example of this. And we told you about this a few days ago. There was a school in Vermont. Girls basketball team in the state playoffs mid Vermont Christian school. And they pulled out of the tournament because there was a transgender student on the roster. And it went against their religious beliefs, but it was also a safety issue. They didn't want a biological boy playing on the basketball court with biological females. So they backed out of the tournament. And now word has come down, and this is from Fox News, Ryan gados is the writer. That school has now been barred from future tournaments. So the school is now being punished forever. Because it refused to accept the transgender player. The boy playing on the girls team. The verbot principles association ruled that mid Vermont Christian school had violated policies and is ineligible to participate in future tournaments. The move applies to all sports so it's not just, it's whatever sports they have at mid Vermont Christian school, the kids aren't going to be able to play. Quote the VPA again reiterates its ongoing support of transgender student athletes as not only a part of building an inclusive community for each student to grow and thrive, but also as a clear expectation by Vermont, state law. Again, remember what Biden said. You don't follow, you don't follow the LGBT agenda. There will be hell to pay, you will pay a price, you are breaking the law. A clear expectation by Vermont state law in the agency of education best practices and in VPA policy regarding transgender student athletes. So now these kids are not going to be able to play. They say that the Christian school failed to meet the association's policies on race, gender, and disability awareness. Well, I say good for the school for taking a stand and doing the right thing. But what they need to do now is Sue the living daylights out of the state of Vermont. Because their rights have been violated. But again, in today's society, if you have a problem with a grown boy, walking around butt naked, dragging around his money maker and the girls locker room. In front of God and country, then you are the one who is immoral, and you are the one who was sinful. Do you understand where we are right as wrong, wrong is right, values turned upside down, everybody. Got to take a break, 8, four, four, 7, four, 7, 88, 68. This is the Todd stern show. So I have a question for you..
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Biden Says He was Pro-Gay Marriage Back in 1961
"Every auntie and uncle that I have is beyond disappointed that there hasn't been a wedding yet. But Cardi B is going to marry us apparently officiate our wedding, which would be nice. But my question for you, mister president, is you codified support for same sex marriage and interracial marriages like ours. I'm curious what your evolution was like on marriage equality. And what the federal government might be able to do to protect LGBTQ, Americans, especially trans kids who are dealing with all these regressive state laws that are popping up right now. I can remember exactly what my epiphany was. Okay. How do you thought much about it, tell you, Jews and I was a, I was a senior in high school. And my dad was dropping me off, and remember about to get out of the car and I looked to my right, and two well dressed men in suits, kissed each other. Give each other a kiss. And then one went, looked like he was heading to the department building, one looked like he has Hercules corporation building. And I never forget I turned and looked at my dad. He said, Joey, it's simple. They love each other. It's simple. No, I'm not joking. It's simple. They love each other. And it's never been, it's never been, it's just that simple. It doesn't matter whether it's whether it's same sex or heterosexual couple. You should be able to be married. What is the problem? So listen to your auntie and your uncle, get married. Do it now. Don't wait. Transgender kids is a really harder to think what's going on in Florida. This is my mother would say close to sinful. I mean, it just terrible what they're doing. It's not like, you know, a kid wakes up one morning and says, you know, I decided I want to become a man or I want to become a woman or I want to change.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"1961" Discussed on ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"If we keep this nonsense up. All right, I want to talk about this. This Mike Pence joke. It has taken on a life of its own. And I'm going to share with you the joke that Mike Pence told, and I want to give you some context. So every year, and they've been doing this for generations. There's something called the gridiron club, and every year they host a dinner and it's a time for the reporters and the politicians of all parties. Everybody gets together. They share a meal. It is raucous. It is a roast, and so they get up there and they tell horrible jokes about everybody, right? And the whole point is everybody laughs because the best jokes, there's a little nugget of truth in those jokes. And Mike Pence was invited to participate and to his credit he showed up, and again, there are no videos allowed, no recording devices allowed and it is a strict policy. Again, because of the nature of it, and it's important because you build camaraderie, and even though you may hate each other and your policies, you still get together and you can share a drink, share a meal and laugh at each other. We need that in Washington. So anyway, here's the joke that Pence told in it has set everybody off. He said when Pete Buttigieg's two children were born, he took too much maternity leave. Whereupon thousands of travelers were stranded at the airports, air systems shut down, airplanes nearly collided in midair. I mean, Pete Buttigieg is the only person in human history to have a child, and all the rest of us get postpartum depression. It's kind of a funny joke, right? That's not a knee slapper, but you know it's a good joke. Well, The White House is going nuts, and so is Pete Buttigieg's husband. Chastity, part of me. The White House press secretary, self declared lesbian, Karen Jean Pierre KJ, said the former vice president's homophobic joke about secretary Buttigieg was offensive and inappropriate all the more because he treated women, suffering from postpartum depression as a punchline. He should apologize to women and LGBTQ people who are entitled to be treated with dignity and respect. Now, booty judge's husband, a chance to talk, I keep chasing my apologies, Chastain. This guy is super sensitive. Delicate. He says an honest question for you, Mike Pence, after you're attempted to joke this weekend if your grandchild was born prematurely and placed on a ventilator for two months, their tiny fingers wrapped around yours as the monitors beep on the background, whereby you be. Jeez, hello. Take it down a few notches chastity. Chest. So look, vice president may not have been aware. There's an unwritten rule in woke America. You can make fun of heterosexual lawmakers. Have at it. But heaven help anybody who cracks a joke at a gay lawmaker. It is verbal. So it's not so much that booty judge is smug, it's that he doesn't have a sense of humor. Isn't that sad? And again, it's not like he was out there on the campaign trail, cracking this joke. But here's what I want to know, ladies and gentlemen, there are a lot of liberals in that crowd. I want to know how many of them laughed at the joke. Nobody's talking. 8 four four 747 88 68. Was that homophobic? This is the Tod story show..
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Caller: 'Autistic' Is Not a Way to Describe Donald Trump
"Actually just pick up my daughter who has autism, so I was running a little bit hot with respect to the use of that language. And I want to send too much time on it, but I'm reflected as well. I thought it was a kind of an outlier with respect to an adjective. That's not just a daughter. I don't think she's anything like Donald Trump. No, that's what I thought. I thought exactly what you thought. And that is, I think, even more offensive. In my estimation, I just don't get it. Right. And one other point I wanted to ask you about is you mentioned that and I voted for Donald Trump twice, I kind of moved away from his camp, but when you say he's not a rhino, do you think the Republicans are in any way, shape, or form, kind of responsible for this bloated budget problem that we currently have. I'm just curious because it seems like the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about. A 1000% Andrew, and this goes back multiple administrations. I would go back to George W. Bush, and they would they spent money like they were drunk Democrats. And nobody wants to address us. And I'll tell you something else at Andrew, we talk about the investigations into Biden and Hillary and Obama. They've been investigating for 5 years the Republicans have 5 years, and we've got nothing out of that. Absolutely nothing.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Donald Trump Likens Ron DeSantis to Mitt Romney
"By the way, president Trump yesterday talking about Ron DeSantis. It says, desantis reminds him of Willard Mitt Romney cut four. But you have to remember Ron was a disciple of Paul Ryan. Who is a rhino loser who currently is destroying Fox and would constantly vote against entitlements. He would just vote against remember that the wheelchair over the cliffs that Democrats used it, the wheelchair over the cliff commercial, very effective. That was about him. But Ryan Paul Ryan's a big reason that Mitt Romney, I'm not a big fan of Mitt Romney, lost his election. And to be honest with you, Iran reminds me a lot of Mitt Romney. So I don't think you're going to be doing so well here, but we're going to find out, but those are the facts. And those are the facts. Now, again, up front. And I think that's important. Apparently, we got a big problem with that now in the conservative movement. Nobody wants to be honest with their audience. So I'm just going to be as honest as I can possibly be. I'm throwing in with Donald Trump. I think the guy deserves a second chance. Got a raw deal. When you go back and when you look at all of the things that they accuse Trump of doing, it was all fabricated. It was all make believe and they wanted to taint him in your minds.
AP News Radio
Oscars 2023: How to watch the 95th Academy Awards today
"Since 1961, the red carpet at the Academy Awards is not red. It champagne colored. They're also will be a roof over it, not just in case of bad weather, but so that it looks like an evening event. While most of the country watched the Oscars at night, celebrities started arriving in Los Angeles at 3 p.m., Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel says he likes the look. I think the decision to go with a champagne carpet rather than a red carpet shows how confident we are that no blood will be shot. Speaking of Kimmel, this is his third time hosting the Oscars. He's only the 5th person to be a solo host at least three times, along with Bob Hope, Billy Crystal, Johnny Carson and Whoopi Goldberg, hope hosted or co hosted 19 times,
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Hall of Famer Bobby Hull, the Golden Jet, dies at 84
"He was known as the golden jet, a two time NHL MVP in three times scoring champion who helped the Chicago Blackhawks win the 1961 Stanley Cup. The team and the NHL alumni association have announced a death of Bobby holley. Hall played for Chicago for 15 seasons before signing hockey's first $1 million contract with Winnipeg in 1972. His son Bret hull said in a 2001 interview that his dad taught him that hockey was about more than money. It doesn't matter about salary or anything else. If you're not going to be happy where you are, then you're not going to be successful and the only thing that ever made him happy was winning. Hull was one of the most prolific forwards in NHL history, scoring 610 goals during his 16 year career. I'm Mike Hempen
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"1961" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Number of art pieces and other artifacts related to the game, including the headpiece of the San Diego chicken. And how do people visit, I know that during the pandemic, it wasn't open to the public and you had to make appointments for some time after that is that still the case because it looks like quite an extensive collection. I mean, if you want to share a little bit about the history of the institute for baseball studies, I know that there was some skepticism in the part of the administration initially about whether this was worthy of being an institute and being studied. But it has since quite come around. In 2012, Terry cannon approached me with the idea of Whittier college archiving the research materials that had been collected by the baseball reliquary, and I thought it was a great idea, so did two of my colleagues, Mike McBride and Charles Adams, and we pooled our interests and appealed to the administration to provide space for us to have basically a research room where we could display items, art and books for research by students and the public, and that the institute could basically provide a bridge between the college and the community and effective ways. Initially the administration thought that it was Joe price and his wacky ideas, going yet one step further. But we persevered and finally the administration allowed us to utilize a an out of the way room that had marvelous built in bookshelves and high ceilings so that we're able to display art that has been contributed to the reliquary and to the institute as well as now about
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"1961" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"All right, so we've got a guest. And our guest is somewhat Hall of Fame related. But very importantly, different from the Hall of Fame two. So I've mentioned on previous episodes that there are alternatives to the Hall of Fame. There are alternatives, if you will, will you? I don't know. Some people probably will. And some of them are very statistically based and are just sort of explicitly, you know, when people say about the hall, it's not the hall of stats. Well, there is a hall of stats. That's dot com, which we've talked to the founder, Adam dusky about, and there are things like the hall of merit at baseball think factory, you know, sort of more objectives, statistically based ways of having a Hall of Fame and recognizing baseball greatness. Because the Hall of Fame in cooperstown, it's kind of tough to pin it down. Is it the best baseball players? And how do you define who's the best? And that changes over time, and history is messy and if it were just tracking different eras and what people thought about who was the best baseball player in that era, that would be okay, but it's also inconsistent in other ways because there's all this cronyism and there are multiple methods and ways you can get in and then some people will say, well, it's the Hall of Fame and so fame is an important criterion, but it's not really, I mean, it's not explicitly like the voting instructions don't say just put in the most famous people, right? And so it's inconsistent and it can be sort of squishy and frustrating at times. And so I like these alternatives that are very clear about what their missions are, either we're putting in the guys with the best stats, or we're not, we're going to put in the guys who are famous or legendary in some way and are folk heroes, whether or not they had the best stats. And I think prime among those is the baseball reliquary, which is one of the only alternatives with an actual physical presence like the museum in cooperstown. And the baseball reliquary lists these criteria for election to the shrine of the eternals. First, the distinctiveness of play either good or bad, the uniqueness of character and personality. So that's kind of like the character clause except it's not good character. It's just the uniqueness of character personality. And finally, the imprint that the individual has made upon the baseball landscape. So that's all fairly subjective. But I think it allows room for people who don't fit into the formal Hall of Fame rubric and yet are still extremely important to baseball history and a lot of those are in the shrine of the eternals. So that's been around since the late 90s and we're going to talk to the current steward of the baseball reliquary and the shrine of the eternals, professor Joe price, who will also talk to us about his scholarship with baseball and religion and his prolific career
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"1961" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Probably not, yeah. And even the stats actually total zone baseball references pre DRS defensive metric has him during his peak years with the Giants at plus 16 overall at second base. So his big negative seasons were early in his career. And wait, when he was like, you know, late 30s or 40s. So I think during his prime, he was a perfectly cromulent defensive second baseman and obviously he was one of the better hitters at that position all time. So again, it's a reasonable Hall of Fame case. He was not like a total clunker out there. You weren't a total clunker. It's fine. Man. I come here not to bury Jeff Kent, but to not even to praise him either, but just to say he was pretty okay. He's pretty okay, you know? Okay, plagues, second base. So if he ends up in the Hall of Fame, that is fine. But really, you know, Jeff Kent and there were like 304 opportunities with aurelia on the field in Kent and no one else has more than 40, which is like Ramon Martinez or 46, I guess ray Durham. So he just didn't really have any other regular partners at least at the major league level. So it's kind of faint praise, I guess, when he's saying no one was better than Jeff Kent because he didn't have that many other double play partners and they weren't for the most part really elite defensive second baseman. But it is still technically true. Technically true. All right, and I guess we can do a past blast now before we get to our guest, we have a guest. I haven't mentioned that, but we do. But this is the inaugural pass blast provided by new past blaster and perhaps final pass plaster. We will see who will bring us up to the present day. David Lewis, so David Jacob ranky previous past blaster gave us a little summary of David last time. But David would like to be credited as an architectural historian and baseball researcher based in Boston. That's sort of sums it up in one line. But he's also in turn for saber and intern for the Hall of Fame and is a big history buff in general. So here is his first submission. And he headlined it Frick pitches the spit ball. So 1961, 40 years after outlying the spitball and 50 years prior to banning spider tech, Major League Baseball briefly considered reinstating the spitball as a legal pitch. In 1961, Roger Maris hit a record 61 home runs while his Yankees set the single season team record with 240 homers, following the season commissioner Ford C Frick supported a proposal to reduce the frequency of the long ball. In a New York Times article published on November 7th, 1961, Frick suggests that the spitball would bring an element of surprise back to baseball while lowering home run totals. Frick continued, quote, the most effective spitball is the one that the pitcher doesn't throw, the glove in front of the face routine that a pitcher goes through preparatory to throwing a spitball is just part of the psychology of throwing the batter off stride. More often than not in the old days, the pitcher never threw this bitter and David continues later that year at baseball's annual winter meetings, the proposal to legalize the spitball was introduced to the rules committee by White Sox traveling secretary Ed short, despite Frick's best efforts, the committee voted 8 to one in favor of sustaining the ban on the spit ball. So that's interesting to me. This may have come up in a previous podcast, but it's interesting to me just because we're always such prisoners of the moment and the offensive environment it seems we're always so reactionary. If a lot of homers are being hit, if there's a lot of offense, it's like, oh boy, what can we do? Should we bring back this pitfall if pitchers are too dominant? Let's ban this pitfall. It's always just sort of swinging wildly from one pole to another, and we never exactly decide what we want baseball to look like in any kind of formal way when it comes to the offensive environment. So it's always sort of ad hoc. It's like, oh, we got to make an adjustment here. We got to put our thumb on the scale. Let's unbanned this thing we previously banned her. It's been this thing, a new and we'll just sort of somehow try to find an equilibrium here. So it's funny because it's like the spitball is perfectly fine. It's sometimes and then like the pitchers get too good or it gets dangerous or whatever and it's like, oh, we gotta ban this thing and then the hitters have the upper hand. We gotta bring back the spit ball and then right after that, of course there was the pitcher's the pitcher era after they changed the strike zone and some other things. And then it's like, oh, well, we gotta change the strike zone back. And we gotta lower the mound and then we get to the 2020s and it's like too much sticky stuff in the pictures are too good. Let's ban all sorts of sticky stuff. Let alone the spit file. So it's always just kind of wildly pinging back and forth. It seems like. Yeah, yeah. Oh gosh. I don't know if there's like a, I don't know, rigorous way that we should do this. Like we should all just decide this is the ideal way. This is what we want the sport to look like. We'll all vote. We'll all have a say, and then we will sort of scientifically lab league and all the rest and figure out how to bring things into line with the specifications that we have decided on. I mean, I guess they're trying to do that now, but again, through what I was like offenses up and then it's like, oh, we need to bring back the shifts. I would not be surprised if that happens at some point in the future. Yeah. All right. Well, you can enjoy David's past blast stylings for the next 60 plus episodes, so 70, who knows? We'll see. And I will link to the various places that you can find him on Twitter and his website and so forth. He's on Twitter, Dee garf Lewis, and also he has a sub stack where he writes about baseball history, ballparks, sub stack dot
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"1961" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Eventually on how players were used and how games were managed and how pitching steps were constructed and maybe those things would have happened eventually anyway with the realizations about max effort pitching and times through the order and everything. But the safe set did sort of prompt a save situation, right? Right. You bring in certain pictures that save situations and certain pictures at other times. And that has been very rigid during some era. So I don't know. I welcome suggestions from you or anyone else of something that is equivalent to this in other sports. Oh gosh. I don't know, Ben. I don't know. I look forward to the emails giving us an obvious example, though. Right. Yeah, there are certainly times when there have been rules changes. I mean, there didn't used to be three pointers, right? So now there are three pointers and now shooting three pointers is all the rage, right? But that, well, it took a long time to introduce and that's, I don't know if that's exactly the same because that's a way you can score. I mean, that's sort of a fundamental difference in the sport whereas a save didn't actually change anything about how the game was played really. Saves retroactively or retrospectively to people who did not know a safe existed because it didn't yet and you can credit them with them if it fit the definition of a save. So it's not like the structure of the sport and the scoring rules change. It's just that we started crediting individual players with an accomplishment that previously they had not been credited with. So. I'm sure. I mean, I can think of rule changes, but they have on field immediate on field impact and do change the way that the game proceeds, right? Yeah, there have been certainly the shift to more advanced stats that has led to different contributions being valued in different ways, like in football people developing the idea that running backs are fungible, right? That kind of thing. So I guess you could say something like that, but. Right, but you don't go back in time and era adjust front yards, you know? Right. Yeah. And I don't know that I have a perfect equivalent to this. But I didn't know there was a hockey song, so. What do I know, Ben? What do I even know? Yeah, we're learning a lot during this segment. This is great. All right. Well, we welcome further submissions and suggestions. And lastly, we talked a little bit about Jeff Kent when we had Jeff Yun to discuss the Hall of Fame results last time. Just wanted to say a little more about Jeff Kent because Jeff Kent said a little more about Jeff Kent. And Jeff Kent, he's a little salty about how the voting went down in the fact that he was not elected and he's off the ballot now and he got up to what 46.5% support in fell off so he was well short of election even though he had made some strides recently. And I can see why he is upset about this and why he feels like he made it deserve some support because I think has written that when he saw Jeff Kent's jaws score initially he was surprised that Kent didn't come closer to the standards. And so I think if you feel like Jeff Kent is Hall of Fame, I think that's defensible and as we said with Jay, there's a good chance I think that he'll get in via the era committee. And if he does, I won't raise a big stink, you know, relative to other candidates who have gotten in that way. I think he is more qualified than some, certainly. Do you want to name him then? I will refrain from doing this time, but in the past. He has this winning stat, like the one special stat that I think helps to get you in, which is most home runs by a second baseman. And it's very specifically most home runs hit while playing second base, so not most home runs hit by anyone who has ever played second base or spent a minute. Yeah, you have to sort of parse it specifically. But he has that and when you hear that, you think, oh, well, how can you have the most home runs of any second basement ever? And not be in the hall, like it's sort of persuasive to a lot of people. And I think he falls short, ultimately, of the statistical standards at least because a, he played largely in a high offense era. So if you do do the era and park adjustments and everything, still a very good hitter, but perhaps not as elite as he might look otherwise. Right. And then, of course, he's not giving you a ton of ancillary value right. He's not giving you a lot of value in the field or on the basis and in fact may have subtracted value in the field, not that he's truly terrible at second base, but there were certainly times where he was hurting his teams with the glove, most likely. And there have been some responses to him not getting in people aggrieved about that. And a point that Joe Presley made in a recent edition of his newsletter is that people are sort of warping his case. You can construct a good on the level just intellectually honest, good faith case for Jeff Kent, but it gets distorted as it does for a lot of people sometimes, right? So John morosi, for instance, called him the greatest power hitting second baseman ever. And then others made even wackier claims, I think, Chris Carlin tweeted might be the greatest offensive second baseman of all time, and is certainly top three Adam shine tweeted that he's the best offensive second baseman ever. So people are extrapolating from most home runs hit as a second baseman to just best power hitting second baseman and just best offensive second baseman, which is pretty wild. I mean, he's not a better power hitter than, say, Rogers hornsby, for instance, or he's not a better offensive second baseman than Eddie Collins or Jackie Robinson or Joe Morgan or
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"1961" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Game. Holy good old hockey game is the best game you can name and the best game you can name just a good old hockey game so this is a song that was originally recorded or released in the 70s 50 years ago on the album stomp and Tom and the hockey song they began to play this game before Ottawa senators games in 1992 and then the coach of the Maple Leafs at the time pat burns. He had it be played at Toronto games too and so now it's played commonly all over the place in the U.S. and Canada in the NHL and European hockey, et cetera I think it's different in that there isn't always an exact set time that you play it. There are times that some teams play it but it's not like okay this period is over and so it's time for the hockey song and everyone knows. And it's not played everywhere, but this is a fairly close equivalent. This is like Michael a Taylor is to Byron buxton as the hockey song is to take me out to the ball game. So it's sort of exists. I feel embarrassed that we didn't know Ben. Yeah. I don't remember, you know, I have been to a grand total of two NHL games in my life and I didn't hear the hockey song at those. Yeah, you know, it's not ubiquitous and I've been to hockey games, but probably at the time when I was going to them mostly like when the rangers were good when I was a kid, the hockey song was not being played at that time in most places. But I want to recognize the hockey song belatedly. And new nominations, just a couple today. So here's one from Aaron Patreon supporter who says thinking about another way baseball is different from other sports. This is tied to the fact that there's no clock in baseball, which we have previously discussed. But compared to other team sports baseball is unique in its use of timeouts, both in number and duration. Basically, there is no limit and no set duration this has changed somewhat recently with the limit of mound visits and with the upcoming pitch clock rules, the pitcher stepping off the mound to reset or the batter being much less likely to call time if a pitcher is taking too long with the pitch clock now in place, but otherwise umpires raise both their arms to signify a timeout has been granted all the time, base runners call time out all the time, particularly after sliding into a base and unlike, say, basketball, which limits the time given to each team during the timeout, there's no set time between an umpire granting a player time and when the plate umpire points to the pitcher to resume play, even when a plate umpire goes to the pitcher's man to break up a man visit it is at the discretion of the umpire when to do that, there are no buzzers or horns from the press box to signify the timeout is over. So I think that's a pretty good point. It's definitely conforming more closely to other sports over time with some of these rules changes. But certainly historically speaking, that is true. Yeah, yeah, I think that that's a good one. Yeah, they're limits now, not just on the number of men visits, but also in the time that they're supposed to take. So yeah, there's no buzzer from the press box, but in theory, at least I think as of 2016, it's not supposed to exceed 30 seconds. On a mound visit and then you have a certain number of men visits. And of course, there was always the regulation or for a long time. The regulation about how you can only make one round visit in an inning before removing the pitcher. So there have been some limitations, but especially the even less formal types of timeouts where it's just like I want to step out of the box for a second or I want to adjust my Jack strapper, I want to get some resin on my hands or whatever it is. It's very kind of casual. It's just like, yeah, yeah, sure. Yeah, you want to time out here. Take a little time out. Well, and then when the time is sort of winding down and they really ought to return to play, it takes the form of like, don't you want to be done now? I am out here and linger in the periphery of your little group hang and then at some point it might be like, all right, all right, let's get back to it. Yeah, so just as baseball is maybe the most profit gets for it when it comes to using equipment and equipment turnover and the ball replacing the ball so often sort of the same with handing out that it's true. And I guess that does go hand in hand with the lack of the clock because if there is no big countdown clock, then there's less pressure to say no, you can't have a timeout now. There have been various crackdowns at times and people being more or less likely to award the timeout when there's a mandate from the commissioner's office to speed things up, for instance. But often it's just kind of, it's based on feel and sure you married a timeout right now. Take your time. Take your time. And the other nomination that we have, this is friend whenever I listeners in France, Sebastian, who says, I don't think it has been mentioned so far in your new recurring bit, but one thing that strikes me as unique is the save stat, I fail to see any other example in sports in which creating a statistic led to a complete change of in game tactics, especially with it sometimes being counterproductive. Zach britton says salute, hitting for a cycle or the triple double in basketball are quite rare and sell them backfire anyway. So he's pointing not to the save stat specifically or what it represents, but just the fact that once the saves stat was introduced and popularized, it really had a dramatic effect eventually on how players were used and how games were managed and how pitching steps were constructed and maybe those things would have happened eventually anyway
AP News Radio
Brighton thrashes Liverpool 3-0 in EPL
"Brightness 7th in the EPL and 5 points from the Champions League cut off, following the three zero route of struggling Liverpool. After a scoreless first half, the seagulls took control on goals by Sully march in the 46th and 53rd minutes. March also had a penalty kick attempt called back due to an offsides call late in the first half. Back up Danny walbeck closed the scoring as bright and searched ahead of Liverpool, which fell to 9th with its 6th loss of the season. It was Brighton's first home win over the red since 1961. I'm Dave ferry.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Mark Shaw and Eric Discuss the Shady Dealings of the Kennedy Clan
"1960, Joseph Kennedy, the father of JFK, RFK, teddy Kennedy. He had been a bootlegger. He had been involved with dark forces during prohibition, so he has these connections. He wants his son to be elected president. He makes a deal with these old colleagues. And as you just said, basically says, if you help me to get my son elected president, I will leave you alone. Exactly. And so then I had an eyewitness who was right at breakfast where Joe ordered JFK to a point Bobby Kennedy attorney general. And you can just imagine the reaction from those mafioso had helped him get in The White House because Bobby Kennedy during the mcclellan hearings, which were those racketeering Harry earrings years earlier, had gone after all those guys. James hoffa, Carlos Marcello, traffic Conte, all the Mickey Cohen, all of them. So they were alarmed and they should have been because one of the first things in 1961 that Bobby did was go after Marcelo, who was the New Orleans Don worth millions and millions of dollars, racketeering, prostitution, all kinds of things. This is a 100% classic portrayal like out of a movie. You make a deal with the mob and as soon as JFK appoints his brother, which is its own bizarreness, but appoints his brother. Everyone knows his brother RFK hates the mob and is going to go after them. So at that moment, you have big trouble brewing because as far as I know, the mob doesn't like to be double crossed.
AP News Radio
AP Sports SummaryBrief at 8:19 p.m. EDT
"2 million bucks That's what an auction house is offering to the fan who caught Aaron judges American League record 62nd home run on Tuesday night The president of memory lane incorporated told the AP on Wednesday that he has texted an email Corey humans who caught judges milestone chat at global life field in Arlington Texas Humans grabbed a historic souvenir on the fly as it sailed into the front row of section 31 in left field Judge topped the old mark of 61 home runs set by Roger Maris in 1961 The three American leaguers to hit at least 60 home runs have all been Yankees I'm Dave ferry
AP News Radio
Aaron Judge home run watch: Tracking the Yankees slugger in 2022
"Aaron judge's pursuit of 61 home runs remain one shy as the Yankees beat the Red Sox 7 to 5 Anthony Rizzo broke a 5 5 tie in the 7th when he hit a two run shot marking his 32nd home run of the season Judge went zero for three as he continued to try and match Roger Maris 1961 record and the slugger showed some frustration during the game The manager Aaron Boone didn't think the situation was getting the better of him I don't think that's unusual for him either That's like you know when DJ collapses hands at second you say DJ showing a rare emotion he does it all the time The Red Sox are on a four game skid and likely headed to their second losing season in three years Krishna
AP News Radio
Aaron Judge home run watch: Tracking the Yankees slugger in 2022
"In glaber tours hit a pair of home runs in the 8th as the Yankees routed the pirates 14 to two Luis severino through 5 innings in his first start since July 13th and slugger Aaron judge remained one Homer shy of hitting his 61st home run of the year and tying Roger Maris 1961 home run record The spectacle drew a sellout crowd to The Bronx but the added spotlight hasn't changed anything for judge the Yankee star set after the game Yankee Stadium gets rowdy so it's been right these past couple days and this is just how it is The pirates dropped their 6 consecutive game as they fell to 55 and 94 on the year Krishna Arnold New York
AP News Radio
Yangtze shrinks as China's drought disrupts industry
"Factories in the area that rely on hydropower reservoirs were ordered to shut its water levels fell to below half their normal amounts Local resident Chen how fei said that without air conditioning the summer would have been unbearable We can not live through this summer without air conditioning the water used to reach the river bank but see now it's retreated to where it used to be the middle of the river River ferries in Chongqing that are usually packed with tourists were empty and tied up on the city streets normally bustling areas were desolate after temperatures here to a 113° State media said that was a hottest in China outside of the country's desert region since official records began in 1961 I am Karen Chammas
The Doug Collins Podcast
When JFK Took Office, We Were Not Winning the Space Race
"The space race was something that was we were not winning. When a Kennedy came into office, we were not winning the space race. In fact, we were behind to Russia in the space race. Yuri Gagarin's space flight in the 12th of April in 1961 was a major embarrassment for John Kennedy because he was just, I mean, just a few months after the inaugural space that we have talked about here on the podcast, this is when it happens. And until that point, he had frankly Kennedy had not taken the space race very seriously. But he was shocked at the global response to Russia's triumph. They became an even more heightened sense of paranoia. Is Russia going to do a space? Are we safe anymore? Is Russia going to take over? All of this was part of the calculus when he first came in, was coming into office and then is this progressed. With all the other issues that he had going on, this presented a problem that he wanted to fix, we're going to talk about it here in a little bit more. How he began to look at he began to set The White House in motion to our space program to build it up to make it not only ahead of the Russians, but actually accomplish things.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Gordon Chang on the Rapid Decline of US-China Relations
"Give us the update from the anchorage summit to today, have things improved with regards to U.S. Sino relations. Are they static? Have they gotten worse? Give us an update, Gordon. They've gotten much worse. And the reason is that the Chinese have become much more aggressive. From anchorage, which was March of last year, we have gotten a series of propaganda blasts from Beijing around the fall of Afghanistan in August, where they're very clear and they're very open about it. And over the last couple of weeks, we have heard the Chinese say things and we've heard the and we've seen the Chinese do things which show utter disrespect for the United States. So we're at a point where deterrence is broken down and this is exceedingly dangerous. Perhaps the most dangerous times in our lives. And you know, people will look back at the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 or the checkpoint Charlie crisis of 1961 and say those look more dangerous. And yes, they did. But we also know now from the archives that both Kennedy and khrushchev knew that they would never start a nuclear exchange. We don't know what Xi Jinping thinks about using his most destructive weapons. This, I think, is more dangerous than 61 and
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Robert Wilkie on Donald Trump's 'Real American Leadership'
"Secretary Robert wilkie, welcome back to America professor. Thank you. You love you clearly have a passion for history, not just national security. As we were prepping for this show, you talked about this funny story about general Montgomery that you can share with us later. But let's go straight to the heart of the matter. It's been four weeks of war in Europe right now. I was on a British TV show at the weekend. And a conservative outlet. But one of the guests used this trope about president Trump that he was so crazy and unpredictable. My retort was, there was nothing crazy and there was nothing unpredictable. He said America first secure the border treat our allies friends and our enemies as enemies, which is what he did. So talk to us about the importance and I know you've been responding to the rally on news. Talk to us about the importance of personality in real politics. So let me just say why president Trump was in the mainstream of real American leadership. President Trump told the Europeans you have a GDP that's equal to the United States, your population is a little larger. You have lived under the good graces of the American people for 75 years. You have to pull your own weight. John Kennedy admonished de Gaulle and Aden hour. Back in 1961, he said you are living off the fat of the land. American land. So this is the president and the German Chancellor. Richard Nixon said we did not. We did not win World War II, to provide Europeans with two annual vacations. Donald Trump was in the mainstream of that thought. And this is why your point is so well taken. This is a serious business. It requires steel spine and that sounds trite. But aggressors know when they are facing someone who, yes, unpredictability in the mind of your enemy. Because of what you're doing, is essential.
Mark Levin
An Excerpt From Daniel J. Boorstin's 'The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America'
"Remember this fellow by the name of borstein that I mentioned to you he was a professor at the University of Chicago He became the director of the Library of Congress Well he was a brilliant man Brilliant man and he wrote in 1961 a book called the image a guide to pseudo events in America I've mentioned this but it's worth reiterating He says we need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaper man We used to believe there were only so many events in the world If it were not many intriguing and startling consequences it wasn't the fault of the reporter He could not be expected to report what did not exist Within the last hundred years remember he wrote this in 61 It would be the last 160 years We expect the papers to be full of news There's no news visible to the naked eye or to the average citizen We still expect it to be there for the enterprising newsman The success report is one who can find a story even if there is no earthquake or assassination or Civil War if he can not find a story that he must make one By the questions he has of public figures by the surprising human interest he unfolds from some commonplace event or by the so called news behind the news of all this fails and he must give us a think piece and embroidering of well-known facts or speculation about startling things to come He called this synthetic novelty Which has flooded our experience That being pseudo events Phony events concocted manufactured events
Everything Everywhere Daily
"1961" Discussed on Everything Everywhere Daily
"Podcast. And when it's ready. I'll let you know as i mentioned in the introduction. The us figure skating team was doing quite well in the early. Nineteen sixty s at the nineteen sixty olympics in squaw valley. California david jenkins took home the gold medal in the men's competition. Carol heiss took the gold and barbara roles took the bronze in the women's competition. And the husband and wife team of nancy and ronald wellington took the bronze-medal impairs figure skating given the strict amateur eligibility rules back then. Most athletes in olympic sports didn't stick around after achieving some success. They could make any real money competing and they usually had to go get a real job. The team going into the nineteen sixty one world championships was on a par with the nineteen sixty olympic team. The us championships took place from january. Twenty fifth to january twenty ninth nineteen sixty one in colorado springs bradley. Lord won the men's competition. Laurence owen won the women's competition in meribel owen. Her sister and w richards won the pairs competition. Diane share bloom. And larry pierce on the ice dancing competition the top three competitors in each division qualified for the world championships which were to be held a month. Later in prague. Starting on february twenty-second the. Us team traveled to prague. Is a group. There were thirty. Four members of the united states contentioned. Eighteen competitors six coaches the team manager to judges irreparably in six family members. The team flew on sabena flight. Five forty eight so being a was the belgian national airline ended operated until two thousand and one. The airplane was a boeing seven. Oh seven three twenty nine. The 707 had been put into service only eight months before the trip and up to that point and at a perfect safety record the flight had sixty one passengers and eleven crew on board with. Us team making up over half the people the flight left. New york's idlewild airport in the evening before and idyllwild was the name of the airport before it was called. Jfk the entire flight over the atlantic went without incident and neither are the pilots. Both military veterans reported any.
Everything Everywhere Daily
"1961" Discussed on Everything Everywhere Daily
"In one thousand nine hundred ninety one. The united states figure skating team was one of the top programs in the world the year before nineteen sixty olympics. They took gold in both the men's and women's competitions then on february fifteenth nineteen sixty one. The team suffered a terrible catastrophe..
WBUR
"1961" Discussed on WBUR
"I have to say that this 1961 recording is an extraordinary recording. You sound so great on it. And particularly, you think that 17 years old or 16 years old? So in fact, I think we should listen. Did some of this recording 1961 Fury records Gladys Knight and the Pips. Let's hear it. Oh, my goodness. Mm. Any very You with my B for you every Hostal. Why there's a tongue. You know my come to say she you're my inspiration. And everything I do for you. Mhm. Does it make.
Classic Movie Musts
"1961" Discussed on Classic Movie Musts
"His academy award performance and the participation of such major stars as burt lancaster. Richard with mark but beyond the work of the cast. What makes judgment at nuremberg essential. Viewing it certainly. Abby man's script that deserves much of the credit by providing a structure and a tone that not only fosters moral contemplation but ample opportunities for dramatic conflict and the motion picture academy recognized the steering contributions of a very experienced in creative talents behind the camera. Nevertheless critical opinion of the film varies greatly. There are those who praise its thematic intentions and kramer's courage in going after an unpopular subject based on highly unpleasant realities while pointing out. It's failures purely as cinema. Not least of which is excessive length and some flashy but pointlessly ineffective camera work a shortcoming that even kramer admitted ultimately what makes judgment at nuremberg worth seeing and a notable addition to film. History is its status. The supreme example of the type of cinema that stanley kramer represented and stroh four throughout most of his career films. With something to say now. It's time for our buzz from the back. Lot segment and marlon brando wanted to play the role of hans. Rolf the german lawyer who defends the german judges brando in a rare attempt to garner the part actually approached director stanley kramer about it all. Oh kramer and screenwriter. Abby mann were very intrigued with the idea of having an actor of brando's talent and stature in the role. Both were so impressed with maximilian shells portrayal of the same part in the original television broadcast that they had decided to stick with the relatively unknown. Shell who later won an oscar for the very role watching maximilian. Shell shoot a scene. One day spencer. Tracy said to richard would mark. We've got to watch out for that young man. He's very good. He's going to walk away with the oscar for this picture and that is of course exactly what happened. Maximilian shells oscar. For best actor makes him the lowest build lead category winner in history. he is bill fifth after spencer. Tracy burt lancaster. Richard mark and marlene dietrich. The song whose meaning mrs berthold explains to judge hayward when they walked past a pub while people in their sing it is called lili marlene. The song was popular with german and british forces during the war and it was actually recorded by marlene dietrich herself in the nineteen forties and nineteen fifties. Montgomery clift had a habit of cutting his hair very short when he was in between films and would not work until it had grown back in fact. His scene in the film was shot right after. Getting one of those haircuts on judy garland's first day on the set cast and crew greeted her with warm and lasting applause. It was a welcome return to films for her and her mood was further elevated by the lower pressure of acting in a cameo rather than carrying a picture as she had done in almost every film since childhood still. Her joyful attitude made it difficult for her to perform her dark emotional scenes dammit stanley. I can't do it. She said i've dried up. I'm too happy to cry. He gave her a ten minute break. Before continuing to great effect and stanley kramer went on to say that. There's nobody in the entertainment world today actor or singer who can run the complete range of emotions from uttar pathos to power the way. That judy garland. Can.
Classic Movie Musts
"1961" Discussed on Classic Movie Musts
"Unlike garland clift worked steadily through the nineteen fifties in spite of his addictions and a near fatal car accident. That damaged his handsome face. One source claims that clift was originally considered for the role of the prosecuting attorney. Played by richard would mark but he chose this cameo instead clift reportedly told columnists sydney skull sqi to be. An actor is to play any part larger small. That has something important to say. Kramer offered him one hundred thousand dollars to do the role other sources say that cliffs agents at mci were sent the script for the part of the labor and they asked for two hundred thousand dollars which was his fee on his previous picture. The misfits cliff was so eager for the part he offered to do it for expenses only and no salary since a single scene and can be filmed in one day. He said i strongly disapproved of taking an astronomical salary. I felt it was more practical to do it for nothing rather than reduce my price or refuse a role. I really wanted to play. Cliffs deal didn't turn out to be such a reasonable break for the production budget since his expenses included an open tab for him and his friends at the bel-air hotel chauffeured transportation and all the liquor he wanted. When clift showed up at the judgment at nuremberg set. His appearance was rather disturbing hair badly. Cropped nervous uncomfortable and apparently at the end.
Classic Movie Musts
"1961" Discussed on Classic Movie Musts
"He decided would be his sole director for the remainder of his career. Not a bad endorsement. For kramer and for tracy. It was a guarantee of roles that would add to his carved in stone image as these solid decent liberal minded american. His judge dan hayward in judgment at nuremberg was perhaps the apotheosis of that image judgment at nuremberg delivered on a frequent expectation. Spencer tracy's film roles powerful along speeches frequently captured in single takes that usually state the film's themes and ideas as political or intellectual arguments. One such early example is the radio harangue his character. A presidential candidate gives at the end of state of the union in nineteen forty. Eight as the clarence darrow. Inspired character in stanley kramer's inherit the wind. Tracy gives a single take jury summation that lasts ten minutes. Well he beats his own record in judgment at nuremberg with a courtroom speech that lasts nearly fourteen minutes on the day. That tracy gave his fourteen minutes summation speech. The set at universal pictures was packed to the rafters with celebrities studio executives. Kramer shot this scene in a single take. Not because he thought breaking it up would necessarily lessen the impact of the words but because he knew he would get the maximum emotional payoff out of tracy without having to start and stop to be sure he had the coverage he needed without scheduling. Re-shoot kramer had the speech filmed with two cameras simultaneously from two different angles. Despite being ill with a kidney ailment and other problems exacerbated by his long standing alcoholism tracy agreed to go to germany for exterior location shooting and even worked hard when he returned to the studio set in hollywood katherine hepburn was reportedly with him throughout the production. Keeping an eye on him and caring for him tracy's biggest fear was that he would not be able to remember his lines. Kremer made special arrangements in the shooting schedule to keep tracy from getting tired such as agreeing to a contract stipulation. The actor would finish work promptly at five o'clock every day. Tracy dropped his no work after five rule for maximilian. Shell staying on the set during the shooting of shells big summation speech so that he could deliver his lines to tracy as the presiding judge. Tracy loved abby man's script and was adamant about his fellow cast members performing exactly as written. He complained to man angrily. That marlene dietrich was having billy wilder rewrite all.
Classic Movie Musts
"1961" Discussed on Classic Movie Musts
"Montgomery clift. Best actor spencer. Tracy best director stanley kramer and best picture. Now let's get into our feature presentation producer. Director stanley kramer's critical reputation has not whether well over the years. Even in his heyday in the nineteen fifties and sixties. He inspired diverging opinions about his importance as a filmmaker and it was often less than laudatory in a biographical dictionary of film. For example david thomson wrote of kramer's output quote at worst. They are among the most tedious and dispiriting productions. The american cinema has to offer and the best that andrew sarah's could say in his landmark work on autour theory. The american cinema was quote. He has been such an easy and willing target for so long that his very ineptness has become encrusted with tradition. With such a drubbing. One would have expected kramer and his work to have long since fallen into deep obscurity. Yet the films which drew the participation of some of the finest talents in hollywood both in front of and behind the camera continue to garner interest and inspire debate. The reason may have to do with kramer's standing as what andrew sarah's called the most extreme example of thesis or message cinema even those who slammed kramer for a lack of cinematic artistry have noted his persistence and willingness to risk all in taking on what were daring or controversial subjects racism in the defiant ones from nineteen fifty eight nuclear holocaust on the beach from fifty nine censorship and the intolerance of fundamentalism in inherit the wind in sixty and interracial marriage. And guess. Who's coming to dinner from sixty seven. The war crimes trials held in germany after world. War two particularly those of the judges who carried out the most extreme nazi laws against innocent victims was first dramatized on live television in abby man's penetrating script it was a subject tailor made for kramer and he threw himself into it. Despite the indifference of the studios and the general feeling that in an era when germany was an important ally against the soviet expansion this was a subject better left untouched. He may not have been the critics darling. But few directors at the time could have forged ahead with such a project along the way he gathered a powerhouse cast and award winning production team proving that more than one person had ample faith in kramer to help boost judgment and nuremberg's chances of getting studio backing promotion and profitable release producer and director. Kramer set about assembling an all star cast. A task made easier by having in spencer. Tracy a universally admired and respected actor. That many performers were eager to work with noted stars such as burt lancaster. Richer win mark. Marlene dietrich. we're willing to take smaller roles. In an ensemble to be part of the project that for various reasons they believed in strongly even though his aim was for bigger names. Kramer decided to cast relative unknown. Maximilian shell on the strength of his performance. As defense attorney hans rolf in the television version three other players were also retained from the tv production including werner klemperer as one of the judges at the very top of kramer's list was spencer tracy by nineteen sixty one. The grand old man of american cinema and the actor of his generation most respected by audiences and colleagues alike having recently received his seventh academy award nomination for kramer's inherit the wind the aging and ill spencer tracy jumped at the chance to work with the man..
Classic Movie Musts
"1961" Discussed on Classic Movie Musts
"A classic movie all looking to provide artistic insight and historical context at very least we'll talk about what makes these movies classics. Classic movie must release his every friday. Ready to complementary weekend movie viewing plans. Thank you for joining me this week as we discuss judgment at nuremberg in this episode in our feature presentation we are gonna talk about stanley kramer's complicated legacy and how it applies to this film and in our buzz from the back lot segment. We've got the usual trivia from the sets but first let's get into our opening credits. Thank you for joining me. This week as we discuss judgment at nuremberg which was directed by stanley kramer and was released in nineteen sixty one judgment at nuremberg stores. Spencer tracy and features burt lancaster. Richard would mark maximilian. Shell marlene dietrich. Montgomery clift and judy garland judgment and nuremberg centers on a military tribunal convened in nuremberg germany. In which four german judges and prosecutors stand accused of crimes against humanity for their involvement in atrocities committed under the nazi regime. Judge dan hayward is the chief judge of the three judge panel of allied jurists. Who will hear and decide. The case against the defendants hayward is particularly interested in trying to learn how the defendant ernst janning could have committed the atrocities of which he is accused including the sentencing of innocent people to death. Yawning it is revealed is a well educated. An internationally respected jurist and legal scholar hayward seeks to understand how the german people could have turned blind eyes and deaf ears to the crimes of the nazi regime in doing so. He befriends the widow of a german general who had been executed by the allies. He talks with the number of germans who have different perspectives on the war. He meets us. Army captain buyers who is assigned to assist the american judges. Hearing the case and irene hoffman. Who is afraid to provide testimony. That may bolster the prosecution's case against the judges german defense attorney hans. Roth argues that the defendants were not the only ones to aid. Or at least term blind eyes to the nazi regime. He also suggest. The united states has committed acts. Just as bad or worse than those that the nazis perpetrated. He raises several points in these arguments. Such as us supreme court justice oliver wendell holmes junior support of the first eugenics practices the german vatican to that of nineteen thirty three which the nazi dominated german government exploited as an implicit early foreign recognition of nazi leadership..
The Next Picture Show
"1961" Discussed on The Next Picture Show
"Maria falling each other after shared glance across the dance floor set everybody up for tragedy but while they're doomed love story is familiar and age-old the setting around them still feels relevant modern even with all its nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties. Trappings the way the jets and the sharks have more in common with each other than with the adults around them the way the instantly fall into comfortable camaraderie whenever the local cops turn up is darkly funny and immensely telling so as the way the jets sing in an idol moment. About how the law social workers and psychiatrists judge their juvenile delinquency. They accurately point at the neglect and abuse that. Turn them all out on the streets but they mock it as possibly a root cause for who they are. West side story certainly isn't a shocking today as it was in nineteen fifty seven or in nineteen sixty one bernstein's lurching score and screaming. Strings are familiar to us by al lat next rhythms dancing a regular part of mainstream culture instead of foreign feeling exotica an age of constant mass shootings the juvenile delinquent run amok plot seems almost innocent given how nervous both the jets and the sharks are about real weapons and possibility of real bloodshed. But the film's still feels relevant in some ways if robbins was making it today it's still have plenty relevant clippings to pin to that call board this time about drive by shootings and racist policing the scene where a prejudiced police lieutenant unloads as bil- and the sharks knowing that they can't fight back and they sullenly. Leave the area sarcastically whistling my country tis of the feels raw now as it did back then and the romeo and juliet plot where two people want to be together and their communities. Hold them back. We'll have some resonance in every age. The end of west side story still doesn't feel like it belongs to a broadway stage but it does feel like it belongs on the screen. Where tragic endings have always been welcome and sometimes audiences expect to walk out after the credits roll crying rather than singing. This episode is.
The Next Picture Show
"1961" Discussed on The Next Picture Show
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