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AP News Radio
Def Leppard drummer recovering from attack outside hotel
"Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen says he's recovering from an attack earlier this month outside of Florida hotel. I Norman hall. Rick Allen, who was in South Florida to perform a show at the Seminole hard rock hotel and casino was attacked while taking a smoke break outside the four seasons hotel on Fort Lauderdale beach, police arrested a 19 year old man, but said they don't have a motive for the attack. Police said the assailant was hiding behind a column outside the hotel and ran at Allen knocking him to the ground, according to the police report, a woman saw Alan fall and ran to help him. The man then attacked her. He was arrested on charges, including abusing an elderly or disabled adult, Allen lost his left arm in an accident in 1984. I Norman hall
The Charlie Kirk Show
"Get Trump," No Matter the Cost With Alan Dershowitz
"Indicate that this week, Donald Trump will be arrested in New York. No better guests to help us talk about how this is outrageous, then the author of the book get Trump the threat to civil liberties due process and our constitutional rule of law, Alan Dershowitz, New York number one, New York Times Best Seller. Professor Dershowitz, welcome back to the program. Well, you have to admit my timing is pretty good. This book was did you guys did you have an inside source or something at the DA's office and you just timed it up with publication date? No, I just know who the DA is and that he wanted his 15 minutes of fame, but I didn't know when he would indict. You know, ironically, this is the weakest of the four cases that they're investigating against Trump. The weakest politically, the weakest legally, the weakest factually, and yet Bragg wants to be the first out there. Hopefully he's going to think of trying to get money for reelection from George Soros. But in any event, this is one of the weakest cases I've ever seen in my 60 years of practicing law. You know, they work for months and months and months and months and went through every statute and they produced a mouse called Mickey. This is a Mickey Mouse case.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Political Implications of a Donald Trump Arrest
"Another piece of tape here. Cut ten Fox News says, a lot of times this happens in lawsuits play cut ten. Oftentimes, as attorneys, we can get sucked into the idea that this is about wins and losses and begin to try to figure out who would win a case when often what's happening is a lawsuit serves its own purpose, either it moves you towards a settlement or in this case it has its own political implications as well. Just in the pursuit of understanding those political implications. On Tuesday, there will probably be photos of president Donald Trump in handcuffs. And that has its own political fallout. You also brought up the timeline. Even if Trump were to win, how long would that take? Because that then impacts his run for president. How is this not election interference? How is it not direct and complete election interference of Donald Trump running for the presidency? They don't care because the rules don't apply to them.
The Charlie Kirk Show
People Are Mad and They Should Be
"Fair amount of emails from you. People are mad. And you should be. And I think there's also a mixture, a combination of anger and helplessness. And I feel that. And I see that. And that's one of the most frustrating places to be in, right? Because you're really angry about something and you feel as if you're nothing but a spectator. I was getting texts all weekend Charlie, what can we do? Charlie, what can we do? Now, if I were to just offer a recommendation, instead of protesting the streets and all that, which is not exactly helpful in some ways. It's fine if you want to do it. Just be very careful to be peaceful and don't allow federal agents as agitators in there. I think you should do something like we should just all fly our flags upside down for a couple of days. Something like that that could be easily done millions of people do it. It would be, it would be a very powerful, but that doesn't do much, right? That's something that should be done. But I understand the kind of combination. Of helplessness and total and complete anger.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Something Has Happened in America...
"Has happened in America where we can call it the left, but it's really the anti American left. This is not good liberals like Alan Dershowitz or Naomi wolf or whoever you want to mention. People that love America that love truth and justice and the American way. No, these are people that are at war with the freedoms and the ordered liberty for which patriots have died through the centuries. They are at war with America and they have taken control of certain institutions much of it, I guess, backed by George Soros, who isn't actually Satan, but they're good friends. And the fact of the matter is this is happening in America. And if we don't stand against it and recognize it for what it is, it's the abrogation of America. The founder's vision of justice for all when it happens on this level, I kind of, what I find funny, Sean, is it's sort of like, you know, it's like watching an old wildlife film or something and these two animals are battling it out. And the level of desperation has just gone code red that they would do this shows that they don't care if they burn down the house. They just can not bear the idea that Trump might be the next president. So they will do they will do the kind of thing that it's just impossible for us to comprehend that anyone would do, but we're kind of there. In other words, they've done a number of these sorts of things. And they have inured or they're trying to endure the American public to increasingly extreme action. So
AP News Radio
Senators are grilling the Norfolk Southern CEO over the East Palestine rail disaster
"The chief executive of Norfolk Southern railroad will have an apology when he attends a Senate hearing today. CEO Alan Shaw says in prepared remarks to the Senate committee on environment and public works that he's deeply sorry for the impact the train derailment has had on the community of east Palestinian Ohio. No one was injured in the crash, but stayed in local officials decided to release and burn toxic vinyl chloride from 5 tanker cars, prompting the evacuation of about half the roughly 5000 residents. Now people in the community say they're
The Breakdown
What the Silvergate Death Spiral Means for the Crypto Industry
"So today we're going to dig into not only why silvergate is crashing, but how it got to this point, and what its death spiral means for the industry. Let's start at the beginning. Silvergate bank is a medium sized crypto friendly bank based in California. For most of its 30 year history, silvergate was a tiny community bank focused on financing smaller real estate deals. It had only three branches and less than $1 billion in bank assets. In 2016, under the leadership of CEO Alan lane, the bank pivoted to providing banking services to crypto firms. Ben Reynolds silvergate president, who is hired to oversee this change in business strategy said, we need to deposit an Allen started seeing that companies like coinbase were getting kicked out of banks. So the idea was, if we can bank coinbase, we can find deposits. Allen went to the Federal Reserve and said we want to provide basic banking services to Bitcoin companies and they said okay. Over the next 6 years, silvergate downsized its existing business banking and real estate teams to lean heavily into crypto. In 2016, the bank had only 20 crypto clients, including paxos and bit fury, but this number grew to over 1000. This rapid expansion in dealing with the early crypto industry came with a large increase in compliance risk and overhead. According to anonymous sources speaking with Financial Times, silvergate had to hire twice as many compliance staff as comparable banks of its size. Waiting times for compliance checks on new customers ballooned out to 6 months. One of FT's sources said quote, when they got into it, crypto was this little new thing, and I think they didn't realize it would take off as fast as it did. So then they put all their chips in that direction, it ran away from them, it got very big very quickly. Now part of the reason that silvergate were able to achieve such a prominent position in the crypto ecosystem was the launch of their silvergate exchange network or sen in 2017. Said enabled crypto firms to immediately transfer U.S. dollars to other account holders at silvergate, 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Funds would be cleared near instantly and could be used immediately. While this feature might not have an obvious use case for the average retail trader, for large crypto funds this opened up the possibility of conducting arbitrage trades across exchanges at a much faster speed, while also allowing funds held on exchanges to be topped up after hours or on weekends.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Chris Rufo Rejects the "Don't Go to College" Argument
"Did you see Christopher ruffo's take on college? It's obviously something I'd love to get your opinions on. Thanks so much, aha. This is a great I actually hadn't looked at the tweets till now. Okay, the conservative don't go to college meme is a mistake Christopher rufo says, driven by a sense of fatalism and inferiority. The right attitude is to quote make colleges better so we can send our children to the kind of institution, they deserve. I think Christopher ruffo is a special person, but I think he's totally wrong here. And smart people can disagree. So, and I actually had this, I had a robust conversation about this with Dennis prager and Allen estrin from prager university Dennis and I were speaking at Arizona state university together. And I'll kind of give you an update on that because that was that was really interesting and illuminating in some regards. So Alan and I got to talking and Alan is a very learned man and Dennis is beyond a learned man. And he prompted all three of us were talking out of nowhere. I said, Alan, what is the solution he said? It's very simple and he's a very stoic and he's very serious. Burn it all down. I was like, what? Like, I agree, obviously. He said, you just got to burn it to a crisp. There is no redeeming value to these institutions. And I mean, it's not a shock. I sympathize with that sentiment. However, here's and I do outline this in my book, the college scam. You guys can check it out in great detail. What's been interesting as a side note to the publication of my book, I have not had a snobbish response to my book the college scam. The maga doctrine tons of snobbery of responding. Campus battleground a ton of snobbery time for a turning point. You know, all these kind of people. Interestingly enough, the college scam was just largely ignored.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"alan d" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"You. I think boebert and company are heroic for having held his feet to the fire. That's another conversation. The larger conversation to me is you're looking for people to have what is called courage, integrity, principles, and it seems like, you know, the folks that you're mentioning, I mean, for Joe Biden and I actually don't know who. Who do you think is actually the president who's running the presidency? Because I can not, in the most generous part of me, the most gracious moment of my life, I can not imagine that Biden is actually running this country. Well, here we're going to disagree. I thought his speech yesterday State of the Union message was what I expected, not articulate, not brilliant, but he later laid out an image for America, which I generally approve of. And he tried hard and most of the time, and most of the speech to bring people together at some point, see deviated. And but, you know, he's the president. He was legitimately elected. I plan to vote for him again if he runs against Donald Trump. I don't know who I would vote for. If the lineup were different, but you know, I am not a dino. I am not just a Democrat name only. I believe in most of the principles of the Democratic Party. And I can't buy it by the platform of the Republican Party. Except on some issues. On some issues, I agree with there are Republicans more than the Democrats. That's what nuances. I had a piece in the New York Daily News just two or three days ago called the death of nuance. How nobody wants to talk about on the one hand and on the other hand. We are. And that's what America is about on the one hand on the other hand. I'm horrified to say we're out of time. I would love to have you back just to talk about all these things. It's a joy to know that you're out there. Very grateful for you, Alan Dershowitz, folks the book is guilt by accusation. Folks, welcome back. As you know, our guests today, Kevin McCullough, they call him both stra damus and Alan Dershowitz, a genuinely principled brilliant but unabashedly liberal figure, so Alan Dershowitz and Kevin McCullough today. I want to mention briefly the soccer team city event February 28th. Ladies and gentlemen, a year ago, when I read eugenia constantinus book, the crucifixion of the king of Gloria had her on this program, I said next year, at the beginning of lent, I want to have her as my guest at Socrates in the city. The book I tell you, I just stumble around looking for adjectives because I've never read a book. That, I mean, there are three things. First of all, the scholarship, multidisciplinary scholarship, brought to bear on the last week of the life of Jesus, is unlike anything that's ever been done. A lot of times, scholars, they focus on one thing and you get one point of view or whatever. Even if you read Matthew Mark Luke or John, you're getting one angle. She manages to take all four gospels and then all of these different disciplines and write a book, unlike anything I've ever read. But not only is it genius scholarship, which needs to be acknowledged as such, spectacular scholarship. But it is unbelievably readable. That is the shock. You don't expect books like that to be totally readable and because of this, folks, it is a work of devotion. It brought me closer to Jesus. It brought me closer to God. There are very, very, very few books..
The Eric Metaxas Show
What Happened to the American Left? Alan Dershowitz Explains
"Dershowitz, I was talking to you earlier about how to my mind because I'm generally on the conservative side of things. I have been just astonished by the descent of today's left. It's not the left that we once knew. There seemed to be almost no principled liberals or progressives, those like you are so rare, I think of Daniel Patrick, moynihan. I think of people in the past that we would say he's a liberal. He's a Democrat, but boy, we agree on almost everything we can quibble about this and quibble about that. What has happened to the American left that we are at this point? How has this happened? Well, I wrote a book subtitled why I left the left, but couldn't join the right. The people like me are really stuck in the middle. We are social liberals. We believe in gay rights. We believe in a woman's right to choose. We believe in reasonable gun control, but we can't buy into the world culture. We can't buy into their repressive nature. They're not progressives. They're repressive. They don't believe that free speech in the marketplace of ideas are important. They think of free speech as a patriarchal white supremacist way of preserving a power. They don't believe in due process. If you're a man and you're accused by what, of course you're guilty, what do we need a trial for? So, you know, the hard left has always been that way. No surprise. The stalinist hard left and the Nazi horn right were the same. And today the stalinist hard left as represented by some people in the squad and people on the left left left of the Democratic Party are just reflecting the old notions of stalinism, including their virulent anti Israel attitudes, which sometimes morph into anti semitism. And so, you know, we are a country of extremes. And
The Eric Metaxas Show
"alan d" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"People saying, I don't want trouble. We'll be right back. Final segment with a great Alan Dershowitz, the book is guilt by accusation. Wherever you go whatever you do you know these reckless love tonight with the overturn of roe V wade, lots of companies are coming out saying they'll pay for employee abortion travel and expenses. Most of you have heard about some of these companies, you've decided to stop shopping or doing business there, but did you know that you most likely own stock in those companies through your four-o-one-ks, IRAs, and other investment accounts. Folks, this is a huge problem, and we need to do something about this to send a message to Wall Street through our investments. You need to go to inspire advisers dot com slash Eric and get a free inspire impact report. This biblical investment analysis will educate you on what's really in your investment accounts like companies paying for abortion travel. You need to go to inspire advisers dot com slash Eric to connect with an inspire adviser's financial professional who can run your report and help remove companies paying for abortion travel. Today, go to inspire advisers dot com slash Eric that's inspire advisers dot com slash Eric. Advisory services are offered through inspire advisers LLC, a registered investment adviser with the SEC. Folks, welcome back. I have the privilege and the joy of speaking with Alan Dershowitz, his book is guilt by accusation the challenge of proving innocence in the age of me to..
The Eric Metaxas Show
Alan Dershowitz on Modern-Day McCarthyism
"The privilege of speaking with the great Allen Dershowitz, his book is guilt by accusation, the challenge of proving innocence in the age of me too. You were saying Alan and thank you for letting me call you Alan. That people have publicly excoriated you, you mentioned Caroline Kennedy, whom I've also interviewed strangely. And I find it telling that those on the left in America today seem to be doing precisely what you referred to in the McCarthy era. It's never been so dramatic that people get emotional. They cease to think clearly, and then they feel that we must do anything we can do. Whatever we can do. And that's effectively how they're acting. In other words, they really check their brains at the door. They don't want to be thoughtful or measured. They think now is a time for scorched earth, and it's happening among your tribe and I don't mean the Hebrew tribe. I mean the left. They have been doing this for some time. Well, it's also happening among the Hebrew tribe. I was canceled by temple Emanuel. After the rabbi told me, I had spoken there every year for years and years filled the place up. He said, I absolutely believe you did nothing wrong, but I don't want trouble. I was canceled by the 92nd street. Why? I was canceled by the Romans high school. All saying, we don't believe a word of any of us. Wait a minute. What you just said? No, no, no. What you just said, we don't want trouble. You know and I know. That is how Hitler rose to power. Because Germans, just like the folks to whom you've referred, simply said, we don't want trouble, maybe we even know you're not guilty, but we don't want trouble. That to me is even more despicable than being in an unhinged lunatic like our former friend Larry David, because they know what's right and nonetheless are choosing not to stand up for principle or for someone they know innocent. That is to me the horror and at the center of what we're talking about. And that's why some of the leaders of the Jewish community have been among the worst villains of this modern mccarthyism. By the way, as they were during real McCartney.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Alan Dershowitz Describes What Has Eroded in America
"Suppose has slipped such that we are capable of falling into something like a Salem witch trial or something that you hear about, people being accused in East Germany by their relatives. In other words, that has really not been part of our history as a country. What do you believe has been slipping or eroding such that this is possible? Well, I'm a little older than you, so I grew up during the McCarthy period. And I remember very vividly being Brooklyn college when the president of the college wouldn't allow communists who to speak on the campus or to teach. And I thought against it then I was a virulent anti communist. I hate communism. I think it's one of the great evils of the world. But I defended their right. And people who represented communists were trashed and were canceled and were seeing a repeat of this. The country has fallen into a tremendous divide, everything is one side or the other. There are no civil libertarians left. You're either on one side, you're on the other. I defend president Trump on the floor of the Senate, even though I voted against him twice, and I'm regarded as a facilitator of Trump the way Jerry mccarthyism, lawyers were regarded as facilitators. Larry David comes over to me on the show Mark and start screaming your despicable because of my representation of Trump and other things. Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the president of the United States, the niece of Ted Kennedy, who I represented. Says to me at a dinner party, if I knew you had been invited, I wouldn't have come. This is all because I defended Donald Trump on the floor of the Senate.
The Eric Metaxas Show
'Guilt by Accusation': Alan Dershowitz on His 'MeToo' Experience
"People will consider you a very prominent liberal were accused of these things to the point where you wrote a book about it and tell us what happened to you if you would. Well, I was totally false accusation. It wasn't one of these gray areas. As well, they had sex was consensual. It wasn't it. I never met the woman never heard of her. It was a completely made up story. And I said that from day one, I said from day one that wouldn't be any photographs that wouldn't be any witnesses. This is not a gray area case. In the end, I said right from the beginning, I would be totally exonerated and everybody would understand this never, ever, ever happened. Now I want to move on to helping other people who have been accused. And I think this is a pandemic in the United States now. I know a lawyer in Los Angeles, who says she writes a hundred thousand dollar check once a week on behalf of prominent Los Angeles people. People just walk into the office and say, well, I'm going to accuse this guy unless you pay me a hundred grand and of course it never happened, but paying a hundred grand is a lot better than suffering a $1 million worth of publicity. So it's called extortion. I'm not a lawyer, but this seems to me, we know it's wrong, but it isn't it criminal. It isn't it extraordinary. It won't stop until the false accusers go to prison and there are lawyers who facilitated them, go to jail. You know, it was Eric Hoff, for the great street philosopher who once said, they started harness causes. They then become movements, then businesses, and then rackets. And the me too movement is all those phases. And the real victims of false accusations are the real victims of sexual abuse, because when people start making up stories, then the credibility of the whole movement comes into effect. So I think I'm a strong supporter of the real me too movement, but I think there ought to be another me too movement. Me too. I've been wrongly accused along with so many other people, and we have to fight back. The reason
AP News Radio
Allen, Mobley power Cavaliers to 113-85 win over Pistons
"The Cavaliers made it four straight wins despite resting Donovan Mitchell and Darius Garland, rolling to a one 1385 route of the pistons. Jared Allen and Evan mobley combined for 21 points while Cleveland went ahead by 18 after one quarter. I did the Evan did it. We felt like we were attacking the room. I know they still have some pretty decent rim protectors, but we didn't let that stop us tonight. Alan finished with 20 points and mobley had 19 for the calves who opened the fourth quarter by outscoring Detroit 26 four. The Cavaliers also out rebounded the pistons, 48 32, with Alan grabbing 14. I'm Dave ferry.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy Discusses AT&T's Big Censorship Move
"Is a top 16 channel of all there's a couple of hundred cable channels they pay. We're top 16. We're top four and it was top 16 overall. So there's probably a hundred channels lower than us in the ratings. That they keep that have high fees, newsmax, they run around and take newsmax wanted an excessive fee. We wanted $1 per cable subscriber per year. It's one of the cheapest that CNN gets $14. What? For nothing. For nothing. Well, for liberal propaganda, but you have to remember AT&T's awoke company. You know, they were the ones that weaponized CNN against Trump and the Republicans when they owned it. The chairman of the AT&T board is William kennard. He was Obama's chairman and the FCC. There's a whole bunch of Obama Clinton people at the board. So that Alan Dershowitz is just set on newsmax on the website we have it today that this is a cover for political reasons. They're using economic. He said, this was political bias. This was ideology. There's no reason newsmax should have been deplatformed, but other than their cleaning up their channel guide for the 24 elections, they don't want people to have a voice that are dissenting from the liberal establishment.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Filmmaker Allen Wolf Makes Some Noise About 'The Sound of Violet'
"As you know, a lot of times on this program, I have guests who are dear Friends, this is not one of those occasions, Alan welcome. Dear enemies, maybe that's I've had it with you. I've had it with you. I think this interview is over. You're one of those, you're one of those friends. I can only think of one or two other people offhand who as soon as I am talking to you, I just get stupid and silly and I can't stop joking and laughing. And I want to apologize to my audience in advance because this is a very serious conversation. We're here to talk about your film the sound picture. The motion picture. The motion picture, the sound of violet, you've been on the program to talk about it before, but the headline now is that this film that you wrote and directed, I can't believe it is out in digital Blu-ray, like right? Yeah, everywhere. You can stream it. You can get on Blu-ray DVD. Finally. So for people who don't know about the sound of violet because even I who I'm doing this program forget everything, like all the details because you've been on here. But so tell my audience, what is this film? The sound of why is it called the sound of violet? Great question. It is a romantic comedy about a man who thinks he found his perfect soulmate, but his autism and trusting nature keep him from realizing she's actually a prostitute. What? Yes. And she's just looking for her golden ticket out of her trapped life. Honestly, I just want to say, this is such a brilliant concept. I don't know if I've said that to you in the past, but what a great idea. What a great concept. Because what we call on the spectrum, he doesn't realize that this woman who ends up, of course, being lovely, it's a kind of a whole beautiful story. But that she is only showing him interest because this is what she does for a living. And you manage to make a beautiful romantic comedy out of this that deals with the issue of autism, sex trafficking. People who know you well know you're not that sharp of a cookie. So this has to be God who gave you who can use this idea
The Bible in a Year
The Heart of Israel
"And you'll get updates and you'll get. Whatever kind of information you might need to follow along. Today, we are going, as I said, genesis chapter 35 and 36 were continuing on with the story of Jacob now, Israel, and his family. And gosh, yeah, how the family is going to unfold. They're going to continue to grow. He's got a number of sons and they are getting older and things are getting complicated. Things are always complicated. Man, we yesterday, what it is suns do. His sons took vengeance upon the family of shechem, hamor, that whole entire family after they had agreed to make a covenant with them. Because she had raped their sister. And so the family continues to grow. This is genesis chapter 35 and 36. God said to Jacob arise. Go up to bethel and dwell there. And make there an altar to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau. So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, put away the foreign gods that are among you and purify yourselves and change your garments, then let us arise and go up to bethel. That I may make there an altar to the God who answered me in the day of my distress, and has been with me wherever I have gone. So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had and the rings that were in their ears and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near shechem. And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were round about them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. And Jacob came to lose. That is bethel, which is in the land of Canaan. He and all the people who were with him, and there they built an altar. And called the place el bethel, because their God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother. And Deborah, Rebecca's nurse died, and she was buried under an oak below bethel, so that the name of it was called Alan bakut. God appeared to Jacob again when he came from padan aram and blessed him, and God said to him, your name is Jacob. No longer shall your name be called Jacob. But Israel shall be your name. So his name was called Israel, and God said to him, I am God almighty. Be fruitful and multiply, a nation and a company of nations shall come from you and kings shall spring from you. The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you, and I will give the land to your descendants after you. Then God went up from him in the place where he had spoken with him, and Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him. A pillar of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it. So Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him, bethel.
AP News Radio
Trump's longtime CFO faces sentencing for tax fraud scheme
"Donald Trump's longtime CFO, who's testimony helped convict the former president's company of tax fraud is said to be sentenced today for dodging taxes. Alan weisselberg is expected to get 5 months in jail at Rikers. That's the deal the 75 year old took when he agreed to plead guilty to 15 tax crimes and testify against Donald Trump's company. Weisselberg will also pay nearly $2 million in taxes. He's the only person charged in the Manhattan DA's three year investigation of Donald Trump and his business practices. Sentencing in that case is Friday. The company faces a fine of up to $1.6 million. Julie Walker, New York.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Breitbart's Tech Correspondent Allum Bokhari Talks Twitter Files
"Senior. Tech correspondent for that conservative juggernaut that is breitbart dot com. Alan bakari. Welcome back. It's been too long. Happy new year. Happy new year. Good to be back on. All right, so let's start at the beginning, which is a good place to start. And I created a bit of a stir, the daily mail even put me in the headline along with Elon Musk and Hunter Biden after the first couple of Twitter drops when I said big whoop. I am underwhelmed. The idea that the DNC was colluding with their bodies in Palo Alto, not used to anyone who's been breathing and got a pulse for the last few years. Since then, we've had what Eric, what Twitter drop are we up to now is it 11, 12, 38, what is it? Yesterday, we're drops number 11 and 12. All right, so at 11 and 12, together in one day, just recently. Let's have the strategic overview. You've been writing about big tech for years right now. How significant are these revelations? Not the first ones, but the subsequent ones. What is it? Have you let's put it this way? Have you learned something that surprised you alum? I would say nothing hugely surprising. It's really just giving us more details about what we already knew, which is that the deep state was colluding closely with Silicon Valley using it to censor political dissidents here in America, using a sense of conservatives in America justified in the name of this all encompassing Russian disinformation panic that lasted for one pretty much from the day Trump took office throughout his entire first term. And yeah, we're just getting more information about that. I think the biggest takeaway from the latest with the files is that Twitter knew the Russian disinformation panic was a bunch of steam, a bunch of hot air. There was nothing really substantive to it. There was no huge Russian influence operation on Twitter, but they eventually got received so much pressure from the media from academics and from the deep state that they eventually went along with the panic.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
"alan d" Discussed on Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
"It's all context or it was eight context. There was a piece the other day in the new york times. That really stunned me. Because the I think headline was in. the arts. section was which classic classical paintings or paintings from the renaissance era should get a pass. And i said i thought what yeah that i don't know that. Let me out but to be fair most things. I didn't read it. You read this ahead. You're like you know what it's worth bringing up with allen. No and look maybe. It goes on to say really. Brilliant things and i wasn't paying attention. I just want people to know i read the headlines of the new york times pieces but who has time to read. All that stuff i guess the takeaway as conan doesn't want you to look jelly anymore. You can't look at it. i just don't over. i just think it's offensive. It's over venus. Objective is venus. Put clothes that shell up. Close that shell up. You have the misfortune slash fortune of being the writer. Who wrote the conic. Treat yourself episode of parks and rag doll. Yeah and i remember that episode. And i remembered also feeling like oh yeah that's going to be catch and then it became a catchphrase and it's a mixed blessing. Probably not as much for you but for z's walking around and again when when you say i wrote i put in quote and wrote in quotes. Because they might be on that episode but everyone pitches for every episode. And i don't even know who came up with. Treat yourself like i credit. I attribute that to the room. So but i will say. It is wild to walk around like trader joe's and it says trees and then i'm sure read it when they walk around and move through the world they get it a lot because it's like what what was that. Not even. it wasn't a thing before the show right. It wasn't really a thing you know. I i don't even. I just read the headlines of the newspaper so i thought before joe. The new york times has a headline about it that explains itself completely in the headline. I can't help you know. But i do think that's there's an interesting thing for there to become like a catchphrase out but i talked about with rob a little bit where his character had literally right so like his people would say literally to him now. So it's like okay. Well that's his. It's a it's a gift and a curse right. it's it can be a burden on you. Hey blind i know when i said this but when i walk around people say you suck guess that was my catch phrase it when when you gotta own it. It's a legendary. I know you mainly for you. Suck masturbating bear. The legendary you suck. Why don't you talk. Souverain masturbated baron usa and those were good times. This was really fun. i i admire. You think you're a really nice talented guy. And i'm i'm happy that you're out there Making good stuff it just It fills me with the light. So thanks for hanging with me and thanks for you know many of us. Don't wanna sit next to rob lowe because we just look like those plastic turds that you could buy a practical joke. Yeah you're a good man. You're a good man. Taking the bullet guys man. Taking shoes shot. Normally let's get alan yang and rob lowe and its who shot and see which way the camera goes actually cleaned up pretty nice so thank you all right. I'm alright i'm alright. Yeah right just tricked you into compliment yourself. Thank you so much for having me you. We'll see we'll see if we'll still remain friends..
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
"alan d" Discussed on Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
"And second of all there are plenty of people that graduate from these highfalutin schools. That go out and invent napalm or come up with that counterfacts. Yeah yeah. I'm not taking about yeah. Yeah or i didn't figure out. I didn't invent fracking there. There are plenty of and so you know that's the bar super villain. Sorry the all the good super villains went to ivy league school. They really look it up. True yeah yeah. Dr evil went to brown. Same guy who played mark zuckerberg. That's like that's not a coincidence. No it's not a coincidence. By the way so i always notice when people. They're not just flailing around. Saying i wrote for these thirty-five terrible shows before i started writing for good shows when people sort of have a sense of where they might fit in so the parks and rec gig was. That was at the first show where you felt like yes. I fit into this world. It was extraordinary. Get that job number one and number two. It definitely felt like wow. It's a great fit. I'm learning a lot. And i credit mike and greg. You know those guys really well they really look at it as a place writing staff as a place where they can nurture younger writers and guide them and teach them and that is where i learned so much and i talk about that. You know with ziesel all times like man. Thank god we got show and we're thirty instead of twenty four or whatever and liu and worked on one hundred episodes of tv. You know i i. It's like i start as a staff writer. Which for those of you don't know that's like a first year rider essentially and and by the end of the show. Mike let me around the room. Sometimes i directed episodes. Help edit all that stuff and then you get to make your own show. You're not quite as you're still lost because you don't know what is to be the actual bus but that helps zero are different kinds of show runners out there. Miss one of the things. I always loved about sound out. Live is that lauren would say you're in charge of the sketch. I know you're twenty three or twenty four years old and you just got here and nothing but you thought of the sketch. So you're it's up to you to go talk to wardrobe. It's up to you to talk to the set designers. It's up to you to watch the blocking of it. It's up to you to check out the props. And i thought this is insane. None of us know any but it was your producer. Now it is young and throw you in the water and say you're either going to drown or you're going to swim and I thought when you give someone a ton of responsibility and says it's your it's yours to fuck up or a hero. It's amazing how quickly you can grow your determined to make it and hopefully you're the right person because it like that's that's but but the by them giving you that confidence it's kind of self-perpetuating some ways i remember being onset parks and rec and i was their second or third episode. That i'd written. And i was there dean holland who was an editor on the show but then started directing so it was his second episode. And we didn't there was some problem we notice solve and we looked around. No one was. Mike wasn't there. Greg wasn't there more executive libraries there was there. Were like this. Is it man. You got to figure this out and we do. The same thing happened. Masters like museums look around. Where the where. The dad's we're the mom and dad of the show right. We're going to do it so let me ask you about this because you're working on parks and rec and then you gravitate obviously to z's and it's funny because you guys have you have a similar energy to z's you know in some ways in so yeah yeah but like you guys there's a. There's a certain i see it. I see how there's like a faux cockiness to this to the sense of humor which can be really enjoyable and fun and you gravitate towards z's and then you guys find your way into making masters of none and that ends up being sort of his pitch perfect show and i do think that show you know. It was a good fit with netflix. Because netflix had three shows it had a when we pitched. Nfl they had house of cards. Had oranges new black. And they had that show lilly hammer which was about a gangster in norway. Steve vans and show. Yeah so that was the put. Show i pitch. Yeah i was like you know what. America wants to see steve fans in norway. Pretty good hit rate at three like made it. I still consider that show. It hit the money just pouring in the asti six dollars i made last year. Oh so their market cap. Right around the hammer reboot. What about a gritty. Norwegian gangster who new york city. I want to ask who watched lily hammer did anyone. I never checked it out. I just saw a scowling stevens. Who i knew from the sopranos and from the e street band scowling and snow bank and it just said lily hammer and i never checked it out. You're going to get so many angry lillehammer fans the hammer heads are gonna get to talk to you. Nobody bringing on. I say on weirdly. We got lucky because we were talking about master. No and we were gonna make the show. He netflix bought it. We were so excited. We're gonna make the show and then parks and rec got picked up for another season so got picked up for its final season essentially and we were kind of bummed because we'll our own show next is cool about it. They said it's okay. Put a pin in it so we went to work now parks for season but during that whole time we were just freaking out. Because we're like. Oh my god we have this show and to be totally honest the show. We pitched netflix was completely different. Was it was easy. It was like you know kind of more of a normal show and it was just like a comedy standard show like. Maybe he's dating whatever and then we start panicking and we said. Oh my god we're going to get to make the show parts any purchase ending. But is this the show we wanna make. It's just a normal ash. Show like could be better like we really pushed ourselves. And that was when you know we took a trip to new york. And we're walking around just racking our brains been on my god. We ought pressure on us. We're gonna make the show and we went back to our hotel room. We were we were talking about the show and and you know. I talked to my dad who alluded to earlier like man. He didn't have no food. Eat as a kid you know. He had pets pet chickens and he killed the chickens and ate them for dinner. That i mean i'm really sad. And he's like is that story. Really true and house like yemen like he lived in a hut like the size of the corner of his room. And he's like forget everything we're talking about. Let's just make that show. I don't care about my life in new york city eating at good restaurants. That's actually interesting. Yes so that became the second episode of the show. That really sort of broke open in terms of any episode. Could be about anything you know. I'm curious about because now with With with the parks and rec podcast. You're looking back at shows and you're a very young guy especially from. I mean by any stretch of the united nation year. Young very young man but From my perspective you know your fetus on the oldest guy. The right is right now. A very very charming sharp. And i think you're going places fetus but we've been through like six. I feel like six cultural revolution's just in the last five years last three months. Yeah and then you look at a tv shows from ten fifteen years ago and you must already be seeing things where you think. Well we wouldn't do that today. Yeah man in multiple episodes polars character asks disease if he's libyan he said no. I mean you can't do that. He's like i'm from south carolina. There's tons of stuff you would never do today. There's tons of stuff like but by the way like i think some things to me fall in the category of like yeah. I don't wanna watch that anymore. Right like there's tons of stuff. I don't think i can watch that anymore. Parks for me when i watch it. It's like yeah. There's the joke every few episodes like i don't think that would that would fly in two thousand twenty one but for the most part. It's like you know it's a pretty warm show. It's pretty diverse. Ed like yeah. It's hard it's in. The right is in the right place and not just saying that. Because i worked on it but it you're saying it because you're doing a podcast i'm doing is doing a podcast sitting with team coco's people talking about trying to monetize it again. No no it's basically you know it really is what you said. Which is all i mean. Look you look at airplane. You look at blazing saddles. You go even further bag. You look at stuff like are we not gonna watch billy wilder. Are we gonna want you know what a how far back you want to go it again..
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
"alan d" Discussed on Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
"This is the worst superhero origin story ever as a meaningless superhero. So when i was a kid. I couldn't do any pull ups like i was on. My upper body might be hard for you. Believe it was very weak. Very skinny i was like fifty pounds. I was like four foot. Nothing i think just to become normal. I had tried to start lifting weights and working out a little bit again. Cone is looking at right now. I am not a big man. I'm probably hundred forty pounds. But but what i got. You fainted three times. Just walking to the pontiac. I'm here to bring you around with smelling pretty slight. But no i got. I got the art. I literally like. It's like okay now. I want to work my way up. So i do one hundred a day. That's good that's fantastic. Went from zero ever. Do remember what robert deniro did cape fear when he's upside down and he's he's doing crunches hanging upside down from a rod or early he suspended. Yes apartment alone and he has all these crazy tattoos. I do that. And i do all of the attempted murdering so i did which burns a lot of calories. Attempted murder burns more calories than murder. It's the running around. It's the missing missing that really gets shredded man. Failing to kill someone burns fifteen hundred more calories than actually killing them hiding under people's cars like sneaking and under their boats. That's my that's my next workout. That's my next thing. He clung to a car that drove like eight hundred miles to the bottom of a car. You're holding on tight mad. Yes isometric isometric. Every time. I see that movie and it's a fantastic movie cape. Fear starring with the robert deniro scorsese version but whenever he claims underneath the car and just decides to hang onto it for eight hundred miles. You know nick nolte's driving over those things that prevent you from backing up out of a parking lot without paying he's just getting shredded. You could splice in little clips of him. Driving over increasingly high sharp things efficiently. Get funny no when i was at the simpsons. We did a cape fear and sideshow. Bob clung underneath the car. And i don't remember. And i'm sure people are being like you totally. Who would happen. But i remember. I think i think family did probably drive over shit. Ya not yeah your site plagiarizing episode that i worked on and there you go time to hang up. Hang it up trust me. It was time for me to hang it up in two thousand six. But you'll see in show business. The joy is to keep hanging around long after. No one wants you. That's the part. I love aftermath. there you go. We should call this the grim after your next yup. I'm still here with brian. You've accomplished a.
Couples Therapy
"alan d" Discussed on Couples Therapy
"Would come to gay bars and if i was performing a bar and saint louis or something there would be guys who were driven. Who drive for like two hours from the middle of nowhere illinois or missouri. Just to come to a gay bar like. Yeah because there wasn't an there wasn't anything in their area and i would be like. Oh he came for me but no. That's what i'm saying. I'm like and that's what i said you wake up early meeting. You're not gonna wanna do. That necessarily are not gonna wanna weeknights. Yeah maybe we want like one weekend. You let me outside of here. That's what i mean by having sustaining sort of almost digital sexual relationships with people in other parts that you can find on the apps and other parts of the country and even world and that way then on the weekends you can satisfy a need that you need and maybe even meet someone who would be willing to drive to use on weekends or some weekdays or whatever could find the. There's a but but have that that digital outlet during the week that you can have that connection. Here's a here's a question. So this cop who is. I don't know what i don't know if he's bi or gay. Whatever his situation is. He's repressing it in some way right because he is having secret relationship. I don't know how much he's repressing it. As much as just being allying douchebag right. yeah. But i'm just curious like how do you have any thoughts about how zander ken break it off without like. I'm just trying to think about like to me. That person could become volatile right. I mean yeah. I i think i think him showing up with a parent teacher. Conference is means. It's broken off like that's my question. I'm like what happened since you sent this. But the way zander's said he was like. Should i leave it alone. Which implies that maybe he hasn't left it alone like the baby. If these guys are if these guys are anything like some of the guys. I used to back in the day. Like on the dl. They they're if they find something good meaning readily readily available sex or thing that they can satisfy that scratch than etched then they will keep coming back so so zander will have to at some point ignore the tax leave him on red liam alone. Let him be there and the he is i mean he i don't i here's a police officer which that's me implying alive. Because i don't he might be a nice person. I don't know but like he does have a lot of baggage. That zander doesn't need to deal with in this new city as the awesome teacher and his school like he doesn't need this baggage he doesn't it would be a dream for him to may to marry that local gay cop. You know what i mean like. That would be awesome. But like that's not gonna happen and so he's just ignore this person and if this person won't take him being ignored if he won't get the hint that he's being ignored while andrew's going to have to be like listen. This is not gonna work and this is why xyz and then make you have that manila folder with a. You need to save that shit. The killer is out there. I mean and i will say this. I mean look because he said they went on some dates like they were so they had sex though. No but i'm saying like miss the cop you coming zander school classroom before you came cop. I gave you all the clues. I'm just even like that. Where i'm like. You should have like did it. But did the cop did. The guy know that he was going to a parent teacher conference. Do you think look like new. I don't i don't think he did. I think he would have figured out some way to get out of that. Those guys. oh a someone shooting than downtown gotta ago. Those guys are you. I don't think he knew at all because those are the ones who want to protect their secret app. All fucking costs and we know cops love secrets and so like there's no way he's going to walk into that just for fun unless it's off on the humiliation which there are people who get off on that yet now. I doubt with his kid and wife there. But you also think you would use a sub nail. I know it's not bad. But i mean like. Don't bring your child up here this child just trying to do some math here bring bringing hideous sexual games. I wonder if you'll sorry for the cat. Feel sorry for the wife to to be honest. But i think that yeah. I would assume as you said from your suit. It is over. Because i can't imagine why hymns especially like as you said tuesday. Andrew teaches kid so reliability zander's ability for this guy's livelihood so he's a liability for zander. Because if the ender does one thing this guy doesn't like or the guy feels like his secrets are threatened He could say maybe the town doesn't know zander's gay who knows right or like the school like who knows why things andrew out i mean. We heard the voices andrews out. Zander is a home. Ou- out your proud and i love it and i love it and you should. Dm me. and i will say i love you. Thank you for what you're doing. You're not getting nudes. But i think sandra's totally out and that's why he's awesome. This is the world on creating zander. Right we love coming to the small town. Whatever and he's like. I'm going to teach the children here. What they need and it goes and and he is just this out representation of like what this future can be for some of these kids who might feel alone in a moment and zander. Is that teach even at that. Kid can't say anything zander. Zander is the representation. So i think sandra's should just stand there teach that class. Give those kids and a police officer. You don't wanna come near this because guess what. This is a pride parade here. We are think. Oh by god andrew. Please keep us up to date and we do. I want to know more. I would've we love on the show and it's called a follow up. We do feel free. Any like dm voicemail again wanna know h how he got time for one more time. I have all my house another ten minutes all right. This is another voicemail. I thought would be good. It's about standup. So i've been into it all right here. We go hey. This is l. d. pronounce. She her I was just calling. Because i just Did my second opening night and I just wanted some advice in the comedy realm. I really wanna right. But i know you have to do stand up to get in the world or whatever so yada yada yada. I'm and gay jokes. That are black or gay and sometimes both and sometimes the crowd will be with me. And then i'll say one of these jokes and then they just i just get stairs and i don't know if they aren't you know connected to the mature like they can't relate or if it's just not funny.
Couples Therapy
"alan d" Discussed on Couples Therapy
"We love your voicemails. The most naomi. What is that number do you remember. I think i remember three two three five two four seven eight three nine. You gotta keep your message just two to three minutes because you will get cut off right at the juice bar. You don't keep it right. There is someone. I just got one today where they had to call three times and even on the third time they got cut off and then. Dm das i was like hey got cut off. Here's the actual question. So we wasn't even a question nine minutes they couldn't didn't like it wasn't like continuous just started over each time. Oh i thought it was like how have you ever broken up with someone over the voicemail that that's when you need an extension of more than three minutes sex and the city episode. Save it for the reboot. Everyone all right and just like exactly. This is a voicemail. I saved this one just for you. H allen all right here we go. Hey naomi and andy huge and here love what you guys. Do you give me life. Every time i listen to you guys My name's zander. I recently moved from the big city of cleveland to a small town in kansas Started kind of meeting people on. You know the dating back. So i am a home of course so So the pool and you know. The kansas towns aren't big of course But give me a seemingly nice guy and went on a few dates over the course of a few weeks and pretty much you know was dating and about a month into it. I got a nice teaching job at one of the schools here and one of the nights. We have parent teacher conferences. And another shows up with one of my students and lo and behold who walks in but the guy that i think going on all these dates with who is also a local police officers so needless to say the whole parent teacher conference was slightly awkward with me and him kind of glancing at each other. Like don't you dare say anything type of feel to it. I guess what i'm asking or wondering is do i. Just i'm not about the home record. And if i had known i would've never even gone on these dates course But i did grow to like this guy and build. But i thought was trust in a relationship and now i'm just wondering do i just let it go just kind of disappear. Which of course makes it hard with the student being in class or i mean. Obviously i don't bring anything up to the wife because that's a whole nother issue with everything and worried about my job in jeopardy all that good stuff Any advice any tips If i'm just being stupid. And i need to cut this off asap. Please just give me that turtles Thank you guys much everything. Love you guys. you've done what you're doing okay. This is my favorite lifetime. Movie guys. sandra in egypt's give the same voice mail to my other podcasts. I'm obsessed with you is zander. Is anderson zander. Yeah i found is at zander to. Yeah oh my god well okay go. Should i start star. Yes okay. I the i fully agree first off. I want him to write this down in like an email so that we can turn it into a pitch and like don't like this needs to be so the first thing that i have to say is good for you for like moving. Have being brave enough to move into a small town and like be a teacher and like do those and have have a teacher who is queer in a city that in a small. I don't know what city you're in. But in a small city because that is like so fucking commendable so needed we need different marginalized sort of different types of people different different races different sexuality different genders of people teaching in small communities because there is going to be a queer kid there or maybe a police officer who is going to need that representation in that community. So that is like he's doing the lord's work. I commend him so much for that. That said only god. This sucks like this first off. Screen shot every single screen shot. Make sure you have everything you need. Because as wendy williams you always got to keep an eye out for the killer. And he's a killer. But i'm saying that you need to have some background. He yes yes he can. He can play evidence on your house. You'll car next to you murder. You didn't say hey. Look if we're if we're going down this path not just save it all printed out. Put it in an envelope and give you a lawyer. Say if you don't hear from me. Or if i'd have opened his yes yes very time to kill yet call you also also to check in with the lawyer once a week or that or the worst us. Yes it goes. The lawyer put it online to call every friday at two pm with a code word that is just this is such like and i also kind of feel bad for the cops. Even though he's a total douchebag for lying and not representing himself properly and not just being honest. You know what i mean like. I feel like the sandra guy. He sounds like a really nice guy. He probably would have had empathy for him if he was a closet. Marriage that he knows is not good and all of these things but instead he put on the charade like took this poor guy with them. So you know. I feel bad for him but at the same standard. Get away from that like and i hope you teach like younger kids. So that the that kid be like in middle school and you had to deal with these parents ever again just a few short years or something. 'cause like just drop him even the small pool of people in kansas like either. It's there's there's there's so many different ways that we can have relationships right now so many different types of relationships that like short they might not be in the same city but like you can communicate and have really sort of sustaining relationships with people in all over the country. Zander wants to have since. I know he doesn't tell have sex message. You can still have sex and have an emotional connection with people in other parts of the country to like what i'm saying is it doesn't necessarily have to be a one body one person in your bedroom all the time like if you live in a small area that there is a lack of availability for that you have to think creatively sometimes in order to mentally sustain. You know what i mean. Okay yes. I do know what you mean. I also wonder this too. When you're saying going on the apps and youtube and and i wonder if this happens like can you post on an app like looking for friends or down like not because a part of like i think maybe instead of finding oops i mean some people and they could lead you to more go find community. Nannu start to me. I mean go. The looking for friends often is means just hookups. Like that's the code word. That's usually what it means that way you can tell. They're not looking for a relationship that said that he is away. And i have many friends that i found through the apps over the years that i'm still very friends with today that that they just became really good friends. It started out with sex which is very much the gay. Hello and then you move into you. Know brunch with you know hanging out in the future for the rest of your life and like that's the but that said that's a privileged urban area mentality and where zander is. I'm sure he doesn't have necessarily know he doesn't have a lot and look. You're a teacher. Sunday your early and stuff but the other thing i know from you know. Suburban life is for a lot of driving hours in a big deal. Yeah it is but like if you live in a small town in kansas you may drive two hours to target lewis people would come to gay bars and if i was performing a bar and saint louis or something there would be guys who were driven. Who drive for like two hours from the middle of nowhere illinois or missouri. Just to come to a gay bar like. Yeah because there wasn't an there wasn't anything in their area and i would be like. Oh he came for me but no. That's what i'm saying..
The Eric Metaxas Show
"alan d" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Walking back. Alan dershowitz has left the building. Alan dershowitz is an amazing mind. Amazing thinker principled person. Lot to say about what we just talked about. First of all we are both astonished. Yeah that it's possible that that he's convinced that biden won fair and square. I mean i would think the most sober-minded person would have to at least say that it's not clear there's a lot of Reason to believe that the election was was messed with. The question is would it be. Would it affect the outcome. But the idea that he's just sort of mouthing. The party line is a little surprising. I guess for him but also he says i think biden's the right man for the job this time i think. Can you imagine these bringing peace or something. He's bringing calm to the nation that's biden first of all biden is at the at best incompetent at best Anyway that's another story but what he was just talking about in case. People aren't getting the references. He mentioned chilmark. I mentioned edgar town. He summers on martha's vineyard an island off the coast of massachusetts Nantucket is another one. Martha's vineyard of the two is is famous for being liberal Walter cronkite lived there and he mentioned lillian hellman. I mean lillian hellman. It doesn't get more liberal than lillian. Hellman the famous Writer and i went there in one thousand nine hundred eighty five. I guess it was. This is all in my book. This is for me to plug my book. Fish out of water in fish out of water. I talk about when. I'm talking about right now but basically When i was at yale my writing teacher was john hersi. John hersi is famous for. He got a pulitzer prize for his book. A bell for a donohoe written right after the war. He wrote hiroshima which was The kind of the new report. Taj about what happened in hiroshima hiroshima and It was published published as a small book About what happened after the bomb horrifying obviously but beautiful journalism and so he was one of those liberal artists who lived on. Martha's minute he was my professor. So i i went to visit him. I guess the year or so after. I graduated and he was the kind of person who have dinner with lillian hellman They would have dinner with ralph ellison another stalwarts of the artists The the left. And it's so interesting because i really do believe. Even though they were left lefties they believed in what alan dershowitz talking about. They believed in these principles. And i think that all of that has devolved to you know where we are today which is to say A kind of fascism a kind of big state ism the fundamental principles of america. They they have left the building so interesting to hear. Somebody like twits. Talk about being snubbed. at the country club people won't talk to his wife. He's on invited to these things because they think it's unconscionable that he would stand for these things in Contravention of what they believe has to be right. And that's where we are folks. And i say this because i think that those of us who are more on the conservative side we have a responsibility not to go down that path ourselves. In other words when cuomo was resigned. I was the first one To post my shod and freud on social media and to to say you know one down one to go and p- p- post a picture of him newsome so that's kind of the fun part but then you have to think. Are we applauding things that are wrong and just as islanders which was talking about people that believe the woman. What a filthy. why when. An anti biblical anti-american concept that forget about due process. We're going to believe these people because they're better. We're gonna believe blacks over whites we're gonna believe women are what an offensive racist sexist idea but again it comes down to power in other words if you believe in principles and are willing to let the principals adjudicate situations or you just say i want to win and i don't care how i win. I don't care if we have to use dirty politics. It's poetic justice if If cuomo goes to jail for this but not for sending people to their deaths who cares. It's poetic justice. I would say we should be careful about that. I think we have to care about what is actually right. And so that's why it's important to talk to to liberals like alan dershowitz or naomi wolf. Anyone we can so that we remind ourselves that it's not about winning it's about justice it's about fairness it's about freedom and these kinds of things don't love what he talked about. Buckley and himself debating then going out and having a beer because they both were in different sized but they both respected the law and rule and order. And just well. It's like you have a principled opponent to you know that you can actually get someplace and you're not hating each other. I i hate you. And i hate your ideas. It's like i wanna. I wanna talk to you about those ideas because i think they're wrong but you can have them. It's all right and actually I mentioned mike lindell. There is no question that there's a chilling affect a lot of people. I know have been sued by dominion and the fact is that it's my idea right. I'm pretty sure this is the whole thing behind. It is that they have a lot of money and they're spending their money to quiet. People silence people to send out a chilling effect. Like the careful. Don't talk about this. don't talk about that. So you have fox news refusing to air. Mike lindell's commercial for the cyber symposium. Because they you know they've got a different corporate culture. They're not in it for what they believe in. They're in it for the corporate culture so they become part of the problem. And i just think it's important for us to talk about that on this program. I just wanted to take a minute here since we had the time. We didn't normally do this but it just really really It is important We on this program as you all know have been attacked. We've been knocked off of youtube. That's a big deal. I'll keep saying it because it is a big deal that they did that What did we do. What did we say on this program. it's obvious that we didn't do anything or say anything that innumerable people haven't done and they were not off youtube so it's become very political Okay before we go. I want to remind you We have a campaign on with food for the poor one of the project managers managers. Marcus frisch when we come back. I wanna play a quote because Well before we go to break let me just remind you go to metaxas. Talk dot com. You'll see.
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"alan d" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"I mean when the columbia faculty administration did not have the guts to stand up to the students who were just thugs spoiled thugs who took over the president's office in other words this goes back fifty plus years where you have a a leading class. That simply doesn't have on. Somebody called it the cultural confidence to say no get out this. It's a privilege to be here. It seems to me that that the leadership class in america whether it's university presidents or whether it's people who own sports teams or any of that stuff they don't seem right understand these fundamentals. No you're absolutely right. I look the free speech movement. Berkeley i was there when it happened. It was not free. Speech is free speech for me. Not for the free speech for the left. A look. what's going on now with ben and jerry They're boycotting israel. But they're they're the company that owns them. Unilever sells to iraq to cuba to china to belarus. They have a a company in belarus. They are among the worst human rights enablers and focusing on only on israel. It's a it's a corporate disgrace. I will never again eat that. Fat filled cholesterol well. I haven't forgiving. We're gonna break folks are going to be right back with alan dershowitz copay get off. Did not folks and talking to alan.
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"alan d" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Eric taxes air. Guess what it's thursday album. Today is thursday. That means i don't know what it means to me. Smart probably friday. I'd be willing to bet a lot on that tomorrow. It'd be fry now. I want to bring a few fun facts. Fridays in tomorrow okay. We haven't done a lot of fun. Facts has it been so newsy crazy so cookie gonna have you will that. We haven't done a lot of fun. Facts fridays tomorrow can do some fun facts writing out today in. We got to mention this in a couple of minutes. Alan dershowitz alan d. Bogeyed his rap name buggy de victim. Alan dershowitz is going to be my guest. Either miss hours this morning off different. that's different. Oh oddly enough. Alan dershowitz probably the biggest lawyer in america right now. I can't think of anybody. I i mean who. Who were the big lawyers when used to think of like. Hey let's get so and so on the case I can't think of the guy's name. d- voted it. Was i can see his face but every generation there's one of those people Alan dershowitz is that guy. Harvard law professor Politically liberal but liberal in the old school sense since he's now in his eighties Liberal means we believe in free speech means we believe in the constitution honestly He's important he's an important voice. And i thank god for him so he is I believe he's jewish alan dershowitz and our two. We have evan. Say it Who is also jewish. Now the two of them. It's kind of interesting because Evans say it. He's become conservative but he was just a comedian and it just i. He's brilliant absolutely brilliant so to spectacular guests. We also have at the beginning of our two before. Evans say it. We're going to do an ask metaxas. I'ma gentle gentle gentle gentile. i'm a nice guy. And i'm going to do an ask metaxas with your questions we're gonna do it every thursday we've been keeping it up and we're going to be doing that today our one so i'm sorry to ask metaxas right now. Yes right now by the way who's tomorrow. We re hearing tomorrow tomorrow. Tomorrow let me look at the list. I saw my goodness tomorrow. We've got francis chan okay. That's a big one. You told me we're gonna get oj simpson on this program. Well i couldn't. But i got his lawyer. His lawyer alan dershowitz okay. Tomorrow's francis chan so friday with francis. It'd here his talk about right. Now yes before. We get to alan dershowitz but i know. He's you're preparing. Alan dershowitz He's being deposed. Last night. I turned on the tv and glendale is doing a three day. Cyber symposium in south dakota. I'm asking those of you who were 'prayers to pray today. The spiritual warfare is staggering. I really won't go into it. But i have friends on the ground. Sending me messages and You don't have to agree with mike. You don't have to like but i think you have to agree that. He's fighting for america that he believes he's onto something i'm sure he is under something reasonably sure. And that's why i talk about him It's one of the reasons. I'm very.
Monocle 24: Culture with Robert Bound
"alan d" Discussed on Monocle 24: Culture with Robert Bound
"In the twenties and his father was a military it was it was a military man and he lost him pretty early on they moved back to england and he was brought up by his mother and i felt that he has. He has such a feminine. So you might call the feminine qualities is interviewing. I thought that was when i read that. It didn't surprise me for second. He had such a sort of for such sort of smartly dressed typical gent as it were. He had such a feminine side. Yes absolutely in two things that That valerie anand's partner also his Filmed otographer when he was working. Valerie observed to things which i think. A very insightful. About allen's early days one was his father being. Ill quiet be quiet. Play quietly That is not very well Is what made him a writer because it made him an astute observer and you are absolutely right. I think to pinpoint his quality. His interesting always made a huge point of of seeking out the woman's point of view on anything which was very unusual for his era. And certainly. that's that's what i felt. I felt coming along as a sort of you know. Mike claps out oh by a radio. Flat shoes have arriving with become bag. Full of recording equipment. And all that and dumping it down and give me a classes champagne and he would always take such an intelligent interest in what my journey had been like but a deep and penetrating interest. He always managed to feel that whoever he was talking to was actually. Oh my goodness am a slightly more interesting than i realized it was a wonderful skill and i was very very lucky to work with somebody like that. It was an extraordinary period of my life. That's immensely precious and then to find out that he left this legacy people say. Oh you know. Alan bow made a lot of wealth. Well thank goodness. He did because my goal is being put to good use now. I mean it's funding documentaries from Emerging talent all over the globe Who would not otherwise get a crack at something that he felt..
Monocle 24: Culture with Robert Bound
"alan d" Discussed on Monocle 24: Culture with Robert Bound
"Prince leonard had decided that he was fed up with paying his taxes to the australian government. So he would succeed his his farm as a new territory and they came up with bank notes and stamps and They made allen were he. Was there ambassador to england They gave him a sermon. Yes i looked. Julie respectful and this was again the kind of story that allen adored this kind of human eccentricity and an attempt to defeat the system. He loved meeting mavericks. He loved meeting. Butch cassidy's systems one of his favorite interviews and he was he loved playing football with a group of nuns who had never had a matinal. Even a doctor had been allowed to Male doctor allowed to breach their portals and many there had never seen a car but somehow allen managed to charm his way in. Let's look then We've talked about the wonderful voice over. And the flavor of those films mixing the kind of the seemingly seemingly kind of light with with the heavy and the and the big issues with that international travel and all the rest of glamour a lot of beautiful people and beautiful places in those films. What about out on wicker's look we mentioned the safari suit manny getting a safari suit When you talk about we talked about people being pastiche than how that was a lot of success in part of that part of that. Dick was his look as well. Yeah i think he. He would always say that the blazer. The often war was was really useful. I mean you can wear a blazer to the pablo. You could wear it to a very fashionable party in the evening. you know it just. It seemed to be classless for him but it was always need. Would you always looked good in a blazer. Two or three blazers you could. You could didn't matter how crumpled show was under the fan by the same man who had a little shop in mayfair. For many many many years they became very very good friends in the one secret. I was not allowed to know. Was whether allen's chess is got any bigger or smaller okay. That's that's why. Some taylor's chess i never.
Monocle 24: Culture with Robert Bound
"alan d" Discussed on Monocle 24: Culture with Robert Bound
"Yes. Yes and i like to sort of be that. Keep an eye on what's going on. Why do you believe But first of all he stayed married to me seven years nearly and secondly He told me so and he said that he loved me. Because i was very ordinary. Which i interpreted to mean that i wasn't neurotic and so we agreed and it's suits is both. He was very distinctive. And yeah the distinctive style. And because he wrote his own scripts and he. He was degraded research. It a great ability to speak to camera without referring to note so it looked so natural but it was distinctive and because of that he was easy to imitate want someone picked up on those mannerisms which is why the pythons in all the pythons imitators loving. I think all no one ever imitate in without there wasn't a huge amount of warmth. Stanley baxter did it of other people did it Might y'all would probably did it. The the point is he had these distinctions. That you could you could find. But i love the love this was to do with inventing the grammar. You're inventing the grammar of will weigh those programs worked and it and it's obvious if you don't have a distinctive style if people aren't imitating you is because you're bland and you're not getting this. This point of view across the nets are so. I think it's always. It's always a great accolade if you if you do find yourself the victim of a spoofer. I'm sure slatted by the five day. And we'll talk about the pythons later in vis-a-vis the festival itself because you've obviously got michael palin on it and the rest of it but i wanted to talk about that. The grandma i love to get your reading on this as the all covers the fi..
Monocle 24: Culture with Robert Bound
"alan d" Discussed on Monocle 24: Culture with Robert Bound
"Serving chief. Petty officer at the san diego united states naval air station. Edward s brendan is about to marry a hotel receptionist. Joseph l brown it was always that thing of the flipping mixed in with the with the the serious and that was sort of that that that film about gay people in california is pretty pioneering. Let's say it was. I mean television likes to think that they discovered homosexuality in around nineteen ninety six. I think when those same sex kiss on the east enders yeah. Back in nineteen seventy-three. Alan had innumerable same sex kisses on the forty men that were often yes. So he was a pioneer he was sending. He's a generalist at heart and had a fascination with the paradox of being human he loved to travel yes but it was always about the people and he was scrupulous about balanced bart when it came to him covering a same sex in church blessing and to him being interviewed very vehemently by couple of gay women who thought that he was being a bit sexist and they took him to task on this and they had a wonderful conversation and everybody hogson made up. I mean this was incredibly pioneering for that time and we forget what an extraordinary maverick he was. I mean he as i understand. It was the first person to interview somebody identifying as being transgender. He was one of the early people to in a entertainment television documentary slot. Cover story that he'd he found when he was covering the kentucky who's race he hang on a moment. This story is about another kind of race. It's about a form of apartheid which was meaning that if you're black you aren't allowed to buy in nice white areas. And so he covered. That story changed the angle of is lens and moved off into another direction and All the time you know he's he's out and betters. The the bbc were were having kittens over his ability to to be to draw in massive audiences. No soap opera type winces of fifty million or something absolutely and above more than than coronation street and bring really Fresh controversial subjects into their their living rooms and he but he always went for the the moti point of view on any subject. He didn't he was not banging an agenda. Think a key point is is the way he treated his subjects. Because if you take asia league for just one example. They've been programs on television about it in the fifties and the sixties but they were very prurient. They took this view they would. They will hard line and these people were outside three centuries. There's a series about people in trouble is about homosexuality. Isn't that somehow. Yes and it's just another thing. And i think as james later on in the eighties when television i if you like discovered what we mean but is they discovered taking a much more sympathetic view of it but alindo redundant and he'd done it with so many of these subjects that he wasn't proven about it that he did go there and an offer quite a quite a wide ranging often very sympathetic view to two things that were being considered very very weird at one time. Yes an interesting point. Because he later in his career and actually as early as nineteen seventy-two the wicker island monty python. Sketch where the five guys all in a blazer and with a moustache and the trademarks of lenses and there was sort of there was a coziness but he wasn't cussing walls cozy he would. He would go. He would do some and luxury yachts but then are some pretty tough questions and ask people were happy and get some fantastic ounces. As he's he's never kind of comfy..
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"alan d" Discussed on Ephemeral
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"alan d" Discussed on Ephemeral
"So So there's a knife card right right there at spot. That's a big difference in Back to see sits in the when i write tabs out And along the way. I'll go wait a minute. Wait if i would. If i change it to this tuning it normally works out. I said wow. I could do it in this tuning instead. Pedal still guitar stuart all the time. Right they'd step on pedals can change a tuning for weinstock guitar. We normally stick to one tuning. Play the song that tuning so. That's a big difference for that john. You're on our genre. I should say still guitar. A big difference With the wind music to you those zondo's yeah Again it oh. People come up to me at my gigs or festivals and they say are even that an emails are tests. You just saw one where where somebody says you out so bummed in what yet i found. Anyone still guitar. Said he wasn't so good. You know And they replied from another person was well. He had mentioned as developing the next generation. And so on. But you know. There's a lot of really find still guitars in hawaii. Many bobby in gonnell greg side geena casey. Oh syn jeff. Alloy a young. That's been playing about two years and and he's incredible for somebody who's been playing for two years capone lopes. In fact i take him to mike festivals. Because not only. Can you play the guitar quite well. But he has an angelic voice. It's like wow. And then i have my kids me lyman. Ethan gore uae. Joey beside lead this porno fernandez. I have ho island mma hookah. She's an elementary school. Yeah have some elementary school students to but all of might next gen art school. Because of i guess you know the the the moment that you were born in sort of like the musical tradition that you were born into you were kind of in this special place to be a link from the past of steel guitar through the renaissance into the present. When you're teaching these kids i mean. Do you sort of feel like you're really linking them into this amazing past absolutely absolutely not only the kids but also any adult students. I mentioned the pass a lot. Or i'll bring out stories about people are new stars. I heard of people. You're of past musicians. United think is important especially for the young and you know what the young ones are. Are teaching them a lot of the more traditional or some of the olders songs Not so much a newer songs although their learning that too. But i think it's important to to keep these other songs alive because they're beautiful the messages The the poetry the melodic line the use of the chords. They're beautiful My student joey who also has a lovely voice. But i always ask her to do a certain song called noni ninety means beautiful and it was written by teacher who had these young students and she worked for the parks and recreation. So i guess it was a summer program but she fell in love with her. Young students had saw so she wrote this song. You know beautiful. Noni and the way joey that is like. Oh gosh we say over here. You know chicken. Skin chicken scan is like a goosepimples. okay jets. We still hot chick. Whenever i hear her sing. And you know she's only in the ninth grade you know..
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"alan d" Discussed on Ephemeral
"So like from.