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The Book Review
"amis" Discussed on The Book Review
"Will you? I mean, I, you know, I don't, I don't, you know, who, we don't need a lot more of it, but I look back on that generation. They're much more open. There's no, there were books of photographs, for example, that people took of writers in the eighties and the seventies and, and who is the photographer that is chronicling the lives of young writers now? Where are these people? Anyway, we're all curious about writers life to some degree. And I'm not talking about unwarranted intrusions, but you just felt that writers swam among us in a way then that they don't quite now. Dwight, I would love, I'm going to ask you both, but I'll start with Dwight just to talk to our readers, many of whom have probably read a ton of Amis, but where would you start or what do you think are the ones that tower above the rest? You talked about his London trilogy of novels, but yeah, probably money I think is a good one to start with. It's probably my favorite. That and the information are probably my favorite. The young sort of bitter, loudish ad man from London comes to the United States to make a film. But what it's really about is just this sort of ugly man's impressions of the entire world. Amis could, could fill a mind like that, like nobody's business and yet make the whole thing feel that you weren't wasting your time on, on just negative things and reading the work of a loser. You really felt the whole world pouring through his vision. And we've talked about the information, which gives Amis the chance in the same way that the Henry Beck books give Updike the chance to Updike famously said, who wants to read another book about a writer? You know, and he's, he's got a point. Every novelist has all these feelings about being a writer. And in the information Amis could let fly and all these things, the tours, the journalism, every aspect of it. And you felt that he had so much to say about that, that it's just continually fascinating.
The Book Review
"amis" Discussed on The Book Review
"And in these interviews, he was sort of unbuttoned in a way that no writer was, I would say, since Mailer probably. He was just willing to get out there and wrestle with public ideas. He was a I miss it. Someone said, I think it was the critic James Walcott, when Martin Amis had a new novel out late in his career, what you waited for were the interviews, because they were more fun than the novel usually. So Amis was lucky in the sense that people used to say about Ted Hughes, the poet, that he was lucky in his career to look like a poet. He just did. And the fact that he could write, he wouldn't have made it otherwise. But Martin Amis just looked like a snotty young mean novelist, which he was. We haven't really talked about how cruel he could be. And his books are kind of vicious in their observations. I think if you heard that he was reviewing you, you'd feel like you had the Red Baron on your tail. It'd be like finding that Ronan Farrow was running about you in the New Yorker or something. You know, if you had those sort of problems in your life. But anyhow, I miss his glamour. He was glamorous. He was funny. He was witty. He was shrewd. I just miss a lot of things about him. He also was part of this class of writers that in 1983 was named by Grant to Magazine as the best of young British novelists. It's a list they do every 10 years. It's like the sight and sound list. They just released another one a couple of months ago. And it was him. It was Ian McEwen and Julian Barnes and Salman Rushdie and Ishiguru. You, Dwight, wrote a review of a book called Circus of Dreams. Was that last year? It was a book that last year. And it was about this sort of 80s literary world. I'm also curious about he and the people around him other than him being this rock star author. What was the thing that tied this group of still very famous British novelists together, if anything? How did he fit into that group? Well, you know, they kind of broke through in a way. There was a kind of British fiction that was more domestic and hide bound in the 60s and 70s. A lot of terrific novels, but more domestic in their fiction, a little bit more staid, a little bit more careful. And these young voices were just Julian Barnes and Amos, especially Ishiguru, certainly Clive James, a critic is important one to mention. He was just an electric critic. Hitchens, of course, who never wrote fiction, but was a very literary person. And all of them were just a new breed. It was like Hollywood in the 60s. London in the 80s was like Hollywood in the 60s. This whole new generation rushed in and they weren't just talented. They were like attractive and they were flamboyant and they sort of burned the candle at both ends. And they were here to be alive. You know, there's some great quote, I think it's from Ian Drury, the rock star. I'm not here to be remembered. I'm here to be alive. And you kind of felt that about them, even though, of course, they all have one eye on posterity, but you felt them just burning out in real time. And it felt very, it was very attractive and very real. His biggest scandal, which now Dwight probably helped me with the details of this, but it seems very mysterious, was in the mid 90s. And it's when he fired, also represented a split in this group because he fired his agent and hired Andrew Wiley. And this agent was the wife of Julian Barnes and who also, I believe, was his dad's agent. And he signed for some preposterous amount of money. I forgot exactly what it was. It was something so absurd at the time, certainly to the authors around him, that I think it was A .S. Byatt, who went public to say, my books sell more than Martin Amis's books.
The Book Review
"amis" Discussed on The Book Review
"Very interested in nuclear arms. He had a little very serious essay at the which his dad hated. And then he has five short stories that are very much genre fiction. There's one kind of horror story about a giant dog who's a monster who kills one person from this village every week. And this is this post -apocalyptic novel. And then the last one is like just a comic monologue from the perspective of one of the last people on earth, which reads very much like Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks's 2000 year old man. And it's hilarious. It's hilarious. And it's we'll be right back. I'm Gilbert Cruz and I'm here with Dwight Garner, critic at The Book Review and Jason Ziniman, longtime comedy critic at The Times and co -host of the podcast, The Martin Chronicles. We are talking about the author, Martin Amis, who died recently at the age of 73. Dwight, in addition to publishing Amis your obituary this week, you also wrote a review collecting a bunch of columns from The Times Literary Supplement. And in your review, you have this line, his NB, which was the back page column at The Times Literary Supplement was not a gossip column, Campbell explains. He hoped never to see the words Martin and Amis in proximity. And he mostly lived up to that vow. I think you write that line because at least when he was living in England before he moved to Brooklyn, Martin Amis was for a time as known for being a man about town, part of these sort of young British lights as he was for being an author. I love gossip. I think you love gossip. I would love you to situate who he was in that context in the early and mid 80s. Yeah, his career in a lot of ways was sort of a gift to literary society because writers now, it's like the rich, conspicuous consumption. People play close to the vest a lot of times. And writers these days, more and more, don't want to have their opinions floating around. It's easier to get picked off in a variety of ways. Amis sort of lived in public to a large degree. First of all, he was extremely handsome, really great to look at. Women threw themselves at him from the start. You can imagine him being the lead singer in Oasis. He was that good looking. And he smoked and he drank and he partied. And he had these famous lunches in London with other literary lights. And he stayed out late. He looked cool with a cigarette. He would just seem to live and have more fun than most people. And writers envied that. And so at least once every two years, some blazing young critic would come crashing into Martin Amis and explode. Martin Amis would survive. Their careers often did not. But as he aged, he got married, he had children, but he always was willing to give interviews.
The Book Review
"amis" Discussed on The Book Review
"I need to go back to this book. What you don't see in the book that most people, the book, the collection that people point to is the war on cliche, which is great and has stuff from 40 years. But I think he cared more about who he was bothering at that point, later in his career. And so he didn't include a lot of those pieces. Dwight, he wrote 15 novels, which I want to dig into in a bit, but Jason brings up a wonderful point. In the latter part of his career, certainly he was as known and respected for his essays, his reviews, his criticism, something that you both know very well, as his novels. How did that kind of writing strike you? The criticism? Yes. Life changing. He's just the best critic of his era, I believe. And one of those rare writers, whenever we saw his byline in any publication, you just couldn't wait. You would buy the magazine because back when there were magazines on newsstands, you would see that he had a piece. He was on the cover of Talk Magazine or something. Of course, you would just pick that up. You felt that his criticism and his fiction weren't really at war with each other. He had the same voice in both, the same way of looking at the world. Good writers are often good critics because to bring back the idea of noticing and just being aware, he had a great sense of what made fiction work, what didn't make it work. And often his knowledge, the stuff he put into his criticism, you could feel playing out in his own books. I loved it when he wrote about writing. One of my favorite novels of his is The Information from 1995, which is about two warring writers, close friends, one of whom becomes successful, the other does not, in about the social and intellectual agony that results in financial. And there's just, but he's just so funny. My favorite scene in the novel, we all remember back when newspapers like the New York Times were, they were like watermelons.
The Book Review
"amis" Discussed on The Book Review
"Once I called it a quote, vow of poverty prose. Dwight, in your obit, you wrote that he was the most dazzling stylist in post -war British fiction. Talk to talk to us about that style. What made it memorable? What made it pop? Here's why a lot of people read. Here's why I read Amis was just a great noticer of things in the world. If an Amis character walks through an airport, walks into a gas station, walks into a 7 -Eleven, walks into a fish and ship shop, you know you're going to read impressions of all of these things in a way that probably no one's ever explained them before, at least not so sharply and so well. I've been in a room where people were talking about great sex writing and someone ran to get, I forget which early novel now, but there's some descriptions. I'm not even going to try to describe what they're about, but they're so vivid that they're just outstandingly outrageous and just so great you can't even believe it. He described John Updike once as kind of a norad sensibility, taking everything in from up above and I think Amis was one of those same kind of characters. His favorite writers were Saul Bellow, Nabokov and Updike and all three of those, I think all four of those writers I think belong in a certain kind of basket. Great noticers with an electric prose style wanted to, at the end of my review I quote, or there was a line that Amis writes about a different writer in one of his novels, but he didn't want to please his writers. Amis says about them, he wanted to stretch them until they twanged and that twang, that being stretched is part of what Amis does in his best fiction. Jason, I don't want to ask you too much about your early dating life, but you said you were introduced to the Rachel Papers by a girlfriend. What was your experience like reading it at the time and I assume you've had to revisit it in order to embark on this project you're doing now?
The Book Review
"amis" Discussed on The Book Review
"In the world of literature broke on Saturday, May 20, when we learned of the death of Martin Amis, one of the great British writers of the last half century. He burst onto the scene with the publication of The Rachel Papers in 1973 and published his last novel Inside Story in 2020. Of course, burst onto the scene is precisely the kind of cliche that Martin Amis would have loathed and he would have called me out on it. Along the way, Amis earned many more plaudits as a critic and an SAS of the first order. I gathered Dwight Garner, longtime book critic at the New York Times, and Jason Zitiman, a critic at large who is also one of the hosts of the Amis podcast, The Martin Chronicles, to talk about the author's life, work, and legacy. Dwight, thank you for being here. It's great to be here, Gilbert. Jason, thank you for being here. Great to be here. Dwight, you wrote a magnificent obituary of Martin Amis for the Times. I'd love you to distill that just that really sweeping piece of the man's entire life into a few minutes right for here our podcast listeners. Who was he? It was a big life. Martin Amis was well -known almost from birth in England, the literary scene, because his father was Kingsley Amis. The very well -known, the great comic masterpiece he wrote, Lucky Jim, it appeared in 1954. Kingsley Amis got older, got jolly, drank a lot, became a sort of well -known figure in London. Sometimes a figure of fun as he got older. He was a Tory and right -wing political commentator and yet always a very literary man. Martin grew up under the sign of his father, went to Oxford where he got a congratulatory first, which is a rare kind of, this is not an obituary, but a very rare kind of honor to get when you graduate reading English as he did, and went into the literary world scene in London, worked for the Times Literary Supplement and the New Statesman.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Do Leftists Support Borderless Societies?
"Is the name of your video ami is to the do they have names? Commenting on the loose. That's the generic name for me. Yeah, but is there a name for each video? Okay, anyway, this video is our borders racist. Leftist folks in the East Village in Manhattan and then went to central Americans in Mexico trying to get into the United States illegally and everyone of the central Americans said, of course they're not racist. Every country has to have borders. So I asked you right before the break. Did you have any extended discussion with any of these east village people? Not really. I mean, it is very rare that somebody will say something realizes to think stupid and say could you please not put that on, but sometimes they do and I don't put it on. No, no. You see, I couldn't help myself. I would pursue with them, is it racist for Mexico to have borders? Or Argentina? In other words, do they believe that for all countries? That's what to follow up, I would like to pose to them. I know the answer to that. Why? The answers would be half half, half the people would say we should have borderless societies, so they would say yes, they should have borders either. And the other half would say, no, no, no, they have to protect their culture. So therefore, they can have borders.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Ami Horowitz Debunks Myths About White Leftists and Black Americans
"The first part of that video that we don't have time to show here, but everybody should follow you at army Horowitz and armie Horace dot com. You interview white people also from New York and what do they tell you are me? You know, that video started off a series of videos I do where I where I show white people talking about black people and then talking about I talk to black people, the white people said. And across the board, every time I do it, it is the exact same thing. You have white people pontificating about the inability of black people to do a number of things. In this case, I walk around with ID. Or nowhere, the DMV is, or in some cases, I did one most recently I loved about black obesity. And I asked white people, why is there higher obesity rate in the black community and they tell me racism? I can't make stuff. They actually told me that black people stress eat because the amount of racism out there. That's not a joke. I didn't wait to hang on hang on. They said black people are overweight. Because they're stressed out because of white racist. That wasn't one person who told me that. That is a narrative that I heard. And then of course, I go to black community, and I asked them, I said, why is there higher black obesity than whether we see them? Because we eat the wrong foods. We don't have personal responsibility. Exactly what you and I would think the answer would be is common sense is why her from the black community as opposed to the liberal community who the white community says, we know better, listen to us. We know better than black people. That's the overarching theme every time I talk to white leftists about black people, that's they talk about black people don't know, we know better.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Ami Horowitz Describes the Current Situation in Israel
"The situation now in Israel politically? What's the situation like on the street? Is there hopes for the new administration? What's the atmosphere like army? Well, on the ground, as you can imagine, it is very, very tense, particularly in Jerusalem. Where I am, and I've got friends who look, their lifelong Israeli. They grew up here. They've been through this thing over and over again. And I was like, let's have dinner in Jerusalem like, I don't know if I'm comfortable coming into Jerusalem. Really? I mean, it's incredible. Yes. And in terms of the political side, it's look, it's not good. Right now, obviously the country is in turmoil over the issue with the judicial branch and their overhaul, judicial branch. And now you're adding this to it and it makes it even more complicated difficult. And frankly, it does give it does give both of the extreme sides of Israeli politics left and right gives them both ammunition. And it's no, it's not good. I'm not sure how long this government lasts to be honest.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
How Ami Horowitz Got Into the Business of 'Gonzo Journalism'
"Let's start at the beginning army for those who haven't caught our previous discussions here in America first. How did you get into the business of gonzo journalism? You know, it started with, I used to be an investment banker. I don't embarrass. And those kind of odd, what investment bank would hire ami Horowitz? I know it's weird. Wild, wacky stuff. What can I tell you? I worked on Lehman Brothers. So that goes to show you what they know. And one day I was actually watching a Michael Moore film bowling for Columbine and first I have seen it before. What were your politics at this point? What were you a politics army? Similar as today. My mother and my father raised me as a very serious patriot to always love this country and always defend the values of this country. That had never changed. But when I was watching this movie, boys were called by by Michael Moore, I was thinking about the United Nations and how screwed up the UN is, how it's really failed its mission around the world to protect people. And I was thinking, how do I get this message across? I was just kind of thinking about it and obsessing about it. And I looked over at the screen, I saw Michael Moore's movie as different as his politics are for mine. I realized that this was a very, very good medium. This idea of a dark documentary, a comically dark documentary, shot on location, where you can expose a particular issue. And I thought, this is my mission in life. I literally, this is a Saturday night. One day I quit my job, said, and I said, I'm going to raise money and make this movie raise several $1 million. We made this movie shot her around the world and it was a success. It was in 40 theaters around the country. And what was your background in making movies, army? I saw a bunch of movies. Does that count?
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Seb Welcomes Self-Described 'Gonzo Journalist' Ami Horowitz
"Horowitz. Welcome back to America first. It's always a pleasure. How are you, my friend? It's good. I apart from you telling me before we came on air that I'm not allowed to say happy new year to you. Well, we can say happy new year to you because happy new year, army. Well, happy new year to you. You happy now. You happy you made me do it. As long as your mother is happy. We have so much to discuss. It's been far too long since you've been on the show. I'm so glad to have you on one on one. But let's stop for a moment. Can you walk us through that amazing experience of you on one of the most famous universities in America, if not the world, with two flags, one of ISIS, Islamic state, and one of Israel. Can you tell us the kinds of responses you got from the young men and women on campus in California? Yeah, that was an incredible experience. And I would even say that was the video that kind of pushed me in the direction of exposure of the hard left. Because the social experiment and what I began with was hidden cameras, right? So don't know they're being filmed. And in the first part of the video, I flew the ISIS flag. And to make sure they knew what the ISIS flag was, I was in fact chanting, let's kill for ISIS, come fight for ISIS. I represent ISIS. Let's kill Americans together. And I got one of two responses. Either nothing, or I got support, including from somebody who looked like a professor. And a bunch of students. Now, of course, one would think, well, you know, it's Berkeley, they're kind of used to crazy people. So, you know, maybe they were just kind of going for a day and say, here's another crazy person. So the second part of the experiment was when I went back the next day with hidden cameras again and I flew the Israeli flag. But instead of getting people simply ignoring me or even supporting me, I got invective thrown down for me from the moment I unfurl the flag,
Revolutions
"amis" Discussed on Revolutions
"Has changed a lot since I started revolutions. They definitely hit the mainstream long after I started the show. Back when I was doing the history of Rome, and even in the early days of revolutions, I would tell people what I do and they would say, oh, what's a podcast? And I would have to explain it to them. It's like an on demand radio show. But then, as I continued on with revolutions, I got to a point where I would say, oh, I do a podcast and people get excited and say, oh, I've heard of podcasts. Those are really cool. What's yours about? Of course, these days we've hit the stage right. Hesitate to tell people that I'm a podcaster because people will say, oh, podcasts, everybody's got a podcast. And when I look ahead to the future, one of my goals in life is to still be podcasting at the point when they're response becomes podcast people are still podcasting, and I will say, yes I am. So does that mean there's going to be another podcast? Well, yes, of course there's going to be another podcast. Over the course of my many travels and many conversations, there is one topic that far outstrips all the others. That is the question of what am I going to do next? Mike, what are you going to do next? Please tell us what the next podcast is going to be. And I've always laughed and said, ah, yes, there's going to be another podcast, but no, I'm not telling you what it's going to be. I'm keeping that a secret. Well, the time for keeping secrets is over. It's time to tell you what I'm going to be up to next because it is in fact all lined up. For a while now, the great writer, historian, and presidential biographer Alexis Coe, and I have had a little mutual appreciation society thing going. A few months ago, she asked what I was doing after revolutions, and I said, I had some notions, but nothing seemed to be fitting exactly right. So we got to talking, and we got to talking about working together, and we hit upon a very simple idea. Simplest idea in the world, really. We both love history. We both love books. We both love history books. We love talking about history books. We love writing, history books. And so, we are going to team up to talk about history books. This new team of Duncan and co is going to talk about new history books and old history books and big history books and little history books. But that's what we're going to do. We're going to start a podcast where we talk about history books. These things that are so near and dear to our hearts, and which I know are very near and dear to your heart too. Now as soon as we started talking about this idea, I got very excited. The idea of talking with somebody of Alexis caliber, about history books every week, just seems
Revolutions
"amis" Discussed on Revolutions
"Due to be handed in until late 2020. This meant that when push came to shove, the book is always what got pushed and shoved. So by the end of 2019, I was like rut row. I am failing to do two things at once here. So I decided to carry the story of the Russian Revolution through the end of 1905, and then take 6 months off to finish the book, and as you might remember, this is almost precisely when COVID broke in February and March of 2020. So just as I commenced this hiatus, we entered a long lockdown period. 23 hour a day lockdowns in Paris, which is when I wrote the first third of hero of two worlds. There was nothing else to do. Now, as you also may remember, things became quite a bit more complicated for me in September 2020. Just as I was meant to be finishing the book manuscript and returning to the podcast, my right kidney revolted. It produced stones so large they could not be passed and I needed surgery. Also, the manuscript wasn't done yet. The French had also lifted the lockdown over the summer and then entered second lockdown in the fall, so I was bouncing in and out of French clinics and hospitals and pharmacies getting COVID tests and blood tests and then twice being on an operating table. It was all quite grueling to be honest. It was not until December 2020 that I emerged from this ordeal, manuscript finished and my health mostly restored. If you ever want to relive the fine details of all this, go check out the episode. What happened? But that turned out not to be the end of it. Roundabout late February or early March 2021, my other kidney revolted. Same deal, stone's too big to pass. Only this time we had the added complication that we had plane tickets book to return to the United States set for April 18th.
Revolutions
"amis" Discussed on Revolutions
"We're a combination of ancient and modern political virtues churned up in the renaissance and the enlightenment were given real political force. Liberal institutions like constitutions and bills of rights and participatory political assemblies. We have great ideals like liberty and equality. This is when Republicans challenge kings, popular sovereignty challenges divine right, subjects become citizens, colonies become independent states. This period is also linked to liberalism and the rise of capitalism. The transformation of social systems and economic systems to produce bourgeois democracies. The rule of parliamentary systems controlled by the capital owning class. All of it produced the institutions and values necessary to build the modern world to build a world better and freer than the world that came before us. But if that's all that was ever needed, then there wouldn't have been anything left to say. But there was a lot left to say. Because we know it's not that easy or clear cut. And while this revolutionary period from the 1760s to the 1820s produced good answers to the political question, it also paved the way for a society left with an even bigger question. The social question. And so part one gives way to part two when revolutionary energy passes from liberals to socialists. The two groups were ultimately born of the same parents, liberty, and equality. It's just that liberals came to believe that with the political question answered, liberty and equality had been achieved. But socialists looked around and say, how can liberty and equality exist in a world of such torturously destructive inequality? It's a good question to ask. So part two mostly gets going with the revolutions of 1848, which are simultaneously liberal political revolutions against archaic medieval empires, but also the first time we see organized socialists and anarchists challenging the nature of capitalism and the social order. The 19th century was born of a massive cataclysmic all encompassing war, which gave way to a life of iron and steel and coal. The rest of the long 19th century is battles over land and mines and factories and railroads and docks. It's no longer just about taxes and parliaments. It's about the meaning of human dignity in society's rapidly transformed by the industrial revolution. And people have often asked me how revolutions has changed my own beliefs. And one thing I'll definitely say is that everything I've covered since 1848 has helped me emerge from a narrow minded and parochial liberalism that was focused exclusively on the political question. I figured as long as there was a strong constitutional order, a Bill of rights, the rule of law, independent courts and citizen participation in the crafting of legislation, that that was freedom.
Revolutions
"amis" Discussed on Revolutions
"I mean, honestly, it's impossible to beat. On September 28th, 2015, two things happened. First, my daughter was born. I've got two kids, and that's all the kids I'm ever gonna have. So already here we're talking about a day of miraculous joy that is only even matched by one other day. But then about 6 hours after she was born, I got a call from Rachel, saying public affairs would like to buy your book. Now this is pure insanity. I've wanted to write a book since I was a kid, so this call represents maximum lifelong wish fulfillment, and it is taking place just hours after the birth of one of my two children. So the idea that this day can be topped, just beggars belief. When else am I going to arrive at a day that tops the combo of a, the birth of one of my two children and be the sale of my first book, plus a third thing of equal measure to make it the greatest day of my life. This is not going to happen. It's like somebody topping Johnny van der meer's record of two consecutive no hitters by throwing a third consecutive no hitter. This is not going to happen. It's an odd thing to know that you've already lived the greatest day of your life, but man, what a day that was. Now after she was born, I took 8 weeks paternity leave and then dropped the first episode of the Haitian revolution in December of 2015. Now I've said this many times in many places, but Haiti was a story that transformed me. It transformed my worldview. When it comes especially to my understanding of European and Atlantic history, my life has strong before the Haitian revolution and after the Haitian revolution vibes. Very early I was reading about the big whites of saint domingue, these large estate owners and major merchants of the colony and I was like, oh, I see, John Hancock and George Washington are big whites, aren't they? Oh, yes, they are.
Revolutions
"amis" Discussed on Revolutions
"You could press play, come back a week later, and it would still be running. That's kind of crazy. Now as for the word count, the final transcript of the history of Rome is about 685,000 words. The combined transcripts for revolutions, which I should mention, are offensively mismanaged even by my own dismal standards, total up to 1.5 million words. I have written 1.5 million words while doing the revolutions podcast. So do I regret having the initial plan break down so comprehensively? I absolutely do not. It's one of the greatest things that's ever happened to me. Some of those 1.5 million words and 190 hours of content in 342 episodes are some of the best and most rewarding work I have ever done in my life. Now the initial plan, in fact, broke down almost immediately. After publishing episode 1.1 in September of 2013, I started getting frustrated how many things I was compressing and skipping over to squeeze my account of the English revolution into a mere 15 episodes. At looking back, I now know, the first season could have easily been 50 episodes. That's how rich and dense and complicated it all is. But I moved on to the American Revolution in early 2014, and as I did, I was doing my initial research for the French Revolution and concluded that there was no point in trying to stick to the 15 episode format. If trying to fit the English revolution into 15 episodes was frustrating, trying to fit the French Revolution into 15 episodes would be impossible. And so I asked myself the honest question, well, what kind of life are you trying to live here? If the complexity of these historical details are what's exciting you so much, why deny yourself these most delicious fruits, I mean, after all, it is your show. Do you want to live a life where you needlessly torture yourself over rules that you yourself created? And I responded nay sir, I shall not live in this way. And so I did not. So in my opinion, the revolutions podcast really begins with episode 3.1. When people ask me, where they should start revolutions, I tell them, start at season three. That's when it gets good. That's when
Revolutions
"amis" Discussed on Revolutions
"The final episode add you. I published the first episode of the revolution's podcast on September 15th, 2013. By the time that first episode aired, I had known about the show for about two years. I conceived of the idea while taking a class at the University of Texas, a story I told back in appendix one. When I did my year of grad school at Texas state, I took a course on the Mexican revolution my first semester because I already knew what I was going to do after I graduated. My plan was to get a master's degree in public history and then go off and do this podcast about great revolutions. Instead, less than a year later, misses revolutions was offered a great job in Madison. She took it, I dropped out of grad school, and we moved north in the spring of 2013. This advanced the timeline of when I thought revolutions would happen, but revolutions was definitely happening. And when we moved, it was time for it to happen. Now when we moved, we decided it would be okay for me to not go look for another day job. I had always had day jobs while working on the history of Rome. Advertising had entered the picture way back in 2009, but I always clung to the security of keeping a real job. But when we move from Austin to Madison, we decided that I should not go out applying for jobs. That instead I should take a crack at podcasting full-time. We looked at the revenue I would need to be able to generate to make up for those missing wages, and agreed that I could have one year to try to replace that income. Just to see if it could be done. If, after a year, I was not successful and I wasn't making up the wages, then I could just go find another job. But if it worked, then I could do this thing where I get to podcast full time. Now, this was not a small thing or an easy decision to make. Our son was just turning one at this point. This is not the most sensational time to decide, oh, I'm going to abandon financial security and go chase a dream. But the dream at least seemed plausible. After all the history of Rome had been quite successful. So there I was in the summer of 2013 with this utterly helpless baby bouncing in my lap and I was just saying, well, okay, here I go. Let's go work without a net. This is a great time to be doing this. I spent the spring and summer of 2013 as a stay at home dad, reading voraciously about the English revolution during nap time, and in between trips to the park and the children's museum.
Revolutions
"amis" Discussed on Revolutions
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Mark Levin
Malley Allowing Sanctions to Be Lifted Over Terrorists in Iran Deal
"He goes on These people have told him what's happening in Vienna is a total disaster one warned The entire negotiations had been filtered and essentially run by the Russians Russian diplomat Mikhail yola nav The concessions and other misguided policies have led three members of the U.S. negotiating team to leave In other words to resign This is a long and technical threat he says but here's what you should know The deal being negotiating at Vienna is dangerous to our own national security It is illegal It is a legitimate and in no way serves U.S. interests in either the short or long term Here's why Led by Robert malley that's the name The U.S. has promised to lift sanctions on some of the regime's worst terrorists and torturers Leading officials in the regimes weapons of mass destruction infrastructure and is currently trying to lift sanctions on the Republican guard itself He said now let's dive in first Biden's team is preparing to rescind the supreme leader's office executive order as soon as this coming Monday It lifts sanctions on nearly every one of the 112 people in entity sanctioned under it even if their sanctioned under other legal authorities We sanctioned some of the worst people you can possibly imagine under this authority Like motion razor who was involved in the 1994 AMI a bombing that killed 85 people in Argentina He'll be able to live free of sanctions next week if Robert malley proceeds
The Dan Bongino Show
Ami Horowitz: Democrats Are Alienating Black and Hispanic Communities, Becoming More Conservative
"The beauty of this is that they are eroding what has always been the stalwart part of their own party which is the minorities They have been alienating them And we've already seen we've seen this already the Hispanic community where this whole idea of them saying hey let's bring in as many legal immigrants as possible is now backfiring because the second and third generations are all moving away from the Democratic Party And that is going to in the near term we're going to kill them In the longer term I think you're starting to see an erosion even the black community And I think things like the things that I'm doing is that that's why I do what I do Is to create that fault line that truly exists because the reality is most black people are more conservative tendencies than liberal tendency That's the actual truth And what I think we have to do is kind of put a fine point on that It's not that I'm getting the white liberals to say the quiet part out loud They've been saying the quiet part out for a while I'm just putting a very fine point on it and saying to people of black community these people do not serve your interest They really do not And they're starting to get it You can see an erosion in that support and that will kill them going forward not just these midterms or the next presidential election But I'm talking long term And that's why our goal should be
The Dan Bongino Show
Ami Horowitz: Joe Biden, Democrats Weaponize Their Own Bigotry
"I mean if someone on this show were to come out and say listen I just don't think black people are smart enough to get driver's license You would see The Huffington Post understandably lose their mind You shouldn't say stuff like that And you shouldn't But when the left says it and they mean it like they're not kidding I mean you've done these interviews with these white liberals I've seen tons of these man on the street things Where they're committed to this idea that like you said there's no sense of agency there that they're somehow inferior which is the very essence of what racism is Is it not It's exactly what it is In fact they've oddly weaponized their own bigotry in that you listen to a Joe Biden say that well if you're against voter ID then you're a you stand in favor of Jim Crow This is Jim Crow You are Jefferson Davis Do you remember what he just said recently Their own bigotry the problem is that they don't they are so tone deaf They're so tone deaf and how the American public views them that they don't realize that they've become a laughing stock because they can say it all day long No one in America other than the left truly believes In any way shape or form that not having voted for ID laws is Jim Crow They're laughing stock But they don't realize
The Dan Bongino Show
Ami Horowitz: The Left's Party Line Is Black People Are Purely Victims
"Part of I spend a lot of time on issues around race It animates me it's important to me And in particular how the left views black people right So like you said in the segment leading to this they're always ready to jump on the races and where we're all racist Of course when we're all racist no one's races but of course they don't understand the nuance of that But when you ask them white leftist the people who have the white savior complex about what they think about black people across the board actually voter ID but I just did a video a couple weeks ago about black obesity The condescension the patronizing that exists The implicit racism of the left is institutional dogma for them that black people have no agency Their victim of circumstance and nothing more That's their party line Literally And that's what's important to
The Dan Bongino Show
Ami Horowitz Street Interviews Confirm Black People Can Get an I.D., Challenging Democrats' Voting Concerns
"Is a pleasure You are the creator of one of our favorite videos audios we use in my podcast and this radio show I'd like to play a kitchen Can we play about 30 seconds of it This is an ami horwood special folks Ami does some of the best man on the street interviews ever And abi wanted to challenge the assertion by the Democrats at voter ID is racist because black people seemingly can't get an ID which Amy and I both find kind of strange So he went out on the street and these are the results he got played about 30 seconds of this gym Check this out You have ID normally Yes that's a good idea Do you carry ID Yes I do Do you know anybody who doesn't carry any No And one that I know has an ID Why would they think we don't have ID That's a lie Why would they say that Do you have ID Yes Wow And my Friends had their agreement We know what we need to carry around Everybody have ID So that goes on for a long time It's a spectacular video When you go out on the street and you ask American citizens who happen to be black hey can you go get ID Did they look at you like your bonkers Like you've got ten heads like of course I can get an ID
AP News Radio
UK police say a man has died in incident where lawmaker was stabbed in eastern England
"Meeting with his constituents have site which is conservative lawmaker David amis died after being stopped at Belfast Methodist church in a residential area of the on C. a seaside town east of London please confirm that a man was arrested in a knife was recovered police announced that they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incidents and do not believe there is an ongoing threat to the wider public aerial footage showed several ambulances and an ambulance was waiting nearby to the church Karen Thomas London
AP News Radio
British lawmaker stabbed while holding meetings with constituents
"Reports have emerged that the British lawmaker has been stabbed during a meeting with his constituents wishes police confirmed that a man has been arrested off to the stopping any sin England's Sky News reported that conservative lawmaker David Amos Wilson will make cuts heights at Belfast Methodist church in Leigh on sea the seaside town east of London amis's London office confirmed the police and ambulance had been called but had no other details Amos has been a member of parliament Philly on C. since nineteen ninety seven but has been only because since nineteen eighty three two other British lawmakers have been attacked in the past twenty one years during their regular meetings nine the surgeries when local members of that area can present concerns and complaints Karen
Hyperbrole: A Comedy Advice Podcast
"amis" Discussed on Hyperbrole: A Comedy Advice Podcast
"Like we all have a bit of a renewed appreciation and excitement for live entertainment because we were robbed of it for so long so i can't wait to see people. Yeah oh and i have a new net flicks. Show call baking impossible. I i'm hosting and it's kind of a combination of baking like engineering which to me is really what magic is so. It's kind of finally a it. Finally a culinary magical lovechild coming on. October eight impossible fantastic. I cannot wait to feast my eyes on that on that. Yeah tasty once. i'm once i'm full from these quotes. Once they get expelled than i can feel the brain stomach and then the icing or go down here. you're welcome. I was not good with anatomy so wide here is where i'm saying. Yeah we're up here. You got it excellent for all of you guys thinking. Where am i gonna find all this stuff. That's going to be in the show now. It's just go over there. Click show knows love. Show some support. And that's the episode. Thank you guys so much for listening for hanging in there. Strapping yourselves in for the whole episode. Keeping those arms and legs inside of your vehicle. I can't just say how good you are to your parents. That's why i'm gonna put all these gold stars in your report card. You can take it home. Tell mommy daddy yourselves but if you guys wanna reciprocate those stars you'd feel free to go onto apple podcasts or youtube and you can leave stars in the comments or just leave those stars on apple. Podcast leave review subscribe. Tell you friends share wherever you can and justin willman. Don't forget to support him. He's on his live magic humans tour and there's a link in the show for tour dates also check him out on net flicks and support him. Okay my friends. Thank you so much. Mona amis mes amis. What the plural is. I don't speak french. I don't know why keep trying to make french happen. I'm like gretchen. Weiner of podcasting. But i'm going to go fetch glass of water and let you guys. Just be and ruminate on this wonderful episode. Thank you guys so much. Big gooch smooch ma..
Sodajerker On Songwriting
"amis" Discussed on Sodajerker On Songwriting
"Lovely. Masha of stylistic elements in your right know whether it's kind of a latin trump break or a slice it saw or whatever those decisions you make in the writing process or just focused on getting the song right before you start to incorporate those things i mean. I think we're just like so excited music. I mean i always say to people that i go and nearby one any rules famille at being in a band was because i didn't want to have any normal constraints of that we as not feed expected to do it was just like the so much music. The air in so many sanzar their things. They're like i've been going on for years and years and years. A bit greatness omer web crack drive in the band insane like on a wet batak really row hive. Yeah and every time. I say joining just goes like she shakes his head off. She still fucking web crack. That's just naff anomaly. Shove tell you that web cock who committed some point it will turn out somewhere tax record but no we just love things and we just lost zones and you know it's like for instance like when we did some our son and we had those bales we were working on moore chain things like aw yet. That's pure model. let's go completely and then ended up. George didn't amis beck's on on summer sun we back and it's hysterical native way dot willie donna summer with his sample mr his yes so it was quite good because they'd be go cynical. We get permission to use like prevent. So yeah there's nothing that i feel that we can't at a don't mean that in an odd way i mean that in a rules. Wait as know when ramstein dancing less than we'd get this song and we think you're like ooh i'm staying. I sent chest. And how does that work. And then it was like as soon as they had songs like. Yeah that's dead. Always watch because it's skinny vocal set together musically. My voice sitting within that tight will set the exact rate place and it's just feel not so admit that they were trying to create and then physically can something this hard carton in your face to suddenly good. I'm gonna let you breathe. So i'm going to sing into this space and i'm just going to open up. Lay you'd be than that gap that send the soul so is very very physical thing the right and for me you know. Obviously if you joining ask cam a bit would as for him for me. It's really physical. And especially when i sing in. I'll actually when assaying a pu. The feeling from like i knew of feelings come from a fingers are novus gorny like such macos all the way up my legs but is gonna stop sat level. Yeah a pu disowns from betsy. My body and officer back. Send her back send. It comes up with my hair. i. I'm gonna sing like is if i'm gonna vomited. I'm like i mean so. It's a really really physical thing with me. Don't make stupid shapes. When i'm saying i mean in my mind and my mind that's good..
The Life of A Makeup Artist
"amis" Discussed on The Life of A Makeup Artist
"That's that's all you need. You just need some hair your browse a little gloss a little glow and you're good literally. Yeah so imagine by that. For for thirty years people coming in and out and just like leaving with such drippin's flagging confidence. It was just different. Yeah i love that Mean your mom's. I gone but i wanna talk about. She'd range on inclusivity. We touched on it briefly in a throughout tempted to network in you know development with cost to me. I always say if you're brenda is not inclusive box. I cannot adalina c. o. brand. I would never put it in my kid. I just. I don't see you. But i think you know what is so amazing about your product is that it's so diverse it so a construction. Obviously i played with it for quite some time now. Can we talk a little bit more about you. Know what shade range on inclusivity means. Because i think that it's i think it's kind of becoming like these words that people love to say but i'm just like whatever you auction doing. You know what i mean like. What are you actually doing to be inclusive to have a proper shade. Range doesn't mean fifty shades of grey. It needs fifty shades or even less. Maybe it's forty. Maybe it's ten babies five but it's shaved can work. You know what i mean. Still i just wanna. I would love to hear your opinion on that little. Ask somebody thoughts in that especially again being a deeper skin. Tone at like not to detract from your your your question. But i felt so deeply in love with skin in skin care because for a long time i just was not seen was not a part of the conversation so i pivoted into skincare so heavily and then came back to makeup and beauty when i realized i can do my themselves when it comes to shane inclusivity. I think that's to your point in terms of industry standard. It's definitely have become these marketing jargons terms around Especially as we say the postman to era. It took a lot of convincing prior to.
Dressed: The History of Fashion
"amis" Discussed on Dressed: The History of Fashion
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Mark Levin
H.R. 1 Is a Democrat Political Grab to End Thought-Diversity
"To destroy The political And philosophical diversity of the states. A direct shot in the heart of our constitutional system. Go ahead. At this point, um, state legislatures, as you referenced across the country are passing away of anti voter laws based on the same they're not. They're not passing anti voter laws. That's why would a red state the anti voter, if it's mostly Republican? Does that make any sense to anyone when you don't want their passing anti voter laws? Oh, yeah. Yes, they are. They're making it impossible to vote. You know Michael Steele so damn! What did he can't come up with a voter? I d Oh, my goodness. Also, what's his problem? And signature verification. We can't have that. That's Jim Crow. We cannot man and so literacy test to compare somebody shouldn't and you know, it's amazing. They're the ones that come up with red tape pile after pile of regulation. If you actually earn money and pay enough in taxes, you've got to look at the tax code under penalty of perjury yet to sign your your tax returns, so If you have a complicated return, you actually have to hire people because you don't know what the hell is going on. But getting a voter ID. My God, how they're gonna get. They can't afford that. How are you going to get a voter ID? This is Washington. The so called phony think tanks. The ideologues and the media. You go into various communities. Ami Horowitz has done it gets gone in the black community. Given what our idea Yeah, man, why are you asking me such a stupid question? Because these people aren't in the neighborhoods or the hood. They're not in the suburbs are nowhere. They talk to each other. It's pathetic. It's sickening. They represent nobody. But they get power. Go ahead.
AP News Radio
Israel To Swear In Government, Ending Netanyahu’s Long Rule
"In Jerusalem opinions are split over the vote on the new government ending prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's twelve year rule Neftali Bennett the head of a religious ultra nationalist party is designated to take over as prime minister with the eight parties including a small Arab faction primarily United only by their opposition to the Likud leader but Houston resident Michael damn isn't behind the plan telling the AP he doesn't think the coalition will lost more than a month in contrast Sharon slack when is excited about the new development it's an example of fad Israelis living together co existence you know from all that spectrum of our nation's another symbol to Gilad Ben ami ability success is not a foregone conclusion I wish them luck I'm Charles the last month
Morning Edition
In the 'Shout at Cancer Choir,' No Voice Boxes Needed
"Their voice boxes to cancer have formed, acquire a new documentary profiles them and Stephanie O'Neill reports. Subject way, starting here on it. What? What? In this scene of the new documentary. Can you hear my voice? Members of the shouted cancer choir in the UK warm up before a sold out concert at London's historic Tabernacle Theater, Andrew All right, there are no velvety voice crooners in this bunch. All have undergone Lear inject Amis or voice box removal to treat cancer. Procedure leaves them breathing through a surgically created hole in the front of the neck. And they require a voice prosthesis to speak. Did what do you want? You want you? Thank you. Requires a brainchild of Dr Thomas More's an ear, nose and throat specialist and lifelong singer Wars is executive director of Shout at Cancer, a London based support and rehab group. For Larry Inject me patients. I'll remember quite well. When I first suggested, Let's form a choir. There is former with laughter and surprise and this belief It just seemed ridiculous that you would expect with people with no voice boxes to stand up and sing in a coId. That's Sarah Boden Evans. She's one of a handful of choir members who share their personal cancer journey with Pasadena filmmaker Bill Brummel himself aware injected me patient. The Peabody Award winning an Emmy nominated documentarian lost his voice box in 2016. I couldn't imagine How I wouldn't work. After Larry injected me. I couldn't imagine walking around in public with a hole in my neck. Liz Summers is a speech and language therapist for shouted cancer. The voice is a really essential part off who we are and how we express ourselves. And there's an enormous sense of loss that can occur when somebody loses their their natural voice of the voice they had before speaking through the tiny
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
Ami Ayalon Hasn’t Given Up on the Two-State Solution
"I mean i alone. Born in tiberius in nineteen forty five three years before israel was founded and raised on a kibbutz spent most of his military career with the israeli navy's commando unit shot at thirteen eventually becoming its commanding officer. He served in the six day. War the yom kippur war and on many other operations. I alone is one of only forty soldiers to have been awarded the medal of valor. Israel's highest decoration for battlefield gallantry one during a raid on an egyptian radar station in the gulf of suez in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine later in his career. Ireland was the admiral commanding israel's navy and from nineteen ninety-six to two thousand director of the shin bet. Israel's internal intelligence service. He had a subsequent stint in politics and in two thousand seven neely became leader of israel's labor party as i alone demonstrates in remarkable new memoir. Come manifesto he has grown over. That journey progressively less interested in waging war. Much more so in making peace. His book friendly fire how israel became its own. Worst enemy is a hard headed argument of ireland's hard won understanding that for israel. Peace with palestine is not merely a morally righteous aspiration but i national security imperative existential importance.
Mo Egger
A.J. Green keeps future with Bengals up in the air: 'Who knows what is going to happen?'
"Green had a decent game yesterday He after the game was Noncommittal about his future is going to help him with that. Aj thank you. i love you. You're going to be thirty three years old next year. See it's not here not here. I mean this is. This is not something that's franchise should have to wrestle with. I do think you referenced atkins before. I do think one of the most interesting off season questions is do they move on from a guy who played a whopping seven snaps yesterday and they are roughly thirty million dollars to over the next two years. Do they move on tough. How do you not you have to start moving on from old bed players. You're your goal for the next. Three games should be to figure out who you on this roster that you can go with. It's not no atkins gino watkins. It's not going to be jay green next year them. We just we just let go of back in two thousand fifteen. They were good because for years. It seems like that's driven. The strategy gives them rewards player but andrew. Whitworth give your young lineman chance. Give some linebackers chanson and go from that. You have to figure out what you have. At some capacity because of all the whole we just mentioned in the last segment with the new england patriots cling to jeans seconds to about the current state of their team which is not great but would they cling to gino atkins. Because it used to be good a long time ago no or because. They felt like they owed him something with the pittsburgh. Steelers no with the baltimore ravens with lynn. The san francisco forty nine know what. Zack taylor's old teams. Move on move on from expense. Ami did it last year underperforming players. The dolphins were oh and seven and tanking moved on. Yes people what are they taking doing this publicly. Okay there now. Competing there in the playoff hunt. They went toe to toe with the chiefs. Like they're in a better position. I think there's a place in the nfl for jay green. I do on like a two year deal green bay or something. I don't know that there's a place in the nfl for gino acts
60-Second Science
Early Mammals Had Social Lives, Too
"Six million years ago a group of small mammals huddled in a borough in. What's now montana. They were good diggers most likely furry and petite. They could sit comfortably in the palm of your hand. I mean if you saw them running around today you probably think it looks like a small rodent of some sort like a chipmunk or or a a mouse or or something like that lucas. Weaver is a mammal paleobiologist at the university of washington. These little creatures didn't belong to any of the three main mammal groups on the planet today. Which are the placental. Mammals like us monitoring like the platypus and marsupials like koalas and kangaroos. Instead they belong to another now. Extinct group called the multi to berkowitz their teeth. Is what really distinguishes them from. From any other group of mammals they have these really bizarre molars with these multiple bumps on on the teeth which is where they get their name. Multi typically it just means many bumps. weaver in his colleagues have studied the fossilized skulls and skeletons of these animals dug up in montana. And they've given him a name. Philippe amis prime. Mavis friendly or neighborly mouse. The details are in the journal. Nature ecology and lucien. Weaver says drought or climate. Change may have killed the animals though. It's hard to be sure. But the critters were fossilized together in ways that suggest they sought out each other's company. That's a big deal because it's commonly thought that social behavior didn't arise in mammals until after the death of the dinosaurs. Ten million years after these smokers hung out together the narrative for decades his been that mammals that were living during the dinosaurs were mostly solitary rat like creatures that were kind of scuttling the night under the foot of dinosaurs. In so the fact that we're finding these multi berkeley mammals totally unrelated ancient group mammals. That's apparently exhibiting social behavior means that this was probably not uncommon among these early mesozoic mammals. And it kind of changes. The narrative of sociology is somehow unique to placental mammals. Even today social behavior is relatively rare among mammals but these findings suggest the need for company in some mammalian species is an ancient