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"david mamet" Discussed on podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
"I'm just, I'm willing to leave it up to the director what they want to show and then try to figure out what they're trying to do by showing and not showing various things. As Scott suggested and Zabigail also talked about let's move on to Christopher Nolan here. I guess I'll say a few words my own thoughts. So I have not seen Tenet, believe it or not and I have not seen Interstellar which a lot of people probably find surprising. I've seen the Dark Knight trilogy I've never seen Insomnia I have seen Memento and I think Scott, did we see Memento together back in 2000? Yes, I believe with the Egyptians where they wouldn't let us in it was one of the things where we had to be there because they wouldn't let us in if we got there late. So Seattle had such a wonderful film scene back in those days and I think that's mostly gone now Yeah, Harvard Exodus is gone Seven Gables is gone it's unfortunate but yeah at the time I moved to New York City what I said was that the quality of films available in New York was better but the quality of the theatres was not nearly as good as Seattle a lot of those theatres in the Village showing good movies had like no... I remember when I saw Dardan's movie Lothant there was a guy who was like 6'5 sitting right in front of me and the seats didn't slope at all so I had to go back and see the movie twice so Seattle had a combination of pretty good selection of movie with incredible independent theatres but alas there's a reason that cities don't have really nice independent theatres and that apparently you can't make any money off of them that unfortunately we're pretty much down to multiplexes although I was able to see The Irishman at the Cinerama which closed during the pandemic but apparently there's rumours that it's being reopened so hopefully we will at least get that back but that was pretty awesome so that allowed me to see a well over 3 hour movie that also did not that felt much shorter so yeah as somebody who laments the length of Hollywood product these days it goes to show that some movies are as long as they need to be so we have now two exceptions anyway sorry so back to the original question before I watch this movie what are my top three Nolan films I would say Inception, Dunkirk and Dark Knight and I think for two of those Inception and Dark Knight they very firmly fall into what Abigail is I think you're describing as movies that feel cerebral without being super cerebral Inception is definitely that way I love it nevertheless and I watch it a lot and I think he got some really great performance, where was Tom Hardy in this movie isn't Tom Hardy, he's supposed to be in every single Christopher Nolan movie and he wasn't here that was very disappointing both of those films are very much this feel cerebral without really being cerebral I think Dunkirk is maybe a little bit different but I can see why people would have that kind of criticism of his films that there is this middle brow aspect where you want to come out thinking that this movie was smarter than it actually was when in fact it was much more conventionally plotted and conventionally structured than you're willing to let on I could buy that argument makes sense to me and I think that the argument as applied to this film here also makes sense I think, I don't know, Dunkirk and I'm curious to your thoughts Scott having just seen it because I also recently rewatched it too you know, Dunkirk is a pretty complicated movie I think and maybe the movie that I would say comes closest to escaping that it's complex structure and how it handles some pretty interesting realities but that just maybe how I'm thinking about it right now Abigail, what do you think of Dunkirk would you put Dunkirk in this category as well? Dunkirk is the one Nolan film I have not seen and people keep telling me that I have to see it and I suppose I will at some point but that is my one Nolan Lacuna which given that there are a lot of other films in his filmography that I don't care for including by the way Inception which I do not like at all that's probably quite a gap because having seen what he has done with more realistic subject matter more historical subject matter with Oppenheimer I'm now more open to the idea that it was more up his alley and in addition I'm going to be snide but it's earned the fact that these are both movies where there's a justification to have very few women and to have them play roles that are purely supportive and romantic that is unfortunately in his wheelhouse and when he tries to write women as more significant figures it's not pretty Tenet, which I said that I do like has Elizabeth Debicki I mean a really up and coming actress who can do a lot and she's not only playing a mom role but there's literally a scene where they find out that the bad guy is going to destroy the world and she says including my son yes lady, your son is in the world so so the fact that his two World War II movies are also considered among his best I don't think it's a coincidence that that's a setting where you get to tell stories about mostly men Yeah I think, I believe Dunkirk has two lines, two short lines by female characters and they're both a nurse on a boat that's about to be sunk I think that that's the case with Dunkirk, I could be wrong about that but I'm pretty sure Yeah I'm glad Abigail brought that up that there's a choice of subject matter issue in that he often doesn't really even have the chance to have to write sort of co-equal women characters but when you see him try to do it you're sort of like eh as with David Mamet maybe that's maybe you should stick to those subjects given that I like Abigail and it's been a long time I really didn't care for Inception I would caution you to say but that's not true of Abigail's, for me it's probably it's not a movie necessarily designed for me but I just found the gap between the pretensions and the achievements just too it was kind of like it was much better crafted than late Terry Gilliam or Tim and Birdman that had that kind of look at how creative I am sort of thing that just unless it's pulled off at a really high level I find just incredibly annoying so I do think there's something to be said for sort of grounding himself in some source material actually has a disciplining effect and incidentally that is also true of Aaron Sorkin which makes him a much better screenwriter than television writer something I've never really been able to explain I actually love several of the movies written while those TV shows are just World Historical Train Wrecks I don't really understand why but it's true I rewatched Molly's Game I rewatched Social Network no problem I don't think Dunkirk was an achievement on the level of Oppenheimer obviously Abigail's word Middlebrow comes up but I don't necessarily mean that as an insult I think that sort of making a classic World War II movie but then with some complexities in terms of the structure and all that I think that's I think grounding himself in kind of a Middlebrow genre and story actually has a positive effect on his work and I do think there's a lot like especially just how well he conveyed the vulnerability of the soldiers on the beach and how well just the constant terror of that I mean Rob you can speak to this but also the extraordinary difficulty of air to air combat and how fraught that is I thought it was really superb and I just read I forget the name of the German writer his two volume biography of Hitler I forget his name but anyway there's a lot in that obviously sort of Dunkirk is evidently like a focal point in that and about Hitler's hubris which the movie sort of conveys indirectly that there's a lot of British valor in that but also just a lot of luck and overconfidence I want to pause this here because it's weird he's made two World War II movies and we barely see the enemy in either one of them yeah that's really kind of interesting I hadn't thought about it that way I can also interject here I listened to Smartless it was one of my favorite podcasts and they interviewed Jeff Daniels and Jeff Daniels I think gave an explanation which is that Sorkin is the sort of director who it is every word like most directors, most writers the actor is able to play with the character the actor is able to generate sort of a persona for the character but for Sorkin it's every word it has to be every single word and you can see how that works in a movie where we're only with the character for two hours as opposed to a series where we have to be with this character for ten hours and it's a much different effect that's interesting well my feeling about Sorkin is less that it's a movie or TV show thing with him is that he has aged badly or maybe I sort of aged out of the period where I was receptive to what he was writing but I want to make a quick comment and then I will stop hogging the mic that one other interesting thing about Oppenheimer in the context of Nolan's biography is that most of his other films are fairly, in as much as they're ever political they're pretty mainstream political and probably his most political movie until this one was The Dark Knight Rises where the entire second half of the movie is how terrible a socialist uprising would be there's literally a scene where Catwoman is going through the house of some rich people who have been dispossessed of their home and feeling really bad and sorry so it's kind of funny to go from that to this movie which is a good 30% people talking about socialism and just in general that's unusual the fact that the intelligentsia in this period was almost uniformly left wing and pretty hard left certainly by our standards that's not something that gets discussed too much in pop culture and again in this very mainstream entertainment so first of all that's funny to me just coming from Nolan though I guess it's sort of required given the subject matter but it's interesting just in the general context of what's going on in pop culture right now there aren't a lot of entertainments that bring up this topic the best way I saw it was somebody was grabbing it at the communist party and then making very clear that the party part of it was lower case but the communist party sounded like a lot of fun it sounded really cool to hang out with all those communists Scott and then let's go to Cheryl and her thoughts on Nolan that's one of the things that infuriated me about the latest idiotic Jacobin same kind of communist I am thing I think to find a movie that portrayed the radical left more sympathetically in a mainstream Hollywood movie like what? Reds? so you know it's actually pretty unusual to his credit I think that Nolan actually I think portrays it fairly straightforwardly and I do think that even for those of us who are ultimately left liberals and not sort of anti-liberal socialist or whatever this wasn't to Cass Nelson's point this is a period of time in which there are real doubts about the effectiveness of liberal democracy where it's the communists and not the NAACP who provide the first defense to the Scottsboro boys and and actually American communists are often ironically at the head of civil liberties causes so that there's this blurring of lines that I think a lot of people in contemporary politics won't fully understand and Nolan doesn't even when he has often I insist that he's a new deal liberal and almost with an ironic glint in his eye I don't think that's inaccurate but that's also a way of saying that on the one hand new deal liberals were often portrayed as communists starting in the 50s but also there was at the time more overlap there than people might assume I actually thought that was all done pretty well and I think surprisingly well again I haven't seen the Dark Knight movies and before we go I actually want to know if I should see them I want Abigail's and everybody else's 3 minute take but my understanding is that they were actually pretty politically ambiguous and not without some potentially reactionary tendencies so coming in just knowing that I was actually surprised by sort of how complicated but also how fundamentally non-judgmental Nolan was about that intellectual milieu and I thought that was actually pretty fascinating Ok, I have not seen any other Christopher Nolan movies so I really can't make those judgments but a couple of comments You and Scott live tweet the Dark Knight and you can start at the same time and you guys can watch it I like it but a couple of comments here, one of them is that American Prometheus does deal to a great degree with the question of whether Oppenheimer was actually a communist and as Scott has been saying being a member of the communist party or being sympathetic to the communist party up through the 1930s was part of being a left liberal in America it was very much tied in with the labor movement and certainly a number of people around Oppenheimer were indeed card carrying communists including Kitty who had been married to a card carrying communist before she was married to Oppenheimer so there was that and then of course you had Stalin and his purges which made a lot of American communists fall away from the party and then the war and then the McCarthyite early 1950s so there's that whole sequence and that is a big part of American Prometheus and there's always been a big question about whether Oppenheimer was a card carrying communist and I know that at least one historian has a paper that he has put up on Facebook addressing the question and the bottom line seems to be Oppenheimer never was that far into the communist party but he certainly was close but again that was the 1930s to Abigail's point on women which has come up again and again the way Jean Tatlock was portrayed was consistent with I think all we know about her, there may be more in her FBI files because certainly she was being watched because Oppenheimer was involved with her and I thought the portrayal of Kitty was pretty good again neither of the women really figure into the history in a big way except as they related to Oppenheimer and that was the way it was it was the men were in charge and there were well at least three former Manhattan Project participants who were quite dismayed to make me Well I made a face before but I'll just say it out loud to the listeners that ultimately I do not recommend watching the Dark Knight trilogy the first one is pretty meh the last one is terrible the only one that's actually good is the Dark Knight and even that I think does not reward repeat viewings and frankly I think at this point if you want to get a sense of the vibe and what Nolan introduced to the superhero genre which may not even be a thing you're interested in you could just watch the new Batman movie which is very clearly trying to condense all of his innovations and repeat them and do them even more and it's solid if derivative so you could just watch that and you'll watch one movie instead of three and one relatively solid one otherwise if you haven't watched those films yet I don't see any point in going back to them I really enjoy the Dark Knight trilogy probably the second one most of the three although our late colleagues got our copy and he wrote a ton about Batman Begins and The Dark Knight and I think a lot of that is still at LGM sort of back in our archives yeah his posts about The Dark Knight Rises in particular were really great I have one last question we're closing in an hour and a half for this and I'll give you my answer obviously there were fantastic actors in this film actors and actresses just sort of tremendous professionalism tremendous work my question is were there any actors who you found either distracting or just didn't buy in the performances that they were trying to give and my answer to that is and I'm curious your thoughts on this Cheryl because I know you're familiar I did not buy Matt Damon as Groves and Groves to me just seems like such a curmudgeonly angry bitter figure who I didn't even think really resembled him physically and so Damon is just sort of preternaturally affable right it's just very hard for him to be anything but affable and to me he ended up just too affable to play Groves who I've always thought of and I was just watching this actor today Lee Cobb who just has that level of grumpy to play Leslie Groves but I'm curious thoughts on that specifically in any of the other performances that just didn't make sense or didn't make the cut here well I kind of liked Matt Damon as Groves although as you say he was probably better natured than Groves in fact was I don't have a hard and fast picture of Groves but it probably is a little grumpier than Damon portrayed him in terms of actors being a disappointment you know if you look at the cast there's just a ton of named scientists whose names are familiar to me for various reasons having read all the histories and stuff and what it turns out the one that I had a particular interest in was Seth Nedermeier who I wrote a little post on Nedermeier actually saved the project because he was working on implosion and in June of 1944 they learned that they could not make a gun type weapon like they did with uranium with the plutonium that was coming out of the reactors and I have actually read some of them in Miranda from that time and the emotion in a scientific project report of we did this this this this this month and none of it means anything anymore it's it was interesting to read a progress report when people were just throwing up their hands and saying wow it's not going to work but Nedermeier had been working on the method that would make it work and he was eventually pushed out of the way either because his personality was not right or because George Kistiakowski came in and was a much bigger deal and pushed him out of the way I don't know one of those scientific political mysteries we'll never know so I was kind of looking for Seth Nedermeier and indeed there is a person who played Seth Nedermeier if you look at the cast listing and he got one line in the whole thing Oppenheimer mentions implosion as a possibility Nedermeier puts up his hand and says I think I'd like to work on that and that's it so there were many many scientists who didn't even get one line Lily Hornig to take the woman example has a tiny little scene that I didn't even understand and you know just because they needed to put a woman in but again she got one line like Seth Nedermeier got one line and in a way that was disappointing in another way it was kind of interesting that Nolan felt it necessary to name so many of the scientists even if they only got one line So I want to add in here an actor that I really liked here and that I have not liked some stuff in the past I really liked Josh Hartnett as Lawrence and I think he has had some roles in his career where he's clearly been overmatched by the material but I thought he did a really good job as Ernest Lawrence and I also think Teller was well portrayed. Anyway Abigail do you have thoughts on this? Well you know not knowing as much about the Manhattan project I don't really have any sense of you know who makes sense who doesn't make sense I mean I think the only comment I can make is that Jack Quaid as the saying goes has a face that knows what email is so but otherwise I thought the cast was pretty good all around there's two comments that I can make about the cast First, and this is really just a curiosity, a few years ago there was a show called Manhattan which was also a dramatization of the Manhattan project it was very well reviewed I found it very soapy and one of the characters on the show is a scientist who is passing information to the Russians and he's played by an actor called Christopher Denham and Christopher Denham also appears in this movie as a Manhattan project scientist who passes information to the Russians.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"david mamet" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Theaters. If you want to rent it for your church or large group, visit movie night dot com to rent it today or go to Salem now dot com. Oh, you're in for it now. I warned you. Jason Jones is my guest for this hour. In hour two, we're going to get kooky. But right now we're talking to Jason Jones. Jason Jones, you're you're a scary guy because you are long time close friends with John Smearak. Do you need another credential? That's it. That's who you are. No, that's the best part of my life. Eric Metaxas is getting to talk to John Smearak every single day. Well, you OK, I should say you're a senior contributor to the stream. OK, stream dot org. You're a film producer, author, activist, human rights worker. But I never know how to describe you. You've been on the program. You told your story. You've got an amazing story, which will get you back on another time to tell your story again, because you have an amazing personal story. But I like Chris Himes and I were just a minute ago thinking, how do I describe you? And I don't know, like you, you were you like either a Navy SEAL or a ranger or like, well, I don't I'm trying to remember like, you know, those kinds of details. Army infantrymen and scouts. You know, my mission, I do one thing two ways, which is I want to defend the vulnerable from violence by promoting human dignity and inspiring solidarity. So whether it's my articles over at the stream or my films or my work through the Vulnerable People Project, David Mamet said that writers write for the same reason beavers chew on wood to stop their teeth from itching. And the idea that children are stepping on landmines or young girls are being trafficked and exploited or the child in the womb is being destroyed by violence makes my teeth itch. So my writing my movies and my work is just simply to stop my teeth from itching. All right. Well, we've settled that. And unfortunately, we're out of time. Thank you, Jason Jones. Oh, wait a minute. No, no, no. I was told we can keep going. You there's a lot I want to talk to you about. You've written an article at the stream called Ukraine. Don't surrender to Putin or to the LGBTQ. My name is Legion Machine. So. You were in Kiev recently. You were in Ukraine a week ago. Yeah, we could go today. I was there. I was there for a week and I had the privilege of speaking at a pro -life pro -family conference in Kiev. Now, you say Kiev, but I thought I always thought it was Kiev. But you're saying the people there say Kiev. Yeah. So I was very insecure of that myself. Eric Metaxas. So I listened to I didn't want to create an international incident, you know, so everyone I meet with bishops and patriarchs and rabbis. And I listen to what they said and I'd say it back. And when I kept hearing Eve. So here's the problem, pal. You're in America now and in America. You know, that's like when people go to Greece and they say in Greece, they say, I'm I'm traveling by boat to Athena. And you say Athena, Athena. You don't say Athens. You say Athena, Athena. But when you come back to America, you say Athens. So you've got me very confused. But there you say Kiev. But here you could say whatever you want. I'm going to say Kiev just because I just want to rub people the wrong way. But literally a week ago, you were there speaking at a pro -life, pro -family conference. Now, Jason Jones, again, this is complicated. John's Mirack is is pretty clear when he comes on the program. That's what's going on over there, that that we in America have kind of gotten sucked into this narrative that like Ukraine, they're heroes. They're, you know, pro -democracy good guys. And Russia is evil. And and John's Mirack and others I've had on the program said, no, no, no, these are both very corrupt countries. What we do know is that the people there are suffering and that's what we care about. But so what is your perspective in this article and what's your perspective on the whole thing? Yeah, well, I love when I get an opportunity to disagree with my closest friends. It proves that, you know, we're not a herd animal like those on the left. but, Yeah, you know, I don't feel like we've been sucked into anything. I feel we've pushed the people of Ukraine into something. And by we, I mean our establishment, the same folks that push the people of Afghanistan into something and then abandon them. The same folks that sat on their hands while Sudan fell into civil war, then closed up the embassy and left American citizens behind. It's quite a neat little game that they play. So I just I see that the people of Ukraine have sort of been trapped by our corruption. We have the Burisma recordings. I mean, we have our president shaking down an energy company. It's really unbelievable. And in my speech, which I thought, well, I'm going to a war and I'm going to anger all sides. And in my speech was just very clear. Do not let your country be a means to other ends, whether it's the military industrial complex. You know, we're not sending money to Ukraine. We're sending money to Northern Virginia from Northern Virginia and they're sending weapons to Ukraine. And young Ukrainians are dying using those weapons and young Russian boys, too, are dying. But my message to the people of Ukraine was you're being invaded from two directions. This is Poland 2 .0. You're being invaded from the west and by the east. The east is very barbaric. Of course, they're launching missiles at apartment buildings and Russian made drone drones. They have an agreement of unlimited friendship with China. So from the east, it's China, Iran and Russia invading them. And then from the west, you have the LGBT folks and pushing them to change their culture and their laws and their morals. I saw one rainbow flag the whole time I was in Ukraine, and that was at the Canadian embassy. I mean, Jason, it's so sickening. I was talking about this earlier that this is where I would say principally, thanks to John Smirak, I've woken up to some things because I have to say that I mean, look, we which is to say the United States of America, which used to be a force for good, has been using its power to push sexual license, to push this LGBTQ agenda before that, to push abortion, abortion, abortion. Using its power to push these wicked things on weak, poor, vulnerable nations around the world. And what you're telling me basically is that is what is happening right now in the Ukraine or that's what you're saying in the article. That's part of the story is that we are where we're using them to push this kind of globalist pansexual agenda, which we've done for decades. It's sickening. Yeah, that's why people on the right want to make Putin out to be the good guy. You know, Eric, I spent a lot of time in war zones and conflict zones. And I remember the first time I went to Sudan during the genocide and I stepped off a plane, a buddy of mine said, Jason, you're an American. You're going to be looking for white hats and black hats. You're not going to find those here, not even on your own head. And so the desire to see Putin is some great liberating hero. We have to remember, first of all, he's waging a brutal war. Well, wait a minute. I want to be clear. I don't I certainly do not see him that way. I and I and I want to be very clear about that. In fact, really, what I my best take on it thus far is what you're saying. There are no white hats and black hats. This is just a mess. There's corruption. And the Biden administration in its weakness has has allowed this to happen. It's my belief that if Trump were in the White House, none of this would be happening. So I want to be clear about that. But keep going. Yeah, it wouldn't happen for two reasons. One, Trump wouldn't go along with the ridiculous idea that Ukraine should be a part of NATO, which obviously is poking the bear. All right. So you agree with that? Because that's what that's my view is like. I don't even understand why would you do that? Why do you even have a NATO? And forgive me for interrupting, but I can never get my head around this. Why are we talking about NATO? The Soviet Union is gone. So this old view of we have the East and the West, we don't have that anymore. The Soviet Union is gone. Now you have Russia, which is a like a tiny entity compared to the former Soviet Union, which was a superpower like China is. So it keep going. Sorry. You know, I was almost kicked out of grad school. The article I'm most proud of writing was I was in the graduate program for military science and operational studies. And I wrote an op ed during the war in the former Yugoslavia calling for the disbanding of NATO. And they literally tried to drum me out of that program. So I've been calling and I actually wrote in that article, if NATO makes it to 100, it was the 50th anniversary of NATO. How many of us will make it to 50? And I'm 51 now. And here we go. You literally the New York Times several months ago, as you know, wrote an article saying we have an inordinate fear of nuclear war. Sean Penn went on CNN and said a nuclear war isn't that bad. It's really, really unbelievable. So John and I don't really disagree substantially. But what my point is that Russia is brutal. They're shutting down the evangelical churches, killing priests, raping priests, land, putting landmines around schools. And we have the Wagner Group now in Sudan that's creating a menace and killing Christians. We lost an employee in my organization rescuing Christians in Sudan three weeks ago, was killed by a shot by a Wagner Group sniper. So Russia is a menace and NATO is a problem as well. And we as Christians in the United States need to take the hard line of standing with the people of Ukraine, for Ukraine, which is a negotiated peace. And I don't know why we don't hear anyone left or right or in between. Really, why are we not banging drums for peace? And I think the reason is there's a lot of money to be made, thousands of grifters making thousands of small decisions to put money in their pockets. And we as Christians, my organization, the Vulnerable People Project, is to stand with the vulnerable when the world abandons them. All right. And I feel that people have abandoned the people of Ukraine..
Bob and Sheri
"david mamet" Discussed on Bob and Sheri
"In New Orleans. So that's simple of the mob are really, really hard to kind of turn your head away from. The Jack Ruby thing is what has always given that particular conspiracy theory to life. Credence. That's right. That's right. I don't know. I love a good conspiracy theory. That just seems like real stupid and reckless on the part of the mob, but I don't know. You know David Mamet writes an idea in Big Ben diameter. Everything he writes. That's what Shakespeare did. Is that right? Yes. It's kind of kooky. That is very strange. Wow, I didn't know
Bob and Sheri
"david mamet" Discussed on Bob and Sheri
"Way to make a living to begin with, let alone with issues. In a lot of ways she has. She has. She has gotten away. You don't see her performing or touring or doing a Vegas thing. But you're saying you're on camera. You see her on camera doing dances with various so she can't hold things on social media. She should. I don't think that she should. She's still performing. She's just performing for a cheap little camera for people to watch. I think she should just step away and do a Marlene Dietrich thing. I want to be alone. I think part of the reason you're seeing the social media stuff is because for 15 years she wasn't allowed to have a $5 bill to call her own. And she's acting that out. It's complicated and sad, but man, have a little bit of compassion. She certainly gave a lot of the very people that are so critical. Certainly enjoyed when she was entertaining them. You know? She gave you a lot of pleasure with toxic and hit me baby one more time. Maybe have a little bit of mercy for her. It's bob and sherry. It's the stuff we wouldn't couldn't shouldn't do on the regular show. The podcast, podcast, on the free bob and cherry app. When CDs were popular in sherry and I were just together for the first time, we shot the cover of one of our CDs and a pizzeria restaurant called portofino in Charlotte. It's got great pizza, thin crust, perfect combinations of cheese, sauce, and crispy edges. Just really great pizza. I've always been a pizza aficionado, sherry has to. I'm always going on and on about the great pizza in New Haven, Connecticut, where I was brought up. And I am reading here that pizza, as we know it, was invented in America, not in Italy. This is from food historian and Italian at that academic Alberto grandi of Parma university said that the world famous dish was created not in Naples. A form of pizza eaten in the city, he said, as nothing to do with the pizza that we know today. He revealed that that pizza was a poorly cooked piece of food on a sweet bread without any toppings and he ingredients and the extras and was eaten as a dessert professor grandi said in the quoting them. The pizza was a very poor product and free of extra ingredients. It was very, very basic and poorly cooked because the ovens and Napoli are bad and yet somehow it becomes this rich specialty with tomato sauce in America and comes back to Naples which claims it. So here's something that we really food wise can be proud of as Americans. We are the ones who actually invented the pizza. Well, there you go. Now we won't get credit for it. This will be the first last and only time this conversation ever gets had. Probably. But we'll take it. But it was probably in New York City. It probably came because of so many Italian immigrants that landed in New York. It was probably put together in an oven and somebody's kitchen and then a restaurant and then spread slowly throughout the northeast and then of course the rest of the country and the wolf. So there we are. We take that we take that flag as ours, the pizza flag. It's bob and cherry. Two guys drove to work. Neither guy wore a seat belt. One guy got a ticket. One guy didn't. The same two guys drove home. One guy wore a seat belt, one guy didn't. One guy made it home. The guy not wearing his seat belt didn't. Don't risk it. Click it or ticket. Paid for by nitsa. Two guys drove to work. Neither guy wore a seat belt. One guy got a ticket. One guy didn't. The same two guys drove home. One guy wore a seat belt, one guy didn't. One guy made it home. The guy not wearing his seat belt didn't. Don't risk it. Click it or ticket. Paid for by ninja. Bob and sherry books swag and the mother of all mothers merch. Just hit shot at bob and sherry dot com. Talk back time. If you're a phone person, you can call us any time of the day or night at 8 four four 52 sherry. That's 8 four four 5 two or if you have our app it's free in Google Play in the App Store just download it. There's a little tiny microphone in the bottom center of the screen little cartoon, tap that and talk in the Apple send it straight to us. Hi, bob and sherry. It's Sammy Ireland from Maine. I was just listening to your show where you listed significant historical figures that today's generation, people 30 and under don't know. And as a 25 year old high school teacher, I feel like I have pretty good insight into this problem. I'll let you know that most people that you listed I do know, especially the important historical figures like Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, Sigmund Freud, and my students know those people as well. Do they know who Aretha Franklin is? Probably not. I mentioned Madonna the other day to my freshman and they had no idea who I was talking about, so that was really worrisome. But when it comes to strong historical influential people, they do know them. We talk about them in class, specifically in my psychology class we talk about Sigmund Freud. And this all started, obviously, with the curriculum I have to teach, but also I have a poster in my room of Sigmund Freud and the speech bubble from around him says your mom. And so obviously my kids are like, oh my God, your mom joke hung up in a classroom. I need to learn all about it. Tell me what it means. And so we talked about him and his theories about the relationship you have with your mom or your parents and how that will affect your psychological development and your life later on. We talk about the Oedipus complex and so of course my seniors it's like they're all about it. They're obsessed. They love Sigmund Freud. They think he's a funny guy of all time, even though that's not really the point, but they're very interested in his theories and it was just a great conversation starter. So I promise you us teachers were trying to get these kids to know these important influential people, but I mean, pop culture, yeah, I mean, Madonna not knowing who Madonna Aretha Franklin is, you know, that's on them. We can't do everything. They are hiring some great teachers in Maine. Wow. Sandy. You are the teacher that everybody remembers when they're grown up. Yeah. You're the teacher that gets people. You know, you always have, I was lucky. I had a bunch of really great teachers, like my fourth grade teacher, misses lindford, who turned us all on to poetry and that stayed with me for the rest of my life. You have some great teachers. They're the ones that light a fire inside you. Curiosity or whatever. And what a cool way of doing that. Thank you, sandy. What's her name sandy or Sam? Sammy, I thought Sammy. Sammy. I thought it was sandy, Ireland. Sammy iron. What a great name. What a great name. Sammy Ireland sounds like a prohibition gangster. What a great name. Out of Boston. Out of Boston. That's exactly right. You're so right about teachers. I had a college teacher, freshman college teacher in western civilization. And at roger Williams university, there were a fair amount of Portuguese second or third generation Portuguese students because it's just the big Portuguese Italian area. And so he's teaching a course about what the Spanish did with the gold they found and what other countries did and what Portugal did and basically Portugal got some gold and then just used it to make pretty crowns. He said to one of the guys whose name was mister cabral, that is why Portugal is where it is now. And Spain is somewhere different. They didn't invest. It was just a funny little aside that for some reason I've just carried all my life. A teacher can really do that. When you think back on the teachers that you had, even in subjects that you struggled with, you know, you could be sitting there and was like, well, and then suddenly you hear something, you set up and go, wait, what? And it wakes your imagination up. It's so it's so hard for teachers to be teachers because they're held like they're teaching these really rigid curriculums and tests to teaching to the tests and all we have lost our way. We've really have lost our way. Well, in more ways than one, but I don't want to get into that too much. I'm talking about I'm thinking here. We have no idea. We have handicapped teachers and prevented them from being like, what was that great? Dead poets society, the Robin Williams movie. Remember with Ethan Hawke and Robin Williams. Dave would get fired today for any of that. We've lost our way. I was just thinking of my sophomore year I had an English teacher. I can't remember his name, but he was a great guy. And on a spring day, in obviously New England loves their spring days because it's a long winter. He said, we're all going to go outside and read. And go over this next book. And the book was on the road by Jack Kerouac, which, in the last few months, I think has been banned in some places. And I'm thinking back on some of the other books that he had, the fire next time with Baldwin and a couple of others. And those in public colleges in certain places aren't taught and they're a big part of contemporary American literature. Yeah. Oh, you know, well, what are you going to do? So that's what we know what to do. It's bob and cherry. Leave us a talk. Talk back with the free bob and cherry app. Back to bob and cherry show and I forgot to tell you about this chalkboard sign that I saw outside of a liquor store just the other day. It was right before Mother's Day and the sign in the front of the liquor store said, by your mom a bottle, you're the reason she drinks. And I just thought, that really is such great advertising because. It just jumped right out at me. And I laughed. I laughed. Whoever I'm sure it's been done in other liquor stores, but they pulled it off, can you imagine that being around when you were a kid? That kind of advertising campaign would never have existed. Never back then. No, not at all. And not because the moms weren't nipping it, you know? It was because it just was not something that would be talked about like that. No, not at all. You're right. The other sign that I loved, which I saw posted online, is a mall. It's a store in the mall. And it is the try my best mobile phone specialist. You have to really give it up to the guy or the woman who came up with that. Because that's the most that you can hope for with the fixing of a cell phone. You can just the guy tries his best. That's all you can hope for. He really can't fall to person. You know, the name, it's in the name. I tried my best. Sorry. Try my best. You know, I mean, he's saying, I'll try my best. It's like Lamar and I were, I don't know if you were with us. We were somewhere. I've been Fayetteville. And we came out of the restaurant after lunch. And in the parking lot, looked across the street and there was a garage, and the garage was called okay garage. And I said, hey, Lamar, look at that garage over there. And he started smiling because he got it the way I got it. And so I said, so Lamar, where'd you take your car? I took it to the okay garage. How was the work? That was okay. I think that's the better way to go. Do you really? I think so, that case? I can't believe you're bringing this up because I spent some time yesterday afternoon thinking about one of the places I went wrong in my life was being such a goody two shoes perfectionist. You know, like doing all my homework and the extra credit, going above and beyond for my people, my family, my Friends, my coworkers. I think that I think I might have been mistaken with that. I think a better plan is to just sort of, hey, I'm here, all right? I can't do more than that. I showed up. That might have been stressful. Well, first of all, you could never do that. I mean, you're just riffing here because you could never, ever do that. But I regret it. I regret not setting the bar a lot lower. I mean, I don't believe that. Lower. I don't believe that. You have become. We don't talk about it very often. You have become the thing of legend in radio broadcasting. Now, has it has it paid off as much financially as you and I would have liked? No, we've done great, but was it the supersonic money that a few people get? No, it wasn't, but you still are, you still are a pioneer in broadcasting. You were still, as far as I can remember, in contemporary radio, the first woman who was the actual brand of his show as much as the guy and sometimes a little more. So you can not discount yourself. For what that's worth, you know who else was a pioneer, the donner party, and they ended up having to eat each other. So I knew this was I knew it was going to go dark when I say something complimentary. This pioneer thing is you're covered in scratches and you're constantly under threat of being assaulted. No, the pioneer thing is overrated. I think that I think that I have exhausted myself by being, I just think I should have set the bar lower in every area of my life. Not at the floor, you know, not on the bottom. Okay, well I wasn't. I wasn't referring to every area of your life. I was referring to what we do. This thing of ours. That's what I was doing. And you would have been bored. Because you and I discussed that one time when we were counseled by, I'm not going to embarrass him, but a very astute man that we knew. To just go the easy path than just being the oh, did you see the other day that daffodils are actually flowers if you look at them one way? You know, we were a little edgier and paid the price. But we did it our way. We can't, we're not capable of doing that. We're doing the only show we're capable of doing. Right. We're not good enough actors. And we're just we weren't capable of shutting up and doing that. But I think that just because I can't take my foot off the gas and chill, it doesn't mean I shouldn't take my foot off the gas until. I really, that's what I was sitting there yesterday. I'm like, you know, they're everybody in my life, my children, my husband, my family. Everybody in my life would be just fine. If I lowered the bar. Yeah, I think that's true. I'm the one who's running myself ragged. Now, the problem is they've all gotten used to the bar being where it is, and so the idea of the bar coming down would be uncomfortable for them. And I think a lot of people definitely a lot of women are like, oh my God, what was I thinking? I should have gotten you all used to everything being a little bit less like awesome. Because it's exhausting, maintaining awesome. Yeah. And that has nothing to do with my job or my career. That's just my crazy hamster brain. Hampton was with us for several days and one day, he just, he stayed in bed for a good part of the day. He just took it easy. He come out, have lunch. And so his mother said hey, what have you been doing all day? He said, chillaxing. Yeah, and that was the answer. And then he walked away. And I thought to myself, why have you never just said that? I'm just going to be chillaxing all day long. You think you need permission to chillax, and they're never going to give you permission to chillax. 'cause if you're laxing, they can't chillax. Somebody's got to be raising the bar so that she lacks and can get done. Welcome to the truth. My Friends, you're out of the matrix now, bob. It's bob and sherry. Can you believe this is brought to you by Staples stores and Staples dot com. You read it once. I don't believe that. And then you're ready to go. I can't believe this. It's bob and cherries. I don't believe this. I believe this. All right, so a group of people from other countries were asked the question, what do you think that every American has in their house? Right? You got it? The things you think every American has. And of course, we don't. But this is the perception of America from people in other countries. Here's the first one. Americans have a never ending supply of cans, individual cancer bottles of soda. Sprite whatever. And most Americans have an entire refrigerator, and that's just what we that's the only thing we put in it are individual cans or bottles of soda. So it's a little bit true, right? A lot of Americans have some soda in the house. And some Americans even have a fridge in the garage. We bought a used one. And that's what's in it, mostly. But I think that it's unreasonable to say most Americans are loaded for bear with individual cans and bottles of Coke and Sprite. Another thing that came up was gallons of milk. Every American has at least one gallon of milk. Here's another one. Every American has a separate refrigerator in the garage like you do, bob. Not just for cans of Coke, but an endless amount of beer and bulk food from Costco and Sam's Club. That we do not have. I have to say, that hits uncomfortably close to home. Here we go. Another thing that all Americans have in their homes are individually wrapped items. Individually wrapped snacks, individually wrapped plastic cutlery, individually wrapped wet wipes and on and on and on, where you come down on that one. I come down that the rest of the world sees us as consumer pigs. Basically. Well, that's, I mean, that's kind of harsh. You know, if you've been if you've never, if you're not American, and you come into an American supermarket or even a convenience store, I mean, you do have this incredible astonishing selection of individuals. It's one of the first things people it's one of the first things people from another country comment on are the supermarkets. Here's this one's really weird and specific. All Americans have a couch in their living room and the couches positioned in a certain way as though the family is performing for a studio audience. That's funny. That is funny. People who are not American are fascinated by something in our kitchens. They are fascinated by our garbage disposals. Every American has a garbage disposal in the kitchen. And we can put anything we want down there and grind it up and send it away. Which of course is not true. It's not too very well in there at all. Well, garbage doesn't do very well in many places like New York City. Here's another one. I love this one. All Americans have a literal block of cheese in the refrigerator at all times. Oh, it's a can of cheese whiz. Not a block of cheese. And a related subject. All Americans have large plastic containers of orange ball food in their houses. Those are those orange cheese puff things. From Sam's yeah, exactly. Can I get all Americans? Can I guess another thing that Europeans think that we have red solo cups? Oh yeah, they do think we all have red solo cups. They do. And some of them, when they come over here, they buy like ten of them to take home and show everybody what their souvenirs from America are. Is that crack you up? You're gonna love this one because you none of us would ever think twice about this, but apparently people from other lands are fascinated by the way that Americans all keep. And they say that we all do it. All Americans have a random baseball bat as a security measure in their homes. That's movies. Wow. Yeah, that is movies. Gangster movies. You're right. I mean, think about that. Because it's kind of true. You've got to basically have a baseball bat in your bedroom. Some people keep one in the back seat of their car. Some people keep one kind of casually propped up by the front door. Do you have any of you have a bat? I know Doc does because he plays softball. Is that in your house? No. I have a 9 iron, an old 9 iron. I don't know if we have a bat. I have a bat in the back of my car, but that was from some dance thing. Kevin has this thing. I don't know what it is. But it looks like something from like one of Al Capone's ruffians. It's some sort of a wooden club stick thing. I mean, considering that I'm the single greatest threat to the man's peace and safety. You'd be surprised how well armed he is for. I think I know, is that is that a stick like cops in the movies used to carry? Yes, yes. Yeah, that's what it looks like. It looks like a movie, a movie cop thing. So there you go. Those are just some of the many things that people from other countries think all of us have in our House. I think my favorite is the literal block of cheese. And then the giant see through container of orange ball food. It's bob and sherry. The fun size podcast, a shareable taste of the show at our website or the free free bob and cherry app. The cans film festival is pretty excited about David Mamet's JFK thriller assassination. The movie assassination and that is the name of it, has quite a cast. Al Pacino, Viggo Mortensen, John Travolta, Shia LaBeouf, and Courtney Love, just the name of few, the MUBI is a retelling of the killing of president John F. Kennedy from the mob's point of view. Reimagining his death as a hit ordered by Chicago mob kingpin, Sam giancana. His payback for JFK's attempt to undermine the mob after they helped him to get elected. Production starts in September in Canada. So the Kansas market is talking about it and it hasn't even been as an even been completed yet. I'm going to go see that and let me just admit, I am not a conspiracy guy. I just count them all. But this is the one that's always stuck with me because the bright enough about the mob and I read enough about the kennedys that it just made sense. That RFK, his brother, as attorney general, went after the mob, after the mob, because Joseph Kennedy, the father, asked for a little bit of help to get him elected and Chicago and West Virginia that the kennedys turned their back on them and decided to prosecute them. It just made sense to me and the guy who shot Oswald who shot Kennedy was a mob guy, Jack Ruby, a mob guy in New Orleans. So that's simple of the mob are really, really hard to kind of turn your head away from. The Jack Ruby thing is what has always given that particular conspiracy theory to life. Credence. That's right. That's right. I don't know. I love a good conspiracy theory. That just seems like real stupid and reckless on the part of the mob, but I don't know. You know David Mamet writes an idea in Big Ben diameter. Everything he writes. That's what Shakespeare did. Is that right? Yes. It's kind of kooky. That is very strange. Wow, I didn't know that. Well, I want to see this. It's from the mob's point of view, so you know it's going to be entertaining at least. Two guys drove to work. Neither guy wore a seat belt. One guy got a ticket. One guy didn't. The same two guys drove home. One guy wore his seat belt, one guy didn't.
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The podcast, podcast, on the free bob and cherry app. When CDs were popular in sherry and I were just together for the first time, we shot the cover of one of our CDs and a pizzeria restaurant called portofino in Charlotte. It's got great pizza, thin crust, perfect combinations of cheese, sauce, and crispy edges. Just really great pizza. I've always been a pizza aficionado, sherry has to. I'm always going on and on about the great pizza in New Haven, Connecticut, where I was brought up. And I am reading here that pizza, as we know it, was invented in America, not in Italy. This is from food historian and Italian at that academic Alberto grandi of Parma university said that the world famous dish was created not in Naples. A form of pizza eaten in the city, he said, as nothing to do with the pizza that we know today. He revealed that that pizza was a poorly cooked piece of food on a sweet bread without any toppings and he ingredients and the extras and was eaten as a dessert professor grandi said in the quoting them. The pizza was a very poor product and free of extra ingredients. It was very, very basic and poorly cooked because the ovens and Napoli are bad and yet somehow it becomes this rich specialty with tomato sauce in America and comes back to Naples which claims it. So here's something that we really food wise can be proud of as Americans. We are the ones who actually invented the pizza. Well, there you go. Now we won't get credit for it. This will be the first last and only time this conversation ever gets had. Probably. But we'll take it. But it was probably in New York City. It probably came because of so many Italian immigrants that landed in New York. It was probably put together in an oven and somebody's kitchen and then a restaurant and then spread slowly throughout the northeast and then of course the rest of the country and the wolf. So there we are. We take that we take that flag as ours, the pizza flag. It's bob and cherry. Two guys drove to work. Neither guy wore a seat belt. One guy got a ticket. One guy didn't. The same two guys drove home. One guy wore a seat belt, one guy didn't. One guy made it home. The guy not wearing his seat belt didn't. Don't risk it. Click it or ticket. Paid for by nitsa. Two guys drove to work. Neither guy wore a seat belt. One guy got a ticket. One guy didn't. The same two guys drove home. One guy wore a seat belt, one guy didn't. One guy made it home. The guy not wearing his seat belt didn't. Don't risk it. Click it or ticket. Paid for by ninja. Bob and sherry books swag and the mother of all mothers merch. Just hit shot at bob and sherry dot com. Talk back time. If you're a phone person, you can call us any time of the day or night at 8 four four 52 sherry. That's 8 four four 5 two or if you have our app it's free in Google Play in the App Store just download it. There's a little tiny microphone in the bottom center of the screen little cartoon, tap that and talk in the Apple send it straight to us. Hi, bob and sherry. It's Sammy Ireland from Maine. I was just listening to your show where you listed significant historical figures that today's generation, people 30 and under don't know. And as a 25 year old high school teacher, I feel like I have pretty good insight into this problem. I'll let you know that most people that you listed I do know, especially the important historical figures like Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, Sigmund Freud, and my students know those people as well. Do they know who Aretha Franklin is? Probably not. I mentioned Madonna the other day to my freshman and they had no idea who I was talking about, so that was really worrisome. But when it comes to strong historical influential people, they do know them. We talk about them in class, specifically in my psychology class we talk about Sigmund Freud. And this all started, obviously, with the curriculum I have to teach, but also I have a poster in my room of Sigmund Freud and the speech bubble from around him says your mom. And so obviously my kids are like, oh my God, your mom joke hung up in a classroom. I need to learn all about it. Tell me what it means. And so we talked about him and his theories about the relationship you have with your mom or your parents and how that will affect your psychological development and your life later on. We talk about the Oedipus complex and so of course my seniors it's like they're all about it. They're obsessed. They love Sigmund Freud. They think he's a funny guy of all time, even though that's not really the point, but they're very interested in his theories and it was just a great conversation starter. So I promise you us teachers were trying to get these kids to know these important influential people, but I mean, pop culture, yeah, I mean, Madonna not knowing who Madonna Aretha Franklin is, you know, that's on them. We can't do everything. They are hiring some great teachers in Maine. Wow. Sandy. You are the teacher that everybody remembers when they're grown up. Yeah. You're the teacher that gets people. You know, you always have, I was lucky. I had a bunch of really great teachers, like my fourth grade teacher, misses lindford, who turned us all on to poetry and that stayed with me for the rest of my life. You have some great teachers. They're the ones that light a fire inside you. Curiosity or whatever. And what a cool way of doing that. Thank you, sandy. What's her name sandy or Sam? Sammy, I thought Sammy. Sammy. I thought it was sandy, Ireland. Sammy iron. What a great name. What a great name. Sammy Ireland sounds like a prohibition gangster. What a great name. Out of Boston. Out of Boston. That's exactly right. You're so right about teachers. I had a college teacher, freshman college teacher in western civilization. And at roger Williams university, there were a fair amount of Portuguese second or third generation Portuguese students because it's just the big Portuguese Italian area. And so he's teaching a course about what the Spanish did with the gold they found and what other countries did and what Portugal did and basically Portugal got some gold and then just used it to make pretty crowns. He said to one of the guys whose name was mister cabral, that is why Portugal is where it is now. And Spain is somewhere different. They didn't invest. It was just a funny little aside that for some reason I've just carried all my life. A teacher can really do that. When you think back on the teachers that you had, even in subjects that you struggled with, you know, you could be sitting there and was like, well, and then suddenly you hear something, you set up and go, wait, what? And it wakes your imagination up. It's so it's so hard for teachers to be teachers because they're held like they're teaching these really rigid curriculums and tests to teaching to the tests and all we have lost our way. We've really have lost our way. Well, in more ways than one, but I don't want to get into that too much. I'm talking about I'm thinking here. We have no idea. We have handicapped teachers and prevented them from being like, what was that great? Dead poets society, the Robin Williams movie. Remember with Ethan Hawke and Robin Williams. Dave would get fired today for any of that. We've lost our way. I was just thinking of my sophomore year I had an English teacher. I can't remember his name, but he was a great guy. And on a spring day, in obviously New England loves their spring days because it's a long winter. He said, we're all going to go outside and read. And go over this next book. And the book was on the road by Jack Kerouac, which, in the last few months, I think has been banned in some places. And I'm thinking back on some of the other books that he had, the fire next time with Baldwin and a couple of others. And those in public colleges in certain places aren't taught and they're a big part of contemporary American literature. Yeah. Oh, you know, well, what are you going to do? So that's what we know what to do. It's bob and cherry. Leave us a talk. Talk back with the free bob and cherry app. Back to bob and cherry show and I forgot to tell you about this chalkboard sign that I saw outside of a liquor store just the other day. It was right before Mother's Day and the sign in the front of the liquor store said, by your mom a bottle, you're the reason she drinks. And I just thought, that really is such great advertising because. It just jumped right out at me. And I laughed. I laughed. Whoever I'm sure it's been done in other liquor stores, but they pulled it off, can you imagine that being around when you were a kid? That kind of advertising campaign would never have existed. Never back then. No, not at all. And not because the moms weren't nipping it, you know? It was because it just was not something that would be talked about like that. No, not at all. You're right. The other sign that I loved, which I saw posted online, is a mall. It's a store in the mall. And it is the try my best mobile phone specialist. You have to really give it up to the guy or the woman who came up with that. Because that's the most that you can hope for with the fixing of a cell phone. You can just the guy tries his best. That's all you can hope for. He really can't fall to person. You know, the name, it's in the name. I tried my best. Sorry. Try my best. You know, I mean, he's saying, I'll try my best. It's like Lamar and I were, I don't know if you were with us. We were somewhere. I've been Fayetteville. And we came out of the restaurant after lunch. And in the parking lot, looked across the street and there was a garage, and the garage was called okay garage. And I said, hey, Lamar, look at that garage over there. And he started smiling because he got it the way I got it. And so I said, so Lamar, where'd you take your car? I took it to the okay garage. How was the work? That was okay. I think that's the better way to go. Do you really? I think so, that case? I can't believe you're bringing this up because I spent some time yesterday afternoon thinking about one of the places I went wrong in my life was being such a goody two shoes perfectionist. You know, like doing all my homework and the extra credit, going above and beyond for my people, my family, my Friends, my coworkers. I think that I think I might have been mistaken with that. I think a better plan is to just sort of, hey, I'm here, all right? I can't do more than that. I showed up. That might have been stressful. Well, first of all, you could never do that. I mean, you're just riffing here because you could never, ever do that. But I regret it. I regret not setting the bar a lot lower. I mean, I don't believe that. Lower. I don't believe that. You have become. We don't talk about it very often. You have become the thing of legend in radio broadcasting. Now, has it has it paid off as much financially as you and I would have liked? No, we've done great, but was it the supersonic money that a few people get? No, it wasn't, but you still are, you still are a pioneer in broadcasting. You were still, as far as I can remember, in contemporary radio, the first woman who was the actual brand of his show as much as the guy and sometimes a little more. So you can not discount yourself. For what that's worth, you know who else was a pioneer, the donner party, and they ended up having to eat each other. So I knew this was I knew it was going to go dark when I say something complimentary. This pioneer thing is you're covered in scratches and you're constantly under threat of being assaulted. No, the pioneer thing is overrated. I think that I think that I have exhausted myself by being, I just think I should have set the bar lower in every area of my life. Not at the floor, you know, not on the bottom. Okay, well I wasn't. I wasn't referring to every area of your life. I was referring to what we do. This thing of ours. That's what I was doing. And you would have been bored. Because you and I discussed that one time when we were counseled by, I'm not going to embarrass him, but a very astute man that we knew. To just go the easy path than just being the oh, did you see the other day that daffodils are actually flowers if you look at them one way? You know, we were a little edgier and paid the price. But we did it our way. We can't, we're not capable of doing that. We're doing the only show we're capable of doing. Right. We're not good enough actors. And we're just we weren't capable of shutting up and doing that. But I think that just because I can't take my foot off the gas and chill, it doesn't mean I shouldn't take my foot off the gas until. I really, that's what I was sitting there yesterday. I'm like, you know, they're everybody in my life, my children, my husband, my family. Everybody in my life would be just fine. If I lowered the bar. Yeah, I think that's true. I'm the one who's running myself ragged. Now, the problem is they've all gotten used to the bar being where it is, and so the idea of the bar coming down would be uncomfortable for them. And I think a lot of people definitely a lot of women are like, oh my God, what was I thinking? I should have gotten you all used to everything being a little bit less like awesome. Because it's exhausting, maintaining awesome. Yeah. And that has nothing to do with my job or my career. That's just my crazy hamster brain. Hampton was with us for several days and one day, he just, he stayed in bed for a good part of the day. He just took it easy. He come out, have lunch. And so his mother said hey, what have you been doing all day? He said, chillaxing. Yeah, and that was the answer. And then he walked away. And I thought to myself, why have you never just said that? I'm just going to be chillaxing all day long. You think you need permission to chillax, and they're never going to give you permission to chillax. 'cause if you're laxing, they can't chillax. Somebody's got to be raising the bar so that she lacks and can get done. Welcome to the truth. My Friends, you're out of the matrix now, bob. It's bob and sherry. Can you believe this is brought to you by Staples stores and Staples dot com. You read it once. I don't believe that. And then you're ready to go. I can't believe this. It's bob and cherries. I don't believe this. I believe this. All right, so a group of people from other countries were asked the question, what do you think that every American has in their house? Right? You got it? The things you think every American has. And of course, we don't. But this is the perception of America from people in other countries. Here's the first one. Americans have a never ending supply of cans, individual cancer bottles of soda. Sprite whatever. And most Americans have an entire refrigerator, and that's just what we that's the only thing we put in it are individual cans or bottles of soda. So it's a little bit true, right? A lot of Americans have some soda in the house. And some Americans even have a fridge in the garage. We bought a used one. And that's what's in it, mostly. But I think that it's unreasonable to say most Americans are loaded for bear with individual cans and bottles of Coke and Sprite. Another thing that came up was gallons of milk. Every American has at least one gallon of milk. Here's another one. Every American has a separate refrigerator in the garage like you do, bob. Not just for cans of Coke, but an endless amount of beer and bulk food from Costco and Sam's Club. That we do not have. I have to say, that hits uncomfortably close to home. Here we go. Another thing that all Americans have in their homes are individually wrapped items. Individually wrapped snacks, individually wrapped plastic cutlery, individually wrapped wet wipes and on and on and on, where you come down on that one. I come down that the rest of the world sees us as consumer pigs. Basically. Well, that's, I mean, that's kind of harsh. You know, if you've been if you've never, if you're not American, and you come into an American supermarket or even a convenience store, I mean, you do have this incredible astonishing selection of individuals. It's one of the first things people it's one of the first things people from another country comment on are the supermarkets. Here's this one's really weird and specific. All Americans have a couch in their living room and the couches positioned in a certain way as though the family is performing for a studio audience. That's funny. That is funny. People who are not American are fascinated by something in our kitchens. They are fascinated by our garbage disposals. Every American has a garbage disposal in the kitchen. And we can put anything we want down there and grind it up and send it away. Which of course is not true. It's not too very well in there at all. Well, garbage doesn't do very well in many places like New York City. Here's another one. I love this one. All Americans have a literal block of cheese in the refrigerator at all times. Oh, it's a can of cheese whiz. Not a block of cheese. And a related subject. All Americans have large plastic containers of orange ball food in their houses. Those are those orange cheese puff things. From Sam's yeah, exactly. Can I get all Americans? Can I guess another thing that Europeans think that we have red solo cups? Oh yeah, they do think we all have red solo cups. They do. And some of them, when they come over here, they buy like ten of them to take home and show everybody what their souvenirs from America are. Is that crack you up? You're gonna love this one because you none of us would ever think twice about this, but apparently people from other lands are fascinated by the way that Americans all keep. And they say that we all do it. All Americans have a random baseball bat as a security measure in their homes. That's movies. Wow. Yeah, that is movies. Gangster movies. You're right. I mean, think about that. Because it's kind of true. You've got to basically have a baseball bat in your bedroom. Some people keep one in the back seat of their car. Some people keep one kind of casually propped up by the front door. Do you have any of you have a bat? I know Doc does because he plays softball. Is that in your house? No. I have a 9 iron, an old 9 iron. I don't know if we have a bat. I have a bat in the back of my car, but that was from some dance thing. Kevin has this thing. I don't know what it is. But it looks like something from like one of Al Capone's ruffians. It's some sort of a wooden club stick thing. I mean, considering that I'm the single greatest threat to the man's peace and safety. You'd be surprised how well armed he is for. I think I know, is that is that a stick like cops in the movies used to carry? Yes, yes. Yeah, that's what it looks like. It looks like a movie, a movie cop thing. So there you go. Those are just some of the many things that people from other countries think all of us have in our House. I think my favorite is the literal block of cheese. And then the giant see through container of orange ball food. It's bob and sherry. The fun size podcast, a shareable taste of the show at our website or the free free bob and cherry app. The cans film festival is pretty excited about David Mamet's JFK thriller assassination. The movie assassination and that is the name of it, has quite a cast. Al Pacino, Viggo Mortensen, John Travolta, Shia LaBeouf, and Courtney Love, just the name of few, the MUBI is a retelling of the killing of president John F. Kennedy from the mob's point of view. Reimagining his death as a hit ordered by Chicago mob kingpin, Sam giancana. His payback for JFK's attempt to undermine the mob after they helped him to get elected. Production starts in September in Canada. So the Kansas market is talking about it and it hasn't even been as an even been completed yet. I'm going to go see that and let me just admit, I am not a conspiracy guy. I just count them all. But this is the one that's always stuck with me because the bright enough about the mob and I read enough about the kennedys that it just made sense. That RFK, his brother, as attorney general, went after the mob, after the mob, because Joseph Kennedy, the father, asked for a little bit of help to get him elected and Chicago and West Virginia that the kennedys turned their back on them and decided to prosecute them. It just made sense to me and the guy who shot Oswald who shot Kennedy was a mob guy, Jack Ruby, a mob guy
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"Social media. She should. I don't think that she should. She's still performing. She's just performing for a cheap little camera for people to watch. I think she should just step away and do a Marlene Dietrich thing. I want to be alone. I think part of the reason you're seeing the social media stuff is because for 15 years she wasn't allowed to have a $5 bill to call her own. And she's acting that out. It's complicated and sad, but man, have a little bit of compassion. She certainly gave a lot of the very people that are so critical. Certainly enjoyed when she was entertaining them. You know? She gave you a lot of pleasure with toxic and hit me baby one more time. Maybe have a little bit of mercy for her. It's bob and sherry. It's the stuff we wouldn't couldn't shouldn't do on the regular show. The podcast, podcast, on the free bob and cherry app. When CDs were popular in sherry and I were just together for the first time, we shot the cover of one of our CDs and a pizzeria restaurant called portofino in Charlotte. It's got great pizza, thin crust, perfect combinations of cheese, sauce, and crispy edges. Just really great pizza. I've always been a pizza aficionado, sherry has to. I'm always going on and on about the great pizza in New Haven, Connecticut, where I was brought up. And I am reading here that pizza, as we know it, was invented in America, not in Italy. This is from food historian and Italian at that academic Alberto grandi of Parma university said that the world famous dish was created not in Naples. A form of pizza eaten in the city, he said, as nothing to do with the pizza that we know today. He revealed that that pizza was a poorly cooked piece of food on a sweet bread without any toppings and he ingredients and the extras and was eaten as a dessert professor grandi said in the quoting them. The pizza was a very poor product and free of extra ingredients. It was very, very basic and poorly cooked because the ovens and Napoli are bad and yet somehow it becomes this rich specialty with tomato sauce in America and comes back to Naples which claims it. So here's something that we really food wise can be proud of as Americans. We are the ones who actually invented the pizza. Well, there you go. Now we won't get credit for it. This will be the first last and only time this conversation ever gets had. Probably. But we'll take it. But it was probably in New York City. It probably came because of so many Italian immigrants that landed in New York. It was probably put together in an oven and somebody's kitchen and then a restaurant and then spread slowly throughout the northeast and then of course the rest of the country and the wolf. So there we are. We take that we take that flag as ours, the pizza flag. It's bob and cherry. Two guys drove to work. Neither guy wore a seat belt. One guy got a ticket. One guy didn't. The same two guys drove home. One guy wore a seat belt, one guy didn't. One guy made it home. The guy not wearing his seat belt didn't. Don't risk it. Click it or ticket. Paid for by nitsa. Two guys drove to work. Neither guy wore a seat belt. One guy got a ticket. One guy didn't. The same two guys drove home. One guy wore a seat belt, one guy didn't. One guy made it home. The guy not wearing his seat belt didn't. Don't risk it. Click it or ticket. Paid for by ninja. Bob and sherry books swag and the mother of all mothers merch. Just hit shot at bob and sherry dot com. Talk back time. If you're a phone person, you can call us any time of the day or night at 8 four four 52 sherry. That's 8 four four 5 two or if you have our app it's free in Google Play in the App Store just download it. There's a little tiny microphone in the bottom center of the screen little cartoon, tap that and talk in the Apple send it straight to us. Hi, bob and sherry. It's Sammy Ireland from Maine. I was just listening to your show where you listed significant historical figures that today's generation, people 30 and under don't know. And as a 25 year old high school teacher, I feel like I have pretty good insight into this problem. I'll let you know that most people that you listed I do know, especially the important historical figures like Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, Sigmund Freud, and my students know those people as well. Do they know who Aretha Franklin is? Probably not. I mentioned Madonna the other day to my freshman and they had no idea who I was talking about, so that was really worrisome. But when it comes to strong historical influential people, they do know them. We talk about them in class, specifically in my psychology class we talk about Sigmund Freud. And this all started, obviously, with the curriculum I have to teach, but also I have a poster in my room of Sigmund Freud and the speech bubble from around him says your mom. And so obviously my kids are like, oh my God, your mom joke hung up in a classroom. I need to learn all about it. Tell me what it means. And so we talked about him and his theories about the relationship you have with your mom or your parents and how that will affect your psychological development and your life later on. We talk about the Oedipus complex and so of course my seniors it's like they're all about it. They're obsessed. They love Sigmund Freud. They think he's a funny guy of all time, even though that's not really the point, but they're very interested in his theories and it was just a great conversation starter. So I promise you us teachers were trying to get these kids to know these important influential people, but I mean, pop culture, yeah, I mean, Madonna not knowing who Madonna Aretha Franklin is, you know, that's on them. We can't do everything. They are hiring some great teachers in Maine. Wow. Sandy. You are the teacher that everybody remembers when they're grown up. Yeah. You're the teacher that gets people. You know, you always have, I was lucky. I had a bunch of really great teachers, like my fourth grade teacher, misses lindford, who turned us all on to poetry and that stayed with me for the rest of my life. You have some great teachers. They're the ones that light a fire inside you. Curiosity or whatever. And what a cool way of doing that. Thank you, sandy. What's her name sandy or Sam? Sammy, I thought Sammy. Sammy. I thought it was sandy, Ireland. Sammy iron. What a great name. What a great name. Sammy Ireland sounds like a prohibition gangster. What a great name. Out of Boston. Out of Boston. That's exactly right. You're so right about teachers. I had a college teacher, freshman college teacher in western civilization. And at roger Williams university, there were a fair amount of Portuguese second or third generation Portuguese students because it's just the big Portuguese Italian area. And so he's teaching a course about what the Spanish did with the gold they found and what other countries did and what Portugal did and basically Portugal got some gold and then just used it to make pretty crowns. He said to one of the guys whose name was mister cabral, that is why Portugal is where it is now. And Spain is somewhere different. They didn't invest. It was just a funny little aside that for some reason I've just carried all my life. A teacher can really do that. When you think back on the teachers that you had, even in subjects that you struggled with, you know, you could be sitting there and was like, well, and then suddenly you hear something, you set up and go, wait, what? And it wakes your imagination up. It's so it's so hard for teachers to be teachers because they're held like they're teaching these really rigid curriculums and tests to teaching to the tests and all we have lost our way. We've really have lost our way. Well, in more ways than one, but I don't want to get into that too much. I'm talking about I'm thinking here. We have no idea. We have handicapped teachers and prevented them from being like, what was that great? Dead poets society, the Robin Williams movie. Remember with Ethan Hawke and Robin Williams. Dave would get fired today for any of that. We've lost our way. I was just thinking of my sophomore year I had an English teacher. I can't remember his name, but he was a great guy. And on a spring day, in obviously New England loves their spring days because it's a long winter. He said, we're all going to go outside and read. And go over this next book. And the book was on the road by Jack Kerouac, which, in the last few months, I think has been banned in some places. And I'm thinking back on some of the other books that he had, the fire next time with Baldwin and a couple of others. And those in public colleges in certain places aren't taught and they're a big part of contemporary American literature. Yeah. Oh, you know, well, what are you going to do? So that's what we know what to do. It's bob and cherry. Leave us a talk. Talk back with the free bob and cherry app. Back to bob and cherry show and I forgot to tell you about this chalkboard sign that I saw outside of a liquor store just the other day. It was right before Mother's Day and the sign in the front of the liquor store said, by your mom a bottle, you're the reason she drinks. And I just thought, that really is such great advertising because. It just jumped right out at me. And I laughed. I laughed. Whoever I'm sure it's been done in other liquor stores, but they pulled it off, can you imagine that being around when you were a kid? That kind of advertising campaign would never have existed. Never back then. No, not at all. And not because the moms weren't nipping it, you know? It was because it just was not something that would be talked about like that. No, not at all. You're right. The other sign that I loved, which I saw posted online, is a mall. It's a store in the mall. And it is the try my best mobile phone specialist. You have to really give it up to the guy or the woman who came up with that. Because that's the most that you can hope for with the fixing of a cell phone. You can just the guy tries his best. That's all you can hope for. He really can't fall to person. You know, the name, it's in the name. I tried my best. Sorry. Try my best. You know, I mean, he's saying, I'll try my best. It's like Lamar and I were, I don't know if you were with us. We were somewhere. I've been Fayetteville. And we came out of the restaurant after lunch. And in the parking lot, looked across the street and there was a garage, and the garage was called okay garage. And I said, hey, Lamar, look at that garage over there. And he started smiling because he got it the way I got it. And so I said, so Lamar, where'd you take your car? I took it to the okay garage. How was the work? That was okay. I think that's the better way to go. Do you really? I think so, that case? I can't believe you're bringing this up because I spent some time yesterday afternoon thinking about one of the places I went wrong in my life was being such a goody two shoes perfectionist. You know, like doing all my homework and the extra credit, going above and beyond for my people, my family, my Friends, my coworkers. I think that I think I might have been mistaken with that. I think a better plan is to just sort of, hey, I'm here, all right? I can't do more than that. I showed up. That might have been stressful. Well, first of all, you could never do that. I mean, you're just riffing here because you could never, ever do that. But I regret it. I regret not setting the bar a lot lower. I mean, I don't believe that. Lower. I don't believe that. You have become. We don't talk about it very often. You have become the thing of legend in radio broadcasting. Now, has it has it paid off as much financially as you and I would have liked? No, we've done great, but was it the supersonic money that a few people get? No, it wasn't, but you still are, you still are a pioneer in broadcasting. You were still, as far as I can remember, in contemporary radio, the first woman who was the actual brand of his show as much as the guy and sometimes a little more. So you can not discount yourself. For what that's worth, you know who else was a pioneer, the donner party, and they ended up having to eat each other. So I knew this was I knew it was going to go dark when I say something complimentary. This pioneer thing is you're covered in scratches and you're constantly under threat of being assaulted. No, the pioneer thing is overrated. I think that I think that I have exhausted myself by being, I just think I should have set the bar lower in every area of my life. Not at the floor, you know, not on the bottom. Okay, well I wasn't. I wasn't referring to every area of your life. I was referring to what we do. This thing of ours. That's what I was doing. And you would have been bored. Because you and I discussed that one time when we were counseled by, I'm not going to embarrass him, but a very astute man that we knew. To just go the easy path than just being the oh, did you see the other day that daffodils are actually flowers if you look at them one way? You know, we were a little edgier and paid the price. But we did it our way. We can't, we're not capable of doing that. We're doing the only show we're capable of doing. Right. We're not good enough actors. And we're just we weren't capable of shutting up and doing that. But I think that just because I can't take my foot off the gas and chill, it doesn't mean I shouldn't take my foot off the gas until. I really, that's what I was sitting there yesterday. I'm like, you know, they're everybody in my life, my children, my husband, my family. Everybody in my life would be just fine. If I lowered the bar. Yeah, I think that's true. I'm the one who's running myself ragged. Now, the problem is they've all gotten used to the bar being where it is, and so the idea of the bar coming down would be uncomfortable for them. And I think a lot of people definitely a lot of women are like, oh my God, what was I thinking? I should have gotten you all used to everything being a little bit less like awesome. Because it's exhausting, maintaining awesome. Yeah. And that has nothing to do with my job or my career. That's just my crazy hamster brain. Hampton was with us for several days and one day, he just, he stayed in bed for a good part of the day. He just took it easy. He come out, have lunch. And so his mother said hey, what have you been doing all day? He said, chillaxing. Yeah, and that was the answer. And then he walked away. And I thought to myself, why have you never just said that? I'm just going to be chillaxing all day long. You think you need permission to chillax, and they're never going to give you permission to chillax. 'cause if you're laxing, they can't chillax. Somebody's got to be raising the bar so that she lacks and can get done. Welcome to the truth. My Friends, you're out of the matrix now, bob. It's bob and sherry. Can you believe this is brought to you by Staples stores and Staples dot com. You read it once. I don't believe that. And then you're ready to go. I can't believe this. It's bob and cherries. I don't believe this. I believe this. All right, so a group of people from other countries were asked the question, what do you think that every American has in their house? Right? You got it? The things you think every American has. And of course, we don't. But this is the perception of America from people in other countries. Here's the first one. Americans have a never ending supply of cans, individual cancer bottles of soda. Sprite whatever. And most Americans have an entire refrigerator, and that's just what we that's the only thing we put in it are individual cans or bottles of soda. So it's a little bit true, right? A lot of Americans have some soda in the house. And some Americans even have a fridge in the garage. We bought a used one. And that's what's in it, mostly. But I think that it's unreasonable to say most Americans are loaded for bear with individual cans and bottles of Coke and Sprite. Another thing that came up was gallons of milk. Every American has at least one gallon of milk. Here's another one. Every American has a separate refrigerator in the garage like you do, bob. Not just for cans of Coke, but an endless amount of beer and bulk food from Costco and Sam's Club. That we do not have. I have to say, that hits uncomfortably close to home. Here we go. Another thing that all Americans have in their homes are individually wrapped items. Individually wrapped snacks, individually wrapped plastic cutlery, individually wrapped wet wipes and on and on and on, where you come down on that one. I come down that the rest of the world sees us as consumer pigs. Basically. Well, that's, I mean, that's kind of harsh. You know, if you've been if you've never, if you're not American, and you come into an American supermarket or even a convenience store, I mean, you do have this incredible astonishing selection of individuals. It's one of the first things people it's one of the first things people from another country comment on are the supermarkets. Here's this one's really weird and specific. All Americans have a couch in their living room and the couches positioned in a certain way as though the family is performing for a studio audience. That's funny. That is funny. People who are not American are fascinated by something in our kitchens. They are fascinated by our garbage disposals. Every American has a garbage disposal in the kitchen. And we can put anything we want down there and grind it up and send it away. Which of course is not true. It's not too very well in there at all. Well, garbage doesn't do very well in many places like New York City. Here's another one. I love this one. All Americans have a literal block of cheese in the refrigerator at all times. Oh, it's a can of cheese whiz. Not a block of cheese. And a related subject. All Americans have large plastic containers of orange ball food in their houses. Those are those orange cheese puff things. From Sam's yeah, exactly. Can I get all Americans? Can I guess another thing that Europeans think that we have red solo cups? Oh yeah, they do think we all have red solo cups. They do. And some of them, when they come over here, they buy like ten of them to take home and show everybody what their souvenirs from America are. Is that crack you up? You're gonna love this one because you none of us would ever think twice about this, but apparently people from other lands are fascinated by the way that Americans all keep. And they say that we all do it. All Americans have a random baseball bat as a security measure in their homes. That's movies. Wow. Yeah, that is movies. Gangster movies. You're right. I mean, think about that. Because it's kind of true. You've got to basically have a baseball bat in your bedroom. Some people keep one in the back seat of their car. Some people keep one kind of casually propped up by the front door. Do you have any of you have a bat? I know Doc does because he plays softball. Is that in your house? No. I have a 9 iron, an old 9 iron. I don't know if we have a bat. I have a bat in the back of my car, but that was from some dance thing. Kevin has this thing. I don't know what it is. But it looks like something from like one of Al Capone's ruffians. It's some sort of a wooden club stick thing. I mean, considering that I'm the single greatest threat to the man's peace and safety. You'd be surprised how well armed he is for. I think I know, is that is that a stick like cops in the movies used to carry? Yes, yes. Yeah, that's what it looks like. It looks like a movie, a movie cop thing. So there you go. Those are just some of the many things that people from other countries think all of us have in our House. I think my favorite is the literal block of cheese. And then the giant see through container of orange ball food. It's bob and sherry. The fun size podcast, a shareable taste of the show at our website or the free free bob and cherry app. The cans film festival is pretty excited about David Mamet's JFK thriller assassination. The movie assassination and that is the name of it, has quite a cast. Al Pacino, Viggo Mortensen, John Travolta, Shia LaBeouf, and Courtney Love, just the name of few, the MUBI is a retelling of the killing of president John F. Kennedy from the mob's point of view. Reimagining his death as a hit ordered by Chicago mob kingpin, Sam giancana. His payback for JFK's attempt to undermine the mob after they helped him to get elected. Production starts in September in Canada. So the Kansas market is talking about it and it hasn't even been as an even been completed yet. I'm going to go see that and let me just admit, I am not a conspiracy guy. I just count them all. But this is the one that's always stuck with me because the bright enough about the mob and I read enough about the kennedys that it just made sense. That RFK, his brother, as attorney general, went after the mob, after the mob, because Joseph Kennedy, the father, asked for a little bit of help to get him elected and Chicago and West Virginia that the kennedys turned their back on them and decided to prosecute them. It just made sense to me and the guy who shot Oswald who shot Kennedy was a mob guy, Jack Ruby, a mob guy
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"Were working her up through the talent show system. She was engineered to be what she's begun. And when you watch the performance, you can see that every little move is choreographed that she's doing. Every little thing that she's doing she's been told to do, you can spot that. Somebody's coaching, yeah. And you'll be able to watch this performance because we're going to post it up on the bob and cherry Facebook here in just a second. So, you know, I don't know what the answer is and I don't know what's going to happen for her. But how can you watch this and not feel just a little bit queasy and so sad? I still human being. Right. I still stand by what I said several years ago and I'm not a big follower of Britney or anything. But in order for her really to be a healthy person, she needs to get away from show business because it is a vicious way to make a living to begin with, let alone with issues. In a lot of ways she has. She has. She has gotten away. You don't see her performing or touring or doing a Vegas thing. But you're saying you're on camera. You see her on camera doing dances with various so she can't hold things on social media. She should. I don't think that she should. She's still performing. She's just performing for a cheap little camera for people to watch. I think she should just step away and do a Marlene Dietrich thing. I want to be alone. I think part of the reason you're seeing the social media stuff is because for 15 years she wasn't allowed to have a $5 bill to call her own. And she's acting that out. It's complicated and sad, but man, have a little bit of compassion. She certainly gave a lot of the very people that are so critical. Certainly enjoyed when she was entertaining them. You know? She gave you a lot of pleasure with toxic and hit me baby one more time. Maybe have a little bit of mercy for her. It's bob and sherry. It's the stuff we wouldn't couldn't shouldn't do on the regular show. The podcast, podcast, on the free bob and cherry app. When CDs were popular in sherry and I were just together for the first time, we shot the cover of one of our CDs and a pizzeria restaurant called portofino in Charlotte. It's got great pizza, thin crust, perfect combinations of cheese, sauce, and crispy edges. Just really great pizza. I've always been a pizza aficionado, sherry has to. I'm always going on and on about the great pizza in New Haven, Connecticut, where I was brought up. And I am reading here that pizza, as we know it, was invented in America, not in Italy. This is from food historian and Italian at that academic Alberto grandi of Parma university said that the world famous dish was created not in Naples. A form of pizza eaten in the city, he said, as nothing to do with the pizza that we know today. He revealed that that pizza was a poorly cooked piece of food on a sweet bread without any toppings and he ingredients and the extras and was eaten as a dessert professor grandi said in the quoting them. The pizza was a very poor product and free of extra ingredients. It was very, very basic and poorly cooked because the ovens and Napoli are bad and yet somehow it becomes this rich specialty with tomato sauce in America and comes back to Naples which claims it. So here's something that we really food wise can be proud of as Americans. We are the ones who actually invented the pizza. Well, there you go. Now we won't get credit for it. This will be the first last and only time this conversation ever gets had. Probably. But we'll take it. But it was probably in New York City. It probably came because of so many Italian immigrants that landed in New York. It was probably put together in an oven and somebody's kitchen and then a restaurant and then spread slowly throughout the northeast and then of course the rest of the country and the wolf. So there we are. We take that we take that flag as ours, the pizza flag. It's bob and cherry. Two guys drove to work. Neither guy wore a seat belt. One guy got a ticket. One guy didn't. The same two guys drove home. One guy wore a seat belt, one guy didn't. One guy made it home. The guy not wearing his seat belt didn't. Don't risk it. Click it or ticket. Paid for by nitsa. Two guys drove to work. Neither guy wore a seat belt. One guy got a ticket. One guy didn't. The same two guys drove home. One guy wore a seat belt, one guy didn't. One guy made it home. The guy not wearing his seat belt didn't. Don't risk it. Click it or ticket. Paid for by ninja. Bob and sherry books swag and the mother of all mothers merch. Just hit shot at bob and sherry dot com. Talk back time. If you're a phone person, you can call us any time of the day or night at 8 four four 52 sherry. That's 8 four four 5 two or if you have our app it's free in Google Play in the App Store just download it. There's a little tiny microphone in the bottom center of the screen little cartoon, tap that and talk in the Apple send it straight to us. Hi, bob and sherry. It's Sammy Ireland from Maine. I was just listening to your show where you listed significant historical figures that today's generation, people 30 and under don't know. And as a 25 year old high school teacher, I feel like I have pretty good insight into this problem. I'll let you know that most people that you listed I do know, especially the important historical figures like Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, Sigmund Freud, and my students know those people as well. Do they know who Aretha Franklin is? Probably not. I mentioned Madonna the other day to my freshman and they had no idea who I was talking about, so that was really worrisome. But when it comes to strong historical influential people, they do know them. We talk about them in class, specifically in my psychology class we talk about Sigmund Freud. And this all started, obviously, with the curriculum I have to teach, but also I have a poster in my room of Sigmund Freud and the speech bubble from around him says your mom. And so obviously my kids are like, oh my God, your mom joke hung up in a classroom. I need to learn all about it. Tell me what it means. And so we talked about him and his theories about the relationship you have with your mom or your parents and how that will affect your psychological development and your life later on. We talk about the Oedipus complex and so of course my seniors it's like they're all about it. They're obsessed. They love Sigmund Freud. They think he's a funny guy of all time, even though that's not really the point, but they're very interested in his theories and it was just a great conversation starter. So I promise you us teachers were trying to get these kids to know these important influential people, but I mean, pop culture, yeah, I mean, Madonna not knowing who Madonna Aretha Franklin is, you know, that's on them. We can't do everything. They are hiring some great teachers in Maine. Wow. Sandy. You are the teacher that everybody remembers when they're grown up. Yeah. You're the teacher that gets people. You know, you always have, I was lucky. I had a bunch of really great teachers, like my fourth grade teacher, misses lindford, who turned us all on to poetry and that stayed with me for the rest of my life. You have some great teachers. They're the ones that light a fire inside you. Curiosity or whatever. And what a cool way of doing that. Thank you, sandy. What's her name sandy or Sam? Sammy, I thought Sammy. Sammy. I thought it was sandy, Ireland. Sammy iron. What a great name. What a great name. Sammy Ireland sounds like a prohibition gangster. What a great name. Out of Boston. Out of Boston. That's exactly right. You're so right about teachers. I had a college teacher, freshman college teacher in western civilization. And at roger Williams university, there were a fair amount of Portuguese second or third generation Portuguese students because it's just the big Portuguese Italian area. And so he's teaching a course about what the Spanish did with the gold they found and what other countries did and what Portugal did and basically Portugal got some gold and then just used it to make pretty crowns. He said to one of the guys whose name was mister cabral, that is why Portugal is where it is now. And Spain is somewhere different. They didn't invest. It was just a funny little aside that for some reason I've just carried all my life. A teacher can really do that. When you think back on the teachers that you had, even in subjects that you struggled with, you know, you could be sitting there and was like, well, and then suddenly you hear something, you set up and go, wait, what? And it wakes your imagination up. It's so it's so hard for teachers to be teachers because they're held like they're teaching these really rigid curriculums and tests to teaching to the tests and all we have lost our way. We've really have lost our way. Well, in more ways than one, but I don't want to get into that too much. I'm talking about I'm thinking here. We have no idea. We have handicapped teachers and prevented them from being like, what was that great? Dead poets society, the Robin Williams movie. Remember with Ethan Hawke and Robin Williams. Dave would get fired today for any of that. We've lost our way. I was just thinking of my sophomore year I had an English teacher. I can't remember his name, but he was a great guy. And on a spring day, in obviously New England loves their spring days because it's a long winter. He said, we're all going to go outside and read. And go over this next book. And the book was on the road by Jack Kerouac, which, in the last few months, I think has been banned in some places. And I'm thinking back on some of the other books that he had, the fire next time with Baldwin and a couple of others. And those in public colleges in certain places aren't taught and they're a big part of contemporary American literature. Yeah. Oh, you know, well, what are you going to do? So that's what we know what to do. It's bob and cherry. Leave us a talk. Talk back with the free bob and cherry app. Back to bob and cherry show and I forgot to tell you about this chalkboard sign that I saw outside of a liquor store just the other day. It was right before Mother's Day and the sign in the front of the liquor store said, by your mom a bottle, you're the reason she drinks. And I just thought, that really is such great advertising because. It just jumped right out at me. And I laughed. I laughed. Whoever I'm sure it's been done in other liquor stores, but they pulled it off, can you imagine that being around when you were a kid? That kind of advertising campaign would never have existed. Never back then. No, not at all. And not because the moms weren't nipping it, you know? It was because it just was not something that would be talked about like that. No, not at all. You're right. The other sign that I loved, which I saw posted online, is a mall. It's a store in the mall. And it is the try my best mobile phone specialist. You have to really give it up to the guy or the woman who came up with that. Because that's the most that you can hope for with the fixing of a cell phone. You can just the guy tries his best. That's all you can hope for. He really can't fall to person. You know, the name, it's in the name. I tried my best. Sorry. Try my best. You know, I mean, he's saying, I'll try my best. It's like Lamar and I were, I don't know if you were with us. We were somewhere. I've been Fayetteville. And we came out of the restaurant after lunch. And in the parking lot, looked across the street and there was a garage, and the garage was called okay garage. And I said, hey, Lamar, look at that garage over there. And he started smiling because he got it the way I got it. And so I said, so Lamar, where'd you take your car? I took it to the okay garage. How was the work? That was okay. I think that's the better way to go. Do you really? I think so, that case? I can't believe you're bringing this up because I spent some time yesterday afternoon thinking about one of the places I went wrong in my life was being such a goody two shoes perfectionist. You know, like doing all my homework and the extra credit, going above and beyond for my people, my family, my Friends, my coworkers. I think that I think I might have been mistaken with that. I think a better plan is to just sort of, hey, I'm here, all right? I can't do more than that. I showed up. That might have been stressful. Well, first of all, you could never do that. I mean, you're just riffing here because you could never, ever do that. But I regret it. I regret not setting the bar a lot lower. I mean, I don't believe that. Lower. I don't believe that. You have become. We don't talk about it very often. You have become the thing of legend in radio broadcasting. Now, has it has it paid off as much financially as you and I would have liked? No, we've done great, but was it the supersonic money that a few people get? No, it wasn't, but you still are, you still are a pioneer in broadcasting. You were still, as far as I can remember, in contemporary radio, the first woman who was the actual brand of his show as much as the guy and sometimes a little more. So you can not discount yourself. For what that's worth, you know who else was a pioneer, the donner party, and they ended up having to eat each other. So I knew this was I knew it was going to go dark when I say something complimentary. This pioneer thing is you're covered in scratches and you're constantly under threat of being assaulted. No, the pioneer thing is overrated. I think that I think that I have exhausted myself by being, I just think I should have set the bar lower in every area of my life. Not at the floor, you know, not on the bottom. Okay, well I wasn't. I wasn't referring to every area of your life. I was referring to what we do. This thing of ours. That's what I was doing. And you would have been bored. Because you and I discussed that one time when we were counseled by, I'm not going to embarrass him, but a very astute man that we knew. To just go the easy path than just being the oh, did you see the other day that daffodils are actually flowers if you look at them one way? You know, we were a little edgier and paid the price. But we did it our way. We can't, we're not capable of doing that. We're doing the only show we're capable of doing. Right. We're not good enough actors. And we're just we weren't capable of shutting up and doing that. But I think that just because I can't take my foot off the gas and chill, it doesn't mean I shouldn't take my foot off the gas until. I really, that's what I was sitting there yesterday. I'm like, you know, they're everybody in my life, my children, my husband, my family. Everybody in my life would be just fine. If I lowered the bar. Yeah, I think that's true. I'm the one who's running myself ragged. Now, the problem is they've all gotten used to the bar being where it is, and so the idea of the bar coming down would be uncomfortable for them. And I think a lot of people definitely a lot of women are like, oh my God, what was I thinking? I should have gotten you all used to everything being a little bit less like awesome. Because it's exhausting, maintaining awesome. Yeah. And that has nothing to do with my job or my career. That's just my crazy hamster brain. Hampton was with us for several days and one day, he just, he stayed in bed for a good part of the day. He just took it easy. He come out, have lunch. And so his mother said hey, what have you been doing all day? He said, chillaxing. Yeah, and that was the answer. And then he walked away. And I thought to myself, why have you never just said that? I'm just going to be chillaxing all day long. You think you need permission to chillax, and they're never going to give you permission to chillax. 'cause if you're laxing, they can't chillax. Somebody's got to be raising the bar so that she lacks and can get done. Welcome to the truth. My Friends, you're out of the matrix now, bob. It's bob and sherry. Can you believe this is brought to you by Staples stores and Staples dot com. You read it once. I don't believe that. And then you're ready to go. I can't believe this. It's bob and cherries. I don't believe this. I believe this. All right, so a group of people from other countries were asked the question, what do you think that every American has in their house? Right? You got it? The things you think every American has. And of course, we don't. But this is the perception of America from people in other countries. Here's the first one. Americans have a never ending supply of cans, individual cancer bottles of soda. Sprite whatever. And most Americans have an entire refrigerator, and that's just what we that's the only thing we put in it are individual cans or bottles of soda. So it's a little bit true, right? A lot of Americans have some soda in the house. And some Americans even have a fridge in the garage. We bought a used one. And that's what's in it, mostly. But I think that it's unreasonable to say most Americans are loaded for bear with individual cans and bottles of Coke and Sprite. Another thing that came up was gallons of milk. Every American has at least one gallon of milk. Here's another one. Every American has a separate refrigerator in the garage like you do, bob. Not just for cans of Coke, but an endless amount of beer and bulk food from Costco and Sam's Club. That we do not have. I have to say, that hits uncomfortably close to home. Here we go. Another thing that all Americans have in their homes are individually wrapped items. Individually wrapped snacks, individually wrapped plastic cutlery, individually wrapped wet wipes and on and on and on, where you come down on that one. I come down that the rest of the world sees us as consumer pigs. Basically. Well, that's, I mean, that's kind of harsh. You know, if you've been if you've never, if you're not American, and you come into an American supermarket or even a convenience store, I mean, you do have this incredible astonishing selection of individuals. It's one of the first things people it's one of the first things people from another country comment on are the supermarkets. Here's this one's really weird and specific. All Americans have a couch in their living room and the couches positioned in a certain way as though the family is performing for a studio audience. That's funny. That is funny. People who are not American are fascinated by something in our kitchens. They are fascinated by our garbage disposals. Every American has a garbage disposal in the kitchen. And we can put anything we want down there and grind it up and send it away. Which of course is not true. It's not too very well in there at all. Well, garbage doesn't do very well in many places like New York City. Here's another one. I love this one. All Americans have a literal block of cheese in the refrigerator at all times. Oh, it's a can of cheese whiz. Not a block of cheese. And a related subject. All Americans have large plastic containers of orange ball food in their houses. Those are those orange cheese puff things. From Sam's yeah, exactly. Can I get all Americans? Can I guess another thing that Europeans think that we have red solo cups? Oh yeah, they do think we all have red solo cups. They do. And some of them, when they come over here, they buy like ten of them to take home and show everybody what their souvenirs from America are. Is that crack you up? You're gonna love this one because you none of us would ever think twice about this, but apparently people from other lands are fascinated by the way that Americans all keep. And they say that we all do it. All Americans have a random baseball bat as a security measure in their homes. That's movies. Wow. Yeah, that is movies. Gangster movies. You're right. I mean, think about that. Because it's kind of true. You've got to basically have a baseball bat in your bedroom. Some people keep one in the back seat of their car. Some people keep one kind of casually propped up by the front door. Do you have any of you have a bat? I know Doc does because he plays softball. Is that in your house? No. I have a 9 iron, an old 9 iron. I don't know if we have a bat. I have a bat in the back of my car, but that was from some dance thing. Kevin has this thing. I don't know what it is. But it looks like something from like one of Al Capone's ruffians. It's some sort of a wooden club stick thing. I mean, considering that I'm the single greatest threat to the man's peace and safety. You'd be surprised how well armed he is for. I think I know, is that is that a stick like cops in the movies used to carry? Yes, yes. Yeah, that's what it looks like. It looks like a movie, a movie cop thing. So there you go. Those are just some of the many things that people from other countries think all of us have in our House. I think my favorite is the literal block of cheese. And then the giant see through container of orange ball food. It's bob and sherry. The fun size podcast, a shareable taste of the show at our website or the free free bob and cherry app. The cans film festival is pretty excited about David Mamet's JFK thriller assassination. The movie assassination and that is the name of it, has quite a cast. Al Pacino, Viggo Mortensen, John Travolta, Shia LaBeouf, and Courtney Love, just the name of few, the MUBI is a retelling of the killing of president John F. Kennedy from the mob's point of view. Reimagining his death as a hit ordered by Chicago mob kingpin, Sam giancana. His payback for JFK's attempt to undermine the mob after they helped him to get elected. Production starts in September in Canada. So the Kansas market is talking about it and it hasn't even been as an even been completed yet. I'm going to go see that and let me just admit, I am not a conspiracy guy. I just count them all. But this is the one that's always stuck with me because the bright enough about the mob and I read enough about the kennedys that it just made sense. That RFK, his brother, as attorney general, went after the mob, after the mob, because Joseph Kennedy, the father, asked for a little bit of help to get him elected and Chicago and West Virginia that the kennedys turned their back on them and decided to prosecute them. It just made sense to me and the guy who shot Oswald who shot Kennedy was a mob guy, Jack Ruby, a mob guy
RISE Podcast
"david mamet" Discussed on RISE Podcast
"Have you directed before and did I not know that? Slip, I wrote directed and starred in every episode of. Shut up. Oh, I'm a dick that I did not know. That's okay. I thought we were just talking about the acting piece. Okay, I'm so excited now. I have had the opportunity, you're the third female writer, producer, that I've gotten to talk to you this week. Yes, and I'm so the universe is amazing. I'm so excited because I have noticed more and more lately for the first time becoming conscious of damn, there are no female names. It's never a woman. It's never a woman. And when it is, we make such a massive deal about it. And then every time it's like, Joe, and yes, certainly they could be girls names. But my point is, I'm so pumped now. Okay, let's talk about this because I guess I'm getting ahead of myself getting too excited. Let's talk about your career first and how you made the transition from actress to writer director. Well, I was always, I always identified as a writer, almost more than as an actor. In my adolescence, I wrote a lot of pros and poetry as angsty adolescents do. And I went to Tisch at NYU for acting school, but I was still writing and I started to write sketch comedies in comedy class. And it was David Mamet's acting school, the Atlantic theater company, and he would come in and everyone would drop everything. And he was notoriously sort of cruel to students and would be like, sit down before you finish. And everyone was putting up scenes haphazardly that they were working on in scene study classes. And I put up a scene that I had written. And he let me get through the whole thing, and then afterwards said, who wrote that? And I said, I did. And he said, you should write a feature. Holy shit, big praise. It was big, it was big phrase, especially yeah, he was truly God there. So, but I didn't, and when I graduated from Tisch, I wrote a one woman show for myself to star in. Cool. And so my career as an actor was also very much my career as a writer and those two things being in dialog proved to be successful for me and showed me also the power of making one's own work rather than waiting for the phone to ring. And then I started to write with my ex-husband, Daryl wine, when we wrote a number of features together, which he directed, and I acted in. Oh, wow. Yeah. And so that was really like boot camp for me as a filmmaker. They were both guerrilla indie films, and then we started working in the studio system. And then from there, you know, it always just takes one person, I feel like I went to coffee with this amazing producer named Alex madigan, and she said, why aren't you directing? And I had never even asked myself the question. I think especially for women in film, there's this misconception that if you don't know everything or if you haven't gone to film school or if you're not perfect, that you can't take a swing, which isn't entirely unfounded because there is a double standard and so I think that fear is legit, but when she said that, I was like, yeah, I should. And so I directed, I wrote and directed and starred in my first feature to be wearing all of those hats called band aid. We made it for very little money. We shot it in 12 days. I hired a crew made up entirely of women. Which was an incredible experience. I bet. And that really opened so many doors for me as director. It premiered at Sundance and competition, and then sold. And so from there, I then went on and directed a remake of the 90s cult, which movie the craft. And then the most recent one. The most recent one. So I know I sound like an idiot right now, and you're like, why am I sitting with this person who doesn't know? But I very intentionally don't research who I'm seeing. I love it. Because Google will reveal things and I don't want to pre conceive emotions. So I'm delightfully discovering all of this about you in real time. So let's take a beat on that because I grew up in a time where the craft was, I mean, it's iconic. It's everything. It's when I was a teenager. I remember seeing that. Illegally because if my parents had known, I grew up in a very religious home, either would be like, you're going to burn in hell. And I was like, that says, oh, I am. Yes. So how do you even take on something that you know has a fan base that have really deep ties to it? I would say just with sheer terror, you know? The remake is called the craft legacy, but I was taking on such a legacy with such die hard fans, and that film in particular, the original, it was so seminal for so many people in terms of feeling less alone as a weirdo. Yes. So the emotional resonance that it holds for fans is very, very intense. So yeah, it was terrifying and, you know, I did my best. Oh my gosh, of course. But I was so excited. You know, it was brought to me and with everything I write, even if it's something that is not born of my own imagination, like I always have to find a personal route in.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"david mamet" Discussed on AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"Do you worry about? What's with this COVID? He's one of those guys. You can't help but try to imitate once you hear his name. What? Anyhow, he was like, don't leave the city. It's gonna be fine. But Bethany frankel doubled down. Especially in light of that psycho Frank James shooting ten on the Brooklyn subway train, she said the subway situation is terrifying, as if she takes it. And New York is not what it used to be. New York is not safe. Bethany's got an 11 year old daughter and admitted she can not help but be the dorky parent who doesn't want her kid walking around the city. It's scary and I have no choice if we're dealing with Manhattan and to be a helicopter parent. And I chose to not be in New York City to be honest, I think it's scary and we have to talk about it, she continued. I had a conversation with Roxy the other day. She went to the downtown LA and not much better than New York City, by the way. Plenty of homeless plenty of vagrants drug addicts down there. She went with a couple of friends and she casually told me that a homeless man of college terror and some friends and asked for money and my back went up. I don't want it so close to those weirdos. You know, these are the people who snap. These are the people who have snapped. But she showed me that she carries the pepper spray and stun gun at border for Christmas. It's still scary. The only difference between she and I is this, yes, we're both interested in that underbelly of life, but I had the advantage of never telling my mother where I was going when I went to the city. You know, we just left. Either way, it's very scary. But I can't take how people will listen more intently to a real housewife who, by the way, just hold her just sold her Soho law for $7 million and is moving to Connecticut, Bethany Franklin can also escape by staying in a giant home in the Hamptons, I know she's a New Yorker and don't get me wrong. I knew her 30 years ago almost when she was a nobody and who was desperate to make it to any gossip column at all. Please don't listen to a rich woman who never is driven who's, you know, never not driven around by a chauffeur and hasn't taken a subway for a long time. Maybe she does here and there, but she's not the typical person living in the streets walking through the streets of New York. She's not. Now I know that's not gossip, but it's hard to sit by and watch New York City just get eaten up while the politicians sit around and do shit. And you know what no one's saying? The subway with a big disgruntled mentally ill black man decided to shoot up was in sunset park, Brooklyn. Such a part is a very large Asian community. Maybe the biggest was he hoping to shoot up a bunch of Asians going in Europe for work. Was this the tippy top of hate crimes against Asians that have been perpetrated by black guys for the last few years? Who knows because no one is asking? Another thing that pisses me off. Liberals all love to make fun of former mayor Rudy Giuliani, but I can tell you right now. Rudy's first order of business was to fix low level crime before the job trickled up before the job trickled up the lot of the bigger crimes. He used to call the broken windows theory, but that's no longer employed. The broken window theory is it's a criminologist theory that says that visible signs of crime or antisocial behavior or civil disorder create an urban environment that encourages further crime and disorder, including serious crimes, like murder. The theory also says that policing methods that target minor crimes such as vandalism, loitering, public drinking, jaywalking, jumping over turnstile to get somebody for free. They help to create an atmosphere of order and lawfulness. When you police those things and they do, and Rudy Giuliani worked it perfectly in the 90s. People laughed when he made sure all the guys in the street would squeegees and dirty water but not at red lights anymore. You couldn't stand, you stopped at a red light, a guy came in filthy water and a squeegee didn't even ask you if you wanted your window clean. He just starts slopping the water on your car. Rudy got those guys off the street. Rudy got the homeless people out of Penn station needs to sleep on top of each other. And he took New York City from being one of the most dangerous spots on earth to one of the top ten best cities to raise a family or start in business. You could laugh at his hair dye all you want, I don't know, maybe you have to be raised in a strict Italian Catholic home, but what he did isn't done anymore. You can't do it. Nowadays these liberals believe the criminals are the ones suffering. And the DAs think it's a waste of time to prosecute bad guys. And what particularly pissed me off and what would have never happened on the Rudy's watch all the security cameras at the sunset park subway stop weren't working. What do you know? Excuse me? Hey guys, you're not safe when progressive liberals are elected to lead your city. Whoever's job that is. I don't know, transportation secretary. I presume that idiot needs to be fired immediately and you're bringing the next guy. And if he fucks up, you bring her the next guy. That's it. That's how it has to be done. At the least, that's how it has to start. And if even less and that's proof that they don't care about you or me. And they don't. Anyhow, thank you for letting me have the little screed there. There'll be more of that on the next politics as a bitch coming at you this weekend. Anyhow, SNL's Molly Shannon has a book coming out called hello Molly. And I gotta say these excerpts I've been reading a really funny how she used to make believe she was David Mamet's assistant to get into places and parties and even secure additions for roles and it worked. But the latest story she told was flat out creepy. And let me just give you a warning. If you suffer from achondroplasia phobia, you may want to fast forward. Achondroplasia phobia is fear of little people. I got a friend who has this and I've seen him literally throw up at the seizures palettes pull in Las Vegas when a dwarf swam up to us and asked us how we were doing. Billy Bob Thornton has that till he can't be around little people. I've told you about that before in the past. So Molly Shannon recalled a disturbing account that with different strokes after Gary Coleman. But the way she tells it, the incident was not without humor. Back when Molly was young and struggling actress, Gary Coleman attempted to sexually assault her, but he was so small that she didn't feel physically threatened. And she pretty much managed to literally throw it aside and leave. So she tells this story on the April 20 April 12th appearance in the Howard Stern show. In the late 80s, she thought she caught a big break when she attracted the
Paul Vato Presents: A Celebrity Centric Podcast!
"david mamet" Discussed on Paul Vato Presents: A Celebrity Centric Podcast!
"I heard you from originally. I grew up in Boston in the south end. And then went to theater school, solid in New York City for 8 years, and LA for the rest. Did you work with William H. Macy? Yeah. I got really lucky the year that I was there because I was in the junior year, so I was only 8 kids that year in the advanced program. And William Macy was in town doing American buffalo at the Atlantic theater company where I was part of their theater school. So he loves teaching, so he took on a class and it was us. It was me and 8 kids with a semester of acted classes with William H, three hours every week for a whole semester. Wow, that just seems incredible. And then David Mamet, he was always busy. He wasn't as much of a teacher as he was just gonna face of it. But he'd always do his new plays and rehearsals there. Minimum a couple times, I remember he was doing like the first run of a new play of his. There was just the longest debt. I sat next to him, but I began nodding off. I had been acting since 6 a.m. and it's like a black box stage. His wife's Rebecca pigeon was on stage and I just kept talking about it. We had some really good training, man. Really good driving. And I still do a lot of acting work. In a lot of it's in my own projects. I've always believed in a big old stew of creativity. One thing that forms the other, because now because I edit, when I'm writing this script, I'm thinking about ways to write it, that's going to help me out when I'm editing it. And doubly so for directing. I'm the one that's going to be going through whatever happens between action and cut.
Paul Vato Presents: A Celebrity Centric Podcast!
"david mamet" Discussed on Paul Vato Presents: A Celebrity Centric Podcast!
"Did you work with William H. Macy? Yeah. I got really lucky the year that I was there because I was in junior year, so I was only 8 kids that year in the advanced program and William Macy was in town doing American buffalo at the Atlantic theater company where I was part of their theater school. So he loves teaching, so he took on a class and it was us. It was me and 8 kids with a semester of active classes with William H maze like three hours every week for a whole semester. Wow, that just seems incredible. And then David Mamet. Look a little closer to God in the sky though and actor and improv coming from Chicago. Out through make wave above I thought welcomed ladies and gentlemen, two Paul lato presents. My guest today is Ben Morrison. Actor. Writer immediate. He asked Robin LaCroix from mister Ben Morrison, thank you guys so much for being here. And welcome to another episode of Paul watto presents. Ben, welcome, buddy. How are you doing today? I'm good. It
Mark Levin
Sen. Ted Cruz & Author David Mamet Will Be on 'Life, Liberty & Levin'
"One Please don't forget this Sunday Night 8 p.m. Eastern Time On Fox life liberty and Levin we have two fantastic guests we have our friend Ted Cruz One of these quick interviews it is a good solid interview And he says some things I wasn't aware of Very fascinating very important about the Supreme Court in this nominee Without an eruption from me in the next guest will be David Mamet the quite famous playwright movie writer and author Who was raised by parents who were leftists alinsky ice and now he is a conservative Trump supporter It's a fascinating story He's a very brave man He's a brilliant man he's written an incredibly intelligent book That I actually think is a book that's going to be remembered for decades after we're gone It's just a fantastic but I think you'll come to the show and I think you come to the show on a Sunday Night sort of wrap things up on the West Coast to sort of begin to wrap things up That's why I do the long form interview You know when I was a young man that's what we did In some radio excuse me that's how TV used to be done But not so much
KGO 810
"david mamet" Discussed on KGO 810
"Said, there have been a number of quite high number, I would say of players who have had the virus who have been vaccinated, so your implication of vaccination solves every problem. I would say that has not been substantiated based on what's happened in training camp throughout the NFL this year. My comment relative to vaccinations really is the way I feel is that an individual decision for each person to make it's like trying to read a David Mamet play when you read somebody's real words, Uh, my comment relative to the vaccinations. Really, The way I feel is that's an individual decision for each person to make. As a team. We're better off if everyone is vaccinated and that being said Even if everyone is vaccinated. That doesn't solve all our problems. As we've seen multiple players, head coaches. Assistant coaches throughout the league have been tests have tested positive for covid even after they've been vaccinated. Okay, So there we go. He's going on with the personal choice stuff. But he's so he's not crazy about the vaccines, uh, mandated in the NFL. Or the alternative, which is constant testing, and the other stuff he says, is a for the team. It's better for the team, but, um, you know, vaccines don't do all the tricks. I thought this is really crazy that Bill Belichick is weighing in on vaccines. The chief medical officer of the NFL, says self, the first three weeks of August we got our data, and it's consistently shown higher rates of infection and unvaccinated players than unvaccinated players. Says. We know the vaccines are working. What we're seeing are some vaccinated people who test positive, but their illness tends to be very short, very mild, and that's exactly what the vaccines were designed to do. That's from the chief medical officer of the NFL. But Bill Belichick doesn't care because he's got his anecdotal evidence. And he's a football coach. Of course he knows about Vaccines, immunology virology. You know, Funny thing. I have not heard a single person recommend Dr Anthony Fauci. To be the coach of the New England Patriots. Have not heard a single person even suggests he should be an assistant coach. A line coach, a quarterback, coach, a running back, coach. And do you know why that is Because he's.
Xtra Sports Radio 1300 AM
"david mamet" Discussed on Xtra Sports Radio 1300 AM
"To do 100. Performances and So every night we're at that tiny theater, the Schoenfeld on 45th Street, which is in the context of Broadway houses, it's about 1000 seats. And so in other words, if you go see the Lion King that's about 3500 seats, so that's a barn. And the Schoenfeld's very vertical, So the audience is right on top of you. And that ensemble of Jeremy, Shame is and and David Harbour and Allen and Bobby and Richard I mean, there's a bunch of all stars. And every night it was rock n roll because I think people came to see al and then you come to find out that the greatest contemporary play American play written for men. And that that first act is 31 minutes. And you're having a cigarette out on 31st 31st Street 34th. And I'm sorry, 45th Street and all of a sudden 31 minutes went past. You know what happened? And unlike the movie, which is kind of very casual, yes, when they're organizing the robbery in the first act. At the at the Chinese restaurant. It's a rainy night, and it's James fully directed it and it's kind of casual. And then, of course, all hell breaks loose. But they asked David to put especially David Mamet, who wrote it. They had asked him to put. He told me this. They asked him what a special effect to get the movie going like an explosion or something. And he wrote the Alec Baldwin diatribe. That's that was explosion. That's not in the play. And Alex character is a threat offstage in the play, which won the Pulitzer. And When they asked them do the movie. They said. We really need something to get this thing going. And so I did talk radio with Alec and I call him Alibaba. And they just put Alibaba's, uh, rant in that first one that everybody quotes nonstop, and that's how David solved that problem, so they wanted a special effect like an actual like act and nothing I mean, Alex, just the biggest special effect on the planet. Wow. I did not know that about the story action and get out of Alex. I line you got to you got you got something to work with. My God always be closing call, you know, call that's not in the play. None of that's in the playoff stage threat. That is incredible. So what? What You got a good Pacino story or you and Bobby and him together or something like that or what it was like to You know, obviously just spent almost six months without with Al down in Miami and then in, um the old Texas stadium on any given Sunday, and so I'm pretty sure that's why I got offered the plate because really Yeah, For sure. Johnny Kunasek. Who's the fourth McGinley brother had they had done City hall together and before going down in Miami. A good John. Tell me about that. What? What should I do without and he goes? You got to go knock on his door. And that's what you got to do, because you just you know he's out. He spends. He's in that trailer. You can't go anywhere. He's an icon, and I said This sounds like a setup like I'm going to knock on his door and and some mop. You guys going to You know, Punch me in the esophagus. No, no, no. You got to go knock on the door, and so I go down to Miami. I'm not going to have our store He answers and only used to help with you. So I go in there and we proceeded to have this unbelievably gracious, lovely friendship for five months. And then cut to a year or so later, the phone rang and they said I want you to play Dave Moss on Broadway now and I'm like, just say, say when, when this was five or this was five months before the hurricane Sandy would show up in New York. Which brought us two weeks of previews. Uh, because obviously the city was just Destroyed by the hurricane. And so it was. It was one of those once in a lifetime. That was bucket list stuff, and it would be silly to put that on your bucket list because it's never going to happen. And so that one that one came along and I I moved the whole family in New York for the run of the play and everything that could possibly have gone right went right. Well, I'll tell you what being in the audience one night for that was mesmerizing. It was as advertised. It was one of the greatest things I've ever seen live. And that was incredible. Plus Bobby Bobby on your show the other day because he's probably one of the five best actors on the planet. Three best actors on the planet. Bobby. You know, when people go, I'd watch him read the phone book. This was a guy parking a car, and it was genius radio parking a car that can amount to reading people's digits. It was and you are such a Mench you go..
860AM The Answer
"david mamet" Discussed on 860AM The Answer
"Back to the trailer Kirk show with Lee Habib. I think we've got to make some changes in this. It should just be the three inmates know pastors, No opinions. No walk around by the director, just the three men. And we picked these three men out of six because they represent three different fathers Stories. Carlos never knew his father, Louis, His father was a gangster and died at the age of 15 and a gang related, uh, episode and Leslie had a father who was never around. And when he was he was drunk, verbally abusive, physically abusive. And those are the three father types. Bitter bad fathers and everyone listening. Knows those fathers, right? I mean, the good present active father focused on his kids. Is maybe 60% of the dads. Then there are other dads were home, but they're drinking their home, but they could care less. What's going on in the kid's lives is too focused on work. And then there's just the fathers who never show up. It's a lot of dads, and we just went in there, and we just revamped everything we took about 100 hours of video tapes. We condensed it down, bought great B roll and just really worked on plot and we really read our David Mamet. And it's all about moving the plot alone. Not the opinions, not the stories of these guys. But the trajectory of their life, which you can tell from the time they were 13. These guys knew they were heading straight to jail. That is a lot to do with the zip codes. These guys are born in and this this we hope would give great empathy for these guys. I mean, we don't want to look at these people in the inner cities is somehow different than us. What would we all be like Charlie, if we grew up in a zip code, where nobody had dads and our options were Join the gang or get that. You know what kicked out of you because you weren't in a gang. And so we wanted to pull the judgment way bringing the love and the empathy And what? Let you walk in these three guys shoes? That's how we picked those three guys. They're also amazingly authentic. The way they talk the way they look into a camera. You can tell they're not burnishing their resume. Charlie. They're not burnishing the resume, and that's what was really beautiful about these three guys, and they've also been out of prison for a decade. Plus without returning. We didn't want the guys who just came out. Said they're full of fire and brimstone. And three months later they're back in this in the joint. That wasn't of interest to us. We wanted to see what happened. 10 years later did these guys live the life? And walk the walk of their new life. And each of these guys talked about this joy in being able to just start over which, of course, Jesus allows us to do he allows us to forgive Charlie. I think this is the biggest thing that isn't happening in race relations. I think more white people, not me, or you necessarily. But look, I'm in here in Oxford, Mississippi. There are fathers right here in this town Who didn't want James MEREDITH. Go to Ole Miss. They blocked it. Those hurt. People need to repent for their racism. If they're Christians, and many more African Americans need to forgive, right forgiveness and repentance or potent weapons in this in this race relations game and I go to black churches a lot, Charlie. It's my favorite thing to do What I'm traveling is visit a black church and I'll always ask the pastor. When's the last time you gave a sermon Unforgiveness, and there's always a long pause. And then I go to white Southern churches. And I say, When's the last time you gave a talk about repentance, and there's a long pause. These are the great Christian notions that bring people together. Repentance and forgiveness. It's all over this film. Repentance is mentioned over 1000 times In the Old Testament, It's a common theme of repenting. So in closing nearly again, it's a Salem now dot com People can also check out our American stories for if this captured your imagination of Telling stories and kind of being a pro American NPR. I used to love NPR, and now it's just a bunch of garbage. To be perfectly honest with you. It used to be great. That's all this kind of just very Delicacy, Charlie, it's all advocacy. Yeah, camouflage advocacy is what I was trying to say. You're right. You're right. You're exactly right. And so what? Enclose any other thoughts as we close this out of just what people can do and the big takeaways? You know, buy rent the film and buy some discs and hand this discount to kids and particularly people without fathers, because it can change their life. We got to remember that Jesus changes lives in the most radical way possible, and to have these three guys being the spokesman is better than me or you, Charlie or anyone else who the spokespeople are who the messengers are. It's almost as important as the messenger messenger. Anyone who doesn't understand that is crazy. This is what the left does get right. They get the message and the messaging now the underlying sentiments I think are wrong that the principles and values of promulgating wrong. But boy, were they go to the storytelling. Our rebuttal is, Let's not tell stories. Crazy rebuttal to store their storytelling machine. I love it, So check it out. Salem. Now calm. The only thing Lee. I'll disagree with it. I wouldn't know what to do with the disk if you gave it to me. I haven't touched a disk in a decade. So just send them a streaming link. Okay? Absolutely Minimally. Whatever Whatever giving you a hard time, so I'm 60. You're a young pup. I'm 60. We all the time In these discs, I say, What do you want me to do with this thing? I don't have a machine his throat at the T V or something I have. I have nothing that can.
KGO 810
"david mamet" Discussed on KGO 810
"There are scenes in films that and I will make this and I'll say this is I don't think you can have Great movie without Incredible scenes. I don't even have a good movie. If you don't have amazing scenes that stand out in and of themselves, and you know there's a lot, I think. Good. I was going to say that's kind of the difference between movies and TV, because when I think of TV shows, I think of storylines. I think of characters. I don't think necessarily of scenes. So much as I think of episodes episodically and you know you were mentioning Elizabeth Moss, and I think my favorite mad men episode of all time. She she wasn't really involved in this episode. But it's the one where, um, they break away and form their own at agency. They stage that, you know, late night Um cu raid on their own offices in cool. Yeah, they break out. And meanwhile, things are happening in their marriage and whatnot. And the whole thing ends with a musical sequence set to Roy Orbison's, uh, song, one of his less famous ones. Um and I can watch That whole episode start to finish, uh, that for me. It's satisfying to watch a whole episode scenes. I know or some things that people look, Let's face it people in the in the film industry. I mean, there's so many people working below the line working very hard to make every moment count and scenes in the movies are meant to be. Memorable. I think they're like they're many movie industry. Every scene should relate to the general theme and story arc, right? The wider one and if there and this is David Mamet and other directors that are saying, like, you know, That if it doesn't move the story forward if it doesn't, you know, push it forward and cut it out. You know, um And you know what I mean to be. I guess somebody go back to what I really wanted to talk to you about. Today's is why It seems that movies we don't have more movies that like in the heights is that they're just hard to make where you can just really get empathetic cited. Do you think that's it? Well, we know you know the movie era. The music in the movie musical. Uh, kind of I think it fell apart after paint your wagon wasn't that I mean, there was a sense in which the movie musical We're not all as old as you, Erin. Okay, so we don't all know these old references. That's all I'm saying. Well, I think people who are listening, you know, TV offers. Hey, Ironically, it's television that offers us this wonderful opportunity to catch up with the golden Age of cinema. And there are lot of streaming services that only you know, focus on that era. And I would just say that the movie musical like the movie Western was just kind of one of those genres. Has exhausted itself. People felt like it had been done, You know, five ways from Sunday and about that time, there are some new directors like Spielberg and Coppola, who are breaking onto the scene and had some new ideas and some different ways of Filming scenes, You know, I mean, they also were definitely were directors. You know, cinematic directors who are trying to frame scenes rather than tell stories in the way that TV shows did you mentioned Spielberg. I think the two media sort of informed each other to you mentioned Spielberg because the movie Jaws was was a horrible book. I don't know if you read the book in the book. It's how bad the book was okay in the book. Harper and and and and the chief's wife have an affair. I mean, it makes no sense, right? Um, but the scene that made that movie had nothing to do. You never saw the shark. It was when they were sitting in that cabin and they're getting drunk and they're telling stories about having getting bit And then he goes to the story of the USS Indianapolis. And it is so it's to me. That's that's storytelling. That's great filmmaking, and everybody that's listening has a movie. I know that they love and I bet if they go back, and they realized if you took that scene out, the movie would fall 50%. Just 13 minute scene. You know that in a in a in a 90 minute film. It has that kind of power. And and that you know that the storytelling is let me ask you this since I haven't seen it. What is the story behind in the Heights? Who is the protagonist? Is it a love story? What is it about? Yeah, It's partly a love story. It's uh, it's a story about place. You know this? It takes place in Washington Heights way up, you know. One sixties one seventies in, uh, New York City. Were people who don't know that that's a that's basically above Harlem, right? And it's kind of towards it. Does that Spanish Harlem? Is that that far up? I'm getting mixed up. Ellen Cleghorn used to tell a joke about getting off at 168 Street stuff and having her Dominican passport stamped. Um okay. Uh And so it's a story about it's a story about people who are in the neighborhood. That's in constant flux and change. And there's um and they themselves are immigrants or sons or daughters of immigrants. And they're looking for you know it's catching the, uh, a web of friends and relatives at the time of upheaval in their own lives and in their neighborhood because it's New York City in New York City is always enough people so and that's that's sort of the premise. And then we follow several storylines like this young These this young boy and girl who are, um, thinking about a future together, but they have different aspirations, and he's got a promise of some land and the Dominican Republic if he goes back there and then you go Jimmy Smith's place the father of a daughter, who and he struggled very hard rain, a car service so they could send it. Go off to the best school and she comes back and you know there's money problems, and she she doesn't think that that that's for her and then give all then you've got the salon that's being closed down. Um, and then you get And so there's there's All these characters, and they all interact with each other's lives. And then basically, they've got these musical numbers set. I mean, they saw that on Look, It's very obvious that they shot it on location. And there's some wonderful musical numbers, some throwbacks to the definitely the old Busby Berkeley and Esther Williams movie musicals and It's a lot of fun. A lot of singing, Uh, even some laughs in a couple of years..
WNYC 93.9 FM
"david mamet" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Are you doing here? Meetings? You are more beautiful than ever used to say the right thing. We're still very Aramis, One of the next season for me. Do you leaving tomorrow? What are you doing here? E think I'm missing the point. Aaron, the impact never fades. It's fun. Dreamy, your dreamy Had dreams. You want to hear a funny Aramis? Of course. Yes, they head of the advertising agent agency that did that, who was a You know, one of the great men in advertising, and I'm blanking on his name. But we're in a room getting ready. All of us make up in here and all that. To go shoot that scene and I picked up in the air, Miss Bobble, splash some of my hand and start to put up my on my face Anyone? No, No, no, not on your skin, huh? Love Uh uh. I read this piece from he was The Washington Post from the maybe the second or third season of Cheers and One of the things that I read you say about Sam that I really liked. Woz that initially Like the beginning of the run, And I don't even know if this is actually true, because it's cheers is so fully formed from the beginning relative to most sitcoms, but the beginning of the run, you kind of played him as being dumb. And then you maybe you realized that He was choosing to be that in the world that maybe he valued being plain and just didn't want to be fancy. I thought there was such a significant Distinction for that character. All right. It took me about a year of doing Sam Malone the first season before I think I began to get it. It doesn't mean that the show wasn't great and All of that, But it's fine. I didn't know how to play Arrogant hadn't done that. I hadn't done boy girl in my life, You know, arrogant and bar guy and All of that. So it took me a while to kind of take living through the first season. Having people write about it have people like it or not like it or whatever kind of gave me the shell. I needed to go. Well, screw it, You know, here I am. You know, for better or worse, I'm gonna have fun, and that attitude kind of helped me learn how to play it. But in the beginning I was, I don't know that I was correct in that assumption. That he Sam was actually smarter than he was letting on. And I think as I went well, you know what I think he is smart. But then he had this massive blind spot called Women, you know, uh on addiction, tol women and sex and all of that, so So, Yeah, I think he was smart except for one glaring. It's much more fun to play. The dumb joke really is. It's the best joke in town, and I think that holds true and dramas. Well, it's like Uh, when I did damages, there was mean The writing was so good and then all the players were great, but It was funny. Have somebody who was so arrogantly. You know, I'm a self made man I could take on the world. I could do anything and get away with anything I want and just feel so confident in that While the audience in the real world is Glenn Close is about to clean my clock. You know, that's funny to not know how wrong you are in life when everyone else does. It's bull's eye. I'm Jesse Thorn. My guest. Ted Danson stars in the new NBC show, Mr Mayor. You've been married a long time. And that you met you met your wife in the in the early nineties and like 1993. Where were you at in your life outside of your career when you met her. Hot mess. Yeah, I was publicly Ah, hot mess, and I was separated and getting a divorce and But I I was working very hard on myself. I had a good wake up call, and so I You know, I was. I would try to Long beach to three times a week to see my mentor like therapist guy and, uh, who's have been a friend for life now. And so I took it seriously. And I kind of grew up emotionally on duh. If I hadn't done that. I don't think the life would have put Mary and me together or even in the same room. That's kind of how I look at it. So when we found found each other We both got cast in the same movie playing husband and wife and Through throughout the movie or halfway through the movie, you know, fell in love and stay together forever. But we had entered that movie going separately saying to ourselves Well, clearly, I'm not capable of having a relationship. Mary was going through that same feeling. And, uh, so we kind of went well. All right. We could be friends kind of thing. Like a canoe ride up the Mendocino River and Came back down a four hour canoe ride, and I think we're kind of without saying anything or very much. We kind of both kind of madly in love with each other. How do you think being with her changed the other pieces of your life, the parts that were outside of relationships. Well, you know, I think she insists that I am the best version of myself. And she does it through, you know, love and laughter and mocking my, You know insanity sometimes, But you know, I'm always trying to be my best self around her, which you know. Affects every part of my life. I am endlessly fascinated. I feel like if relationships are these wonderful fistfights, I'm punching a little bit above my weight kind of thing. You know, she is such an amazing partner. That I'm always trying to live up. To where I see her playing in life, and I think she does the same with me. On that canoe ride in Mendocino. We kept going up river and she'd keep wanting to see what was around the next bend. She was always let's go one more. Let's look at that. And I think that's been a truism in our life. She's always wanted to go around and expand and see what life has in store for us, and I think I might have been more sedentary or no, no, you know. This is good. This is good. Let's let's maintain. So you know, most of the excitement in my life has generated by keeping up with Mary and I trust that now to the point where even when I grumble, I know that her next plan, it's going to be exciting. I mean, it's it's lame, she says. You know what I think in a conversation and I get excited. Before she starts talking. I go. Uh what? I can't wait to hear. She's such a great actor. Do you think your relationship with her has Changed your art making. One facet of it does. She is a great actor and I when she's when she soars as an actor, it's like on another. Planet almost so much admiration of her just her her as an actor, But one of the things she does in life is she always that I admire is she always leaps off tall buildings. She's always looking for another. No exciting. Scary always has to be scary thing to do. You know David Mamet's Boston marriage, which is one of the hardest women's parts ever. And she took Zoey's extraordinary playlist what she's doing on NBC for the same reason she wanted. She's not a singer. She's not a dancer, and she's now singing and dancing. She she's a songwriter. Now, for the last 12 15 years, she's I mean the real Deal Songwriter Critics Choice award last year for best song in a film. And that was like, Wait..
WIBC 93.1FM
"david mamet" Discussed on WIBC 93.1FM
"Dana Show never bend the knee to the rage, Mom. I don't care. I want to have my firearm and worship and be left alone. Never really seemed at what you're here. You could do anything. What did I just hear? You know, I'm just gonna be honest about it. Everybody's got a different flavor, right? We don't have 31 flavors here. Brit stain up my concerns. John of the same thing of the concerns that I had about Thanksgiving on Lee this maybe even Mork compound it because it's a longer holiday. With Thanksgiving. You know, it was just the end of the week. And then you go back to work the next week with Christmas. It starts several days before it goes through Christmas the week after Christmas into New Year's in the New Year's holiday, I think it could be even more of a challenge. Then what we saw with Thanksgiving. Yeah, That doesn't mean we're canceling anything or doing anything differently. It really doesn't. That's Fauci on all of that. Welcome back to the show. I'm gonna last in the last dot com subscribe to the newsletter into the YouTube channel, and you're going to want to go back and I'll send this video out in the newsletter this evening because I along with you got some of the stuff. That I used when I'm with some of the studies that I was reading when we were talking about the cycle threshold and really, how ultimately so many of these tests that are being counted. His positive, actually aren't But I'll send it out tonight to newsletter. So you have that. But again, I go back to my point where if we are all of this and his response to this, and his idea that we shouldn't have Christmas is all predicated upon. The number of positive tests that are being reported. And here we have all of these scientists and a ton of two studies in Florida's the first state in the country did not do this to actually that are actually saying there's no context with us and and the reporting is not accurate. Because of the cycle threshold and because the number of these cases actually aren't contagious because they have to cycle so many times to even detect the virus when that really shouldn't be, they said. It's like what 35 to 40 that that's the cycle. If you're doing it that many times this person clearly there's not enough Arne Replication where this person is contagious, whereas if you know you catch it at the second cycle. Clearly, that person's contagious. You can count that as a positive case. All of this is being used to justify Ah complete shutdown of government businesses and so money while I lie. Except as a government but of shutdowns of businesses and so many things in states across the country, and this is what he is basing his assessment on even though he himself has said, and I've cited it and again, you'll get that when you subscribe, but He cited that? Yeah, we really have to. You have to have discussed the threshold that has to be included for proper context. It's all such gas lighting. So no, I don't take any of it, sir, I I'm not canceling Christmas. We're not doing this. So, as I said, Welcome back to the show. And A number of different things to discuss on this, I read. Actually, I was reading this piece yesterday. It was ah, great op ed in the Wall Street Journal by David Mom it and he wrote, you know the Untouchables and going there again. Glen Ross, playwright of a screenwriter. I mean, he's his one book. Oh, gosh. What disgusting. It Like the book that he came out where he was essentially I'm a conservative or I'm Lim. Limited government. Uh, hey, came out with that one was that Like a couple of years ago, if you several years ago, maybe like it. Yeah, the secret knowledge. He came out with that book a while ago and I read that It's a great book. You need to get it. But David Mamet wrote an op ed for The Wall Street Journal, and he was just You know, with everything that I was telling you he was blasting government, he said. When when experts fail, Everyone pays the price. And he really says the virus here is government. And he's right, he says. Wealthy and powerful must constantly expand their operations. But even if they let their capital said, they have to have accountants, auditors, stockbrokers, etcetera. How did they choose these subordinates? He says that those who are closest, you know, they have influence that they can keep it by flattery and difference. And this he goes the same case. The same is with government power. Everyone is a sense a full innocents of full since no person can know everything. But the horror of a command economy is not that officials will make mistakes, but those mistakes will never be acknowledged or corrected. And he it's a great piece. You definitely should run because he is asking the question. What happens when you have The who watches the watchman. Ultimately, if you wanted to just distill it on down to that, very simply is who watches the watchman who Who is what happens when you have the people that are respected amongst you people that you put in a position of authority when they get it wrong, and they ruin lives and their own economies. There's zero accountability. Absolutely, and even goes back Tomo previous historical figures whose decisions led to complete another catastrophe. But The This is the lesson of Government power. That's the lesson..