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The Dan Bongino Show
Dave Rubin: Optimistic Energy by Republicans in D.C.
"Dan it's good to be with you I should tell you my friend I am in the swamp right now I am in D.C. so if I don't sound like my normal chipper Floridian happy self you'll know why man I'm sorry to hear that I mean Dave is a Florida resident Once you move to Florida it's really hard to travel back Now did the cold weather hit you like it did me the first time I didn't go back to New York for maybe I don't know two years or so after I moved to Florida it was about 45 dame I felt like Han Solo in Empire Strikes Back inserting Luke into the tauntaun because I was so damn cold Did it hit you hard that cold weather I do walk around with the lightsaber in case I have to slice open a tauntaun and I'll tell you those things stink man Yeah It's a whole other thing coming from Florida where of course the weather's been fantastic lately but you know just that you know the stand just that general sense in Florida where everybody's just walking around like man we're doing it right here in the energy I have to say in D.C.'s defense the weather has actually been pretty decent And there is a feeling I've interviewed about I think 14 Republicans in the last two days we did reach out to about 20 Democrats as well We got no responses from Democrats but basically every Republican I asked to talk to said yes And there's a feeling here that you know Republicans maybe are going to start turning this thing around I interviewed McCarthy at the capitol yesterday In front of a studio audience and he seems to have a good agenda and we've had chip Roy and Ron Johnson and Thomas massie and Matt Gaetz and a whole bunch of other people and everyone does feel like hey maybe we can do a little something here as opposed to just Republicans that get in saying the right thing and never accomplish anything So I've been feeling pretty good actually
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Protests Continue to Roil Across Israel and France
"Continue to roil across Israel and France all night long in this morning is Israel considers prime minister Netanyahu and his coalition. Our gathering to consider whether or not to pause the legislation, which is now reached the floor of the platinum session, the Connecticut can pass it, I believe, with one rating they've done all the amendments they worked all weekend. They're right up on the brink of winning. About hundreds of thousands of Israelis don't like it. Same people that voted against Netanyahu and the coalition, you know, a few months ago I don't like it. So they're out in the streets. They've closed Ben Gurion Airport this morning. Port is closed. In France, protesters who lost the election in Macron are now being joined by black clad anarchists and are burning down buildings in various parts in and has put out a story this morning. Is it safe to travel to France? The answer is yeah, but know what you're doing is going to be garbage on the street. So both countries have to decide whether or not their leaders who recently won, and I just remember when prime minister Liz truss, she's now a former prime minister Liz truss blinked when she won the election over Rishi sunak to replace Boris Johnson Great Britain last year, she put out a budget, the left wing exploded, a panicked financial elite, and she blinked and her government felt. And I think you have to consider that Netanyahu and Macron both look at what happened to trust. Indeed, they have to look a little bit at what happened to Donald Trump in 2017 when traps were laid for him by the outgoing Obama administration, and they have to consider, do I blink now if I blink, will it all fall apart?
AP News Radio
Jenner's OT goal lifts Blue Jackets over Islanders 5-4
"The blue jacket slowed the islanders playoff push with a 5 four overtime win against New York. Columbus blew a four two lead in the third period, but wanted on Boone Jenner's power play goal 40 seconds into OT. The jacket searched ahead in the second period on goals by Liam foudy, Kent Johnson and Eric Robinson. Macau pal Mary sparked the islanders come back early in the third period. We're going to try and salvage a point and thought we maybe left another one on the table there. Brock Nelson notched his second goal of the night, giving the islanders a much needed point. New York is three points ahead of the penguins for the first wild card slot and four ahead of the Panthers. I'm Dave ferry.
AP News Radio
WATCH: Markquis Nowell goes off with NCAA Tournament assists record, insane fake-out alley-oop in overtime
"And overtime as marquise Noel said an NCAA tournament single game record with 19 assists. But today was especially one, man. I gotta give a lot of credit to my teammates for battling for fighting through adversity when we was down. No I was 18th assist on a spectacular alley oop to king ante Johnson, gave K state the lead for good with a minute left. I've started FAU came from behind to win the second game 62 55, keyed by an 18 to two run sparked by Nick Boyd. Sounds just right, man. We were supposed to be. We're gonna keep moving. The east finals set for Saturday. Tom, New York.
AP News Radio
Boris Johnson says 'partygate' untruths were honest mistake
"Former British prime minister Boris Johnson has acknowledged he misled parliament about rule breaking government parties during the coronavirus pandemic, but he insists he never intentionally lied. Britain's boisterous former leader is set to be grilled by lawmakers on Wednesday. Over whether he lied when he denied there had been parties in his Downing Street offices in violation of COVID-19 lockdown rules. If found to have lied deliberately, he could be suspended, or even lose his seat in parliament in a dossier of written evidence, Johnson acknowledged rules and guidance had been followed at all times, but did not turn out to be correct. He says they were made in good faith, and he had not planned to mislead the house, Charles De Ledesma, London
The Officer Tatum Show
The Juneteenth Truth
"I don't understand how at this point we're still talking about the same thing. The first legal slave owner in American history or in our history of this country was a black man. Anthony Johnson, look it up. Don't listen to me, pull your car over. Put yourself on down. Put your vodka down. Put the crack tight down. I don't know whatever you're doing. Go do the research. Go look up Anthony Johnson. Slave owner. He was the first legal slave owner. Black man. He owned two black people for life. He ended up going to court and winning and ended up winning custody of them for life. There was hundreds of black people in the south who owned hundreds of slaves. Clearly, I believe white people were more prolific, but black people still own slaves. Choctaw Indian. In this enslaved, the chalks are ending was the last to release slaves in the history of this country. If you go look at Juneteenth, they got this whole victim recipe Juneteenth if they only knew that they were free, they would have done something they finally told the black man he was free on Juneteenth. No, it took a year later before the choctaw Indian release the black people that were there you had enslaved.
AP News Radio
Lopez comes up big, Bucks edge short-handed Nets 118-113
"Brook Lopez just missed a triple double in guiding the bucks to their 19th victory in 20 games. One 18 one 13 versus the nets. Lopez had a career high 9 blocks to go with 24 points and ten rebounds. The block total is an NBA season high. Bobby portis added a season best 28 points and 13 rebounds to help Milwaukee win without Giannis at ten to kupo. Patty mills scored 23 points and cam Thomas had 21 for the nets, who were without Nick claxton Spencer Dinwiddie cam Johnson, Royce O'Neill and Ben Simmons. I'm Dave ferry.
AP News Radio
Ex-Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan won't challenge Trump in 2024
"One of the potential Republican challengers to former president Trump's 2024 election bid has announced he's not running for president. Former Maryland governor Larry Hogan a moderate politician had long positioned himself as an alternative to Donald Trump in 2024, but he's told The New York Times he has no desire to put his family through another grueling campaign just for the experience, noting that he would be an underdog. Donald Trump at the conservative cpac convention blasted anti Trump Republicans. We had a Republican Party that was ruled by freaks, neocons. Globalists, open border zealots, and fools. In his speech, he vowed to expose, quote, rhino Republicans, and seek retribution against those who are, quote, destroying the country. For those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution. Former UN ambassador Nikki Haley and businessman Perry Johnson are challenging Trump's presidential bid several others are expected to soon enter the race. I'm Jackie Quinn
AP News Radio
West Virginia beats No. 11 Kansas State to help NCAA hopes
"West Virginia gave its NCAA tournament hopes a big boost with an 89 81 victory against 11th ranked Kansas state, the mountaineers improved to 18 and 13 with their third win in four games. Eric Stevens was high man with 27 points. He's got to credit my teammates, man. For fun to me, you know, and they know if you know, I hit one, hit two, and we got to find them. Kendrick and Johnson finished with 23 and Emmett Matthews added 20 on senior day at Morgantown. Stevens hit a pair of big three pointers after the wildcats pulled within 61 57. Marcus Noel and chianti Johnson each scored 24 points for K state, which had won four in a row. I'm Dave ferry.
AP News Radio
Mikal Bridges helps Nets rally to stun Celtics, 115-105
"The net storm back from a 28 point deficit to beat the Celtics, one 15 one O 5. Brooklyn trailed 51 23, four and a half minutes into the second quarter before closing the half on a 32 13 run. Mikhail bridges scored 38 points and had ten rebounds in 43 minutes. This defense, you know, we got stops and we just stayed together, just, you know, possession by possession. You can't get all back in one place, so you just kept fighting and just stay together. Cam Johnson finished with 20 points and Dorian Finney Smith added 17. Jalen Brown paced the Celtics with 35 points and Jason Tatum added 22 with 13 rebounds on this 25th birthday. I'm Dave ferry.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Simcha Rothman Shares the Latest on Israel's Judicial Branch
"There's a lot of confusion about what's happening in Israel right now. And joining us is a member of the Knesset, chairman of the law and justice committee. Simka rothman joins us to help explain what is going on in Israel, simka thank you so much for joining the program and educate our audience of what is happening in the Knesset. What is the issue you're trying to address? The floor is yours. Thank you for having me. And it's very hard to explain different systems. Everything looks strange when you try to explain to people in Israel, what's going on in the U.S. or in Canada or in Britain or everything is different. But I will try and do my best. The system in Israel, we basically want to try to bring it closer to the American system in the U.S. judges are appointed in the states sometimes elections, sometimes different methods for the federal system, it's the president and the Senate are involved in Israel. We have a system. The judges are basically selecting themselves. It's created a big problem. They have a veto power who will get into the Supreme Court that create ever growing distance between where the public is and where the court is. It's self appointing self perpetuating court. It creates a very activist court, and that needs to change. And we want the system that gives the ability for the elected officials of Israel to influence the way the court is built. So it's a committee, I can get into details of its movie photographs, but the goal is that in Israel, like basically almost any other democratic country in the world, the judges will be selected by the people by the people representatives.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Antichrist Administration With Benny Johnson
"Benny shifting gears here a little bit. You've been on top of this story. I haven't touched it or covered it at all. Let me tell you my little campus stuff and you know this to great detail and you've had some wonderful takes on it. The Garland hearing. Benny, what happened in the Garland hearing? So the public beating has not gone out of style, Charlie. That used to be tar and feather. It used to be running out of town on the rails and the old colonial days. For some odd reason we got rid of the stocks in the middle of the city. But the public beating exists today, just exists in the form of the congressional hearing. And Republicans delivered bombshell after blow after pistol whipping to Merrick Garland and that 70 year old man deserved it. That little keebler elf had his feet held to the fire and not just the fires that cooked the cookies and shot of the tree that he lives in, making cookies. He got burned yesterday. And it was bad. I listen, there was not a single stone left unturned. Hunter Biden, Joe Biden. Attacking Catholics attacking Christians. I think that was probably one of the harshest lines of questioning by Josh hawley. And Ted Cruz went after Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court Justices being threatened, a man wandering through Brett Kavanaugh's neighborhood with full tactical gear on, ready to kill him, admittedly. And the Justice Department doing absolutely nothing. So if you're a meemaw and you have a 25% American flag and the capital police usher you into the U.S. capitol, you get put on the terrorist watch list and you spend the rest of your life in jail. But if you are a man kitted out in tactical gear with deadly weapons and you go up to kill a Supreme Court Justice that was appointed by president Trump, you get a ticket to the chocolate factory, okay? You get to go to go to the candy shop. Merritt Garland kitten club. And look, the more laws the less justice. So Garland is choosing what laws to enforce based on his own political revenge. Look, Merrick Garland is a craven old man who is bitter. He's bitter he never became a Supreme Court Justice. He's bitter that seat remained open. Remember, Barack Obama put Garland up for that seat and the turtle to his great credit, Mitch McConnell refused to put it up for vote. It was one of the great things that the parliamentarian of the Senate from Kentucky ever did and he does deserve credit for it, and we won that shock election in 16 and Gorsuch filled the seat that Garland wanted.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Benny Johnson Talks About His Recent Visit to East Palestine, Ohio
"Joins us. We've done some fun things together. Penny has really been a critical ingredient to turning point USA's explosive trajectory over the last couple of years and he's the host of the beni show and Benny gets very fired up and is incredibly effective. And generous, by the way, giving a lot of money to the residents, east Palestinian. Benny, why don't you tell our audience about that as we get started? You went to east Palestinian and actually gave money to the residents there. Tell us about it. So I gave nothing. I gave merely the social media monetization that came from all of you watching our program. Subscribing to our show every single morning. And so we thank you. We simply gave away our revenue for that month to the people of east palestin because, well, it's really evil to monopolize and monetize someone's pain and then do nothing for them, I think. And so based on the teachings of Jesus Christ and based on being just a simple Christian, not trying to start a movement or a church here or anything, just trying to do what God asks us to do, which is to be light onto the world, to be salt and light. And those people, they've gotten plenty of salt, they need some light. And so we went there to help out the 20 people closest to the Bern, the toxic burn. One of the men who I walked up to his doorstep, knocked on his door, handed him the envelope. He said, come around back. I want to show you something. And behind his house, Charlie was the wreckage of the train. Smoldering. Wow. Noxious, at burning to the eyes, and it was the entire thing was bent open like it was an Avengers movie. Like it was a marvel movie, right? It was like the train had melted in his backyard. And he has to live with that. He's a poor working class American. He doesn't have anywhere to go. And no
AP News Radio
Brunson scores 39, Knicks rout Nets 142-118 for 7th straight
"The Knicks have a 7th game winning streak following a one 42 one 18 collaborating of the nets. Jalen Brunson scored 30 of his 39 points by halftime for the Knicks who made 78% of their shots in a 47 point first quarter. Brunson furnished 16 points on 6 of 6 shooting in the opening period. Quentin Grimes all over 22 points, and Julius Randle added 21 with 8 rebounds and 8 assists. Cam Johnson scored a season high 33 points for the nets who have been blown out in their last two meetings with the Knicks. I'm Dave ferry.
AP News Radio
No. 2 Alabama rallies, beats rival Auburn 90-85 in overtime
"Second ranked Alabama has clinched its second SEC regular season title in three years by defeating auburn 90 85 and overtime. Javon Quinn had 24 points for the crimson tide, who trailed by 17 in the second half before moving to 16 and one in the conference. Alabama coach Nate Oates. He's obviously really talented. I mean, you look at his line tonight, you know, he ends up with 24.6 assists, not one turnover, led the team in plus minus at plus 16. Brandon Miller chipped in 17 points, including a pair of quenching free throws with 6 seconds remaining. Katie Johnson led the tigers with 21 points. I'm Dave ferry.
The Officer Tatum Show
Lori Lightfoot's Downfall Is Bigger Than Just Chicago
"Laurie dirty foot is hanging up her slew foot and then big clown shoes because she is no longer the mayor of Chicago. Now it politics do not matter in this case. Meaning that I don't care what your political persuasion is. When your city is riddled with crime, people are fleeing your city because of the mismanagement and policies that have been put into place at the leadership of their, then you gotta just take it. Take the L and she ended up getting beat, she finished third place, there was two individuals, I don't think it's close enough to do a runoff or I think it's Paul villas. I don't know if it's part of valis or virus virus, it could be valid so virus, I don't know. You know, the ales sometimes yeah, I think that's how you say it anyway. Y'all get what I'm saying. Paul. Ended up winning a 172,000 votes, a guy named Brandon Johnson won, I would not want, but he was second place at a 103,000 votes and then Laurie dirty foot clown shoes ended up getting 86,000 votes. She got 17% of the vote. Respectively, Paul got 33% of the vote.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Worst Mayor in Chicago History Is Gone!
"Home Chicago. Yesterday, the first round of voting happened in the Chicago mayor's race and beetlejuice, Lori Lightfoot has been defeated. Now we should enjoy that for just a second. And we should talk about why that is the case. Why is it that Lori Lightfoot was soundly defeated? She finished third place, not even to make the runoff. And first place was Paul valles, who was a Democrat and for years he was considered to be not exactly a moderate Democrat, but by new standards he's actually more moderate than the Marxist Brandon Johnson, who is also going to make the runoff. So it went valis Johnson and lightfoot. Lightfoot has been the mayor of Chicago, the last couple of years, and she is without a doubt the worst mayor in Chicago history. And that says something because there's been some pretty bad leaders in the history of Chicago. And one of the things that frustrates me the most as someone who grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and loved Chicago is that this is not that hard. There are three very basic things. That you have to do as mayor. Just really basic things. Make the streets safe, try to improve your schools every single year and don't borrow money you don't have and have basically have some sort of a vibrant economic plan or model that is implemented. That's it really simple and basically any city is like that. You take New York City, New York City was declining. Rudy Giuliani became mayor and turned that place around. And Bloomberg to his great credit was a moderate mayor and New York was a safe place for years. Now if there are other issues to homeless, homelessness, that plays into clean and safe streets. And it does beg a question, why is it that Democrats are so comfortable running cities that are becoming so enjoyable, so messy? It's because they're ideology actually is more important than the reality. So
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Dan Proft: Will Things Get Better in Chicago?
"Dan, you're smiling today. I think a lot of chicagoans are probably enjoying this defeat of Lori Lightfoot. A little too much. Well, yeah, when more than 8 in ten chicagoans vote against the incumbent mayor, then that's a pretty strong indicator that it's time for somebody new and most chicagoans understand that. But as you were saying with balance and certainly with his opponent Brandon Johnson to today, last night and today we celebrate for tomorrow, we may be in base embracing maximum Marxism. And so that's the concern is it's good to issue a repudiation of lightfoot, but come April 4th, the runoff election, are we going to see things really improve in the city of Chicago and I'm a skeptic.
Today, Explained
"e. johnson" Discussed on Today, Explained
"What are some other companies that have used the Texas two step to avoid litigation? Any household names? Yeah, well, there are three other Texas two step cases. Coke industries, Georgia Pacific, first deployed this scheme back in 2017. Train technologies and a U.S. unit of the France based company saint goban followed suit. All these cases are actually linked to asbestos related lawsuits. And none of them have yet been finalized or settlements successfully paid out to claimants. So it's a scheme that it's just got four sort of examples of it taking place at the minute. But most experts believe that if J&J are successful in their efforts to use it, that it could actually draw in many other companies to go ahead and use it. And I wonder, are these companies just individually deciding to do this or is there a connection among and between them? The Texas two step has really been driven by a bunch of smart lawyers at the law firm Jones day. It's one of the biggest law firms in the country. It turned over just over 2.2 billion in revenues in 2020. And each of its equity partners took home on average, about $1.3 million that year. So it's lawyers really devised a marketed this complex scheme. And one of them, Greg Gordon, who's a Jones day partner at the firm's Texas office, described this year in a public forum, the Texas two step as I quote the greatest innovation in the history of bankruptcy. And it's not surprising that Jones day believed that because there have been reaping millions of dollars in bankruptcy fees through this. You said that earlier this year, a federal judge in new Jersey essentially said Johnson & Johnson can do this. What was the judge's justification? That's right, judge Michael caplan of the New Jersey bankruptcy court in argued that the bankruptcy courts were the best venue to handle these masks toward claims because they could provide an expeditious, fair and less costly method of settling the claims. So he argued J&J did not file a bad faith, but rather for the legitimate purpose of settling these types of mass litigation. And how did the lawyers for the victims or the alleged victims and their advocates respond to this? I imagine they were disappointed. Yes, the victims were very disappointed and the advocates were very angry. So actually what we're seeing is they have already filed an appeal against judge Kaplan's ruling and they are challenging this at the federal appeals court. If this case is thrown out, then I think companies will really think twice about going down the bankruptcy route. But if J&J and LTL are able to win this case, I think it really will set a precedent for the future. Let me ask you lastly, Jamie, Johnson & Johnson does have a reputation for a long time. It was a reputation for trustworthiness and surely it wants to protect its reputation, does something like the Texas two step with all of the dubiousness therein. Hurt its reputation or has it already been damaged enough by the lawsuits, the thousands of lawsuits against it. J&J talks a lot about its credo, you know? A set of values that it conducts its business by and which actually stipulates that its first responsibility is towards its customers. And I think inevitably by resorting to a complex controversial legal scheme to handle these types of sensitive claims over the baby talc, well, that means it is enduring some reputational damage. Whether this is any worse than having thousands of cases coming to court, decided by a jury with huge awards, gathering media attention is really anyone's guess. I think the big danger for J&J is that if it loses its appeal or the appeal against this Texas two step case, it may have to go back into the mass towards system and face these jury trials anyway after already enduring the reputational damage from going down the route of the Texas two steps. So I think the company will certainly be suffering some sort of reputational hit through this. Today's show was produced by abishai artsy, it was fact checked by Laura bullard and engineered by Paul Robert mountie. Matthew collette edited the show, I'm Noelle king. It's today explained.
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"e. johnson" Discussed on Today, Explained
"It's today explained Jamie Smith is the U.S. pharmaceutical correspondent for the Financial Times. And he's been writing about how Johnson & Johnson is trying to get out of paying these big legal fees using the Texas two step. So the Texas two step is really the catchy name that lawyers, the media have come up with to describe what's a very complex and controversial bankruptcy maneuver. This is really at the center of J&J's response to the multi-billion dollar baby health problem that it faces. What can I tell you about the Texas two step? I mean, it's a scheme that gets its name from the use of a statute, which was passed in Texas back in 1989. It was originally intended to make the process of spinning off companies more efficient. And it was part of a push by local business leaders and lawyers at the time in Texas to make it a much more business friend major jurisdiction. And but it certainly is controversial or has become controversial even dine in Texas. As the name suggests, there's really two parts to this scheme. The first is a corporate reorganization, which enables a company to split itself into two separate entities. Now in J&J's case it created a new subsidiary called LTL management and it stuffed it with all the potential legal liabilities related to the almost 40,000 personal injury claims that have been filed against it by plaintiffs. LTL then, when it was created through this process, it immediately filed for bankruptcy protection in North Carolina. Listen, I got the answer. You declared bankruptcy. All your problems go away. A move that automatically halted all the personal injury cases that it faced and it prevents claimants from moving ahead towards jury trials. It's a fresh start. It's a clean slate, like the witness protection program. It's not at all. So that's the one part of this process. And the other part is that there's also the valuable parts of Johnson & Johnson, which has all its drug, pharmaceutical business, its medical device, business, and its consumer business, and these were all placed into a separate empty outside of the bankruptcy process, so essentially Johnson & Johnson was reborn without the threat of the talc litigation hanging over the good parts of its operations. I declare bankruptcy. And Johnson & Johnson and the good parts of its operations without the threat of the lawsuits is that a profitable company is that a rich company? Johnson & Johnson is a hugely profitable and rich company. So Johnson & Johnson has a market capitalization of a bite $440 billion, so it's one of the U.S.'s biggest listed companies, one of the biggest healthcare products companies in the world. And that goes to the heart of the arguments that the plaintiffs have been making in all the appeals we've had against this is that Johnson Johnson shouldn't be allowed as such a big powerful profitable company to use the bankruptcy system to handle these personal injury claims. Is the Texas two step considered a shady move among business journalists and business professionals? Or is this something that companies do all the time when they don't want to face the music? Well, the Texas two step is a complex uncertainly very controversial move. I don't think we can call it a shady move yet. Certainly not until the legal processes are over dealing with this. The Texas two step has already gone through one court case in the bankruptcy court of New Jersey. And that court find that it was a perfectly legitimate move for Johnson Johnson to use the bankruptcy process in this way to handle its personal injury claims. However, we have an appeal against that by the claimants and we'll get a decision on that and that will certainly get to the heart of whether it is a legitimate process to use. During my reporting on the Texas two step, I went down to Texas and tracked down a lawmaker who introduced the divisional merger scheme into the state legislature back in 1989, and he said he was appalled at J&J's use of the scheme to try and manage its exposure to these talc claims. So that was Stephen Wallace, former Texan lawmaker, and he told me that J&J had dubiously interpreted and misused the divisional merger law to avoid liabilities. And they would never have proposed this divisional merger law in the first place if they would know them that it would
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"e. johnson" Discussed on Today, Explained
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"e. johnson" Discussed on Today, Explained
"Baby's bottoms, product that mothers can trust. I put it on her after a bath. I put Johnson's all over her. Graduate. Handle with Johnson. But over time, Johnson Johnson realized that it could also market to mothers. So it started to sell the product to women who themselves use these products to reduce feminine odors on their genitals. As long as I can remember, Johnson's baby powder has been making me feel soft, fresh, and loved. It was also broadly popular with adults who applied it to other parts of their bodies to soothe rashes or ease chafing caused by friction on the skin. The substance that is at the center of these lawsuits is something called talc. What's talc and what's the problem with it? Talc is, as we usually come into contact with it, a powder, but it's derived from talcum that is mind from geological deposits, usually deep in the earth. It is known as the softest mineral that is known to man. It's a softest there is. Don't you like how it makes my skin feel so smooth and soft? Uh huh. How did we come to understand talc and cancer have a relationship? So researchers started raising concerns decades ago, some of them in the 1950s, consumer advocates grew increasingly alarmed in the 1970s because they were studies that started to suggest that there might be a link between talc and the carcinogen asbestos. So there are a few theories of how talc might lead to cancer. One in this is gained traction with plaintiff's lawyers in recent years, is that talc can be contaminated with asbestos, which is a known carcinogen that is associated with basoli oma, a cancer of the lining of the internal organs. So tell mines are often located near asbestos deposits. And as a result, the geologists that we've talked to have said that raw talc can be intermingled with asbestos. Cosmetic grade talc is refined, usually to remove impurities, but the government doesn't enforce whether or not that happens. The other theory is that when a woman applies talcum powder to her genital area, small particles can migrate up the vaginal canal and travel to the epithelial ovarian tissue or the fallopian tubes. And the thought is that this could cause irritation that sets off chronic inflammation and that eventually contributes to cancer. Back in 2018, my colleague Ronnie Rabin and I reported that Johnson & Johnson had known for decades that asbestos was a potential concern while they were trying to discredit researchers who said as much. At the same time, Lisa giuria Reuters found that the company didn't tell the FDA that at least three tests by three different labs in the 1970s had found asbestos in its talc in one case that the levels were, quote, rather high. Is there any replacement for talc? Indeed, there is. After consumer advocates began saying that Hal can train traces of asbestos. Johnson & Johnson developed a corn starch version in 1980 and began selling it. No baby Potter absorbs better than Johnson's baby pure corn starch powder. Okay, so 1980, they begin selling it. Why are we talking about this in 2022? What happened? It's more what didn't happen. Johnson & Johnson has always been adamant that its baby powder is asbestos free in that they're really is no reason why it should have to take the talc baby Potter off the market. Johnson & Johnson is a company that's built on trust and for it to remove talc from the shelves would suggest to many people that it was somehow at fault that it was somehow admitting that there was something wrong with its product. All right, so let me ask you about how marketing changes over time. Cancer is something that scares people. People tend not to buy products that might give them cancer unless they are addicted to them like cigarettes. So I imagine Johnson & Johnson has to start marketing its baby powder to people who are not aware of the complaints about cancer. How did Johnson & Johnson change who they marketed to over time? So Johnson & Johnson has been accused of targeting its marketing to black women for decades, really, using free samples of beauty salons, radio campaigns, other efforts. In 1992, there is an internal memo that notes the quote high usage of baby powder among black women and the quote opportunities to grow the franchise among the demographic, despite the fact that that same internal memo also notes the quote negative publicity from the health community on talc. Well, big news for renowned civil rights attorney Ben crump. He has found the lawsuit on behalf of a group of black women against Johnson & Johnson. I don't know a black woman alive back in the day that didn't use Johnson & Johnson talking powder. If you took a bath, you was going to put some chopping powder on your body at some point, even kids when we were kids. That's right. Last year in July, the National Council of Negro women filed a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson, saying that the company had marketed its talc baby powder to black people through promotions at concerts, churches, and barbershops. They double their efforts in marketing to black women. And that was where and so sinister about. The company had considered signing Patti LaBelle or Aretha Franklin as a spokeswoman, despite the evidence that its products might contribute to cancer. 50 years of misinformation, that's what we're fighting. This is infuriating, where are the regulators? That is an excellent question. There are asbestos regulations at the federal state and local levels of government, but talc is not regulated by any government agency. The cosmetics industry handles monitoring of its own use of talc. And by many accounts, it doesn't do a particularly rigorous job of it. Traces of asbestos have been found in talc makeup products that are marketed to kids and teens. The FDA is now warning parents to throw out three products from Claire's after new tests found they contained asbestos, as well as in some toys and crayons containing the powder. Play school crayons tested positive for asbestos. Tell me what we know about how many people claim they've gotten sick from using baby powder, and I imagine many of them are women, if not most of them, and how many lawsuits have been filed. So, at this point, we have more than 40,000 lawsuits, many of them are from women with ovarian cancer or mesothelioma, there's some men as well. And they've accused Johnson & Johnson of selling talc baby powder while being aware of its links to health risks such as possible
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"e. johnson" Discussed on Today, Explained
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The Eric Metaxas Show
"e. johnson" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"You tell your story going back to what you were first married or well, I actually start the, I start the book out by talking about going on to the set of unplanned. Which was a really odd experience for me. So, you know, I go on to the set. Most people have not been on the sets of movies where their life stories are being portrayed. I just want to be clear. Most of us have not had that experience. I had not been on a movie set at all. You know? And so this is my first time ever being on a movie set much less movie about myself. And so I roll up in this rental car and they had turned this community center into a set to look like my former clinic. So they had even put up this big iron fence. And everything, right? And so that was a little odd. So I pull up and I'm like, wow, that really does look like my clinic. And my former clinic. And so I get out and there's hundreds of people there on set, a bunch of extras, and they're all like, oh my gosh, Abby Johnson's here. And they're sort of treating me like this celebrity. And which always makes me a little uncomfortable anyway. And then I go and I sit and I'm with the directors and I see Ashley there, the actress that plays me. I see her in the scene. I'm watching it on the little TVs or whatever. And then I'm seeing her and I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm watching this other woman act out the biggest regrets of my life. Oh. That sounds like a bad experience. We're gonna be right back to hear more about this with Abby Johnson, the new book is fierce mercy. Hey folks, if you listen to this program, of course, you've heard me talk at infinitum about my pillow and my friend Mike lindell. Well, Mike is just announced that you will receive one of his books and the book is next level insane. It is called, what are the odds from crack addict to CEO? It's his story. You will receive it absolutely free with any purchase using the promo code Eric..
Spiritual Dope
"e. johnson" Discussed on Spiritual Dope
"Hundred eight walks guard. Guitars weighs about nine pounds. And it's Let's see eleven inches by thirteen. Is that a and then. The second book is a square book. It's eleven and a quarter. I think by eleven. A quarter us The the rockstar guitars. One is red leather leather at Pressed leather at and this Immortal access is a black cover with gold and silver sparkling motifs on it of guitar motifs on it. I think the aren't working so cool. And i think anybody would anybody guitars. Classic rock rock and roll the space would be you know. This would be such trying to sell him. This would be such a new so cool With it through like one story of like maybe most challenging guitar to get soon like the one that you felt like was like the focus for you. Yeah well one of i have to say is joan jett because you know she's a woman in rock and she works really hard and She paved the way for a lot of women in music Before even her there with suzy cuatro cuatro actually pave the way for joan. Jett and joan will will say that It's it was really hard to get to joan. she's not super happy to have a lot of photographers around. And so i think that was one of the issues that i kept requesting. They just they don't really have photographers around. And i usually shoot before after shows. So i finally was kidding. Finish with this book. And i really want to. John and i'd asked several times 'cause for me. She is the most important woman to have in the book and as a female artists that influenced so many. And of course suzy quattro. She wrote the the afterward for the book so i am just so important to me and so mazing she did that. That finally i was rounding up. I was finishing a book. And i really wanted joan and not not have joan and so i finally realized i worked with the heart rock and roll hall of fame for so many photo shoots and i was there doing. Shoot.
Spiritual Dope
"e. johnson" Discussed on Spiritual Dope
"A harry is manifesting that creativity and hot cutty cutty. Warhead grew why who is what. How and being taken from darkness into the night that light. That's what guru is is dark rue the light. Why has while. I'm being taken from the dark into the light. What hey guru. And i'm watching the beautiful process of how everything is unfolding from the seeding planting to the flow of the growing of the creation to the manifestation enter the final harvest. So that's where we're at right now on the planet and everybody. That's meditating everybody. Who's doing yoga. They're planting these. These seeds of a new world not a new world order bro. A new world of and light in peace and truce and higher consciousness and compassion for each other without any kind of division you know just acceptance of each other knowing the truth of what is right. What is wrong so that we are in right relationship and doing right action for ourselves and for our planet and animal kingdom and when we can find that balance which. I believe that we will because i was talking earlier. A little bit about shreve test wired. He wrote the cycles of of consciousness. We have what's called the ubers and it takes twenty six thousand year cycle for for full. You got that goes from the iron age silver age the bronze age and the golden age. And that's the age of enlightenment and so we have come out of the kali age and have entered into the the bronze age which is the drop her yuga and that's where we are right now and we are a sending part of that so the uber's have a Thirteen thousand year ace ending cycle in a thirteen thousand. You're descending cycle so it takes twenty six thousand years so we're on a sending we've come out of the dark ages we've come out of a really dance low level consciousness area and now there's only going to go up now but like a friend of mine says gone just sufi. He's he's someone you might want to interview some time. Gajah sufi he's cool. He's a recording artist. You can check send you a link to something of his. Says he says you go through hell to get to have so assure. Burn how right now but on our way to have sure for sure i think they were In a celebrated Employees real quick cure Cosmic waterway on instagram. Sounds like she might herself a little bit On some yoga and sort of background and sacred geometry so. I know that that's something. I wanted to get more into with you off. We're going to have time for that. But i do wanna call out the fact that you got some sacred geometry intertwined on some yearbook covers. If i'm not mistaken and you wanna toss out you know what about what is it about cosmic one way and let's share a little bit about the books so that we can Have so. I have two books. The first one came out called one hundred and eight rockstar guitars. And when you when you first look at the cover It's doesn't have a guitar on the cover. It has.
Best of The Steve Harvey Morning Show
"e. johnson" Discussed on Best of The Steve Harvey Morning Show
"Well more drama for steph. Curry's parents divorce docs claim that steps. Dead del says. Sonia began her extramarital affair with steven johnson during the marriage in prior to the data separation and she lied to dell each time. She cheated on him. Del in the doc says sonia is actually living with steven johnson in tennessee and claims she should not be entitled to alimony because of it for her part sonya says in responding documents that she is not living with johnson claiming she's currently living in her own home because dell will not allow her to live at their home. She's living on her own. Sonia added that she is however currently in a dating relationship she also said the dell cheated on her during the marriage claimed he hooked up with different women and that family and close friends knew about it. So there you go. They're both saying they both cheese. Good goose's whatever. Whatever they say. That guy johnson played in the nfl so in the nfl. Not if she if she cheating she's with johnson. That's all i say something that was so quick. Every comedian listeners had to stop. I had it when she started. When you know what i just. I like the family so much. I don't wanna see. I don't need not if it's not working. It's not working. Let's just behind closed doors. Let's figure out how we go out several ways. But let's do it what we don't just see another black family just stretch. How the media come on man. Let's not do this man. Let's try to shut it down the right way. I get it if it ain't working if it's not a moment just set it down the right way but let's not just every day is something new. We all want our three years of marriage thirty three years to me. I'm just. I'd like to say this though to you guys because we're talking about them getting divorced if you guys were not married and you got a divorce so you got a divorce. He made right now. Would you all get married again. I'm did call callers. i'll get married again. Yeah really. I'm not doing three four five. I'm not doing it. You asked me j. I feel like in this marriage. You know we were talking about. Anniversaries not allowed to just celebrate a seventeen years. I just feel like with this marriage. I'm we i'm giving my all. We are as one. And i just can't see myself doing this again. I just can't see marrying somebody again. If this doesn't work put so much of this win right son. Let me say this though jay. My grandparents both sides words together until one passed away. One pass away. There was nobody else the next one the the you know the remaining person passed away my mother and father. We're here til my dad to my pops passed away. I am in mind fuck life. I'm not leaving. i don't know that's what you stop him right. I've been brought up this win. So let me let me. Just say this. I see people who do that till death do their part and maybe some time to to mates died the same. I just hell the do that. That's what i call. Debt done what i need to sit down and explain how do you how do you look at that person. And i can do ten more years but i i. Just don't you mean it when you're saying your vows don't you mean surely and i just say something to you. I this one time. I was at a wedding which was mine and now let's to myself as it was going on. It was my wedding is not gonna work at the alter. I'm standing up walking down at walking down there. And i won't say one because they were all lovely women. I'm legs just did not own worth giving up next the nephew. Bring calm.
Maltin On Movies
"e. johnson" Discussed on Maltin On Movies
"Just doing your joe's the guy who taught me. It was sitting in bars with joe when we first met at. He was the when. The what the things i now say is my it like how i wanna do it. It was joe saying hey man if we lose. Our camera are hold the camera. And i'll hold the boom and i thought coming from production world i was in. I don't know if you could do that. He's like it's a camera and a credit as like that is so cool. He's like if you need to use natural light you do it and i thought oh glad there's different types of movies now you. I don't remember Forgive me where you turn up in red belks. I've only seen the movie when i came out. It's quick. did you get to have any time with david. Mamat yes so yet red belt was so going back to my beginnings of reading and i did with that guy bill who produced a ride the eagle. He directed a high school version of american buffalo. That was very max fisher. Rushmore and i played at seventeen. I was the fifty year old guy screaming. You know saga god. Whenever but so. When i got that audition for red belt i played the character in the bar. Who fights tim allen and then shoot hell beats me up. And it connects them So before liz. Mary weather of discovered me as an actor. The roles i was getting was more thug You know we're drunk so i was a I played a murderer and the shock lied to mate I was a thug. In red belt outlay caves. I mean these are the jobs. Yeah i got to our david member. But he gave me an unbelievable piece of direction. So i was doing the same with ten allen where i do a monologue about how like i want to beat him up for something and then he says something back and punch him in the face and we do all stunt fight and i did the same really jacked up nervous and i was like really like i want to show david bamut how tough i am and how my character can really beat. The crap out of tim allen's character and so he takes me aside and he's like okay he goes. I can. I ask you a question as jake and i go. Yeah he goes. How do you feel about doing the same with tim. Allen and i said In in realize yes. This is between you and me and i go. I'm pretty excited. I grew up watching home improvement. You did yeah. I mean a i know yeah. I'm a big fan. I think he's really funny. I'm excited to be here. I'm really nervous. But i'm excited. He said i'm not worried that you don't know the lines you know the words. So here's what i'd like you to do. Say the worked. Exactly how you say that. But what i want you to be thinking about is how exciting it is to be next to tim allen. And what an honor that is for you and how this is really fun for you..
Maltin On Movies
"e. johnson" Discussed on Maltin On Movies
"Everybody has their little team that they pull in collins little team and then i got a call from a then manager who said your friend. Communism movie called safety not guaranteed they like you and they like aubrey plaza for it and i didn't know her and it was the same thing i said before you know sight unseen if collin them in and so we just started meeting and then we were all together and we found a Came on board but he was last and but that movie was very clearly. We're going to make a movie. This is the first movie with our friend colin or my friends and you know watching that thing exploded for him. Was you know neat well but you did find yourself working. Ns exotic location or two or three with tom cruise in the tunnel. I talk about saying yes if someone calls me on the phone and says tom cruise from what missiles just being on so kind of so. You'd i'm an tom cruise fan I'm also afraid of them again in a real like actor and so i got the call. Tom wants an outskirts men. Who was directing. It was the one contacted me. And he's like you know i'd like to. I'd like improvise in blues. I think we could add a lot of comedy and have a lot of fun. I thought like not sounds like tom. Cruise like that sounds cool but as like all right and then i thought all right so i'm day comedic relief sky something that's easy and then like all right and then so he just kinda casually like would you do it and i said to my wife. I pitched it to her. Because we our kids to at the time. So i said but we all have to go to england for four months over summer. And she's like tom cruise. Yes so. I think i'm in and i read the script. And the first twenty five pages where his character and my character in a war zone have in buildings exploding. And i'm like this twenty pages of tom cruise stunts. And i don't wanna do tom cruise stunts so i contacted and said i think i'm out like i appreciate it but i'm not interested in like stunts i'd like i got interested in green screen movies. I don't get him like i don't need to be. I never need to be hung from a wire house. Like let somebody else do to the world of blackbox. I like those those feeders And then Tom cruise got word that i was passing and said yeah he wants to pass. You could pass have them do it to my face so i left..
Maltin On Movies
"e. johnson" Discussed on Maltin On Movies
"We then wrote the mom character. Then as we did the lists the mom we would realize what she would want. Her son is loved. So if i think about my kids i have something to say. I'm not going to go make a lot of money. I'm going to say i. I hope you find love. And i hope you have like the best say that so now. We need a love story so we started writing. Drc that one. We're writing her. We thought i bet she had a love. And i bet her love was crazy there came. Jk so then into writing. It was all based off of man. I hope this game is over because it's so fun but under the heading of everything oldest no again. What you're saying is the twenty first century version of mickey rooney and judy garland sank. Hey let's put on a show. i know. I know where to find a barn where we live theater. That's right and on it goes and honest. That's how the are was transall dp whose family was in australia. He was alone and he said. I have the time i want to work the producers on it who became our covid expert. That person's aim is bill. Bugner off bill bungles. Was that guy from my high school who put me in that. I play on my So like it's we call the people we knew and said. Are you in bills. Like of and. I'm like one of the people i read with during the drc coverage. Because i didn't have any reception at the cabin. Was that guy bill. So when i'm doing my stuff with her it's with the guy at fifteen who got me into act all it gets to that like when you get in that deep weird stuff like it's magic man. It's like the best so tell us about Colin trevorrow just one one lynch pin and all of this. Because i i didn't know who he was when i saw safety not guaranteed lot. I such an admire. i really really liked the vibe. That gave off don's brilliant. Yes so colin as a guy in the circle was great friends with a friend of mine. Klay alan so lowery in drastic world his look with the glasses and the tattoos here in the style we copied clay. We took photos of again. Klay allen and it's literally his tattoo that we had the makeup artist put on sunglasses colin and clay went to school together with derek comet. They all went to nyu film department. When i first moved to la colin was a struggling screenwriter. Who wanted to make youtube shorts. Two thousand four at the beginning of youtube so i did like a goofy sketch video together. He got some money for two. He did like a chinese action. Kung-fu movie and i played the bad guy. In which i hope at some point he releases it was wild. But colin was that guy who was really hustling and really grinding and i was in the Collin repertoire was one of the actors..
Maltin On Movies
"e. johnson" Discussed on Maltin On Movies
"Just don't really fun it's better it's been. We've we've you want to know that's i don't know. Ignorance is bliss you know. Tell me that's really funny now. Many people were inspired by seconds sitting. Yes on continue to be But you chose a a somewhat different path been than most another performance path a writing. Yeah i'm writing death and and it served you. Well tell us about how all that came out. I i lead in a town called evanston and and there was a bunch of bookstores. Northwestern is there so there was a bunch of like cool. Cafes in bic stowe bookstores for the college students until high school. You know it was just cool to hang out in them and because i did that clay and i started acting when i went to the bookstore. I wanted to find something to like. Read so i ended up going to the plays area at you know for fifteen sixteen year old plays a lot easier to read than a novel. It and it's cheaper to buy those roads covers for like two ninety nine. Go get a cup of coffee in for five bucks. I've got a thursday night. And while doing those i read sam sheppard and i read david mamat and i read early. John patrick shanley. And i was so floored and i thought like it was the first time i read something and dialogue really pot and i really. I read american buffalo and it sounded like my uncle's it. Some other had junk shops in chicago so it felt like real people talking in a way that i understood but had written a message in a story in it and so it was. I was toward the end high school. I knew for sure. I wanted to be a dramatic playwright. And that was it in so acting was cool and i liked that the real magic was in creating the whole thing and so i started writing plays which led me eventually to iowa because i thought be writing program was there was great and then i ended up transferring to nyu. And i had some plays produced in the city in. Then i learned the valuable lesson where i had a play produced At the end samba. Studio theatre where i didn't direct it and i didn't cast it but i didn't like the i was a little bit of a max fisher as a young kid and i didn't like the choices that director made and it was a story that i viewed as very dramatic about a sister and a cousin but he chose to use adult actresses using kid voices..
Maltin On Movies
"e. johnson" Discussed on Maltin On Movies
"Because with so talk a little bit about how you start because you have been working for a while mike. Yes you're while i started. You know the the real start was. When i was in high school i dropped out for year when i was fifteen so i had left school and i was working with my uncle eddie. We were hanging neon signs. And i realized there was a working class path. I could take work really hard all day. And it's hard and i remember doing that with him in being like and this is hard we were hanging neon signs on the north side of chicago on clark street and i was scared of the ladder now. Such a low sissy. And i thought like this is it and i got back to high school and a good friend of mine. Bill bunker outs was directing the big comedy play at the school and i thought that was for other people. I thought it was for theater. Kits and i thought theater kids could sing and dance acted spin around and they were like little magical kids and i was not one of those and he said. Why don't you come. Try out for. And i said why can't memorize the monologue anything. But my uncle timmy. Who was an alcoholic. Told me the same joke every year on my birthday. He goes just doing impressions of timmy. Telling you that joke. If and i did the play and it was the first time i did a comedy show in like teachers liked me all of a sudden i felt like i had a role in the school and it wasn't like thank you to like us to play sports but now smoke cigarettes on the corner like oh. I like this role better. I like the role of like you go do a show it now. You're good at school somehow. And so that thing happened my head where i thought i know that the past i. That's job in. That's a life i would like that one and then because i happened to grow up outside of chicago. We had the second city. And there's a guy in the second season in del close who usurp you guys. Yes but there was an idea of what good comedic actor was and it was about integrity and it was about listening and there. There's a great story. I heard growing up about the magic of all this. And that is he did it. Had hosted in improv in a crippled did scenes in a kitchen and after said to the audience can never mentioned the kitchen looked and he said what color was the wall and eighty percent of the audience light yellow and it was because they created a room.
Maltin On Movies
"e. johnson" Discussed on Maltin On Movies
"And get away from making his mom like a trump followers. He's a ride right. What it's about as their disagreements on politics and it's more choosing a crazy caulton. He got really pissed at her and they were both raw. He should have forgiven her when he got older. She reached out goes into an important thing for us to put in that. She may be after he never did it as an adult. They're both in the wrong like now. It's too late gun. Don't screw it up again. Don't don't screw up with women and do the same pattern like star finding people and and how how sad that you had to make do under these conditions with susan sarandon and role for four poor thing or you know we were really scraping the bottom of the barrel or jk drc carded. You know we had no but it was funny and trenton. I did discuss this where we realized we could probably get top actors because you know. Drc came on board started working with us early on. We had pages for those scenes where you're doing zoom hertzel's and you know. I really wanted to work more with her. But i thought actually won't be available. Then she mountain she's like i'm home all the time right. We saw many hertzel's oh like she's already. I was texting with like. She's off doing her tv show. Now she's in pittsburgh she's gone. Students gone jake as got like every acts in like twenty minutes later. They'd be like you wanna just meet now. And i'm like this is incredible availabilities not gonna get. It's the i mean this is. I think we can all now that we are getting closer to the other side. We can all look back at the stuff that is ridiculous added. Though it's those moments yes lair when someone goes. What are you free any time. You want thorough sitting here alone native born until night. I can zoom if you want if you wanna be at four. Am all set alarm. A pretty bored right. That's it is it is. It is incredible sort of the time we all suddenly had..
You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes
"e. johnson" Discussed on You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes
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Sci-Fi Talk: The First Season
"e. johnson" Discussed on Sci-Fi Talk: The First Season
"Now another addition of tony tomato on cy fi talk lord of the rings type Abraham remember votes. Julian sounds creepy. Man who your mazda. Someone i two. Wow hey that's great. Appreciate my guy. The archangel gabriel is early. What is most important. Is that burnham forgives herself because as burnham i carry a tremendous amount of guilt and shame on my name is alex zahara played even god's zales to iron shirt the one eyed onus breaking code rush omen coca kadosh. Seifi talk typical behavior effects. What's it like. Urfi you both to kind of act two things. That aren't there. Well you know sometimes you have that experience anyway. Gone in part. Because of the hopeful nature of genes vision but also because of its message of diversity and inclusion wrong and prosper a conversation with kenneth johnson who is responsible for bringing the small screen the incredible hulk also v. among other shows as well he at the time had a new novel on being. Let's go back and relive this conversation with kenneth johnson. I'm doing good good good. I was really happy to have you know. Have you come my way. This is a. It's a lot of fun for me in a big thrill after after all the great work done and I mean i think you're one of the people that i don't think science would be popular on television with somebody like you not coming along doing what you did kind. I appreciate it. I i have always considered myself very lucky to have been able to To be in the right place and the right time my friend joe hornell was my composer on so many of my shows used to have a little sign on his piano. That said bloom where you're planted and i always sort of. That's sort of a nice bottom. I guess so. That's what i try to do is to do the best. I could given the the money in the time that i've had to work with and And certainly i've been. I've been very fortunate in in in having so many great People to To accompany me to help me out and make me look good. You have made your sheriff history. And then so many great series and we'll we'll talk about them and clothing You know going back to be which. I'm pretty excited about to revisit that me too it's It's funny over the years. Many people had come to me and said she wanted you to something else with you. Want to go back and do this. And that remake. It and i only just started ducted. Tony because i thought you know i did it pretty well the first time and it's not broken and i don't want to fix it and the sides warner's has their finger in the pie. You know and but when i was putting together the dvd release of my original for hours back in two thousand and one. I was on the dubbing stage and we get to the last seen. We're figuring out her message into deep space of distress call sort of trying to hook up with an enemy of the visitors hoping that the enemy of my enemy would be my friend. A little bell went off. When i saw that scene and i thought gee i wonder what it would be like if i picked up the story. Twenty years later and that was sort of a really intriguing notion to me that i couldn't let go of once it got. Its hooks into me and you know what would what would it be like what happened to the characters. Where did they go. Where did they end up the ones that we hated the ones that we love what the world look like and and i realized that There was an opportunity there to to sort of continue the allegory the metaphor particularly since when i had done via originally there were two superpowers vying. For dominance in the world you know the soviet union and us and there's just this one hyperpower and our leaders say you know you're wise leaders know what's best for you so trust us and stay the course and don't ask too many questions or we'll send you to guantanamo and you know and i and i realized that There was an opportunity there to sort of make some comments on on our society today but same time carry on a great sort of action adventure thriller that i had I had originated all those years ago. Cbs now v. The second generation is a novel. That must've been incredibly liberating for you. Because you're writing it with no buts tony. It's funny. I mean when i when i came up with the idea of the second generation i naturally. Although i've written a novel back in the in the seventies i had sort of gotten swept away in television and film and never really had time to to go back to Do more novels although there's always sort of been in my head to do so and and when i first came up with the idea naturally i took it to fi- to warner's because they control the television rights to be and and my friend. Greg may day over there. in long-form really loved it and we went to nbc and we sold it in the room. But it wasn't like the experience that i'd had twenty years ago with brandon. Tartikoff ak- with brandon. I sat in his office. Tony and told him the story for two hours. Read it and he loved it. He said go write the script and i said you have any notes and he said what are you crazy and And i came back two weeks. Nineteen days later actually with a two hundred and thirty page screenplay for the that became the original four hours and brandon basically said. Here's a check communists done you know and it was like it was just the way to go. You know this time. Unfortunately it was not like that. I went through all sorts of carpets and mannequins and nbc was buying universal and there was all this tangles types and instead of them reading a script over a weekend like brandon would do and say go. Shoot it sucker. you know. I was stuck with people that would take five or six months to read a draft. And oh made me nuts and so Partly during the course of that. I said you know the story is just too good to be hemmed. In by a by the budgetary problems. I knew i.