35 Burst results for "Ken Burns"
Mark Levin
FDR, Woodrow Wilson Were Racists
"FDR really didn't lift a finger For blacks in America Or barely Lifted a finger That's the truth And wouldn't take on Other bigots in his party It's the same thing with Asian Americans Japanese Americans and specific He had said things had written things in 1923 24 25 2060 folks I do my research That's what I do Mark what do you do for a hobby That's what I do And then the back benches can clean up with their pick up the crumbs But that's the facts He wrote viciously About Asians that Asians and Europeans couldn't mix Shouldn't mix You didn't hear this did you Didn't hear this On Ken burns documentary did you Maybe there ought to be a Mark Levin documentary
Mark Levin
Ken Burns: DeSantis’ Actions Are 'Out of the Authoritarian Playbook'
"Cut ten go We woke up to the news this morning that governor Ron DeSantis of Florida sent two plain loads of migrants to Martha's Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts including kids and whatnot And I'm not saying this is not a one for one This is not a parallel here in any way But it does address some of the same themes that are part of this documentary The abstraction of human life It's basically saying that you can use a human life that is as valuable as yours or mine or limbs and to put it in a position of becoming a political pawn in somebody's authoritarian game This is the coming straight out of the authoritarian playbook This is what's so disturbing about desantis is to use human beings to weaponize human beings for a political Let me tell you something you moron Desantis has done more in support of Israel and the Jews in his state And others in his state than anybody I can think of This is grotesque and to have this clown John Berman with the IQ of a parakeet Goading this kind of conclusion is really appalling And I'm waiting for the anti defamation league to speak up but it won't It embraces this
Mark Levin
Ken Burns Compares Republicans to Hitler, the Holocaust
"And so he's looking at what these Republican governors are doing and he compares it to Hitler The Germans Jim Crow What happened to the Jews Cut 9 go When it was critical for us to relieve the suffering of refugees coming from the Holocaust we did not do enough And it's on the administration at the time It's on the various executive departments It's on the Congress that had passed pernicious immigration laws in the 20 and it's on the people of the United States who had inherited the kind of toxic anti semitism anti immigrant sentiment the depression was happening There's racism in the country Hitler had admired the way we had taken care of our indigenous populations They studied our Jim Crow laws The German study our Jim Crow laws to fashion anti discrimination laws against the Jews
The Eric Metaxas Show
Fox's Brian Kilmeade Discusses His New Book 'The President and the Freedom Fighter'
"I'm talking to Brian kill me, you may know him from fox and friends, but he's written a lot of books. This one is called the president and the freedom fighter Abraham Lincoln Frederick Douglass in their battle to save America's soul. America soul could use a little saving right now. But we're not going to talk about that. What made you want to write a book combining these two figures? Well, I was looking for the last time I was here. You kind enough to interview me about Sam Houston, the Alamo Avengers. So I try to find an angle not plowed and the Alamo is, but San jacinto isn't 9 months later he ends up taking him out as San jacinto beating Santa Anna in 17 minutes because Texans know it, but the rest of the world. So I go, what's next? The Mexican war, I didn't think had enough. My opinion, I'm sure there's a lot there with Lee in the quartermaster grant and the fact that these generals fought on the same side and then years later, they'd be trying to kill each other and a lot of them successfully. I said, all right, the Civil War. What could I do that's not plowed ground from Ken burns a series to the remarkable book, David blight wrote about Frederick Douglas Scott? I think the book of the year, 5 years ago. And then what about Lincoln? I literally you and I gave the same situation. We get books about linking to our desks all the time, and they're all great. I'm waiting for nobody who's written been written about more. It's like maybe three people like who've written about Napoleon Jesus, Lincoln. I mean, I don't know how many books have been written about Lincoln. So yeah, what do you do for a fresh angle on the Civil War? So what I wanted to do is also I didn't mind tackling race, but I wanted to do it through quotes, not opinion. And racist never left the news, Black Lives Matter is raging at the time. And then you have you have a situation where as late as Condoleezza and rice Condoleezza Rice on the view, having to defend herself growing up in a Jim Crow south who knew all about racism, but grew up as his conservatives says, don't ever let it be an excuse. So I said, what have I talk about their parallel lives to the degree in which they read a lot of the same books? Did they overcame incredible obstacles? Nothing like Frederick Douglass. I get it. The guy was enslaved until he was in his 20 years old, two tries, got out in the second time within 7 years has a biography. It's a bestseller, and then starts a world tour and becomes famous in Scotland, Ireland, Germany, and England. This guy was a slave ten years before, but decides to come back to America because his 4 million enslaved 350,000 slave owners and he sees potential in this guy Lincoln and the Republican Party that we're finally ready to do
SmartLess
"ken burns" Discussed on SmartLess
"Really. I don't know that something that kinda blows the lid off the stigma surrounding talking about mental health. And for me it's about you're always going to get more of whatever it is you put out there so if you if you're putting out good positive vibes you're going to get more of that bag in that also goes for negative bob so my point is if you want to start talking about having a better positive experience in your life if there are things that are getting in the way of you having that whether it's anxiety or depression or whatever it is there is a solution for that and there's a place that you can go to really start addressing that in a real way you're saying yourself you're saying we'll shut up no but you might be saying we'll leave. Stop it i am your sean is see. Shawn's been listening the whole time. Thank you shot. We'll sean guess. 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The these sort of you have this excitement about all of it. It's process it's not the film like when it comes out of says ali on it. Well that's for you guys right. But i'm doing the same thing. Somebody asked me earlier about putting my head on the pillow. Like all i wanna know is that i made a film better that day. That's so great. Best moment was mixing the civil war series. Where you know how it is. You're laying in the different tracks and we hadn't laid down the gun shot at ford's theatre and we'd done everything else we've got the arena stage theatre that put on american our american cousin. All the tiny you know victorian custody be going endorsed lambs and footfalls laughter and people coughing in the narrator and whatever that music was but we hadn't made in the bullet and we're saying okay. It's all analog back in the mixers lee dichter great great feature film maker woody and bike and you know Marty and everybody and it sound one. In the brill building and were going and around a yell stop just before it comes to rest on the bullet and we just sat. There cheers rolling down our cheeks. And then i nodded him. He went back. Put the lead the bullet down but the best moment was just for a moment not having killed abraham lincoln. Just help from dow wow interesting. Yeah you get you get to play with history. You how it's just amazing stuff. You know the laws storytelling as you know. Are the same for me and steven spielberg and i talked to him about it. I interviewed him at a stage in washington. And we realize it's the same thing he can make shit up. I can't but it's the same laws of storytelling asia. But your your ability to create these incredibly compelling moments. Be having your hands tied with the fact of the story in other words. You can't embellish a big crescendo. Ending i for dramatic satisfaction. You are you are a slave to what the story was. Ending is and so your ability to craft the lead up to and the framing of Is unmatched and i'd i'd say that in front of spielberg. I mean it's just. It's incredible what you do. And i just can't thank you enough for doing it. Thank you thank you. You know shelby foote in the civil war called me up. And he said god's the greatest dramatist because it you just you know. Suddenly you win the war on friday good friday and you figure that by tuesday night you got. You're ready you got some free time. You'll go to the theater. That i mentioned shelby fight. I stopped drinking because it shelby. Foote because we'd we'd be on the seventh you know bourbon and i be under the table and he'd be talking away and i'd be like oh man i can't anymore. Where did you get the the discipline. The instinct to ignore good in the pursuit of great. You know because a lot of people will just stop it good. And that's just you know good enough. I think moving up here helped me. Forty two years ago. This week i had finished shooting most of the brooklyn bridge film and i needed a real job in new york and i could easily put the film footage up on top of the refrigerator and then boom wakeup and i'm forty five and didn't finish that novel. The way they add. So i moved up here where could live for nothing and the first film got nominated for an kademi award and people said come back to new york owned l. a. to go. No i'm gonna stay here. Because i realized that that dynamic of what we do required a a an amount of time and you could build a community of people who have the patience and understand the respect for the process so when we finish it. But we're doing the same thing every day. We're just trying to make a film small town up their kids like looks like courier knives and and do people like do people point status.
WSB-AM
"ken burns" Discussed on WSB-AM
"Choice. Don't take away the choice. Don't take away the freedom Don't parse the freedom. Ken Burns is saying that parsing the freedom is exactly what we need to do to keep Our freedom doesn't really make any doesn't really give me all your money and I will help you save your money. I don't understand. I don't understand how that works, and I don't think anybody wants this noble experiment. It is dissolved. Just when we have in our grasp the possibilities and the tools with which to solve these things, and we have looming ahead of us. This huge global threat of climate change that has to be addressed, and we can't now permit the flatters society any more time. This In one very brief interview went from January, 6th. To Christian fundamentalism to mask wearing the vaccine, Covid 19, and he rounded it off by throwing in a little climate change just for good measure. But did you hear what he said? He has one last dig. At the end, he said, Look I know that freedom. You guys want your freedom. I know you don't want to take vaccines, and I don't want to wear masks. I know that January, 6th was one of the worst times in history since the Civil War. I get all of that. But not that all pales in comparison to the biggest problem. We face the biggest threat we have right now. And that is climate change, and he throws conservatives under the bus one more time. Listen to what he says at the end of it, that scares me know that Not that Here it is. Of climate change that has to be addressed, and we can't now permit the flatter society any more time the flat Earth society we cannot permit the flat Earth society any more time. What he's alluding to. There is people who deny climate change is real. People who deny climate change exists. People who don't think global warming is a thing. People who believe that the earth naturally changes its Temperature. That what you're seeing with hurricanes and earthquakes. And what have you has been going on for millions of years? Because, well, it has people that don't believe man made climate change is destroying the earth. People that don't believe we need to spend $5 Trillion on infrastructure which will hopefully make us, uh, environmentally protected from our own devices. This guy is calling flat Earth society people. Basically, anyone in the Republican Party who disagrees with climate change anyone who fights the climate change movement. It's right up there with tinfoil hat wearers, conspiracy theorists, Helly might as well just be calling and white supremacists to But he's he's again throwing out a dog whistle to their flat Earthers are now the flat Earth society and they can't be allowed any more time, he says. We cannot allow these flat Earthers to take up any more time. And what does that mean? Again. If you don't speak liberal Communist, I will tell you it means people with a different opinion. Can't be allowed any more time. We need to shut them up. They can't be allowed on social media. They can't be allowed on mainstream media. They really can't be allowed anywhere. Hell, they can't be trusted. Because they're they're destroying our earth. Just because they want some freedom. They got to be stopped. They got to be stopped. 855940 markets are number 855946275 quick break. Don't go anywhere when we get back Special Treat Hideous and horrific history with Hannah Hickox. It's You know, if you missed it last week. You definitely don't want to miss it this week, and just it's going to it's going to be. I know, I know a little bit about what's about to happen. I know this. I'm very excited about it. I'm very head. Are you excited about how excited you need some water or something? Got a whole bottle. Right, Chuck? A little water that's coming up right after this. Stay tuned more. The marquee show coming up. This is a traffic red alerts from 95.5 wsb 11 47 Cool ray carrier WSB 24 hour traffic center. All lanes remain blocked on the East Freeway. This red alerts been there for over an hour. Now I 20 westbound Capitol Avenue. Just before the downtown connector. No traffic is getting By and again. There's a literally six maybe seven vehicles involved in this widely scattered crash or people on the roadway on both sides of the interstate. So use caution. And if you're in the area traffic is being diverted off to the frontage road, But I 20 westbound downtown connector. All lanes remain blocked. Jackie Lee 95.5 WSB reconnect with a carpool or van pool and dried with people you know and trust safely by forming a commute circle with your rideshare group and following current safety guidelines, you can enjoy your favorite way to get to work in a safe manner. For more ways to ride safely to and from work,.
WSB-AM
"ken burns" Discussed on WSB-AM
"Hannah making the horses voice, please. I'm on it to me. As soon as you can. We adopt a tar, but you know, we need something new for me. We haven't. We're going to get rid of the Pew pew. Pew. We're gonna get rid of it, but we want to enhance it with maybe by the way, just in the last commercial break. I forget we were talking. You were telling jokes about or something? Um, but I said, what do you call? How do you? Josh told it would tell the joke you told you it was. What do you call a horse with a sort throat? That's incorrect. What do you call a pony with us, or that's what it is A little horse, Little horse. And then I said, how do you know A horse has a sore throat and Hannah, tell everyone what you said. I don't remember. You know? Okay, I said a normal horse. Sounds like this, I said, but horses sore throat goes and I was Jesus. That's right. Run was just as good. Maybe even better, isolate both of them and get me those as soon as you can 85559406275855940 mark is our number. You know, real quick. Let's go to the phones because we have a question about Ken Burns and what's been going on. This is This is Mike and Tulsa listening on K R. M G. Hi, Mike. How are you? I'm doing. Great, Mark. Thanks for having me, buddy. Hey, thanks for being here, man. We appreciate it, Mike. What's on your mind What you want to say today, sir? Did you have a good happy beer holiday? How do you know it was a beer holiday? That's exactly what I did Administration and all I know my drinking is a little out of control that anything to numb the pain. What else on your mind, Mike? Would you want to say today? Uh, shame on Ken Burns, sir and cancel culture for trying to work history and their way. For their own little advantages. And Terrence Statue down. That's not going to cheat the kids. Anything you know, I used to like him Burns, but now he's on the answer, Mr. You know, and Mike, I appreciate your calling to. It seems to me like the left is running out of reputable sources. Maybe, you know, they're like, all right. Who can we go to that people are going to think is a reputable voice. Who can we go to that people are going to believe, and we're going to tell them. This person knows what's what this person is telling you. And they chose Ken Burns, who I'm gonna be honest with you. Unless you're an avid PBS viewer. Many people may not know And I can't imagine that the same people are watching PBS or watching CNN on Sunday mornings, but maybe they are Are and anyway he goes on and on about the collective He goes on and on about politics. He goes on about limiting and parsing your freedom and how, as Americans freedom loving Americans, we have to give up our freedoms. Which leads me to believe that can burns, renowned historian and award winning documentarian doesn't understand the first thing about Americans and freedom. If you have freedom as an American, you don't limit it. You want to expand it. You want to share it. You want more people to have freedom. In fact, they're suggesting we all go the wrong way. What we should be focusing on right now is inspiring freedom and other parts of the world. That's how you make the world a better place. Look at Cuba, for example, the number one example where just weeks ago They were on the brink of becoming the next free Democratic nation. They had people in the streets, thousands and thousands of them standing up. They had people taking, uh, matters into their own hands. They had people with American flags. These are Cuban citizens in Cuba with American flags, waving them and screaming Libertad Libertad. And Joe Biden, much like he likes to do to the rest of the world, much like he likes to do the rest of the freedom loving world ignore them. He led their Internet be shut down. He let the cops come in and do whatever they needed to do to get them back in their homes. Arrest them beat them. God, hopefully nothing worse than that. But he just stood back, did nothing and watched freedom in Cuba die. He watched the Libertad American flag waving movement disappear from the Internet. Why, well because the Internet disappeared because the government in Cuba which doesn't like freedom, which doesn't have freedom of speech, freedom of the press, which doesn't allow its people In its citizens to live free lives. Because they're communists. They're socialists. He just let it get snuffed out. And he did absolutely nothing to stop it. He was too busy planning his botched, uh, his botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. It's a little disturbing. But as a Democrat as a as an American, as as somebody who is supposedly, um, interested in our best interest as a capitalist, even inspiring freedom around the globe is a good thing. And I'm not saying you have to go in and invade people in topple governments. But if there's a government that's 60 miles away from you, if there's a group of people in island Nation, 60 miles away from you and those people really want to be free, and you can help them just by just by intervening or sending a message. You should do that. Joe Biden does not. 8559406275 is our number 855946275. So here's what Ken Burns said. Next because this whole thing is going, it's leading up to one giant conversation. And, of course, if it's not about Afghanistan, and it's not about January 6th. We all know it's about masks the vaccine and Covid 19, and that's where it can. Birds wanted to leave this message. Listen to what he says next. So when somebody has turned in wearing masks Into some anti freedom statement or taking a vaccine, which will save their lives into some anti freedom. We've lost the center. The center is not holding, you know things will fall apart. This leads me to believe that nothing can burns has ever said has been true because this is one of the most misleading statements about masks. And the vaccine I've ever listen to how he started one more time. So when somebody has turned in wearing masks into some anti freedom statement, or taking a vaccine, which will save their lives into some anti freedom, we've lost the center. The center is not holding. You know, things will fall apart. Yeah, listen, The problem that the Democrats have is that we are not as stupid as they would like us to think we are. And by we I mean, non Democrats. The right is not idiotic. Sure, they like to paint us as such gun toting, Bible thumping redneck evangelicals who vote for Trump Drive pickup trucks, hunt deer, and, you know, donor they just vote for whatever is red. They just They hate everything they hate. They hate, uh, bridge people and smart people in college. No, we're actually fairly intelligent people, And we understand the difference between wearing a mask, taking a vaccine and being forced to wear a mask or being mandated to take a vaccine. The problem isn't that people wear masks that stupid. Nobody is, if you want to wear a mask. Any conservative out there will tell you that Is your God given right? You have the right to put whatever you want on your face. If you want to walk around in a mask, great, do it. If you want to walk around and baby diaper, that's fine. It's a little weird, but, hey, it's OK. People put gauges in there years. I don't understand that either, but they do it. People dye their hair, multiple colours. Apparently, it's hip and trendy. Some of the clothing people wear on other parts of their body. I've always found questionable But it's not my say you do you and let me do me when you start forcing me to do something when you start forcing Americans to wear something when you start mandating. That's when freedom goes by the wayside. Same with the vaccine. Nobody cares if you take a vaccine Vaccines have been around for decades, hundreds of years even and nobody cares. Take the vaccine. Give it to your kids. Don't it's your.
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"ken burns" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"He did whatever felt like and Ali was for everybody else in had the all the difference in the world and makes him that that profit of love you. I watched How many ali fight you watched in the process of making this but as you as you go through all that film any of those fights stick in your mind. oh yeah. I mean there are tons. They're the ones that little known. That michael bent kept pointing. Secret weapon is we embedded. Michael bent former heavyweight champion every one of our boxing scenes and he not. He's it's for those of us who aren't really into boxing but are interesting he'd give you the strategy and tactics but also psychology and the blow to blow and the round around stuff and what their hearts are like and it's also very very interesting but you know and we tried it we do about twenty twenty five in the fights you know significantly but obviously the i listen is great just because of the drama the ligament that gets on the glove Listen corner so ali's blind against one of the greatest and most formidable sluggers of all time for around and a half. I mean the fact that he's still alive surprises me and the fact that he won is one of the great. You can't make this up in hollywood stories and then of course i think the first frazier is just an amazing which he loses as you know and i think obviously the one of the great masterpieces of all time is is The rumble in the jungle. The the george forman fighting seventy four where people in his corner. Nobody thought he was going to win. No one thought he was going to win. And people in this corner were worried that he was going to be killed and It's the other way around. He just demolished george foreman with with guile and intellect and strategy. And it's just it's a beautiful masterpiece but in some ways..
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"ken burns" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"Ken burns is one of the greatest documentarian of this time. He has created notable films like the civil war and the vietnam war. Sports fans might remember as nineteen ninety-four documentary baseball his latest project muhammad ali a four part documentary air on pbs from september nineteenth to the twenty second and. Ken is kind enough to join me here on the show. So can i have to ask the question that i have no doubt you have gotten the most during over the last few weeks which is why despite there being so much out there about muhammad ali. Did you elect to do such a deep dive on this figure. Well first of all. I'm going to be saying we allied and it's not out of some pretension but this is co-directed by sarah burns my oldest daughter and her husband david mcmahon. And we've been collaborating on things including a film on jackie robinson and the central park five. There are many many documentaries about muhammad ali and there are some really extraordinary. Wants what we wanted to do was a deep dive. Something that would take seven or eight years to work. On to go from birth and childhood in jim crow segregated louisville kentucky all the way up to death by parkinson's and focus on.
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"ken burns" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"I don't think you need to see a. I don't think it'll be able to see a different beyond a while the stage greg is what he is and what he is is dangerous with that right hand. Yeah i think that's true of all boxer for the most chris no matter if you're twenty five or he'll be thirty six years old on october a couple of weeks after the fight but i think most boxers are where they are and typically revert to what they are when things aren't going well in a fight or as browns go by just more comfortable doing what they've always done so i wouldn't expect to see a dramatically different deontay wilder and even believe scott said and deontay wilder said look. He's just kind of bringing out some of the things that i've always been able to do but abandoned for one reason or another probably because you're a devastating puncher. And you're always overly reliant on that power bailing you out just like he did against the lease ortiz down. You know what. A- lost maybe every round before he knocked out luiz ortiz in the seventh round of their rematch. So yeah may maybe focusing. Because when he throws his jab jab he's got a good power jab when he actually uses use it nearly enough but he but he does a good job when he when he utilizes it. So maybe he'll do that more. Listen whatever he's going to do a better be a whole lot different than what he did in february twenty twenty or it's gonna be maybe even a shorter night for him that was at and of course. I think i'll ask him this. If given the opportunity to speak to him at some point hopefully during fight we have. I don't know up to chase him around. Mgm grand or whatever. But i could you just come into the ring with nothing to know. Theatrical snow just shirtless i mean. Don't even don't even put the towel with the head cut with a tie. Don't even just come in with nothing so we don't hear any nut. Nothing could impact your performance. Don't worry about enter entertain people when the bell rings. Don't worry about coming to the ring. And all that. I i would hope. He learned that in valuable lesson. From what happened. You know before the rematch. I would think i certainly hope so To but it'll be interesting to see you write about why jappie does go back and watch the earn fights. Second one the first one rather what he wanted the title. That was an example of his. Use of that jab. Keith always good to talk to you man. One of the upshots of not having any big fights coming up the lie to you about like on date. Ex- you know headed the figure or at least thing i know. I know you're hopping flight to fort lauderdale. Tomorrow morning i know in. I'm ready to see the resumption. Vanderbilt's career and You know we'll start. The senior circuit toured boxing. Unfortunately for me. I'm doing both of these shows off of tv. On back. toback nights. I don't have to leave the house. Which is which is a nice change of pace but we hopefully next we talk. Chris will be talking about real fights and a being less pessimistic about the future.
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"ken burns" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"I mean i understand. He needs to get back in the ring because he hasn't fought in a year and a half basically are almost a year and a half so he wants to get back in there. I don't know how much they're paying him in san door martine. I don't have no idea but why waste the money on something like that when you could apply. Whatever he's being paid for that toward better fight you know maybe then you could pay him closer to what he wants to fight reaches program not saying fighting regis Coming off a year and a half layoff is ideal but the pandemic affect every boxer and every person on earth in various ways. I mean everyone was impacted by financially in another way. So that's certainly applies to make your see as well. So i don't see the point of putting him in there with a guy who is going to be a hundred to one favorite may be more to beat now if you're if you're paying him next nothing which i doubt but if you're paying him next to nothing will then fine but but again you subscriber something worth watching on october sixteenth. There's not a other boxing right now because the espn car manual. Never retail against Is now going to be friday october. Fifteen so you'll have the night to yourself so to speak in boxing in the us but while hope they put something on the other heart man. I love the idea of mikey against redesign. That is a great style. Match up it is a meaningful fights. The winner will take a huge step forward. I hope that smarter heads can get received a really want. Every time i see him on social media he's clamoring more that fights hopefully the finances workout last thing for you Woke up on thursday morning and strolling through twitter. And i see tyson fury and gillian way. You know calling each other fat coke heads and all sorts of ridiculous. Things at each other in theory is plan at least right now. He says is to.
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"ken burns" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"But that is always in the back of my mind as it pertains to canelo. Alvarez is career whether you think that's fair or not that's you're entitled to your opinion. Opinions vary by. Terence crawford is never tested positive for. Pd's right right now earl. Spencer hasn't neo. New way has not all the guys toward the top of the pound for pound list. So i'm not saying that he doesn't have a great resume and he's not a great fighter he clearly does he clearly is but that stains his legacy. In my opinion. You know that when you know camello is going to be seething over that because that when you get to fight week november by that's what people are going to be talking about maybe be asking. And we know reacted when kinetic lofton and his team when after him over that. That's gonna make a very interesting week in las vegas in november. Couple things when he with or alleged. Go sitting here in boston. Keith microphone in my hand No microphone ring. Cycles is no zone schedule. That's if you had her right now. Maybe we get a mikey garcia. At some point in october i think eventually they'll put chocolate petito and estrada together For the zone at earned. But it's been kinda quiet on the zone front. They have clearly emphasized what they are doing over in the uk that's understandable. The uk is a huge boxing market. They wanna have a foothold there now that they are the exclusive provider for mattress shows. But you know. I'll i'll handed off to you. What do you make heath on. The outside of how disown is operating in the us on getting some more time off. Let's just say because you deserve it. However if i were zone school now i am a zone subscriber but by com. Cbs pays for my subscription. Because it's necessary to do my job and all that so i don't it doesn't come out of my pocket. I guess is my point. If it came out of my pocket and i was paying the grandfather monthly rate of nine ninety nine or certainly nineteen ninety nine. I probably would have canceled at this point because there are some good uk fights on there. I mean fights that are that are interesting. And if you're a real hardcore boxing fan you want you know you wanted to see the josh. Warrington larry rematch. Yes sure but that can't be all that you're getting right. I mean from a us perspective. You wanna see more fights and they haven't done a lot of fights since Since devon haney and or hey lenore which turned out to be an intriguing fight. Because the nour's heard him in tenth around and all that stuff but there hasn't been a whole lot to talk about in terms of the us schedule or hasn't been anything really talk about in terms of us. Boxing and i would say it would be a concern if i were a boxing fan. Who wanted to invest in subscribing to zone moving forward because our friend. Mike carpenter reported. I think it was this morning or yesterday But he he said that he is. He has been told that Mikey garcia is gonna fight sand or martina believe it sounded pronounced. I don't think we're gonna need to will..
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"ken burns" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"Look i'll just make sure that that. That is on top of him throughout his training camp will they were on top of him throughout this training camp. He tested positive and they were saying who cares the fight anyway. So so maybe there's going to be a change made to the way. The wbz runs clean boxing program. But but they come out of this looking. The couldn't look worse. In my opinion to as far as this whole thing goes and it really speaks to how poorly policed. Pdr in boxing. It's the wild wild west and everyone says until we have a national commission. Let's stop talking about a national commission because it's not happening. so how. how can you fix it moving forward when you have people adhering to two different standards to different organizations and then Doing different things even chris. Because if you remember in your great state of massachusetts three years ago dimitrius android was supposed to fight. Billy joe saunders and what was the good fight up. There was at the the boston. celtics arena. It was a fight. People wanted to see was a pay per view fight or anything but it was good. Fight for zone. And billy joe saunders. Android were both undefeated at the and everything. And it's a very similar instance in that billy joe. Saunders tested positive. He said that came from a nasal spray or something but it was a very similar thing in that it was allowed in competition but not out of competition and although the massachusetts state athletic commission adheres to wada code just like tribal commission does the massachusetts state apathetic commission refused to license. Billy joe saunders. Because they said you saw you willingly signed up for vata testing and you did not adhere to what the what the list of banned substances so so. The massachusetts commission did the right thing and now the arizona commission had the opportunity to do this the the similar right thing and did the complete opposite. It's incredible. I mean you think of a sport where it's more important to earn the side of caution when it comes to drug testing in boxing. I can't miss people at looking. You know we're not being melodramatic in any way set people's lives like literally every time you walk up the steps you don't know any certainty that you're coming down. You don't know that. I mean this is a brutal brutal sport you know we have an eighteen year old woman dying within the last week a and maybe she wasn't protected. The right way as it turns out. And you know it's a brutal sport and anything that can be done to make it just a little bit safer because it's inherently dangerous but anything that can be done to make it safer should be done and if you're on board with it not being done shame you shukor. Stevenson made the point in your story about what happens if you know valdez. If not pop then hit somebody in the back of head cause serious injury or even death to his fighter and then it was revealed that he was positive for something. I feel like that's a question of when not if that's going to happen like that's going to happen at some point. Someone's going to get seriously hurt or killed and we're gonna find out after the fact that the fighter that did the damage was on a banned substance and then you're comes all the mainstream attention that you want on that comes the congressional hearings here. Comes everything else box needs to get in front of us. They need to be proactive on this and they refused every step of the way they refused it..
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"ken burns" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"And i don't think the entire interview ran but like maybe two minutes of it ran market a great job at asking. Him pointed questions and oscar galvez said. I don't know how it got in my system. That is not an acceptable answer. An under any circumstances that is not an acceptable answer. And i've been told oscar. Bell beds is a nice kid he is but before this oscar valdez was a prime example of everything. That's right about boxing. A mexican immigrant. Who fought his way out of poverty. One at every level despite being limited talent wise and from a physical standpoint to some degree and then he gets into the biggest fight of his career against Gilbert shelled and beats the crap out of him right and knocks him down. Three times viciously knocked out in the tenth round a huge underdog going into the fight. He's everything he's what boxing embodies. I mean oscar. Valdez is a great kid. That has nothing to with the fact that he tested positive for banned substance. It's irrelevant whether he's nicer. Not your nice. I'm nice if we do something stupid. It costs you know whatever we break the law or whatever. Will you have to suffer the consequences. Whether you're a nice person or not is irrelevant. You don't get the benefit of the doubt when you pass when you when you test positive for a substance like this because whether it's fair or not it then cast doubt on everything that you've done before and now i wrote a story for the website that appeared today of course stevenson questioned and i think rightfully kushtia course stevenson. Someone who risked his life every time he gets into the ring just like every box does and he said look now i kind of look at the shelter win a little differently like was he on it before and yet you know. Look i'm not saying that's entirely fair. But it's a reasonable skeptical opinion to have because there are masking agents. There are ways that you can beep at a lot of guys in boxing. You know the suspicion that people are ahead of the tests and i'm not saying valdez Puts in his body. And what he doesn't. What's indisputable an inaugural. Is he tested. Positive for a banned substance according to that as guidelines and that should matter apparently a dozen. Yeah i i remembered the belief that i don't think valdez should have to kinda wear this as a scarlet letter for the rest of his career. I do they get certainly possible. Especially for a guy that doesn't have any history of testing positive for banned substances to have accidentally taken something. I will allow for that. That doesn't change to your point the consequences of these actions. The consequence should be that you have your fight..
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"ken burns" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"They're not particularly good at or certainly one of them is not good at deter ortiz. There's no evidence that he's a good boxer Why are they there to forty six year. Old of may fighters boxing who cares. Like why do people i. That's the thing that i really can't wrap my head around. Like what is the endgame to any of this other than you know trailer and some of these guys making some money off of it. And i'm not saying that's that's a real factor you know. The the financial factor of course is big but beyond that. Why would anyone care what happens. I mean shorter of someone getting permanently injured. Which is a real concern. Why would you care about what happens in the ring. Other than the andy vents is john carroll fight which is a real fight. You know what i mean. It's not pay per view worthy as a main event right. That's a real fight. It's the the to real guys. I mean it's it's a fight on. It's the only on there that is has authenticity for the most part. But i don't understand. Like i said chris the thing that i have the most trouble comprehending. Why do people care about this vendor. Holyfield fought for the last time against brian nielsen. Ten years ago. No one cared. No one cared. No one wanted to watch it for free. Let alone for fifty dollars. So why would you then come around ten years later and have him fight. Someone who's not a boxer and ask people to pay who's paying furnace like who night mind is paying for this. I don't know. I don't know who the market is for any of these fights on the card. It was almost even worse keith as of tuesday they had a guy named brandon. Lambert on the card and brandon. Lambert was taken off the card on wednesday because trailer discovered that he was. he had a brain aneurysm. And what makes that remarkable kief is that you could have found out right. Lambert had a brain aneurysm if you went to his instagram page where it says at the top in the bio thirty five year old survivor of a brain aneurysms don't boxing matches and he was scheduled to open the chiller broadcast against somebody else. Another guy that was making his pro debut on the google. These guys not just something about them. I saw when he tweeted that yesterday. Chris and i was like it. Doesn't really give you much confidence that the florida commission is doing thorough testing for everyone else. I mean i don't know what they've done and what they haven't but i don't. I can't imagine that. We're getting cleveland clinic. Type of testing here for for these guys went in particular. Has pertains.
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"ken burns" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"We talk about a very dark weekend ahead. in boxing. Vander holyfield at fifty eight years old being allowed to participate in a sanctioned fight in florida. Get into everything about that. Ostrich val dez hundred thirty pound champion. He recently tested positive for a banned substance but not only was he allowed to keep his title the fight against longtime rival robeson conceicao. That is going to go on as planned on friday so bought to get into with keith. I apologize in advance by the way for the audio with keith academy minor glitch when it came to my audio so you're only getting kind of a natural audio and not the audio that generally comes from this mike later. Ken burns noted documentarian. He has a brand new documentary on muhammad ali. They'll begin airing on pbs. on september. nineteenth. I talked to ken about why he shows a subject. In ali who has been covered pretty thoroughly over the years can take me through his process and what he hopes to convey to the viewers about muhammad ali as always best way to support the podcast subscribe rate review apple podcast spotify. Wherever you download. Podcasts go right onto the show. All right keith sir. Here we go chief. Attic is here. Boxing seem dot com. There are times. Keep them excited to talk to you about big fights and they'll be those times will be ahead of us. I'm sure this is not one of those times. we are entering one of. I think i've been looking for the right adjective to describe this weekend. Depressing immoral Dangerous boxing weekends of recent memory. You've got fifty eight-year-old vander holyfield getting back in the ring in a sanction boxing match in florida. He's gonna fight the doorbell for filling in delaware the day before. You're gonna have ostra bell. Dad's a charismatic talented under thirty pound champion defending his title against ropes. And could say. Sal and you'll do it just a week or so after popping positive for a banned substance and being allowed to fight by the local arizona commission and being allowed to keep his title by wbz. So before we get into specifics. Am i overstating this or is this coming weekend about his battles against chris. I don't know that you could overstate it to be honest with you What we have on our hands here. Friday and saturday are successive. shit shows. That should not be happening. I mean there. There's no other way to put it in the. Does anyone care about fighter safety anymore. Other than media members and i would assume a lot of fans and maybe less fans i suspect but does anyone care about fighter safety. There's a fifty eight year old person who replaced a forty eight year old person who should not have been fighting either any any fighting mean he. He's fifty eight hasn't fought in ten years. He's boxing someone who has boxed one time in his entire life yet is fourteen years older than him in much closer to the back of his physical prime obviously than holyfield. What's going on arizona's disgrace that. Oscar vowed there should not be fighting friday night. There's two ways about it. The fight should have been postponed..
Le Batard and Friends - South Beach Sessions
"ken burns" Discussed on Le Batard and Friends - South Beach Sessions
"I am now honor bound to give you an experience as cinematic experience that you will not fall out of that you will attend to and you know and and god bless you for giving me that that amount of time and i am honored bound to honor your attention to me the hard question when you say that you thought you knew what vietnam was and you didn't know a fraction of what vietnam was when you parse through those horrors. Do you see them. Playing out again in afghanistan right now in real time across today's news because of what you know of course this country and what this government is capable of of course of course and it doesn't necessarily point to very simple good and bad black and white. You know kind of thing. It's just so we like to say history repeats itself it never ever has an it never repeated itself the universe would come to a stop if it did mark twain is supposed to have said history doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes and what that suggests is that human nature remains the same and the cleese asti said there's nothing new under the sun meaning what has been done. We'll be done. What has what has been will be again. There's nothing new under the sun so human nature doesn't change and so we see these themes these motifs. These rhymes happening all the time. Whenever i finish a film. And i swear to you. We focused intently on getting that film. Right he lift up and then you can't help but be shocked by how much it's rhyming. In the present. I could do that. With vietnam give you the stump speech for that and blow your mind with how much was exactly what was going on twenty seventeen but i can do the same thing with the civil war or the brooklyn bridge or the dust bowl or prohibition all of these things when you study something in the past and you do a good job about it and you render the the people dimensional and real complicated. Then it's going to speak to the present because human beings remained the same the same amount of greed and generosity the same amount of periods and puritanism. It's all it's all there and you can watch it. Play out in in lots of different ways. I've got a thousand questions. But we're pressed for time so i will just leave you this as a promotion for the film when ken burns looks at american history. I wanna ask you top three american musicians or top three american artists of all time but wherever it is and however it is top. Three religious figures ali. And the movie that you're now making if you were going through all of american history as you know it and saying i would place him top of the category. Where in american history. So he's obviously having a a time and newsweek and sports illustrated all said he was the athlete of the century. So i accept ad. And i can have an argument in a bar about the greatest athlete of all time. But let's just say maybe the best way to do this..
Le Batard and Friends - South Beach Sessions
"ken burns" Discussed on Le Batard and Friends - South Beach Sessions
"I've got a whole spread. My second daughter is a big producer of Samantha b and russian doll and daisies and marrow and search party broad city and lots of different stuff. She's got the bug but in a different department got sixteen year old and they all make films that. That's what i care about the biggest thing. I'll say about processes. Most people were set. research period. set writing period. script comes out running stone and inform shooting and editing. We never stop researching and we never stop writing which means we're open to the very very end. I've got a neon sign editing room which were just about to reopen up and it says in lower case cursive. It's complicated like every filmmaker. If you've seen this working nobody wants to touch it. Nobody wants to open it up though. That's fine and we opened it up. If we find something new that destabilizes so be it. Maybe it'll make the to jason scenes that much better but we just want to have the courage to to permit there to be undertow. And i think sometimes in our business and you know it. There's a. There's a desire to just streamline it and telecom palatable easy to digest stuff and you're not gonna get it from us. What is the tool in your toolbox on that front that you enjoy the most on the work front. Is it researches at discovering. Something is it writing. Is it stitching it together as it tying into history like which one is the one that you regard as your most vital you know there's four moments that are really great. You know when you're when you're out shooting it might be an archive or you're alive stuff and you know it's going to be in the film. It's just great. You've gotten up at dawn. Whatever you've found some odd thing and it's it's great there's moments in writing their like that but to me and then there's now the evangelistic side but the most imp- to say we're we're out proselytizing. This is the greatest thing since sliced bread..
Le Batard and Friends - South Beach Sessions
"ken burns" Discussed on Le Batard and Friends - South Beach Sessions
"The awkward transition but a dream project that you have not done. I don't know whether like tarantino films when you've attack the subject matter you've attack told i thank you regarded as such the definitive american story on the telling of whatever that is from baseball to the civil war you i i'm guessing you say without too much pride and ego. You are the final word on the subjects that you chronicle no well. I would not say definitive or final. I would say we're comprehensive until the next person comes along and says i wanna talk about this or open up this moment. That is you. Know the the The the night in miami story is two sentences in our film about ali and we wrote those sentences well before that movie was even made and so they exist. And it's like oh great. There's somebody who's really opened it up. There's definitive is is just a ridiculous thing because you can discover new information you can learn new stuff. You can discover new archives. Somebody shows up as a witness and it changes everything so so what you wanna try to be as comprehensive for the moment and i feel that very much about the civil war very much about baseball and jazz and the national parks and the dutton's smaller stuff like the dust bowl and huey long and and And and The roosevelt's and the vietnam war country music and this ernest hemingway. But i have no ego to say that somebody can't come on. Pbs themselves since two thousand eight shown three other documentaries on mohammed ali. I'm i'm just the fourth. Is there a project your proudest of just because even regarded. I mean the the vietnam. I just don't know how you found that the ability to tell that story. But then i. I would also say hemingway trying to tell a six hour story about. Words is is fairly hard and ambitious to they're all. They've all got degrees of difficulty. Dan and you're very nice to say that. I you know. I think they probably vietnam was the hardest. But they're like my kids you know. Let me cop out the way duke ellington. Who's our greatest either leave and certainly our most prolific american composer. Somebody asked him what's his most important composition. He said the one. I'm working on now. So i can talk to you till i'm blue in the face about ali and i got another film coming. I'm just finishing on benjamin franklin than another one on the us and the holocaust interrelation of what we knew what we didn't know what we did. And what we didn't do what we should have done all of that. Complicated stuff that mirrors the racist and anti immigrant stuff that we here today on. We're doing a big. Our next war is a big history of the american revolution. All of those are floating my boat. Look i'm sixty eight years old. If i were given a thousand years to live which i am not i wouldn't run out of topics in american history. And you wanna be able to say in conversation with you. Which is why i've been with. Pbs ole time. This is the secret ingredient. Like i could go to a streaming service. I could go to a premium.
Le Batard and Friends - South Beach Sessions
"ken burns" Discussed on Le Batard and Friends - South Beach Sessions
"Time on this. I'm influencing stuff like that. It aspires to be a fair recall yesterday historic events. And here you are on your. You're not being objective. And i happened to find you on the right side of truth but the way that you speak of race in this country is not in any way whitewash. You're speaking of it as the plane. Sort of same truth but with a degree of indignation behind. I'm surprised still to see you. Tell me as a thorough researcher of this stuff. I underestimated badly underestimated how bad the race problem was in this country and i was polarizing and left disney at least in part because i wouldn't shut up about race. Well i applaud you for that. That's the problem. I think everybody was like now. We're post racial. We don't have to talk about it but tell that to tamir rice's mommy's a twelve year old kid with a plastic gun cleveland park. Tell that the trayvon martin. It does just going for a jog in a florida suburb. Tell that to brianna taylor. Who's just sitting in her bedroom. You know and it's an oops wrong mistake. Tell to george. Floyd these are people that are murdered. None of us you know. I always thought that cova did the year. You know twenty twenty. It reminded us a little bit. We're able to have a little bit of a racial reckoning. Will now say it so often that it's not happening that be in large part because it was never a problem for us to go to the convenience store white people to convene now it was going to get sick. I'm going to get this disease. Am i going to die and all of a sudden if you had a brain in your head or more importance something beating in here you would say my goodness this has been an f. I mean mothers never knew in eighteen ninety whether their kid was gonna come home from school. You know alive. I mean this is what this is. This is a story and this is us as much of all the wonderful things that we've done in my films document those wonderful things that well. It's just really important that we are honest about what what's going on. It doesn't take as bob dylan. Said a weatherman. To tell you which way the wind is blowing. Did you underestimate it. As a thorough chronicler of facts gathered about what america's fabric is did. You can burn. Get surprised by how bad it is no now. I'm disappointed by what's been going on now. The sort of eating away. Roading of voting rights voter suppression stuff. The civil rights bill and and the voting rights bill of the mid sixties. I was stunned that that people could figure out a way to justify to do that..
Le Batard and Friends - South Beach Sessions
"ken burns" Discussed on Le Batard and Friends - South Beach Sessions
"Tries to pretend that it can sanitize and make into a madison avenue commercial. Our history and you cannot do that. It's much more complicated. But hallelujah it is much more interesting to tell a more complete story and it widens the lens it gives more people more voices it gives more cast of characters hits shows the push and pull of things that sanitized version just never does. It's not satisfying. I'm so surprised at texas. Is trying to change their their laws to teach only a perfect version cans anything bad about slavery because texas. It's religion is football on on a friday night in high school and on a saturday afternoon in college. They're going we stunk. We were pretty good on defense but we were terrible on offense and special teams. We really need to do work or everything seemed to be clicking. But there's a sense that the truth. What actually happened is important to your future success. You want to succeed as a football team or a country. You need to be absolutely sure exactly where you are good bad and otherwise at any moment and those are the kinds of stories that we're interested in we're being drawn to and yeah. The degree of difficulty is always gotta be tough because you want to say it's not as simple as you think. Think about all of the self sacrifice of world war two people. Victory turned in scrap. One quarter of every transaction may during world war two was in the black market people. Save their bacon grease people say they're scrap. People knitted stuff did did their victory gardens but one quarter of the country was trying to get it on the cheap gasoline or whatever it might be. And that's just true and part of the story like we stunk on special teams. I was just going to ask you why. And how you go from new hampshire farm to racial theories in just about every deep dive that you're doing and tackling race head on. How did that happen. Is what i was gonna ask you but you just answer..
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Ken Burns on America, Selling His First Film and More
"This Independence day, we turned to a man who tells the story of America in her glory and struggle for unity. Ken Burns. Documentaries range from the Civil War to baseball, country music, and this year's Ernest Hemingway. As we first told you last fall, Burns calls himself an emotional archaeologist. He excavates lost love letters, forgotten photos and overlooked heroes. Research so deep viewers can feel like strangers discovering America For the first time, his films ask what it means to be American. So we asked What does it mean to be Ken Burns? Have had the privilege of spending my entire life making films about the U. S. Capital U Capital s, But I've also had the privilege of making films about us. The two letter lower case plural pronoun that has a kind of intimacy and warmth to it in the country Music film Merle Haggard says. Country music is about those things we believe in but can't see like dreams and songs and souls. It's telling us that there is in front of us are kind of Rational world in which one in one always equals two, but that the thing that compels us forward as human beings is that we look for one and one Equalling three. We find that in our faith, we find that in our art we find that in our love of each other, and I think one of the things I discovered working on country music is that When I understood this dynamic between the US and us lowercase uppercase that I realized there's only us know them. The choice was easy because us the Americans struggle to forge union from diversity has been Ken Burns obsession since he was 11 years old at the end of this lane in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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New Documentary Examines Ernest Hemingway's Complicated Life
"If you've never picked up a hemingway book in your life you probably have no trouble conjuring an image of the man himself. The fighter the lover the hunter the fishermen the living breathing punching shooting cursing drinking bundle of tropes about manhood but the myth that ernest hemingway created was both a blessing into curse. It turned him into a global celebrity. And it certainly didn't hurt his book sales but it also became an avatar of sorts. That master far more complex man and became more and more exhausting. Live up to as age. Alcoholism and countless injuries took a physical and emotional toll on him now revealing new three part documentary from award winning filmmakers. Ken burns and lynn novick attempts to separate the myth from the man. Hemingway airs on. Pbs tonight april fifth through seventh from eight to ten pm
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Comic-Con to hold in-person Thanksgiving weekend convention
"This week organizers of san diego comic con announced that they would hold an in person comecon special edition that was already eyebrow raising what raised even more eyebrows was when they decided they were going to announce it for for some reason. a comecon. special edition is coming on thanksgiving weekend. I do not understand this. It makes no sense to me. And i know that it also confuses you which is why you and several of our great colleagues on this are people responding to this as an idea being floated by the good people of comecon. Not great dan. Yeah we. I did a bunch of reporting alongside friend of the five aaron couch and are fearless leader. Boris kid we reached out to networks and studios and movie studios and book comic book publishers. And everyone in between artists cetera and the general consensus is yet good luck in addition to there being a big question of if it is actually going to be safe enough to have an in person event. A lot of people are saying for a multitude of reasons. This is just not going to work. It's from a practical standpoint. Most people haven't seen their families and over a year and thanksgiving is a special holiday. Obviously i don't need to see that. But when everyone is looking forward to seeing their family again since the holidays from two thousand twenty were awash and yet the idea of having to sacrifice the first holiday season together to go to comecon is not one. That's going over well and then you get into all the logistical part of of what's going on here. So look thanksgiving is one of the most expensive travel weekends of the year. It's one hundred percent bound to be bad this year. Conditions permitting but it think of it this way most of these and studios and streamers and especially lower level and comic book publishers etc. They have their budget for the year. Already in place when you get to the end of the year. You're sitting there saying we'll crap now. I got to spend money to get to san diego or now. I have to spend money on a booth or talent prep or we have to fly people out to get to get there and then you get into it and like look. Even though. The event is friday through sunday. You're going to have to the load in. If you're a dealer on the convention floor is going to be on thursday if you have a friday panel the fly talent on thanksgiving day to get them to san diego you have to send pr and security and everyone else to get there ahead of the panel you you have run throughs you have all these other things all these logistical pieces. That no one's going to want to do on a holiday
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Internet memes are the new coronavirus coping mechanism
"I'm Roger Chang and this is your daily charge with US special guest abroarall hedy bright. You've got this fantastic story. Which initially we wrote off as a fluff piece because it's Internet memes and means you're so disposable but there's actually like a series star behind such a fascinating story behind it kind of breaks out. What exactly where. Exactly how our Internet memes Being designed or created as a reaction to what's going on with crowbars absolutely you're right. It's it's true that you can kinda push off these things that we see on instagram and twitter ads. Just these these things that people joke about but it turns out that means can be a very healthy way to cope with stress and anxiety. And there's a lot of stress and anxiety right now. Given the krona virus pandemic psychologists actually saved that means our healthy way to cope with anxiety because humor is something that we have used as humans to cope for ever so this is something that people did during the world. War is something people did during the civil war. They found ways to incorporate humor into magazines and posters and journal entries and this is how we process things and make light of them And so it means are kind of the modern day way that we do that we take a very serious situation like quarantine and then we find ways to make jokes about that like. I'M GONNA put on my living room pajamas as opposed to like my bedroom pajamas. Like all the ways that we find You know the ways that we find humor in kind of the serious reality of the world right now so this is actually something. That is very help healthy for a lot of people to use a time like this. Yeah I love Sort of the the quick kind of walk back through history of how humorous played a role right. And it's fascinating to me that you know that the civil war civil war era was largely considered the age of practical jokes article. Joking which you know when you're watching those. Ken Burns documentary like I don't it. It's weird to Kinda like juxtapose. How the Civil. War's been presented with the fact that people were playing practical jokes on each other. Which boggles my mind. But you're it's a great point. We've we've long used humor as a way to deal with extraordinary circumstances and this is a particularly extraordinary circumstance absolutely and this is something that I spoke with Dr who runs this me McCowan. And he was saying that you know sometimes a laugh is the only bit of sanity that you have in your day because when you don't have that ability to kind of diffuse that tension and a few that anxiety like what else do we can't somebody. One of the psychologists I spoke with Dr Andrew's was saying that this isn't a scenario where we can kind of band together and be like okay. You know. We're all facing this crisis together. Let's go and volunteer drives at helped people. We can't even come together. Well if we have to stand six feet apart from each other we have to social distance we have to be essentially isolation from one another and the only way we can really reach other is through the Internet and so when we are communicating through the Internet. One of the best ways we can make light of a situation and one of the best ways that we can connect with. People is with humor because when you relate with somebody when you can share a joke with somebody that's really what creates those connections and those connections are so critical right now at a time when people really crave social interaction. Exactly this is an audio podcast right now just given our limitations but as wondering if you could run through some of the more memorable means that you ran into and of course reporting and I know this isn't a visual medium but You can talk to your best. Describe the the memes that the great. Yeah absolutely there's wine with Matthew mcconaughey where he's like smoking a cigarette and he's really intense looking at phone and then the caption says me reading about current virus thirty seconds after. I swore I wouldn't read about corona virus anymore and it just really captures like like. Why am I doing this? Why can I not put down my phone? Why can I not step away? You pledge that you're not going to do it and then you do it again There's a lot of good distracted boyfriend means where it's like. Yeah yeah look over. And it's like oh two weeks according t and you're looking over and it looks so good and then like work is in the background trying to juggle. Like hey headway how do I do this There's there's one that was kind of a little bit on the on the darker side. It was a picture of a baby. And you know how like sometimes people will have a sign that says like my first Easter. My first Christmas it said my first pandemic and I was like wow. That's funny. It's extremely dark. Extremely funny exactly are fascinating but even even dark humor psychologists. I spoke with April. Former saying they'd even dark. Humor can be a healthy way to to cope with these things. And so you laugh and you feel like slightly like. Oh my God. This is awful. But then you're like you know like it's the reality. We have to make some
In Black America
Regina A. Mason: Searching for William E. Grimes
"Jimmy Mason is a remarkable woman. She spent fifteen years of a life researching alive for great great. Great Grandfather William Grimes with nothing to go on the connection to the underground railroad. She spent countless hours in libraries reading books. Looking at Michael Film and Census Records Grind was changes. Oh when he was sold away from the arms of grieving mother to a far plantation hair grew up friendless and mother list apparently no surrogate slave family or loved ones to embrace him. No one even to look after him. Grimes was the first person to go through slavery in the South and write about it. This was the first time cousin. Slavery exposed onto the spectrum of one who had lived in and he was the first author to write about the harsh realities of the north. Despite the narrative of his big F- freedom land. Recently in Black America spoke with China rant to produce of Gina's journey the site for William Grimes and Regina e Mason on today's program. We conclude our conversation and so my co-producer contacted his agent his agency and they sent it over and to my astonishment he came back and was like I'll do it and it was more than a reasonable rate and which also made us faint and the next thing I was out in In Hollywood in in Melrose actually at his recording studio and and directing keep David in the booth which was mind blowing to say the least and he was astonished to see you know me and and and you know given my age and done and being an African American male to be directing this film so that that really made him happy when he saw that he just was was really blown away with it but he blessed the project came in. He did the most amazing work on it and it really just elevated genus story and Grind Story to a whole new level so we will be internally thankful to him for that and every once in a while I do have talks with them still. He's just a really good person and I think he's a studier of history. He's very big in the voice over world. He's an Emmy Award Winning Boys Actor. Who's done a ton of Ken? Burns documentaries so he was really into and this is his thing so I think he really enjoyed working on this project and we were better for Ms Mason ominously. This was labor intensive. This is way before Google and everything else. So what gave you that consistent drive to want wanting to complete this project William Grimes himself you know when you read his narrative all that. He endured life to the cruelty the abuse at every turn. He was reminded that he was nothing but he never bought into the status quo. In fact he defied the status quo. Every turn just the fact that he had the notion that he was capable of writing his own story without any assistance from white people speaks to who he was and how self assured he was so his example of perseverance and endurance gave me the will to to just carry on it. And see this per- This project to to the end and I'm speaking of the book project and I do have to say this once. I started digging into this story and realizing that no other scholars and really looked at it. In fact when I went looking for any body of research that was done on William Grimes it was so inaccurate and they were historians to just took liberty to to write about this man having not done any research whatsoever and then I came across the Work of Dr William L. Andrews scholar from UNC UNC Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Chapel Hill extraordinary expert on early African. American autobiography. I came across his book to tell of Free Story and he studies the slave narratives and included in his body of work which is sort of like the scholars Bible. Today he wrote about William Grimes not a whole lot more than I had found those about four pages of work and I needed to make sense of that genre of literature that I really knew nothing about so I reached out to him and he at the time was the only living collar who that who I could talk to and we sort of built a relationship every now and then I would send him information about what I found a William Grimes and he one day wrote me back and he says look the work you've done has to be preserved in some fashion or another then. He approached the idea of partnering to do a book. Because I knew that bill knew that I I wanted to bring this story to light this new scholarship that had never been done before on William grinds and he definitely was the right person because obviously he had studied grimes he had written about grinds and there was really no one else that I could associate myself with and he was the man when it came to early African American autobiography and so we partnered and We developed what we call all. What has been the authoritative edition of the life of William Grimes runaway slave? What was it like your feelings when you you read his narrative and then understood that your great great grandfather was just not an ordinary slave Well I WANNA say this William Grunt was an ordinary man. Who didn't extraordinary thing? I want to move to realize we may not have those narrative is out there. We may not be able to to. We can maybe able to find our ancestors who had been enslaved on In plantation records or slave inventories. And all you see our names sadly those voices we will never know their voice or their humanity because the story doesn't exist so to find this first person account of slavery and by the way we them grams. It's the first person of color to go through slavery in the south. Handle right about it so for the first time we got to hear about southern slavery from the perspective of the Sleigh and not from the slave owner himself so it's a different kind of storing. It's more authentic and true in terms of the experience so to recover this and then associate myself to this narrative. I realize that all of his virtues are inside of me so when you say William Grimes was not the ordinary slave he definitely speaks for those who didn't have a voice and I believe that. None of the slaves bought into the enslaved narrative that was supposed to be their destination and ultimately was their destination or a. Yes. I believe that they all had that will to be free. And and in their own circumstances they asserted whatever power they had in a rebellious way. And so to know though that William Grimes was able to make out of slavery and to tell his story is huge it is it's just incredibly empowering and I realized that again that his virtues existed me and he was my example every step of the way when I wanted to give up when I was faced with all kinds of closed doors I realized that he faced those same and he was told no over and over again but he found a way to get it done and so I I it brings me great. Pride that this enslaved man who never bought into the status quo live within
WTOP 24 Hour News
Yankees minor leaguer becomes first MLB-affiliated player to test positive for coronavirus
"Now we have coronavirus impacting baseball that's right Jenny the Yankees of a minor leaguer that has tested positive for the corona virus the unidentified player is the first known case for major or minor league baseball Lee also said a short while ago that baseball issued a memo to all thirty clubs telling teams to end organized workouts elsewhere with baseball in mind if you haven't seen or you want to see the baseball series by Ken burns once again it's streaming on PBS dot
HEY.com - Video Content Marketing Tips
Video Marketing Pet Peeves
"My name is dame golden from pretty up and big target and with my co-host she's my new co host. Jeez Ari and TWA L. E. Y. Remained healy from video explained. Welcome Rene Lo. I love the interaction and now people know how to spell my name correctly. I don't think they actually understood it. I I'm GonNa say it again. R. E. N. W. E. T. W. L. E. Y. And if they didn't before now they do so it's really great that you join me as a co host of the podcast. Because you know it's it's it's tough running the show all by myself. You're an experienced hand and today we wanted to talk about pets. Pr Pet peeves about video marketing. Things we would like to change about the video marketing techniques and so forth is that worked for you renee absolutely. Let's talk about pet peeves. Alright so minor mostly with you too because I work almost exclusively with Youtube. You have a broader Palette than I do but My first pet peeve is videos on youtube where for businesses where. The subject doesn't look at the camera. And you know Rene that I really am an advocate of looking at the camera. The challenges the course a lot of business videos corporate videos there. It's an interviewer talking to the subject. Right yes so I found that The the closer you look to the camera the more you're connecting with your audience and sometimes I have seen business videos where someone is off camera and so the subject is looking a little bit off camera. But I think it's intentional because it's supposed to look like a conversation between two people and the cameras like the third person that's listening in. Yes and I think that that's great on. Ken Burns documentaries which I love. But I'm not watching. Ken Burns on Youtube. So I don't agree. I think there's tools like the I forgot my friend's name. What what are they There's tools like the aigdirect e y e d e c t that you can use or you can just use a teleprompter on an iphone and get people to look through the transparency of the camera. So I feel that. That is an outdated approach. I know you don't entirely agree. Rene in some cases but I am one hundred percent belief that youtube videos. The business person should look at the camera. Yes so I I. One hundred percent agree when one person on on camera. And it's supposed to be one person just having that conversation with their audience I feel like there's a place for it wouldn't more of an interview style video and the the person who's interviewing them as is off camera I'd love to hear just a little bit more about. What is I direct? Oh it's a it's a it's a tool. It's a sideways periscope. If you remember the periscopes you had when you're a kid. Yes and so what this does. Is it sideways? So that the with using mirrors the interviewee looks directly at the interview. Irv that's behind the camera but they appear to be looking through the camera. How Weird I would love to try this out as a very intriguing. Yes so it's a it's not a totally cheap item. If you're a regular producer you can By one thousand dollars but if you know a lot of production companies are always renting equipment. And I've done it before they ship you stuff overnight in a big. What is it a Pelican case? And and that's what they do with these. A lot of companies rent them in their. You know a few hundred dollars a day yeah I also like that. You brought up tele prompting APPS and I use teleprompters So I use a teleprompter at at in my home studio but then I also used an APP called big view which is for the iphone and one of the things that I love about. Big View is that The words that appear are closest to the camera on your phone so So it it is getting your eyeliner close to the camera as possible as opposed to other parts of the screen on the iphone. And so it it. It basically is helping to do what you're asking for which is to get the person actually talking directly to the camera. Yeah it's just very simple. My opinion is that if you're doing video four business you are most important salesperson for that business at any given time and if you're not looking at the camera it's sort of like as a salesperson if you walked into a customer's office and looked over their shoulder it's rude that's a good point. All right so my my pet peeve the first of all I want to talk about here is this one has come up a lot recently. So my pet peeve right now is when people say you need to be on Tick Tock. I have heard so many people recently. Just say that everybody needs to be on duck. If you're not on tick tock you know you're you're you're missing out and I think I disagree with that. I think that there is There's a place for it. There's there's definitely certain people that should be on tick tock but not. Everybody needs to be on talk. Need to be where your audiences and so for me. I primarily focus on bb tech companies and and sort of a you know an older demographic I'm not sure I'm going to do a lot of business on tick tock so. I don't know that I need to be there and then I missing out. Okay well I didn't know you're going to say this but I'm going to say something that may potentially controversial because I'm GonNa say I will never do business on talk and I'll tell you why because it is an unsafe Platform we complain so much. Oh facebook Scott a lot of your data or whatever but talk Companies that are based in China Have been demonstrated to be not very good with your data and I used to work for the federal government and my a data at the Office of Personnel was hacked including three hundred million other people and basically they stole all some very private data from the US government. That was like five seven years ago now now fast forward to today. Chinese companies are basically very strongly influenced by their governments. And I just think you know what country that's not that good with human rights. I don't want to give them my data of what location. I've I matt where I've been acting you upset about the data sharing with facebook. Get Ready. Because it's GonNa be a lot. Bigger challenge with a strongly influenced Chinese company. That is going to have all your data all your kids data where you've been what you've been doing. Just say no and that. I don't think that that is being I don't think it's unfair criticism. Yeah I I agree with you. I think there's there's two issues at play so one is people saying you need to be on tick tock for business reasons than and things like that so I i. I don't agree that you that everybody should be on Even privacy concerns aside But yes there's absolutely privacy concerns tick tock has already been sued for collecting information on on minors And then also storing information about people on Chinese servers and so under the the military just went through a band with tick tock in terms of banning military personnel from having tick tock on military phones and discouraging them from having it on their personal phones. And so I think there's some interesting things that are happening in that space. I think it's It's GonNa be interesting to see that had plays out and and you know what happens with Tick Tock But I don't believe that that everybody needs to be there even for marketing reasons. Privacy stuff aside. Well I'm I'm okay. If other people being I will never be there i. My pet peeve is videos where the subject is too small in the frame. Most people are on mobile phones right Rene when they're looking at Youtube. Yeah Yeah I mean. Even if they're not on a mobile phone and it's kind of awkward if someone is a little too far away so the closer that you can be to the camera and I think the better connection that you're going to have with your
After The Fact
Ken Burns: 'America's Storyteller' on His Creative Process
"Ken Burns has been called America's storyteller a title earned over more than four decades and thirty three films including his most recent one on country music. We traveled his barn. That is his office in Rural New Hampshire talk about how he creates art from history. My first film was on the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and when I started fundraising forward in seventy seven. I looked about about twelve years old and people delighted in turning down saying that. This child is trying to sell me the Brooklyn Bridge and when I finally amassed a a can't say a critical mass But some money to film I started filming and I finished most of the principal photography in the summer of nineteen seventy nine and realized allies with all this footage and no money that I needed to get a real job and I had a really nice offer for a job but I felt in my bones in my guts that if I put the footage up on top of the refrigerator on a shelf I'd just wake up. Twenty twenty five years later and having not finished it so I wanted to move to someplace where I could live for nothing and figure out how you made a film about a bridge. How you how you told stories in history how you animated old photographs how you use sound effects and music and I moved here to the house? I'm living in now. I rented it for a couple of years. My oldest daughter was born there and so I had to buy hi it. The best professional decision I ever made was deciding to stay here. Once that film was nominated for an Oscar. Everyone said Oh you come back to New York and I said no I think. Can we stay here. The work I do is so labor intensive it's like academic or medical scientific research takes years and years and years to do it right and and it was more important to put the very difficult still to this day grant money and I'm very grateful for for pews involvement for for decades in the work that we've done put that all on the screen to have zero overhead in essence So that we can tell the funders that look. It's it's on the screen if we're take ten and a half years to do Vietnam or eight and a half years to do country music or the war. The history of the Second World War that we did that that the the felt that their money was going not some costly rent in midtown Manhattan But in a rural area where it's very clearly all all up on the screen. The work clearly energizes you. Are there things outside of work that allow you to have the energy and vitality and creativity the practices that you do yourself that allows you to sort of grows beyond as a filmmaker that also influences you as a filmmaker. Being a father is the most important activity. Yeah I have four daughters. I'm blessed I'm rich and daughters who ranged from the late thirties to a nine year old. They're the greatest teachers. I live in the spectacular. Her place that nature continually Reminds me of my insignificance and so the humility that comes from understanding the ending. How much nature us is actually makes you bigger just as if you if you think that you can say to somebody you know? Don't you know who I am. Doesn't commend you to the smallest and weakest little place and first of all in Walpole New Hampshire any notoriety variety award celebrity plus fifty cents. Gets you a cup of coffee. I do the New York Times Crossword puzzle in INC in physically. I buy the paper everyday we day and I read novels or magazines and watch television mostly for news and sports rabid baseball fan and then mostly I walk and I do that at least once a day. If not twice a day by the end of the day I have about ten miles. What happens in walking is very interesting hosting its meditative? Sometimes it's it's it's social. I can talk to daughters. I can talk to colleagues but mostly it's so lower with my dog and we've just sort of watch things leaves falling from trees SUNSETS and sunrises. That's what Emily Dickinson called the far theatricals of day which I still think is one of the greatest phrases of all times and I am very much addicted to the far theatricals a day. One of the things we want to do is talk just about your creative process. That's how you go about doing what you do. We start with the most basic question. Which is how you pick your topics? You've talked a lot about how you've got a whole range going out for the next next ten twenty years which is amazing. But how do you decide you know the glib answer is that they choose me. I I'm just looking for good stories in American history and that's what I want to say I is that I'm a storyteller. I'm not looking to make a political comment on the present though I know is Mark Twain is supposed to said that history doesn't doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes that is to say I've never finished a project where I haven't lifted my head up at the end of this long usually multiyear process and not seen the way in which the themes the important themes are not only evergreen but are resonating in the present. We do get completely distracted by the idea. That history repeats itself it does not it never has please show me where it has you know. Are we condemned to repeat what we don't remember no. It doesn't seem team that that's the case is knowing history thing. Of course it is so I think we just come to it from the sense that we have an amazing story to tell in our country. I feel that too often. It's it's been sanitized and that the real version which is incredibly diverse. An incredibly complicated is the one we ought to be focusing on and that in no way does does it diminish the positive aspects to give Some of the negative stuff the novelist Richard Power said the best arguments in the world won't change. I'm just single persons mind. The only thing that can do that as a good story so I'm not in the business of changing people's minds but I am in the business of trying to figure out what a good story stories
60-Second Science
Piranha-Proof Fish Gives Inspiration for Body Armor
"I'm Alicia Burke host of that made all the difference a new podcast from Bank of America where I talked to achievers like Ken Burns and Arianna Huffington about the moment sentence fire them to make an impact you can find that made all the difference anywhere you get your podcasts this is science thanks for listening for scientific American sixty seconds science I'm Christopher Indonesia
60-Second Science
Corals Can Inherit Symbiotic Adaptations to Warming
"Komo Alicia Burke host of that made all the difference a new podcast from Bank of America join me as I talked to Ken Burns about the moments that inspired his work as a documentary dementri filmmaker. You can find that made all the difference anywhere you get your podcasts. This is scientific civic. Americans sixty seconds science. I'm Christopher Dodd Yata Marine Heatwave in two thousand sixteen killed off a full third of Australia's Great Barrier Reef the largest coral reef system in the world and it's terrible watching your favorite ecosystems slowly. Di Carli can't go is a marine biologist at the University of Southern California Nia who's studied that coral bleaching event bleaching occurs when the waters around corals become too cold or too salty or too hot but mostly too hot and then the symbiotic algae that live inside corals which are photosynthetic food factories abandoned the coral which causes them to die because they're losing their nutritional source so they're essentially starving to death but coral can house multiple species of algae some more heat tolerant than others so sometimes in the face of stress the heartier algae proliferate delivery and that change offsets the damage caused by the exodus of the more sensitive species have processes called shuffling chemical in her colleagues studied shuffling in corals roles affected by the two thousand sixteen bleaching bet on the Great Barrier Reef and they found that adult corals can actually pass those reshuffled. Al Go residents along to their offspring in in their eggs pointing to a possible way. Successive generations of coral could adapt to warmer waters. If your mom can kind of crime you for the environment that you might be experiencing presumably would improve your fitness. The details are in the journal scientific reports so can this help corals beat back bleaching the pace of climate change and the frequency and intensity of the stress events is such that I don't think this is enough in face of so many threats. Even this trick may fail to provide relief for the reef. Thanks for listening for scientific American sixty seconds science. I'm Christopher Indonesia.
The Big Picture
'Downton Abbey,' 'Breaking Bad,' and Why TV Is Still Jealous of Movies
"Chris. You're here along with Amanda because you know a lot about television and Amanda and I are for a little bit out on television sort of as a general rule. I'm post. TV POST TV separate succession. Now there are some television shows that I love. I started to watch when this weekend that I think is incredibly well made which is called unbelievable but I was just home with my mom for a little while and she while she's a stranger to cable news but she adorable still gets a lot of her news from the newspaper so two days later she'll be like. Did you hear about Joe. Biden and I'll like what what do you mean. Did something new happens you know. Did you hear about this phone. Call and that's just what you did with unbelievable where you were like. I'm breaking to you guys that there's this show well no now. I admit I am one one week late and you've already covered the show on the WOK yeah. We've already covered the sh the show on the site. I just didn't have the time to get to you. I hear you I'm seeing all these movies but one thing that is interesting that it's happening right now is is that I even though the just happened and even though TV is having this incredible boom time I feel like TV is still a little jealous of the movies and we know that because Downton Tanabe rather than comeback as an eight part miniseries has decided to become a full length feature film and the people said. Yes they said Yes to the tune of thirty three million dollars a lot of money for an extension of the Downton Abbey University was a show that was popular and a phenomenon sort of when it started. I believe the first episode of the Hollywood respective podcasts was a recap of the Dow naby premier guess which is just amazing what times past its Niche Butler's Butler's and and and you know that's a show that I liked and I really did you recap Amanda you recap what an amazing time capsule of our life on the Internet in creating culture and now it's a fulling feature feature film which is something that I think twenty years ago it had happened you would have said Downton Abbey really grew up and stepped up to the big leagues in this case. I wonder how you guys feel about what what it means to extend what was once a broadcast. TV Show into movie platform and also like why why this movie work. Why did it work so well. I have a couple of sites and the answer answer of why to turn it into a feature film is money which worked out because it made thirty three million dollars we had a great piece on the ringer last week by writer named Kate Loyd who's based in London and it was he's about the downtown Abbey Economy essentially in how the show changed both tourism in the UK and like she went to a lot of fancy locations and like talk to British these people but also how it changed the British TV industry and down abby the show. Was this wakeup call I think for people in the UK okay that people would from other parts of the world would watch when these costume dramas it was kind of a revival of the costume drama and also had a finance the shows so that they could me distributed around the world and so the piece argues that you know everything from peaky blinders to howards end to all of the things that we now consume and treat as part of the television firmament at least the latest generation of them are a result of Downton Abbey success right that show relaunch yeah Adia so in that way. It's not that surprising to me that it did while because it was like a legitimate phenomenon and we've lived with it for a long time in maybe season six. I wasn't as great as season one but it made a lot of money in a lot of people liked watching it. It's short relief to because the two other big releases over the weekend and that it beat out were ad Astra which was covered at length on this podcast last week and as a movie that I would recommend people see and Rambo last blood. Did you catch up with that Chris. I didn't see I saw ad Astra instead of Rambo because this was not playing anywhere near me. Oh that's a shame why was that I woke neighborhood for you. so neither of those films which are very male centric stallone doesn't play well in. Philly yeah that's a good point you'd think he'd be in every theatre getting but I guess partially one of the the reasons why down succeeded so well is because a lot of women saw this movie and it was the primary opportunity for women at checkout films one week after hustlers dominated the box office and sensing a trend here if you like this happens four five times a year when people are like there are movies for women as well yeah. I think that's true also float yes women see movies. Rah Rah route whatever old people really see movies and the theatres is there is nothing better to do with your time if you got a mom or Gramma Ma than to take them and see the Downton Abbey. That is just wholesome entertainment for everyone so I think that that is as important. The age is as important as the gender breakdown on this one. Let's let's just very quickly. Even though Chris has not seen the downton movie talk about what's good about the downs and movie you and I attempted to recap the film for Chris via slack last week. You feel like we did a good job. Ah Yeah I think so recognized all the names. All the actions made sense I just did they didn't really come together in a sort of visual sentence for me so that is actually a notable spoke to Michael Angler about this. It is a little bit of Downton on steroids. You know the theme music is amplified in such a way that maybe they had three hundred more brass instruments. Mintz played playing the theme song. There's a lot of drone shots of Downton Abbey. It is it is a a muscular rise version of this upstairs downstairs costume drama the film itself did strike me though I think you may have originally said this to me as just one long episode of Downton Abbey to me it was like a Christmas special sel which they do in the UK and I think it was the season two Christmas special of Downton Abbey which is when Matthew and Mary finally get together and like kissing the snow outside outside of the side of the House I would say it's on par with the Christmas special except for like to party set-pieces instead of one as you said and fancier dresses addresses and I guess there's like a first episode climax halfway through the movie and then a second episode kind of bringing everyone home. The thing is downstairs to get into some hijinks and then there's ramifications upstairs. It's crazy what happens on almost like it's upstairs downstairs I thought it was an enjoyable movie and I'm not surprised that it was successful. I'm surprised it was successful. It was also the biggest movie in the history of focus features which just fascinating I have spoken to some people who worked worked on this movie and they have when they acquired the rights to release this movie. They said we have our IP. We have our version of superhero movie and focus features. That's what I was. GonNa say really leans into that older audience that you're talking about the identify women as their audience much more clearly and this is a part of the same strategy so I wouldn't say necessarily the Ad Astra had this problem but I do think that it is near impossible to sell anything anymore without some pre existing kind of awareness of what you're getting when you walk into it just because there's so many options for people that if you just sorta like here's a movie about butlers and rich people story. Michelle dockery people are going to be like I don't know but if it's something that they have this decade long relationship leashes ship with if they have the kind of extra screen relationship that they have they cared about and if there is like I was I was watching a lot of linear television this week because I was with my mom. We were watching the Ken Burns documentary. There was down Abbey stuff sandwich. Every episode of the Ken Burns Documentary Music talking to the country music to let you know it's coming out. Here's the history of the show. Here's a recap of everything that happened. Here's the making of the show like they actually did their push. It just just happened on public television. We didn't see it as much necessarily as like Robert Downey junior driving around in an Audi with a Samsung phone pushing vendors do you think that this is now now a sort of MCI -ation of Downton or is this just a one off thing that they struck gold on this one movie or is there going to be another one have been teasing the sequel for weeks. Now that's yeah yeah they've been talking about how the possibilities open and I think you know which is code for. Yes it will happen and they certainly leave the door open in the movie. Everyone is in in a happy place but more hijinks cannon sue and I'm sure well a Dan. I'm curious how far you can probably only take down into world war. Two 'cause post World War. Two I think all of those states just for their museums museums the economy economy of the upper class in the UK just breaks down and it's just not how upstairs downstairs doesn't really apply as much anymore the film kind of glances at the end to the how much longer can this go on which I thought was an interesting potential way to seal office equal in the end zone dunkirk what we'll talk about this more. Maggie Smith is in this movie Maggie Smith Chris do modify spoil Israel okay. I guess if you are really really strict about spoilers. Turn it off now. Even but Maggie Smith gives a speech that's kind of like a farewell speech but notably nothing actually conclusively happens to whether Maggie Smith math will be in future episodes of down nappy. TV show or something happens to her but then they're like. We'll see what happens yeah she could've done urge becomes iron man. It's incredible credibly. She defeats the end of the movie. It's wild. It's nineteen twenty seven in this movie that's right. They've got like twenty more years. Yeah okay. What's interesting to me about. This is is the movies in theaters. It's an extension of a television show there have been there's been the super sizing of TV shows into movie form a lot over the last year. This isn't the first first time it's happened. In the ninety. s we saw the kind of like met a rift commentary on things by having. Beverly hillbillies movies and Brady Bunch movies now what we have is just a more clear extension of the stories that originally told there was a dead movie earlier. This year was a between two ferns movie also released over the weekend which is not quite the same serialized television but is in the same tradition in a way away and then in October. We have a breaking bad movie called El Camino Dave Dina do this for a long time. They've been dying to get this kind of multiplatform storytelling going because of the amount of money there is if you can actually do what they wanted to do with dark tower where you can tell something that has has a feature presentation that maybe is the sort of the danger of the story but like you have other storylines going on TV and that you could actually create a like twelve month a year sport out of your story. That's why they want you know and now there are different things now.
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Ken Burns explores the true roots of country music in new documentary
"Country. Music comes from right in here this heart so that we all have you can dance to it. You could make after the eagles played at a funeral is has something in it for everybody. Country Music is about human emotions. Renault documentary filmmaker Ken Burns latest project is here country music known for his Docs on Baseball Jazz and the Vietnam War Burns's now tackling the history of country music music the more than sixteen hour series will air on PBS beginning on Sunday and will serve as an oral history of the music genre the DOC is already sparking conversations about the state have country music and a new project from the USA Today Network Country Mile Examines Country Music history its current landscape and where it's going he can check it out at USA. Today Dot Dot Com and you can tune in to the country music documentary at eight PM eastern Sunday night on
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"Seeing. Panna badgley from gossip girl around doing some rounds. And he's got a new show called you and lifetime like Sunday night. So yeah, it's an interesting show. It starts off like it's going to be sort of a hallmark channel rom com. You know, sweet little drama. Bookstore clerk and hot girl. Meet cute between the child. Okay. And then you find out that the guy is a creep. He's a soccer and it gets really freaky. Pretty fast. And I don't I watched the first episode. And I thought this is interesting and he's really good. And so she I can't think of her name. But. And I don't know where it's going to go with getting renewed for second season. But he's like a scary like wholesome soccer. So and and it's toltar- hits perspective is he he's talking directly to the audience. So it's very different swing than we're used to seeing on lifetime channel. And I think people who like to be scared by you know, realistic situations. The deals with the tech world, right? Doc once you get into people's computers. And so it's definitely for the modern age and the performances are really good again. I don't know if I wanna watch ten hours of it. But I certainly was hypnotized by the first hour, and I'm gonna watch more than all,
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