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"But I gotta say this. Let me get this out of the way. Dwayne The Rock Johnson, well, maybe a very nice guy. Shit actor. He's a terrible actor. Somebody wrote that watching him on screen is like watching a second grader play Macbeth. Perfect. But he keeps going on. Keeps giving us awful films, usually films that he produces himself. What does that tell you? And they just keep coming like that annoying mosquito, you hear in your room that keeps buzzing your ear every few minutes, you don't want to get up and shut open the light to look for you just fucking pull the sheets over your head and bear with it. That to me is a rock movie. Sit there with a straight face and tell me you couldn't wait to go see the scorpion king. Or you'll never forget rampage. Are you on the edge of your seat and skyscraper? You love them as Hercules. Tolerant lemon Baywatch. Remotely remember him in red notice. And if you have no children. And when and paid to see Jumanji welcome to the jungle, you clearly a masochist. He's terrible.
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"macbeth" Discussed on Cinemavino
"At some point, I was like, oh, he's going to go out there and he's going to look over and he's going to see them approaching and I was like, oh, no, if they don't have the budget for that, they're not going to show the Macbeth seeing that. I always think that the Monty Python little cartoony bits where they show like the little castle in the tree. Or it's like they're moving towards the castle and it's like, oh, it's only a model. It's just a model. But I enjoyed that aspect of how it felt very, very close to the characters as they interact with each other. He never really pulled back for any big wide shots. I liked me and up close. It really had the feeling of watching a good play. And but they're also a lot of moments where like the head those kind of cinematic flourishes where Denzel's like hearing the prophecy and the water and all that kind of stuff and the water seeps back down into the cobblestones or whatever. It's like, that was awesome. Cool shots like that and really make it feel also like a movie. You kind of get the best of both worlds. I do want to know how much of that was digital and how much was practical because this felt like a very practical set, but that's a very digital move. It felt like to me very shoestring budget that they didn't have to do much in some areas. They spent their money on actors and again, you didn't have to have all of the flash. I felt like it was shot inside of a pottery barn. Yeah. It was just very like modern modern architecture. But at the same time, it was it felt like he were in like a claustrophobic castle. And this is an a 24 production, right? Are those close to indie films or is that an indie? Yeah. 8 24 is like the distribution. Yes. But they can have pretty good sized budgets. The Green Knight was a 24. Yeah. They can have that. So midsummer. You guys still haven't seen the witch, have you? No. We got a fucking do it. Yeah. We gotta put that on our list. So yeah, I enjoyed it a lot. I didn't know what to make of it, but I enjoyed the fact that it kind of surprised me for what I was expecting it to be. Yeah. For in terms of Shakespeare, I expected it to be the traditional version of Macbeth. So I'll ask you the same thing that we talked about with no way home. If you rated it 9 and a half stars, where's that other half star? Or sorry, four and a half stars? Where's the half star? I don't know what meant to me. It's almost like a personal thing of Macbeth has never been one of my favorite Shakespeare plays. You know, it's like, I love stuff like Hamlet and king Lear. And I mean, even like much do about nothing. And I love Kenneth the Brennan's film of that, which has been the Washington also counter Reeves is in that. Believe it or not. I think it shakes right after Dracula. He was on that. Yeah. And Kate Beckinsale. Great. And Emma. Emma Thompson. But that movie was so good that made me want to go back and read the play..
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"macbeth" Discussed on Cinemavino
"I am an artist. Let's talk about Macbeth. And so Orson Welles adapted and directed and starred in that version of Macbeth. And I've seen the edited and re dubbed version. I've never seen the original people say that's one of the great versions of Macbeth if you can find it out there. But unfortunately, it was like so many of his movies he got butchered after he made it. So his career after system came is kind of a bittersweet thing. It's like he was so talented, but everything got hacked up. Well, that's kind of a good time to talk about the curse of Macbeth. Yes. Right. So there's a theatrical, superstition around Macbeth that every production has some sort of curse curse in either danger or something that goes wrong with production or something never goes right. Because the subject matter entails a lot of witchiness and Supernatural spells. Yeah, there's some devilry about Macbeth, the play. So every production is a little bit cursed. Yeah. And people go into it with that superstition in mind. Supposedly, it's like you can't say Macbeth and the theater. So it's referred to a lot of times as the Scottish play or B or the Scottish strategy at that tragedy. And there are rules. It's kind of like in baseball. If you do something that's jinxed, it's like, if you say Macbeth, there's certain things you have to do, like different productions will have different rules. You have to go outside and walk around, throw salt over your shoulders. Say a cuss word. It's like then. It's like saying that someone's in the middle of throwing a no hitter. You know? Yeah, it's like you don't mess with me. Don't do it. Yeah. And so you can't say that sports thing? No. That's not some kind of eastern thing. Far from a dude. So yeah, Beth is a heavily cursed, supposedly production. So it's interesting to talk about the history of how many times it's been done in movies and on the stage. Yeah. Oh, it's been done a million times on stage. Yeah, I've got a list here. Some of the people who played it in the last 50 years or so, it's like Ethan Hawke, supposedly did a great version of Macbeth. Patrick Stewart and his updated one, I think. Yeah. That like early 2004 some show. The stage version, I'm not sure when they did that one. The Ethan Hawke? Yeah, it looks like it's around 2000. Sir Patrick Stewart sir Patrick sir Ian McKellen did a great Macbeth with Judy Dench in the 70s. Judy Dutch. Named Judy didn't supposed that was the one with some respect..
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"macbeth" Discussed on Cinemavino
"And welcome back to the saint lavino. For sooth, who beefed? Yes, indeed. New entrant music. Toast? This is our second go. Yeah. All these jokes were already done. This is take two. And our jokes are like pizza. It's even better out of the fridge, like reheated, go through some stuff. I like to eat my jokes cold. Yeah. Just a little bit stale. We've now caught up all the bullshit will be new now. Yeah. Now our humor is fresh. So we're going to look this week another after the tragedy Macbeth by Joel Cohen started Denzel Washington Francis mcdormand. So Oscar contender, it came out for the public on apple on the 14th of January. Yeah. So did it make the rounds in the festivals last year? Yeah, it had a brief theatrical run. It always bugs me how they do that. Yeah, it's sneaking on the sneak it in, and then they come out and January for public consumption for Apple plus. And we are drinking the thousand stories bourbon barrels. It's a big burly. I would call this a cold weather in. It's something you'd drink in warm show. If I had to describe this podcast on a wine, it's big and burly. Big and burly. But what did we lube up with first? Was it a Joel got blush? Would it all got zen? Rose. Yeah. So nice, refreshing, easy drinking rose. So do the first bottle. That was our pre party. But for the actual viewing, we're doing the thousand stories. It's a good warming up kind of a thing. This to me was a very wintry movie to watch. It felt cold. It did feel good. Well, it's in black and white. Yeah. And it felt like it was always like you needed a coat. Like watching it, it felt very foggy like Scottish morning. Yeah. It's like, you wanted to put on a show and kind of pull it close to you. You know, kind of like when Billy Corbin singing landslide, it's like you just need like a big old poncho..
Filmspotting
"macbeth" Discussed on Filmspotting
"And not just because it's violent and we see some violence in Coen brothers films, but because if that character is going to make that decision and live with that decision, we along with him are going to have to actually experience the horror of it. Yeah, ties to we got to see the blood so that later when it drips and we hear it, it has that much power to it. Yeah. I just real quickly, I think, for me, it's going back to that production where the witches were hovering above the stage. Ross here is the witch's boots on the ground. And there's something, it goes back to the idea of those two worlds. It's another connection. It's like the vision of the dagger. It's bringing the witch's down. Where the work has actually been done. But I have another Cohen, you know, it struck me and this is a pretty obvious one. Connection to the Cohen canon is Macbeth is what is Macbeth? It's a crime gone wrong. I mean, we're back to blood. It's the cover up. Yeah. We're back to square one, and how many of their movies, raising Arizona, a man who wasn't there, there are other black and white feature interestingly enough. This is Macbeth is a crime gone wrong story just in the guise of great literature rather than pulp literature. So completely makes sense that Joel Cohen would want to tackle this. We haven't talked about Washington and mcdormand much. I mean, they're both great. What can you say? I loved Washington's bulk. I loved how he was kind of almost cavalier with the language at the beginning, which was just kind of casual, like he wasn't sometimes Shakespeare can be delivered as if you are uttering a holy text and I loved how Washington just kind of in honoring the text, just kind of talked. Yeah. And then, and then that kind of was a nice contrast with when he does become undone and loses that sort of looseness. And it gets more tightened and wound up and panicked. And mcdormand, I mean, oh my goodness. Just all of those little looks that make you laugh in all her other performances, the frowns, the eyeballs, and here because it's Francis mcdormand, you start to laugh, and then she just like gives it another layer and you kind of choke it back because you're scared. Yeah, that's so funny that you say that because I have in my back pocket a moment from this film and the Norman moment from this film that I think is going to make at least an honorable mention for my funniest moments of the year and this is not a movie that otherwise has really any humor to it whatsoever. But she does add that dimension, she also brings in some sensuality to it and to this sense of real affection for her husband and of course the seduction of the power, the thought of the power, just reading his letter. And what it portends is something that gets her excited, right? And I think the way mcdormand embodies that is not in any way cliche, but is very evocative. And I know I read this somewhere. I think mcdorman said it back when the initial press started around this film. But especially the second watch, I was really thinking about the decision to cast Washington and mcdormand who are older actors in this role. And it really was effective because I think we're used to seeing people who are probably 20 or 30 years younger. And the impact that that has is, I think it does emphasize what cone here emphasizes in the title of the movie. In calling it the tragedy of Macbeth, it's its own kind of dramatic irony, I suppose, that you have these younger characters who have their whole life ahead of them, theoretically, or much of their life ahead of them, that they get so seduced by the power and their ambition that they make decisions that lead to their demise and the crumbling of everything that they care about. But something about them being older and not having that life in front of them adds to the sense that they have to do this. Yes, desperation. That they are desperate. And you then understand more why they are making the choices. They're making. That said, I do think overall, there is I'm going to be heretical, I suppose, except according to my Shakespeare expert daughter Sophie, this is something many people have said over the years. I will note that even the second time I was struck by how perfunctory lady Macbeth madness seems to be or her descent into madness. She sort of who she is and then all of a sudden she's sleepwalking and nuts. And you wish that there was maybe a little bit more of an evolution or an arc there to that, which again, I haven't read the text, Macbeth, but my understanding is that that's true in the text as well. That scene is really powerful. The very memorable out damn spot seen in the way she plays it. And in tones of those lines in particular are different than I think we are used to seeing it played, but I still felt like there was something lacking ultimately in that descent into madness. It felt like you knew it was coming, you know it has to happen..
Filmspotting
"macbeth" Discussed on Filmspotting
"Is not a case where these feel like witches in any conventional sense that we have seen them before, and Ross character is that agent you talked about. My understanding from talking to Sophie and also what I've Googled about Ross and what I remember from productions is that he's kind of just there in this movie. In this movie, he is like who The Rolling Stones are singing about in sympathy for the devil. He is there at every key point as an agent of chaos, making something happen. Even spoilers, when lady Macbeth dies, pretty sure this isn't in the play. But here, when we leave her, he's there. He's there. Yeah. He's the next one you see. And at every point in this movie, where something is being driven forward, some action that's going to lead to a decision by a character to do something dark or do something ethically or morally compromising or that's going to send them down a path of insanity. He is doing something to help move that along. However, nice or courteous or diplomatic, he may seem about it. And the reason why I think that's important, otherwise, why would why would Jill cone do it? Why would you take that character of all characters from the play Macbeth? And amplify him. And I think it just has to do with the fact that in the world of the Coen brothers, these types of decisions, these moral compromises, the evil that men do, it's what men do. They do it. It isn't something that comes from monsters. It isn't something that comes from another dimension. There may be some prodding, but again, it's that it's that bridging of those worlds that I think this film really wants to emphasize and say, it's characters like Ross who exist within that space who is mostly a man who is Corporal, but is actually kind of hovering between two spaces. But he's going to be the one who's going to put his finger on all of the buttons here to help push people into these scenarios. That is life. Is this series of these types of choices? That's interesting because I definitely read him similarly in that he's a co-conspirator of some sort with the weird sisters, whether he's I hadn't thought literally a transforms into a Raven or is just kind of being kind of suggested, though. Yeah, when we get the birds at the end and we see him just before that. That could be, but also maybe he's possessed by them in a way. But to your larger point of the Cohen cannon, I actually think he stands apart from I don't see him as like a figure an agent of chaos, like an Anton sugar or John Goodman in Barton Fink or John Goodman and old brother or you know John Goodman pretty much anywhere. I'm going to Coen brothers film. Yeah, a lot of times the evil that befalls our main characters in a Coen brothers film comes via some sort of agent of chaos like that that is unexplainable. That's part of the terror. I think his actions are, though, don't you? Well, but he's very calculated and he's very he's part of a conspiracy. A larger going back to the book. I don't wear a Macbeth once Macbeth starts talking to the sisters, the net is closing in on him. And Ross to me is a tool. He's part of that net, and he's the key tool to your point, like he's definitely being emphasized there. Yeah, but he has no agenda beyond provoking that chaos and the downfall of these characters. And so longing it. So at the end of the film, at the end of Macbeth, when we get banquo's son, who is returned. And in this film, he's returned by Ross. It's Ross. Now, after just previously crowning the new, the new king, he's now going to bring on to the scene. The character who eventually is going to succeed that character into the process. He's going to keep the cycle going. And so the fact that he doesn't personally benefit from that is, I guess why I'm referring to him as an agent of chaos. That's his only angle. Yeah, we're probably semantics, but he's a tool to me. He's like, he is the tool that the prophecy will come true. That is given to Macbeth at the beginning, which again is a plan. I just think that in motion. He's not the fact that he's a man. The fact that he is a man, despite the suggestions that there might be something more Supernatural going on, I think is the key. So do you think all of this would happen would Ross be doing all of this if there were no witches? I don't know, because again, the movie very clearly wants to link them, but it's the only explanation I can come up for as to why that character would be so emphasized in this movie and that they would give him things to do that actually aren't in the text at all. And all of them, all of the inventions of this film are tied to him doing something that provokes a downfall. So that feels to me like something obviously Joel Cohen really wanted to emphasize, and even a decision like, so if you reminded me of this today, when you watch most productions of Macbeth, they don't show the murder. They don't show Duncan being murdered. It's not actually, it's not in the text. And there's no lines of dialog here. But it's so appropriate to me that this is something Joel cone isn't going to let happen off screen..
Filmspotting
"macbeth" Discussed on Filmspotting
"My husband. King that shall be. If we should fail. We fail. We have mentioned a lot of these names already, but it's going to help me kind of springboard into another element. I really appreciated, especially seeing it in the theater and especially as it applied to Catherine hunter as the witches. You think about Macbeth, of course, that's what the play is called. Who's the star of the show? Well, you've got Denzel here playing that title character. But often it's lady Macbeth, most people end up devoting the most time to. But here we've got a really interesting performance and character and use of a character I want to come back to in Alex hassle as Ross. Yes. And of course, Catherine hunter, as the witches, which is not just the use of the voice, more on that in a second. But her physicality, in terms of what she's doing with her arms and her posture, something about it that is real and feels human and also feels very Supernatural. But there's also the cinematography that we mentioned by del bonel, not just the black and white, but the framing, and I'll give you one shot in particular that really still resonates with me. It's when Denzel's character is going down the corridor towards Duncan's room to commit the murder. The famous is this a dagger I see before me. And even that sequence where he's walking down this hallway, especially again in that more compressed aspect ratio, it is all about him filling up that space walking forward and he says, is this a dagger and we're looking down the hallway? And you see something shiny. You see something that looks like it could be a dagger and as you get closer you realize is really just the handle to the door. Again, something corporeal, something that is actually physical and not mystical or Supernatural, but to him coming down the hallway feels like it's somehow floating in space calling to him. That's the impression that you get. It's the invasion of the metaphysical into the physical, the outside into his castle. Yeah. It's a wonderful touch. You mentioned the production design of Stefan de shop, but the art direction by Jason T Clark. I do love Carter burwell's music here, but how about and this is one of those cases where you don't get a single entry under the sound department on IMDb. I don't really know who to single out. I'll just say the entire sound department because you notice how important the sound design is to this movie from the very opening. And the witch's voice. The witch's voice, which, while embodied by one single presence and one actress, has three distinct tones. And accents, if you will or inflections as well, but it really is in the quality of the sound itself, the deepness of it, that you get the distinctions in those three characters. And we talked about memorial movie that made your top ten of the year and that that banging sound that existential clang in the impact it has until the swinton's character. How about the thumping in this film that is like this ghostly presence that seems to be haunting these characters and driving them more and more mad? Was that for you as well an element that stood out? Absolutely. It begins the thud as dripping blood. I believe Duncan's blood. And then we also see it or we hear it when we see water dripping and eventually just overtakes Macbeth's imagination. So yeah, it's a perfect touch. And as long as we're going through credits here, I'm going to call out, I mean, if you can win the best costume design for one outfit, Mary zafer is needs to win, and that is for you mentioned this character, the noble man Ross, played by Alex hassel. And I think if I'm remembering correctly, this is a slight shift in the original text where Ross is more aligned with the weird sisters. And can be seen somewhat as an agent of theirs in moving the acts along in this film. And one of the reasons is not only his actions, but what he's wearing. What he's wearing has this form, it's really sleek. He's like, he's a skinny guy, tall, closely cropped hair. So there's not a lot going on intense eyes, but he's kind of like a stick almost. And then they have this form fitting robe, which has these long draping sleeves, and when he holds them out, what do they do? What do they look like? They're waiting, right? Come on. This was my big point. I should have just jumped to Ross. Well, it's pretty stealing. You know what, it wasn't to me the first time. Oh, admit that. No, it wasn't to be seeing it the first time, but the second time where I was paying even more attention to Ross character because the first time the way Joel cone utilizes Ross character was the most important part of the film to me or something that was the biggest standout in terms of what I remember from past Macbeth productions. So I was really paying closer attention to this time. And I was certainly more aligned with the fact that he's one of the ravens. And when he puts out those arms, you're absolutely right that sleek black outfit that he's wearing with those wings when he holds his arms out. It's very clearly what is being suggested by that character, but that's something I find really fascinating about this movie. And if you do try to tie it back to the Coen brothers and some of the themes that they've explored in their work, the touch both with the depiction of the witches and the way they use Ross suggests to me something that feels so right for a cone movie. Which is, despite something mystical happening, despite there being this Supernatural element, it is downplayed..
Pop Culture Happy Hour
"macbeth" Discussed on Pop Culture Happy Hour
"And then the whole narrative of the play rests on that. But it's interesting here because that grief is not there. Like you said, they don't have many years left. So that pursuing of power is so political and it's a really like that. Can we talk about just for a second about, I think of him as the guy in the gown. Ross? Ross. He is really a fascinating character in this, and I don't think I've ever seen him show up before. I mean, he's in there. Not to this extent, right? Yeah. Yeah, he's the guy who gives everybody bad news, basically, normally. And here he is an agent of chaos who is following orders for the king and then following orders for Macbeth, and then following it, he is somebody who you can't quite get a beat on in a really interesting way. In a way, he's the most compelling character on screen. And every production I've ever seen of Macbeth has ended with you being reminded of banquo's son, right? Who's out there and who is clearly going to come back. And so you're reminded, oh, yeah, there's this figure out there. This one, I was more wondering how this guy was going to adapt next. He's a fascinating figure really machiavellian just whoo. Of course, as an agent of chaos, but also he restores the order of destiny, because he saves back his son to the future again. So you know, you can't put a finger on who he is serving. But the end of it, he's serving time. He's serving destiny. It's fascinating. Well, yeah, let's talk about destiny and prophecy. As opposed to psychology, talking about psychology and Shakespeare's always a little tricky. Look, Macbeth is my favorite Shakespeare play, because I'm basic. I like witches. I like magic. When it comes to plot, I like gimmicks and these prophecies that the witches deliver are misleading and they come true in clever ways. That's a gimmick. And I am all about that. That is some steel trap plotting, which, of course, many people have imitated over the years. And any Macbeth production for my money lives or dies on its magic. You've got to buy it. It's got to be creepy. It's got to be on settling. It's got to be sinister. We already said it, but hunter is worth the ticket price. Just watching that performance. The physicality of that performance. Now, I also am a middle aged gay man. And when Macbeth has at its center, a flinty, ambitious diva grasping for power. You know, I don't have any power over that..
Pop Culture Happy Hour
"macbeth" Discussed on Pop Culture Happy Hour
"And tomorrow. Creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time. You're putting your finger on one of the challenges of this play, I think, which is that these two characters engage with their guilt at different times. Macbeth engages with it in the run up and the immediate afterwards that it becomes a tyrant and gets all shouty. But lady Macbeth is all steely resolve and then much later is when her guilt comes out as she sleeps. Out, I say. It's murky. Why? My lord fine. A soldier and a feared. What need we fear who knows it when none can call our power to account? Yet. Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? We're not getting beaten over the head with iambic pentameter here. They've turned the burst into dialog. There is a naturalism to these performances, which I think serves in my case anyway to make the artifice around them theatricality around them kind of stand out in sharper relief. So part of the experience of watching this movie is you get an echo of the theatrical experience where you're sitting there going, how are they visually or dramaturgically going to do something? How are they going to do the floating dagger? How are they going to do bank was ghost? How are they going to do Burnham wood coming to the castle? And when you get it here, the payoff is at once so theatrical, but it lands with such huge force. And then to that point, I think it's interesting that the mud bets here are older than they usually are. So you know that idea of sexually seducing your husband to do something is kind of divorced because you see an older couple who've been married for longer, perhaps chosen not to have children and to have that quote unquote chemistry that we've seen and say the fassbender Marion got yard film.
Trailer Junkies Podcast
"macbeth" Discussed on Trailer Junkies Podcast
"It's supposed to be for the next movie but the next movie might have already been seen right or it's five movies down the road but otherwise it's point or the the worst one of those was where they had thanos at the one of the earlier ones. It's a actor. It's not you know the no idea. I didn't even notice told me. Okay okay. spoiler alert order. Civil war was was my favorite civil war. Okay all right. When when when they all hit spiderman came it was okay. I was hooked. I was hooked. I'll have to say though. I didn't appreciate it when i first went through all the movies. But ragnarok in timeline order and then when thor comes down with led zeppelin plan and anytime that song comes on wherever we we are anytime you hear robert plant like screaming. We could be in a grocery store. The boy start. Lay coming down with me amazon. Each other they are just like in like go mode once that that song starts. Yeah it's incredible. It's credible civil wars amazing. Thor ragnarok is is also amazing. My favorite part of thor ragnarok is that same scene where he's tied up and he's slowly turning around and he's trying to talk to and he's like give it a minute. I'll spin around because that is a taiko. Td shot like he. Td wrote that. You know that you can see tyco with. Td in that where where he's like all right. We're going to give the marvel audience this pregnant pause where you have to wait for to slowly spinner. Yeah that was one of my favorites. Right at off the rip. You know getting using amazing all right so then the main reason why we got paul here tonight though told the toward reason yes crimes and penalties. Yeah so when. I say the reason why why we got him here for this. He turned me onto it. What what would you say paul about two three weeks ago. Maybe three weeks ago something like that two weeks ago. It wasn't that long ago. Yeah two weeks ago. So paul tells me you gotta watch this. 'cause i'm a. I grew up playing hockey Hockey fan i love mob movies. I know ted loves mob movies. Yeah yeah we. We fell in love with that submarine movie. What was that submarine documentary ost. Oh oh my god me off guard. It'll come back to me anyway. Would you like that with missiles or without odessa. Operation like the russian mob and the guy plays off like he's the cartel from it is. Yeah all the all this stuff so we thought you know what. I work with paul. We talk trailers. We talked the podcast. We talk beer all the time. He turns me on to this. It's like now it's now. We're never to have paul on the show yesterday eyebrow. I brought him the golden mike. Oof oof walk because every once in a while we'll like trade a beer at work or whatever and we work at a high school you kind of have to like bring it incognito. That's what i thought at first. I thought it was a beer. I was like why does he Right in front of my classroom.
Trailer Junkies Podcast
"macbeth" Discussed on Trailer Junkies Podcast
"A month at least at least give paul a little subscription. So he could watch them. These great shows like ten last woods down. Please apple tv but literally though for five ninety nine a month. I mean that's well worth it. I mean i don't know if you're looking at fifteen dollars like hbo max or something. I would probably balk at that for what apple. Tv pluses but for six bucks. I mean it's a no brainer. I mean the the the content is awesome. And i mean so a greyhound awhile back and now we have this movie okay. Do you think tom hanks. Assigning exclusives with apple apple in some regard. Or how is this stuff coming down so it feels like at the beginning of the marvel. Cinematic universe you know. We like to talk about a lot here the beginning of marvel universe and it was all about this six picture deal so most of the main characters sore captain america iron man robert downey junior. Chris hemsworth was his name. Chris evans they all signed six picture. Deal okay so that was the deal would be six movies. Some of them would be the movies some of them would-be ensemble movies sometime. Cameos another cameo in movie but it was a six picture deal. Sign up for students to do six pictures you can't you can't do like the old hollywood system where they have exclusive deals but you can sign them to a six picture deal and say over the next five years. We watch and six pictures and netflix started. Do that with their. And they're actors and all these different things so a lot of lot of show runners and things had six series deal six picture deal six creative pieces at a time and now it feels like this is just the standard like when you start when you have a big name and you wanna sign them up or something. Don't sign them for one thing. It's a lot of work to get them to the table. To make an arrangement to come on board to do a greyhound or something like that. And if your sign ever a greyhound your son. Tom hanks like why would you wanna and one thing when you can get him in six things get him in six things over the next ten years instead of trying to sign up for one thing and then now we're gonna come back to the table and make another arrangement to do another thing. Just just throw them a big bucket of money. You're gonna throw the bucket of money any anyway and send him to a sixth pitcher deal. Feel like adam sandler started this right. Like adam saying adam sandlers deathly in the net flicks six picture deal with a net flicks. Yeah yeah so. I mean the. There's a lot of big name. Six picture deals. And i think that's what he's in maybe with apple. Tv plus. it's a little more quiet. But i feel like we're gonna see fewer movies with them on apple. Tv plus that. I mean it seems like a good business model. It's way to rope in somebody to see how you know. You have quality acting chops for a number of movies that your platform subscribers can count on and then you know you pay your lawyers in your agents and all those people pay them them. Six times eat out. I'm sure they get a bigger paycheck. But really it's just like it's just one time deal..
Trailer Junkies Podcast
"macbeth" Discussed on Trailer Junkies Podcast
"And i have a five month old baby delilah in a a husky. Five months man. You're like you're like just entering the fun stages. Yeah she's yeah once they start getting away from you. That's it game on yeah. She had a funny moment today. She was Laughing at the at the dog she just kept on. She's thought whatever. The dog did was hilarious so the fun times of child rearing when when they're still stable and stationary once they start running man. They and they can't talk back to you. you know. The funny thing is that we are at three different phases of of child rearing yes heads in the teenage years. I'm in the elementary school years and paul's starting out so the newborns just starting yeah Fun fact i play. I play long ball. I actually got a big tournament tomorrow. Cinnabar lambeau club wait. What's lawn bowl long bowl. You think of Kind of like botchy where you got. Nice rollerball will we call bull closer to jack but one side of the ball is has a bias so they all curve give to wear white pants and since the tournament. Yeah that's awesome..
Harvard Classics
"macbeth" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"Introductory note among the tragedies of shakespeare. Macbeth is noted for the exceptional simplicity of the plot and the directness of the action. Here is no under plot to complicate or enrich hardly more than a glimpse of humor to relieve the dark picture of criminal ambition. Only the steady march toward an inevitable catastrophe. The story belongs to the half legendary history of scotland and was drawn by shakespeare from the chronicles of holland. Shed for the most part. He follows the historian with considerable fidelity but details. Such as the drugging of the groom's by lady macbeth the portents described in the fourth season of the second act and the voice that called sleep. No more was suggested by other parts of the chronicle then that dealing with the reigns of duncan in macbeth even the witches occur in holland. Shed who says the common opinion was that these women were either. The weird sisters. That is as you would say the goddesses of destiny or elsa memphis or fairies in dude with knowledge of prophecy by their neck romantic science while keeping this aspect of these figures as fates shakespeare added details from the witch laura of his time and made them capable of a symbolical and spiritual signification that brought them into vital relation with the change in the character of macbeth. This tragedy illustrates in. Its close the conventional poetic justice that demands the triumph of the righteous cause and the downfall of the wicked but there is not lacking that more subtle justice so impressive in lear because unaccompanied by the temporal reward of the good which reveals itself in the subduing of character to what it works in more terrible than the defeat and death of macbeth. Is the picture of the degradation of his nature when he appears in the scene before the battle. Like a beast at bay..
Not Another Shakespeare Podcast!
"macbeth" Discussed on Not Another Shakespeare Podcast!
"Combustion most likely most the most likely scenario is aliens were involved in the death of lady macbeth fictional character. Aliens could be a vote. Okay did shakespeare believe anglians. You know. I don't think we have any evidence about that. Okay that means he. We don't know that he didn't believe maybe you're right. you're right. The absence of evidence is not an evidence of absence. So i suppose he could have the ancient astronaut theories. Pick this one up. Please do not okay. So she's dead. He has this little eulogy for her. About how meaningless life is. It's a very famous speech Where the phrase sound and fury comes from. If you've heard that before i'm aware of the novel yes okay yes. So what's his face faulkner faulkner. Thank you sorry around your maritime. The name was on the tip of my tongue. William faulkner's novel sound and fury quitting my a messenger arrives. It turns out that the forest is coming towards the castle. It's quite a good scene. Macbeth is very incredulous. About this. the poor little messenger is is having a really hard time but he insists that he has seen it. This was the scene. By the way that i thought thrown blood does better where we get the reaction of the macbeth character seeing the forest. Do they not only show the forest no the forest forest since when we talked about this last time we were talking about forest. Was this wonderful place. Yes of topsy. Turvy land where everything's great but also things. Can i go wild and now it's sort of like. Oh it's it's something very serious. It's a harbinger of dum dum for macbeth. But salvation for everybody else so the i took it then is still in the sense. This is helping bring the balance buck in. Yes is bringing balance to the force. Now yes okay. So but again. We have some dramatic irony here because there's a scene earlier. Where malcolm instructs his soldiers to you know every man hugh him down about. No the forest is gonna come. And then we get the messenger report to macbeth reporting but the forest is coming and then in the very next scene in case we missed the first time we have malcolm saying to his army now near enough your leafy screens throwdown and show like those you are so they use the forest as a disguise to get closer to the castle without being detected without being seen and then the fighting starts. It's a very choppy act five for a shakespeare play. There's lots of these short little battles short little skirmishes. Macbeth kills somebody else. Young seward an poor young seward. I feel so bad for him. He's only got one scene. He's just a guy he just well. He's like a like a young. You'd like a steward. He's he's the son of a thing so he's the son of old seward and he sort of is hard to keep track of all the things that why we have the show. Yes that's the thing guest the but finally ultimately the final matchup that we knew had to happen comes to pass macbeth v macduff. And they're fighting and they're fighting and macduff says give macbeth. You can never win and macbeth says. Oh yeah. i was told in a prophecy that no one of women born can harm me. So ha ha macduff. I win and mukta reveals his his trump card. His his final his gotcha moment turns out. Mcduff was born by c. section.
Not Another Shakespeare Podcast!
"macbeth" Discussed on Not Another Shakespeare Podcast!
"Could hurt now. We can charge him. Full prices time paying off. He's in the sales funnel drug dealers. They gave him a little bit free. Got him hooked bam client for life. I don't know how much he has left. Not that much spoiler alert. Macbeth dies at the end. Really know and that. Actually what will come to that enact five okay so the witches some some apparitions who give macbeth some additional information. Could they not just do it themselves. I feel that's an extra they could but they actually ask him his preference. Do they tell you we could just get some crazy apparitions in here. He's crazy apparitions going to get my money's worth. Yeah yeah i want the apparition patients. If i was right wouldn't wouldn't anyone so the first operation arrives and it is described as an armed head An armed head like ahead with alms. I think like wearing armor. I was thinking a lot more monstrous and with arms out of it. Yeah i mean that would be pretty creepy. That would be a horrifying apparition an armored head which is just just ahead with ya. I think he's like wearing a helmet for the other one. Yeah me too all right so just imagine ahead with arms growing out the top speaking at you and the first operation tells him to beware macduff. Not the most incredible prophecy ever along information. He probably doesn't already have. Yeah he has that information just dressed up with these crazy operations knows right but it's going to escalate hold on so the second operation arrives and that is a bloody child. Go talk real fast. And the bloody child informs him that none of woman born shall harm macbeth but men can harm him now none of will so he says none of women born shall harm macbeth. Which is everybody right. No one can harm him right. So that's how macbeth interprets. It certainly says live macduff. Need i fear of the. You know who who isn't born of woman everybody's born of woman that's obviously operating in a very binary understanding of gender in this period. Really what does surprise surprise. Yes so you know what who could possibly hurt me third apparition. A child crowned with a tree in his hand on the tree in his hand. How does the tree fit in his hand. I don't know he's an apparition magic seedling. Well he's just ripped a little tree at the ground gum tree. It sort of meant to be. I think an allusion to what the child's prophecy is going to.
Not Another Shakespeare Podcast!
"macbeth" Discussed on Not Another Shakespeare Podcast!
"I guess i think in this case mcmath is more terrified but also annoyed. He might be verified and annoyed. That would be an interesting reading of it. Yeah that's my seat. what are you doing. you've come back just to steal my see how are you. I think he's more worried about the fact that banquo who is supposed to be dead is at the table and is covered in blood. I mean that would be quite disturbing but other that he might like see. Yeah that's i mean. I'm sure i mean they came in and you see probably get fucking killed. Yeah but magadov is not dead yet. But that's what i mean if he's alive and he sat in macbeth's favorite seat he would get killed immediately. So i'm just saying there must be something going on. You know bets brain some level. He's thinking shit broncos come back to haunt me and these in my favorite seat. There's nothing in the text to support. That reading doesn't mean that's not what sharks thinking that's true that is very true. I can't favorite see. I'm sure he did question as a question listeners. Is there any evidence that shakespeare had a favorite seat in his house or or any of the playhouses that he worked. Oh can't can't take shakespeare seat so my starts freaking the fuck out right because banquo dead is at his table sitting in his seat and all the things are like okay. Maybe we should leave. Maybe this dinner is maybe. this party's over. This is the point in the night where the host is is just too drunk to actually carry on having a party right. Macbeth needs to go to bed. And sleep it off lena. Macbeth tries to talk them into staying the ghost sticks around no one else. Let's see as brazil dude. He's dead instead. He's dead and flames escaped. So it's not like he's gotta worry about his child in the afterlife.
Not Another Shakespeare Podcast!
"macbeth" Discussed on Not Another Shakespeare Podcast!
"She's trying to hold it down trying to hold it together But macbeth's hearing voices and saying he's not gonna sleep anymore and he's going on and on and on at one point she interrupts and like what are you talking about like. What do you mean. stop this. He's he's really Really go off on one and she says look we need we need to take the jagger back. She's trying to hold it together And somebody is knocking at the gate. Right there's somebody there trying to get into the castle Knocking knocking knocking knocking knocking. So they're like shit. We need to wash up. We need to You know she says. Get on your nightgown less occasion. Call us and show us to be watchers not lost so poorly in your thoughts. So she's really trying to kind of get it together. Hold him together. Make sure that they get through this as a couple. Lovely bonding really this. Yeah it's nice to see how a bit of husband wife time it's a play that is ultimately about marital relations yes and about how murdering can spicing marriage Yeah i mean this. Is you know some people have a threesome. Macbeth's murder somebody. Yeah it's a sickness early work or really provide them with any kind of anything good from it but they take a risk they do and can you blame them for no they points for creativity a yes. They've really really tried hard and they did. They did ultimately murder the king so they achieved their goal. Macbeth does become king. Does so you know that's a win. Even though everything goes to hell afterwards. I think they really i take from. The story is that they started off well and they didn't follow three more murdering they should have more murdering well. I think actually what they should have done. Because mcgrath goes on to do an awful lot of additional murdering in the play. But he doesn't take lady macbeth with him. He cuts her out of the murdering which she's integral. She is mean the reason they're murdering in the first place. Yeah no wonder she's spaghetti has roots. He is he is. He's gone on for his solo career of muttering and he should have been thinking know will need to get the band back together. Yeah go back go. After that first album where we had all that magic thus what needs to do and that's what he did wrong. That's where you went wrong as we around..
Not Another Shakespeare Podcast!
"macbeth" Discussed on Not Another Shakespeare Podcast!
"So an lady. Macbeth says in this little soliloquy that she has wishes reading the letter she fears that macbeth will be two full of the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way. So she's afraid that she's going to say we should kill the king because then you would be king. And instead he's going to go. We should kill him. Maybe we should just wait for him to die naturally and see what happens. Used to the bill of human kindness. Right i mean it. Sounds a bit weird as an expression. I'll be honest. A milk of human kindness. Yes does he. Does he get that delivered. He's got an amazon subscriptions amazon. Subscribe and save human kindness milk. He's been drinking too much. He's been thinking you know. I'm not kind enough. I need to supplement human kindness. Yeah he's like on a on a weird kito diet specifically drinking milk of human kindness so so lady macbeth Herself has not been drinking the kool aid. Milk of human kindness and feels like murderers is the best course of action here now. Another messenger arrives justice. She has had this thought and tells her that the king is coming to stay with them at their castle convenient indeed. That is what she also thinks. Okay so kingdom can is coming. And she has this great speech that gets quoted a lot about how the raven himself is horse that crooks the fatal entrance of dunkin under my battlements. She's kind of making the plan to murder him conveniently while he's staying at castle right now like tonight. She's on she's not national mable. This is she gets shit done she. Does you know you can't you can't for say what you will about lady macbeth. She gets shit done. Yep yep and she has this whole speech about how she needs the spirits to come in unsexy her and Yeah it's what does that mean. I think it means that randy time with the spirits. No unsexy insects insects reverse the opposite of randy. Time sexes in as like male and female. Okay so she is kind of buying into this sense of of sort of gender roles if you're a woman or anyone exactly You can't be evil enough to murder anybody. And she wants to make sure that no compunctions visiting of nature her fell purpose so she needs to be done sexed. She needs her The milk in her breasts to turn into gaul the milk of human kindness. That there it is. That's clearly where.
The TWIML AI Podcast
Creating Robust Language Representations With Jamie Macbeth
"Are everyone. I am here with jamie macbeth. Jamie is an assistant professor in the department of computer science at smith college. Jamie welcome to the podcast. Thank you thanks for having me. And i'm super excited to dig into our conversation and learn a bit about your research what you're up to. Let's get started by having you share a bit about your background with our audience. How did you come to work in a and cognitive systems in particular. Sure so originally i was. I would say a physicist actually a mathematician physicist as an undergraduate in also sometimes a grad student. I then fell in love with computer. Scientists said in computer science in graduate school and towards the end of my career in graduate school. I also fell in love with the specific topic that i work on now which is artificial intelligence systems and cognitive systems for performing language understanding and the issues associated. With that. we're chatting earlier. You spoke a little bit more about the way you think about cognitive systems and kind of how that's different from a lot of the contemporary application of machine learning and ai loved eighty elaborate on that a bit for audience. Sure sure yeah. So those of us in the cognitive systems community were a part of the artificial intelligence community but people in the cognitive systems community are focused quite a bit more on using artificial intelligence as a vehicle for a better understanding of human intelligence and not particularly of using a i to just score well at particular tasks when do on the leaderboard i think some of the negative things that have been associated with artificial intelligence these days such as via season things like that have to do with there being a little bit too much hype around the systems. That people are building in the way. You're able to show good numbers at these tests problems and focusing less on the actual science. Okay what really can these systems do. So yeah in the congress distance community. Or i care much more about building that have a human like
Breakfast Leadership
An Interview with Corporate Anthropologist Andi Simon
"Welcome back I've got Andy Simon, online Andy, how are you? I'm just wonderful. How are you Michael I am awesome. I'm vertical. That's always a good way to be a especially during times of pandemics and whatnot. So that looking forward to this interview for a bit of time now. So let's let's dive in. So tell the audience a little bit about yourself in in the. Work that you're doing. So my name is Andy Simon I'm a corporate anthropologist, a doctorate, and I am an expert in helping organizations and the people inside them change and I've had a background in both academics, and in business I was vp of a bank and S who've another bank can in healthcare during change. But what I learned to said people humans eight to change. And if nothing else a little anthropology might help them step back and see things through a fresh lens an essay due. You'd be amazed how their brain goes from fighting and resisting the changes to embracing them and saying Oh that's right here. So I would say, the way forward is all around you. If only you can see it and our job has been to help people do just that. So I'm an author and award winning author of a book called on the brink of fresh lens to take your business to new heights, and I'm a podcast like yourself and I totally enjoy sharing on podcast video and audio how people can help us change and humans really do hate to change they love the idea, but they hate to do it. So that's who I am. Changes a dirty word to a lot of people. I. See it all the time when I advise people to and I even use the word adjustment I don't even bring in the word change because they hear that word they automatically just tense up and you make some minor adjustments here and there and like okay I can do that and. I'm with you on that. It's so many people are afraid of because they think it's this big job in for some people it might be it might be really transformational for them to go through the work because they have to look within and sometimes people are afraid to look within because. You know we're our own worst enemies in many ways, and especially now during this pandemic, where we do have an opportunity to make some adjustments or changes in our lives that make us better off once we get to the next normal. So many people feel paralyzed and they don't want to take the necessary steps that they need to do in order to get to the goals and the things that they want in life. You know it's not personal. The brain hates it because that's how we. Ourselves to survive and our cultures and the stories we share our really our conversations are our reality. The way the brain works is it takes data informs a story about it, and once you have that story, you think that's reality. It's just a perception of it and you're always a hero in that story. So you only see the things that a firm believe to be true and the line I liked to say is the only truth is there's no truth but once you have that wonderful perception of reality, your brain is very happy. Keeping it everything around you has changed and it's no longer often, and so now the question is, how do I get you to change your story and how do you visualize a new or a new business and really come to grips with the changes that are taking place? I often tell my clients think if this is a play, you really know hamlet very well the tomorrow we have to play, Macbeth what would you do? You find the script or you'd write the script and then you begin to rehearse the script and then you'd have. A director to help you figure out where to stand on stage but we're trying to do that today in a moment you know used to say, if you want to change have a crisis or create one little I know cove it was going to give me my crisis and I tell people don't waste the crisis I have clients who have been trying to do something for three years and all of a sudden. I can do I wanted to go after that market and I can't tell you how easy it is now because everybody. Is unsettled and unsure and all the certainty that we want to protect ourselves is gone and so in uncertainty you know don't waste a crisis and so as we help companies change to your point, they do resist until they realized maybe this is a crisis that you have to address. Now, the question is, what's the new script? How do I play it and I appreciate that humans resist because it's scary new fell we'll have my job. How do I do this my business grow all the uncertainties but yesterday is tomorrow and we are futurists. Are podcasts was ranked in the top twenty futurist podcasts but humans are futures. We have to see you tomorrow to lift today, and that's what we begin to help them do. So as your listeners are listening in thinking about the story, you believe to be your truth and what are you going to have to do to change it and then change it manager mind. So it's exciting times for us. We're having a great time lots of customers and lots of interesting work to do.
Today in Focus
Bad News For Prince Andrew As New Witness Comes Forward
"Let's move onto Prince Andrew can remind us how he started this year. He had been basically sacked from the royal family which we take subduing. He was essentially stripped of all his royal duties after his completely disastrous Newsnight interview y have you decided to talk now? because. There is no good time. To Talk, about Mr Epstein and. All things associated in Andrews Newsnight interview his big defense really aside from the fact that he of how they can't sweat and he's a big patron of the pizza. Express woking is that he didn't really know Jeffrey Epstein he claims he only knew him through his friend Glenn, bloom it through his girlfriend. Back, in nineteen, ninety nine, who an I'd known her since she. In the UK this is all Remember that it was his girlfriend. That was the key element in this he was the. Plus. One to some extent in an expert. You through a birthday party for since girlfriend then Maxwell at Sandringham. No shooting weekend a shooting weeks straightforward straightforward for choosing weekend. Despite the fact you know Jeffrey Epstein was at the Palace went to Epstein. Manson had dinner for him. He stayed with Epstein because because Andrew just couldn't find a central Manhattan hotel he's very convenient epsteins mentioned it was a convenient place to stay. I mean I've gone through this in my mind so many times. At the end of the day. with the benefit of all the hindsight that one can have. It was definitely the wrong thing to do is you say that interview was a disaster foundry and he was forced to withdraw from his rural Gt's I'm imagining heat hopes that would draw a line under the whole thing for him but then in July galet maxwell was arrested. The risks are simply too great. The words of the judge refusing bail this evening to maximum the one time girlfriend an alleged accomplice of the sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, might saw pleaded not guilty the hearing by video link on charges she helped recruit and groom minors as young as fourteen. So she was arrested in her strange though Bolthole and a few weeks later, a bunch of documents unsealed from a two thousand fifteen civil action brought against her by Virginia. Robert Scott Free and price price whose name pops up again it's Jews You know a lot of the allegations in these documents were already known but what is new is the allegation that? Forced Virginia Robert Scott Free to have sex with Prince Andrew as a way to gather incriminating evidence against him. And then on top of that, this month of witnesses come forward claiming to have seen the Duke of York, at trump nightclub on the night he insisted in the Newsnight interview that he was at Pizza Express in woking why would you remember that? So specifically, why would you remember a pizza best birthday in being because going to pizza express in working is an unusual thing for me to do. So he obviously hit denies everything but the circle is definitely tightening around Andrew. US. Law Enforcement has said repeatedly they want to talk to him that he has been cooperative a war of words as I'm sure you know has broken out between Prince Andrew and the US authorities investigating sex offender Jeffrey. Exiting The prince claims that he has offered to help that inquired eat city times but this is something the American prosecutors deny effectively calling him a liar the palace hopefully insisted this is untrue and US law enforcement has repeated it. So this is where we are at the moment. Do you think this puts more pressure on Andrew to cooperate with the investigation? Me The idea of any member of the royal family cooperating Larry's but yes, I mean absolutely. But I mean the fact that he was saying such stuff in that interview emily weightless without realizing how terrible the sounded I mean just shows he has no sense of consequences for his actions. I'm Jay his sin said, he regrets his ill-judged Association with Epstein. But as you point out, these aren't incredibly serious allegations and yet everybody feels like his story that dozen attract as many column, Inches Harry, and Meghan. Let's I think this is the thing when talking about the role families so much tension and I've just done two is focused on Harry Megan and the stupid decisions they make in his make it actually lady Macbeth is very telling for example, the mail there's certain Cole missed the male who I'm not gonNA pollute podcast listener's ears with his name, but he is completely obsessive. Meghan. Markle. Interest. Rates. Endless combs about her I. Don't like to own Andrew or something Sierra. Let's just bear in mind that actually the royal to really be focused on is Andrew
Hysteria
Former Congresswoman Katie Hill Does a Postmortem on a Lost Congressional Seat
"When the news is bad? I know that it is tempting for me to tune out but I also know that sometimes examining bad news and figuring out how to learn from it is a good thing so with that semester. Monaco and I are starting this week. Show with the conversation with former California Representative Katie Hill. Katie resigned from her seat last October and in a special election last week a Republican one bomber. So where do we go from here? Let's ask Katie are welcome Katie Hill. Welcome back to hysteria. We're so happy to have you back. Glad to be back. Thank you first of all. How are you doing man That's like a loaded question. I feel like I'm you know I'm I'm okay. The results the election were pretty horrible. You know in a way it was of what we were expecting. But you obviously didn't ever want and at you know it's just like one thing on top another in life in in figuring a way to get up in Russia yourself off in new forward was I was again when I was a kid. Reverses a still own a horse and the biggest thing that you were taught was being you fall off you get back up and get right back on and that's just kind of against what length is so drilling down into that trauma? A little bit last week was was the special election in California's twenty fifth for everyone listening. What happens and were you surprised when you say what happened do you mean why did we lose or yeah yeah why Jillette. Why did why did why did she was. Yeah well I think the biggest chapter honestly is just people in a special election. Democrats don't show up and you've got the rented. Republican base. That was particularly riled up because of my scandal and excited the opportunity to take a seat back. I mean that was that was literally what they were plotting. They were trying to you. Know to find something they. They found something. They exploited it. They got me to resign and this officers their opportunity to take back. The seat they felt was stolen from them in the first place remember. It hadn't been held by a Republican ever in its current form and they really did not think that it's possible for someone like me. Let alone any Democrats there So I think that they really rallied around this opportunity and from what we know they actually did some very despite the fact that you hear them complain all the time about ballot harvesting. They had some very organized efforts around ballot sting and Them for figuring it out. Because like you know that's to me it's about helping people be a but the churches were really mobilized in getting people to providing drop off centers. And saying that they're gonNA mail to use of swing by the church in you know do it in your car or whatever and we just didn't have something like baton. I think you can also partly attributed to the fact that Democrats were pretty disenchanted by things right. Like you're GONNA be really really frustrated works so barred and felt like you were. Finally I heard over a felt like you were finally represented and have all go away. So quickly is is really disenchanting. Should okay so there was a special election in California's twenty fifth special action in Wisconsin. Seventh both know that these are anecdotal elections in every district is different but you can still kind of extrapolate things on a maybe on a larger scale from this like. Do you think that Democrats should see what happened in your former seat special election as a wakeup call I do. I think that it shows that you remember mine was one of the Houghton quote safest swing seats right. Hillary Clinton when by seven. I want by nine. This isn't one of the seats that should have at risk. So what it means is that you know. Depending on what things are looking like November especially depending on the energy that's coming from rate than district's length. The ones that we flicked that were that were ones that that trump won by sixteen points are really really wants. We need to watch out for so we should give up or stop paying attention to the house just because the Senate is looking like it's within reach or obviously presidency so that to me. The biggest of all first and foremost the second is that as we are adapting to this Nalen strategy. How we doing that right? Field is what has been our strongest most important. Get out the vote effort right and that's modified I don't take. You should give up on it all together. I think they're Balkans Altogether they have they have a different base of people who they can go soo and again reliably that will reliably answer their phones that they can you get to things like drop off ballots churches. But we're GONNA have to modify field programs to to frankly make sure people know how vote by mail. When they have many many of them have never done it before especially in these lower turnout areas of to begin with which are usually the most. Democrats held Katie. Beyond even just in. How do we re engage the Democrats that helped you win by nine points when now they're also facing the pandemic childcare challenges on employment and things that are just like so catastrophic question? I think I am hopeful that the loss actually was a wakeup call for a lot of people might have thought like while the seat will be fine. Now they're like okay. I have really have to bow part of I mean honestly. I think that the the district itself is democratic leaning enough now that if we get to turn out that you know is usually expected in November election. I think she will win. And we saw we saw it happened with the ossoff special in Lucy. Macbeth one in general. I think we're GONNA see that in this case but it still. You know it's something that can't be taken for granted in terms of the support that I had the volunteers mobilized rabbit. I think that's that's going to be the same thing right is how do you figure out ways of ways of getting involved? That may not mean. Move leaving your house And how do we get people excited about it? Especially when the Senate is in play in California and the The obviously dilatory votes are going to be there for Joe Biden. No matter what so. I think I think it has to be like maybe you know maybe the Gee let's get so excited about meeting the seat back because like that. That as it's more like Oh you fuckers. Hello and stand up and what's ours okay. You said the word motherfuckers. Let's expand on that a little bit because we we chatted briefly about this About this race and how it personal it was to you and how personal it was considering the person who ended up winning the seat. Can you talk a little bit about the people who helped promote Christy Smith opponent short so the first person the first slew of images that came out was through the publicly came out was through red? Sti His enemies are images of You. That were released without your consent without taking taken without your consent. Got It and the only person that could have done. That was my accent. Spin obvious denied it. And so it's a it. So that started at Red State. The person who published those who who was the investigative reporter has been a longtime Republican operatives in the region who writes I guess on side. Honestly don't really know what I know that writing as is not a full-time thing for her and she had worked for one of my previous owners. She worked for Steve Night in the past and the day after the day. After I resigned she endorsement ARSIA There were a number of other people who were involved and again. This is information as circling through like facebook groups and drew a the random people that are on the ground in. It's not it's not like a niffer court case starting to like that bitch so many of the people who were supporting my sem from the beginning. We're the ones that need new. Had the photos and some of that is actually on logs. There's still posted out there. A Joe Messina. And things like that so I think For me that that was the biggest thing right like it was misleading. That my favorite before all of this came
Filmspotting
Nolan #3 - Insomnia / Blow the Man Down / True History of the Kelly Gang
"From Chicago. This is film spotting. I'm Adam Kanner and I'm Josh. Larsen can't be easy to keep working after three days. No sleep to keep focus. You're seeing things yet. Cause little flashes tricks alight that's Robin Williams with Al Pacino in Christopher Nolan's insomnia from two thousand and two as the follow up to his mind. Bending breakout hit. Memento insomnia struck some at the time as a frustratingly straightforward thriller. This week we continue our Nolan who've review with a fresh look plus we'll have thoughts on three new releases all available online more. Can I get up Pacino ahead? Unfilled SPOTTING Welcome to film spotting Josh. The theaters are closed. But the movies keep coming at least if you know where to look this week. We've got reviews of three new releases. Include ONE. That's definitely a golden brick. Were the debut. That's the cozy noir thriller. Blow the man down a feature debut set in Downey's main and the down under set the true history of the Kelly gang from director. Justin Kurt Sel and the high school set Sela and the spades one. You caught up with Josh Ross. Going to continue our Christopher Nolan who've review with two thousand? Two's insomnia the black sheep. Maybe of the Nolan filmography. We'll see if it does deserve that reputation later in the show first though let's talk some new movies for a change including that Australian import true history of the Kelly gang mother soldier pan. You cost me you. Can that back a child? It is already traveling. Full tilt toward the men are would become. That's from the trailer for True History of the Kelly gang which is available to rent ondemand this weekend. The director is Justin Kerr. Zal who previously made twenty eleven the snow town murders than in two thousand fifteen. He did Macbeth. Which starred Michael Faster and Marion Cotillard? All three of them re teamed for two thousand sixteen assassin's creed now. Kelly gang is set in colonial Australia. Where Kelly and his group of anarchists violently rebel against their British rulers nineteen. Seventeen George MCI plays Ned Kelly. The film also stars Russell. Crowe Nicholas Holt Thomasson. Mackenzie and Charlie Hunnam so strong. Cast their Adam. You're able to get an early look at this one before. It's on demand release. Did the cast live up to. Its Promise House the film in general some of it definitely did in terms of the cast. This is actually my first. Kerr Zal film. Haven't seen any of the other three that you mentioned despite the fact that Michael Fast Bender has been in those two that you mentioned and I'm always down for Good Shakespeare Adaptation. I can't compare obviously this film the Kelly Gang to his adaptation of Macbeth specifically but there is a lot of the Scottish play in his telling of Ned Kelly. Se Davis from our beloved. The Baba Duke plays his mother in this film and she is not someone to cross. She's domineering she's vengeful. It's born from years of oppression as a woman and as an Irish woman living under English rule in Australia. You hear her in the trailer. Seda a young Ned. You're a man. Now you go out and show the world. This isn't a gentle mother's encouragement. It's an order and like Macbeth himself. As ned gets closer to his fate the matter he gets and that unhinged hallucinatory spirit is. What colonel taps into visually think about the late nineteenth century? We get in. John Hill coats the proposition as a counterpoint. This is not that at all. This is realism clashing with fantasy to the point where there are times in certain sequences and shots. Josh especially a recurring motif of a man riding a horse. That feels more like more door than the Bush way outside Melbourne. And so I've dropped Macbeth. I've dropped Lord of the rings throw in the assassination of Jesse James by the Coward. Robert Ford and the pop aesthetic of Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette. Except with punk instead and you get some sense of what watching the true history of the Kelly. Gang is really like which may sound really amazing to you and other people. Yeah I'm I'm hooked so far. Yeah it's definitely a lot and honestly it was a little bit too much for me. Wants so much to be this fiery sneer. That doesn't conform do conventional biography and it's full of these big ideas about colonialism and storytelling and masculinity and challenging gender and sexual norms. The gang the Kelly gang actually wears dresses for me. It's just all too much of a performance of assault to really embrace and actually MCI is part of it. He's a really intriguing presence and has an unsettling physicality that he definitely brings to this role. A presence was kind of all he was in nineteen seventeen. That's kind of by the design of that film and I haven't read anything about his performance but I wouldn't be shocked to learn that he went really method here that he he went so deep. And as I said there's there's an intensity to it there's a real physicality to it but he's burrowed so deep into it. So deep into Ned Kelly psyche that he never emerges for me and I can appreciate the audacity of what Kerr's doing here and his. I our first shot of young. Ned actually is him peering through a slit in his makeshift home while his mother is engaged in a sex act with a paying customer. That's a British officer played by Hunnam and then later at the end it is big showdown with authorities. He's wearing iron over his head for protection. With the sliver is is that matches that exact same point of view so crucial knows what he's doing absolutely and he does have a really game cast Russell. Crowe shows up for a little bit in this movie. And there's a lot of fun as outlaw. Who Basically pays for? He buys a young Ned as an indentured servant to teach him the trade. And I really like Nicholas Holt. In this movie. He shows up maybe about midway through as a really charming despicable and entitled English constable. Who BEFRIENDS NED in the family? Until the family decides that they're not going to subjugate themselves to him like he expects everyone to do so some juicy fund performances here and crystals definitely doing allot as I said in terms of the filmmaking sounds like there might even be a little bit of animal kingdom in there too with the mother son Dynamic and of course the Australians setting so I. I'm intrigued by those comparisons. We'll we'll have to see if the catch up with if it works a little bit better for me. The True History of the Kelly gang is available to rent on demand right. Now the new one you caught up with Josh is called Sela and the spades the directing debut of Theresa Poh. It had its debut back in January at Sundance and it came to Amazon prime. This past weekend in your letterbox review you wrote any movie that mixes the DNA of mean girls. Brick and schooldays has my attention. We're all over the place with our references in this show so far. Tell me more. Yeah this this could be a lazy short and in some ways doing this exercise. But I think it's it is really helpful in this case because those are great films with distinct styles each trying to do something that maybe you hadn't quite seen before done in that way and mixing it all together is really exciting. That also puts a ton of pressure on a relatively small film like Sela and the spades and so I don't know if it's the sort of pressure this movie can entirely bare but I like that. All of these elements are in here that the basic scenario is selling. The speights takes place at an elite boarding school and we follow the illicit dealings and also the the relationships among various student factions there called and each of these factions. They're essentially like criminal gangs. So Sela played by Lovey Simone. She runs the drug-dealing spades. And you know there are maybe some Macbeth Lady Macbeth specifically comparisons to make here in her ambition and the way she holds grip on power. She does take an underclassmen under her wing. But as we come to learn you know it may not be the most altruistic reasons that underclassmen played by Celeste O'Connor now both of those performances are really strong by Simone and O'Connor There are some good supporting turns to. I could see this being one of those smaller. First films where two or three of the actors in them and this happened with mean girls as well right pop up in later films and you really see what what great talents. They have their There's also the whole criminal element calls on brick of course that this is going on among high schoolers beneath the adults is. It's kind of amazing. How little the adults have to play in in this world And then there are some really striking flourishes by PLO as director. And here's where some of the the school days Spike Lee school days comparisons come in because Sela is also the head of the spirit squad for the school and they have a direct address to the camera routine just about what. It's like to be a seventeen year old
Your Brain on Facts
It's The End Of The World! (Again
"In the village of Giddy Shem Devon England in the eighteenth century lived a woman named Joanna. South caught southpaw became convinced that she had supernatural powers and began selling seals of the Lord essentially tickets to get into heaven which people bought. She declared that she was the woman of the apocalypse as foretold in the Bible and that she would give birth to the new Messiah on October nineteenth eighteen forty one despite the fact that she was sixty four years old. My Name's Moxy and this is your brain on facts. We are living through a more uncertain than usual time right now. I wouldn't say it's the end of the world but others might and half history is rife with people who claim to have been told or to worked out when the end of days is coming. The list on Wikipedia is twenty four page downs. And that's really only focusing on Judeo Christian. Prophecies everyone from peasant girls two months to the mathematician who popularized the use of the decimal point. How Theory Cotton Mather? The influential Puritan Minister who played a decisive role in the Salem witch trials proclaimed in sixteen ninety one that Doomsday would occur in sixteen ninety seven basing the date on events that were current to him that he interpreted as fulfillment of Biblical prophecy when sixteen. Ninety-seven passed uneventfully. Mother changed his forecast. First to seventeen o six than seventeen sixteen and finally seventeen seventeen. Mother didn't make any more between seventeen seventeen and his death in seventeen twenty eight but he was still certain that the end was near Jonas Wendell along with other adventist preachers predicted. The Second Coming of Christ would occur between eighteen. Seventy three and eighteen seventy four after the prediction didn't bear out Nelson Bar. You're of follower of Wendell reinterpreted prediction to mean that. Jesus had returned in eighteen. Seventy four but he was invisible that does make it harder to disprove all grant you then. There was mother. Shipton the witch of York a fascinating blend of historical figure and embellished character. Born Ursula South the older and a thunderstorm in a cave in fourteen eighty eight to a teenage mother who refused to name. The father mother Shipton looked every bit like the iconic which would he skin hunched posture. Hooked nose the works. She made a number of predictions all of them in verse like Shakespeare's Weird Sisters in Macbeth. She said to have predicted Henry. The eighths disillusion of the monasteries the great fire of London the reign of Elizabeth I and even possibly the invention of airplanes on the telephone but the first written version of her predictions didn't come out until eighty years after her death and some of the authors have admitted to adding to what she supposedly said. So we're not one hundred percent certain if mother Shipton really said the world to an end shall come in eighteen hundred and eighty one but we can be fairly certain that it didn't the cave in which she was born is now a tourist attraction along with the nearby petrifying well items placed in the well are said to turn to stone. And that's more of a loose interpretation than an outright fable. The water in the well has a very high mineral content and those minerals will attach themselves to anything in the water making. It look like the object is turning to stone. Bona snacked the witches in Macbeth referred to usually as the weird sisters but were originally called the wayward sisters meaning. Good women who lost their way and been seduced by the allure of Magic Doomsday Predictions. Could come from the highest offices in the land. But that didn't make them anymore. True Pope Sylvester the second game pope in nine ninety nine seat with the auspicious-sounding date of the year one thousand looming so Vesta in a number of other Christian leaders foretold the coming of Jesus at the turn of the Millennium and many people believed it like really believed there were riots in the streets. Thousands of Christians fled to the holy city of Jerusalem and many attended what was expected to be particularly interesting midnight. Mass at Saint Peter's Basilica on New Year's Eve when the morning of January first on and it was clear the world had not ended semester and the other Christian leaders revised their predictions. Have you picked up on that trend yet? If Judgment Day hadn't kicked off on the anniversary of Jesus's Birth. It must do on the anniversary of his death. So so Lester. The second declared the world would end in ten thirty three but he was already fifty four years old and sure enough. Didn't have to hear any gainsaying when the apocalypse didn't come the second time because he'd been dead for thirty years a century later pope innocent. The third had a less obvious and markedly less nice reason for his end. Time Prophecy innocent blamed the Muslims Christians and Muslims have had kind of assorted past and innocent viewed Muslims as agents of Satan to his mind. The apocalypse would occur six hundred and sixty six years after the founding of Islam. Which would put it in the year. Twelve eighty four. He too died well before he could see how wrong he was predicting. The end of the world requires perseverance. If at first you don't succeed try try again. You've got to stick with it. Like the founder of the Worldwide Church of God Herbert Armstrong along with his sons Richard and Garner Armstrong picked up quite a following even before claiming that the world would end in nineteen thirty. Six and only members of his church would be saved the Great Depression and the dust bowl probably made it easy for people to believe that our collective ticket was about to get punched Armstrong then turned his sights to nineteen forty-three where the second war to end all wars lent credence to his doomsday claims when life settled into the post war normal Armstrong amended his prediction to Nineteen seventy-two a significant margin of error. People sold all of their possessions to pay for travel to Petra in Jordan. Which most of us know as the Resting Place of the holy grail from the third and Final Indiana Jones. Movie where they would be safe from Roy Moore three which Armstrong said would be all of Europe led by Germany against the US and the UK. World War three did not in fact begin. Nineteen seventy-two or the next mandate of Nineteen seventy-five in December nineteen fifty four Chicago Tribune headline read Dr Warrens of disasters in World Tuesday worst to come in one thousand nine fifty five. He declares the doctor was just passing along the predictions made by Dorothy Martin a fifty four year old housewife from Oak Park Illinois. Martin believed that aliens from the Planet Clarion had beamed messages into her brain informing her that a. Masoud flood would soon destroy the planet. Her prophecies attracted a small group of followers including the doctor who called themselves seekers. Many of the seekers quit. Their jobs. Sold their belongings and removed any medal from their bodies which Martin said would be essential for boarding the alien ship. That would take them away. They gathered at Martin's home on Christmas. Eve Nineteen fifty five sing carols while they waited to be beamed to safety. This wasn't the first time the group had gathered for their exodus. The aliens were supposed to come on December seventeenth but didn't then the eighteenth twenty first and finally the twenty fourth. As the night of Christmas Eve wore on Martin's followers became understandably inpatient finally at four forty five in the morning on Christmas Day Martin announced that God had been so impressed by their actions. He was no longer going to destroy the earth. Nice recovery. Though Martin had few followers their experience has left a lasting legacy. The group had been infiltrated if you will by a small group of psychologists and students from the University of Minnesota led by social psychologist. Leon festinger festinger wrote about the whole experience in when prophecies fail a social and psychological study of a modern group that predicted the destruction of the world. Kind of a lengthy title. But we'll go with it. It was in this book that he began to explore something. You've probably heard of cognitive dissonance. That's when two disparate ideas exist in your head at the same time and you feel uncomfortable until you can find a way to make them fit somehow. Festinger observed cognitive dissonance in the seekers. Who had to repeatedly convince themselves that Martin was right even after seeing with their own is that she wasn't
The Frame
Pop Music In The Age Of Covid
"Atty drowned himself in wine. That song came out about a year ago. When you were curly obsessing over the crazy times we were living in then. What new meaning does a song like that have today? I was thinking about that. Actually I was like I. I like that song even more now but I I was really writing at. Moore's a political thing and now it's it's just a more universal thing I mean this is like the black plague sort of thing and people online. I've been reading like there's a theory that Shakespeare wrote Macbeth and King Lear under for like eighteen months or something and so there's certainly a lot of time for at least creative people to buckle down and try to make something new but yeah we could all use some peace of mind and you know I actually have been taking some time out of the day to find peace like meditate or try to meditate. I'm not very good at it but especially the first especially those first few days of no school as just like I need something and it's not as not drugs or drink and I just needed some quiet time Does even five minutes was helpful. The amount of news about Corona viruses. Absolutely crazy so it's it's nice to put the phone down sometimes so the viruses obviously changed how you can work with other people and how. You're kind of self isolated. Does it change your priorities as a storyteller and what you want to talk about and sing about yeah. I mean I don't know but as a storyteller yet I don't know if I've quite been like oh now I know what to write about but as a human being and I think a lot of people probably feel a bit of this is a human being you kind of understand life in a different way that we haven't had to deal with in this country like we've seen people in Syria waiting in long queues for rice from the back of a truck. And we've never really had to do that here at least in my lifetime so going to the grocery store the past few weeks has been eye opening for sure and realizing how good we had it and how good we still have. We Have Electricity Water Internet net flicks all that stuff. I mean. We're pretty comfortable here. Imagine if all that was wiped away yeah I mean. There's a bigger emphasis in my life on my family on joy. I guess whatever however you get joy but just making the most of life and I think this is you know teaching a lot of people lessons as to what is really important in their life and what they would spend their time doing. And that's the silver lining. I guess you could say be. Beeman is a singer and songwriter. You can find his music at Beeman DOT com. That's B. H. I. M. A. N. DOT COM B. S. We go out. I WANNA play another one of your songs because I think it's a good song for now it's called. Can't nobody stop us be? Thanks so much for coming on the show. Thank you John.
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
Overconfidence: The Icarus Paradox
"Hey welcome to stuff to blow your mind. My name is Robert Lamb. And I'm Joe McCormick and we're back with part two of our discussion of overconfidence. That's right If you did not listen to the previous episode do go back and listen to that episode. Because we're GONNA lay the groundwork we're going to discuss overconfidence. Hubris and mythology in human histories. And then get into the psychology of it and what various psychological studies have revealed and continue to reveal about the nature of overconfidence. And how we can. Divide this sort of amorphous concept of overconfidence out into categories that can be more easily studied and understood. That's right now in the last episode one of the main things we talked about was this huge new review of the scientific literature on something known as the better than average effect. Which is the tendency for people to rate themselves as better than average with respect to their peers on all kinds of stuff One classic example is that something like ninety. Three percent of people think they are a better than average driver. And so if you're if you're listening to this as you drive is back on the road and make sure you use the turn signals principle. Stay save lives turn signals. Let other drivers and the districts. No what you intend to do. Even if you think you're a great driver drive like your less good than you are and it will make you a better driver drive like you can't see all the other cars and around you because sometimes you cannot drive like you're driving a murder weapon because potentially you are. It's quite true. Are Now one of the things we talked about it in the last episode was A paper from two thousand seventeen by dawn Amorin Derek. Shots called the three faces of overconfidence which Which actually broke. Overconfidence down into three distinct categories of of bias or misperception and And we talked about those a little bit last time. We're going to be exploring more of what that paper had to say. And it's critiques of overconfidence. Research specifically with reference. To these three types of overconfidence and has a brief refresher. The three types are overestimation over placement and over precision overestimation is thinking that you're better than you are and this would be with reference to some kind of You know objective measure out in the world so if you think you are taller than you are if you think that you can jump higher than you can if you think that you would get a better score on a test than you actually could. That's overestimation the next one over placement is similar but instead it's comparing yourself with other people so the better than average effect would be an example of over placement. It's you know thinking you are better than average compared to your peers at some task or it would be thinking that you know that you work harder than other people or thinking that you are smarter than other people of course with the. If it's overconfidence. Meaning that those are not actually accurate assessments and then finally the other one would be over precision which is being too sure that you know the truth Again this this might be called EPIs- stomach over-confidence it's just being too certain that your beliefs are correct now to get into more and chances paper from two thousand seventeen one of the questions that they address. What actually drives some of these different Effects as as they are manifested so they they start with overestimation what causes us to say think we would get a better score on a test to than we do or to think we have more money in the bank than we do a common answer that people give to this is the idea of wishful thinking. It would feel good if this were true. Therefore I believe it right the authors don't think that this Explanation is very plausible and they offer several problems with it and we can interrogate these. Maybe disagree with them as we go on but first of all they say you know self delusion is demonstrably maladaptive for example a tendency toward wishful thinking about the safety of kissing sharks. So with tongue is is not a trait that the environment will tend to select for people overconfident about their academic abilities. We'll tend not to study and actually do worse people who believe themselves invulnerable. We'll take risks that sometimes get them killed. This might seem obvious but there is actually plenty of research on this. I mean people who are over confident about their abilities. Do face a lot of downsides when those abilities are put to the test right. Yeah I mean one example from literature that comes to mind is that of Macbeth who believes himself protected by prophecy? And of course snuffs it exactly but then again I think okay so it is true that these people will face a Lotta downside but then again people do engage in self destructive self deluded behavior all the time. This is a common feature of human life. Yeah I mean for instance. We were just recently talking about Sepo Affect Our our movie episode. We're talking about the fly and a about the possibility that the placebo effect is is basically due to You know this innate tendency toward self delusion that may very. Well be adaptive in at least in this scenario where yeah we we benefit from being able to believe something is going to work and And experiencing at least a small physical benefit from it like a small cured of benefit from it. And then you know I also can't help but think that you know self-delusion entails far more than just over-confidence it also entails. All manner of paranoia and there is a strong case for the adaptive nature of say making type one error in cognition a false positive the belief that the Russell in the tall grass is that of a tiger. When it's not because of you make the type to air. You're more likely to be eaten by the Tiger. Right right yeah. Having accurate information about the world is actually very useful and having inaccurate information can kill you. Yeah but but I'm not so much you know trying to disagree with the maladaptive Self-delusion argument That we mentioned earlier but but rather you know to point out. The human experiences is rife with self delusion. So might a dash of overconfidence. Even in the form of overestimation serve do balance out this alchemy of of our perception of reality for example. Have a singer in granted cariocas very low stakes right but it could involve social embarrassment which you could fear would lead to ostracism. And that's actually one of the most powerful negative motivators human behavior right but again curiosity is also one of these things. Where like sometimes? It's cool to do it badly. So this is a perfect example. But so you have a carrier. Karaoke singer then imbibe in a little liquid courage before taking the microphone as most Kariuki participants are are want to do but yeah they they get a little liquid courage because they know they don't have the greatest voice in the world and then they feel a little awkward getting up there but but they they know that a little bit of booze induced. Overconfidence might help matters. I think you're exactly right there and this is funny to start here because I think while the authors make tons of good points this is one of the ones they make that I might disagree with the most. I think that there are antagonist adaptations in human behavior. One pressure might favor having an accurate picture of the world. Assessing things in a clear and accurate way while across pressure favor self-deception especially self-deception in the form of overconfidence. For example. You might be more likely to survive if you have accurate assessments of your own abilities but you might be more likely to take big risks with potentially big rewards if you overestimate your abilities Or Self Delusional. Overconfidence could be adaptive. Because it helps us persuade or even deceive other people about are worth. Yeah old ultimately you have to believe in yourself you know other people are not going to believe in you for you right. I mean we. We talked in the last episode about how. It's probably not a coincidence that you really often notice overconfidence in people who occupy high status leadership roles. Right how did they get there? I mean it's not hard to imagine. The overconfidence helped them get to that point. Yeah it's Something it's a fine sometimes terrifying exercise to like if you if you engage with people like this and then when you realize Oh. They're just really overconfident. They don't they're they're not to say they're not skilled but when you realize here is they're not sometimes they're not but sometimes you realize. Oh there. There is this gap between ability. And and and what? They're they're saying they're going to deliver on what they are. Estimating the future will consist of. Yeah I mean I. It is kind of shocking. How often in life? You will suddenly come to a realization that you know the boss. Or the leader whatever's main skill is B. S. ing. Yeah like that they can just go out there and wing it in a way that you would be too timid in reserve to do right now this idea of the accurate assessments playing into our. You know our own abilities i. I couldn't help but think of the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid scenario because really as it relates to two specific points in the film one is the the whole. Would you make that jump if you didn't have to scenario where they're being tracked? They're being hunted and they've come to this cliff overlooking this river and they realized that if they jump if they jump off this cliff may land in that river and they don't die they'll get away because the stakes are such that those pursuing them will not follow them. They will not make that jump if they don't need to. So so there's there's that and then at the very end there's kind of a going out the old fashioned way. Guns a blazing scenario where corner. They're going to slowly be killed and they decided to just go for it to just bust out shooting and just
Monocle 24: The Globalist
Michael Bloomberg — shiny new pebble or fool's gold?
"When the former mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg decided not to run for the US President in twenty sixteen. He said it was because he was unsure of whether America was ready to be run by a white white billionaire mogul. Well that's the Bloomberg could have another go. This worried that there's no clear Democrat candidate to beat Donald Trump will tell us more uh. La Bureau chief collateral Rabelo a very warm. Welcome back to the program. Collage tell us about Bloomberg and his bid. How serious is this is because by all accounts since two thousand and eight that has not been a presidential election without speculation that might Michael Bloomberg might run? Yes and what's important to get right here. Is that this move by Michael. Bloomberg doesn't mean that he's necessarily definitely running now at this point he's just keeping his options Sion's open. He's ensuring that whenever he eventually makes that decision he is allowed to run if he chooses to do so so hard that he has filing the paperwork work that is needed while he has filed the paperwork that is needed to become a candidates in the Democratic primary in Alabama which is a state that had the earliest filing wiling at deadline. His Adviser Stole The New York Times at the end of last week. That Bloomberg will decide for sure whether Ron within a matter of days and not weeks except now up there are a couple of things here. That are interesting I is how late this announcement is coming. And the electoral calendar there are fewer than and three months to go before the Iowa caucus and even since the mid nineteen seventies. The latest a potential nominee has ever launched his or. Her presidential campaign was by August of the year before the election than we are now in November if Bloomberg decides to make this one official before the end of the month and then as you mentioned in your question we need to ask why this change If you call him a Bloomberg announced back in March this year that he would not run for president and now it all seems to point executive that fact that he's worried about The Way Democratic primary is unfolding out so far and even as early as last month he had mentioned that he would perhaps consider a run. If Joe Biden. This is the former vice president Joe. Oh Biden decided to drop out of the race but all in all. If Bloomberg does end up running he'll have to scramble to make it to the debate stage so that people beyond his supporters know about his agenda and what he represents and we also need to take into account the growing unpopularity of billionaires among the left wing of the Democratic Party. The party does need to question whether or not Bloomberg's Ron. Ron will do more harm than good at this point in the race when the ultimate goal is to eventually defeat Donald Trump so there are worries that he actually him standing up against is going to split the center. But let's look at the other candidates on where we are with the polls Joe Biden's in trouble which is a huge issue The the campaigns have Bernie Sanders and particularly Elizabeth. Warren are not going that well actually Bloomberg has repeatedly attacked Elizabeth Warren. So he's coming into a failed which is already rather bad tempered and and not really putting a strong candidate. It isn't tape no and he is exactly as you described with the Bloomberg entering during the race. And we're ignoring a big factor. Here which is there's an argument that a lot of people say he is not a Democrat. He is more of a Republican than Democrat. But that's a whole different conversation but if we take into account Michael Bloomberg entering the race now the center of the party disappears and the problem. That's that's the Democrats have been facing. which is you have candidates on? Two extreme ends of the political agenda within the same party with Bloomberg entering during this. That divide was only deepen you will. You will have the same party Eh. One of the country's most known billionaires regardless of the fact that he has of course Experienced running public office running the biggest city in the country in New York City but he is one of the most known billionaires to and then you have on the other end. Candidates are advocating for a huge tax on people such Just as Mike Bloomberg so it will it regardless of who the candidate ends up being. You take the risk of eliminating a lot of the voters Not necessarily to vote for trump perhaps not vote at all because it seems like the identity of the Democratic Party does not exist and that was the main issue in two thousand sixteen and it just seems like a repetition ministry again which is a shame if you're a Democrat because actually last week Votes in Virginia and Kentucky seemed to indicate that in principle the Democrats are on the the the the recovery. Oh yes if you look at the results from us. We Cut The conclusion is that the Democrats are on a winning streak in Kentucky Talkie as Democrats. Andy here defeated The Republican Governor Matt Bevin and this was by a very thin margin and for over a day a Bevan refused to even concede. We're talking about five thousand votes. That decided this result wishes shows just how polarized it is right here. This is state up trump won by a margin of thirty points in two thousand sixteen so it just shows how the tide released turning and of course in many ways. It's victory is indeed significant particularly. Because you know Bevan ran a national campaign Consistently linking himself to president trump and not only. The trump makes several several statements supporting him. He even held a last minute rally with Macbeth into former Kentucky governor in the net for to ensure this reelection that now we we know didn't happen and if you look at Virginia the Democrats should take it as a big victory for the party This is the first time since nineteen ninety-three three that the Democrats won control of both chambers in the state legislature and governor and this has is allowing them to kind of redraw the the states legal boundaries legislative boundaries after the census are happening next year and it can help pave the way to solidify Virginia Jinya as a blue state from now on color. Avello on the line from Los Angeles thank you very much indeed for joining us on the
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Placido Domingo Resigns as General Director of LA Opera in Wake of Sexual Harassment Investigation
"Opera legend Placido Domingo has announced he was resigning from his role as general director of the LA opera is KCRW's Kaylee wells reports the seventy eight year old superstar has been facing sexual harassment accusations brought by more than a dozen women in a statement to mingle says the accusations have compromised his ability to do his job and that it's in the best interest of the LA opera for him to step down while he continues working to clear his name. more than a dozen women have accused him of unwanted groping throughout his long career those women say they believe in their careers would be threatened if they didn't accept his sexual advances now he's resigning as general director of the LA opera in canceling any future performances he was slated to star in a production next year last week to mingle cancel his performance of Macbeth at new York's Metropolitan Opera the met and performance halls in Dallas San Francisco and Philadelphia have all rescinded their invitations for him to perform the only opera call Domingo's contributions to the region's cultural life quote unprecedented and
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Plácido Domingo steps down from the Metropolitan Opera
"Opera singer Placido Domingo has left the match and says he will not be back. that's insane. the world famous tenor has backed out of the metropolitan opera's production of Macbeth which opens today because of how the company is handled sexual harassment allegations made against him by multiple women he's performed at the met for more than fifty yes yes long time
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Plácido Domingo steps down from the Metropolitan Opera
"Like Placido Domingo's quit the metropolitan opera's he faces allegations of sexual harassment he disputes the allegations in a statement but says his performance in Macbeth which opens tonight would be a distraction also says he's not going back to the met even if he is cleared of any
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Plácido Domingo quits the Met after harassment allegations
"New York's Metropolitan Opera says Placido Domingo has agreed to withdraw from all future performances at the opera house following two Associated Press stories in which multiple women accused him of sexual harassment superstar have been scheduled for six performances at the met including a Wednesday performance in the title role of Macbeth the mango disputes the allegations against them but said he feared his presence quote would distract from the hard work of my colleagues
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Big Brother 21 - Wednesday Night Sept 11 Veto Recap
"We we are two weeks away from the big brother finale got a lot to talk about here tonight on our recap sorry about the delay everybody who's watching live but if you only knew what i had to work with year on the road to make this show happen you would you would understand this mad scientist situation russian that we have going on here of course very excited to be joined here tonight by an esteemed member of the l. FC please welcome welcome the great most danny must how're you doing great i'm very excited to talk about one of my favorite veto competitions BB comics i'm very happy happy that they kind of did a back to basics thing and copied the same competition from big brother sixteen when they first did become a throwback a throwback a throwback robak for the bbc comex classic edition and a throwback to podcast i remember listening to fondly on my way back from mini rene apple when was puja and melissa were on a together many wednesdays ends days ago here he is back on the podcast this time with me here is the great poo poo how are you i'm doing good rob i'm happy happy to be here taryn might not listen to this because he's in new york but upgrade i just got an upgrade here no shade taryn just kidding very excited to be here and very excited to talk bb colleagues okay well very excited fun veto competition and we will talk through the looming not since lebron james puja has there been such a highly anticipated decision of what will happen on thursday night we'll find out live when we are doing our show from the SPCA theater here in new york city i'm out on strong island right now much like nicole and looking forward to our big live show on a thursday night but a lot of talk through you could use hashtag RJ scott saint-pierre is standing by to get us those questions later on in the show melissa how are you doing i'm doing great this was a great episode well a very very exciting veto results i i was so excited when i saw the news that call it won't be joe it's honestly like all day long she had been saying i have have to win this i like i need to do this for myself and for cliff and then she would literally promise to like cliffs family that she was going to win this she's like i'm i'm going to do it i'm gonna win it and most of the time when people say that on the show you're like okay are a sure you are alike that's probably not going to happen but she did it i mean that was insane she did such great job she smoked them i mean she got such a better time it was very impressive it's impressive run here here for nicole and i don't know if i have the big brother player sorta that at my fingertips that i could say is the parallel for this run that nicole is on the only person i can think of who's had a quick change in both capability to take it all at the end and also turn on the complex after having not is paris from be began six that is the only person i can compare her to it's been amazing it's been an amazing not even one week six days for nicole a where she was going into that double and where she is now we're seeing her in a whole new light on we're talking about an whole night and as a nicole fan as someone who was assaulting dear nicole has been a fan and ecole pretty nice to see i will take yeah let's say it's been such an impressive run where sure the odds on favourite to win right which is crazy i mean honestly think about just like the roundtable from last week and where we were basically saying like she's got to win something or else she's never gonna win this there's no way because the main argument going into the end was well well nicole hasn't done anything for these ago right exactly that's the thing is it just it everything is different now i feel like everyone's account nicole nicole hose the winner she's coming into the stretch like melissa draft whereas like a couple of weeks whoever wants their draft sucks so i hope nicole pulls it out because she is the only remaining person who may draft you know i it's been such an impressive turnaround greenlee i'm so happy and mila side you have to commend you on your draft the incredible job to land mccall in brown it was all me i i knew she was going to be the last one i knew that i was gonna get her it was all knee just to reset that was that there were two people left on the board jess and nicole i had the fifteenth pick whoever i didn't pick was going to go to melissa and i said boy gesture nicole nicole lock your parents in the basement i'd like to river but it just seems like a more normal person and the call i can't i can't see you take good luck with nicole lewis and i was like no i like their video video up at a little video clip of it has been kind of circulating around on twitter today and it's just it's so embarrassing 'cause i'm like i didn't pick her i don't want her now go to call you got this you're by doesn't matter if it's victory nonetheless if ends up coming in for the call okay but we'll talk walk through all the scenarios for the game a little bit but let's just talk through what was going on in the episode clear we started with everything going on with tommy he was feeling sorry for himself and he ends up saying that okay i am going to end up coming clean to macbeth to jackson accident holly and he ends up telling the backstory of him in christie that they knew each other yeah so i love the way they set this up on the show because i feel like it was pretty much the exact same thing we were seeing on the feeds on saturday and it's one of those situations where they're just just talking so much smack about christie his face and he's just sitting there and taking it and taking it and then you just got i'd i just need to get defensive now and just kind of also blamed christie by association just look hey i knew her coming in at the play the cards i was dealt it's not not my fault she kinda lost herself like this is just this is why this happened and i loved it it reminds me of a situation on a movie where you know there's a group of the people and their talking a lot of smack about this one of the personnel burden comes as well i've been dating them secretly for three months so what do you have to say about that now nice well well if you think what you guys had to say is bad you should hear what my aunt had to say about her because i'm i'm sure yeah i'm sure my aunt was even she was even go after worse drag her so yeah sure the aunt has some breakup jersey i mean you never wanna go to hard into with the break-up stories because you don't have to break up is gonna take but here in in this instance since i don't know if tommy in christie you're gonna get back together after the season is over melissa yeah and i mean the way that this was put on the show did not make holly look great it made her look pretty bad and pretty mean and she's like i mean i sound download the mean girl right now and like no one says anything like no one says no you're not being it was just like tom he's kind of like it's okay i understand but it just did did not look good for holly i feel like today's at it wasn't great for her i mean this whole time she was kind of able to remove herself from this like bullying mentality or whatever whatever like this mean girl mentality and because she was always able to say like well i didn't have any part of it and it was it was in my heart and like i just felt like i had to go along with it for the game the christie's out of the house this is a game at all it's just like the smack jog somebody this is a great point about holly and i really feel like we've all been going back and forth of what's going to be the best move for nicole and forklift going into thursday and i have to say i think i feel more adamant than ever especially when we're talking about tommy versus holly holly has started to become so unimpressive puja off i almost i feel like i don't even see a scenario where holly ken win why would cliff and nicole wants to get rid of her yet yeah it's talking to parallel to nicole going from poppy not winning anything to now being the front runner is that holly coming into the week was kind of everyone's like like chalk okay if she makes it there she's got everyone beat she might have to work a little bit against jackson but she's got this going where why are they being picked off right now why holly being looked at right right now it just comes down to the fact that holly and mickey are jackson as we call them or a pair dr jackson yeah yeah that was so great by the way i didn't think of it we'll do all the comics and a little bit just basically basically comes down to the fact that they got rid of a pair it was a three way standoff of three pairs and now this is another pair and now there's an opportunity in front of them to maybe take take that one down we've all talked about at length of how impressive jackson's run has been since the blow up of forty four and here we are now and he could run on it to the end and this is something they see as handicapping jackson it boils under that yeah have you weighed in on on what you think cliff and nicole should do know because i got on the update the day before all this went down so my viewpoint from the get-go was it's a two out of four with the pair of nicole and cliff and then you've got a singular tommy a singular mickey if you're why don't you mickey out of nowhere jackson accepted yeah it's happened finally watermelon seed planted in your head i wish it was seedless those are better however yes so if you take holly out here these to see each other as biggest threat to win at the end they fully believe it at least that's how i'm taking it so my belief was coming down if they get to the final four these two are going to go after each other they're going to want to target each other even though cliff and nicole are sitting there as a pair why because even if we've just seen nicole when two competitions out of the last four in the last six days that's impressive we've seen cliff come out of nowhere when competitions when no one bought it was possible he's had his moments but jackson's run is unparalleled his competition wins have been ridiculously insane outside of here he's pretty much want everything that he's been really good on the flipside tommy has not not been a slouch in these cops he's coming second in a lot of even this one right now would-be comics so they go even if they win their have to look at taking each other out so that's where i stand is holly going out is better and i'm not gonna lie i wasn't one hundred percent in because everyone has said this is one of those ones where there's no rude winning pick either works i think as the days have gone on here and just the game we've seen just the conversations we've seen it's getting more and more clear that holly going is the move here okay melissa i'm much more in the tommy should go camp because i think that tommy i can see him winning competitions here down the stretch and could tell me this is crazy could you see tommy winning the final goal three h. o. h. and potentially taking jackson to the final two is that crazy to imagine that i think that it's possible however i mean like i don't know i don't think it's crazy but i think that the odds are he wouldn't because first of all well if he does that i mean he already knows that holly would vote for jackson so that automatic probably receive oh automatic jackson votes and then that would cancel out his chris evokes his christie does like the one like yes christie is gonna vote for me so then renders christie vote kind of move and then you know i i just think that he i don't think he would take jackson just because i think that he jackson are automatically has some votes associated with him uh-huh whereas nicole and cliff it's up in the air we don't know who's gonna vote for nicole and clip tommy as the argument first of all against clip that like i've been working this whole time i was in these all these alliances blah blah blah and i'm the last man standing from the alliance nicole and clifton do anything the whole game yeah sure they like you know they could say that obviously i disagree i think cliff i've
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Gun control laws signed by N.J. Governor Phil Murphy
"I know the pain of losing a child again violence and that anyone in this room anyone in this country should ever be faced with that pain for every single day that we fall off into not taking action mothers and fathers August across this country will live to the same nightmare that I did that was congresswoman Lucy Macbeth of Georgia yesterday before the the House Judiciary Committee voted to advance three bills designed to counter the gun violence epidemic in this country including one that would allow authorities to take guns away from dangerous people known as a Red Flag Law. It's the latest gun safety push from the Democrat controlled House which voted earlier this year to require background checks on almost all gun sales something supported by the overwhelming majority of Americans but Senate Republicans have refused to take up any gun safety legislation with Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell insisting that he needs to know what Donald Trump would sign before he brings a bill to the floor which is unusual because the Senate is part of the Congress which is a CO equal branch of government but it's not actually necessary for them to know what the president will sign before voting on legislation today. Donald Trump said he was working with the Senate lawmakers on gun safety measures that will be quote quote acceptable to everybody another things that seems unattainable but he appears unlikely to support even moderate gun safety measures despite a recent spate of mass shootings just last month he reportedly assured the NRA that universal background checks are off the table with Republicans continued to struck gun safety measures at the federal level level. Some states are stepping up in New Jersey this week. Governor Phil Murphy signed an Executive Order mandating that his state not do business with gun manufacturers and dealers that do not adopt opt more stringent gun safety policies joining me now to tell me more about this New Jersey Democratic Governor Phil Murphy good to see you. Thank you for being with us. Thank you for having me Ali. We have seen across this country over the last few years a gun safety advocates point this out all the time that while the focus seems to be on the failure of Congress to pass meaningful legislation on gun since nineteen ninety-four in fact there has been meaningful legislation passed in states across the country including things like red flag flag laws which your state has and they argue that in fact a lot of progress is being made on that front alley quite appropriate. You have a discussion on public safety on this solemn day so so God rest the souls of all. We lost eighteen years ago. Yes there's been progress at the state level because because we frankly have no choice. There's inaction in Washington. I hope the president has seen the light in senator McConnell. I'll believe that when I see it but we have from day one in our administration taken a whole series of actions executive orders legislative action forming a coalition with other like-minded states called states for gun safety and yesterday as you pointed out an executive order that would require gun vendors financial institutions Russians that finance the those vendors as well as insurance companies to adhere to a set of principles that we think are consistent with the values associated with a smart mark gun safety state and we'll keep at it because at the end of the day we all need we all know that we need Congress to act but in the absence of that we can't stop it. We'll continue continue to stay at governor. We have a second amendment in this country. It is the law of the land regardless of whether people like it or not or think that rulings about it have made sense. It is what it is. How does does your new executive order. Stand up to that. When you say that these vendors these companies financial insurance companies live up to a set of standards that you you think are acceptable. How do you do that while standing up to a potential court challenge so we entered this the executive order and the execution of it in a spirit of goodwill so we're hoping to find common ground with the vendors and that's that's guns Samya mission other equipment with sped over the recent period of time about seventy million dollars. We have right now. Six vendors the deal with the state a again we enter that with a spirit of goodwill financial institutions. We spent a lot more in fees. I think we spent about a billion dollars in fees with financial institutions and lastly on the insurance carrier side. It's unclear yet what the exact magnitude is but none of what we're doing in in any way the challenges the Second Amendment this is asking vendors to to adhere to a set of principles that they respect universal universal background checks that they won't sell to Straw purchasers that they'll take training and communication seriously and likewise the financial institutions will choose in their dealings to finance only the vendors whether they be retailer manufacturers also would here to those principles. I I don't think any of that goes near the Second Amendment and I think we can make that case quite clearly. I would hope that we could continue to do so not just a New Jersey but we could. We could do that across sore country governor. I WanNa ask you really quickly. The President says he's GonNa come up with something everybody'll be happy with. There's no gun law that everybody's going to be happy with but there's common ground in those red flag laws across this country are you're an example of common ground where gun safety advocates have worked with with got advocates to come up with something that does not skirt the rule of law and due process in saying that there are people who are dangerous who maybe shouldn't have guns but that'll be adjudicated yeah red flag laws are a good example sample of steps that are broadly if not overwhelmingly supported by Americans of all political stripes universal background checks so I think clocks in at ninety percent. It's completely shameful. Congress and this administration have acted already on those steps hopeful so that they will but in the meantime I'll hope for the best it will prepare for the worst and keep here in New Jersey governor. Thanks for joining tonight. We appreciate a Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey
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A Week Into Government Shutdown, Ire Turns to Fear for Federal Workers
"Sonny Perdue says food stamps will continue through February initially the USDA announced benefits would run out this month. The Trump administration has sought to lessen the impact of the partial government shutdown IRS workers will be brought back to process refund. Checks news time six oh, four new this morning deputy attorney general rod Rosenstein days of the Justice department are numbers and Stein has communicated that he plans to depart the administration around the time that William bar, the Trump nominee for attorney general would take the office following a Senate confirmation. ABC's? Dave Packer says it does not appear Rosenstein is being forced out over the Russia investigation. New Georgia congresswoman Lucy MacBeth co-sponsors a Bill to expand background checks on gun sales
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Wolverine comes back for a second season
"The latest from pod news dot net. Marvel in Stitcher present wolverine marvel and Stitcher have announced Marvel's wolverine the lost trail. It's the second season for the quote critically acclaimed scripted podcast series available exclusively on Stitcher premium in quarter, one two thousand nineteen and on other platforms later, the US midterm elections are taking place today. Pews after the fact podcast focuses on research surrounding voter attitudes and top issues during this very different midterm environment. Plenty of other podcasts, we'll be covering the election as well. We don't care how you vote kind of as long as you do or phonic online tool that processes podcast audio has announced further customization of its a level or controls. It's a good way to get your Luff's level. Right. The ear is an erosion zone. So says the Paris podcast festival. Sarah torpor off went there. Luckily, she's speaks French. So she was able to understand it. All. Willing to a write up of the event and to a job with charter school who are looking for a product engineer based anywhere you like in the US almost tangible has recorded a performance of MacBeth entirely on location at Glamis Castle in Scotland the recording is done in full by neural for an added immersive effect. It's the first in a series of audio plays from the company.