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AP News Radio
Adam Sandler gets Mark Twain prize surrounded by celeb pals
"Comedian and actor Adam Sandler accepted the Mark Twain prize for American humor in Washington at the Kennedy Center on Sunday. I'm Archie's are a letter with the latest. Adam Sandler has a tendency to cast his friends in his movies as those friends pointed out multiple times. Conan O'Brien joked so many of Sandler's Friends were there to pay tribute because when Sandler is not working, they are not working. Drew Barrymore, Dana Carvey, Luis Guzman, Jennifer Aniston and Chris Rock were among those honoring Sandler. Rob Schneider says Sandler's appeal is that he's an everyman. You sense the anger underneath there. And he said it's a frustration because you have frustration. CNN will show the Mark Twain ceremony this coming Sunday.
Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
Carol Burnett Has a Presidential Past
"So you've met how many presidents? I mean, everyone since Kennedy except Carter. Oh, okay. Am I a door? Yeah. And I met misses Carter, but I did not meet him. I met Obama recently. He does smell like cookies and freedom, doesn't he? Oh. Yeah. Wait, Jodie told? Yes. For the Oval Office. We were doing like 15 minutes. Oh, more than that. Yeah, and I loved it because there for the Mark Twain. And so ladies and gentlemen, Cabernet has also won the Mark Twain. In addition to 1750 Emmys, so we were told that we could meet him. So we all gathered there, you know, Jody and Aaron and all of us, my husband, and we were in the Roosevelt room. And it was a little hallway, and then there's a private door into the Oval Office. Right. So we said, okay, line up, it happened soon. He opens the door. Yeah. Obama does, yeah. Come on in, you know? And he took pictures and everything and then we sat and talked and even sat on the Oval Office desk. Yes, and it was the official photograph of the day. Yes, it was The White House. I was so thrilled. What a guy.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"mark twain" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Band The so called 5 p.m. porch concert band includes drummers percussionists keyboardists bass guitar saxophone and trumpet players and singers The students range in age from 8 to 18 Some also write the songs like this one And jalissa fenelon is 13 in the 8th grade at Mark Twain middle school She was looking for a way to take singing lessons but she didn't want to do them on Zoom The porch lessons gave her the chance to practice both her singing and her songwriting skills In person I want to be a famous singer when I grow up So this helps because I haven't been doing a lot of songwriting before I was in this band Rosetta Serrano is 17 and goes to the institute for collaborative education in Manhattan She plays the bass and she's been teaching She says it's been a tough time Obviously it was not easy to be a teenager in the pandemic lost an easy to be anyone in a pandemic And it was especially hard to be a musician too People who are used to being together riffing part of a larger whole were alone She says that's why the porch lessons and concerts have been so meaningful It was one of the only things that about the pandemic that didn't make me sad Fatima du Hayes is also a singer and goes to the institute for collaborative education She likes connecting with kids of all different ages The fact that I'm 16 playing with kids that go to middle school and even younger is incredible to me because we can all bond over music and to be doing something so communal is very important in these times.
Mac OS Ken
"mark twain" Discussed on Mac OS Ken
"A bummer of a story for fans of the Apple TV plus series mythic quest, CW longbottom seems to have left the building. 9 to 5 Mac ran a piece last week saying that F. Murray Abraham will not be back for the show's third season as to why that's kind of a mystery. It's possible the character was written off without revealing any spoilers in universe changes at the end of season two could explain CW's exit. And the real world filming for season two took special care, given Abraham's 80 plus years of age and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Or it could just be money. People who know are not saying the piece has a spokesperson for lionsgate, the studio that produces the show told Vanity Fair, F. Murray Abraham will not be returning to season three of mythic quest. Beyond that, we do not comment on matters concerning personnel. I may be hoping against hope, but the show's been picked up through four seasons, landscape only mentions the third, he's probably gone for good, but a guy can hope Apple TV plus hit with a few trailers for upcoming shows during my time away last week. Here is news of three. Now and then as a bilingual thriller coming to Apple TV plus in case you've lost track, the latest press release on the series has now and then is a multi layered thriller that explores the differences between useful aspirations and the reality of adulthood when the lives of a group of college best friends are forever changed after a celebratory weekend ends up with one of them dead. Now, 20 years later, the remaining 5 are reluctantly reunited by a threat that puts their seemingly perfect world at risk. Set in Miami and presented in Spanish and English the first three episodes of the show hit Apple TV plus on Friday the 20th of May between then and now you can catch the now and then trailer on YouTube. Between now and the now and then premiere Apple TV plus is a big con in the works. The Cupertino streamer issued a press release last week with a release date, a trailer, and news of a companion podcast for the true crime docuseries, the big con. According to the release, the four part series tells the unbelievable true story of larger than life attorney, Eric C Khan, who defrauded the government and taxpayers over half a $1 billion in the largest social security fraud case in U.S. history. It's really strange when Apple will let folks binge versus titles for which they make people wait. This one will require no waiting, I mean, after it starts, the press release says all four episodes and the companion podcast will hit on Friday the 6th of May, you can catch a trailer for the TV show now on YouTube. Before the big con and before the big bilingual thriller, Apple TV plus is hanging with people who hang ten. The Cupertino streamer released a trailer last week for the sports docu series, make or break, according to the company's press release, the new 7 part documentary series delivers behind the scenes access to the world's best surfers as they battle for the world title at the world surf league, championship tour. Once again, there is no waiting once it gets going. All 7 episodes of the first season will hit Apple TV plus this Friday the 29th of April. There will be more where that came from. Apple has already ordered a second season of the series. You can catch the trailer for season one on YouTube. Apple TV plus presenter John Stewart was honored over the weekend. As announced back in January, a piece from The New York Times says the longtime host of The Daily Show and current host of the problem with Jon Stewart was honored at the John F. Kennedy Center for the performing arts on Sunday Night with the Mark Twain prize. When the award was announced a few months ago, deadline described it saying the Mark Twain prize for American humor recognizes individuals who have had an impact on American society in ways similar to the distinguished 19th century novelist and essayist, Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. This year's ceremony, the first since 2019 due to the pandemic, marks the 23rd year that the Mark Twain award will be presented and broadcast nationally. If you're wondering how you missed that show, you did not the Kennedy Center site says the presentation will be broadcast on PBS stations nationwide. On Tuesday, the 21st of June. And finally today, congratulations to Apple TV plus for picking up a couple of awards that have nothing to do with koda and nothing to do with Ted Lasso. The Cupertino streamer issued a press release.
Focus On the Family Daily Broadcast
Pastor Phil Waldrep: Love Filters Us to See Victories, Not Mistakes
"That. Debbie and I, we have three grandchildren. Our two oldest, two oldest girls, they're now 7. One is she likes to do ballet and dancing and the other one likes to play soccer. And you know what I discovered? I discovered that my grandchild was the best soccer player and the best ballet dancer in town. And I would tell people, and here's what I'd say. I was lying, but I said it. I'd say, I'm not saying this is because it's my granddaughter. But she's the best one on the team. No, I was saying it because she's my granddaughter. You know why? Because love put a filter over my eyes that I could only see her victories and not her mistakes. Acts on my granddaughter, I could only see how she performed perfectly, not when she fell down. And when you put love as a filter, you look for people's good points, not their bad points. So your language is never, well, he's a good fellow, but so you can tell how you really feel. No love looks for people and it brags on people and it affirms people. And if you really want to make people feel love, you bragging on them when they not around. And you say things and we're getting back to them. Mark Twain said and he was right. People can live on a good compliment for 6 months. And when you say things about people and you sincere, you mean it, and they find out, and they feel so affirmed. You know how they feel, they feel loved.
AP News Radio
Jon Stewart to receive Mark Twain lifetime award for comedy
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Alec Baldwin sued for defamation by family of slain Marine
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Kottke Ride Home
"mark twain" Discussed on Kottke Ride Home
"Tuesday, November 30th, 2021. I'm Jackson Byrd today. How Mark Twain invented the bra clasp. Kind of. Plus, beavers doing the work of $1 million machines to restore land and prevent wildfires in a fraction of the time and for a fraction of the cost. And a new twist has emerged in the McDonald's milkshake machine lawsuit saga. Here are some of the cool things from the news today. Today is Mark Twain's birthday, having been born in Missouri in 1835 as Samuel Clemens. So I thought we should take a moment to honor one of his most significant contributions to society. No, not the adventures of Tom Sawyer, or even his description of fingerprinting as a method for solving crimes before it was a common strategy, which is true, by the way. No, no, I am talking about Mark Twain's invention of the bra clasp. Yes, you heard that right. Mark Twain invented the bra clasp. So Mark Twain was a big fan of innovation. He was friends with both Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. He claimed to be the first person in Boston to own a telephone for private use and was also one of the first writers to use a typewriter to write a full book. They're even exists one surviving film of Mark Twain that was shot in 1909 by Edison himself. As for his contribution to the forensic use of fingerprinting, there was a precedent of fingerprinting in ancient Babylon as well as an ancient China, but those were pretty much unknown to 19th century westerners. Twain's description of identifying a murderer via a thumbprint in his 1883 memoir life on the Mississippi and subsequent more detailed account of fingerprint identification in his 1893 pudd'nhead Wilson, both predate the popular adoption of fingerprinting as a forensic strategy. It was around the same time Putin had Wilson was published that the first known murder case was solved using fingerprint analysis. How chian was able to guess at this strategy and whether he influenced the usage of it with his memoir is a bit murky. But in addition to writing about groundbreaking technology, Twain also dabbled in his own tangible inventions, registering three patents in his lifetime. One was a board game to help teach children history, but it was so complicated that it never took off. He also invented a self pasting scrapbook because he was such an avid fan of scrapbooking and so annoyed by other methods of gluing items into his scrapbooks. His invention worked basically like a stamp in which the adhesive was activated when wet. And this invention actually did quite well. According to the West Virginia university libraries, which exhibits some of Twain's scrapbooks, he had made $50,000 from sales of these self pasting scrapbooks by 1885 alone..
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"mark twain" Discussed on Something Rhymes with Purple
"I've had a lot of worries in my life and most of them never happened. Which has basically sums me up mark twain twain. What is attributed margarine. The great thing about mark twain is that a lot of oscar wilde's lines in europe on attributed to mark twain in america and vice versa at he rose vinnie wise and witty man the great samuel clemens and he did say i'm an old man an known a great many troubles..
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
Horace Fletcher: 'The Great Masticator'
"Born in lawrence massachusetts in eighteen forty nine. Horace didn't play an instrument or hustle. Amateurs at chess no. He didn't cobbled together. Shoes in italy. Horace fletcher like the chew. As a young man fletcher traveled around performing odd jobs following his interests he worked as a writer and artist and even managed in new orleans opera house for a time. He loved to read and he indulged in many of life's pleasures mainly food. It was this pleasure. However that inflicted some of the worst pain he'd ever experienced in his life for one. As he got older he struggled with obesity and it side effects such as chronic stomach pains he also found himself being refused coverage from a life insurance policy or rejection. That sounded alarm bells for him. He quickly realized it was time to make a change one day while traveling to chicago on business the middle aged fletcher began chewing his food. He'd always shoot his food before but this time was different. He kept chewing and chewing and chewing until all that was left was a liquidity goo on his tongue. He believed that this was the key to proper digestion and weight management according to this new practice which he dubbed fletcher ism. All food needs to be chewed until it has been turned into liquid. Any solid particles were deemed unnecessary and could be spat out. It sounds absurd today. But at the time fletcher ism caught on. He became known as the great mass decatur and argued that his practice could increase a person's strength despite reducing the amount of food they actually eight. He also had strict rules about win. To consume sustenance followers. Were instructed to avoid eating when they were sad or angry and to wait until they reached the point. That fletcher called good and hungry. No midnight snacks for him. He started touring the united states giving lectures on his methods methods which were scoffed at by doctors and scientists as nothing more than self-important hokum. That didn't matter. Though fletcher ism had reached far more important spokespeople than doctors celebrities and titans of industry had begun shoeing with wild abandon among them. Were john d. rockefeller and author upton sinclair. Even mark twain was considered a friend
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"mark twain" Discussed on Keep It!
"And we will see you next week keep it. As a crooked media production the show is produced by caroline rested and brian. Semel is associate producer. Our executive producer is higher madison. The third think our editor is bill. Lance and kyle seguin is sounded in it. Thank you to our digital team. Matt degroot nar melconian and milo kim for production support every week. Stay safe be blessed. God loves you people say histories written by the winners but the wrong histories written by the biggest losers imaginable historians. The point is. I'm already dead. So i have no reason to lie. My name is edith wilson. And i was not the first female president. Tell me this is some decoy president and the real woodrow is stashed away in some bunker eating working on a medicine ball. This office is amazing. A big green oval and not a corner incite the first time in either of our young lives. Come young keep going patriot. Who helped the country stay together while the president took a little nap. Q code and cricket media present. Edith starring rosamund pike. Follow the show now to never miss an episode. Hey everybody it's john lovett host of love it or leave it and this month i'm setting all of my zoom enabled devices on fire and getting back on stage for crooked pride show out of the closets into the streets on june twenty-fourth. I'll be joined by every lgbtq person you can think of who said yes. Actors comedians musicians. Politicians drag queens. If they're not straight and they're they're the best part is you. Listener are invited as well out of the closets into the streets will be streaming on crooked media's youtube and twitter pages on june twenty twenty-fourth at four pm pacific time and you won't want to miss it. We have an incredible lineup. That's real when we recorded. he was originally. We know who's gonna say us now we know and it's great. We'll be fundraising for the trans justice. Funding project it community led funding initiative to support grassroots trans justice groups run by and for trans people for more information visit crooked dot com slash..
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"mark twain" Discussed on Keep It!
"So it's gotten entrepreneurial spirit. Yeah it's chaotic. Good is the phrase i would use for. It is a great ship but party down. What is what is party down. Why everybody in my ear about this show okay. First of all party down was show or stars starring adam. Scott okay we love delicious man. And it was about like cater waiters in hollywood jane lynch fucking jade ledge fucking hysterical at show lizzy caplan. Okay fine in the pilot. I believe enrico colin. Tony jumps naked into a pool which bright we need that once. Shore the episode. With steve gutenberg is like one of the most iconic tv comedy episodes ever made and also when we had lizzy caplan on the show she talked about how unforgettable that experience also all of these people individually are super super funny. Like it's nice that we got them together for south kristen bell so okay. Yeah at actually. Most of the of party has been on keep it. Wow yeah not. Jane lynch who was now a game show host so she's i obligated to get here. No yeah we can have. Jane lives on now that she's not Tweeting about her plumber. Oh that's right. I forgot all about that. It's all right. They make mistakes. It takes longer to travel up there. Covered heart was also odd party down and was funny on it so you know it was good yes. of course. kevin. Hart made me laugh all right. Where's rick and morty. Okay where's rick. And morty where search party. I will swap party down for search party search parties among the most like successfully of the moment shows. Yeah you know it's loved. It's beloved by capturing a kind of conversation that i feel like other shows try for and miss but also not really done yet. You've invented this criteria that i got atlanta's dining either i guess or fifteen two seasons. I don't feel like in rules It does or always sunny. Which has eighteen thousand fucking seasons. I don't think it has any time. It's not gonna stop that. The criteria ends with that one once you've gone past decade and it's still growing. I truly think one of the most damning things about the as that caitlyn olsen has never been nominated because on that show the feverishness of that character of her performance. Maybe perhaps the deftness with the punch line. I and i like her on hacks but it's always sunny. It's like it gives me a headache. How fucking good. Cheer you so awesome. Also fuck fox. For cancelling the mic right. She was really good nat too. So caitlin olsen have been my favourite film. My favorite pieces cinema lear. Oh yes that's the. Lisa kudrow was in boss baby so it's just an episode for me are done. I'm done. I've been done but it's just like it's become a pattern of behavior in twitter like i would like to just i want to have consistency ira anyway anyway. Anyway anyway we will see you back for keep it. I can't believe you and we're back with our favorite segment of the episode is keep a lot going on this A lot going on this week are yida yes. It was juneteenth. Happy juneteenth happening team. I wanna scream it from the from the hilltops. I wanna go tell it on a mountain. I want to do something about it. Girls girls were out. This is half this of course a celebration but also it's me so i'm irritated. When i'm having fun i went out. I went out to lamar park in l. a. experience. It was maybe like i wanna say. Seventy thousand people estimates there was a lot of it. Does that was a lot of people. I'm not sure how many but there was no walking space. There's a lot of kiosks a lot of places to buy african blacks soap shea butter. I've never bought so many shells in my life. A beautiful experience celebration of black people way way. Better than the juneteenth we had last year a really resonated with me about halfway into the day that we are exactly like a year almost a year out from like twins passing and george floyd passing and i don't know where the year went. I really don't know where the un so i spent most of the day. thinking somberly about about our people but also celebrating and having a lot of fun and critiquing are pan. African flag guys black red green. We gotta do something about it. It's just it's just a lot going on and there's so many iconography the branding. I would like us to graduate famously. Flags are good for people. I think i think the other day about the pride flag also kind of being ugly guys. Why is it is this. The first iteration to liberation we have to have an ugly flag and and then we can start talking 'cause every time you get sent something to with the colors of like a certain flight to always like these colors awful. I feel like the problem with the pride flag. The original one. I mean we have the ad ends now with the trans awareness etc. But there shouldn't be the same amount of every color on the flag. And i feel like maybe if there was a little less yellow which is so super saturated. Maybe it would be a little bit more palatable. I don't hate the flag. But i'm also like the flag is ready for criticism. Trans flag is cute. Those colors cute. Yeah okay and ice blue that speaks to me. Acquire wages period. Yes because i also want to point out that maganga estrada came out as trans on this week. Paul wall responded to her instagram. Where baby let me know if you wanna grill with the trans flat colors. And i'm like that would be cute. I would wear that. I would wear that. My teeth complaints. Is i know that there's a lot of unvaccinated people in the black community by nature of us being black and we was just outside in each other's faces with no masks on so i did have to leave about an hour into the event mining's -iety got the best of me so beautiful time. The girls are wearing their pat mcgrath. They're not they're ferrall human race. Everything was very very black. Very i like my ferrall. Hubert raised some for row. Tim's ooh very cute cute moment. I thought you're keeping in regards suggests he was going to be all the like back and forth online from people sang that like they were mad. That like you'll be became a holiday. Now oh obviously you know in the situation where you know. Critical race theory is being attacked schools. Right and you know. They don't want people actually even learn what juneteenth is but we have a holiday for it is fucked up. But some of the discourse went too far in the like. Why do we even have this day to celebrate. Any and i'm like people have been fighting for june team to become a holiday for years. So this just because just because you discovered what it is last year doesn't mean that you can now deciding it shouldn't be a heartache because you fuel type of way about it and i love an opportunity to just put my feet up and just take the day off such white ash..
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"mark twain" Discussed on Keep It!
"Edit the interview to where you were talking about. Basically like You had gotten to a point. Now writing and thinking about like who you're framing book for you know exactly and i want to ask you a bit more about that just because you know obviously we all ascribe to you know if you like black writers to live in that tony morrison. You know where she was like. I write books. Were black people. You know like when people are always sharing that quote right you know but i feel like famously. Not every black author gets to that And especially if you're writing As a black and gay author unfortunately got to deal with all white people. Unless you're writing from a certain specific part of the country you know So how have you been able to grapple with that. Because i will say you know you right less white people than james baldwin people love a you. Oh my god you're like our james baldwin. This is just like giovanni there are no black people in giovanni room. Why are you. I think about. It is sort of twofold. I think on the one level. There's the fact that like yes. Most black writers are like. I'm writing for black people. But what i find is that oftentimes those same people who are like. I'm writing for black. People are still writing for white people but under the guise of writing for black people like. There's the sort of like whiteness inception that happens in a lot of black art contemporary sort of like black especially in tv in film And so that's one aspect of it. Like i do that. Those people are often. I think they. They think they are making art for black people even though if you really kick the tires on it like there's a gooey whiteness center for And then there's the sort of real difficulty of as a black creative trying to like make our in a way. That feels trudy like what you wanna do. But you're like but are white people going to get in the way. Are they going to find a way to like. Get in between me and the people. I wanna make this or you find yourself because oftentimes the way you've gotten into those positions to have those opportunities to be a creative is by internalizing certain defense mechanisms. That let you like slip around the white house you know so you get really good at accommodating like white people's like petty feelings and stuff and so you to you that can result in sort of toning yourself down in such and so for me. The way that i navigate that is just to be like. Would i find this boring. Would i shit talk this thing. That i made in the. Dm's you know. Like like this piece of art. That i have worked on. Would i if i were encountering out in the wild what i send this linked to my black gay friends and make fun of it and the and if the answer is yes i go back and redo it. You know because. I feel that if you because we all know we all have that one group chat where we like roast the bad black art. That's out there that we can't rose publicly and so i think you know we are got that group read. I love it a friend of mine. I think i think my friend jamal. Brinkley once tweeted like the best literary criticism in america's happening in black people's group. Dm's on twitter. And i think that that's right. I think that that's where you're finding those honest appraisals and so when it comes to my own. I decided not just like have that. Be the key key on the twitter but like have it be a part of my practice. Like when i'm writing a story or working on a book when i'm the stuff that i most deeply invested in getting right is the stuff about being a black person in a contemporary world. And whenever right a black character. I'll be like okay. Would i roast this in the playoffs. And if the answer is yes. I'm like okay. It's got to got to redo it. And if the answer is no i'm like okay. I feel like i've done my job. That being said of course people are going to roast it anyway. Because that's what we do stuff we love but also that's like an incredible standard like i don't know if i were writing something i'm like all right. Well somebody somewhere is gonna roast. I'm just like i think that takes like in order to recover from such a tough criticism. You have to really think hard. Unfortunately because the thing is like honestly i would roast a lot of things i would. I mean yeah right For me it's like it's a very particular very specific kind of roasting that i think Black people do with other black people about black art. There's a very particular set of like metrics. You've got to like clear before it's like okay. This is like a real authentic thing and it might have things that are great and things. That aren't bad but at least it's not terrible about blackness and so it's a very particular set of standards that i'm that i'm trying that's how i negotiate that question of like am i making bad art for white people I think one of those things too is the fact that as artists and creators. We often have friends who are also artists and creators. and i think that you sort of gravitate towards people who share your same taste. So why would even offer ally. Louis get worrying about whether like black people are going to be rotating art but you know like our other fronts you know like the ones l. a. it's like constantly thinking like. Are they going to would. What would they comment about this. Oh no i text threat police if you've ever made a front facing video on instagram. I'm sorry life was ruined in these. Dm's sarah no. I'm like my life is flashing. It doesn't feel out of the norm for me though because one of my favorite things about reading anything about even say like baldwin and the other black authors of the twentieth century that we love. I feel like they were much more public in there. Like of each other than people do now. People now are worried about doing it. Because down in the dmz and stuff and i know that ship was also private back then. But you know people would you like full-throated like drags of each other's work..
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"mark twain" Discussed on Keep It!
"I feel like everyone was discovering new books I was so excited to read it. Because one you were writing about being black engaged in the mid west so typically records kansin specifically like a state and then from But also you know a a no madison wisconsin very well because friends of mine from high school went there and visit them sometimes and it was just such a exciting book to read and also. I'm so fucking jealous of your pros. I think roxanne gay pointed out to. I mean like the pros is phenomenal. The pros is the main reason to be there. I mean fuck you storytelling. I wanna live in your pros honestly. That's all i've ever wanted to hear about my writing. And so i am now close to all further. Compliments a pros. I mean i to such. I'm there for the pros honestly. But i'm so thrilled that you that you've found it well. Hopefully not to trigger madison. Wisconsin is a very freighted place for the black gays. I feel it's very particular place Yeah i didn't find it trigger ago. Though i will say i got the wildest email from someone who i feel like. They were white but they send me an email and they were like trying to remember this word for word but it was like there. Were basically just mad. That i recommend the book because they said i am really upset that you would recommend this book for me to read because i'm reading it and you know and it was very it was like it was very hard to read and at the ends. You know. it's like there weren't even any answers to do. It was just sad. And it made me feel sad. And you should be recommending these kinds of books to people and i was like god damn. Have you read literature before. It's it's always to the back in the correct answers. Yeah it's not. It's not a algebra. Is that a eyes on the prize. It's not a call to action documentary so was a really shocking review. Incredible these people who white people who when they read the book. We're like this just made me very uncomfortable. And like. I don't know if i liked that and i was just like a welcome to be in black great to feel either. You know there. And then i always feel sort of conflicted when white people recommend the book and then they'll give trigger warnings for racism and i'm like i think early warning. It's it's a weird. It's a great book but you will feel really sad because there's some racism in it. That's so helpful to know as an onlooker. Thank you so much and also speaking of responses to your work something. I thought that was interesting. When i read an interview of yours. I think it was the guardian or g. q. I apologize for not knowing that you talked about specifically the kinds of words. You hate reading when people review your books and two of the words. You use where i thought were interesting raw and visceral and i'm like okay. I'm thinking about when people would use that kind of descriptors and it does feel like it's kind of only for black writers like it's just like a familiar trope. We return to and i was wondering if you had other just things you return to things that are actually cliches. That are meant to be like wonderful compliments. So yeah ron visceral for sure Music they love the throw end. Ask the whole book ribes god. It's just a wrap. They love authentic. That's wine. They love a hot authentic. They love a searing new voice. It's just like things that are just painful like any like if you don't know if they're describing about appendicitis or a book usually the author that they're describing is like a brown or black..
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"mark twain" Discussed on Keep It!
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"mark twain" Discussed on Keep It!
"Charlie's africa not lease talks to african americans. Only one baby can only be one. Oh okay the the other news. That i don't have much information on is a football player. Came out as gay yesterday. Car on the eib. A play for the las vegas raiders. Which who've what's hoover the case. We're about to be wearing raiders jerseys. This don't do that to your nigga. Yeah pleased pleased. Are where the raiders. Jerseys let it go let it go. Also he may or may not still be a registered republican as he was when he played for tampa so so spoken very easily for someone who deemed his person and posted it. So okay that was. That was that was a little bit What what do you say. human okay As it's all right i don't. I don't have my twitter anymore. I have to make jokes somewhere. Any was funny sometimes. I can't tell if you're doing accent or simply passing out because that's how airbus like your brain was here in the air to the braves down here. I like coach or oxygen okay. I just always have flashbacks to michael jackson walking past me. Louis thank No his statement about coming out. That was pretty rad. In terms of queer athletes. I also want to say something about sharia richardson. Who is the one hundred meters sprinter. Who will be representing the us in the olympics. She has a girlfriend. She had flame red hair during her trial which was inspired by her girlfriend. This woman also seems fucking hilarious which we need an athlete. What like adam rippon. That's a rare situation an athlete who has like an awesome sense of humor. And this really gets me hype for the olympics. I know there's problematic parts of the olympics like they displays poor communities whenever they build these fucking stadiums. But you do get like a new kind of athletic star that you don't find in any other venue so excited stuck in rashes. Joe nails yes. It's made amazing amazing. We need the flow. Joe photo shoot. Shut out the my favorite athlete. Mommy soccer yes i mean. She's dating corday but pretty gay. So i can't. It's against us. We'll be. We'll be right back taylor. I can't go back to act. Keep it is brought to you by feels. Cd is about what you feel. It's about what you don't feel which is stress anxiety. Pain and feels is a better way to feel better. I'm naturally anxious person. And sometimes i can't sleep or sometimes i can't focus even one hundred sitting down to watch television. I mean it's usually days of our lives which is very stressful. Everyday so feel is very careful in calming me. Down the cbd hopes and then it's even.
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"mark twain" Discussed on Keep It!
"The twenty. Who the fuck is doing that when album cover baby and baby it'll look like you it'll start off. What is what is the. What is the thing. That might so speaking of earlier. When i was saying two thousand and seven was a weird weird time. Nikki was working on her first. Mix tape with the little boys. As i'm sure and t pain approached her and said joe i love your music. I just wanna make us on what you and she was like. No no. i'm working on my own music. Honey and two thousand seventeen pain like he was on the charts. This was this was an artist and he was a a mixed tape. Artist is trying to figure her stuff out but so for her to deny t pain. He recently went on the eighty five south show carlos miller and she go being celebrated team listen to the registry but that sounds like she was being an independent one. Man i'm not mad at her for that now but she. She apologized for it. T pain like told us that it happened and then she she was like maybe i have my own music to make like i. Can't i support it. I love it. I'm not mad. At nicky pedal deserve that song. We deserve this. Is this true. We do deserve that saw. What then that was like the era when he was like making a sorry for britney on blackout hot as ice. A fire esau. I love that song by the way somewhat rare to hear stories of celebrities being even remotely kind of rude to each other. That reminds me of the famous story where. Tmre went up to charlene. Darren at some yoga studio was like such a big fan and according to allegedly. Charlie's laughed in her face. So i'm just saying. I can picture it. Don't know the veracity really. But i'm stretching negro this comeback. My name is charlie's africa not lease talks to african americans. Only one baby can.
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"mark twain" Discussed on Keep It!
"Go anyway about this. Michael castillo news that we tried to get into last week but we only knew half the story. We hadn't seen untucked yet right but you gotta stick around for. Yeah yeah you gotta watch the queen's sipping stuff and yelling at each other so it's been a busy pride month for chrissy teigen. After pass tweets of hers resurfaced in particular one suggestion. Courtney stodden should take dirt. Napping ounce christie has apologized dropped out of project stepped away from her cleaning supplies brad and gone on the defensive against designer michael castillo who. She's accused of doctoring. Dm's i want to. I say that this story gives me a headache. There are two people on both sides accusing the other doctrine tips. So it's truly like spy versus spy at this point Harriet figured out. I was going to say which part noisy the most having to remember. Corny scotland or having to look up. Michael costello because both pained me so much you have to go deep into other wikileaks to find this information. Yeah i don't mind. The courtney stodden stuff. But i do get like full body chills remembering her ex husband. The one who was on lost right. Yeah that man's creepy. He was fifth year old dating a teenager. Yes it was bizarre. Yeah yeah so. I was remembering that man. It grows up the michael costello stuff. I know that he was on project runway. But then i'm also like Do people wear my castillo. Well here's my thing. They must because whenever i go to palm springs and on the walk of fame there and i'm looking at names like beverly johnson and victoria principal. Then next to them is michael costello so he's clearly gotten around saying that's like the hollywood walk of fame but the palm springs walk of fame. Means you've probably put a kaftan on somebody fabulous once or twice then lewis. You should certainly have a couple of stars. It does feel like yeah right so like i said. The story is very confusing. Because get a when chrissy obviously was apologizing. For telling courtney stodden to Take a dirt nap in private dm's and in tweets Which which we address last week in my keep it so we're not going to relitigate that but do want to point out that The apologies don't specifically mention cornerstone right at all or any of the people by name. You know they're very the very loose apologies. Yeah very highlights for children. you know. Fill in the adjective yourself. Still in the noun you decide who the apologies for i know. I know i know christie's team has like a template girl more you. They got more to and they're waiting off. Seventeen people in her crisis team but michael costello jumped in with his own acusations against chrissy since deleted post where he said. I didn't wanna do this. But i cannot be happy until i speak my mind. Never start a sentence like that. Yeah like we're all going to be impressed with your wild kanter. No matter what happens. I need to heal in for me to do that. I must reveal what i've been going through. I wanted to kill myself. And i still am traumatized. Depressed in had thoughts of suicide and according to him his harassment from chrissy teigen began after she left a comment on his instagram page in two thousand fourteen accusing him of racism after seeing what he claims was a fake racist comment photoshop by a former disgruntled employees to publicly embarrass him so he reached out to chrissy to communicate that he was the victim of cyber slander. And that the Dm where he was shown using the n. word was falsified and he says that she said your is over and all doors will be shut from there on and according to castillo chrissy teigen and her silence. Monica rose Went out of their way to threaten people and brands that. If they were in any way shape or form associated with castillo they would not be able to work with chrissy and his allegation is their anger is based off something he did not do. But since then people have come out of the woodwork to say actually michael costello has treated me like shit including one leona lewis of bleeding love fame and also better in time an underrated second times. I mean mrs glass. My favorite from her album spirit. Okay superfan come out. I could i could give you the from echo to okay I cannot join that but all right. And of course the avatar soundtrack. Let's not forget her other contribution to society but anyway she said that he shamed her for not being the correct sized aware something of hers and at some sort of fashion show. She couldn't even be dressed properly. And the press astra. Why aren't you in this fashion show. And she couldn't say the designer in question wouldn't dress me because my size was incorrect so she felt humiliated by that. Also i remember leona lewis being a cool size to for all of her girl. Yeah that season of the x factor by the way legendary. Oh my god her performances unbelievable. I'm sorry seems to be the hardest word i feel like. She was a celebrity. That was quietly swept under the rug. Maybe i should become a fan because she gave us a lot. You should uh. She's one of those musicians. Sort of like a natasha bedingfield. Who got her own. Recent reigniting in popular culture. Thanks to talk rediscovering unwritten. But i feel like leona had like a couple of really good albums and they're definitely albums that i sometimes i put on and spin from time to time and i remember the cover of spirit just like her face you know and like her flowing main like on the cover to giving us janet jackson mostly golden hair in the front two thousand and seven when all this was happening was a strange time where people were like fighting for space behind timber linden maroon five and we already had alicia keys so we were like liana who are you. What are you doing. Which by the way twentieth anniversary of sars at a minor recently happened and i listened to that album. Getting what slaps a dozens to be honest. And and i'd forgotten about it. Because i feel like we've gotten diminishing returns with alicia keys albums sense then like moments. Were you know she's singing. This girl is on fire on an awards show and then gabby. Douglas is cartwheeling across the stage. Not moments i care to remember think is losing for us. Yes yes. But i will say that. That album is pretty fucking great Girlfriends piano and i joe. My memory of that era unfortunately is it was about. You had to choose between keys and blu cantrell and guys. Let's just say i went with. You chose the conventional pick. Let's say that you have to choose. I felt was. Was anyone choosing cans. The answer was me because when you first of all when you bring up your shopping buddies and a song and their name civilization mia guess what now. I'm your friend that's how it works when you're when you're hit song is about vengeance now. I understand if you read the lyrics to fallen. She's not achieving bud. Literally there. I don't think nor do i think literally is a word but i think my favorite sh- alicia keys song would have been on the follow up album. Which is you don't know my name is that right yes Really good songs on that one too. You know as a as i am fan. That's when i tapped in. I believe no one collaborations. So they can. I was in my favorite keys. Era is the one where she told us that she would stop wearing makeup and then was sneaking a light mascara before the awards shows. I'm a little bit longer. The lying of alicia keys That out as i also at maybe has my favorite one which is where do we go from here connex. I do want to say that. I went on a date with someone recently They were stylus and had worked with like alicia And obviously the no makeup thing means that like there is an extensive amount of skin-care and prep and mass. And stuff like that. So she's coming out with glow No light skinned woman going to tell me not to wear makeup okay over here. We not talking. Okay let's get back to michael costello and leona lewis. I just wanna say then. It was alleged that not only was doctoring. These dm's but in fact spelled chrissy teigen's name wrong in some of the guys. You shouldn't need. That's literally something that an encyclopedia brown level detective could solve like. He checking the lettering with his magnifying glass from his science kit and discovered. You are adopting a fraud. You have to figure this out. They also pointed out that she wasn't verified in these screenshots which is fine but you know like he leads the screenshots came from a certain year like he had taken him in twenty fourteen and save them so a lot of things weren't matching up the amount of stupidity negligence. It takes to mess up the screenshots. Just do better. Just do better. Don't come for chrissy teigen because look it part of all this. John legend coming to defend his wife my wife and it's never addressing the real issue but always the one that is. Why would someone dr. din's like there's so much going on behind this. John let's talk about that. I am actually also said that. We're adding to the history of somewhat problematic project runway. Alums 'cause i can't explain it. I want the best for them. Like for instance. If there's whatever thirteen designers into season how many of them can possibly become famous. It's the most impossible industry..
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"mark twain" Discussed on Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"Gets pretty cold. I was going to. Yeah i want to correct myself on the market. Frank yes mark twain not hemingway. We were close mark mark twain. Yes well i two great authors I did want to correct myself. And the common man is buying generators right now which is a sad commentary on our government but We're sports and.
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"mark twain" Discussed on Overdue
"He's surprised as all of us to learn all the stuff that tom new at the end when aunt polly shows up. And i mean i guess nominally stuff turns out okay because everybody in town thinks that jim. Jim's and alright guy and he does ultimately get his freedom and aunt. Sally who is aunt polly sister has announced her intention to adopt huck and so leaving us whereas huck stay much like the much like the end of tom sawyer with this opportunity for huck to have a family after all. Where's huck stabbed though ox. Dad died when they so in the river adventures segment they find. They come upon this like hut floating in the river. And there's a dead guy in there. And jim is like huck on. Look at the sky. It's bad luck or you know homework. And then at the end of the book it's like well. You know this thing. That happened three quarters of the book ago. Actually that that was your daddy die. Yeah has he. This is the stuff. I remember reading it. Everybody's laboring under a bunch of false assumptions Toward the end of this one and it made me kind of upset because they thought that cheapened the other stuff. Those happening in the book. And i think that there are many schools thought about this. Yeah reason dot com forgive. Forgive me for citing reason dot com book. Podcast does does mention that. The you know the critical opinions at this part of the book were tom. Sawyer shows up kind of sucks commonly beheld to suck. Ah and then the the article ends with a quote in huckleberry finn reveals in ugly detail the limitations of that adolescent mentality when confronting the reality of american race relations caught in his own solid. Cystic worldview tom. Not only is incapable of understanding. Jim suffering he puts the slave in mortal danger to fulfill his own. Romantic notions of escape. Enduring do so completely deconstructing. His signature creation twain not only forces his readers to reevaluate a national icon. He embodies the american dialectic. Got some very generous read there. I think it is also as well but but if you're gonna rival knowledge that is a way you can read it there. Either way i read. It was that it wasn't as good as the rest of the book. And it made me mad on behalf of all the non tom sawyer characters in the a because everybody every character in this book. When tom shows up is just a puppet for tom sawyer to manipulate with his little creepy kid hands. And i hate it. I found a a a scientific american article by maria. Kondakova from two thousand twelve said is huckleberry finn's ending really lacking non if you're talking psychology and kinda cova very deliberate talking psychology. The i'm talking. I read this book. And i hated this. It's really fun because cobras like listen. I'm not here to talk about the artistic merit to the book. I'm just gonna make a fun little argument for the fact that like this is like when you knew some jerks and college and then you haven't seen them in a while but then you meet up at a reunion and they start being jerks again and you fall back into peer pressure like letting them be jerks because it's real like that type of personality like slide and regression with people that have a big effect on you does happen I would have thought was a neat like yes. That's the thing and certainly things that teenagers do a lot but it definitely does not make for a cool ending to a book that has not been about that all the entire time i am fascinated by the alternate universe. That the rest of that..
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"mark twain" Discussed on Overdue
"It's multicultural so american literature should probably reflect that so he goes on to recommend. You could also read some relevant langston hughes or richard right. If your goal is to expose folks to twain in high school maybe you could just read the jumping frog story and then move on. If you want to talk about you know the narratives and books that center enslaved people. There are plenty of a slave narrative books that you could read. There's a pretty decorated twain. Scholar joscelyn chadwick who the gym dilemma. And there's an article in interview with her. I found in two thousand in the year. Two thousand where she suggests. You should totally read this book. But you got to be prepared to back it up and you could also read a book called yola roy. By francis harper. I was published in eighteen ninety two. It's one of the first novels by a black woman. United states and it also depicts. Slavery focuses on a black family. But that depiction. It's still challenging. So you gotta be ready for it but i. I don't know we were joking before. We started recording. That like we're going to come out of the spot like we will have the take that saves we're gonna figure it out. I don't think that we have to break it to you andhra. Don't think that we will. I think the thing that you'd said about like you can discuss the issues that this book is bringing up without actually teaching this book. If you yeah. If you'd rather avoid the like i think it is as to adults discussing the book. I think it is i. I prefer to have it with as originally presented and then evaluate it within the context of its time and with the you know the the critical or body of of work that has arisen around it like i value that stuff and i think it is more interesting for our literature podcasts to discuss the book in that context. But if you're in high school in you're trying to teach stuff like yeah you could just. You could talk about this without reading it. You could do something else like there. There are other options that are available. Yeah you could. What you probably shouldn't do is watch the nineteen fifty five. Cbs tv adaptation of this book. That come wheatley sounds roughing away completely removed jam as a character less. Ko with the issue at sure. Okay sure he's like the the sal you know the with the whatever. The word is for your secondary yet like your doer. d- do do attack. Your you know the one. Do your do agonised your dignity. Yes yeah or you could watch the nineteen seventy-five abc version. That has ron howard. I don't think that they cut him.
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"mark twain" Discussed on Overdue
"But also undercuts a bunch of other stuff and it feels like it's from a completely different book so yeah wasn't wasn't sure And we just. I think folks come into reading this book or talking about this book also from it being what is on that short list of the first great american novels for various reasons Say that though. Because i was trying to. Who's what like. What person are you envisioning saying like. Oh that's now. What's the sort of literary gatekeeper character. Who you're playing. When you put that voice. Oh i was about to read a quote from ernest hemingway so i think like a guy who fancies himself to be like ernest hemingway but not actually ernest handle like a guy that's important just teaches out of prep school. But he thinks for sure that if he had had to go to world war one he'd be ernest hemingway. He he's got like the two thirds of a novel in his desk that if he can just just just try a little harder. Yup z. hale. That's hemingway esque. It would be the next grade and this guy has one of those like target like quote blocks on his coffee table. That is this quote from hemingway. All modern literature comes from one book by mark twain called huckleberry finn. It's the best book we've had. All american. Writing comes from that. There was nothing before there has been nothing as good since and i bet that who baby herman melville would be like. Hey what's up. Maybe i wrote some stuff on those a little later when he. I don't know i don't think he i think moby dick was before huck finn. Was it really thought. I was thinking it was early. Nineteen hundreds but it's been a very long took like eight months to read moby. No oh jeez eighth. Eight hundred fifty one. Well i mean in hemingway's defense uh-huh long parts of moby dick or just so wailing manual. Okay really a book at all. So this quote taken specifically at a as a dig at melville is way more successful than perhaps value while the other. The other part of that. Hemingway quote is him complaining about how he didn't like the end. Sure which is if you must read it. You must stop where. Jim is stolen from the boys. That is the real end. The rest is just cheating. You're right you're right. He did say that too. Okay yeah well. I think the discussion of jim. In some of the controversy around the book as it stands you know here in contemporary society is probably best with a bit of framing the narrative itself. So maybe we take a break and then come back to set the stage with the book. Sure cool greg help..
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"mark twain" Discussed on Overdue
"My name's andrew. Welcome to our book podcast. Welcome back we're back. We're here with through the through the miracle of time we require. We have not experienced the show. The way you have this last week we recorded an episode early. We recorded our our moon quest episode early because we had stuff going on. Maybe every time we go more than seven. Gregorian date is between recording podcasts. I feel like it's been months. Yes is correct. It feels like we are learning how to podcast again. We're base. i don't remember how to do it anymore. Okay when for our book podcasts. Where one of us every week reads a book that we've never had before tells the other person about it tells you about it. We have some laughs. we have some cries. Find out a little bit about ourselves and about you somehow at home. anyway. I don't remember how to do it anymore. So this one is bad. I'm sorry that it's bad. Okay we're all doing our best. I think it'll be fine. We should probably a few minutes and now talk about what book we are discussing this weekend. Ripple read read the adventures of huckleberry finn by marcus twain. His name yeah marcus well. His real name samuel clemens but His pen name is marcus to mark twain. That's him we have previously discussed. Ms twain's work on episode fifty nine The celebrated jumping frog of calaveras does use pronounce the zero that i put into our episode numbers to make sure that they organize correctly when i'm looking at them in windows explorer. Yup we all episode episode five nine. Go back and hit that one. We also talked about mark twain recently on episode. Four seventy three. When i read the adventures of tom sawyer. For the first time we got an interesting response from one or listeners. Twitter user ham pineapple. Is this about the one where we talked about. How mark twain is problematic. And we didn't even scratch the surface of all the different ways that he's probably just wanted to give a good shot to him. Pineapples on this one quote listening to overdue. And i hate how easy it is to discuss. How problematic mark twain was never even dip into the man's like collection of ten to sixteen year old girls. So i did look into this There's an article in the paris review. That was called mark. Twain's disturbing passion for collecting. Young girls seem to collect pok mon. He did. he called them his angels fishes. Mostly that sucks. Yeah you could stop there and this would be pretty bad. And there's you know from everything. I read in that article and a few other sources. There's no evidence of Like you know. Explicit abuse of any kind is mostly a as reported anyway. Just a gross thing to do. Yeah so.
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Episode 45; Chopsticks, Fruits and Vegetables, a Best Day Ever and a life without regrets - burst 1
"Coming on episode of the old man's podcast. I want to solve the mystery of the five servings of fruits and vegetables we all know about our daily suggested intakes supposed to eat five servings of fruits and vegetables as net very specific. Get a little more specific with you. So you know exactly what you've got to work with. We'll talk about Best day ever. You've had them. But i'm not talking about the typical that's day ever know the birth of your children. Your wedding things like data just too easy. How about the days that you like to live over and over again. If he could that makes for a day. I was in a chinese restaurant recently. And there was this hipster dude. They're just had to have chopsticks. I want to tell them to get some old technology in the upgraded. Recently in the pep talk for this episode comes from a quote from mark twain. Often use subject here on the old man's podcast regrets so that on this week's episode of the old man's podcast
News and Perspective with Taylor Van Cise
Hal Holbrook, Emmy and Tony-Winning Actor, Dies in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, At 95
"Emmy and Tony winning actor Hal Holbrook has died at the age of 95. The New York Times reports. The actor died in January on the 23rd at his home in Beverly Hills. ABC is Bill Deal looks back at his career, Holbrook was best No. One for his many performances, his Mark Twain on stage and on television cam by railroad. It is all no stranger gets tired over seven minutes as to stop and rest for three quarters of an hour in 2008 at age 82 Holbrook became the oldest male performer ever nominated for an Academy Award for his supporting role in into the wild. Don't you think you're getting a job and making something of this life? We got one plan. Under Alaska will be all the way out there. Yes, While Holbrook loved acting and told ABC is Robin Roberts, somebody asked me Why do you keep working and I said, well, Well am I gonna do play golf Working is more active is more fun than golf. In the fall of 2010 hellhole. Brooke was cast into guest starring TV roles, one on FX, His Sons of Anarchy and NBC's conspiracy thriller series. The event. While he played many parts during his long career, it was Mark Twain. That was, as he put it, something precious my side arm through life. He called it Holbrook was married to actress designing women star Dixie Carter, who passed away in 2010. Will deal. ABC News
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Hal Holbrook, prolific actor who played Twain, dies at 95
"Actor hal Holbrook has died at the age of ninety five according to his representative I'm marches are a letter with a look at his career hello Holbrooke was Deep Throat in all the president's men telling a reporter to follow the money he was the widower who befriends Christopher McCandless in into the wild he played Abraham Lincoln in two separate mini series he portrayed Mark Twain on stage for fifty years Holbrooke said in a nineteen ninety three a P. interview during one performances Twain he made the horrible realization that his fly was open I thought if I look down the place a break up will never get through the same if what I suspect is true but finally I had no choice I doubt that it was true
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Hal Holbrook, actor who played "Deep Throat," has died at 95 in Beverly Hills
"And Emmy and Tony Award winning actor Hal Holbrook has died at the age of 95. He reportedly passed away a couple weeks ago at his home in Beverly Hills. Holbrook's career spanned decades, including the 1987 film Wall Street and looks in the abyss. There's nothing staring back at him at that moment, man finds his character That is what keeps him out of the abyss. Holbrook was acclaim for his betrayal of the government source, known as Deep Throat in the political thriller thriller All the President's men and, of course, on stage Mark Twain to fantastic and You know what a
Pat Walsh
Woman shot during Capitol riots in Washington, DC named as US Air Force veteran Ashli Babbit
"Identified as Ashley Babbitt was shot and killed as she tried to breach the doors of the House Congressman Mark Twain. Mullen was there and said the officer had no choice. He has actions well, maybe judge a lot of different ways moving forward, but his actions I believe, saved people's lives even more, unfortunately, did take one Capitol Police made 14 arrests. The Washington D. C. Metro police made dozens more for violating curfew and federal prosecutors drug charges against 55 riders. They said A large amount of material was stolen from the capital that investigators are still working to take. Stock of two pipe bombs were found Band of people Or terrorists, not Patriots literally occupied. The floor of the house drove the Senate out of its chamber. And the question for the country is How could that happen? 20 years after 9 11. In
Solvable
Disinformation is Solvable
"We have this ideal of free speech, which is that there's a marketplace of ideas out there that more speeches always better because the good ideas will win out in the end. It's a kind of fundamentally optimistic idea. It comes originally from the political philosopher, John Stewart Mills and his book on Liberty in the nineteenth century, and then it Kinda comes into Supreme Court land in the twentieth century but it often turns out not to be true there various eras in history where propaganda and false ideas have actually won the day in politics you can think about the Nazis you can think about times of Soviet, union communism other nine, thousand, nine, hundred examples of. Fascism and more recent governments in places like Brazil and India, where disinformation has really one out and so I think that we are flirting with that possibility in a scary way in the United States right now the fact is marketplace of ideas was always a pretty shaky concept and so free speech is really important to our democracy but we need I think to reconceptualise how we think about it and how we protect it in a way that really protects the speech that supports democracy instead of threatening it too. So we get our terms clear sale little about how disinformation with a D. differs from misinformation with an m yeah I mean these are sort of. Terms that are only I think the definitions are becoming clearer kind of as we speak but misinformation usually refers to fax that turn out to be wrong and disinformation refers to wrong facts that are being deliberately pedaled for political end. So it's the more sinister version. Disinformation intentional deception often fueled by. Actors of different kinds is sort of crowding out the good information, economics called Gresham's law where you know the bad money the money that's fake gold kind of is circulating everywhere in the real money disappears from the marketplace in a way that something like that happening with information right with is just all of this swirling nonsense depending on where you get your information from and you can't tell what's the good information or if there's any good information in that context way. So one way to think about this is that it used to be hard. To speak, we had gatekeepers, we had these traditional media companies that had a real hold and sort of control over speech. Now, it's really easy to speak, but it's very hard to be heard, and some of what we see in disinformation campaigns is a deliberate effort to drown out true speech or to smear the reputations of people especially online so that they'll effectively be silenced they'll leave the space they won't keep trying to talk, and so it's the use of speech to suppress speech, and that is very challenging for our American First Amendment to deal with. Having you had a really good example in your your piece, which was a me my I hadn't come across that the Democrats were threatening to secede from the country. The election. Just tell that story in brief because it was such a tidy example of sort of you know in the famous like mark. Twain like a lie that God halfway around the world before the truth guidance boots on him and it's just a piece of nonsense spread like wildfire, right? Yeah. So over the summer, a group of academics and former. Administration officials, former campaign staffers, pollsters they got together to game out the twenty twenty election and they played out various scenarios in which one or the other candidate won. It was close there was litigation. There wasn't there basically testing the system of American democracy and Rosa Brooks who was one of the CO organizers of this project wrote an essay in the Washington Post in which you mentioned that in one of the several hypothetical Scenarios Biden won the popular vote Belossi the Electoral College and fictional team Biden talked about trying to ask California and the Pacific northwest threatened to secede as a way of pressuring Republicans to add more succeeds to the Senate there's just a sentence about this in Rosa Brooks's essay Out of that sentence comes an article by Michael Anton- a former trump official and a conservative publication. Arguing that a coup is coming and from that article comes and appearance by another trump official Tucker Carlson show talking about this fictional threat of a democratic coup, very popular right-wing podcast named Dan Bongino. He shows up making videos about this that are getting millions and millions of views on social media president trump tweets in praise of publication called Revolver News, a right-wing website, which is also spreading this false story and what you see here, all the parts of the right wing media ecosystem coming together to really give a big platform to this made up idea that the Democrats are planning a coup.
Radio From Hell
Rhonda Fleming, film star in the 1940s and 1950s, dies at 97
"Will be missed. At the age of 97 Rhonda Fleming has died. Redheaded actress who became a popular sex symbol in Hollywood westerns, filmed OIR and adventure movies Off the forties and fifties. She died in Santa Monica, California. His Fleming's roles included those off a beautiful Arthur Rian Princess in the Bing Crosby musical version of Mark Twain's novel, a Connecticut
News, Traffic and Weather
Comedian Carl Reiner dies at 98
"NBC Entertainment News Show creator and co star I want to grow old gracefully. Not like you, director of comedy classics, including the jerkin Oh God, An Ocean's 11 trilogy costar Carl Reiner dined at his home in Beverly Hills Monday night. His son, Rob. Minor tweeting that his heart is hurting. His dad was his guiding light over his lifetime. Reiner won nine Emmys Grammy and was given the Mark Twain Prize for American humor. In 2000. Carl Reiner was
Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
Comedy legend Carl Reiner, 'Dick Van Dyke Show' creator, dead at 98
"Word this morning that Carl Reiner has passed away Van Take show creator and co star I want to grow bald gracefully. Not like you, director of comedy classics, including the jerkin Oh God, An Ocean's 11 trilogy costar Carl Reiner dined at his home in Beverly Hills Monday night, his own Rob Reiner tweeting that his heart is hurting his death. That was his guiding light over his lifetime. Reiner won nine Emmys and Grammy and was given the Mark Twain Prize for American humor. In 2000. Carl Reiner was 98. Jason Heathens and ABC News Hollywood Well,
Motley Fool Answers
Nasdaq sets record high, S&P positive for 2020 as investors rally for recovery
"June third Ryan, Dietrick L., L. Financial tweeted that the return of the S&P five hundred for the trading day since the market bottomed the Mark Twenty March twenty third. Thirty nine point six percent, the best fifty day rally of the S&P five hundred since it was launched in nineteen fifty seven series. Yes. Didn't it feel like you're in the best rally ever I mean? I just feel. I just can't help but feel that. Yeah, this is just the best time to. Today just fantastic, yeah! Anyway, so the five hundred is now within five percent of its all time high on the Nasdaq on Friday and again today and we are taping by the way on Monday. June eighth! The Nasdaq reached another all time high, so the Nasdaq is at an all time high at this point. According to the bespoke in investment group. There's only one stock in the entire s and P five hundred. That's down since March. Twenty Third Oh hell. And it's down less than two percent. It's cody. The beauty care products. And they're only eight stocks that aren't up more than ten percents. It's mark, Twain, third, and this includes actually some big names Costco Walmart. Kroger sort of the consumer staples got left in the dust during the rally, so looking at the sectors since March twenty third the best sector energy up a hundred seven percent. Followed by consumer discretionary seventy percent in financials, fifty nine percent that said they went up the most, because they went down the most in the first part of it, and for the year they're still down, so energy stocks are still down almost thirty percent of the year and consumer, discretionary and financials still down eleven percent for the year. When you look at the best sectors for the year, as you might guess top performer technology for point, seven percent and healthcare up six percent for the year. Now looking at the biggest companies. In the stock market, we now have three companies worth more than a trillion dollars. Apple is on top one point three, nine, seven trillion. Microsoft. Just barely behind at least as of Friday's close one point three, eight, seven, trillion, and then Amazon at one point, two, two, seven, trillion and Google alphabet is not that far behind at nine hundred sixty four billion dollars, so it's quite amazing. Has As has been the case for years now. Larger growth oriented companies are doing better, which means in some cases, pricier stocks have gotten pricier and cheap stocks have gotten cheaper. Here's an interesting tidbit from Jason swags journal Article From last Friday quote. The fifty most expensive stocks and the S&P five hundred as of December thirty first were up. An average eleven point three percent through June third according to Drew Dixon. The Chief Investment Officer at Abbott Bridge capital the fifty cheapest stocks at the end of last year. Meanwhile we're down sixteen point eight percent so gross stocks doing well value stocks still struggling.
Sunday Morning with Elizabeth Espinosa
Coronavirus conspiracy theories on the rise
"So the video is conspiracy theory as you know it's and the basic idea seems to be is that some shadow we elites are conspiring to use the pandemic to seize power maybe make money by creating vaccines and the star of this twenty six minute clip that went viral is this woman named Judy make of that too has become a kind of hero to the anti vaccine crowd she's a discredited scientist who published a book in April called plague of correction and that sort of depicts her as a truth teller fighting scientists who aren't willing to accept inconvenience facts and so far right publications began to promote her book in this documentary that is forthcoming will apparently be taking an even closer look at these sort of baseless conspiracies this video has since since it kind of blew up has been taken down but tell us about some of the crazy accusations and I mean one of the things that keeps popping up I think it was the main thing that really got to pull down was they were saying that wearing a mask will literally activate your own virus that's right and that is the thing that got it taken down platforms like YouTube and Facebook generally do not want to remove content from the network and they tried to enable a maximum of free speech but they do make an exception for stuff that is actively harmful and while a lot of this video plan that make is just kind of conspiracies saying don't forget a lot of people are making money and other people are going to become more powerful that's not what it got taken down I got taken down because as you say it warned people against wearing masks you know saying that it would re inspect them which of course there is no basis for that whatsoever but you can imagine if a lot of people watch it's that and believe that you could have a really negative a stacked on public health so initially Facebook did it want to remove it but when it sort of stumbled across that particular claim it said okay we've actually got to take this thing down any doctor Judy make if it's for herself she does have a degree in biology from the university of Virginia a PhD in molecular biology she worked on the national Cancer Institute she has a lot of things under her belt but then she started getting into work about chronic fatigue syndrome and vaccines and this is kind of where she was derailed a little bit a lot of people discredited a lot of the later things that she was researching so like in two thousand nine she had published research saying that a mouse retrovirus because chronic fatigue syndrome which got a lot of attention but it was discredited a couple years later and the journal ultimately retracted it and it in this sort of like a weird aside story she was actually put in jail on charges of staffed which apparently involves computers disappearing those charges were dropped but the whole thing was a scandal and she was kind of sidelined and lost her scientific career but after that she sort of drifted into this anti Bax crowd and because of the credentials that you mentioned the anti vaxxers have sort of lifted her up as this brave truth teller even though what she saying is largely nonsense so let's talk about how something like this goes viral the usual players come up obviously Facebook and you to have a huge part in this but there was a lot of Facebook groups that we're sharing this and then beyond that even as you mentioned there's a lot of mistruths in this video but it also takes time for their fact checkers to go through this so as you've mentioned they didn't take it down right away it kind of was circulating around for a while while they were trying to do some of that fact checking it's a really interesting story the way that things go viral on Facebook and you tube is always changing based on the things that the platforms due to try to stop bad stuff from happening and sort of like as soon as they fix one problem another emerges so over the past year Facebook has put a lot more attention on groups getting people to join groups kind of moving away from that news feed and there are a lot of conspiracy groups anti VAX groups where this video clip was very popular in what happened is people were sharing it in the group and what they were sure it was actually a link to you too and so from those Facebook groups they were able to send seven point one million views to one video within a period of between thirty six and forty eight hours so just within a short period of time Facebook drove all of that traffic to you too and so it was kind of an unwitting tag team between the two platforms that sent this thing viral as you noted it did take awhile for the platforms to fully understand what was in the video the video is twenty six minutes long it contains a lot of claims and they had to go through it sort of point by point and ultimately make the determination that it had to come down but it sort of speaks to this cliche this quote that is attributed to Mark Twain that the lie gets halfway around the world before the truth can put its shoes on and that was definitely the case here and it was also this whole thing with obvious all the algorithms and it's this big cycle she had just self published a book not too long ago and it became this thing where searches for her name brought up searches for the video and vice versa searches for them he would bring up searches for her name so it's kind of this big cycle where it's just feeding off of itself for a while until Facebook and YouTube took these things down and you know I think it's important to remember that Judy megabits has something to celebrate she has a book to sell into this whole viral events on Facebook and YouTube has been very good for her she had a number one best seller on Amazon over the weekend yesterday was still at number six so all of this is bound to be huge benefit to somebody who is selling this very day Alicia's ideas that just doesn't have any basis in
Fresh Air
Steve Martin On His Years As A Comic — And Walking Away From Stand-Up
"But if you could hold Steve Martin has been making people laugh often with highly conceptual humor since the nineteen sixties when he was a staff writer on the smothers brothers comedy hour in the seventies he became a major stand up comedy star filling arenas with his fans he rose to fame along with his then new TV show called Saturday Night Live on which he made many memorable appearances as a wild and crazy guy a medieval barber and a fan of king tut eventually the fame that brought in huge audiences also made it impossible for him to do the kind of comedy that made him original he starred in movies from the jerk to parenthood and in recent years has also written plays essays and books and toured with both his bluegrass band and with friend and fellow comic Martin short Steve Martin won the Mark Twain prize for American humor in two thousand five in was a Kennedy center honoree in two thousand seven Terry gross spoke with Steve Martin in two thousand eight about his memoir born standing up Steve Martin welcome back to fresh AIR eleven returning her thank you I thank you very much I'd like you to open with a reading from the beginning of the book and we've we've edited the slightly to make it crystal a little shorter for the broadcast great be happy to I did stand up comedy for eighteen years ten of those years were spent learning for years were spent refining and for years were spent in wild success I was seeking comic originality and fame fell on me as a by product the course was more plodding than her ROIC I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps started with a few intuitive leaps I was not naturally talented I didn't sing dance or act the working around that minor detail made me inventive I was not self destructive though I almost destroyed myself in the end I turned away from stand up with the tired swivel of my head and never looked back until now a few years ago I began researching and recalling the details of this crucial part of my professional life which inevitably touches upon my personal life and was reminded why I did stand up and why I walked away in a sense this book is not an autobiography but a biography because I am writing about someone I used to know yes these events are true yet sometimes they seem to have happened to someone else and I often felt like a curious onlooker or someone trying to remember a dream I ignored my stand up career for twenty five years but now having finished this memoir I view this time with surprising warmth one can have it turns out an affection for the war years thanks for reading that that Steve Martin reading from his memoir born standing up which has just been published in paperback yeah I guess I didn't realize how much you closed the door on your comedy years how much there was like a before and after it ended you were done and that was it right I I I'm it was about nineteen eighty one I still had a few obligations left but I knew that hi I could not continue but I guess I could have continued if I had nothing to go to but I did have something to go to which was movies and you know the act had become so known that in order to go back I would have had to create an entirely new show and I wasn't up to it especially when the opportunity for movies and writing movies came around why would you have to create an entirely new show well like I say the the the act was really it there is a passage in the book which I caught because it was so hard to explain but the act essentially besides all the jokes and bits and everything was conceptual and once the concept was understood there was nothing more to develop it's like saying painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over once the concept is no you don't see the need to see to that and that was in the back of my head that I was really done artistically with with what I had created or pastiche to you know in the reading that you just did you describe yourself as not being naturally talented did you think of yourself as naturally funny I'm I didn't didn't think of myself in that way no although I I just love to comedy I I was raised with laurel and hardy and I Love Lucy Anne and Jerry Lewis and I just loved it and I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits and you know it's the Andy Kaufman thing over to Marty short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself and I I loved magic and so I would practice my magic tricks in front of a mirror for hours and hours and hours because I was told that you must practice you must practice and never present a trip before it's ready but I was just inclined toward show business but I didn't know what I just like being on stage you got your start working in Disneyland you were living in southern California and when you were ten you were selling guidebooks there then you later work for magic shop demonstrating magic tricks and I get the sense from your memoir that demonstrating those magic tricks you know hours a day and really getting them getting them down because you're doing them so much that that gave you a sense that performance required a great deal of craft that even comedy wasn't just a question of going out on stage and saying funny things that there was enormous amounts of work and practice and thought that would have to go into it well that that idea of that that you really had to work at this stuff didn't necessarily come from Disneyland it I I mean I think yes and in terms of presenting a trick but having having it so well honed in your mind was really giving me a sense of security it was I don't want to go out there half baked and you know you learn that through the years you know you're you do a magic show with a friend and you rehearse it a couple of times and yes every all the timing has to be exactly perfect but while you're out there it's it's a different world it's not your mirror you have to make on the spot adjustments but that's just you know whatever entertainer does actually working at the magic shop really gave me a sense of comedy because it was all the jokes we did the tricks but we have all these jokes I had a friend Jim Barlow who you know he he was the the guy I worked with there but he had patter worked out you know it he would go to customers and say Medicare money I mean help you not and you know call them suckers it was really funny and and kind of friendly rude what was your patter I just took all of Jim's patter I'm I'm trying to think of other ones yeah I said it would just it would somebody would buy something it would say and because you are hundred customer today you get a free paperback it's a little silly things like that but Disneyland I'm fifteen right here at early act was a combination of banjo playing juggling magic tricks and comedy and some of that stating your later at two but it sounds like a vaudeville act yes I was very interested involved it was the only sort of discipline that was a five minute act on stage which is what I really enjoyed ins and saw myself doing and I bought books on it I went to the Long Beach pike which was off the carnival fair you know four is really a place for drunken sailors to get tattoos but there was also side shows is very interested in that but you know there is these are all in there these are short acts there was one of the employees at Disneyland that I worked with was named Steve Stewart and he worked in vaudeville and he did a sack for me one day on the floor of the magic shop and I had a couple of great gags one was that I actually used and I asked him if I could use them because I was very strict about using any material that wasn't mine or that that was taken from somebody else let's put it this way I became strict wasn't strict at first there is one trick that one joke that Dave steward did where he said are not yet a glove white glove in his hand the magicians glove any he said and now the glove into dove trick and he threw it into the air and then it hit the floor and he just looked at it and consent and set up for my next trick he went on and it was the first time I saw comedy created out of nothing of nothing happening and I Glaum don to that wait wait wait you're doing I think is not only making comedy out of nothing but making comedy out of people's expectations which you were going to fail to fulfill well yes exactly and I I really started that when I became a semi professional meaning I was working the local folk music clubs going around either working for free or for a week and I quickly decided that you know the material was you know good or weak or whatever and I decided whatever it was I was going to pretend like it was fantastic and how great am I how great is what you're seeing and I think that's what grizzly hunting it's a tune him too because they couldn't believe that someone actually was that confident