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Monday Morning Critic Podcast
"michael mann" Discussed on Monday Morning Critic Podcast
"This episode in particular is one of the more high I mean, it's like 9 6 or something. It's like ridiculously through the roof. And if somebody asks what the boys is about, it's this episode summarizes it. I mean, it's so batshit nutty. I mean, only this episode could have the love sausage and have it be a beautiful, there's so much in it. Like you can't explain it, but it's beautiful. It was beautiful. It was, yeah, I think it's an amazing piece of writing. And it was a remarkably wonderful fun challenge to figure all that stuff out. I mean, the things that I'm most proud of in that episode, I think, are the fight, which I'm not a big fan of cinema fights. I find that all the same. Like you've seen them all. What more can you do? That's really different. That fight, though, was so character driven. It was so specific. And just the way it all came together, you know, the set that we built and the way the way it was lit because of the way the set was built, that movement of the camera, just the specificity of it all, I feel like that was sort of for me my action apex right there. Yeah, and to top that, the action, the a train blue hawk scene is like. Well, and of course that. Not yet, that will take that'll take it. And that people find really disturbing for some reason. Yeah, that was, but you know, for me, that was a much for me, it was a much simpler task because there were a few beats in it, and they weren't really hard to execute the fight on the other hand. Was a little bit, you know, was a lot more involved and a lot more a lot more planned and sweated over. Yeah, and when you have, so you've done many episodes. When you have a show that has multiple cinematographers, do their visions have to be the same because they're sentimental. I know when I'm watching, say like I'm Michael Mann movie. I know when I'm watching a different cinematographer, it doesn't like they have their own unique style. Do the styles have to be similar dance to make the show work like you can't have somebody that's drastically different from you and style and lighting and shoot it. Like how does that work when you have multiple, unlike a movie which mostly just has one, I think. Right, no, you're right. You're right. And it is tricky. It is tricky. And if there were another way, if there were another way, of course, I would prefer that. But there isn't. There's too much to do. And the boys, we were shooting 30 day episodes with 30 days of prep, which is like a movie. You know, each have to focus. There's no way you could do more than one. But yeah, you're right. The cinematographers have to be in sync. And I think we talk a lot. I was on that particular season on last season. I was the returning cinematographer. I sort of set the tone for the first episode. And it was carried through. I thought very effectively. I thought I thought, you know, I thought he did a great job.
The Rich Eisen Show
"michael mann" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"So the rich eisen show is moving to the Roku channel for free. This September. Chrome soft, the chrome soft family of golf balls, there is a chrome soft that is out there for you that suits your game. I use the chrome soft, the regular chrome soft is what it is called. Because it suits so many different types of games. I'm not the greatest golfer. I'm part of that wide range of golfers who want a better feel, more distance, incredible, forgiveness. That's what I need. And I truly can feel the difference hitting this golf ball, then another one. Let's just say I only have one chrome soft on the T I might have one of those taped delayed swing and slice one into somebody's backyard, my apologies, bad news. And somebody flips me out of the golf ball that's not a chrome soft, and I'll hit it. I can tell the difference. And I'm not an expert at it. If you're a better player, there is the chrome soft X that provides excellent spin consistency. Tour level short game control, the chrome soft XLS is a lower spin golf ball on longer shots. You can feel a firmer feel and you get more high spin around the greens if you're expert at this and so there's a chrome soft that's right for you. When you add it all up, it's pretty simple. Chrome soft is better for the best and better for everyone, find out which chrome soft is right for you at Callaway golf dot com slash chrome soft. What a great chat with Michael Mann. I could have gone in so many different directions. Anybody who's a fan of heat, if you missed it, go to our YouTube stream and maybe watching us on YouTube dot com slash rich eisen show. We'll post the whole interview there. As soon as this show is over. So that was some neat stuff right there. And coming up at top of our number three, sham sharan will join us. One of the top basketball information men in the business, what did the nets say to Kevin Durant? To have him just say, okay, that trade demand I'm rescinding it, and there's a partnership now. They call it a partnership. Which is interesting because normally it's like, you know, you play basketball for us and we will pay you. It's part of management. But they're talking about partnership. Is that what helped? Sweeten the pot for him? So we'll talk about that with shams and then Devin mccordy of the Patriots. And you, if you want to join us hour three. So here we are still on our YouTube stream. Just us chickens is our terrestrial radio audience is now listening to some very important commercials. I know you as something about heat that I didn't ask him, right? You heard something about, you said something the other day I wish I'd asked him. Is it about that Hannah had a drug habit? Well, I had heard the reason why he's so kind of high strong and unpredictable. He was supposed to be on like cocaine basically the whole movie and they kind of scrapped that from the from the film. Which is kind of explained some of his outbursts from his outbursts. There's a ton of them, obviously. The scene with tone loke and then another one. Another one I didn't get to is apparently the Charlie's character played by Val Kilmer. They asked Keanu Reeves first. And he said, no, because he's playing Caesar and a player. The Chris character also had a huge gambling problem, which is part of why he couldn't walk away. I wish they would have gotten more into that, but I'd also heard they shot every scene on location somewhere in Los Angeles, no sound stages used for the whole movie. I was thinking that too, like what are some of the greatest Los Angeles based movies? Heat has got to be one of them. Right. LA confidential. Sunset boulevard. I know you don't watch anything on black and white, Chris. Die hard? Obviously. Die hard is absolutely. I wasn't shot at the North Pole. I'm sorry. I'm confused. What else? Literally takes place on Christmas Eve. Yeah. The recent movie McConaughey, Lincoln lawyer. It's a great ally movie. Naked gun? Make a gun through. About Friday. Friday's a great one. That's terrific. Any other good LA movies that we're forgetting? Well, Friday too, and Friday after next and next Friday. We're LA is kind of a star of the movie as well, you know? Down and out in LA, right? What 8 days in the valley? Is that another one? Two days in. Two days in the valley I forgot how many days there are. Two. It makes it feel like it's a month though. La La Land? La La Land is a great one. Chinatown? That one, the Oscar for like 5 seconds. I think it was like 15 seconds. Okay, we're going to take a couple minute break. How can we forget that one? They just popped in my head. Pulp Fiction. It's right. Zed's dead, baby. All right. Somebody's privileges were revoked. Well, take a break right here on the rich eisen show when we come back shams charania will tell us what happened with the nets. Senior NBA insider from the athletic and stadium will
The Rich Eisen Show
"michael mann" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"From memory the layout once they left. Is that true or false? That's true. What did that accomplish in your mind? Well, you can't imagine the tension that any of us would have if you're armed. They were unloaded weapons, but they had, they had the gear that they were wearing in the actual bank robbery, which meant they had a suit over a vest and they had unloaded weapons. And they walked and they just walk into a bank. Like that. The tension is extraordinary. And they were there to do a job. They were there to say where the security guards were standing, where the cameras were or how they would go in, that they had to get out, where the more than one two or three exits, and basically case the bank. And like I said, we did this with the full knowledge of the bank officers. In this bank that day, depositing or removing or just conducting their bank business and they look up and there's Robert De Niro, Tom sizemore and Val Kilmer, looking like they're casing a bank, if not getting set to knock it off. You wouldn't recognize them because with sunglasses and everything else that they had on and a hat wouldn't recognize it as De Niro. It wouldn't have been tense for anybody in the bank. It was very tense if your barber valor signed one. Did they get the memory of the layout proper? Did they nail them? Yes. Their top notch actors. Okay, and then last one for you. I'm Friends with Hank Azaria. He told me this story, so I guess I know it's true, that in the scene where Pacino basically, you know, cajoled him and told him that the jig was up for him and he's not going to start working for Hannah that Hank had no idea that Pacino was going to talk the way that he did and the line that he did this famous line and Hanks reaction of the word Jesus was legit and that's the scene that you kept in the film. That's true. That's true. We had a we would do things a fantastic and we would typically his takes there were great texts that we came press. We're always like 5, 6 or 7. 5, 6 or 7. He'd hit the zone and that's where all the great takes were. And then we maybe do another one, check 8, and then he said, let me do a wild one. And that became a shorthand for AL just basically unplugging. And sometimes it would be outrageous and absolutely terrible and sometimes it would be absolutely brilliant because he wouldn't know what was going to happen. And when we were probably a 110 days into a 120 day shoot by that point and so everybody was kind of, you know, kind of a little bit war now and it didn't occur to me that this was his area's first day on the show. I should explain to him that I do it well. Yeah, sure, go ahead. So heck had no idea what was coming. He did it all. He's the real, but that's what was really out and know that that line about the great ass you didn't know that was. Not necessarily that that was, that was some of that was scripted, but how exactly you exposed to it, there's going to be calm, was it present? All right, before I let you go, since you're very busy on the set of Ferrari within remarkable cast, Adam Driver, Penelope cruise woodley, just to name three, are you yourself surprised by the success of heat two? Really gratified, it was a real push to. Bring these stories into the world that it goes into. And everywhere from the. You know, the bottom levels of street life in LA to the strikes of Malacca, but Tam and transnational crime in the beginning of the dark web and its significance. And romance and the delivery of the vals character of Charlotte into completion as a human being, the neuro, the earth Macaulay and ales Hannah are total self contained characters. They are arrived into their identity. And in the in the sequel part of this, so too does Chris Shirley's play by Val Kilmer in the original. Arrive into a total complete man, a total complete individual in his romance with a very, very unusual woman and a Lou, who's based on somebody I met and should unless they when we were shooting Miami Vice. So I guess I'm mandated to ask. I'm sure you get this question a lot. Is this going to make a movie out of this at some point? What do you think? I'd love to, yeah. Okay. I mean, that would be great. You talk to Pacino about it? Have you talked to Aldi? Already? Thinking about it, but this is the wrong time to be talking about who I'm thinking about. Okay, sounds good. All right, got it. And so I know the most difficult part about writing a book is selling it. So I appreciate you taking the time out of another film that you're doing in Italy, which I can't wait to see Ferrari. I know you were a part of Ford versus Ferrari as well, so clearly this is something that interests you as well, Michael. So I'm looking forward to seeing what you got cooking up and I appreciate you giving me the time here, sir. Thanks so much. Thank you. Thanks for having me. You bet. That's Michael Mann right here on the rich eisen show. What a great chat, man. That was awesome for heat fans. That is right straight up your alley, sir. And ladies. Let's take a break. We'll unpack a little bit of what we just heard. Sham sharani will join us. To talk about what's going on with the heat. On the nets hey rich eisen show podcast listeners. 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The Rich Eisen Show
"michael mann" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"Celebrity true or false. First up for you is true or false. Heat was originally something that you created in the late 70s and wound up making originally or attempting to as a television series called LA takedown. Is that true or false? That's false. The heat screenplay preexisted like takedown and I extracted the LA takedown script from heat and could have thought about making it a television series, but got into a disagreement about casting the lead and I owned it so I was able to retain all the rush and so what was the casting conundrum back in the day for television? There was a very, very close friend with Brandon tartikoff who ran NBC at the time and there was one actor who I was interested in having played one role and Brandon and I had a very friendly amicable disagreement they decided you know what? Let's just leave it alone and not do the series. And then so you just kept the script and is it true? I would say that I would tend to write. But the heat script that preexisted LA takedown didn't have the current heat ending and it wasn't until I discovered that ending that I was able to say, oh, this whole thing clicks in and I want to do it as a movie. So how did you discover the heat ending? Michael, man. Something analogous to hitting yourself on the head with a hammer for one time and that you finally, you get it. It had to do with that last image. And the fact and the idea of counterpoint or like a fugue in music. Where the. Denials character will call you is writing a lot of existence into death and is fortunate enough to be in contact with the only other person in his universe who understands him as completely. And that also won at the same time as also the man who killed him. And that both are true in both of their at a 100%. And so that then gave me the idea that I want to be well, I'm with head on, I want them to apprehend Macaulay a 100%. Well, I'm with Macaulay, I want them to evade Hannah a 100%. And then the challenge can you make all that happen at the same time? And then take audience and move them from each character and every time you're with that particular character, you are empathetically completely connected to that character, even though in regards to story or plot, they're totally oppositional. They have oppositional ambitions to each other. What they want in the world of the film is completely in contradiction to other characters, you're also empathetically connected to. So that structure was very exciting, a very exciting challenge for me. And it came from the end image, then reverse engineered back into the rest of the screenplay via rewriting. And so if it's not a challenge enough, you decided to shoot it at LAX at night with planes landing. How did you come up with that and what would the logistical I guess trappings that you had to run there? Additional trapping was there was also the week to unabomber threatened to blow up LAX. Come on. Now really, and that's a really put total coincidence what the person who obviously had a role in dealing with the unabomber discovering his location was LOL bergmann from the insider. From the insider. Oh my gosh. That is, you can't make that up. So I mean, who did you have to run that through to say, hey, I want to shoot something with planes flying overhead and I imagine that you didn't have an unlimited time frame in which to shoot that, Michael Mann, right? Well, we had, well, a fantastical location manager was still worked with. I just had a meeting with about 25 minutes ago, Janice, Pauly. Managed to get us permission to shoot on the approach to the runways. And then when the unabomber threatened to blow up all the warped magic and we were able to still allow it to still shoot there. Oh my gosh. Next one for you and I guess heat celebrity true or false, Michael Mann. The Pacino De Niro diner scene was raw done at De Niro's suggestion without any rehearsal before you shot it on set. Is that true or false? This false. When we were in pre-production and we were doing rehearsals, all of us were of a mind, that no, you don't rehearse the scene. This scene, particularly artists like Alan bob, the worst thing you could possibly do was rehearse a scene like that, feel you nailed it in a rehearsal. You'll never get back to that when you're shooting. And she want magic to happen when you're when you're actually, that's a filming it, but when you're filming it and you walk towards that groove, where it's going to happen and take 5, 6, 7, something like that. You don't want it to happen on take one because there could be a technical flaw or something wrong with a camera. So, you know, film is wonderful, why I love about it is that selection you win with one vote, you know, if you have one great take, that's it. That's the jump. And it'll never quite be that way again. So you're looking for, you looking for it to be so real, a magical and immediate spontaneous, and so you don't ruin it by over rehearsing a scene like that. So what we did is we discussed about the scene. We didn't actually run it. And if anybody spoke the lines, it was kind of in a robotic monotone. Nobody was putting anything. Anything into it, because we all wanted to do it, you know, that want something at one time. How did you get Pacino and De Niro to do it to do he? I meant I'm at Al because Jimmy Connor introduced me to him after we did the thief. Oh, I didn't know bob very well aren't listened to and then bob and I met a couple of times and they had never really worked together in the same film at the same time and read the script and yes was the answer and then we put together what became I think a spectacular ensemble cast and everybody, it was like an ensemble company available to show up on days he wasn't working to see what bob or el was doing and John Voight was considered as significant and on exactly the same stellar plane as bob and ale and that was that was the feeling around the making of the film was quite wonderful. And then future Oscar winner and Natalie Portman is the daughter. I mean, when you take a look back at it now also the cast actually is even better than I guess or more accomplished now when you look back at it. Dennis haysbert, Michael T Williamson. Who's a close friend, you know, a couple more here for you, Michael Mann. True or false to prepare for the film. Don king is brilliant. It's a brilliant turn in Ali. Oh, no, he's terrific. I mean, he's as terrific as they come. To prepare for the film's climactic bank heist scene, De Niro, Kilmer and Tom sizemore, you had him case a bank in century city with the permission of bank security and then made them recount
The Rich Eisen Show
"michael mann" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"And that's the kind of understanding. It was difficult to get to, but it's, but that's the necessary voyage to try to put myself to try to put myself in Muhammad Ali's shoes and see through his eyes as much as I'm capable, but there were a lot of surprises along the way. He was very aware of third world national liberation front struggles. I had to do with who the editor of the Nation of Islam was in the 60s, who happened to be very political and knew and wrote about those struggles. So it would be so and so has happened as we opened up on 64th street on the front page, three pages in. It's about the struggle of struggles and Angolan Mozambique. So the world was alive to and bringing himself to who shall I say everywhere champion of the world I'm representative and how shall I be representative to my people in effect. And then the expansion of that and to everybody rising up from below that journey of a quest for identity or the representation that to me that's what the that's what the movie was about. And I spent a lot of time talking to him about that. It was beautiful movie. It was remarkable, and I'm just wondering, you've worked with so many all time greats, Michael, and you've been there and you've done that, but what was it like for you to have Muhammad Ali walk into a room where you walk into his for the first time with your his world, his story and your care and your hands and talk to him about that? What was your feeling walking into that room, and having that? It was awesome. I mean, it was it was extraordinary. And I wouldn't have been able to do it without Howard Bingham. And he was Ali was one of my all time heroes from early 60s along with two other guys I want to work with the American Indian movement. And now it's hard to talk to the scribe. It was quite extraordinary. And then Ali spoke very softly, Howard had a little bit of a stutter, and I had some difficulty hearing well, he was saying. So the three of us together were the same conversations. But we met, I think, the first meeting I had was something you wish in Las Vegas. So let's get to a little bit of heat if you don't mind. And on my program, we have a segment called celebrity true or false where I've called things that have been written about either a person or a film and I've got some heat celebrity true or false that I'd like to hit and you tell me what's true and what's not if you don't mind Michael Mann will play that game with
The Rich Eisen Show
"michael mann" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"This book heat two came out and hit the bestseller list, we said to Michael Mann, would you like coming on the show and he did exactly that from Italy where he's on the set of his new movie Ferrari star studded film. Here's my chat with the great Michael Mann. Joining me here on the rich eisen show is a very busy man who was in the midst of a terrific year after directing the pilot episode of Tokyo vice, which has been picked up for season two on HBO Max, but in addition to that, joining us from Italy where he's directing his new film Ferrari amidst having the number one book on Planet Earth for bestselling novels heat to the director of heat from back in the day in the author of heat to Michael Mann, how are you doing, sir? I'm doing well. Thank you. I would definitely say you're doing well. I mean, you're having you're having a terrific year. Congratulations on that. Thank you. Let me just jump into it. You know, you wrote it with Meg Gardner, but why jump into this at this point of your career? Well, I've never really left me. I mean, I've never the characters who are vivid they had vast lights before the events of 1995 film. I was always fascinated about, you know, how to project them further into the evolving transforming nature of professional organized crime the way the world works in 95 is not the way the world works and 2022 or as far as that goes 2000 when the sequel takes place 2000 1002. In other words, those patterns of transnational organized crime, for example, were emerging. The dark web was emerging in 2002 1002. So. Basically in the word, the movie heat is a slice of these lives. And there was a lot before and there's a lot after so what tends to happen when you go as deep into characters as I like to and as the actors I work with like to they really become alive they become their own kind of living entities and so you never really you never really leave it. And so this story in the novel picks up where we left off or at least part of the story does. There's flashbacks and of course there's the present day as well where Al Pacino's character Vincent Hannah is searching for Val Kilmer's character who, as we all know, his wife gives him the high sign to not come upstairs at the end of heat and he ends up escaping. Is that a story that you've had in your brain ever since the end of heat? Is that what you know, that part's new, the heat makes reference to Hannah's walk in Chicago in the 80s. And it says he went after Frankie yonder at one point who was at home invader, not this home elevator, not wandell. And as I research all the projects or you're walking through things, you find arenas, whether it's bam or shoot not less day, which we location scouted and did some shooting in the Miami Vice. And so all these things are how rattling around and the idea of driving this story into it with particularly potentially the Cheryl was character because Charles was postmodern. Bill McCauley was very much a modernist kind of character. He had rules and regulations for himself and if he deviated from them, the outcome was bad. He almost determined his own fate. Because he got spontaneous. And once it got spontaneous, he made the mistake of going from Wayne grow. That undid him in effect. Let's just seems to skate on boy. So in that sense, you always felt to me very much like a character for the new millennium. And so the idea of Charlotte's, I can't divorce him from Val Kilmer in my mind. The idea of Sherlock's moving forward into a whole new area where everything changes. If I say everything changes, it's like as good as these guys were 1995, they were basically being in 19th century bandits holding a banks. So the sophistication of what they did was no different than it could have been the 1880s, they could have told the same story. A bank robbers, but when you move into the new millennium, everything's different. You know, through the zeros and the odds and to sort of bring this push to push the story, the stories into this exciting new world, this territory that to me is unexplored and very, very exciting. Exactly for that reason. Michael commander director of heat and now the author co author of the new top bestselling novel on Planet Earth at the top of The New York Times Best Seller list heat to here on the rich eisen show. So you are very well known for your research going into a film and before I dive head first back into heat with you, I do want to ask you what you learned about Muhammad Ali that you perhaps didn't already know, going into Ali in 2001, Michael Mann. Everything. It was spending time spending time with Muhammad. He was, you know, he was there during all of the pre-production, which went on for 8 months, all of the shooting that we did in the states because of the Parkinson's he couldn't travel or he'd have been in Africa as well. Recreating a world, everybody's gone. The Angela Dundee has gone, Howard Bingham has gone, but, you know, Harvard Bingham Angela done date in Muhammad Ali. Working with them, we were able to build a world and the role that Angela Dundee had along with a couple of other terrific trainers and training will becoming a boxer after 8 or 9 months of 5 days a week. Training in the gym we built, but the parts of our lead that I did know viva before I met him had to do with the fact that I'm one year younger than he was. And what infuriated him in 1967 infuriated me and many other young men and women of my generation. So living through the 60s and in particular, which is where we focus a lot, that's something we had in common. I'm not black, I'm not African American, you know, I know the south side of Chicago. You know, to understand why he had a problem with his father painting white Jesus for a black church, I get it.
The Rich Eisen Show
"michael mann" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"About this? Sorry, Joey. I mean, I'm never going to let the food get cold. Understood? I'll slow down for a restaurant situation. What about? Socially, so you were socially decent eaters what you're saying. Yeah, I can hold back. That said, Joey, let's say you are, are you married, Joey? I'm engaged. Okay. Okay, engaged again. Very good. Don't rush the altar. Obviously. So let's just say you and your fiance, having a meal, your food comes first. Do you wait for the food to arrive for your fiance before you start, or do you just see it, and you just got such a pavlovian reaction, you've got to consume it on the spot. I'm a gentleman. I'll definitely wait. Professional and a gentleman. Joey chestnut. Those are other issues. I have questions. Another one is, is there anything you won't eat competitively? Something you're just like, I just will not do it. What do you think? Oh my gosh. Every year there's a contest in New Orleans. One of the best cities in the world and I want to go to it, but it's raw oysters. And I just can't bring myself to it. Is it the consistency? Is that what it is? As a consistency, the salt and just the thought, I mean, I can have a couple of oysters, especially when you put some lemon on there and solve some sauce on there and some hot sauce. But even in the contest, it would be like ten pounds of oysters. And just, it would be gross. Okay. I hear you. What does a 75th hot dog taste like? Joey. Oh my God, it tastes like victory.
The Rich Eisen Show
"michael mann" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"We'll give you the exact date in short order. 8 four four two O four rich is the number of dollar here on this program. The director of the brilliant movie heat in 1995 here in 2022, Michael Mann decided to write and publish a sequel. He too is the number one bestseller atop The New York Times novel bestselling list. And he is going to be joining us in about 15 minutes time right here on the program. We'll be joining us in our number three. He's the one that first popped out there the news that everything was back in order in Brooklyn that Durant was no longer demanding a trade and he's back in champs will be joining us in the studio part of me at the top of our number three to tell us how that happened and what the net said to Durant. And then coming up after him, Devin McCourty steps off of the practice field in Las Vegas where the patriots are getting set to take on the Raiders and their practicing together. McDaniels and Belichick can't quit each other. They can't quit each other. Never. And so that is another order of business that will be discussed with Devin McCourty when he joins us in just about an hour plus time. So we kick off our number two, recapping our top story from yesterday. Somebody at Yankee Stadium drank a beer through a hot dog. That was our top story yesterday. This gentleman decides to pop a whole in the top and bottom of a hot dog using a straw, doesn't waste the innards, sucks them out, even though he doesn't use the straw. He uses the hot dog to drink the beer, and a lot of people think it's fake, but you could see some of the beer going down. You can see some of the beer going down a little bit. Can you see this beer going down? But you yesterday, Jason feller took the approach that drinking the beer through a hot dog using the beer is a makeshift straw, was in fact genius. We put up the poll question, is this man a madman or a genius? And the final results of that was that finally came through 82% madman. Over 3000. Exactly. And you, Jason feller said, you know what? I think it's genius. I'm going to try it tonight. Yes, at home. And at that point in time, chiming in from his home where he works expertly handling the digital process of the rich eisen show, which is anybody who sees all these videos on YouTube right here, as soon as they don't get, they don't get done unless Sean Mitchell's handling it. And Sean Mitchell decided to try it himself. He said I'm going to do it in Dodger Stadium. He's going to do it in an actual Major League Baseball stadium and I predicted, you can't do it with a Dodger dog. Now, if people here in Los Angeles love their Dodger dogs, to the point of they're mad, they're mad men about it. They're crazy. If you ever say, the Dodger dog isn't all that. People think that blasphemous. You might as well change Staples to crypto. That's how they handle it. It's an affront to them. And I said, you know, a Dodger dog is too thin and the bun around it is two. It's kind of like wet, like the heat of the wrapping, just totally makes it thin and it makes it very difficult. And you're not going to get it done. So here's a video. Sean Mitchell, you could see it. The hot dogs already falling apart. The straw is like midway through and he tries to jam it through and then it comes out in the middle and he couldn't even get he couldn't even get halfway there. Blame it on the straw, blame it on the hot dog, but he just decided we're not doing it. And I'll be honest with you. For those on the radio, it looks like a freaking catheter. It just doesn't look good at all. Honestly. And you shouldn't turn baseball fans into urologists on the spot. So he just aborted the mission. Over. Over, done. You, however, mister feller, you created the video, but you didn't show us punching the top and the bottom of your hot dog that you boiled. You boil the hot dog. I boiled it, yeah. Okay. You boiled the hot dog. And here is the result of Jason fellow having already punctured the wiener, by the way, which is I do believe the second album after smelling the glove by spinal tap. This is the fruits, if you will, of Jason feller's labor. All right, so this is take
The Eric Metaxas Show
'The Truth About Energy, Global Warming, and Climate Change'
"To Jerome corsi. What a joy it is Jerome to have you here in the studio. And to talk about what most people are thinking, but they don't have the science or the facts to back it up. You have it in the book. This is the title of the book is the truth about energy global warming and climate change. So let's keep going. What else do we need to know? A couple more points. I want to first of all say that the IPCC, which is this United Nations intergovernmental panel on climate change, which is the group saying we're all going to die because a few more parts per million of carbon dioxide in the air. But hydrocarbon fuels, burning, creates the carbon dioxide, capitalism is wrong and evil. The scientists are actually good scientists. And what makes them so dangerous is they twist the science in order to make it come to their conclusion. They have to do things like Michael Mann did with his hockey stick. Everything's stable. We have had no temperature variations going back. Thousands of years or hundreds of years, industrial revolution comes along. Suddenly, the blade of the hockey stick goes up. Nonsense. They erase the little ice age. You erase the medieval warming period. Okay,
The Big Picture
"michael mann" Discussed on The Big Picture
"A fictional slang term. This is from the Wikipedia entry. It's just easier to do it this way. The film's title is a fictional slang term for a form of psychosis called orbital dysfunctional syndrome caused by deep space and triggered by emotional stress. So essentially, Dennis Quaid and Ben forester wake up, Ben foster wake up from deep sleep. And they have amnesia. They don't know why they're in space or they don't know why they've been woken up. They don't know whether what their jobs are. And they're starting to just try to figure out what's going on this spaceship that they were awoken up, who's in command? What they're supposed to be doing? And it's basically like for the first half of it, it's kind of like rope or something. Where these guys are just like very suspicious of one another and trying to interrogate one another about why they're awake in space. And then the second half of it is just like there's fucking aliens, man. We gotta fight these things. So it's like a really, really, really cool, essentially two hander for most of it. There's some other people who turn up, but I just love the premise and it's really gnarly. It's very dark, it's kind of gothic and it has like a little bit of that Paul WS Anderson vibe to it, but Quaid and foster are just both like the safety's off and they're just like hamming it up with each other. It's so cool. Chris, I have incredible news for the listeners of this show. The film Pandora is streaming for free on tubi right now. To be, you want to be does is when you type in a movie name and streaming, it's always like it's on to be for free. That's why they're fucking numbers are high. They are crushing right now when it comes to low grade ill remembered decent genre movies from the last 35 years. I can't believe it. There's nothing like it. Oh, the twist on Pandora two is it opens with these guys finding out that earth is in crisis. So when they wake up, they get a message from earth and it's like you guys are our last hope, but they don't even know what they're supposed to be doing. Like a message from earth? From the planet, they actually communicate the planet communicates. Yeah, they get a message from home base back on earth. They come through for us, and they're like, what the fuck? Wow, I got to check that one out. Great recommendation. Any other films you feel like we haven't had a chance to hit on or that are. So like I mentioned before predators is a very good sci-fi setup. I just love predators because of the cast and the characters. And if I could run through those really quickly because this is a movie that I'm like, I can't believe I got to see this. I can't believe this was something we got to experience. Robert Rodriguez produced this one. It features age room brewery as a U.S. special ops guy. Alice Braga plays an Israeli sniper. Topher grace as a doctor, Walton Goggins is a death row.
The Big Picture
"michael mann" Discussed on The Big Picture
"Does he have anything else? He comes in paranormal activity, bro? God. He did next of kin? Yeah. Wow, next up kin was good. Yeah. Underrated, probably not talked about enough. Okay, great. Come on the pot, man. Seriously come through. William eubank. All right, my number 5, my final film is probably the movie. I've watched the most of my brother Kyle in my life. This movie was on HBO constantly when we were growing up. And I think it's debatable whether it could be considered as part of the junk sci-fi genre, but I think it pairs very well with one of your picks. So I want to open up a broader Michael Crichton conversation. Sure. Michael Crichton, of course, the author of Jurassic Park. And the Andromeda strain and Westworld and a number of other great train robbery. He directed that film. Yeah. And he also wrote a book in the 90s called Congo. This is a movie about intelligent apes. Yeah. And the search for a lost city. It fuses, I think some of the technophobia and Jeff Bezos like billionaire power struggles. With ancient history, with anthropology with zoology and with an incredibly gifted cast of people being asked. Laura Linney have to do this movie. Or obviously willingly do this movie, but she's Laura Linney. And she's acting with a gorilla. I believe Laura Linney plays a the daughter of an extremely rich person who is also a former CIA agent. Is that possible? Yeah. And she encounters a primatologist who is working with a gorilla who can communicate with humans. And it is just this movie in the final hour goes to this movie is considered one of the worst movies ever made, and it was released. I deeply disagree with that. It was directed by the great Frank Marshall the producer of many George Lucas product projects and Steven Spielberg projects married to Kathleen Kennedy who oversees LucasFilm recently just made the Bee Gees documentary. I don't I know why people thought this movie was bad? They were all wrong. This is one of the most entertaining batshit movies of the 1990s. And it is entirely worth it for the laser beam shoot out amongst the gorillas in the final ten minutes. It goes to some pretty sweet places. That's all I'm going to say. I'll throw this isn't actually the last movie I want to talk about, but because it's crichton crichton is the lord of the premise and then just nothing gets followed through on, where it's just like dinosaurs, they're back. Let's go. Cut the check. Sphere, I think counts as garbage sci-fi. Spheres just like there's a sphere and Dustin Hoffman and Ginger for casino are going to it, you know? It's just unreal. One word titles, simple premises,.
The Big Picture
"michael mann" Discussed on The Big Picture
"Yes, which is one of the true great premises for any garbage science fiction movie, which is like, what is the value and who has the rights to this ridiculous tool of power? Yeah. So very fun movie, good design. It actually holds up pretty well. I rewatched it. It is, it's also indicative of what I think you already underlined, which is like the spectacle part of it. Sometimes these movies have to be events in order for them to work even when they stink. And this movie was at the time. I was 12 years old. I was like, this is probably the biggest movie it's coming out this year. So it's important to take me to it. Also, that was in the same year that Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction were released and I was like, mom, we have to go see Stargate. So and she definitely took me, which I think she it's no Stargate John fantasy. Yeah. Well, I came around eventually, but I'm glad I got a chance to talk about Stargate here. What's on your list? Let's go with a ghost of Mars. Because John Carpenter in some ways is the father of all this shit, but I think he's too good to get dragged into it. But go somewheres you can pull in. Goes of Mars is basically Rio bravo in space. It stars Natasha Henstridge as a space soldier who is charged with bringing ice cubes convicted felon to space justice. And in the process of doing that, she's partnered with Jason Statham who plays a guy named sergeant Jericho butler. Ice cube plays desolation Williams. We almost went with that for Alice's name. It was almost desolation Williams. See, I'm surprised. Didn't go with Clea DuVall's character's name, Bashir kincaid. So this is essentially just like a Mars western with furo, Mars colonists running around possessed by the ghosts of Mars from the title. It's told in like a cool tribunal way where it's like Natasha Henstridge is answering for what happened at this disaster in this colony. But it's just like way better than it has any business being considering the fact that it's about a guy named desolation and a guy named Jericho. Fighting Mars ghosts. And John Carpenter is the goat. You know what I mean? I would never put the thing on this list. I probably wouldn't even play I don't know. Big trouble in little China doesn't really count because that's more like mystical than it is sci-fi. It's close though. I wouldn't put starman on this list. I think that's two Spielberg and touchy. Vampires is obviously like a horror movie, but it goes to Mars is probably in the vampires category of John Carpenter movies that's like, you want to have something like really good one liners and fight scenes for two hours and then go on with your day. Bang. Yeah, late period Carpenter is the least analyzed, incredible blank check series on John Carpenter last year. I got to shout that out. Those guys listen to every episode they did on those movies because all those movies are so much fun. Ghost of Mars, I think is actually the least fun in a weird way..
The Big Picture
"michael mann" Discussed on The Big Picture
"I'm feeling really good about this. So, you know, we've created garbage. We've created garbage crime. We elucidated recently the prestige dirtbag film. Yes. We're about to enshrine ten movies into our junk science fiction. And let me tell you, you know, who's got our back here? A homie Casey boys over at HBO Max because a lot of these are streaming on Macs. There are so many of these movies on HBO Max. If you fire up our number one movie that we're going to spend probably the most time on out of all of these. Once you've completed this film, just go to the if you also like right underneath it. Yes. You'll be set for the weekend. If you want to catch up on some of these, not masterworks at all, but also fun movies to watch with a little bit of downtime. You'll be made in the shade on HBO..
The Big Picture
"michael mann" Discussed on The Big Picture
"For a while. And you know, it's interesting. We're going to get into these sci-fi movies. He just makes a kind of movie that I think is way too expensive for the lack of certainty that it's going to make any money. So it gets increasingly hard for him to essentially finance his projects despite the fact that he's one of the most revered filmmakers of the last 40 years. Yeah, one gets the impression that he is very exacting in the way that his productions often cares about shit that I don't think a lot of people care about anymore. Yeah. And so it's been difficult for him. I mean, once upon a time Ford versus Ferrari was at Michael Mann project and that obviously shifted at a certain point to James mangold. But this has been an object of fascination for him. You know, he's 79 years old. And he's getting up there. You know, we just watched, we had a year in which Paul Schrader and Clint Eastwood and Ridley Scott and Martin Scorsese and all these people have been incredibly making vital work and doing incredible stuff as filmmakers, but still 79 is not no joke for a movie that his movies are very muscular. They require a kind of physical intensity. So I'm excited for this. It's probably not useful that Michael Mann, who I think was really the inspiration for garbage crime. And I think everything kind of flows from heat into the world of garbage crime. That we talk about him on this episode because let's talk about this junk sci-fi stuff, okay? Because okay, moon falls here, I saw it. It was bad. Everybody. I did. But Roland emmerich is a wildly important figure. In this space. I think he's lost his fastball a little bit, but what his fastball even was is a little bit of a mystery to me. Now he has been behind some incredible works of junk sci-fi. Many of his works belong in the first ring of the Hall of Fame. Among them, I mean, Independence Day is almost like a disaster movie meets junk sci-fi movie, especially the latter half of that movie, though when they get up on that ship, I'm like, give it a cold. Yeah, that's a wild shit. Obviously, Stargate and universal soldier, our first ballot Hall of Famers in this space. And you know, he operates from sort of like a 70s disaster movie approach to these films. He's not exactly what we're thinking of. I think when we're talking through this stuff, but I thought it was appropriate with this movie coming out. And then with this Soderbergh movie coming out, Kimmy, which is sort of the inverse is a very small paranoia thriller, but it's a movie about science and it's moving about technology. And the technology that is used for ill gotten gains and this is a movie that probably has more in common with different.
The Big Picture
"michael mann" Discussed on The Big Picture
"Fantasy and this is the big picture a conversation show about junk. CR is here, and we are making a sequel to a very important episode of this podcast that we made back in November of 2020. That episode was about garbage crime. Today we're doing something a little different a sequel of sorts with the release of Roland emmerich's interstellar disaster movie moon fallen theaters, and in a new Steven Soderbergh movie, techno anxiety thriller called Kimi, now streaming on HBO Max, we're digging into a beloved sister category of movie. Junk sci-fi garbage sci-fi sci-fi that isn't very good, but we love it. See are you excited about this episode? I can't wait. I like junk sci-fi. It has it conjures images of decaying spaceship basically stapled together in a far outreach on the outer rim. Were you and I love to pot? Yes, and before we get in our deck chairs and ride off into the great galaxy. Let's talk a little bit of new stuff. First of all, I wanted to ask you about the Academy Awards. Are you familiar with that organization and that show? Am I excited for this upcoming iteration of it? Well, what did you think about this slate of nominees this year? Because it was like probably like the best slate they've ever had in the history of the awards show, and by the same token, I'm obviously very concerned that people don't care about the show anymore I've been talking about that nonstop. I've mentioned on the show earlier this week. This is my acceptance phase. I'm like, okay. This is now actually the only goal of this show now is to recognize the best works in filmmaking, and that is ultimately a good thing, but I don't know what was your reaction when you saw the nominees. So I didn't really have a very strong feelings about anything until this morning when I saw there was actually like a Jimmy Kimmel quote going around where it's like him just being like, how can don't look up get nominated and Spider-Man doesn't..
77WABC Radio
"michael mann" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"You want to fix poverty More government When a fixed healthcare government one families they spend more time together more government One educate people more government Yeah it's just interesting The answer is always the same isn't it Michael Mann who I view as a discredited so called climate scientist he's on MS LSD today Again look who they bring in Look at they bring in They don't bring in experts who have contrary views and there are thousands of them They bring in somebody like Michael Mann Here we're talking about these deadly tornadoes And then they use it as cover to push their agenda Cut four go What do we need to learn about how to build better in the southeast Let's say In the Midwest Well you know we need to pass build back better because that Bill has climate provisions that will address this problem at its core which is the warming of the planet due to carbon pollution fossil fuel burning So that's most important We can prevent this from getting worse if we act on climate now No we can't No we can't People think there's answers to everything Sometimes there aren't What can we do to build better And you bring in so called climate scientists why don't you bring builders in if you want to know what you can do to build better in the southeast In the Midwest But you don't They create this pretext And so whenever there is a disaster of any kind whether it's nature of this sort whatever it is whatever it is The answer is always the same The politicians get more powerful the bureaucracy gets bigger You lose liberty and you lose rights We should be helping our fellow citizens Not using those occasions to empower politicians and bureaucrats And the people who live very very wealthy by the way often talking about them in Washington D.C. If you have.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"michael mann" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"We now have people going all in saying that the reason why this is happening is because the climate is warming and even worse, it's because we have people that are trying not to admit that this is the greatest threat to human existence. Now, I'm not going to get into whether or not this tornado is something like anything we've ever seen before. There's plenty of scientific literature going back and forth. The fema directors come out and said that this is the new normal. The effects that we're seeing from climate change are the crisis of our generation. AJ plus says whether experts say the deadly tornadoes that hit Kentucky and nearby states were fueled by unusual heat and humidity. Fema's director says that such events are now the new normal. This is Biden saying that the deadly tornadoes ripping through the south of the Midwest is the fact is that we all know everything is more intense when the climate is warming. Play cut four. Did you say anything to you about climate change? I do have conclude that these storms in the intensity have to be required for. Well, all that I know is that the intensity of the weather across the board has some impacts as a consequence of the warming of the planet. And the climate change. The specific impact on these specific storms, I can't say at this point. We all know everything is more intense when the climate is warming. Everything. Now, part of the environmentalist agenda of the abolish fossil fuel agenda of the confiscation of private property agenda is to create an opposition or create something in opposition so big that it's going to require action so dramatic that no one would ever question it. Now, the genius behind the climate change debate is whether or not temperatures go up or temperatures go down or there's any sort of varying ability and there's no predictive capacity or capability, change on it. Climate activist Michael Mann, he says, you know what we need? We need to censor scientists who disagree with me on global warming. He says the risk of the world is greater than COVID. He says, quote, the climate climate change is already costly. We're costing more lives than COVID-19, and the denial of climate change is far deadlier play.
Democracy Now! Audio
"michael mann" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"What's happening right now? Yeah, I mean it was so struck hearing your conversation earlier with Michael Mann because you guys were talking about a climate emergency being here and that is exactly what it feels like to live in California right now. The rolling blackouts of life. Here was actually instituted by the independent system, operator here in California because they ran out of power. They didn't have enough Reserve in their system, so they ended up instituting, these rolling blackouts birth. For two days in August, but there is another kind of blackout that is called by the utilities including PG&E because their lines have caused so many fires. That's one way that they now try to prevent their aging and poorly-maintained equipment from sparking future fires. Generally, those kinds of those outages come a little bit later in the fire since June. When we see for example, next month, we'll see more wind events and that's when the situation becomes really dire, but there's no doubt about it. We are in a climate emergency here and one of our tires that we have been tracking among several is the Dixie fire, which just broke out this week, very close to the burn scar of the camp fire. In fact, it started off very close to the ignition point of the campfire. And I have been getting texts and emails, we have 10 seconds, blind Paradise, who are very concerned and they're seeing the smoke in the air and they're worried, they're worried about dead. What to do and how to make sure they're safe. Well, Lilly jamali want to thank you so much for your superb. Reporting co-host and correspondent for KQED is the California report will link to our investigation a year after PG&E left bankruptcy spending by fire victim, trust remains a mystery and that does it for our show. I'm Amy Goodman. Stay safe..
Climate Cast
New book charts changing tactics of fossil fuel lobby
"2021 brings a new president and new priorities for climate change solutions. How quickly can the. Us pivot toward a cleaner. Climate policy penn state university professor. Michael mann's new book. The new climate war the fight to take back. Our planet has some ideas. Michael welcome back to climate cast. Thanks great to be with you. Give us a thumbnail sketch of your book. What's the message here. The message here is actually pretty simple. Look climate change. Denial is no longer tenable fossil fuel interests. Those who've done their bidding. Those forces of inaction the inactive. Est says i call them simply recognize that they can credibly claim that climate change isn't real that it isn't human caused in that it isn't doing real damage now and so they've turned to other tactics in an effort to delay that necessary transition away from fossil fuels Moving attention away from the need for systemic solutions for policies that incentivize renewable energy and put a price on carbon to individual lifestyle changes Another one is false. Solutions the idea that there are simple technological fixes that somehow don't necessitate us getting off of fossil fuels. Michael twenty twenty one brings a new president may be what i would call an opportunity point for climate solutions and making them a priority. What has president elect biden proposed that heads in the direction you want to see. The biden plan the plan that he has put forward. is a bold climate plan It includes massive investment government investment in renewable energy which is very important part of the solution. There is support for carbon pricing of putting a price on carbon polluters pay when they dumped carbon pollution into the atmosphere right. Now they don't have to pay for that so the biden administration is Emphasizing the importance of those actions They are also reengaging the global community Reasserting our support for international treaties like the paris treaty and in fact for going beyond the paris treaty. So we know the bottom line where the rubber meets. The road is the atmosphere and when we talk about these policy changes how quickly can policy changes start to have an impact on our atmosphere. Yeah you know. There's some good news there. The prevailing thinking a decade or so ago is that when we stop emitting carbon. The planet will still warm up for decades. There is a substantial revision now in understanding of the problem that we can stop emitting carbon in the atmosphere we will see the fruits of those efforts Pretty quickly and that's why it is important for us to act dramatically over the next ten years. What would you say to those who are apprehensive about climate solutions and the economy. And what will you be watching for the next four years. Yeah what i would say is that you know there's a fallacy that somehow we have to choose between the economy and the environment that's simply not true if we act on the climate crisis we will save literally trillions of dollars because extreme weather events are costing tens of billions of dollars every year here in the united states alone there were record number of them in two thousand twenty and so it's a win win we act on this problem now We can avert destroying this planet for future generations and we potentially have a healthier economy as a result of it. Michael man with penn state university. Thanks so much for sharing your perspective today Thank you very much. Paul was a pleasure talking with you.
Thom Hartmann
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Hits Highest Level in at least 3 Million Years
"In our science fact of the day this just in according to the world meteorological association no you know flaming left wing think tank the a this is the W. ammo the literally the world meteorological association atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide CO two are now at the highest ever in three million years now that is longer than human history human history only goes back a couple hundred thousand years so atmosphere CO two levels right now are higher than when Lucy was around right the the pre human and a higher than when Lucy's ancestors were around getting Lucy was only about a million or so ago all of which means that our children and grandchildren can expect temperatures to continue to rise more extreme weather more sea level rise more destruction to marine life more destruction of land based ecosystems more death of insects and and stuff at the bottom of the food chain which then echoes up so that the birds die and and we're saying this right now you know sixty seventy percent of certain kinds of birds particularly the insect insectivorous birds drawn from our planet we're looking at at at an insect apocalypse right now and and this is just the very beginning we have not yet even hit one point five degrees Celsius increase in temperature over the bass line and the pre industrial base line I mean we're just about there but we haven't quite hit it and the bottom line what what all these climate scientists are saying is is that we have to stop it right there I can't go any farther and yet what is the industry doing right now and and in on the right wing media that is that is supportive of industry while they're making fun of the stuff I mean Michael Mann for example the the the scientist he's been a guest on this program many times as a brilliant easy university of Pennsylvania sciences he's the guy who invented the cop the hockey stick conception of the SCO to going up that Al Gore popularized bed professor of cleans climate science or atmospheric science or whatever it is add to Penn state university one of probably a top five climate scientists in the world Michael Mann me was made fun of by the competitive interest enterprise institute in their blog ran Samberg wrote that well first of all they they attacked Michael Mann they said that his science was nonsense and and that is so Penn state did an investigation because there was all this ball Rollin publicity Penn state did an investigation what they found was that he was totally stand up everything he said was true and the way he said it was fine and though he published it was in compliance with scientific rigorous scientific standards reviews stuff so the compatible devices that is one of these right wing think tanks in quotes it really just a propaganda show operation for industry guy name brand Sandburg wrote that Penn state had quote covered up one two in by Michael Mann and characterize man as quote the Jerry Sandusky of climate science because he had quote molested and tortured data in service of politicized science and then not a blog posted by hosted by the National Review online the national reviews the magazine that William F. Buckley started back in the day when he was alive the saying that the you know the National Review is supporting segregation not just in South Africa but in the United States as well apartheid the National Review still around even though he is gone and they said in the end they oppose this was mark staying he said the man was behind the fraudulent climate change study in the investigation clearing him was a cover up basically and so Michael Landon Jr mattered factions from from the competitive enterprise institute see I am from National Review and instead they naturally you published an op ed by rich Lowry their editor titled get lost well so Matt Michael Mann suit and they just tried to get the lawsuit dismissed and here's the headline this is in the Washington post's Robert Barnes a climate scientists may pursue his definition lawsuit against a magazine in a Washington think tank after the Supreme Court on Monday declined to intervene at this stage of the litigation Sam Alito dissented Sam Mr craze right wing dissented but the the Supreme Court said not spread go ahead and so on it's absolutely amazing I mean this is this is so so here we are we've got more CO two in the atmosphere than at any time in the history of the human race or even the pre human race day in other holidays mmhm more and more CO two in the air our course it takes sometimes as much as a century to that for the CO two in a holding heat and to accumulate to the point where you really start seeing the effects we're already starting to and you've got industry trying to pretend that there's not and there's nothing to see here and making fun of it ridicule and the folks and I've got real scientists were starting to fight back and say no this is real stuff and then the world meteorological organization just comes out and says CO two levels higher than they've ever been
Amanpour
The Latest on the Kashmir status
"We looked the heating tensions between two major u._s. Allies a nuclear armed nations india and pakistan. It all kicked off on monday. When the indian prime minister narendra modi announced that he was removing kashmir's special status from the indian constitution putting its autonomy in peril in an address to the nation today the indian prime minister doubled down saying that his actions would free cash of terrorism in a nutshell kashmir is a contentious piece of land split split mostly between india and pakistan and they have fought three wars over it already. The pakistani government is responding so far by suspending trade with its neighbor the and downgrading diplomatic relations as this tense standoff develops we have asked for indian officials to join us but they've so far declined and i'm joined now by pakistan's ambassador the to the united nations me lodhi ambassador. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. How serious is this in the view of your government. I don't just mean politically for your government but regionally and what might do given the tension between your ought to nations christian. Let's i get the facts straight. How was this crisis triggered. It was triggered by illegal eagle annexation by the indian government off the state of jammu in kashmir which is an internationally recognized dispute in fact where i sit at the united the nation's it is a dispute that is functionally on the u._n. Security council agenda because there are a series of u._n. Security council resolutions that have of course on india to allow the people of jammu in kashmir to freely determine their destiny through a so the crisis is triggered by an illegal an illegitimate action by india and let's just get the rest of the facts straight. The facts are that there is a blanket curfew in occupy genuine cushman people. There are locked up. It's called a lock down which has entered its fourth david. Actually this has been a prolonged lockdown. These people have been deprived tribe of the liberty for seventy years or more now. They're going to be deprived of their identity because the action by the indian government what does it actually do. Ooh what it does is to also allow the indian government to bring about demographic changes in dublin kushner and therefore to really really threaten the identity of the kashmiri people as far as my government is concerned and my prime minister and my country's concern. We reject this move. We heard what prime hi mr moody said just a few hours ago and it was a dishonest deceitful and disingenuous justification of their action which has no basis in law and it's certainly flouts in flagrant violation. Security council has been ambassador. Let me ask you this. Let me ask because those are very very tough words. You're using you are the u._n. Ambassador you've just reminded us all how this is enshrined in international law given the dispute you should be resolved according to the international community so what is the united nations and the security council going to do about this so they taking it up well. I have been in meetings with top officials and i have reminded them of their responsibility. Pakistan has going to go to the security council. It is going to remind mind the security council and its members indeed all of the united nations of its responsibility and what is that responsibility that responsibility is to ensure and let me say to christiane for your viewers and important resolution. It's called resolution thirty eight of the security council and the paragraph two of that resolution says a country does not have the right to materially change the situation in cushman and that's precisely what the indian government it has done so my country wants a peaceful settlement of this issue. We've always called for a negotiated settlement which is an accordance with security council resolutions russians and in accordance with the wishes of the schmead people. Let's not forget the issue is about people it's about the people who have been deprived of their right to live the way they want to be governed the way they want to end today even pro indian politicians in in kashmir have been locked up so if prime minister narendra modi's says that this is in the interests of the jungle in kashmir people the question he has to answer is why do you have to lock up the entire state of genuine kashmir why because no cash media will accept what the indian government has done a we we we. We don't accept what the indian government has done. We checked it and we'll go to the council and we'll make all these points at the council and we will insist that the council implement its own resolutions because i think the choice right now is do we want to live in a rules-based world where international law supreme or do we want to live in a world which is ruled by the law of the jungle and this is what india has done it his floated international law and it has flouted security council resolutions. You mentioned lockdown and lock up. We've heard reports that opposition politicians in in jammu kashmir have been arrested and as you say landlines are down. The internet is down. Mobile phone is down very very difficult to get an idea of exactly what's happening on the ground there but i do want to ask you because the whole world knows that this piece of disputed land has been the cause of three wars between between your nations and today your army chief the the pakistani army chief said that the country would do all that's necessary go to any extent to support cash mary's and then the foreign minister said the pakistan is not looking to respond militarily so can i hear it from you. Do you think that there's is going to be a military solution to this or do you still have diplomatic intentions. No i mean we have said very clearly that all diplomatic diplomats and political options are on the table pakistan has no interest and no desire to escalate the situation. This is an escalation that was triggered by by an illegal and illegitimate act and we would like the international community now to stand up for principle for law for justice and to address the plight eight of the kashmiri people as i keep saying christiane. This is about people in that state in an occupied state an occupation that has been brutal india has moved additional troops into occupied jammu and kashmir why obviously to suppress the voice of the kashmiri people but one day the curfew will have have to end one day these restrictions will have to go and then the indian government will hear the voice of the kashmiri people and that voice will be to get get out of kashmir to leave kashmir and to reverse this illegal annexation but that's also gives rise to all sorts of worries because if they do protests as most people believe they will and some have suggested they will if and when this curfew is is is raised that also could trigger a response so let me ask you because obviously president trump has met president prime minister modi of india several times and he also just hosted prime minister imran khan oh prime minister at the white house and when they were talking president trump said that prime minister mody had mentioned. Maybe he into mediating in this. Let me just play what president trump said. I was with prime minister modi two weeks ago and we talked about this subject and he actually flea said. Would you like to be a mediator or arbitrator. I said