28 Burst results for "Scott Fitzgerald"
Bloomberg Radio New York
"scott fitzgerald" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Start of the pandemic, there has been a constant push and pull between employees wanting to work from home and employers who want workers in office. Doctor Karen kimbrough is seen that trend play out firsthand. She's chief economist at LinkedIn and was recognized in 2017 by black enterprise as one of the most powerful black women in business. She says there's a disconnect between what employers are looking for and what job seekers want. What we see in terms of actually applications is that there's two applicants for every remote job on our platform and maybe it's the reverse where there's maybe two jobs for every applicant when it comes to the onsite. Everybody's happy to work, but they want to do it differently. Doctor Karen kimbrough also said that a majority of remote work opportunities exist in the tech sector where hiring a slowed recently. I'm Bloomberg's Justin milliner. On the black business beat. It's the big take from Bloomberg news and iHeartRadio. I'm west Kosovo. Today, why are billionaires parking piles of money intended for charity? Instead of giving it to charity. You know that old F. Scott Fitzgerald expression, the rich are different from you and me. That might as well be the title of today's show. For several years, prominent billionaires have been joining the giving pledge. That's where they publicly promised to give away some or all over their fortunes. But unlike the rest of us, we drop a dollar in the jar, write a check for charities we care about. The super rich? Do it differently. One way is by using a thing called a donor advised fund. That lets them set aside money to give away without saying when they'll give it away, or who's going to get it. You might ask, why would they want to do this? Bloomberg reporters
History Unplugged Podcast
"scott fitzgerald" Discussed on History Unplugged Podcast
"Relationship between art and the artist? The artist goes through how a lot of times, to produce his art, and not knowing what's going to come out to you. And first year of dying in 1940, there were two stacks of The Great Gatsby in the script and a warehouse. And it wasn't that it was out of print just there was no demand at all. And Fitzgerald got a $5 royalty check. The year he died. For all his books, so here's this great American writer who basically died in obscurity, broke, yet he is one of our greatest American writers today, regardless of greatest. And of course, his books sell. So, you know, I think what people should take away from it is that there is the artist and every time you had a great quote where he said, the most disease oyster, the best pearl. And I think that's very true with a lot of artists that they do go through how to create their art. And it's a work of faith. And so for a writer today who produces a novel, it doesn't go anywhere. Fitzgerald knew he knew he'd written something great. He knew it in his bones. And did he know that it would come back the way it did? Probably not. But I think he knew that it would find its way because it was good. And it did. And to the point where today, you know, 50 million copies later, it is just regarded. And I would have to say in regard to more than Hemingway as the final statement on the American Dream. Well, this adds a lot of nuance to a story that many people have come across whether through high school literature classes or their own reading and gives us a better sense of how consciously writers can take elements of their life, put it into a story. And your book in the spirit of Fitzgerald is also very readable. I enjoyed it. And for listeners who want to check it out, the name of it is writing Gatsby, the real story of the writing of the greatest American novel. William, thank you for joining us. Thanks for having me. That's all for today's episode. If you like to see show notes with sources, maps, links, anything else related to this episode, and all my other ones as well. Go to Parthenon podcast dot com. That's the name of the podcast network this show is a part of, along with James early's key battles of American history, Steve Guerra is beyond the big screen in the history of the papacy, and other great history shows as well. If you like to support this show, the two easiest ways to do so are to subscribe to it on the podcast player of your choice and leave a review. The second thing is to join the membership program for history unplugged. If you do so you'll get completely ad free episodes for the entire back catalog, which is about 600 episodes in growing, and all you have to do is go to Patreon dot com slash unplug. Thanks for listening and see you next time.
History Unplugged Podcast
"scott fitzgerald" Discussed on History Unplugged Podcast
"What your book does is parallel the events of the summer with events in the book showing that much of it is autobiographical. Let's take a look at that and then you could recap events in the book for those who either are far removed from the American lit classes in high school or perhaps not even Reddit with things that actually happened. So let's talk about in the book where Gatsby has the affair with daisy. What happens in the book and how does that parallel events of the summer? Well, you know, so Fitzgerald's writing and they thought routine where solid takes their young dark Scotty, but they also have a woman to watch her. And then Zara would go to the beach, go hanging out with the murphys, which was a rich expatriate couple. But it was almost a person who needed to be entertained. And Scott worried about this a lot. Because she was sort of out of hand even in New York. And so while he's writing, she's left to her own devices. Well, one around devices that she bumps into a man named Edward josan, who is a handsome French or Italian, actually, aviator, and they start to drink together, go to the beach together, and ostensibly it looks platonic, but it quickly becomes an affair. And this is in the middle of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel that he's writing, The Great Gatsby. And he said, almost see on the timeline of the novel where this inner sex. And so this starts to inform the affair, the daisy has what Gatsby. And this is really, you know, Fitzgerald had to have almost an example for his writing. And his big example was always out that you go back to this side of Paradise. You got the beautiful and the damn you go to many of his short stories. That's how the heroin just over and over and over. He created the flapper, as we know it. And that was out of he really had this living character who he is living with. And he needed it. He needed to know what happened. And so what I started to realize is I research you running this, was that oh my God, he really was using her to sort of observe what would happen. Even to the point where he introduced her to Edward Joseon, and when he started to realize that something was going on, he used that. He used that in the book. So getting back to your original point, what starts to happen with gas and what I started to realize that every part of Gatsby, which is really the American Dream, personified, is as Scott Fitzgerald's life. It is, I mean, I'm sure we'll go through it, but every part you can draw a diagram right to something and Fitzgerald's life. Let's unpack some more of those things too. The character of Tom Buchanan and his brutality. Who does that mirror in Fitzgerald's circle? You know, it's very interesting when he was in Long Island. There was a pull up player, a wealthy polo player, and first name was Tommy, his last name escapes me. But he, you know, there's a great line in the novel where he says, you know, time was wealthy enough to bring down a string of polo company. Polo ponies from late forest. So, not it's hard to believe a man or my generation would be wealthy enough to do that. Well, that's exactly what this Thomas seems name was Tommy burban. Tommy did. He had his own string of polo ponies. Now, the brutality of time is sort of an amalgam of Americans that Fitzgerald had bumped into. And also there was this brutality about him that is the underside of the American Dream of striving to have the golden girl to have this life of wealth and opulence that to do this, there's this brutality involved. And so Tom Buchanan becomes sort of an amalgam of this Tommy character who Fitzgerald bumped into in Long Island. And then also sort of a catch all for this darker side of the American Dream and the men who ruthlessly really end up on top. Also, could you describe more of that of what you see in this amalgamation that reflects these people that he comes across? Yeah, I mean, Tom, he's a man who's inherited wealth. This channel is always the poor boy looking into the keyhole of direction. And that came from basically growing up and summit hill in Minnesota. And his own father lost his job when Fitzgerald probably 12. And everyone back to work, everyone Fitzgerald was a southern gentleman and really probably felt work was below him. So it came to his mother who was Aquila, whose father was a wholesale grocer, very successful. And so it was her inheritance that they lived off of. F. Scott Fitzgerald never lived in a home he bought. His entire life, he lived in random homes, including his childhood. But he lived up some at hill and because his mother had this money. They won a lot of money, but it's just enough. He was able to play with the rich children. And so he would be invited to all the parties he went away to do. Prep school, saint Regis, and of course, didn't even go to Princeton, which we can talk about was a disaster. But he was always the poor boy. So one of the themes of Gatsby is poor boys shouldn't try and date rich girls, right? And this is actually said that Fitzgerald and Lake Forest at a party Geneva king, who actually is another heroine has sort of a stand in for a lot of his characters. And so he was always the poor boy. Which is circling around here to Gatsby. Gatsby is from Minnesota. We find out that at the end of the novel, Gatsby comes from this dirt poor farmer. But he recreates himself and he becomes Gatsby, this other person. That's a very American theme, by the way, that in this country, not different from Europe. We can move about in the class system. We are not confined to being working class. We can move up if we like. And we can reinvent ourselves. Any way we want. And this is exactly what Gatsby does. There's that great line, great castor where he says he's the platonic conception of himself. In which if anything means he's the son of God. So what Fitzgerald believes and lives is that you can recreate yourself if it's Gerald always fantasized too about having fabulously rich parents. It's a story called absolution where he calls, he has his fantasy, he's blanche for its sort of the son of a king. And Victoria basically discounted his own father as a loser. Not maybe in those brutal terms, but he just, and his mother was eccentric. And he was sort of ashamed of the way she dressed in banks. So this is very much mirrors into it. So Tom buchan play is emblematic of this rich. These people who, of course, Buchanan says, famously, more in the movie, it's brought out that in the novel, but he says, famously to Gatsby, you know, at a point in the confrontation over daisy, he says, you know, we're different from you. I am daisy. You may have the money. But you're not like us. You'll never be like us. So he sort of knocks down this whole idea that you can move about in this American capitalist system. It says, no, not really. Really, you're stuck, even though you have the money, you're
History Unplugged Podcast
"scott fitzgerald" Discussed on History Unplugged Podcast
"Scott here with another episode of the history unplugged podcast. If you grew up in the United States and were asked, what is The Great American Novel? For most, your answer would be F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Many Americans read it in their high school literature classes, and even if they didn't have to read it under compulsion, they may be one of the 500,000 people who purchased the book annually, which adds to the over 25 million copies that have been sold worldwide. The book has been made into three movies and produced for theater. What most people don't know is that much of the story of The Great Gatsby is autobiographical. When F. Scott Fitzgerald sat down to write the book in 1924, he suffered much of the same heartbreak, infidelity, struggle, alcoholism, financial hardship, and ultimately trying to reinvent himself even when it was impossible. Today's discusses William hazel grove, author of the book, writing Gatsby, the real story of the writing of the greatest American novel. We look at how by this time in Fitzgerald's life, he descended into an alcoholic run of parties on great neck, New York, where he and his wife Zelda lived. The book was a massive flop when it was released, and it only became a success after Fitzgerald's death when the U.S. Military selected the book and sent an overseas during World War II as part of its armed services edition. So in this episode, we talked all about the relationship between the artist and his art and what an artist goes through to produce great art. If you enjoyed this discussion with William hazel grove. And one more thing before we get started with this episode, a quick break for a word from our sponsors. Before talking about F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby, let's talk about another author who's temperamentally and stylistically very different and that's Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson claimed that he did something that's always stuck out to me as a writer. He said that he wanted to know what it felt like to write a great novel. So he sat down and retyped word for word, The Great Gatsby, and he claimed that he also did this with a farewell to arms. Maybe somebody would do this to develop the muscle memory of good writing, the way a martial arts student does a form to know what it feels like to do punches and kicks. Whether the story is true or not, what do you think that Thompson saw in The Great Gatsby that would make him do something like that? You know, when you think about The Great Gatsby, you also think about the three movies that were made. The first one is lost the history because it was on that silver nitrate, but probably blew up at some point or spontaneously combusted. And then you look at the other 74 film with Robert Redford and then the bass luhrmann film of 2013. And while I think the 2013 film came the closest, it's almost impossible to film this novel and have it not become clunky when death be delivers the line. Can't repeat the past all sport. Of course you can. In the novel, it's perfect. It works so well in every part of it. Thematically. But in the movie, it sounds this clunky line of delivered. And part of that is because Fitzgerald's writing in The Great Gatsby is so elegant. So elevated. And so packed up with connotations that it's almost impossible to duplicate on the screen and not have it come off selling hackneyed and a little clunky. But I think what hunter has Thompson let's assume he did this almost trying to drive that was that well, how do you write something that is 50,000 words and it ends up standing for all time the American Dream. And it's on the surface of very simple story. So what's in those sentences that have so much power when that prose, Fitzgerald's prose is so, so elegant and how would you do that? So I think with your right, when you say in the beginning, maybe somebody would take it on and saying, well, you know, if I can recreate a Rembrandt, maybe when I go to write my own Great American Novel, which actually, as we've discussed before, hundreds of times, I can't really believe that was his aspirations. The father of gonzo journalism and just, you know, lost in the fear and loathing in Las Vegas. But it shows and it's really fascinating. He said he did it with a farewell arms too. That for his time, these were the two bars to hit. And so, you know, maybe he would sit down with him. Carton cigarettes and a bunch of whisky bourbon and sit down and pound away and pound it out. And certainly you could spend your time doing worse things. He's a good writer, but also firing in all sorts of different directions. I'm talking about Thompson here and him being so disciplined and training himself to write and then doing chasing around Nixon after dropping LSD. It's like somebody who spends ten years studying Kung fu and then moves to Scotland to become a hooligan and establish a police force. But let's not talk about Thompson anymore because the man of the hour is Fitzgerald. What your book does is focus not so much on The Great Gatsby itself, but on the life of Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda as well. More specifically the time that he spent on the French Riviera in 1924 where he goes along with their daughter so that he can write his third novel. Tell me about his career up until that point. He's well established and famous. So what had happened with Fitzgerald's career up to 1924? You know, writers had a great advantage at that time. They could write for what was called the slicks, which was the Saturday post magazine and other magazines of that. And these were very well paid magazines in terms of Fitzgerald's high point was getting 4000 for a story. Which is probably like 30,000 today. It's unbelievable to kind of money. He made for short stories. Now saying that he didn't like them. You know, they've been collected. The good ones today, and they're brilliant. But he hated pounding out these stories. Because he always wanted to work on his novels. So up to this point, he and Zelda have become the emblem of use in America. She is a flapper. They are having these incredible parties and Long Island, which we'll be married in Gatsby. We can talk about that. But he's having trouble getting work done. And also because he's constantly in debt, he always has to go back and write for the Saudi, the impellers. So he's not being able to block out any time to write this elusive third. No, well, you know, we had this side of Paradise was a great success. The beautiful and damned, the second novel did pretty well. And yet he could not get going on this third. So he does is he squirrels away some money, and he gives himself some time. And he says, you know, I've got to get out of lung island because these parties just won't stop. People are seeking out their home. And so they decided to go to the French Riviera in the summer of 24 to essentially start over, give himself time, get the distance he needs from the crazy hectic party life. Did he basically been living since 1920? And we say party now, we think of 8 night. They would go for a week of just nonstop drinking partying going from one party to another. That was the 20s. You know what I mean? He became famous at a time when America really had no youth culture. And they became the youth culture. And you know, it's really fascinating to think about that because we are so immersed in the youth culture. Well, all you have to do is watch it on movie and realize there was nothing because everybody dressed like 40 year old adults. Even kids. But this culture, this urban culture produced this moment where they became the face of it and from 1920 on they just lived a party and so the plan was to leave and do this novel.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"scott fitzgerald" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"At the recent cpac conference in Dallas, which concluded this weekend there was a straw poll. And the results of the straw poll reported pretty widely in the media. Trump 69%, this is for 2024. Desantis 23% and pretty tellingly, Cruz 2% Pompeo, Nikki Haley, Rand Paul, Kristi Noem all 1%, and by the way, notice who's not there. Mike Pence 0%. Wow. Now, I want to try to explain the Trump phenomenon here because there are some people who say and I've been seeing this on social media that desantis is much more kind of error free than Trump. Desantis doesn't make Trump's mistakes. He is very effective as Trump is in hitting back at the media. They both have that kind of fortitude, but desantis is less ad hominem, desantis is in some ways certainly in terms of his personal life. He seems unbelievably clean, caught, he's got the sort of perfect resume. So why is it? Why is it then that Trump is consistently not just ahead, but way ahead? I mean, Trump is over two thirds of the vote. And desantis is desantis numbers only improve if you take Trump out of the equation. So what's going on here? Well, I want to try to explain this in an unusual way. The writer Scott Fitzgerald, this is the author, of course, of The Great Gatsby and a number of other important books. Scott Fitzgerald, once said something very poignant and I think very illuminating. He said, he said, I've got the two second best things to have. But I don't have the two best things to have. And he went on to explain that the second best things to have in his view were good looks and intelligence and Scott Fitzgerald goes, I got those two. But he goes, but the two best things to have are animal magnetism, animal magnetism, and money.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Why Trump Routinely Dominates Straw Polls Like the Recent CPAC One
"At the recent cpac conference in Dallas, which concluded this weekend there was a straw poll. And the results of the straw poll reported pretty widely in the media. Trump 69%, this is for 2024. Desantis 23% and pretty tellingly, Cruz 2% Pompeo, Nikki Haley, Rand Paul, Kristi Noem all 1%, and by the way, notice who's not there. Mike Pence 0%. Wow. Now, I want to try to explain the Trump phenomenon here because there are some people who say and I've been seeing this on social media that desantis is much more kind of error free than Trump. Desantis doesn't make Trump's mistakes. He is very effective as Trump is in hitting back at the media. They both have that kind of fortitude, but desantis is less ad hominem, desantis is in some ways certainly in terms of his personal life. He seems unbelievably clean, caught, he's got the sort of perfect resume. So why is it? Why is it then that Trump is consistently not just ahead, but way ahead? I mean, Trump is over two thirds of the vote. And desantis is desantis numbers only improve if you take Trump out of the equation. So what's going on here? Well, I want to try to explain this in an unusual way. The writer Scott Fitzgerald, this is the author, of course, of The Great Gatsby and a number of other important books. Scott Fitzgerald, once said something very poignant and I think very illuminating. He said, he said, I've got the two second best things to have. But I don't have the two best things to have. And he went on to explain that the second best things to have in his view were good looks and intelligence and Scott Fitzgerald goes, I got those two. But he goes, but the two best things to have are animal magnetism, animal magnetism, and money.
History Unplugged Podcast
The Four Biggest American Media Celebrities of the 1930s
"In the 1930s, the biggest American media celebrities were four foreign correspondents, Dorothy Thompson, John Gunther, HR knickerbocker, and Vincent Shea. They were household names in their day, and just as famous as their novel writing lost generation counterparts, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. These reporters helped shape what Americans knew about the world between the two world wars by landing exclusive interviews with the most important political figures of their day, including Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, as well as Trotsky, Gandhi, nehru, Churchill and FDR. But they also went beyond state press releases and listened closely to the dissidents in Europe and heard alarming reports of violence against anyone who opposed these authoritarian regimes. The reporting made waves at home and abroad. HR knickerbocker was the only foreign reporter whose dispatches Mussolini bothered to read. Joseph gobel is called knickerbocker in international liar and counterfeiter. John Guthrie shot to fame, but the book inside Europe published in 1936, arguing that, quote, unresolved personal conflicts in the lives of various European politicians may contribute to the collapse of our civilization. In the face of increasing violence in Europe, these reporters had to decide whether they would remain on the sidelines or advocate for their readers to respond. They were the readers of the dictators wouldn't be satisfied with their territories they conquered, and the objected to the policies of appeasement and predicted the coming of the Second World War. Putting together the stories they covered, the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, the Spanish Civil War broke out the next year, the German annexation of Austria and the karma book Czechoslovakia, and made very accurate judgments about what would come next.
Leadership and Loyalty
"scott fitzgerald" Discussed on Leadership and Loyalty
"You and I talked about this in our previous conversation that the I think that oftentimes leaders at a top level are afraid of vulnerability, my vulnerability, my weakness, it's an old school thing, but it's nonetheless. It's still very much there. And you are, I mean, you've been with the books behind you. You've been with Procter & Gamble. You've been with Starbucks. You've been with Apple, and huge organizations, and you're the CEO, you're the big cheese in all, you know, in these roles, it seems like for many people, that's going to be the least vulnerable position. You're not going to show any vulnerability. And you've done an extraordinary job of being very vulnerable, talk to us about how that is specifically, I mean, you know, you talked about people seeing you as a mom, but how have you, did you have to overcome that is what I'm asking, I guess, is did you feel that? I can't bring that vulnerability to work. Thank you for asking the question because it is something I've grappled with for the last decade. This was, you know, this was before brene Brown ever wrote dare to lead. So vulnerability really wasn't even a word in the workplace in the professional world. And I grappled with it because I like who I am. I think I'm highly imperfect, but I think the way I resonate with people is what works for me. So on LinkedIn, when I started really blogging, I think that was at IHG intercontinental hotels group. But between Apple and Starbucks, I worked there as a chief commercial officer, and I had a team of about 5200 people. So I started realizing, I need to over communicate and constantly reach out in different forms and different ways to my own team. And when I realized I was kind of saying the same thing, we can weak or a theme would start to emerge and then a new theme would come to light. I thought, let me just blog about it on LinkedIn in an absolute contribution, nothing in it for me kind of mindset. And that's when I really kind of became a little more authentic about who I am. And it did occur to me, not only internally, but others did mention, you know, that's not a very, that's not a very professional post, or I would not have a graphic so I would draw one and then just take a picture of it and use that as my key visual for whatever, I was posting on. And yeah, I mean, I'm not a good artist either. So there were moments where I was like, yeah. Maybe I'm diminishing myself. Maybe I'm coming across as too unprofessional. Maybe I'm coming across as too human. But ultimately, brene Brown did help with that when she introduced a whole new vernacular, but also I think I just came to terms with, but this is what's working for me. This is what my team's like about me. And this is why people are willing to invest themselves and come work on my business. So I'm just going to keep with it. If you get pushed back from your higher ups, I have not. I think that's a real gift. Yeah, I think it's really important. Sorry, go on. No, I think it's really important to pick who you work for. The company culture is a piece of it, even more important and more tangibly is your direct manager. Because you can not feel comfort for the spirit. You can not bring your whole self to work. If they don't buy into who you are, there's a lot of that stuff. I mean, you know, because I'm a consultant, I go around the world. I work with these big companies and these organizations. And oftentimes, I mean, even the CEO is like, yep, I'm totally on board with this and then they have to go into the boardroom and they have to meet with the shareholders and it's like, no, profit is what matters and it's in the next quarter as opposed to we're building a culture and a company around this that this is going to need two, three years and they're like, wow, you know, if we're not going to bring the numbers up in the next quarter and it's like, you know, I'm dealing with these guys that were like guys is a generic term, not male, who are saying, you know, I really want to do this, but I've got so much I'm pushing. Everybody in my teams behind it. Everybody supports me in it, but when I go up there, it's a different story. That's why I wanted to ask you about that because that is a huge challenge. It is. And I think it's the power of and it's not either or. It is not I must drive profit and therefore I'm throwing purpose out the window or I have to deliver sales and therefore I'm not going to demonstrate care for my teams. I think it was Scott Fitzgerald who said the test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time. And I think that power of and can unlock a different level of leadership. If I don't feel like I'm constantly trading off, but I'm looking for the intersection between two seemingly opposed ideas. And talking to ideas that might seem like they go together to some people. Not to me. But is this idea and it's part of the subtitle of your book, which is authentic leader, right? And you're talking about legacy and purpose. So we've got legacy and purpose and authentic and oftentimes authentic is this, you know, people will say things like, yeah, I know I'm a bit of an ass, but at least I'm authentic about it, right? You know, I'm kind of rude, but at least I'm authentic about it. That's not what I think of authentic as. And I've kind of pushed against that because it's become so generic. And I don't find anything you're doing as generic. So talk to us a little bit about that. The difference between authentic and purpose, if there's a difference for you. I think there is. And let me touch on the authentic piece because I agree with you. Saying I'm being authentic is not an excuse for bad behavior. Right. It does not mean you should embrace me from all my asshole Ness because I'm being me. Be aware. Be a better you. Exactly. You're an authentic asshole that doesn't mean I want to work with you. Right, right. So yeah, the subtitle is live a more intentional life. And leave with authentic purpose. And yes, what is authentic purpose? So to me, authenticity.
WBUR
"scott fitzgerald" Discussed on WBUR
"How does alcohol actually work What is it doing to us David nutt explains that it affects several pathways in the brain and it mimics a particular neurotransmitter called gaba And in humans and all our primate in fact pretty much more vertebrates Gaba calms the brain Another neurotransmitter called glutamate has the opposite effect It revs you up and both substances are always at play in your brain And it's almost like your brain is walking a tightrope Too much glutamate and you become hyper excited and then you end up getting anxious or having a seizure And so gaba protects you against that But too much gather you fall asleep and then you get even better tigers So you've got to get the balance right When people drink it's like they're putting a thumb on the scale Suppressing anxiety by blunt chemical force But of course there are diminishing returns To share a little poem from the writer and total boss Dorothy Parker I like to have a martini Two at the very most After three I'm under the table after four I'm under my host Alcohol impairs judgment and cognition And it can have life destroying chronic consequences Disease and addiction among them To quote F. Scott Fitzgerald first you take a drink Then the drink takes a drink Then the drink takes you Our psychopharmacologist David nutt has been in the field of substance abuse for almost 40 years I'll give you an example when I'm recent patient of mine And his life was to get up in the morning and get a bus up the road to the supermarket He'd buy two liters of strong cider which is about two weeks worth of alcohol And then you just sit there all day and drink that And he was destroying himself And that's really quite common People drinking alone and they're using alcohol then as an anesthetic to deaden the pain of their lives rather than getting any benefit from it People suffering from addiction use intoxicants because it feels like they have to Some people cite the dangers of booze in an argument for abstinence.
Write About Now
"scott fitzgerald" Discussed on Write About Now
"I mean hey. Sc or sam is he likes to calm have a very similar background. We both worked in the magazine world for years and He just happened to write a bestselling book. That sold one point. Four million copies. How did he do it. How did he research this book. How did he find the story. These are the questions that i want to know. Plus i wanted him to share these incredible stories. Both of these incredible stories with you so without further ado. I bring you the very gifted very smart very talented. Sc aka sam gwynne. We'll sam gwynne welcome to right about now. It's great to be here so true confession empire this summer moon. Pretty watch one of my favorite books of all time here and by the way rebel. Yell also means we're gonna talk about all your books but empire the sun moon sort of was transformative for me. It made me in some ways. I love it. And i hated at the same time because i kept trying to replicate the experience of reading that book and getting all these books about that period of history and it could never find one that i liked as much as empire this summer moon. So thanks for leading me down the rabbit hole which didn't actually unfortunately produce any ones like the new book. You're you're very welcome. I am flattered before we get into your books. I'd love to get a little bit about your background because it's a very interesting background. You've done a lot of things you even before you became a writer and i just kind of wanted to sort of understand how that'll informed who you are today you went to princeton and you also went to graduate school. Correct for writing yeah. I went to john's writing program at johns hopkins in baltimore under the very famous then. Very famous novelists john barth and it's interesting so he was a novelist but you ended up going into into nonfiction. Yeah so i went. I got out of princeton. I took a job teaching french and baltimore to private school. Because i couldn't. I didn't know what else to do. And i think the i think the thing i wanted to be was f scott fitzgerald course really as a fast track so by the time you're twenty five year in paris Living at the richardson drinking champagne out of lady slippers. I think that's the oh and also writing really well and becoming hugely famous and all that so that was the model you not that big a deal right. Yeah that's pretty easy. I and so. I was writing fiction. And i got into the fiction workshop at hopkins And got a masters degree on those cheap free master's degrees in quote writing unquote that so that was the start. The start was an wants to be a fiction writer and the the problem was as i learned really mostly at hopkins was that i'm just not that good a affection writer you know. Some people are some people aren't why do you think that is because you're such a good writer. Why why was fiction. Not you're calling. It's all a question of looking at a blank page and making things up. I mean i look at a blank page if somebody says ripe fiction i have absolutely no idea where to go with that. I know there was a. Where am i gonna go have a fourth century..
Meet the Thriller Author: Interviews with Writers of Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense Books
"scott fitzgerald" Discussed on Meet the Thriller Author: Interviews with Writers of Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense Books
"Now so if you listen to this goal could check that out Look up to the podcast. Mike thank you allan for inviting me. Yes a lot of tusla background. Harvard law school You're law professor. And now you're writing thrillers of mr thrillers. Us a little bit about the journey. I it's what you would call a second act in my life. Like f scott fitzgerald said the decant there. there can be just up scott fitzgerald. There can be second acts outed law and i from chicago and i practiced in chicago for a while but most of my career was in Teaching i i started to paul university in chicago But i I became an america's professor from what used to be the john marshall law school but recently it's merged so it's now part of the university of illinois at chicago so it's university val annoy chicago law school and While i was there i had a. I guess a epiphany because i directed the media law conference every year. I invited scott to row. Who's donald presumed innocence was a bestseller and he was one of my guests and it sparked an interest. I thought lawyers can also be authors and then along came john grisham and by the time i would Retired from the law. School moved us to florida. Two thousand ten..
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"scott fitzgerald" Discussed on WHAS 840 AM
"The weekend. Scott Fitzgerald with you, Joe Jack Amino in the bedroom. You heard from Greg Melby there, joining us on the weekends. Now, the It's great having the gang's all here on a Saturday morning. We appreciate you taking time to join us as well. And If you're just up and out and about we appreciate you making part of your morning and again. If you're working like Joe, Jeff and I are doing then we salute you for getting up and working on the weekend as well as we're here every Saturday for you here in NewsRadio, 8 40 W H A s Coming up. 7 45 year digital afterlife. What happens to your digital afterlife? Do you just keep it locked down? Or do you turn it over to somebody so that your legacy can live on? My uncle passed away years ago, and he had a Facebook page and I sometimes go back to his page. He was kind of a mentor to me, and I kind of revisit that, and it's kind of almost self therapeutic to be able to do something like that. Then we'll do some more entertainment news and Wayne Porter, host of money for 11 Every Tuesday night on talk radio 10 80. W. K. J. K with his lovely wife, Sarah will be along with this weekend Fireside chat going to be a warm one. Maybe we ought to change that to a poolside jet. As we moved through the summer months, it's gonna be in a seaside. Yeah, Gonna be a little window unit check can be a little warm to sit by the fire this morning. He's going to talk to us about everyone's talking about inflation. But what about deflation and what you need to know about that? All right. On a much lighter note. The Midwestern eastern parts of the United States are currently experience, of course, the peak of the cicada invasion. It's that natural phenomenon that happens every 17 years. All the insects have moved from the ground of the tree's been Tracy with CBS takes a look about takes a look at how it's about to get louder as the season will start to come to an end in the backyard of Jessica Helms, Maryland home We were getting over 2000 Day. It is peak cicada season by her six year old Livia started counting them many bugs but quickly ran out of fingers and then buckets to watch where we're stepping cicada shells, cover the ground and hang from the trees. And while all of this may terrify many adults, you think I'm kind of lame? Yes, I do. Olivia is now invested in these insects. Giving the cicadas names and rides on all of her toys. We are surrounded by creatives..
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"scott fitzgerald" Discussed on WHAS 840 AM
"Inspired by people fighting for racial justice during the pandemic. Wanna help get rid the world of hate, they say started with the social media post and if you have a racist tattoo You want to go on? I'll cover it for free. No questions asked. That's Ryan King out of Murray, Kentucky. His colleagues had gallery X our collective road on Instagram. Mr. King told Fox News that the ideas sparked early on in the pandemic as they watch the story of America unfold with protest inequality and people standing up for racial rights. We were just seeing all these people pretty much risk their lives. And so they wound up getting the idea to start covering. What they said cover the hate. And apparently, there's been an overwhelming response. We had hundreds and hundreds of likes hundreds and hundreds of shares and they had intended to just help those around the surrounding community there in Murray Until they started getting hundreds of messages from people all over the world. So they're both voicemail was totally full. They got calls people from reaching reaching out from California to New York, Ireland. Had a girl from South Africa, he said. It was very overwhelming. And so now King dedicates every Thursday to this effort. And his wait list extends Probably, he says, 10 to 20 years, so some of the things that they've been covering our swastikas. The SS bolts. They were obviously a part of Nazi Germany. Confederate flags tend to be the product of predominant images that they have been covering up. And basically some of the stories we want, Mr King said. Here, he said, I've had a father that told me that he didn't take his shirt off in front of his kids ever because of some mistake he made when he was in his Early twenties in prison and got into the wrong crowd. And they wanted covering his tattoo, he says. Most of the tattoos have been done in prison or somebody else's house that they wind up of covering, So it's just interesting. Um you know how people change or evolve or whatever the case may be here, and this guy is along with his friends. They're in a Murray. Kentucky, have Ah, covered these these tattoos up. So there you have it, I thought was an interesting story, particularly from our commonwealth that this all came about. Well, we're gonna get Tioga rake right now. 10 away from seven o'clock, Scott Fitzgerald stated by way of sports Coming your way.
Weekend Edition Saturday
Why 'Hunger Ward' Is a Hard Film to Watch
"Ward is often very hard to watch. Turns the camera on Children into hospitals in Yemen. They often look and this is difficult to say as well. Skeletal Small ribs burst through their soft flesh, their arms look not much thicker than the tubes that protrude from them. Dr DeVore. The Children are near death. In the midst of Yemen Civil war. Conflict in which is Saudi led coalition with support from the United States, the UK and France. Has blockaded humanitarian supplies. There's no narration to the film. Very few captions. And more than once we look on Children. As they take their last breaths. At one point, Dr Aida out of Sadiq looks into the camera. I don't have it. Magic changed everything. It's not my room. A reward is a nominee, the best documentary short subject category for Tomorrow night's Academy Awards. It is the second Oscar nomination for The director Sky Fitzgerald, whose other films include Lifeboat and 50, ft from Syria. Scott Fitzgerald joins us from Los Angeles. Thanks so much for being with us, Scott. It's an absolute pleasure. Thanks for having me so people you follow in the hospital, the medical personnel Seemed to want to tell the world about their world. Yeah, You know, Scott, One of the things that surprised me the most about during this project was that fact just how we were given complete and almost unadulterated access to every moment. They needed people to know that their own Children were dying for lack of food on Lee by other people, knowing especially sort of the broader World Would it change be possible and
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"scott fitzgerald" Discussed on WHAS 840 AM
"W. H A s 7 36. I'm Toni Kroos, along with Will Clark in Scott Fitzgerald and we have a mess throughout the Kentucky an area particularly in the area of Ah to 64. Both lanes starting to get blocked. Dan let's start from the West side of things I to 64 East found at Southern Parkway. We have both the left and right shoulder block. That's eastbound I to 64 right there around Southern Parkway because of Anak Sid into their eye to 64 westbound. Around cretins and drive their system issues there. That's a 264 westbound around the credit in Dr Vicinity. Also, I to 64 West. Approaching. I 65 there are some issues there. And these are all for you know, within up one of mile radius of each other. Then I 65 North bound. On I 2 64 problems. They're so clearly with the overpasses and what we're seeing with what limited rain that we had overnight freezing rain or this morning. It's creating a real issue for us right now. Also, I 65 North down at the outer loop there still an issue there is gonna take a couple of hours to clean that up. Apparently. According to our friends at try, Mark, and then I to 64 Excuse me. I to 65 north, the area ahead of oppressing highway and I to 65 basically completely shut down. His body was telling us There is it's really Kentucky 8 41. Once you get on past the Fairdale areas you head west. Both Blaine's at Stone Street Road are just to shut down. So a lot of traffic there. Finally, the last one I see on here, willing, I 64 East. And I to 64. Also a knish. You there with right shoulder block there around Mile marker, 12.7. There We.
Planet Money
The Great Gatsby
"In nineteen twenty five. F scott fitzgerald published the great gatsby and like pretty much every author. He copyrighted the book when it came out which you know fair enough the way copyright worked at the time fitzgerald and his heirs could collect royalties from the book for fifty six years. All the way until nineteen eighty-one and during that time if anybody wanted to make movie or play or anything at all based on gatsby they would have to get permission and probably pay a licensing fee to the fitzgerald family. And then according to the law after the fifty six years the book would go into something called the public domain fitzgerald's kids or grandkids wouldn't get royalties any more and more importantly anyone who wanted to could print up and give away copies of the book or rewrite it from toms horses. Point of view or create gatsby on ice anything at all and you know copyright. Is this balancing. Act on the one hand you want to encourage and reward people who write books create things but you also want to let those things enter the public domain at some point so we can all share them and tweak them and build on them and make more creative stuff. The artists figuring out how long to keep something in copyright there was nothing special about fifty six years. That's just a number that congress picked and then they decided to change it in nineteen seventy six just five years before the great gatsby entered the public domain. Five years before gatsby on ice congress changed copyright law. They said among other things fifty six years not quite long enough under the new stronger rules. Gatsby wouldn't go into the public domain until two thousand one and then just a few years before that congress jumped in again and made copies of old works last even longer under the new new rules. Gas would not go into the public domain until almost one hundred years after it was written until twenty twenty one but still sounds like some meat up year from the future to me. And you know congress could have kept pushing this date making the copyright longer and longer until the three thousand or something like that but there's been some pushback on the ever lengthening copyright period. Not enough pushback to start making the copyright shorter but enough to stop making them longer and so on january first of this year. Finally the great gatsby went into the public domain into our domain. It belongs to us now. It belongs to everybody. And what we now own i have to say is a complicated book. It has the romance and beauty of america. It also has the racism and misogyny and anti semitism of america and maybe the most american thing about the It's all about money. This is a book about why people want money and what they do when they get it and what money does to them. In other words. Gatsby is the perfect story for planet money and now that gets me is in the public domain. If we wanted to we could talk about it for a minute at the beginning of the show. Yeah say hello and welcome to planet money sticking ahead break in and then we could read the whole thing. We could read the entire book the entire book and posted on our podcast.
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"scott fitzgerald" Discussed on WTMJ 620
"So I'd like to just get dressed and get out of the house. Okay, I'll wear it tomorrow, okay? S so Jane, did you wear e have green in my scarf? E don't have any green army at all. Um, Yeah, we're bye. Bye. Well, turtleneck, this thing everywhere. This is like vintage. I've had this for like 30 years. I used to wear those when we sat outside for the cold Games that you gotta have that neck warm next. If this core and the next day one you're warm and defeat and defeat the feeder critical Absolutely. That's a really classy. I really like that. Look, though, I do. It's timeless. Jean simple green turtleneck with a G on the The actual turtle, but it it feels fucking. You could put a sport coat on right over there and probably go right on TV. I was late 1990 s. Are you doing up the big game tomorrow? You can have the big spreading all that stuff. No, Very simple. Um, kids are gonna come over and we all get tested. We were texting all morning. Did you pass or you negative way Did that so, Yeah, I think we're all good to go. How about you? Just the wife and I have a spy of synapse. Or maybe to make some chili or something way hope to go to the to the NFC championship game, So they gotta win tomorrow. You took a pass on tickets? Yeah, well on one side, I took a pass. The other said I didn't. But we chose not to go to this game so well, you need a win to get to the NFC championship game and I will go to that game. Okay? I like to historical games. Absolutely. In just the uniqueness of these games. Yeah, to say you were, though. Where did you go to the strike games back in the eighties? Um I don't remember that. Okay? I didn't. I don't get season tickets. What got him in 83? So, Yeah. You had been in the wheelhouse. Yeah. I mean, God, I've been going to games for a long time. It's interesting that Packers sent out to all the season ticket holders. The all the tickets from the season at one time, Like last week, I got this really nice folder with all of the perfectly all the games you couldn't be at. Yeah, but its history right, So there's tickets for a game that nobody went to. It's kind of a cool thing. Great. I'm sorry. I just I still have a question, though, about this game, and so these air season ticket holders who had this option do you have to sit in your season ticket holder seats? Even though this whole statement gonna be empty? No. Nobody sit in their own seats and for me. The ones that I have to do, and I were my club seats and there's nobody sitting inside, so that wouldn't happen anyway. So we'll see. I'm more than happy to sit outside. I sat outside for that member fires last game that the chiller when you threw that interception, that was one of the coolest games I was there for the pregame. They sent us up to do the pregame Jaguar any. I don't know what way had to sit in the soda cans in the trailer. Yeah, the mobile unit and they got it up to like 40 degrees Nice and then, But I remember that walk back and we didn't have tickets. And I take that back to me said Come up to the suite. You watch the game or set up. It was sit outside. I said I'd sit outside for this. I drove home and watched the game. Yeah, that was a cold, won the NFC championship game against Carolina Panthers and in 96 season nineties, early 1997 was very, very cold in the Raiders game, 28 to nothing. I think that was the creation. The lamb believed that one was really cool. I sat outside for that one as well. So history tomorrow. This is this is an exciting time because this is the first time now that Roger's gets the hopefully play at home for the NFC championship game every time somebody Mentions that open game, the birth of the Lambeau Leap. You step John, your conviction on Katie I back in the day we asked about think about what your players do. If they have to go to the bathroom during the course we get. He brought up that game. Somebody had to go. And we said, What do you do it Because we only had to go on the field. And we we just made a circle, right? Yes. What about the guy? The rest of gave yet? Well, yet slushies don't trick those fun. Oh, he's the best. Remember, He played for the for the Packers for one season, Didn't it was three or four Really hot line. Then, of course, the economic man didn't as well. All those bears guys, We can't let that happen. Can we wait? Your call was green and gold. When he was wearing green and gold. He's repurposed himself in his native Chicago. He's got a great attitude so long. All right. Thank you. Have a great weekend. Go pack and I appreciate the fact that you are green. I'll try to do better. No slushies next week. No slashes for you. It is a 31 on that happy topic. It is from the WTMJ breaking news Center. Jane Madness You see? At least 21 current or former members of the U. S military or law enforcement, identified as being at or near last week's capital riot. More than a dozen others are under investigation. In many cases, those who stormed the capital appeared to use tactics, body armor and headsets similar to those of the police that they were confronting. Experts have long warned about extremists recruiting people with military and law enforcement training. They say the uprising insurrection on January, 6th saw some of their worst fears realized. Wisconsin's newest member of Congress, says he doesn't know if President Trump is to blame for inciting last week's riot. US. Representative Scott Fitzgerald, said Thursday he wants an investigation to look into who motivated and organized the event and whether there was cooperation with some in law enforcement. Following a record setting year for murders in Milwaukee City leaders re committing to addressing violence as a public health issue. Mayor Barrett Alderman Cavalier Johnson, acting chief Jeffrey Norman and others speaking this morning at 11 on the corner of 35th and Wells, the city launching a public awareness campaign as well featuring billboards calling for peace and an end to violence against Children. However, the WTMJ breaking associates Market update mixed results of the opening bell. The Dow is down 1 82 at 30,008 08, the NASDAQ Up 21 at 1 13,034 in the S and P is down nine at 37 85 See what's happening on the roadways. But I'm pretty quiet Friday, baby, Let's go. Quite quiet. We have these about 94. It's gonna be a 17 minute ride from Highway 16 into downtown. No problems on the.
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"scott fitzgerald" Discussed on WHAS 840 AM
"Was on Bill Hammer showing box a news yesterday really take a rocket scientist to put this together and say. They're trying to do a knockout punch on this business, which is a potential competitors of theirs in certain context, particularly Twitter, So I think it's surprising because you don't usually get this kind of This kind of really brazen evidence of these companies working together against this one cos he says that it's kind of his thing, Willie. He says that forget the free speech. Part of it for you right now. Um The bigger issue is that they're trying to douse a competitive because partner was really coming on, You know, pretty big, So I think he makes an interesting case with that. If you will, and then also on Bill Hemmer. We had sorry Fi Shaker, the former President W. Bush's press secretary, saying This could be dangerous, too, because when you scratch free play free speech, people go other places. It descends in a terrible place. This ends and even more anger and recrimination. If you were the one side that this is being done to, if you start to realize that the only way you could communicate is to lash out, you will lash out. If you've realized the way you can communicate is just to speak your mind Be heard. Maybe your ideas are so bad. They just filter into the ether, and nobody pays attention. That is so much better. America's always been a noisy country. But when we start to squelch debate when the private sector which has the right to squelch debate, if it wants to decides to use that, right They're not making anything better. They're making everything worse. But, you know, I gotta tell you Bill there days where I think when we all all of us be better off of Twitter just didn't even exist. Well, I don't know if you use it the way my buddies do here, Scott Fitzgerald will Clark, you know, just to get news update. Just Yeah. You just have to learn how to be a responsible user. I mean, if it bothers you that much, then Yeah. Maybe you shouldn't be using it. Speaking of Twitter, Did you notice yourself losing some? Some users kind of going home. I say something wrong? Did I do something wrong? And we noticed that all on your Twitter feed I I've noticed. I've lost a handful of Twitter's purging people. And is that right? Oh, yeah, Well, you know if you're gonna have you're gonna have the stakes where you have disagreement or whatever and then and then who's the arbiter of all all this, although I do think there's been a lot of misinformation, but there's ments information all the time by people. Well, it doesn't bother me that sergeant people because It doesn't bother me. Look, I mean, you know, it's if there wasn't some folks out. I probably didn't see anyway, because like with any social media, there's sort of unlike any friends circle that you have. There are people that you communicate within interact with on that medium, and there are those that I interact with on Twitter and everybody's still there, and I'm not losing the whole lot of them. There's just a few here and there and to Willy's point I started looking and you know, there's a lot of folks that are losing a lot of people on Twitter. I mean, you're talking about tens of thousands of people who had a lot of followers with Tens of thousands. But there definitely is a Twitter purge going on right now And so far, whoever I lost, I didn't notice. So it's not that big a deal to me. I think the majority of them are the The bots. Yeah, exactly. It's exactly what it is. That's not when they created Lucy Pinder 15 different accounts, and they they put up Whatever there Mostly political persuasion is and that's the end of that. And so, I mean, I get follow it in that you don't have to be a brain surgeon to figure out what about follows you? Could you look at it go. Oh, that's the 14th time. Somebody with that program followed me. She I bet they're not where you can tell you. When I get requests like that. I get followers. They jump on like that. All instantly one. I'll report him. Then I'll block him. So then it kind of weeds it out on their own to deal with it anymore. I will say I do.
WTMJ 620
"scott fitzgerald" Discussed on WTMJ 620
"So you should bring it into rich sons. 3,000,008 time, Right? Match me and Well, I guess we'll see you when you got here. 23,000,040 Watt siren. She J. The place you want to go live with wanna go much You're listening to the Steve Skippy Show on Wtmj. For the breaker has to question what should happen to Tom Tiffany and Scott Fitzgerald, who essentially rejected the will of the voters. One of my text, her friends said. If they reject the vote that should resign. We can't trust him to represent us. And do our will to good points. Let's go to Ryan calling from a condom walk. Welcome, Ryan here and Wtmj. Hey, thanks for taking my call. Um, you know they're not gonna read die. They're not going to resign. There. They come from very heavily Republican district's that voted very heavily for Trump. So you know, you have to think a majority of the voters that area kind of light what they did in in letting this go now they could be censured and all that stuff That's not gonna do anything. The only thing that could be done. Is when they come up for election next. That there is a heavy campaign against them and get them out of office. It's the only way to do it. I mean, that's that's America. You have to actually then trust the election system, you know, which has worked and will work again. On dope that enough people saw what itwas and It's not for what itwas and you know, elect him out of office. Yeah, thanks for the call. Right? That's exactly right. Elections have consequences, and I would call their votes pandering because we don't know. Elects presidents by congressional District Way represent. Candidates we represents by states, not by congressional district. So accepting results. We're gonna do it by congressional districts. We're gonna have a much bigger, uh, mess than we already have it right now. Let's go to Johnny calling from Montella, Wisconsin. Hey, Johnny. Yeah. Interesting question. Hey, no Censure. No, no leaving office. I think they represent the mindset of their districts, their voters They were elected, duly elected into office. And I don't think that You know, most of the people that voted for me as your last caller said he stole my thunder, But, um, they're pretty much in line with their constituents. So you know, in America, we do get the government that we deserve. And that includes a Quinn, president. So, um, they've spoken. They've expressed the opinion now we need to move on in in a couple weeks. All right. Thanks for the call Johnny. The interesting thing about that they Johnny's point. Others have made this they represent their constituents. I would argue that Ron Johnson's supporters would be angry that he didn't represent its constituents. I would I would argue that my Gallagher, who has I'm just guessing, cause I'm not living that part of the state has a constituency that's probably not happy as well, but they made a bigger decision. This is where this representing the constituent stuffs falls down if your constituents are wrong And they're living in a world of reality. It's not Real. That's where leadership comes in. That's where I played for some of some of this for you. Earlier, I met Romney steps in and says, Hold on a second here. This is not what we're supposed to be doing. That's where leadership comes in. Always in the best leaders make decisions that some people will hate. But in time history proves that decision was rights. Nobody gets 100% approval, but Leaders make tough decisions, often that popular decisions and maybe in a state like Wisconsin Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Tiffany could have set an example that in the future, we're gonna respect our election results and respect the will of the voters in Wisconsin. Maybe that's something they should have thought about. Matt from Burlington wants to join the conversation high man. All right. I think that to congressman should be primary from the center. You hear about primary from the left and the right. And maybe it's time to come back to the middle of the road for politicians. But I'm not optimistic. Listen other talk radio, and they were still feeding the delusion. It was full full on this morning last night. It's not gonna stop the continued a feat. What I call the bad wolf. Yeah, Let me let me ask you a question about that. Jack. Let me ask you a question about that because I also listen to some of the other shows and I know what's being said, and I often talk about it. When you hear conversations like that, that you know are True. Or your words delusional. Why do you listen? I listened in the hope. That at some point, there's moderation. And that it's kind of a check in reality. Where you say, Wait a minute. No, you look and it's frankly kind of mentally ill. I don't mean I'm not trying to say this by listen to this. My watch from the people that were saying stuff that the that the Congress Congress yesterday. And I say, Wow, you see, these are clear signs of an unhealthy mental status of an American electorate. I think you might be right. Thanks for the call Matt. Let's squeeze in rush from Green Bay. Hey, Russ. Welcome to the show. Thanks for having me the colors. One of Victoria's today really were good callers said..
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"scott fitzgerald" Discussed on WHAS 840 AM
"Cos Allowed to survive or small businesses shut down. Can't feed their families can't survive. The Republican legislators want more say in the governor's covert decisions, so I haven't heard a single floor speech and I haven't read the text of any of those those bills yet. I think my focus is where it should be in every other minute has been on the budget. The governor will deliver a joint state of the Commonwealth and Budget address tonight at seven o'clock eastern time. Whole miles. News radio 8 40, wh A yes staying in the capital. That's where Governor Bashir announced 1700 additional cases of covert 19. On Tuesday, Governor Bashir reported another 23 coronavirus related deaths, increasing the state's death toll to 2772. There was some good news to report, however, total doses administered in Kentucky. This number is better than it was yesterday. 66,582 that is an increase just from yesterday of 6168. Kentucky's positivity rate is currently 11.4%. Kaley Hansen News radio. Wait, 40 wh Yes, Your next news update is at 7 30. I'm Will Clark news radio A 40 w h A s. Now is your chance to win $1000 text the nationwide keyword hope to 202 100. You'll get a confirmation text and invoke standard data and message rates apply in this nationwide contest that's hope. Had 202 100. Your next chance to win is this morning after the eight o'clock news, one use radio Wait. 40 doubled way. J s good morning 705. Toni Kroos, along with Will Clark and Scott Fitzgerald and William about the governor and what the Legislature is looking at, Tapering, I guess would be the best in order to use it is the Senate bill one that would require a governor? You get the Legislature's permission to extend a state of emergency beyond 30 days. I mean, I could see the just being pretty contentious between, obviously, but you're and the other representatives the house and in the Senate, but it looks like this is gonna become long. So what is that going to me? Ultimately, I mean, if.
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"scott fitzgerald" Discussed on WHAS 840 AM
"Out is that you know, as we're topping the 350,000 U S death toll number that we received yesterday We're seeing that at this point in time under one third of the available vaccine doses in the U. S have been administered to Americans. The rest sitting in storage at this point in time. Now, you might remember Operation Warp speed had this goal of vaccinating 20 million Americans by the end of 2020. What we're getting as a total count by Bloomberg News. As of Saturday night is 4.3 million vaccines that have been administered in the U. S to 1.3% of our population and again, the vaccine doses farm or of the right now are just piling up and are being unused at this point in time. So what's the problem? Why is there a delight? Why's there? Sluggish? Roll out Well, Some officials appointed to the holidays, saying that they didn't necessarily plan around the holidays. He had some vaccination clinics that were actually shutting their doors over Christmas. That's probably something that should have been widely discussed before we even got to that point in Americans who were trying to access shots are encountering systems that very widely from county to county and state to state, like, for instance, in some counties, hospital systems launched reservation websites all together a whole website. And then on, Lee had them quickly become booked or even crash. In some cases, other states had announced appointments on Lee through Facebook, with slots filling up before some residents even knew that they had to go to Facebook toe look and try to book themselves a time. So there are concerns that when you give this off to the states without any sort of a federal mandate on how this should be done, Or guidelines as to how this should be done. You're going to have a state by state breakdown. If you will over how things were getting worked out at a time when states are already on a funding level strapped when states are in a place where throughout this entire covert virus, or starting to have concerns over how many healthcare workers they have the constabulary hospitals or hospital beds being filled up, All of that comes down to the money, the staffing and whether or not there's enough of it. To get these vaccinations implemented across the country, and that's one portion of the concern here. So the question is coming into play today. Should this be something that's kind of taken away from the federal government or state government element and turned over to some of the private sector businesses? The CVS is in Walgreens, who have been vaccinating people for a long period of time. Maybe giving them the responsibility to do this. Now, keep in mind. There are clear concerns because we know that CVS and Walgreens are a part of the plan for Operation Warp speed to get those long hair long care facility residents vaccinated, But those largely those plans haven't even begun. Yet. The holidays slow those down as well. So there's a bunch of questions out there as to what should happen next. Next. But clearly the way things are going right now, Tony, it's not going the way they expected. Yeah, well, and then there's a lot to do that. As you know, the parsing of the drug in the vaccine about a week before him. Four states even got it. It was kind of hard for states to prepare. Because I don't know how much vaccine they were gonna get. That's right. But the other issue now it seems that there are health care workers and I don't remember the 40% of his just in California. Or if it's throughout the nation that are saying they're not so sure They're gonna take the vaccine right now. Have you heard that? That that is a concern. That's one of the things that you've had officials looking for is the availability of doctors and health care workers. Who were the front lines getting these shots to be able to say, Hey, look, I did it. I feel fine. Everything's been great outside of, you know, maybe as a headache or ah, sourness in the arm where the shot actually was. I haven't suffered through anything to help those people who were concerned about the vaccination. Get to the point where they can get vaccinated. But if we're to place across this country Where there's just a problem implementing the vaccines on a larger level, Then we've got a larger issue at hand here. Maybe that you may have a bunch of people willing to and ready to get themselves vaccines being one o'clock in the morning or whatever. But if you've got to go and get it, you're ready to go and do it. You just don't have the ability to get that vaccination right now. That's the bigger concern. Ohh. Time. Michael. Hope 2021 is better for all of us. For sure. 6 20 Michael Bauer. NBC News Radio. Scott Fitzgerald has sports Next. Will Clark has your headlines in 10 Minutes on NewsRadio? 8 $40? Yes. Hey, listeners. Chances are you've heard of sales force, But if you're like a lot of people, you don't know exactly what it does. To put it..
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'The Great Gatsby,' 'Mrs. Dalloway' And Other 1925 Works Enter The Public Domain
"Today is public domain day. As of january first thousands of books movies songs and other material from nineteen twenty five are no longer under copyright protection including the great gatsby. Npr's neda ulaby has more besides the f. scott fitzgerald masterpiece books entering the public domain now. Include mrs dalloway by virginia woolf and classics by sinclair lewis franz kafka ernest hemingway and agatha christie so are other works from nineteen twenty five like buster. Keaton silent film go west and the songs week toward brown now community. Orchestras can play music in the public domain for free scholars will not have to get permission to study. This material and books on the public domain can appear online without charge all part of living cultural conversation that anyone can join netto lippi. Npr news both
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A Big Publishing Plot Twist: Penguin Random House to Buy Simon & Schuster for $2.2 Billion
"Biggest news to hit the publishing industry this year. Possibly several years happened last wednesday. And we're betting that you missed it after all. You were probably contemplating cooking a turkey for two and planning zoom thanksgiving dinners with relatives right so just in case here. It is again the parent company of penguin random house's buying simon and schuster for two billion dollars penguin random house or pr h has already america's largest book publisher according to the new york times. Should the acquisition go through and there are some caveats which will get to pr. H will be. The industry's first mega publisher. The times claims. Let's delve into this just a little bit as we've talked about here before simon and shuster is among the oldest of today's big five publishing houses and one of the most distinguished dick simon and schuster founded the company in nineteen twenty four. The partners first product was hardly a literary masterpiece. It was a book of crossword puzzles. And according to simon and schuster's corporate historian it was a runaway bestseller today. Almost one hundred years. After the lowly crossword puzzle got the entrepreneurial venture off the ground simon and schuster or s operates in a different stratosphere. Today it is america's third largest publisher over the years it's published scads of famous even legendary authors including ernest hemingway and f scott fitzgerald also political figures from both sides of the aisle including jimmy carter hillary clinton and donald trump and contemporary authors. Like bob woodward stephen king and anti prue as well as judy blume s prints and authors have won fifty seven pulitzer prizes and innumerable other literary awards including several caldecott medals one of the highest honors given to children's books the company now sells about two thousand titles annually all told s and s takes in close to nine hundred million dollars a year but early this year. Parent company viacom. Cbs decided to go all in on streaming video in sports looking to cut close to a billion dollars in operating expenses ceo. Bob bakish announced that s wasn't what he called a core asset hence the sale in march the rumored price for us and s was one point two billion dollars a bidding. Were hike the final price to two point. Two billion dollars among other contenders america's second largest publisher harpercollins also vivendi. A french company. That owns a stake in. American publisher has yet and rupert murdoch's news corp clearly penguin random house's parent german media giant bertelsmann was willing to pay top dollar for s and s one reason in addition to the competition between publishers for blockbuster bestsellers the big five face. A formidable rival in certain amazon and when it comes to fighting off amazon size matters since two thousand nine amazon has been a publisher. Not just the world's largest both retailer today. It has sixteen imprints that publish everything from thrillers. To romance novels it signs. Top selling authors like dean koontz patricia. Cornwell taking them and their millions of sales away from traditional publishers in two thousand seventeen amazon published more than twelve hundred titles according to the wall street journal if those numbers have grown in the last three years amazon could well already rival simon and schuster for the volume of new works. It's producing what makes amazon such a tough competitor is a book publisher of course is it status as a bookseller. Moreover it has a number of marketing weapons that traditional publishers. Do not such as the ability to easily promote low priced e books to millions of amazon prime members and kindle owners. The wall street journal reports that along with oodles of cash to lure away big name authors as the largest american publisher penguin. Random house has the clout and logistical network to compete successfully with amazon. The merged company would have annual revenues of three billion dollars according to book industry bible publishers. Weekly but we should note here. The acquisition faces obstacles worthy of an epic novel authors and agents represented by the authors guild. Say such a deal will make it even harder for new authors and so called mid list writers to get published meaning. If you haven't written a blockbuster or a solid backlist title your chances to get published and your earnings could shrink. Pr h says. Simon and schuster will remain editorially independent and both publishing houses say they remain devoted to readers and writers still publishers weekly reports that by blending s. npr h german-owned. Bertelsmann would own about one third of the us book market. That's the number that could trigger antitrust. Investigators to closely scrutinize the deal. According to the new york times but those market share numbers are in dispute in both directions. The authors guild which causes tie up says a combined. Pr h. s. would wind up publishing half of all trade books in the us. Meaning not textbooks penguin. Random house's leadership argues not true and says future market share would be less than twenty percent and that an antitrust investigation is unlikely what happens next will likely hinge on which of these numbers comes closest to reality
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Wisconsin Governor Calls Session On Police Reform
"Shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin that left a 29 year old black man paralyzed. The GOP led Wisconsin Legislature meets today to address policing policies. W. W. M. Smarty Michaelson says Democratic Governor Tony Evers proposed changes earlier this summer. Governor. Evers unveiled the legislation in June following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. It includes bands on choke holds and other uses of police force, but the Republican controlled legislature ignored the measures. Last week, Evers called on lawmakers again following the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha. Asking for a special session to take up the bills. GOP State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says he will gavel lawmakers into session, but he says it could take months to work through the legislation and plans to include Republican backed measures in the package as well. For NPR News. I'm Marty Michaelson in Milwaukee. Polls show public
Mark Belling
Wauwatosa PD denies claims Officer Mensah provoked protesters
"Background because most of you know the story. There's been ongoing protests in Wauwatosa even before the George Floyd situation over this, that and the other thing and They have focused locally on the case of Officer Joseph MENSA, who is the police officer who shot and killed a man who, armed with a stolen gun was part of a group that was causing a disturbance and running toward Mayfair Mall. While armed with that stolen gun. He also had 36 rounds of ammunition and an extended magazine. And according to the police investigation, he fired a shot that officer men sub and protesters have been going after Officer men ever since The wall photos the city council. Recommended that he his employment be terminated in the fire and police Commission has suspended him. As I had predicted. This is not satisfied the protesters who have disrupted government meetings who made wild statements at a public meeting at hard Park, and then on Saturday, I took their protest directly to the home. Off officer Men's his girlfriend, who is a police officer in Milwaukee. Where Officer Benson Wass and a situation developed in which Officer MENSA says that he was shot at Before we talk to Chief Webber. I want to deal with two new developments today. The first A letter that was sent today by Congressman Jim Sense it better. Guys, you probably know this city election today to replace time is the sense of better who's been in the house for a long, long time Republican primary Today is between Clift Temple and Scott Fitzgerald and the Republican candidate for that seed is going to be determined in today's election. But sensitive writer is still there since it brothers. This thick includes portions, but not all of Wauwatosa. He sent the following letter to me, your dentist McBride of Wauwatosa today, Dear Mayor McBride. I write to you today concerning the deteriorating security and policing in Wauwatosa. The protests, which may have started peacefully have been growing ever more violent and the event Saturday night outside the residence of Officer Joseph Mintz have required a meat require immediate leadership and strong action from you. And the elected leaders of Wauwatosa first allow me to be clear that I am and always will be supportive of American citizens. First Amendment rights, having said that ever since the death of George Flight in Minneapolis and the protests and the protests the incident sparked There has been a push by community leaders throughout the country to weaken, defund and abolish police departments in several cities. Locally, Officer MENSA has become the poster child for this movement due to his three officer involved shooting incidents. Officer MENSA has dedicated his life to protecting our community and has been cleared by the Milwaukee County District attorney's office of two of the three shootings in which he has been involved. The third incident is still under review. Despite the decisions by the Milwaukee County D. A. You're common council passed a resolution calling for the termination of officer menses employment with the Wauwatosa Police Department. While I understand the common Council wants to bring reforms that the OPD the consequences of their actions are having serious repercussions for the residents of your community. Citizens of Baba Tosa are being harassed by these protests. Protesters who have now laid siege to a residence in your community where a gun was fired at a home with women and Children inside. Actions like this, and the breakdown of law and order will spread fear and force the citizens of Allah toasted to reconsider their choice to reside there. The mass emigration from your city would be devastating to the very fabric of that community. In addition to the detrimental effect it would have on your tax base schools and city sciences. As I believe we are teetering at a crisis. I am offering my assistance. I stand ready to contact federal law enforcement agencies and bring them to Wauwatosa in order to bring peace and tranquility back to the community. I look forward to hearing from you. Well, we have reached a critical tipping point in Wauwatosa. I am confident that if we work together, we can restore the rule of law. It is crucial that we strive to preserve the excellent quality of life that has drawn so many toe work. And raise their families in Wauwatosa and signed by Jim Sensenbrenner, member of Congress. His district includes portions of the city of Wauwatosa. Seconds slow. State representative David Bowie and Milwaukee who says he was part of the demonstration in protests that occurred outside this residents. That officer Benson was at on Saturday night is saying that nobody tried to kill Officer MENSA, and he's blaming MENSA for all of the developments that occurred. Quoted in the Js online today, Bowen said, and I quote from the story, Bowen said No protesters fired at MENSA during the protest. It should Bob said 50 to 60 people outside menses Wauwatosa home again. It's actually his girl friend's home. But he's residing there. Bowling and other protesters said they were provoked by MENSA before the physical altercation that took place out outside his home quote. It was clearly communicated as we were trying to figure out what happened that it was Joseph MENSA in that tussle that turned off the safety on that firearm and told the trigger. Owen said today, the Wauwatosa Police Department issued a statement saying there is a lot of false information and rumors being circulated on social media and through the news media regarding the events on Saturday night, August 8th outside the home where Wauwatosa Police officer Joseph MENSA was stag best includes an accurate information and allegations contained an official press releases from a state elected official was outside of the home. Well criminal conduct and a shooting occurred. What occurred Saturday night was not organized a peaceful protest. It was a targeted planned act of violence against one of our police officers. In our community. This is an active ongoing investigation and evidence continues to be gathered regarding the events of August 8. Investigators are looking through a large amount of high quality video footage from the scene and are working to identify suspects and vehicles involved in any illegal activity. A statement, then quotes police chief. Very Weber The welcome toast. The Police Department will not stand by and allow this type of intimidating, aggressive, dangerous illegal behavior to occur,
Published...Or Not
Flight Lines: The Heroic Story of Two Migratory Shorebirds
"Have someone sitting opposite me just twitching to tell his story. The book is flat. Lines and the author is Andrew Dobson Andrew. Welcome to three C- I thank you. David I'm curious about the would twitching. I haven't really made a close study of twitching despite writing. This book. Twitching is a word that is used by dedicated. Some say obsessive Burgers and sometimes they detractors to Indicate their preoccupation with finding the next bird. An observing bird minded research. Because it's not actually mentioned in the book the twitching behavior of Howard Medhurst who was one of the leading birdwatchers in the nineteen fifties and sixties. But this book in other words is about birds or in particular one species of birds the grey plover a daoist wallflower of the shorter dance. It spreads thinly around the world's margins and is often overlooked. What's the fascination with the Gripe Lot? Well let's start by working our way towards the bird from what we are. Probably the closest bird that we know to this is the masked left wing. It's often colder plaza. But it's sexually left wing but that's what we know as a plot now go through that gate and think about the kinds of things that the left wing does transfer them to the tidal flats of the world the far-flung tidal flats of the world. And there's this small bird not much begun a blackbird gray when it's out of the breeding grounds highly colored up when it gets to the breeding grounds and it is commonly found with others in the group of Long Distance Flying Margaret lowrie shore. Birds the ultramarathons birds. Now when you say ultra-marathon sort of distance are we talking so the two birds that I particularly follow which were satellite tag in South Australia and flew north on the first flight. Each of them flew over the entirety of Australia of Indonesia the Philippines to land one of them in Taiwan and the other in southern China so each of them took a nonstop flight of more than seven thousand kilometers. Just to give us a sort of indication in layman's terms. When you're holding this bird. How much are you holding? Well you're holding about a cup of sugar not a big white. You're holding something that really can be quite placid in the hand. Despite its wildness. And you're holding. I guess the promise of many generations of optic life birdlife and they transcend boundaries in many ways in the journey. We've got apple tree boundaries as people on borders and they bicycling cross all of those hemispheres international borders and such like. It's it's quite a phenomenal feet. If you want to get carried beyond the trivialities of human life like borders then migratory long distance migratory birds are a really good way to start because there will pass through the margins of many countries but is not off one eye and they have total disregard for human borders. Now one of the things that the book sort of touches on as you look this journey other various forms of tagging that have occurred or the ability to follow from banding to rocket nets and now two satellites. The satellites would give you an inordinate amount of opportunity to try and be particular about what you say quite revelatory. They are Give you almost near real time information. About where on the planet this bird is and what it's doing even because if you have a lucrative say on a breeding ground you'll see it move from point to point to point as it fades and then goes back to the central point which is the nest So yes it can be unrivaled information and It really is hugely illuminating. As opposed to the banding which was more happenstance abandoning as the book suggests started in the lighting hundreds. But that would rely on. Someone actually catching the Buddha game. We'll exactly Either catching the again or killing it or finding a dead. The doyen of Australian Migratory Schubert's studies like Clive Minton when he lived in England. Has I band on? A migratory shortbread was on a lovely good coach spotted. Red Shank and he was really pleased to have it in hand really priest to put the band on it and some weeks later he got the band back because it had been shot by the mayor of putting your in France who returned the band with the address on to Clive. Now a couple of things fascinated me about. The birds are reading this book. I'm the song lines. There's a connection here with an indigenous song. Lawn is moving up. Moving from group to group and changing as guides and there's an equivocal mention of what the birds was well yes we'll I'm careful to not impose my description on indigenous cultures. But I hope that I have drawn out of the records of indigenous couches The great variety of names. This bird has as it travels not just from Australia. But through China up to Siberia and across to North America where? It's pretty circum Paula. It has a series of lovely nines. And the they are run there are really illuminating series. Too you know they describe often. I described the bird by its phonetic. Call sometimes they describe it by its coloring in Alaska where I went It was cold emphatic. And that means the scorched bird. But so there's a similarity through the sort of landscape in many ways. Yes depending on which part of the world now for such a fragile creature. They are quite a number of threats in this day and age the threats for the gripe the mind well. We've got a bird here. That has persisted down through evolutionary generations for about one hundred and thirty million years so it's not easily removed from the face of the earth. But while it's doing well other others. In the group of long distance migratory shore birds are not doing so well And as a whole the contracting in numbers. I'm this four that have been listed on Australia's critically endangered list in recent years. Because of the problems they face pardon the analogy but the canary in the coalmine. Well certainly you know I think migratory shore birds. We Stu people generally in Australia particularly and when we look at the coasts we should think about the health of Alco spy. The prison or absence of birds like
Mark Belling
Wisconsin governor says he wants to renegotiate Foxconn contract
"Following the governor's announcement that he plans to reopen the state's contract with Foxconn Senate majority leader, Scott FitzGerald released the following statement quote. This completes. The original narrative that the governor has wanted to undermine the Wisconsin economic Development Corporation from day one. If the state is willing to renege on its commitment to Foxconn and opened up a contract without agreement by both parties that what guarantee can Wisconsin make to any other company that wants
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Courtney Smith, Football and Meyer discussed on Kentuckiana's Morning News
"Apparently the Italian company behind? That bridge. Collapse has, offered some five hundred million euros to the victims and I go. On what we'll find out more. On that and what's. Going on there in that. Part of Italy