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Tom Hanks address Harvard graduates
"Actor Tom Hanks gave the commencement speech to graduates at Harvard University Thursday. I'm Archie's are a letter with the latest. Tom Hanks thanked Harvard for giving him an honorary doctorate and a school volleyball, even though he never did a lick of work there. His advice to graduates referenced the Declaration of Independence, superhero comics, an actor Marlon Brando. He says Brando, who used to call him Tommy handkerchief and himself, Marlon brand flakes, said something that stuck with him. He told me that when he was a young man and registered for the draft, he filled out the form for his name and age, but when it came to his race, he wrote human. The sound is courtesy of Harvard University, Hanks urged the graduates to fight not just injustice, but indifference.
The Dan Bongino Show
Patriotic Millionaires Refuse to Sign a Pledge for Higher Taxes
"This is hilarious Check this out How many of you are millionaires here I know you are a number of you We were hoping that each one of you will sign this pledge which says that you will pay a 90% tax just as your endorsing today because you say it's in your patriotic duty to do so And so I'm hoping that each one of you will sign this pledge that says I'm willing to pay a 90% tax because as you said it's your patriotic Yeah let's get people I've got pens Let's sign these So we can solve the problem What do you want me to do No we want you all said that you wanted to pay you said you wanted to pay worth access I want to change the system No no no you said you want to pay more taxes So don't you think it's your duty and we keep this to break I'm sorry don't you think it's your patriotic duty to pay more taxes if you're saying that Paying of course is not going well But you all are a millionaire Okay I'm just because you guys are millionaires and you're saying you don't want to pay more than what you do or you don't want to pay more taxes Voluntary change is going to make a structural difference But you can make you all can make a huge difference It's a little bit of hypocrisy when a bunch of millionaires get together and say raise taxes but they're not willing to pay them themselves Out of the 20 millionaires here not one of them was willing to pay more taxes Beautiful glorious Jim Tom Hanks cast away time Look what
The Dan Bongino Show
What Do Dems Do Every Time They're Struggling With Their Narrative?
"They went there They went there What do Let's start with a question Let's start with a question because you can avoid an assertion It's very difficult to avoid a question as a very astute political analyst once told me If you're ever going to run for office don't ever forget that Start and embed in your speeches a lot of questions to the audience It keeps them awake if your speech is on adult topic No I'm serious because a question automatically accused the brain Like a response is required And assertion or just a statement or something people just ignore it What do the Democrats always do What do they do when they're in trouble on a narrative a storyline with a news piece whatever it may be What do they do You know the answer Jim's racing his hand What is it Jim Pop quiz Yes yes Yes Look what I have created You got to pull that for me I used it up now Poor Tom Hanks and castaway created fire The Democrats look at what Dave grant every single time they say you're a They can't help it You're a racist If you're new Tom art mmm um So he used to laugh at them all the time But he'd go on with that for 15 seconds That's their thing Now the thing about the Euro racist attack is 30 40 years ago in this business If you were called the racist it would folks It was a really big deal What do you know Dan You were 48 Well I studied the business I love this business The editorial talking head commentary business And you look at what's happened to people in the past when they made missteps see the real or fabricated If you recall the racist it was the end of it You were done The thing now is the Democrats have used it so often and so ridiculous and such a ridiculous fashion that it's typically gaffed off
AP News Radio
Paul Pelosi attack: Man told cops of 'evil' in Washington
"A judge in San Francisco ruled there is enough evidence for a trial against the man accused of beating House speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, a police investigator testified David de pap said there was evil in Washington, and he was looking to harm Nancy Pelosi because she is second in line for the presidency. Pelosi was out of town when authorities say to pat broke into her San Francisco home, 82 year old Paul Pelosi was beaten with a hammer. Lieutenant Carla Hurley testified to pap also wanted to target California governor Gavin Newsom. Tom Hanks and President Biden's son hunter. The charges against a pap include attempted murder. Hurley said to pap told her, he told Paul Pelosi, he could take him out. He was there to fight. I'm Ed Donahue
AP News Radio
Man who inspired Spielberg's 'The Terminal' dies at Paris airport
"An Iranian man who lived for 18 years in Paris's Charles De Gaulle airport has died in the airport that he long called home Died after a heart attack in the airport's terminal two F the Iranian man saga idly inspired the Steven Spielberg film the terminal starring Tom Hanks Naseri lived in the airport's terminal one from 1988 until 2006 first in legal limbo because he liked residency papers and later by apparent choice For years necessary slept on a red plastic bench making friends with airport workers and showering and staff facilities Many said the years of living in the windowless space took a toll on his mental states in
Origins with James Andrew Miller
David Simon and Nina Noble Are an HBO Production Powerhouse
"In 1998, HBO aired its first big scale miniseries from the earth to the moon. It was originally budgeted and roughly $40 million, but the network followed Tom Hanks passion and wound up spending more than 60 million. Band of brothers, the Pacific, The Sopranos, and many other HBO projects would be beyond costly as well. But David Simon's HBO shows have proceeded down a different financial path. In large part, due to the acumen of his right hand, executive producer, Nina noble. Saunter down the halls of HBO, talk with their production experts, and you're bound to hear the word trust a lot. Trust is a vital ingredient for any network, but particularly so in HBO, where creators and producers are made to feel largely empowered to bring their visions to the screen without being micromanaged. While there is obvious financial supervision, the network wants to be in business with partners who are financially responsible and not spending their days desperately trying to exact more funds. Nina noble doesn't play such games. She has been working at HBO alongside David Simon for more than 20 years, and is part of an MVP triumphant of female powerhouse executive producers at the network, which includes Eileen landress of Sopranos fame and bernadette caulfield, who operated his field marshal on Game of Thrones. Think of all three women as CEOs of these shows, not in the writer's room, but often everywhere else. Noble is known for being a woman of her word and a complex problem solver. You can say she's in the solutions business, and that makes television life infinitely more agreeable for David Simon.
AP News Radio
Paul Rudd hosts 'SNL' sans audience, Charli XCX amid omicron
"NBC NBC Saturday Saturday Night Night Live Live has has once once again again pulled pulled back back because because of of the the corona corona virus virus pandemic pandemic this this time time because because of of the the surging surging Omicron Omicron variant variant I I marches marches are are a a letter letter with with the the latest latest Saturday Saturday Night Night Live Live was was not not in in front front of of an an audience audience nor nor was was it it entirely entirely live live host host Paul Paul Rudd Rudd appeared appeared with with only only Tom Tom Hanks Hanks Tina Tina fey fey and and Keenan Keenan Thompson Thompson because because of of the the spike spike in in the the Omicron Omicron variance variance in in out out of of an an abundance abundance of of caution caution Hanks Hanks announced announced that that most most of of the the cast cast and and crew crew were were sent sent home home musical musical guest guest Charli Charli XCX XCX tweeted tweeted she she was was devastated devastated and and heartbroken heartbroken that that she she had had to to cancel cancel because because of of the the limited limited crew crew the the show show you you sketches sketches that that were were taped taped earlier earlier in in the the week week and and past past highlights highlights
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Dole: 'Genuine hero' paid war's price, triumphed in Senate
"After after a a memorial memorial service service at at Washington Washington national national cathedral cathedral Bob Bob dole's dole's remains remains traveled traveled to to another another landmark landmark one one he's he's credited credited with with creating creating decades decades after after being being paralyzed paralyzed in in World World War War two two dole dole spent spent years years pushing pushing for for a a memorial memorial to to those those who who also also fought fought there there how how many many structures structures in in this this city city exist exist but but for for the the efforts efforts of of one one man man actor actor Tom Tom Hanks Hanks says says dole dole did did everything everything but but pour pour the the concrete concrete which which he he may may have have done done were were it it not not for for the the right right arm arm paralyzed paralyzed in in the the war war joint joint chiefs chiefs chairman chairman mark mark Milley Milley says says dole dole did did not not give give up up while while lying lying in in the the Italian Italian mountains mountains with with near near fatal fatal wounds wounds he he kept kept serving serving long long after after you you continually continually raises raises hand hand mangled mangled as as it it was was to to support support and and defend defend the the constitution constitution of of the the United United States States of of America America in in the the army army and and in in Congress Congress Bob Bob Dole Dole always always always always put put his his country country first first Sager Sager mag mag ani ani Washington Washington
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Bob Dole honored in ceremony at U.S. Capitol
"Day day after after lying lying in in state state in in the the U. U. S. S. capitol capitol former former senator senator Bob Bob Dole Dole will will be be honored honored with with two two services services in in Washington Washington there there will will be be a a private private service service at at Washington Washington national national cathedral cathedral and and a a public public one one of of the the World World War War two two memorial memorial president president Biden Biden plans plans to to speak speak at at the the cathedral cathedral ceremony ceremony along along with with dole's dole's family family and and close close friends friends his his casket casket then then travels travels to to the the World World War War two two memorial memorial for for a a public public celebration celebration of of life life featuring featuring joint joint chiefs chiefs of of staff staff chairman chairman general general mark mark Milley Milley and and actor actor Tom Tom Hanks Hanks dole's dole's wife wife former former senator senator Elizabeth Elizabeth dole dole will will lay lay a a wreath wreath in in his his honor honor dole dole served served nearly nearly thirty thirty six six years years in in Congress Congress he he died died Sunday Sunday at at the the age age of of ninety ninety eight eight my my
The Dan Bongino Show
U.S. Wholesale Inflation Rose a Record 8.6 Percent Over the Past Year
"Remember the narrative about inflation when we first started when we first started to see prices creeping up What was the narrative first Jim Inflation's not real you're conservative media hosts You're all a bunch of bad things It's all nonsense And then the narrative was as prices started to become more widespread and their increases became noticeable All right there may be inflation but it's really not that big of a deal And then the third narrative was okay it's a big deal now inflation but don't worry it's transitory It'll go away And now that the numbers came out annualized inflation up 8.6% a number we haven't seen in decades now all of a sudden the new narrative is not only these inflation not transitory not only is it likely here to stay for a while but don't worry it's actually a good thing Come on they didn't do that No they did Here is an actual headline by MSNBC James saros wiki forgive me if I'm saying your name wrong it's not intentional How COVID became the unlikely hero of our inflation crisis And the sub had line makes you really wanna laugh where they play it down and insist don't worry This is a good thing inflation because the government printed a lot of money and gave it to people to spend So it doesn't really matter that you have nothing to buy and there's a supply chain crisis What matters is you have a lot of paper in digital money to spend on things you can't actually buy That's what matters That's an actual piece in MSNBC by the way Now for people who don't think inflation is a problem in that just printing people are printing four people money and giving it to them even though they can't buy products because we don't have them And don't understand how the productivity side of an economy is the important side Right folks it's not the demand side You can demand whatever you want Tom Hanks and Wilson and cast away when they get caught on that island by themselves demanded a lot They probably demand that a steak dinner They probably demanded access to a movie library The man that access to their old favorite songs but Tom Hanks was caught on an island where he had a lot of FedEx boxes full of a lot of stuff he couldn't use and he didn't demand So he had a lot of things he could trade but he had nobody to trade them with because no one was producing anything he demanded Having a bunch of money to go out and buy stuff that doesn't exist is
Men In Blazers
"tom hanks" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"Boot camp training. There's been saving private ryan aspect to a stephen is there. I was making castaway time. So i had this big stupid goofy beard. You know by dress. The molly said look. We're all acting. You guys are all great actors. All we're doing here is pretending to be these guys who lived a long time but because we're actually know how movies are made. We have to do something a bit beyond just making so. I'm going to ask all of you to show up every day. Even if you don't have lines even you might just be in the background to be a glorified extra. Even if you're just going to be part of the visual scope of it show up and have something to do on your head always always be lifting. Pack always be cleaning a weapon always be looking at a book always be studying something always sleeping on the ground. Always be doing something that these guys did on the day of what we are shooting. And even if you haven't even been on the call sheet mix sandwiches. Keep them in your pocket so you always have something to eat bring thermos just hang around because these people are gonna watch this series and over and over and over again and if they saw you do something great in episode six and they built back and watch it again. They're going to see you an episode one taking a nap or they'll see an episode to just walking by the background lightness cigarette for somebody like that. And you know what they all did and we even had a whole subculture of two guys. Who address extras that came. Every day and they went to a different ten but they put on all this stuff and they wrote different buses. Sometimes they were one hundred and five yards away from where the camera was turning but are moving in the background and so even all of them did because we knew that this was going to be some form of document there was going to beat so accessible to a new generation of people. Only watch things and don't read. You knew that before you show you saw me. You knew i would be one of the millions. What aniela over and over. Yes yeah. Because i already knew that i watched movies over and over again in order to get out new things and i said look it's gonna be history classes off by lazy history teachers all right. We're going to study world war. We're gonna bend abrupt and everybody's hey great. We don't have to do this school the we watch. Tv we watch the thing called brother. Learn about where to even that what the job is going to be. You get to be a source you get to be a participant india authenticity and the accuracy and the versatile the to even if you just show up and decide to take a nap in the background and god bless them they did so. Thank you question again. I think anybody this. The the first time will be saying all right away the closest not a celebration of nostalgia this an examination of the human condition. What do you think what would you do. And then they can answer the question tom. Hanks thank you for what you've done to own a easy company sense. Gt and then memory preserving it for the world. Well thank you. You're very kind and let me say that in representative easy company what we did try to do as also represent eighty second airborne and they read one and the red ball express guys who fought in north africa and italy and fay lu anybody to voluntarily goes and puts on the uniform and serve their country. Who goes through. They're trained a matter what they ended up doing become artists something much bigger than themselves and that paratroopers less supposed to be surrounded episode. That hank's carriage. Thank you wat- what he says. It could be no find a way to kickoff this series. And how would you say that up..
Men In Blazers
"tom hanks" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"Coffee but certainly not a coca cola. Not an ice cold beer and cantina water. I'm digressing here. Probably doing the same thing. That i'm worried of turning it into something. That is so honorific and so edify and it makes us feel good like comfort food win. What stories of that war and let those men with the entire world but through it showed instead. Give us us on. How do we keep that from happening again. Who are the people that are going to see to that. We don't fall into that same sort of narrative which it's us versus them. They screwed us. And it's our last question you've been incredibly generous can talk about this stuff. All i watch band the brothers on an annual basis and a new millions of others around the world duty tape so last question foyer speak to an audience. A young audience who have not yet watched it and make the case. Tom what will they say the challenge what they will see themselves and if they don't see themselves fail they will see themselves in that every day they make a decision. We all make the decision of how take on the responsibilities of doing the right ways that are large and small against the huge patina of a worldwide conflagration. You don't have to shift your focus very much to see that. The world is in the same state of affairs that there is great injustice being done. they're great movements afoot. They are great philosophies in theologies out there that are based on dividing us opposed findings. Sometimes it's a absolute mismatch of cultures that can never ever ci but in the midst of all of that comes reality that we all have to make this decision. We all have choice. And one time i will tell you i made to sell the movie but senate more than my li- i wasn't i. I made this movie called cloud atlas in which at the end of it. Someone is being castigated for trying to goodi tissues and says why are you to do this. It's just going to be a drop in the ocean. Why are you trying to make such a sacrifice and do the right thing. So i'm not going to be a drop in the ocean. The line is one is an ocean but a multitude of drugs. And so i would say that if anybody's never see band brothers but they will see. Is that multitude of props. They will see a version of a historical document that is nothing more than a record of ordinary humidity type of choices that will make an course When we started on the actors were assembled for the beginning of ten day. Boot camp training. There's been saving private ryan aspect to a stephen is there. I was making castaway time. So i had this big stupid.
Men In Blazers
"tom hanks" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"You're getting this raw. That gave us a headache that gave us a very specific task to dis. We cannot embellish this. We have to remember. Possibly these guys worked trained planned from the get go and unless they were hurt unless they were caught on ahead unless they were under fire they were moving towards their object. So that one conversation did a lot of things for me both as a producer and also in that individual circumstance because what was happening was that people were thinking. How can i make this a little different additives. By the way their job is do that. Sometimes what came down from top was. Your job is not make a different. Your job is to hit on the head as we have proscribed so that altered when the big things that i learned in when the reasons that series sticks to is that it was the job of everyone was to find a way to make what really happened. Dramatic not embellish. Feel as it will work so we have to do something else. No no no. No here's what happened is breaking down. Find a way in order to make this. I don't think they would really believe that. This happened doesn't matter if they believe at find a way in order to make it so that it and we had that capital with moments again and again again. There's one episode in the village of foix or flos f. a. y. No one knows how to pronounce these things in which happens. Speier's ran right through the german. Laxed meet up with somebody ran right back and the reason he wasn't killed this because he ran so fast. Believe believe that happened. And we're going to figure out what to do at first. The germans didn't shoot. I think they couldn't quite believe they were saying but that wasn't really astounding thing the astounding thing was that after you hooked up with. I company came back when i talked about deck of cards. If you start embellish things that means wind up with deck of sixty three or you end up with decca forty two cards and that's not enough. You've got a nail it when you can now when year when we were at that very same premier that i thought about. Hbo stops all veterans had been flown to paris and we also trained normandy and were greeted by little kids from the communities that we're doing their little clicker so it sounded like it was raining really quite beautiful. Then we all got on the bus and it was june. Six two thousand and one now is in. The bus with car would lift and understand. We're taking a ride through. The book. is that he himself and walk through at that time. And i happen to be with carbon and his wife and i looked at my watch and it was not it was high new. We're on our way down to the beach. I would live. It's twelve noon ton. Jude sex noon on this day. The nineteen forty four and he said by noon of june six. We had taken the guns at record court manner and we're moving onto our secondary objective of the village of cucolo. Bill i said thank you very much and have pinch myself some. You spent time with these men. Space winters call with lipton. Read this recently. In june twenty twenty there are about three hundred thousand second world. War veterans still alive in june twenty. Twenty one now just one hundred thousand second world war veterans alive and the youngest who served an around the age of ninety five. Did you see this story ban. The brother story actually getting more important as time goes on and these heroes are no longer able to tell it themselves and would you believe will happen if we lose their narrative in our consciousness. Well the narrative is going to change no matter what simply because on one hand we talk and we specifically encapsulated this so a lot of ways and two brothers is going to be locked in amber forever. It's always gonna be this example wanted. We're going to come up. Among last veteran were on one team..
Men In Blazers
"tom hanks" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"Dollars in one pan from through the windshield overrun onto a driver and then later on as all the paratroopers making their tail bed. Jump out of the trucks. The black drivers get together and they like they literally poured gasoline in the ground lit on fire in order to get warm and see that all those drivers black that was it. That's all we had the wherewithal and the wisdom through the ability to do so along with all the other aspects of look what happened when people get together. Try to name so comes this other lessons that there's always something else that needs to be back. There's always some of their aspect that needs to be followed. They're always they're always corrections to even though all the stuff has patina victory and success and challenges. It's still not perfect. We forever have to keep weighing in when we can to get into the territory of how some of these characters had great problems after the war that as well so it's not like graduated from college with a letter in killing germans and then they went back intended opened up their biscuits. Everything was on. A lot of these guys had tremendous problems. I'll tell you an interesting story. It was airing. It was on the air and been on for some time in november. And i was driving my kids to carpool and one of my neighbors. Actually one of the parents of one of the kids that was in my car pool came out when i was picking up the kids and he said oh tom tom com. I got. I gotta tell you a story i gotta tell you. A story is a prosecutor for the county in los angeles and he has been just retired onto one. Is you know printed this job. I was young lawyer. Just out of hospital is moving up the line. Suddenly i'm working for the district attorney in the meeting. My boss woman. The guy was the head things go into his office. And i see in this case of two army helmets bayonets flags and and i never talked about it but i was talking about it and then later on us in the war surplus stuff these oh he was in the war defaulting world war. Two la la la the this that and the other later on his ideas realize to last night. So watch your show counting my boss but counter became the prosecutor of the city of los angeles persecuted. Sir has their hands. Who assassinated robert kennedy guy that never. Hey let me show you. Here's what i did i jumped into. I jumped into normandy. I hear the battle of the ball. There was an eagles. Nasr know what my that is just the high country when you can try to go from ordinary guys to almost mythic cinematic. He rose and then follow them back to being ordinary guys. That's like the great sine wave of existence. You talk about every day. Here is a have to husky one of my favorite youtube clips at watch whenever i feel. Is you winning the emmy for best miniseries in two thousand and two in you and stephen brought up the winters to the stage to address the world winters who passed away january. Second two thousand and eleven you actually eulogize. They mattis funeral in a fraud. Pennsylvania with these words you said winnow days run their course and a man like dick winters leaves us. Time and providence reminds us that human beings can do giant things now. Often funeral of a great american original manual is called the major you interviewed and you said it was life changing to meet a gen. Light that tom. How was it life changing. Let me tell you we had been working. Wade had some footage. We'd had a lot of pages..
Men In Blazers
"tom hanks" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"Actually i think talking about two things. One is the long haul that anything like this was going to be. And certainly what went along with everything. Post nine eleven was a very long all but also come down to that. Very thing that we're talking about is what would i do incense situations or guess. What's lou rawls certains. We were part of a home front. They're young then that we're going to be going off and doing what their country asked to do. And there were actually much bigger questions about why why. Why doesn't everybody except freedom the same way. Why can't we get along so the rest of the series ended up being a different kind of viewer experience because by time we were saying something about world war two at the same time we were asking if we were not living world war september. The eleventh forever changed america and the world and the immediacy of war the unsparing horizontal loss. The band of brothers contains amend the audiences immediate. Embrace of the series was muted when initially add-in real towing but since then and this show the increasing popularity overtime year on year. On your it just seems to have increased exponentially tom. how'd you understand. Moines think it comes down to the desire for assault belong to something bigger than ourselves and to earn membership into whatever that society is that we seek out like minded people that greet the day look awesome covens the same way renewed for each other and under the big questions was. How do we make the world. I cannot tell you how many letters emails messages. I've gotten from servicemen and women around the world who saying we watch band running this regularly to remind ourselves why we're in this in the first place. There's a cliche. They always say both series and and the military's we don't do this for the big picture. We don't do this to defeat the enemy we do for each other. We do it for the other guys in the tent. We from the other guy from the guys in the and even our series they all say real the real heroes of the fellows stove buried over there and those should come home to be very. That's the legacy. That is definitely gone after by stephen ambrose himself but is it going to put the most positive spin homeless. It's going to be look what can happen when like minded people get together. that's it. it's as simple as that. I am drawn to that again and again when she one of the reasons why i studied history there are moments throughout history in which impossible things unimaginable. Things have come to pass. Because like-minded people decided to get together and make it so now here we are in twenty twenty one. This has come in the face of the other realities. Meanwhile you have. Meanwhile we had this great dilemma. That we spoke about at the time is that we were making a series about white guys. That volunteered go off and fight white guys and save the world and which white guys got together and save the world all right. Well what about the black about. The african american troops up the segregates the best we have time for. And if you watch the series and it's in my episodes in episode five we had black drivers of the famous very famous red ball express. Driving the trucks carried easy copies. Five six hundred.
Men In Blazers
"tom hanks" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"Then let's go and then from that came the agreement from hbo to say well. Look if you're going do this do a big. They gave us the budget. They gave us the time but they also gave us the freedom underwear with all due. Go deeper into individual moments. Hbo agreed to ten episodes which is actually much more than two hours all together. Like eleven hours of television to say make. It lasts for ten weeks. This was extraordinarily lions and then the question begins. We will how deep you go into this. There are certainly characters in order to follow. But there's also the overreaching theme which is different a bit from saving private ryan from everything houses as these guys were paratroopers. They were volunteers. They had to win the wings they had to prove themselves in order the accepted into the paratroopers said so. There's a bit of an elite force. Cotton thing to them on the reality. I'm saying no by the way essentially chubby animal planet. And you land to get your job done so wanting to do it happens again and again to me and i think it's as well is that we learn something want experience and we learn so much that we're not able to break through the screen desire was to continue on and find an alliance. Hbo and say. I think we have about eleven hours. Truly rock stock and stuff that we do screen and it's going to be a little expense mason. Okay you'll know of brothers. That's the book won't dc in that narrative. When you first read it won't let town year was at the scope for the story that you would then be able to take a viewer all the way from d. day to eagle's nest at the end of the war in europe really the essence of the gi experience. It was that very narrative that we took these guys from the barracks in the united states in georgia and we deposited little eagles nest. We didn't have to invent anything. The narrative was all in place. All the logic was their leading well-needed corley. They were literally in great places throughout certainly normandy landings but then they failed miserably in misguided market garden and and they had to drive in to be surrounded in the battle of the bulge. They had to continue on and they literally sweeping across germany of the war's end so it was a perfectly out of locale and character development. That is also extraordinary because there were some guys who did you get a scratch on them and we had them from the i. V until the very last the scope of what easy company in the five of six experiment was a bit of a gift for us because we never had to create a narrative out of whole cloth. We always had it in hand and while we were in the pursuit of it because it was such a hurly-burly owner do we were always writing future episodes at the same time that we were shooting and be research and work that we would do on say episode three. We would find out something that we could input into episode six or episode senate predict lose about among the characters that were outside the boundaries of the actual book. We had the veterans themselves saying well. I didn't do that but i did this. And then when we find out about that he did that will holy cow. We hadn't even imagine them and then put it into the later. Episodes was living and breathing spree play process at the same time that was always growing so the excitement of was that it wasn't trapped into a bell jar that we were just trying to cherry pick for wonderful moments. We had an overarching literally. If you will Able to contents and a map of where they had been dot and we were always filling to send with wicked great details that in making a lot more humid at the same time..
Men In Blazers
"tom hanks" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"Person on screen shows that has gone off and done marvelous things in the twenty years since we had people that were just out of their drunk schools. This one of their early jobs and in louis but then up comes tom. Hardy few other folks innocence thing. So i will tell you it's bittersweet experience. It's hard to watch because of everything that we poured into and also celebration lives and it affected. There are still band of brothers. Unions happen every anniversary from when they need then their boot camp and now a lot of those guys who married kid. Easy company shows off at all the weddings and bob mitzvahs and birthday parties for the little kids that didn't exist back in nineteen ninety nine shooting a lifetime a lot of life but i want to start with the genesis of the series. You'd teamed up with stephen spill book on saving private ryan which won five oscars in one thousand nine hundred nine. The film itself groundbreaking second war movies. It began to be shot and released before the war itself even ended in nineteen forty one. President roosevelt ordered hollywood to valorize the war effort to john. Wayne harry wise thing. Private royan began to strip away that mythology. What made you steven spielberg say. You know what we want to move selden. Private ryan was the first movie about the subject matter. I would say years and just dealt with some war movies and become john riffles by heist buildings or it had really been not since the sixty hits that there had been a moving out very specifics of critically war era. And when stephen. I talk me about do a movie underwear both huge readers. History studies of history constantly. Compare notes on the documentaries and books that we will and what had happened with that. Is that the motion picture technology and become more or less what it is today. Cgi and badalona. You'll be able to shoot omaha beach. And the d day invasion way that it's never been done before the arisen alberton and an accuracy and the audiences will be able to take because the tastes that have changed and some purpose of that was really to do the land of the details. Grandma's ar the specifics of place like omaha and the human aspects of such client kids on when that entered into the social macular there was interest from the american broadcasting company to a nice aries. Based on a steven ambrose book we have used his d day. As one of the framers imbibe also saving private ryan and along came also then citizen soldiers second book in which a lot of the same characters are following throughout the rest of the war. Stephen told me about that. I said you know. I don't think that's the book to do what i said. Look there's another book. That ambrose wrote code band brothers and it's very specific group of people and follows them all through the war and i also don't think abc is the place to do it because you'll have to have commercials in the standards and practices and they'll be any number of themes as well as very specific mugabe moments that you will not be able to create because of sensor i had had a history that hbo. I don't know another big city series for the pulp from the known. And i said hbo's in place this because you can show anything. What and last as long as it needs to. And you don't have commercials and stephen turned on dot com lesson and said well..
Men In Blazers
"tom hanks" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"Its own journey was no straight line within thirty six hours of band of brothers day. September the eleventh occurred and then which altered the course of global history attacks cost a shadow. Initially muted america's reception to the show band of brothers singular brilliance proceeded to empower popularity that unbelievably seems to grow year on year. This is a series. That millions of diehard view. Is what john. Hbo max on an annual recurring basis allowing the show to reinforce their understanding of and gratitude for the generation who pulled the will from the brink of destruction. I'm amongst them. I watched the brothers every year. And i find every time. I watched the series notice in new detail. Find a new deck of meaning allowing the passed me by certainly resonates his truth and they'd lost you when cova cripple both my city of birth liverpool england and my adopted hometown of manhattan sat down with my youngest son ause ten then and we revelled in episode after episode on not basis against the backdrop of chaos and panic of our present day reality. I want my son to immerse himself in something which embodied the idea of american leadership. I grew up admiring from afar and band of brothers is exactly that a show filled van pathy courage everyday heroism and the follow me thoughts which is to me all. It's great about this nation. The so much to celebrate about band of brothers and over the next ten weeks. We will do exactly that. We're gonna follow the course of the series one episode of the time with the help. The stars creators writers directors and producers. Who made the series of reality. Twenty years again including damian lewis major richard winters livingston captain lewis nixon until.
Men In Blazers
"tom hanks" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"It's roge- hey letting. Uga for peace and do the what you're about to hear is the first episode of a series. We've been altered to produce in partnership with. Hbo celebrating the twentieth anniversary of band of brothers may have mentioned this once or twice in recent weeks in the same way. I may have mentioned. I wrote a book but this episode featuring the great american. Tom hanks is the only one of the entire series it will be available in the men in blazers palled feed. So if you like it. Run their walk run. Hp as official band of brothers pug cost. You'll find it wherever you get. You will support links on our website analysts social. Look it up now. Many blazers. Don't come but for now. I love saying this. His hanks welcome to. Hbo's band brothers cost. This is roger bennett. I say flash you say thunder. This podcast is a celebration of. Hbo's band of brothers as it turns twenty cuts right the pick groundbreaking genre. Changing mini series created by steven. Spielberg can hang in the wake of saving. Private ryan is two decades old september. Two thousand and one was the exact data premiered on. Hbo and filling ten intricately plotted episodes upon the viewing public based on historian. Stephen ambrose is banned the brothers book. But it's all following the journey of easy company second battalion of the five hundred and six parachute infantry regiment of the hundred established division. Us army permits inception of boot camp. Camp toco a georgia all the way to the eagle's nest and the end of the second world war in europe the show but it's impressive budget of one hundred and twenty five billion dollars was at the tone of shooting the most expensive in television history and it scoop as a result is astounding forged by the best reuters directors cinematographers. Set design his hair. Make up artistes and on and on breathing life into a script that can take a five hundred speaking parts of hr handed out to a cast of then knowns who undertook an intense ten month production period surrounded by more than ten thousand extras band of brothers has proceeded to become a beloved piece of television revered around the world for the quality of its acting dacians historic sweep of narrative and the show is commitment at it's hard to honoring the legacy of a fading breed if american heroes..
Eric & Gord What If We're Right?
"tom hanks" Discussed on Eric & Gord What If We're Right?
"Enough on its own account but that was a happy bear. I saw it. Was this other side of the just playing in the grass. Who was the cutest thing i've ever seen. It was not an attack mode. It was in like. I just ate a bunch of salmon. I'm gonna play in the grass bear. Actually speaking of did. Have you seen the footage. I can't i think it was in bc. I can't remember for sure but somewhere anyways as it was on a beach is violently hot day. And there's like a bunch of it's not like a pack be to obviously a very remote beach But there are still a few people in the beach like hanging around playing in the water and shit and then all of a sudden a mama bear and like three cubs come out of the forest walk out and just go just straight into the fucking ocean into the water and just are playing in the fucking water as then ray around all the people. I'm staying in the water now. The bears come out. Everybody leaves that. What was it the stingray that the guy freed or whatever then it followed him for like two hours. Yeah animals are weird. They do whatever they want. because they're like bears. They could go wherever they want and do whatever they want. You're never gonna stop them. The only thing they gotta watch for now is global. Warming is so fucked that. We're starting to get sharks. Appear so yeah. It's crazy because it's warm enough for them to come up so and now it's all new to them up here. It's all new fish and bears and all good stuff to eat. I bear that catches a shark to look at the size of the salmon. I i wanna be the guy who breeds. The bear shark asks the animal. I wanna see half shark half bear. All killing machine we need is a tornado. The bear shark nato. I would make that movie with tom. Hanks of course just to give an idea by the way who by the way he was the only famous person to get kovic so he was the first coach. He was the first one to get kobe. Of course he wants he does i. I would like to see that movie where he defeats cova de bears all at once..
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"tom hanks" Discussed on Eric & Gord What If We're Right?
"Excited prevalent is what he's traveling. Thank you They are prevalent in the area. Yes it's alaska prevalent everywhere spokesperson. I eighty one's ever talked to this guy ever. He's been the spokesperson for fifty years. But nothing ever happens so he's never had to speak. That's the first thing he could come up with. Your country bears here. Thanks shit talk down another thirty years. According to a twenty. Nineteen report by the alaskan health officials. Sixty eight people in the state were hospitalized for injuries sustained in sixty six bear attacks from the year. Two thousand two thousand seventeen. That means two of those bears. Got more than one dude. That's awesome and ten. People died as a result of bear attacks during that period at a bare. Love it. So let's actually have a pretty decent percentage wise i i would almost call that staggering figuring figure. I didn't think it would be anywhere near that high. Yeah i'm not. I'm not upset by. I'm really not Now the dude that got rescued the guy in question he was between fifty and or forty and fifty fifty and sixty four forty and fifty years old. He did have a handgun Any had quite a bit of ammunition for when this whole thing. I started but he only had two rounds of ammo left really. So he's just a shitty shot. He's a horrible shod and he hadn't slept in four days running on nothing but pure fear The entire time Yeah the guys. He'd be fucking wreck there. The bear to catch the bear is there no. We don't even know that there was a bear really. Maybe this guy's just weird it's possible but they when hopped up on the fire water and wrecked is house is like mayor. He didn't wanna get the fine for drinking up there. I've watched the alaska highway patrol. I know what it's like. That's not a story you could make really. I'm there really isn't well. We'll see when the tom hanks movie comes out. Now i still being teen. It would be a better story if the bears wearing the human as cost hume and then he hijacked the helicopter and flies to safety. That would have been epic. That would have been a great menges. Just being a guy that gwen is that a fucking bear flying that helicopter. That would be the. I've never been stuck like i had a. What do you call a coyote. Follow me one time down that big hill. North man like kaplan road. The big hill that goes to park and telford said lonsdale. But no no no going toward until for when you're going through phibbs exchange at the big hill you go down. I followed by a coyote. 'cause i saw coyote and then i just saw these yellow is in the bushes like everywhere i went it was going with and i thought i was going to get attacked by this coyote. It would sucked. Like i couldn't imagine being pursued for four days by something eighty times that big and this guy it was a little coyote is probably mediated. They don't usually attack. They're tiny and weak and starving. They attack a little things but a bear a big angry hungry for jesus christ. I even like i scared of spiders. Like fuck again. I just. I mean i've been relatively close to a wild bear in haliburton which is like slightly nor the i mean. It's not a northern ontario any strides but northern to southern ontario in close to a bear But yeah it was like. It was literally just across across a single lane dirt road. Yeah i made their crossing uses fucking.
Eric & Gord What If We're Right?
"tom hanks" Discussed on Eric & Gord What If We're Right?
"They're trying to prove flatter though. Maybe him so what happened was so this fucking guys shack and a fucking bear had come up in up to him while he's in this when he's hiding this thing and basically terrorize them Got in and it bit him in the fucking leg and it dragged him out to the water is going to basically try to eat him. He was able to get free runs back to the shed any hides in this shed for the next four days and the bear kept coming back in all fairness i do have footage of the bear saying the dude started it. So it's like you say it's all perspective at this stage. We don't really know. For sure 'til the cellphone comes out. We don't their fallen right right now. so yeah so this gets eat so he gets attacked by this fucking bear. The bear comes back the next fuck at night and comes back every night now. This is unbelievably rare occurrence for bear to return back to the site to attack twice level. Bone four fucking days in a row so clearly this bears fucking hungary and dude smell tasty to him or you just pissed off. He's sick of people being up there. Very eighteen hundred took over that town. That was awesome and every once in a while bears us that there bears. That's right and you know your human. He knows your food that that's right And guess what. He's not wrong lake really. I very little socks. And i sympathize if you get killed by a wild animal but if you're out in wild animal territory year pray that's that's what you are you're not top of the food chain no more and whatever. I think it's fair. You know how many of them have we killed. Yeah exactly so many i. i feel bad. that's got to be like. I'm not saying. I would be cool with it if it happened to me terrifying. Oh has to be. I'm i got bit by a dog. Once i was in probably grade four and it just got my pinky. It was hard it was bad. I couldn't imagine a pair. Oh that's like a dog times of million dog exactly and this is like a poodle or something like a doberman dog No i think my dog kicked his ass..
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"tom hanks" Discussed on Eric & Gord What If We're Right?
"Yeah I just I mean I've been relatively close to a a wild dog. It was in Halliburton which is like slightly Northern. I mean it's not Northern Ontario by any stretch but northern to Southern Ontario. I've been close to a bear but yeah it was like it was literally just across the sneak across a single-lane, dirt road. Yeah. I think they're across, just fucking freaky enough on its own account but that was a happy bear. I saw, I was just on the side of the highway just playing in the grass, it was the cutest thing I've ever seen in my life. It was not in attack mode. It was in like, I'm just ate a bunch of salmon. I'm going to play in the grass bear. Actually, I was speaking of did, have you seen the footage? I can't I think it was in BC. I can't remember for sure but somewhere, anyways, it was on a beach. It was a violently hot day and there was like a bunch of like it's not like a pack Beach, obviously. A very remote beach. But there's still like a few people in the beach like hanging around playing in the water and shit. And then all of a sudden a mama bear and like three Cubs dead. Come out of the forest to walk out and just go just straight into the fucking ocean and ran into the water and just start playing on the fucking water. That's what they did. Right around. All the people. And people just like I'm not staying in the water right now. It's the Bears come out everybody leaves. You know it's like that what was it? The stingray that the guy freed or whatever? Then it followed him for like, two hours. Yeah, animals are dead. They do whatever they want cuz they're like Bears, they could go wherever they want, do whatever they want, you're never going to stop them. The only thing they gotta watch out for now is global warming is so fucked. There were starting to get sharks up here. So yeah, that's crazy cuz it's warm enough for them to come up. So, and now it's all new to them up here. It's all new fish and bears and all good stuff to eat Vision. The first beer, that catches a shark. Do, look at the office, the salmon, I I want to be the guy who breeds their bearshark that's the animal. I want to see half shark half bear, all killing machine. All we need is a tornado in the authors. Sharknado. Oh yeah, I would make that movie. It's all ranks with Tom Hanks, of course, just to give an idea. By the way, covid-19, the way he was the only famous.
Eric & Gord What If We're Right?
"tom hanks" Discussed on Eric & Gord What If We're Right?
"Know, exactly, so it's pretty nuts. So anyway, so what happened was was there was a dead The Coast Guard was doing a what the fuck were they doing? They were doing something regarding the group going to know. They were going somewhere else and just doing this sort of like they weren't doing a Manhunt cuz nobody knew the guy was you know in trouble cuz he couldn't get a hold of anybody and he did manage to make an SOS in the office. Yeah you did an SOS he wrote put SOS and help on the roof of the of the two buildings so he's able to do people still respond to that like I'm joke don't ever cry wolf that SOS yet because it works no actually ironically enough that isn't what got their attention. I actually have the the the way the commander and the lieutenant, who were in the in the helicopter when it happened, the commander says he goes. He said to the pilot he goes, hey, there's a guy down. Is waving at us. Or the other guy said that the commander says is he waving with one hand or two? And the guy says two hands. He goes. Well that's usually a sign of distress off. This is actually going to be a Tom Hanks movie. They called you know we don't really come across people in the middle of nowhere out here. He was kind of struggling when when we came around, he was on his hands and knees and waving a white flag. See in my movie, at that point, that's the bear. Wearing the human as a costume, and he's going to kill the Two Soldiers. Exactly wage is so good. I love to ski and draped over him. You're going to I love when they get the spokesman for certain areas cuz Rick green. A spokesman for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said in an email on Wednesday, that grizzly. Bears were prevailing were prevented prevailing wage Okay. Girls, excited. Prevalent is what he said. Thank you. They are prevalent in the area. Yes, it's Alaska that are prevalent everywhere, just a spokesperson first time anyone's ever talked to this guy ever. He's been the spokesperson for fifty years, but nothing ever happened, so he's never had to speak. That's the first thing you can come up with. Yeah, it's Pure Country. There's Bears here. Thanks check talk down another 30 years, according to a 2019 report by the Alaskan Health officials. A 68 people in the state were hospitalized for injuries. Sustained 866 bear attacks from the year 2000 to 2017. That means two of those Bears, got more than one, dude. Right. That's right. That's awesome. And 1000 people died as a result of bear attacks during that period at a bear..
Eric & Gord What If We're Right?
"tom hanks" Discussed on Eric & Gord What If We're Right?
"Coming soon Eric and guard. The laser of bear bear song, what a great day for like just like the worst title of a movie ever bear. Scare. This is a movie about a scary bear, I call it bear. Scare off the edge, The Edge, right? That was, that would be such a different movie. If it was just a guitarist from you to Chase and Alec Baldwin around wage, it really would, wouldn't it be that one, I just loved it. That whole movie is literally just based off of an old dude, with the survival book. That's I just loved that dog. So much. Yep. And that's maybe this guy in your story should have read the book. Yeah. Probably tell people what we're talking about. There was a bear. Scare is what words trying to say God? Yeah I so I mean the best thing is is you've got to see if you get the chance you got it. Fucking look the shit up on the Internet because the fucking where do you see where? Where where this happened? This is insane. So basically what happened was you got this, dude. He nobody know they're not releasing his name whatsoever cuz I guess he just doesn't want to be known. Um, but he was up in case. It's the Berlin man. It's the Pearl in. He got rid of his age and his cancer, then he got killed by a bear, it's Leading Edge Plus Doodles. So he was up at this little small and I mean fucking tiny mining camp about forty miles outside of New Jersey. Alaska in the middle of what country? Oh, dear country, their country. They have no idea how we got out to this location cuz there's no vehicle close. Anywhere else have. No idea how we got in there. There's no vehicle there. So like he didn't take like an ATV or anything to get there, there's no boat. He doesn't have a canoe. So there's there's fucking nothing. There's no evidence that the bear didn't hide his vehicle know. There's, there's no evidence of that yet, I'm sure that will come out. So, basically, what happened, was this dudes out there and walk? The one night he was out there on with the fuck? Was it on July 12th? And he, and so there's three sort of buildings on this site. You have like a mining little, you have like a little tent, then you have like a trailer sort of thing and then there's this tiny ass Shack. That's about the size of an outhouse. And the bulk of this shit takes place in that shack..
Eric & Gord What If We're Right?
"tom hanks" Discussed on Eric & Gord What If We're Right?
"You know, you look like you belong in like men in black is one of the aliens wage. Oh yeah, for sure. And I look like I have jet black hair, that's just weird. I had to keep Jackie Chan's here for you. I have too much time off. Still good. I was going to be the whole all the new posters for your big comeback. I was going to do different buddy. Cop movie for everyone but I only did the three and I I can't find Lethal Weapon right now, but it's pretty funny. Okay, that's what I do. Hey guys, if you want to call me a racist or anything you want to call me, send us an email, going to pass aajana at gmail.com and I didn't pick what is Belgium's vagina cuz it's white. I just I don't even know that it is black dog. No idea. If you paint your vagina black is that racist? It's is it considered black face or just black lips? Black? Yeah. Well that's the worst part of Black Faces did. It wasn't the big lip service rather than just mad a boat? I killed. I still don't want to be talking about this right now as long as I can't stop laughing and let's see what I'm gonna have. You done Blackfish. Hey, if you've ever done blackface you want to talk about it? Give us me and order. You can chat with us right now on Facebook page or on restream. Let us know how your breakfast experience work out for you dying to know. I think more people should do it. I think we should all do it, not just a phase like, pick any face you want. That's not yours and do it up. You know, why not? Who cares, really? We have so much more to worry about right now. What else did I have to chat with you about election coming up? I forget I had a great thing that I wanted to talk to you about and then I get to your bear story before we're done. Yeah I'm excited to tell you that, that's very excited and we're already pushing the 5:00 Mark here. So I don't know how long I have you for but Gore brought up a story two days ago to me and I could not believe I missed cuz it's like my favorite story of the year so far because I love when bears remind us that they're fucking bears and this one motherfuker. Does it ever? And that's, I'm waiting for the movie to come out with Leonardo DiCaprio, probably off, or it'll be 2 or Tom Hanks. He hasn't done a bear movie yet. A lot of good bear movies, come out, the Revenant was a bear movie. There was that one with? I don't even remember what it's called with Anthony Hopkins, and And the reverent. No no the one before that with Alec Baldwin. Oh I loved that movie. That was called bear. Scare wage. That's definitely not it. That's what mine's going to be called what? I write this one that you brought up fuc. Oh, this is going to bug the shipping case. You're not going to find out. Yeah, it's something but it was a good movie. It was a really good one out Baldwin was such a dick wage.
Eric & Gord What If We're Right?
"tom hanks" Discussed on Eric & Gord What If We're Right?
"I don't use it. I don't like our podcast on it. Like I don't like the way they're set up. I don't know why. They're number one, there's they suck. They suck because all the kids have got fucking iPhones. I yeah, I get that but you get everything else on an iPhone. You don't have to have iTunes. Well, you have to have it but you don't have to use it. That's what I don't like about iPhone. You have to have like all this shit that they say, you have to have just cuz they say you have to have it fuk U Apple. So it's just like that new Microsoft. What the fuck is it off? What's their new one called? Edge know. Oh yeah, yeah, Microsoft edge browser. Yeah, yeah. It's like all of a sudden like, I mean, I, you know, it came out like a while ago and all of a sudden like took in the last two weeks I'm getting like, five fucking emails a day from them, I will send you. I have instructions on how to get edge off of your computer because it's very aggressive, you know, how long you go to change. Its like you sure you want to change, maybe you should try Edge first. And you're like no, I want to change its like but what about age? Yeah. No I want to change you like, fuck as bad as Bing Bong? Well, it's pings replacement. I think being has four things whenever you Google something, you get page after page of answers, you go on Bing, you get like three answers and two of them are wrong. Ya Dead. What's 2? + 2 square. How does it's so fucking wrong? Like, they could have bought Instagram, they went with LinkedIn. Good choice. Fellas, everyone uses. Walk-in. Only responsible people. I wonder if I went broke all about Bill Gates, Windows. If you get it may be call a garage door guy, but I do have a way to get edge off of your computer, so it stops doing that and then it's just not there anymore. Beautiful. It's actually relatively simple to do. Cuz I got the inside scoop on how to do, all kinds of shit. Cuz I'm a loser and I sit around and learn this crap. And then I contact other losers online and we have loser conversations about loser, e stuff. It's weird. I just, I just sort of right clicked on my fucking Edge thing. And funny thing is the first thing. There's a thing that comes up, that's pinned. Apparently said, a man hospitalized with covid-19 told CBS, he'd still rather be sick than get.
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Cleveland Indians' Name Changed to Guardians
"With a name change for our own NFL team. Now there's about to be a new name for Cleveland's Major League baseball team. The team has been the Indians since 1915. Together We are all Cleveland guardians. The new name was revealed in a video narrated by Tom Hanks. The change was triggered by a national reckoning by teams and institutions to permanently dropped logos and names considered. Racist, and now it's time to unite as one family one community to build the next era for this team in this city to keep watch and guard what makes this game the greatest three years ago, the Indians stop wearing their chief Wahoo logo on their jerseys and caps, not far from the team's ballpark on a bridge over the Kaya Hoga River are too large, Landmark stone edifice is referred to as guardians. I'm Ed Donahue more in sports with
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Cleveland's Baseball Team Goes From Indians to Guardians
"There is a new name for Cleveland's Major League Baseball team the team has been the Indians since nineteen fifteen gather we are all Cleveland guard the new name was revealed in a video narrated by Tom Hanks the change was triggered by a national reckoning by teams and institutions to permanently drop logo's and names considered racist and now it's time do you rate as one family one community to build the next area for this team and this city to keep watch and guard what makes this game the greatest three years ago the Indian stop wearing their chief Wahoo logo on their jerseys and caps not far from the team's ballpark on a bridge over the Cuyahoga river are too large landmark stone edifices referred to as guardians I met Donahue
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"The World Health Organization declared a corona virus pandemic a year ago when the W. H. O. declared a pandemic on March eleventh twenty twenty what was ahead was the stuff of horror movies are made out of millions of deaths disrupted lives wrecked economies and near universal loneliness and isolation the NBA suspended season Tom Hanks filming a movie in Australia and nails he was infected that evening president trump addressed the nation from the oval office announcing restrictions on travel from Europe a year later summer dreaming of returning to normal thanks to vaccines that seem to materialize as if by magic I'm ready to fall late
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The Eddie Murphy Hall of Fame
"Are joined by van leith in the cost of higher learning and eddie murphy expert to break down the career. One of the greats. What what i what. I what i was going on with guys hanging in there excited to talk about eddie. We're gonna do a hall of fame here so for the folks out there who have never heard hall of fame episode very briefly. Break down what we do on these episodes. We have built halls of fame for tom. Hanks roger deakins. Nancy meyers toshiro buffoon. A monster movies and most recently george clooney. So it's time for eddie. What we doing we build. A hall is ten films from a career. No more no less. He's got forty movies so we got a lot to talk about here. I'm going to start with this. Amanda eddie murphy. What do you think. I think of multiple eddie. Murphy's i think of a lot of characters all in one movie. This is going to be interesting van. I'm really excited to talk to you about all of these because i've been listening to unsurprisingly. There are a lot of rewatch ables movies. Eddie murphy movies on rewatch bulls and i was listening to some of them in. You're on several of them. And you know i had that podcast thing where you want to respond to the person but you know it's a podcast so now you're here and it's a privilege to get to talk to you but for me eddie murphy is a little bit of. It's a generational cork for me. Because i am just. I think a little bit more than both of you and so i became kind of like movie aware movie sentient like mid nineties. Nine hundred ninety five nine hundred ninety six. And i've done a lot of catch up but if you become aware of movies in the mid nineties that means that the first eddie murphy. You get the nutty professor and then milan. And then shrek. I saw shrek in theaters. Not above it. So you know at that point. He's like the elder statesmen of comedy super established. Like i knew the beverly hills cop steam song and dance to it while before i saw it but kind of understanding him as like family eddie murphy and then catching up on everything else. Interesting chronological or not chronological murphy. Experience for me. Then you want to do your history with eddie. I know you are been living with him for a long time. Yes i have been So i hambur what year this was and i don't wanna insult my parents. Every time i mentioned my parents. I get some minor detail wrong and then i have to hear about it into along to our phone call. Your parents listen airpods today. Let's no your show's. I wish they wouldn't but that's nice. Yeah i wish they would but they My father was taking me to see a movie. We were all going to the movies but this time we were breaking it off like my father was taking me to see one of the superman movies. It's either three or four and my sister. My grandmother my mother went to see beverly hills cop two and this was my first experience with with with seeing people so jazz to see a movie because they went this way. Like we went to the superman franchise. I fell off by that point so we went this way and they go this way when they go this way. They're all of these people over there. And i'm like daddy i wanna go over here and he's i know that's too old for you. We're gonna go watch superman. And i say that because that's the moment that i actually became movie sentient by. That's the start of it. That's like what are these people into. Before that i can't tell you when i i kind of became aware of eddie murphy. Because he's like michael jackson in the sense that there was never a time. I wasn't aware of him. I was born in nineteen eighty so by the time. I start getting Information downloaded into me eddie. Murphy's a part of that he's like a part of that thing but the first time. I realized that this guy isn't just a do that. I see on tv or the guy that that he is. The biggest thing in the world is what i saw. People excited to go for it felt. So that's my that's my memory of him and it's not even necessarily what you might call one of his mega classics like beverly hills. Cop two was the event that you can remember that says a lot. And that's eighty seven net says a lot about where we were with. Eddie he was kind of in the middle of i. There are very few movie star runs in the history of movies like the one he had in the eighties. The rise to fame which starts on. Tv i guess tom hanks Robin williams maybe In terms of just successful movies maybe will in there but those movies weren't weren't quite the same as well. what is there were talking about. It's really remarkable when you think about it. There's no like they're not like high concepts with willa was like he needed to be punching an alien in the face to get to this level and like eddie movies are just like it's especially in the eighty s. Eddie is just running around doing stuff. That's that is what this movie is. He's he's being harassed whether he's a cop or he's a convict fresh outta jail or if he's a guy off the street who gets taken into financial institution like it's just it's entirely built around his persona and his sense of humor which is is unusual. We don't see that very much. These
The Big Picture
Snubs and surprises from this year's Golden Globe nominations
"The globe. Nominations happened and boy. They'd seemed a mess. How do you feel hi. How are you feeling about words and being back. I guess i'm glad to have award season back though isn't it. We can discuss specific to these nominations. I feel a little bit like charlie brown with the football because every year we talk about make fun of the hollywood foreign press association. And let's be clear we're going to continue to make fun of them. They are traditionally. It's a small group of international journalists. Who do not have a lot of renown really know outside of the fact that they are in this mysterious priests small group of people. They really like celebrities or their definition of another other thing. We'll discuss and their star fuckers and they give nominations to people they want in a room rather than a merit or at least our interpretation of merit. It seems like to win an award. You just have to go to as many parties as possible and then think the association from the stage. We know that there are always bad. Choices always mysterious traces. We're always like what is going on. Who are these people. Why do we do this. But i would say even for the hollywood foreign press association and even for a film here had some challenges aka pandemic theaters being close and far fewer films released unusual. These are real embarrassing. And i woke up just being like. Are you serious. We have to do this again. Like come on yeah i. It's hard to know we've gone through looking glass or not some of these. I think we're fairly standard and expected in their plenty of movies that i'm sure we'll be talking about when we get to the oscar nominations in a couple months but there were a handful of nominations. What what. I will generously called the surprises. That just took my breath away. That i i think even in my wildest dreams i could not have imagined the fbi concocting so. Let's just talk about them because this award show is happening really soon. It's february twenty eight. It's gonna be hosted by. Amy poehler and tina fey. It's going to be on nbc. And so we're going to actually having awards season to cover for real for real. I think we have to start with the jared leto nomination for the little things. This is probably the single biggest. W t.f of this collection and it's funny because when we talked about the little things on the show last week i think we both walked away from the little things thinking. Jared leto is pretty entertaining in it. And maybe rising to the challenge of this camp script and that being said i. I never considered him. A worthy report surprised to see this nomination. I enjoyed watching him in the little things in the context of the little things which was not a film that worked at all and so at least someone was doing something you know and i was talking with friends about it. There's like a really a nice like vintage. This is bad feeling to the little things that i found pretty comforting. You know it's like it's not like someone just made a twitter thread into a movie on an iphone and like someone wrote a script and they tried to do this old ninety staying. And then jared leto is doing the weird villain and having too much fun with it. It's like i know what's happening here even if it's not working and and i'm glad to have it back. I do not know that it needed to rise to the level of golden globes ovation especially because the golden globes supporting category does not differentiate between drama and comedy in some of the comedy. Nominations things get wild. But that's because you're kind of you're filling it out there some extra slots. A lot of people didn't get nominated in supporting actor. Jared leto like weird joke of serial killer. I think he's right. Can we talk about that for a second. This is dangerous rabbit hole to go down. I have no idea. The truth is. I don't know i think you're meant to believe that he did. Not if you haven't seen this movie. Sorry for spoiling it for you. It's unspoiled in many ways because it has an ambiguous ending of sword. I- i- i- jared. Leto obviously is has won an academy award. He is a very famous person has been celebrated. He's also like kind of a joke. You know like. I really enjoy him as a performer. A famous person. But he's kind of a joke. I mean he's he so Has all of the pretensions. And absurdity of the method actor who sort of you know pulling pranks on his cast members by trying to get into character and so outside and so masking his beauty all the time with these ridiculous roles you know like in the little things that character has like a is is fat and walks with a limp and why it's just pure actually affect nation and the role is actually affectation and the asia was impressed by that or impressed. By the idea of having jared sit in on their award show. But jared. Leto is not tom hanks. For example someone who did not get knocked out.
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Economics In Space
"The life of an astronaut. It sounds so awesome so adventurous astronaut. Doug wheelock says though most of the time it's actually pretty routine regimented. You wake up have breakfast do a bunch of scientific experiments and then you eat lunch. Then more experiments exercise dinner and go to sleep and of course there are no shops or movie theaters are banks or anything like that. So the economy aboard the international space station is all about trade. The interesting thing is with food. Of course the russians food supply is much different than our food supply. The russians is. Doug really loved the us deserts which were like brownies and cakes. And he's freeze dried packets and the american astronauts really loved the russian soups. Apparently the borscht is excellent. Excellent is a relative term. Of course doug says that aboard the space station. Most of the food is actually pretty bland. But every three months a big event would happen. Doug and his crew would get a shipment from earth and the resupply missions were a big deal remember. It costs hundreds of millions of dollars to send a shuttle to the space station. So when those shipments actually came says doug it was a very special moment and in those shipments would be like personal items letters from home loved ones. Yeah who cares. There was also this precious commodity just before they closed the hatch on the launch pad. They would throw like a bag of fresh fruit like oranges. Lemons apples vegetables as well aboard the space station. Duck says produce was like platinum. Yeah and when the shipments would right he says everybody would get together and the excitement was electric. We'd all get in the the node one. Which is our kitchen area and flowed all the fruit and vegetables. Okay so it's like christmas morning. But doug says everybody would only get one or two pieces of produce. Just wasn't that much of it and so here's where the trade comes in. Doug knew that the russians loved onions. They're great for flavoring food but doug loved fruit above everything else at. I'd say like mad. I would take an orange over this onion any day. You know fyodor. Your chicken was mike. Commander said hey fyodor What a trade an onion for do of a like an extra orangey goes all. You don't want your onion douglas's that orange trade legendary in his mind still because for doug that orange was not just a snack. It was a connection to earth. It was like his companion was funny. I had i at one point. I kind of laughed. Because i i felt like tom. Hanks and castaway with wilson. The volleyball hung onto like one orange for like it seemed like probably three weeks at a became sort of by crewmate. Of course the space station economy was not just about food though services. Were also a big part of it and different people aboard. The space station had different things. They could contribute because they had such different backgrounds. There were scientists engineers pilots so skill sets seriously skill sets became part of our commerce as well. Dug for instance has an engineering background and he says for him one of his least favorite parts of life aboard the space station. Where all the scientific experiments they had to do. Whatever their background. This was just part of what they did. Every day and the space station would typically be running more than a hundred experiments at any given moment scientific research about food plants medicines. It's just a full day and it's also part of the mission of the space station. But for doug honestly it was kind of a slog sometimes the way out of it economics doug discovered this a couple of weeks in his mission when one of the scientists aboard. The space station told him that there was a big problem she said. Hey the party's broken. I mean that does sound like a big problem. I feel panicked at least not what you wanna hear aboard a space station. That's for sure. No but doug background was in engineering. So he understands systems and he says fixing things comes really naturally to him and the scientists. This woman named shannon knew this about doug shannon looked at me. She said if you fix the party. I'll do all of your science for the rest of the day and i'm thinking that is a deal and a half. I'll take that deal. So i got my by tool bill called houston and said you know houston. We have a problem. The party's broken. Doug says actually the toilet broke quite a bit and whenever it happened whenever the toilet broke doug's economic value pretty much shot to infinity. I figured out that if you're out in space and you can fix the potty you're like lord of the universe but the real commodity on the space station's as doug was earth itself because he says when you see the whole planet against this backdrop of outerspace every day it just changes the way that you value things it just this raging ball of life in this vast desert of darkness. You know that takes root like very very quickly and it's like wow there's my planet everything ever known you know every word ever spoken. You know everybody. I've ever loved is down there and i'm not there and so that's when it really kind of strikes. You is When i talk to students and young children we talk about our favorite planet and things and i said pluto was my favorite planet. I said but then i went to space and now earth is my favorite planet. Thanks says when you're in space you start to crave all things earth and human evidence of life becomes
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Bruce Springsteen, John Legend and Lady Gaga among those performing at Biden inaugural
"Lots of boldface names performing during the ceremonies tomorrow. Lady Gaga kicks off the swearing in ceremony with the national anthem that one day later, Tom Hanks hosts a primetime celebration, including John Legend Here will be Emily Lin Manuel Miranda. Getting not throwing away my shot and Bruce Springsteen, Jason Fraley Wtlv news.