To the weather in just a little bit. Its going to be hotter as this week wears on. Were going to find out more about that. Musician david blayne by the way is taking his latest stunts to new heights. If you have not heard about him for a while, this is the First Student in nearly a decade. He will do the best and attach himself to 100 balloons and attempt to cross the hudson river from new jersey to new york. Weather permits, its going take place on august 31st. Blain is going to live stream this on the youtube channel. As we go to mike. I have to think that the reason no one has done this before is because its super dangerous. I really hope that he makes it. So do i. This reminds me when my towel and jump off the couch saying i can fly. Cannot this might be a nice diversion and what we need right now. Yeah, i think so. Im not too in to magic and watch ing watching the shows. The movie itself was great. It came out ten or 11 years ago and playing carl. That was a great film. Yeah, i am
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Barbara bush discussing reflections at the texas book festival in austin. I love writing my memoirs and the urge to write was still there. I saw my good friend Mary Higgins Clark and told her that and she suggested that i write a novel and said it would be very easy and said pick up plot and narrow the ending and work back she told me when her characters talk to her she wont let her Say Something that she knows that she is on the right track and says if they tell her i wouldnt do that are say that it sounded easy so i set forth to write a mystery novel and made up a rather interesting plot centering around two female roommates a Flight Attendant and the secret Service Agent who never stayed in town long enough to me any attractive eligible men. They decided to get in touch with an escort bureau, a dating service all of the men ended up dead i knew the killer and it worked my way back but why had one huge problem my characters never said one word to me. [laughter] i spent hours waiting.
Justin tosi is professor in philosophy specializing in legal philosophy and brandon warme assistant professor of philosophy and specializes in ethics, moral psychology and moral philosophy. We will be taking audience questions online using the catoevents. You have a question for the authors or watching event in cato website posted with cato event hashtag. Justin, brandon, thank you for joining us. Thanks for having us. Great to be here. To begin, briefly what is grandstanding . So if you want the simplest sort of Bumper Sticker of grand grandstanding as vanity project. Grandstanders use discussion of morality, family values, tradition, draw attention to themselves an make themselves look like moral paragons, caring about the American Factory worker. You want something a little more detailed, the account of grandstanding we give in the book is a simple one. The grandstanding simply has two parts, the first part is the grandstanders want the Reference Network to think certain things abou