Ways to media come, along with these Television Companies support cspan two as a public service. My name is joe vogel, im a state delegate here representing the great city of gave herberg and it is my pleasure to introduce all of you to the city of gain berg. I am so thrilled this morning to be introducing ari shapiro as he presents his book the best strangers in the world, stories from a life when i first saw this book will be presented to the book festival in before i was giving the honor of introducing the session, i took note of the book. I screenshotted the cover of it, to add it to my reading list. Not only because i am an occasional listener of all Things Considered, but also because of my own interest in listening to strangers. For as long as i can remember, i have been fascinated by strangers. The very idea of a stranger, right, what is a stranger . Its pretty wild. While others shy away from meeting, speaking, with an listening to strangers, like ari, i aint always do the opp
greg: run you little freak [cheers and applause] greg: happy wednesday everybody, oh, yeah. so the critics still want to yell at dave chappelle. the legendary comedian just released a new netflix special and you know what that means. once again, it s time to get mad at jokes. true, critics in the media are bluer in the face than a choking smurf. you remember back in 2021 the usual suspects were outraged that chappelle dared to joke about transgender people in his act. trans people were a gassed at the professional comedian, who makes fun at everybody, made fun of them. which seems strange not making fun of you seems the opposite of inclusion. still netflix employees staged a walkout. they demanded content warnings to protect their precious feelings when really they re the ones who should come with a content warning and have it tattooed on their foreheads that reads, handle with care, we re [bleep]. [laughter] in other words, they acted just like the censors they claim c
if you wanted to go to harvard or yale, you had to be at the top of your class. they demanded greatness from their students. if you wanted to walk the runway at fashion shows and have your face placerred on magazines and billboards, you had to be in tip top shape. stunning enough to make somebody stop in their track. if you wanted to run nasa, ibm or exxon you had to be the best in the business. they demanded greatness from their employees and that demand formed generations of excellence. the weak were weeded out. the strong were rewarded with money and status and a sense of fulfillment. our society doesn t have standards anymore. everybody gets a trophy. you re not allowed to judge anybody. nothing s taboo. the people we revered yesterday are despised today. weakness is rewarded and strength is punished. we traded excellence and achievement for diversity and inclusion. it s happening all across the country. in new york, the nypd s neutering the physical fitness test. they ar
, our own greg gutfeld , has a super bowl commercial with we have anspre awesome spread. greg ad, s in it from morgans brooklyn barbecue. and while we get our pre game, lawrence checked in with somes diehard eagles fans down in dow philly. the also sports mascots from gritty, the fanatics. and i got to phillies eagles .ogo six years ago. i got some my favorite, you the super there at the superan bowl. i m going to be addingll another one in a few days.in but let s go . . let s go .delphia, because it s all about blaine. gee, who are you rooting for? we oh, that s the only one . no one team to go very far . yeah, that s a good hat. t. and could there be trouble the ahead for the kansas city chiefs? star quarterback p the team s owner telling foxat and friends that star quarterback patrick mahomes matg not be one hundred percent healthy. great thing is , patrick st l a very fast healer and he was ac able to get ready to play the afc championship game. he she s do
on the asteroid. i was telling alex before when we were talking about this, when i kept hearing this incredible story yesterday about smashing into the asteroid, come on, what was i thinking. i was thinking aerosmith i don t want to miss a thing, hear the news story i don t want to close my eyes it was incredible. willie, stop him. a sappy summer movie. they tried to do this last night. you got bruce. you throw affleck in there, mika, if you don t know what we re talking about, this was a huge movie 25 years ago, with the plausible plot they trained oil drillers in a matter of days to become nasa astronauts and effectively do what we saw yesterday in real life, they knocked a rocket with a ship the size of a refrigerator, they knocked an asteroid off its course yesterday, nasa did this in real life. no liv tyler, now they know if something is barrelling toward earth, they have a decent chance of knocking it away. scientifically, the movie, i don t think it w