Patient with us as we have tried to figure it out this is an emotional milestone, but if it looks like im tearing up, i assure you, its just so hot in this attic that my eyeballs are sweating. Back in march our executive producer Mike Shoemaker said, you should get air conditioners now for when it gets hot in june. And i said, june . Im not going to still be here in june, because i am the shortterm thinking grasshopper and shoemaker is the longterm planning ant and if you want to make it to 1,000 shows, i promise you the ant has more to do with it than the grasshopper. Im so lucky to have Mike Shoemaker i also want to give a shout out to our head writer alex baze he is americas greatest living joke writer and the first person i asked to join me on this journey. Without baze, none of this none of this would be happening. Thanks as well to our crew and writing staff, who i miss seeing very dearly. We do our best to talk about reality on this show, but it is not a reality show, and i know
Professionals to deal with Mental Health issues they say the policing model as it currently stands is too broken to be reformed and must be rebuilt from the ground up theyre now taking input from experts and City Residents to develop a new Public Safety model jesse what do you think about this plan well somethings got to be done certainly something has to happen now its a touchy situation though ive been a governor and certainly before that i was mayor of the 6th largest city brooklyn apartment or soda and this is new to me i have never heard government without police so this is all New Territory now kim a form and go ahead without police at all i tend to not sink so you must have some type of police force but i think when they take money and diverted to other causes thats a good idea because that gets to the under. Nice cause of why you need police in the 1st place but youre still going to need police what do you do if theres a violent situation happening if the bank is being robbed i
Minneapolis city council which has announced a veto proof plans to dismantle the citys police force after nearly 2 weeks of protests over the Police Killing of george floyd the council has not released the details of its plan yet and there are still many hoops to jump through but its a start officers will reportedly remain on the streets until the plan is finalized but chokeholds and neck restraints have now been banned Minneapolis City Council says its going to rebuild Public Safety through a Community Based approach some ideas they have proposed include deploying the Fire Department to handle Drug Overdose calls and health care and social Service Professionals to deal with Mental Health issues they say the policing model as it currently stands is too broken to be reformed and must be rebuilt from the ground up theyre now taking input from experts and City Residents to develop a new Public Safety model jesse what do you think about this plan well somethings got to be done certainly so
Between the four of us we have written at least 17 biographies. It might be more than that. I was losing count because Randy Roberts has written so many. Youve written more than half of our total number i think. So we have a lot of experience in the genre. We have obviously been drawn to it and have an affinity for it some way or another. Before we begin, let me introduce the panelists, and as i introduce each of you, if you could just stand a minute or two, telling the audience what was it that you used for your biography. What is it you love about the genre. First we have larry, from New York University of arts and a musical writing program. He is particularly interested in the history of broadway and comedy. He has written a play with Richard Rogers in addition to several other books. His most recent biographical word is the documentary film semi davis junior, i gotta be me. Larry, tell us what has drawn you to this. I may be a little different from the rest of the panel my venue is
To discuss this and more im joined by my guest Jason Nichols in l. The cut city is a professor of africanamerican studies and in new york we crossed to Margaret Kimberly she is the editor and senior columnist at the black gender report as well as the author of the book prejudicial black america and the president s all right cross up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok was 1st go to margaret here in my introduction i said that race always trumps class and if you look at Mainstream Media particularly the liberal media that is the message you get over and over and over again now were remarkably we actually are still in the middle of the pandemic. Hands of millions of people have lost their jobs weve seen acts of congress and the inaction of a president. The people that have the most money are protected and now we have this horrific death of george lloyd which i think it was very i was very pleased that there was a universal virtually u