He explores the relationship between American Cities and the youth of baseball looking at the changing architecture and loeks of ballparks over the years and what those reveal about society and culture at large. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this event and provided the video. Thanks. I want to thank the library for putting on this event. Library board. Jonathan kemper and staff who worked with us. Steve, she mention ed as well. The library is a fan tas ik institution. Were very lucky to have it. Look at this awesome auditorium. So, speaking of great public spaces, this is one. Yes, yes. All right, paul. Libraries involve parks. Two most important things in the city, right . Youve had this incredibly distinguished career as an architectural critic, people are really here to hear you talk about kaufman stadium. Have you talked to the audience what who you are and what youve done prior to write iing about ballparks, which is a long story. Well get some of it any way. No, i spent m
Lets kick things off in florida. The state america dropped on its head as a baby. You may remember that two years ago the state passed a referendum allowing exconvicts to have their Voting Rights restored. But then republican officials passed a law saying that most felons had to pay all their court fines and fees before registering to vote. And even though critics said this amounted to an illegal poll tax the u. S. Supreme court refused to overturn the law. But now someone is stepping in to help the people power forward. Nba superstar lebron james is advocating for efelons to return to the the voting booth in florida. James Voting Rights group more than a vote is donating did 100,000 to help pay court debts keeping florida vetters from casting vote, now more than 700,000 floor i had danes floridians have financial obligations that render them unable to vote. Trevor welcome to 2020 where politicians dunk on people and athletes try to improve their lives. Only in government can you mess
After your video game. Yeah, but hes saying he doesnt ever get his own movie. Do i get my own movie . Not everyone gets their own movie. This franchise plan sucks. Oh, jesus, here we go again. No, wonder tweek is right. It was better when we started the movies off with the tupperware prequel. Dude, you cant do a prequel first. Why not . cause then its not a prequel, its just first. And besides tupperware isnt our strongest character. [bleep] you. Its better than a human kite. He just likes this plan because he gets two movies in phase one. Guys we have to just go with this plan. We dont even have one movie yet yougo with the plan. Maybe well just go and do our own franchise. Yeah yeah oh, you want civil war . is that what you want . yeah, dude. Its civil war. [bleep] you. Oh [bleep] you. Get outta my house. Well make way more money on our franchise go ahead. I bet you dont even get halfway through phase one on your franchise, dc comics. [ door slams ] i thought civil war wasnt supposed
People are here to hear you talk about kauffman stadium. Have you talked to the audience about who you are and what you have done prior to writing about ballparks, which is a long story . Paul i have spent most of my life i have been lucky because i have spent my life about what interests me, but i guess so have you. Whitney i try. What pisses me off. Paul whether it pisses you off or you like it. I have already i have always loved architecture and journalism and i am not very good at making choices. I have found a place where the two of them intersect. Whitney did you study architecture . Paul i studied architectural history. I went to yale, a place where those of you went to princeton do not always acknowledge. Whitney i heard about it. In connecticut . Paul a place called connecticut. I studied architectural history. I then began a career as a journalist. I toyed with going to architecture school. I thought the world had enough second rate architects and did not need another. I did
Summer friday. Really extraordinary, like the thunder south of manhattan overnight. The thunder out of washington. I know we are talking china, but the republicans simply went down in flames yesterday. No other way to put it. Jonathan it doesnt look good not having a deal before the weekend. You need some kind of agreement within republicans for the weekend. We might not see it until monday. Not just the size difference between republicans and democrats. If it is just size, we can work some thing out. But if its concepts, we got a struggle. I think weve got a struggle on enhanced on it limit benefits. If this economy and the recovery is still constrained and people cant go back to work because these industries cant normalize, then you have got to have a tradeoff. If you want to remove those benefits, here is the tradeoff. You are going to have softer consumption through summer. Tom and big business this week, you see it in diminished revenues. It is a number you could never imagine. Th