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Indorsed that kind of strong man leader 24 so you know one out of every 4 Yeah but in the last several years that number has jumped from 24 to 32 percent so now it s a 3rd almost That s yeah yeah it s a strong leader who doesn t have to deal with Congress or elections is either a very good or fairly good thing oh well that surprises me it s kind it s kind of even more striking in Europe so in Germany one in 6 people used to like that idea but now one in 3 who in Germany with the should know better you know in France the United Kingdom it was one in 420 years ago and now it s one in 2 half path Yeah so every 2nd Brit and Frenchman says Yeah the idea of a strong ruler who doesn t have to but of Parliament elections that s pretty appealing to me it s not appealing to me that is not appealing to me Yeah who would say that they like and not be involved in a democracy which is about being involved Ok well if you think that s crazy or come Question number 2 flat out simple straightforward Ho
It was pretty much immediately clear if you came here I mean. That it was not going to be an easy interview. You can react when you said I know I know what I was wondering in the morning right you know you do a lot of sexes Yeah we had a notebook full of questions and things that we had called from all these articles or dread that pretty quickly became useless to those asking who is. Using And whenever I asked about being the 1st female gondolier you know the 1st woman in 100 years to do this or to notes. That it could be read that everywhere and then let a little so little section over and over and over and over that s all said one of the literate people thinks would show already done. This is a very frequent journalism problem but you ve become boring to the person you re interviewing you start flailing exactly every word we feel like you do live anything more for you. What do you do you know we just thought maybe we should just be quiet probably. We are about to make a tight turn.
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See the. Pope. The pope this is the sound of what s with this exact title The b 3580 this is the sound of 3580. I m knocking on an object an artist Terry Wilcox hopes will be here long after we all turn to dust so actually fasten the bedrock. The engineering is at a little stand a 20 mile an hour wind I mean I hear well it s like a nuclear bomb 30 years ago Terry and a few cranes lifted this 40 foot stick and plunged it into this boulder that we re standing on which overlooks the Hudson and the Georgian bridge is to write the sculpture reflects the sun like a mirror and it s made out of 2 metals aluminum on the outside and magnesium pieces the concept is simple one day many moons from now these 2 men holes will be gone the phenomenon is there mixing together how do you mean physically the layers where the other metals are touching they re physically intermingling they re evaporating into each other it s a process called diffusion and if I got tell you how I heard about it in 1968. The