Things. Any book where there is a high advance i am involved in the acquisition and i look over what everyone is doing and offer suggestions but i am there really to make sure that the things the Company Provides the publishers help them do their job better and help them find those audiences and communicate to them. Guest i manage the editors, the publicity, the marketing, foreign rights and oversee the birthing of the books into the world. Host so you have some editorial duties and business side duties, correct . Guest absolutely. The idea is to publish the authors as successfully as possible. Host you publish about a hundred books a year . Guest we are the Flagship Division and publishing 130 this year. It is a range of authors. We have literary novelist and Major Writers like thomas, Hilary Clinton, james web, john mccain. We have got notable personalities and a lot of terrific general nonfiction with biographties from everybody from sally ride to john wane to literary memoirs. Host
Important to move to include fiber that is why we say the vegetables. Things work for people want them to try them to help them feel better to do the of dressings we spend every single day talking about. What i feel as a host icahn not use words that are floury or exalted torrey, i feel like i. M. Disenfranchise my power has been taken away. He dylan to be in the pulpit talking about how passionate you are but if i use that word it will be quoted back to me the hundred words around better about doing things right diana respectful and i heard the message. I get it. Good. I want to see the passion of the duties of a lock at sunset. [laughter] touche day. Nobody tells you not use passion but in connection with the word miracle and pill and weight loss is a recipe for disaster in this environment and terms of the people looking for an easy fix and sometimes delusional whether that will be there for them. Anybody else have anything . We all experience the feeling of elected officials and th
Campaign finance institute. We have sandy from nebraska. Good morning. Caller i dont watch politicians commercials, i dont have a computer, and i dont recognize the door or the phone if i dont recognize them. Thank you. Caller you are in my realm because you are the toughest voter to get and your vote is important. When i sit down with a candidate i say the voter that is running away from you, doesnt care about you and wants to live their life and doesnt want you in their life but they know it is their civic duty to vote. We will put a blitz on you. We will try to email you and put ads get a message to you from my candidate. Host who have are bundlers . Guest theyre donors who know other donors. Sometimes they go to a who is one of their recurring voters. They will say let me introduce you to my friends who would like to donate to you. Host lets go to jules in atlanta, georgia. One more time for jules in atlanta. Were going to have to go on. Cathy in new castle, delaware. Caller i had
National debt . It is we the people so the National Debt is our debt. What percentage or our personallyprivately owned debt different than the percentage of National Debt. Host take us through the definitions here. Guest the National Debt refers to when referring to the governments budget. There are Consumer Debt measures out there and the Federal Reserve bank keeps track of that. You spend things on your credit card and they show up in Consumer Spending but another set of statistics address that issue and measure that. The financing is different than the spending which is what we measure. Host we have been talking about reports from the bea, how are businesses going to use the reports in the coming weeks, months and years . Guest i dont know if they will use the data to make realtime decisions. In some ways it is just informative to tell us how we got to where we are today. There is a two year lag for the most part. Business tends to be operating in a realtime bases. There is a lot fo
And more dearly paid his father, my birth great grandfather, because suddenly in the story the redric of russia today and the reason Nikita Khrushchev, which i think the greatest thing he did was deannounce stallin during the secret speech and later on wi. It is no longer seen as an act of brave. Instead it is dismissed as a simple act of political revenge. And then the story goes because russians love literature and they are great at inventing stories. That is why they are so good at propaganda because all that is is inventing stories. As the story goes today, if it were not my grandfather or family i would say that is a great invention and reads like a good detective novel. And the story goes today that when stalin discovered that khrushchev was a trader and he already died and they are dockments he died an march 11, 1943. And stalin discovered instead of him dying he was actually defective to the nazis. He was a Fighter Pilot and flew soviet fighter jet. So the story goes, the new s