Transcripts For CSPAN Q A 20131125

Analysis from tv. And tv has many stories on the dramatic front the have some connection to politics. So i think it has a pretty big impact. Of all the programs you produced over the years, which had the most impact on politics, on the popculture scene . I will answer with a movie we distributed. We distributed a movie several years ago called in the loop. By a guy named britishand it was a take on politics. Armando went on to do a beautiful show on hbo called veep. It was the lighter side of politics. I dont know if youve seen it. Im not sure it is the most profound effect but it has caught some attention. Not our show. A wonderful show done by hbo. Watch those that dont everything that you do, what do you do . I work at amc networks. You run it. Yes. I will name some of our shows. I dont want to bore you or anyone watching this. We have mad men was quote and breaking bad and walking dead. We have a show call hell on wetv, which is a channel for women. We have a bunch of shows specifically targeted for africanamerican women. It is very popular was something we put together called braxton family values. Devoted tohannel independent film. And we have taken a left turn and made a lot of comedies. One of them is called portlandia. And a couple of other new ones coming up, and is sent in addition to company bang bang and stars about le bon stars of babylon. And a couple of wonderful dramatic series and miniseries. So the sundance channel, the we channel, afc. Ok, here is a piece of video from 1993, 20 years ago. 00. Oh oh. Toi want nothing that i say mitigate the fact that there is too much violence in television and films. I think it comes from the news organizations, from the news collectors on any local station in my town. The first five or seven stories every evening are of her rape, murder, a mass murder, child never the national or International Stories of significance, but the violent stories. A great goal of harm is done that way. Thinkhasten to say that i the greatest piece of violence done to the American People has by thene by omission congress of the united states, by the fact that they have not managed over these years to find a gun control law that will prevent children will years of age from finding guns. Norman lear, 20 years ago, people for the american way, former Television Producer and your on that board of able for the american way. Fit it all together. He is talking about some of the violence on the shows you have on pimp i havent seen some of them. I saw one episode of breaking bad. Where does that fit in . That was 20 years ago. . Ave things changed da that was 20 years ago. People for the american way is, among many things, meant to protect freedom of speech and i am a proud long time twentyyear plus board member. That admire the work norman set up and that able for the american way carries on anduse they are vigilant that people for the american way carries on because they are vigilant. They do wonderful work. The question of television balance, it is interesting that t is the clip he cousin because it will be a complicated answer on my part. That, in asome shows narrative sense portray violence. And i dont know what impact they have on peoples behavior. There may be experts to understand it better than i do. I have a personal opinion and a question about it that is actually happens to be somewhat similar to that that was expressed by norman lear in that clip 25 years ago. Which is his reference was not to the portrayal in acts and of violent im not enough of an authority of what impact that may or may not have, but he talked about news,in particular local and what leads local news so frequently. I must say that i have share the same perception and the same concern about its influence on behavior in the name of news and i am not enough of an expert if it either expert of it either to definitively say but i watch it and wonder and worry and i share the view that he expressed. Guns. The availability of rich oneuestion is a ad my opinion is i hope reasonably humble one and a personal one, not necessarily an authoritative one. But it is and i have much more concerned about the and what is of guns news thanin and on what is portrayed in fiction. There could presumably be a rich violenton on what fiction has a vocations on violent fiction has implications on the American People. The united way. How did you get involved with that . It appealed to me personally because i think america is a wonderful country and freedom of speech is in my view central to what is wonderful about america along with a bunch of other things. People for the american way was born to protect freedom of speech and to watch out for where freedom of speech is being compromised. And i thought working in the tv business that was central to what makes tv, media intimidations great so i could lend a hand. Waypeople for the american does a whole lot more than that in terms of their overall agenda, which is more broadly civil rights, First Amendment rights and protection and they have a whole bunch of activist programs. Scope. Go on beyond the there is something on your website, people for the american wingedlled white watch. Yes. It looks like the people for the american way track right wingers and you actually call it right wing watch. Does that make you a left the space winger a left winger . My own view is that it is good if we all monitor one another and its good if we all express views about what we are all up to and i really mean that. And you can like it or not like it. And i think its good to say it, whether you like it or not and some people wont like my views. At probably wont want to use them not liking my views but i would like to hear them express their views. So to monitor people of import to have influence, who are saying things that should be expressedconveyed and and questioned. I think it is a worthwhile and virtuous effort. Who are some of the people besides norman lear and alec all baldwin andc tried to think of others on the board. Mary frances berry, a longtime and wellknown civil rights leader. Michael keegan. Hes the president for the people of the american way people for the american way. Members of the clergy, probably from the baptist church, rabbi david from the jewish religion. Ande is a Catholic Priest congressman. Kathleen turner the actors. Some people from the arts. People from politics. People from the clergy. A pretty wide range and Wonderful Group of people. How effective do you think you have been . I would say them, not me. They do the work. I am on the board. I wish i were a little bit more active. I would like to take it for their work. I think im i think it times they have been terrific and at times not so much so. At the the directive people for the american way is important and maybe even profound. I think very important, not dayssarily effective every but certainly no long run. There are people watching that say we hear it on the air all the time that the media is controlled by left agenda, whohave an are dumbing down the society by bringing more and more violence to television, more language to television, more sex to television. What do you say to them . If your worst critic were in front of you and then you add to called have this thing the First Amendment. I have a different view. I think the media world is largely in the interest of the free market today which i think is terrific. And the free market in the u. S. Probably operates better than perhaps anywhere in the world. And that free market brings to the American Television screen on Cable Television literally, as you know, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of channels of immensely diverse views and they are probably best seen in the news spectrum because they are the most on the nose and you can watch cnn or you can watch msnbc or you can watch fox news and now you can watch al jazeera or you can watch Business News or two forms of Business News. But on this channels alone, you will get news that is argued on the left, on the right, somewhere in the center, from somewhere else and what a phenomenally rich dialogue and it is all operating in a commercial world in which the market is guiding a lot of what happens. And i think that is fantastic. Lets go back to amc and a program that you have been given many awards for called madman madmen. Advertising is based on one thing happiness. You are better off with a little sex appeal. Then your mother and father are responsible for all of this . You are ok. , i know you are having an affair. What do women want, who cares . Nostalgia, it is ok but potent. Look forward. We are starting a new agency. What is this program about and when did it start . It started about six years ago. A sixyearace over period and it takes place in new avenue andmadison it takes place in what some consider to be the golden age. 1960s. Yeah. It is a social study but more of a character study than brilliantly by matt weiner who created it and create all the characters, and created all the characters. You watch it . Yeah, i watch it. What impact has this had on your company . Yeah. It has been a great help to our company. We operated in something that we called him wreck and classes before it was called amc and we made the determination to go into did term to original program. And we had done a couple of hows before that but mad men represented the new aero amc. So it sent us on our way to the chapter we are in. Were the people to so the people back in the 1960s as bad as the film portrays . [laughter] affairs e time, drank all the time, affairs at the office. In 1962, he wouldve been free to he wouldve been 42 years old. E was a born in college he squeezed his way through high school but he was well dressed. So to protect the legacy of the family, i will refrain from answering more specifically and say that it seems to have created a portrait that rings true. Why did it catch on . Oni think it really caught because matt weiner did in constructing it and the way it was cast and directed and the incredible work of everybody who is involved was a great study of character and a great study of relationships. When did you know it was having an impact . Just numbers beyond just numbers. It was two or three seasons parodied iwas first think on saturday night live. Onn you are parodied saturday night live, you know you have made it. Talking of all the blogs i have been devoted in breaking down the plots and all that stuff, you mentioned the importance of the on demand and people catching up with it later , explain that. Ther is connected to sopranos, which some people the best thingsf i has ever been made. Is thatpinion, brian, Great Stories and great characters affect people. And they affect them sometimes deeply. He not to be too highfalutin about it, but if you read a novel and you think the novel is rated 300 years later and people are still reading it, it has staying power and the characters have staying power and they have something that means beyond the t they werey tha first written in. They become permanent. In theink madmen, television framework, has some of that. As for the technology question, which is interesting to me working in the business, we benefited and the show benefited at least to a degree through the emergence of cable on demand and the ability for people to go to their server and say i am going to watch that later. And then Internet Services on demand or you can catch up afterwards. And then be current and you dont need to be limited to a linear schedule of sunday night at 9 00 or 10 00 p. M. You can find in your own schedule and immerse yourself and pay great attention. From a purely Commercial Point of view, get hooked and watch live with us. I think that was a great benefit. What role does twitter play in it and facebook and dvds and all the technologies . , the slingsrted didnt exist. Crexendo most profound one is the most profound of all the d tvnical changes sterilize is being able to find the show that you want in sequence for stories that are ongoing. They require more attention. Some of our shows do and some of the shows on hbo and showtime and f x really do require more attention. That is what is great about them. People can go to them when they are ready. Partner,they are with spouse, friend and watch when they are not distracted. I think that helps. Media those social opportunities act as if seller is because they allow you to play with it to engage, to discuss it they are sort of like a permanent book group on a tv show that is going on concurrently and digitally which has supersize consumer attention an. The next clip is from the walking dead. This blew the ratings right off the charts a couple of weeks ago and it is the opening episode with 15 million viewers. 16 million viewers. Has that ever happened . I want to be careful about identifying records. But i think it was a record 4 i think it won the season if i am not mistaken. There is a question about the Football Game that was on that night. Ita delayed threeday basis, won the highestrated show of the season. And this is violent. Yes. There are people walking and they are supposed to be the walking dead and they get their heads bashed in. Lets watch. Then i will ask you about it. Sure. [video clip] ctor. Doctor. The walking dead, on the episode sunday night at nine amc. On nbc only on am one have only watched episode, i will admit. I have watched people bash other peoples heads in. What is the point . [laughter] why do we like . I will give you my opinion. Pretty sound like a answer. I dont mean it to sound like a pretty answer. But i think it begins with it is a great character study set against a backdrop of a post apocalyptic world. Zombie case, a apocalypse. But i think the post apocalyptic world is very interesting. They are interesting because of the world we live in and because of all the things that a lot of us are occasionally afraid of. All of which could have the effect of making the world not quite as we know it. And i think it is also phenomenal socalled theater. It is a great backdrop for what happens when people are together and alone in a world that they no longer new separated from ones, reconstituting relationships with one another with this lingering threat caused by the apocalypse. What a wonderful set up. Beautifullyecuted and the characters are great and surprising and actually pretty subtle among notwithstanding the violence. Good. Keup is spookily so you believe it and you immerse yourself in it and you are invited in and your captured and your heartthrobs. Throbshink it occasionally with fear and a little bit with sympathy and a little bit with love and a little bit hoping for someone to have a good life. So i think it is a great story. How did you get that many people to watch it . In numbers today, that is a huge number for anybody to watch any Television Show except a Sports Television program or to stay couple of others. People. On yes. We are in season three. It has been building. Ie technology, things mentioned earlier, people can find their way to it not only when it is on our schedule on amc. So they are inviting and suggesting their friends to it. Go back to the violence thing. Successful with this heavy violence, does that mean that the American People love violence . This is an old subject. You look in the movies. It is constant boom, boom, boom, what hollywood puts out. One can judge for themselves. I dont think it is the violence. I really dont think it is the violence that makes the show of attractive the show attractive. It is obviously caricature. That has been a zombie apocalypse. Not been are has zombie apocalypse. So it is sensible so it is fanciful and extreme and creative. I think it creates drama and it is a great construct. It is fundamentally about survival and fundamentally about how people organize with one another and actually how they and in love and have babies all the good stuff of life that dramaticainst a very backdrop. Lets talk about josh say pan josh sapan for a moment. Where does the pronunciation come from . I will take anything. Anyone who says my name in any vague way, like a dog, i will just respond if it is close. Where does the name come from . At ellis island, we lost the ifty. Where did you grow up . I grew up in brooklyn and went to college in the midwest. Why did you find your way from queens, brooklyn area to the midwest to the university of wisconsin . I went to visit it and i thought it was the most beautiful and unlike anything i had ever seen. I had never actually been to the midwest in my whole life. I was attracted to all of it including the university. What year did you graduate . 1970 i took a little time to graduate so i think it was 19 76 or eight i the time i graduated. One of the things that i saw when looking at your background, you started out reading roughly smiths wired nation. Yes. Tell us who that was and why did that matter to you . Yeah. I dont know how i got the book. Was interested in tv and studied it in college and came upon a wired nation in which he offered a view. At the time, there were few tvs wired to Cable Television. Of everyfered a view tv set in america hoped up to a hardwire where, if you recall, not only a diversity of national channels, but he was really focused on local and cut that there would be this robust local editorial television opportunity that the sort of if one can analogize Something Like an electronic newspaper. It seemed actually that his vision was grand and i thought perhaps exaggerated who knew that he would be right on the money. Then the entire nation would be absolutely wide and along the way there would be satellite alternatives and a second wired alternative. The unthinkable at the time is that, along the side alongside all of it, there would be a worldwide internet. Question one of the stories often told about you leaving college, getting two 16 , havinger projectors put them in your automobile and going from campus to campus showing your films. How did that happen and expand more about that. The university wisconsin, we had a film society and showed. Ovies i we show them from we showed them for profit. It was a fun experience. My friend and i hatched a plot that we would not have a Movie Theater but a mobile movie a naturalo we had rambler Station Wagon and we had two 16mm projectors. We began to tour the midwest, setting up in College Towns. We began in ohio and showing movies that we thought would be of appeal to university communities. But it worked ok. You charged money . Oh, yeah, it was a forprofit venture. In each town, we would find a location. It was an odd notion. It was an itinerant alternative Movie Theater on 16mm in towns before there was the diversity on television when there was only broadcast television and one most of these College Towns didnt have our theaters. So we should french films and the bicycle thief and duck soup. And we showed alternative cinema, if you can pardon the word. Would you charge . What did you charge . I cant remember. It was two dollars probably. Did you make money . Yeah. What year did you start . Chronology. With i think it was 1976 because i graduated surely thereafter. 1975. A little earlier. We did for not all that long. Maybe getting toward a year. But it worked economically. We figured out how to do it. We remitted some of the money to the companies that owned the films. We split the gate with them. It was a fun business. Were you political back then . The university of wisconsin is known as a fairly liberal school. Yes. That is in part the reason i went there. I was interested in the politics. How active were you . Periodically. E i was in and out of political activism. . What does that mean what does that mean . I was active for a while and then i was engaged in theater. So i was in and out of politics. There were more people more consistent. Use but how many years with were howamc you many years with the dolan amc company . Local cableat a system in nearly days of Cable Television called what was then called what was then teleprompter. Why were you attracted to cable tv . It was a very dominant or prominent than. Prominentd then then. Future read the wired and i found my way to teleprompter manhattan. See whatrun this and they can tell us about it. [video clip] tonights guest has received an academy award, golden globe and broadcast film critics blocked the stern attainment and Screen Actors Guild awards for her performance girl interrupted. The new school where that was done is a school where you had been on the board. Are you still on the board . Yes. Again, a very liberal school. There seems to be a theme here. [laughter] i got to the new school because of inside the actors studio, which is the show that we just such we just saw. It is a show that was on bravo. It still is on bravo. Operated thathool as their theater program. You havent done much politics. In other words, you have gone to the creative side and why . Have you missed of that . Or is that where people for the american way comes in . Yeah, i got all the time. Have you had any urge to do political programs . I have a lot of interest in it, brian. I watch a lot and a listen a lot and i listen a lot, but i dont think i have found my way to it. We have an unusual looking book. It is a nine usually size the book. And so isis on it another gentleman. Luke sant. Tell us about it. I had been collecting for 30 plus years these big photographs. When people see them, they are often of sports teams were a church which group or a church group. I couldnt resist him. I would put them on my wall, somewhat to my wifes chagrin because they dont necessarily always portray a happy picture. But i felt that they were intriguing because they told a little bit of a sort of random story about American History and about moments in america and about style and culture and. Elief and community and war i always wanted to put together a book so i finally found a overture found a publisher. It came out a couple of weeks ago. This is a world war i transport, a location and date unknown. What got your attention here . Look now, the people in that photograph a look so hopeful happy. I dont know exactly where they are going or what they are doing. People onks like their way to something they thought would be better. It was dramatic. Here is a picture called mohawk peace conference, lake mohawk new york, 1915. You have some lighter notes here and youby Mark Halperin had several others write notes for you. Right. When i was discussing the book with the publisher, we together hatched the notion that, in order to make these photographs that were historic in little more accessible, it would be nice to have captions from people whose lives or work connected to the subject in the photograph. So we were fortunate enough to get 20 people. And it is a great list of people. I cannot come up with them all of martha wrote a range norman lear and actually Kathleen Turner was kind enough to write a caption and con john lewis was kind enough to write a caption. Heres one Ariana Huffington wrote this one. Location unknown. 1908. There are some tidbits in there. On to mention the Electronic Media and the change in Cable Television and all of that. Did you tell them what to write . Themselves. Wrote i gave them a selection of photographs to write about and they made their own choices. Thehis is one written by clothes designer joe abboud. It is a photograph from new york of 1906. Igure 23rd of 1906. Ruary 23 it has something to do with the tuxedo. What is this photo about . I just thought it was sort of exquisite in its own way and and a little bit. Bout mens fashion joe was kind enough to write about it and talk about tuxedos. What did you hope to a compass with this book . Well, just to finish it. [laughter] i actually wanted to i thought it was fun to have a little view of history, of a time in america that wasnt instructional first and foremost. It was a little bit more anecdotal and a little bit more archaeological, meaning random. So you sort of take a look at them and you see bunches of where it photos and then the captions explain them. I had an image of High School Students flipping through it and loving it if they flipped through it. Maryland, date unknown, infantry division. The liner notes say that theres a mailing 25,000 people in this photograph. Yes. Where did you find that . The source of that i dont recollect. Drew from my own collection of the library of congress and from the collection of a guy named bill hunt who lent me a bunch of his photographs and he has a vast collection. Heres one of the liberty bell that also has thousands of soldiers in it. Why did they do that . Do you have any idea . I think it was a thing. I think people would gather. Are hanginglatives in what was her parents house, a picture in a flag. They were in a fight formation. It was to create an impression. This is from 1931, brooklyn, new york, the wallace circus annex. What you have done with this is that you have a broad ensure for you can see everybody. Then in the next slide right next to it, you show, i assume, the fat lady and the door for the midget and all that. Would we allow this in our Society Today . That is a good question. I think yes, under certain circumstances, because i am familiar with the circumstances under which it is allowed. But i hope that it would be treated sympathetically and it would be treated just as an expression of differences. And i mean it. What circumstances . We did a tv show called freak show, which was about a guy in venice beach who has a boat who has extreme characteristics. I am making it sound really kind, but it is. He sort of celebrates their differences with wonder and not with any derision or judgment. Really with wonder. In your experience, looking your privateand collection, what is that about . [laughter] us. Se tell and how many lightning rods do you own . I think that if you have over 100, you have the Worlds Largest collection. You can call it a private collection but you can have 1, 2, because they are so formal. Oo,e, t u can have because they are so affordable. They have these beautiful globes on them. So there is a little bit of a marriage of industrial art and folk art and function. I was intrigued by them so i started to collect them. You are married. Yes. Bikes kids . Yes. Kids . Yes. Women or men . Older boy, younger girl. What are their interests . The boy, not surprisingly, nate is interested in all things story, machine, device and virtual. , has a wide, claire range. She is a High School Senior and she has a wide range of interests. She likes to write. She likes history. She likes her friends. She likes tv shows. I want to bring you back to the family but first show another clip on another Successful Program that ended program that ended its run, breaking bad. He is a High School Coach who gets terminal cancer and turns dealing. When did you decide to do this and how successful was it . We decided to do it six years ago. And becamedest daily it began modestly and became extraordinarily successful. If anyone is a television genius, it is vince gilligan. He created a complete world and series of characters that captured somebody people. Lets watch a little clip of this. [video clip] an f. Is is not are you nuts . Want to find out . Tv. Ou call this slowburn what does that mean . Refers to tvly shows the take a longer time to move people through the story. And a longer time to carry on the story and for characters to develop. Could you do that on Network Television . I mean, the over the air networks . Historically and pretty much to date, there has been very little of it on Network Television. Why . I think it is largely an economic consideration. At least historically, network or has mores urgency to get ratings quickly. It doesnt have from a pure Business Structure point of view and of patients or does not allow as much patience to develop and build. A needs to perform more quickly and shows that are a slowburn are slower. Thet has the starkly not on so it has historically not been on the schedule. Your wife came out of showtime. Yes. You paint a picture of the sapan family. The you take measure of your own kids. Something like breaking bad. I do. I cannot avoid it. It is fun to do. What was their reaction to breaking bad . I showed a somewhat random then random probablyto my then wellyearold daughter and it was a skeptical parental judgment. Why . My it was an exquisite episode that featured an atm. It was out of context and it was really dramatic. And it did leave a little bit of a mark. I think ultimately a good mark because she talks about it to this day and she talks about actually the venal nature of drug addiction and i think it actually impressed her at the time. That was not my consideration. I was just being a lazy indulgent parent and wanted to see the tv show with her. Get not your interest in much by your creativity . I am not so sure, compared to real created people, i am creative. What you mean . You have 100 lightning rods. That is just a bad little construction of dna that makes you buy stuff and keep it. What is i come from in your family. My father was a copywriter and he liked to write. Do you have brothers and sisters . Yeah, brother no longer living. He liked to write music. My mother was a writer and actress, broadway actress. So it is probably in the gene pool. Its in the water. Who owns amc . Family are the controlling shareholders, but amc is a public company. It asserted by chuck dolan who, by the way, founded b before it was sold to nbc. Founded before it was sold to nbc. He was the godfather regional sports. He created regional news. He created all of this niche stuff, which is why i went to work with the company, to work with an arts channel b and movie channel amc. Channel, b, and movie channel, amc. Bravo, and movie channel, amc. Where i landed for a moment, the first chuck dolan he started the first regional channel. It was 1986. And i must say i thought, even though i read his book and thought it was wonderful, i thought this is not going to work. It is in the shadow of these broadcast networkowned and influenced new shows. But it first. From the time i read the book to 1986 is not too long. Back to politics. This is a clip from a National Press Club Appearance by the former Vice President of the united states. Take a look. [video clip] it doesnt help matters when prime time tv has murphy brown, a character that supposedly epitomizes todays intelligent, highly paid professional woman mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice. I knowent on and i said it is not fashionable to talk about moral values, but we need to do it. Even though our cultural leaders in hollywood, network tv, the National Newspapers routinely jeer at them, i think that mustve us in this room know that some things are good and other things are wrong. That was not in the National Press club. Chamber the kansas city of commerce. As you know, the right wing things they left wing hollywood types are using their platform for politics and i ask you if thats true. It if thats good or bad you mason or bad. And it may sound obvious. Given a chemical answer. I think people feel very strongly about what they believe. They really believe it from their hearts. They dont do leave it for bad reasons. They believe it for the best reasons. It is true for them. And they have deep conviction about it. Thethe great ring about First Amendment in america is that people can really vigorously disagree and you can call each other names. Should the government have anything to say about the content of television . The government has something to say about it. Should it . Oh, should it . I think that my arsenal opinion my personal opinion is that, yes, regulation in a number of different forms is very good and is helpful, particularly if it is setting up guidelines and indexes or indices for what to expect and what the calibrations are, imperfect as they may be. I think that is a helpful be. What would your reaction be if the fcc calls you in and says i dont like violence on amc . Think it would be a good i mean this i think it would be a very good conversation half and i would like and i would welcome it. Why . Why . Because i think it is worth understanding ultimately, if we can really understand what has impact on peoples lives, what creates behavior, what the isior what behavior emulated or imitated, if that can be understood, you make more responsible decisions. Im not im not suggesting that i would want to be told what to do. Ive i would want the dialogue. I think it is helpful. [indiscernible] i havent thought of a better way to protect with seems to be the best thing about living here than the First Amendment. It sometimes feels like there is a fair amount of friction in it because well have to listen to people whose opinions we really dont like, who we think are amoral or immoral or dangerous or venal and there is a bit of a price to pay for tolerating what some might consider to be a torrent if not hateful to be abhorrent if not hateful. How many people were for amc . Roughly a thousand. What is your annual gross revenues . About a billion and a half dollars. When you look in your career, what is the most important made, besidesave having two 16mm cameras in a rambler . What is the most important decision you made to become ceo of amc . To have the ratings success you have, but your own personalization on where you went in your own life . I guess my answer would be that i just wanted to do what interested me most. It happened to have led to a series of failures. Probably failure trying out acting, not much success, trying out riding, not too much success, trying out being a producer in a small way, and i failed up to being an executive. But there was there a decision along the way that took you to the dolan family, that took you to showtime, that made a big difference in your life . Yeah. So probably the decision that was the most important one for me, careerwise, was going to rainbow then going to dolan television. The way they ran that comfy with the invitation to be adventurous and entrepreneurial, take risks and do new things, and their interest in what was new and relatively was probably it. What would you like to do before you quit . Probably do more of the same varied,er, better, more , on the globeer and on the internet. Around the globe and on the internet. What is your Favorite Program that you have done . That you like to muster self . That you like the most your self . It is a hard thing to say. Take a chance. It is hard for me to get over. Reaking bad and madmen we have a new show called rectify that is quite exquisite. , thank you very much. The book is called the big extra, america in panorama. How much is this, by the way . Check with your local retailer. [laughter] thank you very much. For free transcript or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at q and a. Org. T qand this week, encore presentations of u. N. Date, starting with robin nagle. She talks about her recent book called picking up, which chronicle is garbage collection in new york. In a few moments, question time in the british house of commons. After that, kentucky senator rand paul speaking at the Citadel Military Academy in charleston, south carolina. Later, a look at how elections are being affected by partisan politics. During question time this past week, Prime Minister judy Cameron David cameron talked about his call with the iranian Prime Minister. It was the first call between a british Prime Minister and iranian leader in over a decade. On Irans Nuclear program. The Prime Minister