We will use film, and we will use the crises of the 1970s to weave this all together and somehow come up with some understanding of changes and identity during this tumultuous decade. Before i begin, my cohost, dr. Todd uhlman, indiana and Rutgers Phd and an american studies professor. He and i ended up writing an article in 2014 in the journal of popular culture entitled stealing freedom, which dealt with Film And Auto theft. I think the class read that as part of your assignment. Todd has done many other kinds of studies during the past several years here at the university of dayton. Prof. Uhlman and my colleague John Heitmann is a historian of Automobile History and others. He wrote a famous book that won many awards. I am plugging it for him here. The automobile and american life. A wonderful book. John has won the most distinguished historian in the state of ohio award. He also won the award for best book by the Pop Culture Association in 2010. Prof. Heitmann it goes way back. Pro
less accurate and more anti-american. that happened on tuesday. why are we telling you about it. changes around the world why would we open the show about a story about twitter recategorizing npr as state media? well because it s true. that s the reason. thankfully somebody in authority has told the truth about something and that is thrilling to see on its own terms. in a world defined by lies from our leaders, this seemed like a rare sign of hope and progress. telling the truth is the most revolutionary act of all. far more than taking up arms. and yet, you rarely seeing it. human beings created language, grunting or sign lang, subverting our own creation ever since. not tonight. by calling national public radio what it is, elon musk used english as it was tended to be used to tell the truth. it is all the hallmarks, repetitive dishonesty, authoritarian politics, unwavering devotion to the party in charge. of course that could describe virtually all media in this country. th
starts today. we love getting nightly news with lester holt backs appeared we love your work, and the diplomacy. indeed. have a good weekend, you, too. welcome to the beat. let me start with something serious. law enforcement sources still us that alvin bragg has received a formal death threat, through a letter that was a littled to him that set, quote, alvin, i m going to kill you, end quote. it contained a white powder. it s been deemed by authorities as nonhazardous. this is what s happening. we talked about last night why it s not a drill, why these threats don t work historically, but why donald trump, who is under investigation for abusing power, for inciting an insurrection, is now back at the same playbook. he is out online, using his plate form. talking about depth and destruction and posts violent imagery. the probe is part of a much larter legal storm. and we re going to report on these always. we have to understand he s moving from a position of extrem
come on! come on, come on, what are you staring for? come on! robinson apparently tired, punched with a fairly well and rocked jake lamotta right to his heels. come on, ray. a director and actor find a story at the right time and the right place. and out comes this amazing combination of cinematic virility and absolute fear. it s like watching an animal. i think raging bull is a great title and the film fulfills the promise. the reality of the boxing and the great slow motion, all the black and white gore. the violence of the flashbulbs going off. when he designed the movie, marty purposefully, he didn t put a clutch on the film. there s no clutch. hey, ray, never went down, man. you never got me down, ray. raging bull is a boxing movie for people who don t like boxing because it s really not about that. it s about this man, jake lamotta, who was based on a real person, who s really at war with himself. come on. harder. harder. i didn t really unde
Audience own the air so it s a continuous loop. the snake eating its own tail, you shouldn t be too surprised that within an audience, desperately unhappy personal audience that npr is all-in on the question of romance novels. sci fi ones, one of the books is a gay couple and one was a crack head. i didn t want that to unlock something in me, unfortunately it did. before i knew it was happening, cyrus was carrying me, muscular lengths of tentacles carrying our weight. i didn t think he was that strong. you like that, he asked, as his ten tackles slammed the shower door open. tucker: well, so it s tentacle porn which is its own sub genre, we are not going to