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All in the family, was a great TV show that reflected my own family in many ways. Probably all our families. Mom was creative and open minded,.....My Pop grew up during a time when men were men and behaved a certain way. My Pop never kissed me on my cheek,....he preferred to shake my hand. Certain times I had to refer to him as "Sir", showing him much respect and never sassing him back. He was stern, but fair,.....but was incapable of showing showing his (love) of me. Or his emotions. Many years later, when he saw how my brother-in-law's father behaved, where father and son exchanged kisses on their cheeks, every day. He awkwardly tried to emulate that, a few times. I was more than happy to shake his hand,....although a good, sincere hug, would have been icing on the cake. I don't recall him ever hugging me. My Mom liked to kiss me on my cheek, and offered up great hugs.
Great post! There was a closeness captured, in Mr. King’s presence during this interview/conversation, that will keep me coming back to this specific post. Thank you!
The most prolific, most talented writer of his generation. Thank you, Mr. King, for all of it. And keep them coming. Because you’re just getting started.
Classic Narcissistic Family who typically selects one child to be the "Golden Child" who can do no wrong while selecting another child to be " tbe family Scapegoat" who is blamed for everything from toddler-hood until the day they die." The Narcissistic parent offloads their shame, self-loathing projections onto the Scapegoat child. This Scapegoat child is typically the kind & sensitive child like Marys father. I know her father is so proud of her now as she has walked in his shoes to complete his legacy. Narcissistic parents typically pit all their children against each other so that the conflict between them will assure that the parent will receive all the love. I think Mary is phenomenal. She has tremendous courage to speak out and shes doing it for the greater good. Her father would have done the same had his evil heartless father had not broken him. ❤️ to Mary.
I would have liked "The Devil Wears Prada" and Streep's role in it more, if it was not just an advertisement for an Italian fashion house that struggled through the late 2000s and needed all help it could get.
For the love of god,...please don't have kids! My father was completely absent in my life. He lived in our house, he worked and supported us with his earnings. He was known by others as a good man, which he was, but he had no personality. He lived like a machine,....he worked and made the money. He knew nothing about his house, or where things were. He only knew how to put on his clothing and go to work. He was never home, he was at work all day and night, and every weekend. I kind of had the feeling he only had kids, because it was what men of his generation were expected to do. He was a totally "hands-off' father. My older sister felt the same way about his being totally unconnected with us and our mother. Luckily our mom was very plugged in, and lively. She raised us all by herself, he contributed nothing,....so no fatherly advice. He made the money and paid the bills. Our mom did everything else. They didn't even sleep together, he slept on the couch down stairs. He rarely talked to us, or my mother. He didn't even work at a job he liked, he inherited his father's business, and managed to keep it a float, for 50 years. He had no hobbies, no vices, no outside interests. His long time employees, said he had no personalty, he never joked around or engaged idle chit-chat. At times I hated him, but it was hard to hate a machine. He didn't know what I liked, what I studied, or what I did for a living. He didn't bother to know about my successes, or my struggles.
George Floyd didn't have a father around when he was growing up, when he became a father he wasn't there for his children either. Ultimately George Floyd became a career criminal who died of a heart attack while resisting arrest. The death of this man should be an example of how not to live your life. Finish school, don't get women you barely know pregnant, after you do, don't renege on your responsibility to support your five children, earn money by working regular jobs, don't look for easy money through dealing drugs or stealing, don't commit armed robbery, don't do drugs, don't pass counterfeit bills and don't resist arrest.
9:20 - He totally missed the point about how one can write or consume satire when the world is so crazy right now, a gross caricature of itself, so over the top that it cannot be satirized.
He was fortunate to see pioneering developments made elsewhere, and smart and relentless in incorporating these inventions into his own products. He is no different in this regard from Bill Gates. Both of them are no different from Thomas Edison, who was known to appropriate others' inventions and make them his own.
"Then we had a classic Marxian profit realization crisis" - Good leaders understand that Marxism is not just about Communism as the next big thing, but moreso about how capitalism works.
I love Molly, she is a great person to interview. She has done dozens of them over the years, and they are all so enlightening and entertaining. As a former Clevelander, I am proud of her.
2024.......Judd is now a national treasure. He's come a long way since this interview. I love his take on life and people. All his interviews are a learning experience. Freaks and Geeks was great.
Salute to who is responsible for putting this episode together. This is how I’d image the audio commentary for the book would go. When reading the book I paused so much just to play the audio references. This will do, thanks.
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I’m seeking 100k a year since inception into project starting with experimental drugs that were developed in conjunction with the NIH and DOE. Summer of 2010 to 2024. That would be 1.400.000 usd. This is a reasonable compensation.
Love her!....She's funny. Wishing she was my girlfriend,....well, back when she was Elaine. It would be a May -December relationship,....HA! That means I'm old, old, old.
WILL SOMEONE AT RU-vid PLEASE REMOVE--OR ENABLE ME TO REMOVE!--THIS AND EVERY OTHER "COLLECTIVE PODCAST" JUNKING UP MY FEED!? (And then go back to feeding them one-by-one so I can make an individual decision about whether a certain individual topic interests me?) In the interim. I will only be clicking on vids that I know enough about to DESIRE to select, and have the option to remove from my incredibly lousy feed if I want to...
Having read, and re-read this book, I, who was, I thought, a sentient being, in 1975, now recognize I wasn't even close, because the media in the mid-1970s failed us then, and before then, and continue to fail us. This interview, for example, spends way too much time on salacious bits--the Mafia, and the womanizing, etc., and not nearly enough emphasizing that Frank Church, in his early 20s, after a few years as a military "intelligence analyst" already suspected that WWII was transforming the USA democratic republic into a military empire. He thought it was a work in progress and not a fait accompli, and maybe it could still have been avoided, but the men in the USA government (and almost all were men) were enchanted by and addicted to being an empire, aka wealth and power. Church didn't seem to recognize that the transformation was already well advanced. He was sounding the alarm, but it seems no-one, including me, was listening. Today, it is obvious that the revelations and warnings of the Church Committee have all become our reality. The USA is a full-blown military empire which still claims to be a democracy and that elections and informed citizenry, are still American values, but that's all noise. I honor and respect Frank Church and his efforts to ward off a USA military empire, but I think those efforts failed. Frank Church didn't yet have a clue about climate change and the catastrophes that this will bring to the planet, and to the living beings on it, all hastened because the USA Empire has metastasized. Prior empires have all failed but generally have taken a long time to do so. The USSR crumbled relatively quickly. (I recall hearing that Noam Chomsky said "One evil empire down/one evil empire to go.) Climate change will surely accelerate the demise of the USA empire, and the consequences may be far more drastic than "crumbling." I'm 79 years old and I have taken some solace imagining that I wouldn't live to experience the fall. Now I'm not so sure. We have two ancient men seeking to be "leader of the free world" neither of whom seems to have a clue what finesse or policy or compromise or respect for humankind/living beings looks like, never mind how to lead/encourage people to come together to secure it.. I, for one, don't think either of them understands or is in charge, never mind control, of what happens next. As for who is, now that's an investigation and report that calls for attention, immediate attention.
