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The Closing of Douglas Corner Leaves a Hole in Nashville’s Soul Looking back on a listening room where it wasn’t hard to feel like an insider Tweet Share What I remember best about hanging out at Douglas Corner, the venerable Nashville listening room that closed in May after 33 years in business, isn’t the many big-time stars who played there. Yes, the cozy space on Eighth Avenue South hosted performers like Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood and Guy Cl...

Editorial policy. on occasions that my children visit the set they play with something on the air. tonight my daughters request is pandas. so ryan, here are pandas. they are important to the world because they are cute people enjoy watching them. my son whos 17 months old speaks enough that when i asked what he wanted to see he relied with his current favorite word choo-choo. so david heres a choo-choo train. they are fun, great to get people from one place to another. generally cool and awesome...

From motorized toy jeeps to train sets. >> choo-choo train. >> and one of my toddler sons personal favorites the cupcake play-doh demo with more than 1 million views. >> i like the play-doh. >> it just happened. it was just a hobby. >> reporter: now no longer just a hobby, mark and raya who moved from the philippines are making millions in ad revenue from their popular channel. >> this year for 2015, we are estimating to make $1.5 million. >> reporter: and they are not the only ones. >> welcome ...

From motorized toy jeeps to train sets. >> choo-choo train. >> and one of my toddler sons personal favorites the cupcake play-doh demo with more than 1 million views. >> i like the play-doh. >> it just happened. it was just a hobby. >> reporter: now no longer just a hobby, mark and raya who moved from the philippines are making millions in ad revenue from their popular channel. >> this year for 2015, we are estimating to make $1.5 million. >> reporter: and they are not the only ones. >> welcome ...

How do we know these single moms are not taking the toys for their own kids? >> yes, but usually thisy have 60 or 70 of them. i think they must be taking them and putting them into a pen. >> they are putting themselves through college. >> they are dental hygenists. they are americas heroes. is this a good idea? >> there is a reason they say no toys in the champagne room. gross. and i love how they put, qualify yes, sirs, unwrapped, completely new because you know that there are some totally ding...

Governors elected as reformers are running up against the fact that their states have one out of money. the stimulus money disappeared. state budgets are hemorrhaging. republican governors are having to make tough to unpopular choices whether its cutting education or money for schools or for healthcare or for roads and bridges for all of the things that the state government does. people wanted reform but they wanted somebody elses welfare program to be cut. >> yeah, medicare. >> and medicare. >>...

Howard fineman and chris sill lizza is here. howard, lets take a look at this. in florida, the quinnipiac poll, the 51 to 43, now back in april of this year, he was 44 to 52 disapproval. what is going on in that state? >> well, i think what is going on there, chris, and what is going on in a lot of other places, is that republican governors elected as reformers are running up against the fact that their states have one out of money. the stimulus money disappeared. state budgets are hemorrhaging....

Last night was all about unity. i didnt get my little ribbon. it was all about unity. i think we can all unite on one thing. america doesnt need any more choo-choo trains. enough. amtrak loses money on 41 of 44 routes. over $1 billion every year gone. you know why? nobody is riding it. making them faster isnt going to help. let me show you how the choo-choo train thing works. here is the tracks. look at this. fly california. isnt that nice? a carrie train. here in america, because thats what wer...

So are the really fast bullet trains. oh. >> choo-choo! that is why we dont build them here. we have to lay another whole set of track for the fancy choo-choo train. also, if it doesnt go that way, then it would go this way. here is the choo-choo using the same tracks. bullet train going the same way. going really fast. not one not going fast. errrr! you see. i think were going to take the jet airplane. because the choo-choo that goes fast and costs us money has to slow down. chug-chug-choo-choo...

Stuff is using this track. so are the really fast bullet trains. oh. >> choo-choo! that is why we dont build them here. we have to lay another whole set of track for the fancy choo-choo train. also, if it doesnt go that way, then it would go this way. here is the choo-choo using the same tracks. bullet train going the same way. going really fast. not one not going fast. errrr! you see. i think were going to take the jet airplane. because the choo-choo that goes fast and costs us money has to slo...