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Views and opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the station its owners staff or management. Good afternoon welcome to the original wind show he has degrees in geology and philosophy so he's a scientist and a thinker he studied other sciences Wike economics physics climatology but his real love is politics breaking down liberal arguments into their logical components and exposing their flaws Here's the host of the logical Joyce pig. Good afternoon and welcome to the Ritchie win show I'm your host Richie when if you'd like to be part of the program today we're going to talking about the debates and boy with a entertaining this week but if you want to call in and join the join the conversation or call a number is 888-923-1380 that's 888-923-1380 we also have our text line set up if you just want to send me a message don't want to go on the air or anything that number is 91623462631162346263 so the debates this week oh boy were they entertaining if if you didn't watch any of them I don't blame you I I watched them out of a public service out of a duty I mean it was there were some parts that were kind of entertaining about it I was kind of going into it thinking because I didn't get to watch the nights that they aired I had to watch them later so I heard little clips here and there and some of the stuff that c.n.n. Was trying to I heard a few the questions asked before I got to sit down and watch the entire thing so it 1st going into it I was thinking well it sounds like the real winner of the evening is going to be c.n.n. I mean there their ratings are tanking and they're just doing terrible in their prime. Time Network shows and everything but because basically they were trying to pit all of the all the candidates against each other and it just didn't work at all so I mean I hate to repeat what I said before but I think the real winner in these debates was President Trump again by doing nothing not not saying anything just being there these are these candidates they're not. So I'm a scorecard they're not doing anything really then I don't think that jumps out they're not doing anything that is going to spark. The movement they're not showing the charisma that maybe they just don't have it but they're not showing any evidence of charisma being there and it's just this it's just a situation with no nobody's impressive so I have the scorecard and if you missed the show when I went to cover the last debates the way it works I didn't even really create the scorecard intending it to be this way but basically I started going through and seeing if I could categorize the different types of responses because the way start with the last one was I forget who got the 1st question I think it was it was either Senator Warren or or Bernie Sanders and I remember they started citing statistics and I thought well that's just wrong and so I just like Ok well this will be one category of that's just wrong just flat out you know demonstrably wrong and then I got to another category 4 I think the next one was it was something where only I think it was they were saying something about how they wanted to fix something they were giving some specifics which is good given credit for for at least pointing out some specifics but it was just conservative a better version of this we have a better solution to this so that it was just to see it was like concrete stuff but conservatives have a everybody up so that ended up being the best ranking you could have the next category was virtue singling out one better started talking in Spanish and then not caught on for the rest of the debate here and there and it was. Just this I rolling cringe virtue signaling and so that ended up being kind of a large category it also includes just these non-answers of you know we need to bring hope back like a c'mon who is opposed to those candidates that are running on the anti hope platform it's just it's virtue signaling before get too far we have a call I'd like to go to Joshua in Sacramento what's on your mind Josh Oh Don Sorry about that Don and 2nd. Already. With you know again your program way deeper than I really imagine really really heavy into this. Background of philosophy and not understanding why not a new science so that's why you. Know that's really the goal of the show is to underline the principles not just the obvious oh it's bad now what you're doing not the pronouns Ok he's talking then you know when you finish the program we brought it up and I went on to that not to be quick but you know you know so much I'm not going to say much to. Thank you what I mean is that you're going to. Say. What you're saying about pro-ana your time of words time our words are so important if they're related to what you're talking about in the Depression. That alphabet soup of words what just scrambled who knows what they're saying yeah anyway but anyway getting back to this so I can finish so you can do your program. I followed what you said and I want to. Say Well you know one is talking about you know you read the Magna Carta no doubt. I don't think I can quote it but I have read it before yes but you read it but you have the feeling of the Magna Carta the difference in the Magna Carta and you know our Declaration of Independence right. Is different when I was going to read the Magna Carta I thought I was going to have Shakespeare type language for it it was like remember you know what right very dry cruel words yeah balance that the police reports the other right but that was the importance of it it was so deep I mean they went to detail to detail to detail to detail on the balancing act and that's what you're talking about when you're saying those words or words that do the balancing for the just in only in our language the English language can this be done because it's so intricate to work on was it can carry it to that length that is now that you will be soon language will develop later the element that's a very good point in high school hold on Richard Ridge a moment to think the line goes all the way back for us since. Well goes all the way back you're actually talking about the word which would be. Why. You are that's tremendous My hats off to program thank you thank you very much for the compliment I would like to know what you said. As long as this quick we do have a break coming up pretty soon if you can get to the point quickly can do a quick comment. Ok thank you very much for the call so I really appreciate everything you said was very complimentary for any of the listen out there what he's referring to if you missed last week's program is I was talking about the words used during the Mulla testimony the words used during a story about Obama when he was criticizing Israel and then recently about Berkley changing all of these pronouns in other words to these gender neutral things and so I was basically just talking about how changing and changing language can have these fundamental changes and they affect perception and then they affect actions they affect how people do things and when you when you tell people that they're supposed to be victimized by some language that it has a very terrible impact in actually victimizing them one of the points that you made and thank you very much for that call Don about English I do love the English language it's just it's the best language ever and the reason is because we stole stuff from the languages we just I mean this and quite frankly I mean this is kind of why I like American culture so much is because we we take the best stuff from everywhere else and then we make it better and I mean the English language has has a façade Us To my knowledge no other language needs a thesaurus they don't have anywhere near the number of words that we have I mean just think about the word happy how many different words do we have that describe that there's there's happy there's happy go lucky there's cheerful there's glib there's gay in the traditional definition of the word so many different words and but they're not they're not just blanket Lee interchangeable they all mean specific unique things. And that's why language is so important because they all they all carry with it this meaning in relation to how this relates to the debate a lot of the language that they used is very telling about their their perceptions about their attitudes it's it's really there's a few points where it jumped out to me and I thought this is wrong this is this is something that needs to be talked about they were basically debating in sound clips but it's it can still be very telling about what is the mental process going on when they're delivering these lines stay tuned the Richie When show the logical choice will be back. 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Got and it's just I wanted to declare them the winner because they really tried to just put all the can is against each other but it just ends up making everybody look bad so if you like to call in our call a number is 8889231388889231380 we also have our text line if you just want to send me a message that number is 91623462639162346263 so we have these debates and the the call that we just got before the break really touched on a very important point about language mattering and before we get to that though talk a little bit about the scorecard method that I have so I was talking about how. I categorize all these different responses into either things that are just wrong things where it's a concrete specific answer but conservatives have a better version of the solution anyway and then the virtue signaling which quite frankly that dominated most of both debates which is to be expected and then when I was doing the scorecard Originally I came up with a 4th category but it wasn't until the 2nd debate because the 1st debate came with those 3 and I had no idea go going into it how many categories I was going to have I didn't know if it was going to be 8 or 15 or 2 or what and I only needed those 3 everything fit into one of those groups and then I got to 4th debate and got to Williamson's answers and oh boy is it boy is she a national treasure she should never be in charge of anything because her beliefs are truly frightening but the one she gives these answers I get incoherent outburst which is the the other category the 4th group and this she they're not exclusive to her every once in a while somebody else does one that's kind of like that but oh boy I think she's got more than everybody else combined so even in the opening statements we have very few details it's mostly just virtue signaling a delay the actually he did on the 1st debate he actually did a pretty good job of giving out a lot of specifics I think he turned the rest of the stage and possibly even the entirety of the Democrat Party against him if it's merely sounding like a Republican but he he had the most concrete answers by far of anyone Williamson of course with the virtue signaling and incoherent outbursts Hickenlooper talking about. Economics he keeps claiming that Colorado has been the number one economy for 3 years now and I'm not entirely sure what he's basing that on I mean California clearly and Texas at least have a much much larger economies I don't know what rating system he's using to determine it's number one is it maybe me. His favorite you know that as polled by the you know population of Governors of Colorado sure I bet it is number one among them I don't think it's even number one in job growth I'm pretty sure that's Texas I know during the Obama administration the only reason we were positive for jobs during that entire time is soley because of taxes you take Texas out we get a negative and so you had other jobs and then you get to Sanders at the end and he starts talking 1st he throws out this figure of hundreds of medical health care companies making hundreds of billions of dollars off of Americans which is largely incredibly inflated ridiculously inflated but this is talking about new income going to the top 50 percent and that's peculiar like we like to call talked about with language why are you putting new in there what do what is the difference between ordinary income and new and I mean isn't all income new it's it's incoming It's money he didn't have before that's the definition of income so I don't know what this new income is that he's trying to do but basically it's a twist in language it's just like that I believe it's a Mark Twain quote about the that there are. Lies damned lies and statistics the. City's dicks can be incredibly misleading and that's exactly what Sanders was doing multiple times throughout the debate was giving out these numbers that make it sound like oh my gosh this is this is terrible this is the rich trying to decimate the the poor that are out there and everything and it's just because he's he's playing playing fast and loose with with his numbers and trying to misrepresent things so so they talk about health care for a while and even in that with less than a minute well maybe just over a minute less than 5 minutes later at least. Bernie Sanders changes his hundreds of billions to tens of billions which is Ok that sounds a little more realistic but. It actually gets me to a point that there is a billboard in just outside 2nd I'm pretty sure it's as you're driving from the Bay Area from Davis to Sacramento on the causeway there and I wish I wish I had a picture of it it's something about it's it's referring to medical care that it shouldn't be profitable it should be it's about care not about profits or something like that I think that's the phrasing that it's about health care not about profits and. I was with a coworker the other day as most of you know I work as a geologist during the week and so we were traveling to a site on our way back and I was talking when I saw that sign and I was just I couldn't help myself that's signed bugs me and he said why would What's wrong with it as saying that I want to be incredibly profitable to take care of me the idea that we need to divorce profits from health care I totally understand you don't want to be galvanized and that we shouldn't make it so that we're that families are needlessly bankrupting themselves to to get you know basic medical coverage and you know all the talking points of the Democrats use I totally understand that health care should be achievable affordable that we should have access to it but I dislike the idea that we need to make sure that nobody's making a profit in this industry I want to be incredibly profitable to take care of me I want hospitals to be falling over themselves wanting to get to the profitability of taking care of Richie when that would be for that be fantastic I mean that's how it should be for everyone if someone if someone could design a model where I mean taking care of someone obviously that incurs costs that incurs . In incurs expenditures of time capital. All that sort of stuff so that's going to be a cost associated with it but if you just decide Ok this is this is how it's going to be when I can let anybody profit you just have to take a loss to be in this industry who wants that industry who wants to go into that work at all nobody but if you say Ok if you can find a way to make a profit and make we just want to make sure that that profit doesn't completely screw over the sick person so long as you can find a way to make this profitable then yeah you're going to attract tons of businesses and tons of innovation tons of competition tons of people that want to to see oh Will this person is able to take care of let's say cancer patients and they're able to do it for an average cost of of whatever what if I can reduce that cost and make . More profitable What if I can do this other incentive and compete with them and ultimately these things that will make it cheaper for the well customer for the person who is sick that is a much better model and it's something that is complete anathema to the people on the stage who are in this debate this idea that health care is something that businesses should compete about to get innovation going in everything oh they hate that they very much just like that capitalism ever reared its ugly head in the medical profession profession they seem to all want some version of universal health care the the only one that seems maybe maybe Delaney doesn't want it he it still seems like he wants to work toward that but he's still trying to say things that keep keep options open for keeping insurance get to the 2nd debate I can't believe Joe Biden is stepped in it so badly when he made the comment about if you if you like your. Coverage I have my notes I'll get to it a little bit later but it was almost parroting that if you like your doctor you can keep it he said he stepped back from Aids is probably if you like your insurance you can probably keep it. Just all my gosh Joe this was one of the most notorious outright lies that President Obama said I mean it came out afterward when all these people were suddenly losing their doctor they couldn't see their doctor that they like before and then it came out that even the architecture saying Yeah that was never a thing we all knew that you were going to be able to keep your doctor and it wasn't even just oh we miscalculated it was an outright lie and you really want to bring that up again when everybody else on the stage is already attacking you for for anything they can blame Obama for and trying to blame Joe Biden for but by proxy it's just I can't I can't believe he brought that up so it was just really terrible very bad move for him so one of the things that. Was another interesting language shift thing is so on the 1st debate they pushed Bernie Sanders a bit about are you going to raise taxes on the middle class to pay for your health care for all and he he really tried to do some tap dancing there really was trying to avoid and they kept they kept pushing like it because he wasn't giving them an answer answer saying well you don't understand their cost for health care are going to go down you have it will their taxes go up and he finally at the very end yes yes they will and I understand what he's saying I mean I think it would be much more effective to just say yeah look taxes are inevitably going to go up the your cost for health care is going to go down so on average you're going to be less out of pocket but and they do say that they do they say that 2nd part and that's exactly what Elizabeth Warren was doing in this debate as well because they were asking her you've signed on to the same idea that Bernie has are you going to raise taxes on the middle class she will just refuse to actually give a yes answer she just kept repeating over and over this less out of pocket which I understand why they're saying now the math doesn't work out the economics does not support this idea unfortunately for them but I don't understand why they can't be honest about why they can't say yeah you know you have costs throughout the year some of your money goes toward taxes some of your money goes toward food some of goes toward health care all of it is stuff that you have to spend that you don't really get a choice about you know about keeping it's not discretionary spending so so long as that whole discretionary nondiscretionary package goes down who really cares whether it's going to government when it's going to your doctor either way it's coming out your pocket that would be a much better answer. Now unfortunately then you have to maybe the reason I'm not doing it is because maybe some clever I don't even want to say clever journalist because it have to be someone who is maybe even un clever because they have to know that this is going to look bad for the Democrats so they have to be clever enough to understand will how does the math work but not so clever is understand Wait a 2nd if I ask this question this is not going to look good for the Democrat party so I'll just avoid that which is what they typically do so many questions here where they were not pushing on hey wait a sec this doesn't work how are you going to make it to square that circle so so they keep going on this debate and the. And they keep giving all these answers that are mostly mostly just virtue signaling to gain a delay me Hickenlooper He also gave a few concrete answers even Ryan it's it's interesting I think Delaney more than the other candidates is going to be someone who probably would have I don't know he would have won but I think it would have been much more successful in the general election but the Left simply will not allow anyone to get that nomination unless they told the line unless they are someone who is worthy of the endorsement of Alexander because you Cortez hopefully the 2nd hour will not be worthy of her endorsement to stay tuned to the ritual and show the logical choice Larry Elder Sebastian Gorka and special guest Michelle Malkin together live for one night October 8th at Jessop university it's no more for America where buried in that. 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Nominee the primary debates this week primary for the presidential election the Democrat primary debates this week there were some really interesting wow and of interesting is quite the right word some very entertaining answers that we're talking about if you like to call in to be part of the program our Colleen number is 888-923-1380 that's 888-923-1380 we also have our text line if you just want to send a message don't want to go on the air that number is 916-234-6263 it's 916-234-6263 so we had a call earlier today about the language and it was referring to a call from last week but it also very much applies to this week about these the specifics. Of language that gets used is important it's it has meaning and oftentimes it's a subtle meaning and I think a lot of times in many situations a subtle meaning can have a larger impact than a big overblown one. Especially when it comes to just shifting perspective this was something that happened both night but definitely the 2nd is this change in their trying to refer to climate change as climate crisis to talk about that more probably in the next segment but that's a subtle but very important there's actually studies associated with this it's been on my list of things to talk about but I haven't really had a good opportunity to bring it up yet but this is a perfect one there is there's a big problem with changing that word from climate change to Chantix climate crisis some of it's obvious but there's also some less obvious effect that has before I get to that some of the answers from the 1st debate were just laughable the. There were there were times when they were trying to explain explain things that just don't don't work but the best part though was when they got to Sanders and start talking about border control because you know Republicans we often accuse a lot of the Democrat leadership of being for open borders and it's not because they're out advocating we want open borders but they shoot down everything else it's like well what's left you don't want to wall you don't want to fence you don't want more border guards you don't want stricter immigration asylum claim checking you don't want did they did the Democrats would not even fund beds for a lot of the people that they're that they're complaining about in these detention centers they wouldn't allow the funding I think they finally did get it through but for a while they were the ones stalling preventing better services from being offered to to the to the migrants that are that are in these detention centers which by the way one quick point it's it's related but I know it's not about the debates these detentions of the people calling them concentration camps are. Absolutely wrong at best they're misled and at worst the complete lunatics what concentration camp is optional anywhere ever these people think they can leave the reason they're in a detention centers because they want to get into America and they they have to go through these channels at any point they can say you know what never mind I don't want to be an American a more I'm going to go home I'm going to leave the idea that they are mandatorily stuck in these detention centers and that that means that their concentration camps is completely wrong anyway back to the debate so they tied they talk to Bernie Sanders about what he going to do and one of the 1st things he says is stronger border protections I have to stop the thing I told you before I was listening to a recording of because I couldn't listen to it live I had to stop and rewind like Did I really just hear that correctly that he did he say stronger border protections now of course a good journalist a normal journalist a journalist without any sort of political slant would have said what do you mean what types of border protections are you saying we should implement why not a wall of course none of that happen. So it's it's just it's ridiculous some of the stuff that they get away with and and that they don't get called on later on there was in the for who was claiming that they did all of the stuff to this anti gun legislation that he got passed and they were saying well how are you going to pass these guns of course it's just passed a get passed these gun laws these gun restrictions and of course there's just an assumption that we passed these gun laws and that's just going to fix everything nobody's bothering to say hey wait a 2nd we passed laws outlawing murder and that's still happening why on earth would someone who's about to commit murder pay attention at all to the gun laws or restrictions this is why the shootings keep happening at these gun free zones because the people with guns who are going to misbehave with them don't care about a sign that says gun free zone the only people who do care about that sign is the good people who only own a weapon and are responsible with it the people who might be in a place to actually defend others if there was some lunatic with a gun running around so either way he's saying well we did all this stuff nobody asked Did it work did gun violence go down it's absolutely absurd that you could just let somebody make these kinds of claims and just pass on on any sort of verification on any sort of a well I mean it's not even verification just asking him what was the outcome they even set it up for their own benefit of saying well how much better are things now and maybe you could say well people feel safer when they're out you know some sort of you of virtue signaling answered it's not based on data at all where he can just you know project what he thinks that everybody should be reacting to this this law they didn't even do that. Later on we get to but a judge who starts talking about making these changes to the Bill of Rights is talking about I mean we have had amendments that have made changes he pointed out that we had the amendments 1st that prohibited alcohol and then the one repealing the other but we've also done amendments to change Court decisions Supreme Court decisions and other things like that but he wants to change things in the Bill of Rights and we have not had any amendments that repeal any of the Bill of Rights the . The fact that he wants to change that is very telling Like I said before language matters this isn't some sort of you know we can make refinements that still you know are within the scope of what the founding fathers set up for us but they apply to some specific situation that they have an invasion that's you know it's the same kind of diplomatic. Politician speak that we're custom to but at least we're custom to that because it's people who like the Constitution it's people who like what the founding father said it set us up with did what they said was what they set up perfect absolutely not the very existence of slavery and there is obviously a huge oversight that the Founding Fathers were either unwilling or unable to eliminate from from society at the time so it absolutely was not perfect but what they did do is they set up a phenomenal system for us to continually to perfect this wonderful American experiment and that doesn't work by just deciding well you know what this part has become inconvenient so we're just going to toss out that section of the Bill of Rights. It's a fundamental shift in making changes this isn't just it's literally regression they keep calling themselves progressives and it couldn't be further from the truth . Continuing on with the information with the word in language shifting Bernie Sanders later on cited credible polls that show him winning nobody bothered to ask him Well what makes a crawl what makes a poll credible to you it would've been hilarious for him to just say well one that shows me winning of course that would have been way too telling and I've just been so tickled to hear him say that but of course we can't thank everything that we want so. Bad Oh he is. When he 1st came on stage I was a little worried that he had some kind of Christian I mean he was going around posing for Vanity Fair and getting all this media attention and I was worried oh no this is I mean it to his ideas are terrible but this is someone who mysteriously seems to have some sort of charisma about him but watching him in these debates I feel more and more secured that he has not not a chance at all of securing the nomination let alone securing the presidency and he talks about putting Texas in play he keeps talking about his failed candidacy against against Ted Cruz as an accomplishment I don't understand this this is there's a there's another for me that no the director Kevin Smith he's kind of in a survey sort of sort of guy he most of the movies that he directs have a lot of somewhat witty dialogue I have my own complaints about it but he has a lot of a lot a lot to say about movies in Hollywood and this is one story that he tells where he was consulting for for writing the movie Spider-Man and is the director who was who had signed on at the time was this guy who started off as Barbra Streisand's hairdresser and he's very frank about it's a very hilarious moment he mentions that because in Hollywood you just kind of fail up and that is exactly what Betty has been doing oh you're a congressman look at to see if we can work you as a senator note that didn't work you lost that election and it may have been closer than previous elections but it still is a close. So so you clearly were not capable of doing that I know we should have you run for president how do you how do you get to that conclusion I mean shouldn't you I'm not saying that everybody has to be a politician of some kind of for they run for president with President Trump he has done a tremendous amount of accomplishments even if you don't like what he's doing he's getting stuff done which is very unusual for presidents usually it's just all promises were working on this and then you know a year goes by oh well we got we got 11 and a half things done I mean he's he's changed one year progress to one week progress so even if you don't like it I totally understand if people on the left are upset about the direction I think that a lot of his accomplishments are very laudable but but better I mean what do you what are you going to do I mean if this is if this is your career path of being a politician I think that to be president you don't necessarily have to be a politician but you need to show success you need to show that you can you can do something I don't know what better can do other than Well evidently he can speak Spanish but his x. Isn't even I don't speak Spanish I can tell his accent is terrible so common I mean I don't know how better gets on stage in the 1st place I don't understand what the charisma about him is at all so moving on to the 2nd night that that debate was. Just as frustrating at least with the 1st night there were a few times when when somebody said something was like this is this is really important this is something I really want to dig in and analyze the 2nd debate was so much more it was more entertaining. Just from the fireworks standpoint of it I think c.n.n. They really doubled down on this attempt to to pit the candidates against each other but from a substance perspective it was so much worse so much drier there was just I mean I'm looking over my scorecard here and there's even for the opening statement we have one c. Which is a good thing for any of you that missed my scorecard. Sezer basically the best grade you can get it means he said something concrete but conservatives have a better version of it and got that and it's because she was saying that if if you want something done to tell me it's impossible beating Donald Trump is not impossible. This is such a peculiar statement and we're going to talk about it more when we come back stay tuned to the rich you win show the logical choice. 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Dot org for a tour and you would roll that Geo P.C.'s dot org to see. The good. From the sun heats not. Break it. To mock yell and scream to. Me. One thing I loved was hearing some of these answers in the debate I welcome back to the Richie Winship I'm your host Richie when if you'd like to call in and be part of the program we've been talking about the the debates this week the c.n.n. And miserable failure debates and if you want to call in or call a number is 888-923-1318 that's 889231380 if you want to sell me a text that number is 916-234-6263 it's 916-234-6263 so in the 2nd debate one of the 1st things they were talking about was well actually before I get to that even just the opening statements just before the break I was talking about Jill brand how she made the statement that was. Logically I don't know what to do with this if you want something done tell me it's impossible she continues talking for a little bit but basically in the same breath she sends she says beating Donald Trump is not impossible. So what are you trying to say that we we don't need you Ok yeah I can I can be on board with that it's sure she did actually cite a few things that she had done before some accomplishments some specific So that's why she got a c. For that literally everybody else got a v. For virtue signaling 2 of them even got a combined v. And j. The j. Is for just wrong so and that was insanely and Bennett who Bennett had some decent he's still he sounds like a cartoon bear he really does I I just can't take him seriously you know that not that that's something that you keep you from being president sure I think I think cartoon Bears could be president provided they have good ideas that's the whole point what are your ideas what are you trying to say they immediately go into health care and like I said before the break they start talking about profit and just how it is this this anathema to any any sensibilities they have with regard to health care the brand was talking about how they're you know just want to make profits and everything and I understand that if they just want to make profits that can be bad but it's. There's no way you can get to the logical conclusion that that means profits in general are bad are there situations when it can be bad yes same thing with medicine to continued with that subject if you just take Tylenol like it's Flintstone tablets that's not going to be good for you you're going to have some kidney problems I think this is not a medical advice show either way don't take Tylenol above don't take Tylenol above what is recommended to you by a medical professional listen to them not me but the whole point is that if you just find something that has gone awry and then you decide that the whole principle is entirely wrong it's throwing the baby out with the bathwater There's this point the dentist Praeger makes on his show about Germany about it he says that they're wrong about everything and one of the unfortunate lessons that they learned from World War 2 is instead of learning the lesson to fight evil they learned the lesson that is evil to fight and that's exactly what's going on here with the health care industry is a perfect of course not everybody concedes that it has problems lots of room for improvement and lots of different areas and entirely likely very different solutions for all of those as well there's no one size fits all that's just going to magically fix everything and of course that's exactly what they're trying to think well we just go to single payer eliminate the profit boom done everything's good now it's just a happy wonderful place but it's not going to happen that way at all and as I said on my show I think a couple of weeks ago if you think socialism is such a good idea go do it there's nothing stopping you you can do it do it in a limited fashion do it for just the Democrat Party to say Ok You know what Democrats in addition to paying taxes now you can have to pay dues for being a Democrat but once you do that then that's going to cover you know universal health care for everyone maybe a universal income for everyone if you want to go with the Yangs. Policy ideas whatever it is do all the socialism you want show us how good it is you can. You could make this club change from the Democrat Party to the Democrat club and show us how awesome it is for all of them how everybody's making money how you can spend money and be Santa Claus for everybody and evidently it doesn't have a financial impact on anyone anyone that has even been I think pretty much anyone that has just walked by an economics class going on understands the idea that you can't tax your way into prosperity it's absolutely absurd as Margaret Thatcher once said The problem with socialism is that eventually run out of other people's money and it's absolutely true it's even happening within the Bernie Sanders campaign as I mentioned a couple of weeks ago basically he's having trouble that his employees actually want the $15.00 an hour that he's promising to make you know for everybody else along with the health care coverage that he's promising everybody else and it's it's causing him some financial difficulty so so they keep going on this is where Biden made his comment down here just to make sure if you like your insurance you should be able to keep it really. President Obama said if you like your doctor you can keep it and got tons of flak for that so you're going to echo that and say if you like your insurance you should be able to keep it you really want us to believe that to be optimistic about a claim that you're not even willing to be a strong about in the other when turned out so miserably it was. Biden Well he's known for his gaffes this is was clearly another 11 of the things that kept. Kept coming up throughout the debate was they kept using this phrase Republican talking points start off with Harris talking about it and it was really interesting I it would have been really interesting to just put together a collection of when that phrase comes up because I'm pretty sure it only happens when they don't want to talk about it when it's some sort of challenge that they don't have a good answer for that well we can't we can't keep using Republican talking points to talk about this issue Well guess who's going to do it next year the Republicans are going to have to face this it's like Hang on hang on this is supposed to be t. Ball somebody throwing pitches at us and that's not what we signed up for you know what when you get to the Major Leagues they pitch pretty fast this is not something that this is not going to work for any of them in the actual presidential debate next year with Trump you try that once and well it's going to be hilarious if you try it so there's another point that I want to bring up that is they started talking about war and they specifically. Focused on on. A what's the name. Of my notes and here is Gabby as Gabbert Tulsa gathered Tulsa gathered from Hawaii because she was the only one of the group who has served in the military she I think she served in the reserves or she says she did some medical work in the. In the in the Afghan war and so she says but she's become very anti-war now and talking about how they were all lied to and it's really very frustrating this is something that I've dealt with with lots of my coworkers lots of my friends they just have this mantra of we went to the Iraq war for for the wrong reasons for lying for the you for lies basically that Bush lied kids died that whole rhetoric and there's a book I'm not this is not a publicity thing this is just a book that I own that I've read that is very good and not even a long book either it's only 200 pages including the the index it's written by General Mike De Long who is retired u.s. Marine Corps and called Inside Centcom this is a book that Mike De Long was the number 2 at Centcom under Tommy Franks during the Iraq and Afghan wars and he writes it right at the very beginning in the intro he talks about how I can find the exact quote he says that he is. Well he says that he's a hero as I am a retired general with no political aspirations my only motive is to air the truth about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq from my perspective now I've said on the show before I don't believe anybody can be completely objective and he falls into the category of everybody so I'm not expecting him to be completely objective but I do very much appreciate his effort to be completely object objective and simply by virtue of the fact that he says he doesn't have any political aspirations which is proven to be true he hasn't run for anything you his name has not come up anywhere it's clear that that was that was definitely the case and if you do buy the book or even if you haven't already have it Page 64. He lists bullet points and goes on for the next page and half 10 reasons and he says that this is why we went to Iraqis as a military professional Frank and I were convinced that Saddam had to go here are the reasons why and he lays them all out it's a little bit long I'm not going to read the whole thing to you but it starts off with the things about Saddam started doing testing on these l 29 unmanned aerial vehicles that's something he hadn't done before why do you test a delivery device unless you have something to deliver he was doing these other stuff with information with Chinese fiber a fiber optics and a whole bunch of other stuff you should I mean at least just read those few pages if you go to the bookstore if you could still find one any more it's a good book and it really lays out a very clear answer to the reason for why we're there and it's something that it's something that if Tulsa Gabbert had read this if she had addressed it at all it would have made her a much stronger argument this is really the whole purpose of the show when people call in and they talk about how will Republicans are with they said Democrats are just all communists or things like that I say it's difficult for me to get on board with that not just not not necessarily they disagree with and I think in some cases it can be true but it's not it's not the strongest argument coming from their side if you just reduce them to a caricature they're going to win that's exactly what they did in 2016 with Hillary and this all will Republicans are just a bunch of racist bigots who knows whatever else the basket of deplorable so. That's not a winning strategy that makes your opponents look stronger and that's exactly what happened that's why Trump won and I'm pretty sure this is why he's going to win again because I don't think they've learned this lesson the best thing to do in this situation for the Democrats on this debate would have been to understand what are the real Republican talking points don't dismiss things as well that's a tough question I'm going to call that a Republican talking point because I'd rather deal with a straw man argument what are the. Real difficult to handle arguments and if you can show that you can handle them how much stronger Does that make you look this is what Republicans do this is what the show tries to do this is how we win and this is exactly how the Democrats are probably going to lose next year we'll have some more great information next week tune in next week to the Ritchie win show the logical choice. If you will the i.r.s. 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Shows including The Daily Buzz and Fox affiliates all over the country Dr Jan also serves as a member of the American Association of pharmaceutical scientists and she's also a member of the American Association of nutritional consultants and she's created several health formulas now that are literally helping millions of people out there regain their health and wellness and Dr Janet I want to get right into this and we were talking about pain today and it always amazes me that you know we have the technology to put men on the moon em bring them back again we did and yet we can't seem to get a handle on pain relief from what's going on the last time I was here it was estimated that 43000000 Americans. We're dealing with pain in their body just astounding Now that number has doubled to an estimated 86000000 American adults and that's why I'm here today I really want to talk to you about this epidemic what kind of pain are we talking about here all the ictus is rheumatoid and osteoarthritis got the 1st side is the tendonitis we have fibromyalgia neck pain and low back pain hip a need pain joint pain and of course we have injuries you know we have the weekend warrior type things to actually Chris's over 100 different types of pain syndromes But the real issue Chris is we're failing to get to the root cause of the pain what's causing this pain epidemic out there or what is going on it's just a day that we live in right now we have more stress than ever before and that causes pain syndromes ultimately but I can tell you that there is a real natural solution that can help you get to the root causes that I created my glucose mean cream to take that cream apply it exactly to where it hurts and it goes in instantly because I wanted to give targeted relief Ok mediately. 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Program in the next half hour we're talking about Ramadan. Because Muslims across the west are getting ready to join those across the world about to start the holy month of Ramadan. We talking to some Muslims in Somerset to find out how veg getting ready to. Close the India pale and food. The 1st sort of created in the late 18th century is being drunk. Everywhere OK even I had to take that was the India Pale Ale Festival this weekend in Gloucester So I went along to taste. A few different types of India Paladin realize that not many did exist if there was some doubt she smelled like wine. On this bouquet. Full body and all know guys don't but I don't think they describe it like that. Very I'll be talking to some of the customers who are trying out different India pale. Classical music artists. good chill was. A car son. Nick of course was without us there the film. Johnny learned the girl is very very simple she doesn't understand she's very naive I think is the. Less catch up with the latest travel news in that is the Nicola on me M. Find north by money enclosed proven time vehicle from junction 6 add pair Surely he junction 5 heading on to Droitwich traffic is coping it well they are however on the ether She 9 both directions close with killing Shafik an accident from a watch heard it 2 large trucks at Bell break and on the M 4 each spine one main close there was slow traffic this is an accident prevention 15 minutes when. An East teaching chain of 14 at Hungerford by Nicholas McIntosh at the B.B.C. Travel Center thank you very much Nicholas Nicholas back with more travel news after 8 o'clock. Called Free and away 1000 to 8 doubles 3 double 6 A.B.C. We'll show. India Pale Ale into parallel was 1st created in the late 18th century to provide a long lasting beer to take on ships to the Eastern countries of the British Empire the beer was heavily hoped to help preserve the air on the long journeys weaker less happy English pails have been brewed for generations ever since but it wasn't until an American craft brewers began trading the hobby I.P.S. In the 1970 S. That it really grew in popularity once more and a celebration of the I.P.A. Or India Pale Ale was taking place at the brewery at Gloucester docks yesterday in the wee over the weekend in fact Friday and Saturday rather with big news from around the world on offer and Gloucester brewery also unveiled its new BIA the Vic I.P.A. At the festival and I went along to find out more and sample some of the I.P.O.'s on offer and met some of these people in my name's Tom and Stroud So Tom you're here at the I.P.A. Best of all in the docks in Gloucester Tell me about your favorite I.P.A. . Well one of my favorites is the fashion. It's got nice citrusy. Like a resinous and it's very easy drinking. Only I want to try some of the research I mean it looks just the same as any other I.P.A. . It didn't sound very it doesn't have very strong. To me. No. But it's something you 2 well that the strength of flavor is from the whole the not from the amount of alcohol Yes I mean what is the sense of the alcohol was there a 4.5 percent 4 point gosh that's quite strong really isn't it 4.5 percent but what do you like about the I mean the smell in the face what is it just the the Hoff heroes from the from the different hot thrill around the world the effect of it obviously Yeah. I'm Tracy and I'm from Christmas and I'm here because I may come out regularly to Glastonbury on a Friday and we really enjoy the I.P.A. But they said What is the you like a bouncer with the little bit less pressure than the normal bees and then nicer than the traditional old man's ale. I think over all my favorite cases session I'd say from group to Berry. Obviously because it tastes or the the effect it has on you. Mainly because it is not so strong and days that she not keep it to stay quite a nice easy drinking bear I'm still I'm actually from Gloucester I live about a mile away from the barrier to feel you're here the I.P.A. Festival what's attracted you to it OK Well mainly I like the bass here and it's an I.P.A. Festival an I.P.A. It's really my preference but I'm not into the dark appears so much so obviously an I.P.A. Festival is something that I'm very attracted to is the taste you like for the melodies or the effect it has on you. Actually not so much the effect but no taste and smell go together for me you know with a parasitic But you know it's into the glass for you drink it you know you get the aroma of the House or the flavor so yeah all of those components are I tend to go for the slightly lower alcohol winds because like I like to drink more. You know but. That you get more flavor with a higher A.B.B. So I guess it's a nice it's a planned event what mean need I mean really so what was your favorite here. My tastes change I think. That there are a lot of different styles not just as far as but I think at the moment I like the ones that are more very happy I like the tropical flavors the slightly thicker worm so. Yeah I would say that's my my 1st original I was going salmon I'm looking for page one that really OK my England Journal and I live in Gloucester I did drink I.P.A. Yes And how did you get into it and what about tea is my husband's always been a real ale fan and about 2 years ago I actually found a reliable that I enjoyed because prior to that everything he gave me to try I didn't particularly like the taste but I started off with a milder tasting beer and gradually progressed onto more hoppy I.P.A. Type beer so before we started it we were lager louts. I would have loved because you know I like wine and I like spirits but you can't drink wine and spirits all the time because you get very drunk so large it was kind of. Something that you drunk that wasn't quite so strong so you haven't gone back to wine in lager than no no like you change in a. Different story now that I get here I don't know what about the what's your favorite. The nicest one I think Gloucester brewery do is a session I.P.A. Which is really really nice really flavors really full bodied nice color really nice on your palate I wouldn't say it's an introduction of beer but one sheep you've you've had a milder form of Relayer Well I think it's something you can work up to I mean as a 70 but drinking beer for 2 years I started off on Gloucester's cascade which is a decidedly darker ale but it's much more mild in its flavor and from the I kind of started to find that there was enough flavor and I started to introduce more. More flavor some B.S. . In pre. Linda They're one of the drinkers at the last brewery where they have lots of different I.P.O.'s for people to try I thoroughly enjoyed I also spoke to the manager there Hugh and also Simon who brewed the I.P.A. And for the I'm going to bring that interview today to you but maybe next week is quite interesting the way they do it and I had never realized that's what happens but it actually happens here in Gloucester which is brilliant as I'll bring you that story next week now I will she will cast the most feasible scenery of the space the freedom the endless horizon there is so many memories in so many places and around so many corners think I will just say much because of the threat of the beauty of the landscape in the movie dance assaultive kind of there are so many people who want to live in China including cars a lot of celebrities it's got a lot of variety about a place where. You just feel like that's what it is a. Place you live the stories you share the music you love B.B.C. Will. Want. To. Budget. Cuts. Got a. Little early. To I. Think. The South has made. Me. Want to. BRING YOU LISTEN TO THE MONEY Massey with you until 8 o'clock we're talking about Ramadan Muslims across the west are getting ready to join those across the world about to start the holy month of Ramadan the exact time the month of fasting and prayer will begin when it begins is determined by the rise of the moon in Mecca it was thought it will start tomorrow as Monday the 6th The may be truly have is has been speaking to some Muslims in Somerset to find out how they're getting ready our Was. Trying to has had a fully functioning mosque on Friday and street for the last 5 years it's one of a number of mosques throughout Somerset joining Muslims across the world and preparing for this year's holy month of Ramadan is the chairman of Bridgewater's Islamic cultural center we're looking forward to Ramadan this year we follow Islam economy which is 10 day shorter than the Gregorian calendar so our calendar starting a site is only and so whenever the moon new moon is seen that was the beginning of Ramadan the official decision is made by the scholars in Mecca that they will see the light in the moon and then on an altar to the Muslim community. Hopefully those sites will be seen as something new and useful fostering for 6. Assume a Bagan me and her family also looking forward to Ramadan she told me that preparation is key to allow time for reflection and prayer planning more the like one month how do I do to spend the time the depression more on prayer so how to manage with the children then House works and cooking and then my prayer is more parity and more important so I have to do extra because that Montes more and more and more reward are there no more days so I like more importance on. Reciting Koran calming myself more set told more meditation on the prayer and then cooking I'm trying to make this year more healthy because healthy food makes people are healthy people are well so putting on my darts more like fruit vegetables date soft food less oily foods but yet there's a special food like rice pudding and stuff we preparing for him and then for if you had salary as well if there is when you break the fast in the evening yes and a sorry is so not eating so now is mince is good reward some time they eat before 2 am. So it strikes me every year when I when I talk about Ramadan is that people talk about always as almost being a sacrifice for the fasting but actually it's really very special time almost a time of celebration for Muslims in the here is that month is holy month and they respect this month and they trying to avoid lots of things not just food they are trying to not to argue with other people they trying to principally the people who don't like each other they're trying to meet their own. Commence and become a friend and they're like trying to do more spend on pray pray they're trying to think about poor people if they know eating food how they feel that they get that kind of experience. And husband is counting man who's the secretary of Bridgewater's Islamic center he told me that the cooler weather definitely make it easier to get used to fasting for the 1st few days of. The last year of weather was just a bit too hot but this is more cool 1st few days ago difficult after the 1st 5 or 6 days because you get used to it and whether being cold it makes it easier you work in the restaurant trade yourself your restaurant manager how do you cope with being around food all day when you all fasting what it is because we used to I'm used to because even when even for my work life food is always around so journey fast entirely You just need the 1st few days you go along with the 1st many years of people up and down style but now people do specially bridge was because the local people and without a very environment of the barman had ever understand or you fasting today and you know they could talk about me is how you know eat and what are you now. So they all understand and some people know of a bad internet around you they're interested. Kareem Mia his wife 1st Sima and Mohammed Mia from Bridgewater speaking to the B.B.C.'s truly Harris about the start of the holy month of Ramadan of course if you are not a Muslim you may realize may or may not realize that Ramadan is one of the 5 pillars of Islam this is one of the things that got to be abiding by to be Muslim the other pillars being faith prayer charity and making the pilgrimage to Mecca the holy city and of course we have been talking about all of those over the years but will continue the theme of Ramadan over the next 3 or 4 weeks while Ramadan as on He didn't do name. It in a. Good Search it a journey a 3rd it. Only shut. Though never the lead Q. Q. Key. And the Bernie's in a man could do chit. Only . Good did. They ask who she. It is even made. A media does serving a. Need These are the. Same . Shriya Grisel of course there with that beautiful song ask. 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You know this isn't a money Lassie I'm with you until 8 o'clock coming up on the program in the next half hour then we got Solomon thaws She's here with her music so be talking about a musician the somebody who's in the news at the moment also Matthew has more is here with us as well and he's going to be singing live in chanting we've talked about this sort of music before sacred music festivals taking place last year and we had some musicians from there and Matthew's performed in the past at the sacred music festivals in July but he has been still influenced by Indian music so we'll be talking to him about that very shortly Plus of course replaying music like this . 2 good job. To let there be. Peace and good at the college. Which. Look at the body that it will get to the many. Hard. Hard. Job related to get the government to the. Maybe you. Should listen to the cabbage. Thanks. Very popular couple of years ago caller just me and you listen to the body mass is only one toss you have every shortly let's now talk to Matthew Hayes more who has been part of the Sacred Music Festival but also has been influenced by Indian music and I'm very pleased to say that he put a few instruments with him and he's particularly interested in interfaith projects including sacred talent and sacred dunce. Matthew so we hear some of that never told you about it OK though. Will. Of the will. Will. Reverse it. Really I don't know what the clap a lot because this is a bit like a religious chanting and I would you clap at the end of it would expect you to clap your very welcome to clap if you'd like yeah tell me about what you were singing were we chant ing. Words in the Sanskrit language so this is words which are honoring do. Who represent the quality of protection. And so yeah Durga who can be really fierce when her children are in danger and yet who is coming from a place of love and that kind of manifests in everything she does so what we're doing is believing the you know that if they chant this praise to do that or does it give them anything does it give them many blessings of any sort Well I know that in the Hindu tradition you know the practice I think is like this is just part and and the petition somehow create an opportunity for for the sands to kind of enter into the body into the soul and actually to have an effect on our consciousness. You know the ancient Sanskrit language the fact that each syllable has some kind of effect some kind of physical effect on the sound and that is very much at work when these mantras are chanted So how did you become interested in the music. Well in 2001 I had the opportunity to go to India and that was an experience which really going to mark to me and really . Yeah. Took it took me off in lot of different directions really and I. I opened up kind of fascination with the musical culture of India so that has really affected my music in many ways and which part of India did you go to mainly south India by Bangalore coming that do come I can come up with her right under Pradesh OK So let's hear some more music and play this particular. Track of news that we brought. Sneak you want. Gain. Or lose. The. War or. Well yes absolutely lovely because what you've done is you've actually. Included all the different faiths so I can hear some chanting of the Sikh religion Hindu and Muslim but I mean it's a good idea but does it upset anybody well. Because I can imagine some purists might Terrance ever Lang on how widely saying the same name all the the creator in whatever form they see the creator as all mixed in one year. I've chosen words from all these different languages which have all got the word for something like unity when this within them so the idea is very much that this is this chant has really come in Body Mint of that and the idea is is not that we should kind of totally forget the differences so it's not really kind of meant melting pot but much more a way that we can really hear these individual voices of these these individual languages and cultures but also celebrate the way that these languages and cultures can actually. Correlate and actually dance together and dance in sand. But you are artist of the month so we'll be talking to you of the next 3 weeks as well as brilliant So thank you very much for the moment thank you for having me. Joins us what do you think of this music winners on our calming I loved it but I was more interested in this instrument that I had never seen before Matthew what I love though that I was say what I was I was playing it at the beginning box Yeah where does it come from Made in India. yeah it's quite similar to the harmonium but it doesn't have a keyboard so basically it's providing a drones sound so this you know a lot of indian music uses a drones sand some think continuous the box and so that has not functioned then it's like new the notes of the scale of the wrong or come out are somehow relating to that drum note 2nd of unity within diversity she had to have at wanted me jeff learned to play it thank you there was a prima tell us what's happening on her show to the we starting form week theories on blood stem cell and organ donation and for the month who were speaking to quite he different people we kick off you had him earlier with and you'd alley whose that and amazing gentleman bring a lot of things based on his personal story still he done he's than a lot of successful campaigning in the islamic community said he looking to help other community rice no talk to him about that yeah we talk to benjamin 2nd i about you know all belonging really chuck them just festival yeah oh yeah we got i've been there i may let up i'm going there later on tonight here to morrow's oh and tomorrow yes yeah yeah stir vatanen and you know some pretty much it i was like 6 feet away from him did your interview him no no but only gives interviews to certain people are you would have been able to do need to be with a much think but lovely sound so brilliant when you so close up as well i know his rate up i did love his music yeah ok great thank you and with now this is unusual we're not would it after you is the other way don't usually also you could he me out for sunny you The So many of. You. Talking all. That is so me of course and here is so you know so yes it's the other way round isn't it by Primrose Hill and he's on the helo saying you've Mohanan and yes money we are talking about a single and him one an Indian singer who started his music career at the age of a 17 winning. Challenge in 2007 and he's just recently celebrated to his 30th birthday and today Roma he started out the A 10 day age of 17 and it is on the DAR. That cub of I don't mean. To. That cub of. Shiva. But. Again. You told. US you can. Read all. Thought tomorrow added. Rooms rig to. Pen. Get it. All. Ready to. Read. Was. In. Bed done. The. Son of Man by golly isn't very good but he send your visible. Radically sometimes. Not. Much as in sometimes sometimes I see you and sometimes I don't see it and not kind of used to mean it was. Doris singin in Bengali my mom uses that word much in large areas like sporadically like you just sometimes you work sometimes you don't work on yeah sometimes drops on I don't but. On ad hoc basis you just turn up and he's probably trying to sing various I see every now and again and he just turned my life upside down and that's why he's probably what he really. Showed the. Heart. So he's quite young What's he doing out as then. At the moment he recently got married as well and he released one of his latest singles. And what you would want to say about this Bengali singer he is not just only an Indian singer he's also been Gali singer which we can hear and he says he's sang in many Bengali films as well as in Hindi films as a playback singer and he's been offered numerous role was back in Bangladesh in Kolkata where he originally is from and what that's his hometown and in Bali where teens just that Saregama challenge in 2007 and that's how he was known didn't known into the industry to other other artists but I think it's really sounds very nice and Bengali actually if you hear that margin of Roger's song. Good. Luck. Because you have a background son and this is a make you feel when you hear a song. As it does it actually takes you back to that. Especially this boy says This reminded me already. When I was living now in Bangladesh and that the force was not this voice in particular but the words it's it's just takes you back oh lovely I feel I have a valid question right now listening to this worries because there was a new release every weekend when I was out there and it was. It was not as popular as he is right now and going back to some of the voice is a should the Bush of the dialect which he is singing in is the actual Bengali language. And. There's one quite a few awards then yes I mean you know he started a war his 1st ward at the age of 17 with Dizzy with the bang last Oregon law PA in 2007 and he also won in 2013 he was a Big Boss Bangla winner as well and he also won the best color car award which is color car it just means what is that what is the color scarlet he's very skilled and yet he's so he's very skilled he won the skilled award in the best music album category in 2008 so he's got a lot already under his belt and we do know that his voice is going to be lent again to the Bollywood from the film industry and until then he is going to be working in the Bengali film industry singing his lovely with his lovely voice in Bengali of course. Don and he shot her. Don and. Very very really a walk. Further where. So that's a. Sagna performing still easy singing and yes films I mean since 2007 I can say he sang at least 50 songs for buying all the fans and the rest for the Hindi culture hasn't been named yet but not very many songs he's already said great Sunny thank you very much speak to next week thank you man I. Was. Bad. Was. Just. Where they were. Thank you very much for listening the day if you missed any part of the show you can actually listen again on B.B.C. Songs up search for money and a double then why shows ever prefer to days from today. Than by Kevin fellow man and Primrose on next good Lucilla was the hammers could meet the sun was and. Was. The place to live the stories you share the music you love. Is B.B.C. Will. Be seen use it a timeless soul at least the same P. . People are being killed in Russia when a passenger plane caught fire midair just after it took off from Moscow International Airport video footage shows the rear half of the aircraft engulfed in flames Steve Rosenberg reports from Moscow the plane took off from Moscow's surely major airports bound for Manske shortly after take Mr luck in using his share of the proceeds to buy a house and an unlikely mortal has stolen the show to fashion event American the Graham white cats gave a perfect example of a literal count walk when it appeared on the rum wagering Christian Dior Show torching the models going the other way.
Cyberattack an independent councilor has seen his motion seeking a fellow councillors resignation defeated following an investigation Ben Lloyd shocked us and was found not to be acting as an independent council when he shed posts which claimed Council was a business and compared Israel to Nazi Germany but councillor Mick Haynes he's wife died from cancer last year said the comments were an intolerable insult to Oxford scientists working to cure the disease Oxford City Council's leaders Susan Brown urged councillors to forgive and move on from the grossly offensive Facebook posts because he had apologized and promised to learn from his mistakes as the new academic year gets underway at Oxford's college is one student from sin will be returning without her heart Rebecca Henderson from Bristol had to have the organ removed due to a cancerous tumor and now depends on a cutting edge artificial device which she carries in a rucksack she had just begun a course at Oxford University last year when she fell ill will now take up her studies again next week despite describing the response from the college and her friends as amazing Rebecca says it still feel surreal that her heart is outside her body it was kind of one of the things they said was a last resort that I don't think I really believed even though you know I held the model of the artificial heart in my heart and took pictures and sent them to my friends we're not I might get on I've got the rucksack which has my machine and my mum's got the spam machine because if anything happens to mine we've basically got 4 minutes to change over or bad things happen and you know thirty's in Indonesia it's a search and rescue operations on the island of pseudo ways he will continue for another week following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that more than 1400 people are known to have died a group of U.K. Charities is launched a fund raising appeal to help those affected including Oxford charity Oxfam deputy humanitarian director Camilla Knox people says some of the money collected it will be spent on shelter kits partly people are living on this very flimsy plastic and in some cases even completely open and we're very aware that the raising season is going to convert. I comes at the end of the month so the need to have more permanent structure is going to be important an increase in bike thefts in Oxfordshire may be down to organized crime according to a cycling group in the city itself the Thames Valley police figures showed reports of stolen bikes at nearly doubled in a county in the space of just 2 years Simon Huns chairman of Oxford cycling group Cyclops says cyclists happy reporting something more than just one off that spy individuals in the last couple weeks of those reports going out about Iran going around so it was a pretty organized staff people with big scale uppers going through bike locks and this does afraid from time to time that's a different scale of operation from what you might call your everyday bike 5 Ft Knox which is weather for today should stay dry this afternoon with quite a lot of cloud over there will be some sunny spells to be feeling warm in the sunshine with highs of 20 Celsius at $68.00 Fahrenheit tonights mainly dry with some mist and shallow folk towards dawn and lots of 9 B.B.C. Radio Oxford news just coming up towards 4 minutes past and I thank you very much sir for if. You're still. On B.B.C. Radio. Coming up in the next we will all be minding our piece and Q.'s is Gyles Brandreth who'll be on the show talking about his new book on grammar it's called grandma rather than how do we wrap up so you hear from him of course don't forget a brand new clue in a brand new prize for the one second song challenge MAX lines will open 10 to 12 so make sure you register to play and also very shortly you're going to hear about a life changing gift from a wanted priced charity to a school in need. On B.B.C. Radio and it's going to be a mammoth surprise. the Told. I'm breathless in the next 20 minutes John's brown dress will be on the shy but one of the greatest things that the village of Wantage has a community spirit and that's worth its weight in gold you'll be able to hear that with my next guest right Collins is from the ray Coleman's charitable trust a local Wantage based charity that helps I mean us vulnerable people and values in need and today after months and months of hard work they've pulled off something incredibly special here about it now raise on the law had I read a hell I read a Obviously lots of excitement at your end. Told me straight out talk us through what's happened right 1st off. Been raising money. Go. School. And we thanks to James's Place and the Vinci Foundation and some money from the trust we really should raise 45000 pounds. Smalling we delivered a brand new 17 C. Minibus with a wheelchair lift and 4 movable seats will chairs to be secured inside. The kids are absolutely over the moon and the parents on the beach face and. They are it's just a sea of smiles around this playground Well you've got to Vino one of the parents there with you can you possibly yes how you know right now. Yes All right so. I don't know Divino Well this is wonderful isn't it this is this is a day that you weren't expecting perhaps I mean as a parent how do you feel right now that this. Is now going to be a very well he's part of the school I should imagine this minibus Well it's just fantastic I mean we we didn't we didn't know we knew that they needed a new minibus we just found out the surprise this morning so we came along and the money that came out is absolute fantastic So what was it like seeing if the for the 1st time as it was sort of. Interfering with we kind of some strain on the children and just so excited just amazing sort of to be able to have wheelchairs on as well and the amount of trips you know the main can't. You know be out there with the boss it's just just fantastic it's just really an amazing. To me and I believe that Lily and Skye various What can we speak to students Lillian sky to yes. Hello is that Lillian sky Yes hello Lillian sky OK then this is a day that you're not going to forget for quite some time so how you feeling what difference is this Many of us going to make to you both. Yeah it was a complete surprise because I mean this this was a secret very well kept secret you know that. What are you most looking forward to about the things that this will enable the Fitzwarren school to do. You know trips Wow What kind of trips sure and so what kind of what countries would you like to go on then you say residential So you know I would imagine that you're thinking about the kind of residential trips they'd like to go once a tell tell us about them Laos wells and why Wales Why would you particularly like to go to Wales. And it's a wonderful Well look I tell you what you it's probably not really sunk in yet but you go and organize those residential trips and put me back to Ray if you will find you very much indeed living in Sky speak to Ray. So Ray you've made a lot of people very very happy of course you and several other people as well but you know tirelessly trying to secure this 45000 pounds I mean that's no mean feat no you say it's a huge sum of money and it took my breath away I quickly managed to get it and. You know some amazing people out there that want to help you know cause it's like this is such an amazing school the students are fantastic. You know there's such a current sort of loving sort of atmosphere around the school and that you know from the teachers from the assistance the parents and the children and you can't not want to help these places it's fantastic you know we just heard from from the sky and obviously you know they're thinking about this residential trips that yeah able to go on now that they haven't you know been able to do before and it's wonderful that they have something you know incredibly exciting to look forward to you know this is this is this is life changing Well exactly I mean it's I mean the idea we wanted to make sure we got them with a wheelchair lift Well Jeff in so you can be inclusive for all the. Because the worst thing is if the class goes out and some of the students are left behind because it's not safe for them to travel so that was the priority for us and and obviously cost extra but we really pushed to make sure we got the maximum so that we could you know deliver this to the school and it can be used by everybody for you know it's a day trips residents of chips even going swimming horse riding you know so the whole class can go out and be part of it and if you want to go anywhere with your friends then yourself we want to keep more together so they can learn and get life experiences and then just come out into a big world world more prepared Absolutely and just just do and have access to the things that you know most of the children have exactly Yes Exactly yeah this was a very this was a very very well kept secret right so yeah I was amazed actually how well it was I'm probably the worst. I've been bouncing off the walls for about 2 or 3 months we've we secured the money in just over 2 months but obviously it takes time so do the bass and get it prepared and get all the livery and all the logos and everything done so when he got pushed back a couple times so I got the choice we had to die and then it's been pushed back so we kind of you know been ready to go and then that's a call back so but it's been great I mean it's you know it's for the kids and seeing their faces and the parents and the teachers and everybody was surprised and and that's what we wanted you know it's it's a huge donation for us I mean our fund raising for seniors and this is probably 4 or 5 times larger than any donation we've ever given but we can only do with the support of the businesses that help us. Massive thank you to them and hopefully this will encourage more businesses to get involved with the trust and because we can do an awful lot with the money you know I mean you can see there's 100 Nights students a year. And more students come every year this will benefit hundreds of kids we're also trying to end with a cafe that there are enough. Going to be trying to get many of us to pick up people that live in like sort of live in isolation so you can go out and benefit. As well so it remains a challenge I mean it's a right it's it's a ray of skews the pun but it's a ray of sunshine. But reflected in the Decker on the bus yes yes big sunshine and. You know cheesy. But you know hopefully will be a big community. With the children are safe we can involve. Neverland that was brought into the lunch club. You know it's got a unique. School and also had so we can pioneer that maybe others. You know primarily through the school but we'd like to see if we can help you know without leaving alone as well when it's fantastic and many many congratulations to you and everybody that did that making that possible for the 1st one school thank you very much indeed it right lovely to speak to you right Collins. He said from the right kind of chance will trust just to secure it and delivered a minibus for the Fitzwarren school. To much excitement I'm surprised as well. As the interview was done stan I'm going to try. That's just. Never on a list. And I could soon. As. I a little slip. Was Extra. The Lexington research or that's called LET YOU LOVE ME IT'S B.B.C. Radio Oxford So next time it is going to be joined by John Brandreth So let's mind P.'s and Q.'s and he'll be telling you among other things about his latest book have you grandma or not have you eaten grandma and also don't forget the one second song challenge Max that returns when the lines open at 10 to 12 a little bit later on so half an hour from now and you will hear that cat klaxon are given a clear actually as you can have a ponder over it is a brand new clue and a brand new price today because it was one yesterday today you can win a pair of tickets to see 10 years of hype and social talk at the Cornerstone indicate this Saturday 6 of October the band's manifesto is to only do stuff that was fun and make only the music they wanted to make so it's a music adventure with the band hope and social up for grabs a pair of tickets to see them at the Cornerstone Indycar on the 6th of October that's this coming Saturday night so this is what happened yesterday when we had a winner Tracy Chapman. Survivor I had a tiger I only. Dated. I suppose you know I mean bland would be a bit of change to painting windows you know seeing Jamali Magic's the critically acclaimed comedian would be a bit of a change from painting windows on the 7th of October by the way and also it would be a bit of a change from painting windows to go to the Whitney Festival $29000.00 and be a V.I.P. As well robbing carditis said. You might say it's wrong but maybe on a losing streak but you're certainly on a winning streak Well Dan Now how does all that sound I was very close yesterday as well when I. Tried to trap it but you could also do but I just didn't know you and I know well that well done to Robert from counted and he scooped that Prize Hall So there's a new clue for the one second song challenge Max and here it is. What I need from that is that the song titles and the artists of those 5 songs contained in that clue just a 2nd of each and the song title and the artist I need please now the lines don't open yet so don't call now at the when the lines do open at 10 to 12 in just under half an hour's time I need you to register to play because that's the only way that you can play to win the one second song challenge mac so once again this is your clear. And what I need a little later of course is the song title and the artist of each of those from that clean lines open at 121-208-0010 extension 9100 is the number to call at 10 to 12 cools off free. So listen up for the cat klaxon. For any particular reason why. What I think is just the usual time of day traffic is saying it's going to take a Around 7 minutes to get through the junction of the roundabout so that is a bit slower than usual. No major reason why that could be but we can have a look into it or if you know you could give us the. 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Now in this day and age the use of good English and perfect grammar is perhaps becoming a dying art but fear not for behold one man is fighting to keep the love of language alive and is spelling out his linguistic do's and don'ts in his new book heavyweight grandma John Brandreth takes us through the intricacies of the English language in the age of social media and given today is National Poetry Day It's a great time to talk to a man so keen on celebrating the power of the written word and Giles joins me right now Giles Good morning good morning there once was a young man from Peru whose limericks stop that line to. Job was going to also add to my contribution to National Poetry Day I was going to ask you Have you written a love poem but clearly not that could change the course of this chant uniting it could change the course of both our lives and that is not irrelevant to my little book having read and grandma because as well as being about you know good punctuation and correct grammar it's about the power of language and in the age of the tweets and the text in the M O G You speak of love poems love letters I met some young people the other day not one of them had either received or ever sent a love letter so I say how do you how do you communicate and they say well we send a text and one of the texts say well it says Do you fancy it well I said that is hardly very romantic do you fancy it well that would have happened in your day jobs when you were courting I was certain they weren't emergencies people send emerges apparently you know a little smiley face with a tongue hanging out that apparently says something don't ask me and then don't go there with the obit Sheens whatever it is no matter what I'm saying to you just don't go there so my idea here is to embrace all that because you can't resist change people who resist change become unhappy I mean I don't want to learn another password but I accept we live in the age of password so you go embrace all that you've got to go with acronyms you know yolo we only live with. Once we've got to take on board the changing language but I think you need do need to New know the rules before you break them and I think you need to celebrate words and yes here we are Radio Oxford mine is a book the even uses the Oxford comma Yeah I know what the Oxford comma is but no go ahead well it's quite complicated the Oxford comma but it's interesting the Oxford comma is that if you're having a list of things you add an egg so my favorite drinks my favorite flavors of drink are in lemon rasberry and lime and ginger if you put orange comma Lemon comma rasper a comma and lime and Ginger you know the last flavors lime and ginger but if they used to be strawberry apple pear lime comma and Ginger it's lime and then separately ginger so the point is the comma makes all the difference well cause punctuation makes a difference I totally agree with you and I'm a big fan of a comma Now let me give you an example OK Charles So if I if I'm applying for jobs and I want to know about my interests and I write I love cooking my family and my dogs exactly exactly what sort of a woman are you oh but you took your family you brought all them do you reduce them and your dogs to where you are sizes job North Korea with I mean this is I mean I know exactly that line that he had to test that here very good or your impressions as well I'm impressed but that's what I call my book have you eaten grandma my cars without the comma after Have you eaten we don't know what you're saying are you saying now and have you had your tea yet are you saying Have you eaten grandma sister asked exactly where the nosey Mark not I once met somebody who had eaten their grandparents in long to the yes this is true you belong to the good double people who live in the Indian states of the Shah and reproduction and he explained that it's a good job or tradition. To absorb the best of your grandparents' generation by eating them as soon as you can after they've died but it isn't as grisly as it sounds because 1st you feed the deal about it to the fish in the local river and then you eat the fish but still I still wouldn't fancy the fish. You know that I agree. So yes lot of fish is a difficult one how do you spell that So that's the point of model book it's telling you how to spell the plural of fish What is the plural of fish to allow fishes and where does the apostrophe come if you've been so you know is it fish N chips how do you spell these things it's about spelling and grammar and a love of language and Oxford must be the place where it's it's all about you know that you know that more than most John I do I was jolly lucky because many years ago I worked for a lovely man called Robert Burchfield who was then the editor of The Oxford English Dictionary and I've got to have a complete Oxford English Dictionary that he gave to me and he signed every copy of the poem 14 volumes he signed each volume with a different unusual word and it was he who taught me the richness of the English language we've got 500000 words in our language the French for example in the O.E.D. Your dictionary but the French for example in that equivalent dictionary have fewer than 100000 words it's fewer than rather than less than you want to know why Check out in have you even grandma they have fewer than 100000 words and that includes blue Weekend Box What's your favorite unusual what then. Well I'm a great Scrabble player so I love new words that come into the language I like old words too in Scrabble I love the word Yeah why the next you know what it is now have no idea it's a hip hop. Pick up by but I mean I would want to play you or Susie Denton Scrabble quite quite up to me sadly numbers particularly Susie there actually from not at Scrabble I might be better because I use sort of words that she wouldn't approve of for example I allow this is you know having is is that that's a legitimate word and I was it now so you can pluralize it but it S. On the end just like what do you like one nobody. After High level it's going to be a one of anything. Trying just begin MIPS now and then instructions for a 2nd. We've maxed out every year we. Think about so long that. I get a fake but I'm going to promote your event in November Gyles Brandreth thank you very much and the jobs will be coming to our neck of the woods in November so vent with the headline literally for literary festival on the 26th of November at 730 in the Christ Church sent to my thanks to my guests at Charles brown dress. In my. I mean. I think. I can see. 10 minutes in fact at 9 minutes right now until those lines open for the one second song challenge Max I'll give you some funny generous particular. Today so will his your clue. So make sure you register to play the one second song challenge Max that when you hear the cat clocks in 9 minutes from now you're also going to hear from the winner of a national competition in just a moment switches in 60 seconds by one Can the volunteer with dogs for good Saturday the 6th of October we are organizing and also the dogs for good headquarters oversaw road Bambery from 11 am to 3 pm We have over 20 different craft exhibitors plus the opportunity to meet some of our populace currently in training to become assistance dogs there's much more information available dogs for good thoughts email details of your events a radio works at events at B.B.C. U.K. My name is media and I work out very still community center in Oxford I would like to invite you to come along to our race to work pack half a where a team of trained volunteers are on hand to try and fix your small electrical items and save them and it's going to be on Saturday the sick the latte bad from 10 am until 1 pm Rosehill community center and you can find out more by having a look at Rachel community centers Facebook page care all this weekend's feature bands That's B.B.C. Don't you get a slice of radio so what does it really take to win a prestigious National cookery competition Well let's find out because that we have a winner on the phone right now a Q But when Koski Cuba Congratulations So you are the national winner of this massive competition that spanned every length the breadth of of this country and congratulations. Yeah I mean you cause you tweeted me last night because you were just absolutely made up of course that you know after all the preparation. That you did for the competition of course it all it all paid off but you were sat here couple. Goes on in the studio and we were talking about the build up to the competition and you were just taking it all in your stride done it before and we were talking about the possibility of winning but he won you've done it 10 out of 10 chefs 10 top chefs in the country he's done it how does it feel now Phil is amazing and it's surreal as well but I did a quite a bit big build up beforehand so I was like putting more pressure on myself to deliver by you did ask me to let you know how I went so I thought so I need to tell you and now it's a massive sense of relief as well to be honest. Because a lot of work went into its and support from the whole team and at the Fed nest and to be honest because I said to myself I would try for times. Halfway for the process I was like I don't really want to do it again because it takes so much time with a life and hours of preparation that I said you know I need to do it this time and it happened and so yeah it's I'm over the moon yeah I mean we're absolutely over the moon for you as well I mean what you say on your day today is head chef at the set of nest but and actually some of what's on the menu the Fed messed featured in your final dishes for the competition Oh yeah that may need a sticky toffee pudding. Classic classic British dessert but we've been on the menu for 48 years now since is the day one had some transformation on the way but when the brief for the competition come a came out. Perfect you know that's what I need to do and I've got some customers which are coming back for the sticky toffee pudding and and it proved to be the best one on the day as well so it's fantastic So it's the grouse and a lot of the always features on my menu and seasons so you are an esteemed company I always leave the judging panel and the chefs as well because you're talking the best of the best yes it's a grueling process to get to the final the good thing is hundreds plus entries. The judging then is $42.00 which goes to semifinal than to go for 4 hits of $104.00 winners plus a $61.00 has up to goes to the final which is knocked over so it's a fairly long process and tied to everyone you know everyone wants the title so it's a fairly stiff competition of course I mean people like you and in the kitchen very much the pain of putting Oxfordshire on the map in terms of food of course at the head chef it also kitchen getting a Michelin star you winning this national competition as well it's such an exciting County and imagine if you use a chef to be to be to be part on given the food scene. Forget about Henry from a lemon while catches on here he won the young man the anxious for all the years well yesterday it was on a Tuesday so we both winners from Oxfordshire So Oxford is yet to call the title so it's amazing I mean it sounds like there should be sense of some joint celebration detail or something I can you organize that's. Why but I want celebration feel last night. Or Last night I was. Getting better after the celebration on a Tuesday night here we there was a sort of evening in one of the restaurants in London where all chefs and judges met and we had drinks and sort of feedback and a little party too to that later on in the morning so. Yes it's. Yeah I'm all over them on the stove the phone is still hot and biting all the time and I'm biting at the team is about being and it's a such an amazing and just so great because you work every day that the days are you know long sometimes repetitive and it's easy to sort of be sort of bored in a fall into a sort of. You know and of a day about things like this just just gives you that amazing energy and the whole team out there and and yeah it's amazing wonderful well as are so many congratulations from a soul and your family must be incredibly proud of you as well thank you very much Kiba I feel time because I would imagine that the service is not far away for you for the next right now and I have a few minutes to fill but we already have got a great team so you know I mean it's it's I can I can spare time though from what you're a role model for them all thank you very much indeed a Cuban national chefs of the year had chef at the for the next. The West gets the B.B.C. Radio accent 3 minutes away from a fine minds opening for the one second song challenge. So Chris. 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Stations other contributors include visiting angels professional caregivers assisting adults at home in bathing dressing meals and light housework nationwide visiting angels America's Choice in senior home care learn more at 180-365-4189. You're listening to the Ted Radio Hour on p.b.s. Listener supported public radio the time is one of 6. It's the Ted Radio Hour from n.p.r. I'm Guy Raz What about John it's guy ready for your interview l.o.l. . This is John McWhorter I am writing to God and I'm saying. He's a linguist Slayer and he has a kind of a radical theory slash the thing texting drinking Schomberg food. L l. But. Let's do this interview. Thing. It would take us like for ever to do this by thanks we could not do this would take that we would have to book the studio for like 3 hours you know even though this is basically speaking with the fingers Nobody ever said that it was this fast. And there but that is basically a vague idea that texting is more like speaking than writing and that makes it almost like a new form of language which brings us to today's shell language spoken and unspoken how it started how it's changing and how words might not be the most important part of it. But 1st what did texting mean for the future of human communication Here's John McWhorter. Basically if we think about language language has existed for perhaps 150000 years at least 80000 years and what it arose as is speech people taught that's what we're probably genetically specified for that's how we use language most writing is something that came along much later if humanity had existed for 24 hours then writing only came along at about 11. Pm That's how much of a laterally thing writing is now of course as history has gone by it's been natural for that to be a certain amount of bleed between speech and writing in a distant era now it was common when one gave a speech to basically talk like writing so for example the Gettysburg Address was not the main meal of that event for 2 hours before that Edward Everett spoke on a topic that. Frankly cannot engage us today and barely did then the point of it was to listen to him speaking like writing ordinary people stood and listen to that for 2 hours it was perfectly natural that's what people did that speaking like writing Well if you can speak like writing then logically it follows that you might want to also sometimes write like you speak the problem was just that in the material mechanical sense that was harder back in the day it's almost impossible to do that with your hand except in shorthand and then communication is limited on a manual typewriter it was very difficult and even when we had electric typewriters and then computer keyboards The fact is that even if you can type easily enough to keep up with the pace of speech more or less you have to have somebody who can receive your message quickly once you have things in your pocket that can receive that message then you have the conditions that allow that we can write like we speak and it's a very interesting thing but nevertheless easy to think that still it represents some sort of decline that something has gone wrong but the fact of the matter is that what is going on is a kind of the merchant complexity. Ok texting is just like a serious thing for academics to be still like the great linguist of the world today saying Yeah Ok let's sit down and like do a symposium on this thing because this is the real deal Yes I mean I'm not aware of a particular great symposium where people with 3 names and mutton chops are sitting down and talking about these things but definitely it has become a thing to use a current location to do papers on texting I would say that anybody who teaches linguistics these days is expecting to see papers from students on taxing and it's because language changes generally slowly and below the radar whereas this a 5 in 1000. $93.00 saw some of the text messages that we just traded at the beginning of this interview I wouldn't have known what to make of it all I wouldn't have anywhere to grab onto and that's something that happened so very quickly Linguists don't usually get to see language changing right now and this quickly so yeah it's a feast and so for example l o l if you text now or if you are someone who is aware of the substrate of texting the way it's become You'll notice that l.o.l. Does not mean laughing out loud anymore it's evolved into something that is much subtler. This is an actual text was done by a non male person of about 20 years old not too long ago love the font you're using the phone you're using b.t.w. . If you think about it that's not funny no one's laughing. And yet there it is so you assume there's been some kind of pick up then Susan says Lol I know again more following than we're used to when you're talking about these inconveniences so. As I just sent you an email. Very funny people if that's what. It means Julie says. It's me to teach her after write a 10 page paper she's not amused let's think about it. All is being used in a very particular way of empathy it's a marker of accommodation we linguists call things like that pragmatic particles any spoken language that's used by real people has them if you happen to speak Japanese think about that little word net that you use at the end of a lot of sentences if you listen to the way black youth today speak think about the use of the word yo whole dissertations could be written about it and probably are being written. A pragmatic particle that's what law has gradually become it's a way of using the language between actual people. And what's really important about a lot of these conventions is that they're actually quite sophisticated to figure out what lol actually means in the way the linguists can figure out what even means in a sentence like he didn't even come Maj in explaining to a foreigner what that even means to do it in Lingua style is every bit as challenging as figuring out an even or figuring out what Like means in he was like tired as slang in sweat sock as that sounds to us it really is a very subtle little item but like took years and years and years and years and years to happen whereas these are coming in in instant. And here's the thing John McWhorter is noticing the language we use in texting it's looping back into our daily speech as in o.-m. G. Or slash to change the subject quickly or when people say outloud hash tag and so there are 2 possibilities that could be that we're living in a time where it's considered cute to use things that you get from texting and from Twitter in speech as gentle way to say if you are to be part of the conversation or maybe we're seeing the beginning of a constant kind of interaction between texting conventions and speech that will never end and so we've got this brand new layer of language that will keep feeding him so it's interesting right because we hear a lot about how young people they're texting and they're not really communicating and they're not going to develop communication skills do you think that's that's like there's something to that you know having watched a fair number of people go through their teen years texting an awful lot I can't say that I've seen evidence that texting the lot is going to interfere with people's ability. The to carry on a conversation and to enter into a relationship etc You might worry that it might but I'm not sure that it does I think that the social effect of texting that we most have to worry about is the fact that with the distance that's always there even with the illusion of intimacy it's easier to be mean I think we're seeing a lot of this with the bullying episodes that sometimes even lead people to suicide texting as well as equivalent sorts of communications on the screen through Facebook and g. Chat make those sorts of things easier than they used to be when bullying was a matter of walking up to somebody and saying something to them that's something that's worrisome Ok How long before texting as a language Toddy universities and you know fancy private schools you know something I would make a prediction I'm going to make a nervy prediction just for the heck of it are I cake that within 2014 we will hear a report of texting lessons of some kind maybe for foreigners or maybe they'll be some enterprising young 20 something and Zuckerberg person who will present something like that as some are liberal for texters Yeah yeah I'm going to debt ceiling for Dummies I certainly 2014 and there will be outrage there will be media outrage how dare it'll be like the a box controversy how dare you treat this as something respectable but that will only make it more interesting to more people I kind of wish I could write texting for Dummies it would be if you aren't so they write you should do it you know I'm going to ask those dummies people whoever they are if you can get a cut. You get and so the way I'm thinking of texting these days is that what we're seeing is a whole new way of writing that young people are developing which they're using alongside their ordinary writing skills and that means that they're able to do tooth. Things increasing evidence is that being bilingual is cognitively beneficial that's also true of being bi dialectal that's certainly true of being bi dialectal in terms of your writing and so texting actually is evidence a balancing act that young people are using today not consciously of course but it's an expansion of their linguistic repertoire So in closing if I could go into the future if I could go into 2033 1st thing I would ask is whether David Simon had done a sequel to The Wire I would want to know. And I really would. And then I'd want to know actually what was going on on Downton Abbey that be the 2nd thing and then the 3rd thing would be please show me a sheaf of texts written by 16 year old girls because I would want to know where this language had developed since our times and ideally I would then send them back to you and me now so we could examine this linguistic miracle happening right under our noses thank you very much thanks. As linguist John McWhorter his tok t x t i n g is killing language j.k. Is at ted dot npr dot org. L.o.l. I hope I wasn't to lead. L o l r o f l f.w.i.w. . He gets a full on on the. Floor spoken and unspoken in a moment I'm Guy Raz And this is the Ted Radio Hour from n.p.r. . 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This is Mark Peggle he's in evolutionary biologist and now we're a species that allows individuals to specialize at what they're good at and then trade what they make or produce with other people for objects that they make or produce no other animal does that. As soon as that capability arises you need to have a technology a piece of social technology for arranging deals. And that conduit is language. But why we and we alone came to that sort of tipping point of cognition I think is still something of a mystery in it's possible that that tipping point actually happened sometime around 200000 years ago and then something really strange happened as we spread out around the world we developed thousands of different languages currently there are about 7 or $8000.00 different languages spoken on earth but the real puzzle in irony is that the greatest density of different languages on earth is found her people are most tightly packed together if we go to the island of Papa New Guinea we can find about 800 to 1000 different human languages spoken on that island alone there are places on the island where you can encounter a new language every 2 or 3 miles and so it seems that we use our language not just to cooperate but to draw rings around our co-operative groups and to establish identities and perhaps to protect our knowledge and wisdom and skills from eavesdropping from outside. Different languages slow the flow of ideas between groups they slow the flow of technology and they even slow the flow of genes. When you think about humans right and the way we evolved we evolved in a way that would not allow us to communicate with other members of our species which seems so weird it is really peculiar on the face of it that our languages exist to prevent us from communicating with each other and of course that's the subtext of the Tower of Babel and it's as if we use our language almost instinctively and subconsciously as a marker of tribal identity as soon as someone opens their mouth and we hear their accent we start to place them and what we're subconsciously doing is saying are they one of us or you know are they within our in group or are they an outgroup member and one of the reasons I think we can do that is that it is exceedingly difficult to learn a language to a very high standard such that you can pass yourself off. And you know your accent or the words that you use or the idioms that you use will give you away and so I think one of the reasons we've evolved to use it that way is because it is in some sense a reliable signal of our sort of tribal background it's interesting because it would sort of confirm this idea that humans are tribal instinctively that they're not cooperative. The wonderful sort of paradox and the sort of uncomfortable nature of our tribalism is that we are really remarkably and uniquely co-operative among animals within our tribal groups and that you know the simplest examples of this on a sort of daily basis are the holding doors for people and giving up seats on trains but you know we give to charities and we volunteer to fight in wars and so on and yet that that cooperation that we engage in at least throughout our history has largely been confined to other members of our tribe. And as soon as we move outside the tribe It's as if a lot of our ethical and moral stances evaporate and we can treat people outside of our tribe as kind of subhuman. Ok this tendency we have towards isolation towards keeping to ourselves crashes head 1st into our modern world our modern world is communicating with itself and with each other more than it has it any time in its past and that globalization now raises a burden because these different languages impose a barrier to cooperation put it this way Nature knows no other circumstance in which functionally equivalent traits coexist one of them always drives the other extinct and we see this in the inexorable March towards standardization for lots and lots of ways of measuring things but the metric system is winning there are lots and lots of ways of measuring time but a really big. Zarb a 60 system known as hours and minutes and seconds is nearly universal around the world. And so our modern world now is confronting us with a dilemma and it's the dilemma that this Chinese man faces whose language is spoken by more people in the world than any other single language and yet he is sitting at his blackboard converting Chinese phrases into English language phrases. Sitting you can imagine a future in which you know people will still speak Mandarin or a Hindi but but everybody will also speak English you know it's interesting that we if we look around the world there are about 728000 distinct languages but about 10 languages account for about 50 percent of all speakers on Earth and what's happening is that something like $30.00 to $50.00 languages per year go extinct so we're losing our linguistic diversity at a really alarming rate it's virtually inevitable that there will be a single language on earth really yes and the reason is that we can already see it happening that something on the order of $2000000000.00 people speak English as their 2nd language and what will happen is that when you imagine 2 large language communities living next door to each other one of those languages is continually sort of out competing the other so every exchange in a local shop someone's got to agree to speak of the other language simply because English has such an enormous head start one would have to bet on English being the language that's going to be the sort of you know this is a terrible sort of metaphor the lingua franca for the world but even if that. It happened I mean it would also change English yes one of the remarkable things is how English is fissioning into many forms of English so there's Spanglish and there's Frank. But the remarkable thing around the world is that all of these sort of dialects of English are very good at communicating with each other we expect if there are these forces of modulation they will lead eventually to a single kind of grave form of English that spoken all over the world and of course they'll be sort of regional dialects but we expect they would all be sort of intercommunal couple people will be able to speak to each other as they already are . And what this does is it raises the possibility to us that in a world in which we want to promote cooperation and exchange in a world that might be dependent more than ever before on cooperation to maintain and enhance our levels of prosperity there might be an evidence that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language Thank you. Card table He's a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Reading his talk how language transforms humanity is it ted dot npr dot org. My name is Tran I live in Portland Maine I teach Latin and Greek You don't look like a Latin and Greek teacher you look like a hipster like you should be wearing a leather apron like I should be making homemade tonics and bitters do you decide to. I mean maybe not a mixologist but is also a tattoo artist and he's actually tattooed himself when I got the tattoo fever I just was like I want to be covered in tattoos and one day I was just like I want to do this huge thing on my butt is it like a big you know like a fish and I look at it and I'm like man I think thinks. It actually does have something to do with other passion which is grammar because thinking that you could or should have done something different it's all possible because of the subjunctive mood which is what folks talk is all about I'm here to talk about how grammar is a tool to be used like a pair of glasses and when it's used at the right time it can bring the world into sharp focus and when it's used at the wrong time it can make things incredibly blurry and this all starts with our understanding of the subjunctive I remember talking to my dad about this and because he's a non-native speaker of English he didn't quite grasp all the nuances of the subject of I say that listen you can say if it hadn't rained we would have gone to the beach and my dad's response. That's stupid. Why do you want to talk about something that didn't happen. Enough The subjunctive allows us to look into the future and to see multiple highly nuanced possibilities with just a little sprinkling of could say would serve Similarly it allows us to look into the past and to imagine what didn't happen but could have happened. The subjunctive is the most powerful mood it's like a. Dream machine that can conjure alternate realities with just the idea of could have or should have to live in this idea of should have is a Pandora's box. Growing up in Pennsylvania to be anybody's refugee I often thought about what would have happened if my family had an escape Saigon 1975 would we have been imprisoned like my father's cousin who spent years and reeducation camp being tortured and sentenced to hard labor or would we have simply been killed like countless other means who were on the able to escape that April. The night that my family was fleeing Saigon my entire family parents grandparents aunts and uncles were all scheduled to board a bus and as the bus was loading passengers I began crying shrieking uncontrollably so much so that my entire family decided to wait for the next bus. And all the way it was struck by artillery fire that exploded and everyone on board was killed. As a kid I thought a lot about our good fortune in escaping and about what would have happened if we hadn't and I didn't realize it at the time but I was pondering things that my parents couldn't ponder and it was all because of the English so drunk. You don't think your family ever thought about what could have been I really don't and you know after I thought about that I was visiting my mom because she was sick and one of my aunts was there visiting her as well just for conversation my aunt recounted the whole story again you know all the details are pretty much there and I remember asking her you know what do you in English you know what do you think you know would have happened and she did issues like I don't know because we would have all died if you could kind of tell that she hadn't really like she was like why would you even want to think about that or what's the point it's like kind of like this pointless exercise and pondering what could have happened that's a huge piece in that pondering the could've would've been showed us right like does it benefit you to think about the things that could have happened you know where does it just kind of faster and if it does and if it's not good for you and good for your sort of your soul you know let it go because I think it's not healthy right but I think it's obviously easier said than done. For my father there were no alternate realities in 1975 there was just what happened and what didn't happen even if he did feel the pangs of losing a life that he should have had he didn't have the language to express it. In Vietnam my father was a lawyer and an aspiring politician he should have had a career he should have been somebody important yet there he was in 1905 in a country he didn't know were driving us a Met mixer. Trying to learn English and support his family. From my parents' survival However this lack of the subject was fundamental to their resiliency they were able to provide for me and my brother to do what needed to be done in part because they didn't expend psychic energy on what could have been in Vietnamese there was just the naked indicative of the world and they met it head on. As a kid growing up for me of the subject of English was this mirage and a way of an oasis through the power of the subjective I imagined this amazing world this fantastic a world where my name wasn't weird. I was trying to pretend that I was a typical American teenager I played a punk band skateboarded I worked at a gas station I ran away from home and smoked pot was kind of like this Asian kid I've been Photo Shopped into a John Hughes movie I. Didn't look like any of my friends and my family full of brown immigrants and exotic smells didn't look like my friends' families and as a result I didn't know what should have happened and what my future should have looked like as I spun my wheels in the quagmire of the subject of wishing that I were someone else or somewhere else. What I didn't know was that when I graduated from high school I wanted to double major in art and English then the unexpected happened I hated my English and our classes. By the end of that semester I had dropped both majors and I was under Claire I was utterly depressed and deflated because I hated what I thought I should have loved. My dad to tell him that I didn't want to major in art in English any more as I awaited some reprimand from. My father was completely without a hint of disappointment there was no you should speak from him because that would have required command of the subject of which he lacks. Instead this is what he said. You don't want to major in English any more that's fine don't study what you don't like what do you like study that. Was so simple it was like pure unfiltered reality delivered with the indicative and so that's what I did I went back to school to college and that spring I signed up on a whim for Greek and it was brutally hard and I loved every minute of it I loved every clause every accent every participle. I wasn't restrained by ideas of what I was supposed to study or should have been studying I simply pursued what I honestly loved embracing the reality the Indicative ness of my passions should have didn't improve my present or my future should have simply blinded me to what was because I was so fixated RINGBACK on what wasn't. I guess in a sense it's all about regret or possibility. So if it's if it's backwards looking 'd Yes the subjective certainly can eat somebody alive and fill them full of regret 'd but the subject of looking forward I think is amazing you have people who move things forward because they're able to think about things that don't exist like the civil rights movement and you know women's suffrage like all that stuff you know sort of these huge you know seismic cultural pushes forward it does have a dark side but it also propels a lot of progress forward we take off and put on the lenses of the subjunctive and the Indicative every day and once we recognize the pitfalls of both indicative and the subjunctive we can actively choose a more positive and optimistic outlook. Go and reclaim and reappropriate the language of grammar it's your 1st and most powerful tool 'd to experiencing and communicating the world around you we all use the indicative and the subjunctive every day 'd and we can be mindful of when we are blinded by the subjective and when we are overlooking indicative around us thank you. Tran his talk is called the dark side of the subjunctive check it out at npr dot org. Stay with us more spoken and unspoken how we communicate in just a moment I'm Guy Raz And you're listening to the Ted Radio Hour from n.p.r. . How addictive drugs were used. In the community. 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The most powerful man in this is Mark for say he studies and writes about words you look back at the history of language and how words change so much I mean I wrote a whole book the etymological all about these words can't control the world controls words now instead talk Mark tells the story of that word president and the battle to control what it meant I want to take you back to the United States of America just off to bed independents and they had to face the question of what to call George Washington their leader they didn't know but what do you call the leader of a Republican country and this was debated in Congress for ages and ages and there was sort of suggestions on the table which might have made it I mean some people wanted him to be called Chief Magistrate Washington and other people he's kind of stalled Washington and other people protector of the liberties of people of the United States of America some people just wanted to call him king they thought it was tried and tested and they want even being mean. Where they had the idea that you could be elected king for a fixed term and could have worked. Insanely bored actually cause this debate went on for 3 weeks I read a diary of this poor senator who just keeps coming back still on this subject and the reason for the delay in the border was that the House of Representatives were against the Senate and House of Representatives didn't want Washington to get drunk on power they didn't want to call him King in case that gave him ideas or successor ideas so they wanted to give him the humblest meager its most pathetic title they could think of and that title. Was President. Present that they didn't invent the system before but it just meant somebody who presides over a meeting it was like the foreman of the jury they didn't have much more grander than the foreman or overseer there were occasional presidents of little colonial councils and government but it was really nothing taught and that's why the Senate objected to it they said that's ridiculous you can't call him President this guy has to go and sign treaties and meet foreign dignitaries and he's going to take him seriously if you've got a silly little like president of the United States of America. So it's amazing that the idea that that the word was designed to humiliate George Washington. Was actually somebody said in the Senate they said that this ridiculous you have the president of a cricket club I mean a quake it was actually played back in America back in those days you can head a state president but what I've been given him it would have acquired that glory you know in the end they could have called him Bunny Rabbit Washington and now bunny rabbit would have you know it would sound really funny. If you have the bunny rabbit has a fee to drones you respect the bunny rabbit. And all of the 3 weeks of debate in the end. The Senate did not cave in Instead they agreed to use the title president for now but they also want to absolutely set down that they didn't agree with it. They could learn 3 interesting things from this 1st of all and this is my favorite is that so far as I've ever been able to find out the Senate has never. The title of president. 2nd thing you can learn is that when a government says that this is a temporary measure. You can still be waiting 223 years later but the 3rd thing you can learn and this is the really important one is the point I want to leave you on is that the title president of the United States of America doesn't sound that humble at all these days does it reality and history have in doubt that title with Grant. And so the Senate won in the end they got their title respectability Now do you know how many nations have a president 147 or because they want to sound like the guy who's got the 5000 nuclear warheads etc. And that's the important lesson I think you can take away in the one I want to leave you with politicians try to pick words and use words to shape reality and control reality but in fact reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality. I mean every policy the comes out is going to be called you know the environmental the clean bill is never called can be called the high taxes Bill something and all these things I mean words can change reality a bit until people notice that the thing with this name is really really unpleasant will really really present whatever it happens to be if if somebody says you would you like a kitten and you say kids and these pigs and they just punch you in the face would you like another question and you're going to say not. Ok so do you think that we shape our language or does it shape us. I think we shape language more than it shapes us reality history shapes language and that's the beautiful thing that it's lovely when you trace the history of words because you suddenly you stop and say what it meant that back then and it changes the way the way you see the work in the way the world has changed that would. Mark for scythe His latest book is called the horological on days John through the last words of the English language you can hear his entire talk at ted dot com. So up until this point the kind of communication we've been hearing about is language trite words we speak or write or text basically things we have near complete control over but the thing is. You don't have complete control over how you communicate because a big part of it happens unconsciously Which brings us to Harvard psychologist and professor Amy Cuddy who teaches at the business school at least half of communication is through non-verbal signals and that includes that includes vocal. Like your pitch and how quickly you're speaking and how much range you show so the language I think is at least smaller than most of us believe it is. The study is nonverbal communication the way you stand how you move your hands or the way you for all your eyebrows things we do that send signals to other people about what we're like in that very moment but she also studies how those same signals affect the way we think about ourselves Take a listen to the stage. So when we think of nonverbal we think of how we judge others how they judge us and what the outcomes are we tend to forget that the other audience that's influenced by our non-verbal is and that's ourselves we are also influenced by our nonverbal our thoughts and our feelings and our physiology so what nondurables and I talking about I'm a social psychologist I study prejudice and I teach at a competitive business school so it was inevitable that I would become interested in power dynamics I became especially interested in nonverbal expressions of power and dominance. So a few years ago frustrated by something that tends to happen at super competitive places like Harvard Business School and it's the male students tend to dominate classroom discussions and women are more likely to stay quiet and any one of the same she could smash up that power dynamic this is what we did we decided to bring people into the lab and run a little experiment and these people adopted for 2 minutes either high powered poses or low power poses power poses. And a lot of the science on this comes from the animal world so you know animals are scared they're trying to stay hidden from predators they crunch up and they get small and then when they want to stand their ground they go Big through postures that are open that are expansive and that occupy space so for instance it's the wonder woman pose and it's the superman pose wide stance chest out hands on hips that's one of them another one is sitting putting your feet up on your desk and leaning back putting your hands behind your head with your elbows out. We call that the c.e.o. . So try to see have you say yours you're sitting here but you're still spread out you know you're still making yourself big Yeah a 3rd one is what my collaborator Dana Carney calls the starfish and that's you know it's basically the victory pose that you have your arms up in a v. But you also have your feet spread apart. To a list do it let's do it right now stand up or stand I mean I'm still a bit off mike I'm doing the Wonder Woman right now Ok We're going to do it but I'm doing this start all right Ok. Feeling better it's great I mean this is crazy it looks totally ridiculous but it would somehow there's like a message coming to my brain saying go out and conquer the world right there's there's a message going to your brain telling you your body is telling you that you're powerful. Do we know like what's what happens inside of you like physiologically when you do that does it is there actually a process that takes place that makes you feel that way what we looked at Dana Carney and yap and I think those are my 2 main collaborators in this work we decided to look at hormones because there are hormones that we know are linked to feeling powerful or being in a position of leadership and those who hormones are testosterone and the other one is cortisol So it turns out people who are powerful tend to have relatively high testosterone and relatively low cortisol and that's true for men and women and so we decided to to look at whether or not power posing could actually change those hormones so we put people in these power poses for 2 minutes or in low power poses and we take a saliva sample and what we find is that after 2 minutes they're experiencing very very big changes in those hormone levels so in other words for 2 minutes standing like Wonder Woman in a tiny room can basically lead you to physiologically in some ways look like someone who has an enormous amount of power Wow just by standing there like with your hands on your hips exactly So think about this in contrast to Ok So think about Stuart Smalley Oh yeah and I know that this is not you know if you were a senator I don't know Yeah Yeah Yeahs Al Franken but Ok so what do you say I'm good enough I'm smart enough and doggone it if you like me this is that's what people think of when they think of self affirmation or self affirming tools they think about a mark for something great that here's the problem with that if you don't believe it already that's why you're in that situation. That's the beauty and the elegance of this as an intervention instead of verbal e. Telling yourself that you actually are fantastic you stand you know with your arms in a v. And your body tells yourself you're great. When I tell people about this that our bodies change our minds and our minds can change our behavior and our behavior can change our outcomes they say to me I don't it feels fake right so I said fake it till you make it but I don't it's not me I don't want to get there only to feel like I'm not supposed to be here and that really resonated with me because I want to be a little story about being an imposter and feeling like I'm not supposed to be here when I was 19 I was in a really bad car accident was thrown out of a car rolled several times I was thrown from the car and I woke up in a head injury rehab word and I had been withdrawn from college. And I learned that my i.q. Had dropped by 2 standard deviations which was very traumatic and you make you because I had identified with being smart and I had been called gifted as a child so taken out of college I keep trying to go back they say you're not going to finish college like just you know there are other things for you to do but that's not going to work out for you so I really struggled with this and I have to say having your identity taken from you your core identity and for me it was being smart having it taken from you there's nothing that leaves you feeling more powerless than that so I felt entirely powerless I worked and worked and worked and I got lucky and worked and got lucky and worked eventually I graduated from college took me 4 years longer than my peers and I convinced someone my my angel adviser Susan Fiske to take me on and so I ended up at Princeton and I was like I am not supposed to be here I am an impostor and the night before my 1st year of talk and the 1st your talk at Princeton is a 20 minute talk to 20 people that's it I was so afraid of being found out the next day that I called her and said I'm quitting she was like you are not quitting because I took a gamble on you and you're staying you're going to stay and this is what you're going to do you're going to fake it you're just going to do it and do it and do it even if you're terrified. God and just paralyzed and having an out of body experience and to you have this moment where you say oh my gosh I'm doing it like I have become this I am actually doing this so that's what I did 5 years in grad school a few years you know I'm at Northwestern I moved to Harvard I'm going to Harvard I'm not really thinking about it anymore but for a long time I had been thinking not supposed to be here I'm not supposed to be here so the end of my 1st year at Harvard. A student who had not talked in class the entire semester who had said look you've got to participate or else you're going to fail came into my office I really didn't know her at all and she said she came in totally defeated and she said. I'm not supposed to be here. And that was the moment for me because 2 things out one was that I realized oh my gosh I don't feel like that anymore you know I don't feel that anymore but she does and I get that feeling and the 2nd was she is supposed to be here like she can fake it she can become it so it's like yes you are you are supposed to be here and tomorrow you're going to fake it you're going to make yourself powerful and you know going to. You're going to go we're going to go into the classroom and you're going to give the best comment ever you know and she gave the best comment ever and people turned on they're like oh my god I didn't even notice her sitting there you know tiny tweaks can lead to big changes so this is 2 minutes 2 minutes 2 minutes 2 minutes before you go into the next stressful value of situation configure your brain to cope the best in that situation get your testosterone up get your cortisol down and also I want to ask you to share the science because the people who can use it the most of the ones with no resources and no status the no power give it to them because they can do it in private they need their bodies privacy and 2 minutes and it can significantly change the outcomes of their life thank you. And we can use Ted talk has been seen by nearly a 1000000 people she gets hundreds of letters each week from people who say those 2 simple minute have really changed their lives. 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