most definitely. and if that's not bad enough the biggest trust me of the week has got to go to the good folks at the national institute of health and i age who decided on tuesday to lift the funding moratorium on genetically altering dangerous infectious diseases to make them even more dangerous and infectious now why on earth would you do this you would ask cording to the n h again a function style research warned that these studies have done almost nothing to improve our preparedness for pandemics yet they risked risk creating an accidental . just in time for the holidays so trust me when i say it's time to start watching the hawks. it looks like. it's. at the bottom.

of. what they like you know that i got. so money and pathogens is the top of the day to day topic of the day today a little unsettling a little unsettling we're just like get it on the way this is how you get somebody . something. here you watch every zombie movie it start we were just trying to say no you aren't no you aren't those i've been trying to put out with. the walking dead people that's how this happened actually thanks to the bird flu there was a breakout of the bird flu back in seventy seven because one of the labs that was storing it in cold in the cold storage actually they said it was an accident that they got. to put this got out of my lab was that it was my but i'm the biggest question that's the biggest question on the table is is the. you know the national

institute of help you know help them you know is this smart like you know is this like are they really going to put the pre the safety precautions in because the whole idea is that you genetically altered like the pathogen in order to make it even more violent or dangerous than a was in order to kind of to retrace the steps and be able to see how to create a killer of things like that. but there is that human error there's potential terrorism you know there's someone going nuts and saying hey i'm going to leave the public there's a million different things bad mojo that can happen from something like this so i guess should they have reinstated this potentially dangerous form of research it's i mean it's a very vague question at the end of a day like yes i don't know enough as a server to say distinctly is it all dangerous i think there is a definitely a certain need and desire to study viruses on the other hand as you said we can create these super viruses that can become extremely dangerous and we know the government has a history by the way of testing bacteria was called the germ warfare program but

officially that is all the one hundred sixty nine before that they really said they released. to save some kind of bacteria on the population of america in two hundred ninety three different places including the entire city of san francisco in one hundred fifty so there is some some history of releasing these bacteria and viruses into the public well my concern is always that this this perks my ears up because it sounds like biological warfare it sounds like that first stab and i think we learned from oppenheimer like maybe just because we can do something maybe we shouldn't and i think this is one of those things where the the ends don't justify the means and the wrists to it being stolen to the information being stolen and i mean the information that is garnered from this could then be used by someone by a terrorist by you know a foreign country or somebody to attack anybody around the world i mean it's like why ripes why don't you just try to fit. as easy as not make them worse and i know

it's a crazy idea is that going to how advance i'm going to get it i don't know that we know enough but to understand like why we can't use more computer based simulations for a lot of this genetic. testing i mean we can do a lot with computer coding though it's all sort of job over the tax issue to the other big trust me that we saw this week is trust of the talks things just just let us pass and you all be happy. and yeah and it's not i mean it's crazy if you make over you know seventy five thousand dollars here on a corporation on a business you're going to be great or if you're playing a giving if you're say an aging politician in congress and you just gave yourself great tax breaks on your investments and the estate tax you're going to leave your family a great big chunk of change you may leave the american people without it but so we can trust the corporations to use the payments the tax breaks to reinvest but they're not going to as you said they're going to they're they're already saying

that they're looking at putting it into mergers acquisitions buying back stock all of that so according to the joint committee on taxation the measure would. one point four trillion to the national debt but republicans claim that the increased economic growth would boost business or say it's an offset the revenue loss but. i can't find anybody who is a credible economic analyst who thinks that that makes any sense because the money that's on the stock market under economy is not the kitty that we get the money from that's that's separate so this idea that the stock market goes up the and our budgets are bigger than fernando or the other is the euro that's not how it works but you know the jobs and taxes that's what we sort of start with after this week. well. as we enter the home stretch of the holiday season let's not forget those less fortunate than ourselves and tragically here in the states the numbers of those without a warm home to spend the holidays is on the rise for the first time since the great

recession. started back in two thousand and eight so these across the country are reporting a rise in almost populations artie's the touch a sweet as more. it's arguably one of the worst whammy disasters in eight first world country even though millions are being spent to combat the issue of homelessness in the u.s. those in the middle of the price just saying the numbers are only well we thought. we'd never seen anything like this driving through the streets of los angeles it's hard to ignore the country's worst homeless population it's you know it's like a female like red cross disaster and it needs to be treated as such and the bills c.e.o. of the union rescue mission has been working with those that are home for nearly thirty years bill says right now it's the worst he's ever seen we have more families who have come to us than even during the the worst part of the great recession bell says it's in part to the drastic thirty percent increase in rents

that's pushing homelessness past the tipping points first on lily and all change when really got out the restaurant he was working out was closing down our than saving a money couldn't afford an iraqi. family really. good one they were too much for ample machinery roughly right the valleys almost want to loosen the feet of the people on the outside everywhere from the side wants to alabama fans to what you see right here and your bridge we are one hundred eighty four toilet shy of a u.n. refugee camp in syria with only nine working toilets among more than twenty five hundred people on the infamous skid row sanitation is a huge concern well the city of l.a. alone has spent four point two million dollars to put in a handful of bathrooms it's simply not enough feces on the on the sidewalk and i contracted flesh eating

a coal ice trap and stabbed. belle's eventually had his right leg amputated city of los angeles to declare a student guy here a prolific from april through october and the program i was showing a lawyer was one of the lucky ones his relapse was dean at the union rescue mission let him to get the help he needed now he's been clean for a year working as an apprentice at the shelter i would hope that we do it just because of our hearts we will not allow somebody to be devastated by homelessness but if it's if it takes a lot then and we need to pass a law bill says with more than one thousand sex offenders on skid row alone you know how women and children sleeping on air mattresses in their chapel only a band-aid for now the bells hopes the country will wake up and fix this it growing epidemic in los angeles and sweets our teeth. as we go to break or quarter don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered our facebook and twitter cheerful souls at our team dot com coming up we showed just how lucky we

were never experience the acting talent with the man musical one married being stanley to present another of our favorite interviews from the year that was watching the hawks please don't click away you don't want to miss that. when you'll make its manufacture consensus against until the public well. when the ruling classes project themselves. with the final

merry go round. if that be the one percent. we can all middle of the room stick. to the. president donald trump's two thousand and seventeen national security strategy report tells us how he sees the world or rather how the washington foreign policy leads to clearly washington's neo cons are running the show. whether you're coming to a close we're taking a look back at the year that some of our favorite interview segments and news stories today well present our interview with logan sparks one of the writers and

producers of the film lucky stars like harry dean stanton followed by tyrrell ventura's heartfelt goodbye to the iconic character actor let's take a listen os is something we all struggle with lost friends lives dreams pets all culminating in our own fears of mortality and what will leave behind in the film lucky harry dean stanton character has a simple life of routine and a small desert town in this clip we see lucky telling off someone he feels is taking advantage of his friend howard played by david lynch has gone. that's so bleak is beautiful. alone closure of. all one. is yours or them dry. land brutal each. of his last dime just to leave everything to our turtle.

is a terrorist you know that so well and near your yard that thing was barely a twenty when roosevelt was born their contemporaries you know they watched each other growing up. president roosevelt was born in a hole in the desert at that time a little creature smaller than my thumb and something clicked inside that little roosevelt brain and he scampered up out of that hole and faced the world you all think of a tortoise is something slow but i think about the bird he has to carry on his back yeah it's for protection but ultimately it's the coffin he's going to get buried in and he has to drag that thing around his entire life. go ahead and laugh but he affected me you know what i'm saying he affected me. there are some

things in this universe ladies and gentlemen that are bigger than all of us and that terrorist is going on. and joining us now from los angeles is one of the screenwriters and lucky longtime assistant and friend to acting legend harry dean stanton welcome logan sparks to the hocks nast welcome. a thanks for having me so much to be here with you oh it was logan you know we've all been friends for a long time it was a weird moment now here we are talking about your success with this as a writer and producer on the film i want to just tell us how much actual luck went into making lucky. like my football coach used to say i'd rather be lucky than good . we were really lucky at this and it helped that we had a i felt like we had a really strong script on our hands and as soon as harry dean said yes i knew that you know it's like getting a leprechaun on your bus like you're going to be lucky from now on. you'd be

surprised the number of people and things that just serendipitously worked out perfectly for this to make it for everything to work out because i mean the man was eighty nine when we began filming you know it was it was a daunting and daunting task from the very beginning but luck was pretty much our our copilot. now we know and harry's harry dean stanton for a long time you were his assistant for more than a decade and most audiences have known his work for more than fifty years what about his performance in lucky surprised even. you know the thing about. about harry when in his character is that is he has a lot of walls is a very gruff a rough guy at least past characters right travis comes out of the desert and he barely says anything is not very communicative and that's in paris texas and then repo man he's this rough and tumble repo man code. but in lucky the thing that

surprised me most about him that was what's really interesting and unique to this film is how naked he became for us both physically and emotionally and we at the very beginning i was like harry most of your costume is going to be underwear a cowboy hat and some boots and he goes great. and i was it you know no argument because he didn't have to do a lot but what it really said in those scenes when you see him like that you see he has his structure is body and the fact that he's almost like bone stacked on top of one another with the will to live and he just layers themself bare to the world naked to the world and it's so moving to me even now especially in light of the recent events it's just so moving that i think that's something you don't really ever see until this until lucky you know the divisive and chaotic. scary political times we live. you know what kind of door or even message do

you hope a film like lucky can bring to audiences to. you know it's funny you say that because the thing that you said that really strikes true that was one of the major themes in lucky is fear is fear of the unknown the fear of the void the fear of death all of that and none of us get out of this alive and nobody ever really says it but it's always the elephant in the room that none of us are going to leave this place to live and it's terrifying i mean as a seven year old boy i think i had my first existential crisis to grow up in cave creek arizona and out there it can get really dark at night and and i was terrified of the dark i mean to the point of almost a phobia imagine it took my father was an exploration debate basically threaten me out of it you know like don't don't wake me up again or i'll give you something to be afraid of but you know that said we all have these it's a crisis and given the world now where we're literally every. the day you see this

litany of awful things people are doing to one another this film is about facing that fear and bringing love to the moment and not religion and organized. philosophies but just pure love and it's just that simple powerful things to put all over the world to burn. well you'd be surprised how few people want to see that . just is not actually going to save. most of us sort of want to cover up reality and sugarcoat it and one thing about here he didn't stand in his characters and hemis person as well as he didn't he didn't live in that world very sugarcoated there was no buttercream frosting on it there was just this is reality and there's the things he was kind of a stoic and that way there's the things you can control and the things you can't and the things you can't control are just why even bother by even bother with them why even sort of let yourself get stressed out about it what is it about that sort of existential crisis that it seems like you say that we're all going through. what

advice you give to writers good seems like that's a really tough thing to write and not come off hokey or cheesy or end up losing yourself and the writing in this film i say this as a friend as as a critic as someone who always has an opinion about everything this is incredibly beautifully written. what do you tell the someone looking to like tell that story and have the storytelling like this what's your advice to young writers. well thank you with the nurturing to hear those kinds of words especially to know that we my writing partner drug and i you know wrote from the heart and we wrote from what we knew we we stole a lot we stole a lot of lines from life that affected us. and put them into a context and it was at the risk of sounding hokey in fact when i wrote that the the speech there the monologue you heard about tortoises i wrote it in my kitchen and withdraw go in and at the end of it i was like. you know do you think this is

too. boring and cliche and like is anybody going to care about a man talking about his pet tortoise and and we had this discussion that it's bigger than the tortoise you know it's about about the things that you expect in life and how they change unexpectedly and how you deal with it and if you can deal with it in two ways lover or or anger and so you know we broke each scene down like that to kind of give it the litmus test of does this smell real this is the real thing that people would do and that was that that's basically the kind of the advice i've been giving i spoke to us the last night it was really thankful to do that and i was talking to some of the students and that was one of the that was one of the things is not just write what you know but really step back at your ego out of it and say is this real it's a real thing to this world that you're trying to create because if it's not then there's no place in it for you but the other thing i told these kids last night

about writing this was i became obsessed and i don't have a backup plan this is i have no plan b. and when harry was eighty nine he had basically retired and i realized if anybody was going to capture his philosophy we needed to do it now and we didn't want to make a documentary because it already been done with partly fiction which is a beautiful documentary by sophie cuber but that had been done and we wanted to tell a narrative we didn't want to tell harry's story we wanted to tell lucky story with harry's philosophy. that if we think. we're going to we told you know known i would have known harry personally a lot of people know where through his works you're lucky he's a brilliant tragically beautifully phylum film for him to kind of leave us all with . what really in your course of knowing harry what what did you walk away with what

it was life for his work working with him leave with you as an artist. well there's the obvious effects that he my life is defined before and after i married again. i was in my twenty's when i met him and i was just you know young and angry and you know wondering why i didn't have a piece of the pie and harry taught me. the lesson of being patient and understanding where you're coming from he always said know your source which which sounds cliche but it really is like shakespeare said to be to cut through your own b.s. and figure out who you are essentially and it took me fifteen years to figure out this is who i was and i needed to tell this story but you know he was also my best man and my wedding and my son's name is stanton and so there's all those effects but but i'll tell you one thing that i learned all the way up until the end i was by a side all the way to the end and. the thing i learned is nobody at the end of their

life ever thought man. i really wished i'd gone to work more. and i say that in jest but you know the idea of wasted time you know and harry lived a very deliberate life that he did logan i got to thank you so much for joining us today the screenwriter of the film lucky this week september twenty ninth in select theaters broader release as we go forward logan sparks thank you so much for coming on today thank you guys i love you above that i love your show thank you. we're all nothing nothing we do matters the movie of your life is already shot wrapped in the macair that was the personal mantra of legendary film and television actor harry dean stanton who just passed away just a few short weeks ago on september fifteenth ninety one trips around the sun for

some may sound like a rather grim or cynical outlook on life but for my friend. harry dean believing that we are indeed all nothing gave him a freedom to live life totally honest with himself his work and those of us who had the honor and privilege of knowing him or not of kentucky in one nine hundred twenty six harry dean is considered to be the greatest character actor of not only his generation but multiple generations he carved out an iconic film and television career of over two hundred roles from alien to twin peaks to big love to pretty in pink to paris texas to the green mile to cool hand luke to repo man hunt and peck how his biofilm lucky. i met harry dean when i was nineteen years old at the very beginning of my career when harry was just beginning his seventy's despite the age difference he became one of my best friends in hollywood and taught me more about

movies and life. than even he will ever know. now almost twenty years later twenty years later i mourn i mourn the loss of my friend as the as the world mourns the loss of a great actor whose whose work touched a solved. even the most wrong member has space for the character he played before before his name but that my friends that a true actor will consider is the greatest accomplishment of all far greater of them personal start of. every being it's not enough pick a my great friend my great friend lives on in my heart the hearts of his friends and family and for the rest of the world in the great characters he brought to life . he will always be something not nothing we love you every day thank you for everything. this is just boarded up plus you are the on the total bullshit of.

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