over the years alvin would make appearances on telephones across the terms of. things going. not better than other people. because a lot of handicapped person. or people get it wrong. they look at all the law and they thank god it's tremendous how he can do things with his feet well i suppose if you look at your feet it's tremendous but these are my feet these are my hands too and i have been doing it forever these are not tremendous feet is the only thing that i've got so when i pick up a cup and i have a drink you know. wow what a thrill that's what it is and i do thank. thank. i thought and i was going to have to be

a nine. i didn't think that i was going to go on dates i didn't know what was going to happen and that that's not how it happened i had a great high school run i mean you know i had a lot of fun i had i to france i had too much fun and if you're like me and my friends you drive around and you look for holes and you go skinny and that's both we did for entertainment. i have a problem with girls i could always get very nice girls beautiful girls intelligent girls but they couldn't get the stupid one. and i wanted the stupid. one night stand but that i never achieved she was wearing glasses i didn't notice. but i found my now why youth when she was sixteen and.

maybe you call it a lack of opportunity but i'm still with her. she was long and not stupid. for most the getting behind the wheel of a car was the road to independence and freedom. the ways mason was determined to drive no matter how difficult it was for her just his a clique to get behind the wheel and do our best. driving instructor to never have a shot tonight save. somebody. but the test. was exactly the same as everyone else there's no difference they came so natural it's not be driving. me most of my life and.

my parents they were the most practical people i think i've ever met in my entire life so when it came to learning how to drive. that was just practical that way you can get around on your own you know it depends on people to take care of you don't have to worry about. taking a bus or you can out and it was really just about trying to figure it out. and i just love driving when i got a lot of different things about to do. most people don't consider the power of my mind and i'm my mind is very powerful tool and it get into it interjects all kinds of things into my system so that my feet are literally. my hands so when it comes to driving. i get really serious when i have high explain why can't i can drive with one foot on the wheel what is peoples excuse they've got both hands and their feet and yet they drive like. this doesn't exist. in germany.

knew from an early age he had to choose a future occupation that would not require the use of. his deformed arms was all to see me true for the sixers to meet on the phone from bitches about him and so much for the summa i realized quite soon i'm never will be a conductor or a painter or a dancer i can't sing so i became a director because of him you know i can't do anything else but to pursue his dream nico went to prestigious film schools and apprenticed under the legendary german director rayner vernon fast binder before making a number of successful feature films but there was one prize job he wanted badly directing a big movie until late in mind and the head of german t.v. said no you can't have the job but you can make a documentary on. the to might and i said you know i you know i think

that was income and i shouted at him i use the f. word very loudly and very often because i said i apply for the job you know you pay well and not a documentary filmmaker who gets all pate you know and that's so typical you know you give the disabled guy the side job you know and then i went home and my wife said what's the matter and i told her they want me to do a film about the little light. and what do i know about the little might go. and she looked at me and said they go it's time to look the devil in these. i don't know what your lives are like sometimes life can really be rough on people i understand that i get it i've been in real life alvin law is a motivational speaker who's influenced audiences in north america and australia with his message of hope is specially to more than two million youngsters who heard

his top speaking is the best thing i could have ever cited here you're helping kids and they need to have somebody come in and tell them that it's going to be ok but i get such tremendous joy out of doing it there is nothing in my life that makes you happier than speaking to kids nothing and the next time you're ready to give up or quit or back again well if it helps even a little bit remember the goofy looking guy that played the drums with his feet but remember the words i live by every day. there's no such word as can't. thanks. allen travels over one hundred thousand miles a year on his own but after thirty years on the road his body is starting to where it takes its toll career and that stuff around i mean you know my body may not last as long as normal bodies do because of what i'm putting it through i mean as much as i make this look easy i'm still put my body through a lot of stuff just the pain in my back from carrying my luggage scar tissue in my

shoulder from carrying a briefcase for thirty five years and you know there's not really a shoulder here so what i'm carrying it with i should be doing this i should have like a sherpa or something. how does a guy without arms function on the road all by himself i can carry my own luggage with straps i check and all tells all on my own i i rent cars my keys there you go oh thank you boston micros think you are now why do i rent cars and it's just how i prefer to function i don't do cabs because strangely they don't stop when you go. still trotting around the airports checking into hotels eat bad food driving everywhere in the middle of nowhere getting involved in blizzards and swearing at my wife for putting me out yet in another life and death situation and not think about getting paid enough so i mean i can get on a rant but at the end of the day she also says this line this is a wonderful line. i mean if you're tired of traveling i'm sure there's a cubicle with your name written out in a windowless office somewhere in the middle of nowhere for

a mundane job that you minutes. and then it goes. in germany. had to overcome his lifetime aversion to others the limit is when he decided to make a documentary in which he and eleven other victims would pose nude for a calendar first i went to a disability school and from that moment on i wanted to have nothing to do with the largest anymore and then because i made this film nobody's perfect i was kind of forced to me. to make this film. i want to look at myself. money come on nobody's perfect change as if. it changed how i look at myself. it changed the movement of so that i might it's complete because the first lawyer

is not someone else not doctors were fighting for us really big time we were fighting i think for me. also as a lender miters but also for the public some say. the energy changed. legal fund laws or a logical thing you know nobody's perfect thanks. in two thousand and eight nico received the german equivalent of an oscar for his documentary on it in. this defining for media and for media heist i know that i sometimes. we are dealing. with the environs if you go to didn't meet and talk to. keep. us up. thank you to

get the money. in college eileen cronin fell in love with andy a graduate student in economics i was in love very definitely for sight. although. i already had a boyfriend you know i immediately was drugged are you nervous and intelligence. her wit we moved in together. and we got pregnant very quickly. very quickly. i was wracked with worry all my life about having a child because i didn't know for sure that my mother had taken the limit i was kind of panicked it started just settle in oh my god i'm going to have a baby i don't even know if i can have a baby i don't know if the baby's going to have legs or not have legs or something

else but also literally i did not know how i was going to carry a baby in my back and so they did the ultrasound and the alter sound technician zoomed in right away found foot one foot blew it up took a picture and wrote footlights that and then other foot hands fingers and. i was crying and all the intern started babbling we knew that she would be ok. and i only are best friends it's not hard to understand why i. took up to be a ballet dancer because that's something her mother wanted to be and she was very.

close to your. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. cranking gave americans a lot of job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year girl and truck so i chose to drive truck people rush to a small town in north dakota was among the employment rate of zero percent like the

gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here and just slow down so much they lost a job got laid off and the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be . and it's a tough reality to deal. seemed wrong all right old quotes just don't call. me old yet to say proud this day comes to educate and in games from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

when his first wife sandy became pregnant alvin law was terrified about what the future held when i saw him from out of there with two arms and. two hands and five little fingers on. i didn't care what brand he was at all or if it was a she or he it didn't matter. it was just the most tremendous feeling my son. wrote back i worried a lot about how i was going to play ball with i was going to maybe try teaching know what to call teach him to play frisbee and teach him to throw or you know i mean all those things that you want to have a care if yours do. we don't have to have arms to be a father. you don't need arms to love. you don't you know arms to be there you

don't mean arms to listen you don't need arms to be a father at all unfortunately too many fathers that have arms don't realize that. they were forget that that's true you just have to be there for him. that surprised me. the tears i don't i'm not sad i'm just. he's big he was a little that. i miss that little boy sometimes but that's not how life works right now is a normal regular person he's got the same regular personalities nothing really wrong about it and you just have to step in knowing you can't just judging by the way he looks what he brings and what he gives is much more so than anything i could bring you know he he gives great fatherly advice. i was a great role model is a great person. and that's all i can ask. louise

mason had been a single mother for ten years when she received a christmas card from an old boyfriend of her louise hadn't been very well and kind to a christmas card and come down and read aloud i think the spark reignited it is the best way to describe it he kissed me goodbye and butterflies were. i was floating on on a cloud and he told his wife he was leaving. she helped impact our. and then he moved down in reading together sent. the little boat it up and understanding with the two of them it's really weird that we cannot it's on then and you guys wouldn't know what i'm talking what you don't about but are now straight away what's the point in that you know that a lot of the head or a mannerism you pick up you know

a little more if you just pick up on it but it's as though the six then you know it really is really fascinating where we communicate here we go there without even talking. and i think we all think we were made for it too that we are. and i remember thinking for twenty eight years all divorced got a kid losing my hair gaining a gut no arm what a package and then i got to thinking you know i've got to change this that's how alan you should use intel to the future wife carly sitting in the audience one day that conference was the first time i heard him speak in it actually believe tonight sounds corny but it was a life changing event for me i was in the process of. considering making a final decision about a rather unhappy marriage. i thought yeah right life is too short i have to make decisions for myself. i mean anybody that sees or for the first time missed

that smile and just absolutely and i melted. i have friends who tell me that i smiled more the day of my wedding than they've ever seen me smile in my entire life and it was permanently glued there for days that was the beginning of the joy that ended in the ring on the finger and the still there today. you can't even describe it it's like all these years of anxious and frustration just melted away in five minutes. you still write. here like his letter she passed her best before date so she's got no choice you've got to stick with me about there's no option you know me. i don't stop traffic. you know you don't really care us there really has. a lot of.

lows just like anybody else who's getting better and. it's getting better. we're there's a lot of credit that i get for doing this but i didn't just do this you know i had my parents first i had my teacher second and then i had her and those three elements of my life a bit give a really big what has supplied the fuel for what drives. in australia. with the british company that bought and still has co-defendants in a multi-million dollar class action suit centered on the road case melbourne woman lynette rowe is suing the drugs manufacturer grin and tell the company wanted the. in germany where it's never successfully been so that the victorian supreme court today dismissed that application this was an application by the company that might

lead him on the worst drug in the history of medicine to have an armless legless woman who has no money and doesn't speak german if she wishes to have it done in court have to move to germany for the next five years so we had. an agreement ours a defendant's grins how have this never given never admit a thing never considered fought to the bitter end of the still was a much more compassionate sensible way to approach which was once convinced of the strength of the climb i settled with when i couldn't tell didn't post sent we had to get up and fight they'd stay there every day and cope with the incredible damage they grow into adults don't really know now that the settlement amount was a multi-billion dollar some it was a sum sufficient to provide lynn with first class care for the rest of off really dramatically transform the rose law going into our refused to pay a cent of the multi-million dollar settlement a two months later held

a press conference so it could apologize to its victims for the first time in fifty years the other way no it's because you only surety this your first chance to get a longish two victory in front managed to mention. so it doesn't obviously have to sell out their apologized for some. reach out to us all. they are they never apologized for the suffering their coast. and they pay for that you know for their wrong it was no a clutch at all that he comes from the heart. their apology came from their lawyers it because he needs all the longest possible of this size and just him and i should also then. i was taught f.m. they couldn't have gone into song and chalk we had to get up and fight aids day and every day in court with the incredible damage they've grown to or don't do.

too many men have been. good intel is still a privately owned company the votes family owns it today just as it did in ninety eight sixty it does not have show shareholders demanding returns the vets family's tosin a fortune has been variously estimated at between two and three billion euros it would not drive that family into. penury or bankruptcy or poverty to loosen the purse strings and behave in a more generous fashion suppose i did not only want the money i want the revanche. i want to rivera show they they killed feist's thousand children yeah they made a lot of five thousand children slice miserable they make the lives of ten thousand parents also. they are responsible for the pace.

going sell no longer makes them in mind and continue to deny most the little mite is outside germany any compensation no survivors feel they have received an acceptable apology. going into our refuse to be interviewed for this film. the original thalidomide drug is easy and cheap to manufacture and continues to be made and distributed by several drug companies and governments to treat letter c. unfortunately it is mostly used in countries that often do not enforce rigorous controls and regulation as a result the little babies are still. tragically there seems to be no limits to the thalidomide disaster. yeah.

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in a world of big partisan lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.

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the media become unhinged in their of trump the president's most ardent critics in the media hang on his every word news cycle after news cycle are all about trump and much of this coverage is negative as journalism lost its purpose are journalists now nothing more than ideological i think it's. what politicians do. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to the press this is like them before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the was in the house. first sit.

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