but who cared what a few smart alecks thought. the fair had been built for people and people loved it. they loved its cascades of pools and canals and lakes. it's broad fields of blooming flowers. all of them seeming to involve pretty girls. they came in crowds, a cash register which apparently no one considered a symbol totaled up each day's attendance. 75,000 visitors didn't seem too many. most people came in ferry boats and certainly a bargain which cost 10-cents. but others came by auto paying a considerably more exorbitance which cost 15- cents. not to see the greatest spectacle in the west. >>> for those for whom a little culture went a long way there was plenty of entertainment. the gateway as it was called in those days featured a mile of entertainment. historians will note that jack benny was later to have more hair and less gray. thinning in his orchestra leader seemed to move around the stage a lot it wasn't only to keep the crowd's attention it was cold up there. along with the famous names there were some who's names

dimitri is new to the nuclear navy he's preparing to apply for the position of fourth aleck trickle officer. if he's to get that first appointment he'll have to pass series of exams there are two applicants competing for the job and the quickest is the winner dimitri is determined to be the fastest and be the first apostles exams just as it is now i'm in charge of everything to do with nuclear safety radiation safety is another department's responsibility of every tiny detail is laid down here nuclear safety is a very serious business and we have special guidance to follow it's quite a thick book. the crew is getting ready for a long covering the southern shoals of the arctic ocean. the channel through the current gates that connects the seas this is the official start of the northern sea route. the car route is a reference point it's where the tour begins and ends. at. the cairo gates after them it counts for nothing. but it was twenty two years ago in august that i started work here. and i wanted to get married at some point be my first tour was on the by god. and i met a guy there they w

sectarian violence in january alone four car bomb skewed dozens in beirut and the town of haddam aleck's to the syrian border the targets were a shia areas controlled by hizbullah lebanon's most influential foods which also supports syrian president bashar assad. we traveled to the northern city of tripoli a sunni stronghold the mentee opposing hizbullah visible in the midst of calling those who. supported by. his bella's military involvement in syria is believed to have given damascus the the hand in the battle of god and has deeply angered assad's enemies do you think we're going to see more explosions like this well today. anything i can do for sonny brothers anything i can do for syrian brothers i will do anything i can do for these people suffering from injustice i will do. and they say the unkind affiliated to a new survey front claimed responsibility for these recent deadly bombings just days before a man calling himself and that kind of commander announced via you tube that the group had put down roots in lebanon. people we've met her on the ground deny belonging to either of the

well russia have just added a gold medal to that tally in the two man bobsled event the geo of aleck. undeserved calls put in a dominant display to lead from start to finish the even set a track record in the first round now is the first golden books lay that russia have won since the fall of the soviet union and for thirty nine year old zubkov well he now has a gold medal to add to the silver he won in sharon in two thousand and six in the bronze he won in vancouver four years ago in fact after those vancouver games he announced his retirement from the sports but the opportunity to perform at a home olympics coaxed him out of retirement and not decision looks inspired elsewhere in the biathlon twelve and a half k. women's mass starts i can tell you that belorussian. has just won her third gold medal of these games i mean doing so she become the first female athlete to win three individual gold medals at a single winter olympics while the figure skating ice dance competition concludes this evening gratia go into the free program the final round with the chance of a medal they are in t

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loan artie's aleck's airshows he reports that many europeans may be reluctant to see their money head east. e.u. member state greece we don't have any jobs and at the same time we have debts to pay they should support us now that we're in great need e.u. member states brain. i'm unemployed i have two children we don't get any government help and it's hard to survive each month but if we don't have money for us how can we give it to ukraine. and revolting ukraine a country without even in association with the e.u. . the e.u. is as plain with carrots and sticks the there's economic integration which was going to mean that big parts of the ukrainian working population will see a deterioration in their living style the fantasy about entering your of the streets be in line with gold that's a fantasy because the real project is it is an i.m.f. based austerity program. with questions about who will lead ukraine into the future and whether the country will stay together one thing's clear it's the rubicon to be that needs to be revamped first even before the euro my down protest kicked off the

for months and years even, we thought he is a case and a smart aleck. that doesn't bother me. but is there something tougher and nastier behind that scene? we always get the best face of politician, believe it or not. >> mostly. >> but in this case big, the way, he doesn't show his sunny best even to the reporters. but your thoughts about how these things meld. >> one of the things is they get behind that happy face on the front. and now we have seen chris christie introduced to the country not in the way chris christie wanted to be introduced. and what you see is a guy who, as mark said, plays by his own rules, who is a bully, who has beyonce level travel needs, and who seems to either be oblivious to what is going on around him or fudging the truth on what he knew and what he knew when about the bridge. and that's the thing. and you get the feeling of a guy who is the tribal leader and does it new jersey style. >> he is the chief shirks the chief. he runs that tribe. >> let's go to how he deals when people try to get information out of him. he doesn't just try to bully polit

look, i'm a bit of a smart aleck in real life. for me i'm hopeful. is based on my last ten years. the people i met on that show, we shot in every state. we did 300 different jobs. these people don't talk about good jobs versus bad jobs. everything on "dirty jobs" was opportunity. and i'll tell you, too. for the whole run, even at the height of the recession, every single place i visited, every single one had help wanted signs up. i talked to all the employers and i heard the same message over and over. the thing that's for sale is the willingness to learn a truly useful skill and work your butt off. it's still for sale. >> what is the one job you will least regret not having to do again? >> least regret not having to do. >> what was the single worse thing you ever did in the whole run of that series? >> there's a thing called a lift pump in a wastewater treatment plant. it weighs four tons. it's a pump at the bottom of a five-story silo. the pump breaks, the silo fills with the stuff that was in your toilet. when that happens men descend a spiral sta

a lot of aleck's comments were fair, public choice it is important. i wrote about it a fair bit in the book, "logic of life," a great book to buy, and i didn't want to talk too much, but it's very important. on the subject of using the q&a format, i hope that that enailed me to explore some of the complexities, and inevitably, you don't want to, in answer to every question go, nobody knows, it's complicated, there's a multiplicity of views, although nobody knows, it is complicated, and every now and then, you have to come up and say, well, i personally, if i had to make a bet, this is what i think. i do occasionally come off the fence, but what i end joyed about the q&a is that it gives the reader a voice and imagines the reader thinking, seeing some piece of macro going, that does not make sense, that's insane, and actually able to say, i don't buy that, and then i can acknowledge that and agree with that, whatever. let me talk a little bit about real business cycles in the prier of war camp. what alex did not give is i trust the prisoner of war camp