. >> joining us now on booktv is allen carl who has written a book called "forks". what is on the front of the book? >> it is actually a motorcycle believe it or not. it is in the middle of nowhere in southern south america. bmws-650. i took that motorcycle for three years alone and road it all over the world. >> you road it around the world? >> yup. >> why? >> a lot of us have passions and dreams and i want to travel around the world. my passions is photography and motorcycle riding and i saw myself at a fork in the road. unemployed and recently divorced. i decided instead of scrambling to try to find the next job, i sold everything i had, and hopped on the motorcycle to live and experience different cultures and different people all over the world. >> so why the name of the book? >> i came to a fork we come to forks in our live and forks are the things on the motorcycle that keep us going in the right direction and steer us. and forks are what we share and eat food with. if you a musicianer you know what a tuning fork is as well. there is a lot of meaning and it i

. >> host: allen carl did you ever get treated poorly because you were an american? >> guest: never once was i treated poorly. in fact i was in brazil and i was at a little cafÉ a little restaurant chatting and practicing my portuguese at this point and i actually there was another american who brought up the fact that i can't believe we are always getting tossed under the bus so to speak mistreated or maybe misunderstood and what this personally and said, he is like i am tired of hearing americans think that people are mistreating them were look at them differently. he said i could think that's all in your mind. that's what he said to me. i found that very similar with other travelers that i met from all over the world is that no people are more interested in learning about us and though it's no you know amazing fact that i would meet people and all the different countries who would try many times to go to the lottery of getting a visa to come to our country. people want to come here. they don't want to push us away. >> host: in your travels did you ever have to cal

. >> joining us some booktv is allen carl who has written a book called forks. mr. carl first of all what's on the front of you but? >> guest: is actually a motorcycle believe it or not and it's a middle of nowhere place in southern south america patagonia. i actually took that motorcycle for three years alone and wrote it all over the world. >> host: you voted around the world. why? >> guest: a lot of us have passions and dreams and i always wanted to travel around the world. i had a passion in photography and certainly writing and motorcycle riding. i found myself at a fork in the road unemployed and recently divorced so i decided instead of trying to find the next job i sold everything that i had and hopped on a motorcycle to experience different cultures and different people all over the world. >> host: why the name forks? >> guest: we come to forks in our lives and forks are the things on the motorcycle that keep us in spirit thing going in the right direction. forks are what we shared annie food with and finally

and great stuff all over the world >> allen carl did you ever get treated poorly because you were an american? >> never once was i treated poorly. in fact, i was in brazil at cafe chatting and there was another american who brought up the fact i cannot believe we are always getting tossed under the bus so to speak and mistreated or misunderstood. and what this brazilian said was i am actual getting very tired of hearing americans think that people are mistreating them or looking at them differently. he said you know, i think that is all in your minds, you americans. and i found that very similar with other travelers i met from all over the world. people are more interested in learning about us. although it is no amazing fact but you know i would meet people who had tried many times to go through the lottery of get agting a visa. they want to come here and not push us away. ... sudanese still had his money. it had been two years. call this guy and after he left the hotel he was like when is john going to be back in sudan so i went back to the hotel and picked up the money they left in

between sid cesar mel brooks, carl reiner kneel simon woody allen, aaron ruben joe stien, mike stewart these are the big output of their work just between woody allen and neil simon alone and mel brooks, it's just astounding when you think about it. >> i could see you deciding to run 180 degrees in the other direction because there is so much pressure and expectation. all of these people you mentioned are at your kitchen table. i mean why set yourself up for that kind of pressure? >> you know, that's a good question. i don't know why i did it. all i know i loved so much what he did. and i was so fortunate because when i was 13 14, 15 16, when he was doing the dick van dyke show i know i must have been a pain, but he let me come every day, i was off school in the summer and go down to the studios and sit there and observe and watch him working with the other writers and actors and watching the director stage the scenes and it was a tremendous experience and i always just wanted that. but it was overwhelming i didn't know how i would quite ever do it. >> there's no question about it that

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allen is the new counsel member for ward six. and former journalist alyssa silverman is now an at large counsel member. >>> the district also has it first elected attorney general carl racine. before now, d.c.'s attorney general was always ap pointpointed. voters decided to make it an elected position. today, he said he plans to defend the city's vote to legalize small amounts of marijuana. >>> developing the u.s. retaliates for north korea's cyber attacks on sony pictures. why the white house says it's only the beginning. >>> his widow talks to news4 about the search for his killer. >> they're able to spend christmas and holidays with their family. i don't know how they can live with themselves. >> reporter: something keeps popping up at the security checkpoint h . >>> got a warning tonight for travellers going through airport security. your fellow passenger may be armed. >>> tsa says more people are bringing weapons to the checkpoint and they don't even know it. >> reporter: how about this you might have a sword or a knife on you and, yes, you don't even know it. >>> it looks like a cane and it is but it's also more than that. the transportation security administr

that i just want to read quickly, will dempster, clayton allen renee black david gellers dan amendmentson, nick sutter and alicia johnson and carl sype. there are a couple of other people from my staff nicole touche and travis lumpkin but i want to thank the floor staff. first time i've managed a bill on the floor so gill and trish engel and rima from senator durbin's office and emma, thank you so much for helping us through a process that as my colleague said for the most part didn't take us way late into the night and got a lot of things accomplished when we could during the day. needless to say i'm not as excited about the passage of this legislation as my colleague on the other side of the aisle but, you know, we did find out some things during this process. we did find out that the majority of the senate doesn't think the climate change is a hoax, couldn't quite agree whether it's significantly caused by man or just caused by man some some in some areas but that was a step. a huge enthusiasm for energy efficiencies saw that people were willing to accept voice vote or vote 95 on things that were energy efficiency so i think