you happen to like ben affleck, great example, but i know we'll get to it later. this is, this is a strategy, it's a business strategy, friends. and it's about, you know, mixing up the kinds of things where people really want to do good in managing to modify their compassion, managing to profit or met without giving any of the profits that you make from that to the rightful shareholders. who are actually, you know, the supposed beneficiaries and the people who are supposed to be helped a couple of thoughts. hey, on twitter, then i shall go to you of the back of, of these tweets h t for a says, what's happening right now with celebrity activism. it's gentrifying the issue then commercializing it. the impact is an issue. publicity is relative to its profitability. so they're going to be some cause is down. i say that a sexier than others that get a lot of attention and in others that do not. this is 10 die 10, i says that n, as in bob, we and social justice activists. i view this new trend as the meaning and trivializing, general genuine causes. i should go ahead yo

and i have no reason to believe that ben affleck doesn't hear about eastern congo. why would we think he's not a human being like the rest of us who's also moved by, by the tragedies and difficulties and in the world? yet to convince ourselves that just because he carries that, makes it for tickler authority to speak on behalf of the congolese people is something that's a real problem. there were already plenty of organizations working for the eastern congo, including those shred by congo lease. and we have statistics to show that unless those organizations had guerrillas, or very horrific stories of sexual violence or a celebrity, they got almost no funding. and looking at the looking at the budget differences over a 5 year period is incredible. yes, i want to play to videos for you and to get your instant reaction. catherine clay higgins spoke to us a little bit earlier. she's a ph. d candidate at atlanta school of economics and political science. he was wrestling with this whole concept of celebrity activism. are they helping all hurting his? yes, the celebrity c

series brigade we are with you as needle and thread sasha and even a hollywood action movie starring ben affleck . but we still love him not for these films. this is probably his most famous role, the charming villain fox. alexander belyavsky's candidacy for the role of fox was proposed by vladimir vysotsky from odessa to moscow, a telegram came with a proposal to star in the film, but belyavsky did not accept it. come in, at that time he was working at his dacha in the village of ershovo. i had to call the neighbors to call the actors, the city and who knows, maybe if he didn’t react in time and there would be no belyavsky in his life, his most famous video will be blown away and a bird like you, i will also rush. she went to the car. it is very difficult for me and the relationship with him is very difficult. the riddle was, what such foxy remains till now and not a gift. i often asked, well, random people on the train in the plane. well sometimes like this casual conversation like trick like. why an easy answer. i didn't hear. i will tell you. what's the matter, most of the answers boiled dow

the unauthorized history of the vietnam war i'm ben affleck, and i want to thank you for joining me andparalyzed veterans of america. i joined the navy to serve my country. while parachuting with my platoon, my parachute didn't open and i broke my neck. thanks to pva, paralyzed veterans are getting specialized medical care and treatments, the jobs they want and the accessible vehicles and homes they need. and i just don't think my family would be as happy as they are without the support that i received from paralyzed veterans of america. learn more at pva.org it is day three, the final day of the 2022 best ranger competition, after 48 hour straight the final surviving teams are set for a dramatic finish. overnight they endured an eight hour land navigation challenge that took them through to this morning the field has been cut again, 51 ranger teams, only the top 16 are back, who will become america's top ranger. >> flight was at the end of the tunnel and were almost done my partner and i said if we don't get this will never talk to each other again, the stakes are little bit higher and

i'm ben affleck, and i want to thank you for joining me and supporting paralyzed veterans of america.avy to serve my country as a navy seal. while parachuting with my platoon my parachute didn't open. i broke my neck, it left me paralyzed. paralyzed veterans of america was by my side from that moment on. please call or go online now to pvahero.org your gift of only $19 a month, just $0.63 a day will provide the life saving help our paralyzed heroes need now. specialized medical care, fight for the benefits they've earned, and the accessible vehicles and homes they need. call or go online right now and receive this pva team t-shirt to show that you are fighting for our paralyzed veterans. our veterans fought for us. let's fight for them. call or donate online at pvahero.org today. our veterans need you. >>> the brutality of putin's war in ukraine is shocking. last week pentagon spokesman kirby got emotional while answering a question about the russian leader. >> it's difficult to look at the -- sorry. it is difficult to look at some of the images and imagine that any well-thinking seri

. >> jim: i want the batman mask that ben affleck war so i can throw it away. >> kennedy: i want peeweeou are dressed for it. a >> kennedy: i would love to have his bike. >> jim: you are in luck because it is in the alamo at the basement. [laughter] it's from the movie. >> kennedy: admitting, admitting! it's like a city bike. all right, coming up after college, they would go straight to work or take a little time off? the answers when we come back. stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tyrus: welcome back on this memorial day we are answering more of your fan mail questions, all right, dana, while i put on my specs, because they made my letters way smaller than yours, when he graduated college did you go straight to work? of course he did or take time off to do something else? >> dana: the concept of taking time off to do something else did not exist when i left school. and it could've graduated early and ended up staying because i had this opportunity to work at the pbs station that happened to be on the campus, so i stayed and did that and had a show, if the tapes are found i will get hired be

i'm ben affleck, and i want to thank you for joining me and supporting paralyzed veterans of america.arachute didn't open. i broke my neck, it left me paralyzed. paralyzed veterans of america was by my side from that moment on. please call or go online now to pvahero.org your gift of only $19 a month, just $0.63 a day will provide the life saving help our paralyzed heroes need now. specialized medical care, fight for the benefits they've earned, and the accessible vehicles and homes they need. call or go online right now and receive this pva team t-shirt to show that you are fighting for our paralyzed veterans. our veterans fought for us. let's fight for them. call or donate online at pvahero.org today. our veterans need you. >>> no, no. not to the media. >>> we are visiting you to say thank you for your fight for freedom, where our commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done. >> as of now a special operation is being taken. we get civilians out of the rubble with ropes, we hope this process will continue and we will be able to evacuate all of the civilians. >> wherever

and went, [ australian accent "ah, we're running out of time real quick, what do you think about ben affleckghter ] >> and just was like, "uh -- [ light laughter ] >> seth: oh, my god. that does make my next question awkward what do you think about robert pattinson as the -- [ laughter ] sorry, just once i write it down, bill, i have to ask it >> oh. >> seth: so. have you ever -- like, i would also imagine one of the problems is, you know, when it's five minutes, which a lot of these -- and to, like -- these reporters' defense they often only have five minutes >> yes, that's true. >> seth: so they want to ask - you must get the same questions all the time, have you ever thought of, like, making up answers that weren't true? [ light laughter ] >> yeah, i mean, you can kind of - you know what it is? you go on these things -- and i can tell you the movie if it was, like, "it." i was in "it two," and everything was like "did you read the book? have you ever met stephen king?" and, you know, "did you see the first movie? and, you know, it didn't matter what language it was in. you would go to ano

up within the intelligence community again pop culture shows us a movie or go for example where ben affleck plays the cia operative who boldly stands up and says by god, we're gonna do it this way and shoots down the other ideas and so forth. in other words you get this kind of heroic idea. in part because he is willing to buck the system or really defy defy the status quo, but just intelligence really work like that in real life amy. i think when it works, well, it does right. so one of the great examples of people coming to different points of view was the hunt for osama bin laden. there's this great moment. this white house situation room meeting where president obama goes around the room to his intelligence officials and says, what do you think the percentage is that this guy? we've been following who they've dug the pacer is actually osama. bin laden goes around the room and there was and the estimates they've already read the same intelligence right the estimates range from 40% we think it's been laden to 95% we think it's been on it now. i think this is fascinating right and why is t

we even talk about sending up, you know, bruce willis and ben affleck -- it's going to be hard to get everything you need, it's difficult, the mining, it's not that clean there's a finite amount. and we need, if we go to 30, 40% evs, it's just not -- do we have the -- >> you're not talking about a supply chain issue that can be cleared up in the next year or two, he's talking about out to 2028 at this point long-term problems and hurdles to overcome. >> running out of fossil fuels to not having enough of this stuff. we all need to do zoom >> on another topic -- >> need zoom, can't go anywhere. >> i'm headed to do a panel in a bit on the metaverse maybe that will be the solution. >> there's your answer. >> in the world of autos, lyft planning to slow hiring and cut costs. i should say auto adjacent in this case. the ceo announcing the measures to staff in a memo yesterday it's looking at a dropoff in optimism for tech stocks zimmer said there are no layoffs at this moment planned >> one of the tech companies not laying off, that's good to hear. >>> apple's development schedule for the

ahora, cuando la diva del bronx anuncia su compromiso con ben affleck estar en los zapatos de este cubanodije nos vemos allÁ. viene su amiga y me dijo "sÁcala a bailar". pensÉ que estaba detrÁs de leo, me dijo que estaba detrÁs de mÍ. empezamos a bailar. la sacÓ a bailar. estaba la mÚsica electrÓnica. despuÉs ponen una mÚsica suave. cuando puso la mÚsica sabe dije la mÍa. empezamos a hablar suavecito. sabes que pueden pasar muchas cosas. yo le doy un beso. me respondiÓ. nos besamos. ella me dijo que se tenÍa que ir. me dijo que maÑana se va. [risas] cambiamos los nÚmeros. yo no tenÍa celular. [risas] estamos hablando... nosotros empezamos a salir en el 96. ahÍ empezÓ el noviazgo. la relaciÓn durÓ cuatro aÑos. al dÍa siguiente me llama ella. me dice que se querÍa pasar a despedirme. yo le dije que no habÍa problema. siento la puerta. cuando miro era ella. ave marÍa. llegÓ a la casa. cuando entro empezamos hablar. me dijo que se tenÍa que ir, pero que se querÍa despedir. dice que le encantÓ conocerme, que querÍa seguir la relaciÓn. yo le dije que estaba bien, que no habÍa problema. se regre