it's gotta be steinway getting breath and it's going to be george orwell. dystopian reality of storm or it has to be the u. k . u k is officially moscow mules. clam country of the 2024. congratulations. so leaving the l a. u. k. this after dial septic all we're now moving into, you know, the ultimate winner and ultimate lose are a category and types award show he's on the she said to lie toward show fear so important. oh, you may have 0 budget for any awards though. but anyway, getting back to the actual towards the ultimate, we in our ultimate loser. we haven't even put categories in here because you know, everybody, dogs, industry know who the ultimate winner is in 2024. it's gotta be the big don royal, you know, no arguments here. it's got to be and you know, we've had great fun with don on the show as much as we've enjoyed putting the boot into, you know, sleepy joe, we've enjoyed to have a phone with don, he's, he's funny guy, he's a funny man room. the video you, let's have a look at how don i lived the salt and pepper to our episodes over the year will that we have to get alon

guest: no, as somebody who wrote good stuff on that was george orwell, on the way in which the english language is used in such a way not to promote more clarity but to do just the opposite, to muddy things up. we talked about that in the last hour. we have talked about how terms get thrown out and they have a lot of baggage attached to them. and sometimes a word is tossed out and they try to slip in a lot of baggage that does not belong. i agree with you. i don't want to respond about the particular political points you have made, ok? host: donna is in texas on our line for independence. good morning, donna. caller: yes, i'm here to talk about liberalism. we talk about advocating the freedom of the individual and want to talk about how as an individual, like myself, america needs to see about people with disabilities. people with mental health issues. how can we really exercise liberalism, freedoms of the people, if we are not reaching out to all of the people? black people? all races? all mental health? all disabilities? and i also think about how trump and elon musk want to cut out

joejoel spoke about 1984, four years later, but in 1984, ignorance is strength —— george orwell.ven years, cost 200 million, why is the leader of the opposition calling for a public inquiry when she was in cabinet were named may 20 recommendations, none of which has been acted upon? a bizarre world. i think what musk is proving is having lots of money does not make you more intelligent about world affairs. a strange situation. we will pick up on the calls for an inquiry with wes streeting and chris philp later. samuel, you have seen conservatives seen sometimes to follow reform who have been following elon musk, what do you think of this ecosystem feeding off each other? is it a concern? ., feeding off each other? is it a concern?— feeding off each other? is it a concern? ., ~ . , ., concern? elon musk, richest man in the world, — concern? elon musk, richest man in the world. one _ concern? elon musk, richest man in the world, one of _ concern? elon musk, richest man in the world, one of the _ concern? elon musk, richest man in the world, one of the largest - the world, one of th

we don't in the in an apolitical beauty, you know, that this book opens with a quote from from george orwell, you know, call it from from a brilliant called wild. right. and it was funny. i was working on this book and orwell obviously is dead, you know what i mean? and i was reading this and i, you know, and this is like the amazing thing about literature and, you know, you know, talks about how if he had lived in another time where things were different, he would just, you know, just be pretty writer of prose. but given the events and the time lives in, you know, he has to elevate political writing into an art. and as a black person, a traditional black writer, like, i really felt that. i really, really understood that. and that's like, you, my kids, they they start with, oh, well, actually, they all start with that orwell essay. if they saw politics in the english language is beautiful in its own way. but that's something that we have, you know what i mean? like they have that spirit. and it was one of the beautiful things about, you know coming to hollywood to teach, because do you write

there are some comparisons here to george orwell's 1984, the infamous book and movie later, and its depictionssive, overly powerful government. so if you say, gosh, is it a little early to be going orwell or a week out of inauguration? well, i can tell you one of the orwell comparisons is actually coming from a trump ally, facebook founder mark zuckerberg. but he was describing in a new interview the federal guidelines against medical and vaccine misinformation. something out of like, you know, 1984, one of these books where it's just like it really is a slippery slope. that is zuckerberg's idea of an orwellian attack. he was talking about mostly biden era covid policy and his new interview with very trump friendly podcaster joe rogan. although when it comes to government overreach, while zuckerberg is playing the orwell card on the outgoing administration, it was donald trump who embarrassed zuckerberg by announcing quite recently that he, the president elect, thinks the facebook founder bowed to him, bowed to trump because of his past threats. >> do you think he's directly responding to the

i read a book and i wrote george orwell. and i said, i've had this against you ever since the debate with reagan. and i've read your book about baseball. i got lot out of it. and now i feel like we're even. and i hope we can be reconciled. and he wrote back and said he appreciated all of the letter except the fact that i didn't pay full price for so we will reconcile. but i think quite often it's it's not a difficult thing if we would guess that almost everybody has someone whom they might hold a grudge and to make a telephone call and you know i'd like to work this out i'll write a postcard and say, i'm thinking about you and and hoping we can be friends. just a simple thing. i can really change people's lives after living faith. the president stayed alone on with times books as his publisher, and he did a book called sources of strength meditations on scripture for a living faith. and that was by the virtues of aging in 1998. his next three books would be published simon and schuster. first was called an hour before daylig

and robert heinlein and arthur kessler and and frantz kafka and alexander salt and eidson and george orwell and the consistent theme and all of those works was the presumption that censorship of speech was always wrong, that it was always the first step down on this slippery slope toward tyranny and terrorism. there is no time when we look back at history and we say that the people who were censoring speech were the good guys. they're always they're always the bad guys. the framers didn't write the first amendment to protect convenient or desirable speech. they wrote it to protect the kind of speech. and nobody wants to hear. they. wrote it as to protect incendiary speech. they wrote it to protect insult. they wrote it to protect missing information and dissent from age and and mal information and even lies. all of those are protected by the first amendment. there were no exceptions. the constitution does have exemptions for wars or resurrections or financial crises or pandemics. the framers wrote the constitution in our times during the american civil war. the confederates states were send