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the ceo of a company called blockchain, jeffrey burns, someone who is all about cryptocurrency, the decentralizedology listeners have been hearing about, including bitcoin. he envisions building a city that uses bitcoin and cryptocurrencies like it to allow for many of the functions that you find in a regular city, whether it is buying groceries, paying for gas, or paying sales tax. he envisions a city with more than 36,000 residents, 15,000 homes, and an economic output of $16 billion over the next 75 years. taylor: some of those photos we were showing were just incredible. what i love about this segment we get to do with you, i really got my start in muni bonds, this traditional way you build cities and roads and bridges, and you do economic development zones. i am reading this story and i see lo and behold there is an innovation zone. what would be in a blockchain innovation zone? laura: right. that is one of the interesting pieces about this proposal, which is just a proposal right now. blockchain is very much hoping to build, but to do it, they say they would actually need a new kind of gove

isn't it it's a trust issue here at this point as well jeffrey in washington yes well it's well certainly if in any negotiation if you've been burned once it's very hard to get over that sentiment and you're absolutely correct in suggesting that certainly on the iranian side they need to take a very hard look at the sustainability of whatever. agreement they might reach with the biden administration which has its own internal concerns in. addition there are many voices in washington both on the down democrat in the democratic party and the republican party who maintain a vociferous opposition to any real engagement with iran and that is also needs to be understood in is certainly another issue of concern as the uranium and the other partners to the j c p o way observe the scene here in washington. it's go to vienna. the problem is here is that even in the last weeks and months of the trump and ministration there quote unquote maximum pressure program they intensified it here they they knew very well that if there were a biden ministration and they wanted to go back and reenter this deal here they made it doubly triply hard to do it

burns. and his scripts are wonderful. jeffrey ward is a fabulous writer. writing narration scripts is out of fashion and has been for some time. so i was watching a very good film, "factory," which is a very good film, but they're struggling not to have a script. they're putting title cards, they're doing everything they can to avoid writing a script. and they're struggling to get away from formal interviews. these are the legacy of cinema verite. and, you know, cinema verite is no more real than any other formula of film making. in many ways, wiseman, probably my favorite documentarian, he says that much of what he finds when he's shooting is coincidental but nothing you see in the film is coincidental. he's structuring a story. he's not lying to you, he's not fooling around with the chronology, he's not doing omissions, but he's also not doing dramatic arc of a multiseries where there's a mystery. so you get into situations, "the jinx," the movie now being done, in the '60s, cbs did a documentary called "the uncounted enemy" which is about vietnam and th

burns and lynn novick premieres monday on pbs. the title?“ hemingway,” about one of america's most famous and influential writers. in new mexico, an unusual audience is watching, reading, and writing along. jeffreyour arts and culture series, "canvas." >> hey, everybody, welcome. i am super happy to see you all. >> brown: yet another zoom class-- but this is for inmates at the penitentiary of new mexico. the subject: the life and work of ernest hemingway. >> what is it that hemingway did that was so different from the writers of his time? >> that's a big question. >> brown: the class itself has an unusual origin. new mexico's pbs station secured a grant to use the ken burns film for community outreach. it provided dvds, a collection of short stories, and composition notebooks. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ernest hemingway remade american literature. >> brown: the inmates got a sneak preview of the six-hour series about a man who grew up in chicago's suburbs, drove an ambulance, and was severely wounded in world war i, and for decades beginning in the 1920s was a renowned author and global celebrity. but always, with an undercurrent of struggle. hemingway took his own life at age 61 in 1961. when you heard the idea,