in afghanistan, the flintstones are beating the jetsons. it's not as simple as that all-purpose pop-culture analogy. >> host: live conversation with mark steyn, continues. we have about two hours left in the program. we will be right back. >> award winning investigative reporter thomas peele tells the story of oakland, california n2007. pulitzer prize-winning journalist and first-time author katherine boo in "behind the beautiful forevers." in latin lessons, how south america stopped listening to the united states and started prospering, hal weitzman, financial times midwest bureau chief, examines the diminished role the united states is play anything south american trade and argues that the relationship needs to be reestablished. natalie dykstra takes a look at why the wife of henry adams decided to take her own life in clover adams, a gilded and heartbreaking life. look for these titles in bookstores this week, and watch for authors in the near future on booktv. >> each yearbook tv brings you several events from across the country. here's

cartoon george jetson complained that the his his boss mr space lee was a slave driver because he had to push the button three times a day. there but instead as we've seen and with charter fourteen is productivity surged upward wages stayed stagnant all that extra wealth that was created by that extra productivity didn't go to the workers that went to the shareholders so how do we give workers the income they've earned and utilize automation to pray a leisure society or at least a more prosperous middle class. well i think the key to the key questions on is how do you make sure that working people in this country have a fair share of the gains from productivity like they used to have for three decades after the second world war i the answer is i think there's not one magic bullet but there's several things that can be done number one we need stronger unions not only in manufacturing but also in the service sector where you've got so many millions of jobs a restaurant a retail hotel hospital janitorial jobs these people deserve unions they need the bargaining leverage the unions give t

editor of la is a fair books contributor to the daily reckoning also author of this book it's a jetson's of world private miracles and public crimes which i luckily have a copy of right here and cannot wait to read but first i want to welcome you to the studio thank you so much for being here pleasure to be here so i want to get to the jobs numbers they are as yes those are big news today but as i said there are some solutions in light of these economic problems that seem like band-aids and then there are some that seem like open heart surgery that you don't know where it's going to go and one would be this argument to end the fed we've heard from ron paul we've seen protests occupy the fed protests in the u.s. we've seen in europe at the e.c.b. first before we get to how to get rid of it what's your case against the fed well i think it's very interesting we live in a country where we've returned that we love capitalism we love free market we love for him to pause and then we have the central planning apparatus that's running our money and banking system we've only had it for one hundred

of the income tax and i think he has a birthday wish for it he's author of that book you see there jetsons world private miracles and public crimes so jeffrey tucker it's the birthday of the income tax started ratified in one nine hundred thirteen now we hear this discussion around this presidential election about raising taxes we have an idea that capital account before you even talk about raising taxes for any of us you've got to sacrifice there are washington you hear that you need to cut the waste fraud and abuse you need to eliminate all of this stealing one good start would be this act that supposed to curb insider trading can we bring up that comic really quickly ok so this we love dad i'm considering a career in organized crime the dad says government or private sector i mean that kind of sums up what we're saying what do you think it's not fair for you to sack and for you to ask us to sacrifice more washington until you can you know get it together well that's been true for a long time a couple hundred years actually. another bows and we've been talking about the fed but in one th

in afghanistan, the flintstones are beating the jetsons. it's not as simple as that all-purpose pop-culture analogy. >> host: live conversation with mark steyn, continues. we have about two hours left in the program. we will be right back. t: w bach >> host: and we are back livept. with market sign on in depth and we are going to put the numbers on you'screen if you would likeo call and talk with our guest author of mine books,02 (202)737-0001 for those of you onnes. (202) the east mountain and pacific. e-mail booktv@c-span.org and twitter -- cycle and twitter.com/booktv and we will start with san jose, california. mary, you're on with all the mark steyn. >> caller: thank you. i'm a first time caller and this will be about islam. many years ago an artist put a crucifixion -- there was no reprisal. synagogues were vandalized throughout the united states and other places and yet there's no riots in israel. and if you talk about burning the koran, halfway around the world they start chanting death to america and burning effigies. there's telev

this is very jetson-like. >> so futuristic, isn't it scary. >> they've been promising this stuff forrs. here's my money. i want some of this stuff. >>> a formula 1 experience turns into a -- >> oh! >> yeah. one of those. the roller coaster drive that will have you saying -- >> oh! >> and this really is a hungry hungry hippo. see how she snacks. >> it's just hay. almost like eating salad. >> we'll see how that salad >>> it has severe storms in europe, lots of snow, and that's affecting some zoo animals like this elephant named mumba. check her out. she's the baby. she was born last june, so she's just months old, not even a year, and just rolling around. look at her, just rolling around like she's a dog. >> she's having fun. >> that is darn cute. she's like swishing it around with her trunk and making oddly shaped snow angels. look at her little mom following her around. what's going on. >> don't slip, honey. be careful. >> she's going under all their feet like i just can't get enough of this on my body. >>> i have another video in switzerland. we know that europe is in the middle of

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. -- the jetsons. >> that's right. >> we are making four half sheets of gougere. this is a common thing you can buy in bakeries in france, in my experience. >> it's hard to find good ones, though. if you're looking for gougere, go to partine's. not necessarily all the way to france. >> how many of you actually like, enjoy cooking? is this a big thing for you guys? some of you cook for survival. we have some survival cookers. when you're talking clients, you're asking them about what their cooking and eating styles are. >> absolutely. people that are foodies that, you know, have special requirements and you know, sometimes we put, you know double stoves, double refrigerators, double dish washers, but there's also a bunch of new types of appliances, we install steamers a lot and -- >> i saw a deep fat frier out here that is incorporated, we'll see it when we take a walk. is that cool? what is this? >> treshtime. -- fresh thyme. it says use fresh time or pepper, i'm going to -- fresh thyme or pepper, i'm going to do a batch with thyme. >> foodies always want professi

glenn instructed not to jetson his rockets lands short of the area. indicating his heat shields were loose and he was instructed to hold on to his rocket bank to hold the shield in place. right at hand is the destroyer noaa, she speeds to the capsule. despite a few shaky moments among ground control personnel, glenn is down, a pencil-like crane will lift the frienip the end of a famous friendship latched to the deck of the destroy and the crew prepares to help glenn from the capsule. first they attempt to help the colonel through the upper exit in the mouth. they encounter difficulties. so it is decided to blow off the escape hatch cover. first glimpse of the conquering hero. kernlg john h. glenn. he left his footprints among the stars. he has a grin as wide as the path he bleezed as he rests briefly before being flown to the carrier randolph by helicopter. he's lifted aboard in a maneuver that looks more dangerous than the flight itself. the helicopter takes him to the randolph for a debriefing and examinations by medical men. he no sooner touches do

like "the jetsons." you get in mine. you fly everywhere in alaska. that's how they sound, too.irbanks. there was a little hotel that was known for having a hot springs. i went up with rob riggle, ted danson and his wife, mary. and we got into some real natural hot tub action when there was a flurry, and it was 100 below. we were in 50-degree water. not only exciting. it was a sexual fantasy of mine. so, check. >> jimmy: a kid from boston. >> you don't get ted danson half-naked often. so, when you do. >> jimmy: well, maybe you don't. >> well. >> jimmy: i have connections. >> i always lose. >> jimmy: it's great to see you again. the movie is called "big miracle." it opens friday. john krasinski, everybody. we'll be back with more animals on guillermo's head. [ cheers and applause ] people keep asking me if that lady in the viva commercial is really my mother. they keep asking me if the dirty guy is really my son. huh -- what do you tell 'um? holy smokes, these viva towels really are tough, even when wet! [ mike ] for the record, that's my real father, cleaning up a real mess on a

. >> and he's sort of rolling around and, like, as though he's in "the jetsons" or something flying throughbut that is new. >> i wanted it to be fake because it gives me so much anxiety to be watching it. >> but is it an extreme sport or work of fiction? >> people fake extreme sports. >> who goes up in an airplane and leaps out in a kayak? >> it seems it's an ad for testosterone body spray or something. >> it has to be fake. >> let's ask the man in the boat. miles dasher. >> skyaking is very real. i'm going to take you on a ride. skyaking is like on steroids. when you start strapping yourself into something like that. >> dasher's love of the extreme can be traced to 1995 when he attempts his first skydive. the experience changes his life. >> it was just hook line and sinker. just like this is what i want to do. matter of fact, i quit my job and spent all my money on jumping. living the dream. >> as if simply jumping out of an airplane and plummeting to earth isn't enough of a thrill, dasher keeps upping the challenge in order to chase new highs. >> i was the first person to land a bicycle.

. >> it sounds like something from the jetsons. >> it's hard to imagine that we can solve all the problemst sprawl and expansion. >> reporter: orange mayor eldridge hawkins had not yet seen the plan. >> could it help solve the crisis? >> i think it's a novel idea, something futuristic down the road, but the theme is not far from what we're trying to come up with. >> our strategy as it relates to foreclosures and vacant properties is a block by block approach. >> where we're standing now, we used to have housing projects. we have nowie erected two and three-story townhomes. >> so will building in the streets be next? >> maybe in the future, but to directly answer your question, the entire city of orange will not be a carless community. >> i'm sure a lot of people wouldn't be laughing, poppy harlow, because of all the gas prices. they kind of like that idea. >> right. >> is this something that could actually be implemented in, say, orange, new jersey, or is this just a thought-provoking exhibit? >> i think it's both. you ask those architects, they actually want to see this built. maybe it wi

and, george jetson had that and now it has finally come to use in skiing. >> clayton: if they are a publiclyk: people who do that, are prepared and go in with all the stuff to protect them in case they get into avalanches, which happen often, the real thing. >> dave: don't ski where there is likely an avalanche. >> rick: you and i don't but my brother does and his buddies do the back country stuff and it is a different story. a great thing. look at the weather maps, guys, i will not put on a coat out here until winter really gets into the northeast. we'll see if it happens, certainly is not happening, and, your temperatures are waking up. your forecast for the day, northeast shapes up like this and, a really nice day and we'll etemps in the 40s, hit the button one more time. to the northeast. there we go. temps into the 40s and 30s, for almost everybody and light snow into far northern new england. nothing bad. the southeast we'll see a few showers in across the florida area, as well as in coastal parts of texas. nothing to change major problems and northern plains temps warming up again, 20