like don quixote. >> steve; like don quixote. >> jimmy: like donald quixote. wind mills.ve: him and sancho panza. >> jimmy: sancho panza of course. this last one is from @discob4breakdon. he says, "the other day i was talking to my wife about a a terrible date i went on with some random girl a few years ago. she said, that was me." [ laughter and applause ] oh yeah, i married you. that was awful. >> steve: yeah, you won. >> jimmy: yeah, it wasn't that awful. >> steve: this girl was awful. smelled like cheese. >> jimmy: this one from @megsmith06, she says, "at dinner, my date asked what my ideal guy was and then whispered 'yes' after everything i said." [ laughter ] "smart." "yes." [ laughter ] "athletic." "yes." [ laughter ] "funny." "yes." [ laughter ] >> steve: ew. >> jimmy: gross. >> steve: tattoo of himself drinking a 40? >> jimmy: yeah, of course. there's a tattoo of his other buddy. his friend. this one from @madre13. she says "we got in the car, my blind date put in a cassette tape of himself playing the trombone." [ laughter ] what? [ talking over each other ] tro

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. >> don quixote ivanhoe. >> and trash too -- >> harriet the spy. how appropriate. >> a faraway look comes into a child's eyes his or her mouth drops open and you know that the child is lost in the story. >> to me, that's the ideal childhood. >> i like to pick up a book at my local neighborhood bookstore, because i like a random encounter. .. >> penguin random house.com/agreed upon or just search a national read-a-thon day. it's the first thing that comes up. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> host: peter thiel from what does the title of your book "zero to one" mean? >> guest: zero to 101st to any sort of innovation or doing anything new where you do the first thing of its time. so the first word processed for the first smartphone the first car the first plane. it has its connotation of a breakthrough innovation that involve some sort of quantum leap rather than just a small innovation. my book is about how we as a society need to be innovating more and now the really significant innovations that move the dial are these breakthrough zero to o

all right, don quixote, there ain't no girl in there. >> [laughs] >> okay, beowulf, the sound and the fury... um, i feel like c is like there's a guy and a girl; they're two sides. i'm--i'm-- sorry, i'm stuck. i feel like i know it, but, you know, i... i feel like i know it, terry but i'm playing for somebody else. it's somebody else's money. and i-- >> mm. well, just-- you can ask the audience. do they look gang affiliated to you? [laughter] [laughing] >> that man does. [laughter] that one. yeah, you look tough. >> [laughs] >> i'm gonna answer it. >> okay. >> i'm gonna answer it. >> okay. is that your final answer, that you gonna answer it? [laughter] >> that is my final answer that i'm going to answer it. i'm going to say c romeo and juliet. that's my final answer. >> and you are right, carla! >> you--you-- >> you are correct! >> okay, all right you know what i said. i said do the walk. >> yeah, yeah, well, we got to get your money first. let's get your money. how much did that get her? $2,000! >> yes! yes! >> let's do the walk to our break. >> let's do the walk. >> we do our break.

. >> don quixote of ivanhoe. >> and trash too. ian fleming. >> alice in wonderland treasure island. >> how appropriate. >> it comes into a child's life you no that the child was lost in the story. >> to me that is the ideal -- ideal childhood. >> by local neighborhood bookstore because i like the random encounter. .. words" with cass sunstein former administrator the white house office of information and regulatory affairs in the obama administration and co-author of "wiser: getting beyond groupthink to make groups smarter." he shares his thoughts on the group decision-making can be flawed and offers ways to make better collective decision to keep discusses his book with susan cain, author of the bestseller "quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking." >> host: so i love this book. it was fascinating. and i would love if it's about that grapples with complex ideas so can we start with laying out the basic thesis? >> guest: it has two parts. the first is why do

. >> don't quixote. >> alice in wonderland, treasure redland. >> a faraway look comes into a child's eyes. his or her mouth drops open a new note the child is lost in the story. >> i like to pick up a book of my local neighborhood stores because i like the random encounter. >> for a little while, while reading this book you do your own world leave your own space and inhabit somebody else's soul. >> everything we hold here is in boat. take them up and it's all better. >> go out, get a book. >> keep reading. >> national read a fun day saturday january 24th. new to 10:00 p.m. in your time zone. the website again? search national readers on and it's the first thing that comes out. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> my name is caroline hampstead and ended to wreck her of the program. it is with great pleasure that i'm here to introduce a distinguished patron of the liberal arts and scholar of western civilization, professor noel valis. she is the director of graduate studies at spanish era galan also a professor of spanish and portuguese. okay, no longer portuguese. [laughter] she was the rec

. >> don quixote of ivanhoe. >> and trash, too. >> alice in wonderland. >> a faraway look comes into the child's eyes. his or her mouth drops open and you no that the child is lost in the story. .. from noon to 4:00 p.m. in your timezone. a web site once again? >> penguin random house.com/read-a-thon or search national read-a-thon date is the first thing that comes up. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. recently shinned i get a man who escaped in 2000 by front north korea and prison camp after being born there admitted he did not accurately portray some parts part of his experiences when telling a story to blaine harden. journalist blaine harden appeared on c-span's q&a program in 2012 to discuss his book "escape from camp 14" based on his story. this is about an hour. c-span: blaine harden your book is called "escape from camp 14" and in your first sentence in the preface is his first memory is an execution. what are you talking about? >> guest: the story is about a kid at this point in the story. he was born in camp 14. one of the political labor camps of north korea. his first

it reads, matthew wald writes, a new generation of windmills that don quixote could never tilt at isready to take its place as an economical and important source of the nation's energy. because of striking improvements in technology, the commercial use of these windmills, or wind turbines as the builders call them, has shown that in addition to being pollution free they can now compete with fossil fuels in the cost of producing electricity. now that reads kind of like a quote that maybe was tossed around during the wind production tax credit debate you know over the past few months. matthew wald wrote that in september of 1992. almost 23 years later, the arguments are basically the same. they're just give us a few more years, just give us a few more dollars, and we'll make it on our own. and when that extension runs out it's the same thing, asking for another year, asking for a few more billion dollars. when you have a large part of your production cost paid for by the taxpayer that's what you're going to get. your incentive structure changes pretty dramatically. you're focused more

. >> don quixote ivanhoe. >> and trash, too, james bond. >> alice in wonderland, treasure island. >> harriet the spy. >> a faraway look comes into a child's eye and you know they're lost in the story. >> that the ideal childhood. >> i like to pick up a book at my local neighborhood book store because i like a random encounter. >> as for a little while, while you are reading this book you kind of leave your own world, leave your own space, and inhabit somebody else's soul. >> everything we hold dear as in -- is in books and all you have to do is pick them up. it's all there. >> and go out get a book and read. >> keep reading. >> host: national read-a-thon day, saturday, january 24th noon to 4:00 p.m. in your time zone. the web site once again jynne martin? >> guest: penguin random house.com/read-a-thon, or just search national read-a-thon day. >> host: thank you very much. >> guest: thank you. >> here's a look at upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. the satisfy van that book philosophy from the 12th to 15th of anybody savannah georgia. march 14th and 15th bo

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murky or quixotic political in state can condemn us into entry wars we don't know how to end. notifying beginning in advance of our withdrawal dates are reassuring the enemy that we will not use certain capabilities like our ground forces should should we avoid. such announcement do not take the place of mature, well defined in states nor do they contribute to ending wars as rapidly as possible on favorable terms. you should ask is the theater of war itself sufficient for effective prosecution? we've witnessed safe havens prolonged war. if the defined theater is insufficient, the plan itself needs to be challenged. ask is the authority for detaining prisoners of war appropriate for the enemy and type war we are fighting. we've observed the perplexing lack of detainee policy that has resulted in the return of released prisoners to the battlefield. we should not engage in another fight without resolving this issue up front, treating hostile forces in fact as hostile. you have to also ask, are americans diplomatic, economic and other assets aligned to the war in? we have experien

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