>> i'm katie from greenlight and were thrilled was tonight's event with stephen johnson presenting his new book a short history of living longer. will be talking with randall and rose. before we start i want to say a huge thanks to stephen, randall and the team at riverhead books to all of you for showing up so we're not able to host events at our store spaces,our community of readers here . for the chance to make space for conversation and connection . before we get started we have a few things to go 'sover. you can see features but they can't hear you. you can see fellow attendees at the top of your screen. that will depend on what type they're using red there are a couple of different ways you can interact with the authors . the first is to chat which you can find that looks like one speech balloon and you're alsoencouraged to post thoughts in the chat . if we have a specific question you like to have answered please post that in the q and a module . you can find out about it on the speech balloon. it will be pulling questions only from the q&a at the latter part so make sure you're

to look for george ¦ >> i'm katie from greenlight and were thrilled was tonight's event with stephen johnsonpresenting his new book a short history of living longer. will be talking with randall and rose. before we start i want to say a huge thanks to stephen, randall and the team at riverhead books to all of you for showing up so we're not able to host events at our store spaces,our community of readers here . for the chance to make space for conversation and connection . before we get started we have a few things to go 'sover. you can see features but they can't hear you. you can see fellow attendees at the top of your screen. that will depend on what type they're using red there are a couple of different ways you can interact with the authors . the first is to chat which you can find that looik

like i mean, he is like-- shut-- . >> stephen: the thing that shocked me, i have met mr. johnson. : you meet them and you go i could take that guy. >> good luck, colossal, i would walk next to him, people would take pictures of us walking next to each other and i looked like this child. like his tiny child. >> stephen: we have a clip of the movie here. do you happen to know what is happening. >> i'm swinging on a rope or something, i think we're swinging on a vine, a vine, i couldn't remember what we are swinging on. we're swinging on something, we are swinging on a vine and i think it's him trying to be hero uk. i will preface this by saying that at the end of the stunt, because we didn't get one straight take without laughing, not one, you can literally hear me laughing at the end of it as i run off screen, there was not one where i wasn't laughing because he-- you will see, you will see. sorry, i'm ruining it. >> stephen: let's see. >> come on, i got you, trust me. hold on. >> frank, frank, get it. >> hon. >> come on. >> got it. >> frank. >> i don't got it. >> frank, get off me,

johnson richard nixon and ronald reagan. he's truly a pleasure to introduce one of washington's most distinguished professors. they are stephen fransworth. >> they are has been anyone like johnny carson and there never will be. from 1962 to 1992 more than 5000 episodes over 30 years johnny carson led politics and culture and has curated list are almost dies interesting. offered a nonstop parade of the key personalities of the 60s in and the 70s and 80s and the 90s. they were the leading likes of film television music books and politics and more than a few amazing animals and their trainers introduced the nation to many comedians on their way up and reminded them of people who were already at the top. to say he'd dominate the television is actually an understatement. by every measure he was not only first but he was so are ahead that it did not matter who was second. careers would rise and fall on the basis of whether performer to get a booking on the tonight show and if the set went well and the comic had a chance to sit at the desk for a chat with the king of late night than their careers were made or the list of people midd

been to so track and in formula one mac, the 1st stephens purchase from pre ends auto lap collision with with hamilton. ah. hello, i'm a little homage. johnson angler merkel has been visiting parts of western germany. hit hard by devastating studying which kills more than 150 people. merkel described the damaged as the real and terrifying, but says, germany can afford to deal with it this off the she promised a financial aid for those who have lost their homes, livelihoods, and loved ones. this guys had cleared by the time anglo merkel came to me to emergency crews and survivors in the small southwestern town of shield homes were torn apart when the swollen river swept through, leaving the town in ruins. as is a 2nd, it's shocking. the german language hardly has words to describe the devastation that has been wrong. but it is incredibly reassuring to see how people come together and help each other out. the solidarity they have, it does. but some residents are angry that the clean up if it was delayed, when parts of shields were cordoned off for the chancellor's visits are off and we need hope what food is merkel if she comes here and looks

johnson and steven were friends for more than 30 years. >> they were the guys that pie neerd two mf man morning radio. they were funny. great writers. great exceed yans. >> he's lovable. everybody loves stephen>> young sylvia nolan had a big crash on steven p when they both worked in the hawaii radio station back in the early days. though she worked up her nerve. >> i went in and asked stephen b if the he'd be my date to the beach boys concert and turned me down, i was just like devastated, you know? and so, i was sitting in my little sales cubicle and -- >> what's the matter with me? >> the general manager watson and goes, i think you need to know something. i said what? and they said if you are a boy, he would've gone. and i'm here 18 from west virginia. and i'm like what's? and they said he's gay. i said oh, well i can accept that then. >> that very day, sylvia and steven began a warm, lifelong friendship. many afternoons spent lingering at this coffee shop. and many memorable evenings. what were those dinners like? >> stevenson amazing cook. >> if you are patient, he was good. he was a phenomenal cook, but you had to be geared to eating at like 10:30 or 11. because he was the type of per

ok, dan johnson at stormont there, thankl johnson at stormont there, thank you. let's speak to stephennt and legacy. this has been a very difficult process over the last 20 years but we had an agreement, called the stormont house agreement, that involved the british and i was government and the political parties, which has now been set aside. this process is framed almost entirely around its agenda of a false narrative that we have for having vexatious investigations into british army veterans. in return to that the government is holding on to this general amnesty because they know they have to do that to get it over they have to do that to get it over the line. it undermines the rule of law, thejustice the line. it undermines the rule of law, the justice system and human rights here in northern ireland. there is huge opposition traits. what would you do about it? taste there is huge opposition traits. what would you do about it? we will fiaht it in what would you do about it? we will fight it in the — what would you do about it? we will fight it in the house _ what would you do about