the academy in cape town's woodstock district offers free training to young people who want to go one. funded in part by donations and performances. brent van rensburg and his wife laurence founded zip zap in 1995. both are former circus artists. brent: we believe that any kid, no matter what the background, if they are given the opportunity in life and they are passionate about what they do, any child can make it. and a lot of kids who have talent and skills are often left behind. and zip zap, you know, we kind of provide that platform to give children who might not have as much the platform to do something with their life. reporter: jacobus claassen, whom everyone here calls trompi, was one of those kids. he and stage partner jason barnard have been teaching and performing at zip zap since graduating there. the most important things they want to convey to their students are passion, discipline, and teamwork. zip zap brings people from all kinds of backgrounds together. after the lesson, jacobus claassen and jason barnard have to practice, practice, practice. this demanding juggling

this event bills itself as the woodstock of a radical life extension. - we wanna create a mass movementto save lives. - [maren] i'm immediately struck by the extremely bold claims of healing and even immortality. - we're into marvelous. we're into immortality. that's what we're about. you're doing pretty good and life is great. you're gonna wanna keep on going. so what do you think? - festival director, james strole, calls himself an anti-death activist. - i wanna live indefinite lifespans, that's what i'm after, i wanna live forever. that's my goal okay. i personally think it's better to go for it and lose and not try at all right. - sure. what perceptions about aging and death in the public are you hoping to change? like what would you want people to take away from it? - well, yeah, most people are pretty much, i'll use the term programmed, that death is inevitable and we want to change that paradigm. we see aging as a disease, a curable disease, and we are at war with death. - the idea that aging might be cured like a disease is relatively new, but this yearning for eternal youth es

host: woodstock, illinois, pamela on the republican line. caller: good morning. i just wanted to say really quickly, i completely agree with pamela who called in from michigan in regards to we can't pick and choose which side we want to investigate. which side we want to play the media on and give that attention to. we have to be honest as americans, as human beings. we have to get back to what this country was founded on. we need to open our bibles and start looking at what god expects of us. when we have a president, or anyone running for president, who says anything that is opposed to that truth, that is what we have to stand for. when you look at scripture, there is no hatred. there isn't. we can pretend there is, the media can try to claim that there is, they can try to make it look like it's there, but it isn't. host: what do you think? guest: i am also a christian. where i disagree with the caller is in determining that we are fundamentally a christian nation. america at its core is a place for people of all faith and no faith to exist together in communit

i'm going to dig mine out from woodstock and put them on the market for $10. maria: see what you get for that. it's been a great conversation all morning. thanks for being here. have a great day, everybody. see you again tomorrow. "varney & co." begins right now. stu, take it away. stu: good morning, everyone. the republicans have a majority in the house. that means the chair of all the committees like ways and means, which controls the money, will switch from democrat to republican. it means nancy pelosi will no longer be speaker. kevin mccarthy takes that job. the senate stays under democrat control and senator schumer stays majority leader. he's calling for amnesty for all illegals. let them? let them work. give them a pathway to citizenship and eventually the vote. more fallout from the crypto crisis, singapore's national wealth fund written off $275 million. the fund says its faith in sam bankman-fried was misplaced. sbf says "i was on the cover of every magazine and ftx was the darling of silicon valley. we got overconfident and careless". so why is bitc

it was the time of woodstock that had nothing to do with where society was. >> marlow thomas, oh my god she punted the ball to mary tyler moore who ran with it. >> i preb why i broke off with howard. >> mary tile are moore was so massive to me. dealing with all these men. >> i have been thinking since i was 17. i'm 37. that's two decades of dating. >> mary richards was actively having sex. >> don't forget to take your pill. >> i won't. >> what you've got in the 70s is women not embarrassed that they don't have a husband who takes care of them and they have to stay home and that really made a statement snoon along comes bea arthur playing made. >> we started filming maud in july of '72. abortion was a big issue for knee. >> the episode maud's abortion aired in 1972 as a two-parter. that it was early to be talking about abortion on television. >> i don't understand your hesitance. >> there were stations throughout the country that did not air those episodes. >> we had the right to decide what to do with your body. >> all right, then please get yours into the kitschen? we had a platform bu

ten days before woodstock of people gathering in those record numbers. >> talk about the guy who putther. where he's up there, and you know, he's a hustler, but he's a hustler of the best kind. he promised something to somebody he couldn't deliver and leveraged that off of somebody else. it almost sounded like, you know, someone that's doing a start up in silicon valley now, but he somehow got it together. >> i joke that when i first saw turning lawrence, i joke that if uncut gems were about music and set 50 years earlier and done the right way, it would have been tony lawrence. you could go to stevie wonders people, will you do it, oh, sure. that's basically, like he would rob peter to pay paul to sort of get these acts to agree to it. but, yeah, he pretty much was a people person, and for me, editing and cutting this film together, it finally hit me that this entire project is one leap of faith, and me as a first time director, tony lawrence as someone who had the nerve and the gumption to say, you know what, i bet you i can heal the community with music and healing by gathering th

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i'm going to dig mine out from woodstock and put them on the market for $10.t's been a great conversation all morning. thanks for being here. have a great day, everybody. see you again tomorrow. "varney & co." begins right now. stu, take it away. stu: good morning, everyone. the republicans have a majority in the house. that means the chair of all the committees like ways and means, which controls t

second is lancaster, pennsylvania, for its festive atmosphere among amish farms. 3rd is woodstock, virginia downtown area. and the 4th is what we're looking at here. know if you've been able to put it all the pieces together yet. but it's solving, which is on the central coast with our 150 boutiques. they all get decked out in the courts. got that really cool. sort of dutch team. their 5th, though, is in leavenworth, virginia, 6th in saint augustine. florida. and have you been to solving? i have i will say i've been to saint augustine, florida. it is a beautiful little one of the oldest settlements from the spanish settlements. way back when south. >> fun place. i'd like to go to solving. no. check that out. hey, check this out. it's our extended forecast, everybody. guess what? have you heard this rain tomorrow? yes, we're going to rainy day on thursday, clear out on friday. >> a few more showers saturday into sunday. temperatures staying cool. you see those low 50's all throughout the next few days. i think the heaviest rain is going to be falling basically in the overnight through about

host: woodstock, illinois, pamela on the republican line. caller: good morning.really quickly, i completely agree with pamela who called in from michigan in regards to we can't pick and choose which side we want to investigate. which side we want to play the media on and give that attention to. we have to be honest as americans, as human beings. we have to get back to what this country was founded on. we need to open our bibles and start looking at what god expects of us. when we have a president, or anyone running for president, who says anything that is opposed to that truth, that is what we have to stand for. when you look at scripture, there is no hatred. there isn't. we can pretend there is, the media can try to claim that there is, they can try to make it look like it's there, but it isn't. host: what do you think? guest: i am also a christian. where i disagree with the caller is in determining that we are fundamentally a christian nation. america at its core is a place for people of all faith and no faith to exist together in community. i agree that my fai

host: woodstock, illinois, pamela on the republican line. caller: good morning.really quickly, i completely agree with pamela who called in from michigan in regards to we can't pick and choose which side we want to investigate. which side we want to play the media on and give that attention to. we have to be honest as americans, as human beings. we have to get back to what this country was founded on. we need to open our bibles and start looking at what god expects of us. when we have a president, or anyone running for president, who says anything that is opposed to that truth, that is what we have to stand for. when you look at scripture, there is no hatred. there isn't. we can pretend there is, the media can try to claim that there is, they can try to make it look like it's there, but it isn't. host: what do you think? guest: i am also a christian. where i disagree with the caller is in determining that we are fundamentally a christian nation. america at its core is a place for people of all faith and no faith to exist together in community. i agree that my fai

in c-span woodstock. the main thing i want to say is this. you can vote for what you want to vote for. if that's joe biden. but the last couple of years, this man donald trump, has given so much to this country and just doesn't make any sense. everybody says he is gone will get up and say the january six was wrong. people died on january six. they will not want to mission, i think what january. six this is somewhere else. they think that was a good thing. they will not say nothing about january six. this man is on the way to disgrace to this country. when he was president i would never see -- the president do -- and talk about people so. much even talked about the pope. this place went running around, this many nothing but the devil. >> let's go to john in maryland. independent line. >> hi. thank you michael first and foremost. registered independent votes at my poll of what is going on in that society. it seems that we don't need to roll back to history. the society today, we're going to now, we'll need a new set of -- not for me. and not fo

sue in woodstock, georgia. what is it? caller: we have agreed to disagree.e -- basically, to get along, my brother loves joe biden and i do not. and, it is not worth it. we love each other so we disagree to keep politics out. host: why is it that you and your brother are politically and philosophically different? you grew up in the same household. caller: we do not. we do not. host: you grew up in the same household? caller: my -- we did, i mother was a republican, father was a democrat --. i have been a democrat my whole life until 2012. host: what made you change? caller: a boyfriend and getting to learn more about the republican party and what they stand for. host: do you remember your parents discussing politics? caller: no. my mother said who i vote for is my own business and i have -- i was in a catholic school and we campaigned for john f. kennedy. i thought he hung the moon. i said, my mom, you are voting for kennedy? she said it is none of your business but i voted for richard nixon. it was a surprise to me. i was shocked. host: what is the policy i

mike in woodstock, virginia. hi, mike. good morning.hanks so much for having me on the air. yes, i definitely support an age limit on elected office. as you know, the u.s. constitution has minimums for our federal government elected officials. but i think maximums -- for me, i am 68. i think it should be that if you are running for federal -- that is, d.c. office, particularly the chief executive, that when you file your papers to run, you should not be older than if you took office -- that is, when you were inaugurated, age 62, so that if you served two terms, you would be age 70. again, i am 68. a school bus driver or commercial truck driver, insurance companies won't cover anymore 70 forward. yes, i think there should be an age limit, and i think that should go down the chain. you asked one of your previous callers about so-called up and comers. i'll give you four , two on each side. host: ok. caller: i support gavin newsom, like one of your callers said, and the governor of colorado. on the republican side, mr. sununu, governor of n

mike in woodstock, virginia. hi, mike. good morning. thanks so much for having me on the air. yes, i definitely support an age limit on elected office. as you know, the u.s. constitution has minimums for our federal government elected officials. but i think maximums -- for me, i am 68. i think it should be that if you are running for federal -- that is, d.c. office, particularly the chief executive, that when you file your papers to run, you should not be older than if you took office -- that is, when you were inaugurated, age 62, so that if you served two terms, you would be age 70. again, i am 68. a school bus driver or commercial truck driver, insurance companies won't cover anymore 70 forward. yes, i think there should be an age limit, and i think that should go down the chain. you asked one of your previous callers about so-called up and comers. i'll give you four , two on each side. host: ok. caller: i support gavin newsom, like one of your callers said, and the governor of colorado. on the republican side, mr. sununu, governor of

we will go to ken in woodstock, new york, democratic caller.cerns is the economy. of course, no one likes to pay more than they have to. but i think it is not genuine for the opposing party to totally blame conditions we are in on president biden and this coming election. i don't think those are valid reasons to vote for the opposing party and let's see in a year if they take back the houses if the economy is any different. what i hear is i do not hear a lot about what their plan is to change the economy. host: the president was in new york yesterday stumping for your governor. she is in a tight race. why do you think that is? caller: to go against our government -- there is no legitimate reason. a politician that can defend that is not worth their salt. that is what i have to say. host: james, myrtle beach, south carolina, republican. your top issues. can you rank them for us? caller: i would have to stay off the top the economy is number one. concerned about crime, that is an issue. seems like we have gone to a place in this country where we