Podcast appearances and mentions of Glenn Reynolds

The Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds, joins Rip on Starting Strength Radio to discuss recent political events, training, and other goings on.

"Mind your privilege, give not away your right!" With those words, William Penn urged the jurors in his 1670 religious freedom trial to remember the power and the responsibility of their role in the English judicial system. For this episode, we return to the topic of jury nullification – the power of juries to acquit despite evidence of the defendant's guilt – with a fresh take from the UK. Professor Richard Vogler of the University of Sussex chats with host Becky Annison about the role of jury nullification, going all the way back to William Penn's trial in the 17th century up to its relevance in climate change cases of today. They discuss why legal institutions began viewing juries with more suspicion from the 1970s, and why it's more important than ever to defend the jury's place within our legal system – including its power to nullify convictions. For more on this topic, listen to Janelle Wrigley's conversation with Glenn Reynolds, from the University of Tennessee, about jury nullification in the US (ep.159) – https://pod.fo/e/269d1a.

This week on the blog, a podcast interview with Director/Editor Roger Nygard on his new book, “The Documentarian.”LINKSA Free Film Book for You: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/cq23xyyt12Another Free Film Book: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/x3jn3emga6Fast, Cheap Film Website: https://www.fastcheapfilm.com/Buy “The Documentarian” Here: http://applausebooks.com/books/9781493086221Roger Nygard Website: http://rogernygard.com/Eli Marks Website: https://www.elimarksmysteries.com/Albert's Bridge Books Website: https://www.albertsbridgebooks.com/YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/BehindthePageTheEliMarksPodcastTRANSCRIPTWhere did you first get the documentary bug?Roger Nygard: It was a big mistake. I didn't plan for it. It is sort of like, “Oh, I'll try one bump of heroin. What could hurt, right? Just once.” I made a documentary called Trekkies because an actress I met named Denise Crosby (who was in my first feature film), we had lunch a few years later and she pitched the idea to me. “Hey, someone should make a documentary about these Star Trek fans.” Because she'd been going to conventions as an actor and said these people are entertaining and we couldn't believe no one had done it yet. It seems so obvious and “Yes, of course.” So, we brainstormed a little bit. We'd never done this before. How do you, uh, we have no idea how to make a documentary. But, you know, as the naive often say, how hard can it be? And then you dive in and it's really hard, especially if you don't know what you're doing.And we just stumbled into it, watched a bunch of documentaries, absorbed what we could, made a lot of mistakes, which I learned from, and then put in a book about how to make documentaries, I made the mistakes, so you don't have to. So, I just kind of stumbled into it. What was the biggest challenge you faced on that one, looking back on it? Roger Nygard: It's always, the biggest challenge is always finding the money to pay for it. Every time. Even for Ken Burns, he said it was a challenge raising money. You'd think a guy like, in, in his career at this point, with dozens of films, they'd be writing him checks, but he says he still has to go searching for the finishing funds on every project. One of the things when I saw Trekkies for the first time I was really impressed with--well, first the humanity that you treated every subject in it with. But also, your balance of the humorous and the serious elements within it. I imagine you found that in the editing, am I right? Roger Nygard: I guess so. I mean, it's something innate. I don't really consciously set out to be, “I'm going to be balanced,” or “I'm going to be funny.” It's what I look for in my own viewing. I look for films where the filmmaker is not lying to me. I want a genuine take on something. They can take a position. In fact, it's better when you take a position with a documentary. You should have a point of view. If you are just presenting both sides equally, you're much less likely to have an audience than if you take a stand, make a position and lay out the evidence and let the audience decide.But I look for that in a film, and so my films, I guess, are an embodiment of me. I'm the filmmaker. You're getting my perspective on the world. Any piece of art is the artist's perspective on the world. They're saying, “here's how I see the world.” And my documentary is me looking at people. I'm amused and I'm obsessed and I'm interested in human behavior.I find it fascinating and really funny. And so that's what happens when I process what I'm making. And then, of course, then in the editing, that's where I'm refining that point of view. So, when you sit down with someone, what techniques do you use to make your interview subjects comfortable and willing to open up to get the sort of responses you need?Roger Nygard: First, you want to start off with some flattery. Obviously. “Thank you for being here. I loved your book. It's such a good book. I loved your movie. I loved your acting. I loved whatever. I love that broach.” You, find something to compliment.And people love it. You bond with someone who likes you. We like people who like us. And so that interview is going to be a connection between two people and it's nice when it's like a friendly connection where they're not hiding their true selves. So, you want someone to feel comfortable enough so that they'll open up and give you the real stuff and not try to present, to pre edit their image. Those interviews don't work so well when someone's trying to make sure that they're going to come off a certain way. They need to be open and you're gonna take what they give you and edit it and make them look good, ideally, or at least give them a genuine, honest portrayal. But you want them to feel comfortable.Another way to do that is to share something about yourself, before you start. Maybe a tragedy you experienced, if you're talking about their tragedy. Or a funny event that happened to you. But keep it short, because they are there to talk, you're there to listen.So, mainly, you ask a question and then just shut up and let them fill the space. How long did it take you to learn to shut up? Because I'm not sure I've learned that yet. Roger Nygard: It's so hard. Especially for men. Men are the worst. I mean, I made a documentary about relationships, and that's almost the number one thing I learned from marriage therapists is that your partner needs to be heard. And men typically try to fix things, because that's what we do, right? But your partner doesn't need you to fix them usually when they're telling you something. Let's say you've got a wife, she's complaining about her boss, she doesn't want you to, to say, “Oh, why don't you quit? Why don't you do this? Why don't you do that?” That's going to make her feel worse. She wants you to just, just show empathy. And so in an interview, you want to do the same thing—show empathy—but don't intrude, just nod, “hmm, hmm, yeah, oh that's, that must have been awful, tell me more about how that felt.”Instead of interrupting and trying to guide them, just ask the question, leave the space, provide silent empathy, because you don't want your voice all over their soundtrack. How much pre-interviewing do you do and do you like that or not? Roger Nygard: I used to do a lot of pre interviewing. On Trekkies, we did a lot because it was expensive to shoot film. We made that in 16mm film. Oftentimes, we would rehearse what they're going to say and get the soundbite we needed kind of ready. And then say “action,” have them say it, and then cut, and then move on. Or maybe say it in a couple different ways. But now, it's much more typical to just let the camera roll, because we're shooting video, with maybe multiple cameras.And I think that's a better way generally, because you might get things you didn't expect. I'd rather have a lot of extra footage that I can't use and yet get that moment that I wouldn't have had otherwise, than if I'm trying to save video. But that said, you want to know what you're going there to get. You don't want to shoot a bunch of things that are useless, because you've got to sit in the editing room, or your poor editor has to go through all of this stuff. So, you do need to plan it out, and there's nothing wrong with preparing the person, pre interviewing them. You know, early in my career, I was a PA on a documentary that HBO was doing here in the Twin Cities. It was about hockey goalies, I think, and suicide. And I'd never been on a documentary set like that. And the director of it literally would say, “when we talked on the phone, you said the following sentence, would you say that again?” Which appalled me at the time, because I thought, “let him really talk.” But then like you say, he was shooting 16 and he had to get what he had to get. But now, a million years later, having done hundreds of corporate interviews, while I'm absolutely on your side of let the camera run, you also need to know what it is you want to get. But also, I remember, we were wrapping up an interview with a father of someone who, I think she had become ill, but she was fine now. And I said, “OK, well, that's just been great, Dave. Thank you for talking to me.” And the sound man—I was about to say cut—and the sound man said, “John, um, I just feel like Dave wants to say something else.” And I said, “well, yeah, we're still rolling. Go ahead, Dave.” And then he said the sentence that we needed for the whole video. And the sound man had seen that because he was paying attention to the person that I was interviewing. I had not seen it. And I got better later on at seeing that, but it's finding that balance between we're done and we're almost done, but you're about to do something brilliant that I guess you can only get from having done it.Roger Nygard: I agree. Yes, I've oftentimes said to someone, “That was a great story or a great thing you just said. Could you say it again? Because it's so important, I want to have you try again. And maybe we'll get it a little more concise this time?” Or if in your mind, you're thinking they didn't quite deliver it the way you wanted.I might even suggest, “Why don't you start by saying ‘That time I was riding my bike …' and finished the sentence.” I'll guide them, because I'm editing, I'm pre editing in my head. How am I going to use this soundbite? Can I use it? Is it usable? Or should we try again? That's very common and they like that, because they want to come off well and they want a second chance to say the thing better. So, everybody wins. And by the way, did you meet Gump Worsley? I did not. This was a high school hockey thing, it wasn't a professional hockey video. But I was surprised that at the end of the day they gave me all the film to take over to the lab. I'm just a PA. You're giving me everything to take to the place? It seemed like they were giving an awful lot of trust to this kid who didn't know what he was doing. But you raise an interesting point, because as you're interviewing, you are both directing and editing at the same time. I think if you're good at it, you're figuring out, yes, no, yeah, I can use, no, I can't. And that's a weird dichotomy. How do you balance both those things? Be in the moment, but also be in the editing suite at the same time in your head?Roger Nygard: That's the hardest thing, especially if you're a one-man band, or a one-person band, or maybe it's you and a sound person. But often, it's been just me with the person that I'm interviewing. And so I've got to make sure it's in focus, I have to remember to turn off the autofocus, I've got to ride the levels, ride the volume, I've got to remember to ask the question, and I have to listen to what they're saying, in case I want to go with a follow up. Doing all these things at once. I've got to remember that—if the lighting changes during the shot—I've got to fix the lighting because the sun moved. So many things are happening. And so, you just practice. You get better every time you do another one, and it starts to become second nature. But the most important thing, after making sure it's in focus and the sound is good quality, is to listen to what they say, exactly like your sound person. What a great advantage to have someone who is paying attention like that and a good team member to remind you.Every interview should end with, “Is there anything else you'd like to add? Is there anything that we missed or is there anything else you'd like to say?” Many of the best soundbites I've collected came in those moments when it was unprompted by me. They gave me what they needed to give me. I remember being on one shoot for an NCAA athlete. She was a basketball point guard, I think. And we're about halfway through the interview and I asked a question and her response was this. She said, “Well as I said before, oh wait, I shouldn't say ‘as I said before,' because I bet you're going to cut this up. Let me redo that and I won't say ‘as I said before.'” And then she said the statement. She finished the statement, and I turned to the crew and said, “You guys do this much more than I do. Has a subject ever said that? And they said, “No, no subject has ever been that aware of the process that they were in that they fixed on the fly what they're saying, because they knew you couldn't use it.”Roger Nygard: Those interview subjects are rare. One technique you talk about in the book is something that started with Errol Morris and ended up being used in corporate America, corporate videos quite a bit. We called it The Interrogator, but that's not quite the word that he used. What did he call it? Roger Nygard: Oh, the Interitron. We call it just the Interrogator, and it's where you've set up a system wherein they're not looking at the camera, they're looking basically at a screen, which is in front of the camera, and they see your face, and so it is a conversation. And with many subjects, I found that that really helped break down any sort of barrier, because it's really hard to talk to a camera, it's much easier to talk to someone sitting next to the camera, and the closer they are to the camera, the better your shot's going to be. But having them look right at your face was hugely helpful. Roger Nygard: There is a connection that happens, according to Errol Morris, that brings unexpected, well, I don't know, what do you want to call it, electricity between you and your subject. Maybe that you might not have when the camera's intruding on the relationship. Have you ever run into situations where there wasn't a pre-interview and it becomes very apparent very quickly that this isn't going to go anywhere? If you have, what's your response to that and how do you handle that? Roger Nygard: Oh, yeah, there are many times. Especially when I was shooting The Nature of Existence. I had 450 hours of footage. I interviewed 170 people. Something like that. Because I was fishing, I don't know what I'm going to get. And everyone is qualified to have an opinion on why do we exist. So, it's worth casting my lure into that part of the lake, even though I'm not sure that there's fish there, I didn't pre fish it. And when that happens, I just do the interview, and then I thank them and tell them it was great. And then I just don't use it, because there's nothing usable in there and it's part of fishing, right? Not every cast brings in a fish. Your Minnesota viewers are going to understand this metaphor. Well, I think fishing's internationally understood. I've never seen anyone do it outside of Minnesota, but I've seen pictures. So, you mentioned, The Nature of Existence. We've talked about Trekkies, you've talked about the relationship documentary. Where do you get your ideas for what to follow? What's going to be your next project? Where does that come from? And how do you know when you, when you have a good fish on the line? Roger Nygard: When you become obsessed with an idea, you have a message that is bursting to get out of you, and so you are compelled to see this through to the bitter end. Because it might take two years, or four years, or seven years.The Truth About Marriage took seven years. Trekkies took one year. Trekkies 2 took 18 months. The Nature of Existence took four years. The idea has to captivate me enough, and obsess me enough, get me there. And then I'm hoping the audience will be just as interested in what I'm obsessed with as I present it to them. That's probably the most important ingredient to the success of a documentary, is your choice of subject matter. What do you mean? Roger Nygard: Because otherwise you might be making a whole movie that's something no one else is gonna be interested in. Or you're doing it for some reason other than you are captivated by it. Because you're the filmmaker, you're the artist. It's your enthusiasm, your excitement that's going to come through and be felt by the audience. But while you're doing that, in your case, you are producing, directing, and editing your projects. When do you know that it's done? I mean, on The Nature of Existence, you said you interviewed, what, 170? How do you know, “Well, that's it, I've got all the pieces?” How do you make that decision? Roger Nygard: Yeah, it's hard sometimes because I had no idea where I was going to end up in with some of these films. I'm sort of like an investigator setting out to solve a crime, and so once I solved the crime, then I know where my ending is and I know how to get there, where to get to. I just have to answer the question. For example, The Truth About Marriage. My question was, Why are relationships so hard for people? That's the mystery I solved. And once I had solved it for myself, by talking to enough marriage therapists, and couples, and married people, and divorced people, a divorce attorney, etc. I had settled in on an answer. And so that's what I present at the end of the film, is what I learned while seeking out that question. That's a concept documentary. With a narrative documentary, it is easier to know your ending because it's a story of someone's life, probably, or a slice of someone's life. Or a trial with a verdict. Okay, the verdict is the ending. Or, maybe it's basketball. And so, do they win or do they lose at the end? That's your ending, and you're working backward from that. If it's a biography, if they've lived a good three act structure in their lives, you've probably got a good documentary there.If they haven't, you either have to manufacture it or find a way to present it. And many documentaries have succeeded despite a lack of a story structure and despite a lack of a solid core question. It's better to have the insurance of a solid story structure, but if you don't have it, you might yet still succeed.Like, I think Trekkies is an example of this. It's a flawed documentary, which does not have a narrative structure. And there's no solid core question asked at the beginning. But it was a grand slam as a documentary because it was so funny. And it had a core group of people that were going to automatically be interested in the film. So, we had those two high cards despite the fact that we didn't have what typically a great documentary has, which is a narrative structure just the same as a screenplay has.It feels like sometimes you're just rolling the dice, not you, but a documentary filmmaker, that you're gonna go into something and something's gonna happen and you're gonna end up with either The Jinx, where he confesses on tape at the end of your documentary, which you certainly could not have put in your pitch if you're that director. Or the folks who were working on the Alec Baldwin documentary about his trial, where the judge threw it out on the first or second day. At that point, you no longer have a documentary.What would you recommend someone do when they're going out to pitch a documentary to investors or the network or whatever on the idea of something? How do you sell something that doesn't exist yet, even in anything more than like a one page document? Roger Nygard: The best way to sell it is to make them feel the story in the room. You act it out and you bring the excitement because you're excited by it. And maybe you've done one interview already as a test. That's often where I get the feel when I'm interviewing that person. I feel it. I feel like I've got something here or I feel like it's not going anywhere. I started a documentary about Scott Hanson, local Minneapolis comedian, and we did one interview, and I just didn't feel it, because I think he was trying to present an image of himself. He wasn't willing to be open. And so I didn't get excited, and we didn't really keep going. The first interview, the first footage we shot of Trekkies, we felt it. We knew we had something. The first interview I did about this existentialist question, Why do we exist? I loved talking to people about this the way you do in a dorm room in college when you're talking about the big questions Why are we here? And what's our purpose? And what am I supposed to do with my life? That gets me excited. It gets people excited in life and death talking about death. What happens when you die? Does the soul exist? If so, where is it lodged inside your brain? Is there a compartment? You know, just fun, fun questions So, I knew, I had a sense that that was going to turn out okay, even though I didn't know my ending when I started because the idea was so gripping.I mean, it's gripped people, existentialist philosophers, for centuries. I'm not the first person to ask this question or try to figure it. I'm just one of thousands or millions, who knows? So, I was tapping into something I thought, it felt like to me. I felt it. But when you're in a pitch meeting, as you're asking, you have to make them feel the excitement either through your core question or the character description. If it's a character piece, then you are going to tell a story about this person. Who is this documentary about? I asked Ken Burns about that. How do you make a documentary about things like a bridge? His first film was about the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. And he said, “You can't. You cannot make documentaries about things. It has to be about people.” And so that documentary is about the family, the Roebling family, that built that bridge and their struggle to complete the job through difficulties and challenges and near death experiences. That makes it interesting and exciting.If you love the film— like a film about an octopus, right? It's not as exciting unless you learn about the person who gets infatuated with a particular octopus, and it's his life. Or a documentary about a TV show. It's going to have a limited interest to fans of the TV show. But if you want a wider audience, you do a film about the fans themselves, about the people.The stories are about the people involved. Someone who collects owl figurines like my aunt did. She would have been a great subject. The owl figurines, who cares? You know, it's a five-minute short. Look, a bunch of owl figurines. But the person, the mindset behind someone who thinks they have to fill their house with owls. That's interesting.And it gives you lots of cutaway shots, too, which is nice. Roger Nygard: Always get your cutaways. Yes. For your documentaries, you're directing and editing, but in the case of the Comedy Store series, you were just, I don't mean to say just an editor on it, but you weren't directing it. What is that process like? I dealt with in corporate all the time. I would go out and interview the subjects and I'd bring it back to my editor and say, “Hey, here's my notes, here's the best stuff, have at it.” And he would create something great that wasn't what I had necessarily intended, but he found the best stuff in the footage and turned it into a five minute story.In the case of The Comedy Store, you're probably handed hundreds of hours of interviews with very interesting people and very funny people. What was your process for creating all those segments and deciding, this goes this stays? Because I'm guessing you could probably have done a couple more hours of just stuff that's funny. Roger Nygard: Sure, we could have done more episodes. There was plenty of footage. I was hired by Mike Binder, who I had worked with before. I had edited his feature films in the past. And he had never made a documentary.So, when he first asked me, I was busy. I was cutting Curb Your Enthusiasm. And I said, “I can't do it. But if, you know, if you can wait 11 months, I'll be free.” So, he hired another editor and started on the footage. And when that eleven months was over, they had crap. They had nothing. They had the beginnings of an episode, but he was flailing around trying to figure out what to do.So, I said, “I'm available now, let's do it.” So, I jumped in, and the first thing I showed Mike was my rules for doing interviews. I said, “Mike, you gotta just shut up. Ask the question and shut up. Let them fill the space. Especially when it's awkward. That's great. They'll come up with things they wouldn't have said if you had just been quiet.” That's number one. Number two, each episode needs a theme. And this is the biggest problem that I've seen, the biggest mistake that documentary filmmakers will make, is they don't know what their theme is. What is a theme? It's the idea or the premise behind the moral of the story. It's the idea you're trying to express.And each of the five episodes has a different theme. One is called The Wild Bunch. And it was about the wildest comedians who ever performed at The Comedy Store. And we used some footage from the movie The Wild Bunch. Once it had a theme, then I knew what to cut, and how to link things together.And once Mike started revising his outlines with that in mind, they started to take shape. And cutting the episodes made sense. You need to know your theme. I would write it down on a piece of paper, put it on the wall, because that's your roadmap. That's where you're going, and every scene should be connected to that theme in some way. Or if it doesn't, it probably doesn't belong in that episode or in the movie.And it actually probably made it a whole lot easier to edit, because you could just immediately go, nope, nope, yep, nope, nope, nope, nope, yep. Roger Nygard: It's your road map. Otherwise, you're just surrounded by a forest of footage and what do you do? I mean, there are tricks, like you start putting like with like and grouping them in your bins. And eventually you might start connecting like segments with like segments as you're building scenes. But when there's a narrative, it's easiest. There's an episode that's about the comedy strike, which happened. And so that gave us a very specific timeline of what's happening and who caused the strike and what they were asking for. Now we've got protagonists and antagonists. The antagonist is the owner of the store, Mitzi Shore, who doesn't want to pay them what they want as comedians. And that makes it easier from a narrative perspective, because what is a narrative, right? You have a protagonist, or a small group of protagonists, and an antagonist, or a small group, and a goal.The protagonists have a goal, and there's obstacles to that goal. Now we watch to see how they succeed or fail. That made that episode much clearer. One part of the book that I found just fascinating and I'm wondering if the publisher gave you any pushback on it, because it is sort of its own mini book right in the book. Which is the whole process of coming up with a distribution deal for Trekkies. It's a long segment, but it disabuses you of any glamour of Hollywood of, “Oh, we went to Sundance and they loved the film, and we signed it, and two months later it was in theaters. This is pages and pages and pages of the process of taking what you know to be a valuable asset and getting it to the right people and getting it out. So, first question is, did the publisher push back on that at all? Roger Nygard: No, they were remarkably compliant, helpful. Because I'd done one book with them already, and they felt pretty happy about me doing a second one in a similar vein, and I had case studies in that book also.But not like this, this is four chapters.Roger Nygard: You're right, the four chapters after, I say at one point, at the end of chapter 10 or whatever it was, “Okay, the how to make a documentary part of the book is over. The next four chapters are, once you have finished, here's a case study in trying to sell your documentary.” Because it took us nine months. From our first distributor screening to sign a contract. There is no immediate, you know. I mean, Sundance turned us down. And so, you have to persevere despite these problems toward a sale. The Sundance mega sale is like winning the lottery. And you're not likely to win the lottery. So you need backup strategies and backup plans. And we had tried lots of things, and it took us a long time and a lot of difficulties in fighting amongst ourselves to finally get to a point where we succeeded and got such a successful sale. Those chapters—I mean, the whole book is great for anyone who wants to make a documentary—but it's also really good for anyone who wants to make a thing. Particularly a film or a TV show or something.You're trying to make a pilot, you're trying to do something. It's unvarnished as to what it takes to do these things, and then you get to those four chapters, you realize this is for anybody who's got a film under their arm, whether it's a short or a feature, here's what you need to be prepared to face.I've always said that the problem with independent filmmaking is that we only see the successes. It's like having a cancer study where they don't tell you about the ones who died. We only tell you about the ones who lived. And this is a great, because look at this: this is what they did and they all lived, but there's so many that died because people don't understand the process. And that's what I love about that section of the book: it really just says this is not easy and you need good people on your side.Roger Nygard: And persistence. It's a marathon. You need to make sure your film sells. No one else is going to have the motivation to push your film over the finish line more than you. You gotta be in training to be that strong. You gotta make your short films, you gotta suffer a little bit, and that just makes you stronger.We were motivated to succeed. Despite being turned down by Sundance and Telluride and Toronto and the New York Film Festival—all the big ones at the beginning of the season turned us down. We finally got some success with the Hamptons Film Festival and the AFI Los Angeles Film Festival, and we were able to use those to help us get where we wanted to go. But boy, it would have been so much nicer if we got into Sundance, and it was the rave of Sundance, and it was easy.But here's a plan for those where that doesn't happen: There's a film agent I interview in the book, Glenn Reynolds, who said, “I don't need film festivals to sell your movie. Filmmakers like to go to film festivals, but there's just buyers, and it comes down to the product.Is it good? Who's in it? What's their social media reach now? And, oh, okay, you did a film festival. That's great. That doesn't hurt necessarily, but these first three, and the poster. What's the hook? What's the marketing going to do? Those are more important than how many film festivals.” We did 50 film festivals. The buyers don't really care. But if you picked up some rave reviews, and won some awards, that shows that someone else has validated your work. And so that's what you're hoping for. And you're not doing that in a vacuum. If I remember the timeline, you're working on your feature Suckers in there somewhere as well, that's happening at the same time.You once said to me something like, “It's good to have a lot of irons in the fire, you just don't want to have too many because you'll put the fire out.” You don't remember saying that? Roger Nygard: I do, yes. That sounds like me. Yeah, it is you. It was you. And I've remembered that ever since. And have tried to have a number of irons in the fire, but not too many. I think you sort of just say it in passing, in that section, that you're also working on Suckers, and that's happening. But you've always had sort of multi paths happening at the same time. How has that helped your career as both a documentary filmmaker, and a TV director, and a TV editor, and now an author?Roger Nygard: Yeah, you need to continually reinvent yourself and be trying new things and have multiple projects and have the stamina to, to work on them all and push them forward. Because that's who you're competing with. You're competing with people who are like that. They're working just as hard as you are.I mean, a workaholic is just someone who works harder than you do, right? If you accuse someone of being a workaholic, that means you're probably a little lazier than they are. Okay, that's fine. Maybe you can make what you need out of life, not working as hard, and my hat goes off to you. But that doesn't work for me. What works for me is—maybe it's that Scandinavian work ethic I picked up growing up in Minnesota—I feel like a complete loser if I haven't put in my work during the day. By the end of the day, I better have pushed that ball down the field some more, or I'll feel, you know, guilty. And so that helps motivate me. So, I work every day on something. Whether it's writing the book, or making a documentary, or editing a feature, or editing—right now I'm editing a Netflix series. Doing all those things. And my delayed gratification carrot is hanging there for me: Once I finish, I'm gonna go to Bali. So, I go to Bali every year once I've earned it.And now you might say, “Oh, you're crazy! No one should work that hard. I'm tired.” Well, it's a very competitive world, and so you need to work just a little bit harder than the one you're competing against. Yes. I believe it was William Goldman who quoted a basketball coach saying to their player, “Anytime you're not practicing, the guy you're going to go up against is, so you need to get out there and practice.”Roger Nygard: It's no different in the film business. Film business is the same, if not even more cutthroat. Okay, two last questions on this, and then I'm going to let you go. So, what's the biggest mistake that you think someone starting out as a documentary filmmaker is likely to make?Roger Nygard: One of them is to give up your ownership. You should always keep, if you can, own your projects. Own your product. Because it's a property. And if you own it, then you can continually relicense it over your lifetime. I know a filmmaker who made the biggest mistake you can make, which is he sold his movie in perpetuity to a distributor. Now it's gone. He'll never get it back again. So you want to license whatever you've made to a distributor for two years, four years, five years, seven years. With Trekkies, we had a 20 year license, 25 if unrecouped. But that's because they paid us so much money, they bought that many years, but it was still a license.And so Trekies came back to us a few years ago and so we restored it to HD. It had never been released in HD yet, and we've licensed it to a new company for another period of time. You did the same thing with Suckers, didn't you? Roger Nygard: I did it, I bought it, yes. The company, the same company that I made Trekkies with made Suckers with me. And they set up a corporation to own the film, which is typically what they do, every film has a corporation that owns that film. And that's where the money from the investor goes. And that's where the profits, if any, come out of. And in that case, Sucker's never reached profit while they owned it. It cost about a half a million to make, and it probably made back $250,000 from an HBO sale and an IFC sale and home video. And we had a distributor that went bankrupt who, so we had to chase them.But at the end, probably like 15 years after we made the film, the company that I worked with, Neomotion Pictures, they were going to close their doors. They were retiring or going off to do different things, and they were shutting down the company they had made that owned the film. So, if they just shut down the company, then suddenly it goes into the public domain, because there's no ownership. The entity that owned it no longer exists. Nothing owns it. Meaning everybody, anyone can own it. So, I said, Wait, guys, sell it to me,” which they did, “And I will restore the film,” which I did. I paid for the restoration. I collected what elements remained, some had been thrown away, but enough of the key elements still existed, so I was able to re-scan it and remix it and marry it together and find a distributor. And actually I put it on, it's on Amazon Prime. I put it there myself. So, I collect the money directly now, after putting my money into it. So, be an owner. Own your films. And if you can't, be a co owner. So at least you're part of where the money goes first. I mean, ideally you want the money to go to you and have all your profit participants chase you for the money, instead of you chasing them for the royalties. Okay, one last question. Someone has read your book, they've properly packed all their gear, they're going off to begin shooting. What's the one last piece of advice you'd give them before the door on the airplane shuts?Roger Nygard: Buy a copy of The Documentarian for everyone on your crew. That's the first part of the advice. And have them all read it. Be prepared for your interview, practice at home before you get there, set up your camera and your audio and do a practice interview so that it's second nature by the time you get there. Maybe do a test interview on, on someone who's not your main interviewee so that you have done a dry run and you've tested all the equipment, you've tested your questions, you've refined your approach. And so you're ready for the big day. Well, this has been great. Roger, is there anything I've forgotten to ask you? Roger Nygard: Yes, the names of all my projects. The last book was Cut to the Monkey, about editing and comedy. And this book is called The Documentarian. And I am working on another book, and I will probably, until the day I keel over. Hopefully I'll die fishing up in Canada. And they won't find you for days and days and days.Roger Nygard: It would be only fair if I fell in the water and the fish ate me after I've been eating them for years.

Imagine you are a juror in a criminal trial. The evidence is overwhelming that the defendant is guilty. But you can't shake the feeling that it would be unjust to convict. Maybe you don't believe what the defendant did should be treated as a crime. Or maybe you simply believe the defendant deserves mercy. Can you vote to acquit, or must you vote according to the evidence? It turns out that, in the US and the UK, jurors do have the power to acquit, even if they believe a defendant committed the charged crime. This is known as jury nullification. In this episode, host Janelle Wrigley chats with Professor Glenn Reynolds from the University of Tennessee College of Law. They discuss the history of jury nullification in the US, the role of the jury, and the debate on whether jurors should be told they have the power to nullify if they believe a conviction would be unjust.

In this conversation, Karol interviews Glenn Reynolds, the founder of InstaPundit, New York Post Columnist, and law professor. They discuss the early days of blogging, the changing landscape of social media, and the appeal and drawbacks of platforms like Twitter/X. They also touch on Glenn's career and personal life, the migration to red states, the cultural divide in society, and the biggest cultural problem. They Karol Markowicz Show is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network - new episodes debut every Monday & Thursday. Follow Clay & Buck on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/clayandbuckSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this conversation, Karol interviews Glenn Reynolds, the founder of InstaPundit, New York Post Columnist, and law professor. They discuss the early days of blogging, the changing landscape of social media, and the appeal and drawbacks of platforms like Twitter/X. They also touch on Glenn's career and personal life, the migration to red states, the cultural divide in society, and the biggest cultural problem. They Karol Markowicz Show is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network - new episodes debut every Monday & Thursday. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Why did the Middle East fall behind Europe despite being in a similar state in 1000 AD? How do modern authoritarians benefit from our tendency to falsify our preferences? Timur Kuran joins Amit Varma in episode 349 of The Seen and the Unseen to share his learnings from history -- and what they teach us about today. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out: 1. Timur Kuran on Twitter, Wikipedia, Google Scholar and Duke University. 2. Private Truths, Public Lies -- Timur Kuran. 3. The Long Divergence -- Timur Kuran. 4. Freedoms Delayed -- Timur Kuran. 5. You Will Know Them By Their Unpopular Views -- Bryan Caplan. 6. The Hindu Equilibrium -- Deepak Lal. 7. From Cairo to Delhi With Max Rodenbeck — Episode 281 of The Seen and the Unseen. 8. The Life and Times of Nilanjana Roy -- Episode 284 of The Seen and the Unseen. 9. James M Buchanan, Albert O Hirschman, Mancur Olson, Thomas Schelling and Kenneth Arrow. 10. The Logic of Collective Action -- Mancur Olson. 11. Micromotives and Macrobehavior -- Thomas Schelling. 12. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty -- Albert O Hirschman. 13. A Theory of Justice — John Rawls. 14. Anarchy, State and Utopia — Robert Nozick. 15. A Trump wave is on the way (2016) -- Glenn Reynolds. 16. It's Cascading Trump, It's Cascading Modi!  (2016) -- Amit Varma. 17. Instapundit -- Glenn Reynolds's blog. 18. Marginal Revolution. 19. Bari Weiss on Twitter, Substack and her own website. 20. VS Naipaul on Amazon. 21. Solomon Asch's experiments. 22. Irreversible Damage --  Abigail Shrier. 23. Luxury Beliefs. 24. Fixing Indian Education — Episode 185 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan). 25. Education in India — Episode 77 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Amit Chandra). 26. Fund Schooling, Not Schools (2007) — Amit Varma. 27. The Beautiful Tree — James Tooley. 28. The Incredible Curiosities of Mukulika Banerjee — Episode 276 of The Seen and the Unseen. 29. The Pathan Unarmed — Mukulika Banerjee. 30. The Mystery of Capital — Hernando De Soto. 31. Belling the Cat. 32. Oppenheimer -- Christopher Nolan. 33. Censored -- Margaret E Roberts.. 34. The Art of Not Being Governed -- James C Scott. 35. Domination & the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts -- James C Scott. Amit Varma and Ajay Shah have launched a new video podcast. Check out Everything is Everything on YouTube. Check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. And subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It's free! Episode art: ‘Marketplace of Ideas' by Simahina.

The average human makes 2,000 excuses a year. Sometimes we don't even realize how that holds us back in who we are called to be! Tune in to Dr. Glenn Reynolds amazing sermon and choose to be done with excuses today.

Join us for a powerful word from God. Glenn Reynolds shares a testimony of the worst day of his life. We all have a "Worst day of our lives." The bible doesn't say life will be easy, but Jesus promises to help us through even the hardest situations. You don't need to carry it alone.

In this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to the founder of Instapundit.com, Glenn Reynolds, about the origins of the blogging revolution at the turn of the 21st century. Glenn Harlan Reynolds (born August 27, 1960) is Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law, and is known for his American politics blog, Instapundit. His special interests are law and technology and constitutional law issues and his work has appeared in a wide variety of publications including the Columbia Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Wisconsin Law Review, the William and Mary Law Review, the Southern California Law Review, the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Law and Policy in International Business, Jurimetrics, the Journal of Space Law, and the High Technology Law Journal. Reynolds has also written in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, the Washington Times, the Los Angeles Times, Road & Track, Urb and the Wall Street Journal as well as other popular publications. He was for many years a contributing editor at Popular Mechanics magazine and is a member of the Board of Contributors of USA Today. He is the co-author of Outer Space: Problems of Law and Policy, and The Appearance of Impropriety: How the Ethics Wars Have Undermined American Government, Business, and Society. His most recent books are The Social Media Upheaval, The Judiciary's Class War and The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself. For more: http://instapundit.substack.com. Name as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Guest Pastor Glenn Reynolds brings a great word this Sunday! He reminds us that we are made perfectly, and that we do not need to try to be someone else. David went in to battle wearing his own clothes, not the armor Saul gave him. You need this word today!

Joe Biden gets nasty with Peter Doocy as his polling support continues to crumble. Andrew Malcolm and Glenn Reynolds analyze Biden's performance, and John Fund talks about his new book "Our Broken Elections: How the Left Changed the Way You Vote."

[00:00:00] Brian's BIG 3 [00:09:45] Lt. Col. Allen West (Ret) [00:18:20] Susan Li [00:36:39] Glenn Reynolds [00:55:00] Senator Bill Hagerty [01:05:54] Varney & Co. Simulcast [01:13:17] Ben Domenech [01:31:32] Bill Snyder [01:47:23] More to Know

With private space companies launching rockets, satellites, and people at a record pace, and with the U.S. and other governments committing to a future in space, today's guest Glenn Harlan Reynolds looks at how we got here, where we're going, and why it matters for all of humanity. Reynolds is a law professor and former executive vice president of the National Space Society, thinks commercial space is essential to the future.Author of the book “America's New Destiny in Space,” he discusses America's future in space, which will be dominated by the private sector rather than the work of government space agencies. We explore how space will inspire innovation, possibly create trillions of dollars in wealth, and pump incredible new energy into human civilization. Reynolds describes three phases of spaceflight in history so far. Visionary (early 20th century), “command-economy,” from the Apollo to the Shuttle eras, and finally, a “sustainable” phase, which he defines as “spaceflight that generates enough economic value to pay its own way.”This means that getting into space has become far cheaper than it used to be, and that it promises to get much cheaper still. This creates immediate possibilities like cheap satellite Internet from SpaceX's Starlink, but also more exotic technologies: space-based solar power, asteroid mining, and helium-3 extraction from the Moon. Reynolds also talks about what we need to do to bring about this future: little regulation and the government acting as a customer, but otherwise getting out of the way.

Pastors Gary and Rose Brothers have been loving and pastoring the people of Cape First Church for thirty years! In this special service, Pastor Chad Fisher and Dr. Glenn Reynolds, along with special video elements, tell the story of how our pastors Dared To Dream Big and answer the call of God for their lives.

We invite you to experience the life-changing power of Jesus Christ, God is doing great things at Crosspoint Church, and we believe He has something special in store for you!

Professor Reynolds discusses a lack of confidence in military leadership. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We weren’t able to do an episode for our regular Saturday time slot last weekend because Steve was on the road, so we’re doing this mid-week show with a special return guest, philosopher Spencer Case, who in a previous life served in the U.S. Army in deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan. While supportive of our military mission, he had misgivings about how it was all going during his Afghan deployment in 2009 and 2010. Then Steve and Lucretia discuss at length whether conservatives should turn against the military, or at the very least the politicized and bureaucratized military leadership. They spend a lot of time discussing a savage article by an anonymous serving general officer posted by Glenn Reynolds on Instapundit, which says, among other bracing things, “Unreformed, the Department of Defense is an inscrutable labyrinth which invites fraud, waste, and abuse.” To which Steve proposes: maybe we should cut the Pentagon budget in half. The left has always hated the military, while the right always defended it and wanted to spend more, even with its waste and extravagance. But perhaps that support was a contingent relic of the Cold War? What does it mean for the American military if both the left and the right dislike it?

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University of Tennessee law professor and Instapundit founder Glenn Reynolds – author of an Encounter Intelligence book on space policy – joins us for a fascinating conversation about America's future in space, which will be dominated by the private sector rather than the work of government space agencies.  We discuss how space can address climate change and global energy problems, how space will inspire new innovation, and what our policy approach should be to encourage more space activity while minimizing international conflict.

The Supreme Court’s landmark decision in New York Times v. Sullivan came under scrutiny in a recent dissent by Judge Silberman of the D.C. Court of Appeals. Noted First Amendment scholars Glenn Reynolds and Floyd Adams weigh in on the discussion addressing whether or not the nearly sixty-year-old case should be revisited, and the impact of First Amendment driven defamation laws in the journalistic context and free public discourse. Featuring:-- Prof. Glenn Reynolds, Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law -- Floyd Abrams, Senior Counsel, Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP -- Moderator: Erik Jaffe, Partner, Schaerr | Jaffe LLP

In Part 2 of our series with Glenn Reynolds, CreditSights’ Co-founder and Global Macro Strategist, Glenn recounts the highs and lows of the past 20 years, and why founding CreditSights was a risk that paid off.  

CreditSights’ Co-founder and Global Macro Strategist, Glenn Reynolds, discusses what he’s seen in the markets over the course of his career, from 1980s inflation through the beginning of our current credit cycle.

[00:00:00] Brian's BIG 3 [00:18:19] Lt. Col. Allen West (Ret) [00:36:38] Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) [01:05:57] Varney & Co. Simulcast [01:13:22] Chris Christie [01:31:46] Glenn Reynolds [01:47:05] More to Know

Highlights:  “The states with the 3 highest totals of nursing home deaths, California, New York and Pennsylvania, all of them implemented versions of the same policy” “Don't you just love how the permanent political class gets privileges for themselves that they deliberately deny to the rest of us? Isn’t that wonderful?” “What a perfect observation by Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit. Trump is wrecking all generations of Democratic governors who might otherwise have been presidential or vice-presidential timber simply by letting them run things as they see fit. And as Democratic governors run things as they see fit, even Democrat populations are beginning to turn on them.”Timestamps:       [02:42] NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s scandal with the deaths of nursing home patients and the latest sexual harassment accusation against him[04:13] On Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer who also directed that Covid-positive patients be admitted to nursing homes[05:12 ] The 3 states with the highest number of nursing home deaths and how Rachel Levine is also under scrutiny [07:48] How Trump has effectively wrecked a number of Democrat officials[08:35] The latest in the recall effort against CA Gov. Gavin NewsomResources: Evaluate your cybersecurity today with Graybeard Security! Book your personal security analysis by using the Dark Web Scanner for FREE at turleytalks.graybeardsecurity.ioGet Hemp Fusion’s sleep supplement with 25% OFF plus 10 FREE travel packs of Hemp Fusion’s stress products using the code ‘WINNING’ at  hempfusion.comBrought to you by LIBERTY WATER: Working to quench the thirst of freedom-loving Americans. Enter code ‘TURLEY’  to get a pocket constitution for every case you order. Get your water today at https://libertywaterusa.comFight back against Big Tech CENSORSHIP! Subscribe to my GAB PLATFORM: https://gab.com/turley-talksSubscribe to my Brand-New RUMBLE Channel here: https://rumble.com/c/DrSteveTurleyFind me on BITCHUTE: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/vEzYfW0ALXeNBecome a Turley Talks Insiders Club Member: https://insidersclub.turleytalks.com/welcomeThank you for taking the time to listen to this episode.  If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and/or leave a review.Do you want to be a part of the podcast and be our sponsor? Click here to partner with us and defy liberal culture!If you would like to get lots of articles on conservative trends make sure to LIKE Dr. Steve Turley’s Facebook Page and sign-up for the 'New Conservative Age Rising' Email Alerts. 

In this episode, I discuss The Big Lie, which is, according to the media, that the 2020 election was stolen. but is that really The Big Lie? Could it be that the political /media establishment are worried that their narrative isn't working? I also talk about the Republican Party and what is wrong with it.I quote extensively from the following articles: "Is it time for Never GOP" by Jack Kerwickhttps://amgreatness.com/2021/01/04/is-it-time-for-nevergop/"Hubris: Elites brazenly gloat they rigged election...and that's good new for us" by Monica show alterhttps://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/02/hubris_elites_brazenly_gloat_they_rigged_election__and_why_thats_good_news_for_us.html"Why are Democrats so scared of Donald Trump when they just defeated him?" by Glenn Reynolds https://nypost.com/2021/02/04/why-are-democrats-so-scared-of-trump-when-they-just-beat-him/"Why the Time election narrative is good news" by Mark Waukhttps://meaninginhistory.blogspot.com/2021/02/why-time-election-narrative-is-good-news.html

PODCAST SUMMARY HOUR 1: Schumer: Trump is responsible for the "erection" on Capitol Hill. Graham says the Turtle has a plan for impeachment. Dems to transmit articles Monday, misjudging public reaction to impeaching a president who is already gone. Glenn Reynolds on Biden's inauguration. Democrats used National Guard as props, then send them to sleep in a parking garage. De Santis calls troops home. Amazon offers to help Biden distribute vaccines. Guard forced to leave Capitol after Democrat Rep. reported a guardsman for not wearing mask in Dunkin Donuts. Jen Psaki: Biden broke his own mask rule because he was celebrating. Democrats began undermining American confidence in elections with the Russia collusion hoax. Democrats were putting on a big show this week, pretending Trump supporters were a security threat to the inauguration. How are they going to deprogram 75 million Trump voters? Biden kills thousands of union jobs on first day. PODCAST SUMMARY HOUR 2: AOC, Katie Couric, other liberals talk about deprograming 75 million Trump voters. Debate over whether Trump supporters should try to remake the GOP or form a new party. Trump tried to build the party, but Republicans would not defend him. Montage of liberals calling Trump voters cultists, Nazis, saying they should be deprogrammed. Biden kills thousands of jobs on his first day. Caller thinks Republicans will vote to impeach Trump so they can bar him from running again. Will Republicans file injunctions against Biden's executive orders the way Democrats did to Trump? Republicans should treat the Biden presidency as illegitimate. Caller who's business was failing in the 90s credits Rush with inspiring him, saving his life. PODCAST SUMMARY HOUR 3: Democrats didn't expect a big crowd at inauguration. Rush's prediction that Dr. Fauci would be in charge if Biden won. Fauci says virus is plateauing, trashes Trump. Fauci said the virus wasn't a threat to Americans, said it was unnecessary to wear a mask. Jill Biden does photo-op with National Guard. Rush's take on Vice President Pence's handling of the electoral college vote. Did Pelosi know of plans to overrun the Capitol and let it happen? Donald Trump has character and humility, would never have wanted what happened on January 6th. Callers theory on why Biden would pardon Trump. Hank Aaron dies two weeks after getting the Moderna vaccine. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

00:00 Jeff Toobin caught wanking on zoom by New Yorkers, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJnx30t58EI&ab_channel=AcademicAgent 02:00 97% of political humor targets Trump 09:00 Ten reasons Trump will win, https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-surprise-victory-tom-del-beccaro 11:25 Tucker Carlson on Hunter Biden's laptop 13:00 Why the MSM increasingly opposes free speech 23:50 Pollster Patrick Basham predicts a Trump victory, https://democracyinstitute.org/leighton-smith-interviews-patrick-basham-about-di-us-polls/#.X4xkXiwhwfM.twitter 40:00 Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=134955 1:18:00 How Google manipulates search results, elections, https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1318688447356456963 1:20:00 The Biden crime family 1:22:00 Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America's Progressive Elite by Peter Schweizer, https://www.amazon.com/Profiles-Corruption-Peter-Schweizer/dp/006289790X 1:40:00 RIDING THE DRAGON: The Bidens' Chinese Secrets, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRmlcEBAiIs&ab_channel=BlazeTV 1:48:00 War Room: Pandemic Ep 447 - Honey Badger Don't Give (w/ Rudy Giuliani), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e69VXjjPe_4 2:08:00 Hunter Biden texted Joe Biden that his sister-in-law & lover thinks Hunter was sexually in appropriate with under-age girls, https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1318699372985679880 2:25:00 Tucker Carlson on elites shutting down free speech https://www.newsweek.com/biden-big-tech-have-poland-hungary-their-crosshairs-opinion-1540063 2:35:00 USA Today won't publish Glenn Reynolds weekly column on tech censorship, https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/10/et-tu-usa-today.php Polls, questions, super chats: https://entropystream.live/app/lukefordlive Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/lukeford/ Periscope: https://www.pscp.tv/lukeford/1nAJEAnVRDaJL Soundcloud MP3s: https://soundcloud.com/luke-ford-666431593 Code of Conduct: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=125692 Reb Dooovid: https://twitter.com/RebDoooovid https://www.patreon.com/lukeford http://lukeford.net Email me: lukeisback@gmail.com or DM me on Twitter.com/lukeford Support the show | https://www.streamlabs.com/lukeford, https://patreon.com/lukeford, https://PayPal.Me/lukeisback Facebook: http://facebook.com/lukecford Book an online Alexander Technique lesson with Luke: https://alexander90210.com Feel free to clip my videos. It's nice when you link back to the original.

For this week’s episode we talk with our guest Glenn Reynolds on the topic of what planters should think about legally. If you would like to learn more about Glenn Reynolds you can follow the click link below.Glenn Reynolds

Cranky and newly minted cohost Jeff welcome Glenn Reynolds! Three aging white male bloggers discuss topics related to the evolution of blogging and internet culture. They discuss his book, An Army of Davids (2006) and how it holds, while also previewing his new book out October 13: America’s New Destiny in Space. They also touch on peer to peer communication, the Internet and social media providing good and evil and what the algorithms mean to our manipulated experience online. What do you think Glenn’s number one complaint about Twitter is? Listen and find out! Twitter: @StillCrankyAF @proteinwisdom Web: http://www.bleepingpodcast.com

Cranky and newly minted cohost Jeff welcome Glenn Reynolds! Three aging white male bloggers discuss topics related to the evolution of blogging and internet culture. They discuss his book, An Army of Davids (2006) and how it holds, while also previewing his new book out October 13: America’s New Destiny in Space. They also touch on peer to peer communication, the Internet and social media providing good and evil and what the algorithms mean to our manipulated experience online. What do you think Glenn’s number one complaint about Twitter is? Listen and find out! Twitter: @StillCrankyAF @proteinwisdom Web: http://www.bleepingpodcast.com

In this episode Geoff Castle, Pender’s Fixed Income Portfolio Manager, talks to Glenn Reynolds, Chief Global Strategist and Co-Founder of CreditSights. Pender’s fixed income team have worked with the research analysts of CreditSights for a number of years. Geoff and Glenn talk about the early days of high-yield, moving up to the present day and how past events may shape the post-COVID-19 future.

We present our CreditSights' Weekly Wrap from May 15th, a conversation between Erin Lyons, our IG Strategist, as host, and Glenn Reynolds, our Global Head of Strategy, as guest. 

Protestors march in Raleigh to convince Cooper to end the lockdown, Democrats finally stop blocking money for small businesses, and Glenn Reynolds writes about the political & class divide between those who support a continued lockdown and those who are rebelling against it

'The Social Media Upheaval' at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Social-Media-Upheaval-Encounter-Intelligence/dp/164177083X See more 'Cotto/Gottfried' episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Pa5w_YWKYQPq-9Haak9gg/

Ian Keogh of the Currency speaks to KPMG's Marie Armstrong, a partner specialising in corporation tax and President of the Irish Exporters Association, and Glenn Reynolds, a partner in indirect tax, specialising in VAT and customs, on the implications of Brexit for trade.

The HiT 'cast shares why Cancel Culture won't nail Quentin Tarantino (yet) and interviews Instapundit.com's Glenn Reynolds about his new book, 'The Social Media Upheaval.' You won't look at Twitter or Facebook the same way again.

This week I interview Glenn Reynolds, of Instapundit and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville law school, about his new book, “The Social Media Upheaval.” In a crisp 64 pages, Glenn analogizes social media to a primeval city, where new proximity produces periodic outbreaks of diseases that more isolated people never experienced; traces social media's toxicity to the desperate pursuit of engagement; and proposes remedies both for individual users and for society whole.  All that plus thoughtful advice on dietary supplements and deadlifts! In the news roundup, Matthew Heiman dissects a recent Third Circuit ruling that Amazon can be held strictly liable for products it markets for third parties. Unlike Matthew, I am largely persuaded by the court's ruling on products liability—but Matthew and I both have doubts about its use of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to protect Amazon from failure to warn liability. Maury Shenk and Nick Weaver review the progress of the War on Facial Recognition. Opponents have rolled out the ultimate weapon in modern left ideology—ICE is using it! But facial recognition is still winning, mostly because its opponents are peddling undifferentiated fear of a technology that's already being used for many very different purposes, from anonymously tracking shoppers moving through a store (where the store doesn't need to know the shoppers' identities) to boarding planes (where the airline damn well better know the passengers' identities, and the tech only has a couple of hundred faces to match). Matthew and Nick consider China's seizing and installing spyware on travelers' devices. Turns out, China's practice isn't all that different from most government efforts to extract data from phones, except that the Chinese leave the code on Android devices so that security researchers can reverse engineer China's deepest fears. And what do they fear most? Japanese heavy metal, apparently. Almost makes you feel a bit of empathy for Beijing… Maury also highlights Big Tech's concerns about the UK's particularly aggressive proposal for an online “duty of care.” Nick and I follow the problem of fake cancer cures being advertised on Facebook and YouTube down the usual ratholes—who should be responsible in the first place, and why does Silicon Valley think that algorithms will ever be able to discipline such content? This Week in the U.S.-China trade war: No one seems to know exactly what President Trump's concessions at the G-20 meeting amount to, but more and more U.S. tech companies have decided that moving 30% of their tech sourcing out of China is a good idea no matter how the trade war ends. This war isn't good for U.S. companies, but it's really not good for China's. Which, come to think of it, is what President Trump has said right from the start. Finally, if you're looking for tough government action against contractors with bad cybersecurity, Customs and Border Patrol is your agency.  It has cut ties with Perceptics, the firm that was breached by Boris the Bullet-Dodger, and seems to be readying a debarment proceeding that will cut the firm off from future contracts. Matthew and I speculate that there may be something more behind this harsh remedy—perhaps a lack of prompt contractor candor about the breach. Whatever the context, this proceeding is likely to set a precedent that haunts other contractors long into future. Download the 271st Episode (mp3). You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed!   As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@steptoe.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug!   The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.

I talked with blogger and University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds about breaking up the tech giants, whether social media is making us crazy, the 'soft civil war; in the United States, masculinity and achieving success via his 'surfing' technique. 

Glenn Reynolds, Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law, shares with Dan & Amy that leaving Twitter has made his life exponentially better. Find out why and how in his new book The Social Media Upheaval. Stephen Moore, laments the rising price of lentils & AOC: Trump is a fascist running concentration camps at the border.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"Twitter is like the crystal meth of social media," says our guest, University of Tennessee Law Professor, Glenn Reynolds, founder of the popular political blog, Instapundit. Twitter "is addictive and ultimately unsatisfying."In this episode we look at why social media is poisoning our politics, journalism and relationships by stoking anger, fear, hyper-partisanship and distrust of others. We ask: "how do we fix it?" "Social media is addictive by design. The companies involved put tremendous amounts of thought and effort into making it that way, so that people will be glued to their screens," writes Glenn in his new book, "The Social Media Upheaval." In our podcast, he cites the work of Columbia University Professor Tim Wu, author of "The Curse of Bigness", who warns about the dangers of excessive corporate and industrial concentration. Glenn is sympathetic to calls to break up social media giants and reign in their political and commercial power.Among other solutions discussed are greater transparency, such as publishing details of algorithms used by Twitter, Facebook, Google and other big internet firms to keep us on their sites. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ep. 169 - Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit.com discusses why he deleted his #Twitter account with over 160,000 followers, the new #Socialist 'it-girl' #AOC, disgraced FBI Director #McCabes insurance policy and the Democrats racist chickens coming home to roost. Check out Glenn's work along with other excellent writers at http://Instapundit.com.https://youtu.be/_D-pu8AvU1cIf you're enjoying the series, PLEASE Support #WhiskeyPolitics at http://paypal.me/mywhiskeypolitics. Cheers!Produced by Praemonitus Communications.Please subscribe to Whiskey Politics on YouTube, WhiskeyPolitics.net, Facebook, and Twitter  Shown on Americas Voice Television Network Subscribe to your favorite podcast application including? The Ricochet Network, TuneIn, Stitcher, GooglePlay, and iTunes where your 5-star rating will be greatly appreciated!

Ep. 169 - Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit.com discusses why he deleted his #Twitter account with over 160,000 followers, the new #Socialist 'it-girl' #AOC, disgraced FBI Director #McCabes insurance policy and the Democrats racist chickens coming home to roost. Check out Glenn's work along with other excellent writers at http://Instapundit.com.https://youtu.be/_D-pu8AvU1cIf you're enjoying the series, PLEASE Support #WhiskeyPolitics at http://paypal.me/mywhiskeypolitics. Cheers!Produced by Praemonitus Communications.Please subscribe to Whiskey Politics on YouTube, WhiskeyPolitics.net, Facebook, and Twitter  Shown on Americas Voice Television Network Subscribe to your favorite podcast application including? The Ricochet Network, TuneIn, Stitcher, GooglePlay, and iTunes where your 5-star rating will be greatly appreciated!

What made you conservative? The statement by Glenn Reynolds, Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law, stating that America is not in crisis, leftists are in meltdown and are calling that the crisis.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Supreme Court rules in favor of the Colorado baker and religious freedom. Dana breaks down the decision and what it means. Bill Clinton says he doesn’t owe Monica Lewinsky an apology. Instapundit founder Glenn Reynolds joins us to discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of Masterpiece Cakeshop. A Kansas Gubernatorial candidate carries a machine gun in a parade. Stephen Yates joins us to discuss the progress for the North Korea summit.

It’s worse than that.You are that which produces the product. We start with some thoughts from Glenn Reynolds on the possible need for social media regulation: Social media firms want us addicted to approval. So much for WiFi making us smarter. goo.gl/KJiDgt Glenn shares an enlightening tweet from The Stoic Emperor goo.gl/YLZMkL: Almost all Americans own a smartphone or a computer. Each device contains the library of Alexandria.  The sum total of all world knowledge.  You can learn anything. Why don't you? Too busy tracking social status.  Too enthralled by imagery your evolution can't resist. Then there’s this piece, also recommended by Glenn: You are not friends with Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. You are their product. goo.gl/SrRKKp -- We conveniently forgot or ignored the fact that WE are the product Facebook sells. We are not Facebook’s customers. We don’t pay to use it. We give Facebook tons of data every time we sign on or post or ‘like’ something, and they make boatloads of money off us. They sell our information to advertisers. The small price we thought we were paying was seeing an annoying ad for a dress bought on StyleWe or shoes from Nordstroms follow us around for a few months. -- No exactly. We aren’t really the product. It’s worse. We are more like the livestock. Still, there may be hope in the face of all this angst. And it may come from a pretty unexpected source. WT 425-738 Eternity Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License | creativecommons.org/licenses

Ken Block's Climbkhana, a mosquito repellant phone, Nukemap, Puerto Rico aftermath, Las Vegas Shooter, Antifa in Utah, Oreo Cookie Butter Cookies, Coinflash investing, & a US and Russia Moon Station. Links from this episode: - TOYO TIRES | Ken Block’s Climbkhana: Pikes Peak Featuring the Hoonicorn V2 - It's Ken Block's 1,400bhp Hoonicorn Mustang V2! - RECARO Presents "Devil's Playground": The Jeremy Foley 2012 Pikes Peak Story - Version 2 (spec change for Climbkhana: Pikes Peak) - LG is releasing a mosquito-repellent phone, but it probably won’t work - iPhone 6 Case, Anuck iPhone 6 Wallet case [Anti Scratch][Heavy Duty][Card Pocket] Dual Layer Hybrid Rubber Bumper Protective Card Case Cover for Apple iPhone 6 4.7 inch & iPhone 6s 4.7" - Rose Gold * - How many people would die if a nuclear bomb hit Salt Lake City? - Nukemap - Trump: Rex Tillerson is wasting his time negotiating with 'Little Rocket Man' - The weird world of North Korea’s restaurants abroad - Monty Hall, Co-Creator and Host of ‘Let’s Make a Deal,’ Dies at 96 - Hugh Hefner’s cause of death revealed - Puerto Rico has big problems, but President Trump isn't one of them: Glenn Reynolds - Amateur Radio Operators Stepped In To Help Communications With Puerto Rico - Las Vegas Shooting: Gunman’s Girlfriend Said She Didn’t Know He Planned Harm - Once an obscure device, 'bump stocks' are in the spotlight - The New Union | News • Instagram photos - There’s no evidence linking the Las Vegas shooting to ISIS. Why did terrorists make false claim? - Steven Crowder and producer infiltrate antifa prior to Ben Shapiro event, rip media silence - #UndercoverANTIFA Fallout: Ben Shapiro Interview (Exclusive) - Evaporation Engines Could Produce More Power Than Coal, with a Huge Caveat - Scientists Create Soft And Super-Strong Synthetic Muscles For Lifelike Robots - Oreo Limited Edition Cookie Butter Sandwich Cookies, 10.7 oz * - Speculoos Cookie Butter (14.1 Oz Jar) * - Automatically Invest Your Spare Change in Cryptocurrency With This App - coinflash - Ghost Gunner 2 - Russia, US shoot for the moon with joint lunar station project (Update) - SpaceX Falcon 9

Glenn Reynolds is one of the most important folks in news as he runs Instapundit (now a PJMedia.com property). Instapundit provides newsworthy articles and content reported across mainstream media, The Drudge Report and many other outlets. Glenn and his team seem to have a knack of picking the stories he knows people would be interested in reading about. His site, created in 2001, has millions of loyal readers. Glenn is an author and law professor who has written for law reviews at several universities, including Columbia and Harvard. His articles have appeared in all the major daily newspapers as well as Fox News and MSNBC and he is currently a Contributor to USA Today. On this episode of Whiskey Politics we discuss how media bias has changed reporting, CNN's Jim Acosta and Stephen Miller, the Ace of Spades article, and the Justice Department redacting the tarmac meeting that took place between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and President Bill Clinton, right before the election.If you are enjoying the series, please subscribe to Whiskey Politics at YouTube and our audio podcasts at iTunes, Stitcher or GooglePlay where your 5-star rating would be appreciated (iTunes especially!) as it helps others find us.  In: Little Green Bag, George Baker Selection. Out: All Of Me, Louis Armstrong. Produced by Praemonitus Communications.

Phil and Stephen welcome life extension researcher and visionary Dr. Aubrey de Grey to discuss the sometimes puzzlingly negative views much of the public seem to have about efforts to fight aging. Topics: A question Aubrey raises in Visions for a World Transformed:  What possesses people to defend the existence of the phenomenon that is far and away the most likely thing to kill them – and not only that, but to do so slowly and painfully? How is it that the elderly are themselves guilty of ageism? Glenn Reynolds in USA Today What is the pro-aging trance? Methuselah Mouse project as proof of concept for fighting aging Is life extension becoming more mainstream?  Is the first human being who will live to the age of 1,000 already among us? About Our Guest: Dr. Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist who researched the idea for and founded the SENS Research Foundation. SENS stands for “Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence,” an idea that Aubrey outlined in his 2007 book, Ending Aging. Aubrey has a BA in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Cambridge. He is Editor-in-Chief of Rejuvenation Research, is a Fellow of both the Gerontological Society of America and the American Aging Association, and sits on the editorial and scientific advisory boards of numerous journals and organizations. He is also a contributor to our book Visions for a World Transformed. WT 326-635  

July 2, 2017 | Glenn Reynolds | Online at www.theassembly.org

[This show originally aired 12/24/2007.] James Hughes' first appearance on FastForward Radio. Topics: James' workwith the World Transhumanist Association and the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.How "sexy" became a tag line for James'  radio show, Change Surfer Radio.We talked some about the disagreement that Hughes has had with Eliezer Yudkowsky. Hughes is less enthusiastic about friendly AI (Eliezer's primary interest) than human enhancement.Why transhumanists should be pro-democracy.How, in one sense, AI has been around for thousands of years. These ancient meta-intelligences might have something to say about how new AI's and transhumans develop.How Dr. Hughes takes issue with "The Army of Davids" approach from Glenn Reynolds. He argues, in essence, that we have the Davids, but not the army.How bio-conservatives on both the left and right are beginning to unite against transhumanism.How transhumanism differs around the world.What transhumanists may have in common with bio-conservatives.How mere environmentalism is not going to fix global warming - we should fix what we broke.    

The "revolving door" is a corrupting influence on both government and industry. So says University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds. He's an outspoken critic of Washington insiders and the blogger behind Instapundit.com, one of America's most widely read political weblogs. On our podcast, Reynolds talks about his intriguing solution to slow down the revolving door: a Surtax that would be imposed on the earnings of high-paid former government officials. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Change is coming to higher education, but it won't be easy and it won't be popular. Glenn Reynolds argues that decades of federal subsidies and piles of student debt have not given us better outcomes for students. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Direct link to MP3 file This week, a little tech talk to kick off the podcast. Then, the weird strategy of the house leadership on raising the debt ceiling, Rob makes a u-turn on Cruz, Peter proposes a peace treaty, Then, the Instapundit himself, Glenn Reynolds, pulls over to the side of the road to discuss his new book on the future of education (The New School: How the Information Age Will Save... Source

Media AppearancesRecently, I had the privilege of appearing on two excellent radio programs: Bloomberg radio's popular program, "Taking Stock with Pimm Fox and Carol Massar" and "On The Money" with Steve Pomeranz, CFP, and an Internet based video interview - FT.com's Authers' Note (see previous posting below). The interviews centered on what you might think they would: the markets and the economy, with a sprinkling of geo politics and market structure issues.Here are the links to each of them:* With yours truly* With Don Rissmiller  (Chief Economist, Strategas Research Partners)* With yours truly, againUpcoming EventsMy early 2014 events calendar is, as you will note below, fairly full. Most of the events are Market Forecast ones. If you are in the neighborhood, you may want to consider attending. Here are the events (links provided where available):January 9 - New York Society of Security Analysts  featuring Rich Bernstein, Liz Ann Sonders, Phil Orlando, CFA, Sam Stovall, Dan Clifton, Joe Kalish with special interviewer Pimm Fox and a special presentation from Matt Orsagh, CFA January 15 - CFA Society South Florida (Boca Raton)  featuring Ed Clissold, CFA, Glenn Reynolds, CFAJanuary 16 - CFA Society Louisiana (New Orleans)  featuring Don Rissmiller, Glenn Reynolds, CFA January 26 - 29 - Inside ETFs conference(Hollywood, FL)  My segment is Tuesday, January 28 @ 4 PM eastern.February 4 - CFA Society Phoenix  featuring Heidi Richardson, Jeffrey Sherman, Shane ShepherdFebruary 5 - CFA Society Tucson  featuring Don Rissmiller, Peter J. Petas, Jeffrey Sherman February 11 - CFA Society Tampa Bay  featuring Jeffrey Saut, Glenn Reynolds, CFA, Tom Tzitzouris February 13 - CFA Society Jacksonville  featuring Glenn Reynolds, CFA, Tom Tzitzouris

Glenn Reynolds of the University of Tennessee and blogger at Instapundit talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the political malaise in America, whether it could lead to a Constitutional Convention, and what might emerge were such an event to occur. Reynolds also gives his thoughts on the suggestion advanced in a recent episode of EconTalk that we should ignore the Constitution. The conversation concludes with Reynolds's views on the decentralizing power of technology and Reynolds's music career.

Glenn Reynolds of the University of Tennessee and blogger at Instapundit talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the political malaise in America, whether it could lead to a Constitutional Convention, and what might emerge were such an event to occur. Reynolds also gives his thoughts on the suggestion advanced in a recent episode of EconTalk that we should ignore the Constitution. The conversation concludes with Reynolds's views on the decentralizing power of technology and Reynolds's music career.

Glenn Reynolds of the University of Tennessee and blogger at Instapundit talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the political malaise in America, whether it could lead to a Constitutional Convention, and what might emerge were such an event to occur. Reynolds also gives his thoughts on the suggestion advanced in a recent episode of EconTalk that we should ignore the Constitution. The conversation concludes with Reynolds's views on the decentralizing power of technology and Reynolds's music career.

Famed blogger and Mp3 explorer Glenn Reynolds unearths some fantastic hidden gems that just happen not to be love songs.

There was a time in the not-too-distant past when large companies and powerful governments reigned supreme over the little guy. But new technologies are empowering individuals like never before, and the Davids of the world—the amateur journalists, musicians, and owners of small businesses—are suddenly making a huge economic and social impact.In An Army of Davids, author Glenn Reynolds, the man behind the immensely popular Instapundit.com, provides an in-depth, big-picture view of a world where the small guys matter more and more. Reynolds explores the birth and growth of the individual's surprisingly strong influence in arts and entertainment, anti-terrorism, nanotech and space research, and much more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this edition of Pundit Review Radio we spoke to Glenn Reynolds, aka Instapundit, about his new book An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths We were also joined in studio by respected IT journalist Paul Gillin, a former editor and publisher of Computerworld Magazine. This is a fascinating discussion on how technology is empowering the little guy. Enjoy!

Rep. Mark Green, Ed Feulner, Doug Wilson, Sen. Bill Frist, and Glenn Reynolds talk politics and books.

Rep. Mark Green, Ed Feulner, Doug Wilson, Sen. Bill Frist, and Glenn Reynolds talk politics and books.