vonnegut museum and library is not just to celebrate the life of kurt vonnegut. we do that in a big way with a night of vonnegut and other things we do through the year to educate people on kurt vonnegut's life and to display his artifacts and give that type of experience to our visitors but we think what matters most is doing programs where there is not only a cultural and educational experience but a place to go, a community gathering place, we are representing not just kurt vonnegut but other writers, poets, musicians and artists whose work has been censored in our country and telling those stories. indianapolis meant so much to kurt vonnegut. he was born here in 1922. indianapolis was a bustling city in 1922. his parents were pretty wealthy from wealthy families so they knew a lot of the notable artists and writers, james malcolm riley was a world-famous poet at the time. he is considered a postmodern writer but what is different about vonnegut that may not have been done at the time, he would sometimes stop a story and interject his own opinions about someth

the year to educate people on kurt vonnegut's life. and also to display his artifacts and give that type of experience to our visitors, but we think what matters the most is that we are doing programs that will benefit people. where they're having not only a cultural experience and educational experience a place to go. a community gathering place so we're representing not just kurt vonnegut but other writers, poets, musicians and artists whose work has been censored in our country and telling those stories. indianapolis meant so much to kurt vonnegut area he was born here in 1922. indianapolis was a bustling city in 1922. his parents were pretty wealthy. they were from wealthy families in the city so they knew a lot of the notable artists and writers, the poet james whitcomb riley was a world-famous poet at the time . with was someone his family new. is considered a postmodern writer but i think what is different about vonnegut that may not have been done at the time when he started doing this was he would sometimes stop a story and in

. >> you became friends with the late kurt vonnegut. can you tell us about it? >> sure. my dad died when i was 8. so no one ever really talked about my dad very often. it wasn't until i was 45, so kind of a long coincidence. i was brewing a special beer for an art gallery where kurt vonnegut was showing silk screens he made. he called and said you can tell me what happened to my good friend john hickenlooper from cornell. you have the same name. i said i'm a junior. he died in 1960. and we became great friends. he told me all of these wonderful stories about my dad i'd never heard. we just, he really was -- he couhe could be a curmudgeon, but he was a wonderful charming amazing person. i called him and i said, kurt, i'm going to run for mayor of denver. i made up my mind. this is in 2003. i said i think it would be funny but useful if you endorse me. he said if i endorse you, i have to endorse everybody. you know how many friends i have in it wi ? i said just an idea. no problem at all. the next day i get a fax. he didn't really like emails as much. he sent me a fax that

. >> no is one of the most famous authors to come out of indiana really up until kurt vonnegut and i describe him as helping define the rest of the country what a hoosier was. he helped introduce indiana to the rest of the country and indiana loved him for that. >> martin luther king dedicated his life. >> kennedy had no prepared text from campaign speechwriters and it was kind of what am i going to say here? kennedy was someone who could speak to people direct lee and give them bad news and be counted upon to do the right thing. it was decided that kennedy would come to 17th in broadway street to address the crowd that had gathered there. >> the great sense that you have two walk through this space is how understated it is. it's not ostentatious but if anything it speaks deeply of quality and i think that is harrison's character through and through, understated. >> good morning everyone. i would like to welcome you to today's judiciary hearing on an encryption -- excuse me that's not the right one. that's the wrong one. battling the opioid crisis a whole of government approach and i

never heard of the writer kurt vonnegut? he was a great writer. he said, you have to be very careful who you pretend to be because often it will be who you become. >> famous words. nice to meet you. >> hi, governor. i'm lisa. >> i'm eric. nice to meet you. >> they put me everyplace where they want to put cameras. >> thank you for coming. >> i'm so sorry. it looks like it is getting out of hand. >> that's ok. >> controlled chaos. >> i was worried we would get weather. >> we're looking forward to having you. >> exactly. >> i love reading you guys biography. i am great friends with walter. he did a dinner in mill valley last saturday. he is still powerful. colorado has sort of become the center of innovation in terms of how we -- how we reimagine things. i know -- i have gone there a few times for meetings. that is a great example of that from my perspective. >> i did figure out for lunch three times. deal. the real a visionary leader. she cares about her employees in a way -- you know. i mean you guys are working for the same -- [inaudible]. >> pete

to quote kurt vonnegut, you are who you pretend to be. >> i wonder if they believe it because i didn't think anybody could believe it because they're just parroting it because -- >> it doesn't matter. they're our highest elected officials and they're saying it. it doesn't matter when they believe. >> thank you. we're out of time. thanks for watching, everyone. our coverage continues. ♪upbeat music no cover-up spray here. cheaper aerosols can cover up odors in a flowery fog. but febreze air effects eliminates odors. with a 100% natural propellent. it leaves behind a pleasant scent you'll love. [deep inhale] freshen up. don't cover up. febreze. >>> good evening. thanks for joining us. any citizen can say the president did something wrong. only 435 elected representatives have the sole right and the awesome responsibility for saying a president should be removed from office for it. today some of those lawmakers spoke. they put it all on paper in formal articles of impeachment for only the fourth time ever. nine pages containing two articles drafted by democratic members of the house jud

. >> the unsold items include works by james dean, fred astaire, phyllis diller, and kurt vonnegut, which, come to think of it, is a pretty good start to a invite list for yet another cosmic-art happening baird and hoop are surely planning wherever they are. >> it will be a long time before we see anything like them. they were both really unusual people. together they were fantastic. >> so much that's hip in one generation is totally uncool to the next. old uncle hoop once drove his niece, hugh's daughter, to school in one of his hoop mobiles. the teen was mortified. after that, all hugh had to say to keep her in line was, "watch out, young lady, or uncle hoop will be driving you again tomorrow." i'm jamie colby. thanks for watching "strange inheritance." and remember -- you can't take it with you. ria " begins right now. ♪ >> from the fox studios in new york city, this is maria bartiromo's" wall street." maria: happy weekend. welcome to the programming that analyzes the week that was and helps position you for the week ahead. i'm maria bartiromo. we have another jam-packed program this

vonnegut or the latest white house tell-all. speaking of tell-alls, there's another actual insider account of the trump administration. this one is called "trump and his generals: the cost of chaos." the cost of chaos, by the way, is $15.99. the book is by national security expert peter bergen. he writes about a meeting in 2017 where trump saw a satellite image of the north korean peninsula, showing lights of china and south korea and the blackness of north korea in between, which trump initially mistook for an ocean. ( as trump ) "wait a second. so north korea is under the sea? i have it on good authority from a singing crab that that's a very nice place." ( laughter ) ( applause ) ♪ ♪ so to help trump figure it out, officials brought out a map, which made trump even more confused. evidentally, when he saw that seoul was just 30 miles south of the demilitarized zone, the president asked, "why is seoul so close to the north korean border?" "i mean, look at it! it's, like, two inches away! and look at our map! somebody put ha

. >> he was one of the most famous authors to come out of indiana up until kurt vonnegut. and i always describe him as helping to define to the rest of the country what a hoosier was. he helped introduce indiana to the rest of the country. indiana loved him for that. >> c-span cities tour is on the road exploring the american story. we take you to indianapolis, with the help of our spectrum cable partners. this saturday at noon eastern on c-span2's book tv, local authors on the city's, history including, a speech robert kennedy made following the death of martin luther king. >> martin luther king dedicated his life. >> kennedy had no prepared text from his campaign speechwriters. and there was kind of a, what am i going to say? kennedy was somebody who could speak to people directly and give them bad news and be counted upon to do the right thing. so it was decided that kennedy would come to 17th and broadway streets to address the crowd that gathered there. p.m. onunday at 2:00 c-span3, we'll visit different historic sites around town, including the home of president benj

vonnegut, it's a meaningless group that takes on a significant meaning. the social psychology term is social identity. once you get into a group of a social identity, that's a very powerful way of determining your thinking. because this is what i believe. and if i want to be a really good traits also want to be more of that. i don't want to be kicked out of the group so i will comply even more. he becomes a very powerful tool for knowing what to say and putting pressure, what to say and think and putting pressure on you to continue in that line. >> next question is on your left. >> my name is ryan and my question is, is it more the problems in media, , is a more f a symptom of postmodernist culture or is it media that is projecting a postmodern culture on to the rest of us? >> that's a great question. certainly like if you're thinking of society as a spectacle, any of those versions of postmodernism as a theory, then yeah, like postmodern critiques the popular culture emerged with the proliferation, saturation of media. but i think what we have today is d

. >> one of the most famous authors to come out of indiana really up until i would say kurt vonnegut. i describe them is really helping to define the rest of the country what the hoosier was. so we helped introduce indiana to the rest of the country and indiana left him for that. >> c-span's cities tour is on the road exploring the american story. this we weekend we take you to indianapolis available with a spectrum cable partners. this saturday at noon eastern on c-span2's booktv local office, on the students history including the speech robert f. kennedy made to an indianapolis crowd following the death of martin luther king. >> martin luther king dedicated his life. >> kennedy had no prepared text, and what am i going to say? can the islamist who could speak to people directly and give them bad news and be counted upon to do the right thing. so we decided that kennedy would come to 17th and broadway streets to address the crowd that had gathered there. >> sunday at two p.m. on american history tv on c-span3 we will visit different historic sites including the home of president benj

vonnegut, joseph heller also engaged in that absurd genre of literature. essay the myth of sisyphus inaugurated that postwar wave of absurdist literature. i argue it has to do with the absurdity, the threat of nuclear war. the story of sisyphus. he had to lift this rock up a hill only to be told by the dogs and fell back down so he would be forever condemned to do the same task over and over without accomplishing it. for many of these intellectuals of the mid 20th century, the age of nuclear weapons presented such an absurd loop. terms, thel superpowers had to advocate for peace because the use of atomic weapons would destroy their enemy and their own population as well. toy had to constantly signal the adversary they were willing to wage war, even nuclear war. they could not give up nuclear weapons. they could not use them either. foundation of deterrent is fundamentally absurd. it was a catch 22. doomed if you do, or if you don't. term catch 22 exist yet. it came in the 1960's from joseph heller's novel. people immediately recognized this was something t

my great hero, kurt vonnegut, has a wonderful statement, i hear all kinds of old testament quotations but i never hear the statements of beatitude. where are the beatitudes today? where's the good samaritan? issue, quickly here. yes, these people, you can call them people if you want, i will not dispute that. you can call them dangerous. you can call them terrorists. i won't dispute that. but i would also argue we have a constitution, an american ideal that guarantees these fools the ohio.to parade in dayton, i'm very sorry that they are doing it. it is a threat to american ideals. and this is not just about race, not just about african-americans, but about all americans, all these issues. preachi'm starting to now, my wife will cut me off. [laughter] but we have to allow them to parade, i think. that bringing them out into the light would expose them, and they would wither away. well, the numbers you cited are hopefully correct, nine klan speopole, 1500 demonstrators. they aren't withering away, but they certainly aren't winning the battle. >> i want to echo my appreciation for the p

. >> you had a great quote by kurt vonnegut we're here to fart around until the day -- >> exactly. >> one of the chapters that resonate with me was -- [inaudible] -- and ancient -- and back in my early 20s i get to really involved with the pickup artist community and two books were bibles and that was neil strauss' the game, i think your friend, and your books, sex at dawn. i found a bunch of young men who were just painfully irrelevant or feel so, at least. >> irrelevant. >> yeah. and i was wondering, you both have completely different world views. the pickup community has a world view of getting to the top of an hierarchy and that's how you -- that's your mating strategy and you have probably had plenty of success not with that mating strategy but i don't know when you're sexual memoir book is coming out but -- >> down the road. >> that's the last book, right? but i guess what i want to ask is if you had a ton of-the-guys in this room right now, knowing they're suffering because they are lacking something they feel they need in in and that society has stripped from them. what would

. >> he was one of the most famous authors to come out of indiana, really up until kurt vonnegut. i've always described as really helping define what a hoosier was. he helped introduce indiana to the rest of the country and indiana loved him for that. >> c-span cities tour is on the road exploring the american story. this weekend we take you to indianapolis with the help of our spectrum cable partners. this saturday at noon eastern on c-span2's booktv local authors, the series history including the speech robert f kennedy made to an indianapolis crowd following the death of martin luther king. >> martin luther king dedicated his life. >> he had no prepared text from his campaign speech writers, and kind of what am i going to say? kennedy with someone who could speak to people directly and give them bad news and be counted upon to do the right thing. so it was decided that kennedy would come to 17th and broadway streets to address the crowd that had gathered there. >> sunday at two p.m. in on american history tv on c-span3, we'll visit different historic sites around the town inclu