Bob Edwards Weekend, August 18-19, 2012
HOUR ONE:
Los Angeles Times columnist Doyle McManus joins Bob to talk politics.
Bob talks with documentary filmmaker Anthony Baxter about his new film titled You’ve Been Trumped. It tells the David and Goliath story of Donald Trump’s quest to build a high-end golf course and resort on protected sand dunes in Scotland, despite strong local opposition from residents.
In this week’s installment of our ongoing series This I Believe, we hear the essay of Bob Barret. Each of us has private hopes and desires, thoughts and feelings. Sometimes, our public personalities are a close match to our private selves. Other times, they are in conflict. When he was 48 years old, Barret made the difficult choice to tell his family that he is gay. He worried about hurting them, but decided that he had to be honest about his true self.
HOUR TWO:
Yellowstone National Park turns 140 years old this year, and thousands of people are wrapping up their summers with a trip to see Old Faithful. But what those tourists may not realize is that America’s first national park has a very dark past. George Black tells the violent story in his book Empire of Shadows.
When Anthony Heilbut was growing up in New York City in the 1950s, he’d often go see R&B shows at the Apollo Theater. One day an usher urged him to check out the gospel shows, too. Heilbut did and “became obsessed with proselytizing” for God’s music. Over the next five decades, Heilbut wrote the definitive history of gospel music, assembled many anthologies, wrote liner notes and produced several albums. His latest book is a collection of essays titled, The Fan Who Knew Too Much: Aretha Franklin, the Rise of the Soap Opera, Children of the Gospel Church, and Other Meditations.
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Thank you for a good if depressing program on the Scottish sand dunes. I won't have much substantial to contribute from a business or environmental point of view.
But as an American, I would just like to say that I have resented lo these many years the presence, inevitability, and horrible decision-making of one Donald Trump. He is one of the few people I would consider a menace.
Again, amateur night in Dixie here, but I could tell at the very start of his silly TV show which I admit to watching the first year of, that he was a bad bad bad businessman, and no one should ever listen to him. But, I guess nothing succeeds like ill-gotten success in the USA, and he hung around and hung around. His real estate transactions are a blight on the face of the earth. I'm so sorry for the people of Scotland.