Saturday Show #32: Mark Twain v. Teddy Roosevelt
Summary: In episode 32 of Saturday Show, Frank discusses the feud between Mark Twain and Teddy Roosevelt over the Spanish-American War and the subsequent “Filipino Insurrection.” This information comes from Dan Carlin’s best-of-all-time podcast, “Hardcore History,” and the episode entitled “The American Peril.” Also discussed are the waning influence of writers on culture, cult leader Dave Eggers’s pandering to teachers, and the passivity or softening of America over time as we have moved away from reading and toward staring, drooly-mouthed, at flickering light boxes in the corner of our living rooms.<br> Literary fiction techniques discussed include the intensity and accuracy of details (especially when pulled from one’s own experiences), proper context and atmosphere for your stories, manipulation of time in fiction, perception of reality, the novelty of trick endings, gratitude for all aspects of your life as expressed through fiction, and other illuminating and poignant subjects.<br> The player above uses Flash. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/frankmarcopolos.com/id451038870?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4">Here is the link to the show on iTunes.com</a> <br> Links from topics mentioned in the show include the following:<br> <a href="http://www.dancarlin.com">Hardcore History</a><br><br> <a href="http://www.amandabillyrock.com">Amanda Billyrock</a><br><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain">Mark Twain</a><br><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt">Teddy Roosevelt</a><br><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War">The Spanish-American War</a><br><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maine_%28ACR-1%29">The sinking of the U.S.S. Maine</a><br><br> <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Teacher-layoffs-a-destructive-annual-event-2388834.php">Cult Leader Dave Eggers – “Pay Teachers More!”</a><br><br> <a href="http://redroom.com/member/dave-eggers/events/american-teacher-premiere-and-celebration">Cult Leader Dave Eggers, again, on teachers’ salaries</a><br><br> <a href="http://amzn.to/U2nMqv">Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander</a><br><br> <a href="http://amzn.to/15SeBN3">Cinema Paradiso</a><br><br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/15/new-hampshire-bearcat-building-domestic-army-video_n_3762051.html">BEARCAT Protest in New Hampshire</a><br><br> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/43797-i-consider-anybody-a-twerp-who-hasn-t-read-the-greatest">Kurt Vonnegut, Jr: ““I consider anybody a twerp who hasn’t read the greatest American short story, which is ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,’ by Ambrose Bierce.”</a> <br> Listen to “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce by clicking <a href="http://owlcreekbridgebiercemarcopolospodcast.mp3">here.</a><br> Bumpers provided by <a href="https://twitter.com/MelissaKCraig">@melissakcraig</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/abillyrock">@abillyrock</a>. <a href="http://melissacraigauthor.wordpress.com/">Melissa is an award-winning erotica author</a> and <a href="http://amandabillyrock.com/">Amanda is an anarchist writer and video blogger.</a> Music provided by SmoJos, Papa_Zulu, lazztunes07, and radiotimes via <a href="http://www.ccmixter.org">ccmixter.org</a>. <br> *<br> ACTION POINTS TO CONSIDER:<br> – Cancel your cable.<br><br> – Sell your televisions.<br><br> – Sell your video game consoles.<br><br> – Go outside and play more.<br><br> – Read more.<br> *<br> Text of “The War Prayer” by Mark Twain:<br> It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing,
