You have been the youngest skier or one of the younger skiers on the tour and now you're one of the oldest. Most of your contemporaries retired. >> Yeah.>> Is it better to be young and have good knees or is do you feel like you're in a better place now even though you're a little scarred up and broken up but have some experience. >> I definitely think I'm in a better place now than I was when I was younger. I know so much more about everything.I mean, >> does it make you feel old when you see teenagers hopp ...

Salman Rushdie explains why he doesn’t name his attacker in his new book, “Knife.” #salmanrushdie #author ...

What stopped it from being longer. >> The audience pulling him off me. >> Strangers to you.>> Total I don't to this day I don't know their names. >> Some of those strangers restrain the attacker while others desperately tried to stem the flow of Rush's blood. >> There was really a lot of blood.>> You were actually watching your blood. >> I was actually watching it spread. And then I remember thinking that I was probably dying.And it was interesting because it was quite matterof fact. It wasn't like I was te ...

You had had a dream >> two days, I think it was, before the attack. What was the dream. >> I kind of had a premonition.I mean, I had a I had a dream of being attacked in an amphitheater, but it was a kind of Roman Empire dream, you know, as as if I was in the coliseum and it was just somebody with the spear stabbing downwards and I was rolling around on the floor trying to get away from him. And I woke up and was quite shaken by it. And I had to go to Chioqua, you know, and I I I said to my wife, Eliza, I s ...

I decided that if in the end I was obliged to go to court and testify, I would want to tell him something like this. Here we stand, the man who failed to kill an unarmed 75-year-old writer and the now 76y old writer he failed to kill. And somewhat to my surprise, I find I have very little to say to you.Our lives touched each other for an instant and then separated. Mine has improved since that day, while yours has deteriorated. You made a bad gamble and lost.I was the one with the luck. People who believed ...

We want you to know that Americans aren't about hate, we're about love. >> Brendan Hunt arrived to Boom in the late 90s. Like many other comedians, moving to Amsterdam sounded like a risky career move.Or maybe not. >> When I was doing improv in Chicago in the late '9s, there was this thing called Boom Chicago that you would hear about, and it was sort of in hushed, mythical tones, like apparently they do improv in Amsterdam. Amsterdam.You ever been there. You've been there. You ever been there. None of us e ...

out of it. >> In June, Boom Chicago held an alumni reunion. >> From the back, may we please have the suggestion of another object.>> A can opener. >> A can opener. Sex with me is like a can opener.You're better off with the electric version. >> Former cast members came back. >> Sorry, I kind of forgot your name again.What was it. Oh, like de >> not just to reminisce, but to perform. >> I'm so grateful for Jeff Bezos.>> Yeah, me too. I think it's cool that he's sending people up in space to work out their pr ...

This past week, Ukraine's president Zalinski reasserted he doesn't want to surrender any territory in exchange for peace with Russia. A declaration that followed earlier warnings from Russian President Vladimir Putin that if Europe engaged in a wider war, it would be defeated. Nearly four years in, the conflict continues to send shock waves through the Western Alliance.European nations are beefing up their defenses. Nowhere is the impact more profound than in Germany. Scarred by their country's Nazi past, G ...

"This won't work here. Don't do it here.” That was the advice three young Americans received from a Dutch tourist board when they floated the idea of opening an English-language comedy club in Amsterdam. They ignored it. #boomchicago #amsterdam #entrepreneur ...

Before the show, I'd be there selling tickets and we didn't have a bank account, so the money went in one in my boots. I wore cowboy boots then. >> He was eccentric. >> I was eccentric. I still am.I would go out on this on the Lives of Pline, which is a big square. And uh just tell people, "What are you doing tonight?" Oh, yeah. Well, we don't know.Now, you know, you're coming to Boom Chicago. >> Can we just discuss You talked about the finances of this club being stored in his boot without irony. We just g ...