precautionary evacuations due to the health risks posed by the smoke. DW correspondent Rosie Bierschenk joins now from the wildfire fire area near the Belgium-Germany border. Rosie, tell us where you are, what you're seeing and hearing there.
Or oh, right now I'm away. From Molly Bierman, hello from a fellow "Jeopardy" alum.
So this is "The Devil's Financial Dictionary," and it was inspired very directly by "The Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce. And thank you, Google Books, if we have anybody from Google Books in the room.
Governments and large institutions like to put parameters on it so everyone will feel comfortable with not having to think for themselves." This is from Ambrose Bierce, "Devil's Dictionary." "'A political condition that every nation supposes itself to enjoy in virtual monopoly.'" "Liberty. The distinction between freedom and liberty is not accurately known.
But oftentimes our own emotions, for example, get in the way. As Ambrose Bierce one said, when angry, you will make the best speech you will ever regret. And it happens a lot these days.
So you could be creative and not suck. Here we drink Gordon Biersch and that's it.
most particularly with its references to the Lost Land of Carcosa, originally to be found in Robert W Chambers book, the King in Yellow, and in the works of Ambrose Bierce. However, from a historical perspective, this golden age of television might come
And the other thing is it occurred to me as I was thinking about recapturing some of the spirit of Ambrose Bierce that maybe if you can make people laugh, you can help them learn. And I think one of the real pitfalls of traditional financial advice is it's so somber and deadly serious, and sort
And I've included this one. It gives you a sense of how dark Bierce's view of the world was. I don't really endorse his pessimism.
us understand a definition. And in this case, Bierce is giving two lines of poetry from a non-existent medieval English poet named the Bald. But in any case, so why did I want to write this book?
And many people would regard it as one of the funniest books ever written in the English language. I'm among them. And this is Bierce. He was born in 1842.
But I put that little seed in the back of the head. And one fateful day after work, we were all at the Bier Stein, a local bottle store in Eugene. And Nikos and our friend asked me what I'd do if I ever started a brewery.
Audience 3: Sour-- Hallie: Sour, mmhmm. Christina: Sour. Audience 4: Orange Hallie: Orange Christina: So this is a Wit Bier or a while ale. This beer is traditionally brewed with coriander and with bitter orange peel. Um, it should be more citrus. It is called a white ale because it is unfiltered, it is a little bit lighter in color, it uses pale malts.
I think that it came to mean something that was far more radical and hard to swallow or you could, frankly, go back to Ambrose Bierce and "The Devil's Dictionary," which is one of my favorite.
Mona Caron: Somewhere in here. Mona Caron: Well, there's a filmmaker in the city called Paige Bierma who's actually made a short documentary about the, about the mural and I think that my friend Nick
Hallie: Yes, and there is a little owl on the front? Little bottle? Cutest bottle ever, it is from Japan. It is from Japan. Yes ,it is a Belgian, Wit Bier from Japan, so whoa. This is the other awesome thing about beer, you can have a very um, tasty traditional Hefeweizen or porter or, you know, Wit Bier or whatever made in a variety of countries, a variety of places because you can have all the ingredients brought to you basically.
Mona Caron: Somewhere in here. Kasimatis may be working on something as well. That's him in there and he's the one who made these clips for me so like that's Nick Kasimatis right there and so there is Paige Bierma's
you want to, to the beer. Hallie: Yes, and there is a little owl on the front? Little bottle? Cutest bottle ever, it is from Japan. It is from Japan. Yes ,it is a Belgian, Wit Bier from Japan, so whoa. This is the other awesome thing about beer, you can have a very um, tasty traditional Hefeweizen or porter or, you know, Wit Bier or whatever made in a variety of countries,