H. L. Mencken Interview

Finally, H. L. Mencken is interviewed

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  • @zico9k
    @zico9k4 жыл бұрын

    Let’s stop for a moment and give thanks to the farsighted fellow who encouraged Mencken to record this piece of immortal treasure!

  • @DavidCullen37
    @DavidCullen374 жыл бұрын

    "Never drink when you have work to do, Never drink alone, and never drink when the sun is up".

  • @Kerys23a

    @Kerys23a

    3 жыл бұрын

    Never drink when you have work to do never drink alone and never drink when the sun is up.

  • @zyrrhos

    @zyrrhos

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Kerys23a Never drink when you have work to do. Never drink alone, that’s the way to become a drunkard. Never drink when the sun is shining.

  • @Kerys23a

    @Kerys23a

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@zyrrhos True

  • @a4065aa

    @a4065aa

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@zyrrhos Never drink when you have work to do. Never drink alone, that’s the way to become a drunkard. Never drink when the sun is shining.

  • @fairfaxcat1312

    @fairfaxcat1312

    4 ай бұрын

    KZread commentators “DavidCullen37,” “Dawson23a,” “zyrrhos,” and “scruffsa4065” have helpfully echoed Menchen’s cautionary drinking advice. Essentially, the Charm City sage, is saying one’s work, social life, and sobriety are more important than the drink itself. Isn’t it great that a dedicated army of KZread commentators enhance the viewing and listening experience by alternately reinforcing, condemning, contextualizing, praising, and inserting content of their own in response to presentations?

  • @WinstonLorde
    @WinstonLorde7 ай бұрын

    I read Mencken's Chrestomathy when I was in high school. A brilliant collection. I came upon this interview serendipitously; fortune has smiled upon me.

  • @matthewjacobwhitman2788
    @matthewjacobwhitman2788 Жыл бұрын

    Stumbled upon Mencken’s work while reading “The Sun Also Rises” by Hemingway. There’s a great line in there where Jake attributes a quote about the chicken and egg trope to Mencken as a joke. It’s relevance to the characters in the novel was so funny I decided to look him up. Ended up here. Worth the trip.

  • @russellcampbell9198
    @russellcampbell9198 Жыл бұрын

    The internet has its good points. This is one of the best. Does anyone else hear Jimmy Stewart?

  • @Pancakeshouse85

    @Pancakeshouse85

    14 күн бұрын

    Yes, he sounds like Jimmy. I don't know if it's some kind of Eastern affect--the drawl or just a unique character trait.

  • @walkingbobblehead
    @walkingbobblehead10 жыл бұрын

    A true treasure of our culture

  • @alexthompson9516

    @alexthompson9516

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yes.

  • @biswapegu2000

    @biswapegu2000

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yea

  • @cartoonphilosopher2577
    @cartoonphilosopher257710 жыл бұрын

    "I never went to college, thank God" ROFL I wish I had thought that way.

  • @zacharycat

    @zacharycat

    5 жыл бұрын

    Mencken got into journalism at the time when newspapers were growing rapidly and a college degree wasn't needed if a reporter could write. Forget about doing that these days.

  • @WhoDatGuyJ

    @WhoDatGuyJ

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@zacharycat what are bloggers doing?

  • @nicmart

    @nicmart

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@zacharycat There are few degrees less valuable than one in journalism. It doesn't lead to competence or perspicacity, and it doesn't guarantee a job.

  • @t.n.3819

    @t.n.3819

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@WhoDatGuyJ blogging.

  • @t.n.3819

    @t.n.3819

    4 жыл бұрын

    ​@@nicmart No degree "guarantees" a job, that's not how degrees work.

  • @cheri238
    @cheri2387 ай бұрын

    I am listening to this remarkable journalist Mencken's voice again on this documentary. It is 5:00 a.m. on November 3, 2023. Thank you to the gentleman interviewing him. Why was he forgotten? Because he had a moral compass. He knew the newspaper business very well even back then. How about journalism and newspapers today with the introduction of television? Acquisitions and mergers. Strange shoelaces of politics that tie their shoes and can't keep them tied Corperations own them!!! Meichen would be outraged. Subsequently, so am I. Would it not be nice of all religious people today could not hate? Neighbors get along with others. Free speech in America today? What happened with that? I'm still listening 🎶

  • @henryrichards1542
    @henryrichards15428 жыл бұрын

    I love this video so much. Now whenever I read Mencken, I "hear" him speaking the words as well. It adds a wonderful dimension to his magnificent prose!

  • @TheKiddIII

    @TheKiddIII

    7 жыл бұрын

    Henry Richards couldn't have said it better myself. His coarse, raspy voice reading, 'Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.' Casts an entirely new and different light on the tenacity and viciousness of the quote 🍻

  • @cheri238

    @cheri238

    7 ай бұрын

    💯 correct

  • @user-hu3iy9gz5j

    @user-hu3iy9gz5j

    5 ай бұрын

    I hear him in the voice of the narrator who reads the Veblen chapter in this compilation, Dr. Philip Gould: kzread.info/dash/bejne/kWqC1Jamnr2yZ9I.htmlsi=aogSTBnvOcee_djx

  • @lhhunt1946
    @lhhunt19468 жыл бұрын

    Wow. I hadn't realized that this delightful interview is the only recording of The Sage's voice that was ever preserved. God bless Mr. Kirkley for doing this!

  • @stevevandien310
    @stevevandien3103 жыл бұрын

    I am a Christian conservative. Mencken was an agnostic libertarian. I disagree with him on some issues, but am in accord with him on many others. And being a journalist and critic who loves our magnificent English language, I can't help but admire Mencken. He was a great journalist and one of the greatest American prose stylists. I also love a man who loved both alcohol and tobacco, but used both judiciously --

  • @sirbrad2336

    @sirbrad2336

    2 ай бұрын

    Mencken was a full-blown atheist. Brilliant writer, but a fool. God has the final word. Have you ever read his diary? Eye opening. Mencken was a real jerk.

  • @NightWind47
    @NightWind474 жыл бұрын

    Having read several of his works, it's a real treat to hear him speak.

  • @pradeepkumarm944
    @pradeepkumarm94413 күн бұрын

    What a seasoned genius!! Thanks for uploading this gem!

  • @Tempestuous_Might
    @Tempestuous_Might6 жыл бұрын

    Is this the last time someone with such a large amount of intelligence and a healthy amount of the truth was ever given such a platform or widely acknowledged?

  • @PK-re3lu

    @PK-re3lu

    4 жыл бұрын

    Excellent question!

  • @RadioWhoPoo

    @RadioWhoPoo

    Ай бұрын

    Arguably Evelyn Waugh also had it

  • @actualideas8078
    @actualideas80784 жыл бұрын

    Mencken ended by saying “catastrophe” in response to the interviewer claiming him an Idealist. There is no way in hell he should be considered an Idealist. The interviewer probably doesn’t know what that means. The way that Mencken responded, by first answering the question of “his plans that night” and circling back around to address the error of labeling him an idealist, was the best part of the entire interview. I hope you listened all the way through. This is probably the best video on youtube. Should have 10 million hits

  • @jamesahern9864

    @jamesahern9864

    2 жыл бұрын

    There is debate about the meaning of your handle as well

  • @actualideas8078

    @actualideas8078

    2 жыл бұрын

    Mencken was a fascist

  • @shanosantwanos3908

    @shanosantwanos3908

    2 жыл бұрын

    An idealist smells pumpkins then smells roses and decides that rose flavoured soup would taste better.

  • @johnroberts5291

    @johnroberts5291

    2 жыл бұрын

    He was a bigot and inveterate cynic. Should not be lionized.

  • @rugerscout308

    @rugerscout308

    Жыл бұрын

    @@shanosantwanos3908 I have added you quote to my "quote" collection. A better definition of an Idealist I doubt I shall ever find, especially with such brevity,

  • @archive8080
    @archive80804 ай бұрын

    "Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -and both commonly succeed." -H. L. Mencken, 1956

  • @elchoya100
    @elchoya1007 жыл бұрын

    he sounds like jimmy stewart.

  • @eppiehemsley6556

    @eppiehemsley6556

    4 жыл бұрын

    Or does Jimmy Stewart sound like him?

  • @typower9

    @typower9

    2 жыл бұрын

    I thought so too. Same accent or very similar, and same pitch and timbre.

  • @travistytoday4031
    @travistytoday40315 жыл бұрын

    I am pleased this bit of history has been preserved. I did enjoy it.

  • @tekz44
    @tekz449 жыл бұрын

    How prophetic More people would benefit from his witty conversations.His descriptions of politicians of those days,still hold true today,and 100 years from now. I miss the great minds that served as our moral compass. rare indeed and honor to hear a giant at his craft. Witt

  • @cheri238

    @cheri238

    7 ай бұрын

    💯 correct

  • @williamstclaire809
    @williamstclaire8093 жыл бұрын

    The man had an eye for beauty, that’s for sure. What a guy.

  • @lhhunt1946
    @lhhunt19468 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Herr Leibnitz for posting this. It is otherwise only available in the original 1960 LP album, which is selling online for up to $50 as I write this.

  • @MrGunwitch
    @MrGunwitch6 жыл бұрын

    "The American lust for the hideous..." a more apposite comment was never made.

  • @Tucker93669

    @Tucker93669

    3 жыл бұрын

    has anything described america better in less than 7 words?

  • @WalkerKlondyke

    @WalkerKlondyke

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's precisely what makes America so beautiful!

  • @deyoungaza
    @deyoungaza11 жыл бұрын

    What a gem! Thanks so much for posting this!

  • @longgowhereto
    @longgowhereto4 ай бұрын

    Someone cited: “Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.” ― Henry Louis Mencken I needed to look that man up - as expected a fellow libertarian - thanks a lot for this video, I will hear that again one day!

  • @Gorboduc
    @Gorboduc Жыл бұрын

    926 years to go, but we're doing our part!

  • @thedude4k
    @thedude4k3 жыл бұрын

    Its been a hundred years and here i am

  • @rickhanson5647
    @rickhanson56479 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for posting this!

  • @algernondammassa8675
    @algernondammassa8675 Жыл бұрын

    Also, recorded just a few months before he suffered a stroke that made it difficult for him to speak. Good catch.

  • @vertualsurfing
    @vertualsurfing5 жыл бұрын

    "On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

  • @arnoldhemsley9317

    @arnoldhemsley9317

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sir. Very prophetic. They have one now.

  • @life_of_riley88

    @life_of_riley88

    5 ай бұрын

    "C'mon man, you know, the thing!"

  • @Blvd40
    @Blvd403 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much for this insightful audio clip. I'm doing research on H.L. Mencken as the man who coined the term "Bible Belt:. You're helping me to understand a little bit more about his character and who he was as a journalist.

  • @Lorenzo1950
    @Lorenzo19505 жыл бұрын

    This is great, thank you for posting it.

  • @3rdcoastnyucka
    @3rdcoastnyucka6 жыл бұрын

    First podcast ever?

  • @bubblegumgun3292

    @bubblegumgun3292

    5 жыл бұрын

    Dank

  • @steven2212
    @steven22124 жыл бұрын

    He would be right in his element today, sad he missed it. Loved his books.

  • @MrBuckshot44
    @MrBuckshot4410 жыл бұрын

    thanks for uploading this.......

  • @NightWind47
    @NightWind474 жыл бұрын

    "Most people who write letters to newspapers are fools." :)

  • @JH-ji6cj

    @JH-ji6cj

    3 жыл бұрын

    And now we're all in comments sections!

  • @EricMcDowellegm
    @EricMcDowellegm2 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating piece of history. Thank you for this!

  • @kolst8406
    @kolst84063 жыл бұрын

    5 months after this interview Mencken had a stroke from which he never fully recovered. He was able to talk but could not read or write, which greatly frustrated him.

  • @dullknifefactory

    @dullknifefactory

    2 жыл бұрын

    Poor guy

  • @rogerknights857

    @rogerknights857

    10 ай бұрын

    When an acquaintance heard that he’d had a stroke, he called his doctor and asked about his condition. His doctor replied, “He survived, unfortunately.”

  • @johnmitchelljr
    @johnmitchelljr7 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much.

  • @hotmarriedgays
    @hotmarriedgays5 жыл бұрын

    an honor to hear this guys voice. Interesting that he doesn't have much of a Baltimore accent--certainly not as bad as my parents and grandparents had.

  • @rocistone6570
    @rocistone65703 жыл бұрын

    Menckin would have a massive stroke in November 1948, and be left unable to speak, or to read. So this really is his swan song. I wonder what sort of crazy Doctor he fell victim to, because Listening to this, "hay fever" or Not, he sounds old, mentally tired and somewhat disconnected. The sort of voice you hear from FDR in Early 1945, when he had both feet in the grave, too.

  • @pianoredux7516

    @pianoredux7516

    Жыл бұрын

    If you read his published diaries, Mencken had been aware for years that he was at risk for a stroke. He was something of a hypochondriac and wrote of his ailments, symptoms, and frequent visits to doctors in his diaries, and his doctors had advised him of his medical risks all the way back to the 1930s. There was no anti-hypertensive medication in the 1940s. That's also partially why FDR (Mencken's bete noire) died at only 63.

  • @dirkterblanche9420
    @dirkterblanche94207 жыл бұрын

    I apologize for my frank response to the comments and general response to this natural intelligence, HL Mencken. This is my rhetorical comment: what a dearth of intellectual people today. He wold have have been in the class of Christopher Hitchens had he been born decades later. But to the lot of time we are captive to the accidents of our birth. Had more men with such articulate wit spoke today in the era of social media in the heat of the debates about religion. Please check out Mencken's critique of religion.

  • @EisirvanaIusaasetamenYi
    @EisirvanaIusaasetamenYi4 жыл бұрын

    This is really cool. Can't wait to listen more!

  • @jacklondon295
    @jacklondon2953 жыл бұрын

    Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

  • @falsup09
    @falsup094 жыл бұрын

    read his biographer, "Disturber of the peace". Fascinating insight into his life and the 20th century.

  • @jukeboxhero5244
    @jukeboxhero52444 ай бұрын

    So far, I've learned the words "unbibulous" and "salubrious" from this interview.

  • @kevinkiss3340
    @kevinkiss33402 жыл бұрын

    I went on a H.L. Mencken house tour in 1986.

  • @cheri238
    @cheri2382 жыл бұрын

    Interesting to hear his voice❤️

  • @WinstonLorde

    @WinstonLorde

    7 ай бұрын

    Agree.

  • @cheri238

    @cheri238

    7 ай бұрын

    Agree ❤

  • @WinstonLorde

    @WinstonLorde

    7 ай бұрын

    @@cheri238 He sounds just as I expected : no nonsense, curmudgeonly, terse.

  • @EliasAlucard
    @EliasAlucard10 жыл бұрын

    Mencken was an intellectual genius.

  • @zenpaganwarrior

    @zenpaganwarrior

    6 жыл бұрын

    I agree. And, far ahead of his time in his loathing for all things blindly accepted as religious, scientific, social, or political fact.

  • @Tempestuous_Might

    @Tempestuous_Might

    6 жыл бұрын

    Completely agree.

  • @stationtavern8527

    @stationtavern8527

    5 жыл бұрын

    "Intellectual genius" or damn racist?

  • @ekolke

    @ekolke

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@stationtavern8527 Both. Too bad because he was a great writer. If we look for perfection in humans, we won't find it. His racism and anti-Semitism bums me out.

  • @stationtavern8527

    @stationtavern8527

    5 жыл бұрын

    We definitely won’t find perfection in humans, but that’s not really the point since “racism” is a terrible character deviation regardless of one’s great writing skills.

  • @eppiehemsley6556
    @eppiehemsley65564 жыл бұрын

    " People believe what they want to believe". A cliche that cannot be emphasised enough.

  • @AL_THOMAS_777

    @AL_THOMAS_777

    2 жыл бұрын

    -> See SARS/COV plandemic !

  • @StephenDoty84
    @StephenDoty848 жыл бұрын

    Shemp pinched his haircut.

  • @johnholtgreve3114
    @johnholtgreve31146 жыл бұрын

    He sounds just like you’d expect him to. It’s kind of a shame the old curmudgeon never did a radio series. And it may not have been 1000 years but it has been 70 and even his assessments of papers are still relevant (i allude in particular to his conclusion that “scoops” are almost always terrible stories that are dreadfully embellished).

  • @henryrichards1542
    @henryrichards15428 жыл бұрын

    I find Mencken's notion that agnostics are normally superstitious fascinating. My life experiences suggest quite the contrary - including that of my self, personally. I look upon superstition and religion in much the same way, in fact, and dismiss them both similarly. One of the many, many topics I'd love to have had an opportunity to discuss with the Sage!

  • @CaesarInVa

    @CaesarInVa

    7 жыл бұрын

    I suspect you've never been in an aircraft that was on fire. I, like many fellow agnostics, atheists and those whose intellects were far too superior to fall for primitive superstition and the mumbo-jumbo of religious zealots, contemptuously dismissed the notion of a Supreme Being. Then one day I was flying a trouble-shooting hop on a Navy P3 Orion. Long story made short, a primary prop pump failure on the number 3 engine threw the propeller out of synch which lead to the engine tearing itself apart, which in turn lead to a fire that the extinguisher couldn't suppress. Looking out the starboard observer's port, I saw a fire that stretched from the engine past my position all the way aft to the horizontal stabilizer. In fact, it was heavily singed from the flames. At that moment, as I watched the flames streaming past me, I became religious, and I am proud to say I still am to this day.

  • @henryrichards1542

    @henryrichards1542

    7 жыл бұрын

    Obviously such extreme events CAN and sometimes will change one's position on these matters. I've discussed this with non-believer friends in the military who have endured traumatically violent/directly life-threatening situations that failed to change their non-belief an iota. In the main though, I have no desire to debate the matter here to be honest. Everyone's life-experiences will inform their beliefs or non-beliefs to varying degrees. But again - my original comment had nothing really to do with atheism/agnosticism, beyond Mencken's notion that agnostics are virtually all superstitious - and my own experiences suggest otherwise. Glad you landed your plane despite all that - best regards to you.

  • @MrPocketfullOfSteel

    @MrPocketfullOfSteel

    7 жыл бұрын

    +CaesarInVa It (the knowing and believing in God) is put in ALL men and women by our Creator. It is after one grows up, along with the things they watch or listen to - - that they make their own "Personal Decision" as to what one believes. Make no mistake about it. It does not matter one iota what "you" believe as to what "The Truth" really is. There will come a day and it IS coming, whether you believe it will or not makes no difference as to the event actually going to take place. That silly "book" that just about everyone owns - yet never read - says that the day will come when "every knee WILL bend and every head WILL bow and every tongue WILL confess that Jesus Christ IS Lord." That includes ole' H.L. himself, he wouldn't confess that while he was alive. He had his chance. More than a couple I am sure. What he believed to be his "superior intellect" in regard to his Creator and his Son Jesus Christ....will have cost him. And cost him dearly. That man will spend eternity (that's a scary word when one really thinks about it) wishing he had thought and did things differently but alas it is too late for H.L. It's not too late for anyone reading this though. I guess the question is, will YOU be joining Mr. Mencken for eternity? Just use your "Common Sense" that He literally gave you, after all - - this really isn't rocket science.

  • @stevepayne5965

    @stevepayne5965

    7 жыл бұрын

    +MrPocketfullOfSteel I always find it says a great deal about a belief when its votaries race to the bottom of the moral valley in order to threaten disbelievers with pain, not in the here and now but after death ... something not even thugs, gangsters and serial killers stoop to, death for them being considered sufficient.

  • @contactkeithstack

    @contactkeithstack

    7 жыл бұрын

    MrPocketfullOfSteel you know, you and I are equally atheist to every God in history but 1. Many of those God myths you don't believe contain the roots of the Jesus myth. Born on the 25th, son of a Virgin, performed miracles, died and resurrected after 3 days etc. These are details taken from older myths you don't believe. Absolutely agree with the commenter above me- don't threaten people with fear of eternal torture to believe in things that you don't even believe in every context save one.

  • @weathforjr
    @weathforjr3 жыл бұрын

    If I'm wrong, and there's a heaven, I would murder to see Mencken, Carlin, and Clemmens at a table with a healthy drought of whiskey, cards, and the urge to argue about everything.

  • @MattsYoutubeChannel

    @MattsYoutubeChannel

    3 жыл бұрын

    Mencken likely wouldn't want any part of a card game. In his writing, he frequently disparaged those kinds of leisurely pursuits, along with golf, and pool, which he saw as the province of dimwitted babbits. I think the whiskey and conversation would be sufficient.

  • @weathforjr

    @weathforjr

    3 жыл бұрын

    Can I offer you a scope? 'Cause that's so far off the point that it's off the paper...

  • @MattsYoutubeChannel

    @MattsYoutubeChannel

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@weathforjr I beg to differ. Nowhere did I deny your point that it would be of great interest to bear witness to a conversation between the men you mentioned. That's all well and good. My point was to correct what appeared to be your gross misapprehension of the essential character of Mencken. Have a nice Thanksgiving.

  • @weathforjr

    @weathforjr

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MattsKZreadChannel I would, but we can't have nice things because the entire sentiment was ruined when grandma announced she doesn't like stuffing, and it crashed the entire premise of sharing time together.

  • @MattsYoutubeChannel

    @MattsYoutubeChannel

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@weathforjr You made an ill-advised comment, and you are now taking pains to display your bitterness about it. Please cry on someone else's shoulder. I am done.

  • @johnholtgreve3114
    @johnholtgreve31146 жыл бұрын

    Ombibulous. I like that. He doesn’t understand addiction very well but his strong opinions on the subject, wrong though they are, are entertaining.

  • @nicmart

    @nicmart

    4 жыл бұрын

    Addiction. What bunk. Every bit as much a superstition as any religion, which is why AA is so prominent in it.

  • @klaunwelt4404

    @klaunwelt4404

    3 жыл бұрын

    Addiction is the pursuit of freedom from choice.

  • @pianospeedrun

    @pianospeedrun

    6 ай бұрын

    @@klaunwelt4404 ill chew on that for a sec

  • @life_of_riley88

    @life_of_riley88

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@klaunwelt4404And the abandonment of responsibility

  • @apexxxx10
    @apexxxx109 жыл бұрын

    BTW. What's the accent? He sounds like the actor James Stewart.

  • @fairfaxcat1312

    @fairfaxcat1312

    7 жыл бұрын

    John K Lindgren He speaks the Bawlmerese of the turn of the last century. It has changed little.

  • @paulkrupa

    @paulkrupa

    6 жыл бұрын

    I lived in Balmore in late 70's. I live in DC for the past 30 years and regularly visit Balmore. That is not "Bawlmerese" hon.

  • @echorrhea

    @echorrhea

    5 жыл бұрын

    Paul Krupa Well, do tell us what it is then. Inquiring minds certainly would love to know, especially given that the great man happened to live in Baltimore his entire life.

  • @davidlogansr8007

    @davidlogansr8007

    4 жыл бұрын

    Néstor Castiglione Having been born and raised in Bawlmer, he sounds like my late Wonderful Grandfather!

  • @greghuffman3061
    @greghuffman30612 жыл бұрын

    currently reading a book on mencken

  • @feper0909
    @feper090910 ай бұрын

    Muy buena la forma critica de pensar, hoy en día tendría que estar mas a la vista, recuerdo leer algunas notas hace como 20 años atras y siempre las e tenido en cuenta, se cumplen hoy día porque las personas no cambia demasiado ni con los años ni con el idioma.

  • @paulaharrisbaca4851
    @paulaharrisbaca48514 жыл бұрын

    Doesn't his voice sound like Jimmy Stewart's, in his later years?

  • @stevevandien310

    @stevevandien310

    3 жыл бұрын

    Somewhat. But Mencken's voice was deeper. And he had that Ballmer accent.

  • @pattybaselines
    @pattybaselines Жыл бұрын

    Reminds me of Jimmy Stewart lol

  • @enricomariani3735
    @enricomariani37356 жыл бұрын

    year of this interview?

  • @Perchumovic

    @Perchumovic

    4 жыл бұрын

    1948.

  • @dancewomyn1
    @dancewomyn13 жыл бұрын

    What year was this interview done please?

  • @paulbolton2322

    @paulbolton2322

    3 жыл бұрын

    1948

  • @paulaharrisbaca4851
    @paulaharrisbaca48514 жыл бұрын

    Did he just pronounce Baltimore as "Baltimur"? Is that one of those things that everyone else mispronounces, like "Nevawda" for Nevada, and "Oregawn" for Oregon ("Oreg'n" the natives say). Or my stomping grounds, San Fran-cisco (which we say as "San Frncisco"). I love language.

  • @friedmandesigns

    @friedmandesigns

    3 жыл бұрын

    If "everyone else" is mispronouncing something ... are you sure you're not the one saying it incorrectly? ;) Cheers.

  • @sparkeyjones6261

    @sparkeyjones6261

    2 жыл бұрын

    I've lived in San Francisco most of my life, and when I hear it pronounced "San Fran-cisco" it makes me think of WWII propaganda films, or 1970's sexploitation directors like Russ Myers. lol

  • @olivieraleman

    @olivieraleman

    11 ай бұрын

    He lived there his whole life , he pronounced it as those who lived there pronounced it.

  • @kramex81
    @kramex8111 ай бұрын

    Auf jede heikle und komplizierte Frage gibt es eine ganz einfache, klare Antwort, die falsch ist. Zitat Henry Louis Mencken

  • @stddisclaimer8020
    @stddisclaimer80202 жыл бұрын

    'The recording was made on a warm day in June" But in *what year* ?

  • @rogerknights857

    @rogerknights857

    10 ай бұрын

    1948.

  • @chriswayneevans
    @chriswayneevans4 жыл бұрын

    Is this a re-enactment of this interview? Sounds suspiciously like James Stewart.

  • @IamAsaJ
    @IamAsaJ9 жыл бұрын

    LMAO@ 23:42

  • @zico9k
    @zico9k4 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like President Nixon!

  • @tomv4408
    @tomv44082 жыл бұрын

    Mencken sounds a bit like Jimmy Stewart.

  • @joe103159
    @joe103159 Жыл бұрын

    "Ball-i-mur"

  • @some-friggin-dude
    @some-friggin-dude9 жыл бұрын

    i can't help but feel suspicious. This could be two actors pretending, and reading Mencken writing. Shouldn't there be more scratchy sounds?

  • @davenorth8922

    @davenorth8922

    5 жыл бұрын

    Maybe the recording has been digitized and cleared of any pops and crackles.

  • @echorrhea

    @echorrhea

    5 жыл бұрын

    Javier G Madrigal Jr. The immediate postwar period witnessed a rapid improvement in recording technology: the rise of the LP and 45 RPM formats, the replacement of shellac with vinyl playing surfaces, the widespread adoption of magnetic tape recording by major record labels and radio networks (the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft was employing the medium for recording broadcast performances as far back as 1939). But even shellac 78 RPM recordings from the early electrical period (1925 - 1945) often do not sound as bad as most people imagine. Records that are well cared for, competently recorded and produced, and played back on good equipment can sound remarkably vivid to modern ears. The quality of this recording sound just about right for 1948.

  • @davidlogansr8007

    @davidlogansr8007

    4 жыл бұрын

    Néstor Castiglione I as a student of recorded sound, very much agree! Men who were monitoring Hitlers speeches during the War could not understand how he sounded live in Munich, and 2 hours later sounded just as vivid in Berlin! It was discovered after the War by I believe Jack Mullins, the secret was High Fidelity Bias tape recording. Mullins contacted Harry Lillis “Bing” Crosby, and Crosby had several massive Magnetophone tape recording machines packed up and sent to his studios in Los Angeles and started “taping” his Kraft Music-hall radio shows. I had read that he wanted to be either playing golf or at home when he otherwise would have had to been in the Radio Studios. Fascinating stuff, that!

  • @emmarichan3807
    @emmarichan38075 жыл бұрын

    38:10-38:43 LOLL

  • @jamafrican657
    @jamafrican65710 жыл бұрын

    He writes a lot better than he speaks.

  • @jamesjackson8058
    @jamesjackson80584 жыл бұрын

    voice reminds me a bit like Jimmy Stewart

  • @stevevandien310

    @stevevandien310

    3 жыл бұрын

    Me too, although Mencken's voice was deeper and he had that Baltimore/Ballmer accent. Not sure what accent Stewart had. I'd call it largely Midwestern, but he was from Pennsylvania, as I recall. Speaking (writing) as a born-and-raised cheesehead with a Midwest/WisKAAHNsin accent. I studied classical acting and singing for many years, so I can easily drop the accent in favor of Standard English. But while working, relaxing or kinda tired (especially after two or three beers), the accent is born again😁

  • @rightwingextremist9544

    @rightwingextremist9544

    3 жыл бұрын

    As they say at the start, he was dealing with his "annual affliction, Hay Fever" so he was dealing with allergies. His sinuses are stuffed up. You can even hear him sniffling a few times.

  • @senior_ranger
    @senior_ranger3 жыл бұрын

    There is no 1524 Holland in Baltimore.

  • @davidmoser3535

    @davidmoser3535

    3 жыл бұрын

    There was then

  • @poorfligga260

    @poorfligga260

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hollins*

  • @steven2212
    @steven22124 жыл бұрын

    Professional contrarian! The poor interviewer practically worships him and Menck will have none of it. Imagine what he would think of what Baltimore has become. Sad.

  • @tejasnair3399
    @tejasnair3399 Жыл бұрын

    LOL 35:57 - 36:50

  • @FreeThoughtDIY
    @FreeThoughtDIY9 жыл бұрын

    calling this man a reactionary in any sense tells me that you really don't know much about him. he was an anarchist, a nihilist, an enemy to every form of collectivization and even a bit of a misanthrope. however, calling him a "reactionary" is absurd and untruthful.

  • @Midcal9

    @Midcal9

    9 жыл бұрын

    He wasn't an anarchist nor a nihilist.

  • @FreeThoughtDIY

    @FreeThoughtDIY

    9 жыл бұрын

    ***** "he wasn't an anarchist" yeah, he was. the nihilist bit could be argued, but a look through his writings shows that he was certainly an anarchist

  • @Midcal9

    @Midcal9

    9 жыл бұрын

    How much of his writings did you look through? Did you read Men vs The Man for example? He had nothing but contempt for anarchists. I could post a few very clear and very big quotes to prove you wrong, but I highly doubt I'll earn anything in return. The Nihilist part is not arguable either, he wasn't one. Next time you gonna run your mouth fact check first.

  • @FreeThoughtDIY

    @FreeThoughtDIY

    9 жыл бұрын

    ***** you simple bastard, men vs the man was railing against socialists, not anarchists. get the fuck down from your high horse. mencken was what was known as a "tory anarchist". he had a strong disdain for socialism. jesus christ, just google "h.l. mencken anarchist" and you'll see plenty of articles about his anarchist tendencies.

  • @FreeThoughtDIY

    @FreeThoughtDIY

    9 жыл бұрын

    ***** don't bother to copy and paste, i'll do it for you: "The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable." "Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." "Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." "Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven." "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." lemme guess: you're gonna sit there and give me some appeal to history about "hurr durr you can't be an anarchist without believing in democracy and socialism!" or some such nonsense, right? you're going to point out (as i already have) that mencken despised - and rightfully so - the idea of democracy and would instead rather let every man and woman live their lives the way they see fit as opposed to bending to some dictatorship of the majority which you will then turn around and tell me is "REAL anarchy". get fucked. you vapid fucking luddites that cling to your historical appeals do no service to discourse. tory anarchists were, and arguably still are, an anarchist movement. anarcho capitalists are an anarchist movement. just because you don't agree with something doesn't mean it doesn't exist you goofy fucking ponce. so go on, start baying on and on about how "b-b-but bakunin said THIS!" and "proudhoun said THAT!" - you will only be proving my point that your entire argument is reliant upon appeals to history and is therefore, not a logical argument at all.

  • @allend2749
    @allend27498 жыл бұрын

    why do people have to act so intelligent - to impress others! Write simple, plain English.

  • @allend2749

    @allend2749

    6 жыл бұрын

    a men!

  • @shaunryan6646
    @shaunryan66465 жыл бұрын

    Racist and anti-Semitic - doesn’t make him any less brilliant.

  • @bubblegumgun3292

    @bubblegumgun3292

    4 жыл бұрын

    lol Liberterian are always aware of the jewish ploy

  • @davidlogansr8007

    @davidlogansr8007

    4 жыл бұрын

    He was a product of his time, much as was Milton Hershey.

  • @danasheys9300

    @danasheys9300

    4 жыл бұрын

    To the contrary... more brilliant!!!!

  • @danasheys9300

    @danasheys9300

    4 жыл бұрын

    @mordy43 friend ... You've comment is so well put . Concise but speaks volumes yes, truth

  • @okyouknowwhatever

    @okyouknowwhatever

    2 жыл бұрын

    All brilliant minds of his time were, just as they continue to be today.

  • @alfonsoantonromero932
    @alfonsoantonromero9322 жыл бұрын

    Odioso, indiferente, nada. Espalda, polvo, una ligera brisa de aire, nada.