our next guest is a best-selling author and journalist whose new novel is entitled London
Fields I have a copy of it right here ladies and Gentlemen please welcome the author Martin Amos
Martin are you uh here are you back there Martin pleasure to see you thank you for being here
please have a seat won't you how you doing do you find yourself spending a lot of time
in the United States these days um not as much as I used to since I've had children I see how
many kids do you have two yeah boy and girl two girls not the perfect family formation
but just two boys yeah and is it is this the the great thrill of your life as everyone says
pretty good yeah um mind you the people who do PR for children have done a very good job I mean uh
every parent knows that each child is in fact Heaven and Hell at the same time in the same
package and the package is usually a diaper and the diaper is usually full but on the other hand
they're very they're awfully cute and very funny you know I had a conversation with a friend of
mine about a week ago on this very topic and he has almost a two-year-old boy well he has a boy
who's almost two I guess that's how that works and and we were talking about changing diapers
and and he and he was telling me far more than I wanted to know on the topic and he
went on and on and on and the longer he talked the more discouraged and depressed he became
it's a bad experience changing a diaper but the thing is I mean as a new man you do change your
share of diapers but the thing is to pick which diaper to I mean if it's a nice little on you
change it if the stuff is actually thrilling the baby's neck then you've you say to the wife this
is one for you he actually told me sometimes it comes time to change the baby you put the baby
up in the little changing table or on the bed or wherever they do it and he'll open up the diaper
and he'll close it back up and he says I have to go sit down for a few minutes
kind of gather his strength to pursue that uh well tell us how are things in the Great Britain
these days what's what is going on there what is the state of life and how would we find it
if we were to go there now well Great Britain is still there uh just about I mean I think Americans
still do have this touching idea that it's full of dukes and beefeaters and uh Changing of the
Guard and everyone's very polite to everyone else it's not really like that anymore it's
sort of rugged now it's uh tough Mean Streets yeah yeah and why is that what causes the change
well it's probably uh their Witch uh Margaret Thatcher has
has worked her magic over the last 10 years and uh it's a different kind of country it's a different
different feel on the street so people do not now like her did they ever like her they must
have liked her better than they do now do you mean Leica or fancier well um uh appreciate what she
what she's doing um she's never been popular she's um you couldn't really imagine this in America but
she's she's won elections from 20 points behind on personal approval ratings the thing seems to be
with Thatcher with the English is that um we only understand things that are bad for us we only like
things that are bad for us the spat the smacked bottom is all we the tingling bottom tells us that
what we're getting is good for us uh you know that delicious tingle in the bottom that needs of being
corrected in the right way you've taken your medicine
that's good for you and this is this is some kind of national policy is
well it I find it very odd that a woman should rule a country in the way she does
because I I think of women as being caring and Provident creatures who
think about the future and like to you know make sure that everyone's got enough to eat
um on the other hand there is the remains summed out whether Mrs Thatcher is a woman
and at these Summits she attends I think there's a widespread anxiety that one day
she's gonna suddenly March into the wrong toilet
this is a you know midterm of France said that she has the eyes of Caligula and
the mouth of Marilyn Monroe uh Brzezinski your own speaking of Brzezinski said that
um he thought she was a woman without any female qualities at all this is well known in English
she takes a lot of hormone pills so in fact she's toxic with estrogen and this is hard
um what what do what do you believe is the the popular view uh the average citizen
uh holds for the administration in this country specifically our vice president
I'm a big fan of tank Quail so I was Dives down in New Orleans when he was unveiled um
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when they cut the ribbon on him yeah his his first Public Act was
to be kissed by Barbara Bush and the cameras lingered on him going
he was taken by Bush proudly to the Californian caucus uh little party
for him and she made a speech and the first sentence heated in you know in his in his
role his capacity as vice president was he said a challenge faces this country he said
um are we going to go on to the Future or pass to the back
and we met back to the past he claimed it was a enthusiasm that and Bush you know van Hoon
the English language has no Fierce their enemy even he I think was thinking Christ
is only just beginning there Martin we're out of time please come back I'd like to
talk to you this morning and thank you for being here tonight my thanks also
to Carol lever she'll be at the Paradise Theater in Boston on Saturday my thanks
to Steve Guttenberg and everybody in the trick good night everybody