Weeks, years, decades. Endless war, corporatist surveillance state that thrives on secrecy and tears of orphans. And now a roving hoard of islamist decapitation fetishes who are raising an african blood virus to see who can kill us first. Why go on . We must keep fighting because as frodo taught us, even if the world is horse [bleep], if you dig around long enough there is a pony in there somewhere. Well, it turns out, ladies and gentlemen, i found a pony last night in florida. We are live from Broward College in florida, we have governor Charlie Crist, Florida Governor rick scott. Our incumbent governor and the republican candidate for governor is also in the building. Governor rick scott, we have been told that Governor Scott will not be participating in this debate. Jon he cant not participate. A debate must have at least two parties to be considered a debate otherwise its a masterbait, its just one. Perhaps Governor Scott is late. Maybe hes late. Perhaps the hairless incumbent got sidetracked looking for a snack. Look there. But it was the reason for Governor Scotts absence that reminded me why life is so beautiful. Governor crist has asked to have a fan, a small fan placed underneath his podium. The rules of the debate that i was shown by the Scott Campaign say that there should be no fan. Somehow there is a fan there and for that reason, ladies and gentlemen, i am being told that Governor Scott will not join us for this debate. Jon governor rick scott of florida refused to debate former governor of florida crist because former governor crist has a fan that appears to be providing a small amount of respite for his presumably sweaty balls. Thank you, jesus look, we all know whats happening here. Its florida. Theres a humid environment in florida. Crists boys got sweaty so the former governor pops down and picks up a fan at bed, balls and beyond. Whats the issue . The first question i want to ask you, governor crist, is why did you insist on bringing a fan here . Why not . You know, is there anything wrong with being comfortable . Jon now that is how you win votes in florida. Right now a million in florida are turning to their friend going, i mean hes got a point, you know, you stand all night in the lights, i mean he should be comfortable, uh . Of course, those of you who follow Florida Politics or have a google alert set for florida ball fan controversy, were hardly surprised by the scandal. This happened back in 2006 as well when crist was running for republican nomination for governor. There was a dispute over a fan then, too. They ended up sharing the fan. Jon no sadly those days of bipartisan accommodation are long gone. And while we were once a nation of ball fan sharers, in todays divided politics, we would rather stew in our own testicular moisture than reach across the aisle to bring a fresh wind of compromise. As Abraham Lincoln once said, a scrotum divided against it is cannot stand because it is really not a weightbearing, it really just flops. Its hard to imagine this is our country. Of course, all wonderful things must come to an end. Eventually rick scott did appear, allowing floridians to discuss the issues they care about most. Lets find out what the voters are saying through social media. Lets go the Mannie Garcia of the naples daily news. Mannie, whats trending on social media right now . Well, the fan. Jon in fact Charlie Crist ball twitter feed has been blowing up. Guys, the fan isnt supposed to have fans, hash tag grundle brag. My day we called that a taint. Im sorry, im sorry. Honestly, we could have delved in to all the terrible actual answers rick scott gave in the debate about his horrifying policies from florida. But is that not nearly as fun as him missing four minutes of a debate because his opponent had a fan pointed at his balls. For more on the story we go to samantha bee in florida. Sam, thank you for joining us. Can you tell us why rick scott reacted so strongly to Charlie Crists efforts to cool down chip and dale, for lack of a better your guess is as good as mine. Florida politics has a long tradition of an electoral ballcoolery. From the inauguration of Andrew Jackson as the states first governor, to the 2000 president ial race when hundreds of Broward County ballots were rendered indecipherable due to Copious Amounts of ball sweat. Jon remind me again why voters in florida in that election insisted on wiping ballots on their balls . Im sure you remember the ballots were very poorly designed and all those old people got confused. They intended to vote for al gore and instead they accidentally stuck the ballots down their pants. Jon i remember that. Yeah. Jon is this a statewide issue, sam . Well, not the whole state. This area here in the south. Jon right. This area is generally more arid. The problem really comes when youre down here when you reach up in this area. Just gets extremely damp and swampy and just gross. To clarify, that what about clearing out some of the swamp land . Youre talking about deforestation . It would help cool it down, but ultimately theres the upkeep and then once that foliage begins to grow back, its also somehow even grocer. Jon i get it. The point is, dont shave your balls, jon. Jon i understand. Sam, where are you now . Well, jon, right now im at floridas scrotogen labs where they are working night and day to combat floridian ball sweat. Jon how is the research coming . Let me show you an early prototype. Jon is that sam, is that an open fan on the inside of the underwear . That seems like any cooling benefit would be undercut by obviously the mangling. Yeah, well, after years of trials, they have come to that same conclusion. So i give you the testicool 5000. Seems complicated for underwear. You get used to it. 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Wouldnt you like to have a whole bunch of less taxes and more revenue and more jobs . That sounds great. Youre living in a kansas utopia. Republican boners. This would be the erection of a conservative up topia. The results will be well. The results of the experiment are in. Only one problem. Its an abject failure. Im sorry, what . I wish it had worked. It would be great. Yeah. This is really an experiment gone horribly wrong. Okay. How bad could it be . Credit downgrades, deficit spending, cuts in education, cuts in highways, thats what i call a train wreck. I see whats happening here. Are you sure youre a republican . Im a republican. Because you dont sound like one. Name a hip hop artist. Tupac and youre taking too long. There are several others. Okay, youre a republican. Turns out kansas is screwed. Revenue down 680 Million Dollars over the prior year. Thats a lot of money in kansas. Thats a lot of money to anybody. The problem was, less taxes on the job creators didnt lead to jobs created. Just because we got a tax cut didnt mean we need to hire more people. We put the money in the pocket. Thats not how its supposed to work. You get tax cuts and you use that to hire more people. Why hire people you dont need . Dont do this to me. Dont do this to me, dude. I guess brownback hoped Business Owners like ross would get more creative with hiring practices. Why would we need a tractor danceer on this farm . Because its fun. You have a driver, you have a dancer. Thats two jobs for one tractor. With less money the state had to make a few tiny cuts in education. We experienced the largest cut in per pupil spending in kansas in the entire history of the state. They closed five School Buildings in our district. Class size going up. Two Biggest Industries in kansas are farming and aerospace. You can learn that from your pappy. Actually you cant. This is going to be the opposite of Economic Development for kansas. Then the unthinkable happened. Something that conservative state of kansas could never have imagine imagined. Elected officials who think kansas is going in the wrong election. Were supporting the democrat for the governors race in kansas. Uh, i know this is sounding like you kind of misspoke. Were going to go back, do it again. Who are you supporting in the upcoming election . Republicans for kansas values supporting the democrat. Okay. You did it again. Just one more time, i know youre nervous, youre in the presence of a superstar. But just sort of relax a little bit. Who are you supporting in the upcoming election . Were supporting the democrat. In fact, the once unbeatable brownback now trails in the polls. But dont worry, he has a solution. Hit the accelerator on what were doing. Tax cuts take time. Thinks going to work and were going to stick with. Solution to the failed utopia is more of it. 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Well, the book is about mass incarceration in america and the way we disconnected from so many realities, tells the story of a man who was wrongly convicted, put on death row. You think the system works one way but actually works a very different way. And i met this man who when i went to the prison, told me he was on death row for 15 months before the trial. I thought they didnt teach me thats the way it works. I got back to my office and judge named robert lee called and told me not to take the case. Thats not the way its supposed to work. I went to this community why africanamericans telling me they were this man 11 miles away from the crime scene when the crime took place and he was still convicted and sentenced to death. The judge overrode it, imposed the death penalty. Theres a disconnect. I think the book is an effort to expose people to that disconnect. We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world. And even just today in new york city, a gentleman convicted of murder at 16 years old, wrongly convicted, it is 30 years later, hes just getting out today. His friend who was convicted with him, died in prison. Theres a 10yearold boy now apparently charged as an adult for a murder. How are we as a collection allowing it to happen . Well, i think we dont appreciate the obligation to be just in all circumstances. There is this diskebconnect. A narrative corrupted by fear and an earning. We changed in the last 40 years. In 1972, 300,000 people in prison. Today there are 2. 3 million. The disconnect is the problem. Children, were being dishonest when we say kids cant vote, cant drink, cant smoke but if they commit a crime, we can ignore their child status. Thats who we ended up with 13 and 14yearold children sentenced to die in prison. Jon its almost not even a disconnect but its purposeful. I can remember the politic of fear throughout the 70s and early 80s that we were under attack by, i remember they used to call them the super predators. Thats right. Jon we had to protect ourselves from super predators and then the three strikes rule came in. All these other things that were instituted. Its a narrative introduced. Youre right, criminologists talking about super predators, young boys and made predictions, eliminated minimum age for trying a child as an adult, 10yearolds facing adult prison. Made it easier to put kids in prison forever and passed mandatory sentences laws. We have people serving life sentences for writing a bad check or drug use, simple possession of marijuana and its crazy. I think we havent really been outraged enough. We have the highest rate of incarceration in the world and were not ashamed of that. Jon not only not outraged. I feel like theres a defensiveness in the community. I had a gentleman on last night i dont think you would be familiar with, who is very adamant that race was not an issue in these. Yet disproportionately, statistically it is. Why cant we have that conversation and i wasnt trying to blame him. Just merely and not very articulately, point out it was real. Why is it so hard to get past that defensiveness and anger . Well, we have never ever committed ourselves to a process of truth and reconciliation of our history. We didnt talk about the consequences of a myth that created slavery and because of that slavery didnt end, it evolved. We didnt think about what it meant to terrorize people between the end of reconstruction and world war ii. And then we had jim crowe and segregation and we dominated and hu humiliated people for decades without appreciating the harm done. Now were in a failure to talk about race continues to haunt us. Presum shops of dangerousness and, presum shops of dangerousness to people of color, thats how he got convicted and sentenced to death. Were trapped by silence, its hard. We have to change that. In germany, the holocaust, horrific history. But if you go there, you are required to confront that legacy. There are monuments and memorials and there are totems that make you have to deal with that. In this country we try to hide the history. Manifests itself in tragic ways. Theres this sense of well, we dont have slavery anymore, we dont have segregation, get over it. The gentleman i referred to from last night spoke of the it could codified segregation as though it was the middle ages, that was the 50s and 60s. I started my education in a colored school because schools were still racially segregated. The county where my father group didnt have a block high school, he had to leave. My grandmother the daughter of people who web enslaved. A black male baby more than in the 21 century, one in three is expected to go the jail or prison. That wasnt true in the 20th century or the 19th century. We created this environment that we have to confront more honestly. Thats part of the challenge. Talk more honestly about whats going on. Jon thats what were going to show, if you can stick around, when we come back well talk about how this conversation takes place. I almost think we need instructions because it hasnt been taking place except among white people yelling at each other. Just mercy will be on the book shelves tuesday, october 21, incredible story. Bryan stevenson, thank you very much. Rock and roll music you can hook up the whole family for a 100 a month. Get 4 lines with unlimited talk, text, and up to 10 gigabytes of 4g lte data. And now the next big thing is here. Get the hottest device for everybody in the family for 0 down. So you can switch today. A lifeline for so many people. It is more than a community. 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