Peter, tomplaint came pouring into npr wn i first started i talked too loud. My favorite one was my laugh was too boisterous. He laughs too bows tmendously. Laugh was too much. My cence was wrong. I spo too fast. Everything about me isoo big for public radio. You know how npr is. This is National Public radio. My style is so different when i first started at npthe betting i wouldnt make it. Pb the betting wasnt as high. People didnt think it would rk on pbs. Charlie rose had done well for years d nobody expecd for me to make it on pbs. Long story short it would be im still here. Host 25 years or so youve been doing this. 17 books or so you ever written and edid. Your different shows that youve done, what do you think youve accomplished . Guest i hope that what we do every day through our public radio and plic Television Work is the same three things that say all the time. I hope, number one to challen fellow citizens to reexamine the sumption they hold. We all bring assumptions to the
People didnt think it would work on pbs. Charlie rose had done well for years and nobody expected for me to make it on pbs. Long story short it would be im still here. Host 25 years or so youve been doing this. 17 books or so you ever written and edited. Your different shows that youve done, what do you think youve accomplished . Guest i hope that what we do every day through our public radio and Public Television work is the same three things that say all the time. I hope, number one to challenge fellow citizens to reexamine the assumption they hold. We all bring assumptions to the table. There is nothing wrong with that. Assumptions and various prejudices but i hope our work challenges people to reexamine the assumptions they hold. I hope our work helps expand their inventory of ideas. I hope our work allows americans to be introduced to each other. This is the most multicultural, multky racial, multiethnic america ever. America is still so segregated in many ways. I hope the work we
His fight is our fight. It was one of those fateful intersections in history that was very important. We are here to say that we are not afraid. One of the reasons why Martin Luther king was so successful was that he understood television. Thank you, doctor. He understood that imagery was everything. People of action. Dr. King understood that you can make people own their shame. The power structures are forced to answer. Right now we want the world to see [ sirens ] hello, sir. How are you . Good. The reason i pulled you over, your brake lights are out. On july 6th, 2016, outside st. Paul, minnesota, officers pulled over 32yearold Philando Castille on a routine traffic stop. Do you have a license and insurance . I have to tell you, i do have a fire firearm on me dont reach for it. Dont pull it out. [ shots ] you just killed my boyfriend we got pulled over for a busted taillight in the back. And the police just hes covered. They killed my boyfriend. Just 40 seconds after the last shot w
Im kicking off the biggest travel adventure in globe trekker history. Weve traveled to every corner of the world, but for the first time, weve planned a single epic journey that takes us from one end of the u. S. To the other, and then we keep going, all across the globe till we get to the other side. This is round the world, episode one, and my leg of the journey is a road trip through americas heartland. This is route 66 and beyond. The first leg of our roundthe world journey starts in north america, heading from east to west, all across the United States. From the historic riverport of lynchburg, virginia, i take a scenic drive south along the Blue Ridge Parkway to North Carolina, then turn west to tennessee and the famed cities of nashville and memphis. Driving north through arkansas and the choctaw nation, i pick up the historic route 66 in oklahoma and start a road trip that takes me west via oklahoma city, albuquerque, new mexico, and finally, to the edge of a 50,000yearold Mete
Intersections in history that was very important. We are here to say that we are not afraid. One of the reasons why Martin Luther king was so successful was that he understood television. Thank you. He understood that imagery was everything. Show the pictures. Show the images. Violence is that visual. It prompts people to action. Shameful, arresting children, for what . The right to vote. Dr. King understood you need to make people own their shame. Their story of struggle and triumph. They took them into corridors and alleys and began beating them. Is the american story, a story still being told right here. Dr. King said you have to create a crisis so that the power structures are forced to answer. We want the world to see how are you . Good. The reason i pulled you over your brake lights are out. On july 6th, 2016, outside st. Paul, minnesota, officers pulled over 32yearold Philando Castile on a routine traffic stop. Do you have a license. I do have a firearm on me. Dont reach for it