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Scar face, fallback with that. >> youre in this field. do you go scar face or godfather? >> well, i would choose godfather, of course, but you have to make a classic distinction. "godfather" on the one hand "good fellas" on the other. real depiction of the mob. the godfather, hyperreal based on codes of honor that dont exist. theyre both incredible movies. >> whats on your fallback list? >> my fallback list is robocalls. if theres anything that will incite me to murder, its getting a call 16 tim...

E fx in september, and were joined by michael eric dyson who has written 20 books on civil rights leaders and great artists like nas and tupac, and his latest book hits close to home here on "the beat," jay-z. describing the music, the hustle, and the creativity. hes currently a professor of sociology at georgetown university. great to see you both. lets get into it. whats on your fallback list? >> people are online telling me that scarface is better than either godfather and certainly better th...

This. you spend time with your family because a man who never spends time with his family can never be a man. come on, hes dropping more wisdom than aristotle, more science than einstein. marlon brando, the history of immigration, the politics and crime of american culture. fallback with that. >> youre in this field. do you go scarface or godfather? >> i would choose godfather of course, but you have to make a classic distinction. godfather on the one hand, goodfellas on the other. goodfellas, h...

My favorite, of course, is the one that tells me i have four felony warrants in ohio. >> the irs. >> i get some in a foreign language. >> do you? >> i got one. i did. i was like, im global now. >> its oaudio spam. on my fallback list is scientists telling us this whole thing might be a simulation. and this is real scientists in real news. heres some articles. pointing out why, quote, we might be living in a computer simulation. and then another one says are we living in a computer simulation, le...

Voice. and his later albums everyone oh, no, youre great again. >> you live your whole life building all these experiences into your first album. and thats your first album, your whole lifes experience. and your second album is okay, we need another album. >> its true. >> you didnt think about it. >> i just got to get to the summit. its like climbing mt. everest and not knowing thou climb down. >> absolutely. not enough. its like bombing, like chappelle says. bombing is the greatest thing that c...

>> the color. the rainbow is part of it. when you give my kids a choice of any ice cream, they want rainbow sprinkles. >> how do you feel about tie-dye? i dont know if you have a policy on that. >> i just couldnt pull it off as a kid. i wore a tie-dye. people are like why is the asian guy wearing a tie-dye? im the last person to pull off the hippies 60s. >> i wore a tie-dye. >> what is that, a 70s throw back? >> it was a white jumper and we just tie-dye so it had a bunch of colors. >> nice. what...

Favorite. >> getting rid of it maybe. >> id like to get rid of lyme disease. do we have to get rid of the cia to get rid of lyme disease? >> i mean, thats a big question. does it trip you out how little some politicians know about medicine? >> it doesnt trip me out how little they know about medicine is theyre willing to talk about it when they dont know anything. >> stay in your lane. >> yeah, stay in your lane. >> margaret, whats on your fallback list? >> i think maybe its white people who thi...

White privilege. was i think also part of that is this idea that we live in a world that is post-racist, or somehow were beyond that. but were in the midst of it. >> when youre out doing shows, do you notice anything different about where maybe people in the culture are from reactions when youre touring? >> i dont know. i think that right now there is a lot of people who are just very angry and very desperate. and now its actually crossing party lines. its not as -- we seem to really owe the all...

Of the tequila of conservative america and you unleash it and you act a certain way, but when youre all over the next day, that was the real me, or i dont know what that was. >> well, theyre all lying and duplicitous and disingenuous. its only to support their agenda. agenda and, yeah, just to keep working and so, you know, become a lobbyist and sell books. >> you find it pathetic? >> its a bad way to be a human being i think. >> i think thats very clearly put. whos on your fallback list as the ...

Now trying to rebrand fossil fuels as molecules of freedom. >> oh, boy. >> trump administration rebrand fossil fuel as molecules of freedom. energy department trying to rebrand gas. this is a little orwellian, i think, and it reminds me of freedom for us. >> wow, thats good. >> remember that? >> freedom fries. >> try to rebrand fossil fuels. >> some of his supporters said oh, he is going to do for america what he did in business. but if what you do in business or policy is try to hide things wit...