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We need to stop feeding the infantilised mind that demands all the sensory overload from digital devices and all the attendant drama, and instead create a space where everything gets much calmer.

Get away with this. >> i agree with that. thank you. you may have noticed it in yourself. it is hard to pay attention to anything, everyones got adhd. what is going on? its so bad by the way, most people in this country will not read a single book this year. so how does a democracy continue if people arent informed and dont have the bandwidth to pay attention? johan hari is a deep thinker, one of our favorites. he just looked into this question and wrote a whole book on disappearing attention sp...

We can absolutely deal with these things. this is not to be on the wit of human beings. theyve dealt with bigger challenges in the past. but i do think we have to understand why it is happen to us and particularly our children. >> tucker: johan hari is one of those people who just opens his eyes and notices what is happening around us. for that reason we think is one of the smartest observers there is right now. that whole conversation is on fox nation pretty can get it free at tuckercarlson cap...

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YOUTUBE The film reveals a little-seen side of Holiday as a figure whose insistence on performing the anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit” amid political pressures made her a pioneer of the civil rights movement.  For director Lee Daniels and the cast of his new film, The United States vs Billie Holiday, Billie Holiday was a public figure with whom they felt a personal connection, like "one of my aunties," Daniels said of the jazz singer. But the film, which will premiere on Hulu Feb. 26, ...

Courtesy of HuluHulu has shared the first trailer for Lee Daniels' upcoming film The United States vs Billie Holiday, which stars Andra Day as the legendary jazz singer. The film -- which was originally set up at Paramount Pictures for a February 2021 release, but later sold to Hulu -- follows Holiday's tumultuous life and story. It centers on her 1939 song about lynching, "Strange Fruit," which made her a target of the FBI. "Reporters keep asking me, 'Billie,...

Courtesy of Hulu In the film starring Andra Day, Daniels tracks the FBI’s fear of the power of Strange Fruit: "The government saw that song as a threat and she was a target. Thats history and they keep it from us." On a list of Civil Rights movement leaders, few people would think to name Billie Holiday. But in his new movie, The United States vs Billie Holiday, starring Andra Day, Lee Daniels shines a light on that facet of the jazz singer’s story, in which Holiday’s 1939 song about lyn...

Are depressed, if youre anxio anxious, your pain is not a glitch. your pain is not a malfunction. your pain is a signal that your deepest needs as a human being or not being met but this culture that weve built. and together, we begin to fix that. to be to change the way you live. that is what it is calling us to do. i agree completely. i dont know why you are the only person who is saying it but im grateful that you are. >> thanks so much, tucker. >> tucker: you should be but you are. thank you...

With the drugs and alcohol. what does that say about our society? that that many people feel hopeless enough that they take pills for it because mark johan hari is one of the people who has thought most deeply about this country. he is author of the fantastic book "lost connections" and he joins us tonight. you have really written more movingly and insightfully about this question than anyone i have seen. what does this tell us and is there a better way to handle depression? >> thanks so much. i...

Any decent person is horrified by what happened yesterday and parkland. every thoughtful person knows of something horrible is going on in american society. tragedies like this happen for a reason and it doesnt have a lot to do with guns. the percentage of american households with firearms has dropped dramatically over the past 35 years. meanwhile, the number of mass shootings has risen. if youre over 40, you did not grow up in a country like this. the question is, what happened? it could be a l...