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I'm not surprised. i know you're not. does it eat itself? >> it never ends. our colleges and universities are turning on people that are only qualified to be dei and sensitivity training. many of these people are inte intellectual midgets and need to believe that they have to scrub any language that make people uncomfortable. >> when i see you in the hallway, sean, i call you a tiny man that is not fat. what do you say? >> i have broad shoulders and a thick skin. our libraries and schools are cancelling huck fin, little house on the prairie. this goes to what you say all the time. you have the...

A steamship and find some lead wi leadweight on a knotted string. if it was 12 feet deep, he'd shout, mark twain. if you wrote about this river today, tom sawyer and huck fin would spend a lot of time walking on the beach because the mighty mississippi is a fraction of a twain. >> steam boat rex. >> yeah. >> and the lendrought across th heartland is exposing all kinds of memories. >> it may have caught on fire 50 miles upstream and floated here. >> as far as water levels go, is this the worst you've seen? >> this is about as low as i've seen it. >> from missouri down to new orleans, accidental...

This is -- we're involved in a human enterprise. we do the right thing for five minutes and then we do the wrong thing for ten. great line in tom sawyer, the e advantage lest was so good huck fin was saved until tuesday. this is who we are. you get up every morning and you do it. and i think the country missed this. a huge part of the country. i know i did. i missed this from 2017, 2021. and i think that the more we can remind ourselves that we have overcome division in the past, we have come through war. we have come through depression, we have come through strife. that's not a guarantee that...

Or bill cosbys of the world look down on a culture and say you shouldn't ever shouldn't use that word, it's very difficult to take a word out of popular culture. it's very difficult to take a word out of the imagination of people. what we do have to do is engage them and understand -- let them understand the context and then see what they do with it. but to just say that i read it in huck fin or that i read it in an educated or social space that the kids that use it or the generation that brought it back into public use aren't a part of that, we need to engage them, and this is -- this word ha...