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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

310: The Eternally Radical Idea with Greg Lukianoff

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

History, Society & Culture

4.940.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

President and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), Greg explains why we should be suspicious of certainty and invites us to join the million-strong free speech army to combat cancel-culture.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello friends, it's the way I heard it with me. You're somewhat congested. What am I a host?

0:11.4

What do I remember? It's me, Mike.

0:13.3

It's me, my daughter. I am. I'm sorry. I've got this crud coming on and I'm trying to fight it off.

0:18.6

Happily, I think I have. We just had a great conversation. We're calling the eternally radical idea

0:26.2

from our eternally interesting guest, Greg, Luke Yanov, with the possible exception of my mother.

0:32.0

He's one of our favorite guests. It's great to have him back.

0:34.6

I'll tell you what, man, he can burn an hour like nobody's business. He's a fast talker and his head is ginormous

0:41.6

and he's got a lot of ideas in it. And it's really fun to listen to.

0:45.5

He is fun to listen to, but he's also, I think, important to hear because the mission he's on matters a lot.

0:51.7

The ACLU, we all know what that is, fire. It was founded 20 years or so ago and it stands for, what's the stand for, Chuck?

1:02.0

The foundation for individual rights and expression.

1:06.2

That's correct. It used to be rights and education, but they changed their names somewhat.

1:10.4

Although their mission is still really pretty singular, it's all about free speech.

1:15.8

Greg has a ton to say about council culture. He has a ton to say about the way colleges have basically transformed from being a bastion of free speech

1:28.6

to being, unfortunately, kind of the opposite of it.

1:32.6

And he always is relevant because the headlines are always relevant in this area.

1:37.8

So we cover a lot of ground in this conversation. And that's really what it is. There's no agenda.

1:42.5

It's a free flowing conversation aided a little bit by some dayquil on my end, some caffeine.

1:50.2

And some, I took something else, Chuck. I'm not sure what it was. It was a, it looked like a motrin.

1:56.0

But now I can't be entirely sure because I'm experiencing a whole new level of, I can breathe, which is good news.

2:03.2

But obviously, I'm starting a lot of sentences with no clear idea of how they're going to end.

2:08.7

Isn't motrin sort of a lady thing?

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