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The Michael Berry Show

AM Show HR 3 - The Rest Of Clifton Duncan

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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0:00.0

Tookin is our guest. He is doing a new one man show on the great Thomas Soul.

0:09.0

When I asked the question, it was because I'm genuinely thinking about how I would do it if I were doing.

0:14.2

I don't have the acting skill you do, but I research people.

0:16.7

I study them.

0:17.7

I say I take them apart and put them back together.

0:19.2

I'm fascinated by not just what people have to say,

0:22.4

especially someone like Soul, who has so much to say,

0:25.0

but how they arrived at that.

0:29.0

You know, his experience with Milton Friedman and having been in Friedman's class at

0:35.0

University of Chicago and he says but I left the class and I was still a liberal

0:41.0

and he goes to work for the Labor Department and then he realizes

0:44.8

that the Labor Department does not care about black people or employees, both of

0:51.5

whom they they claim to, and that when he pointed out that the data was actually

0:56.5

harmful to these people from what they were recommending, that they said that doesn't matter.

1:00.3

And that was the moment, that was his aha moment, that was his eureka, oh my goodness, these people

1:06.7

don't believe anything they're saying and it transformed him and he went on to be the man he is today.

1:13.0

You know, I think that's just absolutely fascinating.

1:16.0

And that tells you, this man wasn't born into this, right?

1:20.0

I mean, I've made a transformation in my life from what I think and where I am and most of us have and in his I think that will I can

1:28.8

Sorry I'm thinking and planning this this project for you I'm writing it in my head, Clifton, right now as we talk.

1:34.3

And I'm just imagining you have such a great opportunity to tell that. That is

1:40.6

fantastic. So what does it look like I mean will this be a will you

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