Ben Sasse on the Space between Nebraska and Neverland (Live at Mason)
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🗓️ 28 June 2017
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
The US senator and former college president joined Tyler for a conversation on adolescence, adulthood, driving for Uber, loving Luther, hate-reading Rousseau, the decline of small towns, backpacking across Europe, America’s peculiar fondness for age-segregation, and why his latest book contains so little sex.
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Recorded June 14th, 2017
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| 0:27.2 | Then is from Fremont, and he is a fifth-generation Nebraska. |
| 0:32.1 | Just to be clear, this is the conversation I want to have with Ben Sass, not the one you |
| 0:37.2 | want to have. |
| 0:39.8 | I thought I was interviewing you on the complacent class. |
| 0:42.5 | Is that wrong? |
| 0:43.5 | That's wrong. |
| 0:45.5 | So I'm interested in Nebraska. |
| 0:47.3 | I've been to Nebraska. |
| 0:48.7 | As all freedom-loving people should be. |
| 0:50.7 | Exactly. |
| 0:51.7 | I've been to both states. |
| 0:52.7 | They have almost an identical per capita income, median income, age structure, demographics. |
| 0:58.7 | Yet when I'm in Kansas and Nebraska, they feel to me like very different states. |
| 1:04.0 | How would you describe that difference, and where do you think it comes from? |
| 1:08.6 | When I was a kid, the joke was, if you go back to Kansas, you have to set your watch |
| 1:12.3 | back 24 hours. |
| 1:13.8 | 24 years? |
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