Confronting Hate One Conversation at a Time with Daryl Davis

Alive with Steve Burns

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

5.0 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Daryl shares his incredible experience of engaging right-wing extremists with Steve—and how he convinced many of them to open their worldview. Dr. Daryl Davis is a blues musician, author, and activist. Daryl received awards and acclaim for his book Klan-Destine Relationships and his award-winning film documentary Accidental Courtesy. As a musician, he has performed with Chuck Berry, The Legendary Blues Band, Elvis Presley’s Jordanaires, and others. Aura Frames: Exclusive $35 off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/ALIVE. Promo Code ALIVE. ZocDoc: Stop putting off those doctors appointments and go to zocdoc.com/alive to find and instantly book a top-rated doctor today. NordProtect: Get an exclusive 5% discount on NordProtect plans. Go to: https://nordprotect.com/alive and use the code alive at checkout. You can follow Steve Burns @steveburnsalive on Instagram. Watch full episodes of Alive on YouTube. Stay up to date with Lemonada on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. If you haven’t yet, now is a great time to subscribe to Lemonada Premium. You’ll get ad-free episodes and bonus content from Steve. Just hit the 'subscribe' button on Apple Podcasts, or, for all other podcast apps head to lemonadapremium.com to subscribe. Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this show and all Lemonada shows: lemonadamedia.com/sponsors See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Lemonada
0:02.0	Lemonada
0:04.0	Hey, there you are.
0:20.0	Good to see you. Come on in.
0:22.6	Welcome to Alive.
0:24.6	Uh, okay.
0:26.6	Here's one for you.
0:29.6	Have you ever come across someone and just instantly decided you didn't like them.
0:41.3	That you weren't interested in knowing them and just
0:43.3	written them off completely
0:45.3	even though
0:47.3	you really didn't know anything about them.
0:50.3	You ever done that?
0:58.0	I You ever done that? T. I'm making tea. You want tea?
1:01.0	I asked myself that very question.
1:04.0	And I want to say no.
1:07.0	But honestly, I think I've done that. I think I've done that.
1:11.6	I think I've done that.
1:14.6	But we see this dynamic play out everywhere, all across the world right now.
1:21.6	And when it gets far enough, it does become entire groups of people who literally hate each other, even though
1:33.4	they know nothing about each other.
1:37.0	Here you go.
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