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Alive with Steve Burns

Confronting Hate One Conversation at a Time with Daryl Davis

Alive with Steve Burns

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

5.0588 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

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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