I'm Alan Alder and this is Clear In vivid conversations about connecting and communicating.

A lot of people, you know, you have a friendship, you have a marriage, if you have any kind of

relationship and you behaved as the current partisan politics goes, it wouldn't work.

And sooner or later the people will say we can't tolerate this, we want something different.

It's okay to question somebody's judgment, but not their motive.

Bill Bradley has an amazing life.

He was a gold medal Olympian, a Rhodes Scholar, a legendary star with the Nix for 10 years.

A United States senator for 12 years. He ran for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.

And to top it off, he's the host of the long-running show American Voices on Sirius XM satellite radio.

He's had a life of curiosity, learning and service.

He would probably tower above a lot of us even if he weren't so tall.

This is so good to be able to talk to you today because you can answer a question that I've been asking myself for a long time.

Was the weather up there?

What's it been like for you to be so tall or you're kidding?

No, no, you made me ask that.

You know, this shows about communicating or relating. Has that gotten the way of you relating to people?

Well, yeah, I remember I was in high school. I'd ask girls to dance and they'd look up at me and say, no, you're too tall.

No kidding.

Yeah, I went all the way to American bandstand from Missouri to Philadelphia.

And I had all these girls that been in my imagination there.

They were, I was going to go ask Cali Perry or whatever her name was to dance.

And I'd get up and say, we'd like to dance and she says, no, you're too tall.

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