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0:00.0 | I'm Jack Hit and I'm Ginger Rye Kumunika. |
0:08.0 | Last week we launched our show in front of a live audience and it was standing room only |
0:11.3 | at the Bellhouse in Brooklyn. |
0:12.8 | Hello, my name is PJ Votes. |
0:16.0 | I co-host the show called Repiolic Gimlet. |
0:19.7 | The reason we are here is that this is the launch party for Uncivil. |
0:22.8 | A pie-casset we are so- |
0:24.2 | So we taped the show that night with some incredible guests and it was all about Civil |
0:28.5 | War Myths. |
0:29.6 | The cranky lies you see on Twitter or the stuff you hear at Family Get Together's. |
0:34.6 | That the war was really about states' rights or that the Confederate flag is about heritage, |
0:39.6 | not hate. |
0:40.6 | Right. |
0:41.6 | I mean there's tons of these lies. |
0:43.1 | They're all over the place. |
0:44.5 | Take the biggest one. |
0:45.6 | The war didn't have anything to do with slavery. |
0:48.0 | A few years ago the Pew Research Center did a survey and found that most Americans think |
0:52.7 | that that one is true. |
0:54.4 | It's not just your grandparents. |
0:56.2 | The demographic most likely to say states' rights were people under 30, 60%. |
1:02.5 | These myths are woven deep into our culture. |
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