you said that archie bunker's character was based on your father. did your father seem like a racist? >> it didn't represent my father, he was not what he was doing he would shout at me and i was the dumbest white kid he'd ever met. to that degree when i read about "to death us do part" the british show, not exactly the way archie, you know, the takeoff point was, my father's i don't even like to use the word bigotry, he just -- progress, he was -- he was concerned. >> opinionated? >> and afraid about progress. he was everywhere where the grass was green and knew everything. >> what was it like to grow up in that kind of household with someone that was so opinionated? >> it wasn't easy but i think it's generally hard to be a human being. i don't care what the -- you know how one was born, it is hard to be a human being. harder, for many, quite obviously, across the globe but hard in any event, no matter the circumstance of birth. just to be a human being. >> you wrote in your book i'm going to paraphrase it a little bit here, but if your father had

i grew up with archie bunker. i think my generation learned a lot from archie bunker.hie bunker could have existed today. his satire taught us a lot about charactures and stereotypes. i don't know enough about noah yet to know if he's antisemitic yet or not. i want to give him some rope because i think we all run to that spot of hate and everyone hates us. we have to cower in our silos. i'll take notes and if it continues i'll boycott against it. i'm in favor of making sure the bill marrs of the world make us look at ourselves and not take light seriously as we take it. >> let's look at social media. pope francis is this twitter sensation out there @pontiffx. how is that changing your fate? i want to ask you all of this. >> changing it it's instantaneous what people are thinking about it. i think what it's saying is you can look at all of these different perspectives. go down your feed, this person said this that person said that. it makes it a lot more relevant because it's in time. people are responding in time too, which is a bit dangerous, i think. with regard to t