cynthia miller, idris, thank you so much for joining us. extremism and racist belief systems are not new, but online platforms have certainly allowed extremists to reach more people. why are young people, especially white boys, it seems, so susceptible? cynthia: well, what we're seeing today, i mean, the ideas are age old. we have always seen racist beliefs, extremist fringe beliefs and violent beliefs circulating. but you usedo have to kind of seek it out as a destination or sign up for a listserv. now, wherever you spend time online, it's much more likely that those kind of hateful ideas encounter you, that you run into them wherever you are. and boys in particular spend a lot of time in sites like online gaming or meme sharing sites, or sites where there happens to also be a lot of toxic and hateful content circulating, often in the form of jokes. and that can be something that can open up rabbit holes to further radicalization. ali: and how is a pandemic exacerbated these conditions? cynthia: you know we moved to a situation where milli

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and it also blessed us with a very young michael b jordan and the amazing stringer bell, aka idris elbasimon, the creator of the wire, -- and the awesome and handsome wasn't -- who play the fan favorite detective on the wire. he will also be on broadway in the classic play death of a salesman. so happy to have you gentlemen here. kudos on a brilliant body of work. david, i will start with you. i'm just curious what did you intend the wire to teach us about intercity life? >> i think, enough speaking to theme, because there are several themes in the show, but if that had a political message, we need to end the drug war. drugs not only destroyed communities and families and people, and mass incarceration is a great drain on society, but it's also actually destroyed, it is turned what is supposed to be the mission of law enforcement which was to respond to pay things that harm people directly, meaning people who commit crimes against other people. it's destroyed that ability in my city and others to actually receive adults. results there. while drug rates go, up the results rates from majo

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