(audiencapplause) [smith] tommy orange, welcome. [tommy orange] thank you for having me. [smith] thank you very much for being here. sove the book. i wanna talk all about the book and talk all about you, but i wanna talk about the title of the book first. so i didn't actually get the reference until after that this is gertrude stein. [orange] mm-hmm. [smith] right? like you, an oaklander. is that the right way to say it? oaklandite? [orange] oaklander. [smith] oaklander. [orange] yeah. [smith] so gertrude steinndfamk "there's no there there." and this iyour response, this is your rebuttal gertrude stein. [orange] and it's also, i wodn't put so much of the weight on gertrude stein as more on people who have sort of misused that quote. because she was just talking about her childhood home. [sth] very specific. [orange] and it was developed over. so in her "everybody's" autobiography, somebody asks her, "why don't you write about oakland?" "there is no there." she's just talking about her experience. and so people have used it to say oakland has no character. and that is mor

he's tommy orange, this is overheard. [smith] let's beonest.this about the ability to learn or is this about the experience of not having been taught properly? how have you a what has befallen other nations in africa? you could say that he made his own bed, but you caused him to sleep in it. you a problem and over time took it on. let's star wwith the sizzle befoget to the steak. are you gonna run for president? i think i just got an f from you, actually. this is overheard. (audiencapplause)

orange ratified and rescinded. the blue states have made no action or it did not pass in the states. notice go to james in washington, d.c., a republican. hello. caller: this is tommy, actually. there are a lot of studies that indicate that younger women meet the same pay as younger men in the same cohort, and women with similar levels of education eight the same levels of pay as men when you control for these factors. i remain unconvinced. furthermore, the women's movement and feminism has been in favor of helping the middle class. i do not see anything to the benefit of poor people. i know what you -- i know that you want to think that you are but this does not help people of color or disabled people. guest: i understand that you may everything weon, know about women's pay in this country has women at a disadvantage. i would say that we need to boycott the equal pay days that we celebrate in the next year where a woman makes what a man-made the entire year before. that is usually april for all women and then later for black women and then latino women have not made what white men made in 2018. she does not celebrate that until november 20. that is what we are loo

orange ratified and rescinded. the blue states have made no action or it did not pass in the states. notice go to james in washington, d.c., a republican. hello. caller: this is tommyally. there are a lot of studies that indicate that younger women meet the same pay as younger men in the same cohort, and women with similar levels of education eight the same levels of pay as men when you control for these factors. i remain unconvinced. furthermore, the women's movement and feminism has been in favor of helping the middle class. i do not see anything to the benefit of poor people. i know what you -- i know that you want to think that you are but this does not help people of color or disabled people. guest: i understand that you may everything weon, know about women's pay in this country has women at a disadvantage. i would say that we need to boycott the equal pay days that we celebrate in the next year where a woman makes what a man-made the entire year before. that is usually april for all women and then later for black women and then latino women have not made what white men made in 2018. she does not celebrate that until november 20. that is what we are looking a