language that's going to immediately shut down the conversation -- i don't know if you're familiar withed godwin's law, talks about how long before an online discussion deinvolves into someone calls someone else aeneas simple there's a certain thing that happens where a word is thrown out there and there's no word for any further discussion. i'm trying to avoid that in the book and the way i approach people on a day-to-day basis. having said that, if i sense that someone is being untruthful or deceitful, i confront that, at least as i see it. >> host: ron miller you talk about a year you spent living in lake charles, louisiana. that's one of the worst years of your young life. why? >> guest: well, as a military brat, growing up in integrated schools and not being accustomed to a school where you had predominantly black students in the student body, and the attitudes that came with it. here i am, a kid that dressed a certain way, spoke a certain way. had a certain level of respect for authority. and you put me into an environment where those kinds of things were not held in regard, and i was ridicu