Oct 14, 2026 · 53 min · 13 segments
Comedian and author Murray Hill shares his harrowing journey through childhood abuse, to becoming an acclaimed star of the stage and screen. Murray gets candid about his tumultuous upbringing…
Murray HillGuest
Kyle RidleyHost
How do you maintain such hope and positivity and light in these heavy times? And I'm sure you're aware of political unrest and everything going on in the world.
You even ran for mayor in the '90s, so you're very involved, but you're continually hope-filled.
And, you know, our, our dear queen and savior, Dolly Parton, you know, some of the memes that have been going around is, like, you know, there's that interview where she's like, "I have to work at being positive.
It's, it's, and a thing I have to choose every day." And, you know, I definitely hear and experience all of the hate and discrimination and, um, it's incredibly frustrating and impactful and, and dark and insane and all that stuff.
But I, I really have to force myself not to get ... swayed into the negativity and the noise because algorithms and social media and that guy in the office there, whatever his name is, you know, it's all negative.
Ugh." And I do get, I get involved with that, so I have to make a choice to remember that not everyone is full of hate.
And sometimes that comes to me through show business, where I was flown down to, um, uh, Minnesota for a Brandi Carlile concert during the height of the ICE raids there, right? And, and what are you seeing on the news? Awful.
Awful about that ICE right? But when I was in that stadium with, like, 25,000 people and she's donating the money from the concert for the efforts, and then you see how the community came together to protect people that were being harassed and victimized by ICE.
Like, you know, people in Minnesota were having, like, underground networks to feed people that didn't wanna leave their apartments.
And it's like, I do think, and this is where the hope comes, I do think the majority of people are good and care about each other and have empathy, and I think the, the other shit is just way louder.
It's just insane, and I think that's where, you know, if you just stayed online all day, you would think that it, it's over.
[laughs] But, you know, we have to be with people, and we have to take care of each other and, you know, go, go where the love is 'cause it's there.
How do you maintain such hope and positivity and light in these heavy times? And I'm sure you're aware of political unrest and everything going on in the world.
You even ran for mayor in the '90s, so you're very involved, but you're continually hope-filled.
And, you know, our, our dear queen and savior, Dolly Parton, you know, some of the memes that have been going around is, like, you know, there's that interview where she's like, "I have to work at being positive.
It's, it's, and a thing I have to choose every day." And, you know, I definitely hear and experience all of the hate and discrimination and, um, it's incredibly frustrating and impactful and, and dark and insane and all that stuff.
But I, I really have to force myself not to get ... swayed into the negativity and the noise because algorithms and social media and that guy in the office there, whatever his name is, you know, it's all negative.
Ugh." And I do get, I get involved with that, so I have to make a choice to remember that not everyone is full of hate.
And sometimes that comes to me through show business, where I was flown down to, um, uh, Minnesota for a Brandi Carlile concert during the height of the ICE raids there, right? And, and what are you seeing on the news? Awful.
Awful about that ICE right? But when I was in that stadium with, like, 25,000 people and she's donating the money from the concert for the efforts, and then you see how the community came together to protect people that were being harassed and victimized by ICE.
Like, you know, people in Minnesota were having, like, underground networks to feed people that didn't wanna leave their apartments.
And it's like, I do think, and this is where the hope comes, I do think the majority of people are good and care about each other and have empathy, and I think the, the other shit is just way louder.
It's just insane, and I think that's where, you know, if you just stayed online all day, you would think that it, it's over.
[laughs] But, you know, we have to be with people, and we have to take care of each other and, you know, go, go where the love is 'cause it's there.
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