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– Greetings, and thanks for joining us for this PJTV special, our picks for favorite story of the year.

I'm your host, John Phillips. Joining me here in studio is PJTV contributor and stand-up comic Stephen Kruiser, and right next to him is the very fair-minded civil rights defense attorney, Mr. Leo Terrell.

Today we're talking about our picks for favorite story of 2015, and Leo, you're up first. – Uh, folks, my favorite story of the year

is Mark Zuckerberg's pledge to donate 99% of his Facebook shares to charity.

The co-founder of Facebook's shares amount to 45 billion dollars. Zuckerberg made the pledge in an open letter to his newborn daughter Max. If Facebook shares continue to appreciate, the value of the gift could be much higher

than the current estimate of 45 billion dollars.

99.999% of Americans would never donate 45 billion dollars,

especially you two. – Definitely me.

I guarantee that. – It's unbelievable. And it's a great message. You agree, Kru, you would never donate that?

– If I were still gonna have 100 billion after, yeah, I would, I have no problem. (laughing) – It's unbelievable. – People are acting like, I mean, I commend this. – Oh, come on. It's unbelievable. – No it is unbelievable, – It's unbelievable. – But let's not sit around and pretend that Zuckerberg's gonna be a pauper after this, okay? – No, no, no, but people are selfish, in a capitalistic society, that is amazing.

We're not talking about 45 million, we're not talking about 450 million. 45 billion! – You know what, Leo?

We'd all be better off if he took that and started another company.

(laughing) – Probably. Great but you know what? It is a unbelievable gesture.

It's unreal. – And I think I like the way it sets the bar for other kids.

You know, we talk about the Millennials being kind of a slacker generation. – Yes. – Look what he's doing at age 31. (laughing) What have you accomplished?

– He's an outstanding role model, a great story.

– Leo Terrell clicks Like. – Oh, I click big-time Like. Very impressed with that story. – I would do it. If I had the, I would do it. – I don't have any money and I still give to charity every year.

– No, that's unreal, that's unreal. – What about this crowd? You think this crowd is as good as the Stanfords, and the Vanderbilts, and the Rockefellers and those guys? – Oh my God yes. Those, the Vanderbilts and the Rockerfellers they were snoody, they were snoody

they were elitists and they looked down at people.

– This guy wears T-shirts. – Yes, he's everyday, you can relate to him.

Those photographs of him and his wife, and the newborn, beautiful.

I mean you can't, that's America. That is American family,

the central focus of this,

of Zuckerberg is family.

And that's what he's pointing out, I love it. Don't be hard-nosed with me–

– I'm mean I'm not gonna lie, I like a lot of the tech billionaires, I think they're, it's when they start you know,

it's like, sometimes they're a little–

– Let me ask you this question. Mark Zuckerberg walks into a Starbucks,

and he orders his latte. – Yes. – What kinda tip do you think he puts in the cup? – Oh my, probably,

you know hundreds.

Maybe 25 to more than 25%.

– I bet you he doesn't tip. – You know what it is, you guys are this is a heartwarming story you guys are trying to rough this story up. It's a heartwarming, feel-good story. – I've got nothing I think it's a great story. – What do you think he tips? (shouting over one another)

– Give this man some truth serum.

– I reject the false premise, I think he builds the damn Starbucks in his house.

(laughing)

You're not gonna bait me. – What about a barista? – He buys baristas from Guatemala.

Fair trade.

– Alright Kruiser what's your pick?

– My favorite story of the year, far and away

was the Kansas City Royals winning the World Series.

And John you know I'm a huge baseball fan.

And I am not an American League fan for the most part. I think the designated hitter is a cold war relic

I think it's awful, but this team didn't play like an American League team they played like a National League team,

lot of small ball what I liked this was the most fun baseball team to watch.

And this is a guy who watches a lot of baseball.

That I have seen in a long, long time. I could not stop watching this team in the playoffs and the world series. Because they're relentless, they didn't get caught up in all the modern computer, the metrics, we're gonna wear the pitcher out because he's on a pitch count, they were just up there as one of the commentators said one night, to knock the pitcher out.

They were up there to demoralize and run roughshod over the other team. There was one game where, there were like 25 times there was a two-ball count

or 20 times in the game there's a two-strike count

on the hitter and two outs out of that. Most fun baseball team to watch I've seen in forever.

– You know when I was growing up I'm an Angel fan a lifelong Angel fan,

when the Angels or the Lakers would lose, I would be so upset I couldn't read the newspaper the next day.

– Hear, hear. – Because if I were to see that score it would just upset me and it would ruin my morning,

it would ruin my day, I couldn't deal with it.

I still have a little bit of that in me, I have a hard time getting excited

about a team other than the Angels or the Lakers winning.

– Well you know what I agree with Kruiser this was a great story because this team was a team, and they had I think they set the record for the number of late-inning comebacks, which were amazing. They played as a team. It was devastating that they lost last year, but they stuck together and won the World Series this year. – I'll go with first of all it wasn't 20 obviously I was a little inflated on the two strike counts

but it was, I'm with you on that usually once the Dodgers are knocked out which sadly for twenty-some-odd years now is rather early I'm done.

I don't watch any of the World Series.

I don't watch anything else but I started like okay they're coming back late I heard about that story so then I start watching and as I'm watching because I didn't watch the Royals at all during the regular season. And as I'm watching I'm going, this is like baseball crack these guys are impossible. Especially when they fall behind. So once they fall behind you're sitting there going okay how are they gonna figure out this one?

How are they gonna pull this one, and then they did every time.

– But I do agree with you, when the Angels or the Dodgers or Lakers would lose, I could not only not read the newspaper,

couldn't even watch the newscast. – Me too. – It was horrible. – My team, Arizona gets knocked out of the NCAA tournament I go on a sports

into a sports coma for three weeks. (laughing) – I remove all the apps from my phone,

every year. – Alright my favorite story of the year

is the woman who claims she was African American

but was really a white woman from Montana.

Yes of course I'm talking about the one and only Rachel Dolezal, the former NAACP

leader's parents came forward with the news that their daughter was white and not black as she claimed.

Dolezal eventually came clean admitting

that she is white and her parents are white,

she said she identifies as black and has from a very young age.

I was just reading an interview that she did with Vice magazine. Where she said that, she's pregnant now,

where if she gave birth to a girl she was gonna name her Caitlin.

Cause of Caitlin Jenner.

– I'll be over here.

– You know what, she's just trying to extend her, extend her 15 minutes of fame.

She is an embarrassment,

she defies everything about what ethnicity is,

she is a horrendous person, a person who identified herself as black,

white for purposes of the lawsuit,

and then back to black and then back to white,

it's an embarrassment. – She sued Howard University didn't she? – Yes, claiming she was white.

Claiming she was white.

– She wants it both ways. – She wants it both ways. She is a manipulator, an embarrassment to the NAACP,

because they should be guilty as well because they were using race as a criteria to be the chairperson. – I just throw my hands up in the air every time I see this and think had no one who ever encountered her in person in their lives seen a bad spray tan before?

I mean it's awful, she's orange, she's Shep Smith orange right there, okay?

It's so easy to see that shes faking it,

that it's makeup and I just, this is one of the, you know what, I'm glad she got busted for this, I'm glad it's over because the whole I identify as thing is starting to send

me right through the roof. I identify as someone who should be wealthy but I'm not.

(laughing) So you don't get to just identify,

there are some things that you are and are not in life,

and I'm not going through it, I'm not saying everybody, there are people who struggle with some things that are real but you, now it's turned into this thing where anybody who wants to identify as black well no, you're black or you're not. – Right and there was some, I don't want to mention I don't want to embarrass any network but there was some who were trying to give her coverage, MSNBC, they were trying to give her coverage to justify this identification of blackness.

I'd never heard of that I've been black all my life.

I've never heard of this until she brought this up. It's wrong. – And she's acting like you have to adopt a different identity to say oh you like black music

or you want to get involved with the civil rights movement,

or you care about making sure that black history, you can do that and be of a different race.

You don't have to go pull hog like her.

– Ohio players baby, that's what I'm talking about. – If I like Glenn Campbell, am I a redneck or? (laughing) – No and you can also be a white activist fighting alongside with black people, and helping them too you don't have to, she did this because there was money in it.

She was, she's an opportunist here. She wanted to make money working for the NAACP

that's why she did this. You can still fight for a cause, without being you know completely assimilating into that, it's just– – Well the message was that the NAACP you can never become chairman or president unless you're black. Which was insulting because the NAACP stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Color People.

Which meant all people.

– There you go, Leo Terrell gets the last word.

That's gonna do it for today's show,

we want to know what you think about our picks for favorite story of the year. Be sure to leave your comments,

in the comments section below,

I'm John Phillips, for Steven Kruiser and Leo Terrell, thanks so much for watching.

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