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The Joe Rogan Experience

#1325 - Dr. Cornel West

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Dr. Cornel West is a philosopher, political activist, social critic, author, and public intellectual. He is Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and holds the title of Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has also taught at Union Theological Seminary, Yale, Harvard, and the University of Paris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Boom and we're live. How are I sir? Oh brother I'm so blessed to be here man. I want to salute you to work that you do and the fact that you will one hell of an artist man I'm telling you.

0:14.0

Well thank you very much coming up comedy.

0:17.0

Strange times.

0:19.0

Ooh, we'd a swing from the political, the personal from the animals on to the division area.

0:25.8

It's just a beautiful thing to behold my brother.

0:28.4

Thank you.

0:29.4

From you that is an honor.

0:30.4

I've been a huge fan of you for a long time so for you to say that to me means the world.

0:35.7

Oh it's a deep thing and I can see your love for Richard Pryor man I walk in your space

0:39.7

and I'm just transformed by the Geis to Spirit there, Spree of this place, man.

0:44.0

The Olympics here, prior here.

0:47.5

Then when you tell me, you worked with the Great Richard Prize,

0:51.0

Oh my God.

0:52.0

For five weeks, I followed him when I was a young comedian at the

0:55.9

comedy store. I went on right after him every night he performed. What was that like though,

1:00.7

brother? It was strange just to be in the room with him because when I was a

1:04.7

14 year old boy my parents took me to see live at the Sunset Strip and I could not believe

1:10.3

that anybody could be so funny just talking that was my first

1:13.7

experience with stand-up comedy other than that I'd seen like I'd seen people

1:18.4

perform on the tonight show and things along those lines I'm I'm hoping so many others.

1:23.0

It was like, ha ha ha, it was okay.

1:25.8

You know what I mean?

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