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Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu

BONUS EPISODE: NoDAPL, Mailbag, & Our Old Pal Adam Mansbach

Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu

WarnerMedia Podcast Network

News

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2016

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The long-awaited Mailbag Episode!HOLD UP; WAIT A MINUTE – it’s a bonus episode in three acts! As Native tribes continue their protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline, Kamau and Hari catch up with the #NoDAPL movement by calling writer, filmmaker, and indigenous advocate, Benalex Dupris. Then we dig into the good, the bad, and the ugly of the Politically Re-Active mailbag, from your questions about “being invited into whiteness” to Hari’s awkward relationship with John Brown. Last but not least: White people, come get your boy! Author Adam Mansbach joins Kamau to talk about owning whiteness and taking down the Donald.We KNOW you want to hear more Hari and Kamau, so find their latest work at www.harikondabolu.com and www.wkamaubell.com.You can check out a short interview Benalex Dupris did with Vice earlier this week:http://www.vice.com/video/daily-vice-standing-rock-reservation-big-oilYou can check out Adam Mansbach’s latest work at www.adammansbach.com and be on the lookout for the new movie he wrote about a young Obama at Colombia called Barry.And keep sending us those comments! #politicallyreactive and politicallyreactive@firstlook.orgThanks!

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0:00.0

Hey, how are you? What's up, man?

0:07.0

Man, I'm good, man, you know. Just, uh, you know, doing my thing.

0:12.0

I really have nothing that this is a bonus episode.

0:15.0

So I feel like we shouldn't do the usual chatter because they don't deserve it.

0:19.0

They already had the content from the day before.

0:21.0

At this point, like everything we do from this point on is just, you know, then being lucky.

0:24.0

Then being the audience.

0:26.0

That's weird. You could have framed that in a very nice way.

0:28.0

And you chose to frame it in a very aggressive way.

0:30.0

Hey, I'm the rebel of the show, come out.

0:32.0

Oh, is that, are you the bad boy politically reactive?

0:35.0

I'm the bad boy politically reactive.

0:41.0

Which means you're still a very, very good guy.

0:43.0

Yeah, I mean, she's just considering how, uh, high the bar is.

0:48.0

Yeah, I mean, that could still be a really great guy and be bad.

0:51.0

Exactly.

0:53.0

All right, well, this is our bonus episode.

0:56.0

Uh, we had, we've packed a lot into it.

0:58.0

Uh, we're going to read some of your emails, tweets, answer some of your burning questions, answer some of your not so burning questions.

1:04.0

Uh, and also as a, there's an extra special bonus in the bonus episode, uh, because there's something we really want to address.

1:11.0

Many of our listeners have been mentioning this.

1:13.0

So today we're going to talk about the protests happening in North Dakota and the surrounding Dakota access pipeline.

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