Colin Kaepernick
The Questlove Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of The Questlove Show, Questlove sits down with Colin Kaepernick live on stage at Web Summit in Qatar for a focused (but abbreviated) conversation about discipline, courage, and purpose. Kaepernick walks through his morning training routine, reflects on his childhood and early athletic ambitions, and examines the influences that shaped his evolution into activism. He speaks about the ongoing work of Know Your Rights Camp, including its response to recent events, and shares how his Lumi platform is designed to expand student engagement, literacy, and AI fluency. The conversation captures where his journey stands a decade after he stepped fully into public activism.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | The Questlove show is a production of I-Heart Radio. |
| 0:17.5 | Hey, people. |
| 0:18.4 | What's up? |
| 0:19.0 | This is Questlove, and this is the Questlove show, of course. |
| 0:22.6 | And our guest today is the one and only Colin Kaepernick. |
| 0:29.1 | So here's the deal. |
| 0:30.6 | We taped this conversation earlier this month at Web Summit and Qatar in front of of a live audience this particular episode is shorter |
| 0:41.4 | than the ones i'm usually known for it's not the you know patnik mammoth length quest love |
| 0:50.1 | conversation we sort of had a time limit on our hands. But even within those boundaries, |
| 0:56.9 | I'll say that I wanted to approach Colin the way that I approach everyone who comes on the |
| 1:03.9 | Questlove show. We talked a little bit about his childhood, how music played into his childhood, |
| 1:10.2 | and the role that it plays in his life. |
| 1:12.8 | And it's also about the work that he's building now with the Know Your Rights Camp and a |
| 1:18.3 | storytelling platform, Loomy. |
| 1:21.1 | And Kyle and I had connected before, kind of during the heat of the action, unknownst to me he's kind of adjacent in the |
| 1:29.8 | neighborhood so I'd see him and nessa like kind of around the area but you know it never seemed |
| 1:36.9 | like the the right moment for us to sit down and break bread and really have a proper conversation |
| 1:43.7 | so I'm very happy that he made time to |
| 1:47.6 | do this for us since we were both in Qatar during this time period. But, you know, it was great |
| 1:53.2 | to sit with him in that space. My, you know, the space was like a very large space in front |
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