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

Daveed Diggs

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

WarnerMedia Podcast Network

News

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The multitalented Daveed Diggs joins Hari and Kamau to talk about translating Blindspotting for TV, James McBride's liberating take on Frederick Douglass, and rich people loopholes in the time of COVID. Plus: Advanced-level Oakland shit, from Dope Era to Children's Fairyland.

Find our guest:
Daveed Diggs (@DaveedDiggs)

And mentioned in the episode:
Deconstructed: Inside Biden's Meeting With Civil Rights Leaders https://theintercept.com/2020/12/10/biden-audio-meeting-civil-rights-leaders/
Daveed Diggs asks: What to my people is the Fourth of July? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuCeUyItpzE
Daveed Diggs: Puppy for Hanukkah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8MkeIo2bUE

Find us:
Hari Kondabolu (@harikondabolu) http://www.harikondabolu.com/
W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell) http://www.wkamaubell.com/

Find the show:
Twitter (@PoliticReActive)
Facebook (@politicallyreactive)
Instagram (@politicallyreactive)

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0:00.0

Where are you right? You're still traveling. Where are you right now?

0:02.2

I'm filming an episode of United Shades of America in your hometown of San Diego, California.

0:07.8

They miss you.

0:08.8

Not my hometown. Secondly, how the tables have turned.

0:14.0

From Topic Studios and Warner Media Podcast Network, this is Politically Reactive.

0:18.8

I'm Debbie Kamalbeau.

0:20.1

And I'm Harry Kunderbolo. And I have been slept in days because I have a baby.

0:24.8

I have no sympathy at all. We're two friends and stand-up comics trying to make sense of American

0:29.6

politics. That requires a lot of creativity, which we don't always have.

0:33.7

Because we don't get a lot of sleep. Because kids.

0:35.8

Correct.

0:36.8

Our guest today is someone who actually does love to try to make sense of things,

0:39.8

and he does it creatively.

0:41.3

David Diggs. He originated the roles of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquit Elafayette in Hamilton.

0:47.6

Along with his friend, Rafael Casal, he wrote and directed,

0:50.1

starred in the film Blind Spotting.

0:51.8

He portrays Fretta Douglas in the miniseries The Good Lord Bird,

0:55.5

and he's going to play Sebastian in the Little Mermaid remake.

0:59.2

And he's an MC.

1:01.1

And somehow he managed to release a rap song about Hanukkah.

1:04.8

We talked to David about the imprint left on him by coming of age in the Bay Area.

1:08.6

All we did in high school was walk out.

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