Ep. 90: 'Keepin' It 1600' With Kal Penn

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🗓️ 15 April 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Jon and Dan recap the major story lines of the week: Bill Clinton's finger-wagging, De Blasio's botched bit with Hillary, President Obama's 'GoT' viewership, Trump's new hires, and Cruz's craziness. Then, former White House adviser and actor Kal Penn hops on the line to break down Bernie's hopes for the nomination, pushing grassroots political action, and Obama's legacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to this week's episode of Keeping It 1600, I'm Don Favre.
0:13.3	I'm Dan Piper.
0:15.3	And this week we have a great episode, we have a special guest.
0:19.6	Cal Penn is joining the podcast, actor, activist, former White House staffer, and current
0:27.5	Bernie Sanders supporter.
0:29.7	We got a lot of folks on Twitter suggesting that we probably should have a Bernie Sanders
0:36.6	supporter on, which I think is totally fair after we had Hillary Clinton supporter Tom
0:39.9	Perez on.
0:40.9	And so we'll have Cal who's probably the most politically involved at politically smartest
0:46.5	celebrity we've ever worked with, and good friend of ours.
0:50.1	Yes.
0:51.1	Cal is not one of these celebrities that just goes out there and says, crazy shit on the
0:55.4	campaign trail.
0:56.4	He's probably the most knowledgeable celebrity about politics and issues that I've certainly
1:01.2	ever come across.
1:02.2	Yeah.
1:03.2	He literally quit his job and worked.
1:05.4	He literally quit Hollywood and moved to D.C. and worked in the White House with us,
1:08.1	which is a questionable like decision, but good as.
1:11.9	We're happy he did.
1:13.4	Okay, let's talk about this week.
1:15.8	There were no primaries, there were no debates, and yet plenty of crazy shit happened.
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