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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.668.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Finding Your Roots, Gospel, Stony the Road) is a filmmaker, professor, and cultural critic. Henry joins the Armchair Expert to discuss what techniques he uses when interviewing people, how far back he can trace his family heritage, and the sugar plantation slave trade. Henry and Dax talk about what the Salt Thesis is, what their observations were visiting Africa, and how culture mostly drives a person’s development. Henry explains why class is just as important as race, how America is a nation of exiles, and how groups of people are often manipulated to hate each other. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome, welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Dan Rather and I'm joined by the minister of Duluth, the Duchess of Duluth.

0:08.0

Did you see any mice on your trip? No mice, but I did see the evidence of when said mice were at play

0:17.2

while the cat was away because they did eat back of one of the couch cushions so

0:22.3

whenever they were removed for Aaron to pull up the hide a bed,

0:26.0

they would be up on the counter and I would see where those little mice had been gnawing away at it.

0:30.6

You don't think there was a new mine. There's definitely definitely not new mice. No because we're there's foods around and we would have heard them. I told you I would have a talk with them and I did. I appreciate it so much because they were not in the dunes with us at all.

0:43.2

Okay, good.

0:44.2

Today we have Dr. Henry Lewis Gates Jr.

0:47.2

He's an award-winning filmmaker, a literary scholar, a journalist, and a cultural critic.

0:52.4

He's been teaching at Harvard, this is a ballpark I probably a journalist and a cultural critic.

0:52.6

He's been teaching at Harvard.

0:53.9

This is a ballpark, I probably said it in the interview,

0:55.9

but I think he's 30 years into teaching at Harvard.

0:59.2

Yeah.

1:00.0

His books include Stony the Road,

1:02.3

colored people, a memoir, and The Signifying Monkey.

1:05.7

He has two new docks that are dropping right now

1:08.8

season 10 of finding your roots on PBS,

1:12.1

and he also has Gospel, which is also coming out on PBS right quick

1:17.6

both sensational he is so good at both of those things this was such a fun fun interview. It was like having a history lesson. Yeah I loved it but like so

1:26.8

dynamic and he's a very special person. Yes and he was sitting in a position we've never

1:31.2

experienced he was much closer to us because he was in a chair

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