Inside 2024 (Full Episode): John Legend on Celebrities Getting Political, Endorsing Biden, and Avoiding a Second Trump Presidency
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🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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John Legend joins Jon Favreau to discuss the impact of celebrity political endorsements, his political origins, working with Obama, and why a second Trump presidency would be a disaster. To unlock more episodes from our Friends of the Pod exclusive shows, sign up for Friends of the Pod on Apple. Podcasts or learn more about our community at crooked.com/friends
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to be. Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm John Favreau. So today we have a special sneak peek into this month's inside 2024 and we got John Legend which is really exciting. |
| 0:32.0 | John and I talk about celebrity endorsements and his experience on the campaign trail with Obama. |
| 0:38.0 | We also talk about 2024, John's thoughts on the 2024 race. |
| 0:43.2 | He's going to be out there for Joe Biden. |
| 0:45.9 | He's already endorsed him. |
| 0:46.6 | He's going to be campaigning and he talks about his thoughts on the race, |
| 0:50.3 | on the importance of endorsements, |
| 0:52.0 | on the importance of why you should choose |
| 0:54.8 | Biden over Trump. It's a fantastic interview. John is one of the politically |
| 0:58.6 | saviest people I know, as I say in the interview he could go run a campaign himself so it's a fascinating |
| 1:04.7 | conversation subscribe to friends of the pod at crooked.com slash friends enjoy |
| 1:10.7 | welcome back to inside 2024 I'm John Favreau. Our guest today needs no |
| 1:14.7 | introduction but I'll give him one anyway. He's an incredibly talented and |
| 1:18.5 | wildly successful singer-songwriter pianist and performer who's reached Egot status. |
| 1:23.7 | He's also a long-time political activist and all-around wonderful human being. |
| 1:27.6 | John Legend, welcome back to the pod. |
| 1:29.4 | And a friend of the pod. |
| 1:30.4 | And a longtime friend of the pod. |
| 1:32.1 | Let's be clear. Long time friend of the part. And a long time friend of the pot. Let's be clear. Long time. |
| 1:33.4 | A friend of the pot. So we are doing this behind the scenes look at different parts of |
| 1:38.2 | a campaign. Today we're focusing on endorsements and campaign surrogates, |
| 1:42.4 | particularly celebrities. |
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