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Pod Save the People

Listen to Yourself (with Blair Underwood)

Pod Save the People

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.78.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

DeRay, Sam, Brittany and Clint discuss how sheriffs undermine their successors, a multipronged approach to eliminating inequality, racial discrimination in the cable TV industry, and reducing bias among prosecutors. Actor Blair Underwood joins DeRay to talk about his role in "When They See Us," Ava DuVernay's series about The Exonerated Five.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Drey, we're welcome to buy and save the people. This week we have the news

0:04.1

as usual with me, Bryny Clinton, Sam.

0:05.9

Then I'm joined by actor Blair Underwood to talk about the new series and he is in that

0:09.5

you've already heard us talk about when they see us. The show is erected by Yvd. Renee and

0:13.5

it's about the five black and brown boys who are only convicted and we now know his exonerated

0:18.0

five. He's young men that played exonerated five. I was absolutely blown away with their

0:23.6

accessibility to their emotions to be open at that age and I didn't feel anybody acting.

0:29.5

You know, in watching the whole project, I felt like they were so committed and into it.

0:33.5

The message for this week is about being open to new experiences so I was doing something

0:37.2

recently and I was like, oh, I just want to go do this one thing and then it was like, no,

0:42.2

I should probably keep going and I should probably like stick with it and I stuck with it and

0:47.1

it turned into something really beautiful. I learned so much more than I would have learned if I

0:51.5

had just walked away and it's those sort of things that like part of it is trust your gut. Make

0:55.5

sure that you listen to yourself and that you don't block yourself from joy or experiences

1:00.8

that really can help change your mind and I've been in so many places where I'm like, okay,

1:05.0

came to this one thing, I'm getting out, I gotta go, did I? Like, you know, I came in to just have

1:09.7

this one conversation with somebody and I'm just ready to get out but sometimes it's like, you

1:13.8

know what, I also need to stop over there or I need to say how to this person or just like just

1:18.0

trust your gut because recently this past week, I was just in a place where I like let myself walk

1:24.1

a little bit further and obviously about access to joy that I would not have known otherwise

1:29.5

and that to me was my lesson this week. Let's go. Hey y'all, it's the news. This is Brittany

1:38.0

Pacnett, Atmos Peck Yeti on all social media and this is Sam Sinyeongway at Sam's Way on Twitter

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