S E362: Jubril Agoro on Being "Passport Heavy"

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Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Jubril Agoro talks about he started his YouTube channel, Passport Heavy, and the top countries he's traveled. He also talks about the worst place he has ever traveled. Hint: It's in America and in the south.

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the show founder of passport heavy Mr. Jabral Agoro.
0:18.0	Thank you, thank you.
0:21.0	Is an honor.
0:22.0	Can you hear me? Yes, okay, we got you.
0:25.0	Now, first of all, this view, you're like in the clouds.
0:29.4	Where are you, sir?
0:30.4	This looks amazing.
0:31.4	There's like, is there water? water is it mountains what is that behind you
0:35.6	no that is one of the most beautiful cities in the world one of the most cultured cities in the world, one of the most cultured cities in the world, and the city where I grew up,
0:46.2	Chicago, Illinois.
0:47.6	So I'm in Chicago, Chicago, Shata.
0:51.6	So he's living large though, because that looks like one of them high-rise.
0:58.0	That's not the Chicago that the people talk about all the time.
1:02.0	So tell us about your most cultured
1:03.9	city because I got to learn it. I have Apple TV and they have on there this show
1:10.3	called Home and I got to learn about Theaster, I think his name is Theaster Graves, who built this whole, like he reformed this whole entire neighborhood and put a library and I mean it's just beautiful beautiful what this man has done.
1:25.0	Tell me about the Chicago you grew up in.
1:28.0	I grew up in a few different places in Chicago and one of the things that has bothered me for a while is when so I've been traveling around the world for the last 10 years right and people are always like oh oh, shot city, bang,
1:43.4	bang, shot city, shot rack.
1:45.0	And I'm like, no, there's so much positivity
1:48.7	happening in my city.
1:49.9	There's so many amazing things.
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