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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Susan Kelechi Watson on Her Career, HBCUs, 'This Is Us,' and Remembering Chadwick Boseman

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Bakari Sellers is joined by actress Susan Kelechi Watson to talk about how she got her start in acting (3:02), the importance of HBCUs (9:05), her role as Beth Pearson on 'This Is Us' (17:52), and the legacy of her friend Chadwick Boseman (25:38). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Susan Kelechi Watson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast.

0:15.6

Thank you so much for everybody who has downloaded subscribe.

0:19.1

This is going to be another dope episode.

0:20.8

I'm so excited to have one of my new homies, actress and

0:24.6

producer Susan Kolechi Watson from This Is Us. But before we get into our

0:29.8

conversation with Susan I wanted to talk about this past weekend's million magg of March.

0:35.0

Just kidding, it makes me laugh thinking about it.

0:40.0

And more broadly, the future of Trumpism, as it's become clearer for even the most ardent

0:44.4

Trump supporter that this presidential election is over. In case you missed it this

0:49.1

past weekend the million MAGA March made its way to DC.

0:53.3

Now, of course, the number of people who actually attended

0:55.8

was probably a couple hundred, a few thousand.

0:58.7

And if you saw some of the footage from social media

1:00.8

this weekend, it was a combination of bigots, dead bots,

1:05.6

and other garden variety races who either don't believe in science.

1:11.0

They were maskless, faceless. Those were definitely indication and they definitely don't believe in math

1:16.0

that they still believe that Donald Trump won.

1:18.0

The only good news that I can take from this past weekend is that if there's a race war and these are the people we're fighting against,

1:25.8

we're probably going to win. All jokes aside, the proud boys and the maggas were never my concern.

1:32.1

While they're clearly problematic, I'm far less

1:34.8

concerned about these type and the online trolls like them because they're not the majority of

1:39.2

Trump supporters or voters and they're not the ones necessarily fueling Trumpism in my view.

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