Talib Kweli

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2018

⏱️ 169 minutes

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Talib Kweli is an American hip hop recording artist, entrepreneur and social activist. He sits down with the Armchair Expert where they have an honest debate about many social issues plaguing America today. They touch on all of the topics one would generally avoid at the dinner table including race, gender and religion. In addition, Talib talks about his place in the hip-hop world, his parents' emphasis on education and his counterview to Sam Harris. Dax and Talib reminisce about an altercation they teamed up on, they talk about their mutual worship of Jay Z and Monica discusses the gender patterns she's observed from working on the podcast. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, I'm Dax Shepard and this is the armchair expert. Today we have a very exciting guess. He's someone I've kind of admired looked up to from afar. I ended up kind of stalking him on Twitter and then we became Chummy and he came by the attic and it was by far one of the most stimulating guests we've had.
0:20.0	Would you agree, Monica? The most in my opinion.
0:22.0	Yeah, it's quite an episode. So Lib is... Would you agree, Monica? The most in my opinion.
0:23.0	It's quite an episode.
0:24.0	So Lib is incredibly smart.
0:27.0	He's certainly bested me on many a point.
0:31.0	And I just want to say going into this episode, you know, I try to stay out of politics, not because I'm not political or don't have opinions, but I just feel like there's tons of outlets. There's a million places you could go to hear political opinions, and this is just kind of a, I try to keep it a sanctuary away from that.
0:47.4	With that said, it would be absolutely shameful to have to live on who is a social activist and not get into some of these causes that he cares deeply about.
0:55.7	And I do want to say, I had a fear because I ended up, as you'll hear, I end up taking someone's position on an argument that's actually not my position per se and I was quite
1:07.3	nervous that I maybe said stuff that I was going to regret and then Monica and I really hemmed and
1:11.2	hawed over it and what we ultimately did is left it all in.
1:14.7	And so what I'm not good at doing
1:16.9	and what Monica is always pointing out to me
1:18.4	I need to do is I think it goes without saying
1:21.4	that I believe certain things.
1:22.4	And in fact, it doesn't go without
1:23.7	saying so as we enter into the portion of the podcast when we get into Charles
1:28.2	Murray who was a guest on Sam Harris talking about his controversial book,
1:33.3	The Bell Curve, I kind of ended up taking a position of,
1:37.0	I don't want to say defending, whatever, you'll hear it.
1:39.8	The point is, is after debating to live in this episode and it gave me pause and I thought
1:46.6	mmm am I on the wrong side of this I need to investigate further and then as luck would have it, the episode that's under fire, there was a follow-up
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