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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Black Excellence of ‘The Chi’ With Jason Weaver

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Bakari Sellers is joined by actor and singer Jason Weaver talk about a career that stretches from ‘Brewster Place’ to ‘The Chi’ (1:57), and what to expect from Season 5 of the hit Showtime show (14:32). Plus, discussing the series' unapologetic authenticity (17:17). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Jason Weaver Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

0:07.0

I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

0:15.0

Welcome to another episode of the Bakari sellers podcast today.

0:18.0

We have none other than Jason Weaver.

0:21.0

Deck out in his Chicago Cubs gear, man, what's happening?

0:24.0

Hey, man, I've wrapped those Cubs, man. I love them.

0:27.0

Although, I'm a born and raised Southside.

0:30.0

I get a lot of hell for it, but I've been a Cubs fan since I was four years old since the days of Andre Dawson.

0:35.4

So I was actually just watching them before we hopped on.

0:39.1

I was just in Chicago. I just landed from Chicago. Let me say three months, June, July, August, that there's no city

0:45.8

comparable to Chicago, Illinois. Now the rest of them nine months, y'all can have it, but then

0:49.3

three months of summertime shy special.

0:51.3

You know what, Bekari, I'm so glad that you said that man because a lot of people do not understand

0:55.8

how beautiful summertime shy is.

0:58.3

You know, we unfortunately in mainstream media Chicago has this reputation of being like, you know, a very violent city and, you know, with a gangster background and that whole thing. And to some degree that that's very true, don't get you wrong, that the violence and all that kind of stuff exists there. But there's a time

1:16.9

Even in between all of that that's going on where the city comes together and really comes alive during those summer months.

1:24.1

And that's when you see, you know, some of Chicago's best and brightest from, you know, the people

1:28.4

on down to different events and concerts and stuff that we have going on. just you know all the regular stuff that we have around the city for tourists to kind of visit and take party and so I'm glad you got a chance to feel that love out there.

1:43.0

It's beautiful.

1:44.0

Summertime shy, I love it.

1:46.0

But look, so we always start our episodes the same way, which we have,

1:50.0

I guess, kind of walk us through the art of their career.

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