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Gilmore Guys

Untitled Springsteen Obama Project

Gilmore Guys

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Comedy, Gilmore Guys, Television, Society & Culture, Kevin Porter, Demi Adejuyigbe, Tv & Film, Gilmore Girls

4.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

A while ago, Kevin T. Porter and Demi Adejuyigbe got roped into producing a podcast for Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama.

The project never went anywhere...until now.

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0:00.0

Well, hey folks, welcome to the show. This is Kevin T. Porter.

0:11.1

And I'm Dimea De Juiveve.

0:13.3

And usually we're co-hosts on podcast. We've both hosted podcasts for four. We've hosted

0:17.7

a podcast together, actually.

0:19.7

Actually.

0:20.7

For a couple of weeks.

0:22.8

This one was a very exciting thing. Someone from Spotify reached out to us asking if we'd

0:27.6

be interested in producing a podcast and they were very cagey about who is going to be hosting

0:32.2

it. And then we found out it was going to be Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama.

0:36.8

Former president Barack Obama.

0:38.6

And of course, for both Demi and I, those are both our heroes, like unequivocally, like

0:44.7

absolutely both our heroes.

0:46.3

I love the Springsteen.

0:48.5

Their legacies and I just can't get enough of Barack Obama. Specifically the books that

0:53.0

he's put out in the movies about him, which of course are south side with you and Barry.

0:58.9

And so when they gave us his BuzzFeed videos, his BuzzFeed videos are so funny.

1:03.6

Yes, no, they're so terrific. And that's what's made me a lifelong fan of his.

1:08.6

And so of course we left at the opportunity. We knew we weren't going to be working in

1:12.2

a co-host sort of situation, but that we'd be more of a support role, like producers for

1:17.8

these men that we've just kind of grown up idolizing.

1:21.7

And it was okay to be weird.

1:23.5

Barack Obama taught me it was okay to be weird into bomb certain countries.

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