Van Jones

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Van Jones is an author, journalist, and lawyer. Van joins the Armchair Expert to discuss choosing activism after graduating from Yale Law School, his perspective on what "having privilege" means, and how he can work with both Democrats and Republicans. Van and Dax talk about how he became friends with Prince, being forced to resign from the Obama Administration, and what it's like to raise black children in America. Van explains that he still feels like a nerd at heart, what it was like being raised by a tough father, and why he's never had a drink of alcohol. 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	Welcome welcome to arm chair expert experts on expert. I'm
0:04.0	Dax Randall Shepard and I'm joined by Monica Mouse.
0:06.9	Hello.
0:07.9	Today we have Van Jones who is incredible you know Van Jones from CNN or at least that's where I came to know
0:15.4	Van Jones always such an interesting perspective. He has also a three-time
0:19.8	New York Times best-selling author, the founder of multiple social enterprises, and a world-class changemaker.
0:26.7	His books include Beyond the Messy Truth, Rebuild the Dream, The Green Collar Economy,
0:31.8	as well as the Van Jones Show and the Redemption Project,
0:35.4	he has a new documentary called The First Step, which premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, and it's right up my alley because Van Jones main
0:46.4	mission is to bridge the gap between the left and the right the Democrats and the
0:50.6	Republicans to actually work on some of the major issues that face
0:55.6	all of us left or right.
0:57.7	And so I applaud him for that.
0:59.4	And the documentary is called The First Step. Also he has a new podcast called Uncommon Ground
1:05.0	with Van Jones, which has the same agenda.
1:09.0	Yeah, he's a very cool person.
1:10.0	I've been wanting to have him on for so long. He is incredibly
1:14.5	insightful. He is and we think you'll think so too so please enjoy Van Jones.
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1:35.1	He's an obchirons man.
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