WHATRYADOIN’ – LeVar Burton

The Well

Anson Mount & Branan Edgens

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.9 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

LeVar Burton is an actor, producer, director, writer, podcaster, and education advocate. In this segment of WHATRYADOIN', LeVar shares with us his thoughts on representation in fiction, his memories of his friend and fellow advocate Fred Rogers, and why the Holodeck will one day be realized.

For more information about LeVar and everything he's doing, check out his website here.

Links to all the authors LeVar mentions in this segment:

Octavia Butler

Samuel R. Delaney

Nnedi Okorafor - Her Binti Series can be found here.

Ken Liu

Lesley Nneka Arimah

Cat Rambo

Amal El-Mohtar

Isaac Asimov - you can find his Foundation Trilogy here.

Extra music for this episode was provided by The Twin Atlas under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-a-Like 3.0 United States License. You can find out more about them and their music at their official website.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Two words that I believe are some of the most powerful in language.
0:18.7	What if?
0:20.0	And as we contemplate the what if,
0:22.4	we recognize the possibilities that exist for us,
0:25.5	that there is literally nothing that we can't do if we can imagine it.
0:33.2	Lavaar, how you doing?
0:35.1	I'm all right, brother.
0:38.0	I'm all right. Under. I'm all right.
0:38.9	Under the circumstances, I think I'm doing all right.
0:43.2	Well, to remind our listeners, this segment that we do, it's rather new for us, it's called
0:49.4	What Are You Doing?
0:51.1	And it's just a chance to call friends of ours who are creatives and see how they're
0:58.0	keeping themselves creatively involved during this current lockdown. And so, LeVar, you know what
1:05.6	amazes me about you is I can spend time getting to know you a little bit. But then no matter how long we talk or no matter how long I talk to other people about you,
1:16.2	I keep getting surprised by everything that you're involved with.
1:20.5	I keep seeing you pop up in the news and I'm like, he what?
1:23.7	He did this.
1:24.6	He did that.
1:25.7	You don't sit still too much. I don't, no. Ever since I discovered that
1:32.9	it was my responsibility to stay active in my career and to not wait around for the phone to
1:41.8	ring in order for me to do what it is I love doing, um,
1:45.8	I got busy.
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