Season 2 Episode 2: "What to My People is the Fourth of July?" - Idris Goodwin & Adam Mansbach

Two creators, one Black and one white, of a biting new BLM video – inspired by Frederick Douglass's best-known speech and performed by Daveed Diggs – discuss their collaboration, how an 1852 speech matters so much right now, and why "white privilege" doesn't go far enough.

Guests:

Idris Goodwin is a multidisciplinary arts leader and creative community builder. Across two decades he’s forged a multi-faceted career as an award-winning script writer for stage and screen, Break Beat poet, director, educator, and organizer. He is the new Director of The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College. The author of Free Plays: open source scripts for an antiracist tomorrow, Goodwin is committed to using the arts to spark meaningful conversation.

Adam Mansbach is the author of the worldwide bestseller Go the Fuck to Sleep, the novels Rage is Back, Angry Black White Boy, and The End of the (winner of the California Book Award) and a dozen other books. He wrote the award-winning screenplay for the Netflix Original BARRY, and his memoir, I Had A Brother Once, is forthcoming from One World/Random House in January.

Steve Bodow is an American television writer and producer. Most recently he was Executive Producer and showrunner of Netflix's Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj. From 2015 to March 2019 he was Executive Producer of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, following his 13 years at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as an Executive Producer, Head Writer and staff writer. He was also Consulting Producer for The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, after serving as EP on the hour-long Jordan Klepper Solves Guns special.

Bodow is a founding member and a past artistic director of the New York theater group Elevator Repair Service, best known for Gatz, its full-text adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

Before joining The Daily Show in 2002, Bodow was a journalist for Wired, New York Magazine, Salon and the New York Times Magazine. He grew up in Rye, NY, graduating Rye High School, Yale University, and NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. While at Yale, Bodow co-founded the improv group Just Add Water.