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🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Director/Producer Justin Folk is best known for helming the 2022 hit documentary What is a Woman, starring Matt Walsh. Justin and Matt teamed up again for the follow-up, companion piece, Am I Racist? (now in theaters,) in which Matt goes on a diversity, equity, and inclusion journey and becomes a card-carrying DEI expert. Justin shares some behind-the-scenes moments from the film and discusses the state of anti-racism in America.
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0:00.0 | Hey guys, Mike Rowe here. It's the way I heard it. This episode is called Am I |
0:08.8 | racist? It's an honest question. I think the answer is no. But hey, I could be wrong Chuck. I could be wrong. |
0:16.5 | Well, you could be. I don't think you are. I mean, everybody could be and I think there are people who want to tell us that we are. |
0:24.8 | How would you know though? |
0:26.2 | I mean how would you know if another person is racist? |
0:29.4 | Wouldn't they have to tell you? |
0:30.6 | Yeah, I am. |
0:32.1 | Or could you look at them and somehow decide for me I think it's more |
0:37.1 | about actions than anything else I mean words certainly could lend themselves to |
0:41.0 | make you go hey you know what I think that guy might be a racist |
0:43.8 | because of the choice words that he used, but really, you know, it's how people treat other people. |
0:49.6 | But even words, even words. |
0:51.8 | I mean, have you ever told a racist joke? Have you ever laughed at a racist |
0:55.1 | joke? You know? Never, Mike. Never in my entire life. Never. Never done that, have you? |
0:59.3 | I never have. Well then you for sure are deeply racist. |
1:03.0 | My guest is Justin Folk. |
1:05.0 | He's produced a movie with his friend Matt Walsh called Am I Racist. |
1:10.0 | It is hitting theaters, well it's already in theaters now, but when I interviewed, Justin, it was not in theaters yet, |
1:19.0 | although you caught a sneak peak and I have seen the movie as well. There's no need to spend a lot |
1:26.1 | of time talking about it because we get right into it with the conversation. |
1:30.0 | spoiler alert. It's an important movie and I am well aware of the fact that Chuck and I and Justin are three white middle-aged men about to have a conversation about race in America. What could possibly |
1:44.8 | go wrong, Charlie? No, nothing at all. I mean I love the fact that you're calling |
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