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Kal Penn: Aspiring Vegan

Actor Kal Penn talks about creating the TV comedy Sunnyside and the importance of representation on screen. Then he plays a game about plants in space.
Kal Penn appears on <em>Ask Me Another</em> at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.

Kal Penn was on the showheworked in the White House, and, most recently, he stopped by the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York, to appear on NPR's Penn's unusual resume includes both starring in the stoner-comedy franchise, and working for President Barack Obama. In 2007, he became an Associate Director at the White House Office of Public

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