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language. Hello and welcome to the B-side for episode 8 of our national conversation about conversations about race, a Confederate dementia episode.

I'm Tanner Colby here in Panopolis, New York Studios,

with my regular co-host, Raquel Cepeda.

Hello, Raquel.

Hola.

And because Baratunde Thurston is out this week,

enjoying the wonderful austerity crisis in Greece,

we have our special guest host, video blogger,

and DJ and man of many talents, Jay Smooth.

Hello, hello.

Welcome.

We're excited to have you.

Thanks for joining us.

We especially look forward to introducing your opinion on the things we talked about last week, presidential reactions to the Charleston Massacre, National Dementia over Confederate Sembles, including the fight over the rebel mascot at my own alma mater, my high school, Vestavia Hills,

and the human rights crisis brewing in the Dominican Republic.

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