The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to our national conversation about conversations about race, the bi-weekly multiracial podcast, where we discuss the ways we can't talk, don't talk, would rather not talk, but intermittently,

fitfully, embarrassingly do talk about culture, identity, politics, power, and privilege in our

pre-post, yet still very racial America. You could say all that, or just call this show, about race.

I'm Baratune Day Thurston, and joining me in the Panoply Studios in New York City are my co-discussing.

Tanner Colby, what's up?

Not much.

How are you, sir?

So good.

So good.

And Raquel Sabeda.

What up?

Missed you.

Miss you, too.

And I'm going to say Sepeda instead of Sabeda next time.

Or you could say, sepeda. Sepeda. Yes, with the implied TH before that A.

Believe it or not, it is the voice of me, Barrettinne Day Thurston, in the same physical

location as our producer, AC, and co-discussing Tanner Raquel.

It's a rare and happy reunion.

Raquel, what has been going on in this long time apart?

Well, I caught up with all my Netflix documentaries. I

watched making a murder like everybody else in America during the break. Okay. Celebrated my daughter's

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