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Hello and welcome to our national conversation about conversations about race.

The weekly 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 Anna Holmes, and joining me from the Panoply Studios in New York are Raquel Cepeda.

Hi, Raquel.

Hello.

Hello.

I like the way you said my name, by the way.

Thank you.

I knew I was going to come up.

Tanner Colby.

Hey, Tanner.

Hello, hello, podcasts, co-discussant team. Co-discussens. So, the election's only a couple of weeks away, and like everyone else, we are feeling a bit fatigued, so we decided to take some time out today to talk about television. And yes, that means

Atlanta, the show, that is. For the listeners who are not caught up, a little bit of a backstory

for those who don't know what Atlanta is. It's a new television. I would call it kind of a dromedy.

It's not really a comedy. It's not really a drama. I say a comedy noir. Comedy noir? I call it a crama.

Okay. Why? Why a crama? Because it's a comedy drama.

Okay. Well, I'm calling it a dramedy because that's the proper word.

I'm calling it a biopic.

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