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Our National Conversation About Conversations A...

#1650-B: The “Thanks, Obama” B-side

Our National Conversation About Conversations A...

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4.8823 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Baratunde Thurston, Tanner Colby, and Raquel Cepeda discuss listener responses to Episode #1650: Thanks Obama.

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:12.2

Hello and welcome to the B-side for episode 1650 of our national conversation about conversations about race.

0:19.5

Thanks, Obama.

0:22.6

I'm Baratunde Thurston, author of How to Be Black, here with the OG about race crew, Tanner Colby, author of some of my

0:28.5

best friends are black. What's up? Not much. How are you, sir? I am good, happy to be

0:32.5

alive after a car accident where no one was seriously and good. Thank you for asking.

0:37.1

I'm sorry to laugh about it.

0:38.4

No, no.

0:38.8

And speaking of introductions

0:40.7

on the nice laughter cue

0:42.6

off of my car accident,

0:44.0

joining us author

0:45.2

of Bird of Paradise

0:46.1

How I became Latina.

0:47.4

Raquel Sepeta herself.

0:48.8

Welcome back, Raquel.

0:49.9

Oh, my God.

0:50.5

I'm so happy to see you. Happy to see you too. And almost happy New Year.

0:56.7

Oh, and I'll also say thank you to Obama.

0:57.5

Thank you.

0:58.2

Thank you, Michelle.

0:59.4

Yes.

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