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Hello and welcome to the B-side for episode 1652 of our national conversation about conversations about race, your 2017 survival guide.

I'm Anna Holmes, here with some of my best friends or black author, Tanner Colby. Hey, Tanner. Hello, Anna.

And joining us. Also here is Gene Denby, who hosts two podcasts, post-Busie and in wasn't here for, so I'm interested to hear this. We discussed, or they discussed, the various ways you might want to prepare for 2017, from books to podcasts

to self-defense courses. So here's our, here's our producer, A.C. Valdez, with some of what you all

had to say about that. Hey, how's it going? I'm disappointed nobody wrote in about the, uh, Baratunde recommended buying a fire extinguisher.

I don't know if you caught that, but I thought that was very practical of him.

Um, it was.

On that note, we got some responses to, uh, what Tanner had to say about taking one for the team and listening to conservative podcasts.

Charles on Twitter told us, I'm going to start taking one for the team to and listen to conservative podcasts. Charles on Twitter told us,

I'm going to start taking one for the team two

and listen to the Federalist and Rickshay.

Then he tweeted at us about it.

I did my duty, he says.

Federalist was disconcerting because while politically opposite,

we overlap culturally.

One of the hosts was devastated by Prince and David Bowie's deaths.

I watch many of the same shows,

but he's wondering what this means and how they have that shared experience,

but come to such different places politically.

It's very disconcerting.

About Rickishay, he had to say.

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