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From W be easy Chicago this is Nurdette. I'm Greta Johnson.

I'm Tricia Bobita and later on the show a super fly super fresh nerd confession.

It is all that and a bag of chips.

There's a lot of 90s nostalgia involved is what we're saying about this nerd confession from one of you

dear listeners that is straight out of the 90s. But first our special guest this

week is Baratundi Thurston. He's one of those people who seems to just be doing all of the things. He's a comedian and an author. His book is called How to be Black.

Baratundi is also a supervising producer of Digital Things at the Daily Show with Trevor Noah.

When we talked with Baratundi on Skype from his office, things at the Daily Show with Trevor Noah.

When we talked with Baratune on Skype from his office in New York, he told us that working

with Trevor was almost lucky happenstance.

It all started when he hosted a screener of a documentary about Trevor called You Laugh, but it's true.

This documentary was really my intro to Trevor's work.

I had not even heard of him before seeing it.

My girlfriend was like, I think you'll dig this comedian he's into being

funny and black and global and that kind of reminds me of you so we screened it and

did a Q&A I interviewed the director after Trevor Trevor wasn't present, except in the film, but I really,

really liked what I saw.

And I'm like, this is someone whose life experience is tremendous and whose perspective is unique.

This is well before he even was a contributor on the Daily Show.

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