Baratunde Thurston, Stuff You Should Know, Mark Frauenfelder

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 13 March 2012

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Author and comedian Baratunde Thurston talks about how to be black, whether it's in high school at Sidwell Friends, in college at Harvard, or while working at The Onion. His satirical self-help book is called — that's right! — 'How to Be Black'. Plus Chuck Bryant and Josh Clark — hosts of the podcast 'Stuff You Should Know' — introduce us to Lucha Libre (also known as Mexican professional wrestling!).

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Jonathan from Chicago. Hi, I'm Kristen from San Francisco. I'm Evan from
0:05.8	Silver Spring Maryland. Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is produced independently and
0:09.6	supported by listeners like you and me. You should support the show like I did.
0:13.2	It's easy. Just visit maximumfund.org slash donate. I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:17.7	Comedian and author Baratunde Thurston went to high school at Sidwell
0:23.2	Friends. It's a private Quaker school in Washington DC that Chelsea Clinton
0:28.8	went to in the 90s and that president Obama's daughters go to now. It was
0:33.9	really amazing in a lot of ways for Baratunde, but it was also really, really
0:39.8	different from the inner city public school that he'd gone to up until then.
0:44.8	This is a weird experience and there was a girl in my high school. She was a
0:50.0	year older than me and she was she was into chewing tobacco. What are you
1:01.6	doing? And I've only seen this in movies and made the dukes of hazard to John
1:06.2	Wayne. I don't even it was just it was a foreign activity on like domestic
1:10.4	soil. I was like, what is that all about? And how do you how do you find that?
1:15.6	Where do you buy that? Who taught you that? Why are you do you have a lot of
1:19.3	free time? We're just picking up eccentric bad habits. Why can't you just
1:23.2	smoke or do we like normal people? Why do you have to get into chewing tobacco?
1:27.8	And that was you know that was her available indulgence and vice. It's bullseye.
1:40.8	On the show this week, Baratunde Thurston talks about how to be black, whether
1:45.3	it's in high school at Sidwell Friends in college at Harvard or while working at
1:50.8	the onion. His satirical self-help book, Slash Memoir is called, yes that's
1:56.8	right, How to Be Black. Plus Chuck Bryant and Josh Clark, the host of the podcast,
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