Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome.

And in this space, we have conversations that very few people have.

I love nuance, but more than nuance.

I really like to think deeply about the conditions that we find ourselves in every day.

And this is what this space is all about. So come on in. Leave your judgment and your closed

bondedness at the door. Open your heart. Open your mind and come on in and challenge yourself

to think more broadly. Hope you enjoy. Let me welcome to the show. You've seen him before. If you are

watching PBS, especially, he is a Peabody Award-winning journalist, co-anchor and co-managing

editor of PBS News Hour. And he's also a contributor to NBC News. And he has a book that's all

about the laughter, actually. And when I saw him out there talking about it,

I said, I want to have him on the show because how did he do this? How did he do this? It's called

Black Out Loud. Black Out Loud. And laughter is resistance in this time. Let me welcome

Jeff Bennett to the Karen at the show. Hi.

Karen, it is so great to be with you. First of all, thanks for all you do to push the culture forward. I deeply appreciate him. I'm a big fan of yours, and it's great to be on your program. Oh, thank you. Thank you. It's always weird when I hear that because, you know, I've been doing this for a minute in various different places and never thought about people actually listening. You know, I know people listen because they call up, but it's not something

that I've even focused on. So it's nice to hear. And I never know who's listening. Friends of

mine went to Belize recently and they were out at a resort, fancy resort, and it was like one other

black couple. The brother, one of the, you know, they, you know, they were talking or whatever,

and the guy had on a global majority t-shirt. And he sent me a picture. I'm like, you're all

the way in another country. The only other black family there has on a global majority t-shirt,

which is my brand, you know, and I was like, wow, wow.

So thank you.

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