Care To Explain Yourself?

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

It's hot out, places are shutting down again, and things might just be feeling a little bit slow. So in the spirit of spicing things up, we wanted to give you all a question to fight about: How much context should you have to give when talking about race and culture? Is it better to explain every reference, or ask people to Google as they go? Comedian Hari Kondabolu joins us to hash it out.

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0:00.0	I'm Shereen, Marisol Miraji.
0:01.7	I'm Jean Zembe and Miss is Cold Twitch.
0:04.6	From NPR.
0:06.1	And we are in the dog days of summer.
0:08.3	It's hot out.
0:09.7	A lot of places are going to be shutting down again.
0:11.6	So maybe you're stuck inside.
0:13.6	And if you're like me, you're stuck inside without any AC.
0:18.4	You might just be sweaty, hot, and a tiny bit bored.
0:23.4	A little bit bored is very possible.
0:25.2	But to break up that boredom, Shereen,
0:27.3	we decided to give the listeners something
0:29.2	to get heated about besides the actual heat.
0:31.7	Yeah, besides the actual heat.
0:34.5	Or your cousins who refuse to get vaccinated,
0:37.6	or whether or not school should be open in the first place,
0:41.2	or the fact that Katie decided to...
0:46.8	On the season finale of the Bachelor's in Red.
0:48.5	Jrahama.
0:49.4	Jrahama.
0:50.4	Redacted for spoilers as you just heard.
0:54.0	And Jean, let's be honest, neither of us
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