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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Citizenship in the Face of Fascism With Baratunde Thurston

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Bakari Sellers is joined by writer, culture critic, and host of ‘How to Citizen,’ Baratunde Thurston, to discuss personal growth since his last appearance on the podcast (:32), education in the age of book banning (12:52), and the upcoming season of PBS’s 'America Outdoors With Baratunde Thurston' (17:45). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Baratunde Thurston Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

0:07.0

I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.

0:16.0

Man, and we're gonna hop right in

0:18.0

because I'm excited to have you back and welcome back to the Bicari show this podcast. You must have had a good time because you

0:24.1

back again. I didn't write you off. You did not scare me away. Good to be home. Good.

0:30.0

Good. Well look, I want to jump right in. You've been on the show before so we don't have to do our usual introductory question. But talk to me about what you've been up to since the last time we spoke back April of 2021. Not how the world has changed because the world has just flipped on its axis again.

0:44.4

Yeah. But how it would have you been up to?

0:47.2

One second. Ah, that's a great question. I have changed since April 2021. I have gotten even better at grilling fish and roasting chicken.

0:59.0

I've increased my flexibility and my mobility through morning exercise and my old

1:06.1

fashions are even better than they used to be.

1:09.6

And I think my relationship with my wife is better than it was.

1:12.2

So there's a lot of personal feelings of progress

1:16.3

in that journey.

1:17.4

I'm gonna ask you two questions.

1:18.8

I need to ask you two questions.

1:19.8

So are your hips good?

1:21.2

Because I'm working on my hip flexibility.

1:22.7

So one, how did you do that?

1:24.0

And two, what you do with your wife?

1:25.6

Because I'm trying to figure out we, I want to,

1:27.7

I want to be able to tell you that a year from now.

1:29.7

I want to keep growing and getting better.

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