From NPR I'm Sam Sanders, it's been a minute.

Today on the show, DL Hugley, he is a comedian and an actor and a radio host and a TV host

and an author.

Very, very busy man.

I'm talking with DL this week because he's out with a new book.

It is called How Not to Get Shot and Other Advice from White People.

This book is a very satirical, very hilarious look at race relations today.

Probably the most time spent in the book is on police involved shootings of black people.

But as timely as this story feels now, that topic, those themes about race and policing,

it's been a thing that black people have been dealing with and talking about since maybe

forever.

And even DL Hugley himself was talking about this stuff back in the day.

I first got to know him as a comic.

He was all over B.T.'s comic view and he talked a lot about some of the same things in

his book and this comedy special called Kings of Comedy.

It is legendary, spikyly directed it.

It's probably the only DVD that I still actually have in my possession.

It's called Kings of Comedy.

You probably want to check that out too.

Anyways, this chat with DL Hugley, we talk about race a lot.

We use the inward, unbleaped, just a warning for you all.

We also talk about DL's adult children.

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