What's good y'all? Welcome to Co-Twitch, I'm Gene Demby. We want to tell you about

these episodes we're going to do a three-part series after the new year on President Obama's

legacy. It's going to be a retrospective that will run the last three weeks of his term in

office and we should talk about in detail what he has meant to America and to race. But this

week, to close out 2016, we're bringing you an encore episode. It's my conversation with the

filmmaker Barry Jenkins. His movie Moonlight is getting lots of Oscar nomination buzz and rightly

so if you're asking me. The source material comes from the playwright, Tarell, Alvin McRainey,

both McRainey and Jenkins come from the same housing project in Miami. If you missed it the first time

around, it's still really dope if I say so myself. Enjoy and happy new year.

Hey y'all, heads up. The following episode contains offensive language like this.

What's a fangit? A fangit dish.

A word used to make gay people feel bad. What's good y'all? I'm Gene Demby.

And I'm Shireen Madisal Miraji and this is Code Switch, the Moonlight Edition.

Am I the fangit?

It could be gay but you got a lot of nobody calling on fat.

Maybe less.

How do I know?

You just do.

I'm dying.

You know, you know.

Gene, I haven't seen Moonlight but that clip gets me. There's so much emotion there.

Oh my god. Isn't it somber? Isn't it like a...

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