Episode 50: A Cat Named Toussaint (with Wendell Pierce)

Another Round

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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We look at two 90s news events that have been re-entering pop culture. First, we compare black vs. white comedians' takes on the OJ trial. Then, Wendell Pierce (The Wire, Treme) talks about his role as Clarence Thomas in the new HBO film Confirmation.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone I'm heaven. I'm Tracy and welcome to another round with heaven and Tracy.
0:06.4	Yes, we're descending to the gates of the place that I'm leaving.
0:14.4	Tracy! Wait! What's going on this show? Um, uh, we're going to talk a little bit about OJ.
0:20.8	Ooh. So American Crime Story has been retelling the story of the OJ trial at the
0:25.5	A. the trial of the century. I was thinking back to where I was at that time like what was going
0:32.4	on in my life and I watched a lot of comic view and so I was really thinking about the way that
0:37.1	comedy functioned for both Black and White people in the trial. Mm-hmm. I've got some thoughts
0:41.7	I'm gonna share in with you. We're also gonna spend a little time you know really marinating in
0:46.0	Clarence Thomas. Yeah. We're gonna talk about him in OJ. We need to be making fun of him a lot more
0:52.4	and the reason we're talking about Clarence Thomas is because Wendell Pierce is on the show today.
0:56.9	What? Yay! Wendell Pierce you may know as Bunk from the Wire and Antoine Batisse from Trinmay
1:04.4	is playing Clarence Thomas in the upcoming HBO movie confirmation about the sexual harassment
1:11.2	allegations that were brought against Clarence Thomas and we're gonna talk to him about that.
1:16.9	Before we get into this episode we wanted to remind everybody about our show this Thursday,
1:22.8	April 14th in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Our guest is gonna be an amazing musician from Flint,
1:28.6	Michigan. His name is Tunde old Mining Run. The show is sold out but if you show up early you might
1:34.2	be able to get in. Door is open at 6.30 and on our Twitter page another round there's pinned
1:40.3	information on the show if you need more so follow us on Twitter. We're excited to see you! Yay!
1:51.6	Um, heaven have a question. I'm listening. Do you remember the OJ thing taken place at all?
1:57.4	What year did it happen? 94. Okay so I was not in America then. Okay. Also did not know English.
2:05.9	Okay so now. Okay. I remember very distinctly I was 13. I was at school. I was in the counselor's office
2:14.0	finishing a makeup test because I probably pretended to be sick so I'm in another school. And uh
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