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The Katie Halper Show

Freddie DeBoer, #BernieMadeMeWhite, #CruzMadeMeUncomfortable

The Katie Halper Show

Katie Halper

News

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On this episode we talk to writer, professor, and thinker Freddie DeBoer about identity politics, political organizing and which Gummy Bear character Ted Cruz resembles. Then we talk to Leslie Lee, the Black writer and fan of Japanese wrestling, who created the #BernieMadeMeWhite hashtag and Jacob Bridge, a veteran and a conscientious objector, about what makes a Bernie Bro a Bernie Bro.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Wednesday, and you can always find us at the Katie Helper Show on WBAI.

0:16.3

That's 99.5 FM or WBAI.org.

0:21.7

I'm here with Reggie Johnson. Hi, Reggie.

0:25.3

Hey, Katie. How's it going? It's Wednesday. It's the middle, it's the hump day.

0:30.4

Humph day, middle of the week. That's right. Gabe Pacheco is not here. I should have warned you.

0:36.1

Oh, yeah, that's right. Luckily, you're sitting down because whenever you're working, you're sitting down, which is good because... That's kind of part of the job, but I understand. You could have a standing desk, or treadmill desk. That would be interesting. Right? That would be. So we're sad that Gabe isn't here. Yeah, that's too bad. It's really too bad. I mean, I see Gabe all the time.

0:55.3

I feel like you guys have a more special bond.

0:57.4

Oh, well. You do. You kind of do. So I've been told. Yeah, there is a wonderful romance between you guys. Right. So we're really excited because we're going to have a phone call chat with Freddie D'Bore. I don't know if that's how you say it.

0:52.0

Freddy DeBoer?

0:53.4

Debois?

0:54.6

Debois?

0:55.5

Debois?

0:55.8

I don't know.

0:56.7

It's like a...

0:57.3

Deboer? I don't know.

1:14.0

It's like a... Deboer? Well, how is the last name spelled? B-O-E-R. I think it's DeBoer. De Boer, yeah.

1:20.7

In fact, this is a big deal because we let people call into the show who have blonde hair and blue eyes or red hair and green eyes, but we don't usually let them into the physical office.

1:31.4

And we'll talk to you about why that is soon.

1:33.7

But we've been lagging on that policy a little bit just because we feel like it's time to give back, right?

1:39.7

Oh, okay.

1:40.4

We have this affirmative action policy basically based on the fact that Gay Pacheco once assumed that this very attractive gorilla named Shabani had blue eyes.

1:47.8

And that just spoke to the power of the myth of the blue-eyed supremacy that we've all been indoctrinated with.

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