Hold Up! Time For An Explanatory Comma

Code Switch

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Gene and Shereen ask how much cultural context to give when talking about race and culture. So, how much context should you have to provide? Comedian Hari Kondabolu, co-host of the podcast Politically Re-Active, deals with these questions regularly, both in his stand-up routine and on his podcast.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Code Switch. I'm Shereen Madisoul Maraji.
0:05.9	And I'm Jean Demby. Shereen. Yes.
0:08.6	Welcome back. It's been too long. Thank you so much.
0:11.6	I'm glad to be back sort of.
0:14.0	From my honeymoon in New Zealand for our listeners who didn't know that that's why I was gone.
0:20.4	I'm not gonna lie Jean. New Zealand was amazing and now I'm so beautiful.
0:26.3	And now I'm totally obsessed with the filmmaker Tyka YTT.
0:30.6	That's a dope name.
0:31.5	Yes, he's from New Zealand. He's half Maori, half Russian Jew.
0:35.8	He's 100% brilliant.
0:37.6	I see what you did there.
0:38.6	And he's super down with his Maori culture.
0:42.0	It's obvious if you watch his films, he has a film called Boy.
0:46.0	Amazing. A film called Hunt for the Wilder People.
0:48.9	I'm about to watch this mockumentary that he did called What We Do in the Shadows,
0:54.1	which is this vampire comedy mockumentary.
0:57.4	Okay. Okay.
0:59.3	Anyway, I want to have a moment,
1:00.8	coast switch, because I feel like there's a lot of coast switch fodder we can talk to him about.
1:04.5	It sounds like it. It sounds like.
1:05.8	Tyka, if you're listening to this, we want you on the show.
1:08.0	When you're done directing Thor, of course.
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