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I also remember this older black man who would just come by in his pickup truck selling produce and like animals he caught.

And every few months, I remember my mother, we once got a rabbit

from him, had rabbit stew. So the rabbit man brought a possum one day in the truck. And my dad was like,

to my mother, I want you to cook at. I can tell she loved this man because she cooked the possum.

She don't want none.

My brother don't want any.

I don't want any.

So we just leave.

My father sits at the kitchen table alone, eating possum.

Hello, hello. Welcome back to your mama's kitchen.

This is a place where we explore how we are shaped as adults by the kitchens that we grew up in as kids.

Of course, we're talking about food, but so much more.

The arguments, the surprises at the stove, the way that we would eavesdrop on our parents and all the stuff that we perhaps weren't supposed to hear.

I'm Michelle Norris. And our guest today is Sam Sanders. He is an award-winning reporter and host of several shows, so you've probably heard him before.

Shows like, Intuit from Vulture. It's been a minute when he was at NPR.

And right now, he's co-hosting yet another beloved podcast called Vibe Check on SiriusXM.

Sam stays busy.

And he also stays in touch with his Texas roots.

And we're going to talk a little bit about that today. Hey, Sam.

Hi, so good to be here. Good to see you again. Now, I remember you from the days when we both

worked at NPR, and I'm wondering if you have shoes on, because one of the things that I remember about

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