Hey everybody, Shrine Marisol Maragi here and I wanted to let you know about something

very special that's coming up on the podcast. April 1st is officially census day where people

all over the country are going to be checking a race box. So we're bringing you some really great

storytelling all month long, not necessarily about the census, but about who we are and who counts

in 2020. You're not going to want to miss this.

There will be some foul language in this episode. You have been warned.

Some cussing. I'm Shrine Marisol Maragi and I'm Jean Demby. And you're listening to

Code Switch from NPR and today we're joined by our teammate and senior correspondent

Karen Grigsby-Bates. Hey KGB. Hey y'all.

All right fam. I'm going to be captain obvious and just say that this has been a very weird week.

The weirdest week? I mean, ever. I've ever had. We're all basically self-quarantining. I've only

been working for home for a few days and I'm already starting to like lose my marbles. I've

been all the tortillas in my house. I'm doing push up contests with myself. I'm sending

challenges, push up challenges to your husband's journey. Which I did not know about till right now.

Challenge both of y'all too. You know how I challenge me. I don't do push ups.

You know what I do do though? I dance. That is true. You do dance. You do be dancing.

And the highlight of this very, very weird week and I do not like working from home. I'm very

bad at it. I'm an extrovert. So the highlight was taking Debbie Allen of Fame Fames,

free dance class on Insta and Body Rolling, which I'm doing right now in the studio to Beyoncé's

Nady Girl. What ever gets you through? Karen, you know you love that song. You know, I love

hearing Jean beat your back up. That's what I love. Yes, I'm definitely the Michelle Williams.

And I'll know we have hit end times when Jean starts to eat mayo straight out of the jar.

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