Sometimes Explain, Always Complain

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It's Thanksgiving week, so we wanted to give y'all a question to fight about: How much context should you have to give when talking about race and culture? Is it better to explain every reference, or let people go along for the ride? Comedian Hari Kondabolu joins us to hash it out.

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0:00.0	Your listen is a coach from MPR, I'm Jean Demby.
0:02.4	And I'm Shreen Marisol Miraji.
0:04.0	It's the week of Thanksgiving.
0:05.7	Yay.
0:06.6	And we wanted to give you something to fight about.
0:08.4	Goodie.
0:09.4	Something besides the presidential campaign
0:11.4	and your relative's trash as boyfriend.
0:13.8	Very trash.
0:14.5	Or that trash as Turkey they're making.
0:16.2	Ooh, all turkeys trash.
0:17.7	All turkeys trash.
0:19.3	So we're going to read one of our most controversial episodes.
0:21.8	The first episode where our listeners got good and pissed off at us.
0:25.4	Yep.
0:26.0	It was our episode on...
0:28.1	Don't don't don't.
0:30.7	The explanatory comma.
0:33.0	Oh, yes.
0:36.8	The explanatory comma.
0:37.7	Do we need to give a little explanatory comma?
0:40.3	Well, the explanatory comma.
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