Hello, my name is Chloe Veltman. I am a correspondent on NPR's Culture Desk and I am based in San Francisco.

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I heard your Sadiq's white daddy. Or are you his white dad? Because those are two different things.

Yes, it would be white father.

So the other day Sadiq brought his friend Kevin down to the media lab. He's this older guy.

And they have kind of an interesting relationship.

I'm like, if my parent came to come pick me up, you would be the type that I'll feel embarrassed around because he's like super energetic.

He'd jump out of the car, try to greet you.

He's one of those dads.

He would embarrass me.

He would embarrass me, yes.

That's the type of dad.

And it does happen a lot.

And he embarrassed me everywhere we go.

This right here, he's just like always happy and just jumping out of nowhere and just clowning all the time.

That's all.

Do you know your son's birthday over here?

I do.

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