THEE Reason Black People Don’t Eat Chicken in Public (ft. Sam Sanders)

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Jarrett Hill, Culture, Fanti, Comedy, Tre'vell Anderson, Journalists, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week, Tre’Vell and Jarrett are keeping things a bit light and talking controversial food opinions. But first they spill the tea and Pass the Popcorn over Joe Exotic and the peak White crazy of Tiger King. NPR's It's Been A Minute host Sam Sanders joins the show to talk about chicken. Is a boneless wing considered a wing? Is it ever okay for Black folk to eat chicken in front of White PayPal? What if they're doing it while singing an absolute banger about a crispy chicken sandwich? We'll chat about that controversial Mary J Blige commercial and unpack the shame and stereotypes behind chicken. Plus, Sam shares the history behind some of the racist tropes involving Black people and food. Turns out, the story behind Black people loving watermelon has its origins in Black liberation. Before we go, it's recently been reported that Black people are disproportionately impacted by COVID - 19 and are dying at higher rates. If you're looking for resources on how you can help from home, here's a great place to start.

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to Fan Thai, the podcast for all those complicated, awkward, confusing conversations
0:08.8	about the great areas in our lives.
0:10.5	I'm Politics and Pop Culture Journalist Jared Hill. And I am Trevel Anderson, your favorite. in our
0:14.0	politics and pop culture journalist Jared Hill.
0:12.0	And I am Trevelle Anderson, your favorite entertainment
0:16.0	journalist coming up on the show today.
0:18.0	We're actually taking it a little light, some might say.
0:21.0	We're going to get into the big big conversation around chicken.
0:26.5	Now don't run it the other direction I promise you it's a really good one we'll have
0:31.7	our Dasan Pro mentions before we get into all that, we want to introduce our special guests for the week.
0:37.0	Yeah, so joining us is the reason we're even having this conversation.
0:41.0	He's also known as the host of NPR's, it's been a minute with
0:43.8	Sam Sanders. He is our special guest co-host this week. Please welcome Sam
0:47.0	Sanders. Hello Sam. Thank you all for having me. Welcome aboard. So good
0:51.0	to be here. Of course. Yes, you tweeted out something that we'll get to in just a couple of minutes that resulted in you being on the show today. So congratulations or we're sorry. If the tweets are getting me work I'm happy. You sound like every
1:06.8	freelancer yeah. But before we get into all of that we're going to pass the popcorn. This is our recurring
1:16.1	segment that we do when we want to talk about something that all of you guys on the
1:19.8	internets are going up about. And this week we're going to get into Tiger King. If you haven't
1:25.0	watched it's a new Netflix series, all about the world of Big Cat owners, and there's a main
1:30.4	feud between this man who goes by the name of Joe Exotic he's the titular
1:35.0	Tiger King and this other woman Carol King who probably fed one of her husbands to
1:40.8	a lion or a tiger or something.
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