What's good, y'all? Before we get this show started this week, we want to tell you about our live show coming up in Chicago next week

presented by WB Easy and the Fest and curated by Third Coast. Catch us the Coatswitch team live at the Harris Theatre Friday November 10th

joining us poet scholar artist Chicago's own Eve Ewing. Her latest book is called Electric Arches.

We've also invited friend of the show Harry Cohn the Bollow to kick it with us. He's a comedian. He's a podcast host.

He's now a filmmaker. His new film is called The Problem with Apu.

Growing up, I had no choice but to like this.

Thank you again.

Hey, Ganesha, wanna peanut?

Please do not offer to my god a peanut.

You can get your tickets for our live show online go to info at WBZ slash events.

And just a quick heads up today's episode of the podcast contains some language that people might find offensive.

All right, let's start the show.

You're listening to Coatswitch. I'm Gene Demby.

And I'm Shrine Marisol Maraji and this is the final installment of our special project

raising kings a year of love and struggle at Ron Brown College Prep.

I'm here to talk about a new school at DC Public Schools opening in 2016 but first.

And so I tell the guys here all the time like you're gonna get love and there's really nothing you can do about it.

If you leave high school and you still make a 600 on the SAT,

nobody cares on how much you were loved.

Congratulations. You feel good about yourself but you still are reading and writing and counting below average.

We're at your house, we're in your face, we're in your business, we're caring about you, we're at your mama's funeral.

I'm going to be hard on them because I teach the language that helps them unlock the codes that we've

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