Another Round

This week, we take some time to process what happened in Charlottesville, and talk about how to persevere in the age of emboldened white supremacy. 

Then we chat with April Ryan, the National Association of Black Journalists' "Journalist of the Year," on twenty years spent in the White House press briefing room. We check in with Vice News DC Bureau Chief Shawna Thomas and BuzzFeed political reporter Darren Sands about how they ask difficult questions and cover news in 2017.

Plus: HaSizzle, New Orleans' legendary bounce artist, reminds us that even in the darkest of times, booty-bouncing is healing. This show was taped live at One Eyed Jacks in New Orleans on August 10, 2017.

Read How To Be A Better Ally: An Open Letter To White Folks

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• Shawna Thomas - @Shawna
• HaSizzle - @HaSizzleKing
• DJ Lil Man - @DJlilman504

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This week we bring you our conversation with Senator Cory Booker, taped live at Fairleigh Dickinson University. 

Booker chats with us about reformative justice (and whether he’s a prison abolitionist), fundraising with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump for his Senate campaign in 2013, and whether he ever feels like the Anne Hathaway of politics. Come for the political discussion, stay to find out if he’s actually Mindy Kaling’s baby daddy. 

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This week we're bringing you an encore episode featuring friend of the show and OG tech guy, Anil Dash!  First we have a little What Had Happened Was featuring young Heben (and the headaches she gave her parents), followed by a long conversation with Anil Dash about mangoes, representation on screen and in tech, and teaching his son about feminism (with a little tangent about Bee Movie).

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Tracy tells the story about her racist goldfish, and we chat with Audie Cornish, host of NPR's All Things Considered.

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This week we chat with writer and all-American internet guy Matt Bellassai about his new podcast, Unhappy Hour, where he demonstrates how complaining can truly be an art form.  In addition to discussing a variety of bodily functions, Matt reveals his go-to karaoke jams and the genre of Tweet that gets on his last nerve.  And in the spirit of complaining, instead of buying rounds this week, we cut people off.  You're cut off!  Jk, not you personally - come hang!   

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This week, we chat with actor/comedian Sasheer Zamata about trap improv, the wig room at Saturday Night Live, and her new stand-up special on Seeso called "Pizza Mind."  And we answer the question you've been dying to know: what's the whitest opening song lyric of all time?  Plus shout outs to street meats, cheese juice, and hard shells.     

Last but not least...come to our live show in London on August 5th!  For tickets and more information, check out www.solivefestival.com.

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This week, we talk with writer/illustrator/Twitter hero Jonny Sun about his new book, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too, Twitter personas and bot theft, and why his dad loved the Danish Eurodance group, Aqua.  And, back by popular demand, we have for you another rousing game of Y'all's Parents Was Nasty...we're sorry but also, you're welcome.  Plus shoutouts to Heben's favorite condiment and Tracy's beloved hometown heroes. 

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This week, as a part of WBEZ’s Podcast Passport series, we bring to you our live show from Thalia Hall in Chicago!  Dr. Eve Ewing, sociologist extraordinaire, schools us on why poetry is not a luxury (shout out to Audre Lorde!), and plays a lil game we like to call Six Degrees of Education Policy.  Let it be noted that she plays this game like a BOSS.  Then we go with poet and vocalist Jamila Woods to the First Corinthian Leather Church of God and Christ in Obama - may we all be saved - and she tells us how she found her voice.  Plus, Tracy's Joke Time and a celebration of petty jams!

Special thanks to the WBEZ Events team of Tyler Greene, MK Julien, Ashley Thorpe, and Haley Carlson.  And thanks to the Thalia Hall crew of Pete Falknor, Jake Samuels, Tim Schoen, and Miranda Van Aiken.  We appreciate y'all!

And shout out to Kwame Brandt-Pierce for the dope church music. 

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This week we bring you an interview with Zimbabwean-Australian rapper Tkay Maidza, who we sat down with at SXSW earlier this year.  We talk with her about what she listened to growing up (from Rod Stewart to Rihanna), all the natural hair on The Simpsons, and her favorite Australian slang.  If you ever had thin eyebrows in the 90s (who didn't?!?), this episode is for you! 

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This week we catch up with inimitable writer Roxane Gay about her new book Hunger, paid and unpaid emotional labor, and "The Bachelorette."  Then we bring you the encore episode of our very first live show, where we were blessed to have Roxane on as a guest.  She chats with us about women in the publishing industry, flirting strategies, and even moderates a spirited game of Drunken Debates.  Plus, Heben quizzes us on white guys in public radio, and Tracy stands up for an animal slandered by a classic Disney movie.  

And don’t forget: our next live show is in Chicago - June 21st at 8pm at Thalia Hall.  Get your tickets at wbez.org/events.

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