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How To Be Black

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July 27, 2012

If you love playing around with palindromes, quoting Downton Abbey's Dowager Countess, and spotting factual errors in the news (Editor's note: "What factual errors?"), then this episode will make you so happy, you'll want to clap your hands. Plus, this week's hilarious guest, Baratunde Thurston, has some advice for the Area Man or Woman in all of us.

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Happy And You Know It

10:06
 

I Feel Fantastic Jonathan Coulton

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Missione a Bombay Nicola Conte

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Forwards And Backwards

4:33
 

Down at Downton Abbey

6:56
 

Baby Got Back Jonathan Coulton

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Spot the Mistake

5:52
 

Bees Bein' Strugglin' The Octopus Project

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Baratunde Thurston: The Next Black President

11:46
 

SAT Analogies

6:42
 
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