I enjoyed listening to the parts of the podcast I heard. In high school, I was often forced to have discussions regarding race, privilege, the whole nine yards, so generally I’m pretty comfortable talking about race, whether it be my own or others. However, I will say phrases like “think” and “generally” more when I discuss other races, but I’m still willing to. I guess I never realized I had the privilege of discussing this stuff before, whereas a lot of people haven’t, so not everyone’s as open to discussing race. Listening to people have their conversations was pretty fascinating, since I don’t have as much of the perspective of the discomfort people face when talking about race.

As for the storytelling, the prologue was mostly an interview with the CEO of Starbucks about shutting down stores for a day or a few days so their employees can go through racial bias training. The third act is a similar format, with an interview and voiceovers to provide some context. I guess that’s what it is–just an interview, where the host asks some pretty penetrating questions to help drive the story further or fill in missing details. For example, the host clarifies in a question, “Wait, wait. So he was calling the games. Did he have gear?” which allos the listener to get a better sense of what’s going on, while the story is still told from a first person perspective from the interviewee.