He’s back! Baratunde Thurston returns to our TV show to talk about the second season of PBS’ “America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston.”
Video Content: Baratunde Thurston (2023)
SIDEWALKS host Lori Rosales welcomes back best-selling author, TV host and podcaster Baratunde Thurston, who talks about more outdoor adventures with the PBS series, “America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston.”
Please note: This online version of the interview is slightly different than how it appeared on the TV episode. The sound has been removed from the promotional clips.
Mini-Biography:
A writer, comedian, and commentator, Baratunde Thurston was born in Washington, D.C., co-founded the blog Jack and Jill Politics and was director of digital for The Onion. He also contributed to HuffPost and the Weekly Dig. In media, Thurston hosts the podcast “How To Citizen with Baratunde,” was a semi-regular panelist on the podcast “This Week in Tech with Leo Laporte,” was the host of the TV show “Popular Science’s Future Of,” and was a supervising producer that’s overseeing original digital content for “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.” He wrote “Better than Crying: Poking Fun at Politics, the Press & Pop Culture,” “Keep Jerry Falwell Away from My Oreo Cookies,” “Thank You Congressional Pages (For Being So Damn Sexy!),” and the New York Times bestseller, “How to be Black.”
Interview Credits:
- Recorded: August 21, 2023
- Host / Producer: Lori Rosales
- Editor: Richard R. Lee
- Special Thanks To: PBS, Part2 Pictures