Panel Round One
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Saturday, November 15, 2014
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Our panelists answer questions about the week's news: Cuckoo Klan
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PETER SAGAL, HOST:
Right now panel it's time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Maz, organizations everywhere these days are doing the best to promote diversity. Still, it surprised some people that what organization announced that it wants to become more racially diverse?
MAZ JOBRANI: The Ku Klux Klan.
SAGAL: Yes indeed.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
JOBRANI: And it's about time. I keep sending them applications - no, I'm kidding.
SAGAL: As Dr. Martin Luther King famously said, what the hell? The KKK has announced they'd like to recruit new members of all races and religions. It's weird, now that the KKK has gone multi-culti, the the only place left with exclusively white people will be a taping of "Prairie Home Companion."
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Yeah like we should joke, right people?
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Like our racial diversity is some of you came from Florida and you're slightly tan. That's what we got going.
ALONZO BODDEN: Shouldn't you break up me and Maz to two different shows just to...
JOBRANI: I know, this is a lot of color.
SAGAL: No, no, when we have you on both together, we qualify for government grants.
(LAUGHTER)
BODDEN: There was a - years ago, a black man joined the Klan in Colorado. He did it online.
SAGAL: Did he really?
BODDEN: Yeah he did it online and he infiltrated them and they didn't know because he was just, you know, a member online and he showed up in the robe. And he was - he was a cop. It was a whole undercover thing. And he ended up getting them for, you know, conspiracies and - I mean, I don't know how, you know, how it all works but...
JOBRANI: Well, the KKK is a perfect place to go undercover 'cause you're actually undercover.
SAGAL: That's true.
(LAUGHTER)
BODDEN: Exactly.
JOBRANI: You know, if Alonzo and I - 'cause this is now - they want people of color - if Alonzo and I ended up at a Ku Klux Klan meeting together, we'd be like - I'd be like, dude, affirmative action. Yeah, affirmative action.
SAGAL: Yeah, I know.
BODDEN: I'd be like, hey, he's an Arab. Get him. Get him.
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