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If you think you know… you don’t — Mactar Mbaye

Season 5 Episode 3 | 22m 27s

Today’s guest is Mactar Mbaye of HGTV Canada's Hoarder House Flippers. He traveled from Montreal to sit down with Myra at Vermont Public Studios and shares the story of the most jarring experience of racial profiling he’s ever faced — when police assumed he was something he wasn’t. It’s a story of how Mactar flipped the script on that experience of racial profiling, and transformed it.

Aired: 03/10/26
Sponsored in part by the Rutland Regional Medical Center and the Vermont Arts Council
Extras
If some Black people aren’t out in these streets, what are we doing instead? Part 1.
If some Black people aren’t out in the streets, what are we doing instead? This is Part Two.
A conversation with Denitia Odigie as she shares why she's chosen the country genre.
Using his voice, platform, and power to advocate for the LGBTQ+ community with courage and clarity,
The great responsibility that comes with telling our ancestors’ stories truthfully — flaws and all.
What it means to command a space long dominated by white men.
The White House as an example of artworks and exhibitions deemed “objectionable” or “divisive.”
Margaret Cho is back on tour with her bold, unapologetic take on the state of society.
The Vermont Public CEO on public media funding cuts and the future.
A conversation with sexologist Tyomi Morgan in front of a live audience
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If some Black people aren’t out in the streets, what are we doing instead? This is Part Two.
If some Black people aren’t out in these streets, what are we doing instead? Part 1.
A conversation with Denitia Odigie as she shares why she's chosen the country genre.
What it means to command a space long dominated by white men.
The great responsibility that comes with telling our ancestors’ stories truthfully — flaws and all.
Using his voice, platform, and power to advocate for the LGBTQ+ community with courage and clarity,
The White House as an example of artworks and exhibitions deemed “objectionable” or “divisive.”
Margaret Cho is back on tour with her bold, unapologetic take on the state of society.
The Vermont Public CEO on public media funding cuts and the future.
A conversation with sexologist Tyomi Morgan in front of a live audience