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The lauded North Carolina singer-songwriter's latest effort features vocals and banjo contributions by Scott Avid of the Avid Brothers.

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I'm Ben Sawyer, and this is the road to now.

The Harlem Globetrotters are one of those great parts of American culture that are beloved by nearly everyone.

As a kid, the team was really special to me because it just seemed like they were everywhere.

You'd hear the music, sweet Georgia Brown. they were on tv shows they they had a pinball machine that i would play when i was a kid and they even made it on scooby-doo which was a pretty big appearance at that time uh to me anyway i used to love going to see him i think i got to see him twice alive when i was a kid i ended up going later on in my my 20s and now I can't wait to take my son to go see them one day. It's one of the things that's always been a big deal to me. But as I got to be a historian, I started studying the Globetrotters and read up on the history and immediately just on a quick read was blown away. I mean, this is a team that today we understand as an entertainment enterprise.

But in the middle of the 20th century, they were legitimately the greatest basketball team on earth.

And their story overlaps with so many big parts of American history. The civil rights movement, the Cold War, the history of professional sports.

Even though the Globetroters were excluded from the NBA, they may be the single biggest reason why the NBA did not fail.

They weren't even from Harlem.

And that's an interesting thing because the team was neither from Harlem nor trotting

the globe when they made the name.

However, one of those two things they did.

They traveled all over the world and people flocked to see them.

The team hosted what was the largest attendance at a basketball game until the last few years when they played in Germany.

And so I've always appreciated this. And I always love these

things that allow us to get into the history of our country and the history of the world in ways

that, you know, aren't just names and dates. And I love these surprising stories like you see with

the Globetrotters. And so we're so happy today. We were able to speak with Ben Green,

who wrote the book, Spinning the Globe, The Rise, Fall, and Return to Greatness of the Harlem Globetrotters. And this guy, I think you're going to love this interview. And it's one of those things where I don't think I need to say, like with some episodes where we say, well we know you don't like maybe you don't like

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