Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. This week we're talking to

contemporary artist, author, educator, and former player, Aaron Maiden. He's got a new book called Getting on Code. So excited to talk to Aaron Maven, living in Baltimore, doing incredible work.

Just talking about everything he's up to. Also, I've got some choice words about the national championship game that occurred on the men's side with North Carolina, Kansas.

Some stuff rubbed me the wrong way and I want to share it.

I also got Just Stand Up and Just Sit Your Ass Down Awards.

And I got some words about this week because it is the diamond anniversary of Jackie Robinson smashing the baseball color line.

So I've got some reflections on that.

First, let's talk to Aaron Mayburn.

You know, I love it when we talk about books for people just to get a sense of the framing of it all and the title.

So your book is called Getting on Code. What does that mean?

Getting on Code quite simply just means a collective consciousness that centers the group over the individual,

you know, just to put it in the plainest terms possible, you know.

And with this project, I wanted not to be a person that spent an entire book just talking about the problems that exist within our communities, you know.

So many people do that. And the conversations

that come from those projects always seem to be a deficit-based conversation. It always seems to be a

conversation about all of the negative aspects of our community, how we got there.

And we already know these things.

We've been talking about them for generations,

but one of the things that you rarely see is a project

that is really geared towards finding a way to bring us closer together,

finding a way to control the conversation in a way that's productive

and leads to solutions rather than arguments.

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