Brown Enough (ft. Christopher Rivas)

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Jarrett Hill, Culture, Fanti, Comedy, Tre'vell Anderson, Journalists, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

We’re joined this week by author, storyteller and actor Christopher Rivas, author of the new book Brown Enough: True Stories About Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Hollywood, Race, Familia, and Making It in America. As his book title suggests, Rivas has a lot to say–but more importantly, ask–about going through the world in your cultural body, in this moment of time. Plus, in Pass the Popcorn, jarrett and Tre’vell get into some of the questions raised now that Elon Musk is in charge. What happens when something that’s become essentially a public utility falls into the hands of a “sole director”?

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0:00.0	Hey there beautiful people welcome to fan time the podcast for all those complex and
0:07.2	complicated conversations around the great areas in our lives is I am light bright and
0:14.0	watching Travelle wake up as we're on zoom Jared Hill you're welcome I am entertainment
0:20.8	editor journalist what did I say? Entertainment journalist editor on the rest time to all of
0:26.6	the above Travelle Anderson Travelle Anderson if you're nasty and coming up on the show today
0:35.2	we are going to be we have a special guest if you have not seen based on the title and we're
0:40.4	going to be talking about you know anti blackness within Latinx communities about the role
0:45.2	of the quote unquote brown men in race discussion really interesting conversation so stay tuned
0:52.6	for that but first we have a past the popcorn here Jared wanted to talk about Elon Musk and the
1:00.9	Twitter debacle that is happening so take it away well you may have heard that Elon Musk is becoming
1:07.0	the grand buzzard of the twotwux plan already is it's official yes he it's raising infinite questions
1:14.0	about what happens when something that's become essentially a public utility falls into the hands
1:19.6	of a quote soul director as you may know twitter has been bought by one of the real-life Marvel
1:26.3	supervillains keeping big farm alive with anxiety medications wow there are many questions and reports
1:32.0	on this one let's hit a few of them hot topic style so Travelle I know that you are a an anchor
1:39.2	person nowadays and covering a lot more news show up Elon Musk has fired the board and become
1:48.8	soul director of twitter is that right well I don't know if the board was paid but he he has
1:53.6	disbanded the board he is now the soul easy CEO and the only board member he is running all of the
1:59.5	things himself there are still senior leadership members like people in in senior leadership but
2:07.4	the like the top top people are reportedly were escorted out of the building last week on Friday
2:14.3	and so you know he's the big honcho right now the reports say that you know anti black racist
2:22.0	behavior use of the n word and what not went up 500 percent after it was announced that he was
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