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Pod Save the People

Choose Your Battles

Pod Save the People

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.78.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

A study exposes superfluous hiring of D.C. patrol officers, a grant program for Black women disbanded after right-wing pushback, and an overdue conversation about the depreciation of journalism.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Durand.

0:04.5

And welcome to talk to people in this episode.

0:06.0

It's me miles and kinda talking about the underreported news of the last week.

0:09.8

There's a lot we talked about today. And don't forget to follow the podcast at

0:15.0

Podzying the people on Instagram. Let's go. Family, family, family, welcome to another episode of Pod Save the People.

0:32.0

My name is Kaya Henderson and you can find me sometimes on Twitter at Henderson

0:36.3

Kaya.

0:38.0

My name is Miles E Johnson.

0:39.4

You can find me at Instagram, sometimes, most times, at Feral Rapture.

0:45.0

And this is Dore at DIY on Twitter.

0:48.0

So it has been a very chockful week, lots of stuff happening,

0:55.4

and lots of sad stuff.

0:57.2

We lost three black men who were icons

1:01.7

of the entertainment world.

1:04.0

First, we lost James Earl Jones, who, I don't know if you know this,

1:09.8

did you know that he was the first celebrity guest

1:12.3

on Sesame Street ever, period the end.

1:15.0

Did not know that, I did not know that.

1:17.0

And that kicked off a career that, you know, I mean he was the narrator of our lives, he was Darth Vader, he was lots of things, too many things to name, and then shortly thereafter we lost Frankie Beverly who who is, you know, one of my friends said,

1:35.4

Frankie Beverly is the cookout king.

1:37.8

Frankie Beverly brought us white parties and the soundtrack track of generations that have been redone by you know today's folks

1:48.6

and he just was an icon and then yesterday we lost Tito Jackson who you know again an icon

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