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🗓️ 24 April 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey so before we get started I just want to let everyone know that there will be quite a bit of bleepworthy language |
0:07.1 | including frequent use of a colloquial version of a racial slur that Kessay and I use pretty often, but there will be no bleeps. |
0:19.2 | You might not remember this when I first reached out to you. |
0:21.8 | It was, I think to the blurb my proposal yeah and |
0:28.1 | and asking you was the most difficult word yeah I was like like oh this nigg is brilliant what like I can't I |
0:39.0 | don't know if he knows who I am what I remember this feeling like almost like you're about to ask a niega to the prom |
0:46.8 | or something. I didn't know that you was filling that way. This is death, sex, and money. |
0:57.0 | Why did you just stand there and let him kiss you? |
1:00.0 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
1:03.0 | All money is spending money. |
1:04.8 | They need to talk about more. |
1:06.2 | Shit, you can die from that? |
1:08.6 | I'm Damon Yum, and for Anisell. |
1:12.4 | And today, it's my turn in the host chair. And for that I sat down with |
1:16.6 | KSA Lehman. Are we all right now? Are we doing this right now? His book heavy came out last fall. |
1:21.3 | It's a memoir addressed to his mom. |
1:24.4 | Here's KSA, reading from the book. |
1:27.2 | I wanted to write a lie. |
1:29.2 | I wanted that lie to be titillating. |
1:31.4 | I wrote that lie. It was titillating. You would have loved it. I discovered |
1:36.5 | nothing. You would have loved it. I started over and I wrote what we hoped I forget. The book is so honest. When I read it, it hit me in all the places |
1:49.3 | that when things hit you, they hit you. |
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