Do the Things (with Selema Masekela)
Pod Save the People
Pod Save the People
4.7 • 8.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
DeRay, Kaya, and De’Ara cover the underreported news of the week — including Florida's rejection of 54 math books, descendants of the enslaved fight for space, and the life & legacy of Hazel Scott. DeRay interviews Emmy-nominated producer & surfer Selema Masekela about his book Afro Surf, the new wave of activism centering Black surfers, and more.
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Kaya https://www.npr.org/2022/04/18/1093277449/florida-mathematics-textbooks
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Drey. I won't go to positive the people in this episode. It's me, DR, and |
| 0:07.4 | kind of talking about the news that you didn't know from the past week, the under-reported |
| 0:10.6 | news that you should have heard about, but didn't break the headlines. And then I sit down |
| 0:14.5 | with Salimah Masakela, Emmy nominated producer and surfer to chat about his relationship with the |
| 0:19.2 | water. Now the ocean can be a scary place, especially for black people. Salimah reminds us about |
| 0:24.7 | black people's relationship with the water historically, about our relationship with surfing and |
| 0:29.6 | so many other water traditions. We talked through the ancient African practices surfing and how it's |
| 0:34.8 | evolved to now. Here we go. My advice for this week is to go to lunch, go to dinner, meet the friends, |
| 0:44.3 | go hang out, like, you know, I am going to go, I'm going to go get some ice cream this week with |
| 0:50.6 | a new ice cream space, but I, but I had lunch recently with like new friends and it was like great |
| 0:56.0 | to just get out and like make time for new people also to do your life. Doesn't have to mean that |
| 1:01.6 | you are taking away from the people already in your life, but like, go to lunch, go to dinner, |
| 1:04.9 | do the things, just like, you know, not necessarily needing to hit on people, but be like, hey, |
| 1:09.2 | we should like hang out and just meet. Do that. Go to lunch, go to dinner, go get coffee, |
| 1:13.7 | go get drinks, like, do the thing, meet new people. Let's go. |
| 1:17.4 | Family, here we are. Welcome to another episode of Pod Save the People. I am D.R. A Ballinger. |
| 1:26.5 | You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at D.R. Ballinger. |
| 1:30.6 | I'm Auntie Kaya Henderson. You can find me on the Twitter at Henderson Kaya. |
| 1:36.8 | This is D.R. A.R. A. on Twitter. |
| 1:38.9 | So we wanted to jump off today's conversation with this whole few that's going down between |
| 1:50.2 | Disney and Governor DeSantis down in Florida. Seems like what he's doing is not seems like this is |
| 2:01.4 | what happened. So Disney was in disagreement with some of DeSantis's policies. I mean, I don't know |
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