Ep. 177 - Happy Douglass Day!

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Today is the 1 year anniversary of The North Star and the day Frederick Douglass chose as his birthday. Shaun shares a story about this and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Have you ever had an instant connection with someone? You see them and you just know.
0:04.6	Butterflies in your stomach, wedding bells ringing, the whole enchilada.
0:08.8	It's more than just compatibility. It's a special connection.
0:13.2	They're the one.
0:14.4	The yin to your yang, the ketchup to your chips, the gravy to your Sunday roast.
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0:26.4	phone. Discover in store and online at Curries.
0:29.2	Today is one of those days where I have more things on my mind than I would ever have time to talk about in one episode.
0:39.0	I'm thinking of course about the presidential election.
0:42.0	I'm thinking about all the disturbing
0:43.9	things we continue to learn about Mike Bloomberg I'm thinking of several families
0:49.1	who've been horribly impacted by police brutality I'm thinking of a family whose father and
0:56.1	husband appears to have been framed by police in California. A lot on my mind.
1:01.1	But today I want to tell you two stories, one about Frederick Douglas
1:06.8	and another about myself. Today is what we call Douglas Day. Today is the one yearyear anniversary of our launch of the North Star, the
1:16.2	parent company of this podcast, and Frederick Douglas Star, so I have a Douglas story to tell you
1:22.3	in one from my own life, all right?
1:24.6	This is Sean King, and you are listening to The Breakdown.
1:28.1	The Breakdown.
1:31.8	Breakdown. The Breakdown.
1:33.0	The Breakdown.
1:35.0	The Breakdown.
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