Fighting with a Riot Baby | Episode 17

Fly on the Wallin with Amber and Ben

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5.0 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This cocktail of X-Men superpowers, the prison industrial complex, hyper-militarization of police, and hundred of years of racism spotlighted with viral videos of today is an ambitious novella. The alternate history, just a little bit, to the left of our world takes on a lot, maybe too much. We discuss trauma porn, actual prison rodeos, god-like powers, and the future of incarceration in Tochi Onyebuchi's novella Riot Baby.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sci-Fi Sci, a podcast about black science fiction, fantasy and
0:07.8	staying on the same page and this wonderful pleasurable marriage! I'm one of
0:13.2	your incredible hosts Amber Wallen. I'm Ben. Ben, welcome to the show. Do you know
0:17.6	what episode this has been? Episode 17. So this is episode 17 and we sat down and
0:24.2	read the book Riot Baby by Tochi on Yebuchi. Ben, I'm laughing because we have
0:34.3	some feelings about this book but I want us to be you know having honest
0:38.4	conversation about this book because I think we wrote a little bit
0:41.1	surprised. Why don't you kick it off? Yeah well this book is very short and it's
0:47.2	recommended by a lot of authors that I love like Marlon James and Cory
0:52.0	Dr. O. So I had very high expectations going into this book and it could not
0:58.2	have ended soon enough. It was only 173 pages and it was just a drag. It was so it
1:06.8	was so frustrating because the author, Tochi, shows up on Trevor Noah and gave
1:13.6	a talk on Trevor Noah. I also heard him interview Nutty Okura for and they had a
1:18.7	really great interview talking about being Nigerian Americans and using that
1:24.7	inside their literature. You shouldn't even tell me that because that also was
1:30.0	missing from the book. Well he's also written young adult novels as well. He's
1:34.1	also young so he's 33 years old so this is his third or fourth book. So hopefully
1:41.5	he will come into his own but the book had had some problems. So just for the
1:47.7	background. We're gonna tell you what the book is about but we would we you are
1:52.8	going to hear us drag this book and it's gonna be entertaining and I love it. I'm
1:56.9	not gonna drag the book. I'm gonna drag it. Because I bet someday this author is
2:02.0	gonna write a really good book. This book wasn't it? That is a drag then. That's
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