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Pod Save the People

George Johnson on Narrative Reclamation

Pod Save the People

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.78.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Tensions high as the presidential election draws near, personal phones lawfully tracked to abortion clinics, and influential hip-hop producer Clark Kent passes from colon cancer. Myles interviews award winning author and producer George Johnson about their newest book titled Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I’d Known.

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Dorei. And what's going to possibly the people in this episode? It's me, Miles and Don, talking about the news with regard to race, justice, and equity.

0:10.0

And then Miles sits down with the war-winning black non-binary author and producer George Johnson about his newest book title Flamboyance, the Queer Harlan Renaissance I wish I'd known.

0:21.0

And we are a week away from election day. Let's go.

0:27.0

Hello and welcome back to another episode of PODC

0:30.5

people we are in the final stretch of the election and I am

0:35.3

de Ray at DIY on Twitter. I'm Molly Johnson at Pharaoh Rapture on

0:41.3

Instagram.

0:43.0

Don Calloway at D Calloway on Instagram

0:46.1

and the Caucus Room Podcast on YouTube.

0:50.0

We have a lot to talk about as we come down

0:52.2

to what seems to be the last week of,

0:55.0

whoa, I'm getting close to your election.

0:59.2

It's Trump at Madison Square Garden.

1:01.0

We got Beyoncé, we got, you know, Kamala and Michelle's incredible speech.

1:07.6

Kamla still killing it on the campaign trail, but Dawn lead us into reflecting on what happened in the past week and what do we do as we close out this last week?

1:18.0

Yo, I'm sorry if I sound a little tired and groggy, I'm just you know trying to revive myself from my weekend

1:26.2

dance party with Beyoncé had a blast and this is really devolving into crazy season.

1:35.0

So I'm gonna start from yesterday going backwards.

1:39.2

We saw Nick Bosa as Sunday Night Football crashing interviews with the MAGA hat and then didn't have the

1:47.0

cohones to stand up and speak on it when he was actually approached by the press about it at press time. We saw the absolutely

1:56.3

insane racist, despicable, you know, deplorable convention at Madison Square Garden in the middle of New York City in which some of the most racist

2:08.0

things were said I think these people thought they were being funny but they just finally came out and just started saying

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