Going Full Dissident with Howard Bryant
Edge of Sports
Dave Zirin / The Nation
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2016
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. |
| 0:08.8 | We're going to talk today about the day after, if you will. |
| 0:23.6 | Donald Trump is the president-elect. It sucks. |
| 0:25.6 | People are crying at my wife's job. |
| 0:27.6 | There was a guy on my corner offering free hugs. |
| 0:31.6 | I took one. |
| 0:33.6 | And I got some thoughts on this matter. |
| 0:36.6 | But before I say any of them, straight up, I want to say to everybody out there, just be good to yourself. |
| 0:43.3 | You know, it's times like this where sometimes we make choices that are actually self-destructive because we think the world is so destructive. |
| 0:51.0 | But this is exactly the moment when you want to do things like get off of Twitter |
| 0:56.3 | for a week, drink more water, get some exercise, take that free hug, do something for yourself |
| 1:04.6 | on a very personal basis that you know will make you a little bit more grounded because we're |
| 1:10.7 | going to need that in the months |
| 1:12.5 | and years ahead. So I have four thoughts on these elections and I want to lay them out for you. |
| 1:19.0 | You can like it, dislike it. And then I also have some thoughts that I'm reading with permission |
| 1:24.3 | from my friend, Kianga, Yamada Taylor, who's the author |
| 1:27.5 | of the book from Black Lives Matter to Black |
| 1:29.3 | Liberation. So first some Dave Z |
| 1:31.7 | then some Keanga Taylor. |
| 1:34.9 | Always in these discussions, |
| 1:37.0 | let's start with Howard Zinn, the great historian |
| 1:39.4 | who said it matters less who's sitting |
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