Guest Spotlight: Buffalo Extreme

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🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re featuring a story from NPR’s Embedded podcast. It’s the first episode in a new series called Buffalo Extreme, which follows a cheer team from Buffalo, New York, during the year after a racist mass shooting in their neighborhood.

On May 14, 2022, the world changed for residents of Buffalo when a white man approached the Jefferson Street Tops supermarket and started shooting. He murdered ten and injured three people, almost all Black. That day, teenagers and children from a Black cheer team called BASE were at their gym around the corner. “Buffalo Extreme” is their story: a 3-part series that hands the mic to the girls, their moms, and their coaches as they navigate the complicated path to recovery.

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:01.0	I'm super excited to tell you about a new show coming to Radio Topia.
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0:07.6	Not wait, like wait for me, or wait, wait, don't tell me, but wait.
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0:17.6	Wait For It is a narrative show that tells the story of folks who can't stop thinking
0:22.0	about their weight.
0:23.7	Creator and host Ronald Young Jr. is seeking to have the conversations about our bodies
0:28.7	that are often understated and sometimes flat out unsaid.
0:33.6	He kicks the show off with his own story, wondering if he can ever truly be desirable
0:38.5	as a fat man.
0:40.0	He then brings us stories of all types of folks, fat and straight-sized, who can't seem
0:45.4	to keep weight off their minds.
0:48.1	New episode starting August 17th.
0:50.8	Subscribe to Wait For It today, wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:59.7	From PRX.
1:01.4	From PRX's Radio Topia, this is Radio Diaries.
1:03.9	I'm Joe Richmond.
1:06.0	One year ago, in Buffalo, New York, a white man drove three hours from where he lived and
1:11.4	went to a supermarket in a mostly black neighborhood, specifically because it was a black
1:16.0	neighborhood.
1:17.4	He killed ten people.
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