Hold Your Light (with Van Lathan Jr.)
Pod Save the People
Pod Save the People
4.7 • 8.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2022
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
DeRay, Myles, De’Ara and Kaya cover the underreported news of the week— including U.S. states charging families for foster care, an increasing amount of Democrats switching to Republican, D.C mayor clears up cryptic comment on her sexuality, and Macy Gray apologizes for anti-train comments. DeRay interviews author and producer Van Lathan Jr. about his new book Fat, Crazy, and Tired: Tales from the Trenches of Transformation.
News:
DeRay https://www.npr.org/2022/07/01/1107848270/foster-care-child-support
De’Ara https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/7/15/dc-mayor-bowser-not-closeted-lesbian-proud-straight-ally
https://www.them.us/story/jalen-mckee-rodriguez-became-texas-first-black-gay-lawmaker
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Durey and we're going to pause you to the people in this episode. |
| 0:07.3 | It's me, DR Miles and Kaya talking about the underported news of the past week. |
| 0:12.0 | The news that you should know with regard to race, justice and equity, but you probably |
| 0:15.4 | don't know from the past week because they weren't big items on the mainstream media. |
| 0:20.2 | And then I sit down and talk to author and producer Van Lathen Jr. to talk about his new |
| 0:25.4 | book, Fat Crazy Entire, Tales from the Trinches of Transformation. |
| 0:29.0 | We talk about Van's journey through authorship, healing, transformation, his work in the media. |
| 0:33.8 | We've been friends for a while, but I had never talked to him as an author. |
| 0:39.3 | And I learned a ton, so dope. |
| 0:41.9 | Hope you'll learn too. |
| 0:42.9 | Here we go. |
| 0:43.9 | And the advice for this week is actually from our guest. |
| 0:47.8 | The whole July is the advice that he comes down to and you'll see. |
| 0:50.5 | You'll hear you'll listen, but that's the advice for the week. |
| 0:52.9 | Call July. |
| 0:53.9 | Family, welcome to another episode of God Save the People. |
| 1:03.0 | I'm DR Balinger. |
| 1:04.0 | You can fire me on the Twitter Instagram at DR Balinger. |
| 1:07.1 | I'm Miles E. Johnson. |
| 1:08.4 | You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Pharaoh Rappshur. |
| 1:12.4 | I'm Kaya Henderson on Twitter at Henderson Kaya. |
| 1:16.2 | And this is Durey at DEIWAT on Twitter. |
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