IDKMYDE: The Next 100 Years Starts with Who Tells the Story

The Breakfast Club

The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts

Comedy

4.4 • 14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

The Season 5 finale ties everything together and asks the real question: who controls
the story now? Thoughtful, motivating, and a look forward—not backward.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.3	The next hundred years starts with who tells the story.
0:08.3	I didn't know.
0:09.6	Welcome back, No-It-alls, to another episode of the most anticipated podcast on the Black
0:15.8	Effect Podcast Network, especially in February, entitled, I didn't know.
0:21.6	Maybe you didn't either.
0:23.1	I'm your host, B.DOT, and I sincerely hope you've enjoyed season five's 28 Black
0:28.5	History episodes for the 100-year celebration of Black History Month.
0:33.2	It's been the theme all season.
0:35.0	A hundred years ago, Carter G. Woodson, he didn't ask permission to tell black history.
0:39.5	He built a system so it couldn't be ignored.
0:41.6	So the real question at the end of this season isn't what happened.
0:46.2	We know what happened.
0:47.3	The question is, who's telling the story now?
0:50.5	Let's open up that case file.
0:53.0	But of course, before we do, we have to give you three of the most useless facts you'll
0:57.6	never need, never not a day in life about telling our history.
1:03.2	Up first, most history is written after the power has already decided who matters.
1:08.5	Always say history is told by the victor.
1:11.6	Your second useless fact, for most of American history,
1:14.8	black people were excluded from archives, textbooks, and museums.
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