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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Jemele Hill on the Kyrie Irving Fallout and ‘Uphill: A Memoir’

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Bakari Sellers is joined by journalist and author Jemele Hill to discuss her journey from the Detroit Free Press to ESPN (1:54), the Kyrie Irving backlash following his controversial tweet (10:20), and the release of her new book ‘Uphill: A Memoir’ (15:58). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Jemele Hill Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

0:07.0

I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.

0:15.0

Welcome to another episode of Bakari Self's podcast.

0:18.0

Today we have somebody who's extremely special,

0:21.0

one of the most just amazingly outspoken women that I know in the world of

0:26.2

politics, sports, entertainment, culture, everything that we love. She has been

0:30.9

somebody who's been in our lives for a very long period of time and who deserves her flowers, you know in the South we say you got to give people their flowers while they're living

0:39.3

None other than Jamil Hill what's going on? How you feeling?

0:43.0

I feel good.

0:44.0

Thank you so much for having me.

0:46.2

And I guess we're both in hotel rooms right now.

0:49.2

Yeah, well, I'm actually just in the hotel.

0:52.1

I ain't even in the room.'m just in the lobby just hoping nobody

0:54.8

walks by with a party going on.

0:57.4

What's going I mean you're on this book to a I mean what's happening?

1:01.2

How you feeling what's you got a new book out your

1:03.2

it's like a baby how do you feel about all of it?

1:05.8

It's been intense I mean you know how it is when you go out and promote your book

1:11.1

I mean you're doing so many media appearances, book events, you know, I was joking but serious I guess.

1:20.0

I was thinking about when Michael Smith and I when we first got a sports center and we went

1:26.6

on a quite a media tour then.

1:29.7

That is nothing compared to what I have been on with this.

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