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🗓️ 7 August 2019
⏱️ 82 minutes
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0:00.0 | And we are back with an honor to keep it. We are joined once again by Miss Riri Cheney. |
0:17.2 | Hi. It has been too long mysteriously. Riri is in our lives every day. It's strange that it's been a while. |
0:22.9 | There is a real constant hum of my voice around you. She appeared on Keep It's |
0:27.3 | been off. Love it or leave it. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. The Falcons crest. Yes. Yes. |
0:34.2 | Also, I want to tell you this morning, Riri, I was stirred awake. You don't start easily. |
0:43.6 | I know. So it's going to have happened. Louis Vertel. Oh, there he is. Louis Vertel set me a text. |
0:49.5 | And it arrives like 11 minutes before my alarm. And so I was like, why is this white person |
0:56.0 | texting me this morning? I was like, oh my god. Louis can't come today. It was like |
1:00.3 | something's happening. And it just said Tony. I said, excuse me. It said, uh, Tony, |
1:08.0 | C-O-N-I. I was about Tony Morrison. Yeah. Actually, it was about Tony Collatt. I'm just really |
1:13.3 | into right now. Well, in her shoes. Now Miss Tony Morrison has left this plane. She has. |
1:19.8 | She was always better than this plane. But she passed away this morning. And it was, it was just, |
1:25.4 | it was eerie because I literally wanted to reread jazz this week. Yeah. So I bought it yesterday |
1:33.0 | and was reading it. It's so, it's so crazy watching all the tributes to her on Twitter, |
1:38.5 | which she would have appored, which I enjoy. But truly, truly awful tributes. Just like there was |
1:46.2 | a New York Post, New York Times thing where it said, uh, she wrote about um, racial identity. And |
1:53.3 | someone had to quit it with she wrote about the human identity. I was like, no, she wrote about |
1:57.6 | black people, but she was very clear, very clear about it. From the perspective of what, |
2:03.5 | of centering on black lives. But I was lucky to meet her in the rain one. Wow. Oh my god. She came to |
2:12.2 | my college for a year. It really was. I was like, waiting near her car and she was slowly walked |
2:18.1 | out under umbrellas and I had, I was clutching my copy of beloved. And I like, prepare it. And I was |
2:23.4 | Miss Morrison, would you please sign this book? I'd like change my life I read in high school. |
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