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Pod Save the People

Let Yourself Be Loved (with Desmond Meade & Channel Powe)

Pod Save the People

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.78.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

DeRay, Kaya, De'Ara, and Sam cover the underreported news of the week, including inmates released during COVID-19, Deana Lawson, Dollar General, and a sewage crisis. DeRay interviews Desmond Meade about voting rights in Florida and Channel Powe about education reform. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/podsavethepeople DeRay: https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/06/business/dollar-store-openings-retail/index.html Kaya: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/06/sewage-crisis-hits-majority-black-town-new-york-mount-vernon De'Ara: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/magazine/deana-lawson.html Sam: https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/politics/2021/05/05/trump-memo-says-inmates-sent-home-due-covid-must-return-prison/7194735002/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Doreal. We're gonna post it to people and this episode is me, Sam,

0:04.7

Kaya, and DR as usual. We talk about the news that you don't know in the past

0:08.8

week that's about race and justice and equity. And then I sit down and talk with

0:12.4

Desmond Mead to discuss Florida's voting laws. Desmond has been on the

0:15.5

podcast before and then I chat with Chanel Powell to talk about her time on the

0:19.9

school board and what she think comes next in education. Now my advice is sort of

0:25.4

simple, let your community love you. So today I woke up and I must stomach, did not feel well.

0:30.4

And I'm an old school like ginger ale can heal most things. So I woke up, had a thing a ginger ale

0:35.6

and it just wasn't kicking in quickly. Like I'm like, oh, this is not good. So I tweet, you know,

0:40.6

my stomach hurt and the ginger ale is not doing this thing. And when I tell you people it's

0:45.8

open, immediately the response I get is like, you know, it's not just ginger ale is ginger ale

0:50.7

and lay down. And did you lay down people like you need you can't have sweeps you need.

0:56.2

You need the other brand of ginger ale. You need to get ginger ale bold like a canner to dry.

1:00.7

That's what it was. It was just it was one of those things that was like people were just so sweet

1:05.1

and people were so like my grandmother everybody. And it was like I just had to receive the love

1:10.1

that people people gave. So make sure you're you're letting yourself be loved on. And especially

1:14.3

in times you don't feel well. But in general sometimes we're so bad at receiving love and it comes

1:18.4

in our host of ways. Let yourself be loved. Let's go. Family loved ones. Welcome to another

1:25.4

episode of pod save the people. I am DR a Ballinger. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram

1:30.7

at DR Ballinger. And I'm Samson Youngway at Sam's Way on Twitter. I'm Kaya Henderson at Henderson

1:36.6

Kaya on Twitter. I'm great at DR Y on Twitter. So just going to jump in with some black girl magic

1:43.2

news here on pod save the people. But just want to give a shout out and a congrats and a well

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