Oldie but Goodie (with Valerie Biden)
Pod Save the People
Pod Save the People
4.7 • 8.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2022
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
DeRay, Myles, De’Ara and Kaya cover the underreported news of the week— including scorching temperatures in Texas prisons, land stolen from a Black family returned, Oxford dictionary seeks to define African-American language, and a big win for actress Mo’Nique. De’Ara interviews political strategist Valerie Biden about her new book Growing Up Biden: A Memoir.
News:
Kaya https://www.bet.com/article/k131wp/land-stolen-from-a-black-family-returned-after-nearly-100-years
De’Ara https://www.axios.com/2022/07/22/oxford-dictionary-african-american-english-gates
Myles https://twitter.com/strongblacklead/status/1549424361723105283?s=21&t=IfxS47ATig73-q5JCOUbug
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| 0:00.0 | Legacy of Speed follows the transformation of a San Jose State track program in the 1960s. |
| 0:07.0 | What started out as a second tier state college, no one outside of California had ever heard of, |
| 0:12.5 | quickly became known as the home to Speed City. |
| 0:16.0 | The guidance of one coach and his unconventional techniques launched the careers of the fastest sprinters of the day. |
| 0:22.5 | Host Malcolm Gladwell, a competitive runner himself, traces the journey of those sprinters, who went on to ignite a boycott movement and protest the 1968 Summer Olympics. |
| 0:32.5 | Malcolm talks to Olympic athletes, sports journalists, performance coaches, and documentarians, and you'll hear from some of the best runners of all time, Tommy Smith, John Carlos, and Lee Evans. |
| 0:43.5 | It's a story about athletes who dare to take a stand and the mentors who made them fast, and brave enough to pave the way for the sports activism we see today. |
| 0:53.5 | Behind Legacy of Speed, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:57.5 | Hey, this is Derey, and we're going to pause the other people on this episode. It's me, D.R. Kaya Miles. |
| 1:06.5 | Talking about the news that was underreported in the last week, the news that you don't know about Reese Justice's inequity that you should know. |
| 1:13.5 | And then D.R. sits down with political strategist Valerie Biden, the chat about her new book, Growing Up Biden MMR. |
| 1:18.5 | They chat about women in politics, the legacy of the Biden family, and the future of America. Learned a lot, listened, let's do it, y'all. |
| 1:26.5 | My advice for this week is to listen to some of the old tunes, the old tunes that you listen to in college, when you were a kid, I went down a whole rabbit hole, songs about Jane, and one great album. |
| 1:40.5 | I mean, I feel like they got me through college, shout out to Maroon 5. So listen to some of the old stuff. Here we go. |
| 1:46.5 | Family, welcome to another episode of Pod Save, the people I am D.R. a Ballinger. You can find me on the Twitter and Instagram at D.R. Ballinger. |
| 2:00.5 | I'm Malsey Johnson. You can find me on Instagram and Twitter at Ferro Rapture. |
| 2:05.5 | I'm Kaya Henderson, at Henderson Kaya on Twitter. |
| 2:08.5 | And I'm Derey, D.R. and Watt on Twitter. |
| 2:11.5 | Okay, so I'm sure everyone at this point has seen, I mean, you must be under a rock if you haven't seen, but the Sesame Street play snub that happened to the two little adorable black girls. |
| 2:24.5 | I'm not that familiar with the new Sesame Street character, so I can't even tell you what character it was. I mean, I'm sure Kaya knows. |
| 2:31.5 | Her name is Rosita. I'm sure there was not a Rosita inside. I doubt that. But anyhow, so if you guys, if y'all haven't seen it, basically, it was like, you know, like Sesame Place Parade and all the characters are walking down the Sesame Place, you know, the fake little street. |
| 2:54.5 | And the little girls were trying to just get ahead nod and a knowledge man, and what's going on from Rosita. |
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