PTFO - How Emmett Till Got Erased from the History Books, with Wright Thompson

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

You have heard about the grocery store. And the photographs cannot be unseen. But the 1955 murder of a 14-year-old in Mississippi — a killing that sparked the Civil Rights Movement, that forever shaped America — has been criminally underreported. Until Wright Thompson, son of the Delta and sportswriter of the century, embarked upon a story about LeBron's Lakers... that became a mapping of intentionally constructed, deeply hard-wired silence, in his new instant bestseller and surrealistic people's history, The Barn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.0	We have to create a tribe of us before we do anything else.
0:11.0	Right after this ad.
0:14.0	You're listening to Draft Kings Network. Oh, who is that.
0:27.0	All the big names are here. Oh, who is that?
0:28.0	I think she was in the movie about that really big shark.
0:31.0	No, not her.
0:32.0	The florist. She's automating
0:34.2	invoices on the go so she can spend more time on that flower wall.
0:37.6	Quick books to save you up to eight hours a week so you could bring your
0:41.4	vision to life. That's how you business differently.
0:44.3	Into its QuickBooks. This is the best thing you've read in.
0:55.0	I mean it's a weird question but I sort of agree.
0:59.0	Wasn't even a question.
1:00.0	No, it's not.
1:01.0	I just think it's, it's, this new book the barn is the best thing I've read you
1:07.4	right this is gonna sound crazy if like everything else I've ever written is
1:11.8	prelude and practice to be able to do this right and not
1:15.6	fuck it up. It is reported. I want people to know about the fact that this is
1:20.8	investigative journalism that is cinematic and even that worry I'm
1:26.8	already catching myself because it's it's it's about what really happened
1:31.0	in a story that I do so much less than I realized.
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