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This is Love

Sun-Man

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.89.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In 1984, Yla Eason’s three-year-old son told her he couldn’t be a superhero because he wasn’t white like his He-Man action figures. So she looked for a Black action figure for him. When she couldn’t find one anywhere, she decided to make one herself. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 Want to listen to This is Love ad-free? Sign up for Criminal Plus – you’ll get This is Love, Criminal, and Phoebe Reads a Mystery ad-free. Plus, behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal and other exclusive benefits. Learn more and sign up here. We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment, and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. Can you describe what he man looks like?

0:37.0

Okay, he man, extremely muscular, huge biceps and thighs and legs in a tiny speedo type undergarment, if you will,

0:51.5

or outfit, a costume, and breast plate and armor breast plate

0:58.7

that looked like something from Viking era era and shoulder length blonde hair.

1:08.0

A muscled white guy.

1:10.0

Yep, yep, musep. Muscle, biking-ish white guy.

1:16.0

This is Wiley Eason.

1:19.0

Her son Menelik was born in New York City in 1981.

1:23.0

I don't know where he developed this superhero,

1:28.0

toy fascination.

1:30.0

It might have been at nursery school.

1:32.0

It may have been with some of his other friends,

1:35.0

but he was totally into them.

1:37.0

I can also remember one of the,

1:40.0

his first multi-syllabic word was collection, as in get the whole collection.

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