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The SMACKDOWN: Rihanna's greatest hits vs. Black Wall Street vs. Route 66

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🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Who will win today's cage match?

Welcome to The Smackdown! For the last few weeks Brittany has been hosting debates in cities and regions across the United States to find out who and what are the most influential things from those places.

This episode Brittany lands in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and debates with KOSU's Jacob Littlebear and Kuma Roberts, co-hosts of Focus: Black Oklahoma. There will be winners. There will be losers. There will be surprises.

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Hello hello I'm Brittany Loose and you're listening to it's been a minute from npr a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. For the next few weeks I am bringing the Smackdown, a debate series to American

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cities all across the country to find out what are the most

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influential things and the most important people that come from those places. I'm

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debating who and what are the greatest of all time?

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Today's cage match is being held in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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And our debaters this week are the hosts of member station KOSU's focus, Black

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Oklahoma, Kuma Roberts, and Jacob Little Bear.

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Kuma, Jacob, which one of you do you think is the better debater?

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Well, me personally, Captain of the Booker T Washington debate team class of 1993.

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It's been 30 years, but I think I still got it, my friend.

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She probably does.

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I probably, I came up in the age of like internet trolling, so I'm not as refined.

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Hey, there's value in that.

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There's value in that.

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Uh-huh.

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But let me tell you how this debate will work. Okay, we got two categories

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We'll each select a contender myself included for each category

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We'll make our argument for our contender and then a select jury of NPR

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Culture Critics will decide who made the best argument. Okay, okay. The first

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