The Subtle Roast

The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

Identity, International, Thestoop, Blackness, Storytelling, African, Personal Journals, Africanamerican, Blackidentity, Blackart, Journalism, Society & Culture, Black, Diaspora, Blackculture

4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We don't hear alot of personal stories about what it is to be a big man in Black spaces.
Today we go there with Ronald Young Jr., award-winning podcaster and creator of the hit show “Weight for It.” We stoop it out as he takes us back in time to when he was roasted at church, and unpacks what it feels like to be on the receiving end of ridicule by those who you feel closest to.

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0:00.0	We ask folks that have been on the show if there was one sound that embodies blackness for you,
0:09.0	what would that sound be?
0:12.0	The B3 Hammond organ, You turn on the organ right now. If somebody's playing it,
0:17.0	one, it evokes church for me, and two, it evokes blackness. When that organ comes on, I feel all right, like things are going to be okay. It is one of the
0:31.8	blackest sounds I've ever heard.
0:34.0	My name is Ronald Young Jr. I'm an audio producer, storyteller, and host. So today we are stooping it out with the creator of the award-winning show,
0:54.1	Wait for it.
0:55.4	The podcast about people that can't keep weight off their minds.
0:59.1	Hana, let's do it. The stoop. My stu.
1:05.0	The stoop.
1:07.0	The stoop.
1:08.0	The stoop.
1:09.0	Stories from across the black diaspora.
1:12.0	That we need to talk about.
1:13.4	My cousins were water and Greece girls, and I couldn't be a water and Greece girl.
1:17.4	That's what I'm talking about, Balarin in the hood.
1:19.4	We be gonna get you a 90 people.
1:21.4	When a black woman walks up to the desk in labor,
1:26.0	what preconceived notions do you have about her?
1:29.0	I didn't even know we had a hair sharp. Hi, my name is
1:35.0	the stoop.
1:37.0	Hi, my name is Brian Lauter, and I'm one of the hosts of
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