W. Kamau Bell, the reluctant optimist | Edge of Sports
Edge of Sports
Dave Zirin / The Nation
4.8 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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In this episode of Edge of Sports, host Dave Zirin highlights two takes on the gender politics of sports culture. Dr. Cheryl Cooky joins the Ask a Sports Scholar segment to discuss the history of sports and gender equality, as well as her book, No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport, and the Unevenness of Social Change. Finally, W. Kamau Bell climbs aboard for a special interview looking back on his career as a media personality, from the early days of Totally Biased to United Shades of America.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Edge of Sports fans. Thank you so much for being patient. I know it's been a while since we've had a show. |
| 0:08.5 | I just wanted to let you all know that this episode of the Edge of Sports podcast is a taping, a live taping of my new TV show, Edge of Sports TV over on the Real News Network. |
| 0:21.6 | The podcast is still sponsored by the nation. |
| 0:24.1 | Our guest is Camau Bell, and I hope you love it. |
| 0:28.4 | Stay frosty. |
| 0:32.0 | Age. |
| 0:36.5 | Welcome to Edge of Sports, the TV show, only on the Real News Network. |
| 0:41.5 | I'm Dave Ziron, and this week we have TV host, comedian, and documentary filmmaker, |
| 0:46.9 | a guy who's just killing it these days, W. Camau Bell. |
| 0:50.9 | Also, in Ask a Sports Scholar, I'm talking to Professor Cheryl Cookie at Purdue University |
| 0:56.4 | in a segment that we call Ask a Sports Scholar. |
| 1:00.5 | And I have choice words about John Morant and this country is sick, hypocritical, |
| 1:06.1 | an altogether racist relationship to the gun. |
| 1:10.1 | As well as some final thoughts about someone whose name, |
| 1:13.0 | if you don't know it, you will, Victor Wembeyanama. But first, as promised, we have director |
| 1:18.9 | and executive producer of the HBO documentary 1000% Me growing up mixed, as well as the four-part |
| 1:26.0 | Peabody award-winning Showtime docu-series, |
| 1:28.8 | we need to talk about Cosby. |
| 1:31.2 | He won a rack of Emmys for his award-winning CNN docu series, United Shades of America, |
| 1:36.2 | a show that was canceled, and we are going to speak about that. |
| 1:39.1 | He is the ACLU Celebrity Ambassador for Racial Justice, W. Camau Bell. |
| 1:47.9 | Kamau Bell, thanks so much for being on the edge of sports, man. |
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