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This is Love

What Gets Told

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.79.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

"History was dependent upon people like me remembering." A conversation with Betty Reid Soskin, shortly before her 100th birthday. Betty Reid Soskin’s book is Sign My Name to Freedom. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 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. Well, let's just start if that's okay with you introducing yourself.

0:35.0

All right. My name is Betty Reed Soskin, and I am, uh, will be a hundred years old on the 22nd of September.

0:49.0

How does it feel to be 99?

0:57.0

Oh, I guess the same way it felt in 98. Betty Reed Soskin was born on September 22nd, 1921.

1:04.0

When she was little, her family lived in New Orleans.

1:07.0

I mean with lots of things about being a small travel museum.

1:12.0

Here's Betty in an oral history she recorded about 20 years ago,

1:17.0

archived at UC Berkeley.

1:19.0

I have images in my head of standing on top of a huge wooden chest outside of a grocery store in which ice and oysters were kept and the men in the community would be out

1:34.7

cracking oysters and drinking beer and my dad standing me up on top this wood chest and my singing in a little Spanish town.

1:45.0

Betty has by far the best recall of anybody I have ever met.

1:54.0

Here's Jesse Taylor. He's Betty's cousin, and they work together on her memoir.

1:59.0

We were talking one time about the family when they moved here from Louisiana, here meaning to

2:07.0

Oakland, California. And Betty remembered the names of all the neighbors and where they worked and what their relationship

2:16.6

was and to me that and that was she was going back to the 1920s we were talking

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