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When Life Gives You (Don) Lemons…

FANTI

Maximum Fun

Jarrett Hill, Culture, Fanti, Comedy, Tre'vell Anderson, Journalists, Society & Culture

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, journalists Tre’vell Anderson and jarrett hill discuss the very complex and complicado career of Don Lemon, and how his legacy has not only affected pop culture, but the Black community. Our hosts get into the dichotomy of the journalist, as both a victim and perpetrator of homophobia and anti-blackness. But first, a special FANTI exclusive on Tre’vell and jarrett’s upcoming book, Historically Black Phrases (Dropping September 19th). And later Tre’vell shares their-run in with somebody’s Bible-thumping grandmother during their book tour of We see Each Other: A Black Trans Journey Through Television and Film.

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0:00.0

Hey there, beautiful people. Welcome to fan side of the podcast for all those complex and

0:07.1

complicated conversations about the great areas in our lives. I am a really thrown off my game

0:14.8

right now. But wow, I had like a whole thing I was going to do today and that just completely

0:19.5

took me out. I'm Tri-Fell Anderson. Oh, oh, yeah, my name's Jarrett. I host around here.

0:25.5

You're going to hold the microphone this whole time. Yeah, I was saying that I'm trying something

0:31.8

new and something different. You know, we'll see, you know, what it gives, because you know,

0:37.6

I usually like to talk with my hands. You can't really do that when one of the hands is obligated.

0:43.1

For the people who are listening and not watching us, I am holding my microphone as opposed to

0:48.0

having it on the stand that this go around. We'll see how it works out. I don't know why it's so

0:55.3

funny to me. Like, it's, it is pure comedy. I kind of want to join you, but I don't have the

1:00.5

right microphone hooked up for that today. But like, it's, it's all right. It's all right.

1:05.9

While you recollect yourself, I will tell the people what we are going to get into today.

1:11.1

We will be talking about Don Lemonesha. All right. He will be our our fan side topic today,

1:18.8

the complex and complicated of it. But first, we have a very special, I don't know if we're

1:25.1

calling this a pop the past the popcorn moment. Maybe it's just an announcement. You know, insert

1:30.4

horns here. No, it's a, I know Anne put it on a split screen right there. Y'all love that.

1:41.2

So here's the thing. We have been working on something. I don't know if you've really heard about

1:46.2

it, but Trevella and I are authors and authoresses with books in store right now. We see each other

1:51.9

available, wherever you get your slayworthy books. Amen. And another book on the way,

1:58.0

historically black phrases, which will be available September 19th. We've been working on this book

2:02.4

for about two years now and my god today, having gotten it sold in late 2021 after about five years

2:11.1

of trying to pitch it myself as a book, as a show, as a video series, as all kinds of different

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