How Can We Still Watch This? (with Kiese Laymon)
How Can We Still Watch This? (with Kiese Laymon)
How Can We Still Watch This? (with Kiese Laymon)
On the NFL’s opening week, best-selling author and MacArthur Genius Kiese Laymon joins Damon for an in-depth conversation on how they can enjoy such a violent, racist sport that profits on the destruction of (primarily Black) bodies. Plus, they find beauty in Black virtuosity and 90s-fine quarterbacks.
Chapters:
00:00 Open
00:26 Introduction
04:54 Growing up in the deep south as a football fan
08:38 Deion Sanders leaving his HBCU team to coach at a PWI
15:53 Damon roots for Mike Tomlin first, then the Steelers
22:40 Damon and Kiese can admit Jalen Hurts is an attractive man
29:17 The consumption of violence through the NFL
47:54 Outro
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Stuck with Damon Young
Stuck with Damon Young returns with more off-the-cuff conversations inspired by today’s most culturally relevant headlines and round ups of Damon-approved listener-submitted questions. Each episode, award-winning author Damon Young is joined by some of the best, brightest, and Blackest people he knows including special guests Kiese Laymon, Roy Wood Jr., Elaine Welteroth, Nikole Hannah-Jones and others. Come explore the uncomfortable, hideous, and hilarious absurdity of our human behavior. Listen to Stuck with Damon Young on Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.Join Podchaser to...
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