Boots Riley

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401 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 13 May

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Fresh Air · Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you · 13 May 2026 podcast

There's people in New York saying we came up with the term.

There's people in obviously in the Bay Area saying we came up with the term.

And there's people in Chicago saying, no, no boosters.

We did that in such and such.

So there's this whole debate.

And, um, you know, obviously I can't come from the Bay area, so I'm going to, you know, uh, shoot shots on, on, on that behalf.

However, uh,

Yeah, I think it was all over.

And definitely people had different ways of calling it.

But, you know, I have no idea where it came from.

There's somebody that could probably call in and tell us the etymology of that.

You know, I think you'd have to back it up to when I was 14 or 15, you know, and I got involved in supporting people who were organizing a cannery workers strike in Watsonville, California.

So I got invited to it.

youth, uh, event based on that.

And, um, you know, they, they, someone was like, Hey, you know, we're going to have this thing.

Um, we'll be by on, on, you know, we'll be by at noon on Saturday.

And back then there's no cell phones, there's no anything.

So you could totally ghost somebody a lot easier.

And I planned on it.

So I was like, I'm, I'm just, you

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