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Boots Riley

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

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

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

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

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

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

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

We did that in such and such.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

So there's this whole debate.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

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.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

However, uh,

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

Yeah, I think it was all over.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

And definitely people had different ways of calling it.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

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

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

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

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

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.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

So I got invited to it.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

youth, uh, event based on that.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

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

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

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

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

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

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

So you could totally ghost somebody a lot easier.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

And I planned on it.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

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