Ep. 114 - Human rights activist Dani Bostick on the Kate Smith controversy

Enough About Me with Kirk Minihane

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Amidst the controversy surrounding singer Kate Smith's performance of songs that included racist content back in the 1930s, Kirk speaks with human rights activist Dani Bostick about the mob's reaction. In response to this story, the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Flyers have stopped playing Smith's rendition of "God Bless America" and the Flyers took down a statue of Smith that had stood in front of their arena since 1987.

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0:00.0	All right?
0:05.0	All right, enough about me taping this on Monday afternoon, right?
0:10.0	Monday afternoon.
0:12.0	Um... Right, Monday afternoon. I'm going backwards here.
0:15.9	I just hate the interview, and I'll tell you about that in a second.
0:20.0	And I enjoy it.
0:21.8	There's a good one. Hopefully, the sound was a little...
0:24.0	It's with Danny Bostick, who has a blue checkmark next to her name,
0:28.0	22,000 Twitter followers.
0:29.0	I'm not really sure what she does, but she was outspoken sort of against or for the removal of the statue for Kate Smith who's saying God bless America
0:38.4	Well, I'll get that whole story in a minute. I'm a little, frankly, a little, still a little shaken up. Over the news for
0:47.5	my my pal Gary Tanguay a couple hours ago, tweeted out.
0:52.7	He's in the middle of fighting non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
0:56.4	As we're going to Brigham Women's here.
0:59.7	And, you know, I talked to Tangui fairly frequently and he never mentioned it to me and I've talked
1:05.4	to a couple of other people who he knows well and works with and he never mentioned it to them either
1:09.3	and I can only suppose that you know he's an old school TV guy he's an old school main guy
1:14.4	where's the opposite of me who comes on like I did you know Friday and
1:18.2	fucking weeps and cries and that poor me you know he just kept his head down and did it. It's treatable. He said in his little
1:28.7	minute-long thing, Gary Tanguay if you're listening if you're a new listener is a television broadcaster in Boston
1:35.5	the NBC affiliate there
1:38.5	But for me and I think a lot of listeners this podcast he was
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