We'll be back with a new episode next week, but in the meantime, we're featuring an episode of a new show from Gimlet and Crooked Media: Stuck with Damon Young. You can listen to episodes here: https://open.spotify.com/show/42kxHmWquXQBJCxG0rXvu6 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Hey, folks, Emmanuel here.
We're hard at work on a new episode for you that will be out next week.
But in the meantime, I just wanted to drop in and tell you about a new show that some of my colleagues at Gimlet have been working on.
It's called stuck with Damon Young.
If Damon's name sounds familiar to you, he's an award winning writer and author who I really love because he is just so brutally honest and funny about race, religion and so many other things.
And he brings a lot of that to this new show.
He has all these conversations with a lot of really smart people about issues that are often really difficult to pass.
The show comes out every Tuesday and you can find it on Spotify.
We're going to feature an episode of the show on our feed this week.
It's about what being on the Internet, especially if you're a public figure, does to your sense of self, specifically about what it's like to be a black public figure on the Internet.
In his episode, Damon explores the weight of being a member of so called blue check black Twitter with Jamel Hill.
And then he talks to one very online couple, Joel Anderson and Janae Desmond Harris, about the politics of defending yourself and the ones you love online.
I hope you enjoy it.
We'll be back with our episode right after the break.
So for a long time, the Internet me, well, at least when I've been on the Internet long enough to have a Persona, was a Persona.
Someone a little wittier, a little snarkier, and with humor, a little darker than I was in person.
I mean, I wasnt a catfish.
Those characteristics of Internet me were a part of the real me too.
But the in person me had neither the platform nor to comfort my own skin to reveal those parts of myself.
The distance between Internet me and in person me began to shrink as I received more and personal validations for my Internet Persona, money opportunities and random niggas calling me king and asking me to build.