Ballin'

The Boondocks Podcast

Ballin’ – S02/E08

• Lynxi Welcome
  • Episode synopsis
    • HBOMax Synopsis: Riley joins Tom’s little league basketball team and learns there’s more to the game than flashy moves, there’s crushing, humiliating defeat.

Pre Show:

• Welcome to Demond Thompson from Demond Does and A Different World podcasts as our guest host while MJ is out.
• Palestinian crisis
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Show:

• Childrens’ sports
• Encouraging practice
• Parenting
• Trash talking
• Granddad’s boundaries
• Autistic tropes/ableism
• Educate yourself
• NIMBYs
• Selfishness
• Parents at kids’ games

White People Question:

• From a question michaelglover28 on TikTok got: “Where is your tail?”
• Additional question:
  • From wy68nn on TikTok: “Do Black people pull up next to other Black people, with their rooftops down, and still lock their doors?”
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Trivia:

• This is one of the two only episodes where a smile is seen on Huey’s face, after watching his brother make a basket.
• The first time the Mighty Deers’ uniform is seen, it is misspelled “Mighty Dees”.
• Riley winning the 3-Point Shootout without removing his warm-up suit (or his Tims) could be a reference to Larry Bird doing the same in the 1986 contest.
• The intro shows the NBA on TNT crew, including longtime white host Ernie Johnson, speaking exclusively in AAVE and frequently using the n-word.
• The autistic boy in the episode is based off of Jason McElwain, who is an autistic American; he came to fame on national news in 2006 when he played for four minutes and nineteen seconds during a high school basketball game and scored twenty points.

Show Music:

• • Intro: #Makeachange by K.I.R.K. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.
  • Outro: Good Times by Audiobinger is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.

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