This week we speak with Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer and USC professor Viet Thanh Nguyen. It’s a great conversation, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did taking part in it.

We also have Choice Words about Deion Sanders’s big splash and securing a massive victory against the college football powers that be in recruiting. Don’t miss another great edition of Jake’s Takes as well. All this and more on this week’s show! 

Zirin Jackson State’s Deion Sanders snagging top recruit makes HBCU football the big story

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