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108. Sherman Alexie Wants His Scars
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108. Sherman Alexie Wants His Scars

Talking about Pretendians, the silliness of the word "indigenous," blackout drinking and bad nudity with the celebrated Native American writer
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Christmas comes early as we interview Sherman Alexie, Native American author and top-tier Substacker, about Pretendians like Sasheen Littlefeather and Buffy Sainte-Marie, who steal trauma for their own status. We also discuss:

  • Buy our new holiday meatballs!

  • Let it be said, Sherman Alexie has awesome hair

  • The ruse of the word “indigenous”

  • Why Sherman was not shocked to learn Buffy Sainte-Marie was not native

  • How inclusivity plays out in a younger generation of “defendians”

  • “I grew up in hell”: hard life on the rez

  • Drink, drank, drunk

  • The genetic link of blackout drinking

  • You wake up naked on the top of a hill, what do you do?

  • You should be so lucky to have an ancestor named Thunder Meatflayer

  • Indian goodbye, Indian hello

  • Will the current surge in Indian film and TV creation continue?

  • The “shocking and amazing” classic novel Sherman just re-read

  • Scorsese Scorsese Scorsese

Plus Sherman comes up with a song we want AI to create and Sarah shocks Nancy and Sherman with a story about a romantic cult that went WAY too far …

Guess what we want for Christmas?

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