The Bakari Sellers Podcast

I’m not verified in X so I can’t PM you there. I was very curious what the Walz’s fertility journey was like so was interested to hear about the IUI. As someone who has done IVF like it sounds like you did also, here’s my opinion on it. 2006 fertility treatments were in a much less advanced stage than it is now. I’m sure it was available but things like PGT testing may not have been and other potential advances. It’s possible IUI was actually an aggressive treatment at the time. Regardless - what matters is that they tried and heard bad news for what almost 8 years??? The trauma of trying and trying and getting bad news everytime is the most important part of this experience. Did other people spend more money and physically endure more treatments? Absolutely. But I bet what matters most is that folks are suffering through the trauma of negative tests. Before we did IVF I did 5 medicated letrozole cycles in a row. Was it a lot of treatment? Not really, but the constant mental load of keeping track of everything in the process, the 5 days of pills, the tracking of ovulation strips, the monitoring ultrasounds, making sure we trigger at the right time and then suffering through the two weeks wait. Everyday for 5 cycles it was draining on me to always be thinking about it and managing it. I stopped at 5, took the summer off and did my egg retrieval in Sept. So the Walz’s likely did clomid medicated cycles paired with IUI and what matters is the constant monitoring and mental load of the treatments and the constant negative tests. That was the trauma, it doesn’t matter that it wasn’t as aggressive a treatment as others endure. Also love the show, love that you love Mayor Pete who I adore!

I never miss your podcast but I wanted to cancel while this guest/Kamala hater, Tara Palmieri, was broadcast. Please pass on future combined shows with her as I felt like she tends to spread misinformation about the president elect while dodging your meaningful questions trying to protect her job and her audience. I loved your responses to her questions tho.

Like many, I was introduced to Ms. Duncan by the 2024 Women’s Final Four — where she & her colleagues really captured the spirit of what was happening — both athletically, and as a cultural touchstone moment — and made it fun for the viewer. It became a celebration of excellence in sports. And I appreciated their never shying away, from the contribution to the frenzy, made by Iowa & Caitlin Clark. I hope like Ms. Duncan, community leaders will simply tell it like it is. There can’t not be an element of race in the Caitlin Clark phenomenon — but in truth, I tune in to watch her because of the YouTube videos that popped up a couple of years ago, and how she mind-bogglingly was shooting the basketball like Steph Curry — an African-American man. And I think it hurts the cause, when Twitter & Instagram go off on how Nike signed Clark because she’s White. You know who’s made the most money from Nike? Michael Jordan & Tiger Woods. Thought leaders need to point out that Nike is not an Internet troll, and it only signs athletes because it thinks it can profit from doing so — as it continues to do with the Jordan Brand, to the tune of $800+ million each year. And the main problem, I think, with calling out Nike & Caitlin Clark fans as “racist” — is that it risks having people “tune out,” and “roll their eyes” & not pay attention…when situations that actually involve racism & need to be addressed, come up in the future. I worry about that, and I think social media’s innate tendency to hitch its wagon to whatever is “trending,” may have been a setback in this case. And to circle back to Ms. Duncan: who’d have thought they’d see the day, that ESPN would send a woman of color, to try and promote its auto racing programming — and European racing, at that? It shows you’re exactly right about Ms. Duncan’s icon status, in that the management thought she might serve to diversify the F1 audience — both in terms of gender, and race. (Which in my case, she did.) Thanks for a great show.

We’re all waiting for the mea culpa for all the nonsense about Biden being a good option. Oh and is Biden going to resign now? Its fine if you’re wrong, but if you’re going to be super obnoxious and deluded then be prepared to eat crow sometimes.