Hey My Lady Readers, you BASTARD

Thee side is so angry today.

I am livid.

We're going to explain why, but first, I'm Sam Sanders. I'm Saeed Jones. And I'm

Zack Stafford and you're listening to Vibe Check or the day that Sam's life is because I Jones is angry.

So listeners, full disclosure, some of the episodes that you're going to hear in August

have been pre-taped in advance because the team is taking some time off in August.

So as we were thinking of episodes to run during that time that we could pre-tape, I said to the group,

a thing I like to do, I like to take certain readings and call them my modern

scriptures. Things that I've read recently that I find myself constantly

going back to because they speak to me in such a real way. So I said what if for

one of these August episodes we had an episode all about our picks for modern scriptures?

Two things we've read in the last few years that stick with us, that we we go back to that help us.

A simple request, unless you're asking a poet who reads everything,

in which case it seems as if this has sent my dear friend Saeed Jones into an existential

tail spin tell us how you're filming right now. Even as Sam was rambling I don't

know what he just said because I was using as an opportunity to scoot my little sliding

desk chair over to the side to go through a copy of a Sarah Schulman book.

Look, this is my worst nightmare.

I...

First of all, if you ask me to number anything,

if you were like, Saeed was like your favorite three colors,

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