4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Akilah Hughes has made a name for herself across YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram as a comedian confronting pop culture, race, politics, and more with wit and realness. Now, she’s bringing her hilarious and thoughtful insight to Press Send. In this episode, we’re tackling your questions about political head-butting within a relationship, grappling with gentrification, friendship with exes, and knowing your worth at work.
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Twitter: @AkilahObviously
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And preorder her upcoming book, Obviously: Stories From My Timeline!
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0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
0:03.0 | Welcome to Press Send. |
0:07.0 | I'm Shiney Alexander and this is a podcast where we talk through your problems and we give you our best advice. |
0:14.2 | Today we have my dear friend Aquila Hughes here to help you with your burning questions. |
0:19.7 | So a Kila and I met in a very unique way. I actually heard her on a |
0:24.8 | podcast and then I started following her on Twitter and then I saw on Twitter that |
0:29.0 | she had an Instagram. So I'm mozzied on over to Instagram and I was very creepy in the sense that I kind of |
0:37.4 | realized that she lived in my neighborhood and so I messaged her and I said basically, like, do you want to be my friend and can we get dinner? |
0:47.1 | We got to the day of the dinner. |
0:49.8 | She so politely agreed probably. |
0:52.6 | I don't even, what were you thinking at that time? |
0:54.8 | Honestly, I was like, I went to your Instagram of like, |
0:57.4 | her life looks really like clean. |
0:59.2 | So like if she's a murderer, at least I'm getting murdered by someone |
1:02.1 | who like has a good aesthetic. |
1:03.2 | I love a murder with like a good aesthetic. |
1:06.2 | Yeah. I want to die on very comfortable sheets. |
1:09.7 | So basically the day came and it was like bad weather or something and I was like do you want to just come over to my house for dinner and so the first time I ever met |
1:18.9 | Akila she was walking through the doors of my apartment yeah which seems very murder oh yeah it seems like I really I |
1:26.2 | really set you up and you took it hookline and sinker yeah but and now we we're we're |
1:32.0 | celebrating like a almost a one-year little friendship here. |
1:35.0 | Yeah, it's really sweet, you know? |
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