Code-Switching (w/ Gabby Sidibe)
Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer
Headgum & Nicole Byer
4.9 • 16K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Gabby Sidibe (Precious, American Horror Story, Empire) joins Nicole to discuss the problematic expectation to have to code switch at work, why Black women are often dealbreakers for Black men, and the crazy story behind dating a gay man for 3 years. Plus, they chat about watching 90 Day Fiancé in quarantine, and how they get mistaken for each other all the time.
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| 0:00.0 | Why won't you date me? |
| 0:10.0 | Why won't you date me? |
| 0:12.0 | Why won't you date me? |
| 0:14.0 | Please, tell me why. |
| 0:18.0 | Oh, baby, welcome to another episode of Why Won't You Date Me? |
| 0:27.7 | A podcast or a meaner call buyer tries to figure out why I'm still single, even though |
| 0:33.5 | you could throw all of my makeup off a cliff and then push me off a cliff and I would climb |
| 0:41.7 | back up and say, excuse me, I love you. |
| 0:47.0 | My guess today is an Oscar-nominated actress. |
| 0:51.7 | You know her from precious, Tower Heist. |
| 0:56.6 | In history, Bojack Horseman, difficult people, American Horror Story, Empire, it's Gabby |
| 1:03.6 | Sidamay! |
| 1:06.6 | It's got to pop pop pop pop! |
| 1:10.6 | Hello. |
| 1:12.6 | That's usually how people respond to it. |
| 1:18.6 | That was so much. |
| 1:19.6 | Why would you do all that? |
| 1:21.6 | It's because I'm extra. |
| 1:24.6 | Also, I'm sitting with the Emmy-nominated host of Nailed It. |
| 1:34.6 | Gabby, thank you so much. |
| 1:37.6 | It's so insane. |
| 1:38.6 | I cannot believe it. |
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