Ep. 41 Comedy, Race, Travel and Books with Tawny Newsome
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
We are joined by Tawny Newsome, a modern day renaissance woman. Tawny is known for her work as an actress, comedian, and podcaster. She is the co-host of the Yo, is this Racist? podcast, and The Super Group podcast. Tawny talks with us about racism through her lens as a comedian, reading all the travel memoirs (even the bad ones), and what Leonardo Dicaprio movie is also one of her most beloved books. Plus all the book lady comedian memoir recommendations you can handle, so get your TBRs ready.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and |
| 0:08.0 | welcome to the stacks a podcast all about books. I'm your host Tracy Thomas and today we are talking to |
| 0:14.6 | actress comedian and a musician and the host of the Yo is This racist podcast |
| 0:19.2 | Tawny Newsom. Before we get going here's your reminder to follow the stacks on all of our social media platforms |
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| 0:28.2 | Links to all of these accounts are found in our show notes. |
| 0:31.0 | Also in the show notes are links to everything we talk about on today's episode. |
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