Introducing Truth Be Told, Hosted by Tonya Mosley
Truth Be Told: Time to Thrive
American Public Media
4.3 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2019
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
KQED’s Truth Be Told is a brand-new advice show made by and for people of color. If Miss Manners tells you how to behave, Truth Be Told explores how you can be you in a world that doesn’t always want you to…just be.
Through unfiltered advice, host Tonya Mosley takes on listener questions, digging into what it means to not just survive, but thrive, as a person of color in our country.
Our first episode drops May 16, 2019 with new episodes every Thursday. You can hear the trailer right now and subscribe to Truth Be Told for free on Apple Podcasts, NPR One, or anywhere you get your podcasts. Don’t miss a minute.
We see you, we feel you, we hear you.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk for a minute. I am obsessed with getting and giving advice. I can't get enough. |
| 0:07.0 | Dear Abby, dear Miss Manners. |
| 0:09.0 | Dear Miss Manners, I need your help. |
| 0:12.0 | But sometimes, well let's be real, a lot of the time. The most popular |
| 0:16.1 | advice shows and columns leave people like me, people like us, black, brown, indigenous, and |
| 0:21.2 | Asian folks, out of the conversation. |
| 0:24.0 | Is it okay to feel huge phenomenal amazing joy when it seems like the rest of the world is burning. |
| 0:33.2 | I'm Tanya Mosley. |
| 0:34.2 | Welcome to Truth Be Told, the advice show |
| 0:36.7 | you've always wanted. |
| 0:38.4 | We need to love women of color more |
| 0:40.4 | and kind of be more generous. |
| 0:42.1 | You are my God. |
| 0:42.8 | Yes, we're giving each other high fives |
| 0:44.4 | and here over that. |
| 0:46.3 | If the other shows are telling you how to blend in and behave, |
| 0:49.3 | we explore how you, can be you, in a world |
| 0:52.3 | that doesn't always want you to just fully eat a place |
| 0:55.2 | where you can laugh. Cry, bitch, moan. Every day I wake up and I'm just like, |
| 1:00.0 | okay so how am I going to handle this or how am I going to do this? |
| 1:03.0 | Yep, we all have different experiences in this country, but truth be told is intentional |
| 1:07.6 | when we say people of color. |
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