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🗓️ 23 April 2025
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Mrs. Pearlmania read Bob the Drag Queen's new novel "Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert." This incredible imaginary work tackles what would happen if Harriet Tubman came back from the past to start a Hip-Hop career in the modern day.
This novel gave us so much joy, history, laughter, context, and more.
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0:00 Intro
0:45 Harriet Tubman Back from the Past
21:07 Harriet Tubman's New Song is Really Good
42:07 Benjamin Lay the Militant Quaker
1:06:54 Harriet Tubman Didn't like Lincoln
1:22:33 Mistakenly Outing A Gay Man
1:45:38 Listening to Harriet Tubman's Music
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0:00.0 | Harriet Tubman, live in concert, a novel by Bob the Drag Queen. |
0:05.0 | I was not prepared for this book. |
0:08.0 | You are not prepared for this book, but the good news is Mrs. Pearl Mania, my wife, who sits just off camera here to the side, she was completely prepared because she read this book the second she heard about it. |
0:20.0 | Bob the Drag Queen is one of our favorite entertainers in the history of a modern American |
0:25.4 | comedy and drag and everything else. |
0:27.7 | But now Bob the Drag Queen has become one of our favorite authors writing this incredible |
0:33.4 | book about Harriet Tubman trying to bring the new sound of freedom back to America in the |
0:41.3 | 21st century by hiring a hip-hop producer to release an album that is going to do the journey |
0:48.6 | through the history of slavery in the United States. I'm not doing it justice, but you know who |
0:53.8 | does do it justice? |
0:54.9 | Mrs. P. over here, as she explains to us this entire book, you don't have to have read it. |
0:59.2 | That's why we do a story report, because we all go on the journey together. |
1:04.6 | And with that, take it away, Mrs. P. on this special edition of |
1:08.0 | Too Many Tiles. |
1:11.6 | Remember to smile. |
1:14.4 | Welcome back. Guess what? It's Story Report Day. It is. |
1:17.8 | It's Book Club Day. It is. But we're calling a Story Report now because guess what? I've |
1:21.0 | already read this book. Yes. I'm going to explain it to you. You already went through all this. |
1:23.7 | I know. There is one thing I did want to go over. Okay, so I loved this book. And I think |
1:27.6 | everybody should read it. If they have the time or energy, it's not that long of a book. |
1:32.0 | It's a very short book. I highly recommend reading it because it was so fun. You read it in like an |
1:35.8 | afternoon. Yeah, it's great. You blew right through it. And also, you don't remember, |
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