S E102: Issa Rae and Robin Thede are Moving Like Ants
This Is Karen Hunter
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🗓️ 9 July 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Working for the good of colony...is the pathway to success. Karen discusses how this is happening and why it should happen more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. I just saw a trailer for a Black Lady Sketch show on HBO and it looks amazing, hilarious |
| 0:18.0 | starring everyone from Pyle Bell to Lena Waith to Angela Bassett, David Alan Greer, Marsai Martin from Blackish. |
| 0:26.2 | It looks fantastic and I'm looking forward to it. |
| 0:29.3 | But when I saw the trailer, I immediately said that's a power play. It is produced by Robin Thi |
| 0:35.2 | who had a talk show on B. E. T. She was also a head writer for the nightly show with |
| 0:39.3 | Larry and Wilmer. Wilmore and I'm Ray. And you know, Isterrey is at HBO with her show Insecure and there were rumors that Insecure didn't come back last season because Isterrey made a power move. |
| 0:52.0 | She's been on HBO since 2016. because it's Serra made a power move. |
| 0:52.5 | She's been on HBO since 2016. |
| 0:55.2 | She started on YouTube with her awkward Black Girl series |
| 1:00.8 | where she produced herself in so many different vignettes. |
| 1:03.6 | It's really kind of funny. |
| 1:04.6 | You can check it out. |
| 1:05.3 | It's still on YouTube if you check out awkward black girl. |
| 1:09.9 | And then she turned that into what we now know is insecure, which is of course a sitcom, loosely |
| 1:16.5 | based on her life, very, very well done. |
| 1:19.8 | And it seemed like during contract negotiations, Isse Ray was like, hmm, I need more. |
| 1:26.0 | And because she was so successful, |
| 1:28.1 | because that show did way better than even HBO |
| 1:30.6 | imagined, she had leverage. And I love had leverage and I love that right now I love that she not only had leverage but she's moving like an ant you know I did a previous |
| 1:39.6 | podcast about how we need to move like ants and how ants have many different layers and levels |
| 1:44.4 | but the reality is that they all come together for a singular purpose which is the |
| 1:49.6 | success of the colony and I'm Ray apparently looks like she's hooking up all her friends |
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