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The Daily Beast Podcast

Stop Being A White Savior and Join a School Board ft. Phoebe Robinson

The Daily Beast Podcast

The Daily Beast

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4.68.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Comedian, author, and “2 Dope Queens” actress Phoebe Robinson tells white people how they can step away from the “white savior” mentality (and the Instagram posts that come with it) and do things that will actually help Black people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This Christmas, discover the Whitney Houston story you never knew.

0:04.4

Wait, how about it? It's all in the same thing.

0:07.2

From the writer of Bohemian rap city.

0:09.1

This is what they want.

0:10.0

America's sweetheart. You won't give it to them.

0:12.2

Just watch me.

0:16.5

I want to dance with somebody only in Sima's from Boxing Day.

0:22.4

Hello and welcome to another bonus episode of the new abnormal and we thank you so much for

0:26.5

being here. This week we have an extra special guest with Phoebe Robinson.

0:30.4

You may know from her work on two broke girls, Broad City, and well,

0:34.7

tons of other things, but she's back with a brand new book called Please Don't Sit On My Bed

0:39.2

in Your Outside Close. So we talked to her all about that today. Enjoy.

0:43.6

Welcome to the new abnormal Phoebe Robinson.

0:46.9

Thanks for having me. I'm so excited to be here.

0:49.7

So I want to talk about your book. I want to talk about your book imprint. I want to talk

0:55.1

about your show, but let's start with the book imprint because I think it's really cool what

1:01.4

you're doing and I would love you to explain it a little bit if you can.

1:04.7

Yeah, of course. So my book imprint is called Tiny Reparations Books and I met my lit agent

1:11.8

Robert back in 2014. He found me on some list of New York comedians who were,

1:17.6

you know, I don't know, doing whatever. Like one of those lists I like shop people out, but don't

1:21.9

really change your career at all. LOL. Yes. So he saw me on that and then he read a blog that I was

1:28.4

writing at the time called Blaria, which stands for Black Darya. I love it. Yeah, thank you.

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