'The Bold Type': Aisha Dee and Amanda Lasher

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🗓️ 7 August 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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It's Tuesday: actress Aisha Dee and showrunner Amanda Lasher join Sam to talk about their Freeform show, 'The Bold Type.' The show follows three young women living and working in New York City — wide-eyed youth dealing with race, sex, and politics, without the tired tropes. Email [email protected] or tweet @NPRItsBeenAMin with feels.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, from NPR, it's been a minute.
0:07.3	I'm Sam Sanders.
0:08.7	Every Tuesday, I bring you a conversation.
0:11.0	Today, we are talking about a show I like.
0:13.2	A show that I think you might like too.
0:15.4	It's called The Bold Type.
0:17.1	If you haven't heard of it, go check it out.
0:18.9	It's a TV show on free form.
0:20.5	It's all about three young women living and working in New York City trying to make it
0:25.4	in the Big Apple.
0:26.6	Now, let me stop you because I know what you're thinking right now.
0:29.6	You are thinking that you have already seen this show before, several times.
0:34.1	Young women in great clothes living in impossibly amazing apartments, taking New York by storm.
0:40.3	But the show, it's more than that.
0:42.8	The Bold Type is in this very refreshing way deep.
0:47.0	The characters on this show have honest and believable conversations about race and politics
0:51.5	and sex.
0:52.5	They go there.
0:54.3	I talk to two folks from the Bold Type in this chat.
0:56.8	Amanda Lashert, she is a showrunner and Aisha D.
1:00.7	She plays cat on the show.
1:02.3	They both joined me in studio at NPR West in Culver City.
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