The Newlywed Game with Back Issue

For Colored Nerds

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Before the year ends, Brittany and Eric welcome another dynamic duo: Tracy Clayton and Josh Gwynn, hosts of the Back Issue podcast. They get into the ins and outs of co-host life, make a case for how pop culture can be a balm for all of us in these times, and also test how well they really know each other.

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0:00.0	We have got such an exciting show planned for today with not one, but two incredible guests.
0:10.0	So let's jump right in and give them a quick intro so that we can do what we came to do today.
0:29.2	So first starting off with Josh Gwyn, he is an audio producer, host, all-around creative, who has worked for just about everybody.
0:35.0	Like if I name a company, he's worked for Pineapple Street Media, New York Times, Netflix, Essence, Stitcher, Nike.
0:36.1	I mean, I could just go on.
0:37.0	I keep going on. I just want to clarify that I'm doing this in my journalist's voice because I'm saying
0:40.4	important things.
0:41.5	Tracy Clayton is a podcasting veteran, known for her interviews with folks like
0:45.7	Debbie Allen and Robert Townsend, Ilan Omar, and Raquel Willis.
0:49.8	You may also know her from hosting a little podcast.
0:53.5	The damn near everybody knows called Another Round.
0:57.1	Together, Josh and Tracy host the excellent back-issue podcast, a show that tells the
1:02.2	stories behind formative moments in pop culture.
1:05.2	On it, they've done everything from restore justice to the legacy of Mariah Carey's
1:10.7	glitter to interview the legend,
1:13.6	Nikki Giovanni.
1:14.6	Yes.
1:15.6	Back issue was named one of the top 10 podcasts of 2020 by Time Magazine and one of the top 15
1:21.9	podcasts of 2020 by The Atlantic and in a glowing profile from just last year.
1:28.7	So you know the shit is recent.
1:31.1	Like the positive vibes are flowing in the ether.
1:36.2	Sandra E. Garcia of the New York Times called Back Issue a bomb in trying times.
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