Welcome to the Waves, Slate's Podcast about Gender, Feminism, and how we get through the challenges

that we've been facing lately.

Every episode you get a new pair of women to talk about the thing that we cannot get off of our minds and today you've got me,

Daisy Rosario, I'm senior supervising producer of audio here at Slate, and today I'm going to be talking to

two women who wrote a book together.

Today I'm going to be joined by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar,

real life sisters and co-writers of the new book,

The World Record Book of Racist Stories.

You might know Amber from Late Night with Seth Myers,

where she does the very hilarious recurring bit.

Amber says what?

Or even better from her own show, Amber Ruffin show which you can catch on

peacock which is of course NBC's streaming service. Lacey Lamar is

Amber's real life sister and though she is not a comedian she is also herself

very very funny. Amber and Lacey are real life sisters who grew up in Omaha

Nebraska and this book is their second book their first book was was called You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey.

Crazy stories about racism and most of those stories really center a lot on Lacey's experience living in Nebraska.

With this book, they are now expanding out to include stories of their other siblings,

as well as their parents and some of their friends.

The book is both hilarious and incredibly

maddening that genuinely is the best way I can describe it because these are

real stories of racist things that happen to Lacey and other people. I myself am a woman of color so I definitely related to a lot to some of these stories.

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