“Two Can Play That GameStop” (with Amanda Idoko)
Keep It!
Keep It!
4.6 • 10.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2021
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Ira, Louis, and Aida try to make sense of the GameStop business then just talk about video games. Also discussed: remembering Cicely Tyson, Cloris Leachman, and Sophie, AOC’s rightful anger at Republicans, worrying Drag Race trends, the Chromatica Oreos, and more. Plus, Amanda Idoko joins to talk diversity in writers' rooms and her debut feature Breaking News in Yuba County.
Ira's book recs:
Stacey Abrams — Lead From the Outside
Tressie McMillan Cottom — Thick: And Other Essays
Brandon Taylor — Real Life
Hanif Abdurraqib — They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Hanif Abdurraqib — A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Buy them from your local black owned bookstore
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:10.2 | And we're back with an all-new episode of Keep It. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Iram Madison III. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm Lewis Phyllis Lindstrom-Vertel. |
| 0:17.7 | All right, Pete Chloris. |
| 0:20.2 | My name is Aida Osman, and it's Black History Month. |
| 0:22.9 | Wow. |
| 0:23.4 | So, that's something to celebrate. |
| 0:25.8 | Welcome back to Keep It. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Iram Madison III. |
| 0:28.8 | We're doing it together. |
| 0:29.9 | It's Groundhog Day. |
| 0:31.1 | Oh, god, damn it. |
| 0:32.1 | Oh, my god. |
| 0:32.9 | Oh, my god. |
| 0:33.9 | Oh, you know how lost I was was in this month. |
| 0:40.2 | The confusion. |
| 0:41.6 | Now I'm thinking about the career of Andy McDowell. |
| 0:44.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:45.1 | I'm lost and thought. |
| 0:46.1 | Don't think about Andy McDowell's career. |
| 0:49.1 | Remember when people are like, she deserves an Oscar nomination |
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