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🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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It's Cowboy Carter SZN and we're breaking down Beyoncé's latest tour with friend of the pod and podcast host extraordinaire Sam Sanders. We talk about Queen Bey's latest tour, the good and the not so good, plus our thoughts on Blue Ivy's exposure and the future of stadium tours. We also quickly gab about the Pulitzer drama, Gwenyth Paltrow, and Lionel Richie.
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, it's Tracy Thomas, host of the Stacks, and I am here with another episode of |
0:04.4 | The Stacks Unabridged, our bonus episode exclusive to Patreon and Substack subscribers. |
0:10.6 | Today I'm going to be talking about the Cowboy Carter World Tour with friend of the podcast |
0:14.7 | and podcaster extraordinaire Sam Sanders. |
0:18.6 | We get into what we loved and didn't love so much about the concert and our |
0:22.9 | thoughts about stadium tours in general. We also talk about Blue Ivy Carter, the Tribeca Film Festival, |
0:29.0 | and Gwyneth Paltrow. This is Sam and Tracy at our most chaotic best. If you're listening to |
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1:06.2 | thomas.substack.com. Let's get to the Cowboy Carter World Tour with Sam Sanders. |
1:25.6 | Okay, guys, it's bonus episode with everyone's favorite person. |
1:29.0 | Sam Sanders. |
1:29.8 | Sam, welcome back. |
1:31.3 | Oh, sir. |
1:32.6 | I don't even give you an intro. |
1:34.4 | It's like, at what point do I stop giving people who come on the show regularly |
1:38.2 | and that everyone who listens to my podcast listens to probably twice a week as I do? |
1:42.8 | But I guess if you don't know Sam, if you're new here, |
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