I mean, to be fully transparent and to kind of like put myself up for a potential lawsuit from Parkwood, when the album was being leaked, I had the album in my inbox for like a cool two weeks before. Like I got it a while and I was like practicing. You better watch what you say. I can't believe you're saying. You better watch what you say. Leave. I know.

Hi, I'm Brittany. And this is for colored nerds.

The weekly show where we peel back the layers of black culture that we rarely discuss in mixed company.

While some folks may be a bit hesitant to reveal the contents of their group chats,

our guests this week made a whole show about it. Today, we got to chat with the

extremely talented and hilarious hosts of Vibe Check, journalist Sam Sanders, journalist and

producer of a Strange Loop, Zach Stafford, and writer and poet Saeed Jones. Sam, Zach, and

Syed join us on the show to talk all things Renaissance, Vibe Check's origin story, and later on, we play a game to get the real deal on their friendship.

As a heads up, Eric will also be joining us in this episode, so you're going to hear a lot of voices this time around.

Get ready. All that and more after the break.

For our listeners who don't yet know about vibe check or aren't familiar with y'all, could you please introduce yourselves and give us a bit about what you do outside of podcasting?

Zach, let's start with you.

So I'm Zach Stafford.

I'm a friend of Sam and Saeed's.

I am one of Saeed's longest group chat friends

because we have gone through many group chats together

and this one stuck.

Group girlfriends.

Group girlfriends.

Group girlfriends.

Yes. Digital sister-wise.

Not digital sister-wise.

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