Wesley Morris–I Write
Toure Show
DCP Entertainment
4.8 • 880 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good sort of race show, okay though, good to a race show, okay though. Wesley Morris is a star at the New York Times who got a big writing award for writing about his junk. |
| 0:29.0 | Influencer, it's a word that gets tossed around a lot these days. |
| 0:33.0 | There is a woman who went the distance, who broke ground as the first true influencer by living a remarkable life. |
| 0:42.0 | Her name, Elizabeth Taylor. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Katie Perry. |
| 0:47.3 | This is the story of the original influencer. |
| 0:50.9 | This is Elizabeth the first. |
| 0:55.0 | Elizabeth the first, the podcast, wherever you listen. |
| 1:00.0 | What? |
| 1:01.0 | I was kicking around as a freelancer the times, you know, 20-some years ago, 15 years ago. |
| 1:09.1 | Like, you know, in the paper and in the building enough that I felt like outer orbit, knew all the black people |
| 1:15.2 | in the building or whatever. |
| 1:17.6 | And you know, I definitely felt a little more like we kind of code switched into Time Zian Nets. |
| 1:28.4 | We had a huge fight. |
| 1:29.5 | The first time, when I did, I did a, |
| 1:31.2 | I did the Times' first feature on Snoop doggy dog and there was a huge fight over whether or not we would refer to him as Mr dog. |
| 1:42.2 | Oh yeah. |
| 1:43.0 | I was like, I will burn this galle |
| 1:47.8 | to the ground. |
| 1:48.7 | Like just the piece of me, I will fucking kill the fucking story. |
| 1:51.8 | I'm not going down it's Mr. |
| 1:53.7 | dog. And I won a very long high up the chain debate because I was like it's a stage name so it should not be shortened to Mr. |
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