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Toure Show

Wesley Morris–I Write

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

To hear this awesome conversation go to http://patreon.com/toureshow and subscribe. For just $5 a month you get 4 Friday Patreon exclusives and the full version of our Wednesday shows and you get to help us keep making this show! Wesley Morris is a brilliant writer and an award winning movie critic. We talk movies, Blackness, and what it’s like to work at The NY Times as a young Black person. Toure Show Episode 264 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta Covington Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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