Whitney Houston: Destiny Of A Diva | We Will Always Love Her with Gerrick Kennedy | 150
Even the Rich
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4.4 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Whitney burst on the scene with a voice like we’d never heard before — and haven’t heard since. But what have we chosen to remember about her? Gerrick Kennedy, culture writer and author of Didn’t We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston, joins Brooke and Aricia to set the record straight on Whitney’s unmatched vocal talent, and how our language around sexuality and mental health has evolved since Whitney’s time. Plus, Gerrick rounds up his favorite Whitney memes and explains why they do her justice when words fail.
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| 0:00.0 | Wundery Plus subscribers can |
| 0:01.8 | convince the newest season of even the rich before anyone else. |
| 0:04.4 | Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:07.4 | This episode contains discussions of substance abuse |
| 0:10.6 | as well as racial and sexual bias. We also swear, please be advised. |
| 0:15.0 | From Wonder, I'm Ereisha Skidmore Williams. |
| 0:25.0 | And I'm Brooks Iphren. |
| 0:27.0 | And this is even the rich. |
| 0:29.0 | Over the last four episodes, we followed along as Whitney Houston, the songbird of every |
| 0:34.4 | generation ever, honed her talent to become the prime queen of soul. That's right |
| 0:39.3 | the highs and the lows and honestly that's just her vocal range but seriously it's going to be a great |
| 0:45.1 | show yeah we've got culture writer Garrett Kennedy here |
| 0:48.0 | Garrick was at the LA Times for 10 years and was named emerging journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists in 2014, |
| 0:56.4 | which is truly such a cool honor. |
| 0:58.8 | He's also the author of a very thoughtful book about Whitney Houston called, |
| 1:02.1 | Didn't We Almost Have It All in defense of |
| 1:04.8 | Whitney Houston. Yes, I love it. But before we bring Garrick on Arisha, I just |
| 1:08.9 | wanted to tell you something. Okay, what's up? I will always love you. And you can't say those words, Brooke. They can only be sung. |
| 1:18.8 | Yeah, but if I didn't say them, you'd constantly be asking yourself. |
| 1:22.4 | How will I know if |
| 1:24.0 | if bro really loves me okay okay we this is too much all right |
| 1:28.3 | we promised the richies we'd stop singing okay but I do want to say like you can count on me through thick and thin this is a friendship |
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