Another Round

This week we bring you our conversation with Senator Cory Booker, taped live at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Booker chats with us about reformative justice (and whether he’s a prison abolitionist), fundraising with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump for his Senate campaign in 2013, and whether he ever feels like the Anne Hathaway of politics. Come for the political discussion, stay to find out if he’s actually Mindy Kaling’s baby daddy. Follow Senator Cory Booker on Twitter at @CoryBooker.  Follow us: @heavenrants and @brokeymcpovertyEmail us: anotherround@buzzfeed.comSubscribe to the Another Round newsletter at buzzfeed.com/anotherround/newsletterMerch is back! Tees! Totes! shop.buzzfeed.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we're bringing you an encore episode featuring friend of the show and OG tech guy, Anil Dash!  First we have a little What Had Happened Was featuring young Heben (and the headaches she gave her parents), followed by a long conversation with Anil Dash about mangoes, representation on screen and in tech, and teaching his son about feminism (with a little tangent about Bee Movie).Follow Anil Dash on Twitter at @anildash.  Follow us: @heavenrants and @brokeymcpovertyEmail us: anotherround@buzzfeed.comSubscribe to the Another Round newsletter at buzzfeed.com/anotherround/newsletterMerch is back! Tees! Totes! They're so cute: shop.buzzfeed.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tracy tells the story about her racist goldfish, and we chat with Audie Cornish, host of NPR's All Things Considered.Follow Audie Cornish at @nprAudieFollow us: @heavenrants and @brokeymcpovertyEmail us: anotherround@buzzfeed.comSubscribe to the Another Round newsletter at buzzfeed.com/anotherround/newsletter. Merch is back! Tees! Totes! They're so cute: shop.buzzfeed.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we chat with actor/comedian Sasheer Zamata about trap improv, the wig room at Saturday Night Live, and her new stand-up special on Seeso called "Pizza Mind."  And we answer the question you've been dying to know: what's the whitest opening song lyric of all time?  Plus shout outs to street meats, cheese juice, and hard shells.     Last but not least...come to our live show in London on August 5th!  For tickets and more information, check out www.solivefestival.com.Follow Sasheer Zamata on Twitter at @thesheertruthFollow us: @heavenrants and @brokeymcpovertyEmail us: anotherround@buzzfeed.comSubscribe to the Another Round newsletter at buzzfeed.com/anotherround/newsletterMerch is back! Tees! Totes! They're so cute: shop.buzzfeed.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we talk with writer/illustrator/Twitter hero Jonny Sun about his new book, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too, Twitter personas and bot theft, and why his dad loved the Danish Eurodance group, Aqua.  And, back by popular demand, we have for you another rousing game of Y'all's Parents Was Nasty...we're sorry but also, you're welcome.  Plus shoutouts to Heben's favorite condiment and Tracy's beloved hometown heroes.  Follow Jonny Sun on Twitter at @jonnysun and on Instagram at @jomnysun  Follow us: @heavenrants and @brokeymcpovertyEmail us: anotherround@buzzfeed.comSubscribe to the Another Round newsletter at buzzfeed.com/anotherround/newsletterMerch is back! Tees! Totes! They're so cute: shop.buzzfeed.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, as a part of WBEZ’s Podcast Passport series, we bring to you our live show from Thalia Hall in Chicago!  Dr. Eve Ewing, sociologist extraordinaire, schools us on why poetry is not a luxury (shout out to Audre Lorde!), and plays a lil game we like to call Six Degrees of Education Policy.  Let it be noted that she plays this game like a BOSS.  Then we go with poet and vocalist Jamila Woods to the First Corinthian Leather Church of God and Christ in Obama - may we all be saved - and she tells us how she found her voice.  Plus, Tracy's Joke Time and a celebration of petty jams!Special thanks to the WBEZ Events team of Tyler Greene, MK Julien, Ashley Thorpe, and Haley Carlson.  And thanks to the Thalia Hall crew of Pete Falknor, Jake Samuels, Tim Schoen, and Miranda Van Aiken.  We appreciate y'all!And shout out to Kwame Brandt-Pierce for the dope church music.  Follow Dr. Eve Ewing at @eveewingFollow Jamila Woods at @duhmiloFollow us: @heavenrants and @brokeymcpovertyE

This week we bring you an interview with Zimbabwean-Australian rapper Tkay Maidza, who we sat down with at SXSW earlier this year.  We talk with her about what she listened to growing up (from Rod Stewart to Rihanna), all the natural hair on The Simpsons, and her favorite Australian slang.  If you ever had thin eyebrows in the 90s (who didn't?!?), this episode is for you! Follow Tkay Maidza on Twitter and Instagram: @TkayMaidza  Follow us: @heavenrants and @brokeymcpovertyEmail us: anotherround@buzzfeed.comSubscribe to the Another Round newsletter at buzzfeed.com/anotherround/newsletterMerch is back! Tees! Totes! They’re so cute: shop.buzzfeed.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we catch up with inimitable writer Roxane Gay about her new book Hunger, paid and unpaid emotional labor, and "The Bachelorette."  Then we bring you the encore episode of our very first live show, where we were blessed to have Roxane on as a guest.  She chats with us about women in the publishing industry, flirting strategies, and even moderates a spirited game of Drunken Debates.  Plus, Heben quizzes us on white guys in public radio, and Tracy stands up for an animal slandered by a classic Disney movie.  And don’t forget: our next live show is in Chicago - June 21st at 8pm at Thalia Hall.  Get your tickets at wbez.org/events.Follow Roxane Gay at @rgay.  Follow us: @heavenrants and @brokeymcpovertyEmail us: anotherround@buzzfeed.comSubscribe to the Another Round newsletter at buzzfeed.com/anotherround/newsletter.Merch is back! Tees! Totes! They’re so cute: shop.buzzfeed.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we invite writers Doreen St. Felix and Durga Chew-Bose to join us for a playful and pensive round of PewPewPew with Friends! We talk about Doreen’s New York Magazine cover story on Kara Walker (read it if you haven’t already!), and Durga’s new book, Too Much and Not the Mood (it's exquisite).  We study Heben’s perfect laugh, celebrate porch life, and figure out why white girls in the 90s all wanted to be marine biologists.  Plus we might even learn you a Gmail hack that will change your life…!  ALSO: get tickets to see our podsiblings from BuzzFeed News and See Something Say Something at the Northside Festival!!  Tickets here: northsidereport2017.eventbrite.comAnd don't forget: our next live show is in Chicago - June 21st at 8pm at Thalia Hall.  Get your tickets at wbez.org/events.Follow Doreen St. Felix at @dstfelix.Follow Durga Chew-Bose at @durgapolashi.  Follow us: @heavenrants and @brokeymcpovertyEmail us: anotherround@buzzfeed.comSubscribe to the Another Round ne

This week we chat with Marcus Samuelsson - Top Chef, Red Rooster restauranteur, and maker of the world's finest mac & cheese (we've tried it...it's reallll good).  He dishes about Ikea meatballs, the flavors of Harlem, and answers Heben's hard-hitting question: is aioli really just gentrified mayo?  Plus, Tracy brings us a What Had Happened Was from her days as a college activist/troll for justice.  And rounds for furniture and just one thing - you know the one...not that one...thaaaat one.  You should probably listen to find out what the hell we're talking about. And we'd love to see you at our next live show in Chicago on June 21st at Thalia Hall! ALSO: get tickets to see our podsiblings from BuzzFeed News and See Something Say Something at the Northside Festival!!  Tickets here: northsidereport2017.eventbrite.com.Follow Marcus Samuelsson at @MarcusCooks.Follow us: @heavenrants and @brokeymcpovertyEmail us: anotherround@buzzfeed.comSubscribe to the Another Round newsletter at bu

This week we chat with the inimitable comedy duo, The Lucas Bros, about their favorite presidents, two-for-one therapy sessions, and how improv is white people spoken word.  Then R&B sensation The Buttertones make their media debut and we celebrate our favorite 90s ad libs.      Follow The Lucas Bros on Twitter at @LucasBros.  Both of 'em.  And check out their new comedy special on Netflix.  Follow Akoto Ofori-Atta on Twitter at @ko_616.  And check out her work with TheTrace.org, a non-profit dedicated to reporting on guns in America.  Follow us @heavenrants and @brokeymcpovertyEmail us: anotherround@buzzfeed.comSubscribe to our newsletter at buzzfeed.com/anotherround/newsletterBuy some Another Round merch at shop.buzzfeed.com.  It's the cutest.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we bring to you the magic of our live show at NYC's PodFest!  We talk to writer and thirst correspondent Bim Adewunmi, denounce some things with comedian Negin Farsad, and even play a game with our pod brother, Ahmed Ali Akbar of the See Something Say Something podcast.  Plus, shout outs to being someone's person and Beyonce.com!And we'd love to see you at our next live show in Chicago on June 21st at Thalia Hall!Follow Negin Farsad at @NeginFarsad.Follow Bim Adewunmi at @bimadew.Follow us: @heavenrants and @brokeymcpovertyEmail us: anotherround@buzzfeed.comSubscribe to the Another Round newsletter at buzzfeed.com/anotherround/newsletter.Merch is back! Tees! Totes! They're so cute: shop.buzzfeed.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we're bringing you a vintage episode with our very talented in-house musician, Jean Grae.  She chats with us about being a woman of many hats and why she can't get behind the term "femcee."  Then we try some dating apps - not at all because our love lives could use a lil boost, but instead strictly for, you know, podcast research.  Really.  You believe us, right?Follow Jean Grae on Twitter @JeanGreasy. Follow us: @heavenrants and @brokeymcpovertyEmail us: anotherround@buzzfeed.comSubscribe to the Another Round newsletter at buzzfeed.com/anotherround/newsletter. Merch is back! Tees! Totes! They're so cute: shop.buzzfeed.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, writer and resident Prince expert Nichole Perkins joins us to chat with the one and only actor and musician, Morris Day.  He played Prince’s arch-nemesis in the iconic film "Purple Rain," and he’s helping us remember Prince in light of the one year anniversary of Prince’s passing.  Come for a thoughtful remembrance, stay to find out how we made Morris blush. Follow Morris Day at @TheMorrisDay.  His new song is called “Over That Rainbow” and you can find it on Spotify.  Follow Nichole Perkins at @tnwhiskeywoman and check out her new website at www.nicholeperkins.com.Follow us: @heavenrants and @brokeymcpovertyEmail us: anotherround@buzzfeed.comSubscribe to the Another Round newsletter at buzzfeed.com/anotherround/newsletterMerch is back! Tees! Totes! They’re so cute: shop.buzzfeed.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we chat with Dr. Kimberle Crenshaw about her term "intersectionality," the #SayHerName campaign, and her favorite Prince song.  And Animal Corner is back!  Tracy counters Heben's bat skepticism with a fervent defense of bats aka little puppies dressed up like Dracula.  Shout out to bats.  Plus rounds for shower sisters and long lost sisters.  Follow Dr. Kimberle Crenshaw: @SandyLocks on Twitter, and check out the African American Policy Forum at aafp.org.  Follow us: @heavenrants and @brokeymcpovertyEmail us: anotherround@buzzfeed.comSubscribe to the Another Round newsletter at buzzfeed.com/anotherround/newsletter.Merch is back! Tees! Totes! They’re so cute: shop.buzzfeed.com   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we're trying something a little different: we team up with our friends at WNYC's Only Human podcast to find Tracy's roots. Growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, she always heard that her ancestors were, in her mother's words, "black, white and American Indian." But, like many black Americans, she's found it hard to trace her family heritage with ancestors forced into the American slave trade. So Tracy turns to DNA ancestry tests, and experts on DNA and race, to find out where she comes from.  Follow Only Human: @OnlyHuman  Follow us: @HeavenRants and @brokeymcpovertyEmail us: anotherround@buzzfeed.comSubscribe to the Another Round newsletter at buzzfeed.com/anotherround/newsletter. Merch is back! Tees! Totes! They're so cute: shop.buzzfeed.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fresh Prince alum Karyn Parsons stops by the stude to chat with us about Sweet Blackberry, her non-profit that makes educational materials for kids featuring lesser known stories of black excellence.  Plus, What Had Happened Was is back, with Tracy’s Lyft driver from hell.  Come to find out if Carlton would have been a Trump supporter, stay to find out who was banned from The Underground Railroad Museum and Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles.    Follow Karyn Parsons at @Karyn_Parsons and check out Sweet Blackberry at sweetblackberry.orgFollow us: @heavenrants and @brokeymcpovertyEmail us: anotherround@buzzfeed.comShoutout to Mozart (via YouTube user classicalmusicplace here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67-2pIXBNEw) for scoring Tracy's tweets with Violin Concerto No. 5 in A (second movement).Subscribe to the Another Round newsletter at buzzfeed.com/anotherround/newsletter.Merch is back! Tees! Totes! They’re so cute: shop.buzzfeed.comFind the audience survey at survey.panoply.fm.Learn more abo

This week, we take you back to our live show at SXSW!  First, Heben debuts her conspiracy theory that Donald Trump's entire presidential career is inspired by KFC.  Then, back by popular demand, is the return of Tracy's Joke Time.  Finally, the radiant and talented Lizzo chats with us about growing up religious, collaborating with Prince, and being body positive.  If you need a pick-me-up this week, put your headphones on and sit back - we gotchu.Follow Lizzo on Twitter @lizzo and on Instagram @lizzobeeatingFollow us: @heavenrants and @brokeymcpovertyEmail us: anotherround@buzzfeed.comSubscribe to the Another Round newsletter at buzzfeed.com/anotherround/newsletter. Merch is back! Tees! Totes! They're so cute: shop.buzzfeed.comFind the audience survey at survey.panoply.fm.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Heben catches up with writer/comedian Yassir Lester about his new TV show "Making History," then revisits a conversation she and Tracy had with him about light-skinned dudes, writing for "Girls," and the best teen ever: Malia Obama.  Plus, Nicki Minaj's famous pickle juice speech, celebrating little victories, and candles...!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes you just gotta get together and laugh with your friends, which is why this week's shot features two of our faves: Nichole Perkins, BuzzFeed Emerging Writers Fellow and Aaron Edwards, who does product and editorial at The Outline. This week there's a righteous game of Pew Pew Pew with friends and a conversation that goes from how you protest, to awkward dates, to cuss words and jivesicles. Go ahead and consider how doing drugs with Donald Trump might be genius and quantify exactly what you'd do to *not* have to watch your parents having sex. Follow these cool kids! Nichole Perkins: @tnwhiskeywomanAaron Edwards: @aaronmedwardsTracy Clayton: @brokeymcpoverty (@tracysdrunkass is pending) Heben Nigatu: @heavenrantsAnd this cool show, duh: https://www.twitter.com/anotherroundhttps://www.facebook.com/anotherround/Make good email decisions:https://www.buzzfeed.com/anotherround/newsletter...and truly elegant fashion decisions:https://shop.buzzfeed.com/collections/another-roundLearn m