Chris Redd is an SNL cast member and an hysterical stand up comic who’s also a rapper on the low. Amazing to talk to him about hiphop and comedy and how to make people laugh and the structure and stress of being on SNL and being in the Blackest SNL cast ever and his personal struggle with depression.Toure Show Episode 239Host & Writer: TouréSenior Producer: Jackie GarofanoAssistant Producer: Adell ColemanEditor: Ryan WoodhallPhotographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta CovingtonBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSupport the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshowSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Original Air Date: June 10. 2020We need a new system of policing—it’s not about bad apples, it’s about a system that incentivizes arrests and protects violence against Black people. No one knows more about policing than Dr. Phillip Goff, a PhD, a professor at John Jay, and the head of the Center for Policing Equity. He studies policing and goes into departments and helps clean them up. We talk about what’s wrong with American policing and how we can fix it.Patreon.com/toureshowInstagram: @toureshowTwitter: @toure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSupport the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshowSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shaun Robinson is a veteran TV star, the host of Access Hollywood and the global phenomenon 90 Day Fiancee. We talk all about 90 Day Fiancee and her interesting take on how to stay successful in this business. She’s an old friend so I know how to get her to keep it real…! 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!Toure Show Episode 238Host & Writer: TouréSenior Producer: Jackie GarofanoAssistant Producer: Adell ColemanEditor: Ryan WoodhallPhotographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta CovingtonBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSupport the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshowSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Don Lemon is a broadcaster who wears his heart on his sleeve. Every night on CNN he goes out and tells it how he sees it. He just wrote a powerful book “This Is the Fire: What I Say To My Friends About Racism.” We talk about broadcasting, Trump, America and a sweet story about how his fiancee proposed to him. For the full 60 minute version of this great conversation which will take you inside what it’s like to be a TV host, go to patreon.com/toureshow. For just $5 a month you get the full version of our Wednesday interviews and our Friday Patreon exclusives and you get to help keep this show going.Toure Show Episode 237Host & Writer: TouréSenior Producer: Jackie GarofanoAssistant Producer: Adell ColemanEditor: Ryan WoodhallPhotographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta CovingtonBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSupport the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshowSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elaine Welteroth is fierce and brilliant and bold. She’s now one of the hosts of The Talk on CBS and she was on Project Runway. She was the editor in chief at Teen Vogue and she’s the author of an amazing memoir called, "More Than Enough.” The book is inspiring and funny and empowering and will teach you a lot about how to get ahead and will help you see how to feel like no matter what you are enough.Patreon.com/toureshowInstagram: @toureshowTwitter: @toure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSupport the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshowSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nipsey Hussle is one of the most interesting people in recent hip hop history. His biographer Rob Kenner, author of The Marathon Don’t Stop, talks about who Nip was, how he came up and what made him so special.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!Toure Show Episode 236Host & Writer: TouréSenior Producer: Jackie GarofanoAssistant Producer: Adell ColemanEditor: Ryan WoodhallPhotographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta CovingtonBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSupport the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshowSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Them is an extraordinary new show on Amazon Prime about a Black family in the 50s who integrate Compton and end up living in a virtual horror movie because of their white neighbors. Extremely engrossing show. Toure talks to the creator, Little Marvin about why he made it and how he went from working as a creative director to quitting, writing a show, and getting it made.Patreon.com/toureshowInstagram: @toureshowTwitter: @toureToure Show Episode 235Host & Writer: TouréSenior Producer: Jackie GarofanoAssistant Producer: Adell ColemanEditor: Ryan WoodhallPhotographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta CovingtonBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP EntertainmentLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSupport the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshowSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Salman Rushdie is a legendary novelist and one of my literary idols. I’m proud to also call him a friend. Here in this throwback ep we talk about writing, Toni Morrison, life in crazy modern America, and his novel Quichotte. Everyone who’s a writer or a reader should check this out. He’s one of the great literary figures of the last few decades.Patreon.com/toureshowInstagram: @toureshowTwitter: @toure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSupport the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshowSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adepero Oduye is an amazing actor who’s been in some of the most interesting projects of the past few years. We talk about her new Disney plus Marvel show The Falcon and the Winter Soldier as well as being in the epic 12 Years A Slave and more. What does it take to be a great actor and to make it in Hollywood and what’s it like to tell your mom you’re ditching pre-med and switching to acting.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!Patreon.com/toureshowInstagram: @toureshowTwitter: @toureToure Show Episode 234Host & Writer: TouréSenior Producer: Jackie GarofanoAssistant Producer: Adell ColemanEditor: Ryan WoodhallPhotographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta CovingtonBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSupport the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshowSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bad Trip on Netflix is hilarious and insane. It’s Eric Andre’s prank movie with Lil Rel and Tiffany Haddish where he goes around putting people in crazy situations. We talk about the movie and all the craziness.Patreon.com/toureshowInstagram: @toureshowTwitter: @toureToure Show Episode 233Host & Writer: TouréSenior Producer: Jackie GarofanoAssistant Producer: Adell ColemanEditor: Ryan WoodhallPhotographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta CovingtonBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSupport the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshowSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices