Another Round (podcast)
Another Round is a Buzzfeed podcast co-hosted by Tracy Clayton and Heben Nigatu, with occasional guest hosts. Debuting on March 24, 2015, Another Round has featured interviews with guests like writer and MacArthur Genius Ta-Nehisi Coates[1] and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton[2] as well as segments on topics ranging from race, gender and pop culture to squirrels, mangoes, and jokes. Episodes are uploaded weekly on Tuesdays, and feature a new guest every week.
Team
Buzzfeed's Tracy Clayton and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert's Heben Nigatu host Another Round, with occasional guest hosts sitting in for Nigatu since she joined The Late Show with Stephen Colbert around July 2016. Buzzfeed Managing Editor for Mobile News Stacy-Marie Ishmael has been a recurring guest, hosting Stacy's Career Corner.
The podcast is one of five podcasts from BuzzFeed's audio team. Producers have included Jenna Weiss-Berman, Eleanor Kagan, Julia Furlan and Meg Cramer. They are collectively known as the Pod Squad.
Guests
In addition to Coates and Clinton, notable guests have included New York Times best-selling author Roxane Gay, writer and comedian Issa Rae, and writer and First Lady of New York City Chirlane McCray.
Segments
In addition to interviews and Stacy's Career Corner, recurring segments on Another Round include Drunken Debates, Tracy's Animal Corner, Is This Real Life?, What Had Happened Was, Rapid Fire ("Pew Pew Pew!"), Nichole's Nookie Nook and Tracy's Joke Time, among others.
Accolades
Another Round episodes were rated "Best of 2015" by iTunes,[3] Slate,[4] Vulture,[5] and The Atlantic[6] among others. In 2016, Forbes named Nigatu to its annual 30 Under 30 list, citing her work on "the popular and influential BuzzFeed podcast Another Round...which has monthly listener numbers in the hundreds of thousands."[7] Writing for The Guardian, critic Sasha Frere-Jones described hosts Nigatu and Clayton as "leading American cultural critics."[8]
Episode guide
| No. | Date | Title | Interview Guest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3/24/15 | Unlearning | Durga Chew-Bose |
| 2 | 3/26/15 | You Know White People | Jazmine Hughes |
| 3 | 3/31/15 | Oh, the Racism! | Issa Rae |
| 4 | 4/7/15 | A Podcast of One's Own | Gene Demby |
| 5 | 4/10/15 | Young East African Girl | Hannah Giorgis |
| 6 | 4/21/15 | Lit Like Bic | Desus Nice |
| 7 | 4/28/15 | Living in America | |
| 8 | 5/5/16 | Shmoney for the Ancestors | Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah |
| 9 | 5/12/16 | You're Gonna Be a Boss | Kaya Thomas |
| 10 | 5/19/15 | You Tickled Whitney Houston?! | Brandy |
| 11 | 5/26/15 | Bob Loblaw | Chirlane McCray |
| 12 | 6/2/15 | Casual Negro Spirituals | Jean Grae |
| 13 | 6/9/15 | Another Round LIVE! | Roxane Gay |
| 14 | 6/16/15 | Multitudity | Tiq Milan |
| 15 | 6/23/15 | Crush That Rage into a Diamond | Jay Smooth |
| 16 | 6/30/15 | Another Read | Crissle West |
| 17 | 7/7/15 | Caribbean Vibez | Stacy-Marie Ishmael |
| n/a | 7/10/15 | BONUS EPISODE: Delirious Dispatches from Essence | |
| n/a | 7/14/15 | Shot #1: The N-Word | |
| n/a | 7/20/15 | Shot #2: Feminist vs Meninist | |
| 18 | 7/28/15 | Unstoppable | Lianne La Havas |
| 19 | 8/4/15 | Was That a Microaggression or Just Tuesday? | Audie Cornish |
| 20 | 8/11/15 | Peak Blackness | Rembert Browne |
| 21 | 8/18/15 | The Reverse Jackie Robinson | Chris Hayes |
| 22 | 8/25/15 | A Dude Named Hot Sauce | Yassir Lester |
| 23 | 9/1/15 | The Audacity of Despair | David Simon |
| n/a | 9/8/15 | Shot #3: Anxiety | |
| 24 | 9/15/15 | Ida Bae Wells | Nikole Hannah-Jones |
| 25 | 9/22/15 | Stop Telling Women To Smile | Tatyana Fazlalizadeh |
| 26 | 9/29/15 | Stay In Your Lane | Dr. Adrienne Keene |
| 27 | 10/26/15 | No New Friends, My Squirrel Dude | Alexis Wilkinson |
| 28 | 10/11/15 | Madam Secretary, What's Good? | Hillary Clinton |
| 29 | 10/20/15 | What's On Your Reparations Tab? | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| 30 | 10/27/15 | Frimfram Fittlesworth | Lena Dunham |
| n/a | Shot #4 | You Are Beautiful | |
| 31 | 11/10/15 | You Gon' Get This Blackness | Shani O. Hilton |
| 32 | 11/17/15 | The Yum Center | Melissa Harris-Perry |
| n/a | 11/24/15 | Shot #5: Space Turkey | |
| 33 | 12/1/15 | Pick A Slay | Uzo Aduba |
| 34 | 12/8/15 | The Most Introverted Sasha Fierce | Aparna Nancherla |
| n/a | 12/15/15 | Shot #6: Yung Hieronymus | |
| 35 | 12/22/15 | Heben & Tracy's Kwanzaa Spectacular | |
| n/a | 12/29/15 | Shot #7 Blackation | |
| 36 | 1/5/16 | U Mad? | Margaret Cho |
| 37 | 1/10/16 | The Room Where It Happens | Valerie Jarrett |
| 38 | 1/19/16 | Let Black Girls Be Funny | Janelle James |
| 39 | 1/26/16 | The Betrayer of the Patriarchy | Anil Dash |
| 40 | 2/2/16 | Blacker History Month | Marlon Wayans |
| 41 | 2/9/16 | To Be Young, Gifted and Black | Hannibal Buress |
| n/a | 2/12/16 | Bonus: Heben & Tracy on Longform | |
| 42 | 2/16/16 | Fried Chicken Is A Battleground | Wyatt Cenac |
| 43 | 2/23/16 | A Gumbo of Afrofuturism | Vann R. Newkirk II |
| 44 | 3/1/16 | Mommy's Side Piece | Eugene Mirman and John Roberts |
| 45 | 3/8/16 | Practical Tactical Brilliance | Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| 46 | 3/15/16 | Challenging & Unpredictable | Melissa Harris-Perry |
| 47 | 3/22/16 | Don't @ Me | Bim Adewunmi |
| 48 | 3/29/16 | Revolutions Are Hard, Eyeliner Is Hard | Maryam Al-Khawaja |
| 49 | 4/5/16 | Our First Year | |
| 50 | 4/12/16 | A Cat Named Toussaint | Wendell Pierce |
| 51 | 4/19/16 | Keep Yo' Heart | Queen Latifah |
| 52 | 4/23/16 | Government Sanctioned Turn Up | Daveed Diggs |
| 53 | 5/3/16 | I Am... Lola LaFway | Nichole Perkins |
| 54 | 5/10/16 | Tin Foil & Rabbit Ears | Padma Lakshmi |
| 55 | 5/17/16 | #1000BlackGirlBooks | Marley Dias |
| 56 | 5/24/16 | Another Girlfriend | Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman |
| 57 | 5/31/16 | She's So Glossy | Jenny Zhang |
| 58 | 6/7/16 | The Job of Pettiness | Ashley Ford |
| 59 | 6/14/16 | May She Forever Reign | Sylvia Obell |
| 60 | 6/21/16 | Down With Sporks (LIVE) | Tunde Olaniran |
| 61 | 6/28/16 | The Greatest | Clarissa Shields |
| n/a | 7/12/16 | Living in America (2016 Update) | |
| 62 | 7/19/16 | Put Your Mask On First | Tichina Arnold; guest host Sylvia Obell |
| n/a | 7/22/16 | BONUS: If Martin Were Set in 2016 | Guest host Sylvia Obell |
| 63 | 7/29/16 | Heben's Husband | Jaime Camil |
| 64 | 8/2/16 | Live in Philly | Joaquín Castro |
| 65 | 8/9/16 | Is Your Shiny Suit Alright? | Aisha Harris; guest host Bim Adewunmi |
| 66 | 8/30/16 | Chardon(n)egro | Brittany Luce; guest host Hannah Giorgis |
| 67 | 9/6/16 | What A Treat | Nicole Byer; guest host Bim Adewunmi |
| 68 | 9/13/16 | Two Dollars and a Paperclip | Ava Duvernay; guest host Essence Gant |
| n/a | 9/20/16 | Baby, I Know I'm Funny | Nicole Byer |
| 69 | 9/27/16 | The Life-Changing Magic of Listening to Rachel | Rachel Wilkerson Miller |
| 70 | 10/11/16 | Keeping People Safe | Dr. Carl Hart |
| n/a | 10/18/16 | What Your Fave Is Reading RN | Lisa Lucas; Jacqueline Woodson; Jeff Chang; Chirlane McCray; Brandy Colbert; Glory Edim; Brit Bennett; Saeed Jones |
| n/a | 10/25/16 | All Stars: Immigrant Stories | |
| 71 | 11/15/16 | Burn | Bim Adewunmi |
| 72 | 11/22/16 | Water Protectors and Fear Allerton | Dr. Adrienne Keene |
References
- ↑ "Another Round Episode 29: What's On Your Reparations Tab?". Buzzfeed.com. Buzzfeed. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
- ↑ Davis, Adam. "Listen To Hillary Clinton's Interview With Buzzfeed". Retrieved 25 March 2016.
- ↑ "Apple's iTunes Best of 2015 list for podcasts includes a ton of LA-based favorites". Time Out Los Angeles. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
- ↑ Onion, Rebecca (2015-12-14). "The 10 Best Podcast Episodes of 2015". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
- ↑ "The 10 Best Podcasts and 10 Best Podcast Episodes of 2015". Vulture. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
- ↑ McQuade, Laura Jane Standley, Devon Taylor, and Eric. "The 50 Best Podcast Episodes of 2015". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
- ↑ Inverso, Emily. "Heben Nigatu, 24 - In Photos: 2016 30 Under 30: Media". Forbes. Retrieved 2016-03-26.
- ↑ Frere-Jones, Sasha (2016-06-25). "'We love you Beyoncé': what Queen Bey means to her fans now". the Guardian. Retrieved 2016-06-27.
External links
- Interview with Clayton and Nigatu (April 2016) on PBS NewsHour