Our guest today is actress and comedian, Niccole Thurman, who is best known for being a citizen journalist onThe Opposition with Jordan Klepper, among other things. Niccole talks with us today about finding a creative outlet, dating challenges, and the need for more empathy. Fans of Oprah’s Book Club get ready, you may hear some familiar titles as we dive into Niccole’s faves.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
Books
- She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey
- The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn
- A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
- How to Date Men When You Hate Men by Blythe Roberson
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero
- The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
- When Breathe Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
- Goosebumps by R. L. Stine
- Fear Street by R. L. Stine
- I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
- Black, White, and Jewish by Rebecca Walker
- Alice Walker
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Hey, Little Ant by Phillip M. and Hannah Hoose and Debbie Tilley
Everything Else
- The Opposition with Jordan Klepper (Comedy Central)
- Shrill (Hulu)
- The Second City
- St. Vincent
- Dua Lipa
- “St. Vincent & Dua Lipa | Masseduction / One Kiss | 2019 GRAMMYs” (YouTube.com)
- “Lost in Your Light” (Dua Lipa ft. Miguel, 2017)
- “Fast Slow Disco” (St. Vincent, 2017)
- Steppenwolf Theatre
- The Daily Show (Comedy Central)
- Fox News
- Alex Jones
- The Atlantic
- HuffPost
- Drag Queen Story Hour
- “The Nefarious Workings of Drag Queen Story Time” (The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, Comedy Central)
- “Mississippi’s Last Abortion Provider” (The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, Comedy Central)
- Amazon Kindle
- Cardi B Instagram
- “A Suspense Novelists Trail of Deception” (Ian Parker, The New Yorker)
- Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
- “White people assume niceness is the answer to racial inequality. It’s not.” (Robin DiAngelo, The Guardian)
- Oprah’s Book Club
- The Hunger Games (Gary Ross, 2012)
- Josh Hutcherson
- The New York Times
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