Today we welcome two illustrious guests to The Stacks, Desus Nice & The Kid Mero. You know them from the #1 show in late night, Desus & Mero on Showtime, and their podcast Bodega Boys. The pair are now New York Times Best Selling authors with the release of their book God-Level Knowledge Darts: Life Lessons from the Bronx. Today we talk about the consumption of culture, the importance of growth and accountability in comedy, and the Bronx, of course.
The Stacks Book Club selection for October is The Autobiography of Malcom X as told to Alex Haley, we will discuss the book with Marc Lamont Hill on October 28th.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find everything we talked about on Amazon.
- God-Level Knowledge Darts by Desus and Mero
- Desus & Mero (Showtime)
- Bodega Boys (Desus Nice & THE KID MERO)
- Google Docs
- Random House
- The Kid Mero (Vice)
- Golden Girls (NBC)
- Dan Qualye
- Shea Serrano
- “The Short Stacks 27: Shea Serrano//Movies (and Other Things)” (The Stacks)
- The Wilbur Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Netflix
- Medium
- “What Is QAnon, the Viral Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theory?” (Kevin Roose, The New York Times)
- Twitch
- Kobe Bryant
- Black*ish Election Special Episode (ABC, S7 E1)
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Prodigy
- Mob Deep
- Wawa
- Erewhon Market
- TextEdit
- Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)
- Google Keep
- Becks
- xbox 360
- Grand Theft Auto III
- Wii
- MLB Power Pros
- Fraiser (NBC)
- I Love Lucy (CBS)
- Town House Pita Crackers
- Crown Fried Chicken
- William Shakespeare
- Lactaid
- How to Murder You Life by Kat Marnell
- Beyond the Streets by Roger Gastam
- Piecebook by Sacha Jenkins and David “Chino” Villorente
- Worldpiece Book by Sacha Jenkins and David “Chino” Villorente
- Basketball (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano, illustrations by Arturo Torres
- Movies (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano, illustrations by Arturo Torres
- Black Boy by Richard Wright
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
- “Time Enough at Last” (The Twilight Zone, S1 E8)
- Quibi
- “Some Questions About Meryl Streep’s Bookshelves” (Bridget Read, The Cut)
- James Patterson
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
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