Toure Show Episode: 446

Original Air Date: September 4, 2024

Justin Simien is an amazing director (Dear White People) who’s made a hot new doc called Hollywood Black which explores the history of Black folks in cinema. Really deep look at everything from Birth of A Nation to the success of Jordan Peele. The doc is on MGM+. We go deep into the history of Black cinema and talk/argue about Blaxploitation, Hattie McDaniel, Denzel, Tarantino, what the definition of a Black film is, and more.

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Will Packer is an amazing Hollywood producer who produced Girls Trip, Ride Along, Night School and more. He’s got a new book out, Who Better Than You? We talk about making movies and visualizing the audience he wants to come to his films. Packer also produced the Oscars the year that Will Smith slapped Chris Rock. Amazing convo.


Toure Show Episode 469

Host & Writer: Touré

Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs

Associate Producer: Adell Coleman

Booker: Rae Holliday

Engineer: Desta Wondirad

Photographers: Podstream Studios

The House: DCP Entertainment

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This season, the UnCuffed podcast is doing something new. Greg Eskridge, one of the program’s founding producers inside San Quentin prison, was released over the summer, after more than 30 years of incarceration. And now, he is our host. Over roughly ten episodes, he’ll be telling a deeply personal, riveting story about re-entering society after decades away. It’s a story that’s rarely if ever told about re-entry – the good, the bad, and everything in between: getting robbed at the mandatory transitional living center within weeks of his release, making amends with family members, revisiting the scene of his crime, and documenting, in real time, as he trains to join the leadership team of the Uncuffed program, which runs classes in three California prisons. [As Kelly put it to me, "he's going to be the boss!"]

This ambitious season of the podcast will continue to feature stories of incarcerated producers – including, for the first time ever, incarcerated women. And now, with Greg on the mic, the stories from the inside will connect with the stories from the outside, addressing themes of family, food, and friendship – and tackling newsy subjects like mass incarceration in the so-called model state of California at a time when voters have opted to get tougher on crime. 

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Original Air Date: February 21, 2018

Toure Show Episode 15

The Cable TV Queen dishes on how to handle anything - wild Trump-supporting guests, Hillary, getting fired while on the air, and the death of her mother just before she was supposed to go to Harvard. Joy is the one you want guiding you in a crisis. We’re in a crisis. That’s why it’s great that she’s on the air. Lots of gems in this one.

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Noah Lyles in his first podcast interview since the Olympics. We talk about how he won the 100m and what happened with him and Covid and the 200m. Also: what makes him such a dominant athlete and what he thinks about during the race and why he feels controlled by the Olympics. An epic conversation with the gold medal winning fastest man in the world.


Toure Show Episode 468

Host & Writer: Touré

Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs

Associate Producer: Adell Coleman

Booker: Rae Holliday

Engineer: Desta Wondirad

Photographers: Podstream Studios

The House: DCP Entertainment

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Original Air Date: December 4, 2025

Toure Show Episode 461

Josh Johnson is back to talk about Luigi and the wild world we’re living in. Buckle up.

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Leslie Jones is an amazing comedian who came in and kept it all the way real. How she got on SNL, how she told Trump to STFU at SNL, how she had an all out fight at SNL, why she left—this is an incredible convo.


Toure Show Episode 467

Host & Writer: Touré

Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs

Associate Producer: Adell Coleman

Booker: Rae Holliday

Engineer: Desta Wondirad

Photographers: Podstream Studios

The House: DCP Entertainment

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Original Air Date: Jan 8, 2025

Toure Show Episode 463

Josh Johnson is back to talk about Luigi and the wild world we’re living in. Buckle up.

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Van Lathan is an amazing broadcaster and creator who I’ve admired for a long time but never met until now but moments after meeting him I felt like I’d known him forever. It’s fun to talk to a great conversationalist like him.


Toure Show Episode 466

Host & Writer: Touré

Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs

Associate Producer: Adell Coleman

Booker: Rae Holliday

Engineer: Desta Wondirad

Photographers: Podstream Studios

The House: DCP Entertainment

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Toure Show Ep 141

Original Air Date: 5/1/2024

Amari Marshall aka Amari Monster was a Dance Captain on Beyonce’s Renaissance World Tour. She danced beside the Queen night after night. She’s the person Beyonce chose to help Blue Ivy be ready for her part of the show. Amazing conversation about dance, working with Beyonce, working with Blue Ivy, working with Rihanna on the Super Bowl halftime show and more. 

Host & Writer: Touré

Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs

Associate Producer: Adell Coleman

Booker: Rae Holliday

Engineer: Desta Wondirad

Photographers: Podstream Studios

The House: DCP Entertainment

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