Speaker 1: Hello Sunshine, Hey besties.
Speaker 2: Today on the bright Side, We've got a pair of
Speaker 2: best selling authors and hosts, the trail blazing and downright
Speaker 2: hilarious rough and sisters Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar. It's Thursday,
Speaker 2: June twenty seventh.
Speaker 3: I'm Simone Boyce, I'm Danielle Robe and this is the
Speaker 3: bright Side from Hello Sunshine.
Speaker 2: Okay, Danielle, we have some really exciting news to share
Speaker 2: with our bright Side besties.
Speaker 3: Yes, we are so excited to announce the return of
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Speaker 2: unforgettable weekend event that brings together the Hello Sunshine community
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Speaker 2: and just transform their lives. And this year, I hear
Speaker 2: it's going to be bigger and better than ever.
Speaker 3: Transformative is the word. I felt so connected when I
Speaker 3: was there last year. It was one of my favorite
Speaker 3: days of the year, and it just feels really motivating.
Speaker 3: You walk away having met these ambitious, curious, thoughtful.
Speaker 1: Just like minded women. It was so fun.
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Speaker 1: We cannot wait.
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Speaker 3: slash shine away. All Right, today feels like a day
Speaker 3: that's going to be full of laughter and sisterly love.
Speaker 2: Oh you just wait, Danielle. Our guests are New York
Speaker 2: Times bestselling authors and sisters Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar.
Speaker 2: They're critically acclaimed books entitled You'll Never Believe What Happened
Speaker 2: To Lacey, Crazy Stories about Racism and the World Record
Speaker 2: Book of Racist Stories. They make readers cry, laugh and
Speaker 2: then cry laughing.
Speaker 3: That's the best type of laughter when it's uncontrollable.
Speaker 1: Mm hm. That's my favorite too. And here's the thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, they grew up together, so they're sisters, and
Speaker 2: they decided to compile all the stories that they collected
Speaker 2: from their childhood into adolescence, into adulthood and put them
Speaker 2: into these books. So they're sharing the outrageous things that
Speaker 2: they've experienced growing up in Nebraska as smart black women,
Speaker 2: but they're adding so much humor and heart to all
Speaker 2: of it. They're so brilliant, both individually and as a duo.
Speaker 3: You know, I remember in twenty fourteen when Amber was
Speaker 3: hired by Late Night with Seth Myers, making her the
Speaker 3: first black woman ever to be a writer on a
Speaker 3: late night network show. It's wild because twenty fourteen was
Speaker 3: not that long ago, but I do think it's really
Speaker 3: cool that she made history. And you know, I missed
Speaker 3: this conversation because I was out with food poisoning. I
Speaker 3: had one too many burritos at the airport. I think
Speaker 3: it was a little risky.
Speaker 1: Girl. Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. It was hard.
Speaker 1: We've got to watch out for those airport burritos. It
Speaker 1: was really terrible.
Speaker 3: But I've followed Amber's career for the last few years,
Speaker 3: and I was really a fan of her late night
Speaker 3: show on Peacock. She was a writer on it, and
Speaker 3: of course the host of The Amber Ruffin Show. And
Speaker 3: she also just wrote on the revised book for the
Speaker 3: new Broadway adaptation of The Whiz. And what I'm really
Speaker 3: excited about today is that we get to know her
Speaker 3: and her sister together because they were born in Omaha,
Speaker 3: Nebraska and now they both live in New York. So
Speaker 3: Lacey is the older sister, and I'm wondering if she
Speaker 3: gives older sister energy.
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, She's totally giving responsible older sister energy.
Speaker 3: Well, I love that because I love getting to know
Speaker 3: talented siblings. What I didn't know is that Amber grew
Speaker 3: up doing theater, and her improv and her comedy talents
Speaker 3: took her to Chicago, Amsterdam, and La all places where
Speaker 3: she honed her craft. And now Lacy and Amber are
Speaker 3: making waves together with their comedy pop culture podcasts, The
Speaker 3: Amber and Lacey Lacey and Amber Show. I'm really bummed
Speaker 3: I miss this one, simone, but I am excited to
Speaker 3: hear your interview with them.
Speaker 2: Oh, we missed you so much, Danielle. It's so cool
Speaker 2: to see all these powerful sister duos teaming up. You know,
Speaker 2: we had Regina and Reina King on the show, now
Speaker 2: Amber and Lacey. It's just good vibes all around, and
Speaker 2: so much talent girl power for real. Yes, Well, I'm
Speaker 2: so pumped to share this conversation with you and all
Speaker 2: of our bright Side besties. Prepare yourself because there will
Speaker 2: be laughs. And now my conversation with Amber Ruffin and
Speaker 2: Lacey Lamar. Amber and Lacey, welcome to the bright Side.
Speaker 2: We're so happy to have you.
Speaker 1: Yay, thank you. We're happy to be here.
Speaker 2: So, Amber, I am currently in New York right now
Speaker 2: and I just drove by the Marquis Theater where The
Speaker 2: Whiz is back on Broadway, and you actually wrote for
Speaker 2: this latest adaptation. Congratulations. What does it mean to you
Speaker 2: to lend your voice to such an iconic.
Speaker 4: Growing up, I absolutely adored The Wiz, and I feel
Speaker 4: like the Wiz did for me what it did for
Speaker 4: a lot of people was it made it seem possible
Speaker 4: to become a performer and to have your story told
Speaker 4: and you know, honored and enjoyed by the masses. So
Speaker 4: when I was tasked with rewriting The Wiz, I just
Speaker 4: wanted to make sure to do that for the next generation.
Speaker 4: So hopefully I have And when kids go and see it,
Speaker 4: you know, when adults go and see it, they feel
Speaker 4: seen represented and they feel like everything is a little
Speaker 4: more possible.
Speaker 1: What's your earliest memory of The Whiz.
Speaker 4: My earliest memory of The Whiz is like it has
Speaker 4: always existed, So I just feel like it is everywhere
Speaker 4: all the time, like the news. You know, like you
Speaker 4: don't remember the first time time you saw the news.
Speaker 1: It just you always were rare that it existed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's like the whiz, It's just always always around.
Speaker 1: How about for you, Lacey?
Speaker 4: We used to reenact scenes from it and Amber probably
Speaker 4: doesn't remember, but remember the scary scene from the movie
Speaker 4: where it was like little dude and we still like
Speaker 4: be in the basement and like chase each other, doing
Speaker 4: that to terrify us.
Speaker 2: So was this kind of what it meant to be
Speaker 2: a rough in sister? Were you both super imaginative growing up?
Speaker 4: Reenactments all the time, singing, making up songs. We sang
Speaker 4: everything like Mom, what's for dinner? And then she'd singing back. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we were over the time.
Speaker 2: Did you did you drive your parents crazy? I mean,
Speaker 2: where they like stop with the singing and the performances
Speaker 2: or did they embrace it?
Speaker 1: They were used to it. My parents will even join
Speaker 1: in and they'll join into this day. I love it.
Speaker 2: Well, you channeled all of that imaginative little girl energy
Speaker 2: into this incredible career now as adults and sisters. I
Speaker 2: mean you have written two best selling books together, you
Speaker 2: have a podcast, your two books, You'll Never Believe What
Speaker 2: Happened to Lacey and the world record Book of Racist Stories.
Speaker 2: I mean, you tackle so many outrageous experiences with heart
Speaker 2: and humor. Take me into that shift when you went
Speaker 2: from sisters to creative partners.
Speaker 4: The shift was pretty painful, and thank you for asking
Speaker 4: Lacey's a monster to work with the truth, it was like,
Speaker 4: you can't eat yet, we need more chapters.
Speaker 1: Put that hamburger down. That's not true. We only always
Speaker 1: ate and don't forget we had a couple of drinks.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 4: Well yeah, it was literally nothing.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like, yeah, we just realized
Speaker 1: every time we hang.
Speaker 5: Out the people would pay us for this, and then
Speaker 5: it was just figuring out what to get people to
Speaker 5: pay as saying out because we're going to be talking
Speaker 5: about Lacey's racist stories.
Speaker 4: We're going to be talking about her and it's going
Speaker 4: to be funny, so we might as well write it down.
Speaker 2: Lacey, we were wondering if you could tell us about
Speaker 2: the time that you got mistaken for whoop be Goldberg.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, okay, okay, So I was on vacation in
Speaker 4: Colorado and I was up in the mountains and we
Speaker 4: were stopping by these little trinket shops.
Speaker 1: They got a million different little trinket shops.
Speaker 4: And I walk into this trinket shop and the lady
Speaker 4: yells whoop bee, and I yelled back whoop bee because
Speaker 4: I'm just like, hey, I just thought that's how she.
Speaker 1: Was greeting people.
Speaker 4: And she comes up to me, and then the another
Speaker 4: lady comes out the back and they're like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: thank you for.
Speaker 1: Coming into this store.
Speaker 4: And I'm like you're welcome, and they're like you can,
Speaker 4: you know, have whatever you want and I was like,
Speaker 4: oh okay, grab t shirts, trinkets, necklaces and stuff.
Speaker 1: And I was like thank you.
Speaker 4: And then after a while when they were talking to me,
Speaker 4: they're like, oh my god, we love you on this,
Speaker 4: this this, And I was like, they think I'm would
Speaker 4: be Goldberg and listen, did that correct them?
Speaker 2: When we talk about reparations? This is what this is
Speaker 2: what we're talking about. There was no way I was
Speaker 2: not going to tell them. Plus it would have made
Speaker 2: them feel sad they got to meet with Goldbert. This
Speaker 2: still doesn't that's true.
Speaker 1: I'm ruining that day. Do you still have the shirts?
Speaker 1: My mom does, and she hated them. They weren't the best.
Speaker 2: Listen, this was hey, the price was right, The price
Speaker 2: was the price was right. All right, We got to
Speaker 2: take a quick break, but we'll be right back with
Speaker 2: Amber and Lacey. Stick with us, yell, and we're back
Speaker 2: with Amber and Lacey. What I love about your work
Speaker 2: together is that it's so subversive because I think a
Speaker 2: lot of people who let's say, are not minorities, non POC,
Speaker 2: they look at racist experiences that we all have and
Speaker 2: think that we all have to carry it with a
Speaker 2: lot of sorrow and a lot of pain. And trust me,
Speaker 2: I do carry it with that as well. But you
Speaker 2: are normalizing humor in all this. You're normalizing like it's
Speaker 2: okay to find a way to laugh at these horrible
Speaker 2: things that happened to us. Why was it important for
Speaker 2: you to process these stories with humor.
Speaker 4: I think that that's the way our family is. If
Speaker 4: someone falls down, there is a song instantly written and
Speaker 4: we're gonna laugh.
Speaker 1: Yeah. We like to laugh all the time.
Speaker 4: And in telling stories, even though they're really painful, there's always.
Speaker 1: A little giggle at the end. We're like yeah, but
Speaker 1: then this happened.
Speaker 4: But also like little racist things can't be painful forever,
Speaker 4: Like you really got if you want to make a sting. Ah,
Speaker 4: I mean, at this point, we've really got to be
Speaker 4: doing some crazy stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But also in this book, the joke is the racist.
Speaker 4: It's how stupid and ignorant and ridiculous they are. And
Speaker 4: it's people think like we're making fun of racism, like oh,
Speaker 4: slaves are funny. That's not what we're doing. We're saying
Speaker 4: this person did this and they're a complete idiot, and
Speaker 4: they thought that that was okay to do and what
Speaker 4: I do. One of the things that I really loved
Speaker 4: about writing the book is I did not think this
Speaker 4: was going to happen. But people contacted me and they
Speaker 4: were like, oh my god, I do that. I do
Speaker 4: that every day at work, or I do this. I'm
Speaker 4: a teacher and I'm one black student and I do this,
Speaker 4: and I'm going to stop doing it. I didn't realize
Speaker 4: how terrible, And I'm like, great, it.
Speaker 1: Snuck in a little lesson. While you were giggling. You
Speaker 1: were like, huh, oh I do that, Yeah, you do
Speaker 1: you do it all the time. Yeah, is there a
Speaker 1: story that people come up to you and talk to
Speaker 1: you about the most when I'm in Omaha.
Speaker 4: It is the art teacher story, because that art teacher
Speaker 4: was very well known, and it will be other old
Speaker 4: white teachers that come up and go, was it blah
Speaker 4: blah blah, And I'm like, yep, you know it was.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm talking about, Like that is to me,
Speaker 4: that's crazy. But I've had a lot or all of
Speaker 4: these students like, oh my god, was that so and so?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had her in the fourth grade. She was terrible.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, yeah, for any of our listeners, we
Speaker 2: call them our brightside besties who haven't heard that story,
Speaker 2: would you tell us the art teacher story?
Speaker 4: I will, and it's this one is not a funny one,
Speaker 4: and not every story in the book is funny.
Speaker 1: But I was a renowned artist in the fifth grade.
Speaker 1: I was amazing. My artwork was great. It's really true.
Speaker 4: I had a life size drawing of leif Ericson that
Speaker 4: won an award.
Speaker 1: She's quite old. First me a leaf man.
Speaker 4: We said, whole nother story, leaf and lacy, and it
Speaker 4: was hung in the front of the classroom. My teacher
Speaker 4: loved it so much that she permanently hung it. So
Speaker 4: the day our new art teacher started missus stinky pants,
Speaker 4: She's like writing some stuff on the board and then
Speaker 4: she's like, what's this? And I raised my hand and
Speaker 4: I'm like, I drew that and won an award and
Speaker 4: it's Leif Erickson. And she took it off the wall
Speaker 4: and ripped it in half and said, no, you didn't
Speaker 4: your parents did this?
Speaker 1: Okay? And I walked home.
Speaker 4: Which was only a block away. We are right down
Speaker 4: the street from our elementary school. My mother was watching
Speaker 4: Young and the Restless, and I was like, our teacher
Speaker 4: ritten she came up there and then ripped her a
Speaker 4: new one. Never never said that one for me and
Speaker 4: that teacher. People are like, oh, is that really racism?
Speaker 1: She was racist. She had proven herself to be racist
Speaker 1: several times.
Speaker 4: She was a teacher that told me, you know what,
Speaker 4: slavery wasn't about racism.
Speaker 1: It's about pure pressure. So if you had a.
Speaker 4: Slave and then you saw your neighbors had, well you'd
Speaker 4: want to get a slave too.
Speaker 1: Okay, and listen, stick to art.
Speaker 4: You didn't need to tell a three lessons failed its.
Speaker 2: Street street teachers for that were good, but there's an
Speaker 2: end to the story.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me hear the end. So that's the beginning
Speaker 1: of Middle Amber. Tell theia at the end. So Lacey
Speaker 1: used to work at an old resentment home.
Speaker 4: So they wheel this lady in and I'm like, man,
Speaker 4: she looks really familiar. And I'm sitting across from her,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, did you what did you do for
Speaker 4: a living? And she's naming all this stuff but art teacher,
Speaker 4: And finally I go, did you use me art teacher?
Speaker 4: The law?
Speaker 1: And she's like yes, And I all came flooding back.
Speaker 4: And this woman had no visitors, no family, no friends.
Speaker 1: Yeah, at the end of her life. Wow, this is
Speaker 1: so poetic. Just had a miserable, liable life.
Speaker 4: To the point where I was checking on her all
Speaker 4: I felt sorry for this woman. Nothing now, no one
Speaker 4: ever came, no one not just not a nice woman.
Speaker 2: I'm curious how, I mean, you've collected all of these
Speaker 2: experiences growing up in Nebraska and you've put them into
Speaker 2: these best selling books. I'm curious, like how growing up
Speaker 2: in this environment shaped your views on the world.
Speaker 4: Both of you probably made us quite skeptical, But I
Speaker 4: don't know, growing up in a place where we were
Speaker 4: discriminated against so thoroughly, probably made us more insistent on
Speaker 4: our greatness, more consistent of our greatest because honestly, like
Speaker 4: you could have like Lacey, you could be the best
Speaker 4: artist in the school, and this lady will rip up
Speaker 4: your painting. So you have to like triple down on
Speaker 4: who you are. And I think we do have a
Speaker 4: healthy helping of that.
Speaker 1: You must have had parents who reinforced that. Definitely.
Speaker 4: My mom's like, you're the best, You're the cutest, your
Speaker 4: hair is cute, your everything's cute.
Speaker 1: We thought we were unstoppable.
Speaker 4: She did say, you're the smartest in your class, and
Speaker 4: anyone who thinks they are is mistaken.
Speaker 1: She said that to all.
Speaker 2: Of us Amber growing up, What kind of possibilities did
Speaker 2: you see in comedy?
Speaker 4: None? Growing up as a zero possibilities and comedy none
Speaker 4: not one. Everything I certainly wasn't like one day, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna make it, absolutely not. I always thought that I
Speaker 4: would be delivering the mail and in community theater shows.
Speaker 1: And I also was like, these.
Speaker 4: White people aren't going to let me do these shows,
Speaker 4: but maybe I can have a small part in some
Speaker 4: of them. And as a child, that's one hundred percent
Speaker 4: I thought would happen to me. I certainly didn't think
Speaker 4: I would leave Omaha at all, And then I didn't
Speaker 4: think i'd have any type of like special good job.
Speaker 2: I was stunned when I came across this amber fact
Speaker 2: that you became the first black woman to write for
Speaker 2: a network late night show in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I still can't even wrap my head around that fact.
Speaker 2: How do you process that now a decade later?
Speaker 1: If you have ever seen a late night so pretty
Speaker 1: obvious that's the case. It's not exactly a bastion of diversity.
Speaker 4: No, So when I found that out, I didn't think
Speaker 4: anyone would care because to me, it had been extremely
Speaker 4: obvious and like, it is really sad, and it's really
Speaker 4: shocking because.
Speaker 1: There are no people funnier than black women. They don't exist.
Speaker 4: Find a black lady librarian, she will have you rolling.
Speaker 4: You can't find anyone funnier. So to me, it's quite perplexing.
Speaker 2: So what do you think needs to happen in order
Speaker 2: for these statistics to change?
Speaker 4: Society has to move to a point where they can accept,
Speaker 4: you know, writing from black women. You know, I think
Speaker 4: when people receive anything from a black woman and they
Speaker 4: know that's where it came from.
Speaker 1: Then they're like yuck.
Speaker 4: Also, we have been exposed to one another's experiences, so
Speaker 4: not us them, but them us.
Speaker 1: That comedy is quite segregated, and so just.
Speaker 4: How we are funny is so different that you know,
Speaker 4: usually the head of a show is white, and they
Speaker 4: can't deliver those jokes. You know, they can't. They can't
Speaker 4: honor the structure of your comedy. They simply can't. It
Speaker 4: would sound crazy coming out of their mouths. So you
Speaker 4: either have to shift and become less funny or they
Speaker 4: have to shift and appropriate. So there are a million
Speaker 4: reasons why, but it boils down to discrimination.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's time for another short break, but don't go
Speaker 2: anywhere because we've got more laughs plus a little game
Speaker 2: after the break. All Right, we're back with dynamic duo
Speaker 2: Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar. Lacy, you are in your
Speaker 2: New York era now, girl, but back when you're a
Speaker 2: Nebraska era you are a really important figure in your community.
Speaker 2: I mean, you were helping immigrants find jobs, working with
Speaker 2: younger folks. Are you continuing that work in New York
Speaker 2: or are you an Amber just going to be taking
Speaker 2: your comedy duo to New Heights. I mean, what is
Speaker 2: going to happen in this New York era?
Speaker 1: Amber and I are working on some projects together. We are.
Speaker 1: Can I talk about the dating? Nope?
Speaker 4: Okay, so no, I can't talk about that, but we
Speaker 4: are working on some projects.
Speaker 1: You can talk about that secret.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, sorry, we're working on a project about Okay,
Speaker 4: Lacey and how horrible it is to date her.
Speaker 1: That was hard, guys, and that's racism. Want to know
Speaker 1: that's racism?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: We are.
Speaker 4: I So on our podcast, The Amber and Lacey Lacy
Speaker 4: and Amber Show, we have a segment called slide out
Speaker 4: of Lacey's d MS where I just read message.
Speaker 1: So slide out, not slide in.
Speaker 4: It's not dates, it's not relationships. It is a one
Speaker 4: time deal where someone sends me a message and that's
Speaker 4: going to turn into something. It's going to turn into something.
Speaker 4: And I will give you an example of one. One
Speaker 4: is hello, would you like to have dinner sometime? And
Speaker 4: he sent me a picture of him standing in a
Speaker 4: freshly dug grave with a shovel.
Speaker 1: These are the types. Get them now?
Speaker 4: Are they all that horrifying? Absolutely not? Are they hilarious?
Speaker 4: Absolutely that the messages that I have gotten.
Speaker 2: Of I simultaneously have chills and want to throw up
Speaker 2: at the same time. There's like a lot of bodily
Speaker 2: reactions that want to happen. It's giving saltburn. It's definitely
Speaker 2: giving saltburn energy.
Speaker 1: Ton't finish it. Don't tell me anything else. I did
Speaker 1: not finish saltburn, but I will find well.
Speaker 2: Spoiler alert, there's a grave and romance. I'm sorry. I
Speaker 2: feel like I owe you an apology, even though it
Speaker 2: wasn't me. I just want to apologize for that happening
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 1: Wait look at it. Let me look at you. Wait,
Speaker 1: it's a beautiful looking man.
Speaker 2: It's been great having you guys on the show. We
Speaker 2: gotta go, No, I'm kidding, g Yeah, all right. We
Speaker 2: have a quick little we have a quick little game
Speaker 2: that I'd love to play with you too before we go.
Speaker 2: So it's no secret this is a family affair. Clearly
Speaker 2: the funny bone runs in the rough and family DNA.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna put your sister knowledge to the test
Speaker 2: in a little game that we like to call sister superlatives.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna ask you which sister is most likely
Speaker 2: to do x y Z thing and then just give
Speaker 2: us your most honest answer.
Speaker 1: We want honesty. Okay, we got it. I got it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna win.
Speaker 2: So first up, when you were younger, who was most
Speaker 2: likely to get in trouble?
Speaker 4: Me? Amber Lacy does not get in trouble. She'll tattle
Speaker 4: on you in all tell on everybody, everybody's mom. Wow,
Speaker 4: you are snitching.
Speaker 1: What are you doing over there? Right now? Look at it?
Speaker 1: Look at me? Stop? I got in trouble.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: Okay, this one is actually particularly salient based on our
Speaker 2: most recent conversation. Who's most likely to stalk someone on
Speaker 2: social media? Lacey me, Okay, you got some good detective
Speaker 2: skills there.
Speaker 4: Yes, I will find out who you are married to,
Speaker 4: how many kids you have, because I'm dating. I gotta
Speaker 4: find out before I go on that date. I will
Speaker 4: know your blood type.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, totally normal.
Speaker 2: Who is most likely to hog the ox cord during
Speaker 2: a road trip? Lacy me, what's your road trip playlist?
Speaker 2: Is it smooth Jazz?
Speaker 4: Is it it's baby Face, baby Face, It's Tony Braxton,
Speaker 4: it's Anita Baker.
Speaker 1: I mean that sounds like a great road trip to me.
Speaker 1: It's wonderful and a little hood, just a little little gangster.
Speaker 2: A little ratchet in there, But like what kind of
Speaker 2: like what brand of ratchet are we talking?
Speaker 1: Juvenile? Uvinile? Like PD Poblo, the five oh four boys,
Speaker 1: hot boys. You gotta have a mix. You gotta do
Speaker 1: a high low mix. Okay, who is most likely to
Speaker 1: keep a secret?
Speaker 4: Me?
Speaker 1: Lacey.
Speaker 4: I'm still telling embers because from twenty years ago chosen.
Speaker 1: I don't tell her all at once.
Speaker 4: Lacy tells me something new every day, every day day,
Speaker 4: every daw because now I'm old enough to know the secrets.
Speaker 1: So now she's still.
Speaker 4: Not old enough to know everything. You don't know everything,
Speaker 4: but I'll let her know every couple of weeks I
Speaker 4: give her. It's really good, guys, it's really good. That
Speaker 4: should be another book, the Secrets. I can take a
Speaker 4: secret to the grazy kids, put it in the lock bags.
Speaker 2: As we wrap up, I want to ask you both,
Speaker 2: after having worked together on all these projects, how have
Speaker 2: you grown together as sisters?
Speaker 4: I feel like you never get to work with people
Speaker 4: you're related to, you know, and you don't know who
Speaker 4: you gonna get. Well, that's not true, because I knew
Speaker 4: who Lacey was gonna be I knew Laser was gonna
Speaker 4: do all her work on time and be easier and easy.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know, it's nice.
Speaker 4: And then the result is we have these lovely accomplishments
Speaker 4: that feel great and they are you know, they feel
Speaker 4: a lot like vacations we went on. But it's like we,
Speaker 4: you know, did a book tour and like sold this
Speaker 4: show and wrote another book and podcast and it feels
Speaker 4: like this list of cool accomplishments and really quick, we're
Speaker 4: all of our accomplishments hosted.
Speaker 1: The accomplishment bathroom or all in the bathroom say more.
Speaker 4: If you come over, can go to the bathroom and
Speaker 4: you'll be surrounded by accomplishments of us staring at.
Speaker 2: You, Hey, genius, and more homes across America should adopt this.
Speaker 2: What is the accomplishment that's hanging in the bathroom that
Speaker 2: you are most proud of?
Speaker 4: The mine is the book, Amber, I don't know, it's
Speaker 4: got all of them in there. They're all in there.
Speaker 4: I'n say the Emmy nomination for the Amber Ruffin Trow.
Speaker 1: Yay, yay, good answer. Hey Amber Lacey, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for bringing your rough and energy to the bright side.
Speaker 5: Yay.
Speaker 4: For a sum it's too much, but you seem to
Speaker 4: roll with it and we appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Hey, I feel like I would do pretty well on
Speaker 2: a rough and road trip like it sounds great, You
Speaker 2: can do it.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Amber Ruffin and Lacy Lamar are sisters, writers, podcast hosts,
Speaker 2: and authors.
Speaker 3: That's our show for today. Thanks so much for listening.
Speaker 3: We'll be back tomorrow to pop off with People's Style
Speaker 3: and Beauty director Andrea Labenthal. Listen and follow the bright
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Speaker 3: get your podcasts.
Speaker 1: I'm Simone Boye.
Speaker 2: You can find me at Simone Voice on Instagram and TikTok.
Speaker 3: Danielle Robe on Instagram and TikTok.
Speaker 1: That's r O b A. Y. See you tomorrow, folks.
Speaker 1: Keep looking on the bright side.