The Revolution Will Be Podcasted: Brittany Luse’s Sampler To Debut This Week

Like most media in the nerd world, finding a high-quality show that you love among podcasts can be difficult (although you can skip all that work by checking out my favorites list here). But finding a high-quality show produced and hosted by a Black woman nerd? Let’s be real, many of us can barely afford to invest in weekly comic purchases lest have $6 million worth of capital lying around. Well I’m here to tell you that #BlackGirlMagic is still undeniably alive and well in 2016 y’all, because Gimlet Media’s newest podcast, Sampler, launches January 20th and believe when I tell you Brittany Luse is holdin’ it down!

Already a favorite among many podcast listeners for her show For Colored Nerds (“the conversations that Black people have when white people are not in the room”) co-hosted with best friend Eric Eddings, it’s safe to say that Luse will bring a level of racial awareness and comedy that podcast titans so desperately need (I’m deadass looking at you, Serial). In fact, in a shockingly candid recent episode of the podcast StartUp Gimlet’s co-founder and CEO Alex Blumberg revealed that the company plans to revolutionize the podcasting industry by specifically targeting people of color rather than going the traditional route of seeking out previously worked with (read: typically white) colleagues. While this may seem like an obvious solution, many companies fail by confusing this strategy for or being willfully ignorant about tokenism. “Targeting is like, ‘we’re actively …