Unabridged: The LA Live Show with Chelsea Devantez, Rachel Lindsay and Sam Sanders

This edition of The Stacks Unabridged features audio from our Los Angeles stop on the Live in The Stacks tour. We were joined by Chelsea Devantez, Rachel Lindsay and Sam Sanders in a discussion of celebrity memoirs, pop culture gossip and book recommendations.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find what we talked about on Amazon.

• Chris Rock

• Chris Rock–Will Smith slapping incident

• Will Smith

• Jada Pinkett Smith

• Sam Sanders

• Into It (Vulture)

• Vibe Check (Stitcher)

• Rachel Lindsay

• The Bachelorette (ABC)

• Morally Corrupt (All Things Bravo)

• The Ringer

• Higher Learning (The Ringer)

• Miss Me with That by Rachel Lindsay

• Real Love by Rachel Lindsay

• Reparations Club (Los Angeles, CA)

• Worthy by Jada Pinkett Smith

• Glamorous Trash with Chelsea Devantez

• I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This by Chelsea Devantez

• Petco

• “Just the Two of Us” (Will Smith, 1997)

• Kenny G

• Gray Davis

• Bill Clinton Playing Sax on Arsenio Hall

• Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith on Red Table Talk

• Tupac Shakur

• “Jada Pinkett Smith Says Tupac Shakur Had Alopecia: ‘He Just Wouldn’t Talk About It'” (Jason Sheeler and Chris Barilla, People)

• “Celebrity Book Club: Jada Pinkett Smith’s Worthy (with Traci Thomas)” (Glamorous Trash)

• Willow Smith

• Jaden Smith

• “Whip My Hair” (Willow Smith, 2012)

• Tell Me Everything by Minka Kelly

• The Matrix (Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski and Bruce Hunt, 1999)

• Van Lathan

• Denzel Washington

• Chadwick Boseman

• “Oscars 2021: Switched Ending And Surprise Chadwick Boseman Loss Prompts Confusion And Anger” (Siladitya Ray, Forbes)

• Rita Wilson

• “Glenn Close Da Butt Dance At The Oscars 2021”

• “Da Butt” (E.U., 1988)

• Anthony Hopkins

• The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

• “Britney Spears Reveals She Had an Abortion Because Justin Timberlake ‘Didn’t Want to Be a Father'” (Jeff Nelson, People)

• “We Want You Back: ‘NSync Appear, But Don’t Perform, at VMAs” (Jon Blistein, Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone)

• “Bye Bye Bye” (Nsync, 2000)

• Joey Fatone

• Chris Kirkpatrick

• “5 *NSYNC members walk into an elevator….”

• Michelle Williams

• The Woman in Me by Britney Spears (audiobook)

• Lou Taylor

• Jamie Lynn Spears

• In-N-Out Burger

• Palm Springs, CA

• “Why does In-N-Out print Bible verses on its cups and wrappers?” (Michelle Gant, Today)

• Chick-fil-A

• The Golden Bachelor (ABC)

• Mistakes We Never Made by Hannah Brown

• “Bachelorette Star Hannah Brown Sings the N-Word on Instagram, Divides Bachelor Nation” (Devon Ivie, Vulture)

• Tyler Cameron

• Jed Wyatt

• Thicker Than Water by Kerry Washington

• “Celebrity Book Club: Kerry Washington’s Thicker Than Water (with Rachel Lindsay)” (Glamorous Trash)

• Deion Sanders

• University of Colorado (Boulder, CO)

• Donald Sterling

• “LA Clippers owner allegedly says: ‘Don’t bring black people to my games'” (The Guardian)

• Drake

• Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi

• Outrage by Vincent Bugliosi

• Normal Family by Chrysta Bilton

• Liliana’s Invincible Summer by Cristina Rivera Garza

• National Book Award

• Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman

• Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

• The Coldest Winter Ever by Sista Soulja

• Zendaya

• Zola

• Taylour Paige

• Samantha Irby

• Crohn’s Disease

• Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby

• “And Just Like That…” (HBO Max)

• Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

• Sula by Toni Morrison

• “‘Sula’ Limited Series Based On Toni Morrison Novel In Works At HBO” (Nellie Andreeva, Deadline)

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• The Bluest Eye (Lydia R. Diamond, 2007)

• Beloved (Jonathan Demme, 1998)

• Dilla Time by Dan Charnas

• Shine Bright by Danyel Smith

• “Ep. 216 Shine Bright by Danyel Smith — The Stacks Book Club (Novena Carmel)” (The Stacks)

• The Song Machine by John Seabrook

• ABBA

• Katy Perry

• The Half of It by Madison Beer

• Scooter Braun

• It Was All a Dream by Justin Tinsley

• The Notorious BIG

• Petersen Automotive Museum (Los Angeles, CA)

• It Was All a Dream by Justin Tinsley (audiobook)

• Dion Graham

• Never Broken by Jewel

• Whit Hazen Florals

• Dynasty Typewriter (Los Angeles, CA)

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