Andrew Limbong

You can draw a line, right?

You can draw the line.

We don't need to claim that.

Well, we'll put a pin in it.

But when it came out, like we were just alluding to before, I think there was a contingent of dudes who were like, this book is harmful to black men.

This book is like saying something.

black men get right and then getting the response 80s and the 90s we wouldn't have she's gotta have it and yeah so speaking of spike lee he actually blurbed the book right and what he wrote in a way sort of preempts the criticism right because he says something along the lines of um this book is a truthful and well-written account of the quote volatile relationships between black men and black women right um and so i just want to play you this clip it's pretty funny it's a

Terry McMillan talking to Terry Gross on WHYY's Fresh Air about Spike's reading of the book.

This is amazing.

Ninety-two.

The entire interview is like brilliant.

She's on edge.

And she's like, because when Terry Gross asks about this criticism, Mick Millen goes like, are you saying that?

Okay, here's the thing about reading this book and watching the movie is that like, I think more so reading this book, it feels like I'm listening to a podcast.

No wonder you think about Call of Daddy.

Yeah, kind of.

This is the thread I'm talking about.

All the action happens in conversation, right?

A lot of it is like, hey, you don't believe this date I just went on.

Hey, you don't believe like,