Pleasure Reid is returning to the mic—this time, on her personal phrases.
With the launch of “The Pleasure Reid Present,” the Emmy-nominated journalist is stepping out from behind the confines of a community information desk and into the podcast world, an area the place she will be able to communicate as herself, to her folks, her means.
“All through my profession, I’ve been proud to function a reliable voice in journalism, notably as a Black girl in areas the place the views of ladies, and notably girls of coloration, are too usually underrepresented,” Reid mentioned in a press launch. “This new podcast marks an thrilling new chapter—a possibility to achieve broader audiences, construct vibrant communities, and lead considerate conversations on the problems that matter.”
For years, Reid has delivered sharp, unflinching political evaluation to hundreds of thousands of viewers. She’s given us the info with readability and introduced a stage of perception that solely a Black girl who understands each the stakes and the soul of this nation may supply.
So when MSNBC abruptly canceled her present, “The ReidOut,” earlier this 12 months, followers felt the absence deeply. Recognizing that communities are “scared” and “freaked out by all of the chaos and cruelty” in at the moment’s political local weather, Reid is coming again to supply what she at all times has: care, reality, and just a bit little bit of pleasure.
“I at all times say scary is caring, so I’m about telling it the way in which it’s. And you already know this, however you already know what else can be caring? Paying consideration and getting concerned to the extent you possibly can,” she says within the podcast trailer. “But additionally taking a while to giggle…actually giggle on the fools which might be conducting the insanity, and perhaps even simply have a little bit nonpolitical, precise pleasure.”
Set to premiere June 9, the present will give followers a fuller view of Pleasure Reid: the analyst, the auntie, the cultural critic, and the girl who’s not afraid to name a idiot a idiot. With episodes dropping Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays throughout YouTube and all main podcast platforms, the “Pleasure Reid Present” is predicted to be equal elements analytical, intimate, and entertaining. Monday and Wednesday episodes will deliver deep dives into the headlines and the people shaping them, whereas Friday’s “Freestyle Fridays” flip the mic to the folks, sparking real-time convo with Reid’s viewers, Substack group (“Pleasure’s Home”), and shock company.
With plans to increase to 5 days every week and construct out a totally engaged listening group, “The Pleasure Reid Present” may also embody beloved segments from her hit present “The Reid Out,” like “Who Gained The Week.”
For its debut, the present kicks off with heavyweight company, together with Newark Mayor and 2025 gubernatorial hopeful Ras Baraka, comic Amber Ruffin, and former South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool, who’ve every had their very own distinctive experiences with the present administration.
Along with being a supply of dependable data, “that can assist you navigate this mess when your loopy highschool buddies are spreading disinformation on-line and in your textual content teams,” Reid describes “The Pleasure Reid Present” as one for “for all of the aunties and uncles and youngins and Uber drivers and simply of us who’d come as much as me all around the nation and ask, ‘The place can we discover you subsequent? We want you’—I received you. Let’s do that.”
