The two friends reconnect on Don’t Be Dumb, Rocky’s first album in eight years — and inadvertently demonstrate how much they’ve diverged as artists.
Ashley Tribble
Ashley (aka Tribble) joined the TPR team as a substitute afternoon host in 2023. Hailing from the Midwest, Tribble is a comedian, producer and host who has been working in digital media since 2015. She started her career in audio as the creator, producer and host of P Power Radio, a podcast that shares the stories of revolutionary millennial women and the history of the world they are working to change. The podcast featured a range of women artists, activists, entrepreneurs and bosses from Chicago and beyond, and was listed among Ebony’s “5 Black Podcasts to Have in Your Arsenal” in 2016. In 2019, she helped launch More Sauce, a network focused on stories from creators of color at Stitcher. There she started her journey as the producer for Dead Ass with Khadeen & Devale Ellis, where she currently leads creative audio and live show production. In 2020, Tribble helped launch The Black Effect at iHeart, a network focused on Black stories and experiences.
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5 takeaways from the 2026 Oscar nominations, where ‘Sinners’ made history
Sinners landed a record number of nods, while Avatar: Fire and Ash and Wicked: For Good fell short of their franchise predecessors.
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The Taiwanese president’s proposal to hike defense spending faces gridlock at home
Opposition parties are slamming the brakes on billions in defense funding as the China escalates military pressure.
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‘The White Hot’ asks: If men can go find themselves, why can’t women?
Quiara Alegría Hudes’ novel was inspired by Siddhartha and other classic tales of men seeking enlightenment. It’s about a mother in Philadelphia who buys a bus ticket, leaving her daughter behind.
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‘Even the Dead’ wraps up John Banville’s smart, moody mystery series
Originally published under a pseudonym, Banville’s Quirke mystery series follows a troubled Dublin coroner who dwells in the basement morgue of a hospital.
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Watch: The 2026 Oscar nominations are underway
Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman are presenting the nominees for the 98th Academy Awards this morning.
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Some voters who backed Trump say ICE is going ‘too far’
A new focus group of Biden-to-Trump voters weighs in on immigration operations and Trump’s foreign affairs leadership on Greenland and Venezuela.
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Trump vs. U.S. allies: How will this end?
The president has backed off his threat to take Greenland by force. But his highly inflammatory remarks in Switzerland rattled U.S. allies and threatened to tear down the pillars of the world order.
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Jack Smith to defend Trump investigations to House Republicans
Jack Smith’s appearance before the House Judiciary Committee marks the first open testimony about his work after presiding over two federal criminal indictments of President Trump.
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Rahm Emanuel steers a course between ‘monopolists’ and ‘Marxists’
NPR’s Steve Inskeep speaks with longtime Democrat Rahm Emanuel about politics in the Trump era.
