Modelland
Novel by Tyra BanksWikipedia
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Search complete. 22 mentions across 4 episodes found for "Modelland".
Sep 9, 2026
Arthur PendletonHOST
If we look at our compliance targets, Chip Wilson, 100% perfect compliance.
Arthur PendletonHOST
Read all 10 scheduled books completely, including all 576 pages of Model Land and all of Zbiba and the King.
Beau DashingtonPANELIST
Mm-hmm.
Arthur PendletonHOST
The rotating chairperson, 90%, near perfect compliance.
Arthur PendletonHOST
The sole non-compliant chair was Striker Von Fierce.
Arthur PendletonHOST
Registered a DNF after only reading a third of Model Land.
Arthur PendletonHOST
Dr. Bo Dashian PhD, highly active but flawed.
Beau DashingtonPANELIST
[laughs]
Grace GardeHOST
No, a few other things.
Grace GardeHOST
Smitty wants us to talk about Model Land again.
Grace GardeHOST
I have finished that and it's in the past.
Mitch ChuriHOST
Well, Smitty, we've also rested the one hour of silence moments, which people
Jackie ZebrowskiHOST
Or it means that you were just listening to the previous episode and then this episode started playing.
Jackie ZebrowskiHOST
Regardless, I want to just say up top, you are brave for joining us here to start the journey of Tyra Banks' Model Land.
Jackie ZebrowskiHOST
Now...
Jackie ZebrowskiHOST
If you're coming here just essentially asking, wait, Tyra Banks wrote a book, we are here to unfortunately remind you that, yes, Tyra Banks wrote a book.
MJHOST
into like the
Jackie ZebrowskiHOST
mental health aspects of what's going on with Tyra.
Jackie ZebrowskiHOST
If you were wondering what kind of mental health aspects she's struggling with, might I say read Model Land because wow.
Jackie ZebrowskiHOST
Now, While she claims to have written this book, and don't get me wrong, as someone who has read it, it does make sense that she wrote it.
Natalie RobehmedHOST
It, it stops being culturally relevant, and it stops really being watched.
Vanessa GrigoriadisHOST
Yeah, I mean, she writes this book that I referenced before, I mean, this YA novel, ModelLand, which is also ghostwritten, but she talks a lot about writing and how much she liked writing.
Tyra BanksSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I think people don't really put enough emphasis on writing, and how amazing and empowering writing is.
Vanessa GrigoriadisHOST
And the main character [laughs] is named Tooki de la Creme.
Vanessa GrigoriadisHOST
You know, it's such a campy, crazy book that people actually get really into it.
Vanessa GrigoriadisHOST
But then, you know, she sells a scripted show, you know, TV show called Five Head, which is about her large forehead, like so many head, you know, heads, I guess, is the idea, to ABC about her, like, awkward teenage years, which does not happen.
Natalie RobehmedHOST
Also for the release of ModelLand, just to go back, she also made this song that actually would go viral and be resurfaced after the Netflix documentary, a song called ModelLand, which sounds very [laughs] it's just this bizarre electronic song with, like, a vocoder voice over it that kind of jingle jangles, and it's Tyra speaking, singing, and not really making much sense.
Natalie RobehmedHOST
And it's only a minute and 23 seconds on YouTube, and it is just absolutely bizarre.