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On this week’s episode, host Sequoia Holmes welcomes Love, Peace, and Spades founder Kevito Clark and org resident host, Joshua Pinkay. 

Highlights 

Spades, Tonk, Big Whist

Games as Black heirlooms 

Why reneging in spades is controversial 

What games are most likely to cause a riot

Why family game nights are crucial to community building 

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On this week’s episode, host Sequoia Holmes welcomes Emo historian and author of the My Emo Diaries series, My Emo Diaries. The two discuss the career of emo staple Panic! At The Disco, analyze the state of the scene during their career peak, and bring up the pressing question: why all the contention towards emo kids? All this & more! 

Highlights 

Religious Trauma to Emo music pipeline 

A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out 

Brendon Urie Brandon Flowers beef

When We Were Young 

Soulful emo singers 

My Emo Diaries Vol 1 & 2

Long nonsensical song naming conventions that we love 

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On this week’s episode, host Sequoia Holmes welcomes actress and online fitness coach, Ashley Chatman to discuss the practice of “Manifestation.” The two get into exactly what manifesting is (and isn’t), how social media can be misleading, and what it really means to visualize the life you want. 

Highlights 

Positive thoughts vs. Negative thoughts 

Toxic Positivity 

Are Moon cycles, crystals, candles, and mood boards really necessary? 

Visualization 

Moments of Awe 

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This episode we're chatting about why Black people love holiday foods featuring Toya Coleman (aka Toya from Harlem) from That Wasn’t In My Textbook podcast.

This episode was published on November 24th 2022

On this week’s episode, host Sequoia Holmes and special guest, writer / comedian Garrick Bernard, discuss season 7 of Netflix’s Love Is Blind.   

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On this week’s episode, host Sequoia Holmes welcomes Fangirl Central co-host, Amanda Layne Miller to talk all things Halloweentown. They get into the franchise’s character astrology, the greatness that is Debbie Reynolds, and how Kalabar was actually right but had the wrong approach. 

Highlights 

• Marnie’s recast
• Anti - Halloween Christianity
• Gwen was actually the villain
• Dork Vs. Nerd
• Disney Vs. Disney Channel

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On this week’s episode, host Sequoia Holmes welcomes host of the NPR podcast, Pop Culture Happy Hour and author of the book WANNABE: Reckoning With The Pop Culture That Shapes Me, Aisha Harris. We get into the cultural phenom that is *NSYNC, their (possibly flawless?) discography, boy band drama, and what made early 2000s pop music so special. All this & more! 

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Highlights 

Boy bands 

Nipple Gate

Early 2000s pop culture 

TRL on MTV

JT’s beatboxing 

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On this week’s episode, BPLP fave, award-winning journalist Jewel Wicker joins host Sequoia Holmes in a conversation on the newest Princess of Pop: Sabrina Carpenter. They get into the singer’s Disney career, to headlining her own tour, to collaborating with pop legends like Christina Aguilera. All this & More! 

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Highlights 

Crashing out on ex boyfriends 

Nepo Babies

Sabrina’s Christmas music 

Barry Keoghan 

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On this week’s episode, host Sequoia Holmes welcomes award-winning journalist and culture editor for Teen Vogue, Kaitlyn McNab, on the show to talk about the cultural phenomenon that is TikTok. 

Highlights 

Vine setting the foundation

Beauty Tiktok 

The comments section

Men with mics 

Black women are the root of the “clean girl aesthetic”  

Fannita and the Tart debacle 

Racist tweets of famous Tiktoker’s past

Jools Lebron and the demurity of it all 

Generation wars 

Is TikTok a real place?

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