Kaya is joined by Leah from Positively Uncensored for the beginning of our weekly RHONY coverage — and somehow, the Real Housewives of New York City premiere might have actually won us over.
We break down Sai and Jessel becoming unexpected besties, Sai opening up about her separation and marriage, Erin finding herself at the center of another feud, and the new Housewives who could finally breathe some life into the RHONY reboot.
We also get into Martha Stewart's surprise appearance with her makeup artist Daisy, Haley's chaotic introduction, Erica's billionaire husband, Pavit becoming a food influencer, Chanel Ayan warning Jessel about Erin, and the party confrontation that ends with Erin being told to leave.
Before RHONY, we're talking about the new Real Housewives of Potomac trailer, Karen Huger's return, Robyn being back in the mix, Stacey's relationship and why Potomac looks like it may be heading into a strong new season.
Plus: Beauty in Black Season 3, Ultimate Girls Trip, producer manipulation behind classic Housewives gossip moments and why so much of what happens on Girls Trip appears ready to spill into the individual franchises.
Follow Bravo We're Black and Positively Uncensored, and come back every week as we cover RHONY all season long.

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Timestamps:

00:00 — Leah returns + Beauty in Black catch-up
05:30 — Potomac trailer reactions and Karen’s return
09:25 — Tia, Stacey, and Ultimate Girls Trip connections
15:42 — RHONY premiere: first impressions and Erin’s role
19:35 — Daisy, Martha Stewart, and the new cast
26:41 — Sai and Jessel’s friendship and relationship drama
31:45 — Haley’s introduction and unconventional marriage
36:45 — Erica’s debut, wealth questions, and party personalities
42:22 — Jessel and Pavit + the Erin, Sai, and Jessel tension
49:51 — Chanel Ayan’s warning, final confrontation, and closing thoughts

















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Bravo We’re Black x I Ken Not returns to the DCU to break down Lanterns Episode 4!
Kaya and Kendrick get into the growing tension between Hal Jordan and John Stewart, Sinestro’s warning, John potentially becoming the new Green Lantern, Hal secretly submitting bad progress reports about him, the Rushville mystery and the episode’s Manhunter reveal.
We also discuss why Hal may be more afraid of being replaced than he wants to admit, why Aaron Pierre and Kyle Chandler are such a strong pairing, and how Lanterns continues to feel more like True Detective and a buddy-cop mystery than a traditional superhero series.
Plus: Black moms, relationship reconnaissance, Green Lantern oaths, Xbox revenge, “Granny Hot Pants,” and the usual Bravo We’re Black x I Ken Not chaos.Where does Episode 4 rank for you so far—and are you Team Hal or Team John?


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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Lanterns episode four begins
1:34 Recapping the previous episode
4:20 Advice that has stuck with us
 10:47 Recon stories and relationship investigations
 18:07 The compound, Liana, and the Green Lantern dilemma
23:12 Breaking into the weapons room
 26:34 Revenge fantasies and ridiculous threats
34:29 Hal and John’s car crash — plus car wreck stories
41:11 Ranking Lanterns episodes one through four
50:35 Sickle cell awareness fundraiser and final sign-off

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Raven of B!tch Is Better joins Kaya for a Bravo hot-topics episode that starts with the Shamea Morton and Bolo scene everybody is talking about.Now that we’ve seen the scene from Shamea’s Todd Tucker-produced movie, does her husband Gerald’s discomfort with her acting career make a little more sense?
We get into whether Shamea downplayed what she filmed, why Todd chose THAT clip to post and all the RHOA history that makes Bolo being involved even messier.
Then we talk Phaedra Parks and CT Tamburello, whether this relationship is real, why we’re somehow already invested, and Phaedra’s impeccable timing.
Finally, we go through some iconic Housewives songs and actually read the lyrics—from Cynthia Bailey’s “The Peach Life” to Porsha Williams’ “Flatline” and more.
Plus: the Emmys, Meredith Marks on Threads and the usual Bravo We’re Black chaos.
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Timestamps:

• 0:00 — Shamea, Bolo & Todd Tucker’s messy movie scene
• 7:20 — Emmys red-carpet commentary
• 8:52 — Phaedra and CT: what’s really going on?
• 13:06 — Watching Peach Life for the first time
• 16:20 — Revisiting Porsha’s “Flatline”
• 18:06 — “Tardy for the Party” lyric deep dive
• 20:13 — Meredith Marks’ bizarre plane post
• 23:23 — Sickle Cell Awareness Fundraiser & goodbye

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This is a Bravo based tea filled episode. Raven joins me to be shocked that Jax Taylor has the nerve to get a restraining order on Brittany Cartwright but to make things even worse he seemingly still gets $5k a month and can possibly COME BACK TO THE SHOW. They also get into Lesa Milan relocating to Miami, and Caroline Manzo's .... odd comments about the canceled Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip and how she wants to fix Brandi Glanville after everything that's happened.

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Timestamps
0:00 — Intro + Sickle Cell Awareness Month fundraiser
2:52 — Bravo Lover Tea begins
3:23 — Danny and Nia leave The Valley
14:10 — Jax and Brittany’s restraining-order drama
16:31 — Jax’s possible return and reality-TV “holding” money
21:29 — Special Forces cast rundown and reactions
26:19 — Lesa Milan on Miami, Dubai, and the Housewives
31:38 — Who qualifies as a Bravo “baddie”?
33:45 — Caroline Manzo and the lost Ultimate Girls Trip season
39:06 — Wrap-up, subscribe reminder, and fundraiser outro

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Mani of The Mix with Mani is here to talk the Love Island USA season 8 reunion. Melanie and Sincere are unsurprisingly still together. Sol is irredeemable. And Kayda.... What was THAT about?!?!? Watch us break it down.

Sickle cell still does not receive the attention, funding, or urgency it deserves, largely because it disproportionately affects Black and brown people. Until the rest of the world catches on, we’re going to keep doing whatever little bit we can to help sickle cell warriors feel seen, supported, and cared for.

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• 0:02 — Intro and Mani guest introduction
• 0:23 — YouTube/subscription plug and “visual learners” joke
• 0:57 — Mani says she’s joining Kendrick on YouTube
• 1:50 — Transition into Love Island reunion discussion
• 2:49 — Was the reunion worth the wait?
• 4:46 — First major topic: Melanie and Sincere
• 6:14 — Discussion of Amora’s comments
• 7:19 — Melanie criticism and relationship dynamics
• 9:06 — Kayda and Zach discussion begins
• 11:04 — Kayda’s posture/attitude at the reunion
• 12:17 — Ariana confrontation and defensive reaction
• 14:57 — Bryce/Zach friendship and suspicious editing
• 16:54 — Caleb discussion begins
• 19:00 — Corbin and relationship status
• 20:05 — Relationship exclusivity issue
• 21:12 — Aniya and Carl
• 23:00 — KC and T.T. reunion behavior

• 24:29 — Trinity and Bryce as a strong couple
• 26:38 — Trinity’s callout about supporter behavior
• 27:41 — Sol discussion begins
• 28:17 — Sol’s lies and mean girl narrative
• 31:27 — Sydney and Ronnie reveal
• 33:03 — Closing thoughts on the season
• 33:46 — Mani’s outro and future plans
• 36:00 — Final goodbye

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HBO’s Lanterns has officially arrived — and somehow, it’s even better than we expected. Kaya and I Ken Not podcast host Kendrick are joined by special guest Ryan Bailey of So Bad It’s Good with Ryan Bailey to break down the first three episodes of Lanterns HBO and DC Studios’ new take on the Green Lantern universe starring Aaron Pierre as John Stewart and Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan.

We came into Lanterns with high expectations, but the series has already exceeded them. Aaron Pierre and Kyle Chandler are fantastic as two Green Lanterns who could not be more different. John Stewart is controlled, observant and determined to prove himself, while Hal Jordan is an experienced, stubborn veteran carrying secrets of his own. That clash makes their partnership — and their performances — one of the strongest parts of the series. **SPOILERS AHEAD for Lanterns Episodes 1–3!** We break down the mystery introduced in Episode 1, as Hal is tasked with training John and the two head to Rushville, Nebraska, where a bizarre case involving dead extraterrestrials begins to reveal something much bigger.

The episode also jumps through time and gives us the shocking revelation that Hal Jordan is dead in 2026, immediately turning the season into a mystery about not only what happened in Rushville, but what eventually happened to Hal. In Episode 2, “Trust Fall,” the investigation expands as John and Hal learn more about the terrifying Manhunter threat potentially hiding in Rushville. While working separately, we also begin to see just how different their approaches to being Green Lanterns really are — and why trusting each other may be as important as solving the case. Then Episode 3, “OutKast,” takes us deep into John Stewart’s origin story.

 Through his unusual Green Lantern interview and flashbacks to his childhood and military career, we learn how John was shaped by his family, his experiences as a Black man in America and the expectations placed on him long before he ever wore the ring. We also discover that the Guardians may have much bigger plans for John — including the revelation that he isn't simply being recruited to work alongside Hal.

 And this is exactly why we think you don't have to be a superhero fan to love Lanterns. If you're a fan of strong acting, complicated characters, mystery and genuinely good storytelling, there is something here for you.

We also get into some of the conversation happening around the show — including the sudden attempts to rewrite history around Ryan Reynolds' 2011 Green Lantern movie now that Lanterns is being praised, and why some viewers seem uncomfortable with the new series directly acknowledging the realities of being Black in America through John Stewart's story. Is Lanterns already proving that the DCU can tell superhero stories that feel completely different from traditional comic-book television?

Are Aaron Pierre and Kyle Chandler the perfect John Stewart and Hal Jordan? And after Episodes 1–3… where exactly is this mystery taking us? Join us as we break it all down.

Timestamps: 0:02 Intro and welcome
 0:56 Lanterns setup, cast, and why the show matters
5:17 Early reactions to the first three episodes
13:31 Moving into the episode discussion
 18:01 Episode 1 recap and the Hal Jordan reveal
24:44 Episode 2 recap, the bird, and the Manhunter setup
28:25 Sinestro discussion and town theories 40:34 Episode 3 recap and John Stewart’s backstory 53:25 Final thoughts on why the show works
 55:29 Outro and wrap-up
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SURPRISE! Kaya and Raven are back and E L A T E D to talk about Real Housewives Ultimate Girl's Trip Roarin' 20th episode 4 which all we care about is the return of NeNe Leakes!

This is going to make you smile almost as much as the episode.

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Y'ALL THOUGHT WE FORGET?!?!??!?! KAYA IS BACK FROM THE DEAD WITH RAVEN TO TALK ABOUT THE VALLEY AND THE WORST KEPT SECRET: DANNY MUST'VE ACTED A FOOL AT THAT WEDDING. ALSO JAX IS JAXING. LETS TALK ABOUT IT!



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Aaron, Raven, and Kendrick get into a lively conversation covering everything from the Buc-ee’s experience and the latest happenings in Jonesboro to the story behind Kendrick’s alleged “secret beef” with Kandi and Claudia Jordan. Expect plenty of laughs, candid opinions, unexpected revelations, and the kind of behind-the-scenes conversation that keeps the episode entertaining from start to finish.

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