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The time has finally come to give the FANTI treatment to the one and only Nicki Minaj. And to do this conversation justice, Jarrett and Tre'Vell invited the fearless music journalist and friend of the show Gerrick Kennedy. His piece Nicki The Menace details the many reasons this icon is so...complicado. Will Nicki sic The Barbz on us for noting her history of making demonstrably false claims? Probably. Plus, we'll talk about the disturbing lengths Minaj and her sex offender husband Kenneth Petty have gone to keep sexual assault victim Jennifer Hough silent. This conversation is so spicy, we ditched an entire segment to give it more time. It good, y'all.

Episode Notes:

Mentioned in the episode

Gerrick Kennedy’s piece Nicki The Menace

How to PRE ORDER Gerrick’s new book Didn’t We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston

Wanna Thompson

Jerome Trammel

Jennifer Hough’s interview on The Real

Slay TV’s web series For the Boys

Shad - Black Averageness

DIS/Honorable Mentions 

HM: Ana Navarro reeeeads Donald Trump, Jr. on The View after he uses false COVID claims to attack her weight. 

HM: Listener DM’s Jarrett Shad’s new track Black Averageness from his album Tao. 

HM Jasmine Crowe tweeted about her new app that will allow Title One school families to order groceries that their children can pick up before heading home. 

HM: SLAY TV’s For the Boys is a web series following three Queer, Black BFFs trying to find love in NYC. 

HM: Slayvell Anderson is named one of the five outside journalists to join the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s credentials committee.

HM: Finally, R. Kelly is found guilty. 

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Listener Feedback

Shout out to the FANTI fam. You all ask us the best questions, including this week’s: When it comes to job hunting with personal ethics and values in mind, should I continue to hold out and work for companies truly committed to dismantling white supremacy and patriarchy even if it means struggling to make ends meet?

DIS/Honorable Mentions 

HM: Disney Plus releases Sparkshorts Twenty Something directed by Pixar’s rising animator Aphton Corbin.

HM:  Director Zach Parrish releases the romantic animated short Us Again about an elder interracial couple dancing back into the days of their youth.

HM: Getting into convo with bikers, host Christopher Stricklen talks racial justice on the soon-to-release episode of his podcast We Got to Hangout.

HM: CBS’ Big Brother will have its first Black winner thanks to Tiffany Mitchell (and The Cookout Alliance).

HM: Megan Rohrer has become the first transgender bishop for the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

DM: Nicki Minaj’s vaccine tweets inspired the Barbz to get loud and unabashedly ignorant in these streets.

Black History Is Happening Everyday

Michaela Coel is the first Black woman to win an Emmy for writing I May Destroy You, one of the best limited series of the last decade, and she slayed her Emmy moment with a relatable and much-needed speech for 2021.

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Music: Cor.ece

Jarrett Hill

Host

Tre’vell Anderson

Host

Laura Swisher

Producer

Lorraine Wheat

Pro

Although we love celebrating anytime a Black individual breaks barriers to become the first in an industry, we have to ask, is there blowback to being the first? This week Tre’vell and Jarrett dissect the significance of being the first Black this, that, and the other before they share their personal “first” experiences that relate to being a Black and Queer individual climbing up the ranks in entertainment journalism.

Pass the Popcorn

*Spoiler Alert Warning*

In this week’s PTP, Jarrett REALLY wants to talk about a show both he and Tre’vell saw: Netflix’s Clickbait. This thriller sees Nick Brewer (Adrian Grenier) kidnapped only to have his wife, Sophie (Betty Gabriel), and family sent on a wild manhunt to save him. If you haven’t seen the series yet and want to avoid any spoilers, skip ahead to 10:19. And if you’ve seen the show, please @Jarrett, especially if you figured out the ending before watching the final episode. Warning: Jarrett will think you’re lying.

DIS/Honorable Mentions 

HM: Actor Michael K. Williams (Lovecraft Country, When They See Us) died on Sept. 6 at age 54.

HM: Janet Jackson stars in a new Lifetime biopic titled, Janet.

HM: Fawzia Mirza directed the queer Muslim rom com The Syed Family Xmas Eve Game Night that screened at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival.

Black History Is Happening Everyday

This week, Jarrett gives a shout out to his good friend, Chef Seth Brundle, who held his pop-up restaurant for The SZNG on Sept. 6th.

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*This week we recorded a supersize episode on Black meme culture for the London Podcast Festival this past Sunday (9/5/21). To get access to the full show, you have until September 12th to watch it. The stream will be available to everyone who purchases a ticket. Just visit FANTIPODCAST.com for the link.*

In the meantime, please enjoy this abbreviated version featuring Shar Jossell who joins us to talk about Lil’ Nas X’s pregnancy pics and make predictions about what’s in store for our favorite characters in the final season of Insecure. Plus, the one and only Brittany Luse (co-host of For Colored Nerds podcast with Eric Eddings) weighs in on meme culture, and in particular Black meme culture--the good, the bad and the painful.

The live show featured lots of surprise guests, including producer extraordinaire Jordan Kauwling, a song association game hosted by Cor.ece, the first face-to-face listener feedback segments, an AMA, and dope graphics.

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**Get tickets to watch the FANTI live stream at the London Podcast Festival on Sunday, Sept. 5th. It’s at 8:30pm in London, 3:30pm ET and 12:30pm PT.**

This week, reefer gets the FANTI treatment, and Jarrett and Tre’Vell are joined by Ball Family Farms CEO Chris Ball. The plant that put food on his table and money in his pocket also put the former pro football player in prison. Of course, that was before weed was legal. Chris explains how he got into cultivating marijuana, and some of the struggles that cannabis growers face, and in particular Black and brown growers. Plus, what is going on over there at Sony? Why did it take so long for Mike Richards to get fired?

Links

Why the Weed Business Looks to Be Recession-Proof

Black Film Archive

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FANTI is produced and distributed by MaximumFun.org

Laura Swisher is the senior producer.

SEE FANTI LIVE & VIRTUAL

at the London Podcasting Festival

Sunday, September 5th. 

8:30 PM UK, 3:30 PM ET, 12:30 PM PT

Video will be available for viewing after the show.

PASS THE POPCORN

The first thing to note about this week’s Pass the Popcorn is that Jarrett will spoil the F out of Fboy Island on HBO Max. If you plan on watching it, or need to finish watching this season, skip ahead to 9:07. And for those of you who have seen the show, please @Jarrett. And if you have no plans on watching the show, you’ll learn everything you need to know.

FANTI

Can we take a rest? No, but can we?

DIS/HONORABLE MENTIONS

DM: OnlyFans (but also: they changed their mind)

DM: Jeopardy Debacle

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MicrodoseDrops.com/topuses & code: FANTI

Dipsea

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FANTI is produced and distributed by MaximumFun.org

Laura Swisher

 is the senior producer.

Get Tix to see FANTI Live at the London Podcasting Festival

Sunday, September 5th

8:30 PM in London

3:30 PM ET

12:30 PM PST

https://bit.ly/FANTI-London

DIS/HONORABLE MENTIONS

HM – Reservation Dogs on Hulu

DM  Nicki Minaj lawsuit

DM: Afghanistan

HM: Nicole Ari Parker, as Lisa Todd Wexley on the new Sex and the City spin-off

FANTI Listener Discounts

Hello Fresh

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Laura Swisher is the senior producer.

DIS/Honorable Mentions 

Honorable mention to The King AND Queen Beyonce on the cover of this month’s Harper’s Bazaar.

Honorable mention to Jennifer Hudson and Marlan Wayans for their performances in Respect, which comes out this Friday, August 13th.

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Laura Swisher is the senior producer.

Episode Contributors: Jarrett Hill, Laura Swisher, Tre’Vell Anderson, Ryan Mitchell

Jarrett and Tre’Vell respond to listener questions this week, and y’all wanted to know their thoughts on RiRi and Chris Brown, depression, what stores the father of a transgendered girl should check out for clothing, colorism and what brand of high heels Tre’Vell is wearing in one of their promo pics. The listeners asked, and Jarrett and Tre’Vell answered.

Episode Notes:

FANTI’s headed to London…virtually 

Get your tickets

Sunday, September 5th

8:30 pm – London

3:30pm EST

2:30pm CST

12:30pm PST

Shopping links
 

Asos

Urbody

DIS/Honorable Mentions 

HM – Vincint

Black History Is Happening Everyday

Dutch Politician Sylvana Simons

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Laura Swisher is the senior producer.

This week, Tre’Vell takes advantage of Cis-Jarrett’s absence to have an in-depth conversation with author Da’Shaun Harrison, whom they interviewed for their article What Does It Really Mean to Be Non-Binary? earlier in the year. FANTI listeners already know that Gender Is a Scam, so why is it that trans and non-binary people still buy into the construct? This is one of many issues Tre’Vell and Da’Shaun grapple with this week.

If you enjoy their Da’Shaun’s insight, show your support by pre-ordering their book: Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

Pass the Popcorn

Industry Baby

Jeffrey Masters on LGBTQ&A interviewing Kate Bornstein

BHIHED

Sylvester Dance Disco Heat

DIS/Honorable Mentions 

Da’Shaun

HM – Megan THEE Stallion

HM – Queer niggas living with HIV

Tre’Vell

DM – DaBaby

DM – Ed Buck 

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Laura Swisher is the senior producer.