Hosts Tre’vell Anderson and jarrett hill discuss some ins and outs of the Beauty Industry from Beauty news journalist and editor, Darian Symoné Harvin. But first, what does it take to be a journalist? A lot more than a google search, despite what Real Housewives Of Atlanta’s Porsha Williams’ thinks.  

Mentioned In This Episode

Porsha Williams

Studio Symoné

DIS/Honorable Mentions 

jh:

HM: The Beauty of Blackness

TA

HM: GLAAD Honors event 

HM: Region IV Conference in Phoenix

HM: A&E Media Institute 

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On this week’s episode, jarrett and Tre’vell talk about church. Can we get an A - THEM?! The hosts examine their experiences growing up in church as baby queers, bringing up the good parts and a lot of the bad. But first, in the wake of Jonathan Majors' arrest on Saturday for alleged domestic assault, our hosts react to the conversations happening online. [Note: this conversation was recorded on Tuesday, March 28th]

Mentioned in this Episode 

Jonathan Majors 

DIS/Honorable Mentions 

jh:

dm: Plus size fashion (But shout out to TrendyCurvy on combating fatphobia in the fashion world)

hm: Tre’vell, Ray Love, Mary Grace and the whole team of NABJLA

hm: Black guy voice of Siri

TA

HM: Give Them Their Flowers—An Exhibit of Black LGBTQ+ Miami History

DM: Spotify

HM: Trans Week of Visibility and Action

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Who’s bringing the potato salad to the Donald Trump is Going to Jail party? Jarrett’s got sign up sheets! Then later, the hosts bring you the long awaited Copaganda conversation with special guests, Tia Oso, the executive director of BLD PWR Productions,  and Dr. Jared Loggins, Assistant Professor of Black Studies at Amherst College and co-author of Prophet of Discontent: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Critique of Racial Capitalism  as they discuss the effects Copaganda has on audiences and its insidiousness.

Mentioned In this Episode

Donald Trump

DIS/Honorable Mentions 

jh

HM: Janelle James and her opening monologue at the 2023 Writers Guild Awards 

TA

HM: Tre’vell takes a moment to celebrate themselves. 

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FANTI, like all shows on the Maximum Fun network, operates on a membership model and the only way we can make the show is if people support it financially, and this year we really want to make it count. We’re offering a number of great thank you gifts when you go to maximumfun.org/join. Join at whatever level works for you but please join so we can keep making all this good good!

Among the gifts we’re offering:

For $5 a month, you will get you bonus content from us and ALL the shows on the network - which includes a very special reading from Tre’vell’s new book, We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film with a Q&A curated by jarrett afterwards. 

For $10 a month, you get all the bonus content PLUS one of 37 show stickers. These stickers are RESTICKABLE.

For $20 a month, you can choose between our MaxFun Culinary Kit or a lovely embroidered Rocket Hat. 

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@Swish (Senior Producer, Laura Swisher)

Laura Swisher is senior producer 

Music: Cor.ece

Graphics: Ashley Nguyen

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And the nonbinary Oscar goes to…Well, The Academy isn’t there quite yet. Nevertheless, jarrett and Tre’vell grapple with the question: Is it time we leave gender out of awards? They get into some of the thornier issues award shows face navigating gender in honoring artists.  Plus, is jarrett fatphobic (again) for donning shapewear? Tre’vell has thoughts. They cover all this and more!  

Mentioned in this Episode

Shapewear and Fatphobia 

Degendering Awards

DIS/Honorable Mentions 

jh:

HM: Sommore: Queen Chandelier on Netflix

HM: Just Like Me! book box

TA:

HM: Healthy Roots Dolls

DM: Better Brothers LA 

M: Do your taxes!

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…And we’re back. Did you miss us? Of course you did with all this new FANTI good good! New season, new topics, and a whole new look - we are BACK with a brand new episode of Season 4. 

Mentioned In This Episode

The Future is Black

MuneHues

Historically Black Phrases

Rihanna (super bowl/vogue cover)

Black ASL Super Bowl interpreter, Justina Miles

New York Times Trans Letter

Ivy Park

DIS/Honorable Mentions 

jh:

HM: Lee Edward Colston II - playwright, actor who wrote The First Deep Breath, showing at the Geffen Playhouse. Closing this weekend, March 5th.

HM: Phillip Bullock - operatic baritone who played the God of Love in the Long Beach Opera’s production of The Romance of the Rose

HM: David Quarles IV -  interior designer who just announced a new line of wallpaper designs with Chasing Paper

TA

HM: Danyel Smith profile on SZA, New York Times Magazine

HM: Hunter Harris on Usher, GQ

Plugs

• Our New Youtube Channel!
• Historically Black Phrases

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Our FANTI producers are on the mic in this week’s episode! We take a stroll down memory lane and recount all our favorite moments that are in the spirit of Black History Month.

Mentioned in this episode: 

Every Day is Black History

Why White People Love Wakanda

Traveling While Black

(In Our) Light Skinned Feelings (ft. Charles H.F. Davis III)

Mental Health Culture (ft. Spirit)

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@Swish (Senior Producer, Laura Swisher)

Laura Swisher is senior producer 

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Episode Notes:

If you tuned into last week’s minisode, you’d know we discussed the struggle that comes with enjoying an artist as a person, but their art…maybe not so much. This week we flip the script and discuss the art that we absolutely love and the artists who we actually can’t stand that made it. 

Mentioned on the show

Dave Chapelle, Kanye West, Bill Cosby, Michael Jackson, R.Kelly, Elon Musk, Copaganda, Cancel Culture, Queerty 

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Music: Cor.ece

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Have you ever liked an artist for who they are, but not necessarily for what they bring to the table? In this week’s minisode, Tre’vell and jarrett discuss artists they love but feel meh about their art.

Mentioned in this episode 

Lizzo, Megan Thee Stallion, Oprah, Jennifer Hudson

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@vivalapalma (Producer, Palmira Muniz)

@Swish (Senior Producer, Laura Swisher)

Laura Swisher is senior producer 

Music: Cor.ece

Graphics: Ashley Nguyen

FANTI is produced and distributed by MaximumFun.org