Hung Up Podcast

☎️ Therapy and cocktails! This week, licensed therapist Tony Purnell dials into the Hung Up Podcast. After the icebreaker we dish our hung ups and hanging ups for the week. Tony is breaking ties with toxic family members while I acknowledge my struggle with asking for help. We have a live audience this week,#HungUp

☎️ How much time have we wasted planning the life we could be living? This week I am checking in with you all and share my weekend wedding experience and then seeing Tinashe live in concert. I am #HangingUp on Dave Chapelle who has once again found himself in the middle of controversy with the LQBTQ+ community, GLAAD, and the National Black Justice Coalition over his transphobic comments made in his recent Netflix special, The Closer.

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Intro: Fannie Lou Hamer Interview (1968)

Article Shared: Dave Chappelle faces backlash over new Netflix special 'ridiculing trans people' By Suzy Byrne

☎️ This week I do a quick check in with the listeners and share what I learned about numerology and it’s connection to vibration. Then I share ways I seek to raise my vibrations- while pointing out the importance of also knowing and be aware of the triggers that can lower or dampen your vibration. I’m hung up on Tinashe, who is coming to Philly next Monday and I am excited to see her for the first time. #HungUp

☎️ This week Boonie from the Boonie Breakdown Podcast dials in with a Black woman’s perspective on manhood and masculinity, being open to different sexual experiences with men, and Black Gay/Queer Comedians who impersonate Black women- this can be funny and offensive at the same time. But first, an icebreaker. #HungUp

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Intro: Symone America’s Drag Superstar is on Jimmy Kemmel Live with RuPaul

Guest: Boonie

IG @TheBoonieBreakdown

Twitter @BoonieBreakdown

YouTube TheBonnieBreakdown

☎️ This week’s Guest is Black Atlanta Comedian, Kyndra Crump. We had a great conversation about using comedy as medicine and growing up in church. Kyndra shares how she had to re-learn a lot of what she was taught about religion and God. #HungUp

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Kyndra Crump

Instagram @thekyndracrumpshow

YouTube The Kyndra Crump Show

☎️ This week the homies Sterling Grimes and Johnel Simmons dial in to talk about music and how it is impacted by cancel culture. Sterling and I saw Chrisette Michele live this past week here in Philly and it sparked the question: Why is Chrisette still canceled? Kanye West is widely supported and successful, what’s the difference? We unpack that. Also Da Baby and Lil Nas X- a str8 perspective from Nell. #HungUp

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Johnel (Nell) Simmons

IG @nellll__

Sterling Grimes

IG @sterlyg

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Intro

Legendary Junior Lebeija

☎️ This week is a part two to the conversation I had last week with Actor, Director, Producer, and Writer, Doug Spearman. We dive into his latest project, From Zero to I Love You, a movie he wrote and directed in 2019 that explored the relationship between a open gay man, played by Darryl Stephens, and a married man who struggles with his sexuality. If you haven’t seen the movie, I recommend you check it out otherwise this episode is one big spoiler. Doug and I analyze various scenes, discuss the lives of the actors on and off screen, and the overall theme and message behind the movie. #HungUp

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Doug Spearman

Twitter @ Instagram @dougspearman

🎥 From Zero to I Love You (2019)

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Episode Drops

Dominique Jackson read @tiktok

“Philly Pride” @itsdon_music

☎️ Intergenerational conversations between Queer/Gay Black men is more of what we want and need. This week’s guest is Actor, Writer, Director, and Producer Doug Spearman who many of us know as Chance from LogoTV’s Noahs Arc series. The episode kicks off with an icebreaker and we talk about Dougs love for peanut butter (ditto) and the first time he saw a reflection of himself. (7:40)

Then we talk about his career and life before Noahs Arc and how his upbringing influenced his trajectory. I also about his role as Chance in Noahs Arc, and how he felt about going into a role that was in a committed relationship and raising a daughter. Doug’s portrayal of this family dynamic predated anything we had seen before 2005. (24:13)

We wrap the conversation up with a look at how Black Queer lives, relationships, and sexuality are portrayed on screen, then versus now (49:42). #HungUp

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Doug Spearman

Twitter @ Instagram @dougspearman

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Noahs Arc

Episode 6 Aired 9-13-2006

“Guys Vs. Guy”

Noahs Arc Short Film

2003

Patrik Ian Polk Entertainment

Punks by Patrik Ian Polk

“Mamma Never Told Me”

The Boys In The Band

1970

☎️ 4:33 The Gaggle checks in with everything mental health, roller skating, buying homes, and learning how to put self first.

30:00 Do we all have a problematic fav?

DaBaby is, unfortunately, a familiar face. How do we address this issue on a micro level within our community?

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Episode open by Johnel Simmons

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Marquise Davon

Twitter & IG @marquisedavon

Sterling Grimes

IG @sterlyg

☎️ One way we can reduce the stigma around HIV/AIDS is by elevating the voices of the people who are living it. Advocate & Photographer David Michael breaks it all down this week on Episode 403, Have Good Sex. On this episode, I engage with David about his personal journey with living with HIV and how he uses his platform to raise awareness out in the Bay Area. He highlights resources, such as at home testing, as a way for people to discreetly know their status. #HungUp

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Guest:

David Michael

Instagram: @davidmichaelofficial @talkabouthiv @goodsexsf

www.havegoodsex.org

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3:26 Introduction of David

9:09 IceBreaker Questions

What app do you spend the most time on?

Worst date ever?

Have you ever ghosted someone?

When do you first remember seeing someone who reflected you?

23:52 HIV101

27:27 HaveGoodSex.Org campaign

39:22 Future TalkAboutHIV platform

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https://phillykeeponloving.com/hiv-testing/ for your free HIV at home test

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Host & Producer

Eric Cole, M.Ed.

@HungUpPod

@EDanteCole

#RelaxYourShoulders