You’re The Problem... with Yamaneika

Yamaneika takes on Trump’s latest nonsense, Da’Vinchi’s comments about Black Americans, and the SiriusXM comedy shakeup that has everybody checking their checks. Plus election anxiety and dating someone who isn’t on the same page with God.

00:00 Trump, tour life & a questionable Jesus sighting
07:50 Da’Vinchi’s comments about Black Americans
12:39 The Big Problem: SiriusXM, Sebastian & comedians’ checks
25:49 Listener letters: Election anxiety & dating across faiths

Catch Yamaneika with Chelsea Handler on the High and Mighty tour: Waukegan, October 8; Pittsburgh, October 9; and Toronto, October 10. Tour dates and tickets.

Also, see Yamaneika at New York Comedy Club for the New York Comedy Festival on November 11! Show listings and tickets.

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Comedian Beth Stelling joins Yamaneika to talk stand-up, surviving the changing comedy industry, and an internet troll who resurfaced nearly 88 weeks after accusing her of stealing a joke. Plus, Yamaneika sounds off on customer service, Tesla, Jasmine Guy, sorority colors, and Nicki Minaj. Beth and Yamaneika help listeners solve workplace power struggles, ADHD, relationship issues, and when to let somebody go.

00:00 Customer Service From Hell + This Week’s Headlines
22:13 Beth Stelling on Stand-Up, Fame & the Comedy Grind
29:40 Beth Stelling vs. the Troll Who Wouldn’t Let Go
40:30 Listener Problems: Bad Bosses, ADHD & Bad Sex

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Trump and Mamdani’s unexpected chemistry, The New York Times’ treatment of Nikole Hannah-Jones, and what it means for Chris Rock to be Black famous. Plus, Yamaneika on what you do when a funeral home loses your relative's body.

00:00 Yamaneika’s D.C. family trip
05:31 Kash Patel, Trump & Mamdani + funeral home chaos
18:01 Chris Rock, “ghetto famous” & Black-on-Black criticism
32:05 Nikole Hannah-Jones, Black education & Yamaneika’s childhood
40:25 Listener Letters: Dating standards, cigarettes & boundaries

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Yamaneika takes on the Emmys, aging music legends, pet-parent disrespect, and messy boundaries. Plus, Yam and Tyree revisit last week’s friendship drama and help listeners with problems of their own.

00:00 Pet parents & Emmys so white
17:30 Yamaneika responds to the friendship drama
22:53 The Big Problem: Let our legends sit down
34:28 Listener letters: Boundaries & burnout

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Beyoncé is selling her box for damn near $1,000, Chris Brown is threatening folks from the stage, and apparently Yamaneika's the problem because she refused to speak to somebody’s child at the cookout.  Plus: wife auditions, broke friends taking trips to Cabo, and why some of y’all need to PUT THE TIKTOK DOWN.

00:00  Keke Palmer, Pick-Mes & the Comments
06:45  Beyoncé’s $948 Box, Chris Brown & AARP Babies
20:44  Am I the Problem? The Cookout Confrontation
35:33  Wife Auditions & the $2,800 Cabo Scam

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Yamaneika got called out, and now she and Jared Freid have questions. After a listener challenged the show over last week’s disability jokes, Yamaneika and Jared discuss punching down, dark humor, and what happens when the person going through it is the one asking you to make the joke. Plus, Jared recalls the brutal crowd-work moment that proved sometimes “do something with it” is a dangerous invitation.

00:00 We Got Called Out
01:47 The Listener Responds
02:49 Jared’s Dark Humor Disaster
05:26 Punching Down vs. Punching Back
07:14 Who’s Fair Game?

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Yamaneika confronts her pick-me past, reports everybody providing raggedy customer service and tries to understand Trump’s latest nonsense. Then comedian Jared Freid joins the show to unpack parental trauma in his new Netflix special, “The Family Plan”, defend Nerds Gummy Clusters and help Yamaneika solve listener problems.

00:00 Yamaneika’s Pick-Me Confession
05:45 Report Everybody
10:40 Trump, Keke & Nonsense
18:45 Jared Freid Joins the Problem
35:35 Listener Letters with Jared

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Yamaneika is back in the Yamily advice office, and apparently everybody’s relationships need HR. This week, she tackles an ex with bomb D and an even better weed connect, a situationship demanding emergency-contact privileges, a teenage driver who left his mother’s tire pressure between the dashboard and God, and the return of the controversial work wife. Plus, Yamaneika realizes she might need to start writing Listener Letters to herself.

00:00 Bomb D and a better weed man
02:20 Situationship emergency contact
05:19 Yamaneika needs her own advice
06:58 The tire pressure was between him and God
11:59 The work wife returns
15:58 Yamaneika chooses herself

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Yamaneika begins the episode by sharing what she'll remember most about Dolly Parton. Then, Yamaneika's got problems with Target's racist Halloween costumes, a flight attendant who can't remember her badge, and the people who expect mothers to do it all. Plus, she takes on a listener request to find the funny in losing a leg. 

00:00 Intro - Yamaneika vs. Canada
09:17 News Stories - Target, Tia Kemp, and Dolly Parton
18:15 The Big Problem - Mary J. Blige, motherhood & choosing your dreams
37:35 Listener Letters
44:46 Final Thoughts - Handle your problems

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This week, Yamaneika is deciding whether stepparents have to love everybody’s kids equally, if your gorgeous friend is secretly sabotaging your Instagram, and whether your daddy dating somebody your age is actually *your* problem.

Then a neighborhood parking dispute sends Yamaneika into a full-blown tale of Costco groceries, gentrification, folding chairs, and why sometimes the new neighbor needs to simply mind their damn business. Send your mess to the show, because clearly...you’re the problem!

00:00 Welcome to Listener Letters
00:27 Do stepparents owe equal love?
02:25 Is your friend cropping you dirty?
05:28 Yamaneika vs. her gorgeous friends
08:10 Dad is dating someone my age
10:48 Dating older men gets complicated
13:05 Who owns the parking spot?
14:39 Yamaneika’s new neighbor problem
16:42 The Costco incident
19:46 Gentrification comes to Harlem
21:04 Respect the folding chairs
22:08 Send us your problems

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