Watching
P Valley Season 3 (STARZ)
Everything is Trash (HULU) I love phoebe robinson - she told me at a book signing that I had style and she could tell I was funny - š
The Sopranos (HBO) full series - Tony Soprano is gross and sexy at the same time ā¦ people are nuanced.
Listening:
Whoreible Decisions Podcast (Mandii B & Weezy) - been a fan for a few years and if you havenāt listened to this sex positive, woman produced and created pod - you need to get on it. They speak frankly about sex, life, sex work, āalternativeā relationships (poly, swingers, sex clubs). These discussions are necessary as we move to a future that is led by abundant Divine Feminine energy.
The hosts are ALWAYs hilarious - I donāt care if some of the shit be out there (Mandii B and the flat earth comments š) I love the funny inside jokes they have. In one instance there is a running bit that Weezy always tries to set up an opportunity to talk about the foreign country that she just went to - e.g. France - I think it is so funny when she wore the damn beret just to fuel the joke.
I applaud these women for not allowing the haters on the internet or other media to create a wedge between them. This podcast is the first that Iāve heard where the hosts are not trying to one up each other and both hosts arenāt so up in their egos that they think the other has an ulterior motive. For example if Weezy says she did something or went somewhere and Mandii mentions or even interrupts there is no beef, one will say hold up I need to finish, or I was still talking or you interrupted me and the other one will apologize (normally) and there is no beef. There is not sly remarks or anything - unless it is about a joke they both enjoy. I love it when Mandii says āNot YOU bringing up some old shit after you just got done sayingā¦.ā
but also for creating a space for personal contradictions, nuances, and audacity.
These two are important figures that further deepening the public conversations of how people are not all one way all the time with everybody. The expectation that people can only be one thing is absurd; and it the conversations to broaden that thinking are integral for a future with less repression.
These women show that #hoislife, but it is more than that - you gotta listen.
Good One (a podcast about comedy)
Love this and it is a must listen - I donāt agree that all the jokes are as deep as the host Jesse makes it out to be - but all of the jokes are art and it is rare to hear comedians discuss their art in fine detail. Most recently I listed to the episode āWhat Up Iām Three with Robin Thedeā. Robin discusses how sketch ideas and jokes come to fruition on her show āthe Black Lady Sketch Showā - a small pebble of a joke/ idea may be lingering in your head for years only to pop out when you least expect it. I have made this same discovery when I am writing jokes - like a double dong for instance - I think they are funny and absurd and amazing and I know one day I will write a joke about a double dongā¦ a joke that I like.
āWhat up Iām Threeā is a sketch that came about from national news article regarding a case where a baby was adopted from a country like Romania - all i know it was a white baby that ended up being a full on adult that was impersonating a child to get her needs met. The adopted child/adult was very small in stature and Robin confirmed during the Good One that she got the idea from this case of fraud. The show received several Emmy nominations for season 2 of the series and I think season 3 as wellā¦ they doing something right - keep on killinā it Robin Thede (side note: Robin is short! she reads so tall on tv but I think she may be 5ā2ā ! A sister in in the sub 5ā4ā !!! Give it up for to the Short Kings of Comedy. !!!!