Moving out of America: are we gentrifying even if we’re not white?, Netflix’s Too Much, Dump wants to lock up Beyonce?! - Maori Karmael Holmes, Nicole Phoenix (S1E15)
Moving out of America: are we gentrifying even if we’re not white?, Netflix’s Too Much, Dump wants to lock up Beyonce?! - Maori Karmael Holmes, Nicole Phoenix (S1E15)Description
Moving out of America: are we gentrifying even if we’re not white?, Netflix’s Too Much, Dump wants to lock up Beyonce?! - Maori Karmael Holmes, Nicole Phoenix (S1E15)
Nicole could be the next Mayor of Philly, Maori wants to pay Jenny for making the pod her therapy, and Jenny needs to figure out her vacation name…Janessa?
It is Thursday, July 31st, 2025, and this is What Should We Talk About? With Jenny Yang! This is your weekly catchup time with smart and funny people to find joy in an unjust world. We discuss topics submitted by our guests and you, the listener. Any topic! From pop culture to the personal and political. Current, old! Big, small! Nerdy, petty!
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This week, I am on-location in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the 14th Annual BlackStar Film Festival - a one-of-a-kind celebration of Black, Brown, and Indigenous filmmaking, “cinema for liberation,” in Philly and online worldwide, July 31st to August 3rd. Head to blackstarfest.org to fest with us online!
My first guest today is a curator, filmmaker, and cultural worker, founder of BlackStar Projects (http://blackstarfest.org). She is originally from Los Angeles but has been trapped in Philly on and off for the past two decades. Her words not mine. She is a Taurus, Libra rising, Pisces moon and not-so-secret hipster, let’s welcome my friend MAORI KARMAEL HOLMES!
And finally, she is a stand up comedian, a Philadelphia fave, and coming to a town near you. Check out her live show Two Locals Comedy in Philly (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/two-locals-comedy-open-mic-tickets-1200270504389), please welcome, NICOLE PHOENIX (https://www.instagram.com/sooo_xtra/)!
And as always on the final mic, heard but not seen, my sweetie and co-producer of life, Corey Higgs (http://okletsbrand.com/).
On today’s agenda:
1. PODCAST UPDATES
2. Moving out of the United States
3. Trying to get into the Netflix series “Too Much,” but it might be too much for me? Can I say this out loud?
4. Philly needs a figure like Zohran Mamdani
THE FREE PREVIEW ENDS HERE - Paid Subscribers get the rest of the episode
5. Dump wants to lock up Barack Obama and Beyonce
6. Reading books in public as a radical act
7. I'm pissed about Gaza
8. Sydney Sweeney’s new American Eagle ad campaign
9. ACTION ITEMS
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