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This week, your faves close out November with the movie review episode ⁠“One Battle After Another”⁠. But of course, we start off (2:36) the show with some music celebrating Naomie’s victory lap over the week, ⁠”Kanye West – Champion”.⁠ This leads Naomie (4:50) to walk us through all the emotions and moments she experienced this week getting inducted into ICAN. On random question (29:01), Danny…

It’s a brand new month and your faves are back! We start off (2:22) the show with ⁠Kizz Daniel’s “Flex”⁠ and then we quickly transition into the passionate conversation about the passing (6:41) of Arise TV young correspondent, ⁠Somtochukwu Maduagwu,⁠ who unfortunately lost her life this past week in a tragic armed robbery. On random question (31:35) of the week, off Cardi B’s reveal on ⁠“Call Her…

On the show this week, we start with Pharrel’s Happy, leading us into an entire conversation on how our week went. Then Naomie transitions into the question of the week suggested by a listener who asked how we wanted to know what assumptions we had about each other before we became friends, and how much those assumptions were true or false after ten years of being friends. Then on Nana’s Corner,…

As it’s tradition every second week of the month, this week, we attend to your dilemmas on the show. But before we delve into that, the gang recap on the past week as Danny recounts an amazing experience binge-watching the YouTube series “Just Us Girls”. Then Naomie poses a double-edged question of the week on oversharing with friends and if one must disclose to their friend that their partner is…

In this short bonus episode, we react to comedian Martin Amini and his hilarious takes on watching his dad do business as a kid, him losing respect for his father when he got knocked out by an ice cream truck driver. Through his lens, we discuss the idea of raising problematic kids, how that reflects on us as parents, watching our parents lose a fight & MORE. Enjoy this funny episode…

In this short mid-week episode, we discuss managing our fears and anxiety through the lens of comedian Mary Santora who describes being diagnosed with severe anxiety and how she constantly had to battle logic and anxiety like they were real people living rent-free in her head. She goes on to reveal how words from her father may or may not have contributed to her sexual orientation, dark jokes…

In this special movie episode for September, the duo breaks down the scenes from DC’s latest release “Blue Beetle” which tells the story of young Jaime Reyes who the Scarab chooses to be its symbiotic host. Jaime was bestowed with an incredible armor suit capable of extraordinary and unpredictable powers, forever changing his destiny as he became the superhero Blue Beetle. We discuss life lessons…

As we hit 6,000 listens, the Bonus Ep returns this week with a short mid-week episode reacting to comedian Isiah Kelly. The duo discuss guys sending d*ck pics at will to women, guys finessing women with pictures, the unsavoriness of the act, ladies asking guys for their size, men living in their parents’ houses in their 30s, how God intended sex vs the madness in the bedroom today + MORE. Hold…