From the archive of unpublished audio is an interview with a forever failing artist, Kevin "Erk the Jerk" Allen. If you have questions about why, it's because he owes me money. Take a listen.
Founder of Rockridge clothing Randy Wells sits down with your auntie to talk about fashion's influence on the world. We go down the list from $100 luxury button downs to the intersection of music and fashion. We even go on a trip down memory lane from FUBU, House of Dereon, Sean John, Billionaire Boys Club, and more. This one is packed.
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Recorded at Diff Works Creative Studios
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Another self talk episode: After watching the documentary for Earthseed and then starting Parables of the Sower, I started to think about the quote "Be the change you want to see."
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David Arwood, Northern California Karuk Tribe's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) in Siskiyou County. We talk about the misconceptions of tribe life and providing services to help the Karuk Tribe get the services it needs.
Director of Searchlight movie "Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat", Tina Mabry sits down with your favorite auntie to talk about lessons learned, her work in TV and movies and whatever other questions I have.
Tina Mabry's first movie "Mississippi Damned" set her on course to directing Pose, Insecure, and a host of other shows we love to watch. Follow her on Instagram .
A bit of a shorter reintroduction to who is Auntie Brandy, how we got here and what is going on with this podcast
Jocelyn Jackson and Fox Nakai from the People's Kitchen Collective come through and talk about their documentary Earth Seed: A People’s Journey of Radical Hospitality based on the stories of Octavia Butler, organizing the free breakfast community meal and what is "Radical Hospitality."
To learn more about them read my article about the documentary on Oakland Voices
Music and editing provided by Diff Works Creative Studios
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SF Film's Director of Programming Jessie Fairbanks joins the pod to talk SF Film festival. There's a lot to cover in a short span of time from working in the film industry, who gets to program film festivals, misconceptions of what an independent film needs to, festivals during election season and the struggles independent filmmakers face.
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Grammy nominated Mandolyn “Mystic” Ludlum sits down with your auntie.
We get into Digital Underground, being a Black woman in hip hop, love songs in hip hop and creating her album "Dreaming In Cursive: The Girl Who Loved Sparklers". Mystic is was nominated for “The Life” from “Cuts for Luck and Scars for Life” (2001) and is a trustee of the Grammy’s San Francisco chapter board.
It's a long one but we know that you'll love it.
Editing by Diff Works Creative Studio
Music: Mystic- Still Love
Auntie is joined by report, model and cupcake aficionado Alicia Jay co-host of the CBS Sports show We Need to Talk, NOW . We're telling you the PROPER way to eat a cupcake, commentary about being tall, mental health, misconceptions of women athletes, Alicia's faith journey and how these men could never dunk on her
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We are deep diving in travel with travel expert and founder of Ethnic Ties, Acacia Woods-Chan. We talking POC traveling, what does it mean to be "extractive" and sustainable traveling, creating travel events and everything in between.
Recorded at Diff Works Studios
Music by KaySuave
Musical artist Ian Kelly of MacArthur Maze, talks about the misconceptions about working a day job while making music, making his own commercial for Instacart (who really should be both our sponsors BTW), and the misconceptions we have about "selling out" or suffering a living wage/paycheck for the sake of art
Recorded at Diff Work Studios in Oakland, Ca
Music by KaySuave
Co-founder of HiiiWave (fka Black Artist Incubator) and Electrospit, Maya Kante sits down to talk about being a woman in the music industry, taking ownership in being a woman-led tech company, addressing the fears of using tech and AI in the music music, starving artists' mentality and using Electrospit as a medical solution.
Whoride: Indigenous word to the real Bay Area - NorCal
1. to clown someone 2. to act a fool and rep your turf
3. to take over something and do what you want to 4. to find a way to make a loud, ignorant objection to something
(you can also use ride or rode in place of some conotations of whoride)
Music by KaySuave
Recorded at Diff Studios
Your Auntie Brandy is sitting with Tiny Home owner Ansel Troy (IG: @tinyoakland) has been featured in Architecture Digest for his AirBnB tiny homes in East Oakland, being realistic about the surroundings, claims he's an introvert, and proclaiming his love for pumpkin spice frappacinos.
Recorded at Diff Works Studios correcting in writing. The IG page is Stay Diff
Music by Kevin "KaySuave" Foster
Auntie sits down with travel writer and editor of "Go Girl: The Black Woman’s Book of Travel and Adventure", and the updated version Elaine Lee about traveling 69 countries, travelling solo and creating a lane for single Black women to travel.
Recorded at DIFF WORKS | Creative Studio
Music by KaySuave
Auntie Brandy sits down with co-founders of AfroBeats Oakland (AO), veteran DJ Juan G and Asaba aka Mo, about rebuilding nightlife scenes, what is AfroBeats and vampires in the club.
Recorded at Stay Diff Studios in Oakland, Ca
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CROSSOVER EPISODE!!! Your Auntie had combined forces with The As Told By Podcast hosted by Kahja Elliott to bring you THE CONVERSATION!
On this episode "It Was All Good Just A Week Ago: The Keith Lee Effect on the Bay Area": I'm alongside journalist -filmmaker Niema Jordan and Charlese Banks culture maker and founder of The Town Experience.
We sit down with Kahja Elliot to talk about food influencer and critic Keith Lee's visit to the Bay Area... as well as the exit days later due to an allergic reaction.
But there's so much more to unpack about civic engagement, preparedness, hype cycles and the state of Black businesses nationwide.
My Oakland Voices article and blog give you a little more reference material for you to dive in!
Your auntie is having a conversation with Leon "DNas" Sykes about why adults have a hard time making new friends.
A revival of the podcast??
Maybe. Maybe not. But some things required a discussion.
What started as a celebration of being a Rich Auntie turned into "the destruction of the Black family".
Joined by my friend, host of "As Told By..." podcast and Kay in The Bay curated events- Kahja Elliot
Recorded at Stay Diff Studios
Auntie is a asking about finding our purpose, what are social constructs and how do they relate to finding our purpose in life
Reading a Section of A Psalm of Life BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
