In honor of International Podcast Day, I’m sharing four of my favorite regular listens. Not only do I love them, but I’m not-so-secretly counting the days until I get to lend my voice — and expertise — as a guest star.
Category: Musings
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Everything’s Better With Boba
No matter the circumstances, everything’s just better with boba.
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Growing [Up] With GQ
Twenty summers ago, a bored teenager found himself in a college bookstore, wasting time and mindlessly thumbing through magazines. Not looking for anything in particular that day, he took a chance and copped the June 2004 issue of GQ with Jake Gyllenhaal on the cover — never knowing it would be the start of one of his longest and most fulfilling relationships to date.
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I Can Buy Myself Flowers…
After years of buying them for friends, family, and even complete strangers, I finally bought myself flowers.
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A Love Letter to the 2000 BMW X5
At 13, nothing at the start of the new millennium screamed “status” to me more than the 2000 BMW E53 X5. All these years later, I still can’t shake the thing I have for BMW’s first yet thoughtful foray into sport-utility territory.
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Like the Sign Says…
Every now and again, when my energy is off and the days feel particularly long, I remember this sign and how it stopped me in my tracks.
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Cheeseburger in Paradise
For the longest, the phrase “comfort food” for me was synonymous with my great grandmother’s chili, my mother’s lasagna, or my aunt’s chicken noodle soup. Nowadays, nothing seems to hit the spot and warm my soul like a great cheeseburger.
Culture
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#ADW30: 30 Years of Living With “A Different World”
The show originally developed as a spinoff of The Cosby Show chronicling the college years of my favorite Huxtable, Denise, at fictional Hillman College has since turned into something so much greater — a irreplaceable sitcom celebration of Black culture that’s stood the test of time.
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The V Word (Vulnerability)
Defined as easily hurt or harmed physically, mentally, or emotional or open to attack, harm, or damage, vulnerability is one of the key emotions of humankind. Despite its modern-day connotation and denotation, vulnerability keeps us taking risks, meeting new people, staying humble, and chasing our goals and dreams. Simply put, I’ve learned that we can’t truly have lived a substantive life without it.
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Patience: The Learned Virtue
When I first moved to what I refer to as the Upper South, I asked God for patience to help me cope with and conquer life outside of the Sunshine State. What I got was not only the line at the bank author Tracy McMillan talks about, but lines (complete with screaming children) at the grocery store, businesses with roughly estimated hours of operation, innumerable “You’re not from here?” stares and remarks, and a consistent reminder that patience — for me, at least — is a learned virtue.