Writer and host of “Keep It!” Podcast, Ira Madison III joins Sam and Alex to discuss The Oprah Winfrey Show in the year 2006, starting with the ‘One Million Little Pieces’ James Frey scandal and into the infamous Tom Cruise couch-stand moment.

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It’s a spooky, scary solo Halloween episode this week! Sam and Alex catch up and dig into the photo albums to discuss Halloweens of years past and help each other discover their costumes for this year's festivities.

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Sam and Alex are joined by pop music legend, businesswoman, and Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss. Kandi remembers the year 2020 as a year of swift social change, from the way we work and interact with one another to confronting racial inequality at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement.

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Playwright and cultural curator Jeremy O. Harris joins Sam and Alex to discuss the Harlem Renaissance and the true story of Countee Cullen, his marriage to W.E.B. Du Bois’s daughter, and the infamous “fruit bowl” letter.

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Brian Patrick Davis is THE black socialite of Atlanta. He is a creative director, graphic designer, tastemaker, and pop music aficionado. We start with pop music of the year 1998 and move into the 2000s and beyond.

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Before Derek J was a celebrity hair stylist and all-around fashionista, he was just a kid in Ohio watching the verdict of the OJ Simpson trial in 1995 on an AV cart in a public school classroom. Sam, Alex, and Derek also discuss the intricacies of being black and gay in the 90s.

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Sam and Alex are joined by daytime talk TV legend Maury Povich to hear the story of his coming of age in 1963. Before he was reading the results of paternity tests on TV, Maury was a 24-year-old reporter; his first assignment was covering the assassination of the nation's 35th president, John F. Kennedy. Maury relives the event and the events in the year following: Martin Luther King Jrs. March on Washington, the Civil Rights Act being passed, and the start of the Vietnam War.

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TS Madison takes us back to the summer of 2022. The summer of Beyoncé’s Renaissance album is when TS Madison was elevated from a national community Icon to a globally recognized and Grammy Award-winning songwriter for contributing to the song “Cozy”.

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