Kisses from Kenya

Send us Fan Mail Episode 41: A Real-Time Breakup and a Special Delivery (wink wink) This is Kisses from Kenya — the usual laughs, the commentary nobody asked for, and all your favorite segments. Here's your quick rundown of what's inside. In This Episode Vuyanzi has a real-time breakup live on air and does not hold back — Brendan's already teasing her that she'll just have to w...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 40: Cooking Origins, Project 2025, and "Is This Relationship Open?” This is Kisses from Kenya — the usual laughs, the commentary nobody asked for, and all your favorite segments. Here's your quick rundown of what's inside. In This Episode Vuyanzi and Brendan trace how they each learned to cook — his story turns out to be genuinely profound, while she's...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 39: Hair Transplant, Political Engagement, and a Turkey Leg (but it wasn’t a leg😜) This is Kisses from Kenya — the usual laughs, the commentary nobody asked for, and all your favorite segments. Here's your quick rundown of what's inside. In This Episode Vuyanzi's hair transplant is finally growing in (the scarves aren't retiring yet, though she did cav...

Send us Fan Mail Ep 38 Smack it, Flip it! Blame It on the Alcohol | Kisses from Kenya Description Maybe the wine was a mistake. 🍷 This week, Vuyanzi and Brendan get a little more personal than usual—and somehow there are Brazilians, fertility beads, questionable dating revelations, and a whole lot of oversharing involved. Blame it on the alcohol. 😂 In This Episode Opening Conversation Vuyanzi ha...

Send us Fan Mail Ep 37: This P*nis May Have Saved Her Life... Seriously! | Kisses from Kenya Description This week, a man overstays his welcome, Brendan may or may not be flirting with somebody he shouldn't be, and Vuyanzi has had ENOUGH of everybody romanticizing the good old days. Oh—and apparently, a well-endowed man may have helped save a life. We have questions. 😂 In This Episode Openin...

Send us Fan Mail Ep 36: Brendan Got Honest About Sex... Then Vuyanzi Got Mad | Kisses from Kenya Description Brendan admits something about sex that Vuyanzi definitely wasn't expecting—and that's only the beginning. This week, we're talking bodies, social anxiety, performative outrage, relationship expectations, and one misunderstanding between the two of us that got a little more p...

Send us Fan Mail EPISODE 35: AI Privacy... What Did We Give Away? Long before AI began learning everything about us, we were volunteering personal data online with very few questions. Now artificial intelligence can analyze, combine, and draw conclusions from information we may not even remember sharing. Who controls our personal data once we click “I agree”—and did we ever understand what we were...

Send us Fan Mail EPISODE 34: Why Americans Distrust Both Parties Democrats distrust Republicans. Republicans distrust Democrats. Increasingly, Americans distrust both major political parties. So where does that leave everyone else? In a deeply polarized American political system, is finding common ground an act of courage—or a convenient way to avoid standing for something? Vuyanzi and Brendan ent...

Send us Fan Mail EPISODE 33: Is American Democracy in Crisis? The United States has invaded countries, disrupted governments, and justified wars in the name of democracy. Now, many Americans are asking whether democracy is even working at home. What exactly are we defending—and what are ordinary people supposed to do when the system feels like trash? Before Vuyanzi and Brendan attempt to rescue Am...

Send us Fan Mail EPISODE 32: The New Rules of Weight Loss Ozempic and GLP-1 weight-loss medications are changing more than bodies. They are changing how we talk about health, fitness, willpower—and who gets to be considered attractive. But if the weight comes off, does that automatically make someone healthier? And why are we so invested in how another person loses it? Vuyanzi and Brendan step ont...

Send us Fan Mail EPISODE 31: Propaganda in the Age of Social Media Modern propaganda no longer needs a podium. It has cable news, social media algorithms, political influencers, and audiences isolated enough to mistake repetition for truth. How do once-unthinkable ideas become acceptable—and who benefits when they do? Vuyanzi and Brendan follow that question into media manipulation, political pers...

Send us Fan Mail We Talked About Cheating... Then Things Got Honest | Kisses from Kenya Description This week, Brendan and Vuyanzi somehow end up talking about cheating, relationship confessions, and the stories we'd probably never planned to tell out loud. Then they dive into New York politics, life in Kenya, the questions people still ask about traveling to Africa, and the little moments th...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes the conversation before the show says more than the show itself. This week, Vuyanzi opens up about singleness, clarity, and finally knowing exactly what she wants in a relationship—only for Brendan to accuse her of trying to "manifest obsession." From there, they dive into political loyalty, James Talarico's passionate defense of Rep. Jasmine Crockett, the...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes the best conversations are the ones that begin before anyone says, "Welcome to the show." This week, Brendan leaves Vuyanzi speechless with a conversation that goes somewhere no one expected. Then it's on to a global security warning for Americans abroad, a Trump speech that had the internet talking, Nancy Grace's latest headline-making case, cross-cu...

Send us Fan Mail EPISODE 27: 78 Degrees of Separation An 87-year-old on OnlyFans, a rose toy, and a conversation about sexuality and ageing that sets the tone perfectly for an episode about people minding everyone's business but their own. New York City asks residents to set their thermostats to 78 degrees during a heatwave. The GOP calls it socialism. The Trump administration scrubs energy c...

Send us Fan Mail EPISODE 26: The Same Strange Fruit... Again. Karmelo Anthony. 35 years. Nolan Wells. Trayvon Martin. Ahmaud Arbery. A 16-year-old from the DRC found hanging in early June. A 21-year-old in Georgia in February. Brendan and Vuyanzi sit with Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" - and the devastating reality that the song still applies. The question at the end of this episo...

Send us Fan Mail EPISODE 25: Foul Play Dine Out for Democracy is happening, the U.S. has struck over 90 coastal targets in Iran after Trump ends the ceasefire, and the World Cup host nations just got knocked out of their own tournament in spectacular fashion. Oh, and Trump personally called FIFA to get a red card suspension overturned. Because of course he did. In this episode: Opening conversatio...

Send us Fan Mail EPISODE 24: Outbreaks, Obstacles & Opening Nights New York moves to remove barriers to voting, Ebola is back in the headlines, and Brendan has a conversation about sexuality with his gentleman that does not go the way he planned. This week has range. In this episode: Opening conversation - a new bill in New York targeting voting barriers: what it does and why it matters for Am...

Send us Fan Mail EPISODE 23: Off the Market & On the Move It's birthday season, Vuyanzi is taking herself off the market again, and Democrats Abroad Kenya just hosted the first-ever Democrats Abroad AGM on the African continent. No big deal. Brendan explains why Nairobi was the right place to do it - and what it means to bring that kind of gathering to this city. In this episode: Opening...

Send us Fan Mail EPISODE 22: National Treasures & Hidden Transgressions Janet Jackson is a national treasure and this is not up for debate. From there: New Orleans gets a new mayor, Vuyanzi reckons with having outsourced her cooking entirely, Brendan emails a CEO with full Karen energy, and someone slept with a parliamentarian. It's that kind of episode. In this episode: Opening conversat...

Send us Fan Mail EPISODE 21: Still on the Charts, Still in the Streets Michael Jackson is back on the charts - 17 years after his death, breaking records ahead of his 30th Anniversary concert. Meanwhile Tanzania blocks an EU delegation from investigating election violence, and Brendan has a point about who gets policed and who doesn't that is worth sitting with. In this episode: Opening conve...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 20: Your Vote Matters - That's Why They Want to Take It Away! This one is personal. Brendan and Vuyanzi go deep on the Voting Rights Act - the gerrymandering, the protests, and what it means to watch voter suppression unfold when your parents and grandparents grew up in the segregated South. Some conversations you have because you have to. In this episode: Whose Ameri...

Send us Fan Mail EPISODE 19: Death, Data, and Desire This one starts somewhere tender. Vuyanzi opens up about losing her sister during Covid while she was in Kenya - the distance, the grief, and the network of people who showed up anyway. Brendan shares his own experience losing his uncle in 2021 after making the move. It's a conversation about what it means to grieve from far away, and it ea...

Send us Fan Mail EPISODE 18: Who Made These Rules? It opens with a debate about Uno that is somehow also a debate about culture, community, and who gets to make the rules. From there: Virginia redraws its districts and Black women take it across the finish line, abortion rights get enshrined, New York taxes the rich, and an LA teachers' strike that nearly happened reminds us what happens when...

Send us Fan Mail EPISODE 17: Helpless from Here This one starts mid-conversation - which is exactly how the best ones always do. Vuyanzi is sitting with the weight of having a client whose family is caught in Lebanon: the helplessness, the guilt, the strange expectation that life just carries on regardless. Brendan picks it up from there, and the conversation goes somewhere real before the news ev...