COVID and Chemo

SPOILER ALERT! This emergency episode contains spoilers for Downton Abbey, The Gilded Age, and The Knick. In anticipation of its fourth season drop coming Nov 1, COVID and Chemo discuss The Gilded Age and other works of yt legend Julian Fellowes. Representation matters. Also be on the lookout for Clive Owen in a stash. #staywoke

Welcome to part 3 of COVID and Chemo’s close examination of cult tales. This episode we review two groups: Love Has Won, featuring Amy aka Smurfette Jesus, and Remnant Fellowship Church, starring high-haired Gwen Shamlin of Weigh Down Workshop fame. Our takeaways include a disturbing connection between disordered eating and high control groups, a strong recommendation to NAHT drink colloidal silve...

A content warning just for Rodman: this episode contains discussion of and engagement in squee-ba-boo-dee-bops. Fore warned is forearmed. Welcome to the third installment of COVID and Chemo’s “Hip Hop Debates” series. In this episode, the dynamic duo discusses what it means for hip hop to age, especially for those who grew up with it. Highlights include the “glizzy bandit” accusations against Mali...

Hey Drug Nation! Yes, we’re talking to you. In this episode, COVID and Chemo muse about the role of drugs in our lives amid a recent uptick in pharmaceutical companies’ commercials. Highlights include a guessing game about new prescription drugs now on the market, reminiscences on medications of yore, and a deep dive into the horrors of side effects. Also, we found another Auburn Betty, y’all. To...

COVID and Chemo are back again with updates from being on the go-go! Join us for a recap of our trip to Mexico City earlier this year. Highlights include food, folks, fun, and a n-word billboard sponsored by a Panamanian who hallucinated he was a Black Jamaican and caused mayhem and assorted hate crime in many communities. Also, COVID is requesting redress from the New York Times Wordle department...

"It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago." ~James Danforth Quayle Join COVID and Chemo for the third installment of our July 4th series. This time, we evaluate the stylings and careers of US Vice Presidents. You’ll notice this episode is another marathon. Not as long as the first ladies ultramarathon last year, but long enough. You’re welcome. #staywoke

Welcome to our Juneteenth discussion of the life and legacy of OJ Simpson, who has become an uncomfortable, if not disturbing, symbol of Black freedom in the US. This episode also includes a nerd sports update: “Scrabble is game of low-down dirty shames.” Also, for the last time, washing your butt is not gay. #staywoke

Welcome to the first official episode of season 5 of COVID and Chemo! This is a long anticipated discussion of what makes a krigga, aka a yt who has known enough suffering and oppression that they can fully relate. Case in point? US President James Garfield (1881 - 1881). Also, we introduce a new segment: Nerd Sports. If you know what it is to crash out while playing a word game, we respect you. #...

Welcome to Season 5 of COVID and Chemo, y’all! This season is dedicated to one of the coldest griots of our time, the incomparable Jenifer Lewis. Follow us for the smart foolishness you’ve come to know—this season we will hit our 100th episode, so stay tuned. Finally, where in the hell is Savannah Guthrie mama?! #staywoke

Did you know En Vogue was on the Masked Singer? Thas a scary ahh show btw. We’ll see y’all soon in season five! Thanks for listening!

So, we watched that Netflix documentary about America’s Next Top Model and we had real feelings. Fatty McFat-Fat has been certainly ruining lives and livelihoods for decades at the least. COVID and Chemo are concerned not only about Fatty’s activities but also about the matter of Tyra Banks and her activities. For one, never in life even consider calling a Black lady “ashy." Ever. We beg you. Also...

It’s sing-a-long time, y’all! Join COVID and Chemo in our episode dedicated to our favorite Caucazoidian classic songs. Key takeaways: it seems the Brits have the spice COVID is looking for, meanwhile, Chemo loves a down-bad-yt-boy chanteur. Also, Jack Harlow, is you talm bout mah-nic-a? Maaah-nick-ka?? Mo’nica? Which’nica??? #staywoke

Ooh Oooh Aah Aah, errybody! Here’s an emergency episode on the HBO documentary Chimp Crazy. What is going on here?? #staywoke

It’s football season, y’all. But we not talking about goats. This is GOAM time, aka time for the Greatest of All Mediocrities. This episode especially features COVID, since she has the greatest of disdain for one Tom Brady. Get into it. While Chemo runs interference on the play, a new horseman is also introduced, aka the Horseman who dgaf. #staywoke

This one is for menstruators, their allies, and anyone with questions about a period that they are too shy to look up. COVID and Chemo are here to help y’all with a deep dive, breakdown, and many comedic musings about the red lady and her perpetual cycle. Also, please stop putting yo children on leashes. That is not the solution. Finally, Doja Cat need to apologize to Ms. Jackson, OutKast, and eve...

Welcome, listeners, to an unexpected fourth installment in our ‘Integration Is Not the Answer’ series. First of all, not too much on Louis Armstrong, errybody. Not only was he a jazz kang and icon who made his way from a "Colored Waifs" home to the world stage, he also introduced one COVID and one Chemo to heretofore unknown old timey products: Swiss Kriss and Pluto Water. Join us for a celebratio...

Have you ever had the feeling that somebody was lying to you? COVID and Chemo have. Join us for a deep dive into the tales of questionable accuracy that defined our young lives. From Henny Penny—was this chicken a cult leader?--to Humpty Dumpty—who was that lil boy-egg to the kang?—COVID and Chemo’s familiar folksy analysis will serve you well in fighting against misinformation. This episode also...

COVID and Chemo welcome you to the fourth installment of our “Dating Follies” series. Highlights include an analysis of the risks, pitfalls, and dangers of "dating with intention,” a revised horseman category, and a discussion of the Tea app. 👀👀

Like Kenny Lamar, COVID and Chemo stay asking, “Where, oh where, can we go??” In this episode, the dynamic duo share reminiscences and takeaways from our journey to Greece earlier this year. If y'all can get out there for a future sojourn, we would highly recommend it. And we Black af, so, you already know that took some doing. A big shout out and special thanks to our Greek homies!! Y’all are tru...

Somebody must've called on Nipsey, 'cause this is a MARATHON session. We're back from our hiatus to bring you the longest, most foolish episode we have ever recorded. Join COVID and Chemo for a review of US First Ladies and their portraits in part two of our annual presidential series. Covered histories include bonnets, gowns, fans, strokes, seizures, tuberculosis, slave-driving, home renovations,...

Mickey Ds is in Errythang. Including basketball. COVID and Chemo share insights gained from streaming Netflix’s Untold documentary “Shooting Guards,” which details the devastating results of an encounter between a real n*gga and a bus comedian. Outstanding questions remain concerning America’s Whitest Clown, in particular as first portrayed in 1963 by Willard Scott of TODAY Show fame. #staywoke

Cornbread is adorable, y’all. #staywoke

You will find COVID and Chemo at their storytelling best in this second review of cults. Featured high-control groups include Twin Flames Universe and the Branch Davidians of 1993 Waco fame. Some do talk about people taking they blickies away, but as of this episode we can confirm that some folks is actually taking boobies away instead, so stay woke. Also, where is BoBo? Can we go to where he at?

Welcome to the beginning of season 4 of this smart foolishness we got going. Join us for a celebration of the excellence of En Vogue, the disappointments of some n*ggas we used to know who ca sang, and a preview of upcoming episodes. In the words of Terry, Cindy, Maxine, and Dawn, "It doesn't matter what you do or what you say, she don't love you...no way." Think on that. #staywoke

It’s Black History Month y’all! Get it how you live it. In this final episode of Season 3, COVID and Chemo take another fond look at one Lionel Ritchie, aka “Lion-el” the icon on the purported “greatest night in pop.” We also must insist on an audit of the integration project after reviewing the tireless and united efforts of so many excellent Franklins, who used their powers to summon even a coup...