COVID and Chemo

Are you a Franklin?? If so, you may notice that the integration project is not going as advertised. Your Black excellence got you there, but what has being there got you? What if one day, after being merely a dark token, you—like Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George—had to depend on the power of the cornrow and even steal lil man’s drum to get your full Blackness back? COVID and Chemo invite...

COVID and Chemo are sorry to inform you that we have recently discovered further connections between McDonald’s Grimace and Clarence Thomas, also known as “America’s Blackest Child.” Is there anyone whiter than Ronald McDonald? Did Supreme Court Justice Grimace Thomas recently celebrate a birthday with deadly purple dessert drinks? These questions and more in this episode.

Some Aliens are catfish. And not even Nev Schulman was ready. In this episode, COVID and Chemo share their recent alarming discoveries about the diversity of alien encounters one can have. Apply that tin foil liberally and listen to this tale of intrigue, witchery, and alien presence recently displayed on MTV’s Catfish. Keep yo head on a swivel when you on the internet, y’all! Cause you might not...

Millennials having a hard time, y’all. COVID and Chemo continue their quest to discover how we came to be The Downtrodden Generation by exploring their experiences playing kids’ games of the 1980s and 1990s. From tales of choking hazards to “telephones” made of 5-year-old saboteurs to Miss Mary Mack and other hand-clapping characters, the dynamic duo show their whole grown millennial a$$es in this...

This episode, COVID and Chemo engage in their second official Hip Hop Debate, in which they address the critical question, “Is Diddy trash or nah?” 🧐

Like errybody already knows, the “civilian scientists” at OceanGate done sent some rich-rich folks to the bottom of the sea without Sebastian in the now infamous “Titan Submersible,” which dove to nearly 12,000m under arctic waters before it “catastrophically imploded.” COVID and Chemo have fewer questions than usual about this. We just want y’all to stay woke, which in this case, translates to “k...

(Part Two) Chemo’s iPad can’t handle the truth, y’all. But here’s the rest of the episode for y’all! 😂 “I don’t see color.” About 300 million people and all dogs worldwide suffer from red-green colorblindness. AsToNiSHinGly, no one is colorblind to white and black. Yet, there is a whole set of folks walking around talking about they can’t tell. In this two-part episode, COVID and Chemo discuss ra...

(Part One) “I don’t see color.” About 300 million people and all dogs worldwide suffer from red-green colorblindness. AsToNiSHinGly, no one is colorblind to white and black. Yet, there is a whole set of folks walking around talking about they can’t tell. In this two-part episode, COVID and Chemo discuss racial colorblindness, yt saviors and magical negroes in Hollywood’s favorite scifi/fantasy sub...

What do Ariel, Aurora, Tiana, Belle, enm have in common? They got us f*cked up, folks. It ain’t a game. You could trade your whole inheritance for somebody who don’t even know what you sound like. You could let somebody kidnap your daddy, then kidnap you, then be a beast, then turn into a regular mofo at the end after alla dat. Also, was Sebastian a slave? (For real, was he?)

Special thanks to one of our fabulous listeners who reacquainted us with the doings and stylings of one Lyfe Jennings of “Must Be Nice” fame. In this episode, COVID and Chemo discuss the most bizarre music video we have ever seen in lyfe. How much of the bag did y’all really need to spend on a “My name is Kunta Kinte” totally ahistorical reenactment? Too many questions to count.

COVID and Chemo, your neighborhood strong-talking duo, consider the history of violence, intrigue, and grief that Barney the Dinosaur suffered at the hands of grown af love-haters. From a “jihad” to destroy Barney, creator Sheryl Leach’s favorite son, to the rash of “Barney Bashing” parties, to the tragic stories of the Barney kids’ life after the show, COVID and Chemo marvel at the ways in which...

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Chemo has discovered that Rodman neglected to inform them about Michael Jackson’s hair journey to the most fabulous lacefronts seen before the Queen Bey. Thanks for listening to Season One! We shall return soon enough with more jokes for dat azz. :)

Part Two of our season finale!! After a mysterious cutoff possibly attributable to alien interference, COVID and Chemo continue discussing their small joys. Many blessings to you all until season two!

In this first part of COVID and Chemo’s season finale, we discuss the small joys that have got us through twenty twenty too and its many struggles. Many thanks for listening! We’ll see you in the new year!

Why do n*ggas really want to hang out with you on their birthday? COVID and Chemo ponder this and other dating questions in this personal and puzzling episode.

This episode of COVID and Chemo is for the Black nerds, aka “blerds.” Now y’all know it ain’t always been easy to be a blerd; don’t listen to what Mortimer Neva-Cool says about you. You are the coolest. And he wears his sunglasses at night anyway.

This episode is dedicated to those who have had experiences with or are curious about the extra special and disrespectful genre of talk known as “talking crazy.” Our discussion includes a definition of the genre as well as an exploration of potential responses to having someone talk too crazy to or around you. Crazy talkers beware. 👀

Tune in for part 1 of COVID and Chemo’s interrogation of the pitfalls of racial integration. In this episode, we discuss the trials and tribulations of the late, great Jackie Robinson, the first Black man ever to play Major League Baseball in this country. Some folks thought it was a game; it was anything but. #weseeyoujackierobinson

In this sequel to the infamous Five Horsemen episode, COVID and Chemo discuss possible ways in which folks become horsemen of the dating apocalypse in the first place. Warning: All theories contained in this episode are the speculations and imaginations and musings of one COVID and one Chemo. Though the Horsemen we know of are causing havoc all around, there is no reason to ignore their origin sto...

What had happened was, is that we heard some Ja Rule too many times and we f*cked up our numbers like Terrology and came for the wrong radio station last episode. Apologies to Joe Soto and Bioncee Fox of V103, the (Black) cookout favorite of Chicagoland. 104.3 JAMS: Is it a scam? Wtf y'all doing?? Why so much Ja??? But in all seriousness, our bad, V103. #wesonlyhuman

Melba Too-Old coming to git us, y’all! COVID and Chemo reflect on the challenges (and joys) of aging and consider the many ways that one can be made to feel old. Even if one was born in, for instance, ‘86, as Lil Boat has shown. PS, That’s NINETEEN eighty-six, y’all. Not 1886. Lawd help!

Our obsession with David Ruffin continues! Here at last is the explanation. Tune in to hear COVID and Chemo tackle all things David Ruffin, including, most gratefully, Leon’s iconic performance in the famed TV miniseries The Temptations (1998).

COVID and Chemo have questions. Twenty-one to be exact, and these ain’t the kind of questions 50 was talkin bout. Our inquiries will take us from Kanye’s work on Jay’s Black Album to Ye’s recent MRI beats; from “slavery is a choice” to Hellscape-Blackface-gate 2022; and from “I don’t read books” to “Hey, let’s open a school.” WTcollectiveF, Ye? Each time, Ye adds nothing but puzzles (and recently...

COVID and Chemo reflect on the many excesses of #Woodstock99 in this episode. From White greed to aggressive misogyny to the heat waves to the Peace Patrol and many fires, so much had changed in thirty years, y’all. We regret to inform you that an accurate description of the events of Woodstock 1999 require us yet again to express our shock and disgust at the presence of doo-doo feces in inappropr...