Hung Up Podcast

☎️ “It’s not even important to discuss the culture of DL but it’s more important to discuss the root.” After a week break HungUpPod is back with an extended episode with special guest, Podcast Host and YouTube Vlogger TreReal. Guest TreReal Host of UpFront With TreReal and Feesey Boy IG @trereal YouTube @Upfront With TreReal and Feesey Boy

☎️ This week Licensed Therapist, Author, and Light Worker Tony Purnell returns to the Hung Up Podcast. This week’s topic: FWB (friends with benefits) I took a IG poll last week and many responded that they would entertain FWB. Tony and I talk about what can go wrong, how to navigate this situation with healthy boundaries, and how to exit when FWB is no longer beneficial. #HungUp | Song of The Week...

☎️ This week Black Queer Artist and Content Curator Jason Watler, dials into the Hung Up Podcast. Jason share’s some of his creative journey and how his move to the DMV pushed him to give his all to his passion and find support within the lgbtq+ community. #HungUp Episode Topics When was the first time you remember seeing a reflection of yourself? If you came across a box and it had #GayAgenda wri...

☎️ This week Rodderick Sheppard better known as The DMV Plant 🌱 Daddy, dials into the Hung Up Podcast. Rodderick is hung up on the new Chucky series which has a Queer teen character. #HungUp Conversation Topics: 101 Plant Care for Novice Plant Parents 🪴 🎭 Using Art and Acting to Tell Queer stories: The Bravesoul Collective (At 40:00) SlayTV For The Boys: Episode One Review 🌈 Guest @IG Rodderic...

☎️ This week I’m #HungUp on everyone taking care of an aging parent or loved one. This is a new chapter of my life. Sharing my thoughts helped me process some of what I’ve been feeling. Episode Notes 💭 SEPTA strike and job walk outs all over the country. RIP to Halyna Hutchins who was shot on the set “Rush.” Insecure Season 5 Episode 1 review and my thoughts on Tiffany rockin AKA greek letters I...

☎️ Therapy and cocktails! This week, licensed therapist Tony Purnell dials into the Hung Up Podcast. After the icebreaker we dish our hung ups and hanging ups for the week. Tony is breaking ties with toxic family members while I acknowledge my struggle with asking for help. We have a live audience this week,#HungUp

☎️ How much time have we wasted planning the life we could be living? This week I am checking in with you all and share my weekend wedding experience and then seeing Tinashe live in concert. I am #HangingUp on Dave Chapelle who has once again found himself in the middle of controversy with the LQBTQ+ community, GLAAD, and the National Black Justice Coalition over his transphobic comments made in h...

☎️ This week I do a quick check in with the listeners and share what I learned about numerology and it’s connection to vibration. Then I share ways I seek to raise my vibrations- while pointing out the importance of also knowing and be aware of the triggers that can lower or dampen your vibration. I’m hung up on Tinashe, who is coming to Philly next Monday and I am excited to see her for the first...

☎️ This week Boonie from the Boonie Breakdown Podcast dials in with a Black woman’s perspective on manhood and masculinity, being open to different sexual experiences with men, and Black Gay/Queer Comedians who impersonate Black women- this can be funny and offensive at the same time. But first, an icebreaker. #HungUp | Intro: Symone America’s Drag Superstar is on Jimmy Kemmel Live with RuPaul Gue...

☎️ This week’s Guest is Black Atlanta Comedian, Kyndra Crump. We had a great conversation about using comedy as medicine and growing up in church. Kyndra shares how she had to re-learn a lot of what she was taught about religion and God. #HungUp | Kyndra Crump Instagram @thekyndracrumpshow YouTube The Kyndra Crump Show

☎️ This week the homies Sterling Grimes and Johnel Simmons dial in to talk about music and how it is impacted by cancel culture. Sterling and I saw Chrisette Michele live this past week here in Philly and it sparked the question: Why is Chrisette still canceled? Kanye West is widely supported and successful, what’s the difference? We unpack that. Also Da Baby and Lil Nas X- a str8 perspective from...

☎️ This week is a part two to the conversation I had last week with Actor, Director, Producer, and Writer, Doug Spearman. We dive into his latest project, From Zero to I Love You, a movie he wrote and directed in 2019 that explored the relationship between a open gay man, played by Darryl Stephens, and a married man who struggles with his sexuality. If you haven’t seen the movie, I recommend you c...

☎️ Intergenerational conversations between Queer/Gay Black men is more of what we want and need. This week’s guest is Actor, Writer, Director, and Producer Doug Spearman who many of us know as Chance from LogoTV’s Noahs Arc series. The episode kicks off with an icebreaker and we talk about Dougs love for peanut butter (ditto) and the first time he saw a reflection of himself. (7:40) Then we talk a...

☎️ 4:33 The Gaggle checks in with everything mental health, roller skating, buying homes, and learning how to put self first. 30:00 Do we all have a problematic fav? DaBaby is, unfortunately, a familiar face. How do we address this issue on a micro level within our community? | Episode open by Johnel Simmons IG @nellll__ Marquise Davon Twitter & IG @marquisedavon Sterling Grimes IG @sterlyg

☎️ One way we can reduce the stigma around HIV/AIDS is by elevating the voices of the people who are living it. Advocate & Photographer David Michael breaks it all down this week on Episode 403, Have Good Sex. On this episode, I engage with David about his personal journey with living with HIV and how he uses his platform to raise awareness out in the Bay Area. He highlights resources, such as at...

☎️ This week guest is Dating Coach, Matchmaker, and Couples Counselor, Lamont Scales White- who primarily works with the gay and bisexual community. We talked about his background in health equity and counseling and how that work paved the way for the creation of a professional dating service, Better Way to Date. Lamont’s professional background includes substance abuse, housing, and HIV public he...

☎️ This week, I gave horror a chance. Digital Horror Content Creator Bobby Torrez says that there is a horror movie out there for everyone. Bobby found his passion for horror movies at a young age and connected with actors like Shavar Ross who plays Reggie in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985). Bobby took his passion to YouTube where he creates and reviews horror content and connects with oth...

☎️ Hey Hung Up Family. What’s one way to make sure that the connection between mind and body is sound? 🤔 Go see Chiropractor and get adjusted! This week I sit down with Dr. George Rhodes DC, owner of Rhodes Family Chiropractic in Philadephia. Dr. Rhodes breaks down various techniques he uses to help his clients be more connected with self like, koren specific technique and retracing. If you have...

☎️ Hey Hung Up Family, this week I want to share a story I heard on NPR Fresh Air. A story about a woman, Sharanda Jones, who was set to serve a life sentence but ended up receiving clemency from President Barack Obama. Her story gives us hope that the people who are thrown away and ignored by society have a chance to make a comeback. I also bring in stats that speak to how policing and the justic...

☎️ Hey Hung UP family. This week I’m checking in with you all on how I am redefining my podcast brand and my experience on the most talked about app this week, Clubhouse. The conversations I was apart of ranged from midday lunch break QPOC meet ups to defunding the police to the history of Black intellectual property being stolen. I am liking the app experience so far and the benefits of having to...

☎️ Hey Hung UP family. This week I sit down with @waywardunion, a Black boy joy brand, created by Durrock Knox @durrok and Darryl Hamilton @mrhamilton521, to empower Black same gender loving men and to create spaces that foster QPOC collaboration. We are HungUP on Megan Thee Stallion’s new album, Good News 📰 and we chat about the tracks we love. Durrock and Darryl open up about being a Creative i...

☎️ This week I sit down with D'Ontace Keyes to discuss his journey thus far as an advocate for the LGBTQ community. From Philly, to NYC, to Chicago, he walks us through some of his work with the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, being a former Philly Commissioner on Human Relations and Philly Black Pride Organizer, Producer for @MobiNYC and Chicago’s @windycitytimes LGBTQ 30 under 30. #HungUP 🖤 . . . G...

☎️ Hey HungUP fam- checking in with you all with a personal reflection on a journey to understand that I am worthy of love and that I’ve been depriving myself of the experience of love for a long time. I am in my car again! 🤷🏽‍♂️ so I apologize for the background. Just felt the need to talk to the people. Stay safe and wear a mask. . . . #soundcloud #applepodcasts #spotify #stitcher #iheartradio...

☎️ This week, I check in with the Hung Up Fam and talk about my weekend at Rohoboth Beach, celebrating a close friend’s birthday. It was a chance to break cabin fever and spend time with some amazing Black Queer Men. #HungUP . . . Happy Birthday Wesley, Carlton, and Rodderick. I am blessed to know you and to call you a friend. And shout out to Malachi, Hanif, Niko, and Spencer, we all had a really...

☎️ This week, Businesswoman and Mother, Janell Johnson dials into the Hung UP Podcast. Janell tells us the story of how SUITE828 and J. Nicole Merchandising came to be and how she is using her experience to help other up and coming designers and merchandisers. We also discuss how Janell is breaking generational curses and what this will mean for her daughter, Jace. . . . Guest Janell Johnson Websi...