Piqued Podcast

It’s a brand new year and I have Charlie in studio to chat about some of our goals, and the transitions we are going through in how we want to show up in in our relationships, in our work, in our creativity, in our spirit-and well-in our lives. This brings up the sticky concept of authenticity. What is it to show up authentically? What is it to be performative in spaces, in activism, in our self r...

This is my last episode of 2025, and that has me in a reflective mood. With the wrought national and global climate we are living in, I have found myself thinking about what is at play with the seemingly un-bridgeable chasm between these two polarized ‘camps’ of sorts. It came to me while bickering in a comment section(typical) that, for me at least, a lot of it comes down to choices. Our moral, e...

This week I'm realizing many of my recent topics have elements pertaining to discernment, or lack there of. Wether its Onyeka getting scammed, Diddy running rampant in an industry, or people buying someone's online persona grift, hook line and sinker, i am starting to feel like we as a society are loosing the plot on discernment. Are we out-sourcin-or even crowd sourcing-our intuition? #in...

Me and Charlie just finished 'Sean Combs:The Reckoning',the Curtis Jackson(AKA 50Cent)produced four part Netflix documentary, detailing the allegations and charges being brought against Sean Combs(AKA Diddy/PDiddy/Puffy/puff Daddy)and his trajectory from childhood to music biz intern, fame, and, eventually, notoriety. The doc gives us a lot to discuss about power, corruption, complicity an...

This week I unpack the intersectional implications of the Danish Deception. All the money lending to men has me dissecting the concept of transactional romantic relationships in general:Onyeka's Danish man and his ill begotten drip, Shera Seven and her steely sprinkle philosophy, and Mamdani and his calculated meeting with Trump ,which left Agent Orange kicking his feet. Does finessing an alle...

I Have Charlie in studio today to re-hash or lengthy time in NYC.We get in to how we both individually sort of-ended up there rather than really choosing it, but somehow remained for over a decade. We het in to the highs lows and peculiarities of existing in such a big, fun, crazy and often completely traumatizing city:How did we stay, why did we go in the first placed, and how did we eventually f...

This week I delve in to going Viral on Tiktok and how that has unearthed a new pet peeve of mine that I've dubbed "the mean girl police". I also discuss being an 'insufferable liberal' and the struggle to make empathetic values and politics more palatable while up-holding boundaries. I dabble in a bit of armchair couples analysis of Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker, and I wrap it up with a ru...

This week I am worse for wear after a busy weekend ,so it felt right to Brain rot with you. I dig in to a nice, crispy cup of Pop(culture, that is)and indulge in a send up of the rag headlines(Sydney Sweeny's interview, Travis Kelse's love triangle drama, and some niche personal pet peeves about some public figures. Take a brain break with me! #podcast #pod #podclips #comedy #interview #po...

Watching 'Death in the Family'(the series about the Murdaugh family) has me and Charlie ruminating about the pit falls of extreme privilege, mind boggling wealth, greed, and the harm that can come from consistent insulation from consequences. Total power corrupts totally ,as they say, but we want to dig deeper in to the psyche of those desiring the tier of access, power and influence, and...

All the bruhaha surrounding Dax Shepherd and Kristen Bell's Anniversary post has unearthed some ick about certain traits that seem to crop up in people in my own life and inspires a deep dive in to my blind spot when it comes to sniffing out the ever so slippery covert narcissists. #kristenbell #daxshephers #narcissists #personalitydisorder #toxicriends #NPD #podcast #podcasting #pod #popcultu...

AI has arrived and Charlie and me are wondering if everyone is focusing on the wrong entity taking our jobs. Maybe we want to build a wall against AI infiltrating art and ,frankly, instagram(jk)...but in all seriousness ,we do explore what this technology means for us, to us and about us. #ai #tech #techbros #robots #stem #art #artists #podcast #podcasting #spotify #podcasts #podcaster #podcastlif...

Comedians took a hefty check from the Saudis,Taylor Swift came out with a polarizing new groove and a "Where are they now" of some of #metoo and#timesup's bad eggs. #taylorswift #swifties #cancelculture #lifeofashowgirl #riyadhcomedyfestival #cancelculture #canceled #canceling #podcas #po #podclips #popculture #viral #currentevents

I've recently hung up my apron and unhooked y wine key from my service industry 'career'.I'm sharing some gripes, perspectives, insights, and tricks of the trade from almost two decades in the trenches. Come cry in the walk-in with me.

I'm a geriatric ('82) millenial, so I've lived to see some micro-generational nuance get lost in the shuffle, and a resurgence of questionable themes from my hey day(elicit party drugs and full fat ciggies for eg.)I'm here to provide context, and a little personal butt-hurtness to the dialogue.

Words are choices and they matter. How we speak, when we speak, what we convey-it all materializes our thoughts and they become material. We discuss how words require thoughtfulness, awareness of context, and what may be lost in translation within the limited confine of verbal language.

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Discipline can seem like an intimidating concept, rife with rigidity and judgement, but is it? Ive been thinking about the various areas in my life that involve discipline, or the lack there-of. Is it what we do or don't do, is it what we eat or don't eat? Perhaps it's just lending mindfulness to our values and goals, creating a structure around that and sticking to it. TBD

There are some things in our comfortable warm bath of an accepted reality that just seem to challenge its' parameters and defy its measurement and categorization protocols. Whether it's a seemingly gravity defying tennis shot, a savant skill, or the leap of faith it takes a child to do something that feels outside of their capability and comprehension, we can all identify things that expand our id...