The Unrefined Sophisticates Podcast

As promised last week we doubled back and had our pod fam DJ Ambush back for a second week of unrefined times. In this episode, we ponder out loud if feeding your photographer or any wedding-hired staff is included in the food plan and if this is a cultural consideration. From there we talk about a mother of 9 who we're not sure understands how public schools work as she calls for a mass exodus an...

Join us as we welcome back, fam of the show, Ambush!! We had a ton of topics on deck but y'all know how our conversations can get going. We congratulate #YoGotti for becoming an owner of an #MLS team and celebrate Seattle's very own burger joint #Dicks for creating their own minimum wage at $19 an hour. Proving once again that if you put people over profits, the profits will keep coming!  We get t...

Join us for a very special 10 part series on energy and green energy initiatives happening locally in Portland, in partnership with Community Energy Project (CEP). During this series, we will be in discussion with community members and organizations about the latest work CEP has implemented and what energy upgrades can mean for our communities. In the first episode, we get some of the basics on po...

This week the Unrefined duo are in a slightly different format as Kan remotes in from an undisclosed, but noisy location. They talk about stuff ranging from Bob's aka R.Kelly's case to a man whose bowels and bladder work in the opposite direction of the way we are accustomed to. Morg breaks some developing news about the Haitian migration that may have been a hoax to incite the people of the US. C...

Welcome to another jam packed episode! We come in hot with awkward neighbor interactions, the #Inbredsurrection celebration falling flaaaaat, the confusing trend of dusted and disgusted Air Force 1’s, and #NickiMinaj being the monster she told us she was. In the second hour we cover the breaking disappearance and possible murder of #GabbyPetito and the mind numbing story unfolding of #AlexMurdaugh...

The dynamic duo is back this week with lukewarm and just below boiling hot takes on a few topics we feel a way about. Starting off we share love and appreciation for the late Michael K Willams. After that it's basically an Unrefined hour. The things we don't understand about the why behind people's social media questions...when it's easier to google or just not a thing you ask strangers for. Would...

Coming in hot with the potential pregnancies, CLB dropped and after  praising the album we ponder why Drake is upholding the sexual predator currently on trial. We move on to Bobby Schmurder making his return, a white woman rapping about twerking like its her last day on earth and Boosie's obsession with Lil Nas X. In the second hour we cover the new indictments in the murder of Ahmad Arbery and T...

You can spell Canada without Kan but you can't say it without Kan! The self titled Canadian Lover Prince talks about his weekend trip to Canada and some of the shenanigans that ensued. From there we talk Soulja Boy being the super troll he is and claiming to own the Atari gaming company to which Atari responded quickly confirming that this was in fact not a fact. The trial of the artist formerly k...

This week the luxurious locs we’ve come to know and love on Kan will no longer guest star because HE CUT HIS HAIR! The new buzz cut Kan and the same ol G Morgan talk Drakeavelli and if he is in fact Batman living rent free in the mind caves of Kanye’s brain. We ask where the hell are all these crates coming from in these viral crate climbing videos. Are IG comedians good at standup? We ponder this...

Join us as we we try to crack the case of why folks scream during fight videos and if it’s mis matched or mix match. We find out how Kan would feel if he tried to save his lady and failed, and another man swooped in to save her. And then we’re back in covidland discussing schools reopening, Texas and Florida falling apart, and the misconception that vaccines are cures. There's lots of laughs this...

Fresh off a plane, Kan recaps his trip home for a special wedding and takes in his childhood home for the last time. As industry leaders in the hard pivot, we move on to the story of the mother in Oklahoma, arrested for child neglect after her 12 year old daughter goes into labor; Morg goes over how fake #CancelCulture is and goes off about people conveniently forgetting other people’s destructive...

The unrefined find themselves in a thruple this week with a guest feature from Educator extraordinaire, Aliyah Taylor-Hershal! We get to talk education and the impact that a teachers experiences can bring to the learning environment. This episode starts with the interview style we know you all love and then after a few adult beverages we get into the stuffs like PDX businesses scamming the governm...

The duo is back being dynamic this week! We kick it off with songs we've heard in stores that make you say "WTF? is this really what I am hearing?" and then seamlessy transition into discussing our heroine of F this S, who quit her job at walmart over the intercom while calling out staff for their trash behavior. Then we talk monkeypox...you read that right, #monkeypox. Just google it. We lastly t...

Join us as we discuss the Andre 3000 sightings happening in Portland, who we want an album from today, the evolution of hwhite women weaponizing their tears and their hwhitness, Stephan A. Smith upholding white supremacy once again, and the foolios in Oregon wanting to merge with Idaho. Did someone say Sun Down towns?? This one covers a lot so grab your red cup and listen up!

Join us as we return from hiatus fresh off the heatwave! In the #SophisticatedHour we get right back at it by discussing one of the sickest burns of the 90s, Lil Uzi being a B-boy at #Ticklefest, and the gross discrimination happening to Black women athletes by Olympic committees. In the #UnrefinedHour we go over why #PillCosby is out of prison, states going full Future (mask off) and lobsters on...

Join us as we enter the great debate of which rappers belongs on the "Mt. Rushmore" of the blog era. Who was going the big business of the 2010's for you? Meek Mill gets roasted again for his internet activity, we wonder where road trips went, Kan lays down a laugh challenge for adults and fads that we wish lasted the test of time. Get your red cup and listen up!

Join us as we discuss straining important fingers, #Rory, #Mal and #OliviaDope give us many reasons to leave #JoeBudden where he's at, the #CDC putting public facing workers at risk by declaring vaccinated folks don't have to wear masks anymore, The latest case of out of touch MAGA celebrities yelling at workers, #Tulum being the new #Vegas and some hackers getting extra freaky with their plans. G...

Join us for another one, as we what we do best; calling out racism, talking culture and going on Kangents (aka tangents).  We talk #SerenaWilliams and the photo floating the internet that appears to show her in a lighter shade of brown than we may be used to seeing. A billboard in PDX aimed at the Black community that doesn't quite add up when we do the math. Although admittedly, neither of us are...

Join us for this tangent heavy, full of plot twists and double aunt Andre's (entendres for you sophisticated folks)episode. We get to the inside info about Morgan's new show on Xray FM "News with my Fiance" and yes that means more Morg for ya head tops weekly! Kan does his first advocacy day with legislators from around Oregon and lives to tell the tale. From there we get into being blocked on soc...

Join us as Kan comes in hot with his FOMO surroundning the infant goat aka Chet Hank's "White Boy Summer" song vibes! Thankfully we find for every Chet, there's a "Dan" who may be the best type of friend a person can have, because Dan will let you kick him in the **** as a way to motivate you through rehabilitation after being paralyzed in an accident. We then jump into an actor who may never see...

This week has been heavy. We're collectively exhausted from carrying the weight of the nation's sins. But like taxes or eczema, you can count on us to show up regularly! Join us as we strategize a panty pyramid scheme, and discuss topics like admiring strangers glow up, pranking our partners, charging a Tesla truck to a debit card, and the Klan no longer stealing all the white sheets but instead s...

Join us for the #SophisticatedHalf as we talk about food quirks, Kan living his life like it's safety green, Diddy getting tone-deaf, and Amazon defeating unionization in Alabama. Oh and spending tons-o-money on anti-union propaganda instead of paying people for their labor. In the #UnrefindHalf we celebrate the life of DMX, discuss Prince Philip picking the wrong day to pass, the fuckery and anti...

Join us as we go over music you just had to be there for, people getting crafty with gun customizing, Derrick Jaxn traumatizing his wife while grifting the public, another Karen in the wild and what the hell is happening over at the Joe Budden Podcast!? Get your red cup and get unrefined with us!

Join us as we go over when is the right time to retire, Kirk Franklin's son catching extra L's as he tried to expose his dad, someone putting banana peels on the steps of AF1, domestic white terrorists back at it like they never left (cause they never left) and Kan breaks down House Bill 2002 and the importance of repealing measure 11. Bring your red cup and listen up!

Join us as we get to share a step on the path to greatness that is being walked by our special guest, Senior Director of Fitness and Tennis Mens / Womens Footwear at Nike, Dom Debnam!! We're talking shoes, community engagement, globe trotting and what drive looks like for a Black woman in the professional world. There is also a gangland style feud of PDX high schools happening between Morg and Dom...