In our first installment on School Lunch, Kelly and Darryl investigate the uncomfortable history of Native American boarding schools, their effect on native culture, and how generational trauma continues to manifest today. We look at how food was used as a weapon and a tool by European colonists to assimilate young children and their families.

Kelly and Darryl explore the world of hot sauce by playing the party/card game, Hot Ones. Based on the popular show, the game takes you through truth or dare, trivia, and "roast" questions where the other people in the game roast you. We taste seven different sauces starting with Darryl's homemade sauce and ending with The Last Dab (included with the game). We laugh, we cry, and we get reeeeeeal sweaty.

From medicine to slave ships to Beyonce's bag, chilies and hot sauce have had a long history within the Black community. We begin in 200 A.D. with the Greek physician Galen, travel to the New World and through Louisiana, and end up on the floor of a saloon in Nevada. In our next episode, we'll be tasting Darryl's own hot sauce along with a few others as we play the party game Hot Ones.

On June 19, 1981, three teenagers tragically drowned at Booker T. Washington Park during what was then the largest Juneteenth celebration in Texas. They had been taken into police custody after a small bag of marijuana and a joint had been found. Listen as Kelly tells Darryl the difficult story of the Comanche Three and how the community of Limestone County Texas continues to deal with the aftermath forty years later. (Correction from audio: 1,400 people attended the funeral mentioned, not 14,000 - Kelly just can't read numbers so early in the morning)

Happy Juneteenth! In this celebratory episode, Darryl prepares a traditional Juneteenth meal of pulled pork, sweet potatoes, watermelon, and strawberries. Kelly shares the history of the holiday, how it has been observed, and the food that makes this day unique and special. Join us as we raise a glass of Strawberry Red Mule (a cocktail Kelly invented) to this very important day: June 19th.

In this very personal episode Kelly and Darryl talk about the life and death of David McAtee and what his loss meant to our community. Darryl shares his personal experience as a participant at the protest and describes how the community came together to mourn, celebrate, and express their anger. We also eat a meal of jerk chicken, collard greens, and mac n' cheese in honor of McAtee, the community he cared for, and his passion for BBQ.

In part 2, we are coming to you from our brand new studio (in progress) to discuss anti-philippine sentiment in the U.S. with a focus on the Philippine-American War. We also talk about the links between Black and Filipinx history, and their influences on one another.

In our first episode of May, Kelly chats with our friend Camille Pase about growing up as an immigrant from the Philippines, and the different cultures she was exposed to in California and Kentucky. We talk about the food she grew up eating, and the pride she feels when making food for her own family. And of course, we cover some racism and how it relates to food. Check out our blog for Camille's recipe for Bibinkang Malagkit.

With all of our new listeners and recent attention that we have received from the LEO, we decided to pause and do a Q&A episode. Darryl and Kelly discuss their friendship, food, and of course, ice cream. Lots of laughing and personal history, but we're leaving the racism behind for this one. Listen in to learn more about us, and hear two friends just being friends.

Because of the recent news of Coca-Cola being "canceled" after their statement regarding Georgia's new voting rollbacks, we decided to revisit episode 4 of our miniseries on Coke. The original recording had some flaws so if you needed to skip that episode, here is your chance to catchup. We revisit the discrimination case against Coke in 2000, their comments on BLM from 2020, and their statement regarding voting rights in Georgia just a few weeks ago.