Claim Ownership
Stuck with Damon Young
Stuck with Damon YoungSubscribed: 46Played: 516
Subscribe
Description
Stuck with Damon Young returns with more off-the-cuff conversations inspired by today’s most culturally relevant headlines and round ups of Damon-approved listener-submitted questions. Each episode, award-winning author Damon Young is joined by some of the best, brightest, and Blackest people he knows including special guests Kiese Laymon, Roy Wood Jr., Elaine Welteroth, Nikole Hannah-Jones and others. Come explore the uncomfortable, hideous, and hilarious absurdity of our human behavior. Listen to Stuck with Damon Young on Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
55 Episodes
Reverse
In the season finale, damon talks to stephen scatter field, creator and co host of high on the hog, about the racial and economic politics embedded in food creation and consumption. Later he's joined by Panama Jackson for a conversation about money, anxiety, and what's next for both of them
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Cultural critic and native New Yorker Shamira Ibrahim joins Damon to contextualize the bevy of sexual assault allegations levied against Sean Combs, plus the mogul's history of physical violence, harassment, and theft against men and women
00:00- Cold open
00:27 - Introduction
1:38 - Shamira Ibrahim introduction
2:35 - Lawsuits of the adult survivors act
8:00 - The power imbalance between gender/ class
13:55 - Cassie and Diddy exposition
21:50 - No public skepticism of Diddy’s allegations
25:50 - The fallout of the Diddy revelations
37:40 - What does justice Look Like in this situation?
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jacqueline Woodson joins Damon to discuss her decorated career and what we can do to combat the legislative effort to ban books from Black and queer authors from classrooms and school libraries. Then journalist Hillary Crosley Coker comes through to celebrate and contextualize the legacy of Jezebel and the rest of the now extinct Gawker Media Network.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Open
00:15 Introduction
01:24 Damon welcomes author Jacqueline Woodson
10:00 Damon and Jacqueline discuss book banning in schools
33:31 Damon actually loves his production team
36:19 Damon welcomes journalist Hillary Crosley Coker
37:47 Hillary discusses the impact of publications like Jezebel shutting down
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dr. Saida Grundy returns to help Damon understand some of the cultural and economic nuances of the Black Mecca, in response to the response to TikTok restaurant critic Keith Lee's unpleasant experiences with some popular Atlanta restaurants. Then, author and NBC correspondent Antonia Hylton discusses her upcoming book Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum, which leads to a revealing conversation about the racist roots of mental health care in America.
Chapters
00:00 Open
00:23 Introduction
01:38 Damon welcomes Dr. Saida Grundy to the show
06:24 The facade of Atlanta restaurants
30:11 Damon Hates when people invite him over and don’t offer food
32:59 Journalist Antonia Hylton joins Damon for a conversation on black mental health
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Malaika Jabali returns to discuss her new book "It's Not You, It's Capitalism," and how the American economy hurts the American experience. Then comedian Zainab Johnson helps Damon advise a parent apprehensive about a future filled with family-themed halloween costumes.
00:00 Open
00:19 Introduction
01:30 Damon welcomes Malaika Jabali, author of “It’s Not You, It’s Capitalism: Why It’s Time to Break Up and How to Move On
07:31 The performance of capitalism
27:50 Damon Hates that he’s not extroverted
30:52 Comedian Zainab Johnson helps answer a listener’s question for Dear Damon
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dr. Karida L. Brown & Charly Palmer, authors of "The New Brownies' Book: A Love Letter to Black Families," a collective anthology inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois’ original work, join Damon to talk about some of the ideas behind their work, the importance of the book at a time when so much black literature is being challenged in schools, and the process of working on a project like this as a married couple.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Michael Harriot, author of Black AF History, joins Damon for a discussion on the history of the word "woke" and the real world danger of writing the truth about white people. Then, Morgan the Producer helps Damon discuss how Jada Pickett-Smith's recent comments on her and Will Smith's "marriage" change Damon's opinion on the Chris Rock Oscars slap.
00:00 Open
00:12 Introduction
01:19 Michael Harriot joins Damon for a conversation about wokeness
12:29 Black authors who write about racism with a large following of white people
25:59 Damon Hates the way he was given a citation
29:05 Dear Damon with Morgan the producer on Will and Jada
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Democratic United States Representative Summer Lee returns to Stuck with Damon Young to discuss the implications of student loans on black Americans, then Minda Honey, author of “the Heartbreak Years,” helps Damon decide who the most famous person in America is in 2023.
00:00 Open
00:12 Introduction
01:10 Damon and Congresswoman Summer Lee on small talk
07:08 The experiences gained from higher education
17:36 Rep. Summer Lee totals her student loan debt
39:41 Damon Hates that he’s running out of inspiration for tattoos
41:42 Dear Damon with author and critic, Minda Honey
01:03:10 Outro
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Gene Demby, co-host of NPR's “Code Switch” podcast, joins Damon for a conversation on the dangers of social media illiteracy, and how everything—from how we vote and what we eat to where we live and even how we consume sports—can be affected by misinformation.
00:00 Open
00:46 Introduction
01:38 Gene Demby of NPR’s Code Switch joins Damon
03:48 Widespread misinformation on the internet
13:31 The NFL’s influence in media
38:58 Outro
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jenee Desmond Harris, Slate’s “Dear Prudence” columnist and podcast host, joins Damon for a discussion rooted in divorce and giving relationship advice during a time when it feels like couples from all walks of life are splitting up. Then, Panama Jackson returns to help Damon advise a young man with cash flow issues who wants to know if he should pursue dating while broke.
00:00 Open
00:40 Introduction
01:44 Welcome Slate’s Dear Prudence columnist, Jenée Desmond Harris
06:47 Celebrities getting divorced
21:31 How Jenée separates her personal life from her advice column
35:29 Damon Hates birthday gifts for kids
38:52 Dear Damon with Panama Jackson
55:31 Outro
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Deesha Philyaw, author of "The Secret Life of Church Ladies," joins Damon for a discussion about making money on the heels of Deesha's two-book seven-figure deal. Morgan the Producer then makes her Dear Damon debut talking tipping etiquette.
Chapters:
00:00 Open
00:32 Introduction
01:39 Welcome Deesha Philyaw
04:26 Turning her writing into a seven figure book deal
19:37 How the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike is affecting the writer
28:19 Damon Hates
31:07 Dear Damon with Morgan the Producer on tipping
51:05 Outro
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mitch Jackson, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Fly: the Big Book of Basketball Fashion," joins Damon to discuss the impact of the NBA on the black community's fashion decisions. He and Damon also share bumps in the road in their own respective fashion journeys.
Chapters:
[00:00] Open
[00:53] Introduction
[02:06] Mitchell S. Jackson and Damon on forming their personal style
[06:47] How style icons are formed in the NBA
[14:37] Allen Iverson’s style influenced the game and fashion
[35:48] Are the white NBA players as fly
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On the NFL’s opening week, best-selling author and MacArthur Genius Kiese Laymon joins Damon for an in-depth conversation on how they can enjoy such a violent, racist sport that profits on the destruction of (primarily Black) bodies. Plus, they find beauty in Black virtuosity and 90s-fine quarterbacks.
Chapters:
00:00 Open
00:26 Introduction
04:54 Growing up in the deep south as a football fan
08:38 Deion Sanders leaving his HBCU team to coach at a PWI
15:53 Damon roots for Mike Tomlin first, then the Steelers
22:40 Damon and Kiese can admit Jalen Hurts is an attractive man
29:17 The consumption of violence through the NFL
47:54 Outro
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jeff Jenkins, host of National Geographic’s Travel series Never Say Never, joins Damon for an extremely fun and lively conversation about their own (and some stereotypically Black) anxieties about travel. And then for Dear Damon, the brilliant writer and educator Dr. Bettina Love helps advise a prospective writer, who fears there will be no writing related jobs left when they graduate.
Chapters:
00:00 - Cold Open
00:38 - Show Intro
01:52 - Jeff Jenkins Intro
6:10 - Damon's First International Travel Story
10:40 - Traveling On A Budget
14:30 - Jeff's Travel Hacks
18:58 - Discussing "Never Say Never"
28:15 - Making It As a Travel Influencer
32:00 - Damon Hates
33:59 - Dear Damon with Dr Bettina Love
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On the heels of retired NFL player Michael Oher’s recent lawsuit against the Tuohy family, where he claims that they manipulated him into a conservatorship, University of Boston Professor Saida Grundy returns to help Damon unpack all of the problems with “The Blindside.” Including why the white savior narrative is so seductive (and so dangerous), and how both Michael Lewis (the author of The Blindside) and the Tuohy family have capitalized, for years, on an intentional mischaracterization of Oher possessing severe intellectual disabilities.
Chapters:
00:00- Cold Open
00:35 - Show Intro
01:58 - Saida Grundy Intro
3:00 - Explaining The Blindside/ Michael Oher Conservatory Saga
12:35 - Film Discussion
18:08 - Who are the Tuohy's
28:00 - Saida's White Savior Identity Theory
34:30 - What Happens Next?
38:55 - Outro
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In the wake of the 50th anniversary of hip hop, Clover Hope, author of "The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop," joins Damon to explore their respective histories and current perspectives on the genre. Then in Dear Damon, NPR music critic Rodney Carmichael helps Damon talk through the differences between different generations of hip hop artists.
Chapters:
00:00 - Cold Open
00:42 - Show Intro
1:35 - Segment One (Clover Hope) Intro
2:10 - When Did You First Fall In Love With Hip Hop
6:42 - Do You Feel The Same Way Now
12:30 - Dream Hampton Quote of Whether Hip Hop is Revolutionary
16:00 - Female Rappers Impact on the New Generation
26:40 - Damon Hates
29:33 - Dear Damon with Rodney Carmichael
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Morgan the Producer makes her Stuck with Damon Young debut to help unpack the circumstances surrounding the Montgomery River Brawl - or Fade on the Water, as Damon likes to call it Damon and Morgan chronicle the event, its main characters, the potential fallout and even offer what each of them would have done, if they’d been there.
Chapters:
(00:00) Open
(00:28) Introduction
(01:54) Damon and Morgan The Producer break down the riverfront brawl
(05:48) Fade in the water
(13:21) The characters in the fight
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Allen Hughes, director of the Emmy nominated Hulu original documentary "Dear Mama" on the life of legendary rapper Tupac Shakur, joins Damon to discuss his career, personal relationship with Tupac, and experiences directing the recent documentary. Then, author Blaire Kelley joins Damon to advise a black woman who is concerned for the outlook of a new relationship with a black man who has only dated white women.
Chapters:
Show Intro - 00:27
Allen Hughes Intro - 1:35
Hughes definition of "Legend" - 5:10
Hughes Recounting of Being Jumped by Tupac/ Forgiveness - 13:25
A Discussion of Hughes Past Works - 17:55
A Change in Hughes Directing Perspective - 23:55
Damon Hates - 27:40
Dear Damon - 30:30
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Cultural critic Shamira Ibrahim consoles Damon while he laments Pittsburgh's removal from Beyonce's international tour. Nestled deep in the heart of Taylor Swift country, Pittsburgh, or as Damon likes to call it, the Paris of Appalachia is the only stop so far to be struck from the tour. Shamira helps Damon unpack why that may be and quantify the effect of the decision of Pittsburgh's black community. Then on Dear Damon, spoken word poet Kyla Jenee Lacey helps Damon advise a listener who doesn't know how to react when R. Kelly's music plays in public.
Chapters:
00:00-00:36 Open
00:42-01:46 Introduction
01:50 Shamira Ibrahim welcome
02:40 Pittsburgh least livable city for Black people
06:25 Beyonce cancels tour stop in Pittsburgh
21:01 Doja Cat doesn’t love her fans
25:50 Damon Hates cupcakes
28:12 Damon and performing spoken word artist Kyla Jenee Lacey discuss supporting problematic artists
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Joel Anderson, host of Slate's "Slow Burn" podcast, which this season is focused on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, joins Damon to discuss the origins and driving motivations of one of the most influential, yet problematic, African Americans in our country's history. Then on Dear Damon, Shaniqua McClendon, vice president of politics at Crooked Media, helps advise a listener who is tired of discussing politics.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Show Open
00:37 Intro
01:41 Joel Anderson Introduction
05:45 What Damon’s Dad Thinks of Clarence Thomas
10:30 Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill
20:06 Clarence Thomas is one of the Most Influential Black Figures in History
34:40 Damon Hates
37:18 Dear Damon with Shaniqua McClendon
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Saida Grundy, Professor of Sociology, African American Studies, and Gender Studies at Boston University, joins Damon to discuss the historical context and future implications of the Supreme Court's Affirmative Action decision. Saida sticks around for Dear Damon and helps unpack the situation surrounding Keke Palmer’s Usher experience and her semi-nameless baby’s daddy patriarchal reaction for a curious listener.
Chapters:
0:40 - Intro
1:40 - Saida Grundy Segment One Introduction
3:05 - Building A Life Through Affirmative Action
10:15 - Race Politics at the University of Michigan in the 1990s/
14:25 - Putting the Student in “Student Athlete”
16:00 - Crew is My Favorite Sport
20:20 - White Disillusionment/ Wonderbread vs Pancakes
27:13 Damon Hates
29:47 Dear Damon with Saida Grundy
53:50 Outro
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Comedian and actor Sam Jay talks with Damon about the highs and lows of writing for comedy and show business, the brokest things they've ever done on the road to success, and how to balance making money with fulfilling one's passion. Then, on Dear Damon, Alzo Slade returns to the show to help Damon advise a listener who wants to unmask for the first time since the start of the pandemic this summer.
Chapters:
0:30 - Intro
1:40 - Sam Jay Introduction
5:15 - What's the Brokest thing you've ever done?
9:05 - A Conversation About Money
17:20 - No Longer Starving Artists
21:15 - How Do Road Comics Make Money?
27:42 - Damon Hates (Pittsburgh's culinary scene closes too early)
29:30 - Dear Damon with Alzo Slade
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Juanita Tolliver, MSNBC political analyst and host of Crooked Media's What A Day," joins Damon to discuss their complicated feelings about the Fourth of July and Juneteenth, and ask: what exactly are we celebrating? Then on Dear Damon, W. Kamau Bell returns to help Damon figure out at what point it's best to end a relationship in defense of one's mental health.
Chapters:
Intro- :50
Welcome Juanita Tolliver- :2:00
Damon's Relationship with Independence Day- 5:55
The Performance of Activism- 8:50
American Ambivalence- 11:55
The Magnanimity of White People- 16:00
Damon Hates: 23:00
Dear Damon: 25:30
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week on Stuck with Damon Young, poet and author Hanif Abdurraqib joins Damon to give their takes on basketball fans' relationship with NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Nikola Jokic, as well as to speak on their own personal relationships with the game and how they've changed over time. Then on Dear Damon, Dr. Chanda Prescod Weinstein returns to help Damon advise a listener on the nuances of antisemitism and its correlations to racism against black people.
:55 - Intro
1:55 - Introducing Hanif Abdurraqib
5:10 - Hanif’s Personal Relationship with Basketball
9:20 - Communication on the Court & in Life
17:35 - Playing Basketball for me is a Measure of Health
20:25 - The Relationship with Morality
24:40 - Living and Loving Well
27:40- Damon Hates
30:35 Dear Damon with Dr. Chanda Prescod Weinstein
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Description: This week on Stuck with Damon Young, cultural critic Aisha Harris, the author of the new book "Wannabe: Reckons with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me" joins Damon for a discussion on how our relationship with pop culture is affected by our relationships with ourselves and our own self images. Then on Dear Damon, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of the recently released "Chain Gang All Stars," helps Damon advise a straight cis male writer who struggles while writing about sex.
Chapters
00:30 Intro
01:35 Writer, Aisha Harris and Damon talk about her review of the movie, The Little Mermaid
10:25 Aisha unpacks what it’s like being critiqued as a critic
19:10 Aisha Favorite Music Artist
21:50 Aisha Favorite TV Shows
36:20 Damon Hates that everyone is off for the Juneteenth holiday
38:30 Author, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah joins Dear Damon to give advice for writers struggling to write about sex
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week on Stuck with Damon Young, Dr. Chanda Prescod Weinstein, Theoretical Physicist and Black Feminist Science and Society joins Damon for a conversation rooted in religion, science, identity and the comprehension of the universe around us. Then in Dear Damon, author Joseph Earl Thomas and Damon consider a listener's aversion to driving while black.
Episode chapter timestamps:
0:33 Are We Living in a Simulation?
5:47 Spirituality vs Astrophysics
13:29 Unorthodox Judaism Origin Stories
19:00 Where does the universe go when we close our eyes?
33:29 Damon Hates Small Talk
36:20 Dear Damon: Author Joseph Thomas Earl helps Damon advise a listener who's fed up with driving while Black
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Vice News reporter Alzo Slade joins Damon to discuss how and why buying — or even renting — a home can be so hard for Black people in this country. Then, political analyst Malaika Jabali makes her Dear Damon debut to help Damon break down and assess what “chivalry” actually means in 2023.
(00:40) Introduction
(01:47) Alzo Slade, correspondent for VICE News, joins Damon to discuss the barriers to getting housing in America.
(30:11) Damon Hates
(33:06) Dear Damon: Malaika Jabali, Senior News and Politics Editor at Essence Magazine, helps Damon answer a listener's question about chivalry.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week, comedian W. Kamau Bell joins Damon to discuss whether some of their past work would fly in today's media landscape, and the importance for artists of all varieties to constantly evolve with the changing times. Then, on Dear Damon, poet Camonghne Felix helps Damon advise a white person who wants to explore the pros and cons of using darker skinned emojis to connect with their Black coworkers.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Rapper-turned-marijuana mogul Wiz Khalifa joins Damon in a conversation spanning parenthood, Pittsburgh, and the changing weed business. Plus, Damon and Wiz counsel a young writer about safely (and effectively) working substances into the creative process.
00:00 - introduction
1:56 - Wiz Khalifa and Damon on the role of Pittsburgh in their stories. Plus, Wiz's weed business.
16:25 - Wiz gets into fitness, inspiration, discipline, self-worth, and more weed.
28:02 - Damon Hates
31:40 - Dear Damon
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Poet and educator Major Jackson talks about artificial intelligence’s influence on the future of creative writing. On Dear Damon, visual artist Baseera Khan helps Damon unpack a listener’s consternation over a social poll that challenged their perception of sexual identity and relationship dynamics.
(00:00) Introduction
(01:33) Damon and poet, Major Jackson talk about whether or not A.I. can replace writers
(34:17) Damon Hates: Damon doesn't know where to seek revenge
(40:04) Dear Damon with visual artist, Baseera Khan on modern day relationship woes
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week on Stuck with Damon Young, "TheGrio" author Panama Jackson debates Damon on the validity of the general public's social media reactions and efforts to align themselves closer to tragedy and celebrations that dominate mainstream pop culture. Then, on Dear Damon, Simone Polanen, host of the "Not Past It" podcast, assists Damon in advising a woman torn on how to navigate her young child's hair journey; to cut or not to cut.
(00:00) Introduction
(01:54) Panama Jackson and Damon dive into how we stay socially relevant by posting about celebrities
(25:41) Damon Hates
(28:22) Dear Damon: Simone Polanen, host of the Spotify Original podcast, Not Past It joins Damon to answer a listener's question about her child's hair
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week on Stuck, Ira Madison III joins Damon to have a conversation about the "magical negros" trope, and consider some of the most well-known examples from the real and fictional worlds. Then, in Dear Damon, Shamira Ibrahim returns to Stuck to help Damon advise a woman whose husband has developed a problematic traveling habit.
Send your questions, confessions and/or conundrums in for consideration to be responded to on the podcast at deardamon@crooked.com.
(00:00) Introduction
(01:47) Ira Madison III and Damon talk about the most magical negroes throughout history
(28:36) Damon Hates that leaving Twitter is trendy now
(30:25) Dear Damon this week with writer Shamira Ibrahim, answers a listener's question about asking about a stranger their ethnic background
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this week's episode of Stuck with Damon Young, author and MacArthur genius Kiese Laymon joins Damon to discuss the ousting and reinstatement of Tennessee representative Justin Pearson in reaction to his gun lobbying efforts, and then get into his MLK style code-switching when speaking. Writer and host Baratunde Thurston joins Damon for dear Damon to discuss whether sliding into one's Linkedin DMs is a professional no-no.
Send your questions, confessions and/or conundrums in for consideration to be responded to on the podcast at deardamon@crooked.com.
(00:00) Introduction
(02:12) Damon and Kiese discuss code-switching and state representative Justin Pearson
(37:53) Damon Hates: Damon doesn't get high
(39:57) Dear Damon with author Baratunde Thurston
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week on Stuck with Damon Young, A.V. Rockwell, writer and director of the Sundance award winning "A Thousand and One" breaks down her inspirations for the film and its connections to her own experience growing up in New York City. Ted Lasso's Kola Bokinni then joins Damon to consider when a "parent's partner" becomes a "step-parent."
Send your questions, confessions and/or conundrums in for consideration to be responded to on the podcast at deardamon@crooked.com.
In this episode we cover:
(00:00) Introduction
(01:49) Damon and A.V. Rockwell discuss the process of writing a story that reflects the authenticity of her New York upbringing.
(17:20) Teyana Taylor's performance as Inez in the film, "A Thousand and One"
(39:09) Damon Hates: The start of his loc journey
(36:19) An etiquette themed Dear Damon with Kola Bokinni
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week on Stuck with Damon Young, Yamiche Alcindor joins Damon to discuss the battle for slavery reparations in the United States. From history, to current events, they delve into the argument in favor of reparations and the best way to compensate the descendants of slaves for the labor of their ancestors. Then, on Dear Damon, Boston University professor Saida Grundy helps Damon advise a listener who is a descendant of slave owners who wants to give back to the black community.
Send your questions, confessions and/or conundrums in for consideration to be responded to on the podcast at deardamon@crooked.com.
In this episode, we cover:
(00:00) Introduction
(03:32) Damon discusses a 2014 conversation about Ta-Nehisi Coates article that argues for reparations
(14:00) Bruce's Beach reparations situation discussion
(29:27) Damon Hates: People who stare while his kids have a meltdown
(32:28) A reparations themed Dear Damon with Saida Grundy
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week Damon is joined by author Kara Brown, who’s a writer and supervising producer on the new Amazon Prime horror series "Swarm." They pick apart what it means and what it’s like to write for a series with a black female lead.
In the latest edition of "Dear Damon," New York Times bestselling author Bassey Ikpi joins Damon to help a listener dealing with the challenges that come with being in an interracial marriage.
Send your questions, confessions and/or conundrums in for consideration to be responded to on the podcast at deardamon@crooked.com.
--
In this episode, we cover:
(00:00) Intro
(02:54) Damon and writer Kara Brown discuss the etymology of the term “Stan” and parasocial relationships
(10:17) Billie Eilish and Dominique Fishback performances in the Amazon Prime series, Swarm
(29:40) The role of a TV Supervising Producer
(36:52) Damon Hates: Speed Limits
(40:50) Dear Damon: Damon & writer Bassey Ikpi discuss the intricacies of interracial relationships
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On the heels of a viral interview around wokeness, Simone Polanen, host of the podcast Not Past It, joins Damon to talk about the history of the word and how we code language that describes Black people, spaces and experiences.
Later, Van Lathan & Rachel Lindsay of the Higher Learning podcast help Damon tackle the age old question of airplane seat etiquette. If you didn’t pay… should you have a say?
Send your questions, confessions and/or conundrums in for consideration to be responded to on the podcast at deardamon@crooked.com.
In this episode, we cover:
(00:00) Introduction
(02:07) Damon and host of Not Past It, Simone Polanen, discuss their introduction to and relationship with the term “woke”
(08:34) History and evolution of “woke”
(28:23) Damon Hates: His last dunk
(31:05) Damon and Higher Learning hosts Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay talk airplane etiquette
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Pastor and writer Dante Stewart and Damon discuss the changing face of black male masculinity.
Then author Lorraine Avila joins the podcast to tackle the question of how much one should allow astrology to guide their lives.
Send your questions, confessions and/or conundrums in for consideration to be responded to on the podcast at deardamon@crooked.com.
--
In this episode, we cover:
(0:00) Introduction
(01:58) Damon & writer Dante Stewart recap the tender Academy Awards moment between Michael B. Jordan, Jonathan Major and Angela Bassett and what it says about black masculinity
(26:05) Ja Morant and the relationship between grace and accountability
(40:21) Damon Hates: Coffee FOMO
(42:28) Damon & author Lorraine Avila discuss the role of astrology in decision-making
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week on Stuck, Damon follows the ecological disaster taking place in East Palestine, Ohio. He's joined by fellow Pittsburgher, Congresswoman Summer Lee to talk about environmental racism and the ways it's manifested itself in Pittsburgh area historically.
Then writer Aisha Harris joins Damon to talk jokes- specifically which jokes are ok to tell and which ones are better left unsaid.
Send your questions, confessions and/or conundrums in for consideration to be responded to on the podcast at deardamon@crooked.com.
--
In this episode, we cover:
(00:00) Intro
(02:40) Damon & Congresswoman Summer Lee discuss environmental racism
(30:14) Growing up online
(33:00) Damon Hates: Lack of masks for bearded men
(35:27) Damon & Aisha Harris discuss the evolving rules of comedy
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The athletic director of Albany State University, a Georgia-based HBCU, is resigning after offering a scholarship to a white football player who said the n-word on video.
Award-winning author Deesha Philyaw joins Damon for a conversation to talk about the n-word, how they both learned how to use the n-word to use it, and how they use it today.
Then, writer and podcast host Panama Jackson, comes on to answer some uncomfortable truths around interracial relationships.
Send your questions, confessions and/or conundrums in for consideration to be responded to on the podcast at deardamon@crooked.com.
--
In this episode, we cover:
(00:00) Intro
(02:30) Damon and Deesha Philyaw discuss rules of using “N-Word”
(38:23) Damon Hates: Inability to choose the order in which body parts give way
(40:31) Damon and Panama Jackson advise a mother on how to avoid scaring her son's black girlfriend away
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The first weeks of 2023 have been rife with gun violence. In response, Bomani Jones, host of Game Theory on HBO Max, comes onto Stuck with Damon Young for a conversation about the relationship between guns and the black community.
Then, cultural critic Shamira Ibrahim and Damon team up for an advice segment reacting to whether Mac McClung's NBA Slam Dunk Contest victory is a black eye on black history month.
Send your questions, confessions and/or conundrums in for consideration to be responded to on the podcast at deardamon@crooked.com.
--
In this episode, we cover:
(00:00) Intro
(02:36) Damon and Bomani Jones discuss their opinions on gun ownership
(20:57) Damon Hates: white people using "crack" as a colloquialism
(23:14) Damon and Shamira Ibrahim discuss Mac McClung winning the NBA Slam Dunk Contest during Black History Month
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The second season of Stuck with Damon Young kicks off with a conversation ripped straight out of the sports headlines. The dying embers of the first ever all-black quarterback Super Bowl matchup are still sizzling, and NBA All Star weekend is at centerstage.
Film maker Malcolm D. Lee joins Damon to recount the big game and discuss how the Brooklyn Nets serve as a living illustration of gentrification in New York City.
Damon is also joined by author and TV personality Elaine Welteroth. Together, they give advice to a person trying to figure out for themselves whether marriage is the only outcome for love.
Send your questions, confessions and/or conundrums in for consideration to be responded to on the podcast at deardamon@crooked.com.
--
In this episode, we cover:
(00:00) Welcome Back Intro
(03:01) Malcolm Lee and Damon recap the Super Bowl
(07:06) Brooklyn Nets roster
(14:16) Signs of gentrification
(19:00) The relationship between black art and mainstream critical validation
(30:58) Damon Hates: cops are terrible drivers
(33:17) Damon and Elaine Welteroth give relationship advice
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Award-winning author Damon Young is joined by the brightest, weirdest, and blackest writers, comedians, and critics he knows to explore the hilarious and hideous absurdity of human behavior. This season, Damon moves away from the friction between self consciousness and social consciousness, setting his sights on the world around him (And still some of that pesky friction.).
Season two of Stuck with Damon Young is a Spotify original podcast from Gimlet and Crooked Media. New episodes drop every Thursday.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Damon talks to Jay Ellis and Robert Jones Jr. about our bodies, and why men are so reluctant to admit to experiencing body shame.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Damon gets inside of grief, with Hanif Abdurraqib and Imani Perry, and tries to understand what it does when it’s inside of us.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Damon unpacks what it means to be truly accountable, publicly and privately, with Marc Lamont Hill and Kara Brown.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Damon unpacks the gap between our ideal political selves and our actual selves with Jamilah Lemieux and Shamira Ibrahim.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Damon talks to Kiese Laymon and Dr. Joy Harden-Bradford about why we all need therapy.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Damon explores whether our personas online and in person are collapsing into each other with Jemele Hill, Jenee Desmond Harris, and Joel Anderson.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Damon unpacks the whiplash of new money with Samantha Irby and Mehrsa Baradaran.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Comments
Top Podcasts
The Best New Mark Levin Podcast Right Now - March 2025The Best New VINCE Podcast Right Now - March 2025The Best New Joe Rogan Experience Podcast Right Now - March 2025The Best New Sports Podcast Right Now - March 2025The Best New Business Podcast Right Now - March 2025The Best New News Podcast Right Now - March 2025The Best New Comedy Podcast Right Now - March 2025The Best New True Crime Podcast Right Now - March 2025
Download from Google Play
Download from App Store
United States