Ratchet & Respectable

Demetria L. Lucas & Studio71

  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    Find Something Safe To Do
    The Blacksonian under siege; America still hasn't brought that man back from El Salvador; The Handmaid's Tale is (finally) back; Issa Rae being black and Bourgeoise is a problem?; Demi dishes with author-actress, Internet and IRL phenomenon Franchesca Ramsey about face-eating leopards, conquering the Internet for neatly two decades and going viral when you least expect it (over and over and over)

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    9 April 2025, 6:10 am
  • 1 hour 23 minutes
    A (Marathon) Moral Moment

    Demi does “Dining with Bevy”; Black Lives Matter at The Apollo; The Blacksonian under attack; Cory Booker makes good trouble; the US admits it sent the wrong person to El Salvador; Jasmine Crockett under fire — again; Charles the Great the God covers Variety; Denzel breaks records on Broadway; Tamron Hall hits 1000 episodes; Cardi is never releasing a new album (LOL); the WHCA cancels on Amber Ruffin; Did The Breakfast Club play us?; MF Wee-bey; A Different World re-boot: all the A-List Black actors are in one documentary


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    2 April 2025, 2:23 pm
  • 1 hour 22 minutes
    Classified: The Worst Group Chat Ever
    The Breakfast Club crashes out (not The Loren tho); Jonathan Majors embarks on a bizarre press tour (including Sherri's tears) and his comeback film bombs at the box office; the absolute disaster of high-ranking government officials adding The Atlantic EIC to Signal; Demi chats with Dr. Raquel Martin about burning the cape, the threat of Black joy; and non-melanated people FA and FO

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    26 March 2025, 4:58 am
  • 1 hour 17 minutes
    Aggressed: The Jonathan Majors Saga
    UMG's lawyers go gully in a motion to dismiss Drake's lawsuit; The Hollywood Reporter wonders if Jonathan Majors can mount a comeback; Rolling Stone swiftly responds (Answer: no); Majors and Meagan Good marry in a very private ceremony... the day after he's heard on audio admitting to strangling his ex (WTF, Meagan, WTF?)

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    19 March 2025, 4:06 am
  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    Le Creuset
    Roberta Flack and Angie Stone go to see The King; Bubblewrap Gladys Knight; Michelle Obama has a new podcast; Wendy Williams heads to The View; Meghan Sussex’s cookware causes an existential crisis among a, ahem, particular segment; Gabrielle Union reverses her 50/50 stance; Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett accused of “cosplaying a gangster?”; Megan Thee Stallion makes fight music? (No.); Doechii is living her best damn life; Straight men, including DDG, crash out… again. 

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    12 March 2025, 4:00 am
  • 1 hour 22 minutes
    Disruptors
    Changes have come to Ratchet & Respectable; Zoe Saldaña is a PR crisis, and other thoughts on the Oscars; Where is the stand-alone Quincy Jones tribute?; That Jasmine Crockett Tik Tok video; Sherri Shepherd takes issue with Niece Meg’s boobs-out dress; Social Impact Leader and debut Author Alencia Johnson chats with Demi about flipping tables like Jesus, making good trouble in your life and failing forward 

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    7 March 2025, 11:31 pm
  • 31 minutes 8 seconds
    Toby

    Voletta Wallace goes to see The King; The Grande Dame heads to jail; trans folk are being removed from the military; Don Lemon  defends his husband from Megyn Kelly’s husband’s prying eyes; Black people doing awards season in LA;  all the most famous Black people are in one documentary; Gayle King heads to space; Big Bezos destroys WaPo; Eric Adams is the new Tyrese.


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    28 February 2025, 11:20 pm
  • 47 minutes 9 seconds
    Crash Out

    Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, and Don the Lemon have run out of f—s; Paradise is the best show on “TV” (by far); federal workers are having the worst month (and change) ever; Demi chats with Niema Jordan, producer of Eyes on the Prize III (out now).


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    26 February 2025, 3:47 am
  • 32 minutes 22 seconds
    Thank you, Joy

    A Belle back in Brooklyn (and Jersey); A$AP Rocky is Not Guilty; Eric Adams (mis)quotes Hitler; Joy Reid out at MSNBC; the Eric Adams saga still continues; RIP Roberta Flack.

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    24 February 2025, 6:54 pm
  • 32 minutes 53 seconds
    Something of Substance

    Jay Z’s assault case is dismissed, and he sues the lawyer that sued him, and people are mad; Michael B Jordan on the cover of GQ; NY politics crashes out over Eric Adams; Kofi Siriboe doesn’t believe in monogamy; Paradise is the best thing on TV 


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    18 February 2025, 6:18 pm
  • 54 minutes 16 seconds
    The Ancestral Plane

    America fails on multiple fronts; NY Times Bestselling author Jonathan Eig stops by to chat about “King”, (our official unofficial book club pick).


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    14 February 2025, 12:00 am
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