Welcome to Heavy Topics With Lightweights, a podcast that explores what many are thinking, but only the tipsy would say. Best friends Aja Dang and Laura Varney take happy hour to a whole new level on this weekly podcast. Expect unfiltered discussions about politics, popular culture, sex and real life struggles all by our candid hosts and their guests.
Will We Still Be In Trumps American in Season 3? with Aja & Laura
*UPDATE: we have taken down our last episode with Shana Yao. We do not want to spread any misinformation regarding COVID. Can you believe we've made it to the end of season 2? We started this season because we were in a pandemic and sadly we end this season *STILL* in a pandemic. We've talked about a wide variety of topics in season 2 but the only thing they all have in common is that the government has failed us. How doom & gloomy huh? We don't know what the world will look like when we come back for season 3 but we do know that we'll definitely still be drinking. Cheers!
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8 Jul 2020
Accepting Your Own White Supremacy with Megan Jackson
Today we are talking to our friend Megan Jackson about race relations in America. We originally wanted to speak to Megan about being in a multiracial relationship and how she's feeling raising her child in our current political climate but it quickly progressed into something so much more. We hope the horrible audio doesn't district you from this conversation because Megan is so open about accepting her own white supremacy and how she is learning from mostly Black women about the subject of racism.
SHOW NOTES:
The 1619 Project: Magazine Issue (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html), Podcast
Roots Miniseries
Color of Law: A Forgotten History Of How Our Government Segregated America (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32191706-the-color-of-law?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=1mLsl7Piqs&rank=1)by Richard Rothstein
"Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations For Other Peoples Children (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10823748-multiplication-is-for-white-people) by Lisa Delpit
Other People's Children: Culture Conflict In The Classroom (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65326.Other_People_s_Children) by Lisa Delpit
Crips and Bloods: Made In America (https://www.amazon.com/Crips-Bloods-America-Jim-Brown/dp/B001O7R74K): documentary
13th (https://www.netflix.com/title/80091741): documentary
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1 Jul 2020
Another Very Drunk Episode with Aja and Laura
The interview we had with a sheriff didn't quite work out so today we drink! Laura gets very drunk on her Arizonian vacation and Aja gets drunk trying to get to Laura level drunk. We talk about ex boyfriends, our fun party days and what our new normal is.
*trigger warning*
We do jump into the episode quite intensely with a conversation about pedophilia. Not about our personal experiences but how we've both been watching Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich documentary on Netflix. If this is a topic you're uncomfortable with, please skip forward a 10 minutes..
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