Highly Melanated Podcast

About Highly Melanated Podcast

Hosted by PJ, Blair & Red A safe space for you to enjoy every bit of your melanin no matter how "melanated" you are in skin tone, we are ALL Highly Melanated.Come enjoy funny and dynamic conversations that people of color face on a day to day basis with various topics such as loving ourselves, knowing who we are as a people and uplifting each other with a mix of class and rachetness (CLATCHETNESS)

Publisher

Highly Melanated Podcast

Category

comedy · health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

26 Apr 2018

Latest episode

11 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

6 of 180 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   11 Jul 2026

   Who Decides What Black Culture Sounds Like

   We argue about “song of the summer” rap because it can be fun and still shape how people see Black life. We want more balance so our community, especially our youth, gets room to be whole without letting the algorithm define us. • summer heat check-in and what it does to energy and mood • money talk and the Apple billing “cult” problem • missing Pride and showing up while sick and overheated • the question of where we want to go and what we want to see this summer&nbsp...

2. 

   29 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Grassroots Against The Machine w. Kyle Little

   Host [Host Name] interviews Kyle Little, a small business owner and adjunct professor, about building a grassroots congressional campaign without party support or big donors.

3. 

   14 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Mental Health Check-In We Can't Avoid

   We start with hilarious travel talk and end up doing the kind of honest mental health check-in many of us keep putting off. We name what’s heavy, what helps us cope, and what we’re proud of surviving right now without pretending everything is fine. • Spirit Airlines shutdown reactions and what budget travel stress looks like • Frontier flight horror stories and why “cheap” can feel expensive • big family moments and the pressure of showing up • guilty pleasures as real...

Inside a recent episode

Grassroots Against The Machine w. Kyle Little

Published 29 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] honestly think the biggest hurdle was fundraising that was the biggest and because i wanted to you know i'm a different type of person than like your average politician you know like a lot of these politicians make i mean you know like they raise their money to send out mailers or they they raise their money to do you know just calling big donors to uh get billboards and things like that they start lobbying Yeah. I always wanted to like even with the money that I did fundraise, I wanted to fundraise and have like community events. So some things that I wanted to do during this campaign, I wasn't able to do because I couldn't I didn't have enough fundraising, you know. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

1,176

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

101 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 65 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

66

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

89

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