All Episodes

All of the episodes from the First Name Basis Podcast.

How to Center Indigenous Peoples During Thanksgiving

I made my “Untold Story of Thanksgiving” episode to help me — and hopefully you — understand the true, accurate…

Have y’all ever driven down the East Coast? I don’t mean to spoil the magic for you but I gotta…

To say I’m obsessed with New York Times bestselling author Joanna Ho’s novel “The Silence That Binds Us” is an…

If you’ve been around a while, you’ve heard me say it hundreds of times: Race is a social construct. Race…

Politicians need experience to do their job. This may fall under the “unpopular opinion” category to some people, but it’s…

When the team here at First Name Basis was doing the research for our recent episode “Alcatraz: An Untold Story…

One of the biggest messages we’re trying to get across with First Name Basis is that learning a person’s story…

Can you believe that Halloween is just around the corner? I know some of you super-prepared parents out there are…

Alcatraz. What comes to your mind when you hear the name of that little island off the coast of San…

My dear friends, we have been on this anti-racism journey together for 3 years, and it’s AMAZING to think about…