Happy holidays, Scorekeepers! 2025 was quite the rollercoaster, wasn't it? It had some high highs and some very low lows, so for this episode we're taking a look back and taking stock of the year that was. First, we'll chat about the news and events that affected us individually and collectively. Then, we'll take a look at the culture that shaped 2025, both the stuff we loved and the stuff we didn't love quite as much. (And, yes, that means, another conversation about Sinners! We can't get enough!). Plus, our last PBJ for the year! Let's do it to it!

Also, after this, we're going to be taking a little break to rest and get all refreshed and rejuvenated for the new year. We hope you have a wonderful holiday season and we can't wait to talk to you again this January! xo

Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds

Producer: Rocky Jones

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Good day, Scorekeepers! It's a very special week! Why? It's Rocky and Paige's birthdays! And it's also time for another episode of your favorite podcast, THE SCORE! On this edition, we're recapping episode 2 of our new fave, Carnival Catwalk. "Pan Melody Couture," finds the designers teaming up to create fashions inspired by the steel pan. Join us as we dissect every bead and bauble and take the mansplaining bullies down a peg. Then, as always, we end with a supersized edition of Pure Black Joy. Let's do it to it!

Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds

Producer: Rocky Jones

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Links

Watch Carnival Catwalk along with us: Peacock

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Oh my goodness, Scorekeepers! We're back with another episode of your favorite podcast, THE SCORE! This week, we chat through some of the big news items of the past few weeks. First, we get grossed out by the Epstein emails, but then we cleanse our palates with a little update on House of Masks. Lee then gives us some hope about this year's Grammy nominations, followed, of course, by a little Sinners-flavored Pure Black Joy! Let's do it to it, y'all!

Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds

Producer: Rocky Jones

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Links

Get your tickets to House of Masks (BUY NOW!)

2025 Naked Stages Artist Fellows (Website)

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New episodes of THE SCORE drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you're listening is a great way to help people find our show. Email your questions or comments to thescorepodcast2.0@gmail.com.

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Dear Scorekeepers, we've got an announcement to make. We simply couldn't finish Season 11 of RDPR. The shade stopped being fun, our eyes were starved for eleganza and we so were tired of getting on here and complaining at you. So you can imagine our delight when Lee found a little show on Peacock called Carnival Catwalk, a Project Runway-inspired competition show where 10 contestants from Trinidad and beyond create fashion inspired by Carnival! Black people, queer people and West Indian people making clothes for us to judge? Where do we sign up? So as we close the book on our RPDR era, we hope you'll join us for this new adventure. It's gonna be a party! Plus, stayed tuned our election day thoughts and a PBJ where Kayla Nicole get her well-deserved flowers, because you did that, girl! Let's do it to it, y'all!

Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds

Producer: Rocky Jones

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Links

Watch Carnival Catwalk along with us: Peacock

Get your tickets to House of Masks (BUY NOW!)

2025 Naked Stages Artist Fellows (Website)

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Hey hey, THE SCORE is now on social! Follow us @thescorepod on Instagram and Bluesky!

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Hey there, Scorekeepers! On our off weeks for the next few months, we're revisiting ART CLASS, the 12-episode series all about arts and arts education that we released last year. We hope you enjoy taking this stroll down memory lane with us!

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This episode was originally released on March 26, 2024.

Let's get straight to it, Classmates! Today on ART CLASS, we are honored to be talking with a bonafide legend! Whom you ask? How about the ambassador for New Orleans bounce music, who's also an iconic entrepreneur, and a fierce advocate for racial justice and queer rights? Yes, that's right, on this episode we will be chatting with the Queen Diva herself, BIG FREEDIA (0:13:55)!!! 🤯 And as if that weren't exciting enough, we're also bringing you the next installment of our Kinfolk series with Hannah Mayree of the Black Banjo Reclamation Project (0:42:28). In this first conversation of two, Hannah and Paige talk all about BBRP and their mission to reconnect Black people with the banjo, an incredibly important part of our musical and cultural history. All that, plus the Morning Announcements with Emile (0:39:11) and a special PB&J for all you soap opera fans (0:59:14). Take your seats, y'all, because class is in session!

Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds (Mabolé Inawale)

Guests: Big Freedia, Hannah Mayree

Contributor: Emilia Mettenbrink

Producer: Rocky Jones

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Links

Big Freedia (Website) (Instagram)

Black Banjo Reclamation Project (Website)

Hip Hop Education Center (Website)

Generations with Jonelle Allen and Vivica A. Fox

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Syllabus

Ashley N. Payne (2024), “Hip Hop, identity, & Black girlhood: how Black girls (re)construct racial and gender identity through Hip Hop”

Ashley N. Payne & Aria S. Halliday (2023), “From #HotGirlSummer to #HotNerdFall: Megan Thee Stallion, ratchet-respectability, and the Socioeducational identities of Black girls/women”

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Hello, dear Scorekeepers! On today's very special episode of THE SCORE, we celebrate an amazing milestone in the career of our very own Paige Reynolds! A few months ago, we were so thrilled to announce Paige's selection as one of Pillsbury House and Theatre's 2025 Naked Stages Artist Fellows. Well, now their performance, House of Masks, is premiering at Pillsbury House and Theatre in Minneapolis on Thursday, November 13! House of Masks invites audiences to “The Porch,” where three Black queer ancestors come out to play through the Afro-diasporic cultural tradition of masquerade. Tricksters, sirens, and aunties share stories that call us to remember what is sacred for here and now. Join us as Paige invites us behind the scenes to tell us all about the making of and inspiration behind this amazing new project and gives some pretty important advice to other young creatives embarking on a new adventure. All this, plus a tribute to the dearly departed D'Angelo and, of course, a bit of Pure Black Joy to get you through the end of the week. Let's do it to it, y'all!

And you better get your tickets to House of Masks before they sell out, or we're gonna be mad!

Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds

Producer: Rocky Jones

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Links

Get you tickets to House of Masks (BUY NOW!)

2025 Naked Stages Artist Fellows (Website)

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley Playable Games (Website)

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Morning, dear Scorekeepers! It's time for another pit stop on our journey through season 11 of RuPaul's Drag Race. This week, it's episode 7: "From Farm to Catwalk," a design challenge where the queens must take "all-natural" materials like straw, feathers, tree bark, and eggs(?) and turn them into haute couture. The results? Well, as the legendary Alyssa Edwards says, "The fantasy is... interesting!" So come for the terrible fashions and Ru's werkroom mind games, but stay for Alyssa being an absolute delight in an all-to-brief cameo. Let's do it to it, y'all!

Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds

Producer: Rocky Jones

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Links

Watch RDPR along with us: Paramount+

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Greetings, dear Scorekeepers! And congrats to the Rapture Class of 2025! "It's a Different World" couldn't be more apt for today's political climate as well as today's episode. As is now customary, we start off with a little rant about this week's Republican shenanigans, but this time it's tempered with a chat about some of the art-making we've been doing in our spare time to stay sane. And then, for years now, we've been wanting to talk about one of our favorite things, but haven't had the chance. Until now! Hopefully, you love Black 90s sitcoms as much as we do. From A Different World to Martin to Living Single to In Living Color and more, these shows had a profound affect on us as kids and really helped shaped how we saw ourselves and the world around us. Join us as we take a stroll down memory lane and chat about our favorite shows, characters and moments and why they just don't make 'em like they used to (0:27:25). Plus, of course, a super-sized PBJ, because God knows we could all use it (1:15:33). Let's do it to it, y'all!

Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds

Producer: Rocky Jones

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New episodes of THE SCORE drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you're listening is a great way to help people find our show. Email your questions or comments to thescorepodcast2.0@gmail.com.

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