I Have Some Thoughts Minisode | Love Island Star Gets Married, Boosie Continues to Have No Sense, Yung Miami's Thoughts on Marriage
Therapy for Black Girls
iHeartPodcasts and Joy Harden Bradford, Ph.D.
4.8 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to our minisode series, "I Have Some Thoughts." These short episodes are designed to contextualize the pop culture moments we're currently paying attention to through a mental health lens. Pop culture isn't just fun to chat about, it can reveal important information about how we relate, cope, and understand ourselves. Join us each Friday to hear Dr. Joy share her thoughts about the happenings of the week.
This week, we're chatting about Love Island's Jalen Brown's recent wedding, Boosie's continued displays of homophobia, and Young Miami's recent thoughts on marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:14.0 | Hey, y'all. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome back to another episode of I Have Some Thoughts, our mini-tone that it focused all on pop culture with a mental health lens. |
| 0:23.1 | So I'm excited to be joined again today by Brea, our production assistant. |
| 0:27.0 | So, Brea, what do we have on our roster today? |
| 0:30.0 | All right. |
| 0:30.8 | Lots to get into today. |
| 0:32.9 | So for our first story, we are actually going to step into the Love Island world. |
| 0:36.8 | Oh. |
| 0:38.7 | Last summer, there was a man named Jalen Brown, and he starred on Love Island USA, |
| 0:43.4 | Season 7. |
| 0:44.7 | Well, less than a year later, Jalen has announced that he is actually married. |
| 0:49.0 | So a little background on the timeline, Love Island USA Season 7 wrapped in July of 2025, |
| 0:56.2 | and then Jalen met a TikTok creator named Joya a few months later. Now, if you're not familiar with Joya, she comes from a |
| 1:01.2 | family of content creators, including her older twin sisters, Jaila, and Jenae, who's famously known as |
| 1:07.4 | Aunt Tene. Well, last week, Julia and Jalen announced that they are married, |
| 1:12.3 | and many people are wondering if the relationship moved too fast. A lot of people are also |
| 1:17.5 | pointing out the fact that Joya actually comes from a family where they actually marry pretty |
| 1:22.7 | young. I think Jailen married her husband about like three months after meeting him, and then |
| 1:28.3 | Janay was in a long-term marriage, I believe, for a few years before she announced that she |
| 1:33.8 | got divorced a couple years ago, too. So it started a broader conversation surrounding |
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