Hey there. Hi there. Hold there. Welcome to fan time.

The podcast. Okay. The podcast for all those complex and

complicated conversations about the great areas in our lives.

I'm entertainment editor and journalist and author,

Treval Anderson. And I am picking out my outfit for the war,

Jared Hill coming up. We have a really interesting.

I'm just so anxious about everything happening in the world right now.

Coming up on the show, we're going to be talking to Garrett Kennedy,

author of the new book, and we almost have it all in defense of Whitney Houston.

It's a very interesting take on the life of Whitney Houston.

And it's really, really fantastic.

Eric's a friend of the show. And so we'll be talking to him in just a couple of

moments. But first, we've hinted at it. Treval just kind of hinted at it as well.

In their intro, we've teased at it, complained about it, and otherwise alluded to it.

And now we can finally tell you all a little something that's happening

with the two of us. About six years ago, I started doing the social media post.

I hashtagged as historically black phrases,

taking things that black folks say all the time and explaining them like

a dictionary would kind of do it and get semi-academicly, semi-commetically.

And the one that I really loved the most was the the term fuck boy.

I described it as a noun, a person usually male, but not exclusively, who gets

ambiguously romantically involved, but is generally inconsiderate of your feelings,

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