Wildest Week Ever: Wartime and WHAT is the Matter with Texas?!
Native Land Pod
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🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
On episode 121 of Native Land Pod, hosts Andrew Gillum, Angela Rye, and Bakari Sellers are joined by guest co-host Lynae Vanee, fresh off her 2026 NAACP Image Award win.
You may know Lynae as the host of The People's Brief or from her social series Parking Lot Pimpin’.
FOR YOUR SITUATIONAL AWARENESS:
- Republican Sen. Tom Tillis grilled DHS Secretary Kristi Noem during a Congressional Hearing
- Megyn Kelly pushed back on US service members being sent to war without Congressional approval
- Hanifa founder Anifa Mvuemba has paused production at Hanifa
- Disabilities when you look different: How KC Concepcion has been received compared to John Davidson
- France’s Emmanuel Macron has announced an expansion of France’s nuclear warhead arsenal
It really has been A WEEK with the Trump administration launching a rapidly escalating and expanding war against Iran, as well as some significant elections taking place in Texas, Arkansas, and North Carolina. The hosts break down the results of those elections, paying special attention to the chaos that went down in Texas.
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| 0:00.0 | Nativeland Pod is a production of IHeart Radio in partnership with Reason Choice Media. |
| 0:08.7 | Welcome home, y'all. This is episode 121 of Native Land Pod, where we give you our breakdown on all things, politics, and a little bit of culture sprinkled in every now and again. |
| 0:20.2 | I'm your host for today, Andrew Gillum, and I'm joined by my fellow co-host, the amazing, |
| 0:26.2 | incredible, talented, beautiful. |
| 0:28.1 | Thank you. Thank you so much. |
| 0:29.4 | Angela Rye. |
| 0:29.8 | Jesus Christ. |
| 0:32.2 | We're also joined today by a very, very, very, very important that VVVVVVVIP for the show, the host of Revoltz, the People's Brief. |
| 0:45.7 | Many of us fell in love with her during her sporadic social media posts, parking, lot, pimping. |
| 1:00.5 | And guess what else? Fresh off of her own 2026 n double cp image award you everybody thank you thank you all we're joined today by leney vene what's up what's |
| 1:06.7 | up everybody welcome home welcome the poet the poetess our. Unfortunately, everybody, this is a teaching moment. Everybody across the globe who files my content knows and loves me. My name does not rhyme. My name is Leney Bony. And that's okay. It's phonetic. Everything's fine. Do you know what? Nobody has told me that. It's in the script, but keep going. I did. No, but in all the time. But it's also too, it's also, it's also too ease, though. So, I mean, that would. Yeah, but phonetically, it's too long. You know, black people do have Renee's and it's got too easy sometimes. I can understand the confusion, but it does. There's no accent on mine. Renee's for need. And I did take French for four years in high school. |
| 1:47.8 | Like me? has got too easy sometimes. I can understand the confusion, but it does say. There's no accent on my eyes. |
| 1:45.0 | Renee's for me. |
| 2:00.2 | And I did take French for four years in high school and four in college. So I think I try to make it. Let's just, let's just reintroduce on the last part. But he did. No, but he went to FAM. We should keep that so that everybody knows that four years. Okay. I should hold that clip with that brother running from family. |
| 2:01.6 | Out of respect for all of our |
| 2:02.9 | awesome, incredible listeners. Four years. Okay. I should hold that clip with that brother running from family. |
| 2:01.6 | I love respect for all of our awesome, incredible listeners. |
| 2:05.0 | I know you all's heads have been on a swivel. |
| 2:07.7 | As Donald Trump continues his march to have all of us on some kind of anxiety prescription medication. |
| 2:14.6 | But the devil is a liar. |
| 2:16.5 | There's a lot going on in the world. We're going |
| 2:18.1 | to do our very best to cover as many of these important topics as we possibly can. I will go |
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