Vibe Check

By: Stitcher & Saeed Jones Zach Stafford and Sam Sanders
  • Summary

  • A weekly podcast where Sam Sanders, Saeed Jones, and Zach Stafford make sense of what’s going on in news and culture – and how it all feels. Vibe Check is your favorite group chat, come to life.
    Stitcher & Saeed Jones, Zach Stafford, and Sam Sanders
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Episodes
  • Are You a Good Witch, or a Bad Witch?
    Nov 20 2024

    On this episode of Vibe Check, Sam, Saeed and Zach discuss Trump’s controversial cabinet appointments. Then, they talk about the press tour for the new movie, Wicked. Plus, a few recommendations to keep your vibe right.

    We want to hear from you! Email us at vibecheck@stitcher.com, and keep in touch with us on Instagram @vibecheck_pod.

    You can now get direct access to the group chat! Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/vibecheck.

    Vibe Check listeners can now get a free three month trial to the SiriusXM app by going to siriusxm.com/vibecheck.

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    RECOMMENDATIONS:

    SAM: Sometimes by Bilal

    SAEED: “Missed Time” by Ha Jin

    ZACH: The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell

    Merch: www.podswag.com/vibecheck

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    53 mins
  • Democracy TBD
    Nov 13 2024

    On this episode of Vibe Check, Sam, Saeed and Zach talk about the aftermath of the election, what to expect moving forward, and what they’re doing to take care of themselves. Plus, a few recommendations to keep your vibe right.

    We want to hear from you! Email us at vibecheck@stitcher.com, and keep in touch with us on Instagram @vibecheck_pod.

    You can now get direct access to the group chat! Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/vibecheck.

    Vibe Check listeners can now get a free three month trial to the SiriusXM app by going to siriusxm.com/vibecheck.

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    RECOMMENDATIONS:

    SAM: Dance Yourself Clean (Song) and Sound of Silver (Album) by LCD Soundsystem

    ZACH: Notting Hill and Zach’s guest appearance on Love To See It

    SAEED:

    My Project 2025

    by Saeed Jones

    After Maggie Smith

    I am having more sex.

    I am louder when I have sex.

    I am asking more questions.

    I am asking questions like “why?”

    and “what happened to make you feel

    that way?” and “do you feel safe here?”

    and “what can I do to help you feel safe

    here?” I know I like to talk; I love the sound

    of my own voice, but I’m going to shut up

    and listen more. Clearly, I haven’t heard

    all that’s been said. I am protecting myself.

    I am pulling up the drawbridge. I’m asking

    Black women to pull up the drawbridge.

    I’m Whitney Houston in the last verse

    of “It’s Not Right, but It’s Okay.” I’m

    paying my light bill and taking care

    of my babies. I’m in the bath tub

    covered in bubbles and surrounded

    with candles and good wine and I wish

    Frank Ocean or Bill Withers or Frank Ocean

    and Bill Withers were in the bathtub

    with me but their voices will do. I am

    pulling the voices of people I desire

    and love and trust and worry over

    into me. I am inviting them into the bright

    dark of my soul. I am gonna live forever

    because all the money I touch looks at me

    and says e pluribus unum, out of many,

    one. I am the water Jesus drank in the desert.

    I am god talking to herself. I am evicting

    America from my body and making room

    in the borders of my black bad bitch body

    for everyone I was sent into this life

    to love loudly.

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    53 mins
  • One Hell of a Contradiction
    Nov 6 2024

    On this episode of Vibe Check, Sam, Saeed and Zach share another installment of their modern scriptures, as they talk about works of art, literature, and pop culture that they turn to for inspiration.

    We want to hear from you! Email us at vibecheck@stitcher.com, and keep in touch with us on Instagram @vibecheck_pod.

    You can now get direct access to the group chat! Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/vibecheck.

    Vibe Check listeners can now get a free three month trial to the SiriusXM app by going to siriusxm.com/vibecheck.

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    MODERN SCRIPTURES:

    SAM

    • JP Brammer - Hola Papi
    • Hanif - A Little Devil In America

    SAEED

    • “Ode to My Blackness” by Evie Shockley (The New Black – 2011)
    • “Ode to My Whiteness” by Sharon Olds (Odes – 2016)

    ZACH

    • “Kiss of Life” by Sade
    • Steel Magnolias (1989)

    Zach’s Guest DJ Song List

    Sam’s Guest DJ Song List

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    48 mins

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