Lunchbreak Podcast
Join the congenial pragmatist (Stew) and the misanthropic altruist bestie (Zan) as they sit together at lunch to discuss life as “successful” educated Black men on the other side of free and reduced lunch…and the softer side of 30.
Episodes
24 episodes
Episode 27 | A Friend in Need
Ahead of the holidays, Stew and Zan discuss the male loneliness epidemic and being there for your friends in the context of a purported “friendship recession” over the last 30 years. This is where we’d put a hotline number if this ...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:07:04
Episode 26 | Akwaaba
You know how some episodes of your favorite TV show aren’t as robust as others but it bridges the storyline? This is one of those perhaps. We recap 2 events over the last 4 weeks, celebrating 15 years of adulthood, in one hour. Next...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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1:04:50
Episode 25 | 1,000 Bottles of Baby Formula
“You’re born looking like your parents but you die looking like your decisions.” Recorded live from Decatur, GA, Stew and Zan talk about dapping people with wet hands, the value of mentoring, balancing your emotional checkbook, the role...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:02:56
Episode 24 | Ecclesiastes 3 Is Just a Construct?
In 2019, Stewart was interviewed by the New York Times and in the interview, he talked about his concept of time. In 2024 we travel back to the future and...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:26:22
Episode 23 | Eating Gabagool with Rene
Zan’s former work bestie turned real-life buddy, Rene, joins live from Dallas to talk travel stories, corporate activism, multiculturalism, Sopranos, and best/worst eats. Including real-life stories about a high school lunchroom in ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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55:40
Episode 22 | 9AM in Dallas
10 episodes ago we turned the lunchroom into the visitation room as Riyan joined us via phone from a Maryland state correctional facility, ahead...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:05:15
Episode 21 | Detroit: The Musical
Season 2 kicks off with our new format and our first woman guest, Candace P., affectionately known as Turmeric (1/2 of the Spice Rack). The Lunchbreakers sit with Candace and draft the stage play to the wildest musical you’ve ever ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:08:21
Episode 20 | Somebody’s Daddy
The Lunchbreakers swipe their meal plan for the final time this season. Today’s table topic is all about examples of fatherhood they’ve seen in their lives. Surrogates, absentees, and stand-ins. The whole gamut is covered.Th...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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1:05:57
Episode 19 | Kentucky Fried Faith
Welcome to Sunday brunch with Stew and Zan. It’s the after-church meal.Some of you may have grown up eating it in the church basement. Some of you may have had it at Shoney’s. Some of you may know nothing about Black church, and this epi...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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1:05:05
Episode 18 | Origins of the Hustle
The Lunchbreakers talk about where, when, how and from whom they learned to market a product to a customer. Spoiler alert: New York plays a major part, and so does Corporate America. Zan cried on air, and there's lot...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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1:01:29
Episode 17 | Good Seed, Better Soil
The Lunchbreakers take it back to their roots, by going to lunch with their grandmas (metaphorically). They talk about how their walk was shaped by the footsteps laid two generations above them. This one is a blast from the past, shaping ...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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57:47
Episode 16 | Corporate as a Second Language (CSL)
The Lunchbreakers are in night school, taking Corporate as a Second Language (CSL) classes. This episode was recorded at the end of the work day on a Monday. Everyone hates Mondays. Imagine what it’s like to enter a Monday and know you have to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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1:01:01
Episode 15 | A High School Hip Hopera
The Lunchbreakers fire up the Lunchroom Time Machine and revisit their high school days, connecting the experiences of adolescence to the behaviors of their adulthood…with a couple of pit stops at points of awkward embarrassment along the way.&...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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1:09:55
Episode 14 | The Self Care Playlist
There’s lots of paraffin wax and zero Bigen.The Lunchbreakers take you from the LunchRoom to the meditation room and then eventually to the barbershop. It’s like you’re joining us for a spa day 🧘🏾♂️💆🏾♂️💈We always said we’...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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1:02:20
Episode 13 | Message to My Inner (Only) Child
Two only children walk into a pod and come out as bestest bros.The Lunchbreakers give an update on Riyan, transitioning into a discussion about growing up as an only child and how it has framed friendship and brotherhood for them as adul...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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1:05:21
Episode 12 | Letter to a Maryland State Correctional Facility
“It was like God sent me that letter.”-Riyan at the 26:09 mark. The Lunchroom officially became the visitation room as the guys sat down with Riyan to discuss the last 17 years he’s spent in a max security state penitenti...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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1:00:27
Episode 11 | The Prison Ministry
The Lunchbreakers take the audience from the lunchroom to the visitation room.At the time of recording the guys were awaiting a call in from a guest who is currently incarcerated. Unfortunately, he was unable to make the call because he was...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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1:05:48
Episode 10 | Financial STEWardship
Money Mike (@paprika_papi) joins us at the lunch table as The Lunchbreakers talk about taking care of your chicken after growing up and realizing fear-based mindsets were for the bird...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:05:15
Episode 9 | I’m Ghana Git You Sucka
Did you know Stew was African? 🇬🇭The Lunchbreakers talk about Stew’s heritage/culture and how it’s been woven into their friendship. Give me a Diet Diaspora on the rocks. Make it a double 🧃🧃TopicsYacht R...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:01:19
Episode 8 | An Oral History of the Blacks
Q: Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the lunchroom? A: Where else are they going to learn about themselves? The Lunchbreakers discuss their not so critical race theories. It’s like Snapple facts, but inste...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:09:20
Episode 7 | Home Is Where The House Shoe Is
“LBP, welcome to my crib.”On this edition of LBP Cribs©️, The Lunchbreakers talk about Black homeownership and their journey to it. Stew hates the word “journey” btw. Perhaps it’s a voyage. These boys want to be Odysseus soooo bad. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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49:17
Episode 6 | Timmy Fell into the 5 Wells, Lassie!
We’re taking it back to the place where Stew and Zan first broke bread together during lunch: Chivers Hall, the Morehouse Col...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:07:28