Be A Kid

Bryce talks to two parents about what young people can teach us about being more human.This week’s Same Same Different features Ebonee West and Jodie Patterson, two moms whose own thinking about identity has been influenced by the children in their lives. Ebonee is a former small business owner, an…

Write Your Own Narrative

Our guests this week talk about how they chose to embrace their identities and see them as positive and empowering.  Guests: As a college student, Ernesto Mireles helped pressure Michigan State University to establish a Chicano Studies program. He now teaches at Prescott College in Arizona, wher…

Find Your People

This week’s episode is all about community: what it means to belong to one, and why it’s important for us to find our people.  Guests: Regina H. Boone is a photojournalist The Richmond Free Press, the newspaper her family founded and runs. Prior to that she was at The Detroit Free Press for 13 ye…

Flip The Script

Our guests talk about fat liberation, black abundance, and all the ways they've flipped the script on what society thinks they should be based on how they look, sound and identify.  Guests: Kiese Laymon is the author of the novel Long Division; a collection of essays, How to Slowly Kill Yourself …

Read The Room

We talk about how, when, and whether to confront people who "other" us, and the calculus that goes into that decision. Bryce Huffman talks to Austin Channing Brown, the author of I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, and Sydney James Harcourt, an actor, singer and dancer. Hi…

Introducing Same Same Different

Host Bryce Huffman and his guests will explore identity and how to survive “otherness” with our full humanity and sanity intact. Same Same Different offers insights on how to be a better, more empathetic friend, family member, colleague, and human in the world.