This week, Joel is joined by Kelly Hall, Executive Director for The Fairness Project to discuss her work on the issue of state ballot measures across the country. They discuss a new project that The Fairness Project is launching and broader geopolitical impacts of ballot measures, especially for progressives. Here Comes the Payne podcast is presented by PLAA Wear (pressplaa.com to learn more). Follow the show on Instagram @herecomesthepaynepod. Follow Joel on Twitter @paynedc. 

Joel talks about the recent stories and critiques about the uneven rollout of Vice President Kamala Harris, the unique challenges she faces in her role and how the Harris Vice Presidency deviates from other modern Vice Presidents. Here Comes the Payne is presented by PLAA Wear. Go to PressPLAA.com to learn more.  Follow the show on Instagram @herecomesthepaynepod and follow Joel on Twitter @paynedc.

Joel is joined by New York Daily News and Daily Beast columnist Harry Siegel to discuss the latest in a wide open New York City mayors race. They discuss the most recent televised debate, the state of the race and a retrospective on 8 years of Mayor Bill de Blasio. Here Comes the Payne is presented by PLAA Wear. Go to PressPLAA.com to learn more. Coupon Code: Payne10 for 10% off apparel.  Follow the show @herecomesthepaynepod on Instagram and follow Joel on Twitter @paynedc.

Joel is joined by author, commentator and advocate Heather McGhee, author of "The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together." Joel and Heather discuss her book, the intersection with the January 6 insurrection on the Capitol and Tim Scott's recent comments. Here Comes the Payne is presented by PLAA Wear. Go to PressPLAA.com to learn more.  Follow the show @herecomesthepaynepod on Instagram and follow Joel on Twitter @paynedc. 

For this episode, Joel is joined by SiriusXM VP of Urban Radio and the Host of Sirius XM's The Heat Channel 46, Dion Summers. They discuss the intersection of politics and pop culture, looked back at how the culture processed the Trump years and talked about how some of music's biggest names leveraged their voices more than ever in the last decade. Follow the show @herecomesthepaynepod on Instagram and Follow Joel on Twitter @paynedc. 

This week, Joel is joined by Brown University political science chair and professor of political science Wendy Schiller (his favorite professor from college!). Schiller is an expert on the U.S. Senate and she and Joel discuss the recent events of the Trump-inspired insurrection at Capitol, the history of the U.S. Senate and whether the U.S. Senate is fundamentally broken. They also discuss what may happen in the Senate in the future, specifically the future of the Senate's filibuster rule. Here Comes the Payne is presented by Hip-Politics Network. Follow the show on Instagram @herecomesthepaynepod. Follow Joel on Twitter @paynedc.

This week, Joel is joined by a former Senate colleague and a good friend, Erin Skinner Cochran. Erin is the founder of Iced Coffee, Please and former Director of New Media for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Joel and Erin discussed the latest transition news from President-elect Biden and what to expect from the Biden presidency and his first 100 days. Here Comes the Payne is presented by Hip-Politics Network. Follow the show @herecomesthepaynepod. Follow Joel on Twitter @paynedc. 

This week, Joel gives his take on the results from the election, most notably, Joe Biden's election as the 46th President of the United States. What happened, why it happened and what it means. Also, Joel talks to Meg Murray of Association of Community Affiliated Plans (ACAP) about the issue of Medicaid and the centrality that this issue took in the waning days of the campaign season. Here Comes the Payne podcast is presented by Hip-Politics Network. Follow the show on instagram @herecomesthepaynepod. Follow Joel on Twitter @paynedc. 

On this special weekend episode of the podcast, Joel is joined by Washington Post Outlook Editor, David Swerdlick, to discuss the controversy surrounding Ice Cube and his counsel to the Trump campaign. Joel and David talk about the macro politics of black celebrities injected into politics in the era of Trump and Trump's targeting of young black men for the 2020 general election. Here Comes the Payne is presented by Hip-Politics Network. Follow the show on Instagram @herecomesthepaynepod. Follow Joel on Twitter @paynedc.

On this episode, Joel nerds out with former Senate staffer and spokesperson for Fix Our Senate, Eli Zupnick. Eli is working to get rid of the Senate filibuster and talks to Joel about the ugly history of the filibuster rule and what it would mean to eliminate it from the Senate rules. Here Comes the Payne is sponsored by Hip-Politics Network. Follow the show on Instagram @herecomesthepaynepod. Follow Joel on Twitter @paynedc.