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  • This Must Be The Place: New Cinema

    Daren brings us into the world of New Cinema on TikTok, where he will show us how filmmakers have taken to the app to reinvent storytelling for the modern age. With it’s time constraints and vertical format, it’s not an easy feat, and yet people are creating incredible and original short films every day. Follow along as we name a few bright stars that are truly creating new cinema.

  • The Absurd

    To be absurd is to be wildly inappropriate, illogical, or irrational. There’s a lot of room for things to get weird when an entire universe of content lives within your phone. Join host Daren Girdner as he dives deep into the absurd side of TikTok, uncovering videos that you’ve never seen before, and can’t help looking away from.

  • HomeTok

    Home is more than just a house, today Daren will be showing us how creators on TikTok are reimagining the concept of Home on a personal, logistical, and even societal level. We’ll go from communes to #buslife, and everywhere in between. Come along for the ride, and see all kinds of lifestyles that may inspire you to move out and never talk to your landlord again.

  • Rage Against the Machines

    That hit song or sold out show may not be what it seems. Digital trappers are manipulating streaming platforms to turn nobodies into somebodies.

  • Mesmerizing Mundane

    Sometimes the best ideas come from boredom. We look at how to turn the mundane into the extraordinary by being at the right place at the right time. Come along for the journey.

  • Free Stuff

    Host Daren Girdner looks at what we all love, getting things for free. Like really – free. We’ll look at foraging, dumpster diving, and turning old things into new things.

  • A Sex Trafficking Law is Fundamentally Changing the Internet

    Social media companies no longer have immunity for sex trafficking crimes on their sites. VICE News investigates what that means for trafficking survivors and sex workers.

  • Sweating It Out

    John Henry helps Harlem Cycle by working with founder Tammeca to bring the awareness of her business to the larger Harlem community.

  • A Black Female Founder on Her Unconventional Path to Entrepreneurship

    Harlem Cycle founder Tammeca on her path from mechanical engineering to marketing to owning and operating her own cycling studio. From HUSTLE, Sundays at 9p.

  • Printer Problems

    John Henry tries to help the founders of 3D Brooklyn rethink their business model if they want to be more successful.

  • Moonshine Makeover

    John Henry gets in the moonshine business working with the founders of Port Morris Distillery to take their small batch Pitorro to the next level.

  • Taboo Down There

    John Henry works with the founders of Fur to help them get the business world to take their body care products seriously.

  • Trouble Uptown

    John Henry rolls up his sleeves to try and help the owners of streetwear company Bronx Native keep their doors open.

  • Time to Make the Donuts

    John Henry hopes to turn donut makers Todd & Eric from Cuzin’s Duzin into successful businessmen.

  • In the Weeds

    John Henry helps Local Roots NYC founder Wen-Jay grow her farm-share business into a sustainable company that will grow from year to year.

  • Jammed Up

    John Henry works with Ashley from Trade Street Jams to turn her small, artisanal jam business into a profitable company with enough revenue to allow her to quit her day job.