Hustling with Harges

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Hustling with Harges is a twice-monthly podcast where creativity, pop culture, and sibling banter collide. Hosted by real-life siblings Courtney Harge (theater maker, systems strategist) and Tyrone Harge (animator, motion designer), each episode blends thoughtful commentary, hilarious hot takes, and behind-the-scenes insights on building a creative life. 🎮 Reacting to iconic and obscure video games 🎬 Reviewing action movies like they’re sacred texts ⚙️ Breaking down the systems and strategies behind the creative hustle 👯‍♀️ Featuring lovingly petty sibling debates and nerdy deep dives Whether you’re a creative entrepreneur, pop culture fan, or someone who loves a good rant with a side of inspiration—Hustling with Harges is your new favorite podcast. Listen to Hustling with Harges on your favorite podcast platform: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Podbean | iHeartRadio | PlayerFM 🔗 http://bio.site/hustlingwithharges 📱 Follow us for more creative chaos, sibling banter, and cultural hot takes: Instagram: @hustlingwithharges TikTok: @hustlingwithharges YouTube: @hustlingwithharges 💥 Subscribe for full episodes + clips!! 📩 Stay in the loop: Hit that like, subscribe, and/or follow so you don’t miss a moment! Email: hustlingwithharges@gmail.com with questions or comments! #HustlingWithHarges 🔮🩷⚡

Episodes

7 days ago

Our Favorite...TV Shows!

7 days ago

1 hr 40 min

BONUS: Check out Tyrone's Kickstarter: Epic Flour Sack - The Rise of a Hero!

TV raised us. Not in the "sat you in front of it" way. In the way where A Different World came on and showed us a whole campus of Black people getting to be heroes, villains, clowns, and everything in between.

This week on Our Favorite Things: live-action, scripted television. Courtney makes the case for A Different World. Tyrone makes the case for Living Single, by a country mile. (No Living Single, no Friends. We said what we said.)

Then it gets personal. Why Courtney can't do Girls. Why a certain kind of prestige TV about casually cruel white people loses us both. Why Tyrone will defend Stars Hollow like it's his zip code.

In the Main Moment, we go through the New York Times' 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century (verdict: we're not mad, but Heroes is outside the club trying to get in). Then we make the case for the Dick Wolf universe as one of the best training grounds in entertainment. Or, as Tyrone put it: Dick Wolf is McDonald's. Everybody's first job.

TV raised us. So tell us what raised you. When's the last time you watched TV on TV? Who has the best apartment on television? Drop it in the comments or email hustlingwithharges@gmail.com.

Also: Day 14 of asking Debbie Allen and Phylicia Rashad, or Willow and Jaden Smith, to pull up. We're still here.

Listen to Hustling with Harges on your favorite podcast platform:
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Podbean | iHeartRadio | PlayerFM

🔗 http://bio.site/hustlingwithharges

📱 Follow us for more creative chaos, sibling banter, and cultural hot takes:
Instagram: @hustlingwithharges
TikTok: @hustlingwithharges
YouTube: @hustlingwithharges
💥 Subscribe for full episodes + clips!!

📩 Stay in the loop: Hit that like, subscribe, and/or follow so you don’t miss a moment!
Email: hustlingwithharges@gmail.com with questions or comments!

#HustlingWithHarges #SiblingPodcast #BlackCreatives #CreativeEntrepreneurs #PopCulturePodcast #NerdCulture #ArtistLife #PodcastClip #NewPodcastAlert #90sBabiesUnite #FilmAndFandom #WorkHargePlayHarge #PodcastCommunity #PodcastRecommendations

7 days ago

1 hr 40 min

Oct 5, 2026

Our Favorite...Movies!

Oct 5, 2026

1 hr 30 min

Season 2 is here, and we're starting with the one that's core to who we are: movies.

This season is Favorite Things. New topic every episode, same four questions: the favorite, the worst, the wildcard, and what it did to us.

The favorites: Tyrone makes the case for The Fifth Element as one of the greatest sci-fi movies ever made. Courtney can't pick, so it's a tie: Dope and Widows, two heists grounded in exactly who the people pulling them off are.

The worsts: Vanilla Sky gets no mercy. And How to Be a Player, a hatred Courtney inherited from our mother, gets taken all the way apart. She drove over to clean his apartment. Before work.

The wildcards: foreign creature features, cheesy action, every single Jurassic Park, and Starship Troopers, the best worst movie ever made.

The impact: a dad who cries at movies, and what it means to finally see yourself in a genre that never made room for you.

Then the Main Moment: who is Hollywood actually making movies for? Not the people buying tickets. The Marvels. The Eternals. 2016's Ghostbusters. And still no Blade movie.

Cowards.

Also: still waiting on Debbie Allen and Phylicia Rashad, or Willow and Jaden Smith. Day 13 of asking.

New to the show? Welcome home. Been here since Season 1? Pull up. We saved you a seat.

Check out everything we referenced this episode here.

Oct 5, 2026

1 hr 30 min

Dec 2, 2025

We Done Did the Good Cookie

Dec 2, 2025

1 hr 12 min

A little late? Yes.

Worth the wait? Also yes.

Did we finish the whole season anyway? WE DONE DID THE GOOD COOKIE...IT'S TIME TO GO HOME!

[If you don't know that reference, here's a treat: https://youtu.be/CMkYw4dp_NI?si=M6JUJworsoJlvFVz]

In our Season 1 finale, we’re talking endings: the emotional kind, the creative kind, and the kind where your sibling forces you to finish what you started out of sheer principle. We look back at the wild highlights of the season, the lessons we didn’t know we were learning, and the clips that absolutely must go in the montage.

We also ask each other:
✨ What do you hope folks understand about you now?
✨ What do you want to bring into Season 2?

If you’ve been rocking with us through all 12 episodes—thank you. For real. Let us know what you want in Season 2, what you loved, and what should never, ever see the light of day again.

Find us everywhere @hustlingwithharges or email us at hustlingwithharges@gmail.com.

And remember: if we disappear for a minute… just wait. There might be dragons.

Dec 2, 2025

1 hr 12 min

Nov 3, 2025

We Outside (But With Purpose)

Nov 3, 2025

1 hr 21 min

In this episode, Courtney and Tyrone dive deep into what it really means to build and sustain community — not the hashtag version, but the daily practice of showing up, supporting, and staying human together.

You unpack the difference between being in proximity and being in relationship — the slow, intentional work of building circles that feed your creativity, your sanity, and your purpose. There’s laughter, side-eye, some light chaos from Matcha the dog 🐾, and honest talk about what community costs and why it’s still worth it.

You talk about how community isn’t a moment, it’s a muscle — one that needs to be stretched, rested, and used with care. From creative accountability to emotional boundaries, from shared projects to shared meals, this episode becomes a love letter to the people and spaces that make the work possible.

By the end, the episode lands on a powerful truth: community isn’t what you have — it’s what you build, again and again.

Nov 3, 2025

1 hr 21 min

Oct 6, 2025

Disappointment is Not Fatal

Oct 6, 2025

1 hr 34 min

Disappointment hurts, but it doesn’t have to take you out. In this episode of Hustling with Harges, Courtney and Tyrone unpack the sting of disappointment—creative, professional, and personal—and how they keep showing up anyway.

They talk about missed opportunities, projects that didn’t land, and the lessons that only show up when things fall apart. From laughing through the L’s to redefining success on their own terms, the siblings remind us that disappointment is part of the creative process—not a sign to quit.

This one’s full of humor, honesty, and that signature Harge mix of insight and side-eye.

Oct 6, 2025

1 hr 34 min

Sep 22, 2025

We Learned Good: On Creative Training and Education

Sep 22, 2025

1 hr 41 min

In this episode of Hustling with Harges, we dive into the messy, magical, and sometimes maddening world of creative education. Tyrone shares what it meant to come up through for-profit art schools—finding brilliant collaborators while navigating institutions that cared more about tuition than students. Courtney reflects on her own journey through higher education, where honing her craft went hand-in-hand with confronting racism, building organizations, and finding community in the margins.

Together, we ask: What is the real value of a creative education? How do you make meaning out of exploitative systems, gatekeeping, and debt while still honoring the skills, relationships, and resilience they helped you develop? And what do we wish we’d learned sooner about sustaining an artistic life?

We also shout out a couple of podcasts that remind us we’re not alone in wrestling with these questions:
🎧 Lemme Fix It-Episode About Courtney's Acting School Experience
🎧 Work Shouldn't Suck: Courtney's Appearance

Pull up a seat in the creative living room—we’re talking lessons learned, tuition paid (literally and figuratively), and the teachers who shaped us along the way.

Sep 22, 2025

1 hr 41 min

Sep 8, 2025

Humility is for Suckaz

Sep 8, 2025

1 hr 57 min

Courtney and Tyrone set modesty aside to imagine what life looks like when the basics are covered and there’s more than enough to go around. They get into the details of what they’d actually do with abundance—what they’d buy, how they’d live, and which over-the-top choices feel the most tempting.

Along the way, they talk about the TV shows, movies, and cultural moments that shaped their ideas of luxury, while calling out the humor and contradictions in how we dream about money. It’s a conversation that swings from practical to ridiculous the only way we know how: the Harge way.

Timestamps

09:48 Sibling Shout Out

23:16 Acknowledging Dr. Vivian Ayers Allen

25:15 The Main Moment

01:09:58 Sibling Superlatives

01:29:30 Work Harge/Play Harge

Sep 8, 2025

1 hr 57 min

Aug 25, 2025

Hurry Up & Wait: Patience as Part of the Process

Aug 25, 2025

1 hr 20 min

In this episode, Courtney and Tyrone dive into the often-overlooked skill of waiting—those stretches of time after you’ve done your part and the next move is out of your hands. They frame waiting as a natural, sometimes frustrating, but essential part of creative work and entrepreneurship.

They explore:

Productive vs. stagnant waiting – when patience is a healthy pause versus when it slips into avoidance.
Creative parallels – Tyrone compares waiting to “rendering” in 3D animation, while Courtney connects it to auditions, knitting projects, and nonprofit deadlines.
Emotional management – how waiting feels in the body and strategies to care for yourself in the in-between.
Tactics for the meantime – small actions, joyful distractions, or maintenance work that keep momentum alive even when external progress is paused.
Work Harge / Play Harge – concrete practices for transforming downtime into preparation, rest, or play, reframing patience as part of the process rather than lost time.

The episode blends humor, sibling banter, and pop culture references (from sitcom siblings to anti-capitalist takes) while offering listeners strategies to sit with uncertainty without losing joy. At its heart, the conversation insists that waiting isn’t wasted—it’s work in disguise.

Aug 25, 2025

1 hr 20 min