J.A.P.A.N

It's only been 33 days into the 2025 New Year and everyday has been somethin new. The wildest trade you will probably ever hear/see in NBA history happened late at night without anyone expecting it to happen. Luka to the Lakers, and AD to Dallas. Does this mean LeBron really might retire after this season? Plus Beyonce announced her act ii Cowboy Carter tour. Image Source: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sport

Me and my brother have a 2 A.M yap session post Rolling Loud and...... enjoy

6 Month since the rap battle between the two considered goats concluded and one could have expected to Drake to go out this sad. As of this recording The "Boy" has reached an all time low, as he has filed 2 lawsuits towards UMG and Spotify for pushing "Not Like Us" in regards of it effecting his career and negations into his next deal. On the other side, KDot dropped a successful surprise album "GNX" and got fans ready for what the future holds. Has Kendrick cemented himself as the GOAT and does he now have the greatest diss songs of all time after how this beef played out?

The best time of the year is here and the NBA season is starting back up with the same stars we love and follow. A lot has happened since the end of last season and I think we're going to see some new teams and faces in unfamiliar spaces. This is my "way too early" NBA predictions for this upcoming season on league conference standings and award winners

I get Niyah back on to talk about our current music choices, the playlist we made, how life has been and our job status.

The conclusion to our 4 part episode ends with a demure setting compared to the previous part. A late (late) night talk with Kauja and Nia as our interactive audience. If I learned anything from my time in Dallas, it's that I should do more of these type of recordings.

This episode is by far the most chaotic part out of the bunch. What started off as a calm and casual conversation with Charles ended up being interrupted by the group when they found out we “ditched” them from clubbing. Also we get the real answer on who messed up the night on where we were suppose to go. Afterwards I get with Mario and Nia to their input on our stay in Dallas

Continuing from the first part, I get my next guest, Los on the pod before we take a brief intermission for the night. A lot is discussed in this episode from living in ATL to having hispanic heritage

First night in Dallas before the future concert and I had to start off with the birthday boy and my fellow Pensacolian, Rae and Rod.

**Generational Rap Battle ** Probably one of the most electrifying battles within the industry. This episode, bae and I give our thoughts on two of the most influential artist of the modern era facing off in a lyrical showdown. It was so much to discuss I see why it took Joe Budden and the gang 5 hours to talk about the beef. None the less it was fun making this episode and giving our opinion on who we believe won and why.

This episode serves as a little update on whats life been like since March 2024 and tbh I dont expect the rest of 2024 slowing down

Live Action One Piece is coming out on Netflix and I can't wait to see it. Jujutsu Kaisen Shibuya is also coming out this week and the people are not ready

This is a quick episode that I made honoring Lebrons greatness before he becomes the GREATEST SCORER OF ALL TIME

On this episode of Just Another Pod, I sit down with my coworkers and discuss with them about their very interesting engineering journeys. Two Cali raised engineers, One from SpaceX who went to school in Alaska and A Philippine native, who moved to the west coast at a young age and now is moving to the east coast talk how we got to our current position to all the obstacles we've overcame, having a quarter life crisis and what excites us outside of work.

22-23 NBA Season tips off Tuesday Oct 18th and theres a lot of promising, exciting things to see this season. On this episode, early predictions are made as we dive into the top teams to watch out for in the east and west. Who's going to cause problems in the playoffs, what players are to have a break out year, and early potential award winners. At the end of the season tune back into this episode to see how right (or very wrong) I was on my predictions

On this episode of Just Another Pod, I go solo and talk about the sneaker realm, sneaker collecting and my love for sneakers. I get into the grit of where you can find the best steals for yourself and what you should look for when hunting for sneakers. A lot of things go into sneaker collecting and it comes down to experience, patience and taking advantages of opportunities. Ultimately, I hope from this episode you learn to enjoy what you purchase but have purpose and intent with how you grow your sneaker collection

On this episode of Just Another Pod, I get with my guy Brenton, a former Nike employee, Chicago raised, sneaker connoisseur and talk kicks with him. We discuss the evolution of Nike basketball through the Jordan era to the modern era, the fall and rise of the dunk, oldest sneaker in our collection, grails, and the Jordan Mid agenda. Tap in to hear our love for shoes and much much more.  

On this episode, I get with my guy Mario and discuss some hot shows out now and what should be added to the "watch later" list. We discuss some of the best shows of all time that we would recommend to others and shows we consider goated. Not to mention we compare the nostalgic greatness between Nickelodeon and Disney Channel from the late 90s - early/mid 2000s and what made them so iconic for our childhood

On this episode of Just Another Pod, I sit and talk with Kayla and K'auja on their experiences as women in a male dominant industry. How did they end up on this path of engineering, did our parents effect our life decisions more than they know, and do they expect to be an engineer forever? Hopefully this episode is helpful and can be found useful to some. P.S this will probably be the last time for a while that we talk engineering related topics and veer towards the fun side of things, whatever the hell that means.

Me and Los make our predictions on who will come out winners in this tense Eastern Conference Game 7.

On this episode of Just.Another.Pod, me and Los touch up our experiences with working for the government and how our coworkers can make or break it for us. We also get into how hard it is being an adult with multiple obligations while trying to to stay sane

On the first episode of Just.Another.Pod me and my guest Darryl Brooks, A.K.A @apxflex, get into what life was like for us after graduation and some of the expectations that were not met after we stepped into the real world