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Your irreverent source for discourse on all things regarding race and racism! Hosts Scott Woods & AaronNoName unpack, dissect and otherwise eviscerate the headlines and more each episode with the kind of talk your barbershop won't let you have.

Race Against The Machine Show


    • Jul 1, 2024 LATEST EPISODE
    • monthly NEW EPISODES
    • 1h 4m AVG DURATION
    • 21 EPISODES


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    Episode 59: Presidential Debates and Hair Trigger Fears

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2024 63:05


    The Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) step to the podium about the Trump/Biden debate that wasn't, oligarchy life, and why Scott wants to burn his social media platforms this week. (Spoiler alert: voters gonna vote.) Hail to the chiefs of street knowledge.

    Episode 58: Courtside Seats to a Falling Empire

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2024 72:12


    The Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) come off the bench to talk about the WNBA and Black baseball records; how Trump's conviction forced Aaron to pull Scott out of an anti-voting depression; and the watermelon in the room: Palestine, American empire, and Black folks. Never, ever SFW.

    Episode 57: Episode 54 - Now With 100% More Live Road Action

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2023 61:48


    The Fellas (Scott Woods and Aaron NoName) hit the road to do a rousing live recording in front of a college audience at DePauw University for the 2023 Students of Color Leadership Conference. Recorded live November 4, 2023. 

    Episode 56: Episode 53 - Everything Black Everywhere All At Once

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2023 70:10


    The Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) sound off on Richard Dreyfuss' black out, real representation, a Black Cleopatra, CNN's Trump bet, Alex Haley, and gentrification police.

    Episode 55: Episode 52 - Budget Your Black Empathy

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2023 82:15


    The Fellas (Scott Woods and Aaron NoName) bring you irreverent and perhaps too-real barbershop takes on The Oscars, Jonathan Majors signing us up for the Army, Bethany Mandel's Woke blackout, Cop City, and how cities treat Black art.  It's a take no prisoners kind of situation over here.

    Episode 54: Episode 51 - Respectability Fest

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2023 54:25


    It's been a long time, but The Fellas (Scott Woods and Aaron NoName) are back to weigh in on Black History Month cop cars, Kyre Nichols, Black Panther 2 criticism, Chappelle and Jewish criticism, AND MORE. Your irreverent source for discourse on all things related to racism and what it do is here.

    Episode 53: Episode 50 - What did the 5 fingers say to the Oscars?

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2022 84:52


    Okay, here's the situation... The Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) weigh in on the only thing everyone and their mother is talking about: Will Smith, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith and the Oscars. Also, a stop over in D.C. to rap about Ketanji Brown Jackson's detractors. Our 50th (official) episode!

    Episode 52: Episode 49 - Get your sunflower seeds out my pocket

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2022 85:33


    The Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) return with takes on banking with Ryan Coogler, the death of the midterms, judging supreme court justices, Kanye's documentary, and the war in Ukraine. 

    Episode 51: Episode 48 - I'm not prejudiced. I'm postjudiced.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2021 73:26


    The Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) return with the strength of street knowledge to unpack AT&T going in the paint for white supremacy, Black Panther's Shuri dropping her Marvel bag and other anti-vax missteps, Jon Gruden's emails, and Dave Chappelle. Also witness a real time negotiation to replace the term racism with something surely worse.

    Episode 50: Episode 47 - It's Not Pessimism If It's True

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2021 58:01


    The Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) wrestle with crime, whether George Floyd Park can be allowed to exist, Palestine, and critical race theory. SO not safe for work.

    Episode 49: Episode 46: Culture Verzuz Commerce

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2021 27:42


    This is a special edition of RATM where the Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) unpack the recent sale of Verzuz and its potential cultural implications in a breezy 28 minutes.

    Episode 48: Episode 45 - That Type 1 Diabetes Racism

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2021 65:05


    The Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) dashing Stacey Dash's hopes of returning to the cookout, crown Meghan Markle and Prince Harry interview upside the head, the George Floyd settlement, and dig into Michael Brown Sr.'s $20 million ask of Black Lives Matter.

    Episode 47: Episode 44 - Executive Disorders

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2021 64:23


    The Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) body check the presidential inauguration, occasional poetry critics, resigning police chiefs, and run down Biden's executive orders so far to see if Black folks got anything yet.

    Episode 46: Episode 43 - That Raw Uncut Insurrection

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2021 95:46


    The Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) return from the ashes of 2020 to dig into the D.C. insurrection, white reactions to Stacey Abrams, Soul, the nihilism of Black capitalism, and living in the hunting grounds of Columbus, Ohio. Also, a return of the Racist of the Week.

    Episode 42 - Streets Won't Let Us Chill

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2020 76:18


    The Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) get into a post-Breonna Taylor indictment world, COVID theories, and a world that is otherwise Trumptasic.

    Episode 41 - Protests

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2020 57:03


    The Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) unpack Black protest and why people cry over broken windows and not dead Black people.

    Episode 40 - What's wrong with the way we discuss the state of Black people

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2020 38:54


    This episode has the Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) breaking down why all of the discussions about Black people sound like they're from 1920 and not 2020. YES THE SHOW IS STILL RETIRED. We just had extra stuff from our last recording and this topic really stood on its own.

    Episode 39 - Black Steel in the Hour of Corona

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2020 59:15


    The Fellas - Scott Woods & Aaron NoName - have returned with a new episode of their retired podcast, Race Against the Machine! They go in on Joe Biden's Blackometer and what black votes are good for, COVID-19, how they're dealing with Rona, The Granola Bar Conundrum, and omelettes. They only do 1-2 surprise episodes per year, and you certainly have enough time to check them out now. NSFW, your momma, or your book club.

    Episode 38 - This Was Supposed To Be About Jay-Z But Then Feelings

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2019 74:31


    The Fellas - Scott Woods & Aaron NoName - come out of retirement (again) with a surprise episode that was supposed to be about Jay-Z and the activism of owning a football team, but then took a turn into the hopelessness of conversations about race when your 'hood isn't enough, and THEN it all took a turn into the personal.

    Episode 37 - Election Shade So Dark You'll Think It's An Eclipse

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2019 36:54


    Surprise mini-episode! The Fellas - Scott Woods & Aaron NoName - recorded a bunch of stuff about everything in the news right now but only this 35 minutes of election shade made the quality cut.

    Episode 35b - Why Don't We Care About Things?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2018 48:41


    In the second part of this one-off episode out of the blue, The Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) engage why America doesn't seem to care about anything, the final word on voting, the Letterman/Obama show, and black comedian shade. You never know when they're coming back, so catch 'em while you can.

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