The Tactless Know-It-Alls

This short episode is our last. If you want to hear the full story on why we decided to end it, listen to our earlier episode on the subject.

This week, we're looking back on the year and recounting the lessons we've learned this year.

This week, we didn't have anything specific on our hearts to talk about. We ended up talking about Emancipation, which we haven't seen yet. We talked about why we 've been avoiding it and what we think the long term impact may end up being for art in today's society. Basically, we went on a tangent until we ran out of tangents.

This week, we're talking about Kanye. Sorry...

This week, we (well, one of us) have a story to tell.

This week, we're referencing a show by Jon Stewart we watched right before recording and decided it was worth a conversation. The main aim of the episode of his show was for white people to talk to each other about solutions to American racism and white supremacy. We recorded what we felt right after watching.

This week, we're talking about a 60 Minutes piece we recently saw regarding Tik Tok and the differences in the US version and the Chinese version. Most of our conversation was initially about how we think those differences will affect us (the US) in the future. We then shifted to a conversation about Twitter and how we see this going in the short term for Elon Musk.

This week, we're talking movies. We began talking about the new Black Panther Sequel, but that quickly turned into a conversation about black film and black filmmaking in general.

This week, we're talking about Deion Sanders and Jackson State football. We recently watched a short interview featuring Deion and the Jackson St team and in it he talked about how much good he could do by simply being there. Toward the end of the interview, he mentioned he'd consider leaving to go to pretty much any school that made the right offer. That made us wonder what the impact would be on Jackson State if he actually left this early in his coaching career and how could that affect the surrounding community that has benefitted from him being there.

This week, we talked about something that has become apparent over the last few trips to shop for vinyl. Not exactly what you'd expect would've come to mind, but if you've been rocking with us for a while, the direction won't surprise you at all.

This week, we took a detour. We started out talking about sports (for about 2 seconds) but that led into a deeper conversation on what we've noticed is becoming more and more prevalent in society.

This week is a story time episode. One of us got arrested (in the past). If you listen to this podcast, you can probably guess which one of us, but you'll probably never guess why or the full story behind it...

This week, we're discussing this political cycle we can't seem to ever get done with. It feels like we've been watching political commercials for 2 years straight and one of the reoccurring themes is "defunding the police". We talked about what we think about that phrase and what we think might be an issue for some candidates running on that idea in their platform.

This week, we are explaining why, when and how we've decided to end this podcast. Simple, right?

This week, we decided to just have a quick conversation about some of the lessons we've learned this year about cutting corners.

This week, we're talking about a comment that was made while we were visiting someone that we felt deserved to be a full conversation. They made several comments about how some of the kids were "spoiled" in the past and that (somehow) was justification for current character flaws. We took the comment in, but afterwards decided to have the conversation that makes up this episode.

This week, we're talking about a "new" program Bank of America is piloting targeting Black and Hispanic 1st time homebuyers. It's a zero down payment mortgage that has already been criticized by some as "a plot to accelerate gentrification". We break down: 1. Why that theory is dumb as hell. 2. Why we think gentrification is misunderstood by 95% of the people who talk about it. 3. We give our opinion on what Bank of America is actually doing with this "program" and finally 4. We give a blueprint on what we'd be doing as a first time homebuyer right now in this market instead of joining this program.

This week, we were going to try to muscle through this episode, but that wasn't in the cards. Maybe next week.

This week's (actually, last week's late episode) episode really ended up going in an organic direction because we decided to just talk about whatever. Initially, we were going to go in one direction, but as always, that didn't happen and we went off on a tangent...

This week, we talked briefly about the things we are most proud of in life but also, the things we most regret. The conversation actually ended up on regrets more than anything, but...that's life.

This week, we're getting into some spiritual/space/nerd talk. How do you know time exists? Or is it just a man made concept? How long has time been around? We went down that rabbit hole this week based on some reading and conversations we've had lately and thought it might be cool to share.

This week, we talked about a possible breakthrough in truth telling, but that quickly turned into a conversation on the (we'll call it current) recession.

This week, we talked music. Every now and again, we talk about this subject because for the both of us, it's a big part of our lives, but in different ways. So, this episode is how we view music's role in our individual lives.

This week, we're talking about ourselves. We both realized that we both went through a similar event in our individual lives before meeting and, even though it's embarrassing, decided to discuss it here.

This week, as promised, we addressed our somewhat contradictory, conflicting and complicated feelings about interracial relationships. More than anything, we ended up talking about the effect, as we see it, on the black community as whole moving forward. We also talked about the surge of interracial images that are in TV, movies, ads, etc. over the last couple of years.

...Then, we got more information on some of the things we predicted would happen next. We felt we had to complete this conversation with what we think is the distraction we mentioned in part one's conversation. (If you haven't heard part 1, listen to that one first).

This week, we talked about the overturning of Roe V Wade by the supreme court. Originally, we had this conversation not knowing a ton of what happened, but talked about the basics and what we thought this meant in the long-term for women in America...

This week, we're giving a shoutout to the fathers.

This week, we're talking about Juneteenth and what it means currently to black America and, more importantly, what it'll mean (if anything) to us in the future. Will it end up being just another consumer holiday? Will it eventually get white-washed and no one will know what the holiday is about in 10 years? We discuss what we think are the answers to those questions and we offer an alternative to all of it.

This week, we're talking about censorship. We were having a conversation around the house about books and certain subjects being banned in schools. The conversation turned toward whether or not that would continue or somehow at some point society would push back. We decided to continue that conversation here, but it ended up going somewhere totally unexpected...

This week, we're revisiting an older episode in a way. We're talking about the legalization of medical and recreational marijuana, in the US the be specific. Our views haven't change very much from 5 years ago, but our perspective has been shifted a bit after the pandemic.

This week, we're talking about marriage. Very rarely do we talk about relationships on this podcast and there's no particular reason for that, but this week it just kinda caught up with us. With all of the pressure put on marriages, we think the next few years' economy will put additional pressure on couples and we think it starts with who you picked.

This week, we're (surprisingly) talking about the shooting in Buffalo, New York. Although, we've been trying to avoid these types of subjects, we decided to deal with this one.

This week, we ended up talking about the supreme court's leaked opinion on Roe v Wade. Admittedly, we haven't been following this closely, but we decided to voice our opinion on abortion rights in general.

This week, we are having a conversation regarding masculinity, but more specifically as it relates to black men. Lately it seems like it's not popular to embrace the idea of black men being men. Maybe it's limited to just the local circle and personal conversations we're having, but from what we've seen both in person and online there seems to be a movement to undermine black masculinity. Let's talk about it.

This week, we're talking about our journey to become more open minded. At least, that's how this conversation started. As we discussed more and more, we determined that we may not be as open minded about certain things as we once believed. Just listen...it'll make more sense inside.

This week, we're talking about something that we heard all the time as kids: "Children should be seen and not heard" or "Children need to stay out of grown folks conversations". It's 2022 and we are rethinking the whole idea of keeping children in the dark until they reach a certain age and "then it's time to grow up", so we decided to have a conversation about why we feel that way.

This week, we decided to talk about the environments we find ourselves in at different points in life. So many people will tell you what you can or cannot accomplish, we thought this would be a good time to share some of our experiences in dealing with negative environments.

This week, we're talking about communication. That's it...that's the episode.

This week, we're venting about some of the experiences we've been having this year and in previous years both intentionally trying to support black business and also being black business owners trying to work with black clients. We're exhausted of people simply saying "support black business" and there not being any of the brutal honesty explaining what that actually looks like in real life nor what black business can do to reciprocate that support.

This week, we discussed the idea of a "good person" or a "bad person". We got here because of a story regarding a black lives matter chapter president that's being accused of fraud. Although these days, people are guilty until proven innocent, we decided to set that aside (for now) and the conversation morphed into a discussion of what makes us consider a person "bad" or "good"...or does any of that even exist?

This week, we're talking about the current conflict involving Russia and the Ukraine. This conversation, like most of our conversations here, was not planned or discussed beforehand. We just had a personal conversation on the mic about how this whole thing makes us feel and what's going through our minds.

This week, we're talking about Legacy. What does that mean to you? Is it money, houses, etc. you can leave to your children or is it more? Well, we discussed what it means to us and how we perceive "legacy" in 2022.

This week, we're talking about something that seems to have just come out of nowhere lately: Being yourself. This subject came about from an unlikely place. Recently Neo (the singer, not the matrix dude) was on a podcast and spoke about misogyny in the R&B world. In regards to that, he said "if women want men to stop calling you b*tches, they should stop dancing to them type of records". From the responses to that statement it seemed like most people were in agreement with being outraged...except us.

This week, we're talking about the possible return to the office. Apparently, some businesses are considering telling their employees they need to be back in the office as soon as next month. We gave our take on how we felt about that and more...

This week, we decided to talk about Atlanta. Lately, there's been more and more folks having negative things to say about Georgia's capital from crime to the people who live here. So we decided to revisit a podcast episode we had about Atlanta 3-4 years ago and clear a few things up.

This episode, we started off talking about the latest Janet Jackson doc on Lifetime. One thing led to another and we ended talking about gender roles. If you've been with us for a while... I mean...what's new?

This week, we ended up watching a documentary (We Need to Talk about Cosby) about Bill Cosby...4 hours of Bill....Cosby...seriously. After watching, we had to talk about it, so we did. We actually talked about the entire Cosby ordeal in a past episode, but after watching this documentary, we felt it was necessary to revisit some of the things we said in that last episode.

This week, we're talking about Kanye. This episode was mainly going to be about the 3 part documentary coming out about Kanye next month on Netflix. We we prepared to watch all 4 hours during a advance screening during Sundance Film festival, but at the last minute, they pulled all but the first part. We've always been split on Kanye and decided to watch this together to see if it might possibly change our views...and it did.

This week, we're talking about giving people grace. It seems like lately we've each let people get under our skin and this conversation revolved around why this had been happening more frequently. Is it because we haven't been giving folks enough grace...enough room to grow and evolve? Or is it because we haven't been given enough. Sometimes it feels like people expect you to be perfect, respond perfectly, say the perfect thing at the perfect time and they forget you're only human and you'll require grace.

This week, we gave in to the urge to rant. As many of you probably already know, we invest in real estate. Needless to say, we're a little biased when we see things floating around that says "landlords are evil" & "landlords are parasites". Normally, if we feel we're biased on a subject, we skip it until we can take other perspective into account. That's not what happened here, though.