Well Job!

Our heroes share their favorite TV dads, discuss pandemic parenting, and reflect on current events. Cover image by @sivadart_ Netflix recs: Thumbs up for Manchurian Candidate, Five Bloods. Thumbs down for Ma. 0:00-50:00 Check-in 50:00-56:00 Civil Disobedience and change 56:00-1:10:00 What was the last thing you saw on Netflix? 1:10:00-1:52:00 COVID-19 and the science behind choosing to go out. 1:52:00-2:12:00 When have you changed your mind about something as an adult? What made you change your mind? 2:12:00-2:36:00 Who was your favorite TV dad and why? 2:36:00-end Let me just say this...

2:47 - 37:56 - Check-in: our pandemic life changes from puppy ownership to gun ownership 37:56 - 43:44 - Hunting stories. 43:44 - 48:00 - Shaq "glitching" and other MK Ultra conspiracy theories. 48:00 - 49:28 - The saving grace of living with someone else during COVID to save our mental health. 49:28 - 1:43:11 - Conspiracy theories - real and questionable - how do you find the truth? 1:43:11-1:47:44 - Apologypalooza I. 1:47:44 - 2:04:27 - Social media breaks, beefs, and silliness. 2:04:27 - 2:14:00 - Graduations during COVID and what should happen in the fall. 2:14:00 - Let me just say this (Apologypalooza II)

Our heroes bravely chill out with their families in their homes during a global pandemic.

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Big thanks to DJ Urban Cowboy for joining us today! You can find his podcast, RIDE! at https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/gregory-byrd/ride-with-dj-urban-cowboy Photo Credit https://www.un.org/en/conf/ocean/ 2:00 We test our "just enough to be dangerous" knowledge about the Nation of Islam. Fact check: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_Islam#targetText=The%20Fruit%20of%20Islam%20(FOI,units%20at%20all%20NOI%20temples. 6:30 What have we been up to? Special shoutout to Miguel Davis, Jr.: CCSA men's swimmer of the week! https://www.theccsa.com/aotw/sotw/men/swimmer/sotw-7 13:14 About DJ Urban Cowboy's podcast, RIDE! - check it out! https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/gregory-byrd/ride-with-dj-urban-cowboy 18:00 Was this a blue wave? People know what they are voting against, but what are they voting for? 31:31 In Memoriam: RIP Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul and Shade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-mtlGyS4r0 37:00 In Memoriam: RIP John McCain, "Maverick." 40:30 What is the relationship between Black Americans and the FBI? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO#targetText=COINTELPRO%20(portmanteau%20derived%20from%20COunter,and%20disrupting%20domestic%20political%20organizations. 43:00 Who's worse: 43 or 45? 45:00 Kanye West, Jim Brown, and Donald Trump. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2792118-jim-brown-on-donald-trump-i-find-myself-really-pulling-for-the-president 48:40 In Memoriam: Kim Porter, passing away too young at 47, reminds us of our own mortality. 49:10 In Memoriam: RIP Burt Reynolds. 59:13 In Memoriam: RIP Lonnie McNeil, father of Troy. https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?fhid=14960&n=lonnie-mcneil&pid=190171659

Our heroes embark on a health-and-wellness theme today, with a nurse on the crew (disclaimer, she is not giving medical advice, she is merely putting her disgust on the record). 2:00 Adult health - when do we decide we want to be healthy but we don't look the way we want to look? 5:15 Generational differences - do older generations have no problem telling you when you've put some pounds on? Or do Jayme and Erica have the same father? 7:02 When we get our bodies back after pregnancy - 18 years later! Fitness coach post-baby body. How do you squeeze in the workout? Maria Kang has changed her tune over the years 15:00 Obesity, pre-diabetes and tales from the ICU - what is enough of a wake-up call to change behaviors? 35:15 Food as entertainment and "Foodies" 40:20 Who's coming with us for our Very Special Well Job activity podcast?

Listen up, all five of you! Our heroes reflect on some shocking turns of events 00:30 Welcome back Jayme! 01:02 Facebook re-friending for a happy ending 04:11 We dissect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' primary upset of Joe. What does it mean, and is it the right direction? 18:06 The mess at the border 25:48 Troy goes off on the NBA's decline 31:43 Transgender teen athletes 48:01 White women gone wild 1:06:00 Well job Halloween costumes!

Our heroes examine the figures caught up in the #metoo era, and also consider the murky areas of sexual consent. 2:43 What, exactly, is sexual harassment? Despite the copious trainings and examples and hard line people take on social media, there are some situations in the gray we'll be discussing for years. Is "creepy" in the eye of the beholder? 23:12 Rape allegation at Colorado State University https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/34652/ 24:00 Is the public still more skeptical of the accuser than the accused? Is this changing? How do racial dynamics come into play? 32:00 Victim-blaming vs. raising and protecting your kids. 33:40 Dating apps and hookup culture - we analyze hypotheticals like Ivy League Professors. Ivy League Professors that do a lot of cursing. 54:00 Let me just say this...

Double Dutch Republican Our heros witness the beginnings of Willie's inevitable transformation into Michael Steele over comparing presidents, the downfall of celebrities (fair or not), and the Boy Scouts. Suicide Prevention June 9th, 2018 0:00 Sad news about Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain. National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 8:05 Sports roundup: Lebron is not the greatest of all time? CAPS CAPS CAPS 13:46 Let's see how Willie does saying nothing. Trump vs. Bush - how do you compare them? 38:07 Roseanne stans all around, Willie still follows her on twitter (here's how you unfollow someone) 44:45 Who is cancelled and why? Kanye? R. Kelly? Who would have been cancelled before social media? 55:00 Balancing values with actions. Has hashtag activism jumped the shark? 1:13:04 Boy Scouts opening up to girls 1:42:00 Miss America Pageant eliminates the swimsuit competition. Shoutout to Dr. Afia Ofori-Mensa who is a beauty pageant expert! 1:52:55 Unfriended - have you ever been unfriended? What does it mean?

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4:16 "One more word" Bickering between Jayme and Willie rivals that of Esther and Fred on Sanford and Son, and other great platonic male female feuds of comedies past. 6:09 The Jeffersons 7:00 Who is the Dick Gregory of your life? 8:50 Welcome Nino! (save us from ourselves) 11:00 Fact Check: The Dos Equis Most Interesting Man In The World: Jonathan Goldsmith (born September 26, 1938) (2006-2016) 14:16 Check out the gym where Nino trains 16:30 Gender and sports: how to avoid being the sports mom in an Lifetime network show. 20:00 Our intro to jiu-jitsu and Jayme and Nino shoutout some of their jiu jitsu / martial arts heros: Eddie Cummings, Gordon Ryan, Gary Tillman, Lloyd Irvin, Mike "the Hawk" Easton, Tito Ortiz, Georges St-Pierre. 27:30 For some of us the appeal of martial arts is just ... a free nap. 29:48 Closing segment: Do you believe this sh!t? Education vs. Celebration: The Slave Auction Block in Fredericksburg, VA 36:55 Heads up about the Confederate flag along I-95 in Stafford County, VA 40:13 Public vs. Private school - what do we consider when making choices for our kids?

0:42 Susan is our guest host today! Disclaimer: this is not medical advice. Spoiler alert: she's horrible. 2:57 Match vs. Tinder. What are best practices for creating your profile? If you want to connect with Willie on Tinder, his username is AlwaysOutgunned2018. 14:50 How do you feel about the increase in bike riders during your commute? How can we make it more appealing to bike while keeping everyone safe? See: Wheels of Misfortune 27:00 Beware the eating season. 31:37 Willie's Let Me Just Say This: Is social media manipulating us? 44:14 Susan's Let Me Just Say This: Cauliflower is not a potato. 47:44 Jayme's Fake Let Me Just Say This: We're enjoying the podcast. 48:20 Erica's Let Me Just Say This: Please someone disrupt the errand-running industry for me. 49:55 Jayme's Real Let Me Just Say This: Parents are always on duty.

As our heroes anticipate Halloween and an exciting new addition to the Well Job family, they discuss their experiences with gender roles in parenting and household responsibilities 4:00 Some creative Halloween costumes in the mix this year. Chester Himes? 6:25 Do you leave a note and a bowl of candy out when you leave your house on Halloween? Fun update: after this episode was recorded, Erica's candy AND bowl got stolen. >:( #allittakesisone 10:06 Eating season. If we're gonna go out from October to December, we're gonna go out with a big bowl of Twix, some eggnog, or a Turkey in our mouths. 14:19 Gender roles: how times have changed. Well Job grants Troy very minimal paternity leave. Stay at home mothers through the years.... 30:28 What does it mean to be "soft?" Is aggression often mistaken for confidence and vice versa? Is there such a thing as "wearing the pants" in a marriage in 2018?

(photo credit: Flickr/Tam Tam) 3:18 In a tweet, Nessa Diab, a radio host and Colin Kaepernick's girlfriend, compared Ray Lewis and Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti to Samuel L. Jackson's character in "Django Unchained." Did it hurt Kaepernick? 7:20 Kaepernick in context: Ali, Brown, and other civil rights leaders whose skills made them impossible not to hire. 10:00 The hard truth about America: if Kaepernick's protest is going to be successful, more white players will need to take a knee. 12:04 There are plenty of NFL players who committed actual crimes, but get to play afterwards. Leonard Little, Michael Vick, Donte Stallworth, Kevin Mack, to name a few. 15:40 The thing about solidarity is that if everyone kneels, you have to find a whole new team. 17:20 We compare teams huddling in protest and teams huddling in prayers. 18:23 Confessions of Recovering Skins Fans - why do so many Washington natives stand passively by about their team's racist name and racist logo? 19:22 If you're the Washington Football team with the most racist history of any team in the NFL, you don't have the moral authority left to belligerently defend the mascot. 21:15 What must it have been like for Ernie Davis, Bobby Mitchell, John Nisby, and Ron Hatcher to integrate the NFL, particularly the reluctant Washington team? 25:50 The Washington Redtails 27:27 Troy shouts out his Steelers as an example of a team that gets out in front of many social justice issues. #rooneyrule 29:01 STFU James Harrison dot tumblr dot com? 29:34 Our favorite TV shows and movies! 33:58 Was Cha-Ka, who, incidentally, was played by a white actor who grew up to become a litigation support manager the "black" character on Land of the Lost? 36:27 TV truth 1/3: Benny Hill, the Cinemax of the 70's. 38:00 TV truth 2/3: As tired parents, some of us enjoy our Judge Judy and Atlanta Housewives. Don't judge. 38:52 TV truth 3/3: most of us watched Dukes of Hazzard. The racism was overt and covert. 41:15 We declare a winner in Power vs. Empire, but give Empire a big handicap. 43:32 To binge or not to binge? 44:00 Whyyy are people so compelled to spoil on social media? 48:01 Troy gives us some TV watching homework - the best kind of homework: Watching Ozark. 48:45 Each hero offers up their favorite movies of all time. 52:20 Is Christian Bale the best Batman ever? And who was the worst? Our heros hit this tangent hard. Apparently it is up for debate. 54:10 Willie channels his inner New York Times movie critic by prefacing his top five of all time with a monologue about his dating life and theories on Rom Coms vs. Dramas with Romantic Themes. Pulitzer on line one. Our favorite movies: Jayme's faves: Best Man, Boys in the Hood, The Notebook, The Shawshank Redemption, The Dark Night Rises Willie's faves: The Bridges of Madison County, Jungle Fever, The Last Mistress, Dangerous Liaisons, 500 Days of Summer, Lost in Translation. Honorable mention to Celeste and Jesse Forever Troy's faves: Friday, Goodfellas, Inception, Godfather (Scarface is in top 10.) Erica's faves: Moana, Hidden Figures, A League of Their Own 1:00:06 We say goodbye after Willie announces his plans to replace his co-hosts with a stray cat.

(photo credit: Flickr/Elvert Barnes Photography) 1:06 Willie goes off topic for shout-outs when he was supposed to be recapping the last episode 2:47 Jayme tries to keep Willie on schedule; despite Willie’s irritation, it works! 4:35 They’re called “mattress pads” Willie, not “mattress condoms” 6:30 Fortune magazine article on James Comey’s efforts to make the FBI more diverse; according to the article “83% of special agents, 78% of intelligence analysts, and 69% of professional staff are white. He will be the King Endowed Chair in Public Policy and will donate his salary “to a scholarship fund for students who come from foster homes”. 8:33 The polls weren’t all wrong 14:38 {article from Troy about non-racist whites talking to racist whites} 16:05 It was Michael Bennett who said that “It would take a white player to really get things changed” (but his brother, Martellus, supports the protests). 19:50 The “alt” in alt-right was coined by Paul Gottfried who wanted an alternative name for what he called himself: a “paleoconservative.” Where the hell do these people come up with these names? 22:55 Of course, by the time we got this up, we are behind the news 23:50 Here is a story of a father and son who deployed together in Afghanistan 25:45 Opioids are drugs that act on opioid receptors in the central nervous system. According to Wikipedia, this is what opioid receptors look like: 32:00 Elaine Chao, Trump’s transportation secretary and Mitch McConnell’s husband said “I stand by my man – both of them.” 33:51 Note to Willie’s future wife: if you pull an Elaine Chao, don’t come home that night 37:00 Willie catches Erica pass a note to Jayme and uses his spidey senses to read the erased text 38:21 Fact Check: Willie talks way more than Jayme 38:47 Troy shouts out the intimidable Jim Vance (1942-2017) as he passed 41:17 Willie shouts out Dick Gregory (1932-2017) since he passed. He started the “Bahamian Diet”! 43:05 Dick Gregory on YouTube explaining why Alpo dog food cans don’t have dogs on them {Need photo from willie}. Here’s a video of the Good Times episode of dog food meatloaf 48:16 Jayme got to meet Dick Gregory; Troy is jealous 50:30 Dick Gregory reportedly died of heart failure 51:01 Erica shouts out powerful, old voices that we still have with us

9:57 Some real facts on China’s one-child policy. The Heihaizi were the “black children” born outside of one-child policy. 23:50 Lisa Nowak was the astronaut who set off to kill her romantic rival who ultimately ended up pleading to burglary and battery and served one year probation. She denied wearing diapers. 36:35 Alexander and Danielle Meitiv were the “free range” parents who faced charges in two different cases of neglect. Dannielle Meitiv is now running for County Council in Montgomery County, MD. 46:40 White Nonsense Roundup: a resource to confront racism online. They have a website, Facebook page, and Twitter (@nowhitenonsense). 49:20 The Second Amendment: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. 53:30 David Waldman (@KagroX) documents #GunFAIL–accidental deaths by gunfire–on Twitter. In Upcoming Episodes 39:20 Social media in another episode 42:33 “Manterrupting” 47:22 Why Willie is okay with Rachel Dolezal