WellSpokenPodcast

After an unannounced long hiatus we are back! Today we catch-up with Mark who lives just outside of Houston and he shares his experiences being adjacent to Tropical Storm Harvey. We talk the various types of insurance protections, paychecks as the city shuts down, how those displaced with recover after the water recedes, the opportunists, te NFL, donations, gentrification, and more. Thanks for joinging us.   

We share thoughts on part 1 (no spoilers) of his Netflix special and discuss if we think stand-up has become an unintended casualy of social media. 

LaVar Ball and his 3 sons - Lonzo, LiAngelo, and LaMelo - the Ball brothers - are a media phenomenon.. but, is the backlash to Lavar's approach justified?

This week is all about the best movie currently in theatres - Get Out from Writer/Director Jordan Peele. 

We discuss the latest entry on our blog - http://wp.me/p7Yhlw-3g - as the foundation of a broad conversation on representing your culture, the presure to tip, managing expectations, and acceptance. 

Have Fraternities outlived their usefulness?

This week we are discussing our top influences. From James Baldwin to John Singleton to Bomani Jones to Ice Cube - and as always we use this as a baseline for a larger wide-ranging discussion. Thanks for listening.  

This week we each put together a list of our top TV dads and use them as a baseline for our wide-ranging discussion on parenting, spousal relations, and more. 

We each give present and discuss our Top 5 Impactful events/albums/people/shows/etc of the year. 

J joins us to clarify a story Ro told, we add another chapter to our "getting old" chronicles, discuss presumptive voting and voter shaming, legalizing marijuana and big business, alcohol prices, and TNT's "The Race Card"

A Pod full of tangents: On the Drake diss, child support and forced fatherhood, Ne-Yo, Atlanta, marketing, the new NBA Season, donating towels to Baton Rouge, telling "old man" stories, remembering music word-for-word on one listen but forgetting random life moments, sentimentality, and more. 

On Rape Culture: The Trump(s), Derrick Rose, and Boy Talk

This week we are sharing an older segment from a previous iteration of this podcast in which we discussed the advice we would give to our daughters and how we go about presenting them with our thoughts on the world. The topic also touched briefly on gender roles and other topics. More of the conversation to come. Thank you for listening. 

On #LukeCage, Interracial relationships, #NateParker on 60 minutes, Athletes locking arms, & growing up with white friends

We try our best to unpack another horrible reminder of the reality of the Black experience in America and discuss the impactful dialogues we had this week (1 Twitter, 1 Live).  Also, how this podcast has prepared us to for difficult conversations. and if we could we learn from and use the Jehovah's Witnesses method to raise Awareness for Black issues.

Catching up on the headlines - Diddy on Obama and Voting, Kaepernick getting support from womens soccer player Megan Rapinoe, Lena Dunham's racism and narcissism, and finally Donald Glover and his new FX Series Atlanta. 

On Colin Kaepernick and the burden of acknowledgment. The subjugated get ostracized for speaking up, the powerful lose power if they acknowledge their complicity in others’ subjugation - so both sides usually remain silent or deny the facts or criticize the methods of protest - leaving the problems unchallenged and unchanged.

This week we are just talking. We discuss the wide range of people included in Millennials, including ourselves, and make ourselves sound old by talking about “kids these days.” Also, should the millennial generation be split into those born with Dial-Up and those born with WiFi?

This week we discuss the online treatment of Leslie Jones after the release of Ghostbusters vs the treatment of Taylor Swift after her incident with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. In the convo, we discuss concepts of beauty, re-imagining fictional stories, online abuse, gatekeepers, social media, and Umar Johnson. 

This week we use the 30 for 30 Documentary, OJ: Made in America, to discuss American assimilation, the burden on the black athlete, and if Tiger Woods/Steph Curry represent the "counter-revolutionary" for the millennial generation.

This week we discuss our thoughts on President Obama's commencement speech at Howard Univerity and wonder if we've waited 7 years for the president we've wanted or if we are still waiting. 

This week we discuss the White House Correspondents Dinner which included criticisms of the media, particularly CNN and MSNBC, as well as a light roast of President Obama and the political scene in general. But the attention grabbing headline was the closing of Larry Wilmore Speech where he exclaimed, "Barry, You Did It My N*gga!" We used this as a launch point for a larger contextual conversation on the use of the N word in mixed company. 

This week we use the release of Lemonade by Beyonce as a launchpad for a great conversation on relationships, entertainers, infidelity, assimilation, and the irrational fear of blackness. We also touch a bit on the birdman interview at the breakfast club.