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Welcome to Episode 89 of 50Talk. Cathy and I are happy to be back with you all this week. Your boy got a bit worked up last week a little bit but I hope this time I can be a little more calm. If not, than oh well! This week with the Holiday Season getting closer were going to hitting you in the pocket on this episode. 

Before we get to far ahead of things I have to talk about McDonalds and their pricing and also their slow ass service. I don't eat fast-food a lot but damn Mickey D's! This place is gouging it's consumers with these crazy ass prices. What are your thoughts on their high prices? 

Last week while browsing Facebook I seen an article and video clip of Deion Sanders tell the media that his team got robbed! Some of his players had some jewelry stolen out of their lockers during the game. That hate and vitriol from some people was horrible. I have my opinions on these kids and all this money they are making but no one deserves to be robbed as a guest at someone house. 

Daylights Savings time was yesterday. How are you all feeling today? Did anyone forget to turn back their clocks? Cathy and I were both confused on whether this was even still a thing. It is and we still don't know why. Well anyway if you live in Ohio, welcome to the darkest five months. 

Today we are going to talk about Polls. Are any of you paying attention to the Presidential Polls already? Should we be paying attention now? Personally I still think it's to early but it seems like every type of Media outlet has a poll and this early in the game, I call bullshit!

Next up we're going t hit you guys with a list of Oprah's favorite things and also some of the "hottests tech gifts" on the market. Also, being the gamer that I am we're going to list some o the best video-games coming out in November and December. That's our Holiday Gift to you all. We will post the lists on our 50Talk Facebook Page so you all can see them too.  

Happy Veterans Day to all Veterans past and present and Happy Birthday to the United States Marine Corps. 248 years old sure does look good on Us! See you guys next week for Episode 90.

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Welcome back to 50 Talk, this is Episode 88 and Cathy and I are glad to be with you guys this week after a little time off. A lot has happened since we last spoke so make sure you get your popcorn and your Pop because its about to get crazy.  

This week we start the show off by talking about what we discussed in the last episode and that was the family stuff we had to deal with. This week we more or less walk you guys through the process of how we came to the decisions that we did. It really was an emotional weekend and we did a lot of talking through out. Teamwork and talking with each other really is a good thing. 

Next, since it's been almost two weeks since we've done a show we get into what's going on in Israel and The Gaza Strip. I've been trying to wrap my head around everything  that's been going on and thats been difficult. I'm trying to find out who did right and who did wrong and all I can come up with is that humanity is losing. To many innocent people and kids are being killed on both sides. 

A couple Republican Presidential Candidates have dropped out of the race and all I can say about both of them is "what took you so long"? Keeping with Politics we have to mention the new House Speaker and the shit show that is the Republican Party. Well Mike Johnson (no relationship) a Republican out of Louisiana found a way to get the entire party to vote for him. Can you believe that? I give a little history on our new Leader and it is truly up to par with the Extremists Party. They picked the right guy to represent them and their party. 

Next up we talk about the Mass Killer (terrorists) out of Lewiston, Maine. If you haven' heard he killed 18 people this week and was on the run for a couple days. The State Representative out of that district is Maine has a change of heart on automatic weapons all of a sudden. We also talk a little bit about mental illness and what my thoughts are on this terrorists and his illness. 

Enjoy this episode and we will see you all next week.  

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Welcome back to 50Talk. This is Episode 87 and your hosts are both happy to be back with you all today. This episode for us this week is both personal to our hearts and hopefully some good advice to other Interracial couples. Cathy and I celebrated our 27th wedding anniversary last week and that was just as our personalities are and that is pretty laid back and simple. We had a couple of hours of alone time and exchanged gifts and reminisced about the past 27 years. 

We also had some family in town visiting and it was my Moms 81st birthday. I was a beautiful celebration for her. So many smiles and lots of laughter with family celebrating her 81 years. Those moments are always cherished with family, and we enjoy all the time we can with family even if it's only for a few hours or a few days. 

Let's talk about the shit show that is the Republican Party, and all the goings on this week with the Speaker of The House and Matt Gaetz getting Kevin McCarthy removed. I really don't know why this happened and why at this time. I have been seeing some rumblings in other news paper articles that have an opinion on all of this. I tell who the two "potential" candidates are who want to fill the vacant seat. More misery and head scratching in these two picks from my opinion. 

Sorry for the technical issues for a minute in the audio. My computer froze up but at least the recording kept going. After the problems we get into 8 Tips on Navigating an Interracial Relationship. Also as we go we try to give examples of the various points and how they have impacted our relationship over the 27 years.  Also real quick we also give some challenges that you may face as an interracial couple. 

This leads into our main topic of "Family Dynamics" and the impact they have had and are having in our 27 years of marriage. Believe it or not we still do have outside influences who affect our relationship. As the couple we are,  of course we continue to move forward in life. This is a good topic considering all the good things, and all the family things Cathy and I were involved in this week. 

We hope you enjoy the show and please. If you have any comments or want to get in touch with us please hit our email at [email protected] If your offended by anything sad and your in our lives you know how to reach us. See y'all next week for Episode 88.     

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Welcome to 50Talk Episode 86. Cathy and I are once again glad to be with you guys again this week. We hope we can entertain you guys and  we hope to bring up sme good conversation. Also some good thought provoking conversation. So welcome to October, this is our 27th Wedding Anniversary week so we want to start the show off by talking our wedding week in 1996 and what was going on and what people were listening and partying to. So grab your headphones and a nice quiet spot.....Let's Go!

First we are going to start with the Top 10 songs in the country and in Europe for the week of October 1st, 1996. I know Cathy and I are familiar with this number one song because one of our favorite Cleveland Indians (Guardians now) used to play this each time he went up to the plate. The song is Macarena by Los Del Rio. Enjoy listening to the next nine songs. 

Next we go to the top 10 songs on the Rock Charts. These songs are also a part of me at that time in my life. I was heavy into the Grunge/Alternative music scene back in the day so I really enjoy looking back at all these songs. The number one song on the Rock Charts for the week of October 1st was What I Got from Sublime. That was my jam back in the day. Also enjoy listening to the rest of the top songs. 

Next we move on to some things that were going on the week of October 1st, 1996. I'm not even gonna ruin it in the description so your really going to have to listen to find out. We go on a little bit more and I ask Cathy what she remembers the most from that beautiful October day. This is fun and then she asks me the same thing. We definitely recall some different things. So it's cool to see what was on her mind as well as mine. 

Someone has finally been arrested in the murder of Tupac Shakur. It's only been 27 years but I know I never thought the day would come but here we are with someone finally in custody. 

We briefly talk a little college football and also a movie that Cathy and I sat down and watched on friday evening. If you all get a chance go and watch Antebellum. We watched it on Amazon Prime Video. The movie came out in 2022 so it is a little bit older but still a very "thought provoking Movie". I tried not to give spoilers but I may have slipped a little bit. We will hopefully be talking about the movie again in episode 87 next week. 

Next up and the final topic of the show is on the 2nd Republican Presidential Debate from early last week. Who won this debate, who stood out above the others or whom did you all think did the best. Of course I'm going to give you all my honest opinion.So for sure grab a quiet spot and grab your headphones and listen up. 

Thank you all for joining us this week as we get closer to Episode 100. See yall next week. If you want to get in touch with us please do so at [email protected] 

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Welcome to Episode 85 of 50Talk. Cathy and I are glad to back with you guys again this week. We are still on our groove putting this show out regularly.  We're putting this out right before your lunch or your drive home. Don't forget about our Social Media sites if you want more of us. You can find us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Also if you use TunedIn for your podcast listening you can find us there now. 

We got a couple emails since the last episode and we are so happy So thank you Marc and Kyla for taking time out of your day to get in touch with us. First up is Kyla's topics and she wanted to know our opinion on the NetFlix docu-series Painkillers. We had already talked about that previously but thank you any way. She also wanted to know our opinion on the song "Bongos" by CardiB and Meagan The Stallion. Well now that you mentioned it we have an opinion....Of course!

My man Marc also hit us up on our email wanting to know my stance on Deion Sanders and his career on the field compared to his coaching now at Colorado. I think Marc misunderstood my feeling about Deion but I hope I cleared it up. He also mentioned my support of Colin Kaepernick. I hope we answered your questions Marc and Thank you for the email.

I watched the disastrous game this week against Oregon and they just didn't looked prepared for what Oregon was bringing. I think with all this hype the kids and coaching staff are getting lost. I think the loss will get them re-focused and back to earth. You just can't win them all the time. I have every confidence in Deion and his team. 

We also talk a little bit about Customer Service. This week I had a horrible interaction with SiriusXM and their automated texting/chat. Is this what we all are going to have to deal with from now on?  Has Customer Service turned into this? 

Next up we talk about "getting to comfortable in your relationships" and Cathy is bringing the knowledge. Y'all know we use this show as therapy so grab your chairs and buckle up. Your hearing this raw and uncut. Also, what do you guys do on "quiet days"? Days like that are the best. You get to grab a book or magazine and just chill. Are you al having them as well? 

Last up this week is my appearance on the Michael Smerconish Show on SiriusXM. I had a chance to call in and it was pretty cool I think. You can hear the phone call on our 50Talk Facebook page and also we continue the conversation from his show this week. We hope you guys enjoy the show and we will see you all next week. 

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Welcome back to 50Talk. This is episode 84 and your hosts are glad that you all could join us again and talk about the things that we feel are relevant today and worthy of further conversation. We would love for you guys to join in on the conversation to. Please send us an email at [email protected] and also join us on our Social Media sites. That being Facebook, Instagram and the TicTok. 

This week we start the show off with a Facebook post that I noticed this week. The topic of the post was "He can cook, he is neat, he knows God, he doesn't drink, he sticks to one woman and doesn't cheat. Where is he?" The first comment I seen set me off but I decided to keep reading comments only to get more pissed.  What was the point of the post and what does that say about people. Cathy and I try to make a conversation out of this post. 

Let's stay on the topic of Social Media a little while longer. Why do some people have to post every damn thing on Social Media? I've seen people post relatives in bed dying, relative dead in a coffin and their prayers to God a if he is on Social Media. Is there anything that's private or personal anymore?  

I read a few articles this week about the Republican Presidential Candidate Tim Scott and the fact that he isn't married or that he doesn't have kids.  He's a 56 year old man running for the biggest office in the world. Most Presidents have been married in the history of the U.S. Is this a problem for you? What if he was actively dating while in the White House? Who is going to be our 1st Lady? 

This week Pennsylvania State Troopers finally tracked down a prisoner who escaped custody almost two weeks ago. This guy was running around stealing shit, he got his hands on vehicle and a rifle. The problem with the story is once they tracked him down they just had to take a picture with there "Hunt".  Does this type of behavior bother you and what are your thoughts of them doing it in public? 

Rolling Stone Magazines Co-founder Jann Wemmer has been removed from his seat with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Leadership due to some comments he made about his new book and his lack of interviewing Black Woman and Black Men. In 2023 we still are letting people white wash our history and our impact on a lot of things. Black men and women I feel are the reason we have Rock & Roll. Without them their would be no Rock & Roll. 

This season of College football so far has been the best. My Buckeyes gave me a good solid win this week going into Notre Dame week and Deion Sanders and his Buffaloes are still doing amazing things on the football field. He has these kids playing at a high level and they are all so disciplined. They came out on top of a dogfight with Colorado State late last night after double overtime. They are really fun to watch but next week against Oregon could be the real test. 

This week we Recognize the 60th Anniversary of the bombing of The 16th St. Baptists Church in Birmingham, Alabama where four little girls died. That was a tragic day in our history but let's not forget  and learn from it and move forward together. Ignoring this history won't make it go away. We all need to look it in the face.  Cathy and I had the honor of visiting that church last year and we both realized that it's a special place. 

Thank you all for joining us this week. We will see you all next week for Episode 85.

     

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Welcome back to 50Talk. We are glad you all decided to join us again. I personally hope I didn't scare anyone off after last weeks intense episode. Hey I can't help it, I get passionate about somethings and coffee doesn't help either.  This week Cathy and I are back on track to start this fall season. We're getting the show out on time and promoting our Social Media sites. We do hope to start getting some guest back on to join in on the conversation.  So back to Episode 83. Let's Get It!

This week we start the show off by talking about some College Football. We are into week two of the season and the games have been incredible. Kind of feels like the season just picked up where it left off. My team is undefeated and Alabama has one loss. What I really want to talk about is Deion Sanders and his Colorado Buffaloes. They are the talk of sports these past few weeks and so far they deserve it. Shadeur Sanders is playing at a high level and deserves the praise he's been getting. Listen to me go on about how Deon got to Colorado and what he did for his son. 

Victor wants to know  "What is going on in our bedroom" . Get your minds out of the gutter, but this is a good conversation that I think we all can relate too. At least I think. We have this big giant bed we don't use half of it. Enjoy this  conversation and if you want to add more to it please send us an email at [email protected]

Now we both want to know "why people change in relationships",  we've been together for almost 30 years and man is the relationship changing. We are not perfect and we really do want to hear from you guys about what you think is the deal. We may come across as if we aren't getting along but we are. We're just fine, we're just trying to figure some things out as we move forward. 

I had a medical procedure last week and Cathy told me I'm a horrible patient! Well, why am I a terrible patient you ask? I just don't like pain and when it's around it could possibly change everything. So you never know what kind of patient your gonna get.

Why did the NFL allow YouTube Television customers the ability to purchase The Sunday Ticket? For years it's only been on Directv and that's it. Why all of a sudden did they switch? I have a theory but to me the NFL can kick rocks on whatever platform. Staying with the entertainment, Cathy and I (mostly me) have been watching Lioness on Paramount TV and Ahsoka on Disney Plus. They have to be the summers best shows in mind any way. If you have either of those services you have to check them both out.

To end the show we close it with a big "Congratulations" to Coco Gauf for winning the U.S. Open. Her first Grand Slam title and she is only 19 years old. This win didn't come without controversy though. Her opponent was pushing the limits during the entire match. We discuss and my rationale is Whit Fragility of this new word I heard today, "Caucasity". You tell me what you think about what happened and her response. 

Thanks for joining us this week, We hope to see you all back next week for Episode 84 and as we move closer to our 100th episode.  
 

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Good afternoon and welcome to 50Talk. This is Episode 82 and Victor and Cathy have a great show lined up for you all. This episode is filled with passion. You can tell by me (Victor) getting all hyped and sweaty.  We do want to say we love having the difficult conversations and that also would like to continue those difficult conversations. If you want to continue please send me an email at [email protected] . I would love to hear from you all. 

This week we start the show talking about our family reunion we just had over the past weekend. The McKinney, Craig & Austin Annual Reunion was a success. Cathy and I joined with six or seven other family members over the last few months and planned this whole thing out. We are all very happy with the outcome. We hope you enjoy that conversation and also al the statistics Cathy laid out for family reunions. She is definitely the brains of this organization.

We work our way into the next conversation straight off of Family Reunion talk because we got a book from our Uncle Bobby. "The 1619 Project Born On The Water", it's a children's book and man, let me tell you. This sparked some serious conversation between Cathy and I even before we hit record. So brace yourself and get ready for this.

That transitions right into our next topic with that being the Republican Presidential Debate that took place lasts Tuesday on Fox News. My opinion about the debate is up front and I also give my well wishes to the person whom I think helped their Presidential Campaign the most. Also in this part of the conversation we have to talk about "The Monster" that is Vivek Ramaswamy. This guy is a clear and present danger to America and he has to be put out of the race. I knew the 1st time I seen him on CNN with Don Lemon that he was nutts. 

That conversation transitions to the 18 Mugshots an 18 indictments including Former President Donald J. Trump with his "Legendary" mugshot. This dude thought about the tough guy face he was gonna put on so he could Con his followers into giving him money and make himself out to be the victim (like he always does). We also talk about "White Christian Nationalists" and what they are all about and also a Netflix five part series I watched called "The Family" about this religious group that infiltrates our politics starting way, way back in the days. They are the people who started the Presidential Prayer Breakfast.  

We hope you guys enjoy this episode as much as we did recording for you. My passion is on Full display this entire episode. Also thanks to coffee for getting me all hyped up this morning. Enjoy the show and we hope to see you all next week. 

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Welcome back to 50Talk. This week Cathy opens the show. How special is that? We are happy to be back this week. We have a lot to talk about because we have been doing a lot. I love Cathy's (scripted) opening, she said " Hopefully we can give you some valuable information and spark some conversation" . We would love to continue any conversation we have with you guys. We know that sometime ya'll be yelling at us on the other end and just want to keep the debate going. We understand that. Just send us an email and we can continue the conversation. Hell, we could even get you on the show to finish things or just agree to disagree. We're cool either way. That's what we're for.

We went to Louisville, Kentucky last week and had a blast. We loved the city and we look forward to going back again real soon. We even got our son Max to join us and even try some of the great bourbon Kentucky has to offer. We had some good food and even had a chance to go to a Cigar Bar across the river into Indiana. We had a really good time on the trip.

I do have a pet-peeve though! I hate when I search for a good restaurant and they display  their food in styrofoam containers or on paper plates. I know most of the picture are probably during Covid. I get that, but Covid is "over" now so get rid of them. It annoys the hell out of me. The restaurants we went to luckily did use paper products, thank goodness. We had some really good southern food while we were there.  That's why I love going South, I like to eat.

In Ohio we had a "Special Election" a couple Tuesdays ago. They meaning our Republican House tried to trick the Voters, thinking we weren't paying attention and we proved them wrong. We had more people vote that the last Presidential Election it said. Issue 1 went down in flames. Thank you Ohio for putting a smile on my face again when it comes to voting.

Lets go quickly to Mississippi and talk about this "Special Police Unit" that calls themselves the Goon Squad. Well they got to stand in front of a judge and plead guilty to torturing two black men for two hours and shooting one of them in the mouth. These police and there Police Chief need to be in jail. This is 2023 and things like this shouldn't be going on, but sadly they are and hopefully we have a positive outcome from this case. That outcome being jail for these criminals.

Global warming is a real thing and it is showing us this summer with this crazy weather. Cathy says that we have no control of the weather once it's out there. No one has control when you look at it. We all need to be conscientious of what we're doing when it come to polluting the air. The earth is on fire and we need to get it under control. Out West they were having temps in the 100's for a month straight and in Ohio we are barely having a summer.

Finally we talk about the "Legend" John Denver or is it Bob Denver and all of hit musical hits. Does he belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of fame? We had this discussion off air last week and Cathy was cracking up!

We hope you enjoy the show and Please join us again next week for another fun filled show . Email us at [email protected] if you want to continue the conversation.  Also welcome any of our Family to the show. We hope you enjoy and aren't offended by the adult conversation.    

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Welcome back to 50Talk. Cathy and I are really glad to be ack with you guys. It's been a long and busy summer for us especially the month of July. We have been doing so much this past month. I think I need a vacation from all the stuff we've been doing. We would like to send out a very special "Thank You" to our Friends Eric & Johnna for coming up this past weekend and spending some time with us and getting to see some of what the North Coast of Ohio has to offer. 

Eric used to be one of my co-host on my former podcast, The 40cast for a lot of years a long time ago. I always put an extra effort into my podcast brothers and what we did outside of podcasting and I will say that Eric and his family and The Johnsons are family to this day.  We had such a great time hanging out by the fire and drinking with them this week. I look forward to us getting together real soon.

Well, we definitely have some catching up to  so I'm gonna start wit one of the most controversial topics of the last two weeks. That damn Jason Aldean music video (who the fuck does videos these days anyway) and all the "dog whistles'" in that hateful shit! He should be ashamed of himself and the video producers should be as well. I have other choice words for all of them but I would rather say them to all their faces.  My opinion on this topic is strong an that video continues to eat at me today even after only watching it once. 

We have to talk about my guy (not so much) Ron DeSantis and his idiocy of inviting our Vice President Kamala Harris to debate him in Florida about the benefits slavery gave to the enslaved. Yeah, you heard that right. Slaves got some benefit out of being en-slaved. They learned skills that they could us out in the job force with all the other captured  folks. I'm so glad the VP turned down this ridiculous invitation to keep that buffoon from embarrassing himself in his run for President. 

Real quick, we talk about the DOJ and the FBI and the so called "weaponization" by the Democrats and them going after Trump. I think it's downright hilarious that they think it's wrong for Trump to have to pay for his crimes. The history of the FBI and the DOJ hasn't always been the kindest to certain people at certain times, but that was okay back in the day. 

On to some talk about how wrong it is for the DOJ and the Special Counsel to go after Trump for his supposed "1st amendment rights". He has the freedom of speech and this is just what he did. Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences of you actions through your words.  And also how this is "political", well no shit it's political. Your a Politician and you broke the law (or plenty of laws). If he is so affended by that then he just get out of the race for President and clear his name and afterwards get back into the race the next time around. 

Really, Really quick we talk about our busy month of July and some of the things we did. I just want to sit and recover now.

We all know the woman's World Cup of Soccer is going on and one of the most prolific veterans on the team has made the news n a not so great way, says Megan Kelley! She has "poisoned" the entire team.  Enjoy this and give me your opinion on the topic if you will at [email protected]

Final topic of this extended episode is another Police shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota of a black man. Not to much info is out about he situation but the investigation is on-going and three Patrol officers have been put on leave. 

We hope you all enjoy the episode and if you could leave us some feedback. We talked about a lot of sensitive topics today. Please feel free to leave us an e-mail at [email protected] We would love to hear from you and continue the conversation.