Black in the Middle

Grab a Cliff bar, an apple or something off the $1 menu because you might get hungry listening to this episode. How important was food in your household growing up? What were some of the ways food made you into the person you are today? The crew tackles these questions about most of our favorite thing to do - eat, and they do it without a morsel in sight. 

This is the food episode so stick with BITM as the journeys through life's lessons, challenges and experiences through the lens of mastication.

It's August and the weather is perfect, football is back, kids going to school and white people are going extinct. This episode is packed with jokes, facts, tips, politics, pop culture references, disasters, memories and more! 

Herman was recently asked, "Who are you?" No he wasn't interviewing for a new job but this introspective exercise to knowing thyself was helpful in putting together a long term plan for himself, his fam and his career. So let's give a shot shall we!?

The crew answers questions about their most important personal possessions, true motivation, areas they've made progress in, areas they lack in, greatest struggles that taught the greatest lessons and things they need to let go of...among others.

Let's see here: not leaving the house, not bathing, contemplating life, love and the loss of some hopes and dreams and feeling a bit of anxiety and apathy about things. Sounds like a midlife crisis to me, oh wait, that's just the pandemic.

Listen to the crew as they unpack the similarities between the pandemic that covid-19 has put us all in and a midlife crisis.

Wait...what happens if you're going through both at the same time? Fuuuhhhh....

This episode is not all doom and gloom. The crew comes up with solutions on how to get ahead of a midlife crisis" as well as how to deal with one.

Happy 40th Birthday to Mr. Herman Brady Watson. He's looking and feeling good for Middle Age but there are quite a few things that are different now. Listen to Tim and Herman talk about what it's like to be at the "halfway point of life" and listen to Travis hold on to his youth at 39.33333.

How has the aging process affected you aesthetically, physically and mentally?

And the big question, how has your maturity kept up with your age? Are the two connected? And what factors impact them? The crew shares their middle aged perspective on middle age, looking back on life and looking forward into the future.

Let's talk about the idea of being woke: what it is, how it began, how it's going and what it has brought to the conversation. The crew breaks down a few levels of wokeness as well as discusses wokeness burnout, topics of wokeness and wokeness outcomes. So tune in and please don't sleep on this episode.

Do you see things as just black and white or do you tend to live a bit more in the gray area. The crew runs thru some recent examples such as Sha'Carri Richardson and the accountability & reaction she received. George Floyd and the consequence of writing bad check while being black and others.

Two defining and different approaches to life: Moral Absolutism is an ethical view that all actions are intrinsically right or wrong, while Consequentialism is when the morality of an act depends on the consequences or context of the act. 

What a summer this is becoming...Britney Spears Conservatorship, Free Bill Cosby, Trump Org & CFO Indictment, Florida Tower Collapse, CRT is still a shit-show, NCAA rules in favor of athletes getting paid, First Openly Gay NFL Player ( Sorry Michael Sam), First Transgender (woman, born a man) from New Zealand to compete in Olympics...and so much more!

Tennis Star Naomi Osaka has made recent headlines for stepping away from the French Open and now more recently choosing not to play Wimbledon due to mental health. The BITM crew gives their take on her situation and relates it to their experience as employees, managers and owners of companies small and large.

What IS an employer's responsibility when it comes the mental wellness of its employees? When work colleagues or your employees are going through it…how do you balance the want to help versus the need to drive performance?

All this and more in another mental health focused episode. 

This episode is absolutely lit! That's why its 109 minutes. Well, we got stories about building legacies, establishing a solid foundation in your family, related Tuskegee airmen, the role of good Uncles, being a good person, entrepreneurship and the hustle, racist run-ins with surgeons and high school kids, the importance of sports and musical instruments and so, so much more.

You're welcome.