wherein, this one we welcome my Uncle David to the show. we've been foreshadowing and looking forward to this one. this episode is about family lore, memory keeping, role models, encyclopedias, and pheasant feathers. don't wait, talk to your elders. 
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wherein, this one we welcome back the homie Cameron Gray. Cam reached out because he needed to process some grief. i'm honored that he would choose me as a friend and BGWIO as a space to process the weight of loss. we ring the bell for Bama Gray and pray her travels are consecrated, the ancestors' embrace is warm, and God's peace prevails. àṣẹ. 
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wherein, this one is just me again. i wanted to talk with my Uncle Dave, but he couldn't make it (yet). so, instead, i talked about what my Uncle has taught me—through instruction, example, and caveat. this is about memory, caution, and those people who teach us where to go—even when they don't realize it.

Wherein, this one i fly solo again. i'm at the beginning of a retreat into myself. a path to self-love and self-parenting. sunrises over epiphanies. lucid dreams. the gravity of non-metabolized sadness. i hope you gain something from this work. 

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Wherein, this one i have the pleasure of welcoming my first born to the show. we start with corn sweat and talk about all the things we are wont to talk about as two scatterbrained individuals. he is my mirror, a bright shining reflection. this caps the Bros series. 

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this one is the second episode in a series of three episodes, wherein i chop it up with my suns. BGWIO had the pleasure of welcoming the middlest, Canaan, this time. he is a performing artist, thespian, musician, and singer. we riffed on making art, absorbing stinging critique, and "dysregulation of expectations." tune in to figure out wth that means.
guest: Canaan @canaanrofficial
 

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This one, we've got my youngest, Irie on the podcast. he's a recent high school graduate and my doppelganger in a few ways. wherein, we talked about Florida as a home to invasive species—including the wildest human animals, and getting out of Iowa ASAP. Guest: Irie @hateirie peace y'all❤️🖤💚

This one, Rae filled in for a rescheduled guest. we talked about our daily creative practice, the power of rituals, Marimba Ani's work and then some. 

Guest: Rae @raefehring

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This one features Cameron Gray, my artist comrade from Birmingham, AL, based out of Ames, IA. wherein we discuss family and longing, villainy, the beauty of antiheros like Damian Wayne and Logan, the beautiful game of basketball and its pantheon of orishas and demigods. 

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We recorded this one on Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Day. this wasn't one of those pedantic episodes—we're not spoon-feeding you factoids about MLK—you should've been studying MLK. 

we covered broad ground conceptually. this one was about everything from "integration into a burning house" to the State and its grudge against Black families, COINTELPRO, and its role in the BM vs. BW gender war. we gon' learn ya. 

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peace y'all, 

daron 

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