As protest continue to spawn new conversations the idea of abolishing and de-funding the police has become a national and international topic.

Is de-funding the police simply left wing lunacy or a viable possibility. We will discuss the results of protests and the reactions we are seeing from institutions and individuals across the globe.

As the world struggles to process the death of George Floyd's public murder, protests rage across the country in the early part of June 2020 as the world is enraptured in a resurgent Black Lives Matter movement. In this episode we explore police brutality, classism, racism, and a host of other topics that are as controversial as they are timely. The world is changing and we spend two hours breaking it apart piece by piece.

On May 25, Minneapolis officers arrested George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, after a convenience store employee called 911 and told the police that Mr. Floyd had bought cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill. Seventeen minutes after the first squad car arrived at the scene, Mr. Floyd was unconscious and pinned beneath three police officers, with a knee to the neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, no longer showing signs of life. Protests erupt immediately! Within two days of the incident protestors burn down the 3rd Precinct building of the Minneapolis Police Department.

With 40 Million unemployed in America, people are losing hope. While others are able to work from home, we are are feeling the sense that a New Normal is upon us.

For some, working from home has been an opportunity to reconnect with family, for others it has been frustratingly unproductive and distracting.

However, the news is not all bad. Human beings possess the ability to uniquely respond and adapt when faced with catastrophic challenges. Adversity has a silver lining. What problems can you solve or business can you start in this time of great change?

Was the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia a case of mistaken identity or a deep seeded result of systemic racism in America? Mr. Arbery, a 25-year-old black man, was chased by armed white residents of a South Georgia neighborhood. They were arrested months later after a viral video surfaced that woke America out of it's COVID-19 focus. In this episode we dig deep into the events that took place that day, giving you a moment by moment playback of the events that led to the arrest of Gregory McMichael and his son Travis McMichael.

Is Covid-19 our black swan moment? A black swan is an unpredictable event that is beyond what is normally expected of a situation and has potentially severe consequences. Black swan events are characterized by their extreme rarity, their severe impact, and the widespread insistence they were obvious in hindsight.

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