This week, I have designer, entrepreneur, model and songwriter Ni Amore on the podcast to talk about her aspirations for her brand, focusing on yourself, endurance in chasing your dreams and much more.

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This week, I have production wizard Christianna Yvonne on the podcast to talk about how she got into production, challenges of being a woman in a male-populated field, making her own production company, ambitions for the future and much more.

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This week, I have new friend and photographer/writer/artist Francisco Aguilar on the podcast. We check in on each other for like the first third of the episode, but for the remainder of it we get into pretty nerdy film talk. We talk overrated filmmakers, the new generation of filmmakers, our favorite films from 2021, my spicy Shang-Chi take and much more.

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This week, I have entrepreneur Elba Valdez on the podcast to talk about the drop of her clothing line “fckthwrld,” her journey getting there, goals and ambitious for it and much more.

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This week, I have good friend and personal trainer Sidi Thiam back on the podcast to talk about my love for white people, the Fresh And Fit situation, a lengthy discussion on what masculinity is and much more.

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This week, Kameo is back on the podcast! We talk about why Yeat is better than JAY-Z, old rappers who suck, the black shows I’m not watching, white culture, cultural appropriation, why there shouldn’t be billionaires and much more.

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This week, I have my oldest friend Jose Diaz on the podcast to talk about many of my traumas, our friendship, basketball, middle school memories, going back to exes, overthinking and much more.

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For the last podcast of 2021, I decided to do something special. Welcome to the first annual EMPTY Awards! The show is divided into four sections: Television (2:23), Movies (10:32), Music (17:50), and Empty Opinions Podcast (35:06). Thank you for an amazing year!

This week it’s just me on the podcast and IT’S MY BIRTHDAY! I talk about renting out a theater for my birthday (7:19), my general thoughts on No Way Home (21:38) and Roddy Ricch’s LIVE LIFE FAST (40:50), Omicron making Covid relevant again (51:06), Obama’s favorite songs of the year (54:50) and much more.

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This week I have author and poet Diakha Thiam on the podcast to talk about her latest poetry book “The Sweetest Nectar” (4:18), the struggles of finding the right partner (15:32), the rarity of the nurturing man (34:00), the early pressures of marriage for women (41:57), and her experience dealing with kids (47:49).

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