Honestly Speaking

The first female rapper Verzuz between Trina and Eve is coming up so we share our thoughts and whether its a good pairing. We also dive into Naomi Osaka bailing from the French Open to deal with her mental health and how much media should be required of athletes. And we wrap things up with the Tulsa Centennial and Farbs thoughts after being on the ground.

We bring back our friend, public defender, and founder of Zealous, Scott Hechinger. We dive into the media’s obsession with the crime rate and how much is fact vs fiction. Plus we get his take on the upcoming Manhattan DA and NYC Mayoral race and what he’s looking for from the candidates. 

This week we cover Israel/Palestine (01:49) and toward the end we get into gifted and talented programs and their history (26:53)

Today our friend Leon Ford rejoins the pod to discuss whether activists are asexual superheroes or just human beings with the same needs we all have, so listen up!

This week we jump into why 90 Day Fiancé is the human experiment this world desperately needed, the split between Bill and Melinda Gates, and the modern rules of infidelity.

We are back this week and we couldn’t help ourselves in discussing everyone’s favorite crazy Uncle, Dr. Umar Johnson’s recent appearance on the breakfast club. We honestly dive into the debate spurred by tech companies such as Coinbase and Basecamp over politics in the workplace. And finally, Willow Smith has come out as Poly and we break down our thoughts on the evolution of sexuality.

On this weeks episode we discuss the guilty verdict in the George Floyd case and what’s next, Tik Tokers and the history of appropriation, and Uncle Russ crashing the Verzuz party. 

No guests this week so we dive right into some of the weeks most controversial stories. We cover our thoughts on the cofounder of BLM and the business of activism, Kyrie Irving and the use of the N word, to Paul Pierce being fired by ESPN and stripper culture.

This week we are joined by boxer Patricio Manuel. Patricio made history in 2018 by becoming the first transgender boxer in the US to have a professional fight. We get into the the obvious conversation of Trans people in athletics, his thoughts on is gender a social construct, and some rationale behind why some well known people get so hot on this topic.

Religious and Twitter Activist, John Pavlovitz, joins the pod to convince us that religion has a role to play in American progress! Is love and empathy what we’re missing? Pull up to find out!