Kriss is joined by Aaron from the Black Astronauts podcast. It's a random and lighter show than the last several ones. We talk about Destiny 2 being addicting and why studios should stop putting their movies out around Star Wars (and other big blockbusters that always bury their films). We then talk about Kriss' simple tweet that went viral and what it says about what people think of when it comes to diversity in films. Why is white the default even for women? Why can't James Bond be black? We also hit the Jemele Hill ESPN issue and also discuss phone prices. Like I said...it was a random show.

Topics:

* Destiny 2 is even more addicting than Destiny 1

* Kathleen Kennedy had JJ Abrams in her back pocket

* Stop putting your films near other blockbuster films

* Kriss goes viral

* Red Sparrow trailer

* Why is the default always white?

* There are no non-white people in Russia apparently

* Why can't James Bond be black?

* Arrow wants to do a Black Lives Matter episode (just no)

* Jemele Hill and the mess ESPN created 

* Calling White Supremacists 'White Supremacists' is more offensive than being a White Supremacist

* The ESPN internal chat messages over ESPN's handling of the Hill situation

* Do You Even Sci-Fi Bro?

* You can rent a used sex doll in China

* Why the debate over phone prices explains the issues with getting Universal Healthcare.

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This week Kriss is joined by Rich Jones to talk about all the craziness in the world. We talk about a lot of topics starting with how group think and pressure to conform to traditions leads to people feeling forced into doing certain things. Kriss tells his own hilarious story about faking speaking in tongues. We then move on to talking about all the hurricanes and how vulnerable the certain people are. Then finally there's a discussion about the sexism powerful ambitious women face.

Topics:

* Kriss tells the story of when he faked speaking in tongues as a kid in church

* Some are too poor to evacuate hurricane Irma 

* Why does the media cover disasters like outside observers instead of helping?

* Asking if Kathleen Kennedy is the right person to lead LucasFilms is blatant sexism

* Two films, grossing $3 billion but her credentials are questioned

* Sexism in the 2016 election (and after)

* Hillary Clinton needs to shut up (even though Bernie didn't and Mitt Romney didn't)

* Hillary is actually right

* Great Moments in White Privilege

* Teens start forest fire. No one arrested

* Black Woman Shoutout

* SupportBlackWomen.com - Donate directly to black women affected by Harvey and Irma

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On this Labor Day Weekend Insanity Check, Kriss is joined by Ashanti (DocuDrunks, Scarestalgia). We talk Joel Osteen and prosperity preaching, Antifa vs Neo-Nazis & the dangers of "both side-isms", Cops violating people's rights again and more. Oh and Ashanti gets her fun in by talking sports. Yes sports.

Make sure you stick around for the last 11minutes for a special message from Latoya about the FEMA response and how to get help because of hurricane Harvey.

Topics:

* Joel Osteen is a scam artist

* If you're worth $50 million, you don't have to ask to host flood victims

* Mattress Mack didn't have to ask (or be asked)

* Prosperity Preachers are basically pimps

* Juanita Bynum and her $5000 pen & $20,000 threshing floor

* Antifa vs Nazis...its really not a choice

* This is a bad article on "both side-isms"

* Really say out loud the differences between Antifa & Nazis to see how silly it is

* Cops being terrible

* Black Lives Matter are "rabid animals"

* Cop arrests nurse for protecting a patient

* Great Moments in White Privilege

* White rapist gets sentence postponed so his internship isn't affected

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Leslie from Safety Pin Box is back on the Insanity Check with Kriss to give us an update on Safety Pin Box, white allies not "getting it", Trump's Friday new dump and how to navigate and reconcile wanting radical change but also dealing with the reality of what America is.

Topics:

* Safety Pin Box Update

* Netroots direct action

* Book deal and navigating the publishing world as black women

* Expanding Safety Pin Box

* Daniel Radcliffe tells us racism isn't enough to end a friendship

* The Friday Trump News Drop

* Neo-Nazi sympathizer Sebastian Gorka is fired/resigns (but it doesn't matter)

* Trump signs a memo telling military to ban transgender people

* Trump pardons Joe Arpaio  

* Reconciling wanting to end imperalism but also recognizing what the military is for transgender people

* Joe Arpaio is a terrible human being

* Yes we would have been better under Hillary Clinton, no we don't think she was our white savior 

* How do we reconcile wanting radical change but also live in the reality of today?

* Dems & the Left have an uphill battle because of gerrymandering 

* What's the balance between activism and dealing with the reality of America and actually getting governing done?

* Great Moments in White Privilege

* Pastor says there would be no white supremacists without Obama

* Black Woman Shoutout

* Dr. Zohra Aziza Baccouche is a Ph.D.-level theoretical physicist; one of a very few Black women, let alone blind Black women, theoretical physicists.  

She's is currently raising funds for her next documentary called "Seeking Vision" and will be a guest on "Molecules & Shit" soon

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Justin from Three Fifs Podcast is back on the Insanity Check with Kriss. We'd like to say this was an episode about nothing but fun stuff but thanks to having a white nationalist and racist man in the White House...well...things don't go that way.

Topics:

* Taking mental health days from work

* The new Academy President doesn't seem to get it

* How to deal with the Nazi/Neo-Confederate/White Supremacists

* Stop romanticizing the Civil War

* Stop entertaining the ‘its about protecting history’ argument

* Why all Civil War Statues look the same

* When the most Confederate Statues were erected 

* Stop Interviewing "The Black friend"

* Gianno Caldwell cries 

* But this is also Gianno 

* The LGBTQ rainbow flag is the same as the confederate flag

* #NeverForget Neo-Nazis were even too racist for Boston

* Stop letting the GOP get away with calling themselves “the party of lincoln”

* The DCCC found a backbone and calls out racist GOP members of Congress 

* Look at the GOP Platform vs the Democrat Platform

* Where is racial justice in the GOP official platform?

* Why is bigotry a part of GOP platform? (against gay marriage)

* Why is there no mention of African Americans in GOP platform?

* Where are the black lives matter/the police are attacking black people candidates in the GOP?

* Both Sides are the same?

* Remember, white supremacy is more dangerous to America than “radical islam”

* The almost terror attack you didn't hear about

* Shaming Not Sheet Caking Works

* The Rise and fall of Chris Cantwell

* Don’t let people off the hook

* Do You Even Sci-Fi Bro?

* Alexa can control exoskeletons? This will end poorly

* Great Moments in White Privilege

* Man brags about getting paid while not going into his 166k job

* Black Woman Shoutout

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On this episode of the Insanity Check, Kriss is joined by Joi from Black Girl Nerds and we talk about the murder and mayhem that happened in Charlottesville, VA due to white nationalists showing their asses. We push back against the narrative that "this isn't America" because the truth is, what happened in Charlottesville is very American.

Topics:

* Rotten Tomatoes and white critic's narrow views

* America treats Nazis & Hitler as end game bosses that were defeated long time ago

* The Nazi summer camps for kids in 1930's America

* Operation Paperclip

* Wernher von Braun not only was a Nazi who became the head of NASA but almost got a Medal of Freedom

* America has been the melting pot for racists from the KKK to Nazis for ever

* The Myth of Robert E Lee

* Trump has these people in his own administration

* Extremism and the Military 

* White Supremacists want to start their own tech companies

* Do You Even Sci-Fi Bro?

* Sure..let's make cyborg beetles

* Great Moments in White Privilege

* Mom surprised other parents are upset she used her breast milk for brownies for the whole class

* Black Woman Shoutout

* Precise Portions

Guest:

Joi - @JumpedforJoi - Black Girl Nerds

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We're back from the two week break! We took some time off for San Diego Comic-Con but we're back now and here with a great episode you're not going to miss. Kriss is joined by the host of Unanimous Decision, Dpalm and...right out the gate things get out of hand. We mix the funny (Men taping their dick tips as an alternative to condoms) to the serious (Addressing and calling out transphobia) and finishing off with a recap of news out of San Diego Comic-Con. You're not going to want to miss this episode.

Topics:

* Dpalm Strikes Back

* American Vandal - #WhoDrewTheDicks

* Jiftips - For the idiots who want raw sex and think scotch taping their dicks is smart

* Being Transphobic isn't funny

* Dave Chappelle opens with 20 minutes of transphobic jokes

* The danger that Transgender men & women face from just admitting they're transgender

* You can't #NotAllChristians the history of transphobia/homophobia away

* Profiles in Courage

* Ivanka Trump

* Caitlyn Jenner

* SDCC News

* What's DC doing this time?

* Will Ben Affleck stay on as Batman?

* Is Flashpoint going to happen?

* The Defenders and Inhumans

* SKRULLS!!!!

* Thor Ragnarok, Black Panther, Infinity War

* Black Trans/Non-Gender Conforming Shoutout

* 10 Trans woman/Non-Binary activists to follow

This is a list that I got from Leslie from SafetyPinBox of transgender individuals and groups you can donate to. You can also sign up for the Marsha P Johnson Safety Pin Box for a list of ally tasks:

* https://www.glaad.org/transgender/transfaq

* https://transgenderlawcenter.org/give

* https://salsa4.salsalabs.com/o/51171/p/salsa/donation/common/public/?donate_page_KEY=8966

* https://cash.me/$RaquelWillis 

* http://paypal.me/queerdykekylie 

* https://cash.me/$AishaGuled 

* https://www.paypal.me/j0c3 

* https://cash.

I know I know, we weren't supposed to have any more Insanity Check episodes this month. But then Buzzfeed dropped an article about what one of America's most infamous serial pedophiles is up to currently and well, fuckery happened. It's no secret that R Kelly is a pedophile but the way he's able to not only get away with it but thrive financially from it is sickening. And I'm tired of it. I'm tired of the defenses of him. I'm tired of him being able to get away with it. I'm tired of the blame going solely to black women. I'm tired of people acting like R Kelly is able to be a sexual predator because of the enablers around him.

So that's why there's a show. Its just me (Kriss) with a bit of a rant. But I needed to get this shit out of my head before I fly out to San Diego. Don't need this bullshit to follow me to the West Coast.

For those that can stomach it, the Village Voice article on all the claims against R Kelly.

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Last Insanity Check before the break and it's a good one. We've been avoiding the politics talk for the last few episodes but its back this week with guest L Joy Williams. We spend most of this episode talking to L Joy about her new show, #SundayCivics and what's needed to change the discussion around getting involved in politics. So much of our politics has become binary and marked in terms of "winners and losers". But the reality is, we need to get back to basics and talk about how the educational system in this country, has eroded our foundation. People don't know what it means to be involved with civic action or how to even begin.

Topics:

Getting mansplained at the electronic store

How to engaged people with discussions on Civics

The amount of vital information we aren't taught in schools is amazing

Betsy DeVos met with "Men's Rights" groups

Slow down in Title IX cases

The fight over textbooks is partly responsible for where we are today

The textbook that calls Mexicans lazy

Do You Even Sci-Fi Bro

Sex Bots are going to be our doom

Black Woman Shoutout

Tasha Chambers - The InnovateHers

Guest:

L Joy Williams - @LJoyWilliams - SundayCivics.org

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We're back. Kriss is joined in studio by Jaxx (@JaxxDynamite). Jaxx will be bringing his new podcast to the MTR Network and we need your help to decide on the name: Boom Goes the Dynamite or Ratchet & Drank. There will be a poll on Twitter soon and you can also email us what you think.

As for topics, we're able to avoid politics (for the most part) for the second week in the row. We talk about killing Nazis (in the virtual video game world), the word Blerd and the negativity sometimes surrounding it, nerds using being bullied to justify being terrible people, self driving cars and more.

Topics:

* The Wolfenstein games are great (Plus you get kill Nazis)

* The problem with "Blerds"

* Smart black people who turn on other black people because they got picked on

* Black male nerds who parrot the same problematic views of white nerds

* Fox suspends Charles Payne for sexual harassment claims

* That time Charles Payne whined about the black community to Glenn Beck

* The Breakfast Club gets space for Dr Wesley Muhammed's idiocy

* Do You Even Sci-Fi Bro

* Self driving cars can't recognize Kangaroos

* Great Moments In White Privilege

* White Student made 'co-valedictorian' with black student despite having lower GPA

* Black Woman Shoutout

* Misha's More Better Butters -  Mishasmorebetterbutter.com

Guest:

Jaxx - @JaxxDynamite

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