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Last show before Black Panther drops and Kriss brings on a special guest, the host of Secret Sauce, Latoya. Kriss talks to Latoya about starting her business, the challenges she's faced and what the scariest thing of the whole thing has been. Then it's on to the topics of the week and let's just say, white moderates need to do better.

Topics:

Starting a business as a black woman

Let Black people have their fun with Black Panther

White moderates are so disappointing

White people that want to say 'nigga'

Bill Maher and Bari Wess worry about a "police state" from #MeToo (cause they're stupid)

Great Moments in White Privilege

A Nazi is running unopposed in a Republican primary

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Kriss is joined this episode by Aaron from the Black Astronauts Podcast network. This is yet another different Insanity Check where we drop some of our more familiar segments and just have a conversation. Kriss and Aaron give advice to new podcasters and creatives on how to build a community. They also talk about some of the tax and financial information that we don't learn as kids but probably should.

This is another informative episode that you're not going to want to miss.

Topics:

Advice to people following their creative passions

Playing the long game

We need to teach financial literacy at a younger age

The new tax bill and how it could affect you

Getting money back for Taxes isn't actually a great thing

Father almost beats up Larry Nassar in court

Why Uma Thurman is angry (fuck Quentin Tarantino)

Monique's Netflix deal was way worse than her being underpaid

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This is a special Insanity Check. This week Kriss was reminded that he launched his first website, TheInsanityReport.com which then led to the Insanity Check podcast, 11 years ago. He's joined by Rod from The Black Guy Who Tips and they talk about what got them into Podcast, what lessons they've learned and give advice to those who want to start. They also reminisce about the infamous 4LOKO Podcast Party.

Topics:

Black Panther is almost here

It's been 11 years since Kriss started the Insanity Report, almost 10 for podcasting

The lessons Rod & Kriss learned about podcasting

What got Rod & Kriss to start podcastin

Larry Nassar gets prison

What do people want from Democrats?

Reality is much more complicated than the bubbles we live in

More delusional Trump voters

Great Moments in White Privilege

Teacher gets paid leave after telling students to turn their "nigger music" off

Jessica Chastain gets Octavia Spencer a pay raise

Check out the Black Panther gear we have in our Amazon Store!

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We’re back with the latest Insanity Check episode and we have a lot to talk about. It’s no longer funny: We really have to discuss this whole Sex Bot thing going on. Make no mistake, sex bots will be what kill us all. I’m not even joking. It all goes down from here. 

Oh and we end this episode by scaring the shit out of you. You're welcome.

Topics:

YouTube makes changes that hurt smaller creators

We need to have a real conversation about Sex Bots

Sex Dolls vs Sex Bots

Sex Bots will be the end of humanity

As men we're taught at a young age to be predators

Larry Nassar complains that its "too hard" to listen to his 150 victims 

No, you're not seeing the GOP Tax Cuts in your paycheck now

Chris Christie blocked from VIP entrance to airport

Bring back the Darwin Awards: Kids are eating Tide Pods

Great Moments in White Privilege

White supremacists killed more people than any other extremist group

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Mid-Week Mini-Insanity Check content. I wanted to take a minute to comment on some of the things I've been seeing surrounding the white washing of the #MeToo movement. The bottom line is we have to stop using black women for their ideas while refusing to not only give them recognition but support.

I also comment on the Aziz Ansari situation, R Kelly, Bill Cosby and more. Make sure you check out some of the content from Black Women below who can go into way more depth, nuance and are infinitely more qualified to talk about this subject than I am.

Tarana Burke talking about #MeToo

Safety Pin Box

Shanna from MTR Network & Project Fandom: Your Fav Is Problematic...Yes Him Too

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We're back with a new episode of the Insanity Check. This week Kriss is joined by Dpalm so you know this show is going to go off the rails. But we actually keep it pretty civil. Kriss doesn't even troll Dpalm about Georgia's collapse in the National Championship Game. He's a good friend.

Topics:

Thank you to all our supporters

Tickets for our LA Black Panther viewing are still available

Deadpool 2 moves up its date

Gambit loses its third director & New Mutants gets delayed 10 months (not good folks, not good)

Trump confuses Haiti  and African Nations for his own mouth and calls them a "shithole"

At this point, the real problem with Trump are all the shitty people around him (Pence, Paul Ryan, Stephen Miller)

No, we don't need (or really want) Oprah as President

Rapid Fire Quick rants

#MeToo has no real consequences for shitty men

Australian birds have discovered fire

Time for homophobic & transphobic folks to show their work: How does the LGBTQ community have "more rights" than black people?

Do You Even Sci-Fi Bro?

Male sexbots are coming

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Happy New Year everyone! The Insanity Check podcast is back for the new year and we're talking breaking the cycle in 2018 with Leslie Mac from Safety Pin Box. 

Also, we're pleased to announce that we will be hosting two Black Panther Screenings opening weekend. One in LA and one in DC. We're hoping tickets will go on sale Friday, January 12th at Noon est. Below is the theater information for each screener:

LA: Friday Feb. 16th 8pm Cinemark at Pike in Long Beach

DC: Saturday Feb. 17th 12 pm Regal Cinema Gallery Place Stadium 14 Washington DC

Topics:

2017 was the year no one learned anything

Do You Even Sci-Fi Bro?

It's Disaster Movie Cold on the East Coast

Safety Pin Box Update

How the Presidency as 45 has affected Leslie as an organizer and as a business owner?

Understanding the true cost of policies that benefit you personally but harm others

The Logan Paul controversy 

Logan Paul was wrong even before he filmed a dead body

The fans are why mediocre white men get to succeed

Rapid Fire Quick rants

The Great Hotep-Off Between Tariq & Umar

“Stop Using Hotep as an Insult” (Nah)

Matt Damon doesn’t know when to shut the fuck up 

Omarosa fired and other black conservatives complain 

The Daily Beast learned nothing from 2017 

Great Moments In White Privilege

Silicon Valley elites are buying and drinking "Raw Water"

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Kriss is joined by Justin (@LJay90) from ThreeFifsPodcast for a special Insanity Check episode where Justin explains what Net Neutrality is, how we got here, why it's bad and what we can do to fight back.

*You'll also find it funny as we go from "Doug Jones has no chance" to "Omg...I think Jones might pull this off" during the show.

How to write a good comment

 

Gigi Sohn, the former council to Tom Wheeler gives 4 steps to follow when writing an FCC Comment

 

1. Write about yourself and how the net neutrality rules have affected you

If you use the internet in any capacity, write about it. Have you used the internet to launch your small business? Connect with a loved one? Complete your degree program, whether it was high school, college, or post graduate? Write about that experience.

 

2. Write about what you understand you are buying when you purchase broadband Internet access

When you buy a package from Verizon, what is it that you're actually buying? For the decision to be upheld the ISPs have to prove that their customers aren't just buying "internet access", but if that's all you're using them for then write about that.

 

3. Write about the choices you have (or don’t) for broadband Internet access

Sohn writes that, "An April 2017 FCC report demonstrates the fallaciousness of such an assertion – it shows that 58% of Americans have access to either zero or one broadband ISP, and 87% have access to just two." If you don't have a true choice, write about that.

 

4. Write about what role you think the FCC should have in overseeing the market for broadband Internet access

If you don't want the ISPs to run rampant as they have attempted to in the past and believe in strong federal oversight, let the FCC know!

 

Link to Gigi Sohn's instructions: http://mashable.com/2017/06/15/how-to-write-a-good-fcc-comment/#LomZxzGUriql

Link to leave comments: https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/proceedings?q=name:((17-108))

 

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Here it is! The last Insanity Check of 2017. Kriss is joined by Ashanti for this episode and it's a fun one. We hit some of the more serious topics involving men & sexual assault, Trump voters being idiots and how technology has erased privacy and it's too late to do anything about it.

Topics:

Al Franken had to resign and folks need to stop complaining about it

The allegations against Franken

Murray Miller admits to lying about Aurora asking for hush money

Stop using false allegations as an excuse

Fox News' Eboni Williams checks Sheriff David Clarke over John Lewis

Roy Moore supporters are so disgusting/stupid they frustrate and disgust Frank Luntz

The system is broken because the people are

Black Woman Shoutout

Miss Zee's subscription box

Do You Even Sci-Fi Bro?

Google's AI built it's own AI

Don't Buy Anyone an Echo

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The second to last Insanity Check of 2017! Kriss is joined by Karen from The Black Guy Who Tips. We talk about Karen & Rod heading to to Seattle for PodCon and how we all have to find time to take a break and rest. We then delve into the latest craziness involving men pulling their dicks out at work and harassing women. Then there's the "wonderful" Senate tax "cut" bill that's passed the Senate and gotten one step closer to being law. Wonder how all those "Democrats are equally as bad as Republicans" folks are handling it.

Topics:

* Taking Time for Yourself

* The cumulative effects of racism/sexism/bigotry

* 1 out of 4 men think exposing themselves to women isn't sexual harassment

* Revisiting Matt Lauer's sexist debate performance moderating the Presidential debate

* The Senate's tax "cut" plan

* When do we hold the citizens responsible for the people they vote for?

* Do You Even Sci-Fi Bro?

* Baby Boomers and Sexbots

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