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Uncle Hotep is a podcaster and Youtuber who offers insightful social and political commentary with the customary swagger of a Black American. He is one of the founders of the Hotep Nation, which offers positive solutions to the problems faced by black Americans in the USA. A naturally funny guy, Uncle Hotep's unique mix of comedy and insightful cultural critique makes for very entertaining listening. He's a featured guest on documentaries likes Silenced: Our War on Free Speech and on podcasts like InfoWars and Timcast IRL. You can find him on Twitter and YouTube.

"Muslim community, please stay away from the liberals. I'm just giving y'all a warning. It's trickery, don't fall for it." – Uncle Hotep Time-stamped Show Notes

• 03:35 - What is Hotep? A continuation of the "conscious" community within Black America.
• 04:50 - Hotep means "peace" but it was used as a derogatory term by BLM activists towards black people who pushed back against BLM's victimhood narrative.
• 06:20 - How does Hotep relate to the socially conscious movements of the past like Afrocentrism, the Nation of Islam, the Five Percenters?
• 07:55 - Hotep is for self-accountability and self-reliance. I quote the Quran in response.
• 09:10 - Uncle Hotep believes a lot of the problems in the black community, like black-on-black crime, can be alleviated by improving it from within. He quotes a Denzel Washington character from one of my favorite movies, Training Day.
• 11:50 - I ask Uncle Hotep to explain what the deal is with BLM. We have a movement that, on the face of it, seems to be a popular protest against police brutality and extrajudicial killings, but a visit to their website throws up MANY red flags.
• 17:50 - Why does Deray Mckesson (a BLM leader) live in a mansion?
• 19:30 - What's the connection between Feminism and BLM? Why do they vilify the straight, black male while claiming to advocate on his behalf?
• 22:50 - Why aren't Muslims thinking critically about BLM when many Black voices speak out against it?
• 25:30 - You can check out the Hotep Nation website and see for yourself what Hotep stands for. Compare it to what BLM stands for.
• 26:15 - I ask Uncle Hotep to explain the extremes of angry black Feminists on the one hand and twerking, slutwalk-types on the other. Where are the modest black women?
• 29:15 - Uncle Hotep can't understand why Muslims would ever associate with BLM, given the movement's association with Feminism and LGBTQ. He talks about his time in the U.S. Air Force when he was stationed in Riyadh, K.S.A.
• 31:00 - When did the Black community, who are generally socially conservative, switch to voting Democrat, and why?
• 34:42 - The American Muslim community's similar trajectory post-9/11.
• 36:30 - Uncle Hotep talks about the effect that the mainstream media has on fanning the flames of civil discord.
• 38:30 - The American Muslim community is acting in the interest of self-preservation rather than for the collective benefit of the global Muslim community.
• 39:20 - Trump vs. Hillary. Where does Hotep stand?
• 42:00 - Ed Latimore is down with Hotep.
• 43:00 - The effect of illegal immigration on employment in the Black community.
• 44:30 - Why are there no Hotep voices in black mainstream media? Why do they need people like me or Mike Cernovich to give them airtime?
• 47:30 - Is this Hotep or BLM?
• 48:00 - Who can lay claim to the legacy of Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali? If they were alive today, would they be down with Hotep or BLM?
• 51:02 - Who are some of the non-Hotep Hoteps aka Hotep adjacent, i.e. Hotep in their thinking but don't necessarily identify as Hotep?
• 51:20 - Shoutout to Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, Dr. Umar Johnson, Dr. Boyce Watkins, ZaZa Ali, and Sonnie Johnson.
• 53:55 - I ask Uncle Hotep to explain the motivation behind his podcast and Youtube channel.
• 1:00:00 - What's Uncle Hotep's take on the election as it stands right now?
• 1:02:50 - We have a laugh about Bill Clinton being the first black president.
• 1:03:45 - What's the deal with Shaun King? Why is he still around after being exposed as a fraud?
• 1:06:05 - What role to black public figures like Jesse Lee Peterson and Sherrif James Clarke play in the discussions taking place in the black community?
• 1:07:45 - Uncle Toms, House Negros, and House Muslims - do they exist? Who are they?
• 1:11:40 - Uncle Hotep's plea to the American Muslim community

Holistic Health and Well-Being

So here's the thing

I'm getting older - I'm in my mid-30s.

I'm a father.

My overall health is becoming more of a concern.

I don't recover from training as well as I used to.

It's getting harder to keep the weight off.

I can't eat as much as I used to.

I sometimes get indigestion, which never used to happen because I have a great digestive system, alhamdulillah.

I've started looking at my health and well-being holistically.

How my physical well-being ties into my mental and spiritual well-being, and vice versa.

Alexander Juan Antonio Cortes - Bodybuilder, Personal Trainer, Author

My guest today has a refreshing take on training and nutrition.

Part bodybuilder, part philosopher.

Part mystic, part alpha male.

Alexander Juan Antonio Cortes is a personal trainer with decades of experience both under the bar and as a teacher.

Aside from his personal website he is a regular contributor at Elite FTS, and has written for Mountain Dog Diet and TRT Revolution.

Alex currently trains and teaches at Relentless Performance, Vero Beach, Florida.

He is currently working on a book.

Follow him on Twitter - @aja_cortes

If you enjoyed this episode please leave me a rating/review on iTunes and Stitcher.

Have you ever played role-playing games (RPGs,) on table-top or video?

Games like Diablo, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, and others allow you to create and customize characters that improve as you play through the story.

The characters have different archetypes and abilities. There are warriors, mages, rogues, archers, etc.

One of those archetypes is the 'warrior monk' or 'fighting monk,' loosely based on Shaolin monks.

His character backstory is one of asceticism, stoicism, constant improvement, deep study, internal and external harmony.

He fights unarmored with his bare hands and starts off weaker than other characters.

As the game progresses and he gains experience, his unarmed strikes can kill enemies in one strike, he becomes so agile that nothing can hit him and so resilient that he is immune to magical and elemental attacks.

How would you re-create the warrior monk in real life?

It's a question I've been dwelling on ever since I became a father.

What personality traits will you instill in them?

What knowledge should they learn?

What martial arts would they study?

My guest today is uniquely qualified to speak on these issues.

Meet Ed Latimore - 13-1 professional boxer, undergraduate physics student, author, and blogger, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

He writes about martial arts, self-improvement, and effective learning at http://edlatimore.com

Ed has published three short works:

The Four Confidences (a free ebook on how to be more confident, available on his website)

Twitter Poems and Insights (a collection of poems from Twitter on self-improvement with explanations and action steps)

How to Catch and Kill a Crackhead (a humorous work of fiction based on Ed's experiences growing up in the 'hood.)

He is currently working on his 4th book.

Follow him on Twitter - @edlatimore

If you enjoyed this episode please leave me a rating/review on iTunes and Stitcher.

This past Ramadan I was a guest on Dukkan Show, a lifestyle podcast based out of Dubai.

We ended up doing a series of four episodes together.

My first sit-down was with two the co-founders, Irshad and Feras. We talked about a prepping for Ramadan and a bunch of other things.

Some of the discussion didn't make it into the final cut.

It was quality material nonetheless, so I asked them to put it together for me.

That's what you'll be hearing in this episode.

We talk about my work as a copywriter, meeting interesting people on Twitter, why and how regular Muslims follow Islamic scholars, the nature of God's essence and attributes, and finally, the purpose behind Becoming the Alpha Muslim.

Enjoy, and please leave me a rating and review on iTunes and Stitcher.