Never Meet Your Heroes

Jabari Davis is back with another really fun panel of guests to discuss a series of hip-hop vs NBA comparisons, favorite holiday foods + what NOT to do when cooking for the holidays and the usual banter about heroes and fallen heroes of yesteryear.

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Jabari Davis is back for the return of Never Meet Your Heroes with a new video/guest format and is joined by Greg Foster (Brigham Young Money & Unsalvageable Pods), Brad Winchester (Gimmick Infringement Pod) and Tyler McDowell-Blanken (Gimmick Infringement Pod) for today's discussion. The video version of this episode can always be found at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqSaAomxtF1GbG0gw9eT9hw

Sources:

https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=hill/080507
https://apnews.com/article/bdc75a6a91a355e5728cf1c516ae209b
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/karl-malone-charles-barkley-black-lives-matter_n_6662246

Jabari is joined by Tunisha and special guest, THE GREAT, Anna Hossnieh (iHeart Radio Producer and Host) to discuss some interesting political history involving a cast member from The Wire, the unfortunate passing of Michael K Williams and other political topics.

Show Sources:

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/08/1035088933/fresh-air-remembers-wire-and-boardwalk-empire-actor-michael-k-williams

https://thewire.fandom.com/wiki/Ed_Norris_(actor)

https://www.baltimoresun.com/bal-te.md.norris22jun22-story.html

The Dr. is back behind the mic as Tunisha breaks down the Hulkster for today's episode.

Show Sources:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-racist-hulk-hogan-hasnt-earned-our-forgiveness

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6641883/hulk-hogan-fired-wwe-racist-rant

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-44846142

https://www.gq.com/story/hulk-hogan-is-getting-the-redemption-story-he-never-earned

Jabari is back up in the rotation with some entertaining celebrity arrests for Tunisha.

Tunisha is up in the rotation and brought the heat for this episode once again.

Jabari Davis is back in the rotation to surprise Tunisha Singleton with some of the details and background on Shia LaBeouf for this week's episode. They'll also run through some quick hitters on the back end of the episode.

Sources:

https://time.com/4503609/shia-labeouf-weird-behavior-timeline/

https://pagesix.com/article/inside-shia-labeouf-arrests-legal-troubles/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/arts/music/fka-twigs-shia-labeouf-abuse.amp.html

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shia%20Labeouf

Tunisha Singleton and Jabari Davis are back to break down another celebrity background this week. Tunisha stuns Jabari with some information on legendary running back, actor and activist Jim Brown.

Episode sources:



https://www.thebiglead.com/posts/jim-brown-had-more-than-a-few-issues-off-the-field-with-both-women-and-men-01dktz70vvw4

https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2016/09/16/jim-brown-subject-of-multiple-domestic-abuse-allegations-will-have-his-statue-unveiled-sunday-before-browns-home-game

https://www.sportscasting.com/nfl-legend-jim-brown-was-once-accused-of-extremely-dark-crimes/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/brennan/2019/10/23/why-jim-brown-not-among-greatest-nfl-players/2452787001/

https://deadspin.com/jim-brown-did-great-things-he-also-beat-woman-1784269329

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-08-23-8603030213-story.html

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/comment/saraceno/2002-04-10-saraceno.html

In our pilot episode, Jabari Davis shocks co-host Tunisha Singleton with some background on actor Mark Wahlberg as the duo introduce 19 Media Group's latest show, 'Never Meet Your Heroes' for your listening pleasure.

Episode sources and references:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/mark-wahlberg-racist-hate-crimes-wikipedia-history-george-floyd-blm-protests-a9554191.html

https://www.gq.com/story/mark-wahlberg-boogie-nights-regrets

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mark%20Wahlberg