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Highway to the nostalgia zone! Hop into the jump seat with Brandon and Deej and they attend the Big3 and detail Kendrick Perkins move to commentary game with some help from The Ringer. Then, Carol Anderson pens a piece to to Brandon's heart for Time, "Republicans Want a White Republic. They'll Destroy America to Get It". Finally, things get existential with "Have We Hit Peak Podcast?" by Jennifer Miller.

Imbibe.

Links:

https://www.theringer.com/nba/2019/7/18/20699090/kendrick-perkins-espn-fox-kevin-durant-free-agency-tv-talking-head

https://time.com/5628283/trump-tweets-racist-white-america/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/style/why-are-there-so-many-podcasts.html

Brandon and Deej are leveling up as we take another journey into deep space with the latest iteration of the Streaming Wars. HBO's dropped the title of their latest premium service, HBO Max and the guys discuss. Then, we get some help from Forbes, as they reveal the "New" Kanye, fiscally solvent sneaker magnate. Finally, we chat the medical effects of AAU on young athletes.

Links live below!

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27125793/these-kids-ticking-bombs-threat-youth-basketball

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/magazine/streaming-race-netflix-hbo-hulu-amazon.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2019/07/09/kanyes-second-coming-inside-the-billion-dollar-yeezy-empire/

The Nets Navy has docked in the harbor but we're still curving jingoism as Brandon and Deej get knee deep in the outrage cycle as they talk Nike's pulled Betsy Ross Air Max colorway, Kimono Intimates, and the obvious cultural trend of minority/millennial views on American exceptionalism with some help from Peter Beinart at The Atlantic.

Nets Navy incoming! Link is below!

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/aoc-isnt-interested-american-exceptionalism/592213/

Get in on crypto! Brandon and Deej talk the latest in our ongoing dystopia, Facebook Libra, with some help from John Constine and TechCrunch. Then, OJ delights us with the evils of Twitter, and Henry Grabar lets us in on a secret...Black people also live in the midwest!

Enjoy the links!

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/18/facebook-libra/

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/black-voters-youngstown-ohio-trump-democrats.html

Brandon and Deej are back from outer space and the pod is reentering. This week Keza Macdonald from the Guardian gives us a look into the future of gaming and Brandon and Deej shake their proverbial fists at the clouds of tomorrow. Then, we recap the end of the NBA season as we move into the long night of no basketball summer.

In the words of the great Mike Tyson, "Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the face". So throw your plans aside and get these links!

This week Brandon opines on attending the Wilder vs Breazeale showdown as he and Deej breakdown the state of boxing streaming wars via Three Heavyweights and the Boxing Revolution by Kelefa Sanneh at the New Yorker.

Then through Adam Harris piece on Liz Warren's HBCU centered education policy brings some structure to the impending billionaire philanthropic wars post Robert Smith paying off the entirety of Morehouse College's 2019 student debt.

Finally, chill Alabama. Heidi Stevens gets the Chicago Tribune on the board as she breaks down the history of public television censorship as Alabama looks to block an episode of Arthur from airing featuring a gay wedding.

Happy Memorial Day!

Links below:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/heidi-stevens/ct-life-stevens-friday-arthur-pbs-gay-character-0517-story.html

https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/three-heavyweights-and-the-boxing-revolution

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/05/elizabeth-warren-education-plan/589906/

More pod! This week Brandon and Deej touch on some of their favorite topics the personal angst of successful immigrants, tech dystopia, and the political spectrum. Yay! First, we talk Nigerian freak, Giannis Antetokounmpo's Greek misnomer in Peter S. Goodman's piece at the NY Times.

Then author Livia Gershon (@LiviaGershon)provides some audio as she helps us navigate the value of our crowdsourced data and content in We All Work For Facebook at Long Reads.

Finally, the guys find out how left they'll be after the happenings of The Coming Generation War by Niall Ferguson and Eyck Freymann in The Atlantic.

The links live aqui. Distfruten!

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/sports/giannis-antetokounmpo-greece.html

https://longreads.com/2019/04/26/we-all-work-for-facebook/

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/coming-generation-war/588670/

It was inevitable. This week, Brandon and Deej talk the most important collection of characters in the world of politics and pop culture. They breakdown the now complete field of 2020 Democratic candidates and ponder on the end of an era of pop culture with Avengers: Endgame and the waning episodes of Game of Thrones.

Links: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-biden-jumped-to-the-front-of-the-endorsement-race/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/26/if-marvel-cinematic-universe-is-tv-avengers-endgame-proves-golden-age-is-over/?utm_term=.96ed344c82bd

Music fans! This week Brandon and Deej review the hottest drop in recent memory: The Mueller Report. Then, they decided to get into their corporatist bag and chat about the latest tech IPO's Pinterest and Zoom. Finally, Deej reminisces about his time attending Beyonce's legendary set after the rest of us peons watch a mere facsimile on Netflix. Links below!

Ezra Klein:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/19/18485862/mueller-report-trump-impeachment-obstruction

Yoni Appelbaum:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/mueller-report-impeachment-referral/587509/

Troy Patterson:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-television/beyonces-homecoming-is-a-total-synthesis-of-the-pop-arts

Paige Leskin:

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-startups-going-public-2019-rumored-ipos-2019-2

Who goes there! Brandon and Deej are all over pop culture's most important happenings this week, Game of Thrones and the NBA Playoffs. First, they look at Hank Stuever's piece in the Washington Post and tackle the question...Is Game of Thrones really supposed to mean anything? Then, they join in the backpatting as they analyze Kyle Korver's piece in the Players' Tribune, Privileged. Links below!

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/kyle-korver-utah-jazz-nba

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/was-game-of-thrones-supposed-to-mean-anything-only-if-you-wanted-it-to/2019/04/10/3c8df9c4-5974-11e9-a00e-050dc7b82693_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.937bd9151f3b