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- 213: Thinking Of A Master PlanTopics
After sharing quotes, news and random thoughts, I force myself to acknowledge the fact that something worked out.
Intro- Some people come into your life
- “Emotional abuse is designed to undermine another's sense of self. It is deliberate humiliation, with the intent to seize control of how others feel about themselves.” ― Lorraine Nilon
- “Life moves so fast. You gotta document the good times, man.” ~Big Boi
News and Random Thoughts- I hate shopping for clothes.
- HOES DEPRESSED
- Granville T Woods
- On this day in 1859, John Brown did absolutely nothing wrong.
- In October 1859
- Abuse happens in silence
Final Thought- What’s up with the title?
Other Links
- Social change that’s why
- Response to, “Y’all really think ya’ll are always the only minority ever...”
- How to flip the script
- Let her cook
- New music: Thot Squad - Hoes Depressed
1 hr 8 min - 212: An Hour, Plus A Pen & A PadTopics
After sharing quotes, news, and random thoughts, I take a deep dive into my journey of discovering the concept of self-validation and how I learned to apply it to myself.
Intro- Sensitivity and creativity
- If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval...
- Standing up for yourself doesn’t make you argumentative
News and Random Thoughts- Just shut up! by Elle Deran
- What if I told you...
- Kamala Harris's 2021 Columbus Day
- Empathy fatigue
- After Signing A $125-Million SiriusXM Deal, Alex Cooper Was Just Asked If She Thinks About Her Former "Call Her Daddy" Co-Host Sofia Franklyn
- When I saw the video...
Final Thought- What’s up with the title?
- CONFIDENCE Affirmations - Reprogram Your Mind (While You Sleep)
- Learning to trust yourself and not look for external validation
Other Links- Black soldiers share their racism experience in Vietnam in the 1970s.
- Lets bring all this energy to small business bubble tea stores
- Embarrassing Brown Representation stitched
- Another response to Manjit Minhas
- Black People in Alaska
1 hr 4 min - 211: Peeped You Frontin’TopicsIntro
- You stop explaining yourself
- Shame dies
- If they consistently leave you confused more than comforted, it's best to reassess their access to you.
News and Random Thoughts- Happy Indigenous People’s Day
- Watching podcasts on Youtube
- Simu Liu criticizes Canadian boba tea company over concerns of cultural appropriation.
- Doing something more constructive with their time than bids
- Highly Sensitive Person
- The hurricane machine
Final Thought- What’s up with the title?
- Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Message
- Have We Missed The Message? with Ta-Nehisi Coates | What Now? with Trevor Noah Podcast
- “Just say amen or say ouch” - Nina Turner
Other Links- Something Tblizzy said about the Dragon’s Den incident
- Something D’Angelo Wallace said about the Dragon’s Den incident
- Gen Z women are ditching church, men pretend to be shocked
- The British tradition of sweeping history under the rug
1 hr 6 min - 210: Sixty Christians Against MeTopics
After sharing quotes, news and random thoughts, I dive into a personal revelation: how my personality was influenced by people I was never meant to emulate.
Intro- Self-care mantras for your end of week
- Satire is meant to ridicule power
- Nikki Banas - Stand Out
News and Random Thoughts- Price gouging airlines
- Adult signifier
- flaming.adhd - Congratulations, you have ADHD
- Shelaborating
- Not everyone is entitled to have you in their life
Final Thought- It’s sink or swim
- What’s up with the title?
- Liam Cosgrove deserves a Pulitzer Prize for this amazing journalism…
Soundtrack- Echosmith - Cool Kids
- Ryan Nealon - Visible
- Rapsody - Stand Tall
- De La Soul - Me Myself and I
- Biz Markie - I’m Ugly
Other Links- I wasn’t meant to fit in
- Kriss Reece - You Were Never Meant to Fit In
- Lady misses Justin Timberlake singing to her while she’s texting
- Mehdi Hasan demonstrates one of the best ways to argue with Zionists - force them to finish their thought
- Batman couldn't beat this out of me
1 hr 17 min - 209: When You Prove Their PointTopics
After sharing quotes, news and random thought, I talk about a time I got myself to realize I was wrong.
Intro- You are gonna piss a lot of people off when you start doing what’s best for you.
- Deep thinkers
- Sometimes, you have to eat your words, chew your ego, swallow your pride and accept that you are wrong. It’s not giving up. It’s called growing up.
News and Random Thoughts- Turns out I didn’t understand what Tony Dokoupil was trying to say about Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Something Talaam Acey said
- ProfessionalSasstron - Men think too highly of themselves
- The version of men in modern society
- Stay away from anyone who acts like they have all the answers
Final Thought- What’s up with the title?
- Swallowing your pride
- The Greatest Salesman in the World
Other Links- How to Make Perfect Stir Fry | You Can Cook That | Allrecipes
- NASA released clearest view of surface of Mars!!!
- Noam Chomsky - Why Does the U.S. Support Israel?
- Self-care mantra for the end of the week
- The People of Walmart: “Enjoy hell...”
1 hr 10 min - 208: Making Massa Proud
Topics
After sharing quotes, news, and random thoughts, I explain why I chose to delete a part of the previous episode during editing.
Intro
- G.R.O.W.
- When self-blame is your coping mechanism
- “Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.” ~Charles Bukowski
News and Random Thoughts
- What should I do with my site?
- Take back what I said about white people and Truth and Reconcilation day
- Transitional President of Haiti Drinking water from a pitcher.
- Former Black Voices for Trump Director: Marjorie Taylor Greene Called Me the N-Word
- 1970..Carroll O’Connor Describes The Unhappy Character & Life Of Archie Bunker.
- I’m not mad
- Ta-Nahesi Coates - The Message
Final Thought
- What’s up with the title?
- The Making Massa Proud clip inspired this thought. S/O to Soe Tyler aka The Zoly Spirit
Other Links- How Mya was able to remain guarded with her career
- Charlie Peterson - Consider supporting the Equal Justice Initiative
- The good old days before all this technology made us anti-social
- Prince Trunkz - My worse nightmare
- Manon Boivin - 2 Octobre 2023
1 hr 8 min - 207: Live and DieTopics
After sharing quotes, news, and thoughts, I reflect on a departing coworker who hurt my feelings but reminded me of an important truth I had forgotten.
Intro- “Allured by the lust, something money can't cure/The Devil want me as is, but God he want more” ~The Roots
- “Cause Sometimes you just feel tired” ~Eminem
- “Life begins outside of our comfort zone.” ~Neale Donald Walsch
News and Random Thoughts- Fat shamed by my phone
- Barking dogs: I'ma kill you and them loud-ass racist barkin' dogs
- Good for her
- Williman Hung - She Bangs
- Zoe Tyler - Making Massa Proud
- Being tired of not being heard
- The Wrong One Elon
- Smelling the roses
- My neighbor’s cat
- Robert’s Rebellion
- Connaisseur Ticaso - Rap Life
- King Kimbit - “At last...Another's heartbeat - a poem by Marcellus Williams”
Final Thought- What’s up with the title?
- Songs to get you out of your comfort zone
Other Links- May his precious soul live in peace
- Artist vs Influencer
- Why we love Kendrick
- The next time someone tells you to be the bigger person
- Cause of slavery
- NASA vs the Bible
1 hr 9 min - 206: So I Ask Myself: Who Am I?Topics
After sharing quotes, news and random thoughts, I dive into a personal reflection on the lack of compassion I often show myself.
Intro- The people who have no problem making you uncomfortable
- Shame says vs. self-compassion
News and Random Thoughts- That time in Oakland when this white kid asked me what I was listening too
- Game of Thrones Redux
- The whole city is mine, prettiest Don
I don't like the way P. Diddy did Shyne with different lawyers
Why it's mentioned in my rhymes? Fuck it
It's just an intro, hate it or love it, like it, bump it or dump it- "Allegedly" by Nicole Townsend
- Mark Robinson refused tech experts' offer to help him disprove CNN bombshell: report
- Why do you keep trying to get difficult people to be good to you?
Final Thought- Funny people are not nice people
- What’s up with the title?
- Moved to Castos
Other Links- No words except for this is one modern day lynching looks like
- Garrison Hayes - Charlie Kirk got a lot wrong about crime data *and* Black people in that Jubilee video
- Another fantastic video by Nick Mueller - Mark Robinson
- Fact check: Kamala Harris and Willie Brown had a relationship over a decade after he separated from wife
- Hate when that happens
- Ladyintgebathroom and friends - Laffy Taffy
53 min - 205: Something Sista Souljah Said
Topics
After sharing some quotes, news, and random thoughts, I discuss how Sista Souljah’s words reminded me that Black women and men still have a common enemy.
Intro- “Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.”
- “Neutral men are the devil’s allies.” ~Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- “I’d rather have an intelligent enemy than a stupid friend.”
- “It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.” ~Stephen Covey
News and Random Thoughts- Puffy gettin’ bribed like a bitch, to hide that fact/He did some shit he shouldn’t have did, so we ridin’ for that
- The Day Thousands of Pagers Exploded in Lebanon
- Uncle Nearest
- Someone told me I looked like Mark Robinson #GuessTheRace
- My reason for loving Rep. Jasmine Crocket
Final Thought- What’s up with the title?
- Bruh…..this downfall needs to be studied…
- Giving James and Fuhad the benefit of the doubt
Other Links- Something Eric Bryan Stone said
- How Israel Uses Sex To Sell Zionism.
- Kamala wearing Converse
- Funny people are not nice people
- Scarface by Patrice O’Neal
1 hr 18 min - 204: The Worst In Me
Topics
After sharing quotes, news, and random thoughts, I discuss my mistake of giving two Black dudes the same benefit of the doubt I would have given to a white man.
Intro- Trauma makes you
- Highly Sensitive People just don’t notice more.
News and Random Thoughts- The editor in chief of the National Review just said the N word in regards to Haitians and Megyn Kelly ignores it.
- Jagmeet Singh completely SNAPS and tries to fight a CONSERVATIVE PROTESTOR
- The statement
- James Duncan and Fuhad Dawodu sorry for jokes about black women (bbc.com)
Final Thought- The apology
- My response
- Claudette Colvin
- What’s up with the title?
Other Links- Podcasters ‘didn’t ask for racist jokes to be cut’
- Something Eric Bryan Stone said about James and Fuhad
- Andrew Shultz hides his micro aggressions under the disguise of being a comedian.
- Bruh…..this downfall needs to be studied…
- James and Fuhad should have went to 85 south instead
- First they came for the Mexicans
- They turned Umar’s commentary on Shannon Sharpe into a drinking game
- Nobody is going to prison for being a freak
1 hr 19 min
About Shut Up! Podcast
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This is a safe space for my thoughts—Black, unfiltered, unapologetic.
A Black Canadian voice from Ottawa (Red Black) shaped by the Red, the Black, and the Green and the Red Blue (Rouge et Bleu).
I don’t know exactly where this podcast is headed, but that’s the point. Like me, this podcast is a work in progress. It grows, shifts, and evolves as I do. Maybe it becomes a community, maybe it stays just me and this one mic. Either way, I’m here, and I’ve got something to say—so Shut Up!