This week we’re continuing on Mia’s quest to learn more about hip hop culture. We’ve been watching documentaries and listening to music in an effort to introduce her to the essence of what hip hop culture in general, and rap music specifically, is about and what it can do to enhance lives when it’s in it’s purist form. This journey has been admittedly hard because there are too many people with no talent masquerading as rappers and confusing her a bit, but we’ll continue taking baby steps with this episode and her second mini lesson. This conversation was inspired by an AMC docuseries we watched called “Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America”. So, the backdrop of this short talk is based on this series which focused in on 5 hip hop songs and Mia getting more in depth on some of the period of hip hop music she missed.

This week we're talking sports. It's about that time again when it's hard not to talk about sports (especially while the Saints have a winning season going). We were all over the place on this episode. We talked about California's attempt to get college players what they should've been getting for years: Paid. We also talked about the NFL and the discussion around loosening the penalties for players testing positive for marijuana. We planned on talking about Roger Goodell as well, but I think subconsciously we realized during the conversation neither of us really give a f*ck about that guy, so we never really made it too deep into that subject.

This week we’re talking sports. It’s about that time again when it’s hard not to talk about sports (especially while the Saints have a winning season going). We were all over the place on this episode. We talked about California’s attempt to get college players what they should’ve been getting for years: Paid. We also talked about the NFL and the discussion around loosening the penalties for players testing positive for marijuana. We planned on talking about Roger Goodell as well, but I think subconsciously we realized during the conversation neither of us really give a f*ck about that guy, so we never really made it too deep into that subject.

This week we're talking about regret. More specifically, regrets of the dying. There's a book called "The Top 5 Regrets Of The Dying" by Bronnie Ware. The basic premise was that she was a nurse that specialized in taking care of those with terminal diseases. As she talked to more and more of her patients, she started documenting some of the regrets that came up over and over in conversations with various patients that didn't know each other. She eventually wrote this book with the top 5 regrets that kept resurfacing. We decided to talk about those 5 regrets and, hopefully, avoid having any of them in the future.

This week we’re talking about regret. More specifically, regrets of the dying. There’s a book called “The Top 5 Regrets Of The Dying” by Bronnie Ware. The basic premise was that she was a nurse that specialized in taking care of those with terminal diseases. As she talked to more and more of her patients, she started documenting some of the regrets that came up over and over in conversations with various patients that didn’t know each other. She eventually wrote this book with the top 5 regrets that kept resurfacing. We decided to talk about those 5 regrets and, hopefully, avoid having any of them in the future.

This week we're talking about forgiveness. This subject is about a year old. We had initially planned on bringing it up when we talked about the Charleston Church massacre and, at the time, we decided against it. A week ago, we were watching a documentary about Black Wall Street and toward the end there was a portion where they talked about how the survivors (said they) forgave so they could forget the massacre. That portion of the documentary was what we had planned on basing our feelings about black people's peculiar relationship with forgiveness...and then the Amber Guyger hug-fest happened and we felt like we had to purge ourselves of our feelings before both of our heads exploded.

This week we’re talking about forgiveness. This subject is about a year old. We had initially planned on bringing it up when we talked about the Charleston Church massacre and we decided against it. A week ago, we were watching a documentary about Black Wall Street and toward the end there was a portion where they talked about how the survivors (said they) forgave so they could forget the massacre. That portion of the documentary was what we had planned on basing our feelings about black people’s peculiar relationship with forgiveness…and then the Amber Guyger hug-fest happened and we felt like we had to purge ourselves of our feelings before both of our heads exploded.

This week, we're complaining for about an hour because we heard they're (Hollywood) remaking New Jack City. Now, many episodes ago, we talked about how the remakes/reboots/re-dos Hollywood execs have been putting in front of us to consume has to stop, but this (in our opinions) is going too far. We talked about some of our theories on why this seems to be the new wave in movie making and also gave some personal alternatives to doing remakes. Is this happening because it's easier, safer and cheaper or is it what the public really wants and we're just out of touch? Or is it happening because many of the newer creatives have found it damn near impossible to get funded and supported for original content and this is all that's left? We gave our take on both of those questions and more.

This week, we’re complaining for about an hour because we heard they’re (Hollywood) remaking New Jack City. Now, many episodes ago, we talked about how the remakes/reboots/re-dos Hollywood execs have been putting in front of us to consume has to stop, but this (in our opinions) is going too far. We talked about some of our theories on why this seems to be the new wave in movie making and also gave some personal alternatives to doing remakes. Is this happening because it’s easier, safer and cheaper or is it what the public really wants and we’re just out of touch? Or is it happening because many of the newer creatives have found it damn near impossible to get funded and supported for original content and this is all that’s left? We gave our take on both of those questions and more.

This week, we're joined by our cousin Kyle of the 12Kyle Podcast. It's become customary nowadays for us to start recording an episode prior to the other party knowing anything about what the subject is going to be and this one is no different...except, we gave Kyle the honors and he hit us with the concept of survivor's guilt. You'll have to listen to get a full idea of the concept, but we had a really interesting conversation that took us from our individual childhoods to our current adulthood and briefly analyzing how we all felt about how far we've come in life, but simultaneously knowing there are friends and family members we grew up with that haven't "made it" and whether or not it created personal conflict within each of us.