The conversation moves through literary influence first, reflecting on the Beat generation and the restless, observational force of writers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. From there, it shifts into photography, examining the impact of William Klein — the New York street photographer whose raw, kinetic style helped redefine fashion imagery and visual storytelling — alongside Annie Leibovitz, whose portraiture and editorial sensibility left a lasting mark on contemporary image-making.

The episode also explores the filmmakers who continue to inform MVTT BLVC’s visual and narrative instincts, including Christopher Nolan, Guy Ritchie, Spike Lee, and Kenya Barris. Altogether, this is a conversation about influence, authorship, style, and the artists who helped shape the MVTT BLVC creative language.

This episode of The PODCVST goes straight at power, contradiction, and the things polite people prefer not to say.

Tyler starts with Karen Bass: a political figure whose story raises one of the most fascinating questions in Los Angeles politics. How do you go from revolutionary politics to City Hall? How do you go from the police watching you to the police shielding you? Tyler breaks down what that says about legitimacy, transformation, and why some people become more compelling the more they are criticized.

From there, the episode pivots into a harder cultural conversation about masculinity, sex, and ambition. Tyler examines the claim that some straight-presenting men have crossed lines privately for money, industry access, or upward mobility, and what that reveals about desire, hypocrisy, image, and the silent arrangements behind public respectability.

A blunt conversation on politics, secrecy, performance, and the price people are willing to pay for power.

This is a session about the usual stuff. Complants about skidrow, drugs, homeslessness, politics, social media, and being too tired to actually care. But the Session got done so...yeah.

In this session of THE PODCVST, I address a distinction that has become increasingly difficult for people to make in public discourse: the difference between Islam as a religion, Muslims as individuals, and extremism as a political, cultural, and ideological problem.

This episode is not an attack on all Muslims. It is a direct rejection of the lazy thinking that treats an entire faith community as a monolith. At the same time, it is also a refusal to ignore radicalism, antisemitism, anti-Blackness, homophobia, and other forms of intolerance when they appear in any social or political space.

The conversation is about honesty, sociology, culture, and the responsibility to criticize extremism without collapsing into blanket prejudice. In a society that claims to value freedom, pluralism, and moral consistency, that distinction still matters.

In this episode, I recount the night I lost my apartment during the hurricane in New Jersey. From the early morning pounding at the door as neighbors came knocking, to wading through flood water in the dark, this is a personal reflection on fear, confusion, displacement, and survival. What began as one devastating night became a chain of events that carried me from New Jersey to New York, and eventually to Los Angeles. This is a record of what happened, what it felt like, and what remained after everything changed.

In this episode of THE PODCVST, I move through three interconnected subjects: the Financial Identity Photo Protection Act (FIPP), the reality of Skid Row, and the question of mental health within unstable environments.

I begin with a broader discussion of FIPP, the policy proposal and why identity, financial security, and institutional accountability deserve far more serious public attention.

From there, I speak candidly about my experiences with Skid Row: the people, the community, the shelters, and the wider ecosystem that shapes daily life in the area. This is not a distant or abstract conversation. It is about what happens when policy failure, poverty, public neglect, and human vulnerability all exist in the same physical space.

I then close on mental health, particularly how environment can affect the individual. The conditions people live in matter. The systems surrounding them matter. And when instability becomes normal, the psychological consequences are never incidental.

This episode is a direct conversation about policy, place, and the human cost of both.

Homelessness is not a mystery. It is the predictable outcome of fragmented systems that do not speak to one another.

In this episode of The PODCVST, I lay out a structured solution for California: No nonsense drug rehabilitation, workforce reintegration, and a work-to-expungement framework coordinated at the state level.

Not charity. Not slogans. Policy with accountability.

Built for California. Adaptable anywhere.

The January 6th rioters are coming...for politics.

Jan 8, 2026

First rant of the year

From the gym to the waterfront, this session tracks personal momentum and political shifts — touching on SailGP in NYC and Portsmouth, the potential gubernatorial bid by Kamala Harris, and what it could mean if Karen Bass leaves L.A.’s mayoral seat up for grabs.