Uninvited Media Presents: The Play-In Podcast with Atiqa Mohammad and Jerry Jones

Hey Party Crashers -

Like you,  we here at the Uninvited are mourning the loss and celebrating the life of Ruth Bader Ginsberg - the conscience of the Supreme Court and the defender of freedom and justice for all in America.  

Today's episode is all about the Notorious RBG and taking up the fight she so successfully fought for her entire legal career. 

Since it is difficult to put into words what we're feeling right now, we aren't gonna to type any more words except to quote the great Alice Walker as we go thru this really tough -- and let's call it what it is...a rather shitty -- time.   Ms. Walker says:

 "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."  Just because it is dark now, we must summon the will to fight and exercise our power...and we must do it together.  This is what Justice Ginsberg did her entire life and career and this is what we must do now.

We love you and we've got your back.  Let's do this!

- Jerry

It has been twenty episodes...and you can hardly tell with that faint attempt at a cold open with a hard-to-hear Obama clip but we promise everything else is much easier to hear (we will not promise better...but easier to hear absolutely!!!).  In this "landmark" episode Jerry tags a digs on modern hip-hop (3:10) and Microsoft Teams (4:22) before getting into the focus, which is how these unprecedented times aren't that unprecedented (6:46) and how we are paying the ultimate price for repeating our failed history with our lives.  Jerry pays tribute to our fallen teachers (15:45), thanks teachers, child care and adult care givers (17:14) before summoning the recently departed Sir Ken Robinson to challenge America's collective lack of imagination in the areas of education and the economy in hopes that we can spare our children of a continuation of the "old normal" (18:06).

From there, Jerry gets a little introspective and begins to work some things out while on-air (so thanks for the mini-therapy session) before getting all Killer Mike on y'all.  He's sorry about that (ok...he's not really sorry.) (29:01)

In the end, the host finds a way to segway structural and institutional racism into a conversation about a landmark moment in television history (35:24) before handing out some celebrity shout outs.  Happy Birthday, Colonel Sanders!  Leo Tolstoy...cheers my brotha!

Love y'all!  We thank you for sticking around this whole time!

Hey Party Crashers -

In Kansas City it was rather windy yesterday and Jerry was quite windy in this episode - one where he planned on keeping it short but alas...covid and politics got in the way!

In this episode of the Uninvited, Jerry is looking at:

The California Wildfires and why gender reveal parties are never a good idea  (8:36)

Why we expect college kids to not be college kids, even in the age of covid (22:37)

Why Trump is right about diversity training...but not in the way he thinks (34:17)

Plus some Virgo Birthday Shoutouts (happy early birthday Dawn, Ryan, Neko and Nancy!)

Peace Out y'all!

#justiceforbreonnataylor

***NOTE:  Jerry wants to clear up a mistake he made during the recording.  He inadvertently called out Memphis PD instead of Louisville PD for the murder of Breonna Taylor.  Memphis has done plenty of dirt yes but not responsible for Ms. Taylor's death.  My apologies for this mistake.  ***

Hey Party Crashers -

After a week away detoxing from politics and celebrating a landmark birthday (2:58), Jerry is back and pays tribute to the great Chadwick Boseman (5:30) and ties the significance of his career to the work of social justice currently happening in the NBA (13:43).  Because Jerry doesn't like to get too emotional he deflects by talking Dancing with the Stars (24:30) and the one star of this season who is going to be Must See TV:  the Tiger Queen, herself, Carol Baskin (27:04).

To round this quirky episode out, Jerry marks this landmark day in history by discussing the surrender of Japan to Allied Forces and issuing celebrity birthday shoutouts (31:54), making a passive-aggressive non-paid promotion of the Disney live-action film 'Mulan' (33:27) and wonders aloud who you believe would win a battle between two epic fictional characters (34:58).

Remember, we are just over 60 days from the November 3rd election (36:23).  Make sure you are eligible, registered and have a voting plan for this 2020 election.  

We got this!

- The Uninvited

Hey Party Crashers -

Jerry here.  Jacob Blake - a 29 year-old Black man - was shot seven times on Sunday by the Kenosha Police at point blank range after having broken up a domestic dispute.  On Tuesday Kyle Rittenhouse - a 17 year-old white kid -  was allowed to literally walk away scot free by the very same police force after having used his assault-styled weapon to shoot three people, killing two.

We're talking about it on the pod today.

Stay strong and stay engaged.

Love y'all,

Jerry

Hey What's up, Party Crashers?!

So glad you're back for another one, as DJ Khaled likes to say.  In this episode of 'Uninvited' you will learn why Jerry has earned "Father of the Year" points (3:08), while also learning about his obsession with all things Kansas Jayhawks before diving into the subject of how gardens can also be a cry for help (8:30) and what we might expect to hear from the First Lady in her speech at the RNC Convention (15:15).

Jerry tried really hard to avoid politics this weekend (17:49) and talks about what happened the moment he decided to "reconnect" with the news of the world on Twitter (19:16).  Specifically, the recent poll showing American's comfort level with COVID-19 death (happy topic, we know).  As he is prone to do, he veers off into a tangent but this time it is for a good reason - a shout out to the Community Health Council of Wyandotte County (www.wearewyandotte.com) and Wyandotte County Public Health Department.  Ultimately, Jerry finally arrives to his goal which was  to make several recommendations of television shows and music he listened to that helped him avoid the dumpster fire that is American politics (23:54).  (NOTE:  Please remember to support recording artists by buying their music if you can.  They might be famous but 99.9% are no where close to being rich).

As always, we are super grateful that of all the things you could listen to that you chose to listen to our little podcast.  Thank you for your support!

Hey Party Crashers!

I know you're probably all doing your Zoom Happy Hours and prepping for your date night with Netflix but wanted to share that we have a special episode of 'Uninvited' where we breakdown night four of the DNC Convention and offer grades for the convention on the whole.

This all may have just been an excuse to rip on Money Mike, balloon drops and stupid political speeches as well as hype Joe Biden and The Chicks (plus wondering where the hell Julian Castro was this week)...but I'm sure if you're even considering burning 30 minutes listening to this you are probably down for it.

Do Good, Be Well and for the sake of all things holy please make sure you are:  a) eligible to vote, b) registered to vote and c) have a voting plan.  Go to www.whenweallvote.org to get the info you need today.

Peace,

Jerry

Happy 15th episode y'all!  (However don't bring out the confetti just yet:  he blunders his very cool ending)*.  In this episode, Jerry spends time going goo-goo over the Greatest First Lady of All-Time, Michelle Obama and somehow suggests how her speech:  a) made night one of the DNC Convention better than the BET Awards and b) was better than her husband's speeches (2:36).  Jerry also praises Dr. Jill Biden (8:02) and even pays a passive-aggressive compliment to Bernie Sanders (11:08).   From there Jerry praises the hosts does his first ever voting commercial (please listen to it) (16:22) before going into a conversation about Brit Hume's comparison of Obama/Biden (17:30) and the correlation between that and the subject of the systemic favoring of people groups which is the subject of Isabel Wilkerson's amazing new book 'Caste' (sidebar:  buy this book TODAY.  You will be glad you did).  Jerry parks the car and talks a little bit about this.  We think you will enjoy the convo (19:30)

Jerry then goes on shout out food access innovator Emily Brown (26:49) of the Food Equality Initiative (www.foodequalityinitiative.com) (sidebar:  please consider supporting this amazing organization) and chef Anna Paradise of Oxford Comma Catering  on his way to hyping up the lineup of Day 3 of the DNC convention Senator Kamala Harris' DNC speech (30:55), which includes Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Jerry's Celebrity Crush), Secretary Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama.  Trust and believe that there will be a special Uninvited episode coming on Friday to talk all about it.

Before closing out, Jerry goes in on the My Pillow Guy, Chuck Todd and Melania Trump (34:39), hypes up the movie 'HEAT' as the greatest heist film of all-time  while also tying it to fascism (don't ask.  Just go with it, okay) (39:14) and then manages to butcher what would have been a dope ass ending to the pod where he shouts out parents and teachers.  (Don't listen to what Jerry says at the end of the pod.  Google "Miss Williams" not "Miss Wilson"). He is getting mail from AARP, which means he takes license in saying people's names incorrectly.

Again, thanks for being here and excited to check-in with a special episode on Friday.

Do Good and Be Well.

In this 14th episode (real friends may have intervened at this point but alas, here we are) of the 'Uninvited', the recently empty nested host talks about the Post Office and Stitch Fix  (3:37);  wonders why Trump would ever mess with Cliff Claven's livelihood and openly considers which character on Cheers would most likely be compliant/non-compliant with a COVID-19 mask order (4:47) before getting into the thing he so desperately wants to talk about:  some of the wackiest candidates for Congress in the 2020 election (7:44). 

Jerry gets into the question one GOP congressional incumbent is asking that everyone should have been asking but hasn't (8:20); he then discusses the most physically fit person running for Congress -- who might also simultaneously be the most mentally unfit person seeking office (14:49).  For some reason, he then spends too much time talking about the right-wing conspiracy community - QAnon (18:45) - and their recent obsession with the trafficking of children (he meant to tell a story as to why he isn't a Chrissy Teigen fan but got lost in the sauce.  Just Google 'Chrissy Teigen and Quvenzhane Wallis 2013 Oscars.  This is why i have given her the side eye ever since).  Ultimately all of it was a device to praise Donald Trump for following in President Obama's footsteps (27:20).

It wouldn't be the 'Uninvited' without Jerry getting on his soapbox, which he does at the (28:07) mark before shouting out a few August 16th celebrity birthdays including the creator of the Terminator and the most 'pure' of all pop stars to send you off with the oodles of disappointment that you collected with this episode.

Please do comeback for the next one(unless the podcast breakup is for real this time.  :) ).  Rate us, review us and subscribe.  Until next time, remember to be good to yourself and others.

Peace.

In this 13th episode of 'Uninvited', Jerry expounds on the significance of the Biden-Harris ticket (2:15) and contrasts this announcement with the events in Charlottesville from 2017 - three years ago to the day, including the death of Heather Heyer (21:40) with a sidebar about Senator Klobuchar, Chuy's, ranch dressing and an ode to Shirley Chisholm squeezed in-between.

From there, Jerry is just going in on racism and fascism for a good long while before ending on COVID-19 and college football.

This one is a doozy(ish).

Jerry hopes you come back for more on Sunday. :)