After an unannounced long hiatus we are back! Today we catch-up with Mark who lives just outside of Houston and he shares his experiences being adjacent to Tropical Storm Harvey. We talk the various types of insurance protections, paychecks as the city shuts down, how those displaced with recover after the water recedes, the opportunists, te NFL, donations, gentrification, and more. Thanks for joinging us.   

We share thoughts on part 1 (no spoilers) of his Netflix special and discuss if we think stand-up has become an unintended casualy of social media. 

LaVar Ball and his 3 sons - Lonzo, LiAngelo, and LaMelo - the Ball brothers - are a media phenomenon.. but, is the backlash to Lavar's approach justified?

This week is all about the best movie currently in theatres - Get Out from Writer/Director Jordan Peele. 

We discuss the latest entry on our blog - http://wp.me/p7Yhlw-3g - as the foundation of a broad conversation on representing your culture, the presure to tip, managing expectations, and acceptance. 

Have Fraternities outlived their usefulness?

This week we are discussing our top influences. From James Baldwin to John Singleton to Bomani Jones to Ice Cube - and as always we use this as a baseline for a larger wide-ranging discussion. Thanks for listening.  

This week we each put together a list of our top TV dads and use them as a baseline for our wide-ranging discussion on parenting, spousal relations, and more. 

We each give present and discuss our Top 5 Impactful events/albums/people/shows/etc of the year. 

J joins us to clarify a story Ro told, we add another chapter to our "getting old" chronicles, discuss presumptive voting and voter shaming, legalizing marijuana and big business, alcohol prices, and TNT's "The Race Card"