Work N Progress Podcast

Loso is back from Vegas with a vegan food tour and a wedding DJ who rocked the room while blind, which kicks off a real question: once you do it for a living, can you still just enjoy the show? Louis CK front row at the Ryman, breath control and rapping the whole 16 straight through, the Nashville acts who impressed live, and Shute on court in Dyersburg, Z. Alexander Looby, and getting asked "are you a lawyer?"

Then the Titans' rough start and Dak's tunnel walk, the Six Flags coaster tragedy and growing up on Opryland, favorite childhood movies from Blank Check to The Lion King, and Christa Pike's failed execution: is the redhead gene real, and is trying again cruel and unusual? Starlito runs through every music video he's made a cameo in, from Mannie Fresh and Birdman to Gucci Mane and a Lamborghini that cost him a stack.

Shadow Work goes deep on grief: the losses they still carry, how it changed them, and how each of them copes.

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 🎙️ Episode 37 Roll Call, Vegan Cookies & Lito's Green Juice
01:51 🎰 Vegas Vegan Food Tour: Modern Vegan & Black and Blue Diner
03:50 🎧 A Blind DJ Rocked the Wedding: How Do You Read the Crowd?
10:50 🎤 Can You Still Just Enjoy a Show? Louis CK, Kanye & Breath Control
13:51 🌟 Nashville Acts That Impressed: Tim Gent, Dasia McBride & Chill
16:48 ⚖️ Do Lawyers Judge Other Lawyers? Court in Dyersburg
20:20 ✊🏾 Cotton Fields, Z. Alexander Looby & "Are You a Lawyer?"
23:13 🎚️ Favorite DJs & Best Live Shows: Premier, Akeem Ali & Smoke DZA
27:56 🏈 Titans Struggles, Dak's Tunnel Walk & Are You a LARP?
35:11 🎢 Six Flags Roller Coaster Tragedy & Coaster Physics
38:23 🎡 Favorite Coasters & the Lost Opryland Theme Park
43:43 🎬 Favorite Childhood Movies: Blank Check, Lion King & Little Rascals
50:36 🍿 Movies We Were Too Young to Watch
54:05 💉 Christa Pike's Failed Execution & the Redhead Gene
1:01:32 📼 Starlito's Music Video Cameos: Mannie Fresh, Birdman, Gucci & Wayne
1:13:34 📈 Road to 10K Subscribers
1:14:00 🃏 Shadow Work: Grief, Loss & the What-Ifs
1:26:09 🕯️ How Do You Cope With Grief?
1:33:31 🏁 Outro: What Are You Working On This Q4?

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The fellas come in hot off a run club HBCU tour lap down Jefferson Street. Shute runs through practicing law in four states (and why Florida makes you retake the bar), Starlito shares how 75 Hard keeps humbling him (asleep on page three, back to day one) and meets Nike's Chris Bennett, whose book just named his next album. Then: health is gangster, as Wiz, Jim Jones, Styles P and Larry June make running and juicing the new flex.

ComplexCon turns ten with Ye on stage with Carti, fights in the recaps, and Mitchell & Ness chasing the hypebeasts. Is that culture or just capitalism? Plus creative control vs. a $10M check, Oracle saving the Nashville Symphony after Martha Ingram's passing, New York paying artists up to $10K, and Ultimate Warrior at 15.

Then the big debate: gender roles. Who takes out the trash, who handles the car, who cooks (one of the fellas hasn't since July 26, 2013), and everybody's dating non-negotiables. Shadow Work goes into dreams: snakes, signs, dads who visit, Jimmy's wet dream, and a blue lotus nightcap.

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 🎙️ Episode 36 Roll Call & RIP Trouble
01:06 🏃🏾 Run Club HBCU Tour: Fisk, Meharry & Jefferson Street
03:05 ⚖️ Shute in Court: Law Licenses in 4 States & the Florida Bar
07:05 🔁 Lito's 75 Hard: Fell Asleep on Page 3 & Starting Over
10:52 📖 Meeting Chris Bennett, The Power of Regret & a Half Marathon
15:40 💪 Health Is Gangster: Wiz, Jim Jones, Styles P & Larry June
22:05 🧢 ComplexCon: Ye & Carti, Fights & Hypebeast Culture
28:59 🎛️ Scale It or Keep Control? Club Scenes, Record Deals & Clean Comedy
34:56 🎻 Oracle's $10M Saves the Nashville Symphony & Martha Ingram
39:47 🎂 Birthday Weekend Plans & Running as Therapy
45:35 🗽 NYC's $10K Artist Grants & Why Creatives Hit a Ceiling
50:10 🎬 Ultimate Warrior at 15 & Working With What You Got
52:11 🗑️ Gender Roles: Trash, Tires & Who Cooks
1:06:27 💍 Dating Non-Negotiables: Ambition, Empathy & Gotta Be Vegan
1:13:28 🥚 Vegan Gum, Impossible Beef & Mung Bean Eggs
1:15:57 🃏 Shadow Work: Dreams, Snakes, Dad's Visits & Blue Lotus
1:27:58 🏁 Road to 10K & the TSU Homecoming Parade

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The fellas break bread over a Trap Fusion vegan spread and settle the Fangtastic 5K: a three-second finish, a dropped phone, and the asterisk that comes with it. Then it's a 75 Hard restart after a sold-out night in Birmingham, a weekend in Orlando, a race somebody skipped while still asking where everybody parked, and why running across bridges you've driven over a thousand times hits different.

Halloween brings the receipts: a full head-to-toe genie costume in first grade, a house rule against masks, and a football uniform passed off as a costume. Homecoming week turns into Bad Choices University: fake IDs at 14, getting hit by a Buick, selling CDs hand-to-hand at the game, and two 10-year-olds trying to walk five miles home from the Hole.

Plus: the A Different World reboot and why Black TV so rarely gets a universe, RIP Mr. Belding, Celebrity Fit Club, a 3 a.m. Drake run-in at the Aria, and a Shadow Work card on the relationship behaviors that trigger us.

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 🎙️ Episode 35 Roll Call & Tennessee Fits
01:40 🌱 Trap Fusion Vegan Spread & the Three-Second Finish
05:19 🔁 75 Hard Restart After Birmingham With Don Trip
08:36 🏝️ Los' Weekend: Orlando, Epcot & Wayne + 2 Chainz
13:37 😴 Los Skipped the Race: Group Chat Receipts & Comedian CP
17:08 🏃🏾 Race Recaps: Los' PR & Jimmy's Last-Turn Pass
22:32 🌉 Titans vs. Preds Course & Running Past Old Memories
32:44 🎁 Birthday Slime & Los' Disney Lego Gifts
34:54 🧞 Halloween: The Blue Genie Trauma, No Masks & Football Uniforms
45:08 🐯 TSU Homecoming Is Here
46:49 🚗 Homecoming Highs & Lows: Block's Buick, Jeezy & Selling SW1 CDs
52:39 🚶🏾 The Five-Mile Walk From the Hole
58:44 📺 A Different World Reboot & Black TV Universes
1:07:39 🔔 RIP Dennis Haskins: Saved by the Bell & Cousin Lark
1:10:06 💪 Celebrity Fit Club, Warren G & Celebrity Run-Ins
1:16:00 🦉 The 3 A.M. Drake Run-In at the Aria
1:21:24 🃏 Shadow Work: Relationship Triggers
1:32:14 🏋🏾 Pick Our Next Activity & the Road to 10K

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The fellas open with HBCU band culture and the Sonic Boom of the South sample behind "Bands," then get into what self-care actually looks like when you've spent your adult life fighting sleep — including whether booking a sleep study makes you less of a man. From there it's Lane Kiffin's return to Oxford, the teams and players that betrayed us, and a full run through the shows everybody's locked into right now: Diarra From Detroit, Reacher, Landman and the entire Taylor Sheridan universe.

Then the Shadow Work card lands on sibling rivalries, and it gets real. Being the oldest and feeling responsible forever. Asking your father whether a new baby means splitting the inheritance. Growing up an only child and realizing the closest thing you had to a brother got a sibling of his own — and what that quietly did to you.

Plus: 20 years of Young Dro's Best Thang Smokin', the five love languages, and an 8Ball gift that turned into a 1,600-piece Lego Jaguar.

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 🎙️ Episode 34 Roll Call
02:11 🥁 HBCU Band Culture & the "Bands" Sonic Boom Sample
06:37 🧘🏾 Weekend Recap: The Party at Jim's, Yoga & a Sound Bath
09:37 🏃🏾 75 Hard Day 8 & Running With Unc
16:04 🎃 Halloween Decorations, 100 Cases at Work & Cigars
17:51 🌊 Self-Regulation: How We Actually Reset
21:39 😴 Sleep, Toussaint L'Ouverture & the Four-Hour Debate
23:39 🩺 "That Ain't Gangster": CPAP & Men's Health Stigma
27:18 🏈 Lane Kiffin Sold His Soul: Ole Miss Beats LSU
30:28 💔 Ever Felt Betrayed by a Team? Shaq, the NWO & KD
41:40 ⭐ Deion Leaving the 49ers & a Friendly Wager
43:58 📺 TV Time: Diarra From Detroit, Lioness & Reacher
49:39 🤠 Taylor Sheridan's Universe: Yellowstone, Landman & Tulsa King
52:39 🐉 Cult Classics, Game of Thrones & Telling Black Myths
59:41 🔄 Best Spin-Off Ever? Bel-Air, Bosch & House of the Dragon
1:06:41 💿 Young Dro's "Best Thang Smokin'" Turns 20
1:12:28 💝 Love Languages & 8Ball's 1,600-Piece Lego Gift
1:21:39 🃏 Shadow Work: Sibling Rivalries

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Shute's back from St. Lucia, the album's out, and the table gets into it: Boosie going on 60 Minutes about a $600,000 pardon that never came, what actually makes somebody a snitch, and 30 years to the day since September 13, 1996. Then ATLiens turns 30, and the Shadow Work card asks about the Jester — the one who keeps everybody laughing while he's falling apart inside. That last half hour is the realest this show has been.

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🃏 "Shadow Work" ft. Jelly Roll — off Starlito's Way 5: Catharsis
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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 🎬 Episode 33 — Roll Call
01:51 🏝️ Shute's Back: St. Lucia & 10 Years In
04:06 💿 The Album's Out + 8Ball & MJG at the Orpheum
06:19 🧺 The Picnic, Jar 10 & Jelly Roll Pulling Up
12:16 🕊️ Rest In Peace Cairo Tony
13:38 📺 Boosie, 60 Minutes & the $600K Pardon
19:40 🤐 So Who's Actually a Snitch?
32:20 🌹 30 Years Without Pac
38:11 🎤 Pimp C Meets Pac: Tupac as an Influence
41:18 📼 "I Ain't Mad at Cha" & Marketing the Tragedy
43:37 🐟 Keefe D & the Fish That Opened Its Mouth
46:16 🎬 Poetic Justice, Bishop & 90s Black Cinema
53:16 🤖 Holograms, AI & Catching It Live
54:56 ✈️ How Far Would You Travel for Your Favorite Artist?
1:01:36 👽 ATLiens Turns 30
1:18:16 📱 RIP Tone Capone & the $3,200 iPhone
1:21:51 🃏 Shadow Work: The Jester
1:49:37 📚 75 Hard, Book Club & Road to 10K

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D-Mo slides into Shute's seat while he's out the country, and the table gets into the conversation nobody actually has out loud — who's supposed to pass the game down, why so many OGs don't, and whether you were ever really ready for the room you thought you deserved. It runs almost twenty-five minutes and it's the realest stretch of the season.

Plus Kanye in Chicago, the best food cities in America, a Five Below story that has no business being that funny, and a reveal at the table that nobody saw coming.

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🎵 Starlito — CATHARSIS (out September 11) 🛒 GrindHard.com

🖤 Black Ass Party — Sept 19, Jim's on Buckhead

🏃🏾 Titans 5K — Sept 26 | Predators 5K — Sept 27

🛍️ Nashville Black Market — Oct 2, Nashville Farmers Market, 6–10 PM

💪🏾 75 Hard kicks off Sept 15 — link coming

🎤 Slim Jim's first comedy special, Grief Counseling — new date TBA

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 🎙️ Intro — D-Mo Sits In for Shute

02:57 🏃🏾 Run Club, Recovery & Weekend Recap

06:33 🎤 Grief Counseling Update & Slim & Husky's Goes to Chicago

09:07 🎧 Kanye in Chicago, Jay-Z at Yankee Stadium

13:23 ⚔️ Hit for Hit: Can Anybody See Kanye?

15:16 🎹 Stevie, Gladys & the Farewell Tour Tactic

17:55 🍽️ Best Food Cities in America

20:52 🥬 The Vegan Map & What's Too Much for Vegetables

25:39 🌱 Community Gardens, Diners & Hometown Staples

32:49 ✈️ The Air Traffic Control Reveal

34:13 🪘 Passing the Baton: OGs, Game & Who's Actually Ready

53:26 🚪 Gatekeeping, Silent Beef & Protecting Your Spot

55:52 💼 Lil Wayne & Gucci Mane: Watching the Work

58:16 🏈 Super Bowl Predictions

1:02:08 🎺 HBCU Football & Marching Band Culture

1:07:50 🤳🏾 The Five Below Selfie Stick Story

1:11:09 📚 Book Club: The Way of the Superior Man

1:19:24 🕯️ Shadow Work: Insecurities & Hurtful Moments

1:34:39 💿 Album, Community Unity Day, Road to 10K & 75 Hard

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The fellas are back around the table and this one goes deep. What starts as sloths, snakes and the book table turns into a real conversation about how success gets punished, what actually happens when someone uses your lyrics, and why forgiveness might be the hardest work there is. Plus a scammer with a 49ers helmet, and an album reveal at the buzzer.

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🏃🏾 Titans 5K — September 26 | Fantastic 5K — September 27
🎤 Jimmy at Third Coast Comedy Club — new date TBA
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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 🎙️ Intro & Catching Up
03:21 🐍 Spiders, Snakes & Favorite Animals
09:41 🦥 The Accidental Sloth Collection
14:11 📚 The Book Table
17:41 ⚖️ Built Up to Be Torn Down
29:41 📱 Going Viral & Losing the Narrative
31:41 🎵 Rod Wave vs. Boosie: "Long Journey"
37:01 💰 Dolly, Whitney & the Publishing Lesson
45:31 🔁 Hip-Hop Was Built on Borrowing & the H•A•M Story
52:51 ✈️ Charlotte & a Sold-Out Show
55:41 ⏳ Free Time Is a Myth
1:00:11 🏈 The 49ers Helmet Scammer
1:05:01 📅 Weird Holidays, Pinky & Staycations
1:10:41 🕯️ Shadow Work: Forgiveness
1:23:21 🎤 Comedy Update & the 10K Push
1:26:11 💿 CATHARSIS — Out September 11
1:27:41 🏃🏾 5Ks & Outro

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Episode 30 opens with first-day-of-school energy — the crew compares notes on parenting versus being a kid, morning routine chaos, and how excitement flips to something bittersweet once you're the one dropping them off. Book club digs into The Celestine Prophecy and The 5 AM Club, then the conversation turns to whether work is an escape or the thing you're escaping from. A cryptic Don Trip tease leads into September 11 memories — where everyone was, and the albums that dropped that same day — before spiraling into middle school crushes and a full Tickle Me Elmo nostalgia trip.

The back half covers the Knockout Wings pop-up controversy and what it says about scaling a business without losing the recipe, a run through old Nashville restaurants everyone wants back, upcoming 5K race season (Titans and Predators back-to-back), a full ranking of Lito's unreleased "100 I Shoot" and "What Was I Thinking" catalog — plus a first listen to a brand new unreleased verse — and it closes out with shadow work on comparison as the thief of joy.

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 🎙️ Intro
01:38 🏫 First Day of School & Being a Parent vs. a Kid
17:52 📚 Book Club — Celestine Prophecy & The 5 AM Club
23:20 🎭 Is Work Your Escape? (Zodiac Talk)
31:17 🎤 Comedy Set Tease — Third Coast Comedy Club
32:59 👀 Don Trip's Cryptic September 11 Posts
33:47 🗽 September 11, 2001 — Where Were You
39:35 💿 September 11 Rap Anniversary — Blueprint & Get Off
40:24 💘 Middle School Crushes & Tickle Me Elmo Nostalgia
47:00 🍗 Knockout Wings Pop-Up Controversy
58:19 🍔 Old Nashville Restaurants We Miss
1:03:36 🏃 5K Season — Titans & Predators Races
1:07:41 🎧 Ranking Lito's Unreleased Music
1:13:42 🎶 New Music Preview — 100 I Shoot Pt. 5
1:18:36 🌑 Shadow Work — Comparison Is the Thief of Joy
1:29:13 👋 Outro

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Starlito announces "Strict Over Here" is officially out in the world — then the whole crew sits down and breaks down "Lowdown Dirty" bar by bar: the Rick Ross flip, the Shameless theme, the Van Cleef bracelet that's actually a hospital bracelet, and why "I'm just being Frank" means two things at once. The book club digs into masculine energy and polarity from *The Way of the Superior Man*, Loso recaps his Urban League weekend, and the back half goes deep on Tory Lanez, Diddy, and R. Kelly. Plus high school superlatives, Loso's 20-point Hall of Fame basketball game, a Tomato 5K race bet with real stakes, and vegan talk with a 12-year plant-based journey.

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Lowdown Dirty Lyrics → https://genius.com/Starlito-low-down-dirty-lyrics

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 🎙️ Intro & Loso's Urban League Weekend
02:00 😤 Yarners Party Incident
05:39 📚 Book Club Check-In (Track 33 of 54)
11:04 💪 Masculine Energy & The Mental Load
14:47 ☯️ Polarity & Complementary Opposites
23:08 🔥 Strict Over Here Is Out
26:33 🎵 Lowdown Dirty — Bar by Bar Breakdown
46:01 🎨 Separating Art from the Artist
52:59 ⚖️ Tory Lanez Debate
1:00:12 😬 Diddy — The Footage Is Damning
1:12:19 🏆 High School Superlatives
1:15:38 🏀 MMPS Hall of Fame Basketball Recap
1:16:58 🍅 Tomato 5K Race Bet (Real Stakes)
1:23:58 🌱 Vegan Journey & Fasting Talk
1:34:36 📖 Book Assignment & Outro

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Ep. 28 brings in Robin Raynelle — singer, event band contractor, healthcare worker, and one of the crew's day-ones — to rank every Starlito x Robin collab from the jump. From "26's" to the new collaborations featured on Starlito's project *It's Strict Over Here*, they break down which songs hit hardest, what happens inside the studio when they build together, and how a childhood Little League connection turned into a music partnership spanning years. 

The back half goes deep: Part 2 of *The Way of the Superior Man* leads into shadow work on the hardest compliments to accept —  deflecting every compliment by questioning the motive, and Jimmy closing it out with a cookout story you won't forget.

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 🎙️ Intro
01:44 👋 How Robin Knows the Crew — Origin Story
05:00 🎵 First Collab: "26es on Chevy Frame"
08:55 🏆 Top 5 Starlito x Robin Songs — Everyone Ranks 'Em
20:47 🎛️ Inside the Studio — How They Build Songs Together
26:47 🎚️ From the Engineer's Seat
32:09 🎤 Robin's Early Influences & Life on the Road
35:41 📚 Audiobooks vs. Music — The Reading Debate
37:47 📖 Book Club: Way of the Superior Man Part 2
1:01:09 🃏 Next Assignment — Shadow Work Cards
1:03:12 🪞 Shadow Work: Compliments You Had a Hard Time Accepting
1:17:16 😂 Jimmy's Cookout Story: Meeting Auntie Lela
1:19:35 👋 Outro — Road to 10K | "It's Strict Over Here" Out Now

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