TactlessKnowitAlls

This short episode is our last. If you want to hear the full story on why we decided to end it, listen to our earlier episode on the subject.

This week, we're looking back on the year and recounting the lessons we've learned this year.

This week, we didn't have anything specific on our hearts to talk about. We ended up talking about Emancipation, which we haven't seen yet. We talked about why we 've been avoiding it and what we think the long term impact may end up being for art in today's society. Basically, we went on a tangent until we ran out of tangents.

This week, we're talking about Kanye. Sorry...

This week, we (well, one of us) have a story to tell.

This week, we're referencing a show by Jon Stewart we watched right before recording and decided it was worth a conversation. The main aim of the episode of his show was for white people to talk to each other about solutions to American racism and white supremacy. We recorded what we felt right after watching.

This week, we're talking about a 60 Minutes piece we recently saw regarding Tik Tok and the differences in the US version and the Chinese version. Most of our conversation was initially about how we think those differences will affect us (the US) in the future. We then shifted to a conversation about Twitter and how we see this going in the short term for Elon Musk.

This week, we're talking movies. We began talking about the new Black Panther Sequel, but that quickly turned into a conversation about black film and black filmmaking in general.

This week, we're talking about Deion Sanders and Jackson State football. We recently watched a short interview featuring Deion and the Jackson St team and in it he talked about how much good he could do by simply being there. Toward the end of the interview, he mentioned he'd consider leaving to go to pretty much any school that made the right offer. That made us wonder what the impact would be on Jackson State if he actually left this early in his coaching career and how could that affect the surrounding community that has benefitted from him being there.

This week, we talked about something that has become apparent over the last few trips to shop for vinyl. Not exactly what you'd expect would've come to mind, but if you've been rocking with us for a while, the direction won't surprise you at all.

This week, we took a detour. We started out talking about sports (for about 2 seconds) but that led into a deeper conversation on what we've noticed is becoming more and more prevalent in society.

This week is a story time episode. One of us got arrested (in the past). If you listen to this podcast, you can probably guess which one of us, but you'll probably never guess why or the full story behind it...

This week, we're discussing this political cycle we can't seem to ever get done with. It feels like we've been watching political commercials for 2 years straight and one of the reoccurring themes is "defunding the police". We talked about what we think about that phrase and what we think might be an issue for some candidates running on that idea in their platform.

This week, we are explaining why, when and how we've decided to end this podcast. Simple, right?

This week, we decided to just have a quick conversation about some of the lessons we've learned this year about cutting corners.

This week, we're talking about a comment that was made while we were visiting someone that we felt deserved to be a full conversation. They made several comments about how some of the kids were "spoiled" in the past and that (somehow) was justification for current character flaws. We took the comment in, but afterwards decided to have the conversation that makes up this episode.

This week, we're talking about a "new" program Bank of America is piloting targeting Black and Hispanic 1st time homebuyers. It's a zero down payment mortgage that has already been criticized by some as "a plot to accelerate gentrification". We break down: 1. Why that theory is dumb as hell. 2. Why we think gentrification is misunderstood by 95% of the people who talk about it. 3. We give our opinion on what Bank of America is actually doing with this "program" and finally 4. We give a blueprint on what we'd be doing as a first time homebuyer right now in this market instead of joining this program.

This week, we were going to try to muscle through this episode, but that wasn't in the cards. Maybe next week.

This week's (actually, last week's late episode) episode really ended up going in an organic direction because we decided to just talk about whatever. Initially, we were going to go in one direction, but as always, that didn't happen and we went off on a tangent...

This week, we talked briefly about the things we are most proud of in life but also, the things we most regret. The conversation actually ended up on regrets more than anything, but...that's life.