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What We’re Up To
Happy New Year, everybody!
We made it though, y’all. Hopefully this year brings you and yours everything that you need to have a happy, healthy 2025.
We’re working on a couple of projects for our next season right now, so we won’t have any new episodes until February, but until then, get into our most recent one. We had a few more songs that didn’t make our Gogo Jason Waterfalls episode due to length, but we knew that we’d be dropping it at some point, so here it is, as a B-Side. Here are the songs that we discussed this time around:
Tweet - Oops, Oh My
Maxwell - This Woman’s Work
Maxwell - Closer
Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman
Stevie Wonder - Go Home
Check it out👇🏾
What We’re Watching
Squid Game 2 on Netflix
I don’t know how the creators of this managed to a show about desperate people risking their lives for money even darker than season 1, but they’ve done it. The games aren’t nearly as difficult as the first time around, but the people playing are much worse than before.
Watch Squid Game 2 here.
What We’re Reading
U.S. sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson covers this month’s Essence.
Colman Domingo and Kieran Culkin sit for a conversation with Variety’s Actors on Actors. (Video included.)
Andre 3000 discusses his recent Grammy nomination, possibly moving to Japan and why I we should probably give up on getting a new OutKast album in this Rolling Stone interview.
The last Sam Goody stores are closing
Why Netflix looks that way
2025 belongs to Doechii
Beyonce’s stylist discusses the cultural references from the costumes worn during her halftime performance.
What We’re Listening To
Missionary by Snoop Dogg
Snoop has always been at his best when he’s in the studio with Dre, and this is no different. Even though he’s been hit and miss over the past few years with his output, this album shows that Snoop is still capable of floating on tracks like it’s ‘94 when he’s focused.
The production is a sound that Dre and his team (The ICU) have been pushing since his Compton album in 2015. It’s very cinematic. If there’s one thing that you’re gonna get from a Dr. Dre project, it’s gonna be sonically clean. Is it Doggystyle? No. Is it one of Snoop’s best albums? Yes.
You can check out the Missionary short film (NSFW - gun violence) below.
Listen to Missionary here.
You Down Wit’ O.P.P.? (Other Peoples Podcasts)
Shadowball: The Rise of the Black Athlete by Audible
I stumbled across this while using a 30 day trial offer that Audible kept sending me. I listened to the episode about a Black football player at Iowa State, Jack Trice, who died from injuries sustained under suspicious circumstances during a game against The University of Minnesota in 1923.
From the producers of the Signal Award-winning series The League and hosted by Emmy Award-winning journalist Jemele Hill comes the audio documentary series Shadowball: Rise of the Black Athlete.
Among the stories featured are a football player’s tragic death in his second college game in 1923; a female track star’s courageous fight for de-segregation, including remaining seated during the national anthem at the Pan-Am Games in the late 1950s; the ascension of African American quarterbacks in the NFL; a WNBA team’s courageous efforts to change the tide of the 2020 election; and a baseball player who left Tiger Stadium in his uniform in the middle of the Detroit Rebellion of 1967 to quell the violence in his city.
This Audible Original series offers a window into the history of the Black athlete’s role and how it has led us to where we are today, recounting a dark past, but showing inspirational triumphs that provide hope for future generations.
Listen to more episodes of Shadowball: The Rise of the Black Athlete here.
Random Internet Shenanigans
Does anything in this video make sense? Nope. But do you wanna watch a 4 minute Stevie Wonder crime thriller? Of course you do.
Mariah Carey signs an autograph on Rihanna’s boob. Click the thumbnail below to see the video.
Shameless Plugs
If you know of anyone who has always wanted to start their own podcast, but didn’t know where to begin, you can direct them to Miguel’s free course for podcast newbies. You can get it on our YouTube channel. Watch and subscribe here. 👈🏾
If any of our listeners are interested in talkin’ nerdy, Christina has a series on her personal YouTube channel called Decoded by Christina where she talks about HTML, CSS and some other random stuff. Watch and subscribe here. 👈🏾
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Closing Time
All right, it’s time to go. See y’all next month!
