The IAP house lost its most cherished, valued and trusted person. The valiant and year-long battle of Wood's wife was recurring topic through much 2024, and her last week in this world prompted an immediate halt to the podcast. Wood reflects on his 21-year marriage, and shares what can be shared because this ordeal was the epitome of personal - and what IAP is all about.
Over the rest of the podcast Wood attempts to get back to the scope of IAP. Let's just get the unyielding fixation on 'Blackness' out of the way for the start of 2025. This episode's mentions are John Hope Bryant's empowering messaging on Jemele Hill's new podcast Spolitics, Hill's flawed 'racism' angle about the Lamar Jackson-Josh Allen NFL MVP race, Black America vs Notre Dame's Marcus Freeman, Blackness relevance in the 2024 NFL Playoffs and Black TV/streaming (50 Cent vs Omari Hardwick).
