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For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 52 | Plant-Based DietsThe Music & Entertainment Business Has Often Erroneously Been Referred To As "The Industry" For So Many Year's, Often To The Detriment Of The Young Creatives Who Actively Work To Facilitate The Existence Of The Business Which Vicariously Feeds Into The Residual Stimulation Of The Various Auxiliary Industry Entities. The Content (Music, Merchandise & Product) That We Create Is Part Of The Entertainment Business, While Many Of Outlets That We Use To Disseminate The Content Through (DSPs, Social Media Platform's & Terrestrial Media Outlets) Are All Part Of The Industry That's Created As A Result Of Talent Feeding...
2021-05-2125 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastEpisode 25 | The Last Chance SaloonThere Comes A Time In All Our Lives When We Are Against The Kosh, Forced To Showcase Some Degree Of Fight In Order To Survive & Advance, Tales Of Weathering Those Inevitable Moments Of Adversity Are Often Very Characteristic Of Every Great Champions' Life Story... Our Beloved Gooners Have May Have Made Their Bones By Being Tested Through The Fire, Over The Past Decade & A Half, Yet This Europa League Quarterfinal 2nd-Leg Is The Ultimate Test Of Their True Survival Instincts, As Our Entire Season & Even A Few Arsenal Careers Are Riding On The Outcome Of This...
2021-04-1548 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastEpisode 24 | Give The Youth A ChanceIt’s 90 Seconds To Go In The First Leg Of A Europa League Quarter-Final, And Your Team Can Take A Lead Into The 2nd-Leg Away From Home By Merely Seeing Out The Game, Yet You Are Still Not Comfortable As A Fan... That’s Because Arsenal Have Made A Habit Of Bottling It When The Pressure Is On, Especially When They Come Up Against Teams That They Really Ought To Be Beating. The Prague Game Is Proof Positive That These Current Lot, For The Most Part, Aren’t Good Enough For The Arsenal Still. Leno, Bellerin, Xhaka, Willian & Lacaze...
2021-04-1154 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastEpisode 23 | And Not Waving, But Drowning...Losing Is A Necessary Part Of Sports & Life, One That Allows Us To Learn From Our Mistakes And Set Us Up For A Comeback Or Meteoric Rise To The Top... The Only Issue With Losing, Is The Manner In Which You Lose - You Can't Learn Much From A Failure Caused By A Situation In Which You Didn't Try Your Level Best - Our Beloved Arsenal Are No Where Near Knowing How Far They Are Away From, An Albeit Fallen On Hard Times Heavyweight, Team Like Liverpool... Which Intel That We Should Be Using To Gauge The Efficiency...
2021-04-081h 01
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 49 | Welcome 2 MmembervilleWe All Need A Place To Call Home, Where We Can Be Ourselves, Unapologetically... In Today’s Day & Age, Finding A Place Of Solitude Through Social Media Is Surprisingly Rare To Most Millennials & Gen-Z’s, Which Is Rather Odd When One Considers How Most Social Media Platforms & DSPs Tend To Pride Themselves On Their Ability To Breakdown Borders And Create Globally Reaching Movements, Communities & Places Of Solitude/ Safety. As A Stoner Who Spends A Fair Amount Of Time Online, Due To The Nature Of My Profession As A Creative, Finding A Home Within The #Mmemeberville Comm...
2021-04-0625 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastEpisode 22 | The Legends Live Forever!It’s With A Heavy Heart That We Bid Farewell To A Legendary Arsenal Fan, Claude Callegari, Who Passed On From Natural Causes Aged 58. As An Avid Arsenal Fan TV (AFTV) Viewer, I Grew To Admire The OG Claude For His Unique Viewpoint & Candid Takes On The State Of Our Beloved Football Club, We Will All Miss Claude & Ty’s Banter In Studio. Rest In Power Gooner!
In This Episode, 2RU-STORI Recaps The 3-3 London Derby Draw Against West Ham United (Match Takeaways & Player Ratings), Where Arsenal Had To Fight Back From 3 Goals Down With...
2021-04-0341 min
Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax MachineEpisode 30 | Life After LeBron (LA Lakers)It's Tough Being On Top, Everybody Wants To Prove Themselves Against You & You're Still Working To Be The Best Version Of Yourself Despite Being Atop The Mountain At That Particular Time... The Los Angeles Lakers, As One Of The Greatest Sports Teams Ever, Have Had To Learn That Lesson Again This Season In Some Rather Unfamiliar Circumstances For Everybody. If You Could Put LeBron James, Anthony Davis & Talen Horton-Tucker Aside And Somehow Get Off Of Everyone Else's Contracts To Actually Build A Team That Works In LA, Rob Pelinka Would Probably Do It In A Heartbeat. Yet You Can't Do...
2021-03-2511 min
Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax MachineEpisode 29 | The Motor Of The City (DET Pistons)The NBA Created An Amazing System In The Draft Lottery, Where The Worst Teams In The League Are Rewarded With First Dibs On The Incoming Crop Of Young Talent... What The League Couldn't Predict Was The Ineptitude Of Some Teams As It Would Pertain To Player Scouting Leading Up To Said Draft, When You Have The 2nd Pick In Arguably The Greatest Ever Draft Class & Miss Out On Chris Bosh, Carmelo Anthony & Dwayne Wade Is A Crime Unto Itself (They Selected Darko Miličić After LeBron Went Second By The Way). The Detroit Pistons Have Had To Endure That L Fo...
2021-03-2511 min
Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax MachineEpisode 28 | This Way Is Up... (GS Warriors)What Do You Give A Team That's Just Been On A Dynastic Half Decade Winning Run, Right As They Seem To Be Primed For The Inevitable Catastrophic Fall? How About 2 Seasons To Rehabilitate Your Fatigued Superstars, A Plethora Of Good Young Potential Role-Players To Develop & The Centrepiece That They Never Had At An Age Where They Can Mould Him Into The Teams Style Of Play... I Guess It Truly Is The Warrior's Way. This Is Like Tim Duncan Landing In San Antonio While The Admiral Is Still In Town & Able To Help The Big Fundamental Get Over The Hump To...
2021-03-2518 min
Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax MachineEpisode 27 | The Godfather Offer (MIN Timberwolves)It's Often Been Said That, "Man Makes Plans & God Laughs", Due To Man's Inability To See As God Sees... When The Minnesota Timberwolves Traded Away All-Star Franchise Cornerstone Kevin Love For Anthony Bennett & Andrew Wiggins, Two Consecutive Number 1 Pick Canadians, They Rightly Felt As If They Too Had A Future As Bright As Cleveland's With Kyrie Irving, Kevin Love & A Returning King LeBron James... Yeah, We All Know How This Movie Panned Out, But The T'Wolves Do Still Have The Editorial Rights To Correct This Narrative Before It's All Said And Done. Trading For D'Angelo Russell To Appease Karl-Anthony Towns...
2021-03-2522 min
Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax MachineEpisode 26 | Playing Buddy-Buddy (SAC Kings)When You've Blatantly Been Robbed Of Your Franchises Greatest Shot At Winning The Coveted NBA Title & Seeming Never Been Able To Get Right Since, Yet You Keep On Trying... You Deserve To Be Called The "Kings"! One Day The Sacramento Kings Will Get An Opportunity To Right Those Wrongs And I For One Pray That They Grab It With Both Hands & Feet. Even When They've Shot Themselves In The Foot By Not Building Around A Cornerstone Like DaMarcus Cousins When They Still Had Him, Lucking Out On A Transcendental Player Like De'Aaron Fox May Have Been Undeserved In The Eyes...
2021-03-2524 min
Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax MachineEpisode 25 | The Centre Of Attention (ORL Magic)There Are Certain Franchises That Seem To Regularly Suffer The Ignominy Of Being Well Revered For Their Talent Scouting, Draft Selections & Personnel Development, While Also Being Largely Heralded As Perennial Underperformers When It Pertains To Actual Winning Off The Court. On Paper, The Orlando Magic Always Look Like A Decent 7-12 Team That Can Maybe Make The Playoffs One Season & Just Miss Out On The Big Dance In The Very Next Installment... They Have Some Very Nice Young Talent In Markelle Fultz, Jonathan Isaac & Mo Bamba, Yet They Still Lack A Designated Go-To Scorer Who Fits In With That Young...
2021-03-2523 min
Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax MachineEpisode 24 | Guard For The Future (OKC Thunder)Tanking Is No Longer An Exact Science, Teams Can No Longer Guarantee That Their Picks Will Land In The Top 3 Even When They Intentionally Go Out To Be The Worst Team In The League, We As Fans Can't Even Tell When The Team Is About To Blow-It-Up Anymore Either... The Oklahoma City Thunder Went From Being A 5th Seed In The Toughest Conference One Season, To A Team With An Actual Shot At Landing A Top-3 Pick In This Year's Heavily Loaded Draft, All In The Course Of 1 Off-Season That Saw Over 6 Contributing Members Of The Squad Moved On For...
2021-03-2520 min
Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax MachineEpisode 23 | Don’t Let Your Guard Down (WAS Wizards)Is It Conceivable To Think That A Teams Decision To Trade Away An “Unwanted” Star For Another “Handle With Care” Elite Talent In An Attempt To Appease Their Remaining Star Player, Could End Up With No Genuine Stars On Their Books When All Is Said And Done? I Didn’t Think So, Yet The Zardo’s Will Always Find A Way To Pull Off The Nigh Impossible, Often To Their Own Detriment As An Organization. Bradley Beal Will Want Out If This Losing Continues, So Too Will Russell Westbrook As Neither Of Their Talents Are Befitting Of Being On A Perennial Lo...
2021-03-2520 min
Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax MachineEpisode 22 | A Lil’ Grit, Grind & Finesse (MEM Grizzlies)There Are A Few Basketball Team Identifies That Have Lasted Long After The Players Had Left The Game; The Original Big 3 Celtics Led By Bird, Magic's Showtime Lakers, The Bad Boy Pistons & Mike's Boisterous Bulls Teams Of The Early To Mid 90's All Come To Mind, Mainly Due To How They Won At The Highest Level & Left An Indelible Mark On The Game... One Team That Will Often End Up Being Given An Honourable Mention On That Highly Prestigious List, Is The Grit & Grind Memphis Grizzlies Era... Mike Conley, Tony Allen, Zach Randolph & Marc Gasol All Helped To Create An...
2021-03-2409 min
Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax MachineEpisode 21 | In The Shadows Of Giants (CHI Bulls)The Bigger They Come, The Harder They Fall... For The Chicago Bulls, As One Of The Most Recognisable Sports Teams In The World, Falling From The Lofty Heights Of Regular Ticketed Championship Parades To The Highlight Of Your Teams Season Being Regular Trips To Madison Square Garden For The Yearly Draft Is A Bit Much To Stomach. There Has Been Much Said & Written About The GarPax Regime Who Oversaw This Transition Into Mediocrity From The Michael Jordan Years To Now... With A New Wave Of Change Sweeping Through The Bulls Organizational Structures, You Now Have The First Black GM In...
2021-03-2415 min
Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax MachineEpisode 20 | The Parting Gifts (SAN Spurs)Most Corporations Gift Mense A Gold Watch When They Finally Retire After 20+ Years Of Service... But What Do You Really Get A Man Like Coach Pop, Who Has Won You 5 NBA Championships Since Taking Charge Of Your Organization? Maybe Another Ring? After A Nigh Endless Series Of Golden Ages That Were Highlighted By All-Star Caliber Leading Talents Like David Robinson, Tim Duncan & Kawhi Leonard, The Spurs Have Been On A Rebuilding Journey Of Late, Once Which Saw Them Miss Out On The Playoffs Last Season, For The First Time In Pop's Tenure, Which Is Something They Don't Seem Intent...
2021-03-2421 min
Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax MachineEpisode 19 | The Kids Are Alright... (CHA Hornets)For Many A Young Basketball Fan, Michael Jordan Is The Gateway Into The Game - I Fell In Love With B-Ball Through My Older Brother & Uncle, Who Are Both Big Fans Of The GOAT Himself - For One Of The Greatest Players Of All-Time, If Not The Greatest, To Own An NBA Franchise Today Is Actually Rather Cool... MJ Has Opened Up So Many Lanes For Modern Athlete's & Entertainers, Yet His Ownership Of The Charlotte Hornets Is Arguably One Of His Biggest Accomplishments Yet. Equity Ownership Is Something That Is Very Dear To Us As Young People Of Colour...
2021-03-2421 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastThe Shmoke Break | Episode 1Rated Returns On Investments Of All Shapes & Sizes Are Key, Especially When You're Still Learning How To Manage / Grow Your Available Resources Into More Provisions For The Vision... I Pray This Lil' Bit Of Introspection Helps To Provide You With Some Much Needed Direction.
Medicate Responsibly, Meditate Religiously.
Yours 2ruly.
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2021-03-2112 min
Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax MachineEpisode 18 | Rebuilding The Band (UTA Jazz)There Is Some Poetic Justice In The Manner Through Which The Utah Jazz Transitioned On So Effortlesly From The Gordon Hayward Years, While Feasibly Improving On From Where They Were Before The Arrival Of Their New Franchise Player Donovan Mitchell, Who Rose From Being Overlooked In The Draft To A Surefire Rookie Of The Year Candidate In Just His First Season As A Pro. Having Elevated His Game To An All-Star Level, Alongside Fellow All-Star Centre Rudy Gobert, Spyda Mitchell Now Seems Set To Take Utah Up A Notch & Elevate Them To The Heights That They Saw Under Hall-Of-Famer's...
2021-03-2118 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastEpisode 21 | Closing The GapIn A Season Filled With Nigh On Relationship Ending Depression Caused By The Continued Under-Performance Of Our Beloved Arsenal, It's Pretty Wild To Think That We Are Still In With A Shot Of Winning The Europa League & Finishing In The Top 4 (Knock On Wood). There's Plenty Room For Improvement At Arsenal, Along With Plenty Reason For Optimism Too... For All The Goals We've Given Away Or Left On The Table, We've Also Unearthed A Couple Young Players That Now Serve As The Cornerstones Of Our Rebuilding Process. All Things Considered, We're Are Now Beginning To Close The Gap Between Ourselves...
2021-03-2129 min
Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax MachineEpisode 17 | Kini Big Deal Bucks (MIL Bucks)My Milwaukee Love Story Dates Back To The Late 90’s / Early 2000’s When The Bucks We’re Still Trying To Find Their Feet In The Modern NBA, Coming Of The Back Of Some “Glory Days” In The Early 70’s Where They Won Their First & Only Ring To Date, Milwaukee Somehow Managed To Luck Out On A Transcendent Talent In Giannis After They’d Had A Hall Of Fame Talent In Ray Allen, Yet We As Fans Watched On Helplessly As They Continually Wasted His Ability To Help Elevate The Ball-Club To The Next Level... All Those Mismanagement Years Where We Had Good Playe...
2021-03-1938 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 48 | Provision For The VisionYou Often Don't Realize How Much Room You Have To Still Grow, Until You're Afforded With The Space That You May Need To Do Some Life Altering Introspection... That Happened To Me In 2018; I Was Down On My Luck & Short On The Self-Belief That I'd Been Able To Steadily Tap Into During My Formative & Teenage Years; When God Took Away All Of The Distractions & Left Me With The Space That Was Needed For The Holy Spirit To Work, I Begun To Learn & Apply A Lot Of The Principles / Messages That I Am Now Gratefully Able To Share With Y'all Through...
2021-03-1724 min
Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax MachineEpisode 16 | Still Blazin' (POR Trailblazers)Comparison Is The Thief Of Joy; When The Portland Trailblazers Drafted Damien Lillard Out Of Weber State University With The 6th Pick In 2012, They Already Had A Pretty Good Foundation In LaMarcus Aldridge, While Trading Gerald Wallace To The Nets Landed Them A Top-3 Protected Pick That Ended Up Falling In The 6th Slot Where The Basketball God's Made Up For The Brandon Roy & Raymond Felton Situations With Damien Lillard & CJ McCollum Coming In With The 10th Pick Of The 2013 Draft, Effectively Ensuring A Rebuild That Needn't Necessarily Come With Consecutive Losing Seasons. Coming From Being The JailBlazers, To...
2021-03-1328 min
Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax MachineEpisode 15 | Keeping The Pace (IND Pacers)The Modern NBA Has Gradually Become More Of A Feast Or Famine Reality For Most Ball-Clubs... You Either Get A Window To Shoot For The Chip & Be Winsome As An Organization, Or You're Facing The Uncontrollable Factors That Now Come With A Rebuild That's Based On Tanking Or Intentionally Losing In An Unveiled Attempt To Try & Boost Your Teams Draft Odds. It's Rather Rare To Find Yourself In The Middle Of Those Two Realities In Today's NBA, Where Owners, GMs, Fans & Even Players Often Lack The Wherewithal To Keep Up With The Pace Of The Race Leaders, Even Though...
2021-03-1141 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastEpisode 20 | The Final Before The FinalIt’s Been A While Since We, As Arsenal, Went Into A Run Of Games Knowing That, Regardless Of How The Season Has Gone / Is Going, We Still Have The Power To Dictate How The Season Is Remembered Through The Manner In Which We Finish The Race Regardless, Of Our Final Position Or Lack Of Silverware Attained. The League Is Seemingly A Foregone Conclusion, With Manchester City Having To Collapse Right At The Finish Line To Blow Their Lead This Season, Yet Our Beloved Arsenal Are Still In The Europa League Round Of 32 & Just 6 Points Off The Top Si...
2021-02-2526 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastEpisode 19 | The Free-Kick GameThe Teething Stage Is Rumoured To Be When Infants Tend To Be At Their Most Unsettled, Disgruntled & Annoyed (Read Annoying) Of The Early Childhood Phases, Which I May Not Be Able To Vouch For Yet But I Can Still Use That External Perspective To Juxtapose That Early Childhood Occurrence To The Current State Of All Things Arsenal Related... As Things Currently Stand, This Is The Most Unsettled We’ve Been As A First Team Squad, As Disgruntled As We’ve Become As A Fanbase And As Annoyed (Annoying) As The Results Have Been For The Manager, After Looking Like...
2021-02-2128 min
Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax MachineEpisode 14 | Learning How To Fly (NO Pelicans)It’s Rapidly Become A Norm For Young Players In Smaller Markets To Bide Their Time And Develop On Their Rookie Deals, Resign With The Team That Drafted Them To Maximize Their Contract Value And Only Then Do They Take A Step Back To Reassess Where They Are In Their Personal Development, In Relation To How The Team Is Developing Towards That Championship Winning Level Befitting Of Said Players Pedigree, Before We Hear Murmurs Of Them Wanting Out Or Being Disgruntled. Granted, For Every Anthony Davis There Will Be A Damian Lillard Or A Stephen Curry, Who Ride It Ou...
2021-02-0930 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 47 | Appreciate Your Position, While Plotting Your Promotion...If You Could Speak To Yourself Just A Year Ago, What Life Changing Information Would You Share With Yung You From 2020? My Lil’ Brother CJ Has Made A Habit Of Providing Perspective In Rather Key Times Of My Developmental Years, While Also Managing To Be A Constant Source Of Motivation And Some Much Needed Encouragement... Having Been Hard At Work To Establish Ourselves As Professional Creatives Over The Past Few Years, We’d Grown Apart Due To The Physical Distance That Was Between Us, Yet I Was Still Able To Tap Into Lil’ Bro For That Perspective, Motivation & Encour...
2021-02-0928 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastEpisode 18 | The Road To RedemptionGiving Up The Good For The Great Is A Tradeoff That Many Struggle To Fully Come To Terms With, Before Seeking To Master That Art And Afford Themselves Some Increased Opportunity Cost To Trade In For New Opportunities. The Rebuilding Of Arsenal Has Been A Process That Many Of Us Had Been Calling For Since 2010, Yet It Took Us Having To Fall To Newfound Lows Before We Could Have An Opportunity To Rise Back To Our Rightful Standing Within World Football. As We Enter The End Of Mikel’s First Full Season In Charge, It’s Time To Fully Buy...
2021-02-0630 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastEpisode 17 | Same Ol' Foes, Just A Different DayThere Is Nothing Like A Good Beef To Light The Weekend Football Fire... When One Thinks Of Arsenal Versus Manchester United, They Think Of A Modern Battle That Goes Way Beyond A Football Game; The Historical Impact Of This Fixture Dates Back To The 1800’s, With The First Competitive Match Coming In October Of 1894; Their Previous 233 Ties Have Seen Arsenal Win 84 Times, With 97 Losses & Just 52 Draws Shared Between The Two Great Rivals. While The Result Of This Game Has Often Had A Large Impact On How Each Side Views Their Seasons Accomplishments, Merely Winning This Game Can Also He...
2021-01-3038 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 46 | Unlearn 2 LearnEverybody Yearns To Be Free Of Their Daily Stresses, In Order To Be Fully Emancipated Enough To Actually Do What We Can’t Afford To Do, Yet Yearn For Daily. Oh To Bask In The Privilege Of Escape From The Mundanity Of What Living Has Become For Many Of Us... That Would Be Utopia, Innit? It’s More A Question Of Whether We Aspire To Attain More Out Of Life And Truly Enjoy The Fullness That Life Offers Each & Every Single One Of Us, Or Do We Opt To Keep Believing The False-Realities Sold To Us Everyday As Doct...
2021-01-2930 min
Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax MachineEpisode 13 | The SexLand Cavaliers (CLE Cavaliers)The History Of NBA Franchises Who Lose All-Time Great Players In Trades Or Free-Agency, Doesn’t Tend To End Well... We’ve Seen How It Can Often Take A Team Decades To Recover From The Loss Of A Great Player, Regardless Of The Picks Or Player Assets That They May Get Back In A Trade, Or The Opportunity Cost They Paid For The Success Enjoyed When Times Were Good. The Cleveland Cavaliers Took A Series Of Hard Losses During The End Of LeBron James’ 2nd Reign In His Hometown Of Akron; Losing Kyrie Irving For Next To Nothing, Constantly Tradin...
2021-01-2929 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastEpisode 16 | The Saints & Sins Of YesteryearOh To Be A Gooner... A Life Filled with High Hopes & Great Moments Of Exhilaration, That Are Often Always Underpinned By Weeks Of Uncertainty & Nerve Wrecking Moments Of That Lead To One Saying "I'm Deadass About To Lose My Shit... If He Does That One More Time!". It's Not A Lifestyle For The Fainthearted; Known As The Best & Worst Thing To Ever Happen To Your Doctor, Arsenal Fandom Continues Within Many Of Us, Regardless Of The Shortcomings; Once That Bug Bites, It's Really Hard To Fight The Fever... The Month Of January Has Been Indicative Of...
2021-01-2644 min
Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax MachineEpisode 12 | Houston, We Solved The Problem... (HOU Rockets)Player Power Is A Growing Reality Is Sports, One That Team Owners, GMs, Coaches And Fanbases Are All Having To Acclamatize To, Due To The Reality Of What This All Means For Their Beloved Franchises. The Houston Rockets Have Had A First Had Look Into The Pros & Cons Of Having To Acquiesce To A Superstar Play, In Order To Keep Them Happy And Optimize Your Chances Of Winning It All. The Rockets Gave All They Could To Make James Happy In Houston And They Even Managed To Put Together Some Really Competitive Teams In His Time With Them, It...
2021-01-2425 min
Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax MachineEpisode 11 | Hawk Eye Vision (ATL Hawks)The Trade Deadline Is 2 Months Away And We Have Already Seen Some Teams Show Their Hand In The Market, The Atlanta Hawks Are One Of The Teams Who Could Potentially Improve Their Squad Even Further, By Entering Into The Trade Market. After A Great Off-Season, That Involved Picking Up Some Great Back-Up Point Guard Help In Rajon Rondo & Kris Dunn, Along With Wing Shooting In Bogdan Bogdanovic & Danilo Gallinari, The Hawks Added To Their Young Nucleus Of Trae Young, Kevin Huerter, De’Andre Hunter, Cam Reddish, John Collins & Clint Capela, To Effectively Move Their Timeline Up From A Developing Te...
2021-01-2126 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 45 | Success Is Not Owned... It Is Leased & Rent Is Due Everyday!Success Is Something Many Of Us Yearn For, In Our Individual And Collective Endeavours, We All Aspire For A Relative Degree Of Success, Attainment & Accomplishment... Which Makes It Hard For Many Of Us To Initially Grasp How Success Can Never Be Owned; As It's A Continual Process That Revolves Around You Paying The Rent For That Lease To Success, Every Single Day; Once We Realize How Our Success Should Always Be Relative To Our Own Goals, Set By Ourselves For Ourselves, We Begin To Understand What We Would Need To Do / Sacrifice / Pay Upfront To Ensure That Can...
2021-01-1923 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 44 | The Generation Under Germination...
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2021-01-1329 min
Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax MachineEpisode 10 | Coming Of Age (DEN Nuggets)Compliments Of The New Year 🥳To You All! We Pray You Transitioned Well Into 2021, Unlike The 2020 NBA Finalist Denver Nuggets; Featured On Episode 10 Of Our TradeNBA Fantasy Trade Podcast Series; After A Relatively Slow Start To The 2021 Season, Based Off Their Finish Last Season, The Nuggets Are Now Looking Like A Team That Has Been Too Reactive In The Market For Talent, As Joker, Jamal & Porter Jr. Remain The Only Long-Term Talent That Has Justified A Rated Return On Investment, Or Showcased The Ability To Be Trusted Whenever Denver Do Reach The Finals Again. Denver Have A Transcendent Big-Man Lik...
2021-01-1346 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastEpisode 15 | New Arsenal... Who Dis?Compliments Of The New Year To You All! As We Recap The Last 4 Arsenal Fixtures Since We’ve Been On Hiatus... We Run Through Our 5 Takeaways From Each Game, Before Doing A Young Preview Of Our FA Cup 5th Round Tie Against Newcastle United. With The Team Picking Up Form, And Certain Mandem Playing For Their Arsenal Jerseys, We Have Fair Reason To Expect Another Victory & Advancement Into The Next Round, Of A Tournament WebCould Do With Winning Again, To Guarantee Qualification Into European Competitions Next Season, Regardless Of Where We End Up Finishing.
We Close Off The Show With 5 Of...
2021-01-0938 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 43 | Summer Solstice 2020, Through Darkness Into LightThe Year 2020 Will Go Down In Infamy For Many A Reason, Yet One Of It’s Most Definitive Occurrences Happened Towards The Tail End Of What Has Been A Rather Eventful 12 Months Here On Earth, And Beyond... Which Intrinsically Led Me To Thinking About The Theme Of This Years Summer Solstice, For Us Here In The Southern Hemisphere, “Through Darkness Into Light”, Is The Underlying Theme For Us This Year, Something That Resonates Heavily With Me & My Come-Up Into The Games That We Now Play.
I Learned To Become The Light, Within Dark Spaces, As A Result Of Having To Persev...
2020-12-2518 min
Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax MachineEpisode 9 | A Spike In The Right Direction (NYK Knicks)The New York Knickerbockers Have Long Been Seen As A Storied NBA Franchise, With Very Little New Millennium Success To Show For Their Previous Greatness... Post The Golden Era, When The Garden Was Eden & The Knick’s Won 2 NBA Titles In 1970 & 1973, The Blue & Orange Fans Have Had Very Little Reason To Celebrate What Has Been Happening In New York Over The Last Few Decades. A Change In Backroom Staff & Boardroom Executives Over The Past 3 Seasons, Has Gradually Led To The Organization Beginning To Find Their Feet Again, In An Age Where Meticulous Planning & Visionary Foresight Can Rapidly Propel A Te...
2020-12-2234 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 42 | Print The LegendAfter Taking A Few Pods Off To Work On Some Professional Creative Projects, We Return With A Rather Early (For Dezember) Reflection On 2020, From A Rather Poetic Standpoint... One Of The Quotes That Have Always Stuck Out To Me From My Early Years As A Burgeoning Mediologist, Was Taken From A Flick That Dropped Decades Before I Was Even Conceived, "When The Legend Becomes Fact, Print The Legend."", That Bar From "The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance" Is The Central Basis For My Approach To Reflecting Back On What 2020 Has Taught Me, In Order For Me To Have The...
2020-12-1143 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastEpisode 14 | On The 10th Day Of ChristmasAfter A Few Episodes Off, We Return With A Thursday Night Channel 5 Game Against Dundalk... In Need Of A Win After A Winless League Run Of 4 Games, We Review The Wien & Spuds Fixtures With A Preview Of The Dundalk Game, And A Young Rant Thrown In For Good Measure.
#COYG
00:40 - On The 10th Day Of Christmas
02:00 - Wein Win Takeaways
3:40 - Spurs Loss Takeaway
10:10 - The Aftermath Of The Fall
14:50 - Dundalk Preview
17:35 - #PredictTheTheLineUpAFC
25:55...
2020-12-1030 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastEpisode 13 | Wolves In Sheep ClothingIf We Ever Needed A Reminder Of Just How Far We’ve Fallen, Since Our Heydays In Highbury, We Needn’t Look Any Further Than The Current League Standings - Sitting At A Not So Pretty Looking 14th Place, With Just 13 Points, From 10 Games, The Writing Is Firmly Etched On The Wall - This Current Arsenal Squad Is Simply Not Good Enough, In All Fairness, We Haven’t Seen A Well Assembled Arsenal Team In Over A Decade... There Is Always Something Wrong With The Composition Of Our Team, From Players, To Coaches, All The Way Up To Board Level...
2020-12-0338 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastEpisode 12 | Don't Dance With Wolves...I Have Never Been A Big Fan Of The In-Season Stoppages That We Call International Breaks, More-So Now While The Entire World Battles A Covid-19 Pandemic - Which Only Leads Us To Question If The Return Of Sporting Events Had More To Do With Economics Than The Epidemic We’re Facing - Once Thing Is For Certain, Two Things Are For Sure, We Needed That Inter-Lull Way More Than Any Other Team In World Football... Following An Embarrassing Loss To Recently Promoted Aston Villa, Our Boys Needed Time To Take Stock Of What Just Happened, After Having Been On A...
2020-11-2951 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 41 | Postcards From The FutureFor The Past 7 Odd Years, I’ve Been Diametrically Opposed To Celebrating My Date Of Birth, As A By-Product Of How Unsuccessfully I Felt My Life Was Panning Out - The Reality Is, I May Have Not Been Where I Wanted To Be, At Those Moments In My Life, Yet I Also Can’t Overlook How Those Experiences Helped To Pave The Way For The Life That I Live Now - These Past Two Years Have Been A Little Bit Different, Partly Due To Me Now Being In My Late 20’s, And Mainly Due To My Own Growth Process Having...
2020-11-1100 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastEpisode 11 | Old Dogs Learning New TricksA Week, Is A Long Time In Football - Two Sundays Ago, We Were Ready To Name Our Firstborn Sons Mikel, After A Momentum Boosting Win Against Manchester United - Our Beloved Arsenal Amped Us Up Even Further, Beating FK Molde In A Pivotal Europa League Match, That Set Us Up Well For A Late Sunday Evening Clash Against Giant-Killing Former Giants, Aston Villa.
In A Performance, That Can Only Be Described As "Utterly Shite", Our Arsenal Contrived To Give Up All The Momentum That We've Built Under The Mentorship Of Mikel Arteta, In One Solitary Game...
2020-11-1054 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastEpisode 10 | We've Come A Long Way...Heading Into Our Final League Fixture, Before A Rather Lengthy International Break, We Have Ample Reason To Be Upbeat As A Fanbase - With 3 Wins On The Trot, In All Competitions, Without Even Firing On All Cylinders As Of Yet, We Should Rightfully Feel Confident Going Into This Game - The Progress We've Made Under The Guidance of Mikel Arteta Has Been Immense, When You Look At Our Playing Style, Identity & Personnel, You Can Begin To See Why The Results Are Improving, Along With The Confidence Levels Of All Stakeholders... We Truly Have Come A Long Way, In...
2020-11-0820 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastEpisode 9 | In Artekas We TrustWhile No Self-Respecting Arsenal Fan Is Proud Of The Fact That We’ve Now Become A Thursday Night Channel 5 Team, We Can’t Run From Our Reality As It Is, If We Are To Continue Building A Team Equipped To Attain High Level Success In The Future - I Say All That, To Say This, Arsenal’s Current Situation, Is Actually Great Preparation For Our Future Celebrations - Watching Some Of Our Youngsters Getting A Run In The Europa League Games, And Seeing Them Grow Into Mature First-Team Players Before Our Very Eyes, Is Something Many Of Us Had Lost H...
2020-11-0740 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastEpisode 8 | There's Norway To HideReminiscing Upon The Days When Arsenal Would Habitually Let Me Down, Just When I Had Begun To Count On Them The Most, Is Somewhat Of A Therapeutic Process These Days - As This Goon Squad Begins To Mould Their Own Identity, There Is A New Thread That Has Underpinned This Process, A Threat Cut From Some Rather Vintage Cloths, That Are Very Familiar To Us As Gooners - This New, And Still Improving Arsenal Side Is Being Built On A Defensively Sound Philosophy, Based On A High Press That Begins All The Way Upfront, In A Modern Homage To...
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For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 40 | Pray 4 BlackThere Are Times, Places, Situations, And People, That Lead Us To Reflect Upon How We Have Grown From Seeing The Problem From The Outside, To Being Part Of The Problem, When We Now Have The Power To Be A Part Of The Solution... On This Episode, I Reflect On Some Of The Downsides Of Our Come-Up As Young People, In Relation To How We Choose To Spend / Invest The Fruits Of Our Labour. #Pray4Black Is A Personal Reminder Of How I Ought To Comport Myself, In My Personal, Spiritual & Professional Lives; I Once Found Myself On The...
2020-11-0300 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastEpisode 7 | The Theatre Of Dreams And NightmaresA Fixture That Both Teams Circle On Their Calendars At The Beginning Of Every Season, Manchester United Vs Arsenal Is Well Regarded As One Of The Marquee Premier League Fixtures, Dating Back To When I Started Following Arsenal, Back In The Early 2000’s - The Tie Has Lost Some Of It’s Allure Over The Years, Due To Both Sides Having Suffered A Fall From Grace, Yet We Were Again Reminded Of What This Game Means To Football As A Whole - Arsenal Came Into Manchester Needing A Win, After 2 League Defeats On The Trot, Against A Manchester United Side That...
2020-11-0340 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastEpisode 6 | The Kids Are AlrightEating Humble Pie Is Well Worth It, When The Outcome Benefits You In Totality - I Had A Lot Of Kak To Say About Some Of Our Academy Graduates, And Fringe Players, In Our Last Episode, And Pondered If They Deserved Another Run-Out After Being So Uninspiring Of Late - Mikel Arteta Went Into The Dundalk Game With Something To Prove, After Having Lost To Leicester City, And Heading Into A Must-Win Game Against Manchester United On Sunday Afternoon... The Arsenal Gaffer Knew He Needed To Rotate The Squad, And Still Get A Positive Result, While Also Building Up...
2020-10-3152 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastEpisode 5 | It Costs To Be The BossWhat A Difference A Week Makes; After Losing 1-0 To Leicester City In Our Last Outing, Returning To Action Against A Dundalk Side That Has Seen Some Better Days In Their More Recent History, Could Be Just What The Doctor Ordered; Having Decompressed The Last Game, And Having Learned Some Invaluable Lessons About Our Team / Players / Coaches, We Could Use A Winable Game To Get Our Rhythm Back, Or Even Lift The Mood Around The Club, Going Into A Rather Crunch Game Against Manchester United, Away At Old Trafford On Sunday.
Mikel Seems To Respect The Europa...
2020-10-2920 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 39 | Omang Mo Afrika?October 24th, 2018, A Legendary African Icon Ascended To The Heavenly Realms, In A Moment That Left Many Of Us In Disbelief - How Do We Lose Someone Who Gave Our Generation Hope, In A Time Where Hope Is Hard To Come By, For So Many Of Us - Jabba Was A Superstar, Who Allowed Me To See Who I May Be, While Resolving Issues I Had With Who I Was, Which All Facilitated The Platform I Needed To Be Who I Truly Am. It's Because Of Great Africans Like HHP, Who Lived Fully In Their Time, That I Too...
2020-10-2800 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastEpisode 4 | 4 Daze In OctoberIn The 20 Year History Of My Arsenal Fandom, I've Never Seen Our Team As Inconsistent As They've Been This Past Decade - Towards The Backend Of The Wenger Year's, Throughout The Emery Experiment, And Even During The Freddie Fiasco, We Haven't Looked Like A Team You Could Bank On, To Get Two Positive Results On The Trot - As Things Currently Stand, Arsenal Are One Of The Key Revenue Income Generators For Bookies, And Football Match Betting DSPs, And It's Making Me Naar...
When You Consider The Subpar Performance Against SK Rapid Wien In Austria, Which Actually...
2020-10-2752 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastEpisode 3 | Once Upon A Time In AustriaFresh Off A Football Lesson In Strategy, From The Master Himself, Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal Side Are Back In Action Tonight, In A Crucial Europa League Cup Fixture; Undefeated In Our Last 6 Away Games, We Have Good Reason To Anticipate A Positive Result This Time Out; The Memories Of Our 1st Knockout Stage Loss To Olympiakos Last Season, Can Be Glossed Over Win A Good Start To This New European Campaign, And Mikel Will Be Looking For More From His Charges.
SK Rapid Wien Have Won 8 Of Their Last 9 European Cup Fixtures, And Will Prove To Be St...
2020-10-2228 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 38 | HD Life ExperiencesYou Can Grow Oblivious To The State Of Deprivation In The World That We Live In, As A Result Of Us Being So Caught Up In What We Are Trying To Do In Order To Better Ourselves, Resulting In Us Not Always Having A Clear View Of The Entire Narrative - When Life Feels Like It Keeps Happening To You, There Will Eventually Come A Time When You Have To Make Something Happen, For You To Change The Trajectory Of The Path You’re On - It’s Much Like Watching The Game On A Regular Shmegular TV, Until Some...
2020-10-2000 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastEpisode 2 | Final Lessons From Mr. MiyagiWatching The Karate Kid, One Can't Help But Feel An Exasperating Sense Of Helplessness, As Daniel Saan Just Can’t Get Out Of His Own Way Long Enough To Allow The Lessons From His Tutor, To Take Hold Of Him, And Help Him See Who He May Be... Shedding That Perception Of Who You’re Not, While Reconciling Who You Are, With Who You May Be, Is A Process Through Which Many A Great Have Come Unstuck, Or Been Made, While Trying To Undergo. Mikel Arteta Is Not Arsene Wenger, Or Josep Guardiola, He Is However, A Pretty Darn Good...
2020-10-1949 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastEpisode 1 | Big Citeh LifeOn This First Episode Of When Highbury Was Home, We Get Ready For Our Super Saturday Fixture Away At Manchester City; After A Rather Inexplicably Arranged International Break, That Saw Some Nations Playing 3 Fixtures In The Span Of A Week; With Just One Loss So Far This Season, In The League Against Liverpool, Our Boys Are On A Good Run Of Form, And Expected To Give A Good Account Of Themselves Against A Citeh Side That Is A Tad Bit Short Of Having Their Full Arsenal Of Firepower Available For This Clash... Coming Off The Back Of A Win...
2020-10-1752 min
When Highbury Was Home PodcastWhen Highbury Was Home | TrailerI Was Crying Like A Kid Who Just Lost His Childhood Puppy, The Day Arsenal Left Highbury... Born In The Province Of Limpopo, In Beautiful South Africa, You May Be Hard-Pressed To Fathom How One Could've Been That Torn Up About The Move - Well, If You Were To Know One Thing About Sports Fandom, It's That It Has No Bounds - My Arsenal Love Story Begun In 1999, When I Got My First PlayStation Console As A Birthday Gift, The First Game I Bought Was FIFA '99, And The First Team I Played With, Was Arsenal... Having Grown Up...
2020-10-1303 min
Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax MachineTwo 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax Machine | TrailerThe 2003 NBA Draft Class, Is Seen As One Of The Best Intakes The League Has Had In The Last Two Decades - LeBron Was A Sure Fire 1st Pick, Yet You Still Had Fellow Blue Chip Prospects Like Carmelo Anthony, Dwayne Wade, And Chris Bosh Selected In The Top 5, With My Beloved Detroit Pistons Having The Second Pick, And Still Missing Out On All Four Future Hall Of Famers - Our Story Goes Further Down The Draft Board, On That Thursday Night Madison Square Garden, A Storyline That Fittingly Takes Place In The City Of Dreams; When You Look...
2020-10-1303 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 37 | The Fight WithinAs We Celebrate The Rerelease Of My Brother C.J.’s Book, Journey, I Felt It Right To Speak Upon The Journey That One Undergoes, When Creating... It Took Me A While To Fully Grasp The Concept Of Documenting Journeys, From Start To Finish, Especially As The Journeys Pertain To End-Products That Bring Value To The End-Consumer, And Fellow Stakeholders Alike. When I Reflect On How I Got To Where I Am Today, As A Professional Creative, I Can’t Help But Draw Inspiration From What I’ve Had To Overcome. It’s The Nights Where I Slept With Nothing...
2020-10-1100 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 36 | The 2ru Origin StoriEvery Superhero Has An Origin Story, One That Explains Their Superpowers, While Also Underpinning Their Physiological Make-Up, As Active Combatants For A Worthwhile Cause. Creativity Is No Different For Me, As I View Our Ability To Create, In The Same Manner That We Grew Up Seeing Our Beloved Crime Fighter's. As I Prepare For A Busy 4th Quarter, I've Been Placed In Situations Where I'm Being Reminded More, And More Of My 2ru Origin Story...
"When Genius Can Recognize Genius, That's When We Can Truly Do Some Genius Things."
Self-Actualization Is Real, The Process Of...
2020-10-0115 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 35 | Summer Diet GoalsOvercoming Trap Life, Took More Than Just Wanting To Live A Better Existence - I Spent Years Having To Deprogramme Myself, Holistically, Of The Countless Wrong Principles, Values, Ethics, Beliefs, And Constructs, That I Had Grown Up Being Taught - When You Unlearn Who You Aren’t, By Actively Working Towards Learning Who Believe Yourself To Be, You Quickly Learn That You’ve Always Had The Propensity To Become All You May Be... Sounds Trippy Right, How Can Years Of Substance Abuse, Sexual Immorality, Corruption, And Downright Skullduggery Be Used To Craft New Leaders Of The Free World? If You...
2020-09-1428 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 34 | The Last TrequartistaDear Young African Creative,
God Bless You For Making It This Far, On Your Personal Journey, Towards Purpose - You’ve Battled A Boat Load Of Problems, Survived A Shipwreck Of A Society, And Actually Made A Crevice Of Opportunity, For Your Gifts To Start Permeating Through - You Are More Than A Conqueror, You Were Born For A Time Such As This, And You Will Claim Your Great Victory, In Due Time...
But You’ve Got To Stop Messing Around With Your Gifts, Because If We Learned Anything From "A Bronx Tale", It's That Ther...
2020-09-0611 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 33 | Sophie's Favourite SongWe Live In An Age, Where Feminity Is Abused, And Seen As Being Weaker, In Relation To Masculinity... Something That Befuddles Me, When You Consider What Women Go Through, And Often Have To Withstand, In Relation To Men. When You Realize How Hard It Is To Take A Dump, After A Bad Night Of Junk Food, And Chilling, You Grow A Different Level Of Respect For What Women Go Through During Childbirth.
For Many Of Us, This Unappreciation Of Women, Comes From How We Have Conditioned Ourselves To Become Desensitised To The Issue - For Most Men...
2020-09-0111 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 32 | Reinforced Support SystemsAs One Begins Construction On A Building, The Importance Of A Solid Foundation, And Reinforced Support Systems, Is Something That Cannot Be Overlooked, If You Seek To Ensure That The Structure Is Able To Stand On It's Own... That's How I've Grown To Understand Parenting; As A Joint Venture, Between Two Companies, Entrusted With The Role Of Building A Self-Sufficient Structure; When The Support Systems Within The Building, Are Lacking, Or Improperly Attended To, Due To Societal Realities, Like Divorce, It's Even More Pivotal, That The Building Is Reinforced, With An Added Support System, That Makes Up For That...
2020-08-2912 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 31 | New Pitori RoadEverything Is Cyclical; From Sports, To Fashion, Through-On To Church, And State; There Are Cycles In Which Most Things Move, A Reality Which Also Applies To Music As As A Whole.. Every Once In A While, We See A Cultural Shift In Music Genres, And Sub-Genres Alike - For A Plethora Of Reasons - These Cycles Are Often The Quantifiers, Through Which We Assess Musical Generations, Moments, And Legacies.
The 4th Industrial Revolution, Helped Springboard The New Pitori Cultural Scene, Long Before We Knew That It Was Our Time, To Carry The Torch, And Spearhead The Changing...
2020-08-2611 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 30 | The Jacaranda Seed TheoryIn 1888, Jacaranda Tree's Were Said To Have Been Planted In Pretoria, A Phenomenon Which Spread Into Johannesburg, Where Jacaranda Tree's Were Planted Soon Afterwards. This Landmark Event, Is The Reason That Many Parts of Johannesburg, And Pretoria, Are Beautifully Dressed In Purple, A Colour Often Reserved For Royalty.
The Symbolic Nature Of This Reality Dawned Upon Me, As I Embark On A New Business Venture - Our Past, No Matter How Challenging, Often Prepares Us For The Things We Are Destined To Do In The Future - Having Come To Gauteng As A Picanin', Following My Parents...
2020-08-1911 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 29 | Reel AlignmentThere Comes A Time In Our Lives, When We Realize The True Capacity Of Our Abilities - A Time Where We Remember Who We Aren't, Define Who We Are, And Work Towards Who We May Be - It's Much Like Reaching The Apex Point Of Your Movie, And Finding Out That Your Story Continues...
Being In Lockdown, Was A Trip For Me, I Found It Rather Restrictive At First... By The Time The Feeling Of Repetitive Living Begun To Set In, I Was Working To Rebuild My Processes, Revisit My Concepts, And Refine My Gameplan. The Time...
2020-08-1510 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 28 | The Young OG SocietyHip-Hop Culture In Mzansi Today, Is A Currency, One That’s Created Out Of A Now Burgeoning Economy, Built Off Of This Hip-Hop Thing Of Ours... It’s Wild To Fathom, How An Artform That Started Out In A Bronx Park, Has Grown Into A Global Conduit, Through Which Many Of Us Globally, Garner Sustenance From, In Some Way, Form, Or Fashion. The Time Is Ripe, For Us To Pick The Fruits Of Our Labour, As A Culture - The Fruits Of Harvest, Are Easily Collected, When There Is A Collective To Tend To The Work - Many Of Us H...
2020-08-1311 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 27 | Dream Chasers AnonymousHaving A Dream, And Endeavoring To Life It Out To The Fullest, Is Beautiful... So Many Of Us Wake Up Each Day, And Work To Fulfill Our Dreams, However They May Be Viewed By Other's, We Persevere, And Press Towards The Attainment Of Our Dreams.
We Were Taught, That Money Cannot Buy Happiness, Without The Caveat, That Money Does Buy Options... And That's Key, Because Having Options In This Life, Is Critical. Without Options, We Are Left Open To Making Bad Decisions, In The Name Of Trying To Better The / Your Situation.
This Is Dedicated...
2020-08-1212 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 26 | The LoverBoy Stories x Saga TwillThe LoverBoy Himself, Saga Twill Rolled Up For A Chat About His Recent Project, LoverBoy Stories, And We Ended Up Vibing About Love, Artist Branding, Self-Identification, Recording Labels, Musical Expression, Social Perceptions And Sexual Preferences, Amongst Other Things...
Saga Twill, Is A Recording Artist From Pretoria, South Africa; Blessed With The Ability To Sing Like A Canary, Dancing Freely In The Tress, While Also Possessing The Poetic Knack For Rapping Better, Than An Elf On Christmas Eve; Saga Is A New-Age Artiste, In The Mould Of Those Who Helped Pioneer The Game, As We Know It...
2020-08-1128 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 25 | Broken Cellular PhoneThe Art Of Communication, Is An Oil Painting, That's Open To Interpretation; When I've Felt "Ghosted" By Someone, I've Often Reflected On Situations Where I've Been The "Ghoster", And Found Insight Into What Often Goes Into The Science Of "Ghosting"... Every Situation, Is Unique To The Circumstances That The Person / People, Find Themselves In... Sometimes, You Being "Ghosted", Can Be For Your Own Good, Due To The Person Being In A Space That's No Good For You, Or Them.
I'm Now In A Space, Where I Value My Communication With Certain Folks A Lot More, While Also...
2020-07-1610 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 24 | I Can't Explain God...Life Is A Blessing - The Sheer Experience Of Living, And Living Full, Is What We Are Born For - In The Past 10 Years, Of Growth, And Maturity, I Lost 3 Brothers, And Fellow Soldiers For The Cause. While Life Has Taught Me; That The Lord Giveth, And The Lord Taketh Away, And We Should Give All Praise To God; I’ve Also Learned Something About Life, Through A Sermon, From The Prophet Robert Glasper, Who Noted How We Often Look At The D.O.B, And D.O.D. On A Tombstone, While Glossing Over The Most Important Part Of...
2020-07-1612 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 23 | The Dream UndeferredDreams, And Nightmares; That Meek Mill Record Shook Up The Internets, And The Skreets, Alike; The Relatability Of The Record, Was Deeply Rooted In The Emotive Nature Of The Song Itself... We All Have Dream, Just As We All Have Nightmares.
Having Positive Outlets, Allows Us To Channel Those Hopes (Dreams) & Fears (Nightmares), Into Something That Yields A Positive Outcome, and Helps To Affect More Societal-Wide Changes. A Dream, Is Nothing More Than A Wish, Or A Prayer, Asking For Permission To Live... It's A Seed, Asking To Be Planted, Nurtured, And Harvested, So That I...
2020-07-1510 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 22 | Stay 2ru 2 YouYour Story Is So Unique, That It Could Inspire Nations, If Only You Told It, With Transparency, And Conviction - The Best You, Is Far Better, Than The Fake Version Of Someone Else - Remaining Focused On Attaining That Full YOU, Can Be As Rewarding, As It Is Challenging, But It Can Also Be Just As Awe Inspiring, For Those Who Are Blessed Enough To See The Process Unravel, Or Reach It’s Full Maturity. In Simple Terms, When People Know Your Real Story, They Can Better Relate To Your Narrative, And Even Cheer For You, More Earnestly.
2020-07-1310 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 21 | Jabba JuiceOmang: Reloaded, By Hip-Hop Pantsula, Was My Coming Into Mzansi Hip-Hop Moment - I Was Already A Fan Of Acts Like DMX, Ludacris, Cannabis & Dr. Dre, But Something About This Chubby Dude, With Hella Juice, Kept Me Tuned In, Far Longer Than Any Other Rapper Had Done, Before - Jabba, Was Ahead Of His Time, And It Took A Fair Amount Of Time, For The Industry To Catch Up To His Gradient Curve, And Peep The Movements, For What They Truly Were; Refined Strokes, From The Paintbrush Of A Genius...
It Took Me A Little While...
2020-07-1210 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 20 | The Manifestation GenerationHaving The Faith Of A Mustard Seed, Truly Changed My Life... There Was A Time, When My Tongue Would Be Used; By Me, Against Me, Without Me Even Knowing It - The Power Of Words, Was Lost On Me, At That Time - When I Got Closer To My Creator, I Begun To Learn, Of How Much We Were Made In His Image; The Creator, In His Splendor, And Benevolence, Gave Each Of Us, The Ability To Create, As Well...
As A Professional Creative, I Know How Different Creatives, Often Attribute Their Creativity, To Differing Origins, Or...
2020-07-1110 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 19 | Baby Boy's Growin' Up...Jody’s Role, In The Movie “Baby Boy”, Was One Of My Earliest Glimpses, Into This Complex, That Stunts Many Young Boys, From Developing Into Men, As They Grow Older - The Diary Of An Auto-Didactic Man, Has Been Published, In Horrific News Articles, And Catalogued Through The Traumatic Experiences, That We Have Subjected Women, And Children To, In Our Society, Over The Years - The Role Of Men, In Our Country, Cannot Be Understated, Even When We Have Fewer Examples, Of How Men Should Behave; As It Pertains To Protecting, And Providing For Those Around Them.
Watchi...
2020-07-1110 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 18 | Calculate Opportunity, Budget CostKnowing, And Understanding, Certain Key Buzzwords, Within An Industry / Society, Can Help You Leverage, Existing Information, Into Newfound Possibilities, Quicker Than You Can Connect To Your Wi-Fi, After A 4-Hour Loadshed; You Could Know The True Meaning, Or Societal Impact, Of The Large-Scale Degradation, That's Intentionally Being Allowed To Occur, In Predominately African Owned / Inhabited Neighborhoods, Without Knowing It’s Colloquial Term Of Identification (Gentrification), Which May Sometimes Limit Us, From Fully Being Able To Engage With, Or Speak For, Those Who Should Be Banding Together, To Help Us Remedy The Situation; Opportunity Cost, Is One Of Those Buzzwords... Wh...
2020-07-1010 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 17 | The Bruddas & Sistaz ClubThere Are Certain Clubs, That We Are Lucky Enough To Be A Part Of, Without Having To Pay A Sign-Up Fee, Or Annual Membership Contributions - The Clubs We Really Like, Seem To Take More Out Of Us, Than They Actually Feed Into Our Well Being - The Bruddas & Sistaz Club, Can Sometimes Take A Lot Out Of Us Too, In It’s Own Way, But We Can’t Hide From The Perks We Gain Access To, When We Are Welcomed Into Such A Society; Where Our Unique Connections, Run Beyond Our Bloodlines, Social Status, Or Ethnicity; A Club...
2020-07-1010 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 16 | It's Worth The FightLegacy Talk, Is Something You Begin To Pick-Up On, As You Grow Older / Wiser - With Maturity, We Begin To Reflect Upon The Legacy / Impact Of Our Lives - Legacy, Is Not The Final Story, That They Will Tell About Us, Legacy, Is The Daily Narrative, That We Inspire Other's To Feel, Write, And Speak, Regarding How We Live, In Our Time's.
When I Look Back At The Struggles, That A Man Has Faced, It's Good To Draw Inspiration, From The Very Painful, Yet Resolve Building Experience's, That I've Been Blessed To Overcome, In Order To Leap...
2020-07-0910 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 15 | Ice-Cream Licccs Pt.2Hitting A Liccc In This Game, Is A Blessing In It's Own Right - Coming From Where We're From, We Can't Sleep On The Need For Us To Hit These Licccs, And Pay It Forward - We Weren't Often Taught, Or Developed To Play Cooperatively; Since Crèche, We Were Taught To Compete, Against Each Other, Instead Of Competing, To Help Each Other Win.
I Keep This Reality In Mind, As I Work To Win, Win; We Have Far Too Many Folks Winning Alone, And Actually Hurting Their Own Chances Of Sustaining A Winning Run, While Effectively W...
2020-07-0910 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 14 | Ice-Cream LicccsWho Would've Thunk, That The Hip-Hop Culture We Fought To Establish In The School Yards, Would Become A Way Of Self-Identification, And A Means To Income Generation, For So Many Of Us?
"...Where We The Only Industry, Where You Can Excel, With No Degree, Or Diploma/"
- Joe Budden, Who Killed Hip-Hop
Hip-Hop Saved Many Of Our Lives, In More Ways Than One... Essentially, The Discovery Of Hip-Hop Culture, In My Life, Was Akin To Hitting A Major Liccc. As A Value Creator, Hip-Hop Culture, Gives Me A More Global Understanding Of The...
2020-07-0710 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 13 | Slum Village Raised A ChildJourneying Through This Beautiful Process That We Call Life, I Picked Up On A Key Personal Motto, Or Life Principle, If You Will - From The Qu'ran, Via The Prophet Willie Da Kid, I Learned That, "You Want It For Your Brothers, Like You Want It For Yourself, Otherwise You Don't Believe" - When I Look At The Gene Pool From Whence I Came, It's Easier To Trace My Predisposition To Give, All The Way Back To My Ancestors, I'm A Born Giver... When You're A Giver, Living In A World Overridden With Dire Need, It's Easy To Become...
2020-07-0610 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 12 | Made It Via Juta StreetThere Comes A Time, In All Of Our Lives, When Reflection, And Introspection Become Keys To Unlocking Our Most Teachable Lessons - For Me, Juta Street Was The Conduit Through Which I Was Allowed More Scope To Delve Deeper Into The Heart Of Matters, And Unravel The Latent Truth, That Lay Embedded Therein - As We Enter A New Cultural Revolution, In My Hometown, Pitori Mahlanyeng, I've Had The Pleasure Of Tapping Into Many Of Those Experiences, As A Means Of Helping To Facilitate A More Seamless Transition, From Pitori Being The "Second Cousin" Of Mzansi Hip-Hop Culture, Into...
2020-07-0510 minFor Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 11 | Hurt People, Hurt PeopleHaving Taken Some Time Out To Reflect On The Role/s Played By Men, And Myself In Particular, As It Relates To The Worsening Relationship Between Black Men, And Black Women In Our Country; I Can't Run From The Latent Truth, There Was A War Waged On Black Families, Since The Dawn Of Slavery, A War That Was Designed To Keep US Broken, And Mentally Weak, Until Today; When You Study The History Of The Techniques Used To Keep Us Enslaved On The Plantations, You Can See How They Tried To Write Rape, Murder, And Abuse Into Our History...
2020-07-0410 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 10 | Momma Loves Me...A Mother's Love, Is Something Truly Special... My Relationship With Mom'Dukes Hasn't Always Been Roses, And Sunshine; We Have Had To Battle Through A Lot Of Life Drama, Trauma, And Losses, Both Together, And Individually; My Mother's Faith, Strength, And Drove, Are Some Of The Key's I've Used To Unlock A New Level Of Me, Despite The Circumstances.
As I Embark On This New Chapter Of My Life; Where I'm Now Able To Begin Paying Her Back/Forward For The Great Gifts She's Allowed Me To Receive, Through Her Love, Sacrifices, And Work; I Can...
2020-07-0210 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 9 | The Beautyful Onez, Were Born AfriCanXenophobia, Among Africans, Should Be An Oxymoron, At Best... When We Delve Into The History Of Oppressive Systems, And Their Sole Purpose, To Divide, And Conquer, We Cannot Understate The Adverse Effects Of Colonialism, On The Mentality, Development, And Future Growth Of Africa As A Whole - Simply Put, They've Fucked Us Up So Much, That We Fight Among Each-Other, While They Continue To Fuck Us Up Some More - We Can Restore Africa Back To Her Rightful Place, The Way She Was Before They Raided Her, For Her Minerals, People, Land, And Wildlife, If Only We Practiced What...
2020-06-3010 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 8 | Sunday School Drop-OutThere Are So Many Ways To Tackle This Point, Yet Few Of Them Will Lead Us To Winning The Ball Back, Successfully - Religion, As Constructed By Mankind, Has Led To More Souls Being Lost, Than Found - Everywhere We Look Today, The Church Is Being Used By People, To Meet Their Own Personal, And Often Corrupted Needs.
We Can't Run From It, As A Believer, Who Grew Up Spending My Formative Year's In More "Traditional Black" Churches, And Then Moved To The "White Churches" Of The 'Burbs, I Can Speak To How Religion Has...
2020-06-2910 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 7 | Ubuntu Tax LiensAffording The Opportunity Cost Of Caring, Is Something We Should All Thrive To Do - In A Society Filled Will Mismanagement, Neglect, Abuse, Poverty, Systematic Racism, And Oppression In All Shapes, Flavours, And Packaging, We Can't Afford Not To Give A Damn - I've Learned; That Giving, Is Relative, To What's Being Asked Of You, And What You Care To Ask Of Other's, Or Open Up For Them To Ask Of You...
I've Had The Pleasure Of Knowing Some Amazing Spiritual Beings, Born With Brilliant Minds, And Talents That Could Change The World - Yet, For Whatever...
2020-06-2710 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 6 | Weekends In Braam"You Gon' Have To Put Up With Some Great Sh!t, To Get To Some GREAT Sh!t."
Overcoming Heartbreak, Is A Lesson In Itself; Coming Off Of A Failed Relationship, I Chose To Reflect On The Lessons Learned, And Developed A Keener Understanding, Of How I Love; We Always Have A Choice, Does The Heartbreak, Break Your Resolve, Or, Does It Refine Your Love Language/s?
There's No Love Lost, When Life Changing Lessons Are Learned.
Love Always!
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2020-06-2610 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 5 | What's In The Bag?"The Bag Is Not The Destination, It's A Means To Facilitate Your Way Forward... The Bag Is A Vehicle."
Writing "UnPacking The Bag" Has Been A Very Therapeutic Process; I've Grown A Keener Understanding Of How The Bag Is Indeed A Seed, And Not The Fruit; Thanks To A Sermon From Bishop T.D. Jakes, Some Coffee Dates With God, And A Few Session's With The OGs, I've Been Able To See Into The Bag, And Takeaway Some Food For Thought...
May You Get To The Bag, And The Fruit!
Jah Bless.
2020-06-2610 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 4 | Momma's BabyTo All My Momma's Babies, May Our Mothers Live To See Us Be The Men We Were Born To Be.
Our Personal, And Communal Generational Plights, May Seem Minuscule, Self-Caused, Or Even Inconsequentia,l To Some, But That Doesn't Make Them Any Less Valid, Or Worthy Of Getting Worked Up Over, To The Point Where We Feel A Need To Get Involved, To Try And Impact The Changes That We Seek To See; The Current Somber, Yet Revolutionary Global Tone, Of Varying Degree's Of Citizen Unrest, Mixed In A Global Awakening, Has Coincided With...
2020-06-2410 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 3 | Give OGs Their Flowers"Put Ya Lighters In The Air, I'm Tryna Tellem Where We At.../ Made It Out The Manor, Need Our Medals Just For That!/"
In This Episode, 2ru-Stori Puffs A Blunt In Homage To The OGs Of Mzansi Hip-Hop Culture; From The Rappers, Onto The Media Personalities, To The Fans; Every Facet Of Our Culture Has Continued To Grow, Adapt, And Evolve Into Something We Can Stand Behind, And Build Off Of.
Like N.O.R.E. Said, We Give OGs Their Flowers, While They Can Still Inhale Them.
For Personal Use Only... Elevate...
2020-06-2310 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 2 | Sarafina Morning PrayersRoll Up, And Kick Back To It, As 2ru-Stori Sheds Some Light On The Faith Conundrum, As It Pertains To The Come-Up... The Iconic Morning Prayer Schoolyard Scene From Sarafina Inspired Me To Ponder On The Plights We Face As Young Creatives In Today's Economy, Without Teachers Like Mam'Masumbuko, To Remind Us Of Who We Are, And Who We May Be, We Are Hard-Pressed To Remain Faith-Full, Even When The Odds Are Stacked Against Us.
For Personal Use Only... Elevate Responsibly!
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2020-06-2211 min
For Personal Use Only PodcastEpisode 1 | Value Creators UnitedRoll Up, And Light A Path Towards Enlightenment, On This Episode Of FPUO, As 2ru-Stori Delves Deeper Into The Psychology Behind The Process Of Value Creation, As It Pertains To The Transition; From Being On The Coming-Up, And Working Towards Establishing Yourself, As A Self-Sustainable Value Creator, In Today's Economy; To Becoming The Difference We Want To See, By Merely Learning From Our Lessons, And Always Knowing The Value That We Create.
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2020-06-2110 min