People Interacting with People
A podcast about People Interacting with People. In April 2015, I became homeless. I decided to embrace this homelessness and what followed was five years of nomadic life, over 250 moves in Canada and the United States, on an average budget of roughly $22 a day.
While sitting in a 24 hour diner in Toronto on my first two homeless nights, a young man sat beside me and when I told him about my experience - spending 9 hours each night at the diner, getting a free coffee and a brownie on my second night - he turned to me and asked:
"Do you think you'd be having the same experience if you were Black?"
Over those next five years, I had a series of "chance" encounters with Black people and had some very interesting conversations. I documented some of them in writing but when I compiled them into a 300 page script during the pandemic, I realized that - in writing it myself - I had lost the authenticity of the other person's voice.
And so, I decided to hit the road and reconnect with some of these wonderful people while also leaving myself open to meeting new ones. These are our conversations.
People Interacting with People
SIZZLE 4: Introducing... Marq, Dominion, Maya, & Daijon
IN this clip, meet Marq in Las Vegas, Dominion in DC, Maya in DC, and Daijon in Las Vegas.
Episode 6 Season 1:
Marq and I met when I was sleeping I my car in Vegas. It turns out he's a talented musical artist and vocalist from Milwaukee who goes by the name MILLI3K. We talk music, Vegas, Milwaukee and why colour matters.
Episode 1 Season 2:
Dominion and I met when I happened to walk past the Hip Hip Museum in DC this May. We had such an instant connection so I drove back through a few days later to support him at a music gig and get him on the podcast. We talk content creation, christianity, and the multi tasking mind.
Episode 3 Season 2:
Maya and I met at a Gay Bar in DC. I sit down on the podcast with her and her friend, Fferé - my first threesome - to talk music, alter egos, DC, politics and all sorts of fun stuff.
Episode 7 Season 1:
Daijon and I met in Vegas in 2017, shortly after the Mandalay Bay shooting. Daijon was working at the Mandalay Bay that night. We talk violence in America, boxing, and he tells me all about his love of comic books.
All episodes are easily searched by name.