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
S3 EP1 Part 2: The Oldest Known Religion, Rap Music as Therapy, Lost Souls in Prison, The Evolution of an Artist, & Shooting Music Videos on the Fly w/ DeMar aka Fly Guy Impulse in Catskill, NY
In this second part of my conversation with DeMar, he tells me about Santeria, the spiritual practice he discovered while in Federal Prison and one he attributes to helping him to never go back.
It's such a great story and DeMar is an amazing storyteller!
Also a talented rapper known as "Fly Guy Impulse", we talk about DeMar's music - how he wrote his first raps while incarcerated and about his beautifully sad song, Lost Souls, written while in Federal Prison about what it's like to be incarcerated.
And we shoot the shit a bit about how we first met and what it's like to make a music video on the fly.
To see photos of me and DeMar, check out my Instagram page at @pipsperspective