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SLAP the Power
SLAP the Power - a dynamic new show from SLAP the Network that aims to weave artistry into advocacy through the raw power of music, comedy, movies, visual arts, and beyond.
Hosted by world touring musicians Rick Barrio Dill (@rickbarriodill @vintagetrouble) and Aja Nikiya (@compassioncurator), join them as team with musicians, comedians, actors and artists of all angles and try to chop up some of todays most troubling topics, but with a fat side of chocolate cake and incredible silliness.
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Oscars, I.C.E. Raids, and Yahoo! Boys
Can athletes transcend the confines of their sports to become powerful voices for activism and creativity? This episode of Slap to Power features Andrew Robinson, a pro athlete turned entrepreneur, who shares his unique journey of blending sports with business and creativity. His insights are a testament to the multi-faceted lives individuals can lead, inspiring us to break out of traditional molds and use our platforms effectively. As we embrace the intersectionality of sports, politics, and entertainment, we also navigate current societal issues such as the controversial ICE raids and the shocking trend of scammers in Nigeria, sparking a conversation about the role of empathy and education in bridging political divides.
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SLAP the Power is written and produced by Rick Barrio Dill (@rickbarriodill) and Aja Nikiya (@compassioncurator). Associate Producer Bri Coorey (@bri_beats). Audio and Video engineering and studio facilities provided by SLAP Studios LA (@SLAPStudiosLA) with distribution through our collective home for progress in art and media, SLAP the Network (@SLAPtheNetwork).
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The NFL stole the Lord's Day just right out from the. They make everybody stand up. Yeah for the pledge of allegiance.
Speaker 2:They make you stand up for a national anthem and it's like, oh, but there's no politics in sports. No, no, exactly.
Speaker 3:So there's not a good faith argument. God forbid they're taking me too.
Speaker 2:Right, right, like you win a championship, you go to the White House. Like what are we talking about here?
Speaker 1:Yeah, All right, all right. The world may not need another podcast, but it can definitely use a Slap. Yes, right, welcome to Slap to Power, the show where we bring together artists who use their powers for progress. I'm Rick Barrio-Dill.
Speaker 3:And I'm Asia Nakia.
Speaker 1:On the show today. The Oscar nominations are out and yes, I know it's super fun. We got a lot of it for you.
Speaker 3:And then we're going to talk about some Super Bowl.
Speaker 1:See, super fun. I know that's your jam.
Speaker 3:Yes, oh it's totally my jam. I'm the biggest football fanatic there ever was. But you know what it may not be the Super Bowl I'm interested in. There's another type of bowl that I want to get into. Oh, oh, wow, I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, looking forward to that. We've got Paws for Progress, where we get specific progress on our furry friends, and this one is Super Bowl related as well. Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 3:And then we have our interview today in studio with Andrew Robinson. He is a pro athlete, an entrepreneur, creator, storyteller, extraordinaire. He's just fascinating, so can't wait to talk to him.
Speaker 1:Yes, andrew, shout out to Andrew, can't wait, yes. And then, of course, what's a good chocolate cake without some spinach? We got to talk ice raids, ice raids, and I'm not talking about snow cones.
Speaker 3:Yeah, can't leave that one out.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 3:And then did you hear about the scammers that are utilizing fake news videos for blackmail in Nigeria? Whoa, we got to get into that one too.
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Speaker 1:Yeah, no, make sure to find that anywhere you get your podcasts and also if you want one of the funniest takes on life and the seedy, degenerate world of being gambling adjacent, check out Gambling Mad with Norman Chad. If you do not know Norman Chad, you are missing out. He is a World Series of Poker and ESPN legend and one of the funniest, wittiest and smartest guys I know. Make more money, lose less and just be smarter. Find Gambling Mad with Norman Chad on your podcast player or go to gamblingmadshowcom. Yes, all right, here we are. It's this time of year the Oscar season. I know, I know, beat up on us. All. You want Our crazy. I love it. I mean, it's one of my favorite times of year because it's just. This town is built on magic and it is sure everybody getting together to talk about all this magic that was made. But what's wrong with that? I think that's killer. Everybody loves magic. Kim Jong-un loves the magic that we produce here.
Speaker 4:We need magic right now.
Speaker 1:Take a better look, because we're just trying to have fun and, you know, make things out of thin air.
Speaker 3:Agree, and I mean, this year had so many great movies. We had Wicked and then the Substance. Yeah, Did you see the Substance? I have not yet and I know it's on my homework list. I've got to do it before the Oscars.
Speaker 1:Super awesome, right, I keep hearing such good things. It's 40 minutes too long, in my opinion.
Speaker 3:But it's awesome. Alright, give me another 40 minutes.
Speaker 1:You want more 40 minutes. Asher wants another 40 minutes. I love it. I love it. We're going to break down our favorite films nominated for Oscars and give some shout-outs to some people we thought were snubbed. Yeah, I mean it's. It's, there's a lot. There's a long list on there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I saw there's some. There's some serious drama going on with Amelia Perez, apparently, and the cartel. You know the way that they were portrayed so I can't wait to get into that. But what do we have for Best Picture nominations? What are we looking at?
Speaker 1:Yes, nora, best Picture nominations. What are we looking at? Yes, nora, the Brutalist. Amazing, a Complete Unknown. Amazing Conclave, amazing Dune, part 2, which I didn't see, I know, don't come at me. Don't come at me. I haven't either. It's only because I was supposed to see this.
Speaker 1:I wasn't allowed to see this alone and I haven't had the chance to see it with somebody I promised it to, so, uh, but amelia perez, which is um, I was. It was a shock to the system, and then I was just kind of blown away with the um, with the art and the boldness and the approach of it and everything, um, uh. And then there's also I'm still here, which is um, what is? I'm still here, asher, you know, I haven't seen that one yet, I know it, I'm still here, I'm Still here, I'm Still here.
Speaker 3:I know I'm trying.
Speaker 1:I know I've seen the coming attraction for it.
Speaker 3:I've seen it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, nickel Boys, the Substance and Wicked. You see Wicked, wicked. Everybody knows Wicked. Now you see Wicked. No, come on, I know caned in this town for not seeing Wicked.
Speaker 3:I probably will. That's why I cover my window in my office.
Speaker 1:I've got to stay safe out here. I've got to catch up this week.
Speaker 3:I promise I'll catch up on all these Oscar nominations. I promise.
Speaker 1:Well, oscars 2025 is March 2nd and, yeah, let's get into the big one. It's Emilia Perez, and if you haven't seen it, and for those who haven't seen it, we're not going to do any kind of spoilers or anything like that but it's sparked controversy for its portrayal of cartel violence in Mexico, and critics argued the film lacks sensitivity and context, leading to accusations of cultural insensitivity. Additionally, the film has faced review bombing on Rotten Tomatoes, further fueling debates about its reception. I'm one of those that I'm always. I love pushing the boundaries, because I'd rather see that than another Marvel film.
Speaker 4:And I love.
Speaker 1:Marvel Again. I love Marvel. Keep putting out great stuff. It's just when everything kind of falls into that category for it. Sometimes you go really far out on the edge and I look back at things like like movies, like crazy movies, like brazil or brazil.
Speaker 3:Wow, yeah, like time bandits. Well, I'm still. I'm still tripping on like, yeah, handmaid's tale, like I'm still that's it, yeah, as it's still replaying that they should make that a movie out of that they really absolutely. Can we about Super Bowl, which is just literally right around the corner?
Speaker 1:I love it. I love it.
Speaker 3:If it wasn't for Asher putting this on here, I wouldn't even know who was playing. That's me being honest.
Speaker 1:But apparently it's Asher doesn't know how to spell Super Bowl, but what is Super Bowl?
Speaker 3:Super Bowl, so yeah. Not my thing, but I do appreciate the sport. I also appreciate Puppy Bowl, hell yeah, which gets me real excited.
Speaker 1:Me too, me too.
Speaker 3:But before we get into that, because you know what I feel, like that's like a pause for progress thing.
Speaker 1:I'm going to skip over it.
Speaker 3:Let's talk about what's happening at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans for Super Bowl. We've got John Batiste, we've got Kendrick Lamar SZA headlining the halftime show. I mean, it's going to be killer. It's killer Like I'm not going to miss this halftime.
Speaker 4:No no, no.
Speaker 3:Okay, so from the sports fanatics in the room, who are you all rooting for? Anybody?
Speaker 2:I don't know the only person that I would trust to make this decision in here is andrew, yeah who you going? For andrew who so. So I feel like I I'm a commander's fan. So my team just lost. So I'm heartbroken because I don't want to root for the eagles, but at the same time I don't want the chiefs to win again. I'm tired of seeing them winning okay, got it to make myself feel better, I feel like we've got two black quarterbacks in the bowl. Yeah yeah, hell, yeah. So it's a win-win for me.
Speaker 3:Hell, yeah, okay now, that gets me excited. So, now, I'm on board again. I'm on board again. Yeah, and what about the halftime show?
Speaker 1:I mean.
Speaker 3:I've seen Kendrick. I'm going the dopest concert, so I'm pretty excited about this. I haven't, I don't know, I don't understand.
Speaker 1:Maybe we'll get into this with andrew when you have him on the interview but, why is lil wayne not there? I just don't understand I don't understand to me that's a disqualifier if you're gonna have it in in new orleans unless unless you're gonna pull a rabbit out of a hat and he's like got a. You know he's gonna do some kind of come up out of the bottom of the floor, you, you know what I'm saying, but you got to have.
Speaker 1:How do you have something in New Orleans and not have Lil Wayne? I just I don't get it. But I'm a massive Kendrick fan. Obviously we're LA, he's, you know, he's West Coast, and so I'm looking forward to it. But what was your favorite halftime show ever, Do you remember?
Speaker 3:Oh man, my favorite.
Speaker 1:You're waiting too long. There's only one correct answer it's Prince.
Speaker 3:Sorry, oh yeah, okay, fine, all right. Yes, prince, I mean I was going down the line, but yes, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 1:But I did, like Dr Dre, the.
Speaker 3:Dr Dre, one was pretty dope.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that guy that shall no longer be referred to.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:The dog, father, father.
Speaker 3:that's all I'm gonna refer I didn't mind the the jt one, but also there was the whole scandal involved and just kind of made it you know, a whole thing yeah, uh, wow, I mean I because it was.
Speaker 1:It's hard for me to even get past prince, just in the rain. You know three guitar solos in the first song, like in the first song man who does that?
Speaker 3:no, he's ridiculous. Come on.
Speaker 1:No, you're right, you're right no, no, no, no, sorry, it was also just just I'm. I'm one of those. I'll bowl you over with my love for print.
Speaker 3:I am here for it. I just I'm not a Super Bowl person, you know. So like I've missed half the shows, to be honest with you, and the most that I've paid attention is getting back to our Pause for Progress update, that's because you're busy doing-ish.
Speaker 1:It's because I've been busy doing-ish, you doing-ish.
Speaker 3:But we do have Puppy Bowl. So I don't know if everyone knows about Puppy Bowl, but there are at least 2 million viewers that do.
Speaker 5:Yes.
Speaker 1:Puppy Bowl.
Speaker 5:And.
Speaker 3:Puppy Bowl goes on during the halftime, which is why I've been busy not paying attention to the halftime show.
Speaker 1:No, you've been doing the real work. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3:But we've got Buster and Sky this year. They're on Team Ruff and Team Fluff. It is the cutest, freaking thing you can ever imagine. It's a bunch of puppies playing Super Bowl and it is just ridiculous. They're throwing footballs around, they're just playing on the field.
Speaker 4:On different teams On different teams.
Speaker 3:We do the filming every year. This is our fourth year involved, third year with players on the field. Yeah, so yeah, everybody needs to root for Buster and Sky Buster and. Sky, yes, yeah, so yeah everybody needs to root for Buster and Sky Buster and.
Speaker 1:Sky. Yes, buster and Sky.
Speaker 3:You hear that Buster and Sky, and you can't really root for one side or the other, because I've got two kids on each team, so you can go fluff or rough.
Speaker 1:Yeah, either way, we'll forgive you. Either way, no, it's. The world is yours. You can't lose.
Speaker 3:Exactly.
Speaker 1:We can't, you can't lose, exactly we can't lose, we're just winning in this super bowl, yeah, you know, yeah, and I mean the puppy bowl and kind of like the puppy roll, where, uh, you know, one of the the principal uh points is to actually sort of help find dogs homes.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, no absolutely, and and it is all rescue dogs, which I'm really proud of animal planet for for doing that. So it's all rescue dogs. They do a lot of you know of these animals, the ones that are available for adoption, so it's great and tons of viewers We've had. Snoop Dogg has been the host every year with Martha Stewart. So I mean, you know, All right, that's good.
Speaker 1:When we come back, we're going to get at Andrew and we're going to talk all things cooler than what we were just talking about.
Speaker 3:Hey.
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Speaker 3:All right, welcome back from the break. We've got in-house today Andrew Robinson, the one and only creator, entrepreneur, pro, athlete all the things we're so excited to have you here today. We've had the pleasure of having Andrew in the office quite a bit in the studio here and there, but this is the first time he's been on the show, so welcome.
Speaker 2:Thank you for having me Long time coming Appreciate it. Yeah, so welcome.
Speaker 1:Thank you for having me Long time coming Appreciate it. Yeah, no, no, no, kidding, it's great because we started working together on your podcast and we're going to get into that. But you know, the premise of our show is artists. They're using their powers for good and for progress and I love the fact that we just get to turn to you, our brother, and be like talk about what you do, because it is legit that. So, yeah, for those people that don't know, introduce yourself.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my name is Andrew Robinson, born and raised in Maryland, tacoma Park, maryland to be exact, I have an identical twin brother. Fun fact, I don't know if you all know that. Yeah, I know I didn't know that, so didn't know that yeah yeah, yeah, so identical twin brother who grew up with me obviously my whole life, and he is a coach now for the Cleveland Cavaliers, so he's doing his thing.
Speaker 1:You heard of him, you heard of the.
Speaker 2:Cleveland Cavaliers Best team in the.
Speaker 2:NBA right now. Check him out. Check him out. You heard of him, but I've been playing overseas now for four years and I like to think of myself as kind of an athlete but kind of a creator, just creative in general. I have my own podcast that I do and I like to create content. I like to really express myself in a lot of different ways. So I try to do that through different mediums, whether it be social media or modeling or podcasting, things like that. But yeah, I feel like 2025.
Speaker 1:This is an audio medium. He is very, very sexy, so you might want to pull over and make sure you go to the YouTube version of this.
Speaker 3:We'll make sure we have his face on the thumbnail. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we got you.
Speaker 1:She appreciates it.
Speaker 3:You're a model man. I didn't have that.
Speaker 1:We got you, we got you. She appreciates it. Yeah, yeah man.
Speaker 3:You're a model man. Hey, hey, hey, that's how you do it, hey wait until the mingle.
Speaker 1:Take me out.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 3:I didn't have that in my intro, but now I'll start including it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my bad.
Speaker 3:So something that I feel like we've always connected on from the beginning is just talking about the intersectionality of creativity and what you do, what we do and how we're all trying to move the needle forward. We're artists, we're musicians, djs, models.
Speaker 2:You're the model Professional basketball players.
Speaker 1:I know, I know, look at her outfit. She's got the red lip on.
Speaker 3:Alright, you guys can't see if you're just listening, but I'm blushing now.
Speaker 1:I'm just going to cover myself.
Speaker 3:No, I am not a model, but I could be a model citizen, maybe.
Speaker 2:You're humble, you're humble, it's okay. Yeah, she's very, very humble, whatever.
Speaker 3:Moving on. I have some questions. No, but speaking of intersectionality and creativity, I just wanted to get into this a little bit because we haven't really dove really far deep into this conversation. Yeah, but how would you define intersectionality and how has it shaped how you conduct your storytelling? How does it play a role in what you're doing creatively right now?
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure. I think it kind of goes back to 2020 around, when the NBA was kind of in a bubble season and obviously also it was like George Floyd and a bunch of different social justice things were going on and I remember a lot of NBA players were like protesting and speaking up on the things that were going on. It was also like an election season. So, like, one of my favorite player in the NBA is LeBron James. So I love, I love LeBron, I love what he stands for and his whole thing of like more than an athlete is like his whole mantra. He started uninterrupted on that same thing more than an athlete and has a production company with Spring Hill and so for me, that kind of inspired me just looking at him and the things that he does outside of basketball acting and doing Space Jam and all these different things.
Speaker 2:But specifically, it was something that happened during that time where LeBron was trying to do all this voter drive and getting people out to the polls and they were protesting in the bubble and they were having messaging on their warm-ups and all that kind of stuff. And there was a Fox News reporter. I think her name was Laura Ingraham. I'm pretty sure that's what her name was.
Speaker 1:She's not a reporter. Yeah, whatever, Don't give her that much. I really didn't even want to say her name, to be honest. Don't even give her that much. I didn't even want to say her name, to be honest. She's an outrage hack. But go ahead. Yeah, literally.
Speaker 2:But she caused a lot of commotion because she was like oh you know, lebron, all these athletes. He said the athletes shouldn't be concerned with getting into political statements or voicing their political opinions and things like that, and they should just shut up and dribble and be our entertainment.
Speaker 1:And so you know what that? It's simply what that it's. First of all, none of it's a good faith argument, because it's just it's trying to stifle your power.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but yet politicians should be yeah, no, no, no, exactly, it's just what are you even saying they are scared of your power, they're scared of the voices.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:People are so hypocritical, though, because they say, oh, shut up and dribble, take the sports. But then, if you look at, like the NFL, for example, every game, before the game, they roll out the flag and the national anthem and they do the plane flyovers. Where does?
Speaker 1:that make sense. It doesn't even add up. I love what they said in Concussion Like they literally stole the Lord's Day and still, you know people are still amazed by it.
Speaker 2:It's crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it doesn't make any sense. Nfl stole the Lord's Day just right out from it. They make everybody stand up. Yeah For the pledge of allegiance.
Speaker 2:they make you stand up for a national anthem and it's like, oh, but there's no politics, politics and sports. Give me a break. There's not a good faith argument.
Speaker 2:God forbid, you're taking me too Right, right, like you win a championship, you go to the White House Like what are we talking about here? Yeah, yeah, so long story short. I say all that to say like, for me that was something that I was seeing and I was growing up as an athlete and I was like play basketball or football, whatever sports you do, and they want you to stick to that stay in that lane, Just shut up and do yeah.
Speaker 2:So for me, I think I always pushed against that because I saw a lot of different areas in life that athletes could contribute. At the end of the day, we have a lot of influence as far as being on TV or followers or kids that look up to you. So for me, I always felt like I had a responsibility to pour into other areas of my life, whether that be creatively, socially, like. I think that kind of always inspired me to try to get involved. So I think as I got older and being and had an opportunity to have my own platform and figure out ways that I could contribute myself, I think that the whole idea of just intersectionality really spoke to me and I never wanted to be a person where it was like, oh, what do you do? And it's like, oh, I'm an athlete, or what do you do, or I'm a content creator on this.
Speaker 2:I feel like if people ask me what I do, I don't even really know what answer to give them because, like, you do a bunch of different things you know. So I like, I like that. That's the culture that I felt like people are leaning a lot more into today and, um, I don't think you have to be one thing. You know what I mean, I think. Even if you're not an athlete, like people who have nine to fives, right, like you have your nine to five and then you go home and you're a mom and you're taking care of your kids, or you go home and you might have a passion project that you pour into, whether it's photography or whatever the case may be, I think that, at the end of the day, everybody should have something that they just are passionate about, that they pour into. That is separate from the things that they might may do to make money.
Speaker 3:So yeah, it's, it's such a good point and and I I just to touch on that because I feel like I've struggled with that my whole life of like, what do you do?
Speaker 2:And what are you and I'm?
Speaker 3:one thing in. You know, I've got one hat on for one thing, and then in the next minute I'm doing something completely different.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:And it's funny how people struggle to see you in like different areas. You know Like I run into it all the time with you know being a rescuer. People will be like if they see me like DJing an event or something they're like oh, but don't you like? The question is but don't you rescue animals? Yeah, yeah. Yes, yes, I do.
Speaker 3:I'm both I also do that or they'll see me like salsa dancing and they're like oh, but I thought you were a. I'm like why? Why are we so constricted? Like I can be all of those things you can pull in. You things, yeah, you can pull in. And I you know, growing up it was always like pick one thing and be really really really good at it. Right, like that was the, that was the thing you have to be. One thing, asia, you can't be this, you can't be that.
Speaker 1:So it was either I was a dancer, I was this, or but no, you can be everything you know yeah, it's so I I like that you brought that up, because I feel like I've always struggled with wearing a lot of different hats I, I almost feel like, yeah, you, almost everybody kind of has to be to some degree, and if you're where we come from, we're trying to be artful with our lives. However, we can best be, you know, because we all are artists of our own life. Right, rick Rubin, like and I think in that aspect, letting anybody tell us or tell you, or tell one what you know, what it, what, what you are or are not, is you know. Ultimately you're the artist, you're the painter you know, and that and that.
Speaker 1:What I love about it is um, on some levels I wish I could.
Speaker 1:I could only have one thing to focus on, right because yeah because I have 2.7 billion things going on every day and it's stressful and it's overwhelming and stuff like that, but I also don't know that I would have it any other way, because we're at this place where we're trying to do things that are meaningful to us and connect with us and help people to whatever extent we can. Speaking of that, the podcast is called what's in your bag? Yep, Yep and what. What was what inspired that? You know, because everybody's got a bunch in their bag, but what inspired that? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, um, I feel like shout out to you, man, you know you got a little. I feel like you're your culture and you know what I mean. So I got to respect that, because I feel like a lot of people in basketball I started it it was kind of like people will be like oh well, what's in your bag? Like if somebody has like a bunch of moves that they can do between the legs and step back, his bag is deep. So it's like a sports thing. You know what I mean. Like how creative are you on the court? So it's kind of like a thing that people just kind of say in passing.
Speaker 2:But so for me, what inspired the name was? Like when we first started the podcast, we were talking to mainly athletes. So we had a couple NBA guys on overseas athletes and I wanted to know what's in your bag like outside of sports. You know what I mean. So, like, what are you inspired by what things? What things keep you up at night when you're not in the gym? You know what I mean. Like what, what passion projects are you working on? So for me, that was literally like my inspiration, and sometimes we will have guests on and I'll be like, hey, like. So let's say you're going out, uh, to the club, or you're going out with your friends. Like what's literally in your bag, like what's what, like what are you bringing with you?
Speaker 4:you're bringing the chapstick.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean you're bringing your phone charger. If you're a woman, you're bringing your taser, your pepper, pepper spray, whatever you got. You know what I mean. So, um, bring a Glock.
Speaker 3:No, literally whatever, whatever. There's like a literal sense to it, but then also like all the plays on it. Right, it was more so just like what?
Speaker 2:like what? What are you into? Um, outside of basketball? Cause I feel like everybody's people look at us as athletes you know what I mean, and I think especially at a at the NBA level or at the professional level. It's almost looked at as a negative thing if you enter other things because they say, oh well, you know, it's a distraction if you like photography, or it's a distraction if you like to play video games or stream or whatever. So for me, I was trying to shine a light on the fact that, like, at the end of the day, there's only so many hours you can spend in the gym. Right, I could be in the gym working on my game for four or five hours. Yeah, I still got 19 more hours in my day to divvy up and other things.
Speaker 2:So, um, I think that being able to encourage that and kind of change the narrative around that was important to me, because that was something that I experienced, like in my playing career, like coaches giving you like backhanded compliments on things that I was doing outside of basketball, or or just making being very passive, aggressive around the things that I was doing outside of basketball, or just making being very passive, aggressive around the things that I was doing outside of just coming to practice and playing a game. So for me I was trying to just be a part of like changing that conversation around athletes and really embracing like athletes as a whole. You know what I mean Because at the end of the day, like we're humans, we're individuals and we're whole people. You know we're more than just what goes on between the four lines or the baseball diamond or whatever sports you're playing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, now you started All Facts, media which you know, tell us about that and kind of what your inspiration is there. Where do you see it going?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I mentioned I have a twin brother.
Speaker 1:From what team again? I forget Cleveland Cavaliers. Yeah, the greatest team in the NBA, cleveland Cavaliers. Check him out again.
Speaker 2:I always tease my brother because I'll tell him he wants to be just like me. I'm like his biggest role model. He looks up to me. Ace, if you're watching this, I know I'm biggest role model, he looks up to me. So, ace, if you're watching this, I know I'm your role model. But I've got to let the people know.
Speaker 3:Flexing up in here. I like it. What's your brother's name?
Speaker 2:Aaron Ace, I know you listen to this. Aaron Roberts Looks just like him yeah.
Speaker 2:I always tease him because I say I picked journalism first. My sophomore year of high school I took journalism class. My junior year of high school I was an opinion editor for my school newspaper. My senior year I was a sports editor for my school newspaper and I always knew that I kind of wanted to go into media sports reporting. Then in college my brother hopped on the bandwagon, followed in my footsteps and decided to major in journalism. But it was funny though, because when we were in college I played as a historically black fraternity shout out a fire, you know what I mean. So I was the chapter president and like that kind of took away some of my media like time I had to devote to that. So my brother actually like kind of passed me a little bit like in the media stuff. He was like super involved in our student media organization and doing shows and all that kind of stuff. But we both ended up graduating with our degrees in journalism from Quinnipiac University up in Connecticut. It's like half an hour from the ESPN studio.
Speaker 1:Who had the better?
Speaker 2:GPA, me, me. I think I was 3.8.
Speaker 1:He might have been like 3.6 something. We're both good students, so I got to give him his credit. There's one winner? Yeah, yeah, yeah, fair, fair, fair. We're both good students, so I got to give him his credit. Yeah, yeah, but you know there's one winner, yeah, yeah, only one, only one.
Speaker 2:You know I'm falsely clear, you know. So we had like state of the art like it was kind of like this we had our studio, we had cameras, like ESPN was like 30 minutes away, so we could great places. So we graduated and we ended up going to an HBCU for our last year to play. We had one more year of eligibility and we went there together. But, as I know a lot of people may not know this, but a lot of times HBCUs are like severely underfunded so we don't have a lot of the same resources as a lot of these PWIs PWIs predominantly white institution that I went to before. So we didn't have a communications program at Cobham State University, there were no communications master's programs, we didn't have studios like camera equipment, any of that stuff. So we were like, well, we just got this amazing degree in journalism, we know we want to work in the media. How are we going to be able to network and how are we going to be able to keep our skills sharp in order to break into the industry? So we decided to start our own thing. So we started all facts, media and, uh, we started to just kind of cover sports in the dmv. We covered the nationals first world series. When we won baseball back in 2019, we were debating each other and, uh, that's kind of how it started and we started our podcast interviewing college coaches and then it kind of grew.
Speaker 2:It started and we started our podcast interviewing college coaches and then it kind of grew from there and then when my brother took the job, he was initially working for the Clippers. That's kind of how I came to LA initially was to visit him when he was with the Clippers. He kind of had to get out of the whole media space because it was kind of a conflict of interest with the coaching and the media and talking to college players it was kind of like a no-no. So he kind of had to go the coaching route and then it was kind of just me. So from there was when I kind of rebranded it from kind of more of a college basketball podcast to more of like a creative lifestyle podcast to what we're doing now.
Speaker 2:And then, as far as where I see it, I kind of want to continue to use it to have conversations, have conversations that are different from kind of the mainstream media you would see on, like ESPN, where we're talking about just sports. I kind of want to continue to expand upon the conversation that we're having now, storytelling and just inspiring people that look like me, come from situations like me, who may not have a roadmap to get to wherever they're trying to go in life, whether that be you want to be a professional athlete, you want to be a professional athlete, you want to be a content creator, you want to be in the media, you want to be in the corporate world and be a doctor or a lawyer. I think a lot of people just need a roadmap and they need people to be able to inspire them and hear from people who are doing the things that they're trying to do.
Speaker 1:Sure, and hitting the problems that everybody's hitting I problems that people everybody's hitting. I mean we were talking about it before we went live here but uh, well, actually our live people probably heard the, the, our people that are on our um, our youtube library or whatever, but we were, we were talking about it ahead of time how there is an a shutdown on all you know federal funding and it's in the name of like what the thing that I that is startling to me is it? It started with the bishop that asked the president to be humane have mercy, Ask for empathy and it became this big giant.
Speaker 1:How?
Speaker 1:dare you ask for empathy. I'm like in what theological sense is that not just a shared principle? And they're coming in saying that it's political and art, but when they're literally again, in what theological sense is that not just a shared principle? They're coming in saying that it's political and art, but when they're literally again, it's not a good faith argument, but shutting down all the federal funding and things. This is where, in the name of DEI, when did diversity in America be wrong? When did equity, when did things equal be, be something to be celebrated, to getting rid of equality? That's the thing that it startles me, because people may have voted for for him, but they didn't vote for this and we knew it right.
Speaker 2:Yeah we knew it was coming we knew this was coming.
Speaker 1:So it's very, very, you know, obviously frustrating for us. Yeah, but to continue to level this false argument, that's the kind of stuff where I see ball. I feel like professional athletes are some of the most important people to be involved in this stuff. And it's the same thing when, literally one of the reasons why I started this company was because I caught shit for speaking out against at the time, a long time ago, I caught shit for speaking out against. Uh, at the time, a long time ago, I caught shit for speaking. I was like same thing. You know, shut up and play bass was literally what they told me. And and then I kept getting that and I was like you know, you haven't met me, man, yeah, you know, and and I just think that the fact that we're saying what they don't want to hear, yeah, right, yeah, and so for you, you know, I applaud you for taking that on in the show, because I think what was it was?
Speaker 1:I was told by our management don't do it, you know. You don't do it, you're going to alienate half your American audience and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But that's not because of me or the way I was thinking, that's because of where we've been put into two teams and it's been put into red and blue teams. It's not a red and blue thing, it's a class thing. It is a class thing. And so I feel like athletes and performers and people that have leverage props for using your leverage any way you can, because it's hard to fight back against a trillion dollar company. Yeah Right, so we got to use everything we can. Yeah, you know, it's kind of what I feel like.
Speaker 3:So I just I mean there should have never been any red or blue. There should be no deviation between empathy, compassion, a moral equity and inclusion and that's what it actually. Yeah, but it kind of bothers me sometimes that we don't have just like a code of ethics that everyone lives by and then everything outside of that code of ethics. Sure, you can pick this, you can pick that, but not out of this. Just like you know, with the Ten Commandments everybody abides, you know well not everybody, but you know there has to be some kind of precedent and race.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're coming for us now. I'm talking too much.
Speaker 3:But, but you know what I mean. Like those shouldn't be on the table. There shouldn't even be a reason for them to be on the table because they should already be included in the conversation. Like I, that's where I start. It's like why are we even talking about this? Like it doesn't even make any sense to me.
Speaker 1:I feel like that is the art to me, is trying to synthesize this world where we live in, where you know, so you got Elon. He takes over Twitter so that he can spread misinformation.
Speaker 1:You know 200 million people at a time, at a sec in a second Right and time in a second right, and so the only way to fight back, I think, against that is the art that's being asked of us in this time, which is, I also do think people do have a good sense on bullshit if it's presented in the right way. I don't know, I don't know what they do.
Speaker 1:But I'm saying it's getting sold. It's being sold so well that people don't. But you don't need everyone, you just need enough people that are looking to maybe be more enlightened, right, or something like that.
Speaker 3:Well there. So there was this post I saw yesterday and it was um. I didn't know that this book existed, but it's called the cult of Trump and it's I. I was about right, and it's Sounds about right, and it's from a gentleman who studies cult behavior.
Speaker 1:Sure.
Speaker 3:And I think his name is Stephen Hassan. If I'm not, you know missaying that, but he is. I'm definitely reading the book because he's calling out as someone that he left a cult.
Speaker 3:But he shows like there's different levels of cults and different like types of cults. There's even positive cults that like allow you to be you, but you, you all, abide by these certain things. And then there's these cults on this side and he's like discussing in the book, like, the art of manipulation and the way that the information is disseminated out of Trump's mouth, and he, he pulls these examples that are just very, very clever and it'll be like the sky is green and then I saw a rabbit and you can turn your TV on and that's how we save America and everyone goes yeah and goes for it, even though it's a mastermind of confusion.
Speaker 4:Yes, so he is the.
Speaker 3:he is a mastermind of confusion, and chaos that to a point where you don't even know what you just heard. Your brain can't put the elements together, so you just go for it. So it's a. It's a different level of cult and it's a different level of manipulation and that is why he is so good. So I'm really curious to read this book. I'm like I'm all in it because I love studying dictatorships and cults and how you get people to follow.
Speaker 1:I mean, I've been fascinated by that well, yeah, 30 years, yeah, and we we're gonna need, we're gonna need all the megaphones and microphones we can get, man, because I don't know what happens if you get tuberculosis, but apparently, because they shut down the CDC and stuff, tuberculosis is apparently on the run in Kansas or somewhere in the middle. There's like several hundred. What happens I don't know, but we're not allowed to get this information anymore. How is that helping people? How is that helping anybody? How is that lowering the price of eggs, you know, and stuff? It's not.
Speaker 2:It's not.
Speaker 1:It's not a good faith argument.
Speaker 2:I feel like I think that just kind of going back to your point which said earlier about kind of people voting for Trump but not knowing what they were voting for yeah, I think it's kind of twofold because, on the one hand, I think it's we have a double edged sword, right, because I remember when the election came out and they were going over the demographic of like who voted for who, and it was like this percent of the people with the college degree voted for Kamala, this percent of people who were uneducated voted for Trump, and it was like so it's clear that the people who are voting for Trump aren't like as highly. Yeah, they're not getting the information, same information, so there's a disconnect in that. How, how are we disseminating this information and things like that? And I feel like I was looking over this thing today about like okay, he's ending all the federal grants and like what that actually looks like, because people might see that and be like oh, all right government shutdown.
Speaker 1:What does that mean?
Speaker 2:saving money and it's like food stamps are being cut, like student financial aid and grants. It's not just cut, it's trying to be eliminated Right. Like Medicaid, like education programs after school, like all these things are things that, like people, people survive on People literally, like I grew up on, like a lot of these things.
Speaker 2:I'm on half those programs Like food stamps, medicaid, like all these things, are things that, like Trump, is trying to get rid of, and it's like we can say, oh, we knew this was going to happen. You guys voted for him, but there's a lot of people who didn't know, that Right they don't do the research to figure the things out.
Speaker 3:Well, and oddly enough, that's them. Yeah, Like I mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah sure, voting against your own self-interest, they're literally voting against themselves.
Speaker 3:I mean a lot of the people that are in these uneducated classes are dealing with federal aid and getting scholarships Not in a bad way, and I'm not saying that in a bad way, but we're talking about where the votes came from right. This is affecting you, though, so this is just a fact.
Speaker 1:It affects everybody Because this is the part that never gets talked about is that money gets put, all of that money gets put back into the economy and it's in the form, in all kinds of different forms, but that's what keeps. It's like starving your car of gasoline man and expecting it to run and that's the point, though.
Speaker 1:They don't want it to run, they want to destroy it, they want to break it down, and so that's why I'm saying it's not a good faith argument. We kind of have to start shifting the argument to okay, what do we do now? You know, yeah.
Speaker 2:And I think it goes to like. So the first time Trump got elected, I remember I was obviously like, distraught, like, and so when he got elected again, I was just more so. I wish I was more like disappointed and fearful for the future rather than just like surprised. Yeah, and there was this whole thing like that people said when I remember when Obama got elected, it was like obviously this huge win for the black community and like first black president and things like that. But a lot of people also felt like, because Obama got elected and a lot of people were outraged by that and it like literally sent a lot of people to like the whole. People were like, oh, we're moving in the right direction, da, da, da. And now people had like this, we're moving in the right direction, da-da-da. And now people had this drastic reaction to turn the clock back, to go all the way backwards, yeah, and then we got Trump, and I think that's what's going to happen here.
Speaker 2:Trump's going to be in office, he's going to set America back X amount of years and people are going to be like, oh my God, what did we do? And then we're going to have to come together again and rally and I think at this point he's in office, so us continuing to just oh, trump complains like all right. Now it's like all right. Well, maybe we need to figure out, like how we can you guys can, people can open their eyes and see what's happening, to understand that, like this is not what we need as a country, and in four years, we need to do everything that we can possibly do to make sure he doesn't get a third term, because I I did see something that it introduced the bill to the house to try to get him a third term, I'm like. So I think that this is an opportunity for people to rally together and come together more than we've ever come before before and love on each other and try to be compassionate towards one another and educate one another Like and that's something that I even have had to do a little bit of like reconciliation for myself, because I feel like when the election first happened, I was just so angry and like, yeah, the conversation around people that I was, that I knew who either didn't vote or maybe they didn't go to the polls and vote for trump, but they're like, oh, he did this, he did that, and I'm like dude, like I lashed out, was like anger, like you know what I mean, and I feel like I had to kind of like even do some reconciliation because it's like, all right at the end of the day, these are the people who we have to find middle ground with.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because, like, these are people who might, might, four years from now, go to the polls and be like you know what. This didn't work for me and we need to change it. And so how can we have conversations with people to educate people, bring people together, love on one another and maybe that's the way that we can kind of have some progress.
Speaker 1:That's the only way, you know, we got to introduce love. Stay open as much as we can. And yeah, just, you know we're not, we can't expect everybody, but I know there's going to be a lot of people that are bewildered and there are a lot of people right now that are just kind of like wait a minute what, you know, wait a minute what.
Speaker 3:And maybe it'll be somewhat of a wake-up call, because the other thing that I've noticed for all the time I've been on this planet is if it doesn't affect somebody personally.
Speaker 1:Directly yeah.
Speaker 3:Unless they are in the wheelhouse of a humanitarian extreme empathy, like, unless you're sitting on that side of the fight, if you're just the day-to-day person that's trying to take care of your immediate family, you go to work, you go home. If it does not personally touch you, you're not going to care.
Speaker 2:And that's a sad reality. It's going to knock on a lot of people's doors. But it's going to knock on a lot of people's doors.
Speaker 3:And I think that personal touch is what's going to happen. The sad part for me is I don't even give a shit what you do to me, I don't care Like I don't. But all the suffering of the people during those four years that has to come for us to get to this point of some resolution. That's the part that I'm just like. I'm like how many people have to be sacrificed?
Speaker 4:for everybody to wake the fuck up. You know that's what kills me.
Speaker 3:I know we're going to get there because I agree with you. I feel like this rebellion it's going to flip.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And I feel like this is all part of our you know, it's part of the path. We're going to end up on the other side somehow, but not without a path of destruction and devastation and mass suffering.
Speaker 2:And that's what gets me. It just shows you how far we still have to go in.
Speaker 4:America.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. Like we people always say oh, look, how far we came.
Speaker 3:And like we have. So Look how backwards you can go in one day Like this. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:It's like I was at. I was in Sacramento this past weekend and we went to a Martin Luther King dinner, kind of obviously honoring his legacy and everything that he did, and they were talking about how like. So it was a keynote speaker. Her name was Lisa McNair and she's the younger sister of Denise McNair, who was a girl who one of the four girls who was killed in the 16th Street church bombing in Birmingham, alabama, and her sister, like still alive telling the stories Her, and her sister, like still live, telling the stories her parents. He's showing his pictures.
Speaker 2:It's like people think, all these people they always talk about, how people show pictures of MLK and a lot of times they're in like black and white and people think in their mind that was so long ago. It's like MLK would have been 96 this year, like I just saw, like my uncle was, like my aunt's mom, she's like my great-grandma. She's alive. They would have been the same age. You know what I mean? It wasn't that long ago. And people, I think, a lot of times in their mind they think, oh well, america, we've come so far. And it's like moments like this. I want you to realize how far we still have to go as a country as a society, morally, and I think that, hopefully, that this will give people the wake-up call that like oh Well, the podcast is called what's in your Bag?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you know, I think gathering these armies is what we're here to do and it's an honor to be in it with you. We're talking about trying to combine, but you know you can get it what's in your Bag anywhere where you get your podcasts. But we'll keep working on these. Slap the Power, slap the Network. What's in your bag?
Speaker 3:combos man, let's build some armies, powerful For sure. Let's build some armies.
Speaker 1:For sure. Thank you for being on the show, Andrew Robinson.
Speaker 2:thank you, my man, thank you for having me Appreciate you, appreciate you guys, appreciate you guys.
Speaker 5:Join me Sasha Peters on Women in the New Season 2, where we bear it all except for our bodies. Leave that to your imagination. My wish for women is we strip away the fear of judgment and really embrace the full spectrum of who we are. I don't know if you were coming to terms with being pregnant on the show. Yeah, I think she was a little depressed. Let's live boldly and openly and change the narratives that define us. I called my doctor. I'm like I want to drive my car through a brick wall. We deserve it and there's no better time than now. Let's get out of our comfort zone and get down to the bottom of who we are.
Speaker 1:All right, before we get out of here, after some fun, it's time for a dose of reality, and you know the fun with Andrew had some reality. But right now across the United States, ice has been raiding homes looking for undocumented immigrants. Yeah, you know this is. It comes in the wake of the first week back in office of DJT keeping its promise about deportation, so again we kind of knew it was coming. But horrific stories have been coming to light about the ICE raids and activists have taken to social media to share people's stories and share resources, which I think is what that is.
Speaker 1:The only prescription is going to be independent media, absolutely, and you know so shout out to everybody putting it out there. I mean, I have to admit, you know some of the things I've seen, just with respect to workers not showing up to work, you know, agriculturally, you know, just basically for fear of being deported, basically for fear of being deported. I saw the C-130 for like $800,000 as potentially being used to deport like 80 migrants to Guatemala or something like that. It's all for a photo op, like a dictatorial photo op, right? If you really wanted a department of government efficiency to work, which you don't, it's not a good faith argument, but you would do what we've done, which is you hire Spirit Airlines for like $8 an hour and they'll fly you around. That's what we've always done is to charter planes for, like you know, I think it's like $8,000 an hour, right? So if it's a 10-hour flight, it's $80,000. Split it, but instead a C-130, on the other hand, is a. Actually I heard that's why Columbia got mad at us too, because we were sending them in military vehicles, which is also a different thing. It's one thing to send somebody on a commercial plane and you're deporting people back. It's another thing to do it from military planes at like eight hundred thousand dollars a flight and stuff like that. You know, yeah, it just uh. Anyway, I don't.
Speaker 1:We have, you know, our own ice raids here. Uh, you know flavor flave I saw came out because god loves selena gomez. She got on and she's just being honest and and just being honest, honest and just bawling about what we were just talking about with Andrew and people just jump on them online and it's just. I'm sure people will jump on me and us online and it's, you know, I think. I think people are better than that and I know it's hard, but I do think people are better than that. I think the internet's a horrible place. We're here to try to make it a little bit better, rather than you know, in any way we can, because it's got to be used. Where's my phone? It's. Oh. Yeah, it's being used. The little box has to be used for good. It can't be all bad, it cannot be. So. We got to use this little box for good and the internet for good.
Speaker 3:I need to stay off the box, because these videos are devastatingly heartbreaking that I've been seeing the last 24 hours.
Speaker 1:But on another level, though, how are you going to know about tuberculosis breaking out with your? Neighbor having it. I'm not, you're going to have to get it off of TikTok, the Chinese server.
Speaker 3:Something. Well, it's not going to come from Medicaid or the CDC or any source of government or the WHO. Yeah, WHO doesn't exist anymore. Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know. So when dread gets you know when sort of doom scrolling gets too much. Did you hear it's a new segment we're trying to introduce called. Did you Hear Right? It's not new segment we're trying to introduce called. Did you Hear Right? It's not all that original. But what is original? Cyber spiritualism and the dark side of scams. I didn't know about cyber spiritualism. Nigerian scammers from the Yahoo Boys Tell me about it.
Speaker 3:Okay, so this is something I've known about for a long time. Obviously, I work in the continent heavily and friends of mine will send me texts from Nigerian numbers and I'm like okay like this is a cyber scam. Now the combination also. There's a lot of voodoo and spiritual you know stuff going on in this realm, but I hadn't put the two together.
Speaker 3:So that's what's crazy about this story. So there's the Yahoo Boys, which is this group of scammers. They also call them the 419 scammers, which is basically like the code of law that they're breaking.
Speaker 4:It's the 419 in Nigeria, right.
Speaker 3:So basically they contact the victims, they send them some opportunity. You have to send like 20 bucks in and then you'll get 150 for something. Then, all of a sudden, something goes wrong and they need 20 more dollars. It's like you know it's just a whole fucking scheme. But what's getting crazy now?
Speaker 1:is that Sort of like presidential Bibles and $100,000 watches. But I digress, go ahead. Yeah, pretty much, pretty much. But oh, crypto, yeah, the DJT coin. What makes?
Speaker 3:this unique is that they're incorporating spiritual and supernatural rituals into the operations known as Yahoo Plus.
Speaker 1:Ooh, you're bringing voodoo into it.
Speaker 3:Yes, it's a good sell, and these scams are blending traditional fraud tactics like phishing and romance fraud, but what's happening is they're doing human sacrificing, oh wow. And they're taking organs, but what's happening is they're doing human sacrificing.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow, and they're taking organs.
Speaker 3:And so what's happening is these you know black magic. You know leaders are saying, oh, you need an arm and you need a foot from somebody. Wow, and that's going to help their scams work better. Wow, and we, you know we deal with black magic all the time.
Speaker 3:I mean so in the villages that I work, I make friends with all the witch doctors. Most people are scared of them, or you're either scared of them or you're like totally into it and you believe everything. But a lot of people are scared and throughout Africa we still believe that a witch doctor can kill somebody, save somebody. It's very, very, very popular.
Speaker 1:Does a witch doctor have TikTok? Probably not. No, none of the ones I know, none of the ones you know, have TikTok.
Speaker 3:See, I was going to say I'm thinking about my guy Monday, right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, his phone barely works, but you know, yeah, like he does some funky stuff. But you know, I just go hang out with him and try to be on his good side.
Speaker 4:That's what I'm saying Because I definitely don't want any of my body parts missing.
Speaker 1:No no, no.
Speaker 3:But you know, it's just crazy the level of scamming and the craziness with all this black magic that's involved in it. Yeah so yeah, really really interesting stuff. Please stay away from scamming. It's not just Nigeria just putting that out there. But please be aware of scams, because they're getting pretty crazy.
Speaker 1:Now we're going to have to get into the witch doctor thing. I just learned that about you. You've been hanging out. Do you want me to? Yeah, I'll get an interview Another time. Yeah, okay, you heard it here. You heard it here. You want an interview with a witch doctor? Let's interview a witch doctor on Slap the Power. Oh my God, oh my God, you can get here on Slap the Power.
Speaker 3:I'm here for it.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, yes. Well, that is amazing and that's going to do it for this week. Heck of a show. I'm really stoked. Special shout-out again to Andrew Robertson for gracing us, as always, with his presence. And, before we head out, if you get a chance, if you have someone you want to hear on the show, if you have something that you want to talk about, make sure to hit us up, DM us on Instagram the name of future guests, anything like that and make sure, before we head out, make sure to like, comment, share, subscribe, all the stuff that you do. We appreciate the feedback and we, like we said, we're building armies here, so we need you with the help for that.
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