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Greetings to our ever expanding listenership! Listen to a new episode of Afronerd Radio's Grindhouse podcast, airing this Saturday at 6pm EST.  Join your favorite #SavetheRaza podcast crew members (Capt. Kirk, Claire Lanay, Dburt and the "uncanny" Daryll B) as they discuss the following pulp/pop news: the #SAVEDARKMATTER campaign is in full effect with a 35K signature Change.org  petition mounting; a second directorial firing (Colin Trevorrow for the uninitiated, of Jurassic World cred) has occurred with yet another Star Wars (IX) franchise film and the team pontificates on the reason (hint: don't piss off super producer, Kathleen Kennedy); Cartoon Network's Powerpuff Girls adds a dash of color to their team and her name is Toya Delazy; this past August bears the distinction of having one of the lowest movie box office receipts in recent times and the team tries to provide an explanation; our impressions of the impending Fall TV and movie schedules (Mudbound, The Foreigner, Blade Runner 2049, Justice League,

Greetings to our ever expanding listenership! Listen to a new episode of Afronerd Radio's Grindhouse podcast, airing this Saturday at 6pm EST.  Join your favorite #SavetheRaza podcast crew members (Capt. Kirk, Claire Lanay, Dburt and the "uncanny" Daryll B) as they discuss the following pulp/pop news: the #SAVEDARKMATTER campaign is in full effect with a 35K signature Change.org  petition mounting; a second directorial firing (Colin Trevorrow for the uninitiated, of Jurassic World cred) has occurred with yet another Star Wars (IX) franchise film and the team pontificates on the reason (hint: don't piss off super producer, Kathleen Kennedy); Cartoon Network's Powerpuff Girls adds a dash of color to their team and her name is Toya Delazy; this past August bears the distinction of having one of the lowest movie box office receipts in recent times and the team tries to provide an explanation; our impressions of the impending Fall TV and movie schedules (Mudbound, The Foreigner, Blade Runner 2049, Justice League,

Hujambo with a warm piece of sweet potato pie, folks! Listen to a new episode of The Mid Week in Review (MWIR)m courtesy of Afronerd Radio Machine Works!  Check out the latest meanderings of your hosts, Dburt and Capt. Kirk as they shed light on the following topics:  the nation grows angrier and more divided as President Trump attempts to dismantle former President Barack Obama's DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) immigration policy and potentially deporting 800K law abidiing and contributing undocumentated workers; is the viral passing of memes depicting Black people in humorous and contorted poses a type of high tech minstrelsy?; descendants of enslaved Africans owned by the Cherokee Nation are finally granted tribal citizenship; with Confederate monuments being threatened with removal and a Memphis theater dropping the Hollywood classic, Gone with the Wind from their 2018 roster of films, is history being rewritten to society's detriment?;  And lastly, after reading an HuffPo article by a Black

Hujambo with a warm piece of sweet potato pie, folks! Listen to a new episode of The Mid Week in Review (MWIR)m courtesy of Afronerd Radio Machine Works!  Check out the latest meanderings of your hosts, Dburt and Capt. Kirk as they shed light on the following topics:  the nation grows angrier and more divided as President Trump attempts to dismantle former President Barack Obama's DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) immigration policy and potentially deporting 800K law abidiing and contributing undocumentated workers; is the viral passing of memes depicting Black people in humorous and contorted poses a type of high tech minstrelsy?; descendants of enslaved Africans owned by the Cherokee Nation are finally granted tribal citizenship; with Confederate monuments being threatened with removal and a Memphis theater dropping the Hollywood classic, Gone with the Wind from their 2018 roster of films, is history being rewritten to society's detriment?;  And lastly, after reading an HuffPo article by a Black

In a another "straight, no chaser" show description, simply listen to the latest episode of Afronerd Radio's Grindhouse podcast airing this Saturday at 6pm EST.  Join your favorite podcast Shadow Cabinet (Claire Lanay, the "Uncanny" Daryll B, Dburt and Capt. Kirk) as they shed light on the following pop/pulp issues: Daryll and Dburt provide the encryption code for last week's Afropunk festival; acting great, Leonardo Dicaprio's name is floating around as a possible choice for the Martin Scorsese produced WB Joker solo film; to Dburt's shock/chagrin, the SyFy network has cancelled Dark Matter (no season 4) but Killjoys gets another 2 years; iconic director, James Cameron causes a stir by asserting that the success of the Wonder Woman film is actually a step backward for female empowerment films; a pic of actress Simone Missick as Misty Knight with her bionic arm hit the cyberwebs  this week;  the Inhumans TV series debuts  in IMAX theaters (then on television) this weekend and some viewers weren't exactly thri

In a another "straight, no chaser" show description, simply listen to the latest episode of Afronerd Radio's Grindhouse podcast airing this Saturday at 6pm EST.  Join your favorite podcast Shadow Cabinet (Claire Lanay, the "Uncanny" Daryll B, Dburt and Capt. Kirk) as they shed light on the following pop/pulp issues: Daryll and Dburt provide the encryption code for last week's Afropunk festival; acting great, Leonardo Dicaprio's name is floating around as a possible choice for the Martin Scorsese produced WB Joker solo film; to Dburt's shock/chagrin, the SyFy network has cancelled Dark Matter (no season 4) but Killjoys gets another 2 years; iconic director, James Cameron causes a stir by asserting that the success of the Wonder Woman film is actually a step backward for female empowerment films; a pic of actress Simone Missick as Misty Knight with her bionic arm hit the cyberwebs  this week;  the Inhumans TV series debuts  in IMAX theaters (then on television) this weekend and some viewers weren't exactly thri

Time is of the essence, people!  Unfortunately, we have another "hit and run" podcast this week but rest assured, it will be as informative as ever! Join Dburt and Capt. Kirk for a new installment of the Mid Week in Review, airing this Wednesday at 7:30pm eastern.  The topics up for grabs this week are:  Dburt gives his first impressions regarding the 2017 Afropunk festival as well as addressing concerns that the famed musical event has become more corprate and less punk; picking up from what we neglected to cover last show-discussing the deaths of two comedic icons-Dick Gregory and Jerry Lewis; the talk of the town: was it a good fight or over hyped-The Mayweather-McGregor fight this past weekend; actor/NFL icon, Jim Brown weighs in on Colin Kaepernick and lastly, Dburt theorizes that the recent Jackie Kennedy-esque Kim Kardashian Interview magazine cover explains exactly how one ends up with having a Donald Trump in office.  Call the hosts live at 646-915-9620.

Time is of the essence, people!  Unfortunately, we have another "hit and run" podcast this week but rest assured, it will be as informative as ever! Join Dburt and Capt. Kirk for a new installment of the Mid Week in Review, airing this Wednesday at 7:30pm eastern.  The topics up for grabs this week are:  Dburt gives his first impressions regarding the 2017 Afropunk festival as well as addressing concerns that the famed musical event has become more corprate and less punk; picking up from what we neglected to cover last show-discussing the deaths of two comedic icons-Dick Gregory and Jerry Lewis; the talk of the town: was it a good fight or over hyped-The Mayweather-McGregor fight this past weekend; actor/NFL icon, Jim Brown weighs in on Colin Kaepernick and lastly, Dburt theorizes that the recent Jackie Kennedy-esque Kim Kardashian Interview magazine cover explains exactly how one ends up with having a Donald Trump in office.  Call the hosts live at 646-915-9620.

Straight to the topics, folks! You know the drill-check out our latest Mid Week in Review installment this Wednesday at 7:30pm EST airing live at Afronerd Radio studios.  Call up your favorite podcasting team, Capt. Kirk and Dburt (#646-915-9620) as they employ heavy analyses relating to the following issues:  Race is the place taking up all the space among the headlines (in your FACE)-our thoughts about what appears to be a national wave of protests and initiatives geared toward removing Confederate statues; two comedic icons pass-Dick Gregory and Jerry Lewis; a new Deadline report asserts that legendary filmmaker, Martin Scorsese may be producing a WB/DC Joker origin movie;  Las Vegas oddsmakers are growing nervous as an upset may be on the horizon as the Mayweather-McGregor fight approaches; And lastly, a NY Times piece highlights the "moral dilemma" some Black Repubs have toward President Trump in the wake of the Charlottesville tragedy.

Straight to the topics, folks! You know the drill-check out our latest Mid Week in Review installment this Wednesday at 7:30pm EST airing live at Afronerd Radio studios.  Call up your favorite podcasting team, Capt. Kirk and Dburt (#646-915-9620) as they employ heavy analyses relating to the following issues:  Race is the place taking up all the space among the headlines (in your FACE)-our thoughts about what appears to be a national wave of protests and initiatives geared toward removing Confederate statues; two comedic icons pass-Dick Gregory and Jerry Lewis; a new Deadline report asserts that legendary filmmaker, Martin Scorsese may be producing a WB/DC Joker origin movie;  Las Vegas oddsmakers are growing nervous as an upset may be on the horizon as the Mayweather-McGregor fight approaches; And lastly, a NY Times piece highlights the "moral dilemma" some Black Repubs have toward President Trump in the wake of the Charlottesville tragedy.

Sak Pase, Xin Chao and "What up!" to all our loyal listeners.  Check out a new episode of Afronerd Radio's Grindhouse, airring every Saturday at 6pm EST. Listen to the latest musings of your favorite podcast "Black Lantern Corps" (the "Uncanny" Daryll B., left coast correspondent, Claire Lanay, Capt. Kirk and Dburt) as they wax about the following topics:  the long awaited Netflix Defenders TV series premiered this weekend and the crew give their opinions; we get a glimpse of The Punisher series at the close of the Defenders; the trailer for Toho film studios' Godzilla anime film, Godzilla: Monster Planet hit the cyberwebs in lieu of a 2018  Netflix release; when comic book mythology has its "singularity" moment-Marvel's HYDRA logo was seen during last week's racist Unite the Right Rally; the music streaming service, Spotify kicks off White Nationalist/Hate themed bands from their playlist (now, why can't we see corporate hip hop get the same treatment for the same reason?)-and isn't Hate speech (as vile as i

Sak Pase, Xin Chao and "What up!" to all our loyal listeners.  Check out a new episode of Afronerd Radio's Grindhouse, airring every Saturday at 6pm EST. Listen to the latest musings of your favorite podcast "Black Lantern Corps" (the "Uncanny" Daryll B., left coast correspondent, Claire Lanay, Capt. Kirk and Dburt) as they wax about the following topics:  the long awaited Netflix Defenders TV series premiered this weekend and the crew give their opinions; we get a glimpse of The Punisher series at the close of the Defenders; the trailer for Toho film studios' Godzilla anime film, Godzilla: Monster Planet hit the cyberwebs in lieu of a 2018  Netflix release; when comic book mythology has its "singularity" moment-Marvel's HYDRA logo was seen during last week's racist Unite the Right Rally; the music streaming service, Spotify kicks off White Nationalist/Hate themed bands from their playlist (now, why can't we see corporate hip hop get the same treatment for the same reason?)-and isn't Hate speech (as vile as i

Hundalasiliah, to our ever growing and consistent listenership!  Check out Afronerd Radio's latest episode of the Mid Week in Review (MWIR) airing this Thursday at 7pm eastern standard time.  Join your hosts, Capt. Kirk and Dburt as they bring their unique brand of analyses to the following topics: noted consumer products giant, Procter amd Gamble, are causing a stir with their new ad tackling racial profiling; discussions centered around a boycott against the NFL are starting to surface due to no team wanting to hire activist/athlete Colin Kaepernick in the wake of his highly publicized stance against police brutality; a Google software engineer's anti-diversity memo has created storm for the prolific tech company; President Trump threatens North Korea.......with "fire, fury amd frankly power" as the world holds its breath hoping that this doesn't spell the end (of everything!!)/  Call LIVE at 646-915-9620.   

Hundalasiliah, to our ever growing and consistent listenership!  Check out Afronerd Radio's latest episode of the Mid Week in Review (MWIR) airing this Thursday at 7pm eastern standard time.  Join your hosts, Capt. Kirk and Dburt as they bring their unique brand of analyses to the following topics: noted consumer products giant, Procter amd Gamble, are causing a stir with their new ad tackling racial profiling; discussions centered around a boycott against the NFL are starting to surface due to no team wanting to hire activist/athlete Colin Kaepernick in the wake of his highly publicized stance against police brutality; a Google software engineer's anti-diversity memo has created storm for the prolific tech company; President Trump threatens North Korea.......with "fire, fury amd frankly power" as the world holds its breath hoping that this doesn't spell the end (of everything!!)/  Call LIVE at 646-915-9620.

Greetings, Konichiwa with a side order of cornbread and greens, people!  It's another Grindhouse installment and it airs this Saturday at 6pm eastern.  Listen to your favorite podcast "Rough Riders" (Capt. Kirk, Claire Lanay, the Uncanny Daryll B and Dburt) as they utlilize their power rings to decode the following pop/pulp topics:  the racebending of a character can cause controversy and it appears to start at the top of Zazie Beetz' (Domino) Afro;  Stephen King's Dark Tower premieres and underwhelms; Detroit appears to be having the opposite reaction with high praise and Rotton Tomato approval;  the Game of Thrones servers were recently hacked allowing the release of scripts and HBO employees personal data as well as other HBO TV series info (oh and a GOT episode was leaked as well allegedly not part of the hack); director/actor, Mario Van Peebles (New Jack City) has a new Syfy supernatural series entitled, Superstition slated for a fall '17 release; and in non cinematic genre news , hip hop artists, Andre

Greetings, Konichiwa with a side order of cornbread and greens, people!  It's another Grindhouse installment and it airs this Saturday at 6pm eastern.  Listen to your favorite podcast "Rough Riders" (Capt. Kirk, Claire Lanay, the Uncanny Daryll B and Dburt) as they utlilize their power rings to decode the following pop/pulp topics:  the racebending of a character can cause controversy and it appears to start at the top of Zazie Beetz' (Domino) Afro;  Stephen King's Dark Tower premieres and underwhelms; Detroit appears to be having the opposite reaction with high praise and Rotton Tomato approval;  the Game of Thrones servers were recently hacked allowing the release of scripts and HBO employees personal data as well as other HBO TV series info (oh and a GOT episode was leaked as well allegedly not part of the hack); director/actor, Mario Van Peebles (New Jack City) has a new Syfy supernatural series entitled, Superstition slated for a fall '17 release; and in non cinematic genre news , hip hop artists, Andre

Let's just dive right in, people! Check out the latest installment of Afronerd Radio'sMid Week in Review (MWIR) airing this Wednesday at 7:30pm EST.  Join your hosts, Dburt and Capt. Kirk as they discuss the following issues:   our impressions of the ever growing #noConfederate campaign versus news that filmmaker/comic creator, Aaron McGruder has a new Amazon series, entitled Black America that many are likening to being a counter narrative to the HBO series; another one bites the dust,  Long Island, NY bred hedge fund manager, Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci lost his position as WH press secretary after just two weeks; and in more WH news, President Trump gets critiqued for remarks many perceive to give the police carte blanche in the mistreatment of crime suspects; as if Comic Con wasn't enough, just what is the deal with Politicon? Drs. John McWhorter and Glenn Loury discuss race and IQ on a recent The Glenn Show podcast (Dburt has some thoughts).  And lastly, why are Americans throwing out their TVs? And i

Let's just dive right in, people! Check out the latest installment of Afronerd Radio'sMid Week in Review (MWIR) airing this Wednesday at 7:30pm EST.  Join your hosts, Dburt and Capt. Kirk as they discuss the following issues:   our impressions of the ever growing #noConfederate campaign versus news that filmmaker/comic creator, Aaron McGruder has a new Amazon series, entitled Black America that many are likening to being a counter narrative to the HBO series; another one bites the dust,  Long Island, NY bred hedge fund manager, Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci lost his position as WH press secretary after just two weeks; and in more WH news, President Trump gets critiqued for remarks many perceive to give the police carte blanche in the mistreatment of crime suspects; as if Comic Con wasn't enough, just what is the deal with Politicon? Drs. John McWhorter and Glenn Loury discuss race and IQ on a recent The Glenn Show podcast (Dburt has some thoughts).  And lastly, why are Americans throwing out their TVs? And i

Howdy, from the crew of the Starship: Afronerd!  Listen to the latest meanderings of your favorite podcast Ultimate Avengers (Claire Lanay, Dburt, Capt. Kirk and the Uncanny Daryll B) this Saturday at 6pm eastern-courtesy of Afronerd Radio's Grindhouse.  The topics for this sonic buffet are:  comedian, Hari Kondabolu tackles the need for accurate representation while debunking Indian-American stereotypes with his TruTV doc, The Problem with Apu; in "further evidence that Skynet is unavoidable" news, Facebook positioned two A.I. computers together in a conversation during deep learning experiment and they developed a language incomprehensible to humans;  a recent issue of Suicide Squad has garnered controversy about whether Batman can be classified as a "meta-human" ;  and in truly Hollywood fashion, the WB may be angling Wonder Woman for Oscar consideration; Supergirl actor, Jeremy Jordan (Winn) causes a twitter stir with LGBTQ by joking that Supergirl and Lena Luthor would not be sapphically shipped;  with m

Howdy, from the crew of the Starship: Afronerd!  Listen to the latest meanderings of your favorite podcast Ultimate Avengers (Claire Lanay, Dburt, Capt. Kirk and the Uncanny Daryll B) this Saturday at 6pm eastern-courtesy of Afronerd Radio's Grindhouse.  The topics for this sonic buffet are:  comedian, Hari Kondabolu tackles the need for accurate representation while debunking Indian-American stereotypes with his TruTV doc, The Problem with Apu; in "further evidence that Skynet is unavoidable" news, Facebook positioned two A.I. computers together in a conversation during deep learning experiment and they developed a language incomprehensible to humans;  a recent issue of Suicide Squad has garnered controversy about whether Batman can be classified as a "meta-human" ;  and in truly Hollywood fashion, the WB may be angling Wonder Woman for Oscar consideration; Supergirl actor, Jeremy Jordan (Winn) causes a twitter stir with LGBTQ by joking that Supergirl and Lena Luthor would not be sapphically shipped;  with m