It's Always Personal

Wood discusses online and soc media's "Black Fatigue" thing, questioning if it's really a rejection of certain aspects of Black culture. A good, informative interview of Lanny Smith, the founder of the Actively Black apparel brand, on Jemele Hill's Spolitics podcast changed Wood's stance "wearing Black." A few series have been getting pushed through the IAP queu...

Wood speaks on Shedeur Sanders' 2025 NFL Draft experience being a matter of a combination of bad advice and "others" looking at street culture for what it is. And then, just when the NBA gets the majority of the daily talking points to being favorable, the conclusion of the Eastern Conference's Pacers vs Bucks series had a pretty disturbing moment.

Host Wood just dealing with random headlines, soc media posts, comment section exchanges, topics, culture & gender wars etc etc

No sense in really bothering with a full-on review of director/creator Ryan Coogler's popular new motion picture SINNERS , as Google can get to one in podcast or article format in just a few seconds. However, Wood revisits a few more details and themes from the film by building off of RogerEbert.com contributor Robert Daniels' polarizing review - 2.5 out of 4 stars - of the Jim Crow era-ba...

IAP might have a different, and very likely unpopular, opinion about Ryan Coogler's new highly acclaimed film SINNERS. For this episode host Wood asks three major questions about details that the bigger, more popular podcasts seemingly overlooked. Overall, salute to Coogler, lead actor Michael B. Jordan, Wunmi Mosaku, Omar Benson Miller, Delroy Lindo and Hailee Stanfeld. However, I dig the movie b...

The ReidOut has been canceled, so let's talk a little bit about Joy Reid's MSNBC show being canceled. A recent bike ride's playlist left Wood with an epiphany: MARGA. Other topics include some thoughts on learning about the concept of Capacity according to the Instagram profile for therapist Raquel Hopkins the Capacity Expert. Hopkins' Capacity-based therapy style dovetailed into W...

Wood shares more thoughts on Detroit, MI author Jason Wilson's illuminating book The Man The Moment Demands: Master The 10 Characteristics Of The Comprehensive Man. In a recent episode Wood explained that he couldn't find a podcast on Spousal Grief that "fed" his needs - during his difficult moment of mourning and loss. So he revisits the recent passing of his wife, finding respi...

Wood reacts to random sports and entertainment topics or observations. This C.L.I.P.S. episode features reactions to Cam Newton vs old Carolina Panthers teammates, a bumpy start for rapper Ransom's new podcast, personal fitness goals & progress report, observations on (Black) dating apps, and a friend's recent switch from gambling apps to stock buying apps.

Wow... I'm just gonna throw this out here: I don't have any problems with being Black. Not to where these new "leaders" can just unconditionally receive my unwavering support. This episode we're talking talking about author Jason Wilson's new book The Man The Moment Demands: Master the 10 Characteristics of the Comprehensive Man . Besides that Wood reacts to hearing about new Black leader 19 Keys...

The IAP house lost its most cherished, valued and trusted person. The valiant and year-long battle of Wood's wife was recurring topic through much 2024, and her last week in this world prompted an immediate halt to the podcast. Wood reflects on his 21-year marriage, and shares what can be shared because this ordeal was the epitome of personal - and what IAP is all about. Over the rest of the podca...

Happy weekend!

Wood is just going to sit back and let the people of today learn about love - Black and/or otherwise - and its challenges through today's soulless music and episodes of young queen Angel Reese's podcast. This episode is talking about a Black married couple, and their example, that the people of today just can't scroll on Tik Tok and find. And then musically, Wood revisits David Hollister's R 'n B...

If young Queen Angel Reese & her esteemed panel of experts can curate a conversation on Black love... Wood surely can, right? The question didn't get posed, I completely know LL's "I Need Love" is a classic, but have you even aware of Robin Thicke's "I Need Love" ballad? It's kind of the unofficial featured song of this episode.

Wood had already been overcome with a curiosity about the dictionary definition of 'narrative", and had found one genuinely harrowing definition. A couple of hours later he heard the popular song "Ain't No Fun (If the Homies Can't Have None)" as the shoulder music for TNT's broadcast of the NBA opening night T-wolves versus Lakers game... and well a C.L.I.P.S. topic was hatched. A Tribe Called Que...

Election talk with two weeks to go... we're laughing at cock references now? Angle Reese's podcast welcomes Kayla Nicole, the ex-girlfriend of Kansas Chiefs TE Travis Kelce - Taylor Swift's boyfriend. What productive conversation could these Black women possibly have about Black love? Wood also reacts to Foolish host Jason Whitlock's Shark Tank worthy pitch for a new pro basketball league formed a...

This 2024 election cycle hasn't been pretty, it's been historically eventful, but Kamala Harris is going into the championship rounds showing her mettle. She's not exactly Barack Obama 2.0, but she became the candidate for this moment, and it may pay off for her. Wood talks about VP Harris' Big Stand by taking a look at the commentary of Rod and Karen from the popular The Black Guy Who Tips podcas...

Wood shares some thoughts on "listening" to a couple of brothers with different approaches to politics. Other topics include Today's Moment with The Teachings of Jason Whitlock's Fearless , soc med & podcast snitchin' featuring Drink Champs and Sway in the Morning , how could Nike slip so badly, and new music on the way in Stabbed & Shot 2 and The Lotus Child .

Everyone should do what they believe they need to do on November 5. That includes sitting out the election altogether. Currently, a discussion about acceptable ways to communicate with Black men is underway, as well as a warning being given that Black men's support for former President Donald Trump needs to be respected. Moreover, a blame game is going on, preemptively, just in case VP Kamala Harr...

Wood sets the table for the IAP review of new romantic-drama She Taught Love , and Andscape-produced fim streaming on HULU. The episode became too long and had to be split into two episodes so some earlier topics include the NFL, TV Talk about Slow Horses S4 & Bad Monkey , troubling family relationships during tough times and the silence about San Jose St Univ. Women's volleyball player Blaire...

Wood sets the table for the IAP review of new romantic-drama She Taught Love , and Andscape-produced fim streaming on HULU. The episode became too long and had to be split into two episodes so some earlier topics include the NFL, TV Talk about Slow Horses S4 & Bad Monkey , troubling family relationships during tough times and the silence about San Jose St Univ. Women's volleyball player Blaire...

Wood is still saluting HULU's UnPrisoned comedy-drama and its creator Tracy McMillan, leads Kerry Washington and Delroy Lindo, and Marque Richardson for attempting to truly do meaningful work. Salute to HULU for investing in the telling of Black stories. At least with UnPrisoned we get to look at working through our ish from multiple perspectives, whereas on soc med apps we often rush to jump in o...

The premise of this C.L.I.P.S. installment is to take a look the UnPrisoned character "Mal" with the respect to our community's penchant to outright lionize strong Black leads like James St. Patrick (I said Sinclair), Franklin Saint, Nino Brown, Menace 's O-Dog or Sugar Hill 's Romello. Or maybe we laughed way too hard at Boomerang 's Marcus while in our head replaying some of our own "doggish foo...

How'd HULU's UnPrisoned do for its sophomore season? The Kerry Washington-led comedy is creator Tracy McMillan attempt to share her pain to help others in "the community" to begin to work through theirs. Hey, it features some drug trafficking! Other topics include hateful Indiana Fever fans and the censuring of Alyssa Thomas (and other WNBAers), Baker Mayfield tried to sack Tom Brady, whether the...

Wood rambles on about rookie Washington Commander Jayden Daniels triumphant Monday Night Football debut, highly addictive Lays potato chips, more details on Peacock's limited series Fight Night, Talib Kweli & J Rawls' new album The Confidence of Knowing , and filtering social media commentary to identify real opportunity and individuals with problem-solving skills.

Wood discusses Will Packer and Kevin Hart's popular new mini-series on Peacock - Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist . Music just doesn't stand much of a chance nowadays, but Tyrese really created some real RnB magic with a new record on his Beautiful Pain album. Gospel singer Le'Andria Johnson "steals the album" with her fierce performance on "Don't Think You Ever...