Hanging With Apes

On this episode of Hanging With Apes the guys start by talking about a HuffPost tweet celebrating the end of Pride month by introducing a 10 year old boy by the name of Desmond who dresses in drag. The conversation then switches to self proclaimed Socialist, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beating Joe Crowley in New York's 14th Congressional District primary and Socialist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador winn...

On this episode of Hanging With Apes the guys start the show off by addressing the situation where White House Press Secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, was told by the owner of a Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because she works for President Trump. This has affected other unaffiliated Red Hen restaurants as they have received backlash through Twitter, Yelp reviews and angry phone calls. Maxine...

On this episode of Hanging with Apes the guys start the show by talking about suicide on a philosophical level in light of the suicides of Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade and Chester Bennington. Then the guys talk about the current family separation policy that the Trump administration is enforcing. Many people are criticizing President Trump for the lack of sympathy but is there any validity to how...

On this episode of Hanging with Apes the guys start the show by talking about suicide on a philosophical level in light of the suicides of Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade and Chester Bennington. Then the guys talk about the current family separation policy that the Trump administration is enforcing. Many people are criticizing President Trump for the lack of sympathy but is there any validity to how...

On this episode of Hanging With Apes the guys start the show giving their thoughts on the North Korea Summit where President Trump will meet with North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-Un . Will progress be made between North Korea and the United States? What baby steps can be taken for now that will make for better relations between the two nations in the future? Those and many more questions are explore...

On this episode of Hanging With Apes the guys give their thoughts on Kanye's new album named "Ye" and compared it to his prior albums. The conversation then leads to the current rap beef between Pusha T and Drake. The guys share their opinions on how Drake has responded to Pusha T's diss song, "The Story Of Adidon," and how Drake should approach the situation going forward. Finally, the Apes switc...

On this jam packed episode of Hanging With Apes, K. Cartoon and Rx Phonics start the episode off by sharing their first impression of rapper Pusha T's "Daytona" album. This conversation leads to J. Cole's hour long interview of Lil Pump and what it means for the Hip-Hop culture. The guys then analyze a viral video where police officers of Wildwood, N.J. got into a scuffle with a 20 year old Philad...

On this episode of Hanging With Apes the guys talk about a recent New York Times profile piece on Dr. Jordan B. Peterson titled "Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy." This article was critiqued due to a comment made by Dr. Peterson about "enforced monogamy." Were people right in being upset or was the comment taken too literal? In light of the recent involuntary celibate subculture moveme...

In this episode of Hanging With Apes, K. Cartoon and Rx Phonics discuss the recent Donald Glover (also known as Childish Gambino) interview on "The Breakfast Club" and his viral hit "This Is America". The guys get in depth with how they feel about the interview and give their thoughts on Donald Glover's views of cultural appropriation. The Apes eventually break-down their own views on the subject...

On this episode of Hanging With Apes, the guys give their take on Kanye West's recent antics and how journalists, radio personnel and Kanye fans have reacted to his comments on free thinking and mental slavery. Was Kanye's 400 years of slavery being a "choice" comment misconstrued or did it cross a line? The guys then give their thoughts on an off-duty police officer pulling a gun on a man by the...

​On this episode of Hanging With Apes the guys host their friend, Vincent Williams, founder of blog site  www.criticatxl.com . The conversation immediately gravitates towards Kanye West's newest song, "Ye vs. The People,"  where the rapper finds himself in a fierce debate with fellow rapper T.I. over his pro-Trump stance. Moreover, the guys break down this huge cultural moment from the polarizing...

On this episode of Hanging With Apes the guys start off the episode by acknowledging the greatness of 'World Book Day' and sharing the books they've enjoyed recently. The conversation then tilts to the recent controversy surrounding rapper Kanye West due to the right leaning nature of his tweets. Furthermore, Kanye recently praised Candace Owens in a tweet and reportedly told Hot 97 DJ Ebro during...

On this episode of Hanging With Apes the guys start off the conversation with their thoughts on the aftermath of the U.S. led Syria Air Strikes on Syrian chemical facilities. Were Trump supporters wrong or right in being upset about this? What message did the U.S. give off and was it the right approach? The guys then switch gears and talk about a Starbucks' controversy regarding two black men who...

On this episode of Hanging With Apes, K. Cartoon and Rx Phonics start the show by sharing their thoughts on the F.B.I. raiding the office of President Trump's longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, seizing business records, emails and documents including information on a payment to pornographic film actress, Stormy Daniels. The guys then switch gears and give their thoughts on President Trump...

On this episode of Hanging With Apes the guys start off by talking about President Trump's Easter morning declaration that there would be no deal to legalize the status of undocumented immigrants under DACA. The guys give their take on what this means for Trump politically. The conversation then switches to companies pulling their advertising from Laura Ingraham's show after she criticized David H...

On this episode of Hanging With Apes the guys start off with their thoughts on the March For Our Lives demonstration on March 24, 2018. This leads to a deeper conversation on the forgotten side of the mass shooting problem such as the cultural and psychological aspects that carry people to those lengths. The guys then give their thoughts on up and coming rapper Tekashi69's Breakfast Club interview...

On this Episode of Hanging With Apes the guys start the conversation by discussing a New York Times article with a new study that shows rich black boys are more likely to become poor than to stay rich compared to white boys. The guys then talk about a town hall meeting with Senator Sanders, Senator Warren and Michael Moore dealing with wealth and income inequality. This leads to the guys giving th...

On this episode of Hanging With Apes, the guys start the conversation with their thoughts on the Oakland, California "Hasta Muerte" coffee shop that is anti-police and refused to serve a Latino police sergeant citing its policy of "asking police to leave for the physical and emotional safety of our customers and ourselves." K. Cartoon and Rx Phonics then discuss a video from a YouTube channel call...

In this high octane episode of Hanging With Apes, the guys crack open the 90th Academy Awards and all of the virtue signaling that took place from host Jimmy Kimmel and a slew of other Oscar award winners and presenters. The conversation then starts to turn toward the overall current state of Hollywood movies being produced and how K. Cartoon and Rx Phonics both feel that the films are more about...

On this episode of Hanging With Apes the guys host their friend, Vincent Williams, founder of blog site www.criticatxl.com . The conversation starts with their thoughts on Chris Rock's "Tamborine" Netflix Stand-Up Special. As they break down the themes that Chris Rock discussed on his special the guys naturally move on to the recent talk about gun control regarding the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Hig...

On this episode of Hanging With Apes the guys talk about the latest mass shooting that took place in a high school in Parkland, Florida where 17 people were killed and another 14 were wounded. The guys give their views on the gun law debate, share gun violence statistics and analyze how the media handled the shooting. The guys then switch their focus on the NBA All-Star weekend from Fergie's botch...

In this episode of Hanging With Apes, K. Cartoon starts off the conversation by bringing up a video from Vice News that follows a female-only retreat in Costa Rica that offers women of color a break from white people. In the video a woman by the name of Andrea X, who created Women of Color Healing Retreat in Puerto Viejo, talks about cutting out white people from her life and saying that "they hav...

K. Cartoon and Rx Phonics start off this week's episode with their thoughts on the Superbowl. Moreover, they get into which Superbowl ads stood out and discussed the backlash that Dodge received from their Ram Martin Luther King commercial. The guys then give their thoughts on PepsiCo announcing its plan to launch a range of snacks that will be aimed towards women causing a backlash online among w...

On this episode of Hanging With Apes the guys host their long time friend, Vincent Williams, founder of blog site www.criticatxl.com . The conversation starts with the guys discussing President Trump's current twitter feud with Hip-Hop mogul Jay-Z. This was in regards to the rapper's CNN interview where he discusses black employment and then describes Trump as being a "superbug." The guys then swi...

In this interesting episode of Hanging With Apes, K. Cartoon and Rx Phonics discuss how race is still a hot topic issue today and the reason why America hasn't been able to move past it. Naturally, the guys point to a video circulating on social media where a chick goes off on a Hispanic girl for saying people of all skin tones are equal referencing a picture posted by a Latina make-up artist show...