Mister Peterson's Neighborhood 'Clear Visions'

Connect The Dots Series: Episode 2: "Gatekeepers vs. Bridge Builders" Mr. Al Pete Round 2 for the Neighbors and Groovers. In this episode, we're focusing on the gatekeepers and bridge builders.  For me, I have moments where I don't want to admit that someone is simply gatekeeping a situation, a connection, and a new relationship forming. In this moment, we have to call the spade out. On the f...

Connect The Dots Series: Episode 1: “You Had the Dot...Now What?" Mr. Al Pete Peace, Neighbors and Groovers. I'm here to present a special series of Clear Visions. If you've been following for a minute, you remember that I explained how I use this platform to experiment, create freely, and to inform the people of my thoughts and/or lessons I've come across. This series is informative, and in my op...

Reciprocity Mr. Al Pete Yep…I feel a way. Per usual and on brand, the people, or “community” didn’t look out for me…on a simple term: to make sure I’m in places that fit me and my brand. So…Grits and Eggs Podcast came to Duval County and I tried to get media passes, and ultimately attend the event. No luck on the passes (no one answered back…from the pod to the venue, etc). No luck on buying a tic...

Wasting Time vs. Learned Lessons Mr. Al Pete Greetings. What's the (or your) thoughts on wasting time with people, things, etc., vs. learning the lessons that come with wasting the time?  A day prior to this pod, I was Positive Pete and thinking...'Pete, don't say you wasted your time...think better than that and say that you learned a lesson'.  While recording this, I was not Positive P...

Know Your History Mr. Al Pete Peace to you and yours. I’m here to share a lesson that I taught the students of my Intro to Mass Media class. This week, we’re learning the history of mass media. For me, learning the history of said person, event, culture, etc. is important to me, but while growing up, history (or social studies) was my least favorite subject. I use to always ask…”why am I’m learnin...

2025 Good and Bad Talk Mr. Al Pete Happy Holidays and such. 2026 is near (or here) and I'm giving my good points of my professional moves, as well as the bad points. It's a few things I have to praise, as well as get off my chest, so before midnight hits for 2026, I'm sharing. Thank you to anyone who has subscribed, supported, and enjoyed the content in 2025. More to come (I promise). Happy New Ye...

Does your brand have principles and values attached to it? Mr. Al Pete joins his brothers Krate Digga, Shawn Smith, and Dominic Lawson to have a light discussion about how values could, or couldn't play a role in one's daily operation, and more. On December 6th, 2025 at 11am ET, The Ummah Creative Group will have a webinar speaking of this same topic. This is a snapshot of what we'll be speaking o...

Focus On The Good vs. The Bad Mr. Al Pete It’s still unpacking season, and on this run, I’m speaking on focusing on the good vs. centering in on the bad things. I gave examples of what bad things I focus on more than usual, and I gave examples of great things I need to cherish and uphold more. Is it part of unpacking? Absolutely. Enjoy. *********************************** Follow Mr. Al Pete social...

Unpacking Season Mr. Al Pete I said on the last show that it's been a week. Well...it's been a MONTH. Really going on TWO MONTHS. So it's time to unpack these situations. Enjoy the journey of me unpacking it all.  *********************************** Follow Mr. Al Pete socials and site below: Website: https://mralpete.com Instagram: @mralpete Threads: @mralpete Facebook: Mr. Al Pete YouTube: h...

It's been a week, Neighbors. Work through me, Lord. Thank goodness that I'm around a group of people that love the same thing I love: media and the communication field. It's been helping. In this episode, I give a rundown of what has occurred at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) 50th convention. I was there reppin' the Northeast chapter, as well as the NABJ Entrepreneurship Task...

Taking Things For Granted Mr. Al Pete Peace, Neighbors. I'll go into details later on where this is coming from, but I wanted to get this out to keep consistency going (even though I don't like the video...I'll explain that later as well) and I wanted to relieve my brain from ALL of the thoughts occurring.  Share any thoughts in the comments about how you handle not taking things for granted....

Lack of Support and Funding Mr. Al Pete ...I'm here...late and inconsistent *laughs*. In this round of talking, I talk about the lack of support I experienced from recent events I hosted. I give some points as to how to deal with not receiving love from people you expected to support you. FYI, it's not healthy at all to depend on people to support you. Please acknowledge the feelings that come wit...

Knowing The Gratitude Mr. Al Pete This was an extension of my Thankful Thursdays thoughts and doings. I wanted to speak (more) about having, and ultimately finding gratitude in the things that surround us. Granted, it’s very easy to focus on what factors aren’t assisting specific systems and environments, but it seems difficult to find the small, or big things that serve us. In this state of thing...

Rejections and inadequate thoughts SUCK! Mr. Al Pete This morning, I received a call from a job I applied for. The voicemail started off with ‘hey Curtis…’ and the message commence to give details about ‘Curtis’ getting the position vs. me. Talk about feeling like I wasn’t worth enough to get the job and also feeling like ‘sheesh…how do you call the wrong candidate and leave a message about the ot...

Home will always be home Mr. Al Pete Great day or evening, Neighbors and Groovers. This is a short one. I took an article that I wrote about this podcast and made it in an audio version. Boom for the short work...even though writing the article was quicker than recording it.  Over on my Substack page , I'm writing articles about the numerous components that make up The MPN Network . I believe...

My Letters to the Community Mr. Al Pete I took an indirect week off but I'm BYKE with the talks and such. In this episode, I write a sincere letter to Fanbase founder Isaac Hayes, III. I would like to see him be effective in these tech and social media streets, so hopefully its reached with love. Also, we talk about community and how that's suppose to look like. Then we speak on transactional frie...

R&B Parties, Canva, and K. Dot Mr. Al Pete Kendrick Lamar makes Black History Month blacker. Everyone has an opinion on R&B parties and the music played at them. Canva seems to be the best kept secret. That's enough to talk about this go 'round. Hope everyone is good and moving correctly.  On this episode, I spoke on K. Dot's BLACK performance and the things surrounding Super Bowl 59. I a...

The First of 2025 Mr. Al Pete We are BYKE...for the first couple of thoughts of 2025. I'm working on doing video for every podcast, including Clear Visions. I had a homie insist that I do a show that speaks on my thoughts that will live on YouTube. I've been putting it off FOREVER, so this are the efforts. In this episode, I speak about the "IT" factor that people believe that Joey Bada$$ is missi...

The Work and the Ethics feat. Krate Digga and Shawn 'S-Squared' Smith Mr. Al Pete, Krate Digga, Shawn 'S-Squared' Smith 1. work (noun) : activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result. Ex. "he was tired after a day's work" Based off the definition, a lot of people, organizations, institutions are not doing the work to reach the results. Maybe the results...

Market Yourself PLEASE Mr. Al Pete Simply put: market yourself. If you don't know how to, look at the people you admire and reach out to them. Find a friend that's good at it and ask them to show you what's up. All of that...but please, Neighbors and Groovers...market yourself. No one is going to help you. Even if you pay them. Well...rephrase...act AS IF no one is going to help you. Follow all so...

Ghetto Therapy Mr. Al Pete I've had this script since September of 2023 and I performed a test run on the process in June 2024. I'm sure on why it took long. I was being a student and everything else you can name and didn't lend myself to the creative side. I thought about it often but I wanted to be free of obligations when I had the chance to fall in to experimentation Pete... ...the irony was t...

Quick Old Man Thoughts Mr. Al Pete I didn’t realize its been over a month since releasing a show. No bueno, Pete.  Well…here’s a recording I did in between time and “forgot” to release it. It’s me being grumpy Pete.  Enjoy.  Follow all socials and subscribe to my websites: Mr. Al Pete and The MPN Network . 

Grace and Mercy Mr. Al Pete Grace be upon to you and yours. This should be one of the standards for humanity. Your grandparents probably exhibited this growing up…and if they didn’t…you know of a person that extended grace and mercy to you…when you KNEW you needed it the most. When you get grace and mercy offered to you without any warning, you feel a sense of luck. You definitely feel thankful. T...

Dear Artists feat. Krate Digga Mr. Al Pete, Krate Digga I’ve been receiving inquiries about what an EPK (electronic press kit) is and what needs to be in them. I’ve also been in various conversations where some artists missed opportunities due to not having certain tools to present to media, DJs, event promoters, and even to their fans. One would say that its tragic to not have an EPK, but for me,...

Reflections on The Neighborhood show Mr. Al Pete …I’m slightly coming down from the high I’ve been in for a month now. I’ll probably jump back to being high again because of the episodes I’ve been producing…and what I have in mind.  If I could have more time…while resting…that’ll be great…but who said it’ll be easy? *waits on no one to reply* I’m thankful to everyone who sent their warm bless...