Unapologetic Tawk

We have the dynamic duo of Relly and Dimez in studio this week with a variety of topics. First, they delve into an underreported story of a suspected lynching of a Black man in Alabama that is now being investigated by the FBI. Then we discuss an interview with Keke Palmer that leads into a larger discussion around the corruption of celebrity and systemic, societal abuse. As the election continues...

Another episode, another week of turbulence for the Eric Adams administration and his NYPD top cops. Thomas Donlon we hardly knew ya! We discuss the freshly appointed NYPD commissioner already resigning after only a few weeks on the job and an FBI raid on his apartment. Then we dig into the NY Post story revealing Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry pocketing almost $150k in overtime de...

I don’t think we will ever have an episode that isn’t jam-packed with big news ever again!!! This week we touch on more Eric Adams Corruption Circus Acts - including the Sheriff and the First Deputy Mayor in addition to Erica himself. While hurricane Eric wreaks havoc on NYC govt, Hurricane Helene devastated huge swaths of the south east and the USA govt is ignoring them to …. Checks notes …. Send...

We have another loaded episode for you this week. We are joined by Hawk and Chivona Newsome of Black Opportunities and Black Lives Matter Greater New York to break down both the federal indictment of Eric Adams and the targeting of Relly by the NYPD after he was given a $10k bail and was sent to Rikers Island for protesting last week. Hawk and Chivona explain the reasoning for disrupting the corru...

First off, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Dimez!!! We had so much to talk about this episode. The FBI has been getting busy in NYC with Diddy arrested and further raids and investigations in Eric Adams circles and within the FDNY. The NYPD 73rd precinct committed a mass shooting last week at the Sutter ave L station, and we break down the timeline of the shooting and the NYPD attempts to control the narrative....

We start off the episode with a bang (i guess with a pop?) celebrating our one year, and THE RESIGNATION OF EDWARD CABAN. You know how much we’ve talked about the corrupt Adams administration and the facade is continuing to crumble. Doxxing is serious business, Rudy runs us through his experience and the steps we all can take to protect ourselves. Justin Robinson was murdered, and we had to bring...

This week have two comrades from the movement, Betsy and Jsin, on the pod. Ever been out at a protest in NYC and heard that marching band music? Chances are it was them and Rude Mechanical Orchestra. They tell us about what it’s like providing music and energy for the movement. Betsy also co-founded The Sick Times, one of the most reliable news sources for Covid information nationwide and in the c...

This week we have everybody back in the studio!!! Let’s go!! We have a fire episode for you! Eric Adams tried again to be cool by …. burning four TONS of weed? We had to have our laughs about that to start off the episode. The arrest of Telegram’s Pavel Durov is another big story this week, leaving us asking what does that mean for social media and privacy online? We watch and break down a few cli...

This week Relly and Dimez are in the studio, but Rudy was unfortunately out sick :( hopefully we have everyone back next week! You know Relly and Dimez took care of business anyways though. We started off digging into Eric Adams being investigated even MORE by the FBI with a new wave of subpeonas. We talk about the latest hijinks at the DNC by the democrats and the suppression of Palestinian voice...

This week Rudy hosts Jule Hall & Demetrius James from The Innocence Project and Bard Prison Initiative to talk about their respective post-incarceration journeys, how they perceive and pursue justice for those still behind bars–including both of their work in community farming– and how to provide stability for those reentering society after prison. We are also briefly joined by community membe...

We got the dynamic duo of Relly and Dimez in the studio this week– we look forward to having Rudy back in the cut next episode! We touch on a bunch of topics including celebrating the one year anniversary of the Montgomery Boat Brawl, the UK Race Riots, Kamala trying to slay queen anti-genocide protesters at her rally in Detroit last week, corrupt NYPD cop Kaz Daughtry escaping accountability agai...

We are back after a little break last week. We start by discussing yet another murder of a Black woman, Sonya Massey, by a cop in the United States of America. Relly and Dimez discuss their respective actions that they organized in response to the murder, and the cyclical nature of this trauma. We also catch up on everything we missed in the Presidential race including Kamala Harris's presidential...

This week we welcome another mutual aid group from the city, Crown Heights C.A.R.E Collective to talk all things community organizing in NYC– the group's history, learnings from previous campaigns and movements, performative vs. effective protest, and how to resolve inter-community violence. We also delve into the topic everyone is talking about– the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, all th...

We have comrade and returning guest Bri Laboss back in the cut this week to talk everything from the continuing conversation over Joe Biden’s ability to be a presidential candidate to our reactions to Kendrick dropping the “Not Like Us” music video and the recent list of terrible decisions from the Supreme Court. Using the weekend of White Parties to delve into a discussion over navigating the mar...

We spend most of this week breaking down the sick joke that was the Presidential debate last week, and wondering how we got to the point where two geriatric villains are auditioning to be the most powerful men in the world. We touch on their general sundowning, their responses on Israel-Palestine questions, and more. Then, we talk about NYPD Commissioner Eddie Caban being exposed for systematizing...

We start episode 40 off with Juneteenth, watching some videos of Kathy Hochul speaking to the holiday and breaking down why once again she is full of sh!t. We also discuss Juneteenth in the context of Eric Adams, just days after Adams shut down The Black Opts annual Juneteenth event in the Bronx with less than 24hrs notice! To give us more context on what happened and what’s next, Hawk and Chivona...

This week’s episode is an exciting one! We are thrilled to have Winter on the podcast! Winter is an activist and comedian and you know that is right in the Unapologetic Tawk wheelhouse! We talk about Winter’s life, spending time living in Yemen, comedy career, introduction to activism, and so much more. Transitioning into Winter’s activism for Palestine, we touch on encountering Racism and Zionism...

This week we welcome our Comrade Cesar on the show for a wide ranging conversation. Cesar talks about his personal journey in discovering his queerness and how it intersects with his Blackness. He then tells his story on how he has been unfairly targeted by SUNY Purchase for his act of peaceful protest in support of the people of Palestine on campus. The crew then discusses some of the week’s news...

This week we are incredibly excited to bring you the We The People episode! (part one of many) We have We The People cofounder Shea as a guest as well as our lovely comrade and WTP core member and Miss Patreon herself, Lauren! We dive into the history of We The People, what got each member started, and what keeps them going! After this wonderful and heartfelt dive into We The People, we shift into...

We have something a little bit different for y’all this week! Rudy was on a panel in March as part of a book tour for Nathan Schneider’s Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life , where he discussed his community bank account project, Paper Tree, among a host of other NYC-based projects and how it factors into a larger discussion about organizing in online spaces. Really enlightening d...

So much to cover this episode, with historic student protests and historic police repression in response. We discuss the raids at Columbia and CCNY in New York against the Gaza Solidarity Encampments, the relationship between previous campus protests and current, and review some of the bodycam and press conference footage from those nights. It’s gripping and dismaying. We visit the story of Jeffre...

We have one of Rudy’s good friends, comrades, and co-inspirator Bri on the podcast this week! We start off learning more about Bri, her activism mindset, and about Rudy and Bri’s history together. We also talk about what Bri has going on these days, including SLAP. We talk about Bris travels including to Africa and a childhood trip to their home country of Haiti. Dimez recently went on a trip to p...

In this episode we have guests Brian Cummings and Shakeem Hinds in the studio with Relly! Rolling in on good energy, we start off with an introduction to our guests, who they are and what they do. Then we get into the hot topic - NYPD harassing Brian and Shakeem last week while they were chilling out front of their nephews house in a nice car. The officers were known to them having harassed them b...

This week we are in the studio with Carl Ellis Grant, an actor, comedian, former NASA engineer, and much more. We start off interviewing Carl about his experience at NASA, his experiences in standup comedy and curating the Brooklyn Dreams comedy, his acting career, and the tech world. We then dive into the time the Unapologetic Tawk team first met Carl last year. Carl was assaulted by NYPD officer...

We got a packed episode this week! We started recording only about an hour after the earthquake hit NYC on Friday, so you know we had to dig into that. Then Dimez fills us in on Stonewall Was A Riot’s action taking a visit to the residence of the KKKaren, Christine Thierry, to demand further accountability for her racist attack. We then get into the viral dismantling of Eric Adams on the Breakfast...