"What's Good?" W/ Charlie Taylor

In a week where: Former South Yorkshire Police Chief David Duckenfield found not guilty of manslaughter in the Hillsborough trials. Two people are killed in a terrorist attack at London Bridge. Train fares are going to rise by 2.7% UEFA expects the 2020 Euros to be "Racism Free".  Billy Dee Williams is Gender Fluid. Lionel Messi wins a record 6th Ballon D'or Kamala Harris drops out of the Democrat...

In a week where: Vue bans showings of "Blue Story" because of a brawl including two machetes & a knife broke out in Birmingham.  18-year-old Caroline Dubois wins BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year. BBC face backlash after editing clip of Boris Johnson. Patrick Patterson of the Los Angeles Clippers referred to black women as “bulldogs,” when asked why NBA players marry white women. George...

In a week where: Two people in China have been diagnosed with Pneumonic Plague A&E waiting times hit worst-ever level since targets began in 2004.  15 years after its original release the iconic Motorola Razr flip phone is coming back... for $1500.  With the launch of Disney+, more than 10 million subscribers have signed up on its very first day of release. The Source on Twitter asks "Just won...

In a week where: Australian police find $200 million of meth hidden inside Sriracha bottles Remembrance Day has been & gone In Life: (8:03) Since Remembrance Day has been and gone, I think it's worth to try and rethink how we remember history and how we commemorate victories and only victories. In Music: (20:20) Carter Fowler of Central Sauce joins the show to talk about Camp Flog Gnaw, Drake...

In a week where: South Africa beat England to Win their third Rugby World Cup. Lewis Hamilton seals his sixth Drivers World Championship, one-off equalling Schumacher's All-Time record.  AMPAS DQ's Nigerian entry "Lionheart" for having too much English dialogue. Jacob Rees-Mogg apologises for comments about Grenfell. In the 1st Life topic: (11:45) The richest 1% are acting as if a Labour governmen...

In a week where: Chuck D is receiving the 2019 Woody Guthrie Prize The US eliminate ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. EU gives the UK a three-month extension to Exit... Google & The British Cultural Archives have collaborated to celebrate UK BHM. A scientific study claims that the ancestral home of homosapiens is Botswana. RIP John Witherspoon. In a Life/TV hybrid: (7:27) Channel 4 Dispatches...

In a week where: Politics is fucked. A man is arrested in Essex after police found 39 bodies in a lorry container.  In the 1st of 2 Life topics: (6:45) Meghan Markle (Or the Duchess of Sussex for those who care about Royal stuff) has been going through it. Tabloids & British TV media popping shots, suing said tabloids, doing all that Royal stuff, all in the same year she has a baby. A recent 1...

In a week where:  Stormzy makes the cover of Time Magazine as part of its "Next Generation Leader" issue. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed wins the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize. Eliud Kipchoge runs the first-ever sub-2-hour marathon. Brigid Kosgei smashes Paula Radcliffe's Marathon WR. 2:14:03, 71-second gap.  Simone Biles becomes the undisputed GOAT of gymnastics, winning her 5th All-Around Gold and...

In a week where: Diahann Carroll Dies aged 84 Katarina Johnson-Thompson wins World Championship Heptathlon Gold. Tyler Perry opens the first US Film Studio owned by an African-American. Y'all STILL buy The Sun?! In Film/TV: (6:53) Martin Scorsese gets uppity with the concept of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which forced Scorsese fan James Gunn to respond. Another response was Samuel L Jackson, wh...

Due to a consistently busy week, I didn't do an "In a week where". But hopefully, y'all watched the news and read like you should be doing... In the 1st of two Life topics: (4:58) The Verge is back on Facebook's neck again. After publishing a damning report on Facebook's outsourcing of "Content Moderators" a few months back, they're back with a leaked internal FB meeting with Mark Zuckerberg where...

In a week where: Teriyaki 69 snitches EVERYBODY out! Met Police say fastest-growing UK Terrorist threat originates from the Far Right.  Kanye tops Forbes' Highest-Paid Hip-Hop Acts. Dave wins the 2019 Mercury Prize. Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has not one, not two, but three pictures surface of him wearing 'brownface'. Dozens gather for "Raid Area 51" Millions across the world gather to protest the...

In a week where: For the first time in history, the Hubble space telescope has spotted liquid water. It's been found on a planet called K2-18 b, and it's only 110 light-years away. A pensioner claims he spent £30,000 of life savings, including his sons’ inheritance, fighting a £100 speeding fine. After 22 years and seven tries, Ash Ketchum FINALLY wins the Pokemon League.  The 5th Element now has...

In a week where: Nicki Minaj retires from music. Caster Semenya joins a South African football club after refusing to abide by IAAF's rules. Australia wins The Ashes with one Test remaining. A man was shot in broad daylight in London Borough of Lewisham. Parliament has been prorogued AGAIN & Speaker John Bercow intends to step down by Oct 31st or sooner. Apple reveals its iPhone 11, Apple TV+...

In a week where: Officers at Gatwick called in after the Airport found 25 bags of powder. Turned out to be for a Vegan Bakery. Charles LeClerc gets his maiden F1 win at Spa-Francorchamps, a day after his friend & F2 driver Anthoine Hubert succumbed to a fatal crash mid-race. School begins for another year. Tory MP Phillip Lee Defects to the Lib Dems, removing Boris Johnson's working majority....

In a week where:  Glasgow University is going to pay £20 Million in slave trade reparations.  Hasbro now owns Death Row Records. In an eventful G7 summit, Trump "Hereby orders US companies" to no longer do business with China. Ben Stokes unleashes a Braveheart-like performance in The Ashes. The NY Times unveils a massive anthology called "The 1619 Project" in trying to retell the story of Slavery...

In a week where:  Boris Johnson & EU butt heads again. Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" No.1 streak is over. Home Secretary Priti Patel plans to end Freedom of Movement completely on Oct 31st. Keanu Reeves set to return for The Matrix 4. The Amazon Rainforest is *literally* on fire.  In the 1st of two Film/TV segments: (14:26) Spider-Man is out of the MCU after Marvel & Sony couldn't land a dea...

In a week where:  Scotland has planted 22 Million Trees over the past year. Jeffrey Epstein, who was in jail waiting on a trail for sex trafficking, killed himself in jail. The Premier League season is underway for another year. The UK Treasury is minting special 50p coins to commemorate the country leaving.  Red Bull pull the trigger & promote Alex Albon to their team, replacing Pierre Gasly....

In a week where: German authorities say they have seized 4.5 tonnes of cocaine, worth €1bn ($1.11 bn), in the northern port city of Hamburg Ethiopia planted 350 million trees in 12 hours. Man City beat Liverpool on Penalties to win back-to-back Com. Shields. First time since '02 a team has gone back-to-back. 2 mass shootings in the US spark "Gun Control" conversation once again.  Trains from Manch...

In a week where:  A prison ID card once owned by late rapper Tupac Shakur has sold at an auction for $30,000 (£24,041). The sale set a world record for the most expensive piece of Tupac memorabilia ever sold at public auction. Egan Bernal has become the first Colombian to win the Tour de France.  Caster Semenya suffers another setback as the Swiss Supreme Court has U-Turned their recent allowance...

In a week where:  Avengers Endgame has passed Avatar to become the top-grossing film of all-time at the worldwide box office.  Facebook is fined $5B by the US Federal Trade Commission after the year-long investigation on the Cambridge Analytica data breach. Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" ties the record for the number of weeks @ No.1 in the US.  Mahershala Ali is slated to play Marvel's "Blade" Reboo...

In a week where:  More than 30 whistle-blowers give evidence to Equality Watchdog on Labour antisemitism.  One in eight men (12%) say they could win a point in a game of tennis against Serena Williams. In a crazy sporting weekend, Serena loses to Simona Halep, Djokovic beats Federer, England win the Cricket World Cup & Lewis Hamilton the British Grand Prix. The first person to win it six times...

In a week where: A UK Advertising Watchdog determined that having 30K followers on your Social Media makes you a celebrity.  The US Women's National Team wins the Women's World Cup for the fourth time. MP's vote to liberalise abortion in Northern Ireland.  And the Award for "Most Ironic Moment of 2019" goes to Tommy Robinson pleading the US Government to grant him asylum.  In Sports: (5:06) Kawhi...

In a week where:  Wimbledon begins with plenty of amazing results including World No.2 Naomi Osaka crashing out of R1 & 15 Year Old Cori Gauff beating her idol Venus Williams.  Hong Kong protests get violent as some protesters storm, vandalise & tag the walls of the Parliament Building.  Max Verstappen charges through the field to win the Austrian GP, a far cry from the French GP which led...

In a week where:  Tory leadership ballot is down to four, Boris Johnson still (somehow) the front-runner.  The legendary Paul Crowther who milkshaked Farage has pleaded guilty for common assault and has to pay Farage's suit cleaning bill.  Arctic permafrost in the Canadian Arctic is thawing 70 years sooner than predicted.  Donald Trump still thinks the CP5 did it.  3 Russians & 1 Ukrainian are...

New Music, same intro, better quality show! In a week where:  Seb Coe unveils the IAAF's new name and logo - 'World Athletics'.  Justin Bieber challenges Tom Cruise to an MMA fight. We begin with Film/TV (6:50) where after the premiere of Ava DuVernay's "When They See Us", a Limited Series about the Central Park Five, people are starting to hold the real-life prosecutors to account. One of which,...