"What's Good?" W/ Charlie Taylor

In a week where: Uber will have to give all 70,000 of its UK drivers holiday pay, a minimum wage and pension contributions. An anti-mask protest goes through Central London. A 6000-year-dormant volcano in Iceland has erupted.  A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hits Japan. Hall of Fame Basketball player Elgin Baylor dies aged 86.  In Life: (7:10) The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is not just a...

In a week where: Murray Walker, the Voice of F1, dies aged 97. "Marvellous" Marvin Hagler dies aged 66. The Grammys happened. The Oscar nominations dropped. A 21-year-old Georgia man was arrested in the killings of eight people at three massage parlours, many of them women of Asian descent. / In the first of two Life segments: (4:37) Let's talk about NFTs. What are they? Who the hell are these peo...

In a week where: Meghan ethers the Royal Family on US National TV. All-Star Sunday comes & goes. Piers Morgan leaves Good Morning Britain.  Buzzfeed lays off 47 HuffPost workers a month after the acquisition. A WHO/UN study finds that around a quarter of females have been assaulted by a male partner. /  In the first of two Life segments: (8:24) Harry & Meghan blew the lid off the Royal Fam...

In a week where: England & Wales rail fares have risen by 2.6% Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is jailed for three years for corruption. Founding member of The Wailers Bunny Wailer dies aged 73. BBC Three will return as a broadcast channel next year.  Six Dr Seuss books will no longer be published because of "hurtful & wrong" imagery. In the first of two Life segments: (10:07) Twit...

In a week where: Reggae & Dancehall legend U-Roy, dies aged 78.  NASA's Perseverance rover successfully landed on the Martian surface.  Government-backed forces allegedly killed hundreds in a massacre at Ethiopia's Church of St. Mary of Zion in November, according to witness accounts.  Naomi Osaka beats Jennifer Brady to win the Australian Open.  Daft Punk call it a career after 28 years.  In...

In a week where: Home Secretary Priti Patel opens her mouth again on the '20 BLM Protests. Donald Glover & Phoebe Waller-Bridge are Exec Producing & co-starring in a "Mr & Mrs Smith" reboot. COVID-19 cases, deaths & hospital visits are going back down in the UK.  Trump is acquitted in his 2nd Senate Impeachment Trial. The rate of new COVID-19 cases reported in India has fallen by 9...

In a week where: Actor Christopher Plummer dies aged 91 Former Heavyweight Champion Boxer Leon Spinks dies aged 67. Queen Elizabeth successfully lobbied the government to change a draft law in order to conceal her “embarrassing” private wealth from the public.  Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Kansas City Chiefs in SB55.  Mary Wilson, a founding member of The Supremes, dies aged 76. In the first of t...

In a week where: Legendary actress Cicely Tyson dies aged 96. Police stop a 70-person strong boat party. £800 fine for the attendees, £10k for the organiser. Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi and the country's president are detained amid possible coup.  ASOS buy Topman, Topshop & Miss Selfridge for £230m. More than 5,100 Russians are arrested for protests imprisonment of opposition leader Alexei Nalv...

In a Week Where: Legendary Interviewer/TV Host Larry King dies aged 87.  Met Police raid an illegal gathering in. Knightsbridge, issuing fines worth over £15k.  Google threatens to shut down its search engine in Australia.  Frank Lampard is out as Chelsea manager.  UK passes 100k COVID related deaths.  In the first of two Life segments: (8:12) Clubhouse has been blowing up recently, but it's been...

In a week where: Trump is impeached for the 2nd time. James Harden is traded to the Brooklyn Nets in the biggest NBA trade ever. Italy's largest organized crime trial in more than three decades begins, with prosecutors bringing charges against 355 members of the 'Ndrangheta crime network. More than 2 Million worldwide have now died from Corona. The UK reports 1820 Covid deaths, the highest daily t...

In a week where: Several Social Media platforms suspend T**** to varying degrees. Japan suffer surge in COVID-19 cases, casting doubt on the Olympics.  12 people get arrested in Clapham Common as another anti-lockdown protest comes & goes. Social Media app Parler goes offline after blacklisting from Apple, Google & Amazon UK passes 100k COVID-19 deaths. In the first of three Life segments:...

In Sports: (7:25) The Tokyo Olympics is a go... We think. But regardless of how good it looks from now until July, Team GB are gearing up for the road to Tokyo. In Music: (22:29) The death of MF DOOM shocked the Hip-Hop world. But as an outsider on DOOM's artistry, I wanted to get people that could do DOOM justice. So I got Central Sauce's Brandon & Ryan to help me put DOOM's legacy into focus...

It's the end of 2020, so it is time to take stock and reflect on the year. And with it being a 5EPN Special, everyone from the 5EPN comes through for this two-hour reflection & looking ahead. So grab your drinks, grab your snacks, and if WG is the only 5EPN show you listen to, let me introduce you to the rest of the 5EPN. ( Hopefully, you'll go and listen to them as well. ) TIMESTAMPS: In Sear...

In a week where: During Anti-Bullying week, Priti Patel is found to be a bully and still keeps her job. Hong-Kong activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty to all charges related to a siege of Police HQ in June 2019. COVID-19 vaccine developed by The University of Oxford is 70% effective.  UK Lockdown 2 will end next week. Trump Administration finally begins the transition for Biden Presidency.  In the f...

In a week where: Dominic Cummings finally leaves No.10. A vaccine developed by biotechnology giant Moderna is more than 94% effective at preventing COVID-19. Racism ruins Christmas ads again. Marcus Rashford signs a publishing deal to write books for children. Lewis Hamilton is named most influential Black British person by ThePowerlist 2021.  In the first of two Sports segments: (10:03) Lewis Ham...

In a week where: Scotland becomes the first part of the UK to ban smacking. Grenfell Tower suppliers knew their cladding would burn. Pfizer & German Biotech startup BioNTech make a breakthrough for a COVID-19 vaccine. Welsh Government are scrapping all exams for the school year. FA Chairman Greg Clarke resigns after saying "Coloured footballers" in a committee meeting.  In the first of two Spo...

In a week where: Sean Connery Dies Aged 90. Lockdown 2 is here. Lewis Hamilton wins in Imola, locking up Mercedes' record-breaking 7th straight Constructors Championship. At least 54 people were killed in a rebel attack in Ethiopia’s restive Oromia region at the weekend. Baby Shark passes Despacito to become the most-viewed YouTube video.  In the first of two Music segments: (8:01) A UK Music Indu...

In a week where: Banksy's "Show Me The Monet" has sold for £7.5m ($9.8m). After the public backlash towards the Tories over Marcus Rashford’s proposal for kid school meals, Tories now demand a U-Turn from the gov't. Lewis Hamilton dominates the Portuguese GP to achieve his World Record-breaking 92nd win. Amy Coney Barrett is sworn in as Trump’s third Supreme Court Justice. Scientists have found ev...

In a week where: Roughly a quarter of the Pantanal Wetlands in Brazil has burned from wildfires this year. Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party waxes the NZ Election, giving her the first majority government in over a decade. No.10 broke precedent and snubbed Britain’s first black archbishop (John Sentamu) for a peerage because it says the House of Lords is too large, but it made room for Ian Botham, Cla...

In a week where: Britain's Alfie Hewett wins French Open Wheelchair Singles title. Rafael Nadal waxes Novak Djokovic to win his 13th French Open, his 20th Grand Slam title overall; ties Federer. Lewis Hamilton equals Michael Schumacher's 91 win record.  Lakers win their 17th NBA Championship. The UK goes into a 3-tier lockdown system with North-West England being hit the hardest. In the first of t...

In a week where: Michael Kiwanuka's "KIWANUKA" wins the 2020 Mercury Prize Uni students paid 9K to live with people they may or may not like. Trump got Corona.  A Black Criminal Lawyer creates an app to help people provide alternative & independent evidence in the case of things like Stop & Search. Cineworld will close all of its UK cinemas. In the first of two Life segments: (9:18) Rishi...

Three years ago, a St Louis artist hit me up to see if I'd give his first album a spin. I did, I enjoyed it and I wanted to know more, so after a day or two, I hit him back and we got an interview going. Since then, Oren Major has gone from strength to strength, slowly growing as an artist and being able to pursue his art full-time. We finally get a chance to catch up and fill in the blanks betwee...

In a week where: US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies aged 87.  Microsoft buys ZeniMax Media (Parent company of Bethesda) for $7.5Bn The Emmys happened. Rolling Stone refreshes their Top 500 Album List. Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" No.1; "Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" No.10, the highest-ranked Hip-Hop album. TIME drop their TIME100 list. In an all "Life" episode: We begin with (14:1...

In a week where: Diversity's BLM performance on BGT gets nearly 16,000 complaints. More than 3 million acres have burned in the California wildfires. Reggae legend Toots Hibbert dies aged 77. Tenet hits $200M globally. Whistle-blower Dawn Wooten accuses ICE performed hysterectomies on detainees. In Life: (9:49) The Government's Internal Market Bill is pissing everyone off and its the nail in the c...

In a week where: Extinction Rebellion block off deliveries of The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph & Financial Times. Novak Djokovic is defaulted from the US Open after hitting a ball at a line judge.  Microsoft drop prices for the new Xbox Series X ($499) & Series S ($299) A murderer on death row is sworn in as Sri Lankan MP UK COVID-19 cases rise by 3000 in one day. In the first of two L...