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Discussing our favorite films through a feminist lens. Episodes released every two weeks. Available on Stitcher Radio, Apple Podcasts, & everywhere you listen to podcasts.
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A discussion of all topics as seen through the eyes of a Black Atheist, Skeptic, Humanist, Existentialist
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Did you ever feel like there was something really wrong in the world of men and women, but could not put your finger on it? Well, Neo, to find your answer all you have to do is take the Red Pill. Join your host, men's activist Paul Elam, as we explore the world of modern men and women in ways far too real for the Matrix of the mainstream media. You will need to buckle up for this one. Seriously. Everything you have ever thought about men, women and maybe even yourself is about to change.
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RBT Episode #205 September 7, 2024 - “I am trying to become the strongest person I can become to live the life I have been given…” — Audre Lorde
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What’s on my Mind: Republican FUBAR: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201812/complete-psychological-analysis-trumps-support#:~:text=Posted%20December%2027,%202018|Reviewed%20by%20Lybi%20Ma.%20Key?msockid=099a7d9e70b86f5428a16ff471106e7f News: Thoughts and Mutha-Fucking Prayers: https://newsone.com/5527446/rep-mike-collins…
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RBT Episode #204 August 31, 2024 - "A loaded brain is more powerful than a loaded gun." — Ernest William Chambers
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What’s on my Mind: Fear of a Black Planet: News: Shit-stained Glasses: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/29/trump-transition-plan-afpi-00176674 Not a Leader, a Fake-ass Bitch: https://apnews.com/article/trump-arlington-cemetery-altercation-afghanistan-3f0331e9209336a9b696ec164be7eb1c Analogous to a Drug Dealer: https://www.christianpost.com/new…
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RBT Episode #203 August 24, 2024 - "All too often, when we see injustices, both great and small…we do nothing. We remain silent... When we say nothing, when we do nothing, we are consenting to these trespasses ...
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What’s on my Mind: The Magic of Getting Off your Ass and Doing Something: News: Oxymoron: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/democratic-republican-conventions-differences-rcna167651 The Definition of Asinine: https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/in-kandiss-taylors-christian-nation-i-dont-have-to-give-you-your-freedom-of-religion/ · Assholes…
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RBT Episode #202 August 17, 2024 - “Unless we…defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites…” —Shirley Chisholm
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What’s on my Mind: Update from the Center of Chaos: https://www.cfr.org/blog/election-2024-where-presidential-race-stands-three-months-election-day News: Circle-Jerking Idiots: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/12/trump-musk-x-interview-problems-00173739 Suckers and Losers: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2024/08/16/trump-b…
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Rational Black Thought Episode 201 – August 10, 2024 – “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou
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What’s on my Mind: What’s Your Story?: https://www.spiritofstory.com/blog/interview-john-truby News: Rambling nonsense: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/08/08/trump-unhinged-press-conference-abc-debate-harris/74723587007/ Another Trump patriot bites the dust: https://apnews.com/article/david-dempsey-capitol-riot-prison-sentence…
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Rational Black Thought Episode 200 – August 3, 2024 – “whether you grab hold of an inflection point and leverage it for all it’s worth or just let it carry you along – is as important as the event itself ...
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What’s on my Mind: Convergence of Inflection Points: https://www.taosnews.com/opinion/letters/a-critical-inflection-point-for-democracy/article_fde13b46-121c-58b9-8824-bbdd6c329f54.html News: Don’t Platform Jerks: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/01/nabj-trump-interview-black-journalists Dip Shits Don’t Get It: https://newrepubl…
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Rational Black Thought Episode 199 – July 27, 2024 – “We should… protest openly everything... that smacks of discrimination or slander."- Mary McLeod Bethune
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What’s on my Mind: What Now: News: How Biden Outwitted the Dem Elites Why Does this Keep Happening: https://www.vox.com/criminal-justice/363206/sonya-massey-police-killing-sean-grayson It Didn’t Take: https://julieroys.com/felon-turned-pastor-martinez-charged-sexual-battery-teen-girl/ Conversations with an Atheist: The Pros and Cons of Credulity: h…
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Rational Black Thought Episode 198 – July 20, 2024 – “Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without” The Matrix Reloaded
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What’s on my Mind: Election Mysteries Decoded: The Hidden Truths of 2024: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/07/16/trump-shooting-impact-us-politics/74403178007/ https://www.vox.com/politics/360521/trump-shooting-polls-political-impact-2024-election-election News: With Friends Like These…: Criminals making Laws for Criminals: https://a…
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Rational Black Thought Episode #197 July 13, 2024 - “If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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What’s on my Mind: Hope for the Best but Plan for the Worst: News: Can Biden win?: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/11/democratic-party-biden-strategy/ Aiding and Abetting: https://www.vox.com/scotus/359206/supreme-court-incompetent-abortion-trump-immunity Topsy Turvey: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/12/man-plotted-electrical-…
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Rational Black Thought Episode 196 – July 6, 2024 – “…over here We measure success by how many people successful next to you…” Jay Z
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What’s on my Mind: The Game of Politics and How to Play: https://news.mit.edu/2018/game-theory-politics-alexander-wolitzky-1204 News: No one is above the law…except…: https://www.vox.com/scotus/2024/2/28/24086046/supreme-court-donald-trump-sabotage-delay-dc-trial-judge-chutkan We are our own worst enemy: https://www.essence.com/news/money-career/bl…
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Rational Black Thought Episode #195 June 29, 2024 - "They smilin' in your face. All the time, they want to take your place, The back stabbers" – O’ Jays
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What’s on my Mind: What They Want: News: Deeper meaning: https://apnews.com/article/georgia-trooper-shooting-black-man-julian-lewis-e982e4db533fa3d5462e84f8a64c183c Preview of What’s to Come: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hajj-2024-deaths-saudi-arabia-extreme-heat/ Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum Debate: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jon-…
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Rational Black Thought Episode #194 June 22, 2024 - “A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.” - Paulo Coelho
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What’s on my Mind: They Not Like Us: https://newlinesmag.com/argument/the-mass-psychology-of-trumpism/ https://www.stayfreeradioip.com/post/kendrick-lamar-not-like-us-meaning-and-review News: No longer a dog whistle: https://apnews.com/article/ten-commandments-louisiana-schools-religion-99b86fff51932374993c45ab3f0555c9 Walk of Death: https://www.cb…
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Rational Black Thought Episode #193 June 15, 2024 - “If I were my own role-playing game character, I would never just stay in town, be idle and do nothing” – Yu-kai Chou
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What’s on my Mind: Play Your Own Game: News: Words can harm you: https://www.npr.org/2024/05/31/g-s1-2298/publisher-of-2000-mules-election-conspiracy-theory-film-issues-apology Cornered Rats: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/13/republicans-trump-congress-visit-00163264 Willfully Ignorant: https://www.reuters.com/legal/hunter-biden-jury-deliber…
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Rational Black Thought Episode #192 June 8, 2024 - “It is easier to defend what we call reality than to question it.” – Marcia Reynolds
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What’s on my Mind: The Neuroscience of not Being a Dumbass: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-021-01132-0 News: I Guess Two Wrongs Do Make a Right: https://apnews.com/article/trump-trial-verdict-republicans-revenge-1c35203e6fd5a62d490969bea1eb9174 From Relevant to Rag: https://deadline.com/2024/06/biden-age-wall-street-journal-morning-joe-1235…
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Rational Black Thought Episode #191 August 1, 2024 - “Choose...virtue over vulgarity...” — Ken Burns
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What’s on my Mind: Virtue over Vulgarity: https://alumni.brandeis.edu/news/2024/commencement/transcripts/ken-burns-remarks.html News: Guilty AF: https://apnews.com/article/trump-conviction-what-to-know-a70941a7cd367f7b2aa3218ea91ad922 A Better Pope?: https://time.com/6982651/pope-francis-reported-homophobic-slur-gay-priests-seminaries/ The limited …
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Rational Black Thought Episode #190 May 25, 2024 - “They are bad with the conviction that they are good.” — Heather O'Neill
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What’s on my Mind: The most pressing problem in America: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3922050/ News: Heil Hitler…Trump: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/23/trumps-unified-reich-video-was-a-message-not-a-mistake The opposite of Just: https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-flag-stop-steal-alito-trump-1842c4…
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Rational Black Thought Episode #189 May 18, 2024 - “Please don't die over the neighborhood…That your mama renting” Jay-Z
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What’s on my Mind: Poisoning of the Mind: https://huridocs.org/2023/12/the-harmful-effects-of-disinformation-and-how-to-combat-them/ News: “…except as a punishment for crime…” https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-injuries-deaths-0ff52ff1735d7e9f858248177a2a60c3 “Patriot” Sent to Prison: https://www.politico.com/news…
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Rational Black Thought Episode #188 May 4, 2024 - “We can't operate with one party and a cult." - Norm Ornstein
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What’s on my Mind: One Party, One Cult: https://twitter.com/NormOrnstein/status/1786864512718475633 https://dk.usembassy.gov/usa-i-skolen/presidential-elections-and-the-american-political-system/#:~:text=The%20Two%2DParty%20System%20and%20the%20Two%20Major%20Parties,Party%20and%20the%20Democratic%20Party. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/01/1248249250/e…
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Rational Black Thought Episode #187 May 4, 2024 - “As we receive, we give; as we give, we receive.” – Laurie E. Smith
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What’s on my Mind: Going with the Flow: https://positivepsychology.com/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi-father-of-flow/#:~:text=In%20Csikszentmihalyi%27s%20words%2C%20flow%20is,doing%20it%E2%80%9D%20(1990). https://iaap.org/jung-analytical-psychology/short-articles-on-analytical-psychology/synchronicity-an-acausal-connecting-principle/ https://www.healthgui…
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Rational Black Thought Episode #186 April 27, 2024 - “There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even Peace.” - W. E. B. Du Bois
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What’s on my Mind: Uninformed Citizenry: https://aeon.co/ideas/the-right-to-vote-should-be-restricted-to-those-with-knowledge https://www.sparknotes.com/us-government-and-politics/political-science/politics-and-political-science/summary/ News: Democracy on Trial: https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/04/18/trump-hush-money-criminal-trial/gag-o…
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Rational Black Thought Episode #185 April 20, 2024 - “The way to right wrongs is to shine the light of truth on them.” — Ida B. Wells
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What’s on my Mind: Living Outside the Box: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/chaotic-cognition/202006/the-truth-about-the-box-in-outside-the-box-thinking News: The Boy who Cried Wolf: https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/04/18/trump-hush-money-criminal-trial/gag-order-redux-00153015 https://www.thedailybeast.com/details-of-how-trump-sco…
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Rational Black Thought Episode #184 April 13, 2024 - "We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated."- Maya Angelou
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What’s on my Mind: How and Why We Lose: https://www.270towin.com/ News: Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do and die: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/11/trump-tightens-stranglehold-on-congressional-gop-00151629 https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/arizona-gop-lawmaker-lashes-out-at Conversations with an Atheist: thou shalt save alive…
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Rational Black Thought Episode #183 April 06, 2024 - “Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What’s on my Mind: By their fruits…: https://books.google.com/books/about/Be_You.html?id=my1GEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0#v=onepage&q&f=false News: There Aren’t Two Sides to the Facts: https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/03/our-trump-reporting-upsets-some-readers-but-there-arent-two-sides-to-facts…
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Rational Black Thought Episode #182 March 30, 2024 - ““Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” MLK Jr.
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What’s on my Mind: Existence Beyond Time: https://www.space.com/time-how-it-works News: The Last Congress: https://www.ft.com/content/86ee5942-2ff5-47a6-a509-b74b854b0477 https://www.marylandmatters.org/2024/03/20/a-deeply-divided-congress-took-no-major-action-on-civil-rights-in-2023-report-finds/ https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/03/22/co…
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Rational Black Thought Episode #181 March 23, 2024 - “Slavery was not merely an unfortunate thing that happened to black people. It was an American innovation…” ― Isabel Wilkerson
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What’s on my Mind: The weaponization of colorblindness: News: Like Lemmings to the Sea: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/11/2222787/-A-tidal-wave-of-stupid https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4545008-parnas-calls-out-gop-rep-hearing-doing-bidding-russia/ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/us/california-pastor-arrested.html https://www.newswee…
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