What starts as a hilarious midlife check-in about weight gain and vanity turns into one of Bassey & Mike's most grounded and thought-provoking conversations yet. They move from aging and metabolism to the chaos of modern politics, the fragmentation of the left, and how white frameworks of protest and resistance are shaping young Black thinkers.
This episode wrestles with what it means to think and act through a Black lens—not in theory, but in practice. From Afrocentrism to authenticity, from fixing instead of burning, Mike and Bassey unpack how culture, history, and honesty should guide our politics, not chaos or performance. It’s sharp, funny, layered, and deeply human.
00:00 – 02:30: Aging, vanity, and midlife weight struggles
02:30 – 06:00: The chaos of modern politics and media manipulation
06:00 – 10:00: MAGA unity vs. liberal fragmentation
10:00 – 18:00: Why moral purity isn’t a political strategy
18:00 – 26:00: Centering Blackness vs. adopting white frameworks of protest
26:00 – 33:00: The loss of Afrocentric thinking and the rise of white political mimicry
33:00 – 41:00: Resistance, church roots, and the disconnect of “new Blackness”
41:00 – 46:00: “Fixing, not burning” — reimagining how we build and repair
46:00 – 54:00: The exhaustion of politics and the need for cultural clarity
54:00 – End: Reflections, humor, and technical chaos