Jul 9, 2015
Documentary filmmaker Shan Nicholson is the guest on this week's
edition of the podcast known as The
Chauncey DeVega Show.
His new film Rubble
Kings,
explores the gang culture of New York during the 1970s and how it
gave birth to hip-hop music and culture. Rubble
Kings is
also an excellent documentary about young people's political
activism, a great and exciting examination of social change and
youth culture, and a fun exploration of what I like to call "hidden
history".
Friend of the podcast Bill the Lizard also stops by as well.
Chauncey and Bill the Lizard talk about the
new Terminator:
Genisys movie,
banter about their Star
Wars: Episode 7 anxieties,
and recap their online Skype role-playing game session with the
traditional dice, pen, and paper game Pendragon.
In this episode of The
Chauncey DeVega Show,
Chauncey tells us about going to the Socialism 2015 conference in
Chicago, taking on some emotional baggage from listening to folks
who have lost loved ones to police thuggery and murder, and how he
was told that he is also too sexy and well-dressed to take the
Socialist women for a ride on Space Mountain.
Chauncey also shares a story about braving bacterial meningitis to
escort a random stranger to the hospital, and gives some tips to
young black folks who hang out with colorblind white public mouth
bloviating racists.
The friends and kinds folks who donated to the June fundraising
drive that is used to support The
Chauncey DeVega Show and ChaunceyDeVega.com are
also given proper thanks in this new installment of the
podcast.
This episode was a nice and fun opportunity to do some catching up
after a brief 2 week hiatus, to recharge the emotional batteries,
and to have a few laughs with a good friend.