
Olay & Friends
Olay & Friends is a weekly podcast where Olay invites 5 of your favorites discuss hot topics! The podcast invokes a Black 90s nostalgia you'll love!
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Jun 9, 2024 • 2h 9min
The Everything Episode: Blocking Celebrities or Centering them?
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Edited By: https://twitter.com/sherlock0ats0:00 Intro1:40 Slandering Eminem6:34 Houdini & Misogyny9:38 Eminem (and white people) in Black Spaces13:37 Beyonce's (and famous people's) place in Activism24:40 Consumerist Activism35:10 The Overton Window shifting on Palestine39:47 The Left's Hierarchy Of Oppression41:40 Patience When Radicalizing44:17 Man vs Bear46:13 The Fantisization Of White Men Online57:37 Dating White Men vs. EXCLUSIVELY Dating White Men58:54 Unlearning Mysandrist Resentment1:01:28 "Idealizing What You Have Not Experienced"1:04:53 "Talking About The System, But Not The Disease"1:10:29 Colorism and White Supremacist Beauty Standards1:14:18 The Hypervisibility Of Conservative Black Men1:20:38 Black Men Don't Have The Space To Be...1:26:58 Hiphop and Homophobia1:30:53 "Black Men Are Not (Seen As) Men."1:33:28 Black Women And Queerphobia1:39:28 Yung Maiama at the GLAAD Honors1:43:34 Your Art Is Not Yours1:46:15 Bisexual Men1:52:47 Queer Stealthing ("They Don't Owe You How They Identify")2:00:57 The Rhetoric That Deflects From Violence

May 26, 2024 • 1h 46min
Diddy, Camron & Hip Hop's Problem With Abuse
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:00 The New Diddy Video & The Discussion Around The Case
25:08 Where do these problems start?
1:24:18 Camron's behavior on CNN

May 21, 2024 • 1h 59min
Drake, DJ Akademics & Diaspora Discussions
@ForeignManinaForeignLand tricked me into this discussion so just know it’ll never happen again.
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:12 Drake Talk Spill Over
3:52 Cultural Appreciation or Appropriation
7:44 Coming Into Blackness
10:21 Drake's Lack of Positive Racial Identity
16:21 Diaspora In Hip Hop
22:47 How the World Looks at Black Countries
30:58 Diaspora Wars is White Supremacy
34:20 Cultural Humility
39:06 The World's View Of Black People
48:37 Racism in Cartoons
50:21 "We Even See Ourselves In The Coded Context Of Whiteness"
53:31 Navigating Blackness In Society & Media
1:07:30 Akademics Lawsuit
1:10:21 Patriarchy
1:13:10 Xenophobia in the Comments
1:19:17 Black Americans Have Their Own Culture
1:25:41 Selling Culture
1:27:10 Bahamian Schooling
1:32:11 Identity Holding People Back
1:38:31 Immigration
1:48:40 "Sit With Different People"
1:51:00 "Immigration is A Black Issue in America."
1:57:00 Ending Chatter & Outro

May 12, 2024 • 2h 13min
Kendrick & Hip Hop's Beef With Drake: Round 2
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:20 Where we are now Vs Last Week
2:41 The Heart Part 6
3:50 Not Like Us
5:20 When Did Drake Lose?
9:32 What Was This Battle About?
16:10 Drake Did Not Have The Range
17:32 Did Drake Plant Information?
22:24 Is Drake Stupid Or Ill Prepared?
29:32 The Abuse Allegations Against Kendrick
34:30 How Can You Trust An Artist?
38:00 The Public Narrative
41:00 Drake's Identity Coming Back In
45:00 Did Drake Change Styles for Survival?
49:40 "Yes, This is Hate"
51:00 Did Drake Contribute or Take? & Do We Ever Trust Him?
1:02:00 Is Hip Hop Culture On The Decline?
1:09:00 Drake In the Industry
1:14:00 Drake With Stake.com
1:18:00 People's Real Problem With Drake
1:20:00 How Much of Black Culture Are We Willing To Sell?
1:25:00 Akademics, DJ Vlad, Adam 22
1:32:00 The Slave Line
1:35:00 Drake's Expectations & Deeply Rooted Issues
1:40:00 We Want Drake To Get Better
1:44:00 Raheem comment remove/ Drake Shouldn't be at the top
1:48:20 Kendrick Appreciation
1:56:00 Should Drake Have Brought In Everyone Else?

May 5, 2024 • 1h 38min
Kendrick & Hip Hop's Beef with Drake: Round 1
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:43 Our Overall Thoughts on The Beef
6:13 Drake's Place in Hip-Hop & Black Culture
29:48 The Issues With Drake
39:03 Drake's Fluid Identity & What He Does With Black Culture
54:18 Euphoria Exposing Drake
1:17:10 Kendrick & Drake as Artists

Apr 28, 2024 • 1h 16min
The Diddy Deep Dive: The Lawsuits & The Discourse
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:06 The Details of The Case
6:37 Why are people only concerned about him being gay?
7:39 Patriarchy and capitalism in the Black Community
16:07 Why won't they believe women with evidence?
19:26 Homophobia & Black Capitalism
26:46 What is masculinity supposed to be?
34:44 "Every famous n**** that gets arrested, is not Nelson Mandela"
39:52 Who deserves your support and who doesn't?
42:36 "Black boys are not being raised"
45:19 We have to be careful about who our Black role models are
51:37 "Yall are really white supremacists most valuable puppet"
58:27 The danger of antisemitism in Kanye and Candace Owens
1:02:40 Black people that use others in community to climb out of it.
1:09:45 The Black Community's relationship with stereotypes

Apr 24, 2024 • 1h 43min
Why are so many Black people Pro-Police??
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:05 The bIack perception of copaganda & politicians
10:00 BIack respectability politics & classism
15:46 Why is society conditioned to trust the police?
28:50 Can the police be made better?
40:37 How do we get resources to the right people?
43:54 Black politicians that hurt the community
50:11 The challenge of mobilizing our communities
1:00:29 Speaking out against systems is not profitable
1:12:09 It comes back to Capitalism & the symbol of BIack Excellence
1:19:53 We need to stop celebrating exploiters as symbols
1:26:45 Does the left have a marketing problem?
1:31:42 Activism can't be done for free all the time
1:36:42 Back to Marketing

Apr 14, 2024 • 1h 34min
What's Happening to the Black Vote?
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Apr 10, 2024 • 2h 3min
Is Black Media in Crisis??
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Mar 31, 2024 • 1h 39min
Vilifying Amanda Seales but Celebrating Candace Owens?
Black women in the public eye - dissecting the criticism toward Amanda Seales and Candace Owens, navigating communication challenges in journalism, discussing likability vs. upliftment in media, analyzing Candace Owens' messaging impact, challenging untenable viewpoints in media, debating experts vs. influencers, unpacking propaganda, navigating activism and representation challenges, exploring intersection of white supremacy and anti-Semitism, unfair vilification of Amanda Seales.