July 31, 2026 • 9 mins
Nolan Wells, a young black teen hanging out with his all white boy squad was left dead on an Island off the coast of Mississippi and we have zero answers as to how he died and why his friends left him.
---
Follow Hood Politics:
Follow Prop:
https://www.instagram.com/prophiphop/
https://www.tiktok.com/@prophiphop
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
Media. Okay, so we're about to talk about Nolan Welles,
so you know, trigger warnings and all that. And since
I've recorded this episode, there's been an update in this
ongoing case, one of which is there's a nine to
one one recording that has been authenticated about when the
(00:27):
boys were on their boat and it seemed like the
boat was taken on water, but in the back it
sounds like there it sounds like they're they're like calling
to Nolan as if he was like dying on the boat,
which totally changes their story and adds a whole other
kind of a more logical explanation as why these boys
(00:52):
is acting this way. Now, all this stuff is still
not confirmed. I still don't know what's going on. But
the point of this episode is black lives still don't matter,
all right. In this next edition of Doing literally Anything
(01:21):
While Black, I got to talk about Nolan Wells, the
young man who, during the fourth of July weekend, little
black boy from pretty affluent part of the South, went
out on a boat with his homeboys and on one
of those little like sand islands off the coast of Mississippi,
(01:43):
and all the helmies came back, but he didn't and
then one of the low white boys he was with
was the child of a judge, and they deleted all
of their social media after and say, well, we thought
(02:04):
he was going to come back on another boat, but
just like, come on, fam.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Tap being with me. So here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
So if you don't know the story, like I said,
little homie in Mississippi from an affluent part of town,
a little black boy, teenager. All reports were just that
he's just a really good kid and went out with
his own boys, who, because of the nature of where
he lives, were just all white kids. And his phone
(02:50):
was scrubbed, like so there's no data on that. His
snapchat was scrubbed. There's no data on that. And the
homies he went with all came back left him there.
They found his body. He was dead, and they all
deleted their social media. And one of them is the
(03:10):
child of a judge in Mississippi. So remember last time
when I was like, here's what's maddening about being black.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
There's always the question that but maybe maybe this is
what you're doing. The thing is.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
You get the situation, you get the autopsy report, and
there's a check in your heart to not really believe
the autopsy, because the thing is.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
If that's really first of all, if that's really.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Your homeboy, why are not all why are you guys
not all on some like justice for Nolan? My entire
feed would be justice for Nolan. Do you know how
angry I would be if I went out there. I
can't find my homeboy. There's no way I'm leaving, so
(04:06):
already the math, don't math? And if you black, you
going now wait a minute, unless all these white boys
had something to do with it. Now, y'all that know
me personally, and you guys who have been keeping up
with this show, you know, I went to high school
out of district, and when you go to high school
out of district, you discover a whole new world of people.
(04:28):
I talked about this on the daily es Eye guys
like I ain't know, like them characters in TV shows
and movies, like you know, the Billabong t shirts, tnc
surf designs, totally tubular, dude. I didn't know those was
real people until I went to high school in the
England Empire. I was like, Oh, y'all are actual? This
is real? Like y'all really be like this? Like I
(04:49):
didn't know that was a thing, and if you are
just doing your best to survive and have friends, you
just fall into what could be the dominant culture. I
know some guys I'm thinking in my head right now
who had melanin like me, but just kind of fell
into sort of this white space.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Why because that's just where he was.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
There was a moment, however, no matter how cool friends where,
like some in your heart just stop feeling comfortable, or
you're dismissing a lot of side comments or you start
participating in them.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
There's just this like something don't feel right right.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
And as the update has happened because the autopsy again
don't feel right, Colin Kaepernick was like no, no, no, no, no,
We're gonna pay for another one. And what an independent
autopsy reported was that they couldnot determine the cause of
death because key throat structures and other organs were removed
(05:56):
during the first autopsy, and the Mississippi official autopsy in
toxicology has not released its findings yet. Nigga, his throat
was gone, and then it turns out that y'all may
not be ready for this. There was a reasons on
the back of his head in the autopsy, but like
(06:19):
I thought he drowned. It's just making the story just
not make sense, which tells me again we don't even get.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Justice after we did.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
It's just the the the the math on ever math
does that make sense? This is what we mean by
doing literally anything while black, because you can't even finish
the autopsy my nigga, because his throat is missing.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Where the hell is his throat?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
There's there's a there's a flippidness when we try to
say stuff like black lives matter, the media litter received
thing that's happening too, Like they keep saying this this
this teenage man, nigga what and all of this happening
in Mississippi. I just it makes it very difficult to
(07:17):
not think the worst. Remember back in the day, they
used to say like, hey, wait for the facts, Like
let's just wait for the facts. The facts never come.
That's the issue.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
It's just a.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Level of carelessness that is either that or a cover up.
And it's just the culture of the location. The storyline
just does not give us any reason to be generous
in our understanding and conclusions. So when I say stuff like,
(07:54):
you know what, being black is a unique experience here,
I mean little eighteen year old boy, and rather than
starting a movement for justice, then little white boys deleted
they accounts and the autopsy can't even be completed. And
(08:15):
you don't want to teach your children to avoid making friends.
You don't want to do that, Like that's not the
world any of us want to live in. Because my
daddy used to say stuff like that. Now you need
to watch them little white boys out there, like, Okay,
I know I know y'all. You know, I know he
did your friend, but like, you know, y'all, keep your
eye on them. I used to be like, man, pop,
(08:39):
come on, man, like let's let's not. I just don't
want to live that way. And then this stuff, Yeah,
it's just it's just not helping, Like it's just not helping.
And it could be just that, like no, dim little
boys are trash and their parents is covering it up.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It could have been that simple.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
But again, doing anything while black, there's always the talk
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Tap me in with mem
Media. Okay, so we're about to talk about Nolan Welles,
so you know, trigger warnings and all that. And since
I've recorded this episode, there's been an update in this
ongoing case, one of which is there's a nine to
one one recording that has been authenticated about when the
(00:27):
boys were on their boat and it seemed like the
boat was taken on water, but in the back it
sounds like there it sounds like they're they're like calling
to Nolan as if he was like dying on the boat,
which totally changes their story and adds a whole other
kind of a more logical explanation as why these boys
(00:52):
is acting this way. Now, all this stuff is still
not confirmed. I still don't know what's going on. But
the point of this episode is black lives still don't matter,
all right. In this next edition of Doing literally Anything
(01:21):
While Black, I got to talk about Nolan Wells, the
young man who, during the fourth of July weekend, little
black boy from pretty affluent part of the South, went
out on a boat with his homeboys and on one
of those little like sand islands off the coast of Mississippi,
(01:43):
and all the helmies came back, but he didn't and
then one of the low white boys he was with
was the child of a judge, and they deleted all
of their social media after and say, well, we thought
(02:04):
he was going to come back on another boat, but
just like, come on, fam.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Tap being with me. So here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
So if you don't know the story, like I said,
little homie in Mississippi from an affluent part of town,
a little black boy, teenager. All reports were just that
he's just a really good kid and went out with
his own boys, who, because of the nature of where
he lives, were just all white kids. And his phone
(02:50):
was scrubbed, like so there's no data on that. His
snapchat was scrubbed. There's no data on that. And the
homies he went with all came back left him there.
They found his body. He was dead, and they all
deleted their social media. And one of them is the
(03:10):
child of a judge in Mississippi. So remember last time
when I was like, here's what's maddening about being black.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
There's always the question that but maybe maybe this is
what you're doing. The thing is.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
You get the situation, you get the autopsy report, and
there's a check in your heart to not really believe
the autopsy, because the thing is.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
If that's really first of all, if that's really.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Your homeboy, why are not all why are you guys
not all on some like justice for Nolan? My entire
feed would be justice for Nolan. Do you know how
angry I would be if I went out there. I
can't find my homeboy. There's no way I'm leaving, so
(04:06):
already the math, don't math? And if you black, you
going now wait a minute, unless all these white boys
had something to do with it. Now, y'all that know
me personally, and you guys who have been keeping up
with this show, you know, I went to high school
out of district, and when you go to high school
out of district, you discover a whole new world of people.
(04:28):
I talked about this on the daily es Eye guys
like I ain't know, like them characters in TV shows
and movies, like you know, the Billabong t shirts, tnc
surf designs, totally tubular, dude. I didn't know those was
real people until I went to high school in the
England Empire. I was like, Oh, y'all are actual? This
is real? Like y'all really be like this? Like I
(04:49):
didn't know that was a thing, and if you are
just doing your best to survive and have friends, you
just fall into what could be the dominant culture. I
know some guys I'm thinking in my head right now
who had melanin like me, but just kind of fell
into sort of this white space.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Why because that's just where he was.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
There was a moment, however, no matter how cool friends where,
like some in your heart just stop feeling comfortable, or
you're dismissing a lot of side comments or you start
participating in them.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
There's just this like something don't feel right right.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
And as the update has happened because the autopsy again
don't feel right, Colin Kaepernick was like no, no, no, no, no,
We're gonna pay for another one. And what an independent
autopsy reported was that they couldnot determine the cause of
death because key throat structures and other organs were removed
(05:56):
during the first autopsy, and the Mississippi official autopsy in
toxicology has not released its findings yet. Nigga, his throat
was gone, and then it turns out that y'all may
not be ready for this. There was a reasons on
the back of his head in the autopsy, but like
(06:19):
I thought he drowned. It's just making the story just
not make sense, which tells me again we don't even get.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Justice after we did.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
It's just the the the the math on ever math
does that make sense? This is what we mean by
doing literally anything while black, because you can't even finish
the autopsy my nigga, because his throat is missing.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Where the hell is his throat?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
There's there's a there's a flippidness when we try to
say stuff like black lives matter, the media litter received
thing that's happening too, Like they keep saying this this
this teenage man, nigga what and all of this happening
in Mississippi. I just it makes it very difficult to
(07:17):
not think the worst. Remember back in the day, they
used to say like, hey, wait for the facts, Like
let's just wait for the facts. The facts never come.
That's the issue.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
It's just a.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Level of carelessness that is either that or a cover up.
And it's just the culture of the location. The storyline
just does not give us any reason to be generous
in our understanding and conclusions. So when I say stuff like,
(07:54):
you know what, being black is a unique experience here,
I mean little eighteen year old boy, and rather than
starting a movement for justice, then little white boys deleted
they accounts and the autopsy can't even be completed. And
(08:15):
you don't want to teach your children to avoid making friends.
You don't want to do that, Like that's not the
world any of us want to live in. Because my
daddy used to say stuff like that. Now you need
to watch them little white boys out there, like, Okay,
I know I know y'all. You know, I know he
did your friend, but like, you know, y'all, keep your
eye on them. I used to be like, man, pop,
(08:39):
come on, man, like let's let's not. I just don't
want to live that way. And then this stuff, Yeah,
it's just it's just not helping, Like it's just not helping.
And it could be just that, like no, dim little
boys are trash and their parents is covering it up.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It could have been that simple.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
But again, doing anything while black, there's always the talk
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Tap me in with mem
Host
Prop
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
The Bobby Bones Show
Listen to 'The Bobby Bones Show' by downloading the daily full replay.