The Burnt Ships Podcast

The Burnt Ships Podcast

Real talk by production and writing team, ”Burnt Ships,” about relationships, music, current events, sports, culture, politics, and more. Humorous, light-hearted talk about the world around us, with a dash of east coast and Samoan/Pacific Islander sensibility. Sync music fiends, artists, producers, beatmakers, lyricwriters, songwriters, humans—Burnt Ships’ music collaborations have been featured on blogs and radio stations like KUNM, WKNC, WCRX,WARG, NLive, KOCF, Catalunya, Shakedown Radio, WSCA, European Hit Radio, Eat This Music, The Sound Lab and CJMQ. Featuring Samoan singer-songwriter Gary King on vocals and Billboard-charting producer, Nonseq, on beat duties, their music has been featured on various HBO, MTV, E!, Bravo, Netflix shows, and more. The Burnt Ships Podcast is a mashup of things Non and Gary like to talk about, whether it’s relationships, music, current events, sports, culture, or politics. Humorous, relevant talk about the world around us, with a dash of east coast and Samoan/Pacific Islander sensibility.

Episodes

April 23, 2025 62 mins

The final installment of our 3-part 2025 NFL Draft Preview with our resident football expert, Brian Leverette, aka  @bdx47  on all socials. We go all in in this last of 3-parts and break down this year's exciting NFL Draft, complete with the latest mock drafts, player evaluations, and predictions that could shape the future of your favorite teams! We get into critical discussions surrounding top prospects like Travis Hunter, the po...

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Part 2 of our NFL Draft Preview Extravaganza continues with our resident all-around NFL, pro-football guru, Brian Leverette, aka @BDX47 on all socials. We go all in in this 2nd of 3-parts and break down this year's exciting NFL Draft, complete with the latest mock drafts, player evaluations, and predictions that could shape the future of your favorite teams! We get into critical discussions surrounding top prospects like Travis Hun...

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We go all in on this podcast episode with our resident all-around NFL, pro-football guru, Brian Leverette, aka @BDX47 on all socials. We break down the best players available on both sides of the ball, potential Rookie of the Year candidates, sleeper picks, and where we think the Top 10 will fall. Brian helps us evaluate the overall big picture regarding available prospects through each round, team needs, and all the intangibles li...

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Kendrick’s halftime Superbowl performance sparked debates and discussions across the nation. In Part 2 of our Superbowl LIX breakdown, we tackle all the different layers to what was going on, what you might have missed, and the key themes to the subtext underneath the obvious stuff. Some believed it was the greatest halftime show ever, especially how it intersected with current political themes. Other folks, not so much. We break d...

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Join us for an electrifying recap of the Super Bowl on Episode 13 of the Burnt Shifts podcast! Part 1 of 2 special episodes. In this first one, we break down just how the Eagles soared to victory with an impressive 40-22 win—and we're go deep into the action, the tactics, strategies that both teams used. What challenges did Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes face? What strategies led the Eagles to triumph? Non, Gary and superguest, Bria...

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We had to do it. We had to bring in our boy and former D1 Virginia Tech football alum, Brian Leverette. We break it all down, the history of the teams, what to expect on both sides of the field, the halftime show, and end with our picks. Can Mahomes and Hurts respectively handle the best defenses they've faced all playoffs? Will it be another nail-biter with last-minute heroics—and by whom? Is Saquon on a mission that ends in glory...

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In Episode 11 of the Burnt Ships Podcast, Nonseq and I go on a much-needed deep-dive into the 2024 election results. Part-vent and therapy session, we do our best to unpack the undercurrents that shaped the voter behavior and societal sentiments that led to a Trump win. Amidst the chatter about policies and party lines, we try to delve deeper into the human complexities that influenced people's decisions and the relationships that ...

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Episode 10 of the Burnt Ships podcast drops this Friday! Join us as we speak with Spotify Queen and Filipino voice extraordinaire, Trynket, who breaks down what it means to have artistic integrity, experience personal growth, and maintain resilience in the face of criticism and hardship. We break down Trynket’s journey in the music industry, her album project "Tea with Trynket," and the all the lessons she learned along the way. On...

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We're baaaack! With another installment of the best, most incisive, cutting-edge music, politics, sports, entertainment and cultural analysis you'll ever get. We break down the aftermath of the Kendrick-Drake feud and why his Juneteenth concert mattered; how the Celtics won the NBA Championship against the Mavericks and what their biggest hurdles will be for a repeat; and finally, a little politics talk with some easy, low-hanging ...

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May 17, 2024 51 mins

The Kendrick and Drake feud was so epic we needed 3 podcast episodes to cover everything. In this 3rd and final (for now) breakdown, we analyze from top-to-bottom the final round of this, really, historic, heavyweight match, wherein we saw Drake come back strong with "Family Matters," a nearly eight-minute response, in which he alleged abuse and infidelity in Lamar’s relationship with his fiancee, along with an accompanying music v...

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May 17, 2024 45 mins

In this 2nd installment of our riveting exploration into the ongoing Drake and Kendrick Lamar rap feud, we dissect Kendrick Lamar's long-awaited response to Drake's provocations: "Euphoria." Part 1 https://youtu.be/rkAa94-tIXE Part 3 https://youtu.be/nHBjEexpR84 Lamar's "Euphoria" hit the airwaves like an opus in late April 2024, delivering a barrage of allegations aimed squarely at Drake, with layered wordplay and metaphor, que...

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In what will probably go down as 1 of—if not THE—greatest Rap Beefs of all time, we unpack the origins of what turned out to be an epic, for-the-ages feud between Kendrick and Drake.

Find out how we went from Kendrick's early days opening for Drake and Drake dropping a verse on Kendrick's "Poetic Justice" to real (or imagined?) big feelings after Kendrick's seeming diss on Metro Boomin's "Like That," complete with a response by J. ...

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Frequent Burnt Ships' partner-in-crime, collaborator extraordinaire and recently-minted SXSW Music Festival feature artist, Mami Mia (aka Bay Area Sweetheart) joins Nonseq and Gary for our first Artist Interview ever, part of an ongoing series of interesting conversations with creatives like Mami who move and shake our musical worlds—and more. Mami talks about her creative process, what it was like getting the news about being sele...

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Our first in an ongoing series of episodes on relationships: We tackle a few relational DO's and DON'Ts. What are the broad differences between men and woman when dating? Non and Gary explore the various ways in which men's and women's communication styles, expectations, upbringing, and the culture shape how relationships play out over time. Respect and disrespect, honesty and lies, loyalty and betrayal—all flip sides of the relati...

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Burnt Ships' 3rd Vlog/Podcast episode. Nonseq + Gary pay homage to the greatest Rap Beefs and Diss Tracks of all time, with breakdowns of the crazy backstories behind the most infamous and BEST feuds of all time in Hip Hop. We discuss and rank them. Let us know in the comments if we missed any, if you agreed or disagreed with the breakdowns!

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Our 2024 Super Bowl LVIII Episode! Non vents at-length about all the chatter this week after the Big Game about Mahomes-as-the-already-greatest of all time. Is it premature? Or is Mahomes knocking at the door—already? We break down the Brady comparisons, whether the Niners (or Shanahan?) choked or not—with apples-to-apples comparisons on the merits between the early eras of the Pats vs the first 3 chips for the Chiefs. Also, our ne...

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March 12, 2024 67 mins

Our first ever Podcast episode (Vlog on YouTube), Burnt Ships' aka Non and Gary break down their origin story as a production/writing duo, what makes their collaboration tick, their musical influences, all while holding court with real-talk on all the latest music, culture, sports happenings. From strippers who blew Non's mind with clarity and insight about relationships and changed his "blue-pill ways" to the shank-who-failed vs D...

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