Pablo Speaks

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Welcome to another episode of Pablo Speaks the podcast where words influence thoughts influence actions.

I'm your host James Paul Sr aka Pablo. 

And today, I will perform a narrative poem titled A Dark Street in Newark....it's essentially a eulogy for all lives lost prematurely and tragically in the Drug Game... the cold hard lesson of this piece is - it's much better to be poor and alive than rich and dea...

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In this episode, I will narrate the prologue and first Creolese poem from the manuscript of "I BIN DEH" which will be published by July 2024.

Language is an integral part of every culture and words are integral parts of language. In this book I harness and unleash the power of Guyanese Creole (basilect, mesolect and acrolect Creolese) to create narrative poems that inspire, educate, entertain and provoke conv...

Hello world.

Welcome to another provocative episode of Pablo Speaks, the podcast where words influence thoughts influence actions.

I am your host, James Paul Sr aka Pablo

And in today’s episode I narrate my futuristic essay that explores plausible implications of Populism, Global Warming & Super-intelligent AI.

Is another global cataclysm imminent?

And what about technological singularity and autonomous AI?

Will homosapiens be ...

Welcome to another Bonus episode of Pablo Speaks, the podcast where words influence thoughts influence actions. 

I'm your host, James Paul Sr aka Pablo..

And today I will present the third and final part of my urban essay - New Lots to White Plains.

Part Three  takes you on a compelling visual journey through Harlem, Da Bronx and lower Westchester County to White Plains, NY, with flashbacks to related historical events of note ...

Welcome to the final episode of Pablo Speaks in 2023 - the podcast where words influence thoughts influence actions.

 I had originally planned to dedicate this final episode to "New Year Resolutions"...but the ancestors intervened and I was compelled to channel the atrocities of WAR into writing and sharing a protest chant. 

How ironic is it that in this festive season of  Christmas when  Christians around the world celeb...

Welcome to another bonus episode of Pablo Speaks - the podcast where words influence thoughts influence actions.

I am your host James Paul Sr aka Pablo and in today's podcast, I will narrate/share part-two of my three-part essay, "New Lots to White Plains - Urban Tales of NY City from the diary of James Paul Sr"

I wrote this piece back in 2014, during my return to the New York City , the Big Apple, the city that never...

In this episode, Pablo narrates part one of his three-part essay titled, "New Lots to White Plains".

The year is 2014.

The US economy sucks.

Like many US citizens in their 40's, the American Dream has become a nightmare for Pablo. He is forced to close his failing retail business in Macon, GA. He is battling chronic autoimmune and cardiac conditions. But the bills have to be paid. And there are some big bills: coll...

Written and narrated by the host, Pablo, "Dear Negro" invokes centuries of African pain, suffering and bondage, to remind descendants of enslaved Africans about the savagery and horrors of chattel, plantation slavery and anti-black racism of that era. The latter, anti-black racism, persists to this day in America and around the world.

A world generally desensitized to the pain and suffering of Africans, of black melanate...

In this special bonus episode, Pablo engages Guyanese filmmaker, public intellectual and writer, Clairmont Chung, in a meaningful conversation about Mr Chung's recently published essay titled, "Saving the Essequibo from Becoming Another Gaza".

Guyana sits on the northern coast of South America bordered by the Brazil, Venezuela, Surinam and the Caribbean Sea to the south, west, east and north respectively.

Venezuela&#...

In this episode, I take a deep dive into the pith of the worst crime against humanity in history, chattel slavery, and make a strong case, lyrically, for reparative justice.

Racism fueled chattel slavery then. Racism fueled the atrocities and lynchings of the Jim Crow era. Racism fuels police brutality, and the glaring racial disparities in wealth, homelessness, healthcare, education, access to capital, indictments and incarceratio...

Pablo breaks down the production process for Moon ah Run, his latest dub poetry single - branded as the battle of Guyanese creole vs hiphop - from idea and inspiration thru writing, curating and recording, to mixing, mastering, registering and releasing.

Moon ah Run (by PablOGt) is streaming on Spotify and all major digital music platforms.

I would appreciate your feedback on this bonus episode. Is this kind of detailed recap of th...

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A special episode to honor the five Guyanese soldiers who lost their lives in the line of duty in a tragic helicopter crash in the jungles of Essequibo, an oil-rich region of Guyana being claimed by Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro, in defiance of international law and recent court rulings.

We pray for the two survivors and grieve for the families and friends of the five brave warriors who died. May their souls r...

Welcome to the second episode of Pablo Speaks - the podcast where words are weaponized to inspire and edutain.

A famous quote by Lord Buddha reads: “We are what we think, all that we are arises with our thoughts, with our thoughts we make the world.” 

Or, as my Uncle Sam would say, “Thinking is everything.”

Thinking is also the theme of my first featured poem titled, “Breaking the chains”.

The background music was composed by Andy ...