In this wide-ranging episode, Mike and Bassey spiral—in the best way possible—through everything from getting older and noticing your face change overnight, to what it means to have style in a copy-paste TikTok world. They discuss parenting college-aged Black sons at PWIs, avoiding the dreaded cargo short uncle aesthetic, and the anxiety of legacy, culture, and generational gaps. It’s funny, tender, brutally honest—and yes, we read our first hate comment out loud. Welcome to nuance…
Chapters:
00:00 – Welcome to the Noise
03:00 – The Comment Section is Wild
06:30 – Promoting Yourself is Weird
10:00 – Gray Hair, Laugh Lines, and Looking 50 Overnight
14:30 – Uncle Fashion & Capsule Wardrobes Ain’t It
20:45 – TikTok is Anti-Style (and Anti-Black?)
30:00 – Parenting in Public (and Private)
37:30 – Black Parenting at PWIs: A Cautionary Tale
47:00 – Generational Fear & Love in Translation
54:30 – Style is Spiritual
59:00 – Black Legacy Contracts (Two Full Black Kids Minimum)
1:06:30 – Wait… What Were We Supposed to Talk About?
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