Worst Things First Podcast

Believe it or not, you don't need a pilot's license or even a pilot rolling with you to repo an airplane. This episode of W.T.F.P features the insight of a 15-year veteran in the repossession game.  Operating almost exclusively out of the San Fernando Valley and other parts of northern L.A County, the "Taker of your Tahoe," the "Collector of your Camry," the "Snatcher of Your Series 6,"   Kei...

This time flies as a young airline service agent, SAALIYAH  visits the W.T.F.P studios for the low down on the flight game.  Unfortunately, unhappy customers have to accept that the airlines cannot actually make time fly.  So when delays happen, luggage gets lost and birds get caught in the engines, patience may be the key.......even if....the flight you're missing, is a once in a lifetime trip to the Olympics.

Saaliy...

From movie night with the whole family to a couple enjoying tv dinners, to the 1990's adolescent male's late night exploration of puberty, the cable guy/gal was known to set the tone for hours of home-based entertainment, and in particular prevalence prior to our current age of the information highway. This episode of W.T.F.P features the diary of a "channel-man", and within it, tales of bribery, Showtime at the...

W.T.F.P's fourth season arrives with the presence of the multi-layered ABENA SANKOFA IMHOTEP, a highly revered creator, public speaker and empowerment facilitator currently enjoying the success of her most recently authored children's book "Omari's Big Tree and the Mighty Djembe."  

ABENA discusses the challenges faced in bringing life to a written story in the form of a published book for distribu...

W.T.F.P''s Season 3 Finale finds host PHATEROC seated firmly in an educational course led by the metaphorical professorial duo and literal professional drag queens:  VANA B. and MS. ROBIN GRAVES . 

From being 'outed' as gay due to hate crime in small town America, to later returning from a Seattle-based  stint of life searching and ultimately finding embrace and inspiration from Ms. Vana and others wit...

Long Island, N.Y native turned Des Moines hip hop fixture and member of the world famous Technitions, D.J EPISODE joins the show. 

Our guest recounts the  meeting of  W.T.F.P host PHATEROC wheeling in crate after crate of vinyl for DJ EPISODE as a resident DJ at a mutual employer/nightclub nearly 20 yrs ago.  As an era of vinyl spinning replaced by digital options has returned to an appreciation of wax habits, the woes of...

Two-time Golden Glove  fighter and boxing coach,  SHAWN SMITH, joins the W.T.F.P  studio to discuss the  less glamorous side of of the sweet science from the perspective of an amateur fighter who eventually became  trainer of several Golden Glove winners.

Our guest marks 'the uncertainty.' as his greatest foe. Memory lane steers recollection of his own ring experience with the body blows of Shawn Porter (former ...

Regular W.T.F.P listeners should buckle up  for an insightful and entertaining ride,  while picky eaters may  be wise to pack a lunch, as "Real Talk" is the only dish being served at today's company cookout.  While approaching his 30th year of tenure, with factory experience ranging both inside and outside of the United States, our guest, DEVON ALLEN, dissects a common reflection of humanity and its tendencies found ...

In a monumental honor for W.T.F.P ,   Elvin John Kruger, better known as "BUTCH" of the legendary 101st Airborne Division, (1st of 506 Company)  joins the lab to discuss some of the darkest and brightest days he experienced in Vietnam from June 1969 until an undisclosed time frame in 1971.

From the disappointment of receiving a draft letter to traversing the blood soaked soil of Hamburger Hill just weeks followin...

From "White Savior Complex," to  the forced removal of Native children from Native families necessitating the  Indian Child Welfare Act,  W.T.F.P guest, Nancy Miller joins the studio to discuss the lowlands and sunshine that comes with the honor, responsibility and challenges of being a white adoptive mother of not only two Meskwaki young men, but also a black young lady..... in small-town, Iowa.

PHATE gives an e...

From interpreting a childhood blueprint of designed violence to enduring a prison bid from fisticuffs turned deadly, this episode of W.T.F.P features the most candid of convict convo.
PHIL joins the set to discuss everything from  looking for any way on a given day to skip kindergarten to marks who budge their way into the mix getting punched right up out of it, off G.P, 

An inside glimpse of a long-gone snapshot of t...

Back by popular demand, adult entertainer SEQRET returns to the W.T.F.P lab to address the outpouring of questions from listeners who caught her first appearance, (W.T.F.P Season 2  Episode 23 - The Exotic Dancer).

From the first time of pulling her weapon, to stripping retirement, crypto-currency, and stock investments, the mother of a young girl discusses an unconventional approach to securing a future for her loved one...

The nastiest mess you never had to clean up is illustrated in this edition of "W.T.F.P: Storytime," featuring guest story-teller, CHRIS, owner-operator of Main Street Cleaning Service, with over a quarter century of commercial cleaning experience to the name.

From custom artwork painted in feces by an artist nobody remembers hiring, to after-hours romance, with a few daycare boogers sprinkled here and there for s...

The heaviest subject matter of W.T.F.P's series run  falls upon this 26th episode of Season Three :

 INSIDE: Illegal images.  Italian Police.  U.S Feds.  Family visits at  Leavenworth United States Prison.   Psychosexual exams.  A father missing from a home and a mother and wife trying to look past a human's actions  act for the sake of the character beneath, and a  chance of redemption.

Debate is rais...

A recent national poll we are currently having trouble locating indicated that 80% of  American podcast listeners have reported losing sleep over trying to fully wrap their minds around what exactly a vapor return hose does and how exactly it factors into the everyday "nine-to-fiver" running late for work,  particularly when one of those big ass tanker trucks happen to be  taking up 67% of an otherwise packed gas station ...

In the season premier of W.T.F.P's third season, a humble horror fiend appears on set, and he just so happens to also be the culinary mind behind South Union Bread Cafe, Centro, Django,Gateway Market,  Zombie Burger, and most recently,  George's Burger Joint, Batter Up, and perhaps another  one to twenty eateries we'll have to fire our research team for failing to identify in these very summary notes.

The s...

In the Season 2 Finale,  our close out guest, SEQRET known as a craftswoman and  master of seductive entertainment, joins the Worst Things First Crew to dive deep into the world of exotic dancing.  All the juice is squeezed in this episode, from common rookie hustle mistakes that mess up the bag for everybody, to handling the body odor of guests, to knowing better than to mix business with pleasure, and family opposition vs. suppor...

Owner and operator of Tutus & Tennis Shoes, Kanisha Tillman, joins the WTFP crew to discuss the reality of a war on poverty and the lack of opportunity that results from it, which in turn impacts the upbringing and development of all children, but in particular, those of color.  This realization combined with her passion to uplift and provide viable hair care options for young black girls led to her current niche in providing h...

Graphic artist Kevin Ha joins the WTFP studio to get to the rock bottom of being a young artist in a world steeped in uncertainty and constant revelation, while also living with a degenerative disability.  Ha (21yr) breaks down the effects of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, which impacts the ability to build muscle, and how this has shaped his tendency to think 3 moves ahead, while also growing to recognize and empathize with the fati...