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Welcome to #rtbth - Real Talk: Beyond the Headlines /// #rtbth is a conversational podcast that deliberates a variety of cultural, societal, and science topics. Plenty of sports talk too! /// Featuring co-hosts, Herschel, Ehi, and Tunde. We are researchers and data analysts in our day jobs - critical thinkers with unpopular opinions and unusual perspectives on the podcast. /// We’re just a couple of ATLiens with microphones, plenty of hot takes, and willing to explore both the socially acceptable and barbarian sides of society, science, sports, and more.

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#rtbth LIVE with Emory U.
DEC 9, 2025
#rtbth LIVE with Emory U.
#rtbth records our first LIVE VIDEO PODCAST at Emory University!The co-hosts, Tunde and Herschel - both alumni of Emory University - teamed up with The Emory Alumni Association - sponsored by the Emory Impact Circles and the Caucus of Emory Black Alumni - to record a live podcast on Emory's campus.The co-hosts bring the usual conversational, informal and informed, and mildly spicy style of beyond the headlines real-talk. The broad topic for this conversation was consumption in the black community. We cover dark patterns, parasocial relationships, Tunde's fraught relationship with "YN" rap, black people using psychedelics and more! And of course we start the podcast addressing the rollback of DEI at Emory U. ReferencesEducation department threatens to cut public school funding over DEI practices At Emory University, the disbanding of DEI contradicts the school's progressive reputation Emory provides update on DEI offices and programs Q&A: Sears addresses DEI, open expression in first interview with Wheel - The Emory Wheel Law and Policy Efforts to Dismantle Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 7 Parasocial relationships, social media, & well-being - ScienceDirect AI chatbots are sycophants — researchers say it’s harming science AI sycophancy isn't just a quirk, experts consider it a 'dark pattern' to turn users into profit | TechCrunch Chapter 19: The AI-empowered dark patterns in: Handbook of Service Experience Dark Patterns | Business & Information Systems Engineering The Numbers Don't Lie: Why Is Rap Falling Off the Charts? - YouTube People Are OVER Rap Music… and We All Know Why - YouTube A guilty pleasure: The legal, social scientific and feminist verdict against rap - Ummni Khan, 2022 The complicated, tragic end to Tay-K’s race | The FADER Rapper Tay-K convicted of murder for second time in Texas Frontiers | The Need for Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy in the Black Community and the Burdens of Its Provision A systematic review of participant diversity in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy trials - ScienceDirect Psychedelics and Racial Justice | International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction Perceptions of psychedelic-assisted therapy among Black Americans
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68 MIN
Glaze You to Oblivion
AUG 23, 2025
Glaze You to Oblivion
Tunde and Herschel discuss how AI is glazing you and all of society into oblivion.ReferencesI love ZOTERO. : r/GradSchool Information literacy and chatbots as search • Buttondown GPT-5: HasAI Hit Plateau? | Mirage News America’s Unhealthy Relationship with Antidepressants - Mad In America Explained: The full saga of Kendra Hilty falling for her psychiatrist 'Zola' Review: A Twitter Thread Turns Into A Fever Dream On Film : NPR "I fell in love with my psychiatrist" - but did he do anything unethical? 2025 Top-100 Gen AI Use Case Report *UPDATED* Why It's Okay to Love Your Therapist - LindsayBraman.com Algorithms in Social Media Platforms AI investment led to zero returns for 95% of companies in MIT study China Is Quickly Eroding America’s Lead in the Global AI Race - WSJ AI used to make video of deceased victim deliver impact statement in court : NPR Jim Acosta interviews ‘made-up’ AI avatar of Parkland victim Joaquin Oliver |Parkland, Florida school shooting | The Guardian ETHEREAL Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster Ukraine Turns Frontlines Into Testbed for Foreign Military Tech, Draws 45 Potential Collaborators Did Albert Einstein Say World War IV Will be Fought 'With Sticks and Stones'? |Snopes.com Trump opens door to sales of version of Nvidia's next-gen AI chips in China | Reuters The Myth of AGI | TechPolicy.Press What if A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? | The New Yorker Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI |Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian With $93M Raised, Slingshot Debuts AI-Powered Therapy Service - Behavioral HealthBusiness Illinois bans AI therapy tools from making mental health decisions - Axios Chicago Prompt for Harry your ChatGPT Therapist : r/ChatGPT_Prompts Nevada Passes Law Limiting AI Use for Mental and Behavioral Healthcare | WilsonSonsini The Mismatch between Mental Health Care Access and Demand | U.S. GAO Data & Society — What Happens When People Turn to Chatbots for Therapy? Trust in the therapeutic relationship: Psychodynamic contributions to counsellingpsychology practice | BPS - British Psychological Society Corrective Emotional Experience: A Pathway to Emotional Healing - Chicago PsychoanalyticInstitute OpenAI’s GPT-5 Launch Causes Backlash Due to Colder Responses - The New York Times What is AGI? - Artificial General Intelligence Explained - AWS The AI Doomers Are Getting Doomier - The Atlantic Scarlett Johansson’s OpenAI clash is just the start of legal wrangles over artificial intelligence | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian FACSIMILE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster The Great Language Flattening - The Atlantic TRIANGULATE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster Inside Microsoft’s AGI Clause Fight With OpenAI 20 Years On From ‘Minority Report’, Are We Living In Spielberg’s Vision Of A Retail Future? AI sycophancy: The dangers of overly agreeable AI Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens. - The New York Times ‘I Feel Like I’m Going Crazy’: ChatGPT Fuels Delusional Spirals - WSJMeta is bringing the voices of Judi Dench, John Cena and Keegan-Michael Key to AI chatbot | CNN Business A flirty Meta AI bot invited a retiree to meet. He never made it home. AI Companion Nomi Promises 'Enduring Relationships,' But Incites Self-Harm, Other Horrific Acts Grok companions include flirty anime 'waifu,' anti-religion panda Have I Been Pwned? - Wikipedia The UK Shows How Not To Do Online Age Verification | Opinion - Newsweek AI Is A Money Trap How AI Conquered the US Economy: A Visual FAQ Nvidia Is 8% Of The S&P 500 Index - History Shows Beast Mode May End (NASDAQ:NVDA)| Seeking Alpha S&P 500’s impressive first half dominated by the ‘Magnificent Seven’ Empire of AI by Karen Hao: 9780593657508 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
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Supernova Kendrick
MAR 29, 2025
Supernova Kendrick
Part 1 of our podcast featuring JSwill, #rtbth west coast correspondent.Tunde gives JSwill the moniker of music genius.JSwill, an Angeleno, tells us about his experience living in LA during the LA wildfires.And Tunde crowns Kendrick Lamar the GOAT of hip-hop after he achieved Supernova Starpower.Btw, check out JSwill's HUMAN curated playlists on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@jswill3/playlists?view=1&sort=dd&shelf_id=5 ReferencesDo youhave a YouTube Music library? Instagram LAMayor Karen Bass' excuse for being in Ghana during fires L.A.Fire Department Budgets: What Happened? KendrickLamar's 'DAMN.' Wins Historic Pulitzer Prize In Music : The Record : NPR ArtistsWith Most No. 1 Albums on Billboard 200 Chart - Business Insider Swimming Pools(drank) by Kendrick Lamar - Music Charts KendrickLamar’s Super Bowl show reveals his true star power – Luminate Insights -Expression Africa GNX – KENDRICKLAMAR | Official Charts KendrickLamar's 'Not Like Us' Hits One Billion Spotify Streams MarketingLessons From Kendrick Lamar’s Monumental Year HowHot Is A Supernova? - Physics Frontier - YouTube Section.80(studio album) by Kendrick Lamar : Best Ever Albums Popmusic - Wikipedia DrakeIs PopTheUltimate Guide for Hip-Hop Concept Albums Namea Travis Scott lyric that doesn’t make any fucking sense : r/travisscott TravisScott’s ‘Utopia’ Lyrics Explained J.Cole'sBasketball Career Fits Perfectly Into His Personal Mythology So Who Won theDrake vs. Pusha-T Beef? KendrickLamar ‘Not Like Us’ Named Third-Best Song Of The Decade | HipHopDX Drake'sLegal Action Against UMG: Experts Weigh In Drakevs. UMG: The Legal Battle Behind the Rap Feud  Drake's$400M Universal Deal Was Reportedly 'One Of The Biggest Deals In Music History' KendrickLamar's 'GNX' Is the First Rap Album to Hit Major 2025 Milestone DaveFree Reveals Meaning of pgLang | Hypebeast Alex Gibney onX: "Recently, I have become dismayed at how Spotify slowly but surely usesits algorithms to steer my choices until I am just listening to the same songsover and over. On a bike ride, I went back to shuffle for the songs on the harddrive of my ipod. Rediscovered some good stuff." / X TheDeath of Personalization: How Music Streaming Algorithms Are Turning Us IntoPassive Listeners Hasstreaming made it harder to discover new music? | Music streaming | TheGuardianSpotify is full ofAI music, and it's ruining the platform - Fast Company SpotifyIs Filling Up With AI-Generated Music to Scam Revenue From Real Bands Drakediss track fuels a legal standoff over AI use | Coast Law Group Grip(album) - Wikipedia
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91 MIN
Fork in the Road
FEB 7, 2025
Fork in the Road
No intro music!!2025 has launched into a frenzy, starting off with a terrorist attack on the first in New Orleans, a surprise (officially) lawsuit from Drake the rapper suing Universal Music Group (and by proxy his archnemesis Kendrick Lamar), and then accelerating into the never-before-seen territory of government by Elon Trump after the Trump inauguration.And then Herschel got a completely unhinged email entitled "Fork in the Road."While we don't want to sound hyperbolic, January 2025 felt like a major inflection point along the trajectory of our nation - and our nation's collective (in)sanity.We had to do an emergency podcast to talk it out.#rtbthShow Referenceshttps://www.xxlmag.com/drake-taunted-kendrick-lamar-not-like-us-grammy-sweep/https://www.complex.com/sports/a/backwoodsaltar/jason-whitlock-joy-taylor-lawsuit-peanut-butterhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/us/reagan-airport-flights-congress.html?unlocked_article_code=1.u04.9zJ0.BdzHzVcAOoh5&smid=url-sharehttps://www.citationneeded.news/issue-75/https://www.boston.com/community/readers-say/2025/01/27/earthquake-experiences/https://wapo.st/3Q1PWpJhttps://www.opm.gov/forkhttps://www.axios.com/2025/01/30/elon-musk-government-takeover-federal-workershttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/opinion/nvidia-deepseek-ai-valuation-ouroboros.html?unlocked_article_code=1.u04.uupn.M6scifxbV8ME&smid=url-sharehttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/musk-federal-government.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE4.ClEt.Ci_S1nwmfdFB&smid=url-sharehttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/trump-musk-doge-engineers/681580/?gift=Jk8OVFznkwVV8TutfsyrUZqwHF_dzVVl3aXYVe9_DNY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharehttps://www.npr.org/2025/01/28/nx-s1-5277029/trump-memo-halt-fundinghttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/05/rfk-jr-hearing-black-people-immune-systemshttps://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/trofim-lysenko-soviet-union-russia/548786/https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315708652-18/neurohype-scott-lilienfeld-elizabeth-aslinger-julia-marshall-sally-satelhttps://x.com/billmaher/status/1885543037557694765https://www.econtalk.org/what-modern-medicine-gets-wrong-with-marty-makary/https://www.science.org/content/article/mixed-reactions-greet-trump-s-pick-longtime-fda-critic-head-agencyhttps://stanfordreview.org/why-i-believe-dr-jay-bhattacharya-will-make-a-phenomenal-nih-director-a-students-perspective/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/opinion/alzheimers-fraud-cure.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE4.JQVA.Uj6f7k_kBpuc&smid=url-sharehttps://www.science.org/content/article/damning-fda-inspection-report-undermines-positive-trial-results-possible-alzheimer-shttps://wapo.st/4hoRaHyhttps://archive.is/4kIp5https://wapo.st/40GAhRqhttps://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/05/12/cnn-ted-turner-lisa-napolihttps://news.bloomberglaw.com/employee-benefits/musk-defends-500-million-twitter-severance-suit-win-on-appealhttps://newrepublic.com/post/185832/donald-trump-roasted-concepts-planhttps://www.axios.com/2024/07/31/trump-nabj-interview-black-jobs-rhetorichttps://www.persuasion.community/p/dei-must-changehttps://wapo.st/4jQSnJyhttps://youtu.be/AkmkMPIW0MM?si=gM1e5YEuA1ylRsvihttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/magazine/anna-lembke-interview.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE4.ElCL.fsdM1n_mrrpl&smid=url-share
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82 MIN