Once again, it’s on… Best Friend Weekend back with your weekly fix of stories and events from the culture for this third week of August in 2023.  Rumble Williams led off the pod by talking about 50 years of hip-hop (01:00) which led to us discussing the good and bad messages that rap music can provide (02:00).  Next. Aldo let us know What Burned His Boudin this week including Usher and Kiki in a music video (12:00) and heat exhaustion/stomach bugs (20:00).  After this, we talked about how folks at Target and Starbucks have been trying to reverse equity initiatives (27:00), school getting off to a rocky start at Houston ISD (38:00), and a 12-year-old getting jammed up by the cops in front of his dad (48:00).  To end the episode, we talked about Michael Oher not really being adopted (57:00) and gave our Big Three athletes that we wouldn’t have known if it wasn’t for the big screen (1:00:00).

Blindsided

Interview with HISD Trustees Placido Gomez and Dani Hernandez on the HISD bond referendum

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Interview with Ann Eagleton of Community Voices for Public Education, on the HISD bond referendum

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Interview with Ruth Kravetz of Community Voices for Public Education on the HISD bond referendum

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Interview with Maria Benzon, candidate for HISD Trustee, District V

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Interview with Audrey Nath, candidate for HISD Trustee, District VII

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Interview with Felicity Pereyra, candidate for HISD Trustee, District I

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Interview with Bridget Wade, incumbent HISD Trustee in District VII

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Interview with Robbie McDonough, candidate for HISD Trustee, District V

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