Ep.32 - Stormzy, NBA Free Agency & Global Heating

In a week where: 

1. Wimbledon begins with plenty of amazing results including World No.2 Naomi Osaka crashing out of R1 & 15 Year Old Cori Gauff beating her idol Venus Williams. 
2. Hong Kong protests get violent as some protesters storm, vandalise & tag the walls of the Parliament Building. 
3. Max Verstappen charges through the field to win the Austrian GP, a far cry from the French GP which led to people asking "Is F1 dying?

In Sports: (6:10) NBA Free Agency is in the fullest of swings. Day 1 was the most eventful day of Free Agency the NBA has ever had and I decided that we would take a quick tour of teams not named the Los Angeles Lakers. Brooklyn is (on paper) relevant again, Philly has extended their championship window, the Utah Jazz is looking beast and I only scratched the surface.

In Film/TV: (21:30) The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS. The people responsible for the Oscars.) have released their invites to the Academy. 800+ people were invited this year but some of the invites and omissions are odd and makes me wonder whether the invites are a) Justified. And b) Partly why the winners can be so skewered.

In Music: (34:15) Stormzy made several statements during his Glastonbury performance. Black ballet, the symbolism of being a black rapper in front of a historically white festival and, what I want to talk about, how he has cemented my opinion that we're entering a Golden Age for UK Black Music.

Lastly, in Life, (42:12) The Antarctic is now melting at a crazy rate. But I instead talked about why the cycle of outrage, caring, not knowing what to do, realising it can't be remedied by a switch flip and then we move on with life until the next scary headline hits. It's a constant cycle and we need our respective Governments to make changes, make laws to do better as a society.

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Interlude - "Vista" By Poldoore
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