Ep.36 - eSports, Ras G & Deep Poverty

In a week where: 

1. A prison ID card once owned by late rapper Tupac Shakur has sold at an auction for $30,000 (£24,041). The sale set a world record for the most expensive piece of Tupac memorabilia ever sold at public auction.
2. Egan Bernal has become the first Colombian to win the Tour de France. 
3. Caster Semenya suffers another setback as the Swiss Supreme Court has U-Turned their recent allowance for her to complete.

In the Sports segment: (6:45) eSports is officially a phenomenon worth the attention. With weeks to go until the US Open, Flushing Meadows was recently swamped by fans of Fortnite. The game's "World Cup" boasted a $30M prize pool. The largest in eSports history, well over the average. The winner got $3M of it, which is more than the majority of the biggest sports tournaments, including the US Open. As fans numbers for eSports skyrocket, all other established Sports are slowly getting older.

For the 1st of two Life segments: (24:52) In the endless sludge pipe of content that is the President of the US, Ms Afua Hirsch delivers a great piece about the US city of Baltimore and the racial bombardment by Trump. She also links it to Boris Johnson and it all kind of sums up how I feel about it all.

In Music: (41:26) We say Rest in Beats to LA Producer Ras G, pioneer of the Brainfeeder collective and partly responsible for the re-vitalisation of the LA Jazz/funk/Hip-Hop scene. Which got me thinking about small communities and how they make us feel special.

Lastly, in Life: (55:00) A recent report shows that 4M people in the UK are in "Deep Poverty". The numbers have risen dramatically compared to earlier in the decade. But unfortunately, we won't care because EU Leave right? That's way more important...

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