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ICYMI: "Music is the Weapon of the Future" (w/ Jason King)

12/16/2025 • 49 min

We bring back George's conversation with Jason King, Dean of the USC Thornton School of Music, a musician, music historian and much, much more. Jason talks about how to live the summoned life, how to be a citizen of the world, the lost art of artist development and how artists like SZA and Beyoncé curates their influences and makes them new. For more Jason, chec… Play episode

“Queer Superpower” (w/ Ian L. Haddock)
ICYMI: "Just Getting Started" (w/ Angelica Ross)
"Creating Music That Feels Good" (w/ Julian King)
"There is Always Pop Culture" (w/ Shar Jossell)
"Is Writing Activism?" (w/ Leah Johnson)
ICYMI: "Choosing to Remember" (w/ Sapphire)
"Make Something Shake” (w/ Sean Coleman)
“Without a Vision, People Perish” (w/ Bishop Joseph W. Tolton)
"Art Should Agitate" (w/ Charlene A. Carruthers)
"Focus on Living" (w/ Greg Mathis Jr.)
"Toni Morrison, Editor" (w/ Dana A. Williams)
"Revealing Times" (w/ Yvie Oddly and Ryan Mitchell)
"Stop Giving Your Power Away" (w/ Nathan Hale Williams)
ICYMI: "The Freedom Was the Star" (w/ Bob the Drag Queen)
"What White Supremacy Does to Your Mental Health" (w/ Shahem Mclaurin)
"Radical Kink" (w/ Mikelle Street)
"Ballroom is Revolutionary" (w/ Michael Roberson)
“A Healthy Diet of Black Cinema” (w/ Stephen Winter)
"This Arab is Queer" (w/ Elias Jahshan)
"Getting Your Feet Wet" (w/ Obio Jones)
"A New Hope" (w/ Hope Giselle)
"The Preschool to Prison Pipeline" (w/ Karen "Dr K" Baptiste)
“Super Gay and Super Black” (w/ Emil Wilbekin)
"Noah's Arc Returns" (w/ Darryl Stephens and Patrik-Ian Polk)
"A Day at DC Black Pride (w/ Twiggy Pucci Garçon)"
"The Expat Life" (w/ Imani Bashir)
"None of Y'all Scare Me" (w/ Preston Mitchum)
"What is Stopping You?" (w/ Kevin Carnell)
"Music is the Weapon of the Future" (w/ Jason King)
"Celebrating Marsha" (w/ Tourmaline)
"Pop Culture Made Me Who I Am” (w/ Ira Madison III)
"An Exercise in Bias" (w/ Lillian-Yvonne Bertram)
"Number One Most Challenged Author" (w/ Maia Kobabe)
“Your Voice is Your Weapon” (w/ Rita Omokha)
"They're Coming for Everyone" (w/ Dominique Jackson)
"Choosing to Remember" (w/ Sapphire)
"The Freedom Was the Star" (w/ Bob the Drag Queen)
“If It Doesn’t Scare You, It’s Not Worth Doing” (w/ Gabrielle Union)
"Refusing to Be Cowed" (w/ Nic Stone)
“Stop Hating, Start Studying” (w/ Franchesca Ramsey)
"The End of Love" (w/ Sabrina Strings)
"Slay the Dragon in Your Mind" (w/ Erika Alexander)
"Give the Thing That You Want" (w/ Darnell Moore)
"Just Getting Started" (w/ Angelica Ross)
"Are We Back in the 19th Century?" (w/ Keith Boykin)
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