Re:Fresh Podcast

I must apologize for another week there won’t be a live blog for our show on GhettoRadio.

There will be a full show from 2pm-6pm EST. Tune in here

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — This city is best known for a couple of things: Green chilies and the balloon fiesta. To a certain crowd, however, it is the crown jewel of skateable concrete ditches.

“It’s like a wonder of the world, or a Mecca,” says Robin McGuirk, 35, who came all the way from Portland, Oregon, to join 70 or so other longboarders from across North America for an annual competition colloquially known as Ditch Slap.

For a full week earlier this month, skaters aged 14 to 50-plus tore through the city’s concrete drainage ditches, participating in events such as a banked ditch bordercross, a giant banked ditch slalom and a series of school-bus-ferried freeride runs, which are the skating equivalent of helicopter skiing.

“There is really no place like Albuquerque,” says McGuirk.

Ditch Slap is the brainchild of Joe Lehm and started in 2007. Lehm, who owns a skate shop and skate school in Santa Fe, once organized nationally known downhill events but grew tired of that. Looking for something new, he decided to throw his efforts behind an event that would capitalize on Albuquerque’s unique ditches.

Lehm, 50, grew up outside Albuquerque and says local skaters have been riding the concrete channels since the late 1970s. Today they’re favored among longboarders worldwide who enjoy carving perfectly transitioned banks that run for miles.

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Important questions are answered on this episode such as: how informed are Fox News viewers? How strong is Will Smith pimp slap? Can you take a zebra into a bar? And just how close are we to a terrifying future where soldiers have exoskeletons and robots can feel? We’ll also talk about getting old, what we want from music videos, comic book movies and more.

Sunday 2pm-6pm EST on GhettoRadio

Playlist
Killer Mike - Go!

Sol - Be Good or Be Careful FEATURED
Doujah Raze - Hard Times
L-PRO - Walk of Life feat Asa
Thaddeus David - Society FEATURED

Bambu - Rather Seen feat Malcom and Martin FEATURED
Aztek The Barfly - Barcode
El-P - Works Every Time
Black Milk & Danny Brown - Zap

La - Alley Way FEATURED
Ekko Effect - Pain
Jeff Spec - The Power of One feat Narai
Gabriel Teodros - Goodnight FEATURED

Lushlife - Still I Hear the Word Progress feat Styles P FEATURED
Max B & Toothtaker - Hold On
Denzel Curry - Trippy Phonk 1993 feat New Era Yung Kane
Main Attrakionz - Green Ova To The Top FEATURED

MisterE - What’s On?

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New video from Clear Soul Forces

We’ve featured this song on the show before and, of course, we love what Lushlife puts down including this music video which is as weird as they come….just like we like ‘em.

This movie is funny, oddly touching and seriously motivating. I’ve been the target of insanely harsh criticism at times and it’s really hard to know how to deal with that. We all know what it’s like to sit in front of a computer and type mean spirited things about people who will probably never read them…but what happens when they do read them? Would you apologize if you were confronted about your shitty opinions? All of these things are wrapped up in this movie.

Good on Jamie Kennedy for making this.

See it on Netflix or YouTube

I will be unable to do the live blog again this week. I apologize. I promise I will live blog and live tweet for the next episode. You’ll be able to find links to all the stories we talk about in the podcast post that we will post tomorrow.

Live blog or no, you should tune in at 2pm EST to GhettoRadio for our 27th episode!

What is so awesome that it merits pumping your fist victoriously for 16 hours? That would be pumping your fist victoriously for 16 hours. So James Peterson of Akron, Ohio superglued his hand closed and then pumped his arm continuously in an effort to get into the Guinness Book of World Records:

Fist pumping to the song Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen, Peterson stopped just after 3 a.m. Saturday at Manny’s Pub on Brown Street near the University of Akron.

Peterson, an unemployed electrician from Green and self-proclaimed “veteran fist pumper,” said he did not suffer any serious pain from the 16-hour effort, but “I did get a nasty sunburn on my arm.”

What a maroon.

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On this edition of Re:Fresh we’ll check on the outcome of the first Occupy Wall Street trial in New York, hear wha the Justice Department has to say about filming cops, the NATO summit in Chicago and see what Jay-Z and T.I. have to say about gay marriage. We’ll also check out dope new shit from the hottest new hotness: Krispy Kreme and the retarded cooking show. Sunday 2pm-6pm EST.

Big K.R.I.T. - Yea Dat Me

BlaZe - No Static FEATURED
Azealia Banks - Jumanji
Childish Gambino - We Ain’t Them
Kweku Kente - Confucian Epistemology FEATURED

Rocky Rivera - Beautiful Struggle (feat Otayo Dubb) FEATURED
Killer Mike - Reagan
Twista - I Ain’t Wired Right
G-Side - Look Up FEATURED

QuESt - One Way FEATURED
Dessa - The Bullpen
Fortunate Ones - Kings Ransom
Jetpack Jones - Long Run ft Jacob Es FEATURED
Nino Bless - Far Left (Freestyle)

Doomtree - Slow Burn / Bwan - Lyricists
Lushlife - Glistening / Planet Asia x G_Force - Corner Store
Prie - Welcome Back Home / Common Market - Push
Oddisee - Paralyzed / Kyzer Ricoy - Pulp Friction

Cocaine 80s - Queen To Be

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…but I’m exhausted and need to get some much needed sleep. I will post the show tomorrow afternoon….I promise.

Unless you’re dense or just an asshole, you know today is mothers day. Which means I have plans and won’t be able to do the live blog this week. We’ll have the links to all our stories this week posted along with the podcast on Monday. But we will be broadcasting the show as normal on GhettoRadio from 2pm-6pm EST.

On this weeks show: We’re back from a brief break. Joe tells us about his plans to head to North Dakota, we discuss the police beating of a homeless mentally ill man, Kelly Thomas, talk about the kid who was left in a DEA holding cell for 5 days, the Ex-BART cop who shot Oscar Grant dead want his job back and a man gets his nuts squeezed to death. We’ll also spend some time talking about beating off, giant nuts and 2001 A Space Odyssey. Sunday 2pm-6pm EST.

After the Smoke - Wallstreet FEATURED

La & Jester - Liars FEATURED
Locksmith - The Pit
Murs - Gods Gone Mad
Macklemore - Church feat Geo FEATURED

Sol - Paint FEATURED
Kweku.Kente - Some Pretty Lights (feat eKZ and John.Ave)
Jetpack Jones - Be Alone
MGK - Half Naked and Almost Famous
Chiddy Bang - All Things Go

G-Side - 24 Eight FEATURED
Casey Veggies - Verified
Ab-Soul - ILLuminate feat Kendrick Lamar
QuESt - Gambler

Thaddeus David - Dreams Got Dreams FEATURED
Chuuwee - The Great American Race
The Foodchain - Basically REMIX feat JD Era
Dyme Def - Not Even Jets can Fly FEATURED

Tahaj the First and DJ Kikkoman - Conversation FEATURED