Open Mike Eagle

Hip-hop artist Open Mike Eagle joins Adam this week to speak candidly on what it’s really like to be a musician in the midst of a pandemic, how rapidly the industry has changed and if you can really have a career in music in 2020.

The Boys and OPEN MIKE EAGLE make a writers room for their freestyle rap.

What’s poppin, con-gregation? This week Open Mike Eagle is on the pod to break down the hip hop hoax from across the pond. Then, the work place accident one man fell for, but his insurance company didn’t. 

Sources: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/rknaa6/meet-the-two-scottish-rappers-who-conned-the-world [google.com]

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/02/01/us/new-jersey-insurance-fraud-fall-scli-intl/index.html [amp.cnn.com]

Open Mike Eagle and Baron Vaughn of The New Negroes join Andrew and Tawny to discuss caller questions about a theatre group looking for actors of color, a white woman looking for advice on her racist family meeting her black boyfriend for the first time, and more. As always, leave us a message about anything you think is racist at (323) 389-RACE.

This episode is brought to you by The Sun is Also a Star.

Negin is joined by Open Mike Eagle and Jessie Gaskell for Fake the Nation’s first “trimulcast.” The three discuss the right-wing internet echo chamber and how it relates to recent tragedy in New Zealand. Then they ask: Why is Beto jumping on tables all the time? Why was “One Day at A Time” cancelled and what would happen if Netflix just disappeared?

This episode is sponsored by Vistaprint (www.vistaprint.com/FAKE), Pact (www.wearpact.com code: FAKETHENATION), and CBS – The Good Fight (www.cbs.com/FAKE).

This week’s super-sized Supergroup features musician Eric Slick (Dr. Dog, Lithuania), actor Kristian Bruun (Orphan Black, Carter), and rapper-comedian-multi-hyphenate Open Mike Eagle. Together with Alex and Tawny, the band writes a soulful song about feeling like an outsider.