This week...
- Dr. Nathan Robinson explains how to teach a computer to play chess.
- We speak with writer Kiese Laymon about growing up black in Mississippi.
- Author Wayne Grady reveals how he confronted the dead in his new novel, Emancipation Day.
- We hear a track from Blue Hawaii’s new album.
Plus, rappers EL-P and Killer Mike audit US Foreign Policy.
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Music:
Blue Hawaii "Try to Be"
Credits:
Hosted and produced by Anshuman Iddamsetty
Executive produced by Christopher Frey
Original theme music by Kirby Best
Podcast logo by Michael DeForge
Music from EL-P & Killer Mike’s Run The Jewels courtesy of Fools Gold Records:
EL-P & Killer Mike "DDFH"
EL-P & Killer Mike "36 Chain"
EL-P & Killer Mike "No Come Down"
EL-P & Killer Mike "Get It"
EL-P & Killer Mike "Sea Legs"
Additional music courtesy of the Free Music Archive:
Ergo Phizmiz "Simian Skylights March"
Jared C. Balogh "Micro Composition 1"
Afrika Pseudobruitismus "Love is Weird"
Jared C. Balogh "Strides"
The OO-Ray "Sleep Kingdoms"
Afrika Pseudobruitismus "Mr Wilson Metal Beach"
The Fucked Up Beat "Arrythmia II reflected in the windows of the Stock Exchange centers where they go to buy large quantities and shovel it away in cars built in their likeness"
The Masters of Harmony of Detroit "Seek"
Universal Jubilaires "Childhood Days"
Emerge "Innervate"
Immortal Beats "Oh Wee"
Ducktails "Live at FoEG"
Hypermagic "Start Again Start"
Lee Rosevere "Eileen"
Zachary Cale, Mighty Moon & Ethan Schmid "Trees Don’t Sleep"
