Recounting the Hurricane - 09/02/2021

Inside the Creative Influences of MVTT BLVC

The conversation moves through literary influence first, reflecting on the Beat generation and the restless, observational force of writers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. From there, it shifts into photography, examining the impact of William Klein — the New York street photographer whose raw, kinetic style helped redefine fashion imagery and visual storytelling — alongside Annie Leibovitz, whose portraiture and editorial sensibility left a lasting mark on contemporary image-making. The episode also explores the filmmakers who continue to inform MVTT BLVC’s visual and narrative instincts, including Christopher Nolan, Guy Ritchie, Spike Lee, and Kenya Barris. Altogether, this is a conversation about influence, authorship, style, and the artists who helped shape the MVTT BLVC creative language.

Public Power, Private Incentives

This episode of The PODCVST goes straight at power, contradiction, and the things polite people prefer not to say. Tyler starts with Karen Bass: a political figure whose story raises one of the most fascinating questions in Los Angeles politics. How do you go from revolutionary politics to City Hall? How do you go from the police watching you to the police shielding you? Tyler breaks down what that says about legitimacy, transformation, and why some people become more compelling the more they are criticized. From there, the episode pivots into a harder cultural conversation about masculinity, sex, and ambition. Tyler examines the claim that some straight-presenting men have crossed lines privately for money, industry access, or upward mobility, and what that reveals about desire, hypocrisy, image, and the silent arrangements behind public respectability. A blunt conversation on politics, secrecy, performance, and the price people are willing to pay for power.

Session 9 -I don't care about titling these anymore

This is a session about the usual stuff. Complants about skidrow, drugs, homeslessness, politics, social media, and being too tired to actually care. But the Session got done so...yeah.

Not Every Muslim Is an Extremist

In this session of THE PODCVST, I address a distinction that has become increasingly difficult for people to make in public discourse: the difference between Islam as a religion, Muslims as individuals, and extremism as a political, cultural, and ideological problem. This episode is not an attack on all Muslims. It is a direct rejection of the lazy thinking that treats an entire faith community as a monolith. At the same time, it is also a refusal to ignore radicalism, antisemitism, anti-Blackness, homophobia, and other forms of intolerance when they appear in any social or political space. The conversation is about honesty, sociology, culture, and the responsibility to criticize extremism without collapsing into blanket prejudice. In a society that claims to value freedom, pluralism, and moral consistency, that distinction still matters.

Recounting the Hurricane - 09/02/2021

In this episode, I recount the night I lost my apartment during the hurricane in New Jersey. From the early morning pounding at the door as neighbors came knocking, to wading through flood water in the dark, this is a personal reflection on fear, confusion, displacement, and survival. What began as one devastating night became a chain of events that carried me from New Jersey to New York, and eventually to Los Angeles. This is a record of what happened, what it felt like, and what remained after everything changed.