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A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

#215: The Return of A-Trak

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8817 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2018

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome DJ, producer, Fool's Gold co-founder, travel professional, and our friend A-Trak back to the Upper West Side! We talk the 2nd Annual Goldie Awards (A-Trak's DJ & beat battle, happening Nov. 8th in Brooklyn - get your tickets at goldieawards.com), working with his brother Dave-1 from Chromeo, playing on the same Maxim bill as the Jackass guys (minus Johnny Knoxville), the hidden treasures in SkyMall, the infamous producer group chat that Just Blaze started, the long-rumored Cam'Ron project, Fool's Gold Day Off, what to do when a DJ has to use the bathroom, airlines losing his vinyl, fonts, design, perfectionism, his travel tips website Infinite Legroom, stories about Ice-T, Young Thug, Common, Nick Catchdubs, Lil Jon, Timbaland, Non Phixion, The-Dream, and much, much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, Jeff. Hey, Eric. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you? Doing well, thank you. You know what's going down next week, which is

0:07.2

Election Day? Election Day. And this isn't on some cool vote or die thing. This isn't on some like,

0:14.6

hey, your friends are voting, you should vote to. This is like a legit crossroads here. And, you know, beyond the normal inspiration that we bring to this is like a legit crossroads here and you know beyond the normal inspiration that we bring to

0:23.9

this podcast or anything in terms of a person's journey or the laughs that we bring on a weekly

0:30.7

basis this is some real shit here this is like you know be concerned that trump who's gotten

0:36.5

away with everything to this point,

0:38.5

will get away with everything going through the next, let's say, three terms that he has,

0:44.9

and then follows it up with his kids.

0:47.1

And it becomes not the democracy that you've known your whole lives, but on some,

0:52.8

the Trumps are going to be dictators in this country forever.

0:55.9

And if you think, hey, this is a little hyperbole, Eric's being a little like OD or extra,

1:01.1

and Jeff's about to jump in and say, like, hey, Eric is kind of right here.

1:06.0

I am kind of right.

1:07.4

And this isn't on some conspiracy theory like, hey, your phone listens to you.

1:12.2

And when you mention the word Connecticut on an Instagram live, more people from Connecticut

1:17.3

actually jump in. This is some real shit here. This is if you have a problem with anything that

1:23.5

has happened in the last week or so, the bombings, the shootings, the terrible non-reactions

1:30.9

that you're getting from the most powerful person in the free world, then go and do something

1:36.8

because this is important on so many levels, starting with the fact that the reason that Trump has gotten away with everything

1:46.1

is because he has all these people in Congress, in the Senate, in positions of power, who let him

1:54.2

get away with this stuff. But also, it's not just about Trump. And I hope that doesn't get lost in the headlines that we see every day that we're drowning in at this point.

2:06.3

Because if you hate gun violence, you can do something by voting for a Democrat.

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