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🗓️ 30 October 2022
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We’re faced with choices every day. Most are trivial and underwhelming to the point we don’t realize they’re even choices at all. Getting gas, whether or not to order take out, or the ever infamous quandary: “should I go to the gym?” There does, however, come those times when we’re forced to make more profound decisions…the type that could very well alter the trajectory of our future. We sat down for an interview with artist, public speaker, educator, and activist Blackliq. While he has achieved much in the entertainment space, his music was not the main topic of discussion. Instead, he told us exclusively and for the 1st time publicly, about the day a homicide detective showed up at his work back in 2004, informing him that his father was being charged with 1st degree murder.
Written by Michael Dunphy Jr., Executive Produced by Michael Ojibway. Special thanks to Blackliq.
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0:00.0 | The views expressed in the following episode are those of the subject's interview or individual presenters from the case. |
0:05.7 | They do not necessarily reflect the views of Reach Freaks LLC, the Invisible Choir Podcast or Cast Media. |
0:17.7 | Invisible Choir explores detailed depictions of violence and murder and is not appropriate for all audiences. |
0:24.8 | Listener discretion is advised. |
0:54.8 | Choices were faced with many of them every single day. Sure, most are small or insignificant. |
1:06.3 | Trivial things such as deciding to make our coffee in the morning or alternatively driving down the road and |
1:12.4 | shelling out cash for an overpriced latte out of sheer convenience. Regardless, a choice is made one way or the other. |
1:20.8 | The little ones don't mean much in the grand scheme of things, obviously. However, throughout the course of our lives, |
1:27.8 | there come moments occasionally where the choices we make are extremely impactful. |
1:33.0 | Turning points that can very well dictate our immediate and distant futures even. |
1:38.0 | Let's face it, there's no way we can control everything that comes our way no matter how hard we try. |
1:44.2 | And as it relates to tragedy, all of us inevitably face some form of hardship. It just comes in varying degrees and magnitudes where some instances are much harsher than others. |
1:56.7 | With that being said, we can't necessarily prevent it from arriving, right? |
2:02.1 | What we do have power over though is choosing how to respond, how we handle this difficulty in our lives. |
2:09.2 | How will we let those unforgiving and difficult times affect us? Will we let them break us and ruin our opportunity at a happy life? |
2:17.9 | Or will we find a way to overcome? |
2:21.1 | I would like to briefly preface that this episode is a bit different from our usual content. |
2:27.6 | While the subject matter of murder is still one of the foundational pillars behind this story, it will be from the opposite perspective. |
2:35.7 | The side we seldom hear from. Think from a moment how many times you've heard of a specific homicide and wondered what if that was me, but what I do if that was someone from my family. |
2:48.9 | While we had the unique and thought-provoking opportunity to speak with someone who knows exactly how that feels, but not from the victim's family. |
2:58.3 | This time, we spoke with a man who was forced to decide how he would move forward after his father was found guilty of first-degree murder. |
3:15.2 | So, all right, my name, everybody calls me Black Lake, I rap, I do music, but a little known fact, my name is Robert Fields, the second. |
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