Reggie Osse Puts It Together
The Hilarious World of Depression
American Public Media
4.8 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In one of the last interviews he gave, Reggie Osse, aka Combat Jack, talks about the connection between the status of the African-American man in contemporary society, the changing role of masculinity in hip-hop culture, and mental health. Osse was an important figure in hip-hop as a lawyer, editor, podcast host, and thinker. This interview was conducted in October of 2017, and Osse died on December 20th of that year.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Cameron Espazito and I have a lot of jobs. I'm an actor. You've seen me on ABC's and a million little things. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm a stand-up comic bestselling author, but I am no expert at survival. |
| 0:08.5 | On my new podcast Survivor Diet trying, we're going to learn together from shark attacks to |
| 0:13.8 | tsunamis and bad breakups. This is your one-stop shop to prepare for the absolute worst-case scenario. |
| 0:20.0 | Join me and some special guests on Survivor Diet trying a comedy podcast that prepares you for anything. |
| 0:26.4 | Listen and follow wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.6 | Is depression funny? There's nothing funny about being trapped in the depths and the midst of |
| 0:40.8 | depression. Like when you have nothing but despair, there's nothing funny about it. |
| 0:47.8 | Well, I think we can share some funny stories. I think there's some stories that are funny. |
| 0:52.6 | And I think when you look back and when you realize that, you know, there is hope and that you can |
| 0:57.1 | be okay. And you could look back at certain things and like I was so silly not to take this path. |
| 1:02.6 | But damn, I really did that. You know what I mean? So I think the story is, but there's nothing to |
| 1:07.9 | me. There's nothing hilarious about depression. It's the hilarious world of depression. I'm John |
| 1:14.7 | Mo. On this program, we talk to funny creative people about their experiences with depression. |
| 1:20.5 | My name is Reggie O. Say, also known as Combat Jack and we are in Brooklyn, New York. |
| 1:25.4 | And this episode is pretty unusual and I need a bit more time to set it up. |
| 1:29.6 | Between when we taped the interview and now, Reggie O. Say died. |
| 1:34.8 | Reggie hosted the Combat Jack Show podcast and he was an iconic figure in hip-hop, |
| 1:40.2 | former editor of the Source magazine, former attorney for Jay-Z and Sean Diddy-Kohms. He knew |
| 1:46.1 | everyone in that world. I talked with Reggie in October of 2017 and he was diagnosed with colon cancer |
| 1:53.4 | shortly after that interview. He died on December 20th. Our conversation was one of the last interviews |
| 1:59.8 | he gave. And ever since we taped, I had been talking about it to people, quoting it, bringing up |
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