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Race Against The Machine Show's Podcast

30 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings

Your irreverent source for discourse on all things regarding race and racism! Hosts Scott Woods & AaronNoName unpack, dissect and otherwise eviscerate the headlines and more each episode with the kind of talk your barbershop won't let you have.

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Episodes

Episode 57: Episode 54 - Now With 100% More Live Road Action

December 19, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 113 MB

The Fellas (Scott Woods and Aaron NoName) hit the road to do a rousing live recording in front of a college audience at DePauw University for the 2023 Students of Color Leadership Conference. Recorded live November 4, 2023. 

Episode 56: Episode 53 - Everything Black Everywhere All At Once

May 14, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 128 MB

The Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) sound off on Richard Dreyfuss' black out, real representation, a Black Cleopatra, CNN's Trump bet, Alex Haley, and gentrification police.

Episode 55: Episode 52 - Budget Your Black Empathy

March 21, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 151 MB

The Fellas (Scott Woods and Aaron NoName) bring you irreverent and perhaps too-real barbershop takes on The Oscars, Jonathan Majors signing us up for the Army, Bethany Mandel's Woke blackout, Cop City, and how cities treat Black art.  It's a take no prisoners kind of situation over here.

Episode 54: Episode 51 - Respectability Fest

February 06, 2023 00:00 - 58 minutes - 99.6 MB

It's been a long time, but The Fellas (Scott Woods and Aaron NoName) are back to weigh in on Black History Month cop cars, Kyre Nichols, Black Panther 2 criticism, Chappelle and Jewish criticism, AND MORE. Your irreverent source for discourse on all things related to racism and what it do is here.

Episode 53: Episode 50 - What did the 5 fingers say to the Oscars?

March 29, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 155 MB

Okay, here's the situation... The Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) weigh in on the only thing everyone and their mother is talking about: Will Smith, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith and the Oscars. Also, a stop over in D.C. to rap about Ketanji Brown Jackson's detractors. Our 50th (official) episode!

Episode 52: Episode 49 - Get your sunflower seeds out my pocket

March 10, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 157 MB

The Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) return with takes on banking with Ryan Coogler, the death of the midterms, judging supreme court justices, Kanye's documentary, and the war in Ukraine. 

Episode 51: Episode 48 - I'm not prejudiced. I'm postjudiced.

October 15, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 134 MB

The Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) return with the strength of street knowledge to unpack AT&T going in the paint for white supremacy, Black Panther's Shuri dropping her Marvel bag and other anti-vax missteps, Jon Gruden's emails, and Dave Chappelle. Also witness a real time negotiation to replace the term racism with something surely worse.

Episode 50: Episode 47 - It's Not Pessimism If It's True

May 27, 2021 00:00 - 58 minutes - 106 MB

The Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) wrestle with crime, whether George Floyd Park can be allowed to exist, Palestine, and critical race theory. SO not safe for work.

Episode 49: Episode 46: Culture Verzuz Commerce

March 20, 2021 00:00 - 27 minutes - 38.1 MB

This is a special edition of RATM where the Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) unpack the recent sale of Verzuz and its potential cultural implications in a breezy 28 minutes.

Episode 48: Episode 45 - That Type 1 Diabetes Racism

March 15, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 89.4 MB

The Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) dashing Stacey Dash's hopes of returning to the cookout, crown Meghan Markle and Prince Harry interview upside the head, the George Floyd settlement, and dig into Michael Brown Sr.'s $20 million ask of Black Lives Matter.

Episode 47: Episode 44 - Executive Disorders

February 01, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 59 MB

The Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) body check the presidential inauguration, occasional poetry critics, resigning police chiefs, and run down Biden's executive orders so far to see if Black folks got anything yet.

Episode 46: Episode 43 - That Raw Uncut Insurrection

January 08, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 175 MB

The Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) return from the ashes of 2020 to dig into the D.C. insurrection, white reactions to Stacey Abrams, Soul, the nihilism of Black capitalism, and living in the hunting grounds of Columbus, Ohio. Also, a return of the Racist of the Week.

Episode 42 - Streets Won't Let Us Chill

October 08, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 140 MB

The Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) get into a post-Breonna Taylor indictment world, COVID theories, and a world that is otherwise Trumptasic.

Episode 41 - Protests

May 30, 2020 00:00 - 57 minutes - 104 MB

The Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) unpack Black protest and why people cry over broken windows and not dead Black people.

Episode 40 - What's wrong with the way we discuss the state of Black people

May 28, 2020 00:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MB

This episode has the Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) breaking down why all of the discussions about Black people sound like they're from 1920 and not 2020. YES THE SHOW IS STILL RETIRED. We just had extra stuff from our last recording and this topic really stood on its own.

Episode 39 - Black Steel in the Hour of Corona

May 25, 2020 00:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MB

The Fellas - Scott Woods & Aaron NoName - have returned with a new episode of their retired podcast, Race Against the Machine! They go in on Joe Biden's Blackometer and what black votes are good for, COVID-19, how they're dealing with Rona, The Granola Bar Conundrum, and omelettes. They only do 1-2 surprise episodes per year, and you certainly have enough time to check them out now. NSFW, your momma, or your book club.

Episode 38 - This Was Supposed To Be About Jay-Z But Then Feelings

August 23, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 136 MB

The Fellas - Scott Woods & Aaron NoName - come out of retirement (again) with a surprise episode that was supposed to be about Jay-Z and the activism of owning a football team, but then took a turn into the hopelessness of conversations about race when your 'hood isn't enough, and THEN it all took a turn into the personal.

Episode 37 - Election Shade So Dark You'll Think It's An Eclipse

July 08, 2019 00:00 - 36 minutes - 67.6 MB

Surprise mini-episode! The Fellas - Scott Woods & Aaron NoName - recorded a bunch of stuff about everything in the news right now but only this 35 minutes of election shade made the quality cut.

Episode 36 - All Your Black History Month Are Belong To Us

February 13, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 218 MB

Almost a year to the day The Fellas (Scott Woods and Aaron NoName) return for another surprise episode in which they totally level Virginia blackface, Liam Neeson, white house parties, Democrats and so much more. Also: the return of Cloudy/Clear Racism and their Racist of the Week features!

Episode 35b - Why Don't We Care About Things?

January 29, 2018 00:00 - 48 minutes - 89.1 MB

In the second part of this one-off episode out of the blue, The Fellas (Scott Woods & Aaron NoName) engage why America doesn't seem to care about anything, the final word on voting, the Letterman/Obama show, and black comedian shade. You never know when they're coming back, so catch 'em while you can.

Episode 35 - One Year Blacker

January 26, 2018 00:00 - 59 minutes - 108 MB

The Fellas return for a special one-off, 2-part episode! One year after retiring the podcast, Scott Woods and Aaron NoName take on the government shutdown, the death of hope, I(CE)rish immigration, whether or not you're allowed to watch the Superbowl, Mo'Nique vs. Netflix, and more. PART 1 OF 2!

Episode 34 - The Last Show

January 10, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 217 MB

In their final episode, the Fellas - Scott Woods & Aaron NoName - perform an Obama Exit Review, discuss the war on the poor, cross-examine Dylann Roof on trial, get in the ring with Dr. Umar Johnson’s beef with common sense and other black nationalist baggage, defeat black homophobia with James Baldwin’s pinkie finger, review Fences and Hidden Figures, and take a look back on how some of their predictions in the world of racism panned out.

Episode 33 - How We Ruined Everything

December 07, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 132 MB

The Fellas - Aaron NoName and Scott Woods - speak on The Pentagon’s red tape cover-up, identity politics vs. white money, the movie Moonlight vs. black homophobia amped on toxic masculinity, what the real goal behind a Trump presidency is, the future of the black vote, and how our podcast messed around and broke everything.

Episode 32 - Trump Won, America Lost

November 16, 2016 00:00 - 41 minutes - 76.1 MB

The Fellas are a little blue after Trump's win in what turned out to be their shortest episode to date.

Episode 30 - Nate Parker, Rape & Art

August 29, 2016 00:00 - 53 minutes - 98.3 MB

Scott Woods and AaronNoName focus on the Nate Parker case and what it means for rape culture and black people. A special one-topic episode.

Episode 29 - The Police Abuse Endgame

August 09, 2016 00:00 - 44 minutes - 82.2 MB

Co-hosts Scott Woods and Aaron NoName discuss cops on fleek, Korryn Gaines, and dive into the rabbit hole of what it would take to get cops to stop killing black people at random.

Episode 28 - Alton, Philando, Dallas & Lemonade

July 08, 2016 00:00 - 58 minutes - 107 MB

The Fellas - Scott Woods & AaronNoName - jump right onto the the most recent high-profile instances of police abuse as well as the devastating news out of Dallas, and perhaps most importantly, how to find joy in a lemonade stand.

Episode 27 - Prince, Afrika, Nina, Beyonce, Larry & Barry

May 10, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 170 MB

The Fellas – Scott Woods & AaronNoName – unpack West Point's investigation of black fists, take sips of Beyonce’s Lemonade, discuss Afrika Bambaataa’s sexual allegations (and hip hop’s silence), blast the Nina Simone movie-cum-dumpster fire, focus on the meaning of Prince, beat up Larry Wilmore calling President Obama his, um, friend, play the presidential version of Russian roulette, and more.

Episode 26 - Respectable Black Science Troll Rallies

March 16, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 181 MB

AaronNoName takes the reigns, pulling out all the stories that strike his fancy. It's a more cerebral affair than usual as the fellas take on eugenics, how old white people are, the problem with respectability politics, DNA versus justice, Scott's Crab Shack troll game, Trump rallies, and a weird social experiment called Aaron's Race Card Snatchback. It's like a black science fair on lean.

Episode 23 - Is "The Man" Real? : The Wizard of Racism

November 30, 2015 00:00 - 1 hour - 114 MB

The Fellas - Scott Woods and Aaron NoName - discuss important topics like terrorism and Chicago's cop cover-up...but then answer the most important question of all: who CONTROLS racism? Is The Man real?