A Week in the Wild: Volume 3

·1 hr 27 min·5 clips

Ghostface Killa said he was 'just making stuff up' because the words sounded good.

1. A Week in the Wild opens with Jimmy Wills and Jeremy Caton saying they are reacting to current events rather than reporting the news. 2. Jeremy Caton starts with the 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees list, focusing on Outkast and Wu-Tang Clan. 3. He says Outkast helped 'redefine hip hop' and put the South on the map. 4. He recalls hearing Method Man in high school and realizing Wu-Tang Clan sounded unlike the rap he knew. 5. The hosts describe Wu-Tang as a group of about 10 to 12 MCs with distinct styles, not a single-voice act. 6. They point to 'Enter the 36 Chambers' as an album that still feels relevant from beginning to end. 7. Jeremy says Ghostface Killa later admitted he was 'just making stuff up' because the sound worked. 8. The segment treats that confession as evidence of craft, not a loss of credibility. 9. Jimmy Wills and Jeremy Caton then turn to Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025. 10. They note the timing of his death after a visit from Vice President J.D. Vance, whose birth certificate name is given as James Bowman. 11. The hosts discuss the conclave scheduled for May 7 and the secret process used to elect a new pope. 12. They describe Francis as a pope who emphasized the poor, rejected ostentation, and lived in a lower-grade papal apartment. 13. The conversation also covers Donald Trump's joke that he would like to be pope. 14. Jeremy Caton says that kind of joke keeps attention on spectacle instead of deportations, economic anxiety, and the consequences of Trump's first 100 days. 15. The episode moves to Canada's snap federal election and Mark Carney's Liberals defeating Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives, then to a Greenville, North Carolina, Camping World flag dispute and Jefferson Griffin's challenge to Allison Riggs in the North Carolina Supreme Court race. 16. The hosts connect Canada's result to voters rejecting Trump-like threats about annexing Canada as the 51st state. 17. The tone is conversational, sarcastic, and highly referential, with repeated asides, anecdotes, and rapid topic shifts. 18. The style mixes pop-culture memory with political commentary, moving from Wu-Tang Clan to papal succession to North Carolina elections. 19. Listeners who like newsy banter about music, religion, and state politics would get the most out of it. 20. Listeners wanting a tightly focused, single-topic discussion would probably skip it.

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A loose, self-aware pass through current events, anchored by a Hall of Fame list and a Greenville flag dispute.

The episode ties a 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame list to a Greenville flag dispute, and it does so with a clear sense of what it is and is not doing.

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If you want your headlines with side-eye, this one starts with the 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and a giant flag in Greenville.

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