Brews, Beards, & Shipwrecks

Royal Ruckus
Brews, Beards, & Shipwrecks

BBS is a podcast hosted by Jamey Bennett, also known as Chunjay of positive hip-hop crew, Royal Ruckus, about music and culture, faith and doubt, beers and beards, and the shipwrecks in life.

  1. 12/03/2023

    DJ Sean P & Royal Ruckus Mixtape: The Life Cycle of Man and Cicada

    The Life Cycle of Man and Cicada By Joshua Gibbs and Jamey Bennett The average man knows little of cicadas, thinks rarely of cicadas. And yet on the rare occasion he hears the word “cicada,” his mind invariably drifts off into those few truths about the insects which he was taught in grade school: the cicada lives underground for seventeen years, emerges briefly, dies. A certain kind of man cannot recall such claims without immediately thinking of himself, staring into the distance, and wondering if he is truly a man, or if he is, in fact, a cicada. The life cycle of a cicada appeals to a man. When I was a child, I was taught that cicadas slept for all those seventeen years. Sadly, not every naturalist is still convinced of this, though poets yet carry a torch for the truth. To sleep for seventeen years, to wake briefly, soon to die…how sweet would life seem if it had been anticipated in dreams for so long? The poet is neither convinced that nature has commanded the cicada to spend so long underground. The poet knows the cicada has chosen to stay underground all these years, and that he might emerge from the earth when he pleases. The cicada has said, “It is better this way,” though his residency with the dead, in Hades, is not obligatory and not tenured. The cicada is free and stays underground by choice. It is purely coincidental that seventeen years is the given term of these cicadas. Someday, these cicadas will have their Che Guevara, their Óscar Romero, their Picasso…and he will sleep for thirty-six years, or fifty-nine, or ninety-one years. We suspect the creature who makes company with Hades himself for seventeen years might be capable of doing so interminably. Have we numbered every cicada emerging from the ground? Have we truly kept track of their departures, their arrivals? Have we only said they sleep “seventeen years” because we tired of putting hash marks on the cell walls? “No one will count longer than this.” Who can say? The death and lust rattle you hear this summer’s eve might be a millennium in the making. The life cycle of a cicada appeals to a man. The man wants to believe that he, too, might only have been sleeping up until now, and that the emergence from the death of sleep this very morning might be the inauguration of a brief, golden age. “Will I now truly live? Has it always been a slumber and am I only now waking?” The man wants to believe this is true. He has long been underground, and no matter his activity, he recasts all his labor as nothing more than a patient biding of time. A man interprets patience into the long haul of his already-lived life. “I was always waiting.” A man longs to see the light of day as though he were a cicada, fingers emerging from the dirt, and then hoisting himself out. A man longs to see the world as a kind of egg from which he hatches after a beginning-less gestation period. “It will all end soon,” says the cicada man, although the cicada man is forever caught between the contradiction of a thing beginning and a thing ending. Is this the seventeen year slumber or the two months of waking? The question cannot be answered, and every bottle of wine might be the last before death; and every bottle of wine might be opened, poured, and break on the tongue as a revelation— not the end, but the beginning of the end. After a thousand years of sleep, what kind of death is possible for the cicada? The cicada is the resurrection creature. The chasm between life and death narrows to crossing points suddenly, unpredictably. While science has said the cicada wakes only to procreate, the poet knows the cicada wakes simply to live. Is a life of sixty days less meaningful than a life of sixty years? Meaning is not discerned in quantity; a moment in the soul is without end. The man who imagines the cicada emerging only to procreate falsely intuits sudden verve, anxiety and desperation in the cicada. How could such be true of a creature with th

    28 min
  2. 10/04/2023

    Sivion of Deepspace5: Maintaining Hope in the Face of Adversity

    What's up good people! We got a treat for y'all on this episode. This one's been a long time comin', but without further delay we present the multitalented Sivion of the legendary Deepspace 5 crew! As you'll be able to hear, we really enjoyed this conversation! We kicked this one off with what we were drinking, and then move into the beard care section of the episode. After we dissect the finer things of creams and combs we chop it up about parenting and career paths before discussing Siv's history in music and how dual love for the sax and the mic. He's got a few projects in the works that we're excited about, which leads us to discuss the labels he's been on how those connections were made. After the music talk we get into the deep waters (see what I did there?) of the music industry and its effect on the youth and society, as well as the evolution of the "Christian" hip-hop scene. Lastly we get into the shipwreck of the show where Sivion shares with us some health issues he's been dealing with for the past few years, how it's been affecting his life, how he's coping with it, and how he was able to take something negative and turning it into something beautiful. This truly was a blessing to have this conversation. We hope you're as encouraged listening to this episode as we were having it. Check us out on Instagram: @brewsbeards @royalruckusofficial @justjamey @nomadikvagabond @sivionds5 Be sure to hit up illect.com or illect.bandcamp.com to pick up music by Sivion (including his latest album Str8 Shot) as well as plenty other quality releases.  Song at the end was "What It Is" by Sivion produced by Malex off the latest LP "Str8 Shot" on Illect Recordings Apologies for the technical difficulties! Be sure to like, share and subscribe!!! Peace! Nomadik Vagabond

    2h 4m
  3. 08/05/2023

    Johnny Anomaly: Healing with Spoken Word.

    Welcome back people! Forgive the hiatus! We know it's been a hot minute since you've heard from us, but the wait is worth it! We got some heat to make the summer just a little bit hotter! We're kicking off this episode with the longest intro we've ever had wit Jamey and Nomadik chopping it up about parenthood and hip-hop. We're then joined by our guest spoken word artist Johnny Anomaly host of the podcasts Creative Coping and the Johnny Anomaly show. Before we get into the meat and potatoes of the show we discuss what we're drinking (shout out to Athletic Brewing, Pono Brewing, and Jack Daniels) and probably have the longest discussion we've had on non-alcoholic beers.  We gotta cover beard care! So the three of us chop it up about what we're doing for the health and beauty of our facial hair. Finally Johnny shares with us how the loss of his son inspired him to start the Creative Coping podcast and writing and performing spoken word pieces. He shares how being creative helped him process the stages of grief and how he was able to translate that into teaching school kids about spoken word and poetry. helping them unlock the creativity within them. Thank you all for tuning in and we hope you enjoy the episode! peace, Nomadik You can find Johnny Anomaly on Instagram; @johhny_anomaly @creativecopingpod  and you can check his spoken word pieces at johnnyanomaly.bandcamp.com. Also be sure to check out his podcasts wherever you get your podcasts at. As always you can find us on instagram at: @brewsbeards @nomadikvagabond @royalruckusofficial @justjamey also be sure to hit up www.mrrogersoftherapgame.com to peep the new Royal Ruckus EP as well as royal ruckus.bandcamp.com to download music and cop merchandise. Lastly hit up locustfist.com to peep the new Shadow Of The Locust album "a Mighty Army Cometh" (also streaming on all major DSP's) as well as custom ink.com/fundraising/amac2 to cop a shirt to help support the new album as well.

    1h 43m
5
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16 Ratings

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BBS is a podcast hosted by Jamey Bennett, also known as Chunjay of positive hip-hop crew, Royal Ruckus, about music and culture, faith and doubt, beers and beards, and the shipwrecks in life.

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