Common Sense in a World That’s Lost Its Mind | Let ’R Rip Podcast

DeWayne Maynard, better known online as Crews Control / CRWSCNTRL never planned on becoming a voice followed by more than a million people.

He started recording his thoughts, questioning what he was seeing around him, and saying what he actually believed.

Then everything changed.

His content exploded online, his platform grew, and suddenly a guy sharing his perspective found himself in the middle of conversations about politics, culture, race, family, fatherhood and the direction of America.

But this episode isn’t about picking a political team.

It’s about thinking for yourself.

On Season 2, Episode 6 of the Let ’R Rip Podcast, Jake Sirokman and Mikey Getz sit down with Crew for an unfiltered conversation about what happens when common sense collides with a culture increasingly built around outrage, algorithms and political division.

Crew explains why he doesn’t blindly follow one political side. He grew up in a Democratic family and openly acknowledges there are things he agrees with on the left and things he believes the conservative side gets wrong. His approach is much simpler: look at what’s actually happening, question it, do your homework and form your own opinion.

The conversation gets into the pressure to think a certain way because of your race, demographic or political affiliation; why Crew sometimes waits 24 hours or longer before reacting to breaking stories; and why critical thinking has become increasingly important in an environment where being first often matters more than being right.

From there, things go everywhere.

Politics as reality television. Social-media fear mongering. Political polarization. The Tupac case. Traveling across America and discovering that real communities often look very different from how they’re portrayed online. The difference between digital outrage and actual human interaction.

Then the conversation moves somewhere even more important: