The fullest room the show has had — seven voices, and it moves through three distinct halves.

First the card. Trewth on how the Neighborhood Kids video blew up and turned into a tour, then Red Shirt Mike arrives to break down Set the Bar's Ascension event: why the battlers aren't trash talking this time, the undercard, the rookie class, and what the league needs to get from 80 people in a room to 200. Mike Wiald talks facing Danny Myers in his first Canadian battle — a year off, the Ellipsis battle behind him, and what it means to be the face of a league. His message for Danny is twenty seconds and worth the whole segment.

Then LOCA returns, and the episode changes register completely. Raising a teenager, caregiving, 'Low Again' and the song she wrote coming down. Sobriety, step work, writing down resentments. Learning to sing after a mother who told her she couldn't. It is the most open anyone has been on this show.

Tiago Vasquez closes it — the DJ Slink single, the EP with Evan Smith, playing bass, starting his own business, sobriety and mindset, parenting teenagers, and wanting to make a Spanish and dancehall record.

Recorded at B-Side Radio, Vancouver BC.

0:00 Intro: breaking into the studio

1:50 New album, and an F on promo

2:43 An entrepreneur course; Skillmatic

4:47 Bib Gang merch and Ascension

5:33 Trewth on the Fortune cypher

6:51 How Neighborhood Kid blew up

9:08 Tickets and a four-hour cypher

12:00 Red Shirt Mike arrives

13:11 Why battlers aren't trash talking

14:30 Ascension card: Little Q vs Bear

15:54 setthebar.com and filling the Turf

18:09 Tangent: entrance music

20:06 Why Mike Wiald vs Danny Myers

21:51 Vancouver's battle rap talent pool

24:21 The atmosphere of a live battle event

26:50 What Set the Bar needs next

28:53 Scaling from 80 to 200 people

31:31 The website and who's next

35:25 Mike Wiald on facing Danny Myers

36:59 A year off, and being the face

41:58 Prep, angles, no low-hanging fruit

44:02 'Have Mercy' EP and the Kolka feature

48:47 Undercard: Gobi and A.A. Ron

51:30 Beach Tits, Dully Nuff, Bossman

59:09 Bear vs Lil Q; the rookie class

1:02:02 Shiva, Tobin and Snow Leopard

1:05:13 LOCA returns, and 'Low Again'

1:07:24 The Real Ones EP

1:12:47 Sobriety and step work

1:15:10 Youth work up north, and nature

1:19:50 Learning to sing; Limerence

1:26:31 Dating another artist

1:30:17 LOCA's shows and where to find her

1:33:46 Tiago Vasquez and the DJ Slink single

1:36:30 The EP with Evan Smith

1:39:26 His own business, and mindset

1:43:11 Parenting teenagers

1:44:25 Spanish and dancehall records

1:45:58 Writing on the road: Barcelona, Egypt

1:49:08 Tiago's custom builds, and closing