November 18, 2022 • 20 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Comedy Central. Hey, thank you, Trevor. I
appreciate you, my brother. Welcome to the hell of a
week I go by the name of Charlemagne and God. Hello. Uh.
You know, Thursday night is raid this ugly little head again,
and that means it's time for us to take a
good long look at this weekend. How now, hip hop
(00:25):
legend Flavor Flav went off on the Spirit Airlines employee
for closing the gate after he was allegedly late boarding
a flight. First of all, I don't know how you're
late for anything with a big gass clock around your
next all right. Second of all, how do you get
the door closed on you on Spirit? All right? Spirit
planes don't even come with doors, all right, unless you
pay eight dollars extra all right. If Spirit could charge
(00:48):
you for windows day would oh did you survive the flight?
That would be an extra eight dollars all right, Hey, Flavor,
it's the reason God didn't let you make that flight.
Consider it a blessing in disguise, all right. Uh. And
other airline news, a woman got stopped by security at
an Australian airport because the metal butt plug she was
wearing it kept setting off alarms. All right. To make
(01:09):
this story even more news worthy, the butt plug, which
I repeat she was wearing, all right, contain the ashes
of her dead boyfriend. And some folks say the notebook
is the greatest love story ever told. The irony of
an Australian woman having her dead boyfriend down under. And
let's not skip over the fact that her man is
(01:33):
still giving her anal from the grave. That's right, you're
gonna get these eight inches from six ft under. And
if you're not in the netrophilia. We got some live
sex news this week too, and Arizona teacher and her
husband both lost their jobs after they were caught filming
only fans videos in the eighth grade classroom. I think
where they went wrong because they should have at least
(01:54):
waited until the kids left for the day. I'm lying
the kids weren't there, but still I don't mind if
they will fight, as you can't be getting it in
inside the classroom, right, poor kids slipping around on seeming
like a staff rocky and right? Because all right, but
this does speak to how little teachers get paid all right. Now,
in order to make a decent income, they gotta make
him come and now for some serious news. I can't
(02:19):
avoid the subject any longer. Alright, we all know that
there was a monumental announcement this week, an announcement that
is sure to divide this country even more, but none
of us can act surprise. All Right, we all knew
this plump, unhealthy, darker than it should be Oranges Specimen
would make a comeback around this time. That's right, Popeye's
announced to release it in new black and chicken Sandwich.
(02:44):
What did youall guys think I was talking about? Uh,
we got a lot more things to talk about, including
that other Oranges specimen and tech giants. Queen Nola, let's
get it, hey, it has been a hell of a week,
and here to talk about it are the most soothing
(03:06):
soothsayers in late night. She's a journalist and the co
host of Daily Blast Live. Lindsey Granger's Hell. He's a
political commentator and a staff writer at The Atlantic. David
from his Head and he is the host of the podcast.
And Godfrey We Trust, the very very funny my guy
Godfrey as Hell and later in the show, the head
(03:29):
of the Door Malaji herself, Deny Guerra will be stopping by. Okay,
But first, here's what I want to talk about. Topic one,
hell to pay uh damn hole. Here We're gonna get
all right. After much hemming and halling cottage. She's King.
Donald Trump had something to say Tuesday night. That's right,
people on Tuesday, a man who tried to overthrow the
(03:50):
results of presidential election and inspired an attempted cool at
his country and a desperate attempt to keep himself in power,
and who is facing multiple local and federal investigations. Think
his claim to the White House in front of hundreds
of gap too for Trumps. But here's what I want
to know. How do we not make the mistake of
making Trump lodging in life again? How do we keep
from taking up all the oxygen? God? For you can't.
(04:13):
He's a He's a terrific idiot. He's Donald Trump is
an interesting man where regardless of whether you like it
or not, he's just I just I love his narcissism.
He's so narcissi and interesting. Our train wreck, and you
know we love watching a good train I'm the best
president that you ever had in your life. I should
(04:34):
take over this show. You're very terrible as a host.
He's just fant I just he thinks he's handsome. I
love that his little puckered lips, you know, and he
hates his family. He's so narcissistic. I can't help but
watch this dude. Even when I'm in a bar, there's
no volume. I go, what is he saying? You get
(04:56):
that little milk? Ga ga? This is I'm dreading, man.
I'm dreading him every day in the news cycle, David,
Why did he announce so early? Is this a case
of like premature eleculation? You know, I don't worry about
what's inside his head at the top, As God said,
there's all kinds of the seething emotions there. Um. The
(05:19):
question is it's not a question about him, it's a
question about you, and how are you going to stop him?
And what are you going to do? Because he was
president before, it was unthinkable before. Now it's thinkable. It
did happen, so it could happen, and if it does happen,
it means more force, more fraud, more violence. Yeah, That's
why I feel like you can't talk about him without
saying Trump is facing charges and conspiracy to the fraud,
(05:40):
the US treason, and who knows what else. Lazy should
even be eligible to run. Well, I know that we
want to say, like as the American public, that Trump
needs to pay for the way that he behaved while
in office, and that's a good theory, but actually he
hasn't been federally charged, as you both know, with anything,
and so we don't have an actually prosecute privileged white men.
He said, he said, I can go off Fifth Avenue
(06:01):
and shoot somebody and I'll be fine, and so I
think he's testing that narrative. I also think, if you
want to talk about exactly your question, Article two of
the Constitution specifically doesn't name anything like being under investigation
as something that's deterrent for you to run for president.
And I know they're asking for more of uber drivers
and they are for president. I understand that, but this
(06:21):
is not unprecedented. You can run for president. You can
run for president from prison, and in fact, a governor
of Massachusetts was elected from prison. There's there's one way
to stop someone from running for office, and there's only one,
not in the courts, but in the Congress, because one
of the penalties for conviction African impeachment is that Congress
can say they can't put you to prison. They can't
charge your diamond fines, but they can say you may
(06:42):
never run again for an office. You can the United States,
even that he's been impeached twice and twice but not convicted. Problem,
it's the haws that Trump. I perform in a deep
South and it's it's still it's all the Yeah, it's
those guys that want Trump. I'm performing Deep South where
(07:05):
their mouths don't move right now and they don't trunk.
I'm trunk born, you know, to every wanted. A few
people who still think Trump is entertaining, though, like he's
really entertaining. People think he's getting boring right listening to
r Kelly, But you keep it quiet, you know what
(07:26):
I mean. You're like this step step Oh, he was wrong,
but I'm just didn't the mid term show us that
everyone's ready to bring the temperature down. I think like
when Fox News lets you go, when New York Posts
put you on page twenty six next to the obituaries,
and when your daughter says, I'm good love and enjoy
(07:49):
this run. I think that that's telling you the temperature
overall for the country and where Republicans stand. I think
people are ready for like a sane representation of the
Conservative Party. I hope so I really stand. Oh man,
I don't believe that he likes though they know it's
lost in the end. But that but okay that, but
Trump is too He likes the attention. He likes even
when we say we hate him. That gives him strength
(08:10):
his rings. Come to this. He doesn't like not being
in the in the spotlight. He's making TikTok. You know
what I mean? Come on, but if you say you know,
I hope we are in the end game now. The
only thing I ask of the media is when they
cover him is to always say a man who tried
to overthrow the results of the presidential election and inspired
(08:32):
and attempted to his country and a desperate attempt to
keep himself in power, and who is facing multiple local
and federal investigations. Okay, and he was in peace twice
when he's running for president again, make sure you add
all of that. My panel is hanging out and the beautiful,
in talented the Niagaria will be coming through. Stay though, Hey,
(09:02):
welcome back to Hell of a Week. I'm here with
a panel that's got so many hot takes they might
as well be kleptomaniacs in a Helopino store. All right,
we got Lindsay Granger and David from and the One
and Only Godfrey. Next topic, no madic. Alright, someone please
check on our good brother twenty one savage. Okay, I
heard feeling a little ill? Okay, all matic? That is alright?
(09:24):
Over the weekend twenty one rough Flo Feathers in the
clubhouse conversation about NAS. You're using the mostly relevant app
to speak on the legend, I said, Jones. Come on, man, David,
your thoughts well, I don't follow music close as I
understand that what's going on here is a well funded,
(09:45):
deep pocketed challenger is trying to rise in his industry
by attacking and disrespecting a well established figure. It sounds
exactly like the Republican nomination. Whoa okay, yeah, like that
Lindsay thoughts. I think most cultures hold their elders in
a high regard, and for some reason, in hip hop culture,
we're having trouble doing that. Even this funny stuff like
(10:07):
making genuine a meme like that man Done broke records
and open up the door. I can't, but it's it's
for us. It's funny. Because we listened to it. But
for for young kids, it's like who is this older man?
Like I heard gen Z? People like who is that?
And I'm like hum because like back in the day,
I feel like they and I feel like saying back
in the day, but they used to show us the
music and tell us stuff. And Nas has transcendent music
(10:27):
in a way that a lot of artists have not.
So let me talk about his multimillion dollar fund that
invests in his community, that invest in restaurants. This man
invested in Ring Doorbell before it was bought out by Amazon.
So this is a multimillion dollar man that you should
actually aspire to be like instead of crap about the
investment portfolio is very relevant. Yeah, let me tell this one,
(10:48):
Savage sewage that uh Nas is my favorite rapper along
with rock Kim. I just saw k R S one
and Cypress Hill last week. These are gods of hip
hop and we and you're disrespecting grand Master Flash and
the Furious Five, you know what I'm saying, The Treacherous
three Cool Mo, d L coo J. When Djay Academics
(11:09):
opened his mouth, Russell Simmons had to tell him, I
don't even know who you are, but you need to
quit disrespecting the architects. The reason why you're making money
is for people in the Bronx that had no money,
created something out of oppression, and you're making money out
of it. You mumble, wrapping piece of ship. Let me
tell you something. And I'm not knocking him as a person, like,
(11:32):
I don't know. That's cute, that's great, But Buster rhymes
all these guys that are still rhyming. I want to
battle between our our old school because remember jay Z
is on our side too, and you remember what happened
to machine Gun Kelly. He got out of wrapap came
out of his cage. It'll be a generational thing, though,
what are you talking about? Let me be generational, so
(11:54):
like we might like the jay zs like we want
those them things against us. It's gonna be two universes, right,
We're gonna battle them. You don't, ever, that's sacrilege to
talk about nas like that, buddy, stick with your little
NASA at that guy. I want to say, I'm not
knocking those guys, but stick with those how dare he
(12:15):
named himself? It's it's all these little head, little feet,
little little talent. We had a little too, though we
don't have some little way. I like John, I love
(12:37):
but Yo, but we were I think we're probably the
only culture that disrespects our elders. Everyone else respects them
except us. What is that? And we publicly always save ourselves.
Enough with that, Black folks, enough, all right, you're doing
an art form that's old. It's not new. You didn't
recreate rap and the context. Twenty one Savage has been
out for seven years. We talked about like his first
album dropped versus not thirty Literally Night's ninety one when
(13:01):
he's just came out his third one, exactly, we can
still make music. I was gonna ask you if you
think that Drake is having this impact on twenty one
Savage to be a little disrespectful, but the gross relax
to grocy. He needs to be quiet. Alright, this is listen.
Remember nos got famous without social media? Al Right, these
(13:22):
people came without and they're still around. Respect. Don't like
that word relevant. I think relevant is is subjective. But
I think when you're classic, when you're iconic, when you're legendary,
you're always relevant. Yes, there you go, God free, thank you,
my brother there from Lindsay dreams. Appreciate y'all denied. Guerrera
will be joining us when we come back, and she's
(13:43):
gonna tell us the exact location of the real Wacando
Hell of a Week. Welcome back to Hell of a Week.
My next guess is currently starring in the biggest movie
in the galaxy. You also know her from her days
(14:04):
killing zombies as sewn on The Walking Day. Give it
up for General o Koya from Black Panther Orknda Forever tonight.
How are you guy? Good? How are you great? Crowd? Now?
I don't know if you'll see what kind of ever yet?
I'm sure you have right, Okay, there's a there's a
(14:24):
lot of swimming in the movie. And Ryan Coogler, who
directed the film, he said he learned to swim just
to direct the film. Were you a part of that
whole process as well? I got really excited when I
found out about the swimming because I was a competitive
swimmer as a kid. Yeah, and uh, it was something
that I gave up in terms of competing, but I
always have loved it as my favorite sport. I go
(14:46):
back to it every now and then. So to actually
get to do it on screen I never ever had
that opportunity, and I also thought it was a really
cool thing. Um just to see black folks women. I
don't think we get to see that enough. So um,
you know, it was just I went all in. You know,
I got it on my own. I got like an
Olympic trainer and went all in and try to learn
as well as I could. I mean, if you was
a competitive swimming did you have to like refresh some
(15:08):
things like what you have to learn again? Well, you know,
here's the thing. I was competitive swhere when I was
like up to the age of like thirteen, So let's
just like really keep it real. I kept swimming, and
I had I loved swimming with speed, but like learning
how to swim from on that level where you're actually
really learning what Olympic swimmers due to gain speed and
momentum and endurance was like a whole new thing to learn.
(15:29):
And I got really like kind of passionate about it
just learning about it with the black community, how we
don't get exposed to it that much, and it can
affect even children because like I found out, like black
kids are five times more likely to drown than white kids,
which really got me about it. Now that's simply from
a lack of not knowing. It's from I think it's
from the lack of it's so many factors, but I
think it's really it's I think it's so so economic.
(15:51):
I think it's about like what's in the communities that
gives them that that exposure, And so it's I think
it's really, Um, it's an important to life skill that
I'm not really passionate about. So I'm so be that
it's in the movie the way it is. Your character
has such an interesting story ak in the film. I mean,
everybody's dealing with with grief from the film, but you're
also dealing with isolation. You know, I would call it
by people you love. How did those two emotions collide
(16:12):
for you in this film? Yeah, it was, it was.
It was we were dealing with the law. It was
a very intense process. We we had lost Chadwick and
you know, that's our brother. It was the soul of
what we were doing. He was our anchor as a leader,
and he was a very very anchoring, stabilizing presence just
in life. Um, South Carolina's own, and uh, it was
(16:33):
it was devastating to lose him and coming back was
all about honoring him, so you know, the focus of
everything we did was about that and the journey and
the joy of it was that we got to actually
explore the experiences of these characters. The grief actually was
honoring him as well. But they got they were going
through it. We were going through it. We hadn't gone
through it together yet, because sadly he passed in two
(16:54):
thousand twenty, we were very isolated at that time from
seeing each other even personally. So it was very much
of time for us to come together and to mourn
him together, but also to have the characters go through
their grieving process. And that was very different for for
any sort of film honestly, quite the scale, but also
the journey of my character was um it was It
(17:17):
was very It was important to me that she doesn't
just come across as like strong or whatever, you know
what I mean, Like she's a full person. So I
was thankful that we got to see her go through
some stuff she would never have expected because she was
trying to shoulder everything, which we do sometimes as black
women or women, we tend to try to shoulder a lot,
but we're not letting ourselves go through it this film
(17:37):
change how you you deaf? And the reason I asked
that Eally, whenever I think about like the ancestral plane,
I'm like, well, if you get to see your people
afterwards in that way, maybe it ain't so bad. Uh.
There's there's a lot of hope in there. And I
think that there's the beauty of the journey and the
story and and of what we what that belief is
(17:58):
is that that's the hope. And I think that's what
the story is not just totally just sadom arose, It
has a hope in it, that that that's that thread
that we don't we move to another plane. And someone
once said about Chadwick that he always felt like he
was so deeply connected to the ancestors. And I felt
that around him big time. I mean, he even had
the drum on set and we were he would drum
(18:20):
his his boy Jabari would drum. We got Jabari back,
thank God for this one. So we really felt that
culture he brought to places that really connected you to yourself,
to your people, to your ancestors. So there's something about
that um that that is very rich and and it's
kind of more resonant now in me than it was before.
Did you think it was even possible to do it,
do a second one without him? Um? Yeah, I think
(18:44):
there there's an extent to which it was an act
of faith, and it was an active belief that, like
what he went through and what he did too, to
give what he gave to the world. Um, we had
to give our all to give that to him. Thank
you for joining us this evening. If you're haven't yet,
check out Denying and Black Panther will kind of fever.
And if you have already checked it out, check it
(19:06):
out again, all right, the Niagararia. Everybody, when we come
back for Hell of a Week, Hey, welcome back to
Hell of a Week. Now, before we go, I want
to talk about the future, not the rapper, but the children, okay,
because we all know that children are the future, all right.
(19:27):
The Labor Department discovered dozens of children working in a
meat packing plant in the Midwest. That's right, a slaughterhouse.
We always heard the phrase you don't want to see
how the sauces against made, and now we know why,
all right. Turns out it's a bunch of fifth graders
operating meat grinders. Welcome to the Midwest. What tricks aren't
for kids. What jobs are? All right? I know we
(19:48):
all hear this news and want to whistle for our
high horses to pull up so we can hop our
hip for critical assets on. But remember you're wearing sneakers
and watching this on your smartphone, and both of those
were made in shine, in a great, big factory full
of tiny little kids. All right, nobody's in favor at
child labor, but everybody's in favor of keeping their sneakers cheap.
(20:08):
And in ethics, like in Romance, the while it usually wins.
What's that old thing out of sight, out of to
give about child label? Yeah, something like that. I don't know,
Go look it up on your child labor phone. I
go by the name of Charletagne and God. Come back
next Thursday for another hell of a week. So be
(20:35):
sure to listen to Hell of a Week with Charlemagne
and God wherever you get your podcast. This has been
a Comedy Central podcast
You're listening to Comedy Central. Hey, thank you, Trevor. I
appreciate you, my brother. Welcome to the hell of a
week I go by the name of Charlemagne and God. Hello. Uh.
You know, Thursday night is raid this ugly little head again,
and that means it's time for us to take a
good long look at this weekend. How now, hip hop
(00:25):
legend Flavor Flav went off on the Spirit Airlines employee
for closing the gate after he was allegedly late boarding
a flight. First of all, I don't know how you're
late for anything with a big gass clock around your
next all right. Second of all, how do you get
the door closed on you on Spirit? All right? Spirit
planes don't even come with doors, all right, unless you
pay eight dollars extra all right. If Spirit could charge
(00:48):
you for windows day would oh did you survive the flight?
That would be an extra eight dollars all right, Hey, Flavor,
it's the reason God didn't let you make that flight.
Consider it a blessing in disguise, all right. Uh. And
other airline news, a woman got stopped by security at
an Australian airport because the metal butt plug she was
wearing it kept setting off alarms. All right. To make
(01:09):
this story even more news worthy, the butt plug, which
I repeat she was wearing, all right, contain the ashes
of her dead boyfriend. And some folks say the notebook
is the greatest love story ever told. The irony of
an Australian woman having her dead boyfriend down under. And
let's not skip over the fact that her man is
(01:33):
still giving her anal from the grave. That's right, you're
gonna get these eight inches from six ft under. And
if you're not in the netrophilia. We got some live
sex news this week too, and Arizona teacher and her
husband both lost their jobs after they were caught filming
only fans videos in the eighth grade classroom. I think
where they went wrong because they should have at least
(01:54):
waited until the kids left for the day. I'm lying
the kids weren't there, but still I don't mind if
they will fight, as you can't be getting it in
inside the classroom, right, poor kids slipping around on seeming
like a staff rocky and right? Because all right, but
this does speak to how little teachers get paid all right. Now,
in order to make a decent income, they gotta make
him come and now for some serious news. I can't
(02:19):
avoid the subject any longer. Alright, we all know that
there was a monumental announcement this week, an announcement that
is sure to divide this country even more, but none
of us can act surprise. All Right, we all knew
this plump, unhealthy, darker than it should be Oranges Specimen
would make a comeback around this time. That's right, Popeye's
announced to release it in new black and chicken Sandwich.
(02:44):
What did youall guys think I was talking about? Uh,
we got a lot more things to talk about, including
that other Oranges specimen and tech giants. Queen Nola, let's
get it, hey, it has been a hell of a week,
and here to talk about it are the most soothing
(03:06):
soothsayers in late night. She's a journalist and the co
host of Daily Blast Live. Lindsey Granger's Hell. He's a
political commentator and a staff writer at The Atlantic. David
from his Head and he is the host of the podcast.
And Godfrey We Trust, the very very funny my guy
Godfrey as Hell and later in the show, the head
(03:29):
of the Door Malaji herself, Deny Guerra will be stopping by. Okay,
But first, here's what I want to talk about. Topic one,
hell to pay uh damn hole. Here We're gonna get
all right. After much hemming and halling cottage. She's King.
Donald Trump had something to say Tuesday night. That's right,
people on Tuesday, a man who tried to overthrow the
(03:50):
results of presidential election and inspired an attempted cool at
his country and a desperate attempt to keep himself in power,
and who is facing multiple local and federal investigations. Think
his claim to the White House in front of hundreds
of gap too for Trumps. But here's what I want
to know. How do we not make the mistake of
making Trump lodging in life again? How do we keep
from taking up all the oxygen? God? For you can't.
(04:13):
He's a He's a terrific idiot. He's Donald Trump is
an interesting man where regardless of whether you like it
or not, he's just I just I love his narcissism.
He's so narcissi and interesting. Our train wreck, and you
know we love watching a good train I'm the best
president that you ever had in your life. I should
(04:34):
take over this show. You're very terrible as a host.
He's just fant I just he thinks he's handsome. I
love that his little puckered lips, you know, and he
hates his family. He's so narcissistic. I can't help but
watch this dude. Even when I'm in a bar, there's
no volume. I go, what is he saying? You get
(04:56):
that little milk? Ga ga? This is I'm dreading, man.
I'm dreading him every day in the news cycle, David,
Why did he announce so early? Is this a case
of like premature eleculation? You know, I don't worry about
what's inside his head at the top, As God said,
there's all kinds of the seething emotions there. Um. The
(05:19):
question is it's not a question about him, it's a
question about you, and how are you going to stop him?
And what are you going to do? Because he was
president before, it was unthinkable before. Now it's thinkable. It
did happen, so it could happen, and if it does happen,
it means more force, more fraud, more violence. Yeah, That's
why I feel like you can't talk about him without
saying Trump is facing charges and conspiracy to the fraud,
(05:40):
the US treason, and who knows what else. Lazy should
even be eligible to run. Well, I know that we
want to say, like as the American public, that Trump
needs to pay for the way that he behaved while
in office, and that's a good theory, but actually he
hasn't been federally charged, as you both know, with anything,
and so we don't have an actually prosecute privileged white men.
He said, he said, I can go off Fifth Avenue
(06:01):
and shoot somebody and I'll be fine, and so I
think he's testing that narrative. I also think, if you
want to talk about exactly your question, Article two of
the Constitution specifically doesn't name anything like being under investigation
as something that's deterrent for you to run for president.
And I know they're asking for more of uber drivers
and they are for president. I understand that, but this
(06:21):
is not unprecedented. You can run for president. You can
run for president from prison, and in fact, a governor
of Massachusetts was elected from prison. There's there's one way
to stop someone from running for office, and there's only one,
not in the courts, but in the Congress, because one
of the penalties for conviction African impeachment is that Congress
can say they can't put you to prison. They can't
charge your diamond fines, but they can say you may
(06:42):
never run again for an office. You can the United States,
even that he's been impeached twice and twice but not convicted. Problem,
it's the haws that Trump. I perform in a deep
South and it's it's still it's all the Yeah, it's
those guys that want Trump. I'm performing Deep South where
(07:05):
their mouths don't move right now and they don't trunk.
I'm trunk born, you know, to every wanted. A few
people who still think Trump is entertaining, though, like he's
really entertaining. People think he's getting boring right listening to
r Kelly, But you keep it quiet, you know what
(07:26):
I mean. You're like this step step Oh, he was wrong,
but I'm just didn't the mid term show us that
everyone's ready to bring the temperature down. I think like
when Fox News lets you go, when New York Posts
put you on page twenty six next to the obituaries,
and when your daughter says, I'm good love and enjoy
(07:49):
this run. I think that that's telling you the temperature
overall for the country and where Republicans stand. I think
people are ready for like a sane representation of the
Conservative Party. I hope so I really stand. Oh man,
I don't believe that he likes though they know it's
lost in the end. But that but okay that, but
Trump is too He likes the attention. He likes even
when we say we hate him. That gives him strength
(08:10):
his rings. Come to this. He doesn't like not being
in the in the spotlight. He's making TikTok. You know
what I mean? Come on, but if you say you know,
I hope we are in the end game now. The
only thing I ask of the media is when they
cover him is to always say a man who tried
to overthrow the results of the presidential election and inspired
(08:32):
and attempted to his country and a desperate attempt to
keep himself in power, and who is facing multiple local
and federal investigations. Okay, and he was in peace twice
when he's running for president again, make sure you add
all of that. My panel is hanging out and the beautiful,
in talented the Niagaria will be coming through. Stay though, Hey,
(09:02):
welcome back to Hell of a Week. I'm here with
a panel that's got so many hot takes they might
as well be kleptomaniacs in a Helopino store. All right,
we got Lindsay Granger and David from and the One
and Only Godfrey. Next topic, no madic. Alright, someone please
check on our good brother twenty one savage. Okay, I
heard feeling a little ill? Okay, all matic? That is alright?
(09:24):
Over the weekend twenty one rough Flo Feathers in the
clubhouse conversation about NAS. You're using the mostly relevant app
to speak on the legend, I said, Jones. Come on, man, David,
your thoughts well, I don't follow music close as I
understand that what's going on here is a well funded,
(09:45):
deep pocketed challenger is trying to rise in his industry
by attacking and disrespecting a well established figure. It sounds
exactly like the Republican nomination. Whoa okay, yeah, like that
Lindsay thoughts. I think most cultures hold their elders in
a high regard, and for some reason, in hip hop culture,
we're having trouble doing that. Even this funny stuff like
(10:07):
making genuine a meme like that man Done broke records
and open up the door. I can't, but it's it's
for us. It's funny. Because we listened to it. But
for for young kids, it's like who is this older man?
Like I heard gen Z? People like who is that?
And I'm like hum because like back in the day,
I feel like they and I feel like saying back
in the day, but they used to show us the
music and tell us stuff. And Nas has transcendent music
(10:27):
in a way that a lot of artists have not.
So let me talk about his multimillion dollar fund that
invests in his community, that invest in restaurants. This man
invested in Ring Doorbell before it was bought out by Amazon.
So this is a multimillion dollar man that you should
actually aspire to be like instead of crap about the
investment portfolio is very relevant. Yeah, let me tell this one,
(10:48):
Savage sewage that uh Nas is my favorite rapper along
with rock Kim. I just saw k R S one
and Cypress Hill last week. These are gods of hip
hop and we and you're disrespecting grand Master Flash and
the Furious Five, you know what I'm saying, The Treacherous
three Cool Mo, d L coo J. When Djay Academics
(11:09):
opened his mouth, Russell Simmons had to tell him, I
don't even know who you are, but you need to
quit disrespecting the architects. The reason why you're making money
is for people in the Bronx that had no money,
created something out of oppression, and you're making money out
of it. You mumble, wrapping piece of ship. Let me
tell you something. And I'm not knocking him as a person, like,
(11:32):
I don't know. That's cute, that's great, But Buster rhymes
all these guys that are still rhyming. I want to
battle between our our old school because remember jay Z
is on our side too, and you remember what happened
to machine Gun Kelly. He got out of wrapap came
out of his cage. It'll be a generational thing, though,
what are you talking about? Let me be generational, so
(11:54):
like we might like the jay zs like we want
those them things against us. It's gonna be two universes, right,
We're gonna battle them. You don't, ever, that's sacrilege to
talk about nas like that, buddy, stick with your little
NASA at that guy. I want to say, I'm not
knocking those guys, but stick with those how dare he
(12:15):
named himself? It's it's all these little head, little feet,
little little talent. We had a little too, though we
don't have some little way. I like John, I love
(12:37):
but Yo, but we were I think we're probably the
only culture that disrespects our elders. Everyone else respects them
except us. What is that? And we publicly always save ourselves.
Enough with that, Black folks, enough, all right, you're doing
an art form that's old. It's not new. You didn't
recreate rap and the context. Twenty one Savage has been
out for seven years. We talked about like his first
album dropped versus not thirty Literally Night's ninety one when
(13:01):
he's just came out his third one, exactly, we can
still make music. I was gonna ask you if you
think that Drake is having this impact on twenty one
Savage to be a little disrespectful, but the gross relax
to grocy. He needs to be quiet. Alright, this is listen.
Remember nos got famous without social media? Al Right, these
(13:22):
people came without and they're still around. Respect. Don't like
that word relevant. I think relevant is is subjective. But
I think when you're classic, when you're iconic, when you're legendary,
you're always relevant. Yes, there you go, God free, thank you,
my brother there from Lindsay dreams. Appreciate y'all denied. Guerrera
will be joining us when we come back, and she's
(13:43):
gonna tell us the exact location of the real Wacando
Hell of a Week. Welcome back to Hell of a Week.
My next guess is currently starring in the biggest movie
in the galaxy. You also know her from her days
(14:04):
killing zombies as sewn on The Walking Day. Give it
up for General o Koya from Black Panther Orknda Forever tonight.
How are you guy? Good? How are you great? Crowd? Now?
I don't know if you'll see what kind of ever yet?
I'm sure you have right, Okay, there's a there's a
(14:24):
lot of swimming in the movie. And Ryan Coogler, who
directed the film, he said he learned to swim just
to direct the film. Were you a part of that
whole process as well? I got really excited when I
found out about the swimming because I was a competitive
swimmer as a kid. Yeah, and uh, it was something
that I gave up in terms of competing, but I
always have loved it as my favorite sport. I go
(14:46):
back to it every now and then. So to actually
get to do it on screen I never ever had
that opportunity, and I also thought it was a really
cool thing. Um just to see black folks women. I
don't think we get to see that enough. So um,
you know, it was just I went all in. You know,
I got it on my own. I got like an
Olympic trainer and went all in and try to learn
as well as I could. I mean, if you was
a competitive swimming did you have to like refresh some
(15:08):
things like what you have to learn again? Well, you know,
here's the thing. I was competitive swhere when I was
like up to the age of like thirteen, So let's
just like really keep it real. I kept swimming, and
I had I loved swimming with speed, but like learning
how to swim from on that level where you're actually
really learning what Olympic swimmers due to gain speed and
momentum and endurance was like a whole new thing to learn.
(15:29):
And I got really like kind of passionate about it
just learning about it with the black community, how we
don't get exposed to it that much, and it can
affect even children because like I found out, like black
kids are five times more likely to drown than white kids,
which really got me about it. Now that's simply from
a lack of not knowing. It's from I think it's
from the lack of it's so many factors, but I
think it's really it's I think it's so so economic.
(15:51):
I think it's about like what's in the communities that
gives them that that exposure, And so it's I think
it's really, Um, it's an important to life skill that
I'm not really passionate about. So I'm so be that
it's in the movie the way it is. Your character
has such an interesting story ak in the film. I mean,
everybody's dealing with with grief from the film, but you're
also dealing with isolation. You know, I would call it
by people you love. How did those two emotions collide
(16:12):
for you in this film? Yeah, it was, it was.
It was we were dealing with the law. It was
a very intense process. We we had lost Chadwick and
you know, that's our brother. It was the soul of
what we were doing. He was our anchor as a leader,
and he was a very very anchoring, stabilizing presence just
in life. Um, South Carolina's own, and uh, it was
(16:33):
it was devastating to lose him and coming back was
all about honoring him, so you know, the focus of
everything we did was about that and the journey and
the joy of it was that we got to actually
explore the experiences of these characters. The grief actually was
honoring him as well. But they got they were going
through it. We were going through it. We hadn't gone
through it together yet, because sadly he passed in two
(16:54):
thousand twenty, we were very isolated at that time from
seeing each other even personally. So it was very much
of time for us to come together and to mourn
him together, but also to have the characters go through
their grieving process. And that was very different for for
any sort of film honestly, quite the scale, but also
the journey of my character was um it was It
(17:17):
was very It was important to me that she doesn't
just come across as like strong or whatever, you know
what I mean, Like she's a full person. So I
was thankful that we got to see her go through
some stuff she would never have expected because she was
trying to shoulder everything, which we do sometimes as black
women or women, we tend to try to shoulder a lot,
but we're not letting ourselves go through it this film
(17:37):
change how you you deaf? And the reason I asked
that Eally, whenever I think about like the ancestral plane,
I'm like, well, if you get to see your people
afterwards in that way, maybe it ain't so bad. Uh.
There's there's a lot of hope in there. And I
think that there's the beauty of the journey and the
story and and of what we what that belief is
(17:58):
is that that's the hope. And I think that's what
the story is not just totally just sadom arose, It
has a hope in it, that that that's that thread
that we don't we move to another plane. And someone
once said about Chadwick that he always felt like he
was so deeply connected to the ancestors. And I felt
that around him big time. I mean, he even had
the drum on set and we were he would drum
(18:20):
his his boy Jabari would drum. We got Jabari back,
thank God for this one. So we really felt that
culture he brought to places that really connected you to yourself,
to your people, to your ancestors. So there's something about
that um that that is very rich and and it's
kind of more resonant now in me than it was before.
Did you think it was even possible to do it,
do a second one without him? Um? Yeah, I think
(18:44):
there there's an extent to which it was an act
of faith, and it was an active belief that, like
what he went through and what he did too, to
give what he gave to the world. Um, we had
to give our all to give that to him. Thank
you for joining us this evening. If you're haven't yet,
check out Denying and Black Panther will kind of fever.
And if you have already checked it out, check it
(19:06):
out again, all right, the Niagararia. Everybody, when we come
back for Hell of a Week, Hey, welcome back to
Hell of a Week. Now, before we go, I want
to talk about the future, not the rapper, but the children, okay,
because we all know that children are the future, all right.
(19:27):
The Labor Department discovered dozens of children working in a
meat packing plant in the Midwest. That's right, a slaughterhouse.
We always heard the phrase you don't want to see
how the sauces against made, and now we know why,
all right. Turns out it's a bunch of fifth graders
operating meat grinders. Welcome to the Midwest. What tricks aren't
for kids. What jobs are? All right? I know we
(19:48):
all hear this news and want to whistle for our
high horses to pull up so we can hop our
hip for critical assets on. But remember you're wearing sneakers
and watching this on your smartphone, and both of those
were made in shine, in a great, big factory full
of tiny little kids. All right, nobody's in favor at
child labor, but everybody's in favor of keeping their sneakers cheap.
(20:08):
And in ethics, like in Romance, the while it usually wins.
What's that old thing out of sight, out of to
give about child label? Yeah, something like that. I don't know,
Go look it up on your child labor phone. I
go by the name of Charletagne and God. Come back
next Thursday for another hell of a week. So be
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