December 3, 2022 • 31 mins
Comedian Amanda Seales, U.S. Representative Val Demings, and Oscar award-winning filmmaker Travon Free debate the week’s top stories with Charlamagne Tha God. Plus, actor Lil Rel Howery is stopping by.
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You're listening to Comedy Central. Hey, thank you, Trevor. Welcome
to Hell of a week I go by the name
of Charlemagne and God Hello, all right, And as long
as we're gathering together on this fine Thursday evening, why
don't we all sit back and take a good hard
look at this weekend hell Now luxury fashion brand. But
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Lynciyaga is getting canceled by a bunch of people who
can't afford it anyway, okay, and rightfully so alright, their
new ad campaign seems to support kitty porn and sex
with kids, all right, But Lynxiyaga dropped their holiday ad
where they had a young girl holding a b DSM
bear with empty wine glasses, and back in July they
ran a campaign that included a printed out Supreme Court
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decision on child pornography. Then, Balenciaga, you're talking demographic. His
pedophiles would like to get fly now, huh. And nobody
has taken responsibility for this ad campaign, Not Balinciaga, not
the photographer, not the production company. In fact, Valenciaga is
blaming everybody except for valency Antiaga. All right. And since
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the backlash, moral heavyweight Kanye West has called the brand out,
but no more than five minutes later, Kanye was pictured
in a pair of Valenciaga AHOI maybe three thousand's all right,
And then he wore the same mud boots again but
covered up the Balenciaga logo. I just want you all
to know that the Montgomery bus boycott wouldn't have worked
if black people would have just covered up the name
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of the city bus and kept riding him, all right.
Speaking of the civil rights movement, Kanye said he used
to think he was like Malcolm X, but now he
realizes that he's more like MLK. He really said that,
he continued, because as I'm getting holes down every day
by the press and financially, I'm just standing there. When
I found out they tried to put me in jail,
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it was like a dog was biting my arm. What
a martyr, Okay. I really really want him to experience
all of that. I would really like for him to
get bit by a German shepherd, okay. And I want
him to get holes down. He's already got the rain
boots on, and now I know why he wears them
all the time so he can properly walk through all
this ship. He's full of all right, a Florida woman
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is suing Craft for five million dollars, saying Velvita micro
Wave back and cheese takes longer to make the advertise.
First of all, how are you eating Kraft mac and cheese?
And can afford the lawyer? All right, ma'am. The fact
that it's taking you ten minutes to make three minute
mac and cheese is a you problem. Okay, I'll put
down the bas sauts please. Uh. The my pillow guy
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in reform crackhead Mike Lindall is running for head of
the Republican National Committee. I guess he thinks RNC stands
for really need crack. All right, be on the lookout
for his next product, my crack pipe. Okay, it's the
most comfortable crack pipe you'll ever own, guaranteed, frank. And
speaking of pipes, every single month in the Thai Temple
lost their jobs after getting caught with methinish system. But
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don't judge them, don't judge them, Okay. There are many
past to enlightenment, and for some that's enlightened up a
meth piper, all right. And finally, Edgar Allan Poe was
trending on Twitter this week after black Twitter learned he
lived in the Bronx. Okay, I guess now we know
all that doing was so depressed all the time. Okay,
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his name was just Edgar Allen before. He wasn't Poe
until he got to the Bronx. O fact, can you
imagine Edgar Allan Poe wearing an eight ball leather jacket,
curb stomping another poet out. Okay, that does feel historically accurate,
but we shouldn't be surprised because there's a lot of
dope poets that came out of the Bronch. You got
Cardi b Okay, you got that's right. You got Fat Joe. Okay,
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you got Big Pa, and you got remy Ma. You
got Ice Spice all right? You thought I was feeling
you never more? Right, We've got more to talk about,
like Jerry Jones in the World Cup, Queen Ila, let's
get it. It's been a hell of a week in
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here to talk about. It is the flashiest paneling late Night.
He's an Oscar Award winning filmmaker. You can watch his
documentary thirty eight to Garden on HBO. Max trayvon Frieze. Hell,
he's a congresswoman in the craziest place in America. Okay,
right before the Bronx, Florida baldinnis is hell, all right
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and one of my very good friends, the person that
I loved dearly. She's the host of the syndicated radio
show The Amanda Seal Show and the podcast Small Doses
the very smart, funny and black a man later in
the show, my guy a Little Round, We'll be stopping by. Well,
let's get the topic one jerryman ring. Now. Recently a
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photo of Dallas Cowboy owner Jerry Jones resurfaced of him
as a fourteen year old high school student back in
nineteen fifty seven. But this wasn't no happy days picture
of him at the soccer now. His asked was spotted
in the back of an angry mob that was trying
to block black kids from going to their school. Now,
Jerry says he was just a curious spectator who happened
to be there. However, others are calling for a flag
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on the play. Okay, I am a Cowboys fan, but
I'm not about to defend this white man, all right,
because he's gonna be fine. Al Right. It doesn't benefit
any black person to defend this, and it's really no
defense to be had, just the conversation. So panel are
we buying? And a fourteen year old kid could have
just been curious? Okay, we all ran towards the promotion
as a kid in school. What do y'all think, Trayvon?
You start with you. I mean, I find it a
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little funny that he stuck around so long to be photographed.
But I mean I think also a white person with
too much time on their hands to be a little dangerous,
and he he seemed to have a lot of time
on his hands, as did the people trying to stop
the black kids from getting to the school. So I'm
a little skeptical of the I was just kind of
being a bodystander because you you figure out what's going
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on pretty quick when you show it to us scene
where people are like, no, we don't want these black
kids going to the school, and somebody got a camera.
So that's kind of on you at that point, representative
doing what do you think? You know? Of course we
all were curious at fourteen, right, we get that part.
But when he says he was just you know, standing
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there watching, not participating, Well, if you look at the
photo it looks like everybody else was standing there there watching,
quote not participating, except for the kid with the cigarette
and seven a kid. And so you know one thing
for sure, we can't We couldn't see his heart in
those days. But what we do know was that he
was standing with the crowd that was blocking black children
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from integrating the school. Now can we go back and
change that, No, we can't. But what he does now
that he's in a position of power and influence matters.
If he is so remorseful about what happened all those
years ago in ninety seven, what are you doing now?
He's been around for a while, he enough million times.
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What do you think big seals? I just would have
appreciated him keeping it abut because it wouldn't have been
odd for him to be in that mix, because that
was the mindset at that time. That was the mix,
and then now the mix has shifted. We'd like to
think enough for him to say I was wrong then,
that was wrong then, and this is how we should
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be doing it now. I would have felt way better
about it if he would have just done that. You know.
ESPN analyst J Williams. He was on first take to
Day and He said, Jerry Jones should be asked to
annwn systemic racism and he should tell us what he's learned.
I wonder is he right, because what is the call
to action? What should the call to action be about
a situation like this seals? I mean, I think the
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call to action for Jerry Jones, Well, first of all,
Jerry Jones at that time may not have spent a
lot of time with a lot of black people. We
know that he's spending a lot of time with a
lot of black people at this point. So I think
when we talk about the call to action, it speaks
to what UM Representative Demmings was saying. You know, at
the end of the day, you have a powerful platform,
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You have a lot of money, and there are a
lot of places to put that money that advances black
folks beyond the systemic racism that you were a part
of when you were folteen. You think, you know what
age fourteen a lot of years ago. We can't go
back and change it. And and like he has been stated,
we all could find ourselves on a photograph that you
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know doesn't fully explain what you know. But what matters
now he's responsible for explaining that photograph. I think he
does have an obligation because now it is a topic
of discussion as it needs to be. Should he denounce it? Yes?
Should he say bring people together, people of physician and
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influence together and talk about a plan to address racism
in America. He can be a part of that discussion
and that action, or at least in Texas and there
he is. Yeah, I mean I think he has to.
Now he's in a position he can try to explain
it away. But now he's in a position the light
is on him, not just on racism in America as
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it has been, but now it's on him. I like
going to do about it. I love that you keep
represent that he was fourteen, because how do we feel
in regard to creating a narrative about a person based
on what they did when they were fourteen? Don't you
think that's a slippery slope. I think it's a realistic
slope for many black children when we look at the
way that black children are identified on a regular basis
and held to consequences, that we're creative for them in
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a very like ed a Pin kind of way before
they even had the opportunity to I think it's a
very real thing to say that at fourteen years old
he one was conscious of the hatred that had been
taught in his home and how he was carrying it forward.
And now as a grown man, he can speak against that.
And I don't think that's unrealistic or unreasonable for us
to expect. True. I want to ask you a question,
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Representative Demmings, right, because Joe Biden and Jerry Jones did
the same h right, And Joe Biden has been buddy
buddy with segregationists. Okay, he worked with those segregationists, you know,
to create crime legislation, and we all know he sponsored
a bill that would limit the power of courts to
order school de segregation with busting. So I ask what's
the difference, because I know, you know we all voted
for him. I did, at least I did too. Okay, Look,
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I believe anybody who wants to do good, because as
I said earlier, I can't change your heart. You are
what you are, right, you know your motives and attentions.
But if you are a racist and a segregationists and
you want to invest in a program that will help
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black and brown communities, write the check out too. And
so I do believe you can still do good though,
and you know in Congress. Look I worked there every day,
y'all pray for me. But what but we have to
if we want to get legislation path, we've got to
find a Republican sponsor to co sponsor that legislation. And
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so anybody who wants to do good, we should always
provide that opportunity to do so. But be careful how
far you go down that road with somebody that does
not share your beliefs and your values. Seals your face
is saying something. Has your face said at all? No,
I just my face was saying, it's just it sucks
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that we have to get a Republican co sponsor to
get something across the line. We always have to compromise
with the fashist's saying okay, we got yeah, like you know,
to Representative dimming Point. I don't think we can tell
from that photo what Jerry Jones was thinking, but we
know what this situation was. Okay, this was absolute systemic
racism at his finest, and he was there. And I
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feel it's important to know who all these white people
are in these photos. Okay, we know that fourteen year
old kid grew up to be you know, Jerry Jones.
But what about the rest of him, especially this one.
All right, Okay, these guys, these guys could be judges,
doctor CEOs of companies and all could be denying black
people opportunities because of good old systemic racism. All right, Uh,
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my panelists aren't denying me more conversation, so they're sticking
around after the break. Plus, we little relill be pulling up.
We'll be right back for more Hell of a Week.
Welcome back to Hell of a Week. I'm here with
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tray Bon Free, Congresswoman Valdmmis and Amanda Sales. Now let's
get into our next topic, American scorer story. Alright, Earlier
this week, the US Randy Ron's asked up out of
the World Cup. Good thing they're already close to home.
Which something interesting happens leading up to the match. And
Iranian reporter got a little spicy with US soccer player
Tyler Adams when he asked if Tyler was okay with
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representing the US due to its discrimination against black people.
A cool question, Mr irene And reported, but did you
ask anyone on Iran how they feel about playing for
a country that's not only the nine women's rights, but
arresting and killing protesters who did challenge our the nation
as governess and how women are treated. It. Come on, man,
the nervous you questioning America on our discrimination when you're
allowed here ignoring women's rights like it's a damn user
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agreement notification. Okay, Now the man has lived and played
abroad and acknowledged that their discrimination everywhere. It's a valid
question that we do discuss amongst ourselves often. You know,
how do we proudly key word proudly rep of country
that's systemically tried to ruin US since the data's country
was founded A man the seals. Well, First, I want
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to say that there are a number of Iranian players
of Iranian players that are actually very against what is
going on in it on and so much the point
that they are afraid to go home because they could
be arrested. So I just want to say that it's
not a blanket statement that their players are in support
of the system that is going on there, the same
way that our players are not necessarily in support of
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the system that goes on here. I think the question
being asked to a black player in particular, it's just
like you said, like, how do you have that conflict
in you and still represent And I think what it
boils down to is it's not that we have faith
necessary in America. We have faith in US. Black people
have faith in US, and we have faith in US
because we have shown time and time again that in
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spite of America's oppression, we find a way we're gonna
make it work regardless. Look at people in the Bronx
and Florida, They've figured it out. Listen, I grow up
in Florida, and look where I'm at right here. Yeah,
that's right. Florida is not all bad, is it. I
didn't say bad, I say crazy. What do you think representatives?
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You know, as I listened to that interview UH live
that day, I thought, and certainly, serving in the House
of Representatives, I served on the Intelligence Community, we talk
a lot about Iran. I thought the nerve of the
reporter to ask this black player, because I don't think
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the question would have come up had the the captain
not been black. But the nerve when they have such
human rights valiations, that is the law of the land,
human rights violation in Iran, right and and so in
in terms of how do we love this country? I
think about black people who suffer, bled and die. So
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Tyler could be the captain of the soccer team, I mean, okay,
so we could play football and baseball and so, yes,
America is still a work in progress. We're trying to
steal work to form that more perfect union. But the
nerve of Iran to ask the question about America to
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be judgmental. Yeah, what's interesting to me is like black people,
we always feel like the true patriots, Like we're the
ones who believe in this country's treat We're the ones
who are out here constantly demanding this country live up
to which create why do we have sex faith? I
think we have faith because one we have to have it.
You know, we don't have it, we lose out the gate.
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And I think what what's important to understand is, you know,
we believe, or people want to think that we believe
in a version of America that exists and we've told
should exist, but doesn't. We haven't gotten there yet. But
I think the issue is it's not that America is
incapable of living up to what it says it's supposed
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to be. It's we have all the ingredients It's like
if I if I gave you a car and the
engine was in the trunk and the stering wheel was
attached to the door, you have all the parts to
still make a car that works, but you have to
acknowledge that the engines in the trunk and the sting
was attached the door. Nobody's acknowledging what's happening to us
in the way that it happens, so you can't correct
The problem is we every day people are telling us
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the stering wheel is not attached to the door. You
just say it is. The engine not in the trunk.
You just keep telling us it is. And so it's
until we acknowledge that that's the only way America it
could ever live up to the ideals we've been told
that it possesses, you know, representative them. And you're a politician,
do you think it's possible to change the system from
the inside out or do we just need a whole
new system. Look, I believe in the greatness of this
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country because I've seen the greatness of this country. No,
we don't see it enough, we don't see it every day,
but we are a part of all that is good
and right about America. When we talk about this debate
that we're having in Florida about Black history and American history.
But black history is American history because we were to
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build this great nation, right and so you know, we
just have to as as as Trayvon said, we are
working progress and we have to keep keep working on
this country. But we are a part of its greatness
and we believe It's not like we don't believe in America.
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This is our country. We want to hold America to
his promise. Go ahead, Amanda. The America that we're talking
about doesn't even it's never existed. The America that I
think Black people deserve to live in has never existed.
We have to believe that it can exist because we
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literally built this place. It's actually our and so without
believing that we can have that place, what we're saying
is that we won't even we don't even have a
place if we don't make this place our place. You understand,
like we were stolen people. This was our place that
we were able to build. And guess what this place
was stolen from a people. So at the end of
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the day, we have to at some point eradicate to
Trayvonne's point. The reality that gas lighting is so deep
in what has become the American ideal, we have to
eradicate that altogether. So to your point, I don't look
to your question. I don't think we can change anything
from the inside without realizing that we have to scorch
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the earth, like this was never built properly. You built
the car wrong from day one, and the thin well,
I think the proof of what of what you're saying
is the fact that America's greatest export is black culture.
Everywhere you look, everywhere, all everybody is inspired by what
they'll say is American culture. But it's dressing like black people,
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is talking like black people, is dancing like black people,
is singing like black people. It's that's America. Black people
is America. And so there are a lot of people
who hate that truth. There are a lot of people
who don't want to reckon with that idea that we
are America. But but you know, back to your question
about can we fix it or building fixed on the inside,
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or do we start over. That's why it's so important
that we put people in positions of power who want
to work towards that America. That we are talking about that.
We have never seen election matter. Who runs corporations matter
because they are creating the jobs that for us. And
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so can we do it from the inside? Yeah, I
believe we can if we put people in positions who
share our values and beliefs and want to see that America.
I agree with that. But don't you gotta start from
the beginning though, because you know, when they were doing
the Constitution and abilleration, all that good stuff, none of
us were at the table. We weren't at the table.
But this isn't an interesting that the founders of this country,
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with all of their shenanigans that they had some phrasing,
it's going right, but they talked about a country that
they weren't even ready to accept themselves. Interesting. Isn't that
interesting that they put into the Constitution, into the Bill
of Rights where they didn't even practice at the time
than themselves. But so their vision, although they were that's
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another to invite me back. But their vision, their vision
was the America that we are talking about. But they
were slave owners. They weren't even able to accept it themselves.
But they talked about forming that more perfect union. We
are a work in progress and we need people in
leadership positions who are serious about building and seeing that
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America that I think. I think when you say, like,
do we need to start over, the answer is yes.
The problem is people lack the imagination of what that
looks like. People can't see beyond what we see right now.
So you say start over, people go, no, why would
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we do that? We can we have everything we need
right now. It's like, no, you just lacked the imagination
of starting over looks like and you were afraid of
the balance shift that comes with starting over because we
started from the not in the stadium. We started outside
the stadium, far our way into the stadium, and now
we're fighting to win the game. But if you start over, now,
guess what we all start inside this stadium, and you
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were afraid of what that race might look like and
who might cut out come out ahead. I cannot close
it with I also think part of the reason people
like that imagination is because of the lack of education.
There has been a hoarding of resources in this nation
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in a number of different ways, and education is one
of those ways. And education is one of those resources
that has been hoarded. And what happens is that when
people are not able to know the history of other
places that have started over. When people are not able
to know their own identities, when people aren't able even
to know the way that civics operates, they're not able
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to participate in the imagining of that world. And so
when we look at Florida and the effort, the concerted
effort that's being made to squelch education in Florida by
somebody who could very possibly become the next president of
this nation, we have to remember that of all of
these things, the economics, the government, the etcetera, education is
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one of the key fundamental elements to our liberty. And
we can do that and center that in ways that
don't even require money. We should be educating each other,
educating ourselves each other, our families, our communities. That's something
I try to do on my radio show. This try
thing you're doing here, and it's something that's going to
be imperative for folks to be able to understand that
there is a version of America that we have never
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seen and that we need to imagine from the ground
app Basically, what you're saying is, we don't want the
rest of America to be like Florida. But where is
the just the age of idiocy? We are in the
age of idiocy? Like all right, doctor Phillips High School
and fou I want to thank my panelist Draybond Free
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representative Abdimics and A Manda Sales were coming through up next,
my guy, little l how are we when you're stopping
by well Hell of a Week In just a minute, Hey,
welcome back to Hell of a Week, your forever known
(24:12):
its t s A Agent, Rod Williams and Jordan Pills
Classic get out and you can catch this hilarious new
stand up special. I said it, y'all thinking it on
HBO HBO Max, Please welcome a little round here, my guy.
You know I was talking to my writers earlier and
I was telling them on my first talk show, Charlottage
(24:32):
and Friends that was on MTV two. You was a
panelist on there, so and nobody knew who you were,
but they know now. I mean, that's that was like
a decade ago. Dude, that's big for you, Like they
still give you shows you leave me hang, I don't
wanna dap you up now. Ron Now, I said that,
(24:54):
y'all thinking it is the new special you filmed in Chicago.
What ain't nobody from Chicago here? What was the life
for you to go back home with your special? It
was it was surreal to like, you know, sell out
the Chicago theater was a line around the corner. My
uncle call like, I ain't know you just famous doctor?
You know here preachers call everybody dot. But it was
(25:16):
just it was just surreal. I had crucial conflict open
to show the crowd and know that was gonna happen,
and man, it was special. It was one of my
favorite days of my life. Tell me your mindset when
you did the special. I saw the special. I liked
a lot, but you talked a lot about current events
that happened this ship, you know, like versus what else?
It was something else? He was the slap, the slap,
(25:37):
And I'm like in my mind, like, bro, you could
have said that on the podcast. Yeah, you know what
I'm saying. So what makes a special special? Because to me,
it's when somebody talks about that personal life what you did,
you definitely did, So what makes a special especial? That Well,
that's something too. I wanted to kind of show once
again you said I can talk about on the podcast.
But the gift of stand up is always making these
(25:58):
topics funny. And I think a lot of times with comedy,
especially more recently, they get on these topics and it
just sounds like a ted talk. So my thing was
I wanted to prove everybody I can make anything funny
and make you comfortable laughing at it when you're doing
your stand up nowadays, you know when you're crafting it,
how you stay away from just doing trending topics because
tics can get old. Yeah, what we just happen to have,
(26:21):
like the crate like versus is very significant now, right.
That's what we've been like sitting there for the last
few years is watching those verses, right, And so even
just like with the Oscar slap, I don't mean you know,
you ain't getting no uh, and so like it was
just honestly, and I didn't overthinking neither, to be honest
with you, I just kind of just went and did
to set. I didn't even write anything. I literally went
(26:43):
on stage and just talked, have you heard from Chris
Rock because you kind of said he deserved it a
little bit, I said, I just know I did kind
of said he deserved it. What I said what I
said was Will shouldn't hit Chris. I said that, and
then I said, I get it. I get it, but
that's the I said, you know, the special. So I'm
not taking that thing back. But it was the only
(27:05):
thing I thought was crazy is that I I just
never like, I just know, nobody walking up on me. Yes,
and I didn't ask it. And I'm not swearing up
like if I know you ain't supposed to be walking
up on me, I'm not back, Okay, you know, it's like,
that's just I just thought it was. I'm just being
because I thought to myself, and what did Chris dude around?
He didn't doctor to me. It's comedy because you said,
(27:26):
I get it, Like I know, but if you could
make a g I. Jane joke about somebody's ball head,
you should be able to take a joke from another comic. True. Indeed, Now,
in the Special two, you talk about therapy and processing
the loss of your mom condolences, you know, the biddest
funny but also very personal. And you said your therapist
made you answer the question, which was a harsh question,
(27:48):
did it wrong parent die? Yeah? She said, do you
think the wrong parent died? And it was. It was
like the way I acted out and especially was really
the emotional of the conversation. And it wasn't that, you know,
I hate my dad. My dad is amazing. You know,
both my parents stayed together the whole time. But then
you do go through this thing with like you know
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your My mom was just really tight with me, so
I just missed her reaping the benefits of all this.
And that's what the therapy session was about. My my
therapist showed me, let me know it's okay to keep
to be grieving, like it's okay. I think I was
always trying to mash it down and I think about
it and just move on from her dying. But she
opened up that that um that Pandora's box. And a
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cool thing about it is I've gotten so many messages,
especially from black men, about being open and thanking me
for being open about going to therapy because that's what
I am now. To my friends, everything they start fitting me,
I'm like, go to therapy, that's right, that's right. You
know what The interesting I talked to some comments about
therapy and they actually say they don't want to go
to therapy because they don't want to be healed because
that trauma they feels what gives them their edge. What
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do you think about that? I think that's crazy, really,
you know, the whole laugh in my pain ain't the
tears of a clown. And I just said that my
special and I saw somebody right about my special. I
thought it was really dope, and it's not what I
intended to do. But just like he seemed really happy.
Like you can be funny and happy. You can be
funny and not be me, you know what I'm saying,
Like it's cool to do things from my happy place.
(29:15):
I'm happy. I don't want to foresadness. My life is great.
I'm alive, you know, and I'm blessed, So like, why
not brag about that? I told you that earlier, I said.
When I when I see you like on social media,
just out, I'm like, that is a brother who really
appreciates his blessing. He really appreciates the position that he's in.
I mean, we had it like at the end of
the special, and at first I wasn't sure if I
was gonna keep it in there. But when I didn't
close with a joke, I just stood there and just
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literally took in the moment. You know, every time I've
had those type of moments, and I know it's emotional,
but in that moment, literally as I was trying to talk,
I saw my mom standing there. Wow, why this crowd
was standing there, standing up? And I just took it in.
And it's like I think, sometimes we just we just
focused on the grind so much. Take time to take
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it what you blessed with. Enjoy the moment. Joy at
the moment. Hey flew to my guy, little roll, how
are we make the north little rail? Y'all? Okay, everybody
check out this new special. I said it, y'all thinking
it on a freon ah Frio Max. When we come
back for hell of a Week, welcome back to hell
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of a Week. Now it goes without saying that the
future is of disappointment, all right. We wanted flying cars,
they gave us Kardashians. We wanted George Jetson. They gave
us Elon Musk. But all that pales in comparison to
the latest. A few days ago, to San Francisco City
Council voted to allow police to use robots capable of
inflicting deadly force. We wanted piece of social justice and
(30:51):
they gave us a scrapped up room book. Right, it
went from blue Lives Matter to bot lives matter, to
fund the police, to unplug the police. Now, maybe you're
cool given robots explosives. Maybe you're especially friendly with your toasted.
Maybe you think robot cop is somehow going to be
fairer than the real thing. But before I trust the
robot cop, I don't want to know who's programming it,
(31:11):
all right, because if it's the same people who are
upholding the systemic racism and law enforcement, then what's the point.
I go by the name of Jolomne and Guy. Come
back next Thursday for another Hell of the Week. So
be sure to listen to the Hell of a Week
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with Charlemagne the God wherever you get your podcast. This
has been a Comedy Central podcast.
You're listening to Comedy Central. Hey, thank you, Trevor. Welcome
to Hell of a week I go by the name
of Charlemagne and God Hello, all right, And as long
as we're gathering together on this fine Thursday evening, why
don't we all sit back and take a good hard
look at this weekend hell Now luxury fashion brand. But
(00:26):
Lynciyaga is getting canceled by a bunch of people who
can't afford it anyway, okay, and rightfully so alright, their
new ad campaign seems to support kitty porn and sex
with kids, all right, But Lynxiyaga dropped their holiday ad
where they had a young girl holding a b DSM
bear with empty wine glasses, and back in July they
ran a campaign that included a printed out Supreme Court
(00:47):
decision on child pornography. Then, Balenciaga, you're talking demographic. His
pedophiles would like to get fly now, huh. And nobody
has taken responsibility for this ad campaign, Not Balinciaga, not
the photographer, not the production company. In fact, Valenciaga is
blaming everybody except for valency Antiaga. All right. And since
(01:08):
the backlash, moral heavyweight Kanye West has called the brand out,
but no more than five minutes later, Kanye was pictured
in a pair of Valenciaga AHOI maybe three thousand's all right,
And then he wore the same mud boots again but
covered up the Balenciaga logo. I just want you all
to know that the Montgomery bus boycott wouldn't have worked
if black people would have just covered up the name
(01:30):
of the city bus and kept riding him, all right.
Speaking of the civil rights movement, Kanye said he used
to think he was like Malcolm X, but now he
realizes that he's more like MLK. He really said that,
he continued, because as I'm getting holes down every day
by the press and financially, I'm just standing there. When
I found out they tried to put me in jail,
(01:51):
it was like a dog was biting my arm. What
a martyr, Okay. I really really want him to experience
all of that. I would really like for him to
get bit by a German shepherd, okay. And I want
him to get holes down. He's already got the rain
boots on, and now I know why he wears them
all the time so he can properly walk through all
this ship. He's full of all right, a Florida woman
(02:13):
is suing Craft for five million dollars, saying Velvita micro
Wave back and cheese takes longer to make the advertise.
First of all, how are you eating Kraft mac and cheese?
And can afford the lawyer? All right, ma'am. The fact
that it's taking you ten minutes to make three minute
mac and cheese is a you problem. Okay, I'll put
down the bas sauts please. Uh. The my pillow guy
(02:35):
in reform crackhead Mike Lindall is running for head of
the Republican National Committee. I guess he thinks RNC stands
for really need crack. All right, be on the lookout
for his next product, my crack pipe. Okay, it's the
most comfortable crack pipe you'll ever own, guaranteed, frank. And
speaking of pipes, every single month in the Thai Temple
lost their jobs after getting caught with methinish system. But
(02:57):
don't judge them, don't judge them, Okay. There are many
past to enlightenment, and for some that's enlightened up a
meth piper, all right. And finally, Edgar Allan Poe was
trending on Twitter this week after black Twitter learned he
lived in the Bronx. Okay, I guess now we know
all that doing was so depressed all the time. Okay,
(03:20):
his name was just Edgar Allen before. He wasn't Poe
until he got to the Bronx. O fact, can you
imagine Edgar Allan Poe wearing an eight ball leather jacket,
curb stomping another poet out. Okay, that does feel historically accurate,
but we shouldn't be surprised because there's a lot of
dope poets that came out of the Bronch. You got
Cardi b Okay, you got that's right. You got Fat Joe. Okay,
(03:44):
you got Big Pa, and you got remy Ma. You
got Ice Spice all right? You thought I was feeling
you never more? Right, We've got more to talk about,
like Jerry Jones in the World Cup, Queen Ila, let's
get it. It's been a hell of a week in
(04:06):
here to talk about. It is the flashiest paneling late Night.
He's an Oscar Award winning filmmaker. You can watch his
documentary thirty eight to Garden on HBO. Max trayvon Frieze. Hell,
he's a congresswoman in the craziest place in America. Okay,
right before the Bronx, Florida baldinnis is hell, all right
(04:30):
and one of my very good friends, the person that
I loved dearly. She's the host of the syndicated radio
show The Amanda Seal Show and the podcast Small Doses
the very smart, funny and black a man later in
the show, my guy a Little Round, We'll be stopping by. Well,
let's get the topic one jerryman ring. Now. Recently a
(04:50):
photo of Dallas Cowboy owner Jerry Jones resurfaced of him
as a fourteen year old high school student back in
nineteen fifty seven. But this wasn't no happy days picture
of him at the soccer now. His asked was spotted
in the back of an angry mob that was trying
to block black kids from going to their school. Now,
Jerry says he was just a curious spectator who happened
to be there. However, others are calling for a flag
(05:11):
on the play. Okay, I am a Cowboys fan, but
I'm not about to defend this white man, all right,
because he's gonna be fine. Al Right. It doesn't benefit
any black person to defend this, and it's really no
defense to be had, just the conversation. So panel are
we buying? And a fourteen year old kid could have
just been curious? Okay, we all ran towards the promotion
as a kid in school. What do y'all think, Trayvon?
You start with you. I mean, I find it a
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little funny that he stuck around so long to be photographed.
But I mean I think also a white person with
too much time on their hands to be a little dangerous,
and he he seemed to have a lot of time
on his hands, as did the people trying to stop
the black kids from getting to the school. So I'm
a little skeptical of the I was just kind of
being a bodystander because you you figure out what's going
(05:55):
on pretty quick when you show it to us scene
where people are like, no, we don't want these black
kids going to the school, and somebody got a camera.
So that's kind of on you at that point, representative
doing what do you think? You know? Of course we
all were curious at fourteen, right, we get that part.
But when he says he was just you know, standing
(06:15):
there watching, not participating, Well, if you look at the
photo it looks like everybody else was standing there there watching,
quote not participating, except for the kid with the cigarette
and seven a kid. And so you know one thing
for sure, we can't We couldn't see his heart in
those days. But what we do know was that he
was standing with the crowd that was blocking black children
(06:37):
from integrating the school. Now can we go back and
change that, No, we can't. But what he does now
that he's in a position of power and influence matters.
If he is so remorseful about what happened all those
years ago in ninety seven, what are you doing now?
He's been around for a while, he enough million times.
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What do you think big seals? I just would have
appreciated him keeping it abut because it wouldn't have been
odd for him to be in that mix, because that
was the mindset at that time. That was the mix,
and then now the mix has shifted. We'd like to
think enough for him to say I was wrong then,
that was wrong then, and this is how we should
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be doing it now. I would have felt way better
about it if he would have just done that. You know.
ESPN analyst J Williams. He was on first take to
Day and He said, Jerry Jones should be asked to
annwn systemic racism and he should tell us what he's learned.
I wonder is he right, because what is the call
to action? What should the call to action be about
a situation like this seals? I mean, I think the
(07:43):
call to action for Jerry Jones, Well, first of all,
Jerry Jones at that time may not have spent a
lot of time with a lot of black people. We
know that he's spending a lot of time with a
lot of black people at this point. So I think
when we talk about the call to action, it speaks
to what UM Representative Demmings was saying. You know, at
the end of the day, you have a powerful platform,
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You have a lot of money, and there are a
lot of places to put that money that advances black
folks beyond the systemic racism that you were a part
of when you were folteen. You think, you know what
age fourteen a lot of years ago. We can't go
back and change it. And and like he has been stated,
we all could find ourselves on a photograph that you
(08:27):
know doesn't fully explain what you know. But what matters
now he's responsible for explaining that photograph. I think he
does have an obligation because now it is a topic
of discussion as it needs to be. Should he denounce it? Yes?
Should he say bring people together, people of physician and
(08:49):
influence together and talk about a plan to address racism
in America. He can be a part of that discussion
and that action, or at least in Texas and there
he is. Yeah, I mean I think he has to.
Now he's in a position he can try to explain
it away. But now he's in a position the light
is on him, not just on racism in America as
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it has been, but now it's on him. I like
going to do about it. I love that you keep
represent that he was fourteen, because how do we feel
in regard to creating a narrative about a person based
on what they did when they were fourteen? Don't you
think that's a slippery slope. I think it's a realistic
slope for many black children when we look at the
way that black children are identified on a regular basis
and held to consequences, that we're creative for them in
(09:35):
a very like ed a Pin kind of way before
they even had the opportunity to I think it's a
very real thing to say that at fourteen years old
he one was conscious of the hatred that had been
taught in his home and how he was carrying it forward.
And now as a grown man, he can speak against that.
And I don't think that's unrealistic or unreasonable for us
to expect. True. I want to ask you a question,
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Representative Demmings, right, because Joe Biden and Jerry Jones did
the same h right, And Joe Biden has been buddy
buddy with segregationists. Okay, he worked with those segregationists, you know,
to create crime legislation, and we all know he sponsored
a bill that would limit the power of courts to
order school de segregation with busting. So I ask what's
the difference, because I know, you know we all voted
for him. I did, at least I did too. Okay, Look,
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I believe anybody who wants to do good, because as
I said earlier, I can't change your heart. You are
what you are, right, you know your motives and attentions.
But if you are a racist and a segregationists and
you want to invest in a program that will help
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black and brown communities, write the check out too. And
so I do believe you can still do good though,
and you know in Congress. Look I worked there every day,
y'all pray for me. But what but we have to
if we want to get legislation path, we've got to
find a Republican sponsor to co sponsor that legislation. And
(11:05):
so anybody who wants to do good, we should always
provide that opportunity to do so. But be careful how
far you go down that road with somebody that does
not share your beliefs and your values. Seals your face
is saying something. Has your face said at all? No,
I just my face was saying, it's just it sucks
(11:27):
that we have to get a Republican co sponsor to
get something across the line. We always have to compromise
with the fashist's saying okay, we got yeah, like you know,
to Representative dimming Point. I don't think we can tell
from that photo what Jerry Jones was thinking, but we
know what this situation was. Okay, this was absolute systemic
racism at his finest, and he was there. And I
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feel it's important to know who all these white people
are in these photos. Okay, we know that fourteen year
old kid grew up to be you know, Jerry Jones.
But what about the rest of him, especially this one.
All right, Okay, these guys, these guys could be judges,
doctor CEOs of companies and all could be denying black
people opportunities because of good old systemic racism. All right, Uh,
(12:12):
my panelists aren't denying me more conversation, so they're sticking
around after the break. Plus, we little relill be pulling up.
We'll be right back for more Hell of a Week.
Welcome back to Hell of a Week. I'm here with
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tray Bon Free, Congresswoman Valdmmis and Amanda Sales. Now let's
get into our next topic, American scorer story. Alright, Earlier
this week, the US Randy Ron's asked up out of
the World Cup. Good thing they're already close to home.
Which something interesting happens leading up to the match. And
Iranian reporter got a little spicy with US soccer player
Tyler Adams when he asked if Tyler was okay with
(12:54):
representing the US due to its discrimination against black people.
A cool question, Mr irene And reported, but did you
ask anyone on Iran how they feel about playing for
a country that's not only the nine women's rights, but
arresting and killing protesters who did challenge our the nation
as governess and how women are treated. It. Come on, man,
the nervous you questioning America on our discrimination when you're
allowed here ignoring women's rights like it's a damn user
(13:16):
agreement notification. Okay, Now the man has lived and played
abroad and acknowledged that their discrimination everywhere. It's a valid
question that we do discuss amongst ourselves often. You know,
how do we proudly key word proudly rep of country
that's systemically tried to ruin US since the data's country
was founded A man the seals. Well, First, I want
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to say that there are a number of Iranian players
of Iranian players that are actually very against what is
going on in it on and so much the point
that they are afraid to go home because they could
be arrested. So I just want to say that it's
not a blanket statement that their players are in support
of the system that is going on there, the same
way that our players are not necessarily in support of
(13:58):
the system that goes on here. I think the question
being asked to a black player in particular, it's just
like you said, like, how do you have that conflict
in you and still represent And I think what it
boils down to is it's not that we have faith
necessary in America. We have faith in US. Black people
have faith in US, and we have faith in US
because we have shown time and time again that in
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spite of America's oppression, we find a way we're gonna
make it work regardless. Look at people in the Bronx
and Florida, They've figured it out. Listen, I grow up
in Florida, and look where I'm at right here. Yeah,
that's right. Florida is not all bad, is it. I
didn't say bad, I say crazy. What do you think representatives?
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You know, as I listened to that interview UH live
that day, I thought, and certainly, serving in the House
of Representatives, I served on the Intelligence Community, we talk
a lot about Iran. I thought the nerve of the
reporter to ask this black player, because I don't think
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the question would have come up had the the captain
not been black. But the nerve when they have such
human rights valiations, that is the law of the land,
human rights violation in Iran, right and and so in
in terms of how do we love this country? I
think about black people who suffer, bled and die. So
(15:27):
Tyler could be the captain of the soccer team, I mean, okay,
so we could play football and baseball and so, yes,
America is still a work in progress. We're trying to
steal work to form that more perfect union. But the
nerve of Iran to ask the question about America to
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be judgmental. Yeah, what's interesting to me is like black people,
we always feel like the true patriots, Like we're the
ones who believe in this country's treat We're the ones
who are out here constantly demanding this country live up
to which create why do we have sex faith? I
think we have faith because one we have to have it.
You know, we don't have it, we lose out the gate.
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And I think what what's important to understand is, you know,
we believe, or people want to think that we believe
in a version of America that exists and we've told
should exist, but doesn't. We haven't gotten there yet. But
I think the issue is it's not that America is
incapable of living up to what it says it's supposed
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to be. It's we have all the ingredients It's like
if I if I gave you a car and the
engine was in the trunk and the stering wheel was
attached to the door, you have all the parts to
still make a car that works, but you have to
acknowledge that the engines in the trunk and the sting
was attached the door. Nobody's acknowledging what's happening to us
in the way that it happens, so you can't correct
The problem is we every day people are telling us
(16:51):
the stering wheel is not attached to the door. You
just say it is. The engine not in the trunk.
You just keep telling us it is. And so it's
until we acknowledge that that's the only way America it
could ever live up to the ideals we've been told
that it possesses, you know, representative them. And you're a politician,
do you think it's possible to change the system from
the inside out or do we just need a whole
new system. Look, I believe in the greatness of this
(17:17):
country because I've seen the greatness of this country. No,
we don't see it enough, we don't see it every day,
but we are a part of all that is good
and right about America. When we talk about this debate
that we're having in Florida about Black history and American history.
But black history is American history because we were to
(17:37):
build this great nation, right and so you know, we
just have to as as as Trayvon said, we are
working progress and we have to keep keep working on
this country. But we are a part of its greatness
and we believe It's not like we don't believe in America.
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This is our country. We want to hold America to
his promise. Go ahead, Amanda. The America that we're talking
about doesn't even it's never existed. The America that I
think Black people deserve to live in has never existed.
We have to believe that it can exist because we
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literally built this place. It's actually our and so without
believing that we can have that place, what we're saying
is that we won't even we don't even have a
place if we don't make this place our place. You understand,
like we were stolen people. This was our place that
we were able to build. And guess what this place
was stolen from a people. So at the end of
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the day, we have to at some point eradicate to
Trayvonne's point. The reality that gas lighting is so deep
in what has become the American ideal, we have to
eradicate that altogether. So to your point, I don't look
to your question. I don't think we can change anything
from the inside without realizing that we have to scorch
(19:04):
the earth, like this was never built properly. You built
the car wrong from day one, and the thin well,
I think the proof of what of what you're saying
is the fact that America's greatest export is black culture.
Everywhere you look, everywhere, all everybody is inspired by what
they'll say is American culture. But it's dressing like black people,
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is talking like black people, is dancing like black people,
is singing like black people. It's that's America. Black people
is America. And so there are a lot of people
who hate that truth. There are a lot of people
who don't want to reckon with that idea that we
are America. But but you know, back to your question
about can we fix it or building fixed on the inside,
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or do we start over. That's why it's so important
that we put people in positions of power who want
to work towards that America. That we are talking about that.
We have never seen election matter. Who runs corporations matter
because they are creating the jobs that for us. And
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so can we do it from the inside? Yeah, I
believe we can if we put people in positions who
share our values and beliefs and want to see that America.
I agree with that. But don't you gotta start from
the beginning though, because you know, when they were doing
the Constitution and abilleration, all that good stuff, none of
us were at the table. We weren't at the table.
But this isn't an interesting that the founders of this country,
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with all of their shenanigans that they had some phrasing,
it's going right, but they talked about a country that
they weren't even ready to accept themselves. Interesting. Isn't that
interesting that they put into the Constitution, into the Bill
of Rights where they didn't even practice at the time
than themselves. But so their vision, although they were that's
(20:54):
another to invite me back. But their vision, their vision
was the America that we are talking about. But they
were slave owners. They weren't even able to accept it themselves.
But they talked about forming that more perfect union. We
are a work in progress and we need people in
leadership positions who are serious about building and seeing that
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America that I think. I think when you say, like,
do we need to start over, the answer is yes.
The problem is people lack the imagination of what that
looks like. People can't see beyond what we see right now.
So you say start over, people go, no, why would
(21:39):
we do that? We can we have everything we need
right now. It's like, no, you just lacked the imagination
of starting over looks like and you were afraid of
the balance shift that comes with starting over because we
started from the not in the stadium. We started outside
the stadium, far our way into the stadium, and now
we're fighting to win the game. But if you start over, now,
guess what we all start inside this stadium, and you
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were afraid of what that race might look like and
who might cut out come out ahead. I cannot close
it with I also think part of the reason people
like that imagination is because of the lack of education.
There has been a hoarding of resources in this nation
(22:21):
in a number of different ways, and education is one
of those ways. And education is one of those resources
that has been hoarded. And what happens is that when
people are not able to know the history of other
places that have started over. When people are not able
to know their own identities, when people aren't able even
to know the way that civics operates, they're not able
(22:41):
to participate in the imagining of that world. And so
when we look at Florida and the effort, the concerted
effort that's being made to squelch education in Florida by
somebody who could very possibly become the next president of
this nation, we have to remember that of all of
these things, the economics, the government, the etcetera, education is
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one of the key fundamental elements to our liberty. And
we can do that and center that in ways that
don't even require money. We should be educating each other,
educating ourselves each other, our families, our communities. That's something
I try to do on my radio show. This try
thing you're doing here, and it's something that's going to
be imperative for folks to be able to understand that
there is a version of America that we have never
(23:26):
seen and that we need to imagine from the ground
app Basically, what you're saying is, we don't want the
rest of America to be like Florida. But where is
the just the age of idiocy? We are in the
age of idiocy? Like all right, doctor Phillips High School
and fou I want to thank my panelist Draybond Free
(23:52):
representative Abdimics and A Manda Sales were coming through up next,
my guy, little l how are we when you're stopping
by well Hell of a Week In just a minute, Hey,
welcome back to Hell of a Week, your forever known
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its t s A Agent, Rod Williams and Jordan Pills
Classic get out and you can catch this hilarious new
stand up special. I said it, y'all thinking it on
HBO HBO Max, Please welcome a little round here, my guy.
You know I was talking to my writers earlier and
I was telling them on my first talk show, Charlottage
(24:32):
and Friends that was on MTV two. You was a
panelist on there, so and nobody knew who you were,
but they know now. I mean, that's that was like
a decade ago. Dude, that's big for you, Like they
still give you shows you leave me hang, I don't
wanna dap you up now. Ron Now, I said that,
(24:54):
y'all thinking it is the new special you filmed in Chicago.
What ain't nobody from Chicago here? What was the life
for you to go back home with your special? It
was it was surreal to like, you know, sell out
the Chicago theater was a line around the corner. My
uncle call like, I ain't know you just famous doctor?
You know here preachers call everybody dot. But it was
(25:16):
just it was just surreal. I had crucial conflict open
to show the crowd and know that was gonna happen,
and man, it was special. It was one of my
favorite days of my life. Tell me your mindset when
you did the special. I saw the special. I liked
a lot, but you talked a lot about current events
that happened this ship, you know, like versus what else?
It was something else? He was the slap, the slap,
(25:37):
And I'm like in my mind, like, bro, you could
have said that on the podcast. Yeah, you know what
I'm saying. So what makes a special special? Because to me,
it's when somebody talks about that personal life what you did,
you definitely did, So what makes a special especial? That Well,
that's something too. I wanted to kind of show once
again you said I can talk about on the podcast.
But the gift of stand up is always making these
(25:58):
topics funny. And I think a lot of times with comedy,
especially more recently, they get on these topics and it
just sounds like a ted talk. So my thing was
I wanted to prove everybody I can make anything funny
and make you comfortable laughing at it when you're doing
your stand up nowadays, you know when you're crafting it,
how you stay away from just doing trending topics because
tics can get old. Yeah, what we just happen to have,
(26:21):
like the crate like versus is very significant now, right.
That's what we've been like sitting there for the last
few years is watching those verses, right, And so even
just like with the Oscar slap, I don't mean you know,
you ain't getting no uh, and so like it was
just honestly, and I didn't overthinking neither, to be honest
with you, I just kind of just went and did
to set. I didn't even write anything. I literally went
(26:43):
on stage and just talked, have you heard from Chris
Rock because you kind of said he deserved it a
little bit, I said, I just know I did kind
of said he deserved it. What I said what I
said was Will shouldn't hit Chris. I said that, and
then I said, I get it. I get it, but
that's the I said, you know, the special. So I'm
not taking that thing back. But it was the only
(27:05):
thing I thought was crazy is that I I just
never like, I just know, nobody walking up on me. Yes,
and I didn't ask it. And I'm not swearing up
like if I know you ain't supposed to be walking
up on me, I'm not back, Okay, you know, it's like,
that's just I just thought it was. I'm just being
because I thought to myself, and what did Chris dude around?
He didn't doctor to me. It's comedy because you said,
(27:26):
I get it, Like I know, but if you could
make a g I. Jane joke about somebody's ball head,
you should be able to take a joke from another comic. True. Indeed, Now,
in the Special two, you talk about therapy and processing
the loss of your mom condolences, you know, the biddest
funny but also very personal. And you said your therapist
made you answer the question, which was a harsh question,
(27:48):
did it wrong parent die? Yeah? She said, do you
think the wrong parent died? And it was. It was
like the way I acted out and especially was really
the emotional of the conversation. And it wasn't that, you know,
I hate my dad. My dad is amazing. You know,
both my parents stayed together the whole time. But then
you do go through this thing with like you know
(28:08):
your My mom was just really tight with me, so
I just missed her reaping the benefits of all this.
And that's what the therapy session was about. My my
therapist showed me, let me know it's okay to keep
to be grieving, like it's okay. I think I was
always trying to mash it down and I think about
it and just move on from her dying. But she
opened up that that um that Pandora's box. And a
(28:30):
cool thing about it is I've gotten so many messages,
especially from black men, about being open and thanking me
for being open about going to therapy because that's what
I am now. To my friends, everything they start fitting me,
I'm like, go to therapy, that's right, that's right. You
know what The interesting I talked to some comments about
therapy and they actually say they don't want to go
to therapy because they don't want to be healed because
that trauma they feels what gives them their edge. What
(28:53):
do you think about that? I think that's crazy, really,
you know, the whole laugh in my pain ain't the
tears of a clown. And I just said that my
special and I saw somebody right about my special. I
thought it was really dope, and it's not what I
intended to do. But just like he seemed really happy.
Like you can be funny and happy. You can be
funny and not be me, you know what I'm saying,
Like it's cool to do things from my happy place.
(29:15):
I'm happy. I don't want to foresadness. My life is great.
I'm alive, you know, and I'm blessed, So like, why
not brag about that? I told you that earlier, I said.
When I when I see you like on social media,
just out, I'm like, that is a brother who really
appreciates his blessing. He really appreciates the position that he's in.
I mean, we had it like at the end of
the special, and at first I wasn't sure if I
was gonna keep it in there. But when I didn't
close with a joke, I just stood there and just
(29:38):
literally took in the moment. You know, every time I've
had those type of moments, and I know it's emotional,
but in that moment, literally as I was trying to talk,
I saw my mom standing there. Wow, why this crowd
was standing there, standing up? And I just took it in.
And it's like I think, sometimes we just we just
focused on the grind so much. Take time to take
(30:01):
it what you blessed with. Enjoy the moment. Joy at
the moment. Hey flew to my guy, little roll, how
are we make the north little rail? Y'all? Okay, everybody
check out this new special. I said it, y'all thinking
it on a freon ah Frio Max. When we come
back for hell of a Week, welcome back to hell
(30:26):
of a Week. Now it goes without saying that the
future is of disappointment, all right. We wanted flying cars,
they gave us Kardashians. We wanted George Jetson. They gave
us Elon Musk. But all that pales in comparison to
the latest. A few days ago, to San Francisco City
Council voted to allow police to use robots capable of
inflicting deadly force. We wanted piece of social justice and
(30:51):
they gave us a scrapped up room book. Right, it
went from blue Lives Matter to bot lives matter, to
fund the police, to unplug the police. Now, maybe you're
cool given robots explosives. Maybe you're especially friendly with your toasted.
Maybe you think robot cop is somehow going to be
fairer than the real thing. But before I trust the
robot cop, I don't want to know who's programming it,
(31:11):
all right, because if it's the same people who are
upholding the systemic racism and law enforcement, then what's the point.
I go by the name of Jolomne and Guy. Come
back next Thursday for another Hell of the Week. So
be sure to listen to the Hell of a Week
(31:32):
with Charlemagne the God wherever you get your podcast. This
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