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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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, 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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, 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, 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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? 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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, 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, 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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, 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 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, 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 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 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, 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, 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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, 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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, 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, 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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? 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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, 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, 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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, 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 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, 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 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 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, 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, 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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, 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 with Charlemagne the God wherever you get your podcast. This has been a Comedy Central podcast.