About this episode

Godfrey and guests discuss the World Cup, race issues, and current events in a comedic context.

Godfrey is joined by Dante Nero and Akeem Woods to talk about the World Cup basically being African countries playing their colonizers with Congo vs Belgium and the French team being almost entirely Black, fans still doing monkey sounds while FIFA stays silent, why we hate Candace Owens more than Derek Chauvin, David Oyelowo catching heat over his comments on Nigerian accents and slave accents, why the British Black experience is completely different from the Black American one, Isabel Wilkerson's book Caste and African-Americans being at the bottom of the system, Trump's trash 250-year party with Vanilla Ice standing in the rain, Mamdani shutting down Rikers and locking down rent control, Godfrey wanting the NYC horse and carriage industry gone, LeBron leaving the Lakers, Nick Cannon and Kevin Hart hiring Black across the board, Michael Blackson building a school in Ghana, and Michael Jordan's free clinics and film grants in North Carolina. Legendary Comedian Godfrey is LIVE from New York, and joins some of his best friends in stand up comedy, Hip-Hop and Hollywood to talk current events, pop culture, race issues, movies, music, TV and Kung Fu. We got endless impressions, a…

People in this episode

Host: Godfrey

Guests: Dante Nero, Akeem Woods

Topics covered

• World Cup
• colonization
• race issues
• pop culture
• current events
• Black experience
• comedy

Keywords

• World Cup
• colonizers
• race
• comedy
• pop culture
• Black experience
• FIFA
• Caste
• Michael Blackson
• Michael Jordan

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FIFA

Books & works: Caste

Places: Congo, Belgium, North Carolina, NYC, Ghana

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