Welcome to Black People Love Paramora podcast where we try to make Black people feel seen.

Please write us and write us a review on Apple Podcasts in Spotify 5 stars only because

we are 5 star bitches, we're Diego Gotti. I'm your host Sequoia and today joining me to talk about

Tony Hawk. We have a very special guest. He's a comedic storyteller. He's a Sundance Institute

Fellow and his new web series is sponsored by Liz Merriweather from New Girl. Jet G, Jet,

do you want to introduce yourself? And thank you so much for coming on.

Oh, first of all, thank you for having me on. I mean, I've been trying to call in here a minute.

You've been on the CP time. I have a meal here. But you know, you know, Black people live on CP time.

Please, please don't shame me on my podcast. No, no, I'm here now. I'm just happy that I'm here.

I was literally in my, I was like living with my grandparents earlier this year. Like,

yeah, I'm emailing this lady trying to get on her show like. Oh, but think I'm so excited to have you.

No, it's cool. I've been a fan for a minute. It's funny how this came out about. I was,

I was riding up pilot in 2021. Some networks were looking at it and as like an alternative view of

like, Black males, but it's also like, you know, my whole philosophy is that like, I think that the

industry paints black men as like these soft marshmallows or like thugs and there's no in between of like,

you know, Negroes can be toxic and also listen to Aero Levine and so like. So I wrote a whole pilot

about that. And then at the time, somebody was like, well, like, you should just find other people

that feel the same way. And I just stumbled across, I stumbled across your podcast and it's funny

because I'm a pastor's kid and Haley Williams is a pastor's kid and yes, she grew up in the same town

and Tennessee that I was in. So it was just a lot of weird synchronicities. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, that is very funny. I really like the idea of that script because where is the humanity

in black men, often portrayed in mainstream media? It's like, there is a lot of middle ground.

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