It's the sound of Young America. I'm Jesse Thorn. Next up on the program comedy from the very funny Nick Adams

He's the author of the book making friends with black people and he's a writer on the upcoming NBC sitcom

Perfect Couples. We recorded his set live at Artshare in Los Angeles at a show called Lafayette.

I was late here because I had to stop by my We Dealers place. I

Don't smoke marijuana. I just try to support black owned businesses whenever possible. So

Stimulate the economy and the community. I

Was recently trying to catch up on my Netflix viewing, you know, they get stacked up on you

So I was trying to go through some films and I recently finally just watched that United 93

Somebody by the high to tough. It's a tough one, right? Very very difficult film to watch and I'm watching this with my good friend Jamal

Who's also a black man? Obviously?

One of the Jewish Jamal's he he leans over to me halfway through the film and he says

If there had been more black people on the plane wouldn't have been no hijack

He said that they had been more brothers on the plane

Wouldn't have been no because we wouldn't have gone out like that

We would have just risen up as a unit and prevented that from going down

I of course reminded him of a little event that took place in history called the middle passage

Where they successfully hijacked I think ten million of us

Directly from Africa

Like the pure mountain spring water of black people bottle at the source

If they can have a boatload of your Rubin warriors on the high seas for six months

I'm pretty sure a couple of brothers from Detroit flying coach would have been no problem

You really got hijacked too. I

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