Diversity Programs - Do Better! (ft. Dr. Jon Paul)

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Jarrett Hill, Culture, Fanti, Comedy, Tre'vell Anderson, Journalists, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Jarrett’s still on vacay, but don’t worry, baby. We’ve got the one and only Dr. Jon Paul sitting in for him. They and Tre’Vell will tell you why Dave Chappelle’s The Closer isn’t just jokes, and why the Netflix special harms folks like them. And they have some advice for all them companies that love to boast about their diversity programs...including the ones they were a part of as well.

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0:00.0	Hey there beautiful people welcome the fans high the podcast of all those complex and complicated
0:07.9	conversations about the gray areas in our lives is I am entertainment journalist editor
0:15.1	podcaster obviously Trevelle Anderson writing solo today Jared is still on vacation lucky lucky
0:23.8	him and I have a very special guest here with me who'll be joining me for the entire episode
0:30.9	one of my good duties you might know them as Dr. John Paul Higgins I know them as a
0:38.2	bad bitch you know well you you know what I'm saying if you know you know okay John Paul
0:43.9	welcome to fan time thanks so much for being here oh Lord let me tell you something
0:49.9	real quick before we get in I have dreamed of this moment here and I'm so blessed to be I'm
0:56.2	so happy to be here thank you I've made it to the big time y'all I cannot would you tell the people
1:03.1	a little bit about who you are what you do John Paul before we get started yes so like like Trevelle
1:10.9	who also is a bad bitch I am a writer I am a speaker John I would say part-time freelance journalist
1:18.8	now and I am also a working in multi facets of of entertainment media currently I am the executive
1:27.5	assistant to Coleman Domingo's production company daddy Domingo yes honey to you is my boss
1:36.9	and so that's kind of where I leave it but I was in that that is who I am and I am just so
1:41.7	grateful and so blessed to be here yes John Paul is amazing you all will hear their brilliance on
1:48.1	our episode today we've got a lot to go through we're going to be giving diversity programs the
1:54.2	fan tied treatment but first for our past the popcorn y'all know what we got to talk about
2:00.8	mainly because y'all won't let you know the news cycle go on to something else right and that is
2:06.9	Dave Chappelle Netflix is foolishness transphobia there's a lot to unpack here and I should say I
2:17.1	really have been trying to avoid this topic but it is a persisting one Dave Chappelle released his
2:22.8	latest comedy special on Netflix a couple weeks ago it's called The Closer and to borrow a joke
2:27.8	from the folks over at keep it Kira Sedgwick is nowhere to be found okay and that's a specific
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