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Schoolin’ Life (ft. Charles H.F. Davis III)

FANTI

Maximum Fun

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

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Just how valuable is a college education, or advanced degree(s)? The answer, it turns out, is complex and complicado. For this week’s conversation, jarrett and Tre’vell are joined by Dr. Charles Davis, an assistant professor at University of Michigan, focusing on issues of race, racism, and resistance. They each take a look at their own journeys in higher education, and whether obtaining their degree–or not–was worth the time and money they invested.

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0:00.0

Hey, they're beautiful people. Welcome to fan time to podcast all those complex and

0:07.2

complicated conversations about the great areas and our lives is I am off the

0:13.4

rest time does Trevelle Anderson and I am 2009's hardest working broke bitch you

0:19.1

ever met in your life, Jared Hill. We are going to be getting into it. I mean, I'm not you,

0:24.8

but it's fine. We are not, but that's all right. Like in the first minute, like really,

0:32.6

really, we just started. Sorry. Today, we are going to be getting into a conversation

0:37.5

about college and degrees with one of our faves who's coming back on the show. Dr. Charles

0:42.5

Davis will be here just a little bit later. But first, it's time for us to pass the popcorn.

0:47.8

Yes. So over the weekend, Gerard Carmichael, who you might know from the cancel too soon,

0:53.6

the Carmichael show released a new comedy special on HBO Max. It's called Rolfan, y'all.

0:59.2

Okay. And it is a much watch in my opinion, particularly for the black folks. So for today's

1:05.0

past the popcorn, we want to talk about it. You might have seen headlines over the weekend

1:10.3

that the comedian comes out as gay in the special and he does. But that is just the tip of the

1:16.2

iceberg, as they say, of the wondrousness on display in this special. Okay. Now, we're

1:24.8

going to actually be on pop culture. Happy hours soon, discussing the show in more detail.

1:29.9

But we're itching to tell you all some thangs. Okay. So, Gerard, I'm going to turn it over

1:35.0

to you first. Tell the people what you thought, what you felt. I mean, I thought it was

1:40.0

fine. Okay, Gerard. No, I think I immediately called you after finishing it. Yeah, you did.

1:46.7

Like within minutes of finishing it, I was not 10 minutes in and I was like, I am in love with

1:51.2

this. Like I think it is brilliant and genius and so smart and so like relatable. I have to

2:02.4

wonder what it's doing for all the black queer folks that have things in development right now.

2:06.4

Like if it's helping or hurting, I don't know. I would hope that it's helping to be able to

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