The Lost Histories of Black Inventors

The Friend Zone

Comedy

4.8 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 160 minutes

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Summary

This week on #TheFriendZone, we close out the last week of Black History Month with a discussion around Mr. Walter Johnson AKA Mr. Tendernism, Uncle Nearest and the ways the Government, racism and violence have suppressed Black innovation and economic progress.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Friends Zone.
0:03.4	Every time I'm in the zone.
0:04.9	My name is Dustin.
0:06.0	I'm Francesco, also known as Kay Fran.
0:08.3	Hey.
0:09.0	My name is Asante.
0:10.8	This is the Friends Zone.
0:13.3	I'm in a zone.
0:17.3	You're dirty.
0:18.3	You're dirty.
0:20.1	Everybody was right about you. You're a piece of shit. I see you. I want you to know that. I want you to know that. You know, I was going to change up. We had spoke. We had spoken previously spoke. It's one of them weeks. We had spoken previously about changing the intro for the show, but things keep happening in the world that bring me right back to where we, right back to where we started from.
0:45.2	Okay. That's where we at with it. This week, we got two people who need to be addressed. Now, the first person that I'm going to address, okay, is John Davidson, okay?
0:56.9	John Davidson is a Tourette syndrome activist who shouted nigger, okay, at the BAFTA
1:03.4	awards during Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan presenting on stage.
1:13.9	Okay, so that happened.
1:19.8	Me personally, I was very upset, and I didn't give a fuck about him having no Tourette's because I understood that he was expressing his thoughts.
1:24.2	And so I was highly offended by that shit.
1:26.9	I'm still mad, okay?
1:29.6	But the one thing that helped me turn it down two dials, right?
1:34.4	Because the anger is still on seven.
1:36.3	It was at a nine, okay?
1:38.3	The only reason it was at 10 was because I was still here.
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