Yo welcome into the house of L podcast. I'm Lawrence Holmes. Thanks so much for hanging out here with me on the pod.

Man, I got a fun episode and hopefully a thought provoking episode. I wonder if the thumbnail of this episode is what will cause people to either listen or not listen to this episode.

Because when I saw this particular episode of Atlanta, like the whole season was so, so good. But season three episode nine was amazing.

Donald Glover directed it. He wrote it. And the point of view of this particular episode was just wild. And the performance stood out.

The main character in this episode is a character named Aaron who's played by Tyrick withers. And the way that he played it, he played it with a lot of heart, a lot of passion, a lot of wonder. And then a lot of funny, a ton of funny.

If you are on Twitter, here's what I want you to do. I say gif, some people say gif. But if you just look up, if you go for a gif in one of your tweets, and you just type in Tyrick withers,

TyR IQ, you will see the end of this episode out of context. But I will tell you that the episode itself is amazing. And you need to watch it.

The whole season three, I think people should watch, but particularly season three episode nine, if you have not watched it, I want you to hit pause on this episode and go watch it. And then come back.

All right, you're back. So now that everyone has seen the episode, I'm so excited that I reached out on Twitter. And I was like, look, man, I don't know if you're doing interviews about that episode, but I need to talk to you about that episode.

And he was like, for real? I was like, yeah, yeah, bro, need to talk to you about it. So he was nice enough to say, yeah, let's make it happen. Now he's been working as an actor for a minute.

And I'm glad that he's getting more and he will end up getting more opportunities based solely off of this episode because he was so good.

He models on top of acting. He's on a couple of different shows right now, but I'm telling you he's going to people are going to be like, we're going to look back on this years from now and be like, yo, this dude, this is the moment right here.

So we chopped it up and we talked about that episode and what it meant to him. And the reason that I thought it was interesting to reach out to him was because I saw on Twitter that the episode meant something to him as a mixed race child with ambiguous racial features.

The hell that he must have gone through and his family went through.

It played out in the episode his approach to the character of Aaron, it showed and it was so good. So I had to ask him about it because these are as our republic becomes browner like the browning of America, the way that people are mixing.

There there needs to be heavier conversations about subjects like this and shout out to Donald Glover for doing it.

Like the idea of what is black and the idea of being an African descendant of enslaved people.

Does that make you black asking those questions can an African immigrant relate and honestly there are disconnections in the black community and the black diaspora between black Americans and black Canadians and black people from the Caribbean and black people from Africa.

On what we define as black Michael Chase show that damn Michael Chase I send my best friend of fear is is obviously black and she's African she's her parents are from Ghana and there's this scene in Michael Chase where there's a black American man dating this African woman.

And it's basically a take off of taking and it's hilarious by the way if you didn't know Liam Neeson is also in this season of Atlanta if that might convince you to check it out I don't know if it would but what he did in his episode was hilarious too and poignant and on point.

So I needed to talk with Tariq about this and see what he thought about it all but in doing my research about him I know that he started off as a football player believe it or not and it's on his Instagram.

But I couldn't pass up this opportunity to talk with this dude and it turned out great.

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