WEBVTT - "I am AIDS" with Sydnee Washington 0:00:01.400 --> 0:00:05.360 We left fear family. So yes, like, come on, talk 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:08.480 that talk Saidney, Come on, didn't you telling me Joe 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:12.600 Rogan isn't slightly responsible for the coronavirus? Are you saying 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:15.040 that on the record or this is on the record. 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:18.159 That buff motherfucker has to have played a part in 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:20.439 the coronav If you're telling me that eating things that 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:24.040 we're not supposed to eat is how you get these diseases, 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:27.080 then I have to believe that Joe Rogan making a 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:30.960 bunch of white people eat madagascon cockroaches, he's going to 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:35.760 lead to a potential deadly disease. Also, he's mixing that 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.920 with muscle milk. He's telling people to eat cockroaches and 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:41.880 then drink it down with muscle milk. That's gonna create 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:57.440 something weird. Crock chips in your masqual mass are racist? 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:08.160 Posting money's term of stuff. I can't tell me. Oh, oh, 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:11.840 there it is. There it is. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:18.679 to another spectacular, devastating, oh stunning episode of My Mama 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.520 Told Me, the podcast where we dive deep into the 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.880 world of black conspiracy theories and we finally work to 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:28.240 prove that that little boy from Blackish is in fact 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:33.760 one of omar Rosa's horcrux's. Yes, he absolutely is a 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:36.319 part of her soul. Don't you dare try to be 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.800 fooled by all that dancing and that charming little smile. 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:43.880 That bastard is part of omar Rosa's spirit that she 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:48.760 cut off, and it's using to indoctrinate the black community. 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:52.880 I believe it, and I'll fight every day to prove it. 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.400 I'm your host, Langston Kerman is always I'm coming in 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.760 hot today, baby, not only because it's a good day, 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:02.520 but hardly because I met my friend's house. I can't 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.120 record in my own home because I just found out that, 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:09.320 uh coax cables don't just come standard in homes. You know, 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.080 the cable that you plug your motem into. I don't 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.359 just show up everywhere. You gotta kind of earn that. 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:18.000 I guess you gotta get somebody to come in and 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:21.080 fix it for you. So I'm struggling. I'm using a 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:24.560 different man's WiFi, which that doesn't make you feel powerful 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.120 as a person. But here we are, and I'm enjoying it. 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:31.120 I'm excited because today we have a spectacular guest. I 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:34.080 bet she has three or four coax cables in her house. 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:37.440 She has that kind of power, that kind of resources, 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.480 that kind of sway in the industry. Her home is 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:45.639 filled with coax cables. She's amazing, She's hilarious. She maybe 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.480 is one of my biggest bullies on the internet. Uh. 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:52.440 You know her from her wonderful podcast called Unofficial Expert. 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.160 You know her from Comedy Central. You know her from 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:58.040 just being hilarious around town and on the internet. Oh 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.040 and Sid can Cook. Do not get about Sid can 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.520 cook every Sunday. You know her from all the things. 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:11.800 Give it up from my guest, Miss Sydney Washington. Hey, 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:15.200 are you know I'm just I'm so proud of you. 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:18.240 You got a podcast. This is great. I don't like 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:20.760 you call me a bully. All I do is uplift you. 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:23.400 I don't know that that's true at all. I think 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:26.760 I think you've been very unkind to me in a 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:30.440 multitude of space. All I say it's great. Thank I'm 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:34.920 so proud of you. I'm so bad. We're friends. Uh. 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:36.960 And if you ever if you ever need to borrow 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:40.360 some WiFi from me, let me know. Man. Okay, if 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:42.840 I ever need to borrow some WiFi. I just I'll 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:44.720 let you, and you'll you'll take care of that, take 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:47.960 care of me. I'll put it on my tap. Okay. 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.640 And if I'm understanding you correctly, you're not even on 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:54.040 your own WiFi right now? Am I understanding that correctly, 0:03:54.080 --> 0:04:02.080 you're on someone else's WiFi since the WiFi, Yes, I'm visiting, 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.240 I'm I'm in l A. I'm usually in New York, 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.400 but I am in l A right now. And uh, 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:12.400 but I feel like this person's WiFi is also my WiFi. Sure, 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:17.040 this is an extended family of wife exactly, and naturally 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:21.120 you have no problem extending that family even further to me. 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:26.040 Should I be in absolutely family's family. It's a beautiful proverb. 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.640 And uh, it's one I like to go back to 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.080 every evening. And I'm glad that you're extending it to me. 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.920 I think you're ready for a commercial, right that was like, 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.880 that's like right on the nose with like a T 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:44.680 and T. Hey if one of those horrible companies and 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:48.000 they're attached to the prison labor want to call me 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:50.719 and asked me to say some nice things about their WiFi, 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:54.320 I'll happily do it. I don't care that y'all have slaves. 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.600 I will talk kindly about your WiFi, you know what 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:02.800 I mean? Maybe slavery is necessary for good WiFi. I 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:04.840 don't know. I'm not a learned man. I just know 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:09.599 they have slaves and they have fantastic WiFi. Love. Is 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.880 this a comparcy theory or a fact? Is this a 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:16.279 lengthen fact? Or is this you know for a fact 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.720 that they have slaves. I I know for a fact 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.960 that a number of those companies that you listed use 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:27.240 prison labor as part of their resourcing and are invested 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:30.720 in private prisons. Do you want to call that slavery? 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:33.600 I don't know. How woke are you, Sydney? How comfortable 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:37.200 are you being on the other side of capitalism? I 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:40.719 mean we all have cell phones though, Like, I mean, 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:45.160 what plan are you on? Are you sending a messenger bird? Like? 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:49.000 Don't see all this ship about these companies but still 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.720 use it. Don't be hoped at Lengthen? Oh no, no, no, 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.960 I absolutely will be hoping and I absolutely will be 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:59.920 a complete walking contradiction. I am one hundred Listen. Let 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:05.000 you say this carefully and explicitly. I will happily continue 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:09.320 to use these products while simultaneously pointing out that they 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:15.599 have flawed mission statements and flawed misuses of their products. 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:20.159 Heard you, Okay, as long as we're being clear. But 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.599 I just feel like the energy that you pushing off 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:25.320 is I'm a bad person because I I low key 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:27.680 promoted them. And now, oh no, this isn't about you 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.839 at all. This is just me calling out the mean 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.640 man who I also will call Daddy later. You know 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.320 what I mean. I don't fight it. This is where 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:41.440 we're at. I'm excited today. You sent a conspiracy theory 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.359 that I think might be one of the most classic 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:48.360 in all of Black history. That like, if anybody were 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:53.040 to ask what is the most quid essential black conspiracy theory, 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.440 you nailed it. And you said, my mama told me 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:02.000 AIDS was created by the government to eliminate the blacks. 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:09.240 The black said, I didn't. I didn't put that in 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:13.720 the blacks, as I am a part of the blacks. 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.280 I didn't want to say the blacks like I'm not 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.640 a part of it. And we're all sure the blacks 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.920 was not you pushing away from from your people. It 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.480 was more of just the way that I assume the 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:30.640 government would refer Yes, that's exactly, that's fair. And now okay, 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:34.040 this is exciting because now we're getting into the classics, baby, 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:42.480 and and is this a classic that you subscribe to? Uh? Alright, 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:47.239 so on the record, right, this is all on the record. 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:49.480 On the record, no, no, off the record is like, 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.200 you know, if they try to cut this podcast up, 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:54.720 and I'm like I said, off the record, so I 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:59.600 got you. You know, what they promoted as like AIDS 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:05.040 was getting the black and Latino community so hard, right, 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.120 but then when we do the marches and when we 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:12.520 do the like the movie Philadelphia, who had AIDS white people. 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:17.960 If it was just blacks and Latinos that were highly affected, 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:23.680 they wouldn't have been raising that much money. Uh So 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.640 that's what I really think. I think that they made 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:30.080 blacks the face of it, but overall it was really 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:34.200 wiping out the beige and the Caucasians and that's why 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.800 they were like, let's raise this money. I got you. Well, 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:41.000 as a Beige, I'm devastated to hear that my people 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:45.160 are being wiped out. But this is also okay, this 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:48.880 this is a fascinating take on the issue, right, because 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:53.120 what you're suggesting is that we are merely black people 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:57.199 are merely front facing, uh, for this issue. We're not. 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.160 It's not so much that we are experiencing it so 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.800 much more than everyone else, but that they want us 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.360 to believe that we're experiencing it more than everyone else 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.600 because they wanted to be a black and brown problem. 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:11.559 Is that what you mean, right? It's it's a it's 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.720 a scare tactic. It's saying, well, you guys are out here, 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.680 you're doing drugs the most, you're you're the most gay. 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:20.120 Because at first it was like, oh, well, only like 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:24.080 gay people were getting AIDS, and then they realized like, oh, 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:28.920 it's like blood transfusions, like anybody drugs. It's not just 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:32.840 the sexuality thing. Anybody can get it. So but if 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.360 they put that on the community, then it makes you 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:39.960 feel less inclined to actually be proud of who you are, like, oh, 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:44.040 well all my people are getting AIDS like that, well right, damn. 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:47.240 See that's the problem. They're not pitching aids. There's something tight. 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:51.120 They could be like AIDS is dope and everybody's getting it. 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:55.160 Look at you, the gays, the whites were all everybody's 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.800 enjoying some AIDS. But instead they made it a horrible 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.720 thing that only black and brown people were in. Gay 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.280 people were being attached to, right, I mean, and then 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:07.520 you watched the movie Philadelphia, and you just see so 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.680 many of the themes in the movie, like, oh, it 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.920 is about the gays, we are going to put it 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:17.160 on the gays. But then you see this white man 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:20.880 that you're like, oh, he is relatable, he is human. 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:25.400 Now we care and we have Denzel Washington is like, oh, 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:30.160 the strong black lawyer that you're like, oh, finally we 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.400 get to see him the way that we want to 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:38.920 see black people. But he's low key, like homophobic. Yeah 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:41.599 I said low key, but it was hikey. It was 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:47.440 hikey low key about it, very very very loud. So 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:51.400 you remember in that movie Antonio Banderis and Tom Hanks 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:54.720 are hooking up. That was pretty cool. Yeah, it was, 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:58.840 I mean, the progressive as fuck movie. But we but 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:02.520 we needed to see that movie for us to realize, Oh, 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:05.959 but when white people get a it's like, we should care. 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.520 It's not a bad thing. Oh look how people are 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:14.200 treating them so poorly. Right, But that's okay because he 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:18.199 was like a big fancy lawyer. He was all the 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:22.960 story that white people sort of associate with like a 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:27.240 clean life, life without trials and tribulation. And here we 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:31.400 see Tom Hanks at sort of like his most successful 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.360 at least in movies and television that we've seen him 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:38.400 also being afflicted with this terrible disease. Absolutely, and that 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:42.360 is when they turned it around and they were like, oh, yes, 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.400 it is happening to the black and latinos, but now 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:49.000 we should actually do something about it and care. And 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.240 see that's where they did it even more fund up 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:55.120 because Tom Hanks was smushing into Antonio Banderis in that 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:59.959 movie and they forced another Latin X person. Yes, associated 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.920 did with a disease that otherwise in this situation should 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:06.839 just be about the white maid. Yes, okay, I hear 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:10.720 I hear your tone and I'm on the record. I 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:15.079 I hear you on the record. I hear you, yes, 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:20.600 but on the record. I'm like, I hear you on 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:25.160 the record, but off the record. Yes, okay, you zoned 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:29.520 in on the record. Let's just keep tracking this throughout. 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.839 I want you to keep telling me these feelings are 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.319 on the record or off the record throughout the whole 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:38.800 of the podcast. That way we know what you really 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:41.000 funk with. And what you have to present you funk 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:44.320 with so that you know these whites don't turn on you. 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:48.120 I love that your light skin, did uh man spleaning 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:52.720 my bit? I love it? Well, all right, let's make 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.240 it a gender issue too. I would like for you, 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.319 at any point to tell me when I have overstepped 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:02.320 my position and have turned this into another example of 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.679 the patriarchy. Yeah, feel free. I see you got your 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:09.240 little as podcast. Now you want to explain my jokes 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:11.800 lngs and I see what you're doing over there. Well, 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:14.640 if you explain them better yourself, I wouldn't have to 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:16.679 get up in here and do it a second time. 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:23.600 Not just facts anyway, that's funnier than Let me ask 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:26.199 you this, yes, because because I think what you're getting 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.320 into is very interesting. I'm bought in right, But let 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.480 me ask you this from home? Did you first hear 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:36.440 this conspiracy theory? Where do you think the source material 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:40.000 actually came from? For you? I do want to say 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:43.640 that it came from I won't say necessary my mother, 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:48.120 but like mother adjacent like I'm listening into conversations of 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:52.800 like grown folks that like Ramona, which is her first name, 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.480 Ramona Marie um y'all don't have to black that out. 0:13:56.520 --> 0:14:01.640 She knows that, you know, she know what she knows. 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:06.240 But adults that have these conversations, um, when they think 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.720 that kids are not listening, they do talk about that 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:14.800 and how um I mean, I was born in Harlem 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:19.280 when the crack epidemic was at its highest, and so 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.160 not only did I know about the crack, but also 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:27.960 the AIDS. So UM, I constantly like getting older, like 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:30.560 not an adult, but just being a kid and knowing 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.600 like I moved to California because there were so much 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.080 drugs in my neighborhood and because of I don't think 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:40.280 necessarily AIDS, but mainly because of the drugs. They're like, 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.800 if you go and live in Oakland, California, you'll be 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:47.440 able to be a kid and having life. Well, that's 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:52.240 you're hitting on something really fascinating because even in them 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.080 talking about AIDS and them talking about sort of like 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:59.400 this very terrible disease, right, you're dealing with the second 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:03.520 type of framing. So you're dealing with the drug epidemic 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:06.760 that's happening in your community and that's the scary thing 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:10.080 that everybody's talking about, which means that AIDS sort of 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:14.440 finds itself at best in a number two positions where 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:18.000 it's not the most dangerous thing that's happening, when it 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:22.160 might have been an equally dangerous issue or you know, 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.480 sort of pandemic that exists in your community. I mean, 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:31.880 it's hard to talk about this because there could have 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:37.800 possibly been somebody in my family that was like gay 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:43.320 and when they when people did talk about AIDS, they 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:45.920 and also being gay, it's like they're both a bad thing. 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:50.360 It's not good, but also like being gay and having 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:55.320 AIDS is worse than drugs, right, right, Because like I 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.640 could have had one family member that was on crack 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.120 and then the other family was on with gay and 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:04.360 they're like, I'd rather you be crack because then we 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.760 can fix that. We can fix you can get off 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.520 of crack, but you can't get off the dick, and 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:17.320 you can't fix AIDS. This is all off the record, 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:21.080 and that what I said that was off that dick 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.720 is to a dick. We can't get you off that, 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:27.720 but but crack correct, we can send you somewhere and 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:31.160 we can clean you up. Goddamn that delicious dick. Yeah, no, 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:37.800 being off the record, off the record, but dick is fantastic, 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:41.880 is apparently what we're here. Okay, So that's very interesting 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:46.040 because that means it's such a complicated layering of the 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:50.520 things that sort of UH we struggle with in black communities. Right, 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.840 is it's never a single issue. When white people are 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:58.480 being hit with like the opioid crisis right now, they're 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.880 able to treat it like a regular issue. We are 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:05.399 doing too many UH pills, and we need to stop 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.840 doing pills, and we will set up programs to stop 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:11.280 people from doing pills. Suddenly the crisis goes away. But 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:14.840 for black people, you're dealing with poverty, you're dealing with drugs, 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:19.440 you're dealing with violence, you're dealing with all these other racism, racism, 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.720 just general racism that probably lead to all the things 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:26.440 that were listed, right, And so you subsequently are never 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:30.679 able to just be free of the singular issues because 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.119 all of them are layered on top of each other. Right. 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:37.280 And then at first they were saying, like AIDS was 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:42.280 really prevalent in Africa. Was it the AIDS hit Africa 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.919 first and then it came to the United States, or 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:49.120 was it like it started in Africa but then blew 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:51.720 up in America. But then went back to Africa, like, 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:54.080 what was it? Was it on four? Was Aids on four? 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:57.359 I'm trying to get this correct. Aids is on a 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:02.080 fifty city tour international and uh, it made it stops. 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.439 But you know, like many artists that hit big in 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:08.679 certain cities towns, much like you know the Beatles or 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:13.440 your jay Z's if you will, then Aids was jay Z, 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:19.720 Aids and jay Z. That sounds similar. Uh. I don't 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.119 know if you remember this. I definitely remember hearing it 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:25.000 as a kid, because I never knew where Aids came from. 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:28.200 The origin story that we used to always spread at 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:32.800 school was that somebody had sucked the monkey yep, in Africa, 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:36.680 in Africa and in all of the continent of Africa. 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:40.240 There was never any specificity or where in Africa, but 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:45.440 generally an African person fucked a monkey and then uh 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:48.640 created AIDS. And in fact, I don't did you hear 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.840 it was an African person? No, we just know that 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:58.840 it was a man a monkey, and Aids started. Yeah, 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:02.159 I ink, as I'm thinking about in the reason I 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.760 asked that question, a part of me thinks maybe I 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:07.760 heard that it wasn't an African person, but that also 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:11.760 could have been that Chappelle bit that's very funny, like uh, 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:15.640 fucking chimp chim and he feels it like a banana. Well, 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.199 this is gonna be another off the record thing. But 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:23.919 if we're just like historically looking at the beige man, 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:27.520 I think they would be more likely to have sex 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:35.040 with a monkey than an African American, right, Uh, certainly 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:38.639 a black person. Yeah. I would assume the black people 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:42.359 that lived in the area where AIDS was first creative 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.920 or sort of at least transition, they had seen monkeys 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:50.040 before they were called monkeys, so then they well I 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:52.639 don't just I don't just see them like being in 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:57.520 Africa their cousin, Right, you don't. You don't see a 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:00.080 monkey every single day and be like, I don't know 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:03.720 what it is today, but this one looks sexiest for right, Right, 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:06.399 it's the person that goes there and it's like on 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:09.119 vacation and it's like, I want to try something different, 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:11.000 and then I want to put I want to put 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:13.719 crome rolls with little beads at the end, you know, 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:17.000 and then I want to come on, I want to 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:19.879 That's what they do when they're on vacation, isn't I 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:24.520 it happens in the Bahamas all the time. I want 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:27.160 to get my hair braided, I want to buy weed 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:29.919 from a person who doesn't sell weed, don't want to 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:33.919 suck a monkey. Yeah, these are the normal vacation behaviors 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:39.000 that white people have participated in for generations. So I 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:42.320 let's agree it was a white person who fucked that monkey. Yeah, 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:45.440 but in order for I mean, do you know the 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:49.320 numbers of how many people were actually killed from AIDS 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:55.159 during the epidemic? Uh? Not off hand? No? I what 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:58.760 this ain't a research podcast. Yeah, they said that you 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:00.879 were going to do the hardware, so I figured that 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:05.359 you will me with some statistics, some numbers, like I will. 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:08.240 But I saved that for the second act. You out 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:11.480 here asking for it just to be available to you, 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:14.480 and uh, I think that's unfair. And if there's a 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:18.399 woman explaining, I think you're doing that, No such thing. 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:25.120 Don't you think you're doing the wrong thing. We give 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:28.560 you enough time to talk and explain. That's that's usually 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:31.639 what women do. I feel differently as a person that 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:35.240 lives with a woman. Uh. Currently, Oh it's different. You're married, 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:38.600 This is not she's helping you if anything? Okay, this 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:42.760 help that she's providing. So when I'm being picked at 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:45.800 and held captive for the choices that I'm making, this 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:50.639 is a person bettering me. Okay, I'm glad we cleared 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:53.320 that up because, uh, it feels like I'm in prison. 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:57.360 But I hear now that maybe jail is good for me, 0:21:57.560 --> 0:22:00.320 that this is going to reform me. This is gonna 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:02.840 allow me to be a better person. On the record 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:05.439 or off the record. I'd say it's off the record, 0:22:05.480 --> 0:22:07.560 but I lost track of what the rules are for 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:10.959 on the record and off the record because you weren't listening. 0:22:11.840 --> 0:22:14.639 I wasn't listening. I was too busy, man, sweating, and 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:17.240 I've learned a lot today. Okay, We're gonna take a 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:19.480 break and then we're gonna be back with more Sydney 0:22:19.520 --> 0:22:33.040 Washington and more. My mama told me, and we are 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:40.359 that I'm not gay, no more I am. We're back 0:22:40.400 --> 0:22:44.199 here with more Sydney, Washington and more. My mama told me. 0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:48.639 We're still talking about that that gruesome AIDS virus and 0:22:48.760 --> 0:22:51.760 where it came from and the possibility that was all 0:22:51.800 --> 0:22:54.680 started by a man who fucked a monkey, a white man, 0:22:54.800 --> 0:22:58.240 a beige man. As Sydney calls them who had sex 0:22:58.280 --> 0:23:01.200 with a monkey. I I don't know if that's true. 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:05.040 I think for after a while that got refuted pretty quickly. 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:08.240 I think white people didn't like that as a potential 0:23:08.520 --> 0:23:11.399 uh spreader, you know what I mean, like as a 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:14.840 potential source of where this came from. But they also 0:23:14.960 --> 0:23:18.200 didn't want us to know that it was hitting them 0:23:18.320 --> 0:23:22.199 harder than what we were the information that we were 0:23:22.200 --> 0:23:26.919 getting right, that this was for a while just exclusively 0:23:27.000 --> 0:23:30.040 black and brown. Yeah, because then you go to the walks, 0:23:30.600 --> 0:23:33.479 you should go to the AIDS walk and it's like 0:23:33.720 --> 0:23:39.159 all these white people with quilts of their friends and 0:23:39.240 --> 0:23:43.520 it's like, your friends also look like you. So y'all 0:23:43.560 --> 0:23:45.840 all were all at this and it's I'm talking about 0:23:45.920 --> 0:23:50.200 thousands and thousands of people walking for AIDS. And I'm 0:23:50.200 --> 0:23:52.600 not saying that black people don't walk, but we were 0:23:52.720 --> 0:23:56.359 not at those walks like that. And that's that's where 0:23:56.359 --> 0:23:59.960 it gets complicated, is were we not invited to those 0:24:00.040 --> 0:24:04.520 walks or were we invited? And we just don't have 0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:08.680 the numbers that y'all have for these walks. One way 0:24:08.720 --> 0:24:12.560 or the other. Something uh, something tricky is happening here. 0:24:13.880 --> 0:24:16.480 Hell yeah, So I did some research. I dug into 0:24:16.560 --> 0:24:20.320 some research that I'm now ready to talk to you about, 0:24:20.680 --> 0:24:22.800 not like before when you were just trying to throw 0:24:22.840 --> 0:24:25.040 it at me. I'm ready to talk to you about 0:24:25.040 --> 0:24:27.840 the research I found now, and what I would love 0:24:27.960 --> 0:24:30.040 for you to do. What I'd love to happen is 0:24:30.080 --> 0:24:32.359 I share some research and you give me your thoughts 0:24:32.440 --> 0:24:36.800 on it. The interesting part of this research that really 0:24:36.880 --> 0:24:39.639 starts off in a weird way is that they start 0:24:39.680 --> 0:24:42.639 off by talking about every article I read at least 0:24:42.880 --> 0:24:48.359 talks about AIDS in the African American community, which I 0:24:48.400 --> 0:24:50.480 don't know if that word bothers you or that term 0:24:50.560 --> 0:24:52.520 bothers you as much as it does for me. But 0:24:52.600 --> 0:24:55.840 I I typed in, like how does AIDS affect black people? 0:24:55.880 --> 0:24:59.800 And then they're like, African Americans suffer from AIDS at 0:25:00.000 --> 0:25:02.639 this number. And it's like that feels like a white 0:25:02.640 --> 0:25:06.479 person came in and uh, fix this. Does that make sense? 0:25:06.520 --> 0:25:09.159 But also it does sound problematic for them to just 0:25:09.200 --> 0:25:13.080