WEBVTT - Finger Lickin' Dead (with Will Miles) 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:04.880 And yet they still think that Bridon is a lizard 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:08.320 in Trump's directors. In a lot of cases, it's like, 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:10.800 come on and look at your life as we just 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:14.319 laid it out for you. It's awful if you don't 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:17.160 have time to it. Even if Biden is a lizard, fine, 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:19.639 yeah he is a lizard. You don't have time to 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:22.200 worry about that. You gotta walk ten miles to the 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:34.159 nearest grocery store. The lizard ain't your problem, chips in 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:51.760 your racists money stuff, I can't tell me. Boo boo 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:56.520 boo boo. Yes, yes, there it is. Boom there it is. 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:01.200 Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another phenomenal episode of My 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:05.640 Mama Told Me, the podcast where we died deep deep 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:09.200 into the pockets of black conspiracy theories and we finally 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.280 work to prove that L. L. Cool J keeps his 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:16.480 formal paper boy hat on while he has sex, forward 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:20.800 when it's missionary, backwards when he's doing something a little naughty, 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.640 and then sideways when he's letting his wife get in 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.680 that button, you know what I mean, whatever direction in space, 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:29.280 and that's the type of horny LLL. Cool J is 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.959 that guy loves a paper boy hat. It doesn't matter 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:36.640 how ridiculous he looks. He will keep the paper boy 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:39.760 hat on. I am your host, Linkston Kerman, I am. 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:43.160 I'm excited to be here today. My guest, Oh what 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.760 a guest. He is one of my favorite people on 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.080 this here planet Earth. So funny. You know him from 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.840 from Sherman's Showcase, you know him from from south Side. 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.240 You know him more importantly from the after party show 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:59.640 from south Side that we did together. It was called 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:02.440 cool by the Lake, and it didn't get enough views 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:06.480 because of Viacom and they're goddamn paywall. But you gotta 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:08.360 believe it was the best thing he and I have 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.040 ever done together, and we'll never get to do it again. 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.880 He's hilarious. A dear friend. Give it up for Will Miles. 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:19.400 Oh ship, thank you, thank you. If you're out there, 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:23.040 go watch the after show right now. Go watch it 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.079 right now. Turn off this episode. What do you listen 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.720 to this bullshit for Cooler by the Lakes? What you 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.960 need to be watching be the twelve thou and one viewer? 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.560 I say one now. Also, that's right. I like that. 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:43.360 I like that you changed, and I like that about you. 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:47.400 You're a father and then you just throughout regular grammar. Yeah, 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.720 I do it different now when your daddy you can 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.600 say you know whatever. Yeah, I think I said daddy. 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:55.960 I'm only being allowed to be called dad. That's my 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:58.880 news hard stance. Oh you're not doing daddy. I don't 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:00.400 think I want to do daddy. I'm like, you know what, 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:02.440 it's got such a weird I don't want to like 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:06.440 you know, right, So you people are like, uh talking 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:08.520 to her, and they'll be like your daddy. I'm like, no, no, no, 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:13.920 I'm her dad. Just this is a very formal relationship. 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:19.320 We hands all right, none of that bullshit. I want 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:23.040 her getting too familiar with me. This is this is 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:27.880 mostly business. I'm excited you're here today. You came to 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:31.200 us with a conspiracy theory that I think a lot 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:35.320 of us have held for years. But so many of us, 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.560 I think, are afraid to say it out loud because 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:41.040 of what it's It might imply about our own lives, 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.520 about the things that we would lose in our own experiences. 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:49.840 But you said, my mama told me fast food restaurants 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:53.120 are strategically placed in the hood to keep black people 0:03:53.200 --> 0:04:00.600 complacent and kill them at a faster rate. Absolutely, it's 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:03.280 without a doubt true. It's the one thing where you're like, 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:09.640 you know what, that is categorically undenied. There's no way 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:15.000 to refute this, right, like liquor stories, sure everybody knows that. Yeah, 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:18.120 gun stores at Chappelle's joke goes, everybody knows that. But 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:21.280 it's uh, fast food as well as where you're like, yo, 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:26.279 only food is burger king what's going on? It's not 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:30.880 even just the placement of them, it's the removal of 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:35.600 all other options that makes it so fucking tyrannical, where 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:39.720 it's like, god, damn, I can't eat nothing but mc nuggets. Yes, 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.119 this is evil. Put a lettuce like, put a mixed 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.640 You've seen that for a mixed over there. Put a 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.720 mixed in Englewood, how about that? Let me just let 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:53.120 me see what a toss salad could do for my knees. 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:58.919 Grilled chicken. Also, salad shouldn't be the suspensive anyway you 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:02.520 know you're getting over. Make them reasonably priced in Let's 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.640 all right, let's let's talk a little bit about where 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.279 this comes from for you, because I think to your point, 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.920 it's something we've noticed, right, you notice that you see 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:14.640 it out in the world. When do you feel like 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:17.960 you first caught wind of this or did somebody say 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:21.440 it to you that then triggered your third eye opening 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:24.080 on this ship, it's things you noticed it should you 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:26.760 hear adults talk about where You're like, I can't get 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:28.760 a good food around here, and you're like, okay, that's 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:33.000 just something adults say every now. And you're like, you 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:36.520 start to notice neighborhoods you go to because by like 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:40.200 what six or seven, we had moved to, uh, you know, 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:42.560 like a townhouse north side of Chicago, so thinks a 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:45.000 little bit different. So we were like, I got to 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:50.120 see what you know, restaurants are everything. Oh wait wait 0:05:50.200 --> 0:06:00.400 wait you get to sit down in this way. Oh oh, 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.119 it's like this is like a real this is every 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.640 Every place is fancy when you're a kid, So you're like, 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:08.760 any Applebee's is fancy. It's like they got regular ship. 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.719 Did you know they let you color on the napkicks? 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:15.880 This place? This is something else. Then Bennigan's was the 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:19.480 height of luxury when I was like, you know, throughout childhood, 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.679 and you know, I was trying to explain to someone 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:27.279 the other day is ruby Tuesdays yeah, yeah. I used 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.760 to think Ruby Tuesday was like the fucking hell yeah, 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:32.600 if you got if we got to go there, this 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:35.720 is a big deal. They had like a more like 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:40.800 uh sexy salad bar than the other like Fast Foo 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:45.120 or whatever, those buffet styles and their fast food that 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.200 was on like the the promo items that they had, 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.159 like look at our salad bar. Don't forget we got 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:53.880 a salad bar. And then listen, they weren't lying that 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.680 salad bar was something else. It was I added as 0:06:56.680 --> 0:07:01.719 an adult. Me and Mike Lawrence went we both had 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.640 this job on some pilot that didn't go through obviously, 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:10.280 and you know pilots don't go through for comedy Uh, 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:14.080 it's weird that they just keep coming up in failed projects. 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:19.280 It's almost like there's a there's a theme here. I 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:25.160 wonder what could be the issue? Well, there's no way 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:28.920 to unpack that. This Conspiracy Theory podcast could never figure 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:33.280 out what's happening with these Comedy Central projects that they 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:36.680 always go halfway and then like, man, what happened? We 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:40.280 were having fun, but that was one of those shows 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.200 where I was like, yeah, we're having fun, but we 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:44.320 could kind of tell earlier in that one that we're like, 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.480 you know, this probably won't be a thing. So we 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.320 just started to take advantage of the lunch options around there, 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:54.240 and it was like red Lobster, Ruby Tuesdays and like 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:59.960 the counter, the burger spot, it's delicious. Yeah, it was 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:01.840 like we were in Times Square basically, so we went 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:07.360 to the Times Square Tuesdays. Wait a minute, Okay, that's 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:11.840 that needed its own context, because that's that is not 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.520 the same thing as going to the counter in any 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:18.480 other situation or the Red Lobster in any other situation. 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:22.240 The for those of you that have not experienced the 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:26.600 Times Square at it's I guess that it's always But 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:31.480 Times Square is is mayhem and chaos of nothing. But 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:36.480 people who don't know how to be outside like public 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.920 and all can sort of like meeting in a singular 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:45.440 place to like destroy the goodness of America and American values. 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:47.960 I mean that's true. We've all done shows that Caroline's 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.320 the audience. They could be great, but they can also 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:55.680 be a reflection of the neighborhood sometimes. Yeah, but it 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:59.559 is like, yeah, it's it's a dance. There used to 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:01.640 be students over there, which is weird. It doesn't even 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.800 look like it now. It used to be the prositudes. 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:11.520 They just don't post up anymore. They walk they wear 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:15.680 Spiderman outfits. Right, yeah, it's a it's a proses who 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:19.360 dressed up like Dora the Explorer. But you just gotta know, 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:23.400 if you tap on the skull twice, she'll take that off. 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:31.120 You should take something else off too. She looks like, oh, 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:35.440 that's terrible. You finished the joke on this show. You 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.839 finished the goddamn joke on this show. When she sucks, 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.040 she also looks at the Cameron says, do you like to? 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:59.120 That's why we do it. This is the art. Okay. 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:04.400 So you you start noticing sort of this trend the 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:08.719 fast food restaurants, I know, in in your initials sort 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:12.480 of like theorizing or a conversation about this. You had 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.800 a theory about certain restaurants in particular, you felt like 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:18.920 some of them were more criminal than others in their 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:23.560 in their behavior. Absolutely, and uh one in particular because 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:25.840 so my aunt, my great aunt used to live on 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:29.240 Stony Island sixties six. So we go around there and 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.120 I see the food options and there's like, you know, 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:34.920 there's Docks, which is like a small fast food restaurant, 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:38.600 fish place, and then there's like a b J's and stuff, 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.400 and like you know that's actually new, but back then 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.719 it was something else. But they're there's stuff around their 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.560 heralds and ship that you're like, this is good fast food. 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.600 But then it's the same thing, like the same exact 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:52.080 restaurant that is so close to Morehouse, Spellman and clark 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:56.480 Land University in Atlanta that it became obvious it's criminal 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:02.120 is Popeye's, because like, why, first of all, why is papaeae? 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:07.000 Is that good? For one, sure, it's it's very clearly 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:11.480 delicious chicken. If it is chicken, it's it's clearly not 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:15.080 like you know, regular chicken. Yeah, And to that point, 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.840 you're light years ahead of your competitors, right, It's not 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:22.160 like KFC is is right on your tail. And so 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:25.839 you gotta constantly be working on these uh seasons, these 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.920 herbs and spices to make sure that you're you're able 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.920 to beat out KFC. Nobody fucking likes KFC. They're chickens 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:35.360 wet when it's supposed to be dry. It's nobody's a fan. 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:41.320 And then churches, churches tastes like the mistakes that that 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.280 KFC and Papae has made and then they just go 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.080 and pick it up in a big like a basket 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.679 and then bring it back to their restaurant. So your 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.160 competitors are out of the window. So why are you 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:56.000 working so hard to make this delicious chicken constantly? Like 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.199 up until this year. It's like you guys could have 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.280 taken a break, but you know, sandwich time, like what 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:05.200 you were already. Let's like, uh, Hussain Bolt being like, 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:10.680 let me get faster. It's like, come on, you beat it, man, 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:12.520 you beat the game. What do you need to keep 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:14.760 doing this for? I need to get ten seconds faster 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:19.000 than the next nigger. That's what I know. But especially 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.720 by Morehouse and uh, because the thing is they put 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:24.520 all HBCUs. Everybody knows it's in the hood, so you 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:26.440 know we're in the middle of the hood as well. 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:30.600 And it's like, you know, the some of they will 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:32.280 be some of the most powerful black people in the 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:36.040 world at some point. Right now, they're just broadcast other 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:41.600 parts of the country. Kamala, look at come on, look 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:48.640 at and then look at me products HBCUs. We are important. 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:54.600 We are the same. I inspire people. Yeah, what was 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:58.280 also a cop at one point, and uh takes a 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:02.199 lot of pride in it. Hey proud of being a prosecutor. 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:07.600 And I thought I was doing the good thing. But 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:13.080 but yeah, So it's one of the best food options 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:17.480 in that area by school, and it's where everybody always goes. 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:19.960 I mean, they did the KFC scene in school days, 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:23.200 but it's really Popeyes like that CANFC is the other way, 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.520 but it's it's also not very good. The red beans 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:30.200 and rice, great fucking mashed potatoes with the Cajun gravy. 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.120 First of all, who doesn't love New Orleans. Everybodys New 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:41.480 Orleans unless New Orleans has never heard anybody know the hoodoos. 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.480 It's got nothing but curses and buddhoo. But everyone's like, yo, 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.640 I'm gonna go every day every year. Who am I 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:49.839 to miss out on the opportunity to be cursed by 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:54.760 a strange lady. So I will say that that I 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:58.320 think I don't know that I grew up thinking that 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:03.040 pop Eyes was the most uh egregious offender of of 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:06.320 like sort of attacking black people. But I also think 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.120 that that's such a regional thing that to your point, 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:13.040 you're like referencing all these you know colleges, like the 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:16.480 black colleges that you're you're aware of, and so you're 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:18.960 sort of like tracking it that way. And for me, 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:23.400 it was like McDonald's was everywhere. It was like literally 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:26.440 every direction I turned in White Castle, it was McDonald's 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.120 and White Castle when I was a kid that like 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.440 you you couldn't go without seeing a white castle in 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.160 the hood, that there was a white castle there. Well, 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.160 and where we're from in the Midwestern Star. Yeah, but 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.480 I think it is, uh, what's so crazy? A McDonald's 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.400 was so open about it. I felt like automatically they're 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.200 showing all their cards. Yeah, like you know, it's hip 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.320 hop in the commercials. It's black people only in the commercials, 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:53.600 Like you're you're very clearly targeting to die early because 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.520 of it. But Popeye's be so like subtle because I 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.400 don't even remember commercially as a kid too much. Like 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.720 maybe they had I know, they had the music, Yeah 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:05.120 I love that chicken from Popeyes. Great song, come on, 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:07.840 that's a good song. And they had the they had 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:11.600 that second line beat in again, like yeah, I fucking 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:15.400 do love the chicken from Popeyes. It's so secretive, that's 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.600 why because they're just like selling New Orleans. But really 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:20.560 they know what they're doing. They're selling that chicken. They're 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:24.760 telling that chicken. And then yes, and I guess I'm wondering, 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:30.640 what do you think specifically is their plan here? Like 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:35.880 walk me through the actual like maniacal steps that are 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:39.840 transpiring in placing the Popeyes there and presenting it to 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:44.880 black people through song and dance. And it even sounds 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.160 worse now that you say like that. Yeah, I didn't 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.280 help the situation at all. By the way, Popeye', I 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.760 still would do a commercial for you any day. I'll 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.560 I'll bite this ship out of a biscuit right now. 0:15:56.840 --> 0:16:00.240 Send it here, I'll bite. We've been known to h 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:06.280 sponsored um videos, so look and if it pays, I'll 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.000 do it. Yeah. We we did a sponsored ad for 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:12.720 Old Spice. I don't use that ship, but I'll pretend. 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:17.840 I will pretend. Immediately for that check, I was like, hell, yes, 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.320 I will wear it today. And I didn't wear it 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.120 that day. I just I haven't worn it in twenty years. 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:31.960 Great add though, check it out. It's Yeah, But no, 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.400 I think it goes so far back for this because 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:36.880 I think I brought up to the Black Panthers did 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:40.880 all that work to provide food for the hood and 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:43.920 it they've had so much donations and everything. They provided 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.000 food for beyond the hood as well. They like went 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.840 around so it became like more of a look at 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:53.440 how we can live. Yeah. People are always talking about 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:55.840 like communism is bad and all that stuff, and it 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.240 is sure in some cases, but the way they figured 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.920 that part out, like socialism with food shouldn't even be argued. 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:05.160 It's like, yeah, why not. What what are we doing 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:09.120 where some people live longer and some people don't because 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:10.640 of the food options they have. So I think it's 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:14.640 the government has been designed. I don't know if it's 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:18.000 they're so open with it, but it's been designed for 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:21.960 years to keep one set of people down, which is us. 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.359 I like that you think the white listeners are at 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:31.520 home and you're like, maybe it's me. Maybe, okay, I'll 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:35.359 hear about if you're If you're white and poor, you 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.840 get strays, But it's not to say you're you're also 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:41.960 the target. You just don't know it and sometimes are 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:46.159 tricked into believing you're not the target exactly. But I 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.879 think so that that always stuck out to me learning 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:50.639 that about the Black Panthers, like and the fact that 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:53.800 they got shut down very soon after they started reaching, 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:58.760 not shut down, murdered and uh murdered and vilified, so 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:03.359 they that that was shortly after they started reaching beyond 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.760 just the hood and as far as providing meals, right, yeah, 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.680 I mean to your larger point. One of the things 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:13.760 that people often point out was, like the finishing touch 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:18.240 of like the Black Panthers was their free food program. 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:22.040 Like they weren't angry at the idea of these guys. 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.680 They pretended to be, but they weren't genuinely angry about 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:28.040 these guys carrying weapons. They weren't actually afraid of this 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:32.600 organization and their threat to overthrow the government. They genuinely 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:36.240 were afraid of the idea of some version of egalitarian 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:42.640 resources being spread throughout you know, black and underprivileged communities, 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.399 which meant that like, all right, we gotta shut this 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:48.719 down because that fox up the algorithm that we we 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:51.600 can't keep people in place the way we want to 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:54.480 if their bellies are full. Yeah, and if you give 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:56.919 most people have stock in McDonald's, it's like no, no, noo, 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:00.520 get these things out of here, like yeah, yeah, and okay, 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:02.840 I like what you're saying that this isn't even just 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:06.560 like some because sometimes I think we blame things on 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:10.320 the government, and it's more specific than that. And I 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:14.960 think what you're suggesting is it's corporate America recognizing that like, 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:19.800 oh ship, my McDonald's stock will drop if everywhere they 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:24.960 start replicating free food programs, I won't have McDonald's breakfast 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:29.159 to sell anymore, which means I gotta kill, uh, you know, 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:36.120 three really powerful black men and then make the rest 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:39.320 of them go to jail or go crazy or like 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:46.200 weird the weirdest congressman. Yeah exactly. But yeah, it's like 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:49.920 it's so targeted in that respect that it's like man, 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:53.400 and because they have these business models and structures set 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:58.000 up for expectations. So McDonald's has the structure set up 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:01.119 where it's like, so this means usburgers at this price, 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:05.360 then my stock grows. All that center set up for ages. 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:08.800 So then this that little thing can throw all that off. 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:11.960 The little bit of like egalitarian resources can throw that 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:16.280 off so much. Well, we've got money. Corporate pays for 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:20.000 politics traditionally, so you know personal office, like, well, now 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:22.439 I control I don't control what the cops listen to 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:30.639 me because I'm an assholes listen to me. I'm a 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:36.320 dickad It's fine. So it's all a circle. Yeah, it's 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:38.800 all like a weird circle of people we should not 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:43.240 quite trust. I like where you're going here, We're so 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:46.199 we're tracing this back to the money, which I I 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:50.080 always believe is is the thing that's sort of like 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:53.639 leads to the bigger problems in the world. Right. Yes, 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:58.880 I'm curious about your personal relationship with fast food like 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:02.359 our Are you a fast food person? Do you still 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:05.399 have a relationship now knowing that, now being able to 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:09.040 point out the evil that you're recognizing, you still go like, 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:11.720 are you like anti pop Eyes? Are you like somewhere 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:16.159 in the middle. I'm more in the middle in theory, 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:22.119 but I also am married, and so being married in 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:29.920 this day and age, you're really not allowed to wait 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:32.320 a minute. They get you. That's how they get you 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:35.920 because and I'm not talking about they usually I'm talking 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:38.160 about the white man when I say that, this one, 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:41.160 I'm talking about those evil women who come into our 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:46.520 lives and still precious, precious goodness from us. McDonald's is 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:49.280 my favorite restaurant in the world. I don't give a 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:52.520 fuck what they're doing to the black community. Get that 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:56.600 evil poison in my body helped poison my peers. I 0:21:56.680 --> 0:21:59.959 love it so much. And my wife now has created 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:02.200 of rules were like I'm not allowed to have it 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:05.360 more than like twice a month, and yeah, and and 0:22:05.480 --> 0:22:10.479 I'm miserable. Yeah, but it's always for these reasons of like, 0:22:10.520 --> 0:22:11.879 you know, I want you to be alive for the 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:19.760 baby and oh your heart beats funny, stop doing that. 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:25.560 The doctor said, please stop. But the doctor that said 0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:31.480 you had weeks to live. H but it is so Yeah, 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:35.159 I don't need it basically in the last seven years. Yeah, No, 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:38.840 I think to your point, your your relationships and the 0:22:38.880 --> 0:22:42.760 people around you ultimately are the thing that changes us, right, 0:22:42.840 --> 0:22:45.880 that helps us start to be able to track. Okay, 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:49.119 this thing that I've I've mostly been leaning on because 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:52.000 I didn't have any money, because it's all I knew, 0:22:52.160 --> 0:22:55.440 or because I you know, I wasn't taught that there 0:22:55.480 --> 0:22:58.520 were other options. Somebody comes into your life, being your wife, 0:22:58.560 --> 0:23:02.840 your kids, whoever, you start to actually think about this ship. Yeah, 0:23:03.440 --> 0:23:06.800 I mean yeah, in so many ways. Yeah, the unfortunate part, 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:10.600 and this goes back to your original conspiracy theory is 0:23:11.119 --> 0:23:13.960 a lot of us are put in positions where, even 0:23:14.000 --> 0:23:16.600 if you're aware of it, there's not that much you 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:21.400 can actually do about it, because these restaurants are so peppered, 0:23:21.840 --> 0:23:25.560 so heavily peppered throughout our communities that like, I, I 0:23:25.560 --> 0:23:27.959 don't want to eat McDonald's every day, but if I 0:23:28.000 --> 0:23:32.040 live without any other resources, what the funk else can 0:23:32.080 --> 0:23:34.879 I do? Yeah, And it makes a lot of us 0:23:35.000 --> 0:23:40.119 be the you know, we're all different versions of the 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:46.000 I got out, but it's like, you know, you gotta 0:23:46.000 --> 0:23:48.159 take more pages from people like Nipsey and be like 0:23:48.200 --> 0:23:52.000 I got out, but I could be helping out. Yeah, 0:23:52.520 --> 0:23:54.439 a lot of lot of I mean, especially when you 0:23:54.440 --> 0:23:57.560 go when you lead more conservative, I guess you're you're 0:23:57.680 --> 0:24:00.440 less likely to be like, also, let me go back 0:24:01.840 --> 0:24:06.080 and help. But right, Yeah, it does become like this 0:24:06.119 --> 0:24:09.879 weird game of uh, I got out, and now do 0:24:09.960 --> 0:24:12.800 I have any responsibility to help get other people out? 0:24:13.200 --> 0:24:15.280 Or do I just stay the funk out and enjoy 0:24:15.560 --> 0:24:19.400 my new life that that doesn't involve McDonald's. Vince Staples 0:24:19.440 --> 0:24:22.480 as this uh I was telling somebody about it actually recently, 0:24:22.520 --> 0:24:25.760 but like Vince Staples, did this interview that sticks with 0:24:25.800 --> 0:24:29.159 me where he talked about how him and his family 0:24:29.240 --> 0:24:31.119 were so poor when he was growing up that they 0:24:31.200 --> 0:24:34.080 used to have to just split like a sandwich off 0:24:34.080 --> 0:24:36.879 the dollar menu every day. They're like, that's all they 0:24:36.880 --> 0:24:40.399 would eat. Was like they cut like a hamburger in half, 0:24:40.480 --> 0:24:43.720 or cut a chicken mick chicken and half, whatever it was, 0:24:43.800 --> 0:24:46.000 and they would just eat that. And he said that 0:24:46.080 --> 0:24:49.359 now as an adult, his like body doesn't work the 0:24:49.400 --> 0:24:52.960 way it's supposed to, that like he can't do certain things, 0:24:52.960 --> 0:24:56.480 and physically he has pain in places, and he attributes 0:24:56.560 --> 0:25:00.080 that to how much of his his youth was in 0:25:00.600 --> 0:25:04.560 strictly eating McDonald's. And so it's like, fuck, you know 0:25:04.600 --> 0:25:07.199 what I mean, Like maybe some of them, yeah, some 0:25:07.320 --> 0:25:10.120 of it is just like doing permanent damage to us, 0:25:10.200 --> 0:25:13.040 and there's nothing we can do about it because of 0:25:13.040 --> 0:25:15.760