Speaker 1: And yet they still think that Bridon is a lizard
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Speaker 1: come on and look at your life as we just
Speaker 1: laid it out for you. It's awful if you don't
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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another phenomenal episode of My
Speaker 1: Mama Told Me, the podcast where we died deep deep
Speaker 1: into the pockets of black conspiracy theories and we finally
Speaker 1: work to prove that L. L. Cool J keeps his
Speaker 1: formal paper boy hat on while he has sex, forward
Speaker 1: when it's missionary, backwards when he's doing something a little naughty,
Speaker 1: and then sideways when he's letting his wife get in
Speaker 1: that button, you know what I mean, whatever direction in space,
Speaker 1: and that's the type of horny LLL. Cool J is
Speaker 1: that guy loves a paper boy hat. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: how ridiculous he looks. He will keep the paper boy
Speaker 1: hat on. I am your host, Linkston Kerman, I am.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to be here today. My guest, Oh what
Speaker 1: a guest. He is one of my favorite people on
Speaker 1: this here planet Earth. So funny. You know him from
Speaker 1: from Sherman's Showcase, you know him from from south Side.
Speaker 1: You know him more importantly from the after party show
Speaker 1: from south Side that we did together. It was called
Speaker 1: cool by the Lake, and it didn't get enough views
Speaker 1: because of Viacom and they're goddamn paywall. But you gotta
Speaker 1: believe it was the best thing he and I have
Speaker 1: ever done together, and we'll never get to do it again.
Speaker 1: He's hilarious. A dear friend. Give it up for Will Miles.
Speaker 1: Oh ship, thank you, thank you. If you're out there,
Speaker 1: go watch the after show right now. Go watch it
Speaker 1: right now. Turn off this episode. What do you listen
Speaker 1: to this bullshit for Cooler by the Lakes? What you
Speaker 1: need to be watching be the twelve thou and one viewer?
Speaker 1: I say one now. Also, that's right. I like that.
Speaker 1: I like that you changed, and I like that about you.
Speaker 1: You're a father and then you just throughout regular grammar. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do it different now when your daddy you can
Speaker 1: say you know whatever. Yeah, I think I said daddy.
Speaker 1: I'm only being allowed to be called dad. That's my
Speaker 1: news hard stance. Oh you're not doing daddy. I don't
Speaker 1: think I want to do daddy. I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 1: it's got such a weird I don't want to like
Speaker 1: you know, right, So you people are like, uh talking
Speaker 1: to her, and they'll be like your daddy. I'm like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm her dad. Just this is a very formal relationship.
Speaker 1: We hands all right, none of that bullshit. I want
Speaker 1: her getting too familiar with me. This is this is
Speaker 1: mostly business. I'm excited you're here today. You came to
Speaker 1: us with a conspiracy theory that I think a lot
Speaker 1: of us have held for years. But so many of us,
Speaker 1: I think, are afraid to say it out loud because
Speaker 1: of what it's It might imply about our own lives,
Speaker 1: about the things that we would lose in our own experiences.
Speaker 1: But you said, my mama told me fast food restaurants
Speaker 1: are strategically placed in the hood to keep black people
Speaker 1: complacent and kill them at a faster rate. Absolutely, it's
Speaker 1: without a doubt true. It's the one thing where you're like,
Speaker 1: you know what, that is categorically undenied. There's no way
Speaker 1: to refute this, right, like liquor stories, sure everybody knows that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: gun stores at Chappelle's joke goes, everybody knows that. But
Speaker 1: it's uh, fast food as well as where you're like, yo,
Speaker 1: only food is burger king what's going on? It's not
Speaker 1: even just the placement of them, it's the removal of
Speaker 1: all other options that makes it so fucking tyrannical, where
Speaker 1: it's like, god, damn, I can't eat nothing but mc nuggets. Yes,
Speaker 1: this is evil. Put a lettuce like, put a mixed
Speaker 1: You've seen that for a mixed over there. Put a
Speaker 1: mixed in Englewood, how about that? Let me just let
Speaker 1: me see what a toss salad could do for my knees.
Speaker 1: Grilled chicken. Also, salad shouldn't be the suspensive anyway you
Speaker 1: know you're getting over. Make them reasonably priced in Let's
Speaker 1: all right, let's let's talk a little bit about where
Speaker 1: this comes from for you, because I think to your point,
Speaker 1: it's something we've noticed, right, you notice that you see
Speaker 1: it out in the world. When do you feel like
Speaker 1: you first caught wind of this or did somebody say
Speaker 1: it to you that then triggered your third eye opening
Speaker 1: on this ship, it's things you noticed it should you
Speaker 1: hear adults talk about where You're like, I can't get
Speaker 1: a good food around here, and you're like, okay, that's
Speaker 1: just something adults say every now. And you're like, you
Speaker 1: start to notice neighborhoods you go to because by like
Speaker 1: what six or seven, we had moved to, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: like a townhouse north side of Chicago, so thinks a
Speaker 1: little bit different. So we were like, I got to
Speaker 1: see what you know, restaurants are everything. Oh wait wait
Speaker 1: wait you get to sit down in this way. Oh oh,
Speaker 1: it's like this is like a real this is every
Speaker 1: Every place is fancy when you're a kid, So you're like,
Speaker 1: any Applebee's is fancy. It's like they got regular ship.
Speaker 1: Did you know they let you color on the napkicks?
Speaker 1: This place? This is something else. Then Bennigan's was the
Speaker 1: height of luxury when I was like, you know, throughout childhood,
Speaker 1: and you know, I was trying to explain to someone
Speaker 1: the other day is ruby Tuesdays yeah, yeah. I used
Speaker 1: to think Ruby Tuesday was like the fucking hell yeah,
Speaker 1: if you got if we got to go there, this
Speaker 1: is a big deal. They had like a more like
Speaker 1: uh sexy salad bar than the other like Fast Foo
Speaker 1: or whatever, those buffet styles and their fast food that
Speaker 1: was on like the the promo items that they had,
Speaker 1: like look at our salad bar. Don't forget we got
Speaker 1: a salad bar. And then listen, they weren't lying that
Speaker 1: salad bar was something else. It was I added as
Speaker 1: an adult. Me and Mike Lawrence went we both had
Speaker 1: this job on some pilot that didn't go through obviously,
Speaker 1: and you know pilots don't go through for comedy Uh,
Speaker 1: it's weird that they just keep coming up in failed projects.
Speaker 1: It's almost like there's a there's a theme here. I
Speaker 1: wonder what could be the issue? Well, there's no way
Speaker 1: to unpack that. This Conspiracy Theory podcast could never figure
Speaker 1: out what's happening with these Comedy Central projects that they
Speaker 1: always go halfway and then like, man, what happened? We
Speaker 1: were having fun, but that was one of those shows
Speaker 1: where I was like, yeah, we're having fun, but we
Speaker 1: could kind of tell earlier in that one that we're like,
Speaker 1: you know, this probably won't be a thing. So we
Speaker 1: just started to take advantage of the lunch options around there,
Speaker 1: and it was like red Lobster, Ruby Tuesdays and like
Speaker 1: the counter, the burger spot, it's delicious. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: like we were in Times Square basically, so we went
Speaker 1: to the Times Square Tuesdays. Wait a minute, Okay, that's
Speaker 1: that needed its own context, because that's that is not
Speaker 1: the same thing as going to the counter in any
Speaker 1: other situation or the Red Lobster in any other situation.
Speaker 1: The for those of you that have not experienced the
Speaker 1: Times Square at it's I guess that it's always But
Speaker 1: Times Square is is mayhem and chaos of nothing. But
Speaker 1: people who don't know how to be outside like public
Speaker 1: and all can sort of like meeting in a singular
Speaker 1: place to like destroy the goodness of America and American values.
Speaker 1: I mean that's true. We've all done shows that Caroline's
Speaker 1: the audience. They could be great, but they can also
Speaker 1: be a reflection of the neighborhood sometimes. Yeah, but it
Speaker 1: is like, yeah, it's it's a dance. There used to
Speaker 1: be students over there, which is weird. It doesn't even
Speaker 1: look like it now. It used to be the prositudes.
Speaker 1: They just don't post up anymore. They walk they wear
Speaker 1: Spiderman outfits. Right, yeah, it's a it's a proses who
Speaker 1: dressed up like Dora the Explorer. But you just gotta know,
Speaker 1: if you tap on the skull twice, she'll take that off.
Speaker 1: You should take something else off too. She looks like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's terrible. You finished the joke on this show. You
Speaker 1: finished the goddamn joke on this show. When she sucks,
Speaker 1: she also looks at the Cameron says, do you like to?
Speaker 1: That's why we do it. This is the art. Okay.
Speaker 1: So you you start noticing sort of this trend the
Speaker 1: fast food restaurants, I know, in in your initials sort
Speaker 1: of like theorizing or a conversation about this. You had
Speaker 1: a theory about certain restaurants in particular, you felt like
Speaker 1: some of them were more criminal than others in their
Speaker 1: in their behavior. Absolutely, and uh one in particular because
Speaker 1: so my aunt, my great aunt used to live on
Speaker 1: Stony Island sixties six. So we go around there and
Speaker 1: I see the food options and there's like, you know,
Speaker 1: there's Docks, which is like a small fast food restaurant,
Speaker 1: fish place, and then there's like a b J's and stuff,
Speaker 1: and like you know that's actually new, but back then
Speaker 1: it was something else. But they're there's stuff around their
Speaker 1: heralds and ship that you're like, this is good fast food.
Speaker 1: But then it's the same thing, like the same exact
Speaker 1: restaurant that is so close to Morehouse, Spellman and clark
Speaker 1: Land University in Atlanta that it became obvious it's criminal
Speaker 1: is Popeye's, because like, why, first of all, why is papaeae?
Speaker 1: Is that good? For one, sure, it's it's very clearly
Speaker 1: delicious chicken. If it is chicken, it's it's clearly not
Speaker 1: like you know, regular chicken. Yeah, And to that point,
Speaker 1: you're light years ahead of your competitors, right, It's not
Speaker 1: like KFC is is right on your tail. And so
Speaker 1: you gotta constantly be working on these uh seasons, these
Speaker 1: herbs and spices to make sure that you're you're able
Speaker 1: to beat out KFC. Nobody fucking likes KFC. They're chickens
Speaker 1: wet when it's supposed to be dry. It's nobody's a fan.
Speaker 1: And then churches, churches tastes like the mistakes that that
Speaker 1: KFC and Papae has made and then they just go
Speaker 1: and pick it up in a big like a basket
Speaker 1: and then bring it back to their restaurant. So your
Speaker 1: competitors are out of the window. So why are you
Speaker 1: working so hard to make this delicious chicken constantly? Like
Speaker 1: up until this year. It's like you guys could have
Speaker 1: taken a break, but you know, sandwich time, like what
Speaker 1: you were already. Let's like, uh, Hussain Bolt being like,
Speaker 1: let me get faster. It's like, come on, you beat it, man,
Speaker 1: you beat the game. What do you need to keep
Speaker 1: doing this for? I need to get ten seconds faster
Speaker 1: than the next nigger. That's what I know. But especially
Speaker 1: by Morehouse and uh, because the thing is they put
Speaker 1: all HBCUs. Everybody knows it's in the hood, so you
Speaker 1: know we're in the middle of the hood as well.
Speaker 1: And it's like, you know, the some of they will
Speaker 1: be some of the most powerful black people in the
Speaker 1: world at some point. Right now, they're just broadcast other
Speaker 1: parts of the country. Kamala, look at come on, look
Speaker 1: at and then look at me products HBCUs. We are important.
Speaker 1: We are the same. I inspire people. Yeah, what was
Speaker 1: also a cop at one point, and uh takes a
Speaker 1: lot of pride in it. Hey proud of being a prosecutor.
Speaker 1: And I thought I was doing the good thing. But
Speaker 1: but yeah, So it's one of the best food options
Speaker 1: in that area by school, and it's where everybody always goes.
Speaker 1: I mean, they did the KFC scene in school days,
Speaker 1: but it's really Popeyes like that CANFC is the other way,
Speaker 1: but it's it's also not very good. The red beans
Speaker 1: and rice, great fucking mashed potatoes with the Cajun gravy.
Speaker 1: First of all, who doesn't love New Orleans. Everybodys New
Speaker 1: Orleans unless New Orleans has never heard anybody know the hoodoos.
Speaker 1: It's got nothing but curses and buddhoo. But everyone's like, yo,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go every day every year. Who am I
Speaker 1: to miss out on the opportunity to be cursed by
Speaker 1: a strange lady. So I will say that that I
Speaker 1: think I don't know that I grew up thinking that
Speaker 1: pop Eyes was the most uh egregious offender of of
Speaker 1: like sort of attacking black people. But I also think
Speaker 1: that that's such a regional thing that to your point,
Speaker 1: you're like referencing all these you know colleges, like the
Speaker 1: black colleges that you're you're aware of, and so you're
Speaker 1: sort of like tracking it that way. And for me,
Speaker 1: it was like McDonald's was everywhere. It was like literally
Speaker 1: every direction I turned in White Castle, it was McDonald's
Speaker 1: and White Castle when I was a kid that like
Speaker 1: you you couldn't go without seeing a white castle in
Speaker 1: the hood, that there was a white castle there. Well,
Speaker 1: and where we're from in the Midwestern Star. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I think it is, uh, what's so crazy? A McDonald's
Speaker 1: was so open about it. I felt like automatically they're
Speaker 1: showing all their cards. Yeah, like you know, it's hip
Speaker 1: hop in the commercials. It's black people only in the commercials,
Speaker 1: Like you're you're very clearly targeting to die early because
Speaker 1: of it. But Popeye's be so like subtle because I
Speaker 1: don't even remember commercially as a kid too much. Like
Speaker 1: maybe they had I know, they had the music, Yeah
Speaker 1: I love that chicken from Popeyes. Great song, come on,
Speaker 1: that's a good song. And they had the they had
Speaker 1: that second line beat in again, like yeah, I fucking
Speaker 1: do love the chicken from Popeyes. It's so secretive, that's
Speaker 1: why because they're just like selling New Orleans. But really
Speaker 1: they know what they're doing. They're selling that chicken. They're
Speaker 1: telling that chicken. And then yes, and I guess I'm wondering,
Speaker 1: what do you think specifically is their plan here? Like
Speaker 1: walk me through the actual like maniacal steps that are
Speaker 1: transpiring in placing the Popeyes there and presenting it to
Speaker 1: black people through song and dance. And it even sounds
Speaker 1: worse now that you say like that. Yeah, I didn't
Speaker 1: help the situation at all. By the way, Popeye', I
Speaker 1: still would do a commercial for you any day. I'll
Speaker 1: I'll bite this ship out of a biscuit right now.
Speaker 1: Send it here, I'll bite. We've been known to h
Speaker 1: sponsored um videos, so look and if it pays, I'll
Speaker 1: do it. Yeah. We we did a sponsored ad for
Speaker 1: Old Spice. I don't use that ship, but I'll pretend.
Speaker 1: I will pretend. Immediately for that check, I was like, hell, yes,
Speaker 1: I will wear it today. And I didn't wear it
Speaker 1: that day. I just I haven't worn it in twenty years.
Speaker 1: Great add though, check it out. It's Yeah, But no,
Speaker 1: I think it goes so far back for this because
Speaker 1: I think I brought up to the Black Panthers did
Speaker 1: all that work to provide food for the hood and
Speaker 1: it they've had so much donations and everything. They provided
Speaker 1: food for beyond the hood as well. They like went
Speaker 1: around so it became like more of a look at
Speaker 1: how we can live. Yeah. People are always talking about
Speaker 1: like communism is bad and all that stuff, and it
Speaker 1: is sure in some cases, but the way they figured
Speaker 1: that part out, like socialism with food shouldn't even be argued.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, why not. What what are we doing
Speaker 1: where some people live longer and some people don't because
Speaker 1: of the food options they have. So I think it's
Speaker 1: the government has been designed. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: they're so open with it, but it's been designed for
Speaker 1: years to keep one set of people down, which is us.
Speaker 1: I like that you think the white listeners are at
Speaker 1: home and you're like, maybe it's me. Maybe, okay, I'll
Speaker 1: hear about if you're If you're white and poor, you
Speaker 1: get strays, But it's not to say you're you're also
Speaker 1: the target. You just don't know it and sometimes are
Speaker 1: tricked into believing you're not the target exactly. But I
Speaker 1: think so that that always stuck out to me learning
Speaker 1: that about the Black Panthers, like and the fact that
Speaker 1: they got shut down very soon after they started reaching,
Speaker 1: not shut down, murdered and uh murdered and vilified, so
Speaker 1: they that that was shortly after they started reaching beyond
Speaker 1: just the hood and as far as providing meals, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean to your larger point. One of the things
Speaker 1: that people often point out was, like the finishing touch
Speaker 1: of like the Black Panthers was their free food program.
Speaker 1: Like they weren't angry at the idea of these guys.
Speaker 1: They pretended to be, but they weren't genuinely angry about
Speaker 1: these guys carrying weapons. They weren't actually afraid of this
Speaker 1: organization and their threat to overthrow the government. They genuinely
Speaker 1: were afraid of the idea of some version of egalitarian
Speaker 1: resources being spread throughout you know, black and underprivileged communities,
Speaker 1: which meant that like, all right, we gotta shut this
Speaker 1: down because that fox up the algorithm that we we
Speaker 1: can't keep people in place the way we want to
Speaker 1: if their bellies are full. Yeah, and if you give
Speaker 1: most people have stock in McDonald's, it's like no, no, noo,
Speaker 1: get these things out of here, like yeah, yeah, and okay,
Speaker 1: I like what you're saying that this isn't even just
Speaker 1: like some because sometimes I think we blame things on
Speaker 1: the government, and it's more specific than that. And I
Speaker 1: think what you're suggesting is it's corporate America recognizing that like,
Speaker 1: oh ship, my McDonald's stock will drop if everywhere they
Speaker 1: start replicating free food programs, I won't have McDonald's breakfast
Speaker 1: to sell anymore, which means I gotta kill, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: three really powerful black men and then make the rest
Speaker 1: of them go to jail or go crazy or like
Speaker 1: weird the weirdest congressman. Yeah exactly. But yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: it's so targeted in that respect that it's like man,
Speaker 1: and because they have these business models and structures set
Speaker 1: up for expectations. So McDonald's has the structure set up
Speaker 1: where it's like, so this means usburgers at this price,
Speaker 1: then my stock grows. All that center set up for ages.
Speaker 1: So then this that little thing can throw all that off.
Speaker 1: The little bit of like egalitarian resources can throw that
Speaker 1: off so much. Well, we've got money. Corporate pays for
Speaker 1: politics traditionally, so you know personal office, like, well, now
Speaker 1: I control I don't control what the cops listen to
Speaker 1: me because I'm an assholes listen to me. I'm a
Speaker 1: dickad It's fine. So it's all a circle. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: all like a weird circle of people we should not
Speaker 1: quite trust. I like where you're going here, We're so
Speaker 1: we're tracing this back to the money, which I I
Speaker 1: always believe is is the thing that's sort of like
Speaker 1: leads to the bigger problems in the world. Right. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm curious about your personal relationship with fast food like
Speaker 1: our Are you a fast food person? Do you still
Speaker 1: have a relationship now knowing that, now being able to
Speaker 1: point out the evil that you're recognizing, you still go like,
Speaker 1: are you like anti pop Eyes? Are you like somewhere
Speaker 1: in the middle. I'm more in the middle in theory,
Speaker 1: but I also am married, and so being married in
Speaker 1: this day and age, you're really not allowed to wait
Speaker 1: a minute. They get you. That's how they get you
Speaker 1: because and I'm not talking about they usually I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the white man when I say that, this one,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about those evil women who come into our
Speaker 1: lives and still precious, precious goodness from us. McDonald's is
Speaker 1: my favorite restaurant in the world. I don't give a
Speaker 1: fuck what they're doing to the black community. Get that
Speaker 1: evil poison in my body helped poison my peers. I
Speaker 1: love it so much. And my wife now has created
Speaker 1: of rules were like I'm not allowed to have it
Speaker 1: more than like twice a month, and yeah, and and
Speaker 1: I'm miserable. Yeah, but it's always for these reasons of like,
Speaker 1: you know, I want you to be alive for the
Speaker 1: baby and oh your heart beats funny, stop doing that.
Speaker 1: The doctor said, please stop. But the doctor that said
Speaker 1: you had weeks to live. H but it is so Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't need it basically in the last seven years. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I think to your point, your your relationships and the
Speaker 1: people around you ultimately are the thing that changes us, right,
Speaker 1: that helps us start to be able to track. Okay,
Speaker 1: this thing that I've I've mostly been leaning on because
Speaker 1: I didn't have any money, because it's all I knew,
Speaker 1: or because I you know, I wasn't taught that there
Speaker 1: were other options. Somebody comes into your life, being your wife,
Speaker 1: your kids, whoever, you start to actually think about this ship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, in so many ways. Yeah, the unfortunate part,
Speaker 1: and this goes back to your original conspiracy theory is
Speaker 1: a lot of us are put in positions where, even
Speaker 1: if you're aware of it, there's not that much you
Speaker 1: can actually do about it, because these restaurants are so peppered,
Speaker 1: so heavily peppered throughout our communities that like, I, I
Speaker 1: don't want to eat McDonald's every day, but if I
Speaker 1: live without any other resources, what the funk else can
Speaker 1: I do? Yeah, And it makes a lot of us
Speaker 1: be the you know, we're all different versions of the
Speaker 1: I got out, but it's like, you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: take more pages from people like Nipsey and be like
Speaker 1: I got out, but I could be helping out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of lot of I mean, especially when you
Speaker 1: go when you lead more conservative, I guess you're you're
Speaker 1: less likely to be like, also, let me go back
Speaker 1: and help. But right, Yeah, it does become like this
Speaker 1: weird game of uh, I got out, and now do
Speaker 1: I have any responsibility to help get other people out?
Speaker 1: Or do I just stay the funk out and enjoy
Speaker 1: my new life that that doesn't involve McDonald's. Vince Staples
Speaker 1: as this uh I was telling somebody about it actually recently,
Speaker 1: but like Vince Staples, did this interview that sticks with
Speaker 1: me where he talked about how him and his family
Speaker 1: were so poor when he was growing up that they
Speaker 1: used to have to just split like a sandwich off
Speaker 1: the dollar menu every day. They're like, that's all they
Speaker 1: would eat. Was like they cut like a hamburger in half,
Speaker 1: or cut a chicken mick chicken and half, whatever it was,
Speaker 1: and they would just eat that. And he said that
Speaker 1: now as an adult, his like body doesn't work the
Speaker 1: way it's supposed to, that like he can't do certain things,
Speaker 1: and physically he has pain in places, and he attributes
Speaker 1: that to how much of his his youth was in
Speaker 1: strictly eating McDonald's. And so it's like, fuck, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like maybe some of them, yeah, some
Speaker 1: of it is just like doing permanent damage to us,
Speaker 1: and there's nothing we can do about it because of
Speaker 1: the system that's been set up. And they wonder why
Speaker 1: he's killed people, you know, allegedly allegedly, but I mean
Speaker 1: hand to murder people if he can't touch his toes
Speaker 1: because all those chickens. He literally has a song I
Speaker 1: just said, the Song of Reason. One of the lyrics
Speaker 1: is literally all my niggas killed some niggas. You know
Speaker 1: the subtexts, and the subtext is McDonald's made me do
Speaker 1: it exactly. I love that we're gonna take a break.
Speaker 1: We'll be back with more well models and more. My
Speaker 1: mama told me, and we are that we're not gonna
Speaker 1: let Joe Biden and Kamala Harris cut America's meet. That's
Speaker 1: that on that and that's ded on that. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: back here with more wills, more of My mama told me.
Speaker 1: We're still talking about the horror, the tragic, the awful
Speaker 1: ship that these restaurants are doing in the black and
Speaker 1: brown communities, and we're hoping that there's a way to
Speaker 1: solve it. Do you think there's a way to solve it?
Speaker 1: Is there anything we can do? Yeah? Absolutely, Well I've
Speaker 1: been Uh, I'm a big fan of First of all,
Speaker 1: our friend Kofe who has a community community garden. Kofe Thomas,
Speaker 1: very hilarious comedian based out in New York and his
Speaker 1: has for the past few years been working on a
Speaker 1: community garden that he basically like rebuilt by hand and
Speaker 1: from an abandoned parking lot. And yeah, it's this thing
Speaker 1: and he's he's dope. It's great work. I'm totally biting
Speaker 1: his biting off of them and everything in terms of
Speaker 1: like should I'm looking forward to. So it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's I'm gonna I'm inspired by him. It's pretty crazy
Speaker 1: to be inspired by six eight muscular nat Wait in
Speaker 1: your mind, Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure everybody over six
Speaker 1: ft is six eight. Kobe's like six and one, and
Speaker 1: you're like six seven man, especially you got that garden now.
Speaker 1: But I mean, like him, Ron Finley out here in
Speaker 1: l a Uh, he lives out for the West and
Speaker 1: he's got a carden over there, these community gardens. And
Speaker 1: if you watch Roy Choi show on Taste Made, there's
Speaker 1: this black woman who started this program where she goes
Speaker 1: and gets the veggies and shipped from these farmers markets,
Speaker 1: and like she gets the leftovers kind of is what
Speaker 1: it is. But she brings that to the hood for free,
Speaker 1: so she'll get the left over like lettuces, but it's
Speaker 1: a shipload of lettuce and all the other like different
Speaker 1: fruits and veggies and brings that and has like her
Speaker 1: own farmer's market about everything is free. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: to that, and I imagine this is what it comes
Speaker 1: out of, is restaurants throw away like literally tons and
Speaker 1: tons of produce and food and and stuff every day
Speaker 1: because they technically, you know, because of regulations, aren't allowed
Speaker 1: to keep things nearly as long as it seems reasonable
Speaker 1: to be able to keep things. And so to that point,
Speaker 1: you know, if there's a way that we can create
Speaker 1: a space like what you're describing where that food that
Speaker 1: otherwise would be thrown into a trash can and wasted
Speaker 1: could now be helping to not only feed people but
Speaker 1: nourish them in a better way. We're moving in the
Speaker 1: right direction. And it shouldn't just like these people always
Speaker 1: are the stories, but I feel like it should be
Speaker 1: so um out there that there's no it's not like
Speaker 1: a story, like, you know, the same way the first
Speaker 1: black everything is kind of it's awful if you really
Speaker 1: think about it, it's like we got the first black anything.
Speaker 1: It's said. So it's like he needs to be permeated
Speaker 1: everywhere so that it can no longer be like, oh,
Speaker 1: look at check out this community garden. It should just
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, everybody, every community has a community garden
Speaker 1: where you can go for free and feed, Like if
Speaker 1: Vin Staples had had that growing I think about the
Speaker 1: type of person ind I mean, he's actually he's he's
Speaker 1: very nice, it seems, and he's he's funny as ship.
Speaker 1: But I'm just talking about like, you know, his he
Speaker 1: wouldn't have had to experience all the things he experienced.
Speaker 1: Maybe if he would, Yeah, maybe he wouldn't have murdered people.
Speaker 1: At least all of his friends did. So, Yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe there's a space where that person can still be
Speaker 1: as charming and hilarious and talented as he is while
Speaker 1: sigmultaneously not having to go through uh trauma to get there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Exactly a lot of us too. I mean, so many
Speaker 1: of us have the similar experience. So it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's what if we didn't like even just being trained
Speaker 1: to eat McDonald's the way we were, because people gotta
Speaker 1: remember we're older than supersize me. And I feel like
Speaker 1: that's when people started to veer away from fast food
Speaker 1: or be like fast food is bad. Before that, I
Speaker 1: had never heard anyone say fast food was bad. No,
Speaker 1: I mean they literally had to get rid of the
Speaker 1: super sized side of fries because they were like, all right,
Speaker 1: they got us, they caught okay, you got us this
Speaker 1: time American consumer. But we'll be back. Maybe we'll make
Speaker 1: the large a little bigger than it was. That way,
Speaker 1: we'll start introducing an extra small cup. It's like, I
Speaker 1: know what you're doing. There's no extra small, the largest huge. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's let's unpack some of this research, because I think
Speaker 1: it's a bit of an interesting entrance. But as I
Speaker 1: was sort of like looking into the history of fast
Speaker 1: food in this country, the thing that that made for
Speaker 1: at least a grounded entrance for this conversation actually ended
Speaker 1: up being the Watts Rights. I don't know how much
Speaker 1: you know about the Watts Riots, but it was sparked
Speaker 1: by this dude, Marquette Fry, who was basically pulled over
Speaker 1: for drunk driving by the police, right, which was like
Speaker 1: meant to be like this minor roadside argument that broke out.
Speaker 1: It ended up turning and escalating into like a full
Speaker 1: on fight with the police. Right. But you know, I
Speaker 1: assume he got his ass kicked. But that's not like
Speaker 1: a new story in America, right, black man getting beat
Speaker 1: up by the police, not then, not now, tail as
Speaker 1: old as time. But what what ended up happening was
Speaker 1: a bunch of community members who were either witnesses or
Speaker 1: uh tangential to this this incident basically started spreading a
Speaker 1: rumor that the police had heard a pregnant woman that
Speaker 1: like Marquette, he basically had transformed in that game of
Speaker 1: telephone into a pregnant woman, which we launched the community
Speaker 1: into like a civil war of like six days of
Speaker 1: complete unrest. Damn. I mean I did not know all that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's apparently it's all just a rumor that turned the
Speaker 1: whole thing into uh complete chaos. Chaos that basically lead
Speaker 1: lead to thirty four people getting killed, uh forty million
Speaker 1: dollars in property damage, and then the National Guard needing
Speaker 1: to be called in to uh eventually like bring calm
Speaker 1: to this whole situation. And so what that ended up.
Speaker 1: What I learned from all of this, right is that, uh,
Speaker 1: what everybody experts sort of say about the Watts riots
Speaker 1: is that it wasn't actually the incident itself that led
Speaker 1: to it, right, it was more reflection of all the
Speaker 1: bullshit that this neighborhood had been suffering through for a
Speaker 1: long time. That like, at this point in history, two
Speaker 1: thirds of Watts residents had less than a high school education.
Speaker 1: Two thirds and one eighth of that group was totally illiterate,
Speaker 1: and similarly, it was only the only major city. L
Speaker 1: A was the only major city without an anti poverty program,
Speaker 1: and the mayor also refused a confidential offer of federal
Speaker 1: money meant for jobs programs. So he's full on refusing
Speaker 1: to help like major groups of his own city, even
Speaker 1: though every other city in America had already adopted these
Speaker 1: new programs to help, you know, these underprivileged communities. Good
Speaker 1: God trash palace. Yes, l A apparently has a rich
Speaker 1: history of being real mean to uh it's black residents.
Speaker 1: But so from that, and this is where we get
Speaker 1: into the fast food of it all. In nineteen sixty five,
Speaker 1: President Lyndon Johnson basically like uh, in the wake of
Speaker 1: the riots, sends these officials from the Small Business Administration
Speaker 1: of California or to California, rather from the SBA to California,
Speaker 1: saying that they need to eliminate the deep seated causes
Speaker 1: of the riots. So he's saying like, I need you
Speaker 1: all to go in there and figure out what caused
Speaker 1: these riots on a more like grand uh, you know,
Speaker 1: community level, and I need you all to get rid
Speaker 1: of whatever that is. I need you to figure out
Speaker 1: how to solve this problem so that riots like these
Speaker 1: don't break out again. And what the SBA people do
Speaker 1: is they come up with this conference in nineteen sixty
Speaker 1: eight where they encourage black people to basically discover business
Speaker 1: ownership through franchising and specifically through franchising in fast food. Thus,
Speaker 1: he introduces fast food chains as like a permanent staple
Speaker 1: not only black communities, but black business ownership as like
Speaker 1: your way out of poverty and loss and re you know,
Speaker 1: limited resources and ship it's just keeping it going because
Speaker 1: in there and what their mind is probably going, and
Speaker 1: in there what they would call defense, you are going
Speaker 1: to definitely make money putting fast food, and in it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be so rich and you're gonna be able
Speaker 1: to spread that well, but for what at what cost? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And and even to take that a step further, right,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be a certain type of wealthy compared to
Speaker 1: what you were, But you're not actually going to be
Speaker 1: rich if you own a McDonald's. Right, you franchise and McDonald's,
Speaker 1: but there's people who run McDonald's who corporate for McDonald's
Speaker 1: is fucking they're making stacks every time a franchise opens,
Speaker 1: nobody takes the loss on the McDonald's side of things.
Speaker 1: It's the the individuals who are in charge of the
Speaker 1: McDonald's that might potentially lose in this scenario, so McDonald's wins. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: these communities are basically being just stuffed. Yeah, toxic chemicals,
Speaker 1: nutritional facts, yeah, exactly. So it goes even further because
Speaker 1: the Office of Minority Business Enterprise, established in nineteen nine,
Speaker 1: aimed specifically to establish ten thousand new minority franchises over
Speaker 1: two years. And technically this program was open to different sectors,
Speaker 1: meaning like you could have franchised some ship that wasn't
Speaker 1: food related, but in reality, black franchises were more likely
Speaker 1: to be in fast food than any other franchising sector.
Speaker 1: So they like really pushed black people into the fast
Speaker 1: foods that like sector of things. They knew what they
Speaker 1: were doing at that point. It's like at first we're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but look at what we'll do for your community. But
Speaker 1: now it's like and also we do want to kill
Speaker 1: you guys. Yes, we're not into being here so much.
Speaker 1: So also take this scrap food again. Yeah, it's four
Speaker 1: years later, y'all are calm now now I'm gonna kill you.
Speaker 1: Here's where it gets even more sinister. In this part
Speaker 1: I didn't know this is. I mean, I didn't know
Speaker 1: a lot of this, but this part really like blew
Speaker 1: my fucking mind. Is that based off of research, it's
Speaker 1: basically been proven that pound for pound, in nineteen sixty five,
Speaker 1: the dietary surveys revealed that African Americans were more likely
Speaker 1: than their white counterparts of the same like wealth level,
Speaker 1: right to meet dietary recommendations for fat, fiber, fruits and vegetables.
Speaker 1: So in nineteen sixty five, black people are in fact
Speaker 1: eating healthier than their white counterparts, and then when they
Speaker 1: compare those same uh groups in nine by nineteen ninety six,
Speaker 1: the opposite was true. That like we had completely flipped
Speaker 1: positions because of the introduction of fast food, sort of
Speaker 1: like overpopulation of fast food and black neighborhoods. Come on, man,
Speaker 1: make a joke. It's funny, man, that's hilarious. Come on, man,
Speaker 1: make the hurting stuff. Yeah, good god man. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's uh. It goes so far deep into it. I
Speaker 1: mean yeah, because that's that's why we need to go
Speaker 1: back to that ship, because I feel like that before
Speaker 1: that it was gardens and ship going on. I mean
Speaker 1: it had to be in l A. L A's perfect
Speaker 1: weather to grow gardens and to think about how many
Speaker 1: people have nice yards here. It's the whole reason. Everybody
Speaker 1: from not l A is always like why are you guys?
Speaker 1: You know mad? Yeah, you've got great weather and amazing
Speaker 1: uh yard space. Every it in l A. Even the
Speaker 1: murderers speak properly like it's it's you just got time
Speaker 1: to be a peaceful person before you Gilibert, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like it's it's a different energy here.
Speaker 1: But I do think to the greater point, I think
Speaker 1: it's it's two things, right. I think it's twofold. I
Speaker 1: think community gardens probably existed. I think there was some
Speaker 1: version of sort of like communal feeding and eating all happening.
Speaker 1: But then on top of that, I think you just
Speaker 1: have much more control over what you're actually taking in
Speaker 1: when you're not eating fast food. Yeah, like you're cooking.
Speaker 1: If I'm cooking, even if I overseason my food, it's
Speaker 1: still is probably healthier for me. Then if I go
Speaker 1: to McDonald's where they are using chemicals to fry something
Speaker 1: faster or make it puff up in a way that
Speaker 1: like humans aren't really supposed to consume, but it looks
Speaker 1: good for the eye and the picture and makes it
Speaker 1: feel like the meal that it's supposed to be, and
Speaker 1: which is especially true of chickens, by the way, which
Speaker 1: is part of my issues with the chicken restaurants. But
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, those breasts are not that big, hey,
Speaker 1: and I love a big titty. That's not it was
Speaker 1: titties things supposed to be that big. No, not that
Speaker 1: many too. You ever had like real chickens, Like, damn,
Speaker 1: I wish I had for me because I'm used to pope. Right, yeah,
Speaker 1: real chickens are there's barely anything there. Yeah, even like
Speaker 1: a Roscoe's. You're like, this looks like not a lot
Speaker 1: of food, but it's like, no, this is actual chicken
Speaker 1: nutt Yeah right. These wings are not radiated like some
Speaker 1: Frankenstein of a monster that you then like cut up
Speaker 1: and put into a nugget. This is real meat and
Speaker 1: it's all It's all happened for me too, because like
Speaker 1: back in the day, the habit was to cook your
Speaker 1: own ship, and the habit was like, you know, because
Speaker 1: nobody has time, and I know, poverty ran rampant after
Speaker 1: a little bit country hit like these these downs. But
Speaker 1: it's like that that probably played into the fast food
Speaker 1: even more because now you're like, yo, in order to
Speaker 1: make enough money, I need more time. I don't have
Speaker 1: the time. I'll cut the time that I cook. So
Speaker 1: fast food works, yes, And I think it it happened
Speaker 1: exactly like that. I think fast food became this thing
Speaker 1: that people promoted as a way of basically helping to
Speaker 1: feed your family in an effective way if you're a
Speaker 1: working class person. But then on top of that, they
Speaker 1: created this sort of image of black ownership in their
Speaker 1: own communities. Up up until that point, black people are
Speaker 1: sort of like oppositional a and that's sort of a
Speaker 1: soft way of putting it, of white people coming into
Speaker 1: their communities and building like, you know, businesses and fanchisees
Speaker 1: that they were basically like at times even boycott the
Speaker 1: idea of like a white person coming in and creating
Speaker 1: some ship. And so what these corporations figure out is like, no,
Speaker 1: we'll let black people own them and then we'll collect
Speaker 1: the bigger profit from it while they simultaneously killed themselves.
Speaker 1: It's it's a perfect sort of magic trick of like
Speaker 1: murder and they wonder why, like black people still skeptical
Speaker 1: of the government when it's like we've every every gift,
Speaker 1: it has the worst other side. Yes, the gift of
Speaker 1: all this black ownership has the darkest dark side ever
Speaker 1: in terms of how it's affecting my entire community. Like
Speaker 1: this small community of people who gets these businesses, that's, uh,
Speaker 1: that's great. And then it's like it's inspirational and it
Speaker 1: helps in a lot of ways, but it's also like,
Speaker 1: but look at the overall communities gonna hurt for generations
Speaker 1: now exactly. And I think that is important for our
Speaker 1: listeners to understand because I do sometimes think I've had
Speaker 1: a few white listeners sort of pushed back at at
Speaker 1: how much I blame the white devil for everything that's happening.
Speaker 1: And I think it's important to understand that it's not
Speaker 1: me saying that. Like when Lyndon Johnson goes and says, hey, fix,
Speaker 1: what's how opening in this community, he is in fact,
Speaker 1: like sitting back twiddling his fingers together, like and murder
Speaker 1: them all. I don't think that that's how that worked.
Speaker 1: I think, uh, to the the earlier point that we
Speaker 1: made is he went and said, hey, can you fix that,
Speaker 1: and maybe we can give a gift of some kind
Speaker 1: to help resolve this problem. And then corporations get involved,
Speaker 1: money gets involved in those gifts, and it starts to
Speaker 1: be an effort to cook the gift into profit, and
Speaker 1: that's where murder and mayhem and sort of like the
Speaker 1: dastardly deeds come to be. That even goes over to
Speaker 1: like police because then it used to be community policing,
Speaker 1: and then they were like, here's the gift of mark
Speaker 1: police to like help you feel comfortable. Also, they're gonna
Speaker 1: come from a completely different area where they don't even
Speaker 1: have people look like you. Their first thought is your danger,
Speaker 1: no matter what you look like exactly. And we we
Speaker 1: aren't going to do any version of vetting to see
Speaker 1: if they have any sensitivity to the community that we're
Speaker 1: not placing them in. We'll just put them in there,
Speaker 1: and you'll feel better because we put more police. And
Speaker 1: maybe that instinct was coming from a good place, but
Speaker 1: it's so blind to the actual needs of this community
Speaker 1: that you're actually putting in a fucking poison. You're putting
Speaker 1: in something that's gonna make things worse that and that's
Speaker 1: the entire Crime Bill and Nuts Show. Yeah, you know Biden, Biden,
Speaker 1: all that crew there, this is a good thing. Then
Speaker 1: it's like, but it's not because but you don't know
Speaker 1: that because you're an old white man. Even then, because
Speaker 1: I listen, I like police, I like sniff and hair.
Speaker 1: How can we can bind the two? How can I
Speaker 1: help black people feel more comfortable so that they can
Speaker 1: sniff hair and the communities. That's why it's that gifts
Speaker 1: of like, here's the gifts, and it's like black people's
Speaker 1: response every time, it's okay, yeah, right, you're not excited, No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm taking it with a grain of song, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: here's a gif. You have the first black president. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be far worse in eight years. So
Speaker 1: so here's where I think to that point, the gifts
Speaker 1: sort of like loses control and becomes just sinister. Right
Speaker 1: is that by According to research, McDonald's, Burger King and
Speaker 1: Wendy's dedicated one fifth, one fifth of their radio and
Speaker 1: television advertising budget to black audiences. Wow, yeah that was noticeable.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, that's when you see him Breakdancy Chick and
Speaker 1: when I started hearing hip hop McDonald's dads. I was like, changed, right, bitch,
Speaker 1: how karate kick for some price? And it was like,
Speaker 1: all right, man, this ain't as now what we signed up.
Speaker 1: But one we make up of the American population and
Speaker 1: you're dedicating of your advertising to us. That's there's something
Speaker 1: fucked up here. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. It goes even
Speaker 1: and further than In two thousand twelve, a Yale study
Speaker 1: found this is a Yale University, This ain't Yale Community College.
Speaker 1: Two thousand twelve Yale University study found that the fast
Speaker 1: food industry disproportionately target Black and Latino children and it's advertising.
Speaker 1: So not only are y'all going for the grown folks,
Speaker 1: you're going for the fucking kids at a disproportionate rate
Speaker 1: because to your point, these restaurants are the only things
Speaker 1: available and subsequently the thing that they know they can
Speaker 1: profit the most from. Exactly why do you think that
Speaker 1: door explorer campaign from Donald's was so big? They knew
Speaker 1: what they were doing, right, all right, if she's gonna
Speaker 1: be their representation, we're gonna make some uh barbecue sauce
Speaker 1: into that and see what happens. I also feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, that's uh like the first hip hop ads
Speaker 1: with like actual rappers. I feel like they were McDonald's
Speaker 1: or some sort of fast food where you're like, oh
Speaker 1: that ship they got fucking because you're excited, like you
Speaker 1: think this guy they're actually listening to what the community
Speaker 1: wants putting uh, this rapper in the commercial. But really
Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, we've some money in that far. We
Speaker 1: don't care you think you fucking push your team made.
Speaker 1: I'm loving it, like yeah, I have to. They didn't
Speaker 1: hand him and Arby's. By the way, Push your t
Speaker 1: is the is the his song is both the Arby's theme. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a song by like somebody named Bower or some
Speaker 1: ship and pushed the featuring push the Tea. So he
Speaker 1: gets and but he's he's my favorite rapper businessman because
Speaker 1: he's that's such low key money. That's my favorite. Oh no,
Speaker 1: he didn't get paid shipped off that off of what
Speaker 1: McDonald McDonald, but Arby gets paid I think because he
Speaker 1: doesn't see any residuals on McDonald's. I know that for
Speaker 1: a fact. That's real fun. They basically offered him like
Speaker 1: a one time check, all right, but it was like
Speaker 1: two million bucks or something, which no you're thinking of
Speaker 1: Jason Weaver and The Lion King where they offered him
Speaker 1: a million dollars or some investment in the film and
Speaker 1: he picked the investment because his mom was like smart
Speaker 1: and figured out. But no, push your tea like got
Speaker 1: like sixty grand. And uh, that's why I keeps cussing
Speaker 1: out Drake. Yeah, No, I put in work and you
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna let some light skin bitch make fun
Speaker 1: of me. No, the funk out of here, Drizzy, call
Speaker 1: your son Feta McDonald, you bitch. That's my favorite beef
Speaker 1: because Drake keeps trying to put out records that are
Speaker 1: like pushy, you didn't really drug deal, and nobody's listening
Speaker 1: to them because they're like I've seen pushing tea that
Speaker 1: naked drug deal, right, he got straight back braids to
Speaker 1: this day that you know, I'm not buying your lives, Drake,
Speaker 1: thinking of receipts, and that's still be like, I don't
Speaker 1: think so we're seeing your white baby, Drake. This ain't that.
Speaker 1: So the last thing that I'll say about all of this,
Speaker 1: and this I think goes to the larger point and
Speaker 1: the larger issue that I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: are currently facing and I think we'd be remiss to
Speaker 1: have this conversation without bringing it up. But food deserts. So,
Speaker 1: food deserts are a huge reason that these fast food
Speaker 1: restaurants end up being the only resource that these people have,
Speaker 1: because many people at home might be saying, well, why
Speaker 1: the funk won't you just go to the grocery store
Speaker 1: and cook food? And the reality is is that the
Speaker 1: Department of Agriculture reported that in two thousand and ten,
Speaker 1: at twenty three point five million people in the US
Speaker 1: live in food deserts. Twenty three point five million people,
Speaker 1: meaning five million that they live more than one mile
Speaker 1: from a supermarket in urban or suburban areas, and more
Speaker 1: than ten miles from a supermarket in rural areas. Jesus Christ,
Speaker 1: that's mean, yeah, because you're not walking to anywhere past
Speaker 1: the mile anyway, all right, how could you if you
Speaker 1: have to feed a full family, how could you carry
Speaker 1: those groceries back that far? Yeah? Yeah, And if you're
Speaker 1: ten miles away, fuck it, Yeah, you ain't saying nothing.
Speaker 1: If you're ten miles away. I don't even know what
Speaker 1: your life is like. In a city, you're always one
Speaker 1: to two miles away. But I mean it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you probably drive down the country roads and I have
Speaker 1: no clue what your whole life. I don't I couldn't
Speaker 1: even imagine. And then to your earlier points sort of
Speaker 1: about like the the black panthers of it all. This Also,
Speaker 1: these food deserts also refer to food pantries, which is
Speaker 1: basically like something that's government funded to help provide food
Speaker 1: for the population. But those pantries are based on population density,
Speaker 1: which means that the people in rural areas are even
Speaker 1: less likely to live near any kind of resource to
Speaker 1: help them because of you know, the amount of people
Speaker 1: that live in their community. Yeah, yeah, you can figure
Speaker 1: out I got the best things available. It's like, well yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's yeah, all right, we're gonna take another break.
Speaker 1: We'll be back with more will miles and more, my
Speaker 1: mama told me. And we are back. How are you
Speaker 1: helped me too much? Yeah, we're back here. We're more
Speaker 1: will miles more of my mama told me. We're still
Speaker 1: talking about food, desserts and poverty and delicious delicious McDonald's
Speaker 1: was what was that quote that I don't know? Welcome
Speaker 1: back that voice. Sometimes I just scoured the internet for
Speaker 1: things that made me laugh. And it was a man
Speaker 1: uh talking about too much drowning and it just cracks
Speaker 1: me up. So I was like, that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: drop for me. That's gonna do it for your boy.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into this game. I have a
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Speaker 1: and this game is called Langston's Mother in Law. Tania
Speaker 1: tells a story about her alien encounter. Mother. It's a
Speaker 1: great game where I'm going to play a clip from
Speaker 1: my mother in law Tanya, and I would just love
Speaker 1: to get your reactions as she tells her story of
Speaker 1: a time where she and her sister encountered what they
Speaker 1: believed to be an alien spacecraft. I love it already.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, here we go. This was in late two
Speaker 1: thousand three. Sharon and I were having the house is
Speaker 1: built and we were coming to look at the progress
Speaker 1: of the house of my house at this time. So
Speaker 1: we go across the other side of street to see
Speaker 1: those houses and see how that neighborhood is coming along.
Speaker 1: And coming back across the street, we're stopped at the
Speaker 1: corner and as we're sitting there and I am in
Speaker 1: a Honda Accord and I'm talking to Sharon. She's in
Speaker 1: the passenger seat. I'm talking to her, and she says
Speaker 1: to me. Look, she says, look, I look out my
Speaker 1: driver's side window, and there is, for lack of a
Speaker 1: better description, a silver, grayish object alongside my car, right
Speaker 1: out my window. Right I can look at it. It's
Speaker 1: right there. All right, that's the first clip. What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts? How are you feeling after hearing that? Who
Speaker 1: is Sharon? What's sharing on? Trying to hear more about sharing?
Speaker 1: I ain't never seen no other Sharon. That's kind of true.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It sounds like she really actually Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, where is this is this? Ay? This
Speaker 1: isn't like the suburbs of Baltimore. That's what I was
Speaker 1: gonna say. It has to be a place where it's
Speaker 1: not what even Baltimore is a place where they won't
Speaker 1: believe you if you say you saw aliens. So that
Speaker 1: plays a big part in this, Yes, like absolutely, That's
Speaker 1: why all the and Men and Black touches on this
Speaker 1: a little bit. That's why that you know documentary Men
Speaker 1: and Black, they covered this a bit, a little bit.
Speaker 1: But that's why all the interviews they always saw in
Speaker 1: the inquirers like this person on the farm, this person
Speaker 1: and a place that's at that's uh, the government clearly
Speaker 1: doesn't care about nobody has any idea what they live,
Speaker 1: like nobody knew what anyone lived, like Baltimore and then
Speaker 1: where everybody's like I hated for you. I'm sorry. And
Speaker 1: to your point, as they were in sort of like
Speaker 1: the suburbs of Baltimore, and this specifically is like an
Speaker 1: area that they were like building new homes in. Like
Speaker 1: her sharing is her sister. They both got like some
Speaker 1: of those new you know, properties built in the like
Speaker 1: this area that the whole thing was just nothing for
Speaker 1: a while, and then they built up some houses. So
Speaker 1: to your point, is a pretty open empty space that
Speaker 1: like you know, they're attempting to put land on. And
Speaker 1: so maybe an alien would stop by here because ain't
Speaker 1: nothing else going on. I think it happens. Well, first
Speaker 1: of all, let me say I'm a believer, So I
Speaker 1: think it happens. I think happened that clear from the
Speaker 1: first your first reaction, you are like this is stupid.
Speaker 1: You were like I'm listening, y yeah, yeah, uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's you know how Bill Murray supposedly we'll
Speaker 1: like just see regular people and be enact like it's
Speaker 1: what's what's up it to me? And do some ship
Speaker 1: and there. I think he always says like, no, what,
Speaker 1: none of nobody's gonna believe that I didn't. Yeah, no
Speaker 1: one to ever believe you, right, Like I had a
Speaker 1: drink with Bill Murray literally where he told me the
Speaker 1: clubs were gonna win next year, and they went next year.
Speaker 1: But it's one of those things where I was, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was out at a party. Bill Murray stumbled into
Speaker 1: that party and and was like, I thought you you
Speaker 1: would be giving an example you dead. This actually happened,
Speaker 1: and holy sh it. But it's one of those stories
Speaker 1: where I was first of all, I was drunk and
Speaker 1: high and I and it was other. It was like
Speaker 1: Donald Glover was there. It was a party of probably
Speaker 1: it wasn't without the possibility of Billing Right coming in.
Speaker 1: I got but it didn't. But Donald Glover at the time,
Speaker 1: it did not seem like, you know, this was before
Speaker 1: Atlanta was big, so it was like maybe it had
Speaker 1: just was still about to come up. So he was
Speaker 1: making he was a little bit popular from rap, but
Speaker 1: only in college towns. And so I was like he uh,
Speaker 1: he was the biggest person there at the time, and
Speaker 1: then maybe like some actors, it was somebody's birthday. But
Speaker 1: then as Bill Murray walked in, all of us were
Speaker 1: looking like is that sucking Bill Murray? Everybody like push
Speaker 1: their hand in Donald's face, like is that is that
Speaker 1: Bill Murray? What's he doing here? And I don't nobody
Speaker 1: really knows if he knew the birthday by or anything.
Speaker 1: Everybody I've talked to you afterwards he was there's like
Speaker 1: he was there right and then he I saw him
Speaker 1: pull up and Jason Burke is a huge fan. So
Speaker 1: Jason Burke went up like, let's get a drink with him,
Speaker 1: and so I was there for that. So then we
Speaker 1: grab a drink and I'm like, I cannot believe Bill
Speaker 1: murders in front of me right now. And to your point,
Speaker 1: that's what those aliens might have been doing, setting up
Speaker 1: next to their car being like bitchy, nobody gonna believe you,
Speaker 1: and then zooming off. Ye yep, And I heard there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people who do like, uh, what else
Speaker 1: does that? Somebody else famous probably lay it sounds like
Speaker 1: some ship. Yeah, I've never heard it from Lucky but
Speaker 1: it sounds like a very lucky ye kind of just
Speaker 1: pull up and we're like, nobody's gonna leave you, So
Speaker 1: what's up? Hey? This? This is crazy that you saw me.
Speaker 1: The aliens have been doing that probably for years. I
Speaker 1: love and the people they check, it's always like, alright, truly,
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna leave you. So except I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: about yours. I don't know that I believe it. Let's
Speaker 1: play some more of this audio. Let's let's see what
Speaker 1: else you you take from it. It is level with
Speaker 1: my car. It has no windows, and you don't hear
Speaker 1: a thing, and it's low enough. The front of it
Speaker 1: that I see is like an oval shape, and before
Speaker 1: I know it, it goes across the street. Now this
Speaker 1: time I can see fully it looks like a blom.
Speaker 1: There are a few houses right at the corner. It
Speaker 1: goes above those homes, and I'm saying this time, I said,
Speaker 1: didn't think that's a air field back there, because behind
Speaker 1: her house it's a wooded area. And I said, I said,
Speaker 1: do you think that's a landy strip over there? And
Speaker 1: she said, follow it, yea, there's one more after this,
Speaker 1: but that that's where she leaves off, how are you
Speaker 1: feeling how much of this are you? Uh? You feeling
Speaker 1: like certain that this is an alien spacecraft? Now? Are
Speaker 1: you more certain less certain? I feel like I'm a
Speaker 1: little less certain, but I am certain that it is
Speaker 1: if you go like the Roswalt tapes and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, we've had access to aliens for a number
Speaker 1: of years because they've been living here being studied. So
Speaker 1: I do think there's those areas near military bases, and
Speaker 1: I believe there's one near Baltimore where they house aliens underground. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for research. Mainly they just can't tell us yet, I
Speaker 1: guess because we're supposed to panic. But I did hear
Speaker 1: that was why they made et also to be like
Speaker 1: just let's see, let's gauge where it would be like
Speaker 1: if we introduced an alien too the world like a
Speaker 1: like a soft opening, like the Alien Restaurant, all these
Speaker 1: alien movie So they're like, all right, we've talked about it.
Speaker 1: Now when we tell you about the real ship, you
Speaker 1: won't be like hyper ventilating. At the end, it was
Speaker 1: like it's not coming out of left field, and it
Speaker 1: was e t was to be like they could be friendly.
Speaker 1: We don't know, but so in that conspiracy theory, Steven
Speaker 1: Spielberg is a consenting member of whatever party is is
Speaker 1: introducing e T or is he just given a script
Speaker 1: and then they're like, uh, make this but I'll tell
Speaker 1: you why. I think it is a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how much he knew
Speaker 1: when he was writing it. I don't know if it
Speaker 1: was a situation I'm finding out nowhere. Maybe it was
Speaker 1: an open writing assignment and they hired the government and
Speaker 1: they were like, hey, we're gonna need an alien. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I honestly it could be. I didn't know that was
Speaker 1: the thing until very recently. But I'm like, oh, sometimes
Speaker 1: they have the idea and you have to fill in
Speaker 1: the blanks. But I'm like, okay, So I wonder if
Speaker 1: that was a open writing assignment, Steven Spielberg took under
Speaker 1: his belt and was like this would work, and uh so.
Speaker 1: I don't know how consenting he was in the process,
Speaker 1: but I do think, yeah, they the government probably paid
Speaker 1: the film student to be like, of all the things
Speaker 1: that are coming in right now, making alien, this is
Speaker 1: priority number one type of yeah, yeah, I got you,
Speaker 1: I see where you so yeah, because that sounds like
Speaker 1: one of those things that came from a base and
Speaker 1: was going like they were testing it out in the streets. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in an area that was kind of vacant, so they
Speaker 1: were like, yeah, let's see. Oh so wait, so in
Speaker 1: your mind, there's a possibility that aliens are not um
Speaker 1: are not piloting this anymore, that this is like American
Speaker 1: soldiers or people piloting a thing that they've now taken
Speaker 1: from alien visitors. I think that happens, and I think
Speaker 1: I also got that from X files where that might
Speaker 1: actually happen. Okay, another documentary. I love that. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: listen to this last clip and we'll see what where
Speaker 1: are you land on everything. It's really very quiet, but
Speaker 1: windows are up, but that don't see any traffic or anything.
Speaker 1: So we go across the street try to catch this
Speaker 1: thing as it goes over the houses. I have to
Speaker 1: follow the street and go around the curve to where
Speaker 1: it is. We see it go over the houses and
Speaker 1: we get around. Then I'm I'm speeding around there and nothing,
Speaker 1: it's gone. I drove behind the wooded area of the reserve.
Speaker 1: I drove behind there to see if we can see anything.
Speaker 1: Because you can see behind the houses, there's no clear
Speaker 1: area for something like that to land. First we were like,
Speaker 1: where what are you ready to go? If it's not
Speaker 1: back here ready to go because behind the wooded area
Speaker 1: it's a street, it's a more home. So I guess
Speaker 1: it's just daring on this And then what else could
Speaker 1: it possibly be? It literally just a bigger that's it.
Speaker 1: That's wild thoughts. Where what are you feeling? Now? I
Speaker 1: feel more more into the idea that it could be
Speaker 1: the government testing alien equipment. Yeah, I'm very Also, you
Speaker 1: gave big sunning law energy with the that is that
Speaker 1: is a mother in law telling a story to her
Speaker 1: son in law. For sure, I wanted her to be
Speaker 1: able to get it all out, but I also wanted
Speaker 1: to beat the light and in patient as she's telling
Speaker 1: the story. If it was any one of my friends,
Speaker 1: all right, get to the meeting potentials, I gotta be
Speaker 1: a little more respectful. And she's a lovely woman, so
Speaker 1: I would never want to disrespect her as is my
Speaker 1: mother in law. There's definitely you. You definitely hear more
Speaker 1: stories as the sun in law though, because it's also
Speaker 1: like being intro to the family. You're you're now the
Speaker 1: New Year. Yeah, you haven't heard any of this, right,
Speaker 1: Like all right, I tried these bits on these idiots.
Speaker 1: Still they didn't buy it. But now I got a
Speaker 1: new audience. So here we go, and I'm just eat
Speaker 1: it up. I'm like, all right in the same way
Speaker 1: you were. Yeah, you're going talk got talking. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's probably a government, uh,
Speaker 1: either testing it out, or even if the alien's driving,
Speaker 1: it's probably it's government. Watched. I love that. So so
Speaker 1: there it is, ladies and gentlemen. Uh, I believe that
Speaker 1: we've nailed it. We've resolved that that spacecraft was being
Speaker 1: piloted by American soldiers who had stolen it from an
Speaker 1: alien and are now testing that equipment to see if
Speaker 1: it's somehow usable. And apparently it's not going that well
Speaker 1: because this was a decade ago and they still ain't
Speaker 1: released that new uh silver blimp for us to be
Speaker 1: flying around in. But maybe someday. When I didn't tell
Speaker 1: you was one of one of those soldiers was Elon Musk.
Speaker 1: So uh, young man, a young bald man by the
Speaker 1: name of Elon Musk was flying that plane and he
Speaker 1: spent all his soldier money on a new scalp, on
Speaker 1: a new head of hair. So we've made no progress. Well,
Speaker 1: can you tell the people at home where they can
Speaker 1: find you? What cool ship do you have going on?
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