WEBVTT - "It Could Be a Crackhead" with Eric Andre 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:05.240 Bra. If you thought you had audio troubles, now just 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:07.760 wait until my Postmates makes it into my mouth. Is 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:12.160 here the soft slurp of sushimi. Every Yeah, I definitely 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:15.440 want chicken grease all over my face. All right, I'm ready. 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:21.400 I's been this positive since my last COVID test. Hey, 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:27.640 I still got it, baby, Right, I still got COVID, Baby, 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:51.519 I still got it. COVID nineteen. That is racist. I 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:58.959 can't tell me. Yeah, it's like koalas are racist. All 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:03.440 Koala bears a racist That's right. Welcome to another episode 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:06.720 of My Mama Told Me, the podcast where we dive 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:10.280 deep deep. We dig deep into the world of black 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:14.399 conspiracy theories, and we worked to finally prove that the 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:18.560 Jay's and Jimmy J. J. Walker stand for Just Jiggaboo 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:22.800 That's right, Jimmy Just Jiggaboo Walker. That's the name he 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:26.640 picked for himself. What an exciting time in America. I'm 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:30.160 your host, Lankstin Kerman. I am excited to be here. 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.720 You've already heard our guest today. He was very curious 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.319 about the intro song, and I can't wait to introduce 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:39.360 you to him. You guys know him from his amazing 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:43.240 new Netflix special called Legalize Everything. You know him from 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:47.120 the Eric Andre Show. Give it up from my special guest, Mr. 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:54.800 Eric Andre. Hell yeah, he's doing the whistle thing, but 0:01:54.840 --> 0:02:00.840 he can't really hear it. I can't do it. That's 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:04.000 why better. That's a solid whistle right there. How are you, sir? Good? 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.120 How you doing. I'm chilling. Thanks for having me on 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.600 your show. Thanks. Yeah, no, we're gonna have some fun. 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.360 I saw one of those vans out today where the 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.919 you know the vans where they offer nude made service. 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.280 Oh yeah, I mean that's why I get my house washed. 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.079 That joke died in my mouth, that's what I was saying. 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:25.600 I do like the idea of her being naked and 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:27.760 doing a good power of wash on the outside of 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.760 your house at the top of the line cleaners actually 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:34.880 our nudists. I saw one of those, and I thought, 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.040 good for that person for being like, we're in the 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.200 middle of a pandemic, but let me see some titties 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.880 real quick. Yeah that's wild. Yeah, nude maids. I'm super 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:46.399 excited to have you today because, as you know, this 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.799 podcast is all about conspiracy theories, and you have come 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:53.799 to us with a phenomenal conspiracy theory are certainly one 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:57.600 that is legendary and a lot of communities you brought 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:06.480 us my mama told me is real. Some people in 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:10.720 the Critn area of Mobile say alepricns taking up residents 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:18.560 in their neighborhood. Yeah, yes, you know. I was worried 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:20.160 when I sent it to you. I was like, he's 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.720 seen this, He's probably done in an episode or two 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:27.640 about it already. Yeah. I had seen it, but I 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.160 have not done no episodes on it, and I'm still 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:32.720 good good. And I was like, like I was saying before, 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:36.440 my mom is Jewish, so she has no good She 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.920 has no good Black conspiracies. My dad's a black one 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:42.720 and his mom died before I was born, so I 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:47.720 didn't get any good Black or Caribbean conspiracies really because 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.600 my parents are kind of like skeptics, you know, but 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:53.720 Caribbean people in general have a ship ton of sort 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:59.240 of like conspiracy, and I was cut off from it 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:02.520 because my dad at his skept he's atheists, he doesn't 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:06.240 believe in any of that ship. But his mom super religious, 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.120 super Catholic. If she saw a frog or a lizard, 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:11.280 she would think like the devil is at play and 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:14.200 the devil's trying to get in her house. Like she 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.679 would have been full of them, but she passed away 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:18.839 before I was born, So so you just had to 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:20.880 go on YouTube. So I had to. I had to. 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.839 I had to go on the Bombs World and send 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:27.599 you some leprecnip. I had to explain to my wife 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:30.039 the other day what the bombs the World was. It 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.599 was like, oh, it's like YouTube where you could also 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.760 watch murder. That was the only explanation. It was a 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:40.520 lawless YouTube before YouTube during the MySpace era. Yeah, yeah, 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:44.279 I remember seeing I remember seeing videos like the leper 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.679 Con thing, and then also seeing like what was supposed 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:51.320 to be like military footage of them blowing up buildings 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:55.280 and was like, Okay, I guess this's gonna form my youth. Yeah, 0:04:55.480 --> 0:05:02.159 bar mauling a woman or something fucking rough Evom's world. Wait, 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:05.720 so when did you come across the Creighton leper com 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.840 When did you first come to discover this story? I 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:12.560 think probably like fifteen years ago five something like that. 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.360 Were you just like scouring the internet and bumped into 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.640 this thing? Was it in the height of everybody else 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.440 finding it? Yeah? It was one of those early viral 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.360 videos that was just passed around amongst friends. Right, it's 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:27.160 almost one of the more legendary videos because it's one 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.200 that kind of you can return to every year, almost 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.280 like a holiday, you know what I mean, where it's 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.720 like every year I can go rewatch every St. Patrick's day. 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.800 I'm watching that video. Just a lady going it could 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:45.520 be a crackhead, be a crackhead, got around stuff. She's 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:49.320 actually the only person I agree with. Yes, I'm kind 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:53.200 of like she's the most relatable character in that whole drama. Yeah, 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.600 so you're saying you didn't relate with the dude who 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.040 cut holes in a pipe and said it was a 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.080 flute that had been passed him last This is a 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.200 special flute which has been plashed down from thousands of 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:07.040 years ago from my great great grandfather who was Irish. 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.480 I just came to help out. I did look it up, 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:13.800 and apparently there is no pipe. There's no story of 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:17.360 a pipe that magically awards off lepricns. That was Was 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.719 that guy improvising because the cameras were on him, or 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.520 does he That's the sense I'm getting. But maybe it 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:27.320 was something even more nefarious. Maybe they gave him the 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.920 pipe and told him, Hey, say this that you made 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:34.120 a story exactly the original fake news. Yeah, and you're 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.919 not You're from Boston. Correct, No, Florida. You're from Florida. 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:42.400 Oh so you weren't too well. You spent from school. 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.080 I went to school. I went to college in Boston. Okay, 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.520 that makes sense. I also went I went to grad 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:52.320 school in Boston and be you Okay, I studied the 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.880 first prank. You really you studied poetry. Yeah, it's a 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.560 waste of time, don't do it. You have a master's 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:05.960 degree in poetry. Hell yeah, dog like Cummings and ships. Yep, 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:09.760 it's me and e Coummings. We're the only two that 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.960 would make such a stupid choice. Wait, what did you 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.360 study in school? I wanted to school for upright bass 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:17.480 and everybody always tells me that, like, oh, you could 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.640 do an upright based comedy thing. And I brought it 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:26.120 on stage one time, but I'm too hyperactive on stage 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:31.200 two be weighed down by my base right. Wait and 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.000 literally you want to be able to run around. I've 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.320 seen you on stage. You do a lot of moving, 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:40.640 a lot of extra ship basis keeping you stagnant. Base 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:43.160 is too big. It's too big an instrument to bring 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.520 on stage. And were you my kind of comedy? Were 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:47.840 you nice with it? Were you like? Hell yeah? It 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:51.320 was nice with it when I was nineteen twenty, but 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:55.040 it's not something I like kept up practice wise, you 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.680 don't still own a base to this day. I got 0:07:57.800 --> 0:07:59.520 I got a I bought a new one recently just 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.640 for fun. You want to see my bass, he show 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.600 me this bass. I want to see and for the 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.840 listeners at home, which this won't be engaging for you 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:11.360 at all, but I'm excited to see this. Fucking Oh 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:15.800 that's cool ballpaper. Oh hell yeah, that's a good upright bass. 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:18.680 Are you still practicing with it? Do you still like 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:22.040 occasionally pull it out? I come downstairs half stone that 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:28.320 I'll go bad and get a nice girl over there 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:34.280 for seven months. My girlfriend's not impressed by you. No 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.000 one is impressed by my bass. I think it's pretty cool. 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.600 I'm a big fan of girl upright bass. Thanks man. 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:41.840 We we could have been like a duo in like 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.960 a parallel universe. Dude, we have all the tools to 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:53.240 make a very stereotypical bad poetry reading. That's right, we 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.040 need to do it. With some drums are bongos, and 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.000 we'd be fine. There's no way we'd be poor after 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:03.480 all of this, reading soul on ice on stage, the 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:10.800 ineptitude of the white man's his directed me in studio. 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:16.760 Excuse me, brother, open your eyes, open your third eye. 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:23.040 I only see two right now. So okay, let's talk 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:27.719 more about this Leprechaun. When you saw the video, when 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:32.200 you a dollar for every time a podcast house said, 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.640 let's get back to this leprechn When you first saw 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:40.640 the video, did you believe in the possibility of its existence? No, 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.200 not whatsoever. But it was a great watch. It made 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.679 for an entertaining watch. Sure, so immediately you were like, hell, no, 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.920 this isn't real. And but I was caught up in 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:53.160 the I was no, I will say, I was caught 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:56.120 up in the magic of the enthusiasm. I will say 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.880 in the spirit of it. There's so many people cheering 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.520 and sort of like a cited to experience it that 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.040 I felt like it had to have been something like 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.480 there's sometimes you see videos and you're like, well, there's 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.240 nothing here, you guys are just fucking bored whatever. But 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.840 like all those black people cheering in the street, like 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.800 who's saying the lepricn say yeah, and I'm all going yeah, 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:18.319 it's like there's got to be something out there. Yeah, 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:20.880 it's a spirit. It's the spirit of the Lepric. It's 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:25.839 the spirit of Saint Patrick that all these black people 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:31.080 in fucking Alabama are experiencing for some reason. Wow, what 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.480 what a ride that video. You grew up in Florida. 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.480 Were you anywhere near Alabama where you like in that 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:42.640 Florabama's shore type Florida. I'm like Bokra Tone, which is 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:49.560 like nice suburbs outside of Miami, like five minutes no, no, yeah, 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:53.240 elderly Jewish people waiting to die. There's no far from 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:56.600 the Panhandle. That's a different Florida. Less of this energy 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.840 that we're getting from the video. It's a different Florida. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:03.200 I mean, there's Florida like that all throughout, but that 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.240 is a different Florida. That Alabama, Mississippi Florida. That's a 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.920 different Florida. Would you say that growing up in like 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:12.760 the Boca Raton type energy where their places or sort 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.000 of people that you could go to that did have 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:19.559 sort of conspiratorial type thinking or was it more Yeah, 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:23.600 for sure, I mean conspiracy theorists are everywhere, for sure, 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:28.240 but no leprecns. I don't know. It's it's the part 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.400 of the fun of this is that a LEPrecon is 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.120 not a common belief held by most black people. I 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.640 think it's not like this is That's where you're wrong. 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:39.120 That's the majority of black people, not just in America, 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:44.120 throughout Africa and the Caribbean, all into the leprin. This 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:47.000 is a story that's been handed down from generation to 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.040 generation and has made its way from African tribe to 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:54.360 African tribe of the legendary leprecn. So no belief in 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.600 the lepre con. Did anyone in your life argue with 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:00.120 you at any point that there was a possibility this 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:03.520 leper con was real, that there was any validity to 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.600 my friends mental patients. I'll be honest, I there were 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.720 people in my life who were like, maybe they were 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.920 so much like a hundred percent it's real because none 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:16.760 of us lived there, but like they were like, I 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:20.199 don't know, shit happened. It was. It was the uh, 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:24.839 the police sketch of the lepricn that kind of made 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:29.800 me kind of bow out. The amateur sketch, amateur sketch. 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.160 I didn't have sketch. The police are looking to arrest 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:36.440 the Lepricn. This guy's up to no fucking good, and 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:40.720 we the streets aren't safe as long as the stick 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.480 figure of a Lepricn is still out there. I do 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.800 think that I had to go back and rewatch the video, 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.360 and then I subsequently ended up watching like eight more 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:53.000 videos related to this video. While you went deep, I 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.440 went real deep into the rabbit hole. And one of 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:59.000 the things that I realized was that the amateur sketch 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.040 that they showed, I had to make sure that it 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:03.760 wasn't a police sketch because I thought that, oh, the 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:07.200 police were so shitty that they sent like their worst 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:12.160 guy to go, like their worst sketch artists. Yeah, like James, 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:16.800 who's just starting. Then they have like the they have 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.800 like the Vincent ben Go kind of sketch artists, like 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:23.959 their top quality guy. But then they sent James. Yeah, James, 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:30.560 he's just a nah. He mostly refills the coffee, but 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:32.720 you know, occasionally they let him go out in the 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:36.000 streets and draw lepre cons. If anybody says they spotted one, 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:39.840 he's the office dick. The part of the fun of 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.960 the video. There's so much rich information in it that 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:46.120 it starts to my friends. Where we ended up arguing 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:49.520 about it, was you start to if not believe all 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:53.160 of the people, believe individuals in the story. Much like 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.160 you said, the lady who's like it might be a 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:58.520 crackhead who got ahold of the wrong stuff. She's a 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.880 believable character, all of this. See, I would hang out. 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:05.920 I would hang out with her. First, I kind of 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:10.800 my my attitude is more in line with her attitudes. 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.640 I get that You're like, okay, I get where you 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.520 are wave length like she's bringing everybody down to earth. 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:18.720 She's like, you might just be seeing a crackhead that 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:20.480 got a whole at the wrong stuff. It's like, all right, 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:23.480 she's practic. She's practical. Yes, I'm kind of with her. 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.120 Whereas the guy who yells I want to know where 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:29.880 to go, that I want to go is. I'm charmed 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.040 by that guy. So I would hang out with him too, 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.560 Like he's charisma and and charisma goes a long way. 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.960 Personality goes a long way for me, So I would, 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.280 you know, I would kind of he melts my heart 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.800 in a certain kind of way. So so he's someone 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:47.040 you would invite to the party, but not necessarily spend. 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:49.200 I want to talk to him the whole time. Yeah yeah, 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:51.360 I got you. The noveltyam I wear off after what 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:57.720 it's like? Do the bit? Okay? Good thing? Type five? Yeah? Yeah, 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:03.440 enjoy enjoy the Deviled Eggs? Is the whole thing staged 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:05.600 by that news station? Or is it a real did 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:09.840 you do research? Is it real? Is it really Alabama? 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:13.560 Is it real Alabama mythology? It's real Alabama mythology. There's 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.200 plenty of argument to what you said, and we'll dig 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:19.360 into that soon, but a hundred percent this was real 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:23.520 mythology that came from real people who genuinely believed that 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:26.440 they saw lepre con Did you gravitate to the only 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.840 other black person in the poetry program where you're like, hey, 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:35.000 just me and you we gotta system together right on? 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.240 Or were you just like I'm gonna hang out with 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.000 people now. I mean, I don't think you really We 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:44.480 didn't get along that well. It was really a weird energy. 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:48.240 Is that true? It was a weird vibe. I don't know. 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:52.280 I don't blame her or myself. We just that wasn't 0:15:52.280 --> 0:16:10.960 my person. You know what I mean. And we are back. 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:19.680 Ain't nobody got time for that? Yeah, we're back here 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:23.840 with more Eric Andre and more. My mama told me 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:27.560 we are still talking about this Creighton leper Con, the 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:31.760 mobile Alabama lepre Con, as it was once known, and 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.480 Eric was enjoying a delicious meal now he's back. He 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.920 was wiping chicken grease off his fingers like a real motherfucker. 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:46.120 His fingers were the blackest podcast and he's he had 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.560 chicken grease on his fingers before the podcast even started. 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:56.560 He's an unreasonable person. Okay, So I told you I 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.560 did a bunch of research about this leper con and 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:02.040 I sound I think, like many of us, that it 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:04.679 would just be digging into the video. But as it 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.520 turns out, there's actually a ship ton of evidence that 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:10.520 leper cons and black people have a lot more correlation 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:14.000 than I thought. And so what I want to propose 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.440 to you, and this is a bowl theory. But after 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:18.399 all the digging that I did, I landed on a 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:20.520 conspiracy theory that I want to throw out to you, 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:22.640 see how you feel about it, and then out backtrack 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.000 and let and try to help piece it all together. 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:28.600 But I genuinely believe, based on everything that I've dug up, 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:32.480 that the Creighton lepre con is a tool for white 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:38.880 supremacy and historical erasure of black people. Your thoughts, where 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:43.280 where do you uh tell me more? Okay? Hell, I'm 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:45.480 so glad you want to hear more. You're not telling 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:49.440 me no, So let's keep going. Okay, So let's forget 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:52.840 the obvious sort of like voyeuristic tone of what this 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:55.440 feels like, right, of these white people going and watching 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:58.400 black people yell at shadows in a tree. Right, we'll 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:01.119 skip past all of that. But all this research that 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:04.840 I sort of uncovered proves the possibility that lepre cons 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:08.280 were in fact at some point black people. Now, keep 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:11.679 in mind, this research is coming from a place called 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:15.000 blacks in San Antonio dot com, So it is not 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:20.520 the most legitimate website that I could have found information on, 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:24.040 but I like to uh follow blacks in San Antonio 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:27.240 dot com as of yesterday. So here's what I found. 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.760 Lepre cons. The original word comes from this old Irish 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:35.080 word called lucre pond, which roughly means small body. Right, 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:39.480 and then there's all this evidence that claims that leprecons 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.879 were actually a reference to this group of African migrants 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:46.000 known as the a Cons or the Ta, who were 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:49.399 naturally very small people, averaging at a height of about 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:52.359 four eleven. So these migrants that these black people that 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:55.359 show up to Ireland are four eleven and there is 0:18:55.480 --> 0:19:00.760 specifically known for craftsmanship and cheemaking, which is like the 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:03.240 biggest thing that lepre cons are known for. And then 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:07.800 at some point the Africans and the Akan people start 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:11.760 to get known as Naga or Nagar or negus, which 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:15.560 also loosely translates to serpent people. And then if you 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:19.000 know anything about like St Patrick's Day, right, St Patrick's 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:23.160 Day is all about St Patrick apparently running the snakes 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:26.959 the serpents out of Ireland. So in theory, if you 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:31.000 mush all these things together, there's a real possibility that 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:34.040 St Patrick, when he was quote unquote running the serpents 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:36.520 out of Ireland, was in fact just running a bunch 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:39.840 of black people out of Ireland, basically committing a genocide 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:45.479 when we're black people in Ireland. No, there were no 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:47.920 black people ever. Now I've been to Ireland. I'm telling 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:51.919 you I've been there, there are none. But the argument 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:55.120 would be that the St. Patrick of old ran them out, 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:58.480 so there are no more thousands of years ago. You're 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:02.080 not buying it. You're not here for Oh yeah, I 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:06.360 mean I'm a huge subscriber to Blacks in San Antonio 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:11.040 dot com. Whenever somebody is not on board, their voice 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:18.639 gets real high. I do what you're doing. Yeah, So 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:21.920 Blacks and San Antonio dot Com argues that St. Patrick, 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:24.359 who may or may not be a real historical figure 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:27.040 but could be an allegory, is in fact sort of 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:31.159 the representation of a genocide that happens, which means that 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:35.000 when this news group goes down and basically seems to 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:38.320 cover this softball expose on a lepricn in a tree, 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:42.640 there secretly doing a profile on black on black violence 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:46.040 and encouraging the people of Mobile, Alabama to maintain a 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:51.520 cycle of a historical division. People do anything, gold anything, 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:53.320 you know what? I like? I like the amateur sketch 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:55.680 of the lepric, Like somebody got a really good look 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:57.639 at it and got that good drawing up. Who did that? 0:20:57.680 --> 0:20:59.760 I want to know who sketched that. I do think 0:20:59.800 --> 0:21:02.320 that there's something to be said about the idea that 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:05.080 a bunch of white people laughing at black people as 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:07.520 a yell at a lepre con in a tree feels 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:12.960 like a type of manipulation that makes me uncomfortable. Wait 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:15.920 a minute, who are the white people in this newscasters 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:18.960 and the news? One was black? One was black. But 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:21.400 she ain't picked that. She just along for the ride. 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:22.920 She didn't want to lose her job, you know what 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:26.000 I mean A lot it could have been her story. 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:29.920 I like that. Your argument is, Hey, that white guy 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:31.679 seemed like a good guy, and it seems like she 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:34.280 showed up with this book. I'm just like being like, 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:38.080 I just like arguing. I think that's a solid There's 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:40.919 like other news stories that came out after this, like 0:21:40.960 --> 0:21:43.840 a bunch of people went and did follow ups on 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:46.640 the whole thing, specifically one that came like ten years 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:48.760 later where they were like, and now a ten year 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:51.560 revisit of the Crichton lepre con. Really, how old is 0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:54.639 that video? Two thousand four or no, two thousand six? 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:56.680 Excuse me? Is when it came out? I said two 0:21:56.680 --> 0:22:00.879 thousand four, because I've been watching in six years, we're 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:03.840 gonna be celebrating the anniversary. Yeah, I know what I'm 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:10.399 doing on the holiday. I don't. So they did a 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:12.760 new profile on it, and it turns out that the 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:15.800 original leper Con was spotted by this dude. His name 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:19.720 was Sean Thomas, right, And Sean Thomas actually drew his 0:22:19.840 --> 0:22:22.560 own sketch of the leper Con that is not at 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:24.920 all like the one that they ended up showing on TV. 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:28.040 It's like very nice and well done. He painted it 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:31.479 and ship it's a beautiful drawing. And instead they showed 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:37.240 that nigger drawing of fucking. So they're keeping, they're keeping, 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:39.840 They're keeping the black man down with that. Yeah, and 0:22:39.840 --> 0:22:42.000 then you they talked to Sean Thomas in the other 0:22:42.080 --> 0:22:44.879 interview and he's a very thoughtful dude. He's like, I 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:47.600 don't believe in leper coms, but I saw something that 0:22:47.720 --> 0:22:52.600 day and it turned into a whole different thing. Exactly. 0:22:52.680 --> 0:22:55.439 The news didn't say a word to Sean Thomas before this. 0:22:56.880 --> 0:23:01.159 It's all making sense now. Hell yeah. So going even further, 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:03.240 one of the things that I found, and this is 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:06.160 one of the more jarring discoveries I found. In two 0:23:06.200 --> 0:23:10.479 thousand fourteen, a group of independent researchers figured out that 0:23:10.520 --> 0:23:13.960 they're actually were alternative theories to the whole thing the 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:16.800 entire time, and that everyone in the neighborhood knew that 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:19.080 the Crichton leper con was. In fact, they dude and 0:23:19.119 --> 0:23:22.720 I'm quoting here named Mitchett Sean who had climbed the 0:23:22.760 --> 0:23:25.440 tree as a leper con and was just sort of 0:23:25.520 --> 0:23:28.639 pretending to do this as a prank. Okay, So I 0:23:29.400 --> 0:23:31.959 think we gotta go down to that. What's the name 0:23:31.960 --> 0:23:37.320 of the town Criterion in Mobile. We gotta go to 0:23:37.359 --> 0:23:39.280 Crichton and see what the is going on over there. 0:23:39.320 --> 0:23:41.160 I don't think I want to go right now. Well 0:23:41.200 --> 0:23:44.080 we go in six years, right, we gotta go for 0:23:44.200 --> 0:23:48.320 the holiday. We show up dresses lepre cons to uh 0:23:48.880 --> 0:23:52.800 unpack this whole story. We never once addressed the fact 0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:55.000 that we're addressed as lepre cons. We just show up 0:23:55.000 --> 0:23:58.680 as like very serious journalists dresses lepre cons, asking about 0:23:58.680 --> 0:24:03.040 the Cretan leper con. It's a lot of information that 0:24:03.119 --> 0:24:07.120 the news, in my opinion, intentionally left out. No one 0:24:07.200 --> 0:24:10.479 talked to either of the Shawn's, either big or small. 0:24:10.960 --> 0:24:14.000