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Speaker 2: episode of My Mama Told Me, The podcast when we
Speaker 2: dive deep into the pockets of black conspiracy theories.
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Speaker 1: Come on. We like to point out all our whites
Speaker 1: as they walk in.
Speaker 4: Get them.
Speaker 1: We should we kick it off.
Speaker 4: I'm excited about this first one very much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have We wanted to kick off with a
Speaker 3: with a. We wanted to kick off with the dudzy
Speaker 3: of a conspiracy theory, one that that I personally have
Speaker 3: covered in the very very early episodes of the podcast,
Speaker 3: but I've never gotten to talk to Bory about it,
Speaker 3: and and frankly, I think there's a lot that needs
Speaker 3: to be said about this conspiracy.
Speaker 4: I have so many feelings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so we'll kick it off right away.
Speaker 3: My mama told me that if you eat spaghetti from
Speaker 3: a strange woman, she might put a hex on you.
Speaker 4: How do you look at first of all, I'll eat
Speaker 4: spaghetti from anyone. Yeah, don't.
Speaker 1: Is that true? You don't give a ship where your
Speaker 1: spaghetti comes from.
Speaker 2: I refuse to eat spaghetti restaurants is my only thing. WHOA, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I won't eat it. That's home food.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know it's like we ate it so much
Speaker 1: at home.
Speaker 4: I'm not trying to go out and pay money.
Speaker 1: For You're not gonna pay I'm not a fucking idiot.
Speaker 1: My mama could make this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not gonna I'm gonna pay for your spaghetti
Speaker 2: this cause eighty eight cents?
Speaker 1: Are you? I don't think that that's accurate.
Speaker 4: For a pack of spaghetti.
Speaker 1: I look, I'm not a spaghetti man.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 1: I can tell. I don't want to be.
Speaker 3: I don't want to be one of those elitist people
Speaker 3: who doesn't know how much milk costs.
Speaker 1: But I feel like it's more than eighty eight.
Speaker 2: Then it's like it's like a dollar twenty. Man, spaghetti's
Speaker 2: the cheapest noodle. Well, I can't argue it. Don't be
Speaker 2: like that, you know that. Don't be like that. It's
Speaker 2: spaghetti and then ramen.
Speaker 1: It's it's so cheap. You think you think spaghetti is
Speaker 1: more less expensive.
Speaker 2: Than round unless you're eating the blue box for totally
Speaker 2: like some kind of mischianopoly man. Yeah, that's it's for
Speaker 2: the bag. I'm talking about the bag spaghetti that's.
Speaker 4: Cheap at hell.
Speaker 1: Damn. Yeah, I don't, I don't. I'll be honest. I
Speaker 1: don't really fish.
Speaker 3: I don't really funck with the I don't really fuck
Speaker 3: with my spaghetti in a bag.
Speaker 4: Don't do that to me. Don't do that to me.
Speaker 4: Do not do that to me.
Speaker 1: I do like certain containers.
Speaker 4: Don't everybody's eating it in a bag?
Speaker 3: I have sure, But after the point that I stopped
Speaker 3: having to eat cereal in the bag, I was like,
Speaker 3: no more bags, any any food.
Speaker 2: I'm done with bag. Well, I guess that's why I'm
Speaker 2: a man of the people. You over here a hoity
Speaker 2: toity on box spaghetti mountain.
Speaker 3: I really, I really rode in on my spaghetti horse
Speaker 3: when I came in.
Speaker 4: I might as well have your peaky in the air,
Speaker 4: talking like the bag.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know that I've I had thought about
Speaker 3: this until it was introduced as a conspiracy theory, and
Speaker 3: now it's all I think about when I eat any
Speaker 3: kind of red sauce base.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So, I because I didn't grow up with Did
Speaker 4: you grow up here in this? First of all?
Speaker 1: No, not at all.
Speaker 3: My my father who's here tonight, he's here and he's
Speaker 3: a white man.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: I told you we call out our whites. I could
Speaker 2: tell because he waved with two hands. That's how you know.
Speaker 3: But but that's not a that's not a common conspiracy
Speaker 3: theory I think that circulates.
Speaker 1: Is it for for our whites? Is that a thing
Speaker 1: that you all had heard not to eat?
Speaker 3: No, that's not a thing that that you I think
Speaker 3: it's a very specific.
Speaker 2: That makes sense because I will also say, and this
Speaker 2: is gonna sound kind of bad, I don't believe in
Speaker 2: white women knowing magic does that right, Like like if
Speaker 2: a white like, if a white lady is like I'm
Speaker 2: a witch, You're like, okay, whatever, bitch, wow, But I
Speaker 2: am more apt to believe it from a black woman.
Speaker 1: That's fair, right, Yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Don't think it's and it's not a bad thing.
Speaker 2: It's just how I feel like because you know, many
Speaker 2: believes in white which right, No, that's yeah, they're they're
Speaker 2: that's somewhat fair.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like Regina's specter now no, but yeah, yeah, that
Speaker 3: bitch is a witch for sure.
Speaker 4: You don't dressed like that.
Speaker 2: If you don't have magic in your life, Yeah, you
Speaker 2: have nothing but turbans.
Speaker 1: Yeah you're away, come on, come on.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 3: So, for those that are unfamiliar with this conspiracy theory,
Speaker 3: part of what the the conspiracy is is that by
Speaker 3: receiving spaghetti from a woman who you do not know,
Speaker 3: she may put her menstrual blood inside.
Speaker 4: Of the dish.
Speaker 2: It's gotta be spaghetti, yeah, I guess, yeah, you're gonna notice. Yeah, like,
Speaker 2: why is this feduccini this color?
Speaker 3: Did you make this with vodka sauce? I don't understand,
Speaker 3: but yeah, So in theory, she is putting her menstrual
Speaker 3: blood into the spaghetti and the hecks. The supposed hecks
Speaker 3: is one that has the potential to make you fall
Speaker 3: in love with her, that you will somehow magically fall
Speaker 3: in love with this person from her her pussy spaghetti.
Speaker 4: Oh, ain't you saying it like that?
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to be technical here, dog.
Speaker 2: I feel The first thing I feel about this is
Speaker 2: if you're going to the lengths to cook for me
Speaker 2: and put menstrual blood in.
Speaker 1: It, Yeah, maybe I should fall over it.
Speaker 4: Why you're very caring.
Speaker 1: Honestly, the mistral blood would make it taste good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's one of those eleven herbs and spices. Papa's
Speaker 3: is always bragging about.
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Speaker 4: You know what.
Speaker 2: The craziest thing to me about this conspiracy theory is like,
Speaker 2: when did black people start making spaghetti?
Speaker 3: M Right, Like, well, there there is and I think
Speaker 3: this is fair to say there is a massive difference
Speaker 3: between black people's and white people's spaghetti.
Speaker 1: We can all agree on that.
Speaker 3: And and for those that are unfamiliar, if you're not
Speaker 3: sure what the difference is, it's truly a difference in
Speaker 3: number of pots. I think that's the core difference is
Speaker 3: Black people absolutely refuse to use more than one pot
Speaker 3: when they make spaghetti, and white people are like eight pots.
Speaker 1: Spaghetti can't be made without.
Speaker 4: All those pots.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so that's my first question is like it
Speaker 2: makes me feel like then this has to be like
Speaker 2: a fairly recent conspiracy, right.
Speaker 3: Well, actually, I remember doing a little bit of research
Speaker 3: on this, and it's not as recent as you would think.
Speaker 4: I think that.
Speaker 3: There is a pretty vast history of menstrual blood and
Speaker 3: or like parts of our bodies being used for for hexes,
Speaker 3: for magic, love potions, whatever it may be. And so
Speaker 3: be it hair, be it, menstrual blood, be it. I
Speaker 3: think toenails and fingernails were a part of the possible options.
Speaker 4: But all I would not fall in love with that.
Speaker 4: That seems less.
Speaker 1: Just a little foot crunch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't seem like it comes from the same place.
Speaker 3: Well, that is the Other part of it is that
Speaker 3: not all of it is intended for a love potion.
Speaker 3: Some of it is like hate potions and like curses
Speaker 3: and shit.
Speaker 4: I mean, I wouldn't eat food from somebody I hate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but maybe they hate you and you don't know it.
Speaker 4: My biggest fear.
Speaker 3: By round of applause, who who here believes in this conspiracy?
Speaker 1: Who actively refuses.
Speaker 4: You?
Speaker 3: You're you absolutely refuse to eat the spaghetti of a stranger?
Speaker 4: Fuck?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And has it always been this way? Who gave you
Speaker 3: that that line of thinking? Your grandma told you that,
Speaker 3: and you are like, you're right, Grandma.
Speaker 2: That's literally the premise of this podcast. You can't shave
Speaker 2: him for that.
Speaker 3: Even mind the premise is loose and it's stupid, So yes,
Speaker 3: I can tooch. Yeah, so your grandma tells you this,
Speaker 3: you're like, absolutely, and you've never questioned it since.
Speaker 1: And and have you fallen in love ever? Okay?
Speaker 4: And but he chose it, and.
Speaker 3: But maybe you didn't and you don't know, maybe there
Speaker 3: was a Okay, you're right, you're right, fair enough, I'm
Speaker 3: putting the pressure in your head there, you know, like, bitch,
Speaker 3: did you curse me?
Speaker 1: What's in this chili?
Speaker 2: Here's my real question about it. Have you ever turned
Speaker 2: down spaghetti for that reason? Like been at somebody's house
Speaker 2: and they're like, oh, do you want some spaghetti?
Speaker 4: And you're like, no way, bitch, try to trap me.
Speaker 2: Whoa that they were trying to heck all you and
Speaker 2: all your high school creds, damn the whole basketball team.
Speaker 3: I love that this is coming from a nigga dress
Speaker 3: like Ericabadu.
Speaker 1: He got a shark tooth on his neck.
Speaker 3: Of course, he ain't eating nobody else's spaghetti.
Speaker 1: If ever, there was somebody in here who was like
Speaker 1: it was gonna be him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that is true.
Speaker 3: Damn So no spaghetti ever from a stranger. When and
Speaker 3: this is I guess the biggest question. When you do
Speaker 3: fall in love, when you've made your chosen partnership, are
Speaker 3: you then will you take.
Speaker 4: A lot of pressure on whoever? He said?
Speaker 1: Well? Is this your person? Is this your your partner?
Speaker 4: Fuck? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 4: Do you eat?
Speaker 3: And I don't mean to point you out, but are
Speaker 3: you now eating spaghetti that she makes? Or are you
Speaker 3: still like we ain't here yet. We gotta let's keep
Speaker 3: getting to know each other before spaghetti becomes due.
Speaker 4: No spaghetti for the first six months.
Speaker 3: I'll fuck you, but I ain't gonna eat your spaghetti.
Speaker 3: I eat you, but but not just spaghetti. You're being crazy.
Speaker 2: I mean, if we're talking about this, ultimately I fall
Speaker 2: under the cat.
Speaker 4: I love this.
Speaker 2: I think this is a great conspiracy you and once
Speaker 2: again I I don't know, man, weirder shit has happened
Speaker 2: than someone casting a spell.
Speaker 3: Right, So, if I'm hearing you correctly, you're saying that that,
Speaker 3: despite the possible risk, you're still down to clown on
Speaker 3: some spaghetti.
Speaker 4: That's not you know, That's not what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I'm saying that I believe that this could be a possibility.
Speaker 2: I still don't eat spaghetti outside of the home, so
Speaker 2: it'd be you're gonna have to come to my house
Speaker 2: and make spaginning.
Speaker 4: I got you if I'm gonna get caught.
Speaker 3: It is worth It is worth noting, uh that David
Speaker 3: is currently on a tour called bring David a Plate.
Speaker 4: That's true, where he.
Speaker 3: Is literally asking audience members to show up with a
Speaker 3: plate that they've made at home.
Speaker 2: It sounds so disrespectful what you said. It's a cool idea,
Speaker 2: it's a right idea. The other day and the food
Speaker 2: it's fair.
Speaker 4: And now we're love with that man from Houston.
Speaker 3: The other day, a very nice man in Houston gave
Speaker 3: us a pound cake that that and we we both
Speaker 3: ate ours privately at midnight and then and then next
Speaker 3: about did each other like bro, I feel different.
Speaker 2: The first sex that got from LExEN like just as
Speaker 2: I had finished it was like twelve or four.
Speaker 4: It's just all caps. That cake.
Speaker 1: It changed me.
Speaker 2: It was amazing, it was. But you could have got us. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and now I'm not gonna eat any spaghetti.
Speaker 4: On this tour.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna eat any spaghetti.
Speaker 4: Any spaghetti people.
Speaker 1: But you you are, you do.
Speaker 3: At least appreciate that this is a real thing that
Speaker 3: could happen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like this one. I like this. How do
Speaker 4: you feel about it?
Speaker 3: I think I'll eat whatever. Man, Really, I don't think.
Speaker 3: I think at this point, let life happen.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I like that because that's what I'm saying about this
Speaker 4: whole thing is like, is there worse things? If? If
Speaker 4: it works, it works it.
Speaker 1: Listen, If spaghetti's what tears my marriage apart, so be it.
Speaker 4: That's what you say, That's how I lost my first one.
Speaker 1: No, I do I think I feel similar to you.
Speaker 1: I like that this exists.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't understand the uh, the realities right like.
Speaker 2: Because it's like, who if it's not spaghetti, you eat
Speaker 2: a lot of things and you fall in love with people,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. If it wasn't spaghetti, it
Speaker 2: was her macaroni and cheese that did it.
Speaker 4: Like, there's many things that could do that. Fuck. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't think the mentrual blood part is that great.
Speaker 1: But no, it's it's pretty icky.
Speaker 3: But it sounds like, uh that there's a lot of
Speaker 3: bodily fluids and substances that could have an effect on you,
Speaker 3: so like you can't.
Speaker 1: You can't spend your life in fear.
Speaker 3: So go ahead and eat that spaghetti forget free yourself,
Speaker 3: mister Badu, free yourself.
Speaker 1: Did we do it?
Speaker 4: I think we did it. I think that was prettyo.
Speaker 3: We like to just kick it off with the little
Speaker 3: samplers so that everybody feels nice and comfy.
Speaker 1: I think you get the premise of what this.
Speaker 4: You know how far we're gonna go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you don't, but you think you do. And
Speaker 1: that's nice.
Speaker 4: That's true. It's gonna get back. Doesn't grow chips in
Speaker 4: your names.
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Speaker 4: Y'all can't tell me