WEBVTT - Mind Tap Water (with Aisha Dee) 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:05.080 I know you revisit those old episodes of The Next 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:07.240 Top Model, and you know, we thought it all changed 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:09.959 in two thousand and sixteen, but it's always been a hellscape. 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:14.360 That classic moment where she loses her mind on the girl, 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:17.079 she says, we were rooting for you, We were all 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:20.600 rooting for you. You You watch her explode on this girl 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:24.119 who truly is just here to pursue her dreams. And 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:26.640 then after the girl leaves, walks up to the rest 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:30.040 of the group and goes, were y'all scared back there? 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:33.159 I was scared too. It's like, fuck you, Tyre, you 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.080 did it. You were the scary person. I really identify 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:39.360 with the girl in that scenario. So she was just 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:41.680 there being like, it's all right, I don't have any emotions, 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.879 and like that's how I live my life. Yeah, you know, 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:49.280 you're nailing it. If not feeling stuff is the way 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:57.520 to go for you. You're you're cruising. You're doing great. 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:19.640 From chips in your racists money stuff can't tell me yep, yep, yep, 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.880 there it is. There it is. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:27.520 to another phenomenal episode of My Mama Told Me, the 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:31.200 podcast where we dive deep, deep into the pockets of 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:35.199 black conspiracy theories, and we finally work to prove that yes, 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:39.800 Jada Pinkett Smith maybe having a sexual affair with Ghost Tucac, 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.040 but Will Smith is having sex with that bug alien 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:46.080 who wanted sugar from men in Black. They're both cheating 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:50.000 on each other in a futuristic heroic fashion, and I 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:53.920 love it. I support it. Who needs a monogamous relationship anymore? 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.440 Go have sex with strange spiritual creatures, is what I 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.200 say to myself at night as I lay that to 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:03.080 my wife, resentful that she wants me to stay with 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:07.160 her forever. How dare she I wanna fuck a ghost anyway? 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.040 I'm your host, Lankst and kartaman as always coming in. 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:13.720 I'm misbehaving, y'all. I am supposed to act like this, 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:17.359 but this is the behavior I jokes for myself. I'm 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:20.200 a father now, I'm not supposed to talk this way 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.360 or do these things. But baby, don't speak English, and 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:26.080 until then, I'm gonna keep acting the way I act. 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.400 You know who doesn't misbehave you know who? Really? She 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:35.320 just shows up with just polite, respectful behavior. Every time 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.639 we've ever interacted with each other. It's my guest today. 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:43.240 She's phenomenal. She's an picturess, a singer, a performer of 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:45.920 all types. You know her from The Bold Type, you 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:49.320 know her from a new Audible production called Haunt the 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.799 Johnson's that she and I had the pleasure of working 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:55.079 with each other on. She's so cool, so funny, so talented. 0:02:55.160 --> 0:03:02.359 Give it up from my guest, Miss Asia d What out? 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:07.840 How are you your dad? Yeah? As of five days ago, 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:10.680 there's a new human in our home. WHOA Is that 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:18.840 really scary? Yeah? You're gonna let me take this home? Yeah, Honestly, 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.639 that was the craziest part is that, like at one 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.320 point we just kind of looked over at each other 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.320 and we were like, so no one else is in charge, 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.919 Like like nobody else is going to intervene and be like, hey, 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.480 y'all can't do that. Cut that out. Like we could 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.040 do whatever we want to this human. And that's crazy. 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:39.080 It's pretty wild. I don't trust you, but you know, 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:45.520 I'm just kidding. You're gonna be a great congratulation. Thanks. Yeah, 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.640 I'm very excited. She's she's a cool, cool little baby. 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:52.760 So far, we're enjoying her company quite a bit. We 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:54.920 don't have time to talk about my stupid ass baby, 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:59.000 because we need to get into your conspiracy theory. You 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:03.440 came with a spiracy theory that I would say is 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:07.520 not one that I would classically associate with the black 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:11.840 community of America. It is not necessarily a traditionally African 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:15.040 American if we're gonna put that heavy ass word on it, 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.480 conspiracy theory, but it is one that I think has 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.000 undertones of a lot of the ship that black people 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:23.600 complain about all the time. And I'm excited to hear 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:29.080 your experience as a person not from America, at least originally. 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:31.720 So let's unpack. I want to make sure I get 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:36.240 this right. You said, my mama told me the government 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.560 puts flow ride and out water as a tool for 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:49.000 mind control. That's right, tell me more. I think this 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:52.560 is something. You know, my mom is white from Australia. 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:56.440 She's a cute little Australian white lady. And then my 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.480 my dad is from New York. He's black, And this 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:03.400 is like one thing that I think everyone can agree on, Like, 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.240 as far as you know, every one of my families 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:11.719 since then, nobody trusts the government. And when I was 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:16.560 like I think I was probably like my mom went crazy. 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:18.560 I mean, she's always been a little bit crazy, a 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.880 little bit cookie, but she decided to buy this really 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:25.680 expensive like we had to save up for as a family, 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.440 This water filter that was supposed to take out all 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:32.240 the fluoride had some fancy name that I don't even 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:36.480 remember now. And you know, I don't. I don't believe 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.120 any of the things that my mom says, but that 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.599 one thing I had taken with me, Like, I don't 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:46.440 drink any type water. I drink the expensive stuff. I'moing, whoa, Okay, 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:51.000 So so you you generally avoid what your mom says, 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:55.320 at least in terms of her conspiratorial suggestions. Let's go 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.960 that way. But with the fluoride, You're like, no, I'm 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:02.880 body that feels thread water. It tastes it tastes safe, 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:07.359 it tastes like protection from the government's trickery. It tastes fancy, 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:12.680 I think is the and I'm like very brand loyal 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.560 when it comes to like my water and my moisturish 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:21.960 when we caught dead like ashy or hydrate? Okay, and 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:25.599 what what is may I ask? What is the best 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.760 way to hydrate? If we gotta go fancy water for you? 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:33.440 Where where you? Where's your your go to bottled product? Look, 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.680 they're not paying me for this, but I'll do it. 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:41.440 Mountain Valley. They come in the big grain bottle, the 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.520 glass joints. Yeah, something about drinking out of glass. It 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:47.520 just makes you feel like and glass is better to recycle. 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:53.240 I've heard. I don't even know that recycling is real anymore, 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:56.000 if we're being honest, I feel like a lot of 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:59.479 it's just getting dumped in the exact same landfills and 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:01.520 we're being hold. You did a good job, big man. 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.320 Thanks for thanks for helping. I'll take it. I'll take 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:09.440 any validation I can get, yea for sure. Okay, So 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.120 so you're a Mountain Valley girl. I I myself. I 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.000 think if I had to pick off the top of 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.200 my head, Fiji might be the thing that pops in 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.679 my head. But Fiji is not good for the planet. 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:21.760 That feels like it's doing a lot of corrupt things, 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.720 both in terms of the plastic and I don't know 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.520 what y'all doing to the Fijian people to to be 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:29.400 able to get this ship. You know what I mean. Listen, 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:31.720 I'm gonna validate you here I know more than I 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:35.120 thought about water. I'm realizing Fiji is Tyra Banks is water. 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:43.440 Whoa right? Wait? Really, holy Ship? So I mean, I 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:45.120 don't know what you would call that in terms of 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.840 like degrees of separation, but like it feels like you 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.520 and Tira would be friends. Oh, I don't want that 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:55.600 at all. Tira Banks seems super toxic and not a 0:07:55.640 --> 0:08:00.880 good person to spend time with after a while, Okay, 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:05.760 so so your mom introduces this filtered water to your 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:10.640 life at the time, are you resentful of being asked 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:14.840 to specifically only drink water from this filtered space or 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.680 you like, hell, yeah, Mom's on the right track. Immediately, 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.960 I did make fun of her because she was convinced 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.800 that she would be able to taste the difference. So 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:28.080 I gave her like a bunch of different glasses of water, 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.520 all right, so which one? You know? Which one is 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:38.559 the reverse osmosis was what it was called, very fancy. Yeah, 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.880 and she did get it right, oh, Ship, Like she 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.520 could actually taste the difference. Yeah, I don't know. I 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.760 don't know. I was convinced after that, and then you know, 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:51.920 I started to like notice the difference with my health. 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:53.800 I was like, Oh, this has been my problem the 0:08:53.800 --> 0:09:00.920 whole time. Fixed because I'm I'm drinking, because I've taken 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:04.120 all that fluoride out. Now I can really stretch the 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.600 way that I wanted to before I was barely touching 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:11.360 my toes. She's doing the splits. Now, what do you 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:16.240 think or what is your mother's claimed that the government 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:20.760 wanted to do with all of this added fluoride? What 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.720 what is besides like, obviously my control is sort of 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:27.920 a general suggestion, but what specifically do you think they're 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:31.200 they're aim was with all of this? Well, from what 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.960 my mom said, and I'm phoning my mom more than 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:40.280 I would like to, but she really felt that the 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:45.160 fluoride was there to basically numb us mm hmm. You know, 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:47.280 my mom's an offer saying, and she's like an artist, 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:50.040 so she's very emotional, and she was like, the fluoride 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.760 isn't the water to basically numb us into the stasis 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:58.000 so that we don't question things? WHOA, I know it's 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:02.200 quite deep, and then I you know, I'll believe that. 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:06.119 It doesn't take much to convince me of that. Really, Okay, 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:08.760 So you immediately were like, fun, Yeah, I don't want 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:13.559 to be numb. I'll take the unfloridated. Fluoridated floridate. I 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:17.520 don't think it's correct Florinica, Yeah, Florida. I know there's 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.800 an end if you if you say a certain version 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.400 of the word, and then not if you say the 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:26.439 other virgin. So let's just say both and then that'll 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:31.280 be a safety check, that's right. Yeah. I mean, I like, 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.880 I like emotions, and I like to feel things and 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:38.880 question things, and you know, yeah, I just believed it, 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:42.040 and I still believe it because you know, you hear 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:47.200 things like around the way, okay, what like at the 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:51.280 local bodega, they're like, hey, don't get that because florided, 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:53.640 Like what do you mean around the way? You know, 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:58.040 like nobody nobody likes l A. Like people live here 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:03.040 and I'm here now, but I feel like the city 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.840 maybe the toxicity is really just because the water is 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:09.560 so bad, you know, in New York is like a 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:14.000 little bit better because city because the water is better. 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:18.040 Like I feel like there's something to this. Yeah, So 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.920 you're saying that we all, despite the fact that we 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:24.439 are all sort of resentful of our l A, experience 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.920 that like we're constantly isolated and being put down by 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.880 executives who should not have power at all, but somehow 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:35.080 have the most power. Any of us can calculate that 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:39.120 despite those bad feelings, it is the fluoride in the 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.160 water that makes us okay with those bad feelings and 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:46.600 want to stay in this this dry, sad place. Yeah, 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:51.960 it's like you get stuck here, you know WHOA nay, 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:55.679 am I going too deep? Not too deep? No, it 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.200 don't go too deep around here, but you are going 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:03.800 deep and I'm enjoying. I'm enjoying spelunking with you into this, uh, 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:09.000 this wild cave of a conversation. So you still maintain 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:12.480 that there might be some level of mind control being 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:16.480 introduced through water with fluoride in it. Let me ask 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.679 you this question because your mother, you said, is a 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:23.560 person who challenges, she questions. She's an artist. She wants 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:28.959 to feel things. Was she being raised drinking fluorinated water? 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.800 What did she have water with fluoride before this? Or 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:36.880 was she drinking not that? And then suddenly it got 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:40.880 introduced at a certain point in her life? Well, you know, no, 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.240 this this all happened very fast, and I remember it 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.360 quite vividly, you know, Yeah, before that, I don't even 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.120 think we had a britta in the home. We were 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:53.440 just whatever came out of the tab. And you know, 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.280 my family is not They're not fancy. It's just just 0:12:56.360 --> 0:13:01.000 this one detail. M hm. My mom's epically has has 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:06.080 really interested taken all the way to you know, which 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:10.640 I think maybe makes it more believable in that way 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:14.040 that like if you have a family where everything is expensive, 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:17.760 everything is fancy, everything has like these specific you know, 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.920 little tools on it that ensures the best quality of 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.560 whatever the fuck, then you go, Okay, some of this 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.560 is exaggerated. You don't actually need these things. This is 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:29.760 just you being pretentious. But if you just eat regular 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:33.520 food and and sleep on regular beds, but then you're like, yo, 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:38.800 don't fucking touch water that isn't filtered through this machine, 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:42.120 then you go, okay, you're really passionate about this in 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.439 a way that you're not in other parts of your life, 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:47.679 which makes me think you might be onto something. Yeah. No, no, 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:52.120 they're they're not like nobody's doing the organic thing, nobody's 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.520 doing the vegan thing. They're like on the West side 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:59.360 of Melbourne, like you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, I have 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.880 no frame or reference or what west side of Melbourne means, 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:06.439 but it sounds awful. It sounds like the fucking streets. 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:08.920 It's the west side, you know, like people on the 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.680 east side of Melbourne called the west side of Melbourne, 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:17.600 like the Pooh phone Oh ship. That's real. What's up that? 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.200 So I've only been to Melbourne once and I had 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:23.040 a lovely time, and I don't know which side of 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.120 it I was on, and I feel like it was 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:28.120 like down that was probably near like a downtown. It's 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.280 kind of vibe. If that's the thing that y'all have. Yeah, 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:34.840 I don't know, Yeah, it's it's Melbourne's an amazing city. 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:36.760 I didn't grow up there for most of my fildhood, 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.240 but that's where a lot of my family are now. Yeah, 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:43.240 Melvin's fucking amazing. But you know, the west side is 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:46.760 known as the poof Wait. I have to defend the 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:49.880 west side of moment, the west side of moment. I 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.560 don't want all my West Side peace to come for me. 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:56.000 I'm just saying, I'm saying what has been said. I'm 0:14:56.000 --> 0:15:00.280 not saying my opinion of this is not you uh, 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:04.120 you substantiating the things that they're saying. You're merely documenting 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:11.800 what has been said Amelia documentarian. Oh sure, and what 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:15.040 a place to start your work as a documentary And 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:20.360 here on this uh very unhealthy podcast, super toxic thing 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.720 that we've built. It is about time to get a 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.200 real job. You know, I've been playing make Believe my 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:31.000 entire life. Yeah, this feels like Melissa McCarthy doing that 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:34.320 Bob Ross documentary. You know. It's just we all got 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.600 to commit to the real ship at some point. It's 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:41.000 exactly like that. Yeah, okay, so your mom believes this. 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:45.360 You you pull this into your own life. Are you 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:48.760 then becoming the type of person who wants to spread 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:52.400 this information to others? Are you? Like, if y'all want 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:56.080 to be mind controlled, go crazy? I just personally don't 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.240 plan to do that. I am like a walking advertisement 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:04.400 for Mountain Back like water book. Oh ship. You guys 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:06.880 can't see this at home, but you pulled out the 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.360 biggest bottle the human being can't hold in their hands 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:14.960 legally of Mountain Valley that's sparkling either the red kind, 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.520 that plain old red kind. And when you walk into 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:20.680 a room with a bottle of water that's the size 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:25.000 of like your a newborn child. Sure you can't help, 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.520 but talk about it, like I'll talk about water and 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:32.560 my favorite moisturizer all day and I'll do it. So 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.200 I would say, I'm I'm open to other people's choices, 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:41.320 but okay, you haven't reached anti vax or protester kind 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.920 of energy around water, but you are more than happy 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:48.600 to preach the good word whenever possible. I'm quite tired 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:51.920 most of the time, so just like leaving the house 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:56.440 and like in going out into the world is enough 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:58.960 for me. So no, I'm not I'm not super super 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.520 passionate about it. I'm pretty chick. You know. Some people 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:03.760 might say you you'd feel less tired if there were 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:05.920 fluoride in your water. If you had a big old 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:09.159 dose of fluoride, you'd have a burst of energy. Maybe, 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:12.080 I don't know. I would love to be proven wrong. 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.160 It would I spend a lot of money on water, 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:17.320 I'm realizing. But you know, I feel like I'm right, 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.560 all right, fair enough. I feel like I'm right. Is 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:25.920 not really a good argument for uh, for anybody, frankly, 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.280 but I do think it's an exciting one for this 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:30.800 podcast of just being like, no, I feel like I'm right. 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:36.760 We're good, good vibes around yeah, you know, Okay, do 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:41.680 you or have you done any personal sort of like 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:49.080 research examination of this conspiracy theory, like besides your mother's suggestions, 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:52.159 have you personally ever like gone and done any of 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.640 like the hard work to find out if there's legitimacy 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:59.600 to her claims. I like to have conversations with like 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:02.920 straight just about it. Yeah, but I don't really want 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:07.960 to google it just in case I'm wrong. I like, 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:11.479 you know, I like living in this bubble of like 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:18.399 correct you know. I think it's interesting you say that, 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:20.960 because I don't think I've ever thought about that thought 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:23.440 about it that way. But I do think that is 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:27.560 in part why a lot of people turn to conspiracy 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:30.840 theory and don't want to let them go. Is that, 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.399 Like I think a part of us is like, no, 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:37.320 I built a beautiful bubble here, like I have all 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:41.080 the things I need in this pocket of information, and 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:44.520 to burst that bubble means that my things go away, 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:46.239 and I don't want my things to go away, so 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:48.920 I'll stay here. Yeah. It kind of starts to become 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:53.000 part of your identity at some point too. Yeah, like 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:56.640 your it's your belief system, you know, and and all 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:59.560 you have to do is just not google it. Sure, 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:06.840 if anyone wants any tips for staying in denial, you 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:11.920 can reach out to me. I cannot tell you how 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:14.199 much I love the phrase. I want to put this on. 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:16.120 If we had a website, I'd put it up there. 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:19.080 All you have to do is not google it, and 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:24.720 you can believe, I think in anything that's that's amazing. 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:27.720 So okay, before we go to break, you have not 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:32.000 googled it. You are not necessarily interested in in bursting 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:34.399 your bubble and finding out what's on the other side 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:36.960 of this bad boy, but you do love talking to 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:40.680 strangers about it. Has there ever been a conversation you've 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:44.560 had with someone where you were like, phenomenal work, sir 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:48.760 and or madam. You are truly adding to the joy 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:54.280 and energy that I feel around fluoride in water conversations. Well, 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:56.720 you know, I feel like that there's like a similar 0:19:56.760 --> 0:19:58.840 thing that happens. Like, you know, where I grew up 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:02.680 in Australia, there was like maybe five other black people 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:05.119 in the entire town, and so we would like I 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:07.119 would walk past people and you're like, not at them, 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:08.840 You're like, what's up, Oh my god, look at you? 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:14.159 Why are you in Australia. And and I feel like 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:16.639 with the water thing, like if I see another person 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:20.280 like holding a bottle of Mountain Valley, it's that same, 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:27.480 like what's up? This is a person in the know. Yeah, yeah, 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:30.560 this is this is I see you, uh, sister, I 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:33.439 see you brother. We we are one and the same 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:37.399 in this at least in this small way. Yeah. Quite spiritual. Really, 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:42.360 I love that Mountain Valley bringing people together, first psychotic reasons, 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:45.040 but bringing them together all the same. How hope they 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:47.800 do endorse us now. I hope the Mountain Valley wants 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:52.440 a small taste of my mama told me. I hope 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:56.960 they're regretted immediately after, but they should like it anyway. Well, 0:20:57.000 --> 0:20:58.720 we're gonna take a break. We'll be back with more. 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:13.240 Ashia be and more, Mama told me. And we are back. 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:22.760 How are you? I am under the water, Please help me. Yeah, 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:25.600 we're back here more. He should be more, my mama 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:29.600 told me. We're still talking about the potential poisons, the 0:21:29.920 --> 0:21:34.600 mind controlled taxins being infused in our water, in our 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:37.840 tap water, in our everyday water. When you go to 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:41.560 restaurants and they ask for if you want water, do 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:44.680 you always specifically before they even get to like tap 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:47.919 or sparkling or whatever. You always just jump ahead of 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:52.280 that sometimes listen, Uh, I can't be good a hundred 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:54.400 percent of the time. I will say, there are times. 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:57.479 There are times when I've just had like, you know, 0:21:57.680 --> 0:22:00.160 like a dinner. You don't want to be like that guy, 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:03.600 so you've got to read the room really yeah, and 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:06.840 I'm I'm I'm big on peer pressure. So if I'm 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:09.440 with someone that's like no, we'll just do tapping, like yeah, 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:11.840 of course, that's totally fine. And then I like cry 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:16.320 the whole way home. You're like, if everybody's having some 0:22:16.400 --> 0:22:19.440 mind control, I have a little mind control. We'll split 0:22:19.480 --> 0:22:24.520 some mind control at the table. It's nice like that. Yeah, wow, Okay, 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:28.159 let's let's dig into some of this research because I think, 0:22:28.720 --> 0:22:30.920 I think, based on the fact that you are so 0:22:31.000 --> 0:22:34.720 committed to this conspiracy theory, a great deal of this 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:38.840 is actually going to make you feel more confident about 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:43.520 your decision to avoid fluoride. I think I'm not a 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:47.840 percent sure, And keep in mind, I am an idiot. 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:51.879 I do this research on Google, and I mostly do 0:22:51.960 --> 0:22:54.560 it for the sake of jokes, not because I'm an 0:22:54.600 --> 0:22:58.560 actual scientist. I don't know of me waving this stick 0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:02.840 around makes me look more legitimate. But it is the 0:23:02.960 --> 0:23:07.240 stick of a of an edible arrangement that was given 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:09.880 to us. And it's just the where the pineapple used 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:11.680 to be. And the stick is now in my hand. 0:23:11.800 --> 0:23:14.080 I don't you know, I'm just offering you information. It's 0:23:14.119 --> 0:23:20.920 doing great things to you. I think you should keep it. Okay. 0:23:21.000 --> 0:23:25.199 So the government claims that floride was originally added to 0:23:25.280 --> 0:23:28.720 our water as an aid in helping to reduce cavities 0:23:28.800 --> 0:23:32.359 and tooth decay by as much as twenty in both 0:23:32.440 --> 0:23:36.320 children and adults. That was the original motive for adding 0:23:36.359 --> 0:23:38.680 fluoride to the water was to make sure that your 0:23:38.720 --> 0:23:42.760 teeth do not decay. So and this originally happened around 0:23:42.800 --> 0:23:47.240 the mid forties. I think nineteen was the first introduction 0:23:47.760 --> 0:23:52.479 of fluoride to at least American water. Right in the US. 0:23:52.760 --> 0:23:56.000 It was so widely sort of like supported by the 0:23:56.080 --> 0:24:00.560 CDC that it has now been documented as one of 0:24:00.600 --> 0:24:05.639 the ten greatest public health achievements of the twentieth century. 0:24:05.720 --> 0:24:10.160 That like, it's between this and seat belts and cars 0:24:10.200 --> 0:24:16.080 that they're like, yo, this ship is groundbreaking changes that 0:24:16.160 --> 0:24:19.280 we we made for our population in making the world 0:24:19.280 --> 0:24:22.280 a better place. So that part not as supportive of 0:24:22.320 --> 0:24:25.119 your argument, but it feels so self congratulatory, and I 0:24:25.119 --> 0:24:30.120 don't trust it. I like that. Hey wait a minute. 0:24:30.400 --> 0:24:32.359 That's how they get you, right, is that this is 0:24:32.440 --> 0:24:37.119 all the government celebrating the government for some ship that 0:24:37.200 --> 0:24:42.200 the government did, and that feels weird. Okay. So here's 0:24:42.200 --> 0:24:46.040 where stuff starts to get even more interesting is that 0:24:46.160 --> 0:24:50.719 despite all of that self congratulation, there are recent studies 0:24:51.040 --> 0:24:54.960 that have shown that the early conclusions about floride, most 0:24:55.000 --> 0:24:59.520 of which were finished by ninety five, were deeply flawed, 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:03.960 that they aren't as a full proof as the government 0:25:04.000 --> 0:25:12.639 would like us to believe. I love that. I love that. 0:25:12.680 --> 0:25:15.919 You're just weighted with bated breath just for for me 0:25:15.960 --> 0:25:18.439 to be like you were right Asia. This was a 0:25:18.480 --> 0:25:23.320 massive mistake. Now, the original studies, apparently, while they were 0:25:23.400 --> 0:25:28.320