Speaker 1: I guess Jesus is always cool. It's just all the
Speaker 1: stuff around him is less cool. Yeah, but Jesus was
Speaker 1: a cool person, like now that he was like I
Speaker 1: really understand the Bible was like Jesus hung out with
Speaker 1: the wicked, you know what I mean. He hung out
Speaker 1: with like some wicked motherfucker's. He hung out with party people.
Speaker 1: It was like, of course he was cool. He had
Speaker 1: access to the Butcher's ship. Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: He was around people that did drugs and fucking did
Speaker 1: all that ship. And it's like, yeah, he was cool, lass, dude, Right,
Speaker 1: he knew Paul before he was Paul, back when he
Speaker 1: was just so he was out here this wild I remember,
Speaker 1: you remember is Detroit red face you know what I mean? Racist?
Speaker 1: The Morney turning stuff, I can't tell me. Yep, yep, yep,
Speaker 1: there it is there it is. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome
Speaker 1: to another phenomenal episode of My Mama Told Me, the
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Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook will be the first man to dunk on
Speaker 1: a nigga in a skirt it's happening. This man is
Speaker 1: setting a precedent. He's laying out a future that we
Speaker 1: all should believe in. Don't listen to Boosey Boosy don't
Speaker 1: know a goddamn thing. We want to see Nigga's duncan
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Speaker 1: from this day for we serve at the hem of
Speaker 1: your dress, Russell Westbrook. We're so excited for you. I'm
Speaker 1: your host, Linkston Kerman as always. You know how I
Speaker 1: come in. I don't funk around. I come in the
Speaker 1: way I come in, and I ain't even gotta tell
Speaker 1: you what the funk that is. You know you if
Speaker 1: you listen to this, you know my behavior. Now. Who
Speaker 1: you don't know and who I can't wait for you
Speaker 1: to hear is my guest today. He's so funny, hilarious.
Speaker 1: He's a stand up comedian, he's an actor, he's a writer.
Speaker 1: He does all the ship. You know he's work. He
Speaker 1: was on last Comic Standing, killed it on that ship.
Speaker 1: He was on Master of None. You know him from
Speaker 1: a lot of Dope ship. Give it up for my guest,
Speaker 1: Mr Monroe Markino, What up? What ut dogtro hell? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you didn't say convinced that I was gonna give you
Speaker 1: a good intro when we were discussing it ahead of time.
Speaker 1: That's just show me, I guess if that's what you
Speaker 1: want to say, I don't. I'm very excited you're here.
Speaker 1: You came with a conspiracy theory that I think is
Speaker 1: probably one that that I don't know that I ever
Speaker 1: even associated with black people, if I'm being honest, that
Speaker 1: like it. It felt like a very quote unquote white
Speaker 1: conspiracy theory when we were growing up. But I'm very
Speaker 1: glad that you are the person bringing it to us
Speaker 1: because I I know enough of your history to know
Speaker 1: that this is gonna be a very interesting conversation. So
Speaker 1: what that said? You said, my mama told me why
Speaker 1: two K was real? Yes, And it wasn't even my mama.
Speaker 1: It was because I grew up in foster care. So
Speaker 1: somebody else's mom. This problem is I spread last to me? Yeah? Okay,
Speaker 1: So so a foster care parent. Do y'all call them parents?
Speaker 1: How does that work? Is it? A I call him
Speaker 1: and Mr? Whatever the fun they named like? And some
Speaker 1: of them hate that ship. Some of them are like, no,
Speaker 1: just call me uncle this or just call me that
Speaker 1: or call me mom, and it's like I'm not your family. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you Mr and Mrs Blante Black. Yeah, and they hate
Speaker 1: that ship. I have to assume that to call somebody
Speaker 1: mom and then they return you is that's a that's
Speaker 1: a tough feeling to deal with. It's like, bit, I
Speaker 1: did the thing you told me to do. I call
Speaker 1: you mom. I gave you permanent lady energy, and you
Speaker 1: gave me temporary kids. You know what I mean returns.
Speaker 1: That's not how this works. So a a foster MR
Speaker 1: or missing yes basically told you that hy two K
Speaker 1: was a legit thing. Yeah, my foster family, it was
Speaker 1: um where was I was living. I think I was
Speaker 1: living with the Johnson's at the time, and it was
Speaker 1: super like churching family church every single day, like maybe
Speaker 1: took off on like Tuesdays or something like that, but
Speaker 1: every single day we went to church. And they truly
Speaker 1: believed it, like like it was the end of the world.
Speaker 1: So we had to go to church. We had to pray.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know, but like in church
Speaker 1: you do like the whole write your sins down to
Speaker 1: the not your since but the thing that you really
Speaker 1: want to achieve or you're grateful for you had to
Speaker 1: write that down to a piece of paper and you
Speaker 1: throw it in like a burning trash. Can you stand
Speaker 1: around and pray? That is? That was not standard I
Speaker 1: think in every church. Oh yo, no trash can basketball
Speaker 1: with your prayers. No, I don't think everybody's doing that
Speaker 1: for the Lord Matthew. No, I I didn't do that,
Speaker 1: but I'm so happy to hear that. That's the thing
Speaker 1: that mother's They only talk about white people's craziness with religion,
Speaker 1: but black people take this ship too serious too. And
Speaker 1: as a kid, and I read the Bible like before
Speaker 1: that point. So it's just everything they were saying just
Speaker 1: made sense because I believed in the religion as hard
Speaker 1: as they did. So when they were like, we don't know,
Speaker 1: like like they believed, but somehow it was like internet
Speaker 1: conspiracy that they believed, and it was also something religious
Speaker 1: that they believed. Yeah, that's the part that I guess
Speaker 1: I felt confused about, is you're saying that these are
Speaker 1: are super religious people and why two K At least
Speaker 1: as I understood, it was such a technological, contemporary thing
Speaker 1: that most religious people, I would assume want nothing to
Speaker 1: do with yeah. No. They sucked it at hard and
Speaker 1: and we we unplugged dotty appliances. We didn't have a computer,
Speaker 1: which was like weird, like how you believe that this
Speaker 1: ship called crashed? And you know we didn't have like
Speaker 1: both sponsor homes. I was then had like a computer
Speaker 1: in the living room. They have none of that ship.
Speaker 1: We had to go to the library and using computer.
Speaker 1: But they were like now we had to get prayed up.
Speaker 1: And we was in church like holding hands into the clock, Drick,
Speaker 1: I mean I said the clock dry in said the
Speaker 1: board dropped the ship. It was like, okay, well things
Speaker 1: still here? Okay, sucker, Yeah, that was That's what I
Speaker 1: was gonna ask. Was there any embarrassment on the back
Speaker 1: end of this? Was anybody like hey, y'all my bad.
Speaker 1: I was really bugged bad. It was more of a
Speaker 1: the Lord will provide right, Yeah, that's when it turned
Speaker 1: into it quickly turned into yeah it worked. I think. No,
Speaker 1: you were wrong. Yeah, no, that you don't get to
Speaker 1: do that. You made a bet, you lost the bet.
Speaker 1: You don't get to be like, well, I always knew
Speaker 1: I was gonna lose, But that's winning in my book.
Speaker 1: And it's like come on man. So, so you guys
Speaker 1: go to church the night of you know, December nine,
Speaker 1: you spend the entire evening in church. You're praying. What
Speaker 1: what do you think it is that they are or
Speaker 1: maybe you remember what are you praying for? Is it
Speaker 1: for your salvation? Is it for the world to actually end?
Speaker 1: Because that's the part I guess that confuses me, Like
Speaker 1: do they want it to end or is it I
Speaker 1: wanted to keep going, but if it doesn't, I want
Speaker 1: to be saved in this ship. They didn't. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: want to be saved. They wanted to keep going. But
Speaker 1: if if it did end, if that was the day
Speaker 1: and end it, then you know, then they just wanted
Speaker 1: to seek salvation. So well, we was writing down, we
Speaker 1: was riving, writing down what we was grateful for, and
Speaker 1: also yeah, just kind of like putting that energy out
Speaker 1: that we can continue because you know, the pastors always
Speaker 1: get everybody routed up, especially the youth, because old people
Speaker 1: he don't believe in them, because he believed in them.
Speaker 1: Young vibrant prayers, the young, juicy prayers, you know, the
Speaker 1: prayers that are just weird. The old prayers don't got
Speaker 1: the slides to the prayers. So they kind of really
Speaker 1: lied on like the youth board and all the young
Speaker 1: people to really participate. So we were like all set
Speaker 1: around praying. We went to the back of the church
Speaker 1: where we threw like the ship into the fire. Were
Speaker 1: just all around praying, holding hands and then we ate
Speaker 1: and it's just like an all day thing. But once
Speaker 1: it was like five full three to one, we are
Speaker 1: like out there like singing and sucking, holding hands and ship.
Speaker 1: And I didn't have any embarrassment just because look, I
Speaker 1: didn't have no investment because I was just like, Okay,
Speaker 1: it works, you know what I mean. So you you
Speaker 1: were bought in on them, were serving absolutely because that
Speaker 1: was given to me. I was like it was given
Speaker 1: to me years back, like religion, Like my grandmother used
Speaker 1: to give me the Bible to read when I was
Speaker 1: in like group homes. And if I'm like like Grandma,
Speaker 1: I don't like I'm sad or whatever, ship, but I
Speaker 1: read how you reading your Bible, So like all those
Speaker 1: stories like you're not pastor flip ship. So like the
Speaker 1: world itself was like side of Lingamorra and like all
Speaker 1: that ship. So that's why they were able to like
Speaker 1: kind of believe that this is true, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. That's how tied it to it. It wasn't
Speaker 1: just like oh, electronics. It was just like, yo, this
Speaker 1: has been coming for a long time because of what's
Speaker 1: happening on earth with the drug use and the and
Speaker 1: the and the violence and all of that stuff. So
Speaker 1: it was believable to me because I've been reading the
Speaker 1: Bible up until that point. I'm with this religious as family.
Speaker 1: We go every day. They're really in the church. So
Speaker 1: to me, I was just like, Okay, well this is
Speaker 1: this is this could be the end, but we're gonna
Speaker 1: pray that it ain't. Yeah, you're doing some I think
Speaker 1: important math here for our listeners that probably it may
Speaker 1: be obvious, it may not be obvious, but I think
Speaker 1: the implication is that Y two K And for those
Speaker 1: of you that probably are too young to remember what
Speaker 1: the funk y two K was, but basically, at the
Speaker 1: year at the clock struck two thousand, theoretically a bunch
Speaker 1: of computers couldn't handle changing to two thousand because they
Speaker 1: were only set for a two digit time code, and
Speaker 1: so that zero zero meant that computers would think that
Speaker 1: we had gone all the way back to nineteen hundred
Speaker 1: and they would like shut down. That was the big
Speaker 1: scare of of Y two K. And so what you're
Speaker 1: saying is that that shutdown, which ultimately would have landed
Speaker 1: all of us in like darkness for a while and
Speaker 1: hunger and all kinds of crazy things, is just the
Speaker 1: rapture coming to life. It's the action, like real thing exploding.
Speaker 1: And so for you, a person who's reading the Bible,
Speaker 1: aware of these stories being coached by these adults in
Speaker 1: your life, to believe this ship, all of it's colliding
Speaker 1: in a way that you're like, hell, yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pray in a church all the way through midnight. All
Speaker 1: the way through midnight. We was in that like six
Speaker 1: six and clock. We ate two dinners, which is not
Speaker 1: what God teaches you. God doesn't go like, hey man,
Speaker 1: you gotta eat two dinner. You know, you still only
Speaker 1: need one dinner, only dinner. But we had to. We
Speaker 1: had the church dinner and then they ran and everybody
Speaker 1: got like, I think, like chicken from Popeyes, even chickens
Speaker 1: waiting for the end of the world to happen. We're
Speaker 1: gonna die. We're gonna die. Gluttonous and weird, just filled
Speaker 1: with Popeyes. So you pray all night, you buy into
Speaker 1: what these people are selling. Do you remain a believer
Speaker 1: in what was offered to you as a as a child? Yeah,
Speaker 1: for a while, I still was like like it was
Speaker 1: more of like a shoth. I'm glad it didn't turn
Speaker 1: out that way, but you never know, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So it wasn't like it wasn't like this
Speaker 1: ship is fake. It was like I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: we had faith and maybe it just wasn't that time,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But nobody, like nobody in
Speaker 1: that church walked away like snaked tripping, Like nobody walked
Speaker 1: away through like that. Everybody walked away like yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: we did that blessed, you know what I mean, that's
Speaker 1: the blessed. Let's continue to live our life righteous from
Speaker 1: this moment on. So it's like another it was like
Speaker 1: everybody's going, okay, we got another opportunity to can't you
Speaker 1: tend you living? And you literally made it out of
Speaker 1: a car crash that wasn't a crop crash. We was there,
Speaker 1: We was all walking, ain't We wasn't in a car? Okay?
Speaker 1: So so you walk away, you're feeling positive. I guess
Speaker 1: about the fact that you survived this really scary thing.
Speaker 1: I guess what I'm curious about is how long does
Speaker 1: that carry you? Do you continue to believe that to
Speaker 1: this day? Are you like still like secretly on some
Speaker 1: religious ship or you like no, After about a year
Speaker 1: and a half, I knew they were bullshitting and I
Speaker 1: was ready to move on that you were. I believe
Speaker 1: the religion heavily until at least like maybe like sixteen seventeen,
Speaker 1: and then I started to be like, man, this don't
Speaker 1: make more sense because if you really start to read
Speaker 1: the Bible, it's a scary thing. And the way the
Speaker 1: stories are, it's like it applies to everything anytime, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, like anything, and that's a scary thing.
Speaker 1: So for me, like I was just like, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I can believe in religion this hard. I
Speaker 1: believe that I believe in God. I'll keep one foot
Speaker 1: in the door, but you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: I kept the God part. I lost that book Like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: niggas taking this book too serious. For a while, yes,
Speaker 1: until like sixteen seventeen, I was very religious and very
Speaker 1: like you know, we're on borrow time and we're sucking
Speaker 1: up as people and any day God can just come
Speaker 1: down the end. It's motherfucker. Because there was like mud slides,
Speaker 1: like like I lived in fear because there was always
Speaker 1: something happening, and especially because a lot of my foster
Speaker 1: parents watch world news, not local news, not just they're
Speaker 1: always violence, you know what I mean. There was always
Speaker 1: some killings. There was always like some natural disaster happening
Speaker 1: in another country. So it just felt real. It just
Speaker 1: felt like yo, okay, like this world is coming to
Speaker 1: an end. We just don't know when it's going to
Speaker 1: happen all at the same time. And then once like
Speaker 1: that I said, what sixteen seventeen happened? I was like
Speaker 1: always breaking like that's how it looked that. I was
Speaker 1: like countries always get bit with ship. But yeah, it
Speaker 1: would be as if, uh, there was like some sort
Speaker 1: of ant hill network that ants were finding out how
Speaker 1: many of their hills got kicked over every day. And
Speaker 1: it's like if they knew the number of ant hills
Speaker 1: I lit on fire with magnifying glasses and kicked over,
Speaker 1: they'd be terrified. But if you just think you're if
Speaker 1: you just live in your aunt hill and don't have
Speaker 1: all that other information. The world is not as scary
Speaker 1: of a place. It's it's relatively peaceful most of the time. Absolutely. Absolutely, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a weird game that we play, I think as
Speaker 1: humans where we're wanting to to make bigger connections and
Speaker 1: in those bigger connections just scare the ship out of
Speaker 1: us and then make us turn to things like going
Speaker 1: to church five days a week to ensure our our
Speaker 1: salvation from the horrors that that faced us. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And it was more than like ship shutting like y
Speaker 1: q K was more than like just computer shutting down.
Speaker 1: It was like now and I know, I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: ship I was told a different story. Like our story
Speaker 1: was more like like anything can happen at that point,
Speaker 1: like nuclear missiles and ship can like launch and go
Speaker 1: off and stuff like that. It wasn't just like, oh,
Speaker 1: we ain't gonna be over there email our friends. It
Speaker 1: was like, nah, all the ship we created is going
Speaker 1: to implode on us than you know what I mean. Yeah,
Speaker 1: why two K was this close to like the terminator
Speaker 1: sky net like thing that that we've been warned about
Speaker 1: at least up to this point that you know, at
Speaker 1: some point all this AI we keep inventing is going
Speaker 1: to actually like murder us. But until that day, this
Speaker 1: was Skynet. This was fully our bombs are gonna are
Speaker 1: gonna turn and face us and shoot us in our
Speaker 1: our fucking noses, you know what I mean. So so
Speaker 1: you you believe this, you're bought in on this, and
Speaker 1: then at some point you're not bought in on it.
Speaker 1: Where do you stand now with the I'm curious about
Speaker 1: this just having done some of the research, and I
Speaker 1: won't I won't flag anything that I found yet, but
Speaker 1: I am curious to know where do you stand with
Speaker 1: Y two K in general? Or do you feel like
Speaker 1: that's a ridiculous premise? Are you? Like? Nah? Y two
Speaker 1: K had its legitimacy? Like where where does it live
Speaker 1: in your head? Like it was definitely some you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? It was definitely like yeah, just like
Speaker 1: it just didn't make sense after that, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like looking back at it was just like
Speaker 1: like why would the computers just like everything clock off
Speaker 1: and just not be able to go, oh ship, it's
Speaker 1: two thousands, like it didn't like looking back up now
Speaker 1: and I know how computers working, I'm like, and they
Speaker 1: get updates when you switch coast. They can't remember to
Speaker 1: go two thousand, right, you know what I mean? The
Speaker 1: computer you're saying the computer could have figured this out,
Speaker 1: that this wasn't Yeah, yeah, this wasn't like some complicated
Speaker 1: math problem that like they just couldn't equate. It's like
Speaker 1: now they would have They would have come around eventually
Speaker 1: on this. Yeah, it was like more like like when
Speaker 1: I realized it was just like, oh, ship's gore shut
Speaker 1: down because people, well, I'm like, what people ain't gonna
Speaker 1: be at their death? Like who what? What series of
Speaker 1: computers had to shut out for like bombs and ship
Speaker 1: to go off And there's no set there's no fail safe.
Speaker 1: They didn't program it to not blow up if they
Speaker 1: can't access some ship, right you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So like now knowing more and I'm like and knowing
Speaker 1: and when I say knowing more, like when I was young,
Speaker 1: I didn't know how advanced computers worked. Like there was
Speaker 1: just some ship we was forced to use in school
Speaker 1: for a class. So I didn't know then, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. We just like wrote papers and sucking,
Speaker 1: played mind sweep and ship like that, but I didn't
Speaker 1: know how advanced it really was. And knowing how advance
Speaker 1: it was, I was like like now and I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: that's a bullshit. Like now watching documentaries on like how
Speaker 1: far computers came, and when they got to my aids,
Speaker 1: they were pretty like already like used around the world
Speaker 1: and for businesses and they can pretty much do anything.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh man, I was just sucking stupid
Speaker 1: as ship like I was with some stupid ass people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: trail is not the the the greatest potential of these machines.
Speaker 1: There are other things that they can do. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think you're making a really important point because I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people, on average, most people don't know
Speaker 1: what computers can actually do. And I do think that
Speaker 1: that was sort of like the sweet spot that Y
Speaker 1: two K kind of found us in, where like there
Speaker 1: were still homes in America where people didn't have Internet access,
Speaker 1: didn't have computers, weren't connected in that way, and so
Speaker 1: when a bunch of people start screaming that like the
Speaker 1: Internet and the computers are going to destroy us, it's like, yo,
Speaker 1: I don't even got one of those. I'm scared as fuck.
Speaker 1: Whereas now we know everything about computers, or at least
Speaker 1: everything about computer potential to be like, bitch, I'll kill
Speaker 1: my computer first, Like you know, I feel yea through something.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna beat me up. Are you talking about? Okay,
Speaker 1: my last question before we go to break and I
Speaker 1: and this. I can't imagine that this is true, but
Speaker 1: I'm curious do you still keep in contact with this family?
Speaker 1: Is there is there any communication at this point? No,
Speaker 1: I don't keep it because I had too many families,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like I lived like fifteen
Speaker 1: different like foster families and foster facilities and all that ship.
Speaker 1: So I was with too many to really just like
Speaker 1: keep track. But they were the most religious people I
Speaker 1: haven't lived with. Like everybody else after that point kind
Speaker 1: of believed in it. Like they believed in religion like
Speaker 1: if they needed like a raise that work or something,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like they're like I need
Speaker 1: a blessed real quick. Let me go to church for
Speaker 1: like two weeks. And then to me, like getting to
Speaker 1: see those different relationships with like God and ship like
Speaker 1: that that got me to be like people don't know
Speaker 1: what the funk they talk about or what they're doing.
Speaker 1: They're just reading this book that they don't know where
Speaker 1: they got it from they just like, that's that's such
Speaker 1: an exposing thing. I have to imagine for a young
Speaker 1: person to like, it's one thing to get religion from
Speaker 1: your parents, right or from the adults in your life,
Speaker 1: because you are getting their information the way they see
Speaker 1: it all the way through, start to finish. But if
Speaker 1: you have fifteen different iterations of this thing, at some
Speaker 1: point you just see all the holes. You can pope,
Speaker 1: you know, in all of it. None of it's real.
Speaker 1: It's all just whatever you decided it should be. And
Speaker 1: I guess I'm here for a while, so I'll pray
Speaker 1: along with you. Yeah. Absolutely, that's oh man, that's magnificent.
Speaker 1: What we would all benefit from a little bit of
Speaker 1: foster behavior, you know what I mean? Yeah, just just
Speaker 1: like I think we all should just like you know
Speaker 1: how they do like wife swap, I think you should.
Speaker 1: Everybody should have to live with everybody's family, just to
Speaker 1: realize how ridiculous the ship you'll believe it is, Like this,
Speaker 1: ain't how you supposed to eat spaghetti white. A goddamn minute,
Speaker 1: I'm getting out of here. Oh yeah, my Figer, I
Speaker 1: didn't learn the spoon thing until at least like was
Speaker 1: it like nineteen Yeah, spoon just spaghett it. I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's just too many utensils. It's too many utensils. And frankly,
Speaker 1: if you did it in public, people would be like,
Speaker 1: what the fund is wrong with him? Yeah, they don't
Speaker 1: go al, he's classy. I'm like, NIKEL get it on
Speaker 1: your shirt like a real man, spit it, slurmit and
Speaker 1: then seeing some splashback when you goddamn shirt. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then regret it and ask if they have clubs at
Speaker 1: the bar be a person. All Right, we're gonna take
Speaker 1: a break. We'll be back with more Monroe, Martin more,
Speaker 1: my mama told me. And we are back. How is
Speaker 1: my man supposed to the fun? Yeah, we're back here.
Speaker 1: We're Morma Romar and more. My mama told me. We
Speaker 1: are still talking about that why two K scare and
Speaker 1: the potential rapture that came along with it, the fear
Speaker 1: that that Jesus was gonna return and he was not
Speaker 1: gonna be cool the second time. All right, let's jump
Speaker 1: into some of this research. And I have to say,
Speaker 1: I think this is gonna be a great jumping off
Speaker 1: point for us. Is as it turns out, because I,
Speaker 1: similar to you, walked into this feeling like Y two
Speaker 1: K complete horseshit, none of it. It was just all
Speaker 1: a stupid thing that we made up and got very
Speaker 1: extreme about. But as it turns out, why t K,
Speaker 1: the threat of Y two K was something that the
Speaker 1: government and these various organizations were very very scared about
Speaker 1: that they spent years, literally years, having to prep for it,
Speaker 1: and in alone they spent over a hundred billion dollars
Speaker 1: testing and coordinating and doing system examinations to make sure
Speaker 1: that why two K didn't actually come to pass. Wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: church wasn't that far. All government had their bibles open
Speaker 1: to Yeah. The government was like, please don't let this
Speaker 1: Jesus come back. Man. We got to do everything we can.
Speaker 1: So apparently what they were prepping for was that that
Speaker 1: computers up to that point, while they were as technologically
Speaker 1: advanced as you and I talked about, they also had
Speaker 1: just limited capacity in some of their their reasoning, and
Speaker 1: so in at least in my understanding, it wasn't going
Speaker 1: to turn into the nuclear devastation that we imagined. Right,
Speaker 1: that all these people bought bunkers and like cans of
Speaker 1: beans to live off of We're probably exaggerating, but what
Speaker 1: they were right about is the fact that like a
Speaker 1: bunch of the technologies we had were completely reliant on
Speaker 1: computers that would have shut down or at least glitched.
Speaker 1: And if you are in charge of financial systems, that
Speaker 1: is not fucking cool in America, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: startingly across the world, but especially in America. Yeah, holy shit,
Speaker 1: goddamn that. I'm a little scared. I really felt like dots. Now,
Speaker 1: tress can praying, Tress can fire, prayer works, you posted
Speaker 1: up one more prayer, and and there we are. We're
Speaker 1: all free. Because well, it's it's so I read something
Speaker 1: that was talking about how like, uh, like cash registers
Speaker 1: were a big problem, right because the cash registers were computers,
Speaker 1: and there was a fear that they wouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to open cash registers as soon as midnight hit for
Speaker 1: these various you know, it's equipment like that that then
Speaker 1: fox up their potential of accessing money. And then on
Speaker 1: a grander scale, you have like the stock market and
Speaker 1: a bunch of other computers that are involved in that
Speaker 1: that would have sucked up and they would have been
Speaker 1: able to fix it. Right Like this isn't like an
Speaker 1: end a world ending glitch. But I do think that
Speaker 1: it's the type of glitch that maybe would have launched
Speaker 1: us into a potential recession or something more extreme than that,
Speaker 1: because it's more like a brown out than a full
Speaker 1: blackout of society. Mm hmm. Damn yeah, it's heavy, ship, man, God,
Speaker 1: damn ship. Well. The thing we we got the Internet
Speaker 1: to the point where we can just post as videos. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, the as jacking video has never hurt anybody,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And and thank god, I'm
Speaker 1: sick of them doing medicine. Focus on that as baby girl. Now.
Speaker 1: One of the things I found most interesting in unpacking
Speaker 1: some of this research is that though many of the
Speaker 1: people in charge of these systems felt hesitant, so they did.
Speaker 1: They spent all this money, a hundred billion dollars in
Speaker 1: a single year just to be able to like fix
Speaker 1: all this ship. But even though they made all these
Speaker 1: changes and did all these checks and theoretically solve the problem,
Speaker 1: a bunch of the people in charge were scared to
Speaker 1: come out and say, hey, y'all, everything's cool. We fixed it.
Speaker 1: At the possibility that they did not fix it, and
Speaker 1: they would have been embarrassed on the back end when
Speaker 1: ship came to pass. M hm. So it's like this
Speaker 1: this weird game similar to what you're describing of the
Speaker 1: people in church, where it's like, Yo, I believe, but
Speaker 1: I don't know how far I can commit to my
Speaker 1: beliefs because if I go too far, then I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be embarrassed. I'm gonna be fucked up. Because really, if
Speaker 1: you believe in like the rapture and all that ship,
Speaker 1: kill yourself, you know what I mean, like be be
Speaker 1: forward with the ship and just just end it all
Speaker 1: so that you can be closer to God when when
Speaker 1: the time is right. Yeah, No, that'sh It is funny.
Speaker 1: Everybody's just standing out there like a yeah, they're like
Speaker 1: relieved to be able to keep living. Does the ankle
Speaker 1: kill myself? But I'm gonna yeah, Yeah, you claimed you
Speaker 1: wanted to be with God, you wanted to be in heaven,
Speaker 1: but instead you're like, nah, I like Earth. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep kicking it all. Yeah, nobody wants to Like people
Speaker 1: wanted to be with God, but not now. Nobody wants
Speaker 1: to go home now. No, that's why it's his time
Speaker 1: to call you home, not not your time. To be
Speaker 1: called home. Yeah. So another part that I found particularly interesting,
Speaker 1: especially relating to to what you've been talking about, is
Speaker 1: the weird rise of religious and militia groups that came
Speaker 1: from the Y two case. There were a ton of
Speaker 1: like of militia groups and religious sort of like you,
Speaker 1: I guess you could call them cults, although I think
Speaker 1: that that word is sort of weighted. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of ship is coldish and we just know treated
Speaker 1: like that, you know what I mean. There's plenty of things,
Speaker 1: including regular religion that like truly as a cult. We
Speaker 1: just don't call it that because Christianity is at the
Speaker 1: foundation of American values, you know what I mean? That
Speaker 1: said massive rise in Y two K because exactly what
Speaker 1: you were saying before, of the possibility that we're in
Speaker 1: the middle of signs or or we're seeing these signs
Speaker 1: of the rapture coming and it's a a chance to
Speaker 1: sort of coax believers to the other side, to get
Speaker 1: them more aligned with your your position, your values. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with that, did you find I guess that that this
Speaker 1: religion was being weaponized in your community? Did you see
Speaker 1: more people coming to church than ever before? Was this
Speaker 1: like now we got our consistent crew. It was more
Speaker 1: of a consistent crew because it wasn't a big church.
Speaker 1: This family didn't go to like, uh, make a church.
Speaker 1: I was with families that did go to like super
Speaker 1: churches that were in like sucking, like damn, they're looking
Speaker 1: like stadiums and ship like that. But this one was
Speaker 1: like a little small church and so they didn't have
Speaker 1: a big congregation to begin with, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: They only has so many kids. And most of the churches,
Speaker 1: and most of the church were like old, older black women,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So they believe super hard,
Speaker 1: and we just following their footsteps because we were brought Biden. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they made the mac and cheese, so I'm gonna go out,
Speaker 1: like look, and then they say I can nap the church,
Speaker 1: so I will go. So I didn't see the whole blog. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I like when I see like people like party, not
Speaker 1: even party. They were just going about their lives and
Speaker 1: I'm going to church, you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 1: my next door neighbor at the time, like his mom
Speaker 1: wasn't like, oh, we're going to Like they weren't scared
Speaker 1: at all, and it was kind of like as a
Speaker 1: little kid is kind of like, Damn, I may not
Speaker 1: see this motherfucker again, you know what I mean. It's
Speaker 1: like damn, Okay, Well, and then what you get back
Speaker 1: home do like what? I think? That's right? You were right?
Speaker 1: Do you think this was wrong? Should have been a
Speaker 1: partying with your friends and ship, but instead it does
Speaker 1: feel weird. I and I had a period in my
Speaker 1: life where I was I very dissimilar to you. I
Speaker 1: was the one that that tricked my family, tricked that
Speaker 1: told talked to my family into going to church. Like I.
Speaker 1: I made a point of being like, hey, I want
Speaker 1: us to be church people. We gotta go. And I
Speaker 1: was going like three times a week just because I
Speaker 1: liked it. I was like churches cool. I fun the church.
Speaker 1: And there is that weird feeling of bringing that back
Speaker 1: to your peer group who are never as into it
Speaker 1: as you are, you know what I mean? None of
Speaker 1: I can't imagine any of your friends were like, fuck, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you spent y two k in a church
Speaker 1: video games while pants are getting drunk. Yeah. They lived
Speaker 1: a very very different and probably more peaceful uh transition
Speaker 1: into the new millennium. Absolutely so. The other thing that
Speaker 1: I found pretty interesting in all of this that I
Speaker 1: never thought about, but I do think makes a lot
Speaker 1: of sense, is that we spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: talking about the Christian rise of these religious cults are
Speaker 1: sort of like religious factions, if you will. But it
Speaker 1: wasn't just Christian fundamentalists. For example, there were a bunch
Speaker 1: of far right Jewish groups that believed they needed to
Speaker 1: liberate the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, destroyed the Dome of
Speaker 1: the Rock Mosque, and build the Third Temple that was
Speaker 1: foretold by the prophets before the year two thousands struck
Speaker 1: in order to sort of like help bring their own
Speaker 1: religious ending to pass God. And so a bunch of
Speaker 1: Christian fundamentalists actually supported this theory. And this is my
Speaker 1: favorite thing that happens these groups. Interestingly, basically like the
Speaker 1: Christians supported these right wing Jewish people, but and in
Speaker 1: their takeover of this like this space and Jerusalem, because
Speaker 1: they believed that Jews taking over was they was proof
Speaker 1: of the end of days. So like they wanted the
Speaker 1: Jews us to win because if the Jews win, then
Speaker 1: that means the world is anything, and then their theories
Speaker 1: are correct. Yeah, holy ship is deep. Yeah, well it's
Speaker 1: it's a psychosis. We're all sick as fuck, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's all because our our fucking you know,
Speaker 1: big Booty Macintosh is weren't gonna we're gonna be working
Speaker 1: the way that we planned them. And people are like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta take over that temple that was promised to
Speaker 1: me in Hebrew text. It's a bad it's a bad
Speaker 1: look now. So we talked earlier about the fact that
Speaker 1: I never really associated Y two K with black people.
Speaker 1: It's it always for me felt like a very white thing.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you knew a lot of black
Speaker 1: people that were sort of concerned with Y two k? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: just um, no one who didn't go to that church, Like,
Speaker 1: like I said, everyone out, Like I got some members
Speaker 1: of that church that went to like my middle school
Speaker 1: and ship, but none of them really like was talking
Speaker 1: about it, you know what I mean. Yeah, So it
Speaker 1: was mainly just like a very like small community of
Speaker 1: people who I would say gave a fund or just knew.
Speaker 1: I don't think a lot, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I don't think that. I don't think the rest of
Speaker 1: the block even knew what the funk everybody was, like
Speaker 1: these church people or the news or whatever it was
Speaker 1: going crazy about it, just like we're about to turn up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and I think in a weird way, it's
Speaker 1: it's a in a weird way, it's a conversation of access.
Speaker 1: But it's also I think a reflection of the way
Speaker 1: that black and white people differentiate in America that like,
Speaker 1: truly white people have the capacity the space to care
Speaker 1: about a fictional, theoretically fictional thing that might happen to us,
Speaker 1: and for black people, I think oftentimes it's like, Yo,
Speaker 1: if the ship hasn't come down already, we're good, we're chilling.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be afraid of some ship that hasn't
Speaker 1: happened yet. I'll be afraid of some ship once it happens,
Speaker 1: because we're already afraid of this ship that's happening. Yes,
Speaker 1: we've got space for this new ship. We're like, what
Speaker 1: what's the name? I see? Yeah? Yeah, yeah. It's like
Speaker 1: one of my fucking goes like, I'm gonna pop my
Speaker 1: trunk on your ass, liker man, I'll see you what's up.
Speaker 1: Then they run back with the gun. You. Oh, this
Speaker 1: niggas aren't reasonable. It's like, yeah, he told you, he
Speaker 1: told you. Before he left. He wasn't a reasonable person. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I didn't see the like I didn't seem like
Speaker 1: a big influx of like black people who are just
Speaker 1: walking around. You know, this ship is over right, like
Speaker 1: maybe like the Israel Lights, because I grew up like
Speaker 1: Israel Lights. You always preach the coming of the downfalls,
Speaker 1: but you just got you think it's just sucking, just rambling.
Speaker 1: Even though they're saying the same exact ship. Like, it
Speaker 1: didn't take a while for me to realize they were
Speaker 1: saying the same exact ship that these pastors were saying.
Speaker 1: They just didn't have a shiny church behind them. They're
Speaker 1: just doing that in front of like amazing, right, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? And you're saying the black israel
Speaker 1: Lites not yeah yeah, the black Wait, I don't know
Speaker 1: any other israel Lites. I thought it was an israel
Speaker 1: Lite if they were black. Well that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I think for the average person when you say Israelites,
Speaker 1: I think they're in theory thinking about people from Israel
Speaker 1: and you're saying no, no, which I guess would be
Speaker 1: Israeli's Israelites is a reference to the black israel Lites.
Speaker 1: But for those of us who you know, I have
Speaker 1: a fair amount of white listeners, and I don't like
Speaker 1: that the year, but these motherfucker's keep coming back. But anyway,
Speaker 1: for those of us that are unfamiliar with the Black
Speaker 1: israel Lite, they are, I guess the best way to
Speaker 1: put it is an extremist religious sect within the black
Speaker 1: community that sort of believes that black people were the
Speaker 1: original men of God. That like, within the Bible, when
Speaker 1: it references the Israelites, it is actually a reference to
Speaker 1: black people and not who we now associate with the
Speaker 1: people of Israel or Palast nine. I ain't getting involved,
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah exactly. That ain't got nothing to do
Speaker 1: with me. But that said, they are wild and also
Speaker 1: very noisy in public spaces. Yeah yeah, So those are
Speaker 1: the only other people preaching like into the world, get
Speaker 1: your ship together stuff. Like everybody else, like I said,
Speaker 1: was just going about their their business. And even like
Speaker 1: I said, even after that, I didn't see any like
Speaker 1: real extremism like since that since that home, Like like
Speaker 1: I said, everybody else just had a healthy relationship with God,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I like that. I like
Speaker 1: that that that black people remained unaffected in the midst
Speaker 1: of what everybody else was calling the end of the world.
Speaker 1: That's pretty tight. Yeah, I tried to look up and
Speaker 1: I'll put this in before we go to break, but
Speaker 1: I tried to look up what black people were doing
Speaker 1: during Y two K, which is not an easy thing
Speaker 1: to to figure out because and you know, I looked
Speaker 1: up and I googled it basically, what what we're black
Speaker 1: people up to during Y two K? And most of
Speaker 1: the responses were related to uh y two k innovations
Speaker 1: in fashion, Like, there were a bunch of articles from
Speaker 1: from places that wanted to give us credit for our
Speaker 1: y two K innovations and fashion specifically, they kept saying
Speaker 1: that Destiny's child uh needs more credit than than they got.
Speaker 1: I guess, uh, you know what I mean. Meanwhile, white
Speaker 1: people were figuring out how to and hamburger. But we're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like this is how you get fresh. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: in the child back the belly belts, right, the belt
Speaker 1: over their pants that wasn't holding up ship right the
Speaker 1: end of the world. Let's talk about these petty pelly jackets.
Speaker 1: These are the key. No, it's it's a it's a
Speaker 1: weird game. To your point, it's a weird game that
Speaker 1: we're constantly playing of both being at the front of
Speaker 1: everything that America in the world is talking about, but
Speaker 1: also being very isolated in the ship that we're communicating
Speaker 1: with each other about. Yeah, it's a weird dance. Well,
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna take a break. It's not supposed
Speaker 1: to end that way. We you know, sometimes we find
Speaker 1: ourselves in a wall. We we talk, and then we
Speaker 1: find ourselves just hitting the wall, and that's okay, We're
Speaker 1: not and it from it. We're gonna take a break.
Speaker 1: We'll be back with Marmon ro Martin More. My mama
Speaker 1: told me. We are that. No, no, no, Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: back here with Mormon Romartin More. My mama told me.
Speaker 1: We're still talking about the influence that religion had on
Speaker 1: Y two K or vice versa, the influence Y two
Speaker 1: K had on religion and the way that we believe
Speaker 1: in the ship. I'd love to play a game. Let's
Speaker 1: let's jump into a game. I have a brand new
Speaker 1: game that I would love to play with you. It's
Speaker 1: it's a game that I've I've very cleverly called shay Away.
Speaker 1: Y two K still exists. General state of ether denial,
Speaker 1: compreational sheet, or even ampathy about both the reality and
Speaker 1: the potential effects of hy u K jay away Y
Speaker 1: two K in this game. I am going to read
Speaker 1: to you a couple of quotes that I found of
Speaker 1: people sharing their their Y two t K stories. I
Speaker 1: just would love to hear your thoughts on them. Stuff
Speaker 1: you you aligned with, stuff that sounds crazy to you.
Speaker 1: Let's chat about it and see where it goes. Right, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's start with this one. This These all came from
Speaker 1: a site called did you Know facts dot com? So
Speaker 1: I don't know that this is a legitimate site. I
Speaker 1: just googled the ship and and had some fun. But
Speaker 1: this person said, I'm a firefighter and I was working
Speaker 1: on the the Y two K night. Right at midnight,
Speaker 1: all of our primary radios and C A D systems failed.
Speaker 1: It was huge system wide failure, just like everybody predicted
Speaker 1: would happen. We were getting dispatched by backup radios in
Speaker 1: our dispatchers were writing down calls on pieces of paper.
Speaker 1: The suck is that my engine company had the first
Speaker 1: call of the year, but we didn't get credit for
Speaker 1: it because of the confusion when they put calls into
Speaker 1: the computer. After it was fixed, we ended up with
Speaker 1: call zero zero zero one three, fuck you Engine three.
Speaker 1: We were first, sincerely Engine twelve. Mm hmm, you're unimpressive,
Speaker 1: Like yeah, I like this just sounds like white rambling.
Speaker 1: That's why I like, all right, girl, it just sounds like, y'all,
Speaker 1: i've been your operating system. Like yeah, the younger me
Speaker 1: would have been like, oh, ship, I'm signed now, and
Speaker 1: I'm like nah, just y'all probably got old computer systems.
Speaker 1: This isn't the story of a hero. You're saying, this
Speaker 1: is a motherfucker who didn't update. And it's like trying
Speaker 1: to play it off like yeah, cool ship. Yeah, Like, man,
Speaker 1: just what happened to us is it's like with the
Speaker 1: batteries DIT or your walkie talkies. And I think that's fair.
Speaker 1: There were a bunch of technologies and that's sort of
Speaker 1: the annoying thing with y K and some of the
Speaker 1: Ship that I felt for a long time is like
Speaker 1: everything doesn't have to be a computer. Some of this
Speaker 1: ship should just be regular as ship, and y'all made
Speaker 1: it a computer and made that a problem for me,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like, now, if you have
Speaker 1: a car, your car has a computer in it that
Speaker 1: if that computer fails, your car is useless. And for
Speaker 1: years we had cars that could function without computers, and
Speaker 1: that was fucking easier, and that lasted forever. I don't
Speaker 1: think the Tesla is gonna last as long as like
Speaker 1: the show cars, like these old school cars that people
Speaker 1: pull out. I don't think it is any of these
Speaker 1: electric cars because you gotta keep updating and operating system
Speaker 1: and eventually they'll do what they'll do the cell phones,
Speaker 1: which is just like make them that you just can't
Speaker 1: use them. This is like your car gonna be driving
Speaker 1: slower than everybody's on the road and ship like that,
Speaker 1: your car gonna get hot. I was talking to somebody
Speaker 1: about it. Might have been my barber, who, uh you
Speaker 1: know this nigga always got a conspiracy theory, but he
Speaker 1: was saying that, uh that, I guess he's looking into
Speaker 1: a Tesla. Has been talking to somebody about the Tesla
Speaker 1: and they were saying that the the battery life for
Speaker 1: those things is like ten to eleven years. That like,
Speaker 1: after ten to eleven years, the battery no longer works
Speaker 1: or doesn't work the way it's supposed to, which in theory,
Speaker 1: that's pretty long time for a battery. But the battery
Speaker 1: for Tesla is the most important and expensive part. Everything
Speaker 1: else is just junk around it, the batteries, everything. So
Speaker 1: the ship's gonna cost you a brand new Tesla price
Speaker 1: to fix, you know what I mean? Yeah, Okay, let's
Speaker 1: dig into another one. This is a fun one. In October,
Speaker 1: this person says, my dad finished off the spam he
Speaker 1: purchased for Y two k. He bought twelve cases of it. Spam. Uh,
Speaker 1: he bought twelve cases of it because it was super
Speaker 1: cheap leading up to Y two k, and he just
Speaker 1: really enjoys spam. I'm honestly impressed at the dedication of
Speaker 1: someone who ate two hundred cans of spam over twenty years.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, I mean good for him, though, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like, good for him for big committing
Speaker 1: and going. Look, I'm a good Like the world may
Speaker 1: not go, but I'm gonna go, and I'm gonna need
Speaker 1: to give my money. But like because they're just gonna
Speaker 1: throw his ship away where he passed away, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be like, oh, we gotta get rid of Dad's old
Speaker 1: spam cans, no for like a keepsake. So he's like
Speaker 1: this ship, I'm gonna eat my investment. Yeah, he's like,
Speaker 1: I'm not letting this go to waste. Someone to finish it.
Speaker 1: I like spam if I was meals like your feet
Speaker 1: like actually like cooked it up, or he just was
Speaker 1: like straight out from the can, like yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1: I don't I've never had spam. I'll be real with you.
Speaker 1: I've done everything I can in my life to avoid
Speaker 1: jello meat. That's not a thing that I think I
Speaker 1: would enjoy. So I've just avoided it. But I have
Speaker 1: to great, No, you don't know. It ain't great. Come on, now,
Speaker 1: there's no way you've made it out of foster care.
Speaker 1: There's no way. You're looking like what spam is? Fancy? Now?
Speaker 1: Some places, uh spama, Sup? You ever had spamacy? Well? No,
Speaker 1: you never had spam. Sup. It's basically just like a
Speaker 1: like it's like I think it's Hawaiian or some ship
Speaker 1: I don't know or whatever. It's spam rice and then
Speaker 1: um something else. It's a good have you have you
Speaker 1: enjoyed it? Yeah? I ate spam as a as a
Speaker 1: foster kid. Well that's what I'm saying. Yeah, they used
Speaker 1: to cut it and then fry it up. I'm all right.
Speaker 1: There was a time. There was a time when my
Speaker 1: mom had what was it, five of us living in
Speaker 1: a one bedroom apart we we were all me and
Speaker 1: my two sisters were sharing a a big sort of
Speaker 1: living room type space and and my mom and her
Speaker 1: husband had the bedroom. And that was we were very close.
Speaker 1: We had a lot of camaraderie. But I would never
Speaker 1: go back to that ship. That is not a way
Speaker 1: that we should have lived. It is not a convenient
Speaker 1: lifestyle in any means, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: it was fucked up. That said. I can look back
Speaker 1: and have fine memories, but I'm not going back. I
Speaker 1: feel like spam has to be the same where it's like,
Speaker 1: look it filled the meal, and I'm glad I ate
Speaker 1: that day. But there's no fucking way I want to
Speaker 1: go back to that ship. No, but they made it.
Speaker 1: Heard the thing in New York makes you fancy. They
Speaker 1: make poor foods, fucking fancy Like I I grew up
Speaker 1: eating ramen, paying like fucking ten cents a pack for ramen.
Speaker 1: Now just twenty whoa, you know what i mean. I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh man, not, it's different. Fair. Yeah, I'm like it's
Speaker 1: different now, it's not the same poor food. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: definitely a different game being played with these poor foods
Speaker 1: that nobody knew how to play back when we were kids. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna read you two more. This is
Speaker 1: a fun one. Uh. This person says, my favorite thing
Speaker 1: with cemetery heading stones that were not why two K
Speaker 1: compliant people had headstones made before they died with the
Speaker 1: nineteen pre engraved planning on filling in the last the
Speaker 1: next two ditch it's when the time came. Oops, they
Speaker 1: kept living. Oh yeah, that's a lot of money to
Speaker 1: get them things re engraved, because it ain't like they
Speaker 1: just like erasing to sketch it out, and like, now
Speaker 1: we sucked up a whole new headstone. Now you gotta
Speaker 1: like resement it. They're filling the blood out. Yea. It
Speaker 1: is very expensive, and those fucking headstones in general, all
Speaker 1: of the funeral service whatever stuff is super expensive. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So do people still do that, like by head stones.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's like a family thing. Let them
Speaker 1: handle that ship. I'm dead, Like I can't see that ship.
Speaker 1: It's weird because like I, you know, my grandparents, My
Speaker 1: grandfather died last year. And he was the type of
Speaker 1: dude that had been predicting his death for or or
Speaker 1: at least flagging his death for like decades now, literally
Speaker 1: since I met him. He spent every day like I'd
Speaker 1: call and I'd be like, how are you, Papa, And
Speaker 1: he'd be like, hey, I could die any day now.
Speaker 1: And it's like, whoa man? Why is that the energy
Speaker 1: you face the day with every time? Maybe some positivity,
Speaker 1: but now that was he was. That was who he was,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? I think there are just
Speaker 1: some people who are like, look, I'm gonna die. I
Speaker 1: don't want my family to have to pay for this ship.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna make my own headstone. But don't do
Speaker 1: it on on the year. Stupid wait until yeah, wait
Speaker 1: till you got like a big cough, and then you're like,
Speaker 1: I gotta get that. Okay, I'm gonna read you my
Speaker 1: my favorite of this this this, this is a fun one.
Speaker 1: This person said. I grew up in rural Tennessee, and
Speaker 1: my neighbors at the end of the road were a
Speaker 1: legit militia. Like they had built a bunch of bunkers
Speaker 1: and stockpiled food and fuel and weapons and went out
Speaker 1: in the woods and trained and exercise. Through the Clinton administration,
Speaker 1: they were mostly preparing for the new world order Hillary
Speaker 1: Clinton taking over scenario. But y to K really messed
Speaker 1: with their worldview and offered to let my neighbor mechanists machinists.
Speaker 1: How does that word work? Uh? And welder machinists. Hell yeah,
Speaker 1: joined their crew. But I but I guess they didn't
Speaker 1: have much use for my family. In October, we got
Speaker 1: a misdelivered Xerox newsletter in the mail. It was totally creepy,
Speaker 1: full of helpful tips for setting up your own little
Speaker 1: warlord dome after y to K, how to subjugate the population,
Speaker 1: set up roadblocks around your fire dome, getting the most
Speaker 1: of your surfs. Once civilization fell, building alliances with their
Speaker 1: neighbors warlords. My machinist neighbor, who always had some shady
Speaker 1: characters hanging around his place, told the militia he'd be
Speaker 1: fine and went and went and bought a fucking machine gun.
Speaker 1: After New Year's we didn't see the militia much. Their
Speaker 1: leader died a few months later, which was really a
Speaker 1: shame because nine eleven would have been right up his alley.
Speaker 1: Goddamn God damn that. I like, that's crazy. But I
Speaker 1: foxed with it, you know what I mean, that's cool.
Speaker 1: They like we're ready, like were praying. They like, no,
Speaker 1: this is what you need to do, yo, how we
Speaker 1: become kings of this ship. I love it. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's a while. It's one thing to like buy a
Speaker 1: bunch of cans and like guns and ship, but there's
Speaker 1: a whole different thing of being like and this is
Speaker 1: how you subjugate the people around you so that you
Speaker 1: make sure you're the one in power when everything falls. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I don't think a lot of it. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: lot of people didn't have no plan. It was just pray,
Speaker 1: throw your prayers in the trash can. But you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, these red Wow, this was forward thinking
Speaker 1: for sure. I was like, if I had to choose
Speaker 1: between those church people and the militia, I would have
Speaker 1: probably chose the militia. I think that I would have
Speaker 1: definitely chose the militia. I think the older I get,
Speaker 1: the more I understand militia. Motherfucker's Like, I could fully
Speaker 1: see myself joining a militia. I don't want to subjugate people,
Speaker 1: but if I if I was a part of a
Speaker 1: group that felt like that was necessary. I'd buy in.
Speaker 1: I'd listen, you know what I mean. I'm not about
Speaker 1: to be the weirdo that's like now, it's treat everyone fairly.
Speaker 1: It's like, no, we gotta we might gotta kill somebody.
Speaker 1: I don't want to pull the trigger, but I'll support you, bro.
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna snitch. Yeah, I'll clean up. I'll bring
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