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Speaker 1: what he saw you can find in any Ethiopian church,

424
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: which is a model of the Ark of the Covenant.

425
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: He says it didn't different anyway from many arcs East

426
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 1: in any other churches in Ethiopia. It wasn't ancient, and

427
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:08,880
Speaker 1: it certainly wasn't the original arc. Now how many how

428
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 1: many arcs? How many arts are there? So many arts?

429
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,719
Speaker 1: So in all these other churches in Ethiopia they have

430
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 1: replica arcs of I don't really know why. I think

431
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: it's it's in reference to the fact that it is

432
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:29,640
Speaker 1: widely understood in Ethiopia that they are housing the Ark

433
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 1: of the Covenant. And so if you are a you know,

434
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 1: following the same Christian Judaic principles, then you're going to

435
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, this is a symbol of our thing.

436
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 1: And only the priest is allowed anywhere inside the circle

437
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 1: where the arc is kept during like you know, any sermon,

438
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: like in any church, only the priests can go in

439
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: that area. Yeah, And I remember when I was eleven,

440
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 1: that's the only time I've been back there. There was

441
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 1: this lake that we went out called like Lake Tana,

442
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: and they were like little islands all on this lake

443
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 1: and there were churches on them, and I remember going

444
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 1: like we were there was like something where like only

445
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: men were allowed in the church or something. But I

446
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: even think like there we weren't allowed to like look

447
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 1: at the arc we were just even the replica I

448
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 1: don't we're allowed to look at. They're trying to play

449
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: theirs off. They're like, uh yeah, and it's like I

450
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 1: can't remember if we were allowed in or not, but

451
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 1: I remember they're like being told that at the time,

452
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: like we have these replica ones. And I was about

453
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 1: to say, yeah, it's just widely, it's it's just one.

454
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 1: It's another point of like, yo, we're out here killing

455
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 1: it never been calingized. We got the ARC points on

456
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 1: the board that yeah. So so just just to walk

457
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 1: us back a little bit, because I feel like we

458
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 1: jumped immediately into some parts of this conversation that may

459
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 1: not be totally clear to our audience. The Ark of

460
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 1: the Covenant is a sort of like large wooden structure

461
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: that has a little like house over it, where in

462
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 1: theory it's like a chest basically with like a bunch

463
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,720
Speaker 1: of fancy things around it that is said to be

464
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 1: the holster for the ten Commandments as commanded by Moses

465
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 1: from God. And then the Israelites carried that that exact

466
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 1: thing through the desert for forty years while they were

467
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: trying to find their home. Yea, and it's got those.

468
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 1: Defining feature is like those Yeah, I think they're angels.

469
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 1: What are those things on the top. I think it's

470
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 1: I think their wings. Yeah, but they're like facing towards

471
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 1: each other and it's like covered in gold shiny. And

472
00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 1: then it's got these like sticks for carrying, so that

473
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 1: you could have like almost like pall bearers, you know,

474
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: like four people kind of like supporting it from all

475
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: tis because yeah, you don't put your Ark of the

476
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 1: Covenant on the ground. I get, Yeah, you put your

477
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: purse on the ground. Don't put your Ark of the

478
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 1: Covenant on the ground. Those are just two facts. It's

479
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 1: either way somebody's slipping something in it or taking something out.

480
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: I mean, if somebody rufi's the Ark of the Covenant.

481
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 1: That's how they got to Ethiopian, right, That's what they did.

482
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 1: They pulled the Ocean's eleven switch the roof type ship

483
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 1: to get it there. That's a movie I want to see, Hollywood. Yeah,

484
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 1: I mean, just eleven Ethiopian and suits being like we're

485
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 1: gonna steal that. I mean, it sounds amazing. It feels

486
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 1: like it wouldn't take it. Pretty cool. All you have

487
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: to do is show up with a gun, It's like

488
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: that makes me feel like I could go get the Covenant.

489
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 1: I mean, if it's this valuable and you think about

490
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: all the other art thefts that have happened where people

491
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: like steal a mona or whatever, you would think that

492
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: someone would have tried to steal it. Well, well that's

493
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: that's one of the things that I wanted to bring up, right,

494
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 1: is that, like, look, you went into detail about how

495
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 1: crazy they have to feel, or at least feel like

496
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: they're protecting this this item, and it's insane in part

497
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: because museums are filled all across the world with items

498
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: that were stolen from other countries. So they're sitting there

499
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 1: and they don't feel the same instinct, and I guess

500
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: in some forms they do. They make it very hard

501
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 1: obviously to steal a right exactly. Things get stolen from

502
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,479
Speaker 1: museums all the time. And then even with that, they

503
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: don't feel no shame about it. They're not like, yo,

504
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 1: we gotta hide it away so nobody can even lay

505
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 1: eyes on it. They're like, not look at it, but

506
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 1: I'll fuck you up if you touch are stolen ship.

507
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 1: And I feel like with the art their thing is based,

508
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 1: it's like it's not because of shame. It's because it's like, oh,

509
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 1: it's so holy that your eyes aren't worthy to look at.

510
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 1: And they from from what I've read, it seems like

511
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: they feel like they are the rightful keepers of it,

512
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: like because it's it's a Christian thing more so than

513
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: a it belongs to this country or that country. That

514
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 1: is how they think of it. Yeah, if I'm remembering correctly,

515
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: I think Ethiopians have a something in that they they

516
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: stayed loyal on some like Christian ship and sort of

517
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:55,239
Speaker 1: like we're devoted to Christianity when every other sort of

518
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: like sect of Christianity at one point in the Bible

519
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: bailed like they were like, yo, we own we can't

520
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: even rock with this ship no more. And Ethiopians were like, no,

521
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 1: we're still with it. We like this is where we're at.

522
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 1: And so then they're like, no, we are the original Christians.

523
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: We are sort of like the source of everything that

524
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 1: makes this thing valuable. I wonder if the Black Israelites

525
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 1: think that they have claim over the Ark of the Covenant,

526
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: you know, mm hmmm, because if they're like, we're the

527
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 1: original Israelites, maybe they're like we should have it right

528
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 1: because they're like maybe they have it as anybody actually

529
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:43,839
Speaker 1: listening to what they're yelling. What's I heard? The best thing?

530
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 1: This is like maybe or so? And I was like

531
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: around Slawson and there were some dudes doing the black

532
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 1: Israelite thing with the megaphone, and there was like a

533
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 1: main dude and then he had a couple like helpers

534
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 1: and they were reading from the Bible, and uh, like

535
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 1: I was reading back this thing and he said like

536
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,839
Speaker 1: and from the water the Leviathan came, and the main

537
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 1: guy was like, read that back, read that back, and

538
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: then the guy said it again and from the waters

539
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: the Leviathan came, and the dude was like, lock, this

540
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 1: monster is real. But also I understand where he's coming from.

541
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,319
Speaker 1: And that's that was you know, that was where my

542
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: brain went where I was like, is that is that insane?

543
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:33,359
Speaker 1: Or is that just a hardass bar that like you

544
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 1: can pull more information from when you need it, you

545
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like yeah, all of this just

546
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 1: English class. That's how I feel. You find a little

547
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:47,239
Speaker 1: proof and then you can extrapolate and be like this

548
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 1: is what this means right right right? You just you

549
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: can have read a book and get a whole lot

550
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:59,399
Speaker 1: of messages from whatever that is who's talent. I think

551
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 1: I've finished to people's history of the United States, and no, no,

552
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: I haven't. So I looked up some of the examples

553
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,720
Speaker 1: of like things sort of like the most famous things

554
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 1: I guess that were stolen by other other countries that

555
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 1: are kept in other museums that you know, truly, everybody

556
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 1: feels real comfortable flexing. The Rosetta Stone is an example

557
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 1: that the British literally stole from Egypt and now have

558
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,320
Speaker 1: on display without a care in the world, like truly,

559
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 1: and it's written in Egyptian hieroglyphics. It's not like it's,

560
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:43,439
Speaker 1: you know, a shared language. These motherfuckers just have their

561
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 1: ship in their museum. Egypt's gotta go get it back, though,

562
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 1: that's on them. At this point they got like, I

563
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 1: didn't even know the Rosetta Stone was a real thing.

564
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 1: I thought that was how to learn Spanish. Yeah, this

565
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,760
Speaker 1: is a cool name for a company. If anything, Egypt

566
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 1: should be getting some money off of them too. Then

567
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,839
Speaker 1: it has something to do with the UH And yes,

568
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 1: I agree with you there capitalism boom, We're gonna start

569
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 1: kicking back to Egypt. Everything that they invented. I mean

570
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,479
Speaker 1: that's a long day. Yeah, there's a lot of dudes

571
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 1: I know with tattoos that are gonna have to kick

572
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 1: some bread. Yeah, every every tattoo has gotta give him

573
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 1: ten bucks. That's sucking uko. That entire show that saw Egypt.

574
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,280
Speaker 1: I feel like Erica has got to kick some money

575
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 1: up Erica bad. It was a lot of money to Egypt.

576
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: Right now? What are what are what are these other things? Additionally,

577
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 1: there's something called the man Eaters of Tsavo, which are

578
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 1: displayed in the Chicago Field Museum Great Museum, and our

579
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: taxidermy bodies of two lions, which at their peak killed

580
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 1: somewhere between hrety people in Kenya. So these lines are

581
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 1: are killing the fuck out of Kenyan people. Well, no,

582
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:09,360
Speaker 1: it's specifically Indian workers in Kenya. At the time, I

583
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 1: don't know, geopolitics was wild. Anyway, They're killing all these

584
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 1: people and then one dude shoots them and has some

585
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:21,240
Speaker 1: taxidermied and then ends up sending them to the United

586
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:25,359
Speaker 1: States for five thousand dollars, and the Kenyan government was like, bro,

587
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:28,720
Speaker 1: what the fuck? This is the most famous two lions

588
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,839
Speaker 1: that have ever existed in history. Don't sell our ship

589
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 1: and now they just don't get them back. Yeah, I

590
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 1: mean if there's anything that like, you know, like uh,

591
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: after World War two, how they were like, okay, we

592
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,280
Speaker 1: have like the World Court, and we can hold people

593
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 1: responsible for ship. Like can they do the same thing

594
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:53,759
Speaker 1: for these artifacts that were stolen from places in ancient times?

595
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: They could be like, well, you're under our jurisdiction because

596
00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 1: we're the world you know. Yeah, I don't think so,

597
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 1: because everybody just points to the transactions that justify it.

598
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 1: So again, this dude technically did say him five They

599
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 1: gave him five thousand dollars for the fucking lions, Like,

600
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:16,879
Speaker 1: why what are you talking about? It was he made

601
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 1: a bad deal, But yeah, I guess it's a deal. Though,

602
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 1: you know what could they say? I think that's the justification.

603
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 1: Now you can turn back and look at like, yo,

604
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 1: there are cultural justifications, human justifications inside of this. But

605
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 1: I think any court is gonna lose out when they

606
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 1: try to do that. Instead of being like, well there's

607
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,919
Speaker 1: a receipt right here, it says five g's. I mean,

608
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:41,279
Speaker 1: I guess it's the same as like Israel Palestine, because

609
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 1: it's like whatever land stole in places taken whatever, But

610
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: you can't really who's going to go? Yeah, exactly how far?

611
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:55,439
Speaker 1: How far back can we can quote this episode? Beniam says,

612
00:39:55,600 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 1: Israel whatever. But in terms of listening to an outside

613
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 1: foreign power or like a World Bank or whoever, the

614
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 1: funk is gonna be the jurisdiction. No one is gonna

615
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 1: If you're the one in the situation, You're always going

616
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:14,879
Speaker 1: to have your own self interest and you're not gonna

617
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:16,959
Speaker 1: be like, well, you're right, You're gonna be like, nah,

618
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 1: this is my lion, now I got it. You know

619
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:32,319
Speaker 1: he loves Italian beef. So the last example I'll give

620
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 1: you and we'll take a break after this. The last

621
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: example I'll give you is specific actually to Ethiopia. Ethiopia

622
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 1: fell victim in the Battle of Magdala. Am I saying

623
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 1: that right Magdala in eighteen sixty eight. It was a

624
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:52,720
Speaker 1: basically when the British came in and uh and took

625
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:56,800
Speaker 1: pieces of Ethiopia from y'all, or at least y'all gave

626
00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 1: off like a little taste of Ethiopia to make to

627
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:04,839
Speaker 1: keep them from fully colonizing the entire country. So you've

628
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 1: never been colonized but you have had to give up

629
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:12,439
Speaker 1: a few parts to get get good with people. See,

630
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 1: I didn't even know about this battle. I've never heard

631
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 1: that name. Magdala. Yeah, m A g d A l A.

632
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: And so in this this fight, the British end up

633
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 1: taking so much ship, literally so much ship, including something

634
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 1: called the Crown of Abood, a gold crown that was

635
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 1: once that once sat the top like the head of

636
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: the Ethiopian church. But they took so much ship that

637
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 1: they needed fifteen elephants and a hundred meals to transfer

638
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 1: all the stuff to a nearby town for auction. That's crazy.

639
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 1: And now it's like is it displayed in England just proudly. Oh.

640
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 1: My favorite part of this, this is this is gonna

641
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:57,319
Speaker 1: be the most devastating part. My favorite part of when

642
00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 1: the Ethiopian when the Ethiopian government has like come back

643
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: to them and been like a bro, we're in modern times,

644
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: now give us back our ship. The response was, oh,

645
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 1: for sure, you can have some of it, but we

646
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 1: will return it to you only as a loan. And

647
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: you have to then take your name off of any

648
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: any suggestions that this was yours to own in the

649
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:31,239
Speaker 1: first place. Wow, that's so fucked up. It's why and

650
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 1: they can't and it's not and they can't. I guess

651
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:39,799
Speaker 1: they can't do it. They just gotta. It's just like

652
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:41,839
Speaker 1: the dudes with the guns walking up to the church.

653
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 1: They're just like, Okay, what are you gonna do? I

654
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: don't like how happy. It's all so silly. They were like, hey, bro,

655
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: I'll lend you your stuff back to you after I

656
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:58,279
Speaker 1: stole it. Go on. That's just that's just good clean fun.

657
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 1: It's typical bully. But Ethiopia is getting bullied out of

658
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 1: their items. I don't like that. All Right, We're gonna

659
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:08,879
Speaker 1: take one more break. We'll be back with more Benian more.

660
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 1: My mama told me we alright, so anyway, yeah, we're

661
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: back here with more Bendian Bazona more. My mama told

662
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 1: me and beniham can't wait to tell you goddamn more

663
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:42,800
Speaker 1: about the Ark of the Covenant being in in Ethiopia.

664
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:44,920
Speaker 1: I like waited for a second. I was like, okay,

665
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:46,400
Speaker 1: there's no sound key here. Let me just jump in

666
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 1: at that. There's always a sound key. You know what's

667
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 1: crazy is in Ethiopia. And I think this is like

668
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 1: in a lot of like newer democracies. There's no such

669
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 1: thing as like is this candidate pro choice? What's this

670
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 1: candidate's views on the environment. It's just like it's just like,

671
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: are you the same ethnicity as me? Then you're gonna

672
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 1: be looking out for this ethnic group. That's all it is.

673
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 1: That's how I vote. Yeah, I voted like that once before.

674
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 1: It wouldn't change much for me, but I felt good

675
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:32,080
Speaker 1: about which is which is so interesting because like our

676
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 1: things that go into when we vote so different. That's

677
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: what they say. I think it's the same ship. Yeah,

678
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 1: I don't think there's anybody that's like really focused on

679
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:47,759
Speaker 1: the issues as as much as the people in l

680
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:50,839
Speaker 1: A who pretend on Instagram everybody else like that one

681
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:52,879
Speaker 1: looks like me. Yeah. I like the way that one.

682
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 1: I like the way his jib is cut like that.

683
00:44:56,160 --> 00:45:01,320
Speaker 1: I like that he's not one of those I will say, Yeah,

684
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 1: if there was someone who looked like me, I would

685
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 1: vote for them as I have in the past, immediately

686
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 1: just run for anything. Yeah, you gotta let it slide.

687
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:17,280
Speaker 1: And there was somebody that was from your exact neighborhood, city,

688
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 1: all this ship, but you don't agree with them on

689
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: all the issues. Would you be like yeah, but they're

690
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 1: like they're of my area and they look like me.

691
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 1: What would be more important to you? How far against

692
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:31,839
Speaker 1: my issues are they? Is it? Like? Is it like

693
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:35,479
Speaker 1: minimal stuff? Because I got some deal breakers. I mean,

694
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:43,799
Speaker 1: let's say they are fiscally conservative, but socially whatever, Like

695
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:51,920
Speaker 1: yeah that how fiscally conservative? Are we cutting out? Are

696
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 1: we cutting all social services? Or are we just like

697
00:45:55,040 --> 00:46:01,319
Speaker 1: flat yeah yeah yeah, like pull him up by your

698
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:07,759
Speaker 1: own bootstraps. I can't down. I'll look all I'm saying.

699
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 1: But if they lift that store to me, they wouldn't

700
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:11,719
Speaker 1: be like that because I was broke to like three

701
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 1: years ago. Would you would have you would have rubbed

702
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 1: off on him? They would have been broke. They wouldn't

703
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:21,760
Speaker 1: even they'd had strong sense of community. That's what I'll say. Okay.

704
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:24,240
Speaker 1: All I'm saying is I need to know the exact

705
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:28,240
Speaker 1: alternative to this person, meaning like whoever they're running against,

706
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 1: because if they're still better than the other person, I'm

707
00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 1: going black, baby, you know what I mean? Like I'm

708
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 1: going black every time, Like do you know the level

709
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: of white excellence you have to have for me to

710
00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 1: vote you over? Just like a regular black person completely

711
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: just a bus driver with a briefcase. Yeah, yeah, it

712
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 1: looks like you got a job, might manage the busses.

713
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 1: This guy's briefcase. What was the name of that Godfather's pizza?

714
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:07,400
Speaker 1: Republican black dude? Fuck? What was his name? It starts

715
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 1: with the H Herman Kane, Herman Kane. Now it seems

716
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 1: like there are people like this every couple of years

717
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:17,360
Speaker 1: who just get thrust at to the top of the

718
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:21,399
Speaker 1: Republican Party. And there's not a chance that I look

719
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 1: at them and go like, but they're black, because they're

720
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 1: just like so well, you know, but that's different, you know,

721
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:36,360
Speaker 1: you know, talking about talking about we're talking about regular

722
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:41,040
Speaker 1: motherfucker's and you would kick it with not fucking Herman Kane,

723
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 1: but regular motherfucker's you would kick it with. Are never

724
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:49,839
Speaker 1: like running for president? Like there you I mean, that's

725
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:55,880
Speaker 1: the problem. Yeah issue, you know what a Trump I

726
00:47:55,960 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 1: want to want. I wanna and say like, yeah, he's

727
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 1: saying it, I'm thinking it. That's what I know. You know. Now,

728
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 1: I thought we were I thought we were banking on

729
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:14,880
Speaker 1: the community. But I know what you're saying. It's like

730
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:21,879
Speaker 1: someone who's black with the Trump attitude. But they don't. Yeah, yeah,

731
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 1: I'm being completely facetious. I think that your political candidate

732
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 1: should be better than you. And if you don't think that,

733
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:30,600
Speaker 1: you're kind of Yeah, no, I I do think that

734
00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 1: we should be clear. I want him to be like me.

735
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: I ate Rumen three times this week, like I want

736
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: him you got better, But can he be better than

737
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 1: you but also be a populist at the same time. Yeah, yeah,

738
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:45,360
Speaker 1: I think that exists. I listen. I grew up in

739
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:49,840
Speaker 1: a in a very Marxist household. I I'm gonna agree.

740
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:52,839
Speaker 1: There's no yeah, there's no version of this that I'm

741
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:55,480
Speaker 1: going to be like, hell yeah, if we just vote

742
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 1: on the right way, we're gonna fix it. It's like, yeah,

743
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:02,640
Speaker 1: I feel, you know, one way or the other, and

744
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 1: I do vote. I like that. I like that you

745
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 1: won't even let us play make believe for a second

746
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:10,840
Speaker 1: thing like you had to you had to, like listen, brother,

747
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:16,800
Speaker 1: like Marxist. Look, man, I vote, but I don't believe

748
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:19,920
Speaker 1: in that ship. I'd just be doing my civic duty.

749
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 1: You know, man, what was that like? Growing up in

750
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:25,919
Speaker 1: a Marxist household? You drink a lot of mountain dew,

751
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:31,800
Speaker 1: but my dad drank diet cokes. So I I just

752
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:34,480
Speaker 1: showed him that I was younger and more gnarly than

753
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 1: he would. I don't know. It was you know, stuff

754
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:45,600
Speaker 1: you had like Christmas and yeah, we were we were sad.

755
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 1: Were just you know, there was a different political slant.

756
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:52,320
Speaker 1: Were you allowed to watch television? Yeah, we had it.

757
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:55,279
Speaker 1: We had multiple TVs which we could turn on and

758
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:59,600
Speaker 1: off whenever we want. Would would your parents how would

759
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: they think of, like voting in a national election where

760
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:05,520
Speaker 1: they like, well, it's not both my parents are specifically

761
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 1: my dad my mom broken homes, but specifically my dad

762
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:15,960
Speaker 1: is is that that's his political lean? M okay? What

763
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:20,640
Speaker 1: was your mom? M hm? Trying to make it okay?

764
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 1: But we had ahead above water making a way when

765
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 1: she came. I mean, so here's something that's kind of

766
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 1: in common is that when my parents were in Ethiopia

767
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:47,600
Speaker 1: and they were students, this dude Higla Selassie who was

768
00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 1: the emperor, like they wanted him to be overthrown because

769
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:53,800
Speaker 1: they wanted feudalism to be gone. They thought it was unfair,

770
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:56,279
Speaker 1: they thought the rich were just getting richer. And they

771
00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:58,640
Speaker 1: were part of these like student groups that would meet

772
00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: up at night and you had to be all secret,

773
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 1: and they wanted to overthrow this dude, and they wanted

774
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:06,760
Speaker 1: Communism to come to Ethiopia because they were like on paper,

775
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,920
Speaker 1: you know. And then the America and you became a comedian,

776
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 1: isn't there that's out All of them apologized for what

777
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 1: you're doing. You have the Marxist dad, you feel the

778
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:28,759
Speaker 1: same stuggle. But then they the dude got overthrown by

779
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:32,400
Speaker 1: the military, and the military was worse than this dude,

780
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 1: and they were like, okay, now let's overthrow this military.

781
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:38,279
Speaker 1: And they were part of these like they were like

782
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 1: medics for guerilla fighters trying to They worked so hard

783
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:45,919
Speaker 1: and were so about their political ship, and then came

784
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 1: to America to have a better life. And we're like, okay,

785
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:53,360
Speaker 1: American system. Now, all that timmunism of all that ship,

786
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:58,759
Speaker 1: you know, we're just living. Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's

787
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:01,480
Speaker 1: the older I get, the more I can see how

788
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 1: you can feel devastated by your kids choices, even you

789
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:09,319
Speaker 1: know what I mean, even if you're not doing it

790
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 1: to hurt your parents, you're truly just pursuing the things

791
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:16,360
Speaker 1: that make you feel whole and precious in the world.

792
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:20,239
Speaker 1: And like they didn't come here for that, you know

793
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:22,880
Speaker 1: what I mean, It's not what they that's not the

794
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: reason they here. And it's like talking the same. But

795
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 1: also they came here in one way or another for

796
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:33,719
Speaker 1: you to cast some checks exactly, you know what I mean. Like, ultimately,

797
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:36,399
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm not a doctor, but it's we're doing

798
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:39,640
Speaker 1: all right, Yeah, it's it's it's just have a better

799
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 1: life than me, have more choices, more freedom to do

800
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:47,239
Speaker 1: what you want. The only reason they wanted you to

801
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 1: be a doctor was because that was a straight path

802
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:53,239
Speaker 1: to financial freedom, better life. But if you could do

803
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:57,080
Speaker 1: it another way, still accomplishing it, you know, yeah right right, yeah,

804
00:52:57,160 --> 00:52:59,440
Speaker 1: yeah no, and they'll still be proud. Who cares that

805
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:03,760
Speaker 1: you live in a one bedroom apartment? You still like, yeah,

806
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:06,879
Speaker 1: it's a it's a one bedroom in l A. Which

807
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:09,960
Speaker 1: is a house. That's a house in Indiana, well, Colorado.

808
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:13,920
Speaker 1: But it's it's good, you know what. I keep it clean.

809
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:18,160
Speaker 1: I keep it cleaning a big gas TV. Yeah, all

810
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:21,560
Speaker 1: the streamers, all the platform, love the baby. You watch

811
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 1: this Paramount plus I got Stars. Oh you watch well,

812
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 1: you can watch Raising Cain in on my Ship all

813
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 1: the bro If you have Paramount plus, you know you're

814
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:40,719
Speaker 1: eating that's an ancillary streaming platform. I hope I'm not

815
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:42,759
Speaker 1: overstepping here. They I hope they give it to you

816
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:47,000
Speaker 1: for free. I hope they at least kicking we are

817
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:52,920
Speaker 1: that just came up recently. Here are in no way

818
00:53:52,960 --> 00:54:02,439
Speaker 1: expressed by the Viacom Corporation. I don't think people get

819
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 1: I mean, as with all my interactions with people, no

820
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:08,400
Speaker 1: one's ever been like, yeah, I have free Hulu or

821
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:10,359
Speaker 1: I have like it doesn't seem like it's a thing.

822
00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:14,080
Speaker 1: I got free Peacock for a year. Well that's just

823
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 1: for a year. Yeah, that's the first time that any

824
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:22,520
Speaker 1: of them have. You know, HBO has been It's Comedy

825
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:24,759
Speaker 1: Central on HBO have employed me for a lot of

826
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 1: ship and never once either of them have been like,

827
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:31,240
Speaker 1: what's up here. They're like, oh, well you can afford

828
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:33,279
Speaker 1: it with that salary we're paying. Yeah, they're like, we

829
00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:36,720
Speaker 1: know what, they know what we're paying you. That's crazy,

830
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:40,799
Speaker 1: all right. I don't know what this episode turned into.

831
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 1: It went far off the rail, it really went far,

832
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 1: But god damn it, I think we did it. I

833
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:50,320
Speaker 1: do think we nailed We nailed all the essential parts.

834
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 1: And there's a whole lot of fat on that bone.

835
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:55,800
Speaker 1: So you know, we'll we'll enjoy the meal all the same.

836
00:54:56,320 --> 00:54:58,919
Speaker 1: I think, what you know, what we One thing I'll

837
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:01,319
Speaker 1: say this, The best thing to come out of this

838
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:05,319
Speaker 1: is that I'm gonna write the Oceans eleven Arkady Covenant,

839
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:09,120
Speaker 1: and that's really important. That's very important. I want to

840
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:13,280
Speaker 1: Founder's feet. No, definitely in that special. Thanks. I'm gonna

841
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:17,200
Speaker 1: wear I'm gonna wear to the movie theater. Okay, we

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Speaker 1: do it. Bevinium, could you tell the people at home

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Speaker 1: where they can find you and what cool ship you

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Speaker 1: have going on? Um yeah, you could find me beni

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Speaker 1: um biz on any of the things. And uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: you can watch Dave season three. It'll be out. I

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Speaker 1: don't even know when, but just like look for that.

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Speaker 1: You can watch I wrote on the show Resident Alien

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Speaker 1: season two us out right now. Yeah, you go on

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Speaker 1: YouTube search my name, just see some ship. Yeah, hell yeah, YouTube,

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Speaker 1: go watch his ship. He's written on a bunch of

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Speaker 1: cool things and god damn it. YouTube again, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Just keep YouTube, David. You want to other people where

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Speaker 1: they can find you? Cool guy jokes City seven on Instagram.

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Speaker 1: Buy tickets to come to my solo hour at the

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Speaker 1: least like fifty minutes. But they're clean. Uh, it's a

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Speaker 1: good fifty minutes. Like you're not gonna be upset at

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Speaker 1: the Allegian in Los Angeles September. Or come see Langston

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Speaker 1: Kerman headlines Faded, Denver, September, the day after my elision show.

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Speaker 1: Do both, if you go to both, if you buy

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Speaker 1: tickets to both, and you give me proof, Langston will

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Speaker 1: kiss you on the mouth. I'll kiss you on the

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Speaker 1: mouth because for Zoom, you have a private jet, and

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to make out with anybody who has a

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Speaker 1: private jet. Well, you know I'm gonna go to that.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to the l A one. I didn't

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Speaker 1: even know you were doing it again. See it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be great minutes. Though, don't don't ask for anything else. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: don't come on, don't be unreasonable. He's got fifty for you.

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Speaker 1: I tried, worked, it's a tight fifty. As always, you

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Speaker 1: can follow me at Langston Kerman and I do have

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Speaker 1: some upcoming dates. September eight through the tenth. I will

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Speaker 1: be in Sandman Comedy Club. That's that's in Richmond, Virginia.

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited to find out what the funk that

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Speaker 1: is and who's down there, and yeah, go see me

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Speaker 1: in faded Uh the following weekend in Denver. And as always,

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Speaker 1: if you want to send us your own drops, your

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Speaker 1: own conspiracy theories, your own bullshit, please send it to

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Speaker 1: my mama pod at gmail dot com. I would love

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Speaker 1: to hear from you. Otherwise, you know what to do,

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Speaker 1: Bye bitch or quit racist. He also play her osting

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Speaker 1: money where she defending turkey stuff. I can't tell me

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Speaker 1: about it.