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Speaker 1: I don't know why. I don't know. This man was

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Speaker 1: Michelle Bote. Everybody, Yes, I did not know you were

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Speaker 1: video of George Floyd, and today is marsh Swain Nights

426
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 1: sorry spoiler alert, is the um the trial of Derek

427
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:39,720
Speaker 1: whatever the funk his name is that piece of ship

428
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:43,000
Speaker 1: that n get on his neck. For the only reason

429
00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:48,240
Speaker 1: why Black Lives Matter movement doubled or tripled in size

430
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 1: is because white folks got on board and finally fucking

431
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:57,920
Speaker 1: said this is bullshit. People don't understand the word systemic

432
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 1: or what the funk that means. People don't want to

433
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 1: stand history. I'm jereman. That's might have a bubble, but

434
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:08,640
Speaker 1: whatever the fun people are saying, it's just like we're

435
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,800
Speaker 1: when when I say we are stronger together, that is

436
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 1: fucking everybody, because everybody needs a Brad Pitt in twelve

437
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 1: years of slay, you know what I mean. Everybody needs

438
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,000
Speaker 1: a person to be like, I believe you, I understand,

439
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:26,159
Speaker 1: let me help you because at this point, you know,

440
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 1: we can't rewrite what the funk happened, but we can

441
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:33,280
Speaker 1: try and deal with it. And I think the exhausting part,

442
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 1: especially for us, like the fourth or third or fifth,

443
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:40,439
Speaker 1: whatever the funk generation you are, is um trying to

444
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 1: explain to people that it's even real to begin with.

445
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:48,400
Speaker 1: And I feel like this whole Asian hate situation has

446
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 1: always motherfucker been there. It's always motherfucking been there. But

447
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 1: it's just like you know which group of like culturally,

448
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:02,440
Speaker 1: who's going to be the loudest m And so it's

449
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,959
Speaker 1: real motherfucking crazy. And if you can still you know,

450
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 1: go to a good school and live in a good neighborhood.

451
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: Then I guess you don't have to be the loudest

452
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:14,960
Speaker 1: because you still have opportunities. And it's just I can

453
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,440
Speaker 1: go on and on and on. I feel like I'm

454
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,680
Speaker 1: going down to fucking no. I mean, I think you're

455
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 1: you're making a really important point, and and there's something

456
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:26,360
Speaker 1: even more important underneath that of like, absolutely, you are right.

457
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 1: We we need advocates. We need people who are going

458
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: to be allies and support us and want to truly

459
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 1: hear us and believe us. But it's even sadder that

460
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 1: we've reached a point that without an advocate we can't

461
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:43,199
Speaker 1: even communicate a real truth that's out in the world

462
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:45,639
Speaker 1: much in the way that you're talking about that like

463
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: George Floyd getting his next stepped on shouldn't be a debate.

464
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 1: We all saw the fucking video. But if there are

465
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 1: white allies that then step in and go like yo,

466
00:27:56,320 --> 00:28:00,719
Speaker 1: I think that's not good, then it just goes away.

467
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 1: Nobody it's all for not. Yeah, it's all for not.

468
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:09,120
Speaker 1: And it's and it's almost like, so you don't want

469
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,679
Speaker 1: to see movies about slavery, and you don't want to

470
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 1: watch the video that's fucking real, and you don't want

471
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 1: to hear about this other cop that shut this other

472
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 1: black person. So what the funk you want? You just

473
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 1: want to act like it doesn't happen. Yeah, that's not real.

474
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 1: You don't want to go to a BLM protest, but

475
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,879
Speaker 1: you definitely want the first row at a Kendrick Lamark

476
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: concert that you know that you know, like like, I

477
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 1: can't funk with you. So I think that that reckoning,

478
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 1: that sort of experience that so many people are having

479
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 1: is such an important one. Like I was watching this

480
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 1: YouTube video the other day of this white woman who basically,

481
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 1: and it felt a little bit like a performance, but

482
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 1: she started crying on her video where she was talking

483
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 1: about the experience of pregnant women as slaves that like

484
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 1: slaves the essentially much like cattle, much like we do

485
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 1: with cows today, that would get slaves pregnant and then

486
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 1: force them to nurse the master's kids and keep her

487
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: pregnant in wet nurse the entire time in order to

488
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: make sure that she kept keeping the master's kids. She

489
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: didn't have that, yeah, oh yeah, because you can keep

490
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 1: nursing until you stop nursing. Either way, you're basically making

491
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 1: some of you're taking a kid away from a lady

492
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: and then forcing her to basically give that milk to

493
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,239
Speaker 1: a different kid that doesn't belong to her for your

494
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 1: own growth satisfaction. And the woman was crying, and it

495
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 1: got all these retweets, and everybody was so proud of

496
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 1: her for all the beautiful words that she's spoken in

497
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 1: representation of the black community, and a part of me

498
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 1: was like, I guess, but like I don't need her,

499
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? I wish I didn't need her.

500
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 1: I wish that kind of advocacy wasn't something that needed

501
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 1: to exist. I wish we could just be honest about

502
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: what these stories are and then move the funk on. Yeah,

503
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 1: that's a very pragmatic linear way of thinking, and um,

504
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 1: that's is not how gonna go. If you're a lawmaker, great,

505
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 1: thank you so much, But that's why men love to

506
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 1: make laws about women's bodies. That's just not how it

507
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 1: fucking goes. And it's a very complicated relationship. I mean,

508
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 1: I had a surrogate to bring my twins to life,

509
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: and essentially it's like almost the same idea, but not

510
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:33,719
Speaker 1: using someone else as a vessel. So how many of

511
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: those stories were really just women who need to feed

512
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 1: their child or women that were forced into it. A

513
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: lot of women were forced into it, but a lot

514
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 1: of them were probably like I'd rather feed this child

515
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 1: than working a fucking your field, because at least I'm

516
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 1: doing something for the betterment, you know. And also to me,

517
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: like when I think of that, I just think of

518
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,040
Speaker 1: like clarities that movie with them Doogie House or with

519
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: the Goldberg where it's like she she was his um nanny, y'all,

520
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 1: I'm aging myself, but like, look, she was a nanny

521
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: and he was like ten years old. He was a

522
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: product of divorce, and he started speaking Jamaican Patuan stuff,

523
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, are we, you know, sort

524
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: of bring everybody closer together by forcing them to be

525
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 1: with each other or is this just a whole other thing. Yeah,

526
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: it's so complicated. It's tough because if you don't keep

527
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 1: interacting with that community after a while, you go, man,

528
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 1: fun them people. I don't know that lady no more.

529
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 1: I've moved on, you know what I mean, Like, you

530
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 1: gotta keep a Jamaican person in your house forever and

531
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 1: always to keep maintaining that intimacy, that care for the

532
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 1: group that you're representing, yeah, but sometimes you're just like

533
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 1: I knew this Jamaican lady when I was growing up,

534
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 1: and so therefore I will be empathetic to people from

535
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: the islands or something. I'll be people from the islands,

536
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 1: but fucking Nigerian. So I don't give a funk about

537
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:05,959
Speaker 1: It's just tough. It's all before. Okay, let's talk more

538
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 1: about this propaganda because a former slave, a black man

539
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: who escaped to Canada named John Little, actually wrote a

540
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: little bit about this propaganda. He said, they say slaves

541
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 1: are happy because they laugh and are married. I myself

542
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: and three or four others have received two hundred lashes

543
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 1: in the day and had our feet in fetters. Yet

544
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 1: at night we would sing and dance and make others

545
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 1: laugh and at the rattling of our chains. Happy men

546
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 1: we must have been. We did it to keep down

547
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 1: in trouble and to keep our hearts from being completely broken.

548
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 1: That is as true as the gospel. Just look at it.

549
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: Must not we have been married. Yet I have done

550
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: it myself. I have cut capers and chains um. And

551
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: he he says all that with the intention of basically

552
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 1: making it clear, like, yo, we found ways of laughing,

553
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 1: but that wasn't the heart of what we were doing.

554
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 1: We were just using laughter as survived Mm hmm, don't

555
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: we all? I think we all do. So where it

556
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 1: gets interesting is that in slavery. During slavery, characters like

557
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 1: the Mammy, the coon, the Uncle Tom, the Piccaninny are

558
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 1: all sort of created as propaganda machines by slave masters

559
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:21,719
Speaker 1: and by white institutions as a way of demonstrating that

560
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 1: black people were basically just sort of like dumb and

561
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: ignorant and and happily at peace with their their experience

562
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 1: as slaves. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, Also, what a narrative

563
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 1: and also the narrative of colorism that still exists today

564
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: that you are better if you have lighter skin than

565
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 1: darker skin or whatever the fuck you know they were

566
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: trying to say. It's like that is still so woven

567
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 1: into the fabric of not even America but all over

568
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 1: the fucking world, which is really fucked up. What a colonial,

569
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:02,479
Speaker 1: fucking idea to say you're better because you have this,

570
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: and you are less than because you have that, and

571
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 1: people still believe it. Ed's fucked up. And I truly,

572
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 1: like I I refuse, I refuse, And whether I'm getting

573
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 1: it from that side or this side. I always say,

574
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 1: we are stronger together. We are fucking stronger together, no

575
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,839
Speaker 1: matter what shape, size, or shade. You know, if you

576
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: want to believe that, then you are believing in a

577
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:30,840
Speaker 1: patriarchal idea of bullshit. And I thought you were way, like,

578
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 1: way more open minded. I like that. I think I

579
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 1: think that type of propaganda, to your point, is the

580
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: manipulation that we can in fact control and and can

581
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:46,799
Speaker 1: at least do better about controlling and identifying and making

582
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 1: a choice in. And it's interesting and looking back at

583
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 1: all this sort of history of like laughter comedy relating

584
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 1: to the way that we see each other, uh, specifically

585
00:34:56,719 --> 00:35:00,879
Speaker 1: in terms of slavery, is that they they didn't have

586
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 1: that much control in it, right, that they because they

587
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 1: didn't control the propaganda machine. They were just sort of

588
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 1: like receiving whatever people decided was gonna be told about them.

589
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: So in Reconstruction, for example, after slavery, the narrative starts

590
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 1: to shift. A bunch of the slave masters go, well,

591
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 1: we're not in charge of them anymore, so we don't

592
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,439
Speaker 1: want them to look happy. We don't want to tell

593
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 1: people that they're laughing and joyous because there now we

594
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 1: want to present them as like Sambos is dumb idiots

595
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: who can't exist without us. And then once the Sambo

596
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 1: ship didn't work, they go all right, well, now we're

597
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 1: gonna tell everybody they're violent, that they walk around here

598
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 1: with with razor blades in their pockets and they're cutting

599
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,240
Speaker 1: people and raping white women. It's just this weird game

600
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 1: of manipulating the way that we see ourselves the way

601
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 1: they see us. And ultimately isn't until now to your point,

602
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 1: that we actually have some control in the way that

603
00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 1: we get to see each other. Yeah, the man elation

604
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:06,359
Speaker 1: doesn't stop with any fucking group. For a woman, if

605
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:10,239
Speaker 1: something has happened to her, well then what time was

606
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: she out? What was she wearing? That manipulation is how

607
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 1: you will always keep people down. And that's why it's

608
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 1: really up to us to say fucking no, because we

609
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 1: are always bigger in numbers and in spirit than the

610
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 1: one keeping us down. And it's very like look, and

611
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,319
Speaker 1: it's always it always comes back to white men. And

612
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 1: then particularly hadn't love the second half, but I'm listening

613
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:43,720
Speaker 1: to go ahead. It's just true, and I am married

614
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 1: to a white man. So this is like very confusing,

615
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: just kidding. I love him. He's a good egg, He's

616
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:53,839
Speaker 1: a nice man. Oh he's such a sweetheart. He's such

617
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 1: a sweetheart. And that's the thing, like you don't know

618
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: who you're gonna fall in love with. History has told

619
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 1: us we should be X, Y and Z, but then

620
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 1: somebodys we have to put together our own a BAC's alright,

621
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 1: shame on you. Uh, the last thing I'll say on this,

622
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 1: And I think that this is an important sort of

623
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 1: connection that takes us out of slavery. This is I'm

624
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 1: very happy to be leaving slavery behind. But in the

625
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 1: wake of slavery, I think it wasn't until as I said,

626
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: it wasn't until later that we really got to to

627
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 1: represent ourselves to the world. And in doing that so

628
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 1: much a black comedy became connected to physicality, to the

629
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 1: movement of the body, right, Chris rock Pacing. Uh, that

630
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:46,320
Speaker 1: lady Coco, that comedian Coco who pulled like the fucking

631
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 1: bottles out of her braw and like had the whole

632
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 1: like you know, whole comedy, everybody. Yeah, we also come

633
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 1: from a continent of dancing and expressing our body. Through

634
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 1: happiness and sexuality. I mean, I would love to be

635
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: at Alvin Elly fucking bitch on stage, but money, but

636
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 1: there is still that physicality, Whereas I think because white

637
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 1: people got to lean on the written word in in

638
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:19,880
Speaker 1: some traditional sense, they celebrate comedy or they celebrate laughter

639
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 1: in a much more like focused on speaking way, whereas

640
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 1: we get to be Cat Williams on a fucking stool

641
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:29,840
Speaker 1: like a motorcycle and and let that. Yeah, I got that.

642
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 1: I think it's also weather, like you know, if we

643
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 1: have to talk about where I hate to be, like

644
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 1: where white people are from, but America, European. I mean,

645
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: and one of my best friends is Irish, and she's

646
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 1: first generation Irish and not even fully out as a

647
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 1: gay person because she's in her forties and her parents

648
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 1: are so Catholic Irish. Even the Irish dancing is your

649
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 1: hands to your side, you're just using your legs because

650
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 1: the government didn't want to see you having joy or

651
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: dancing through the windows. They were like coming around and

652
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 1: checking people. So you just like had to move, yes,

653
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 1: you just had to move very stiffly and like not

654
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 1: keep your hands at your side and just look like

655
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: you're like doing an activity at home. You know, you

656
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 1: were dancing and so there's that and so of course,

657
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,359
Speaker 1: like black people are from the land of sunshine, so

658
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 1: expressing yourself as completely different as in Arabic country's as

659
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: in wherever right, you know, even Russia. It's like a

660
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:35,360
Speaker 1: lot of like work do they get out there making

661
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 1: the stallion vibe going in everybody gets the fishal way

662
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 1: because you ain't knocking, but like yes, like so you know,

663
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 1: I think historically it's like also fascinating to get back

664
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Speaker 1: to like why the dances or rituals are the way

665
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 1: they are. Yeah, I mean anyways go on county on stage. Yeah,

666
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 1: the physicality even beyond the stage. And I think it's

667
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 1: something that sort of lives in the way that we

668
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 1: communicate comedy even now. Is that with black people at

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00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:10,240
Speaker 1: least that I've I've noticed when we make jokes, everyone

670
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 1: can be a part of the joke, right that, Like

671
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 1: it's a community activity. So when I'm roasting somebody, if

672
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,920
Speaker 1: somebody's roasting me, whatever it is, anybody can jump in.

673
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 1: And part of what I believe that running to be

674
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 1: part of what that movement is. It's just tagging a

675
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: fucking joke that already was funny, right that, Like, if

676
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: somebody says some wild shot about you and then another

677
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,440
Speaker 1: nigga runs past, Damn, that joke just got funnier and

678
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,280
Speaker 1: we didn't even have to use words to get it there.

679
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 1: I'm not mad at that. I mean, like, look, I'm

680
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:44,800
Speaker 1: here for that, a little call back cardio. If somebody

681
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: says something funny and then the nigga Naruto runs in

682
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 1: the middle of your your your eyeline, God damn, you're

683
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 1: having a great day. Yeah, man, I mean, I'm not

684
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 1: mad if I tell a joke, if somebody starts doing

685
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 1: us a little mom's work, I'm like, I've done my job,

686
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: thank you so much. Good night. Ever, one of my

687
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: favorite videos that I've ever witnessed, uh a witness that

688
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:10,240
Speaker 1: I've seen online is, uh, these kids are fist fighting

689
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: in a high school. They're like beating the ship out

690
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: of each other in high school, and then out of nowhere,

691
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 1: this one black boy he just starts breakdancing in the

692
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 1: middle of the hallway and he's like break dancing in

693
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 1: the middle of the fight, and it's so fucking funny,

694
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: and it's just a weird, just question mark slash exclamation

695
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 1: point that gets added to this otherwise pretty jarring moment.

696
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:35,239
Speaker 1: That's dope. I wish that um more people just had

697
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 1: the need to dance in the middle of islands. It's

698
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: so Michael Jackson in a parking lot with a fake knife, yes,

699
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 1: in a motorcycle jacket. Why not? Michael was right, he

700
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:56,280
Speaker 1: never did anything wrong. We love you, Michel. We're gonna

701
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 1: take another break. We'll get back from more Michelle, buto

702
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 1: and more. My mama told me, and we are gets

703
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 1: the rebound, passes it to the man, shoots it and

704
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 1: boom goes to dynamite. Yeah, we're back here with me

705
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:31,919
Speaker 1: on the show. I'd love to have chat Hanks. Unfortunately,

706
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 1: he uh, he's white and we ain't. We haven't stepped

707
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 1: into the white space. How black many motherfucker's and that

708
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 1: would be fucking fascinating. Listen, I'll say this, everybody's been

709
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: real mad at him because he said it's gonna be

710
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 1: a white boy summer, and I was like, I don't know, man,

711
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: that's some funny ship. And we just appreciate a silly

712
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 1: billy when he's being a silly billy, you know what

713
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:57,480
Speaker 1: I mean? He is a silly billy, Okay, I want

714
00:42:57,520 --> 00:42:59,959
Speaker 1: to play a game with you. This is a fun

715
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 1: game called something to go on the internet was saying

716
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: something that's cool as we put this on bitches like you,

717
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: it's a fun game whe where. I am going to

718
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:09,880
Speaker 1: introduce to you a clip from one of our fans,

719
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:12,400
Speaker 1: and plenty of our fans send us wonderful clips, and

720
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 1: I would love for you to just react, give me

721
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 1: your full thoughts on everything that this person says. And

722
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: I picked out something I don't know any way. I

723
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 1: picked out somebody I know you're gonna enjoy. So I'm

724
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 1: very excited for you. Here we go. Oh fuck, Okay,

725
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:31,800
Speaker 1: hey Langston and all your fans from the my mama

726
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 1: told me community. We love conspiracy theories, right, So I

727
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:39,319
Speaker 1: got this school one. My name is could See and

728
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 1: I'm all the way from Berlin, Germany. I'm a huge fan.

729
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:46,360
Speaker 1: I'm black, by the way, originally from Africa and the

730
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: maybe of the Motherland, and I'm gay of course, as

731
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: you can hear my voice. That's another conspiracy and of

732
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 1: its own about the gay voice. You know. Okay, fine,

733
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 1: So what I want to talk about it is, um,

734
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 1: I believe that my mom told Okay, my mama didn't

735
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:03,359
Speaker 1: tell me, But that's the gift of it all. Like

736
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:09,800
Speaker 1: Tyra Banks as a secret undercover agent. She either works

737
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: for the c I A, KGB whatever undercover or m

738
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 1: I six or whatever. Because you should watch all old

739
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:24,040
Speaker 1: episodes of America's Next Top Model. It's like the challenges

740
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 1: they do. It's like models in real life don't do

741
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 1: those challenges. They need to walk sideways from the top

742
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 1: of a building, take photoshoots underwater, avoid I'm getting bulldozed

743
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: on with wrecking balls on the runway, like crazy, crazy challenges,

744
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:50,720
Speaker 1: much as well as her show, The Tyra Banks Show,

745
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:56,839
Speaker 1: another very weird time in television, I think circa two

746
00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 1: thousand and four or five six, when Tyra was at

747
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: the peak off the show and everything. That's just crazy.

748
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 1: So just check into that. Even the one from America's

749
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:13,720
Speaker 1: Next Top Model that we know of today see around

750
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:18,759
Speaker 1: is Ava Marcel the first win ever and America's Next

751
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:22,360
Speaker 1: Top Model has had White more than twenty cycles. We

752
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 1: never hear from the other girls. Is it because they

753
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 1: undercover agents too, like they get recruited. Very interesting? Check

754
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 1: into that. Love you guys love the podcast all right

755
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:40,439
Speaker 1: there It is that I can quite follow, but it's

756
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:43,800
Speaker 1: probably quincay. It's real. Was that a real person, a

757
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:48,320
Speaker 1: real person who really submitted and and uh, my favorite

758
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 1: part of it was I have so many favorite parts,

759
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 1: but I love him opening and being like, I am black,

760
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 1: just so you know I'm black. I know my voice

761
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 1: sounds like I'm not black, but I'm from Berlin. And

762
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:02,239
Speaker 1: then he was on to say and I'm gay. Would

763
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 1: you can hear my voice? And he's like, which is

764
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: a whole other thing. Oh my god, it's real. What

765
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:15,240
Speaker 1: do you think of Quincy's uh theory that Tyra Banks

766
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:21,400
Speaker 1: is a secret CIA operative? I get it. Tell me more, please,

767
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 1: I get it. Like, look, conspiracy theories aren't always the

768
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 1: most popular take, especially at a dinner party, so you

769
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 1: might ostracize yourself by even having an opinion or going

770
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:36,480
Speaker 1: against the grain or even saying, you know, this might

771
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:41,320
Speaker 1: be some mind control. But when somebody is so fucking

772
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:46,000
Speaker 1: popular and they just know how to sort of, you know,

773
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 1: connect and control all these pieces and people behind and

774
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:55,400
Speaker 1: in front of the screen, you're just like, okay, okay,

775
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:58,240
Speaker 1: what do you know that? I don't know it a lot,

776
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:04,399
Speaker 1: so you know, I don't know because you know what

777
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:08,239
Speaker 1: Tyrot says a lot about herself. She shares a lot,

778
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: but she doesn't like Oprah share. She doesn't even like

779
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 1: Obama's share. She's just like I understand cankles and then

780
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:21,279
Speaker 1: like just makes women do wild ship. This is like,

781
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 1: do you because I don't know that much about you.

782
00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 1: I haven't seen you do it. You're just making people

783
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 1: do it. So like, look, what is that guy Tony Um?

784
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 1: Oh my god, No, I think I don't know. I

785
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 1: know he um. He is like a life coach. Yeah,

786
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 1: she's sort of like the modeled Tony right, Like you

787
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 1: don't know why you're showing up and paying thousands of

788
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:53,759
Speaker 1: dollars to subscribe. You're just like, my life will be

789
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 1: better if I know what's my Yeah, I there he

790
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 1: There was a few moment. It's where he started to

791
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: sell me on his theory, largely in that that idea

792
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 1: of of mind control and the idea of getting them

793
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 1: to do physical activities that don't apply to the job

794
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: that they're actually uh signing up for. So it's like

795
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:19,120
Speaker 1: they're learning to be models, but you have them scaling

796
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 1: a building and it's like, y'all could have did this

797
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:24,359
Speaker 1: in green screen. I know for sure these women ain't

798
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:28,480
Speaker 1: scaling buildings every week to get this perfect shot for uh,

799
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 1: you know, Polo cologne or whatever the funk. And I'm

800
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 1: just like, what the fund does a scavenger hunt in Japan?

801
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: Got just why you have to cut her hair off? Yeah,

802
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 1: you're you're really making people make some weird choices that

803
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: feel on the other side, you have a different plan

804
00:48:49,719 --> 00:48:53,319
Speaker 1: for them than we anticipated. I don't know if it's

805
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:56,840
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a conspiracy, but there is

806
00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 1: something very strange going. I will say that I didn't

807
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:03,759
Speaker 1: love the the addition of the Tyra Banks talk show

808
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:06,279
Speaker 1: and him being like, you can figure that out, you

809
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 1: go do some work on that. There was no suggestion

810
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:12,360
Speaker 1: of what might be the possible connection here. It was

811
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 1: just like it was weird. Figure it out. He's like,

812
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: I gave me the one and to figure out the three. Yeah,

813
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 1: And he was like did he say no Maybia? Is

814
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:25,239
Speaker 1: that what he said? The motherland? The motherland? It's like,

815
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:28,360
Speaker 1: isn't it the whole continent? But I don't know, specifically

816
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:30,840
Speaker 1: said I don't know either. Do I look like a

817
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:35,479
Speaker 1: like a big city Indiana Jones? I don't know. Well,

818
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 1: thank you so much. Quincy. There was a beautiful submission,

819
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 1: and I think you can you can rest safely knowing

820
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:43,680
Speaker 1: that Michelle and I are are sort of on board

821
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:46,440
Speaker 1: with your theory that Tyra Banks is a CIA operative,

822
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:49,799
Speaker 1: but not on board with the maybe being the mother

823
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:53,400
Speaker 1: of the mother country. It's not we don't know for sure.

824
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:57,239
Speaker 1: We are neither Lauren Crop to you. I don't know.

825
00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:00,120
Speaker 1: Neither of us are big city to Indiana Jones. So

826
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:04,400
Speaker 1: you gotta figure that out on your own, all right,

827
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:07,360
Speaker 1: Please cut that out. No, that's staying in Michelle. We

828
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 1: did it. This was so much fun. Can you tell

829
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:12,720
Speaker 1: the people where they can find you? What cool stuff

830
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,120
Speaker 1: you have going on? All of that? Oh my god,

831
00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:18,200
Speaker 1: I mean find me if you want to. I'm hosting

832
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:22,839
Speaker 1: The Circle season two on Netflix. Are you gonna look

833
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: at my special Welcome to Beutopia? I tied with Jerry

834
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 1: Seinfeldt for Critics Choice Award, which is and Pajamas. You

835
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 1: can watch First Wives Club season two coming out on

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Speaker 1: b E T and b ET Plus in this and

837
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 1: there's something else I don't remember. And it's okay because

838
00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 1: I pay my taxes on time and my kids are

839
00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:46,240
Speaker 1: cloth and fat. She pays her taxes, she's on TV

840
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 1: and her kids eat sometimes She's fantastic. Give it up

841
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 1: one more time for Michelle, butto so great, so happy.

842
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 1: You will appeal and as always you can follow me

843
00:50:56,719 --> 00:50:59,399
Speaker 1: at Lankston Kerman and please, if you want to send

844
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 1: us drops, you can send them to my mama pod

845
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:06,120
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. We would love to hear from you. Okay,

846
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 1: that's everything. Bye. Because of baies, my crop chips in

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Speaker 1: your pails, a quala bears are racist, costly, mostly money

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Speaker 1: version many turny stuff. I can't tell me