WEBVTT - I Left My Good Foot in AriZona (with Kofi Thomas) 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:06.200 I used to cut hair in college, Like I love 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:08.760 that for you. Yeah, I would cut my boy's hair. 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:11.440 I only cut like three people, but you know it 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:15.000 was like, ah, they'll let me funk around and they 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:17.079 won't get mad at me, and I won't like fuck 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:19.480 them up too much whatever. And I used to make 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:21.720 them pay me in iced teas. I'd be like, nah, 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:24.919 hit me with like a bunch of Arizonas. 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:25.360 And we chilling. 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:27.880 How many teas was it fade hit for? I think 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:28.920 it was like two or three. 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:30.680 I think it was like, hit me your life two 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:33.360 or three, two or three ice teas. 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:36.599 So that's that's a boggain right there. I said, just 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:37.680 the bear just one. 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:42.120 Yeah, but that's also because I knew I wouldn't doing ship. 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:46.120 I wouldn't help me. You wouldn't get no pussy because 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:49.840 of my cut. You get pussy because your personality. 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:55.880 So you could help help build characters. Yeah, listen, work 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:56.520 on your jokes. 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.440 Yeah, I ain't hurting you. I just I'm holding you 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:01.880 over to you meet a nicer man who can do 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:03.000 this better, you know what I mean? 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:07.600 Like the. 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:11.559 Chimps in your. 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:29.440 Kalas are racist. The money stuff I can't tell me Damn, damn, 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:34.120 damn James therek is there. It is Ladies and gentlemen, 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:38.720 gentiles and little mamas alike. Welcome to another phenomenal episode 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:39.920 of My Mama Told Me. 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:43.280 The podcast when we dive deep into the pockets of 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:45.440 black conspiracy theories. 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:48.880 And we finally worked to prove that Alicia Keys did 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:53.080 not lose her voice. Her voice was given away, traded, 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:55.760 just like the Little Mermaid, so that she could be 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:59.440 with Swiss Beats. He is her prince Eric. She was 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:03.000 willing to sacrificed everything to be with that silly man 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.960 who won't be honest about him being a bald person. 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.280 Listen, I'm not gonna hold you decent deal. 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.840 Whoa you think it's a good trade off? 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:17.240 Swiss Beats is so so rich, they have a good life. 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.360 They're in that house rollerskating all the time. 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.680 You would give up your voice for to be with Swizzy. 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.079 I worry that if I had a voice like Alisia Keys, 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:32.880 I'd a Bobby Brown it out. I'd have gone down. 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:35.799 I'd have been jumping out of helicopters doing karate kicks 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:37.400 with y'all rule like. I don't think it would have 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:38.120 been a great. 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.359 You think you think it was only meant to be mismanaged. 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:45.000 There was never going to be a sweet ending to the. 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.200 I think the Lord gave me the level of talent 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.959 that I could work with and not an inch more. 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:56.000 Damn and I heavy Alicia Keys is more talented than 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:56.560 I am. 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.440 Sure Alicia Keys more talented than most of us. I 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.920 would say, I don't think there's many on the planet 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:05.560 that that could compare the to prime Alicia Keys when 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:08.560 it first came out. Yeah, when them braids were thick, 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.600 come on, and that booty was too, But we didn't 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:12.200 know it yet. 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.360 Because she was one of them zoot suits. We didn't 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:16.000 know her name. We didn't know her name. 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:22.320 She was always sitting down on the piano bench, sitting down. 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:26.960 And it was a sturdy bench. She was bolted off. 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:29.480 Yeah, they had they get that bench double lined. 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:39.520 And she was toughted buttons in the big old booty. 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:41.440 Alicia Keys, We miss your girl. 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.080 Come on back, Yeah, come home. I don't care if 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.040 the song, I don't care if the boye is it hitting, 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:48.400 I'll go see it live. Yeah. 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.600 That was the only thing about Alicia Keys. You've never 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:52.480 seen her dance? 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:57.560 Is that just that's man, I was okay, No, I 0:03:57.640 --> 0:03:59.560 was just talking to my girl about that, not even 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.920 the are you allowed to not be able to dance 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:04.760 as a male R and B sing. 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:10.000 Like, well, let's talk about not dance like you're saying, 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.680 you're saying choose not to dance or literally you look 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:15.000 bad when you're dancing. 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:17.120 You look bad when you're dancing. 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.000 Oh no, I don't think you can be that. 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:22.520 Women. I can kind of get away with it, but 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:23.440 I don't think. 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.640 Yeah, Mary Mary J can't dance for shit, and no 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:27.760 we celebrate her. 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:31.800 I love that video with the Lazers. I love that ship. 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.680 I think the closest we've ever come to that is Drake. 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:40.120 I think he's a bad dancer. He is a bad 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.360 dance and he is an R and B ish type person. 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.760 But it took generations of like and it also took 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.200 him being affiliated with fucking Little Wayne, you know what 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:53.240 I mean, Like there's a saving grace inside of that. 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:56.080 But now the average R and B nigga can't not dance. 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.200 No reflection of the times, Like you need to have 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:02.680 something that you that could be like mimiced on TikTok 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.919 because like Luther Vandros was not dancing. 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:11.480 No, okay, that is not. Probably he was big, but 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:14.159 he was not Heavy D. He was not he was. 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:18.200 We don't give him that. We don't give up that credit. 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:22.119 As far as like light on light on his feet, 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.520 like adult, I'm not gonna lie. 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:28.440 I think Heavy D should be mentioned amongst the greats 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:29.640 in a way that we don't. 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:31.920 Okay, let's go. 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.400 I really, I really think he's like he should be 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.320 like a top ten conversation, and we pretend like he's 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:39.040 not that guy. 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.680 My man came out in the lime green leather sweatsuit. 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.200 Ye whoa. 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.440 If you look through a catalog of heavy D outfits, 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.280 it's up there with like dapper Dan like it is 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:56.560 custom is colorful as fire. As he was dancing, not 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.200 with other big people. He was dancing with the. 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.320 Boys, skinny dancers. 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:05.039 And he was with them young boys. 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:10.560 Yeah, there wasn't no, there wasn't that Lizzo trickery happening here. 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:15.440 This was this was skinny little men that he could 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:17.159 keep just every step with. 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.560 Bro. If I was Heavy D, I'd had the big 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:23.840 boys out, would have been flopping all over it. 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.760 I'd have made them take their shirts off too, just 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.880 to show how big they are, y'all. Look how much 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:40.919 bigger they are than me, Them big old titties flopping. 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.760 You're gonna tell me, I'm I'm just heavy. 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:45.320 I'm just. 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:49.719 I am heavy, delightful. 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:50.200 I am not. 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:55.880 Yeah, I'm not with them. Heavy was different, heavyweight, love 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.400 with it. He had it the de stends for down 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:00.360 forty pounds on these big. 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.080 These things for damn y'all big as am? I mean, 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:16.640 our guest today, And frankly, we've heard so much of 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:20.200 him before we've introduced ourselves or even him. I'm Likeston Kerman, 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:25.480 and our guest today is a dear friend, a phenomenal comedian, 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.600 a talent of all kinds. I would say no person 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:33.560 I know is more committed to being an active member 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:37.600 of their community than this man. I think it's fair 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.960 to say he is. He is constantly in the community 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:44.840 doing shit that I truly did not know he would find. 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:45.080 A way to do. 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.280 The other day he posted a video of him at 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:51.080 a at some sort of Mexican event wearing a cowboy hat, 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:56.560 dancing exclusively with older Mexican people and was very much 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:59.440 a part of what is happening there. And I'll never 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:01.720 understand how he pulls this off. But it is my 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:05.200 favorite thing about him. He's a great comedian and a 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:06.640 dear friend. Give it up for KOFE. 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:07.120 Thomas. 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:11.520 Everybody, Thank you, Thank. 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:20.520 You everybody listening who said that, Wow wow wow, Yes, 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:24.320 yes I am I am here. I made him back 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:29.480 returning to this amazing, amazing part y'all two of my 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:34.360 favorite people. You bullshit, y'all are dope. Just got the 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:36.840 opportunity to me David and we already hit it off. 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:37.640 Have night. 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:42.599 Yeah, that was an elements comlicated evening, a lot of 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:46.600 a lot of strange sexy talk going on. And you 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:48.720 know what you know, I like is when you like 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:53.480 we bonded quickly about what is sexy and you know, 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.480 we would not remember because it was first of all, 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.360 I know a lot of Mexicans, but also that night. 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:04.400 So let me take off that it was after this 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:06.319 this phenomenal live show. I don't know if you go, 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:11.160 phenomenal live show right with Langston and Dave days on tour. 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.839 So after the show, we all go out to some 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.280 restaurant and you know it's. 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:20.240 It's down the street from the venue we're hanging out. 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:24.120 We hang and it gets onto the topic there's a 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:26.040 lot of comedians, and that gets onto the topic of 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.320 like who is or who is not sexy? What is 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:34.400 sexy for a man? And we have our beliefs as 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.160 men about what makes a man sexy and the difference 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:42.839 between sexy and fine. And Sydney Washington is going. 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:51.360 As Sydney Washington, you ain't seen a dick in a decade, 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:52.920 asked Sydney Washington. 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:56.600 Right, that's the approach in. 0:09:56.559 --> 0:10:00.040 There, going off trying to tell us what man and 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:01.400 it's sexy. 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.839 Sexy, and she keep and she named a couple of 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:09.520 people and she keep talking about Lanxton and Zach being sexy. Meanwhile, 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:13.640 Me and David are sitting here like I'm okay, okay, 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:15.280 hold on, who's going. 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:19.400 To swim first? I'm about to swing. I'm saying, you. 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:24.120 Know, I'm trying to be peaceful, and I look at 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.800 my man David. It's just sitting there, solid and just 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:30.920 starts dropping just fucking bombs and facts about who is sexy, 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:35.200 the criteria for sexy, the swag for sexy, how you 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:38.120 carry yourself. And I was like, man, we over here, 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:41.240 just dark and holding it down, and so sittill that 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:42.920 moment I building. 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:44.320 Oh, yeah, I used it. I used it as a 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:48.640 term we were building. Yeah, we will. 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:50.520 So it's been, it's been. It's been love to us 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.480 since that moment. And you know, and my man, my 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:55.520 man Lanx and I know Fever. So that's the that's 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.880 the homie right there, and we're back in the building 0:10:58.960 --> 0:10:59.880 and it's it's. 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:04.120 So happy you're here. You came with a conspiracy theory 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:09.120 that I would say is essential for us to cover 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.480 on this podcast. This has not been covered before. It 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:16.680 is essential that we cover this because frankly, it's it's 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.280 insane that it hasn't come up to at this point. 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:25.439 But you said, my mama told me Arizona Ice teens 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.560 were created to hold back the black community. 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:39.800 Facts, okay, all right, facts tell me you know, when 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:43.480 y'all get them, get that flex, drop a bomb on them, 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:45.160 all the sound effects. 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.120 At home, put them all the way up. 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:48.560 Boom boom. Here. 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.720 I'll take y'all, I'll take y'all back a step further 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.440 to walk with it, because this right now, I'm gonna 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.320 lie to y'all this might be the last podcast. All right, 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:06.959 all right. I started off just saying, ain't run. 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:14.520 Big Big, Arizona Big big canned beverage, Big Zona is 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.600 about to come and be all up in our ship, 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:22.199 either litigiously or or maybe even more sinister than that. 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.760 Right, keep see, I want you all to remember this 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.360 moment when we were all hit last and having a 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:32.839 good time. Might not might not be a lot more alright. 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.800 So here that it started, right, I got my own 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:40.400 like triggers for conspiracies of when I see something in 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.119 our neighborhood that I don't see in a white neighborhood, 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.240 that's when my flags start going up. While we got it, 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:51.160 we don't get nothing special. So his where it hit 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:54.600 me right, and it took me back. This this transported 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.559 me right. So for me, when I was in high school, 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:02.000 I went to mostly white high school and Massachusetts. Okay, 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:05.360 before that, I was in like all black, all black schools. 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.160 So when I went to high school, I had my 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.760 lunch box which was just like a brown bag, and 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.320 I had a twenty percent juice in it. 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:17.920 Right, boxes are reach Yeah, but it wasn't a box. 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:18.600 It was it was a. 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:20.920 Brown battle one receptacle. 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:25.000 Listen it was it was yeah, it was my to 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:30.560 go se right started the point the point there, But 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.079 so to give you a different. So now I'm around 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:37.840 Now I'm around rich white kids. Okay in name, Yeah, 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:41.280 that's the first time I seen people at lunch that 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:45.360 didn't bring juice like they had water. They had water 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.160 bottles like the ones they fill up and then walk 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:50.720 around with it. And I hadn't seen anybody just drink 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:56.040 water like that before. So now I'm seeing in their stores. 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.000 Because they had a store called Little Peach that was 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.719 our Cors store. There was no Arizonas in there at all. 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:06.040 So now I'm like, oh shit, okay, why do why 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.760 don't they have Arizonas overhead? 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.320 We got overhead. You know what I'm saying. 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.679 These delicious, it's a great bargain, and it's all it's 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:16.960 all the ship that black folk talk about. Oh it's 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:19.600 a great price. It's delicious. It makes us happy. 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:24.000 You get what you can get for ninety nine cents, because. 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.400 Yeah, you can't. You can't get water twenty three ounces 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:31.480 of water. You're not getting that for ninety nine cents. 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:37.800 Anyway, It's yeah, come on now, yeah, that's so that's heavy. 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:42.640 So so you clock this in high style, you start 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:47.880 to notice the differences. Does that immediately translate to you 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.680 being like, so they are poisoning us. How do you 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:54.800 make that leap of them saying that this is bad 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:55.760 for black people? 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:56.680 God? 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:00.280 So at that time, I don't me being a young 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:03.920 black mind, all right, I was like, oh, these white 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:05.280 folks are missing out. 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:07.880 You know what I'm saying. We're like, I. 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:14.920 Think you think you are so pro black, You're likely 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:19.440 we have resources in our community that white people are 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.800 feel for. They can't the positivity. 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:23.400 You see. 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:25.920 They don't appreciate flavor. That's why they ain't got it. 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.240 I started putting it on that they do, know what 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:32.520 I mean, they even plain sandwiches. I'm over here with 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:37.880 a watermelon juice. So when I got older, I tart 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:41.680 to know more about how we get slowly poisoned through 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.440 a lack of access to healthy food. Shout out to 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.160 my black farmers. When I learned about that, then I 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:49.640 was like, oh, let me look at this Arizona can 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:51.640 because again, like I'm in New York, so it is 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:53.800 a point of pride out here, like yeah, we got 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.320 the camp and it's even the point of conversation like, yo, 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:58.520 what flavor you be like like that? 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:03.880 Like what kind of you? I'm bad? 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:05.880 That used to that used to be like a nice 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.720 icebreaker when I was a kid, to be like your 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.920 favorite Arizona. And now all of a sudden, we don't 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.800 feel as far from each other as we felt before. 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.080 You know, yeah, it's like yeah, it's like who you 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.400 like it? That's a child, Yeah. 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.640 Kelly? Right, yeah, we all love Kelly a little more 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:27.120 than be Oh yeah. 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:31.840 Come on now, hey, don't go back to LaToya. So anyway, 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:37.120 I don't get. But the good old days, she was 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:43.240 fine as hell. So that's when I was like, what's 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:44.080 going on here? 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:47.560 That's when I was like, what's going on here? So 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:47.920 I did. 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:49.200 I'm talking brothers. 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:49.280 Like. 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:53.080 The reason I say like, I really love what y'all doing, 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:57.040 but I am worried about this podcast is because when 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:59.680 I started doing digging a little bit deeper. This feels 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:06.320 like at Watergate, like deep your deep throat? Bro huh 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:07.280 shut up. 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:18.280 Like no, because I get what you're saying. But I'm 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:19.720 not gonna say yeah to that either. 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:25.200 You're just gonna openly give me to be like yeah 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:29.000 I'm deep, throw yeah me, yeah, call me. 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:38.399 Deep throw uh huh you informant? No, I got it. 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:40.760 I was wildent for saying it. 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:43.159 That's one way to say yeah, okay. 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:45.120 It felt crazy as I was saying that. 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.440 I appreciate, okay, appreciate all y'all. That was that was 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:54.879 a lot. I'm something that you was some factual cook a. 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:59.199 Research. All right, So I love this. 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:06.400 This is New Teams seventy one, John Feralto and Donald Voltaggio. 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:13.639 Remember that name, Don Voltaggio six eight six eight, Italian 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:15.120 man from Flatbush, Brooklyn. 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:20.920 Whoa like that over there? They don't. That's all the 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:22.320 guys on a foreign body. 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:26.560 Yeah, he come on now what like a like an 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:39.080 important Ben's so now he looked like the like the monstars. 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:39.680 And he ain't got to touch the ball. 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:43.840 He's just big, right. 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:53.040 So John Farolito and Sean Bradley, Uh. 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:52.919 You got no. 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:56.280 So they got this company right because Don he's doing 0:18:56.359 --> 0:19:00.320 like distribution. John Ferrito is doing like bear. So first 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:02.639 they were like, all right, they started this like they 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:07.800 started selling liquor mot liquor, which we know is liquid 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:11.439 anti ambition to black people. Right, they start selling that 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:15.200 making tons of money. Get this right. When they were 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:18.840 selling Monte liquor, they used to put out these posters 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:21.920 all over the hood. One of the posters was had 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:24.199 this like a Native American man on it from the 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:27.879 su tribe. This thing, this can was so offensive that 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:32.400 the Native Americans sued and one in Congress to get 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:34.280 that removed. 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:38.360 That's the history in the eighties. 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:39.520 That's crazy. 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:41.520 That's the history of this company, right. 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:47.040 So to get our hands on that can, that's probably 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:50.360 the best taste in malt liquor that that money can buy. 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:52.960 I just want to see it. I don't want to. 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:54.960 I don't want to. I don't want to get hooked. 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:55.960 One sip and you're done. 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:59.439 Oh yeah, that's like original for a logo quality, you 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:01.880 know what I mean. That's gonna get you fucked up. 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:06.280 Yeah yeah, it's like it's that old recipe. It's like spices. 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:08.320 Yeah. Wait. 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:11.320 So KOFE, I love that you come on this research. 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:14.560 Come this is phenomenal research. We need to take a break, 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:16.480 but when we come back, I want you to break 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:18.879 down even more of your research because all of this 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:21.760 is frankly, some of it is more in depth than 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:23.960 even I was able to get. So I'm excited to 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:26.200 hear what you have. We're gonna take a break, we'll 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:28.440 be back with more. KOFEE Thomas and more. My mama 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:28.920 told me. 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:45.280 We are back discussing the implications that Big Zona has 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:48.000 on the community at large. Let's continue on fillos. 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:51.879 Yeah, Kofe, you were in the middle of breaking down 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:57.120 some pretty heavy research, including us discovering that that boy 0:20:57.240 --> 0:21:00.919 you said it's called Crazy Horse is the name of 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:06.400 the the now banned malt liquor that this company started. 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:11.639 Mm hmmm co wrecked. So we already are establishing this 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:15.680 is a history of this company, the mar in a 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:20.040 way just to be like, yo, this is what these 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:24.399 people are gonna are gonna like. It's gotta the marketing 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:27.760 team as a real like as a real these people 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:29.000 focused group behind it. 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:30.760 Yeah, yeah, you know what I'm saying. 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:35.720 It's so funny having this being explained by Nigga with 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:41.600 cricket glasses. I can't emphasized enough how hard it is 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:44.880 to know whether you are in fact spitting a real 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:48.280 truth or this is a complete bamboosolem it. But I'm 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:49.280 excited either way. 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:54.440 This Oh yeah, I wish, I wish, I wish it wasn't. 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:57.480 But this is twenty three ounces of facts coming out, 0:21:58.359 --> 0:22:05.480 big facts. Who right, And then let's father this trajectory 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:08.200 of just of how kind of like I won't say again, 0:22:08.240 --> 0:22:13.560 I'm not gonna say mafia mm hm, but this is 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:18.760 how gangsters move. Okay, So coming coming into the nineties, 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:25.880 all right, we got Snapple also out of New York. 0:22:27.280 --> 0:22:29.680 You know what I'm saying, They making moves. Snapple got 0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:30.680 what ice tea? 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:31.959 That's okay. 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:37.240 Now I'm not saying that these two Donvo tagos gangster. 0:22:37.800 --> 0:22:39.919 But if you was a gangster and you've seen somebody 0:22:39.920 --> 0:22:42.480 else making some money over here, you might say, oh, 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:46.840 I can do that same product, switch up the packaging. 0:22:47.160 --> 0:22:50.040 And so in the nineties, Arizona comes out with what 0:22:50.080 --> 0:22:50.720 they're known for. 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:52.160 Ice tea. 0:22:52.640 --> 0:22:55.920 Yeah right, that's that's that's and they and they says it. 0:22:56.200 --> 0:23:02.000 So then there's lawsuits, of course, because there's lawsuits because 0:23:02.040 --> 0:23:05.760 they done took Snapples out there. But then get this 0:23:05.800 --> 0:23:10.160 against against more gangster within the company. There's a ten 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:16.480 year battle between Don Botaggio and John Ferrialito over get 0:23:16.520 --> 0:23:21.280 control of the family, which is the same way it 0:23:21.320 --> 0:23:23.639 is in the Sopranos. I'm not saying it's my field, 0:23:24.000 --> 0:23:28.840 but his name is done. He's fighting for control. He's 0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:34.320