WEBVTT - Harder, Better, Faster, Extra Tendon (with Jordan Temple) 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:04.640 Do you ever think about the white version of yourself? 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:07.000 You're like, I'm successful, but if I was white, I'd 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:09.119 be over the moon. And I'm like, if I was white, 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:13.920 I'd be sucking. J J. Abrams like like, people like 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:16.080 you're successful, You're doing great. I'm like, do you know 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:19.560 the insurmountable seeming odds I had to be here? Man, 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:22.880 I'm sucking. I'm Macdonna, nigga. What are you talking about? 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:25.400 All right? You know, you know I want to imagine 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:32.200 clover Field monsters too, but black got in the way. Yeah, man, Yeah, 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:58.760 mans racist, mostly mostly money actually stuff I can't tell me. Yeah. Welcome, 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:04.200 ladies and gentleman to another spectacular episode of My Mama 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:08.280 Told Me the podcast where we died deep deep into 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:11.920 the world of black conspiracy theories, and we proved that 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:15.600 Terry Crews killed Michael Clark Duncan so that he could 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.240 take over the big buff black man position in Hollywood. 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.399 Michael Clark Duncan had it all. He was the only 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.600 buff black man we needed, and then suddenly his heart 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:29.480 exploded in a tragic heart explosion accident. I don't know 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.880 how he died, and then we got stuck with Terry's 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:35.800 goofy ends, and I know that this was all just 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.880 a big, sinister plan that Terry cooked up to get 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.800 rid of Michael Clark Duncan. He was sitting there building 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:45.240 up his titty meet and planning against Michael Clark Duncan. 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:48.920 And now we're stuck with this motherfucker who is comfortable 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:52.320 going on America's got talent and shucking and driving for 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:58.000 Simon Cowell. Awe, I'm your host, Langston Kerman. I'm accusing 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:01.880 Terry Crews of many things, and I'm excited to be here. 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:04.320 We have a hell of an episode ahead of you. 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:07.960 My guest today has been walking around more than most 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.520 guests I think I've ever been on the podcast with. 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:15.080 He journeyed into his kitchen. He's now making his way 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.520 back to a quiet area in his own I'm so 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:22.760 excited he's here. He's a dear friend. He's a hilarious comedian. 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.720 You know him from his work on Comedy Central. You 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:29.000 know him from writing on Mrs Mazel, you know him 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:32.760 from writing on Fucking Atlanta. He's so funny, so great. 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:36.200 Give it up from my friend Mr Jordan's Temple. Everybody, 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:42.280 how my guy, Hey, I'm I'm blessed, highly favorite. How 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:47.600 are you saying, Man, they ain't get me yet. Maybe tomorrow, 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:52.040 maybe the next day, but at this exact moment, they 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:58.880 didn't get me. Who's day, man, non gender conforming police officer. Sure, 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.760 gender is not the factor here. It's the police that's 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:08.000 that's the issue. That make sure you get them pronouns 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.200 right before they shoot you. You know what I'm saying, 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:13.800 You don't want to disrespect, you gotta keep it tight. 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:19.360 I love that. Well. I'm excited today because you came 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:24.760 to me with I would say conspiracy theory that remains 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:29.160 sort of a constant argument, a constant issue in the 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:32.080 black community at almost all times. But you said, now, 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.480 I want to get this right. My mama told me 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:39.080 black people have an extra leg tendom to help them 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:47.280 run faster and jump higher. Yes, tell me more, dig in, 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.160 let's do it. Well, you know, you know me. My 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:57.920 life is in shambles. Um, sure, so stop ragging and 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:02.320 get to the conversation. I'm not generally not right now, 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:06.720 but you know, the successes is complete opposite of what 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:10.320 my life has been up to before this point. So 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.120 you know, when I was in my first community college, 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:17.080 I went to when I was in my first community 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:21.960 when I was on my first tour, community collegiates, Yes, 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:26.719 community collegiates. I was on a community college baseball team, 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:32.120 third Division, Great times and the onon Dogga Lasers l 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:36.520 A Z E r S. After our practice we were 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.520 having in the gym because you know, it's too cold 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:42.800 for us to play baseball up state up State New 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:46.000 York and a dogar in Syracuse and like we we 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:49.720 had indoor baseball team. Now we we just played like this, Yeah, 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.200 we just need a human door man. We start hitting good, 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:56.360 put your squeaky shoes on. We didn't go outside today, fellas, Yeah, 0:04:56.400 --> 0:05:02.080 not today. We are We're a basketball team, fucking man. 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.000 I was. I was mostly riding the bench, but I 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:07.440 was It felt like a fitness class generally because I 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.279 was so bad. But one day my boy were riding 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.599 up back to the little dorms and we were sitting 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.320 in his car smoking a cigarette and he's like, I 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.520 got something to ask you, man. You're my friend, right, 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:21.400 and I'm like, yeah, your friend Jeremy whatever. And he 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:25.680 was like, uh so, huge red flag and he's like 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:29.520 he's like, do black people have an extra tending? An 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:33.280 extra leg tending, And I was like, what would bring 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.800 you to ask you that? You know? Because they're just faster, 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:40.600 better everything. I'm like, we are in the same Division 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:47.560 three community college baseball team, Sir, whatever extra tending you 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.560 think black people have, I didn't get it. I'm here 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:55.480 with you. Yeah, that's the craziest ship. I've always heard 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:59.039 that generally, you know, people like does it come from slavery? 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:02.160 Does it come from this? Doesn't come from that. It 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:05.560 was always confusing to me because it's like the reality 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:09.720 didn't match the stereotype. Like some you could have an 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.880 example or something, but I don't know. Well, I I 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:16.560 love that he asked you this because it's such a ridiculous. 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.640 I don't know what tendons I have in my legs 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.640 right now, period. I don't think most people do. And 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.080 I don't presume that if I ask some dude and 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.680 the community college that he's going to be able to 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.600 break down the tendons in his legs. So it's just 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.040 a wild thing to ask somebody like, hey, do you 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.680 got something different than was in my leg meet that 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.680 neither one of us can see. The only tendons I 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:44.680 know about are in pork tender tenderloins, right, I assume 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:48.520 that's a tendon, that's a that's a pig tendon. Sure, 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.359 I don't actually think it is, but I love I 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.479 don't know what I'll be honest, I'm not even sure 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.640 what attending is. I think it's the connector between muscles, 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.920 if I'm understanding correctly. And I don't think that we 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.400 eat that ship. I don't think that's what pork tender 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:07.080 loin is. Well, I guess, I guess that's how you know. 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:11.720 I don't went to community college there. You go a 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:15.840 damn fool? How you know? That's how you know? I'm 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.240 sharing it because I don't know what the tender loin is. 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.720 I got money to eat it. I came here to lead, 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:26.200 not to read. So so he he says this to you, 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:30.800 He questions you about this possible secret tending in your leg, 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:34.840 and your first response is what what do you say 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:38.840 to him to handle this situation. I'm a curious person, 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:42.120 so I think it just started probing. I was just like, 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:44.760 you know, why do you think I have an extra 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:46.920 leg tending? I mean, I asked him, ask him if 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:50.160 you thought I had one? Yeah, I said, you're saying 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:57.880 black people do you mean me? Because sometimes white people 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.400 do the oaky dog we're asking something. Then generally that's 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:03.640 the third type of black people. But they don't ever 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:07.040 get around to asking you as if being their friend 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:11.440 makes you not black, right, that you're somehow exception to 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:15.400 the rule, that they're also still positioning you as the 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.640 answer to the thing that they want to know. It's 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.360 like they're doing, I'm not black, I'm o j But 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:26.240 for you, you're not Jordan's. You're not black, you're Jordan. 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:31.880 Jordan's your third base, baby girl. Now you're black, your 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:37.480 third base, sometimes left field, you're sometimes sometimes you're the 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:41.960 bat boy a matter of fact, go go I'm go 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:47.080 get me a bat with your black but not gives 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:51.240 you black you Jordan, Yeah, you're right because your ass 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:58.400 is black, right, And so you become curious, you say, 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:02.440 do you mean me? Does he then say like, yeah, 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.840 you dude, Jordan, or is he more like no, it's 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:10.480 more in general, I I'm just curious about the overall 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.719 status of black people. Yeah, he was. He was like, 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:15.959 I just want to know because I see some black 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:19.280 people who I'm like, they definitely must and I'm like 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:28.960 I'm like who, And he's like Baron Davis, and I'm like, 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.560 I'm like Baron Davis. He's not like a big dunker. 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.120 He's like, no, but he's like a smaller guy and 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:37.400 he can he's dunked on big guys. I'm more he 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.600 was a dunk. He was a dunker, and he's like, 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.640 he's like Alan Iverson, but he's dunked on people like 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.320 I see dunks and stuff. He was like, I don't 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.840 even want to say I'm not racist because they're I 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.560 feel like a lot of people are like, I'm not racist, 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.480 and it's like, it's not that I'm not racist, it's 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.640 just's I just want to ask questions. And I'm like 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.880 he's like, no, I'm not listen, my guy, I am racist, 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:06.800 but also I got questions. Don't get me wrong. I'll 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:11.199 say the hard arm, but I say it with curiosity. 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:20.880 There's a question mark at the end of Oh, that's 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:24.000 so fun. I love that he already had a list prepared. 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:27.120 I love that he knew exactly who he thought was 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:32.040 criminal of this supposed secret tending he had. He knew 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:35.600 Alan Iverson, Baron Davis, all these people who I can't 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.280 explain why they physically are able to do the things 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.920 that they do. They clearly must have an advantage that 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:45.360 that he didn't have. It was never anybody, though not 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:49.559 sports related, who maybe would do something like you can't 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.440 have like a tent extra tending for your mind. You 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:56.000 can't be like, wow, this nigga Baron Davis, or rather 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.880 Colin Powell, when he delivered that speech about drone strike, 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.560 it's like he had extra like he had an extra 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:08.120 brain tending when he was deflecting all of those drones strike. 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:11.280 What Obama was talking about, how that he would bomb 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:15.840 the Jonas brothers. They didn't know. You know, he was 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:20.000 so agile with his mind right, there's never it's not 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:23.840 like the black mind. The synapses fire at a different 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.520 rate than the white mind. It's always like, no, you 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.600 guys are big, old idiots. We don't think you're smart 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:33.040 at all. But your legs they must have a secret 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:36.040 weapon in them because of how fast and strong you are. 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.880 That's the real problem. We need to change the stereotype 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:42.400 from leg tendons to brain tendons. You know what I'm saying. 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:46.480 When we we do extra this nigger must have an 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:51.160 extra synapse, you know, No, we have to keep it 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.480 at tending so that it fox them up and they're like, wait, 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:59.080 brains don't have tendons. They think it's actually dumb. I 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.040 don't know. I thought was just the thing we made 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:03.360 up to be malicious and hurt them. But dumb is 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.000 the new smart. So it's just like the dumber you 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.960 can go, the more smart niggas would think you are. 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.280 So it's like, I don't know if I understand this. 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:15.920 Tell me more. Seemed like you're the one that's lost 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:24.480 my brother. Seemed like Mama didn't tell you ship. Uh, 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:28.439 so you're talking to this kid, Jeremy. He says what 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:31.320 he says, he wants to know, he goes down his list. 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:35.359 Do you then feel angry at this? Are you offended 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:37.920 by this question? Where are your feelings at this point 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.640 in relation to this question? Name? Well, I mean I 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:45.440 was already like the Jackie Robinson on the team, but 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:49.959 but like didn't break any color. Barrias wasn't good. I 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:54.000 didn't experience any racism, and you know, I was like 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.960 Jackie Robinson if if he was just there because of 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:02.520 the race card, Like that's the time, like that was 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:05.959 the one time that you had to actually really really 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:09.000 be good but people wouldn't be like, you're just there 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.880 because you're black. It's like they were mad at you 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.320 because you were black, and then you had to be 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:19.000 twice as good. Right. I do think that it's such 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:24.440 an absurd question that it almost feels silly to get 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.679 angry at it, if that makes sense. There are there 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.679 are some questions where it's like that clearly is coming 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:34.760 from a grounded, hateful place that like I feel like 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.560 I anger is the right response because I need to 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:41.480 be able to show you how offensive this is, and 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:45.840 that one feels almost cartoonish. It's like all right, bro, yeah, 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.840 and we got you know, a little like extra netting 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.320 under our arms that help us fly once we in 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:54.000 the air, Like we could just make ship up if 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:59.600 that's what you wanna do. But what are we talking about? Yeah, 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:04.240 I've had so many white kids in in my very 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:09.120 suburban experience, like try to, you know, very passively make 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:13.240 that suggestion that like, well, you're built different than everybody else. 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:15.560 It's like, my dad is white. I could have got 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.800 your shitty tendons, Like what are you talking about? How 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:22.400 do you know that I specifically ended up with the 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:26.400 tendon that you're claiming existence ship tensions and that Hank 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:33.400 hill but need to need to need to wear orthopedic gas. Look, 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:35.800 I'm just like you. Pull your pants down, just like 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:40.400 I'm just like you. So you sort of come to 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.920 this conclusion that this is absurd, but you're not gonna 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:46.840 get angry at this kid. Uh. You, then, I guess 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:50.000 go on to continue to ride the bench on this team. 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.840 Uh does this ever come back up again? Does he 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:59.680 ever revisit the conversation? No, it's not revisited. But I 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:04.880 that we had weird interactions after that, Like the one 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:08.480 time I did have a play that could potentially challenge 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:13.240 that theory was I was like running in the outfield, 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:15.240 and the one time I made a play on the ball, 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:19.240 like I made a bad path to the fly ball 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:24.360 and I auto corrected it, and I had gotten much 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:26.360 faster and was working out in the gym a lot, 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.800 and I actually caught the ball like on a diving 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:35.800 like head first reaching for the ball like catch, and afterwards, 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.720 like he was so happy for me, but he was 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:41.880 like holding it in, like as if he was like 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:48.440 keeping a secret, right, he knew you were superpowered, but 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.520 he was gonna be cool and not tell nobody that 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:54.640 he already knew. He knows that I ain't good for you, 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:56.840 but I know about the secret tending. I ain't gonna 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.360 tell nobody. Because my coach was picking up me. He 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.000 was like, man, and you made a bad path, but like, 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.600 clearly the gym is like working out, and he was. 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:07.920 He was happy for me, like saying like he worked hard. 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:10.760 But my friend was looking at me like, man, we 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:15.520 know what was working. Black Jesus worked out on you, 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.520 that one that one you, that's the Lord that gave 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:22.720 you that gift. Look at God and God also has 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:26.560 an extra legend of because we're made in his image. 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:32.480 God is God is a black woman with an extra legtender. 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.080 God is a black woman who can jump real, real high. 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:40.880 For some reason, I love that. So this continues forward. 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:44.360 Had you heard that before this kid said it to you? 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:46.880 Was there a point in your life where where you've 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.720 heard it either before or since? Then We're like, you've 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:54.080 had to readdress this conversation. I've never really heard of 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:57.600 it before that, But I was watching like Jackie Journa 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:01.400 Cursey and Maryan Jones or whatever, and I would be like, 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:07.120 there's something extra about them. It ended up being steroids. 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:13.520 But you know that, you know, I also have, Like 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:17.440 you know, no matter how like conscious or woke or 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.480 like black people are, they don't they never realize how 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:25.800 much subconscious like not even self hate, but like biased 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:29.920 they have, like against their own celves. Is like they 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:33.280 need to undo the white man living in their brain 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:39.720 or in your case, living in the house. It wasn't 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:44.359 some conscious It was whispering and under the door while 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:46.240 I sleep. He didn't come by the door and be 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:51.800 like listen to the white man, and he was talking 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:58.920 about himselves specifically, but it applied. It went for everybody. No. 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:03.560 I mean, it's just so fascinating to me because so 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:05.720 many of the arguments that I heard came when I 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:08.520 was a kid, Like it came from like young people 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:11.840 who were sort of speculating about the athletics of black people. 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:14.639 But then we get older and like we're on a 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:19.400 fucking podcast, we tell jokes like whatever this secret weapon 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.040 that either of us may or may not have had, 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:25.439 it didn't go to good use, you know what I mean, Like, 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:28.040 there's no way you're gonna convince me Bruce Bruce has 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:31.520 an extra tendant in his leg. I would argue Bruce. 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:35.359 Bruce is the only nigga who does have a tending. Okay, 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:40.080 I'm listening to tell me more. Yeah, I mean, have 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:45.400 you seen a move. I'll say this. The man can 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:48.240 carry a big suit in a way that it almost 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:51.919 seems humanly impossible, and he puts all that silk on 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:55.480 his shoulders and and somehow manages to make it look seamless, 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:58.560 look just smooth across the stage. It's just it's not 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:03.040 it's not affecting any athletic ability. He can get on 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:06.760 stage and just kind of like riff and do anything, 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:11.080 and like people will laugh. And it's like part of 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:15.399 just witnessing a man as large as he standing up 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:19.800 there with energy and poise. And that's the only kind 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:22.919 of energy employees you can have if there's an extra 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:28.440 piece of meat connected to your hit bone the leg, 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.639 And it just made him more graceful and poised on stage, 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:37.200 especially if you're large. You know, it's like you have 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:41.239 to have a kind of grab atass, you know. And 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:44.560 it's some people are like described it as jona Qua 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:48.680 and it's like all the French ship the jonas Qua 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:54.520 is the leg ten dome, that's the doona si qua 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:56.760 and it's like there's just something about him. I can't 0:19:56.760 --> 0:20:02.919 put my finger on it. It's the goddamn leg. And 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:06.080 he don't need to jump high. You just smooth and 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:09.920 silk silk robes. Don't jump high. For what he's got 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:12.760 all this charisma flowing through him. He ain't got to jump. 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:16.920 I love it. Yeah, man, all right, Well, we're gonna 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:19.000 take a break and we'll be back with more Jordan's 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:30.080 temple and more of my mama told me. And we 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:36.880 are back. I'm supposed to meet his meat with this ship. Bro, 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:40.880 What the fu? Yeah, we're back here with more Jordan's 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:44.920 temples and more of my mama told me. We're still 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:48.720 talking about that mysterious leg tending that these black people 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:52.760 supposedly have hiding in their calf muscles making them jump 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:55.640 high up in the sky. Have you ever been able 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:58.760 to jump? Sprior? You? Are you a very fast or 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:02.800 very good jumper? I might be a good jumper, I'm 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:08.280 and I'm like gracefully underrated. That's how I described myself 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:11.960 because because there's a lot of things I'll do and 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:14.919 I'll surprise myself and then people would be like, Hi, 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:17.239 are you good at so? And so, and I'll be like, 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:19.840 I'm fine, and then I do it and they'd be 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:24.600 like this, Nigga's amazing, I got you. That sounds like 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:27.199 a self esteem you know what I mean? That like 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:30.240 one of those things where it's a difference between professional 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:33.800 athletes and people that end up, I guess hosting podcasts. 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:38.840 You have to have enough faith in yourself to believe 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:42.240 that when you jump it means something for the world, 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:45.320 as opposed to when I jump, I'm like, I was embarrassing. 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:48.239 I'm never gonna do it again. But yeah, I go 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:51.960 between having a lot of confidence and no confidence. But 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:55.280 also it's like if people ask me if I could jump, 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:58.280 and it would be like, one example, I would never 0:21:58.359 --> 0:22:04.040 jump because it's not I wouldn't ever jump for nobody that. 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:06.760 It's like, I'm also not trying to compare it to 0:22:06.760 --> 0:22:09.680 nobody's ship. I'm like, can you jump? Let me see. 0:22:09.840 --> 0:22:13.119 I'm like out here, all right, you're too much of 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:17.880 a contrarian, like to participate in a group sport where 0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:19.800 they ask you to line up and be like the 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:22.520 dude in front of you. Yeah, that's some that's some 0:22:22.600 --> 0:22:26.280 sucker ship. I get that. Hell yeah, that's that's how 0:22:26.320 --> 0:22:28.280 they get that's how they get. Yeah, I got you, 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:31.560 I see what you're doing. Alright, let's get into some 0:22:31.640 --> 0:22:34.800 of this research, because I took my time to really 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:38.080 try to figure out if there's any legitimacy to this 0:22:38.440 --> 0:22:42.479 black people tending conversation. And one of the things that 0:22:42.560 --> 0:22:47.280 makes this whole conversation so problematic or difficult to research 0:22:47.800 --> 0:22:52.119 is that in unpacking things, I discovered that a fair 0:22:52.160 --> 0:22:58.879 amount of reputable, peer reviewed sites at some point in 0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:04.080 history had different thoughts on this issue than they probably 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:07.200 would today, you know what I mean. So there's all 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:12.040 these articles that come out in nine that are like, yeah, 0:23:12.119 --> 0:23:15.200 black people's legs are different than than white people's legs, 0:23:15.240 --> 0:23:20.040 and then that same source would now say like, h No, 0:23:20.280 --> 0:23:24.200 there's absolutely no difference between black people's legs and white 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:27.280 people's legs. So it's one of those things where I think, 0:23:27.640 --> 0:23:31.399 depending on when you decided to research it, you get 0:23:31.440 --> 0:23:35.480 completely different information, if that makes sense. And then you 0:23:35.520 --> 0:23:39.960 find out that they're also burying things even further, like 0:23:40.280 --> 0:23:43.160 something au peer of view thing like Yale would try 0:23:43.200 --> 0:23:46.600 to be woken out about some stupid ship like that. Meanwhile, 0:23:46.640 --> 0:23:50.560 they had slave quarters. They're like we don't we don't 0:23:50.359 --> 0:23:53.120 have any of this about black people. But it's like, 0:23:53.320 --> 0:23:56.840 not only did y'all have slave quarters, but y'all like 0:23:57.480 --> 0:24:05.040 predominantly white institution that's benefited from slavery itself. Right, Yes, 0:24:05.240 --> 0:24:08.639 it's exactly that. I think that there's so much of 0:24:08.800 --> 0:24:12.320 the way that we frame history that is just rewriting 0:24:12.359 --> 0:24:15.480 the bad ship we already did. And so it's like, 0:24:15.760 --> 0:24:18.679 I get it that you personally were not a participant 0:24:18.760 --> 0:24:21.119 in this thing, but you don't get to just skip 0:24:21.160 --> 0:24:25.560 over the fact that, like your institution fully supported a 0:24:25.640 --> 0:24:30.760 bad idea no more than thirty years ago, exactly very recent. Yeah, 0:24:31.040 --> 0:24:36.000 Yale had slaves. Shout out to Catherine, shout out, Katherine Cohen, 0:24:37.400 --> 0:24:45.840 Yale had slaves. You already your first I don't know 0:24:45.880 --> 0:24:48.119 if that's true. It sounds right to me, so I 0:24:48.200 --> 0:24:52.080 support it all. Right, here's what I found. There's very 0:24:52.160 --> 0:24:55.960 little evidence, as I think we both know that the 0:24:56.200 --> 0:25:00.960 negro has some sort of secret tendon. How Ever, there 0:25:01.160 --> 0:25:05.119 is a lot of evidence throughout history of white people 0:25:05.280 --> 0:25:09.520 trying to figure out the physical differences between black and 0:25:09.520 --> 0:25:14.000 white people as a way of identifying their own advantages 0:25:14.119 --> 0:25:18.679 and disadvantages. Right, So, I'll start us off with one 0:25:18.760 --> 0:25:21.359 of the beginnings of a lot of these things. In 0:25:21.520 --> 0:25:25.840 seventeen eighty seven, this British doctor Benjamin Moseley claimed that 0:25:25.880 --> 0:25:29.359 he could, basically, through the study of white people, figure 0:25:29.359 --> 0:25:32.439 out one of the major differences, or the two major 0:25:32.520 --> 0:25:35.960 differences between black and white people, was that black people 0:25:36.080 --> 0:25:40.840 number one, had a wider threshold for pain, like we 0:25:40.880 --> 0:25:44.439 could deal with pain better than white people could. And 0:25:44.440 --> 0:25:48.240 then number two, we had weak lungs compared to white people, 0:25:48.560 --> 0:25:53.600 and those weak lungs could only be fixed through forced labor. 0:25:53.920 --> 0:25:57.840 That by being forced to do physical work, we were 0:25:57.880 --> 0:26:01.480 always going to have like a weaker capacity for breathing 0:26:01.960 --> 0:26:08.320 than our white counterparts. Oh my god, that is insane. Yeah. Wow. 0:26:09.160 --> 0:26:12.560 So he he writes this article or or basically like 0:26:12.760 --> 0:26:15.359 does this study and one of the things that he 0:26:15.440 --> 0:26:18.840