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Speaker 1: Motherfucking many years sold, motherfucking many years so old. Yep, yep, yep,

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Speaker 1: there it is. There it is. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to another phenomenal episode of My Mama Told Me, a

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Speaker 1: motherfucking mini episode of the podcast where we dive deep,

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Speaker 1: deep into the pockets of black conspiracy theories and we

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Speaker 1: finally worked to prove the theories that you the listeners

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Speaker 1: have at home. It's that simple, folks. There's nothing else

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Speaker 1: to it. I ain't got no other information for you. You

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Speaker 1: You know the motherfucking games. Do you know how this works?

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Speaker 1: And god damn it, do we have a fun one

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Speaker 1: this week? This message comes to me from a person

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Speaker 1: who did not include their name. There's no name attached

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Speaker 1: to this sentence, says By at the end of the message,

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Speaker 1: sent from Yahoo mail on Android. So this is a

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Speaker 1: goddamn maniac as far as I get, Sir, you are

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Speaker 1: combining some of the most toxic technologies ever created by man,

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Speaker 1: Yahoo and Android to send a message to me. I'm

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Speaker 1: amazed my computer didn't blow up, sir and or madam.

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Speaker 1: I I truly am amazed that my processor didn't melt

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Speaker 1: down from the bullshit that you're using to communicate with

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Speaker 1: the world. That said, this person sent me a message

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Speaker 1: and uh specifically they titled the email whistling in the House,

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Speaker 1: a good A good title on an email, A good

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Speaker 1: What up, Lankston? They said? First off, this is probably

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite podcasts. Mine too. I'm a big

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Speaker 1: fan of this podcast. I tune in faithfully every Tuesday

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Speaker 1: and Thursday, especially love the motherfucking many episodes. Well guess what, you, yahoo, bitch,

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Speaker 1: you're on one. Could you explore this for me? And

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Speaker 1: the only way that you can? My mama told me,

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Speaker 1: and this really came from my mama. Not something go

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Speaker 1: and bye, bitch. The Black Black hand thumbs up. Great

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Speaker 1: and I'm very curious because I personally, and I'm from

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Speaker 1: That that's more Midwestern ship, I think, than connections to

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Speaker 1: this superstition doesn't seem to be particularly Black in nature

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Speaker 1: That there is probably some Motherland connections. However, all kinds

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Speaker 1: For example, the people of Turkey believe that whistling indoors

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Speaker 1: keep the whistles to yourself. The scariest whistle truthers out

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Speaker 1: this oddly connects to another superstition, uh common superstition where

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Speaker 1: Why haven't we figured out a new word for semen?

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Speaker 1: See men? Yeah, and see men besides the semen, because

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Speaker 1: we know what the crossover is here. These are professionals.

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Speaker 1: Why are we calling them? Come people, let's let's do better, folks.

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Speaker 1: besides being come daddy's you know anyway, because these semen

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Speaker 1: use whistling backstage as a form of communicating their needs, right,

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Speaker 1: using whistling to communicate all of that. They banned everyone

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Speaker 1: or injury to everyone else around them. You whistle, this

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Speaker 1: You can whistle in two just find a different tricks.

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Speaker 1: Show somebody a YouTube video of a grandma getting punched

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Speaker 1: in the titty. That's that's way better than whistling, I

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Speaker 1: would say, I would say objectively, grandma getting punched in

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Speaker 1: the titty on YouTube. It will entertain family for for

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Speaker 1: You could stop all the whistling and uh, do better,

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Speaker 1: believe in yourself and do better. Okay, if you have

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Speaker 1: conspiracy theories about odd mouth based superstitions that your mom

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Speaker 1: told you, you can send them to my I'm a

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Speaker 1: for you to do and and be sure. It's coming

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Speaker 1: up soon and I'm excited about it. But bus now

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Speaker 1: it's coming to Peacock and I would love for you

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Speaker 1: guys to check it out. It's coming March tenth, and

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Speaker 1: I want everybody who listens to my bullshit to know

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Speaker 1: that I made even more important bullshit that's available on

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Speaker 1: Peacock March tent. So go check that out anyway. That's

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Speaker 1: all I got for you, bye, bitch. Motherfucking many years, so,

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Speaker 1: motherfucking many years, so, motherfucking many years so, motherfucking many

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