1 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: Motherfucking many years. So motherfucking many years. Yep, yep, yep, 2 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: there it is. There it is. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome 3 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 1: to another phenomenal episode of My Mama Told Me a 4 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 1: Many episode, you bitches. The podcast. Well, we got deep, 5 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:33,239 Speaker 1: deep into the pockets of black conspiracy theories and we 6 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 1: finally work to prove the theories that you, the listeners 7 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:39,879 Speaker 1: have at home. It's your time, baby. We're deep in 8 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: them pockets, your pockets. What you got in them pockets? 9 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: Let me see pull them out, pull them out like 10 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:49,160 Speaker 1: an old timey cartoon where people prove that they're broken 11 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:51,880 Speaker 1: because they pull out their pockets and butterflies come out. 12 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 1: But this time it's not butterflies. It's just crazy ass ideas, 13 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: personal ideas that you've been keeping secret, but now you 14 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 1: finally get to share them. And boy, did we have 15 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,960 Speaker 1: somebody who wanted to share today. I got a message 16 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 1: from a person named Chauncey. Chauncey sent me a message, 17 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna play his message for you, now, Yo, 18 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 1: what up? Langston? All right? So, first of all, I 19 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 1: want him to tell you, nigga, you sound like a 20 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 1: young Alfalfa. You got the worst voice of a nigger. 21 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:26,960 Speaker 1: All right, man, women hat his club. You've grown ass 22 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 1: toddler and nigga, you look like a long lost curer. Brother. No, 23 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:33,679 Speaker 1: is that the one that didn't make it to the 24 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: league nigger that don't get no bitches Other than that, 25 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: you're cool, dude, Man, you're cool due I focus your pod. Anyways, though, 26 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 1: my mama told me, when it's raining outside and the 27 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: sun is shining, I mean the devil is beating his wife. 28 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: As my mama told me and me personally, I never 29 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 1: figured you know the devil to be. You know, a 30 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 1: marrit type of nigger. He always struct me as a bachelor, 31 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 1: like the type of nigga that your girl hate because 32 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 1: you're bad. Influence nigga be calling you and one one 33 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 1: in the morning saying, hey, yo, nigga ware you wet 34 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:08,959 Speaker 1: what a bitches that nigga meet me at the club? Bitch, 35 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:13,079 Speaker 1: let's go. I don't know, but yeah, she's crazy though. 36 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:16,359 Speaker 1: All right, Well, first of all, then let me get 37 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 1: this out the way. Immediately, suck a butt, Chauncey, sucking 38 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:24,079 Speaker 1: open but just a wide open butthole. Get a big 39 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 1: old whiff of that motherfucker with your with your lungs. 40 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 1: Fuck you, you piece of ship. How dare you come 41 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: on my podcast making fun? If you've lost your mind? 42 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 1: You want to talk about how I sound? Do sound 43 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: like you read with your finger and then you suck 44 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: on it afterwards. You sound like you wipe once and 45 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:45,079 Speaker 1: then you don't check to see if you're finished afterwards. 46 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: He Chauncey, you sound like you sell ass outside of 47 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: an auto zone, auto parts, just soliciting people with mufflers 48 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 1: in their hands to to rub it off. You know 49 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 1: what I mean? You? Oh, I'm very it's Chauncey. Now 50 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 1: to your question, the suggestion of the devil beating his 51 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: wife during a sunshower, as they're commonly called. I don't 52 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: know if we can so much qualify this as a 53 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 1: conspiracy theory, as we can't objectively prove the devil's existence, 54 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Now, we can't prove that 55 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 1: the white Devil exists, right. We know his name is 56 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 1: Joe Rogan, But unfortunately there's no evidence that Joe Rogan 57 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: hits his wife. We can't prove that he does. Seem 58 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: more like he would like make his wife chug mussel 59 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: milk while she begs for him to stop, you know, 60 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: just deep into the night. He's like, you fucking drink 61 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 1: that mussel milk. You get, biggest strong bitch, you stupid bitch, 62 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 1: and you better listen to all eighteen hours of my 63 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 1: my interview with with Bill Gates. He's ready to apologize 64 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 1: for his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, but in a different way. 65 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: He's gonna do drugs first. Anyway. The idiom that you're 66 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: referring to of the devil beating his wife during a 67 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 1: on shower has long existed in history. Apparently, the phrase 68 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: itself is said to imply that the sun, which is 69 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 1: a large ball of fire, represents the devil with his 70 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: his fire and his brimstone. You you're familiar with the 71 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:19,280 Speaker 1: devil and and the rain. Chauncey represents the tears of 72 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: his wife. Now, I too, like you, had never considered 73 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 1: the possibility that the devil was married. I didn't think 74 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 1: that he so much went to the club the way 75 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 1: you're pitching it. I just knew that a man who 76 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 1: pours water bugs down a person's pe hole doesn't exactly 77 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: go home to a family afterwards, you know what I mean. 78 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: That's that's not something you talk about over a dinner table. 79 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 1: So I never pictured that the devil had a wife 80 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 1: and a family. However, there are plenty of examples of 81 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 1: devil like figures in literary history who got married. For example, 82 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:56,280 Speaker 1: in Greek mythology, Hades, the god of the underworld, is 83 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 1: said to have married Persephone, who is the daughter of Demeter, 84 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 1: and Demeter is basically like mother Nature. I'm probably fucking 85 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: up some of these one for once, but you get 86 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:09,599 Speaker 1: the idea. But when Demeter finds out that Hades and 87 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: Hades has a big old crush on on Persephone, so 88 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:15,600 Speaker 1: much so that he basically kidnaps her. Not cool, Hades. 89 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 1: Not in Hades, you don't kidnap women anymore, Hades, You're 90 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:26,599 Speaker 1: canceled Hades. Anyway, Hades kidnaps Persephoni, takes her to the underworld, 91 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,040 Speaker 1: and Demeter is so fucked up by this. She's so 92 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 1: angry that she actually refuses to to make the earth 93 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 1: fertile until Persephoni is returned to her, and then, through 94 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 1: a series of of wacky hijinks, her and Hades come 95 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:45,359 Speaker 1: to an agreement where Persephone will basically spend half the 96 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 1: year with Hades and half the year with Demeter and 97 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: staying true to her word. As long as Persephone is 98 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:55,920 Speaker 1: in the underworld, Demeter does not make the earth grow. 99 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: Thus that is the origin of winter on So long 100 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: as Persephone is gone, everything is cold and dry and 101 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 1: we don't have flowers. And then once Persephone comes back, boom, 102 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,839 Speaker 1: you hit spring, ship blossoms, and then summer. I guess 103 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 1: that's when, uh, Persephone and Demeter are really fucking kicking it, 104 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, They're really having a good 105 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 1: old time. And then Hades comes and he's like, I 106 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:23,840 Speaker 1: want my bitch back, And now where where we started? Anyway, 107 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:27,360 Speaker 1: this phrase of the devil beating his wife is largely 108 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:29,919 Speaker 1: connected to the Southern States of the US, right that 109 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 1: that's some Southern ship. That's your your mississippies, your sippies 110 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:37,799 Speaker 1: as I call them, and your Alabama's. I don't call abamas. 111 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 1: I call him Alice. That's my style. They also apparently 112 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: say this exact same ship and Hungry. For some reason. 113 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:48,719 Speaker 1: I don't know why Hungary and uh and Jiah I 114 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 1: called Georgia Jia are are sharing this similarity, but apparently 115 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 1: they are. It seems like the phrase itself can actually 116 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: be traced back hundreds of years though like it has 117 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:01,480 Speaker 1: a deep deep his three. The first recorded use of 118 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: this phrase was actually in seventeen oh three in this 119 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 1: French play where they go, Uh, somebody said to go 120 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: and trash him round the churchyard as the devil does 121 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: his wife in rainy weather when the sun shines. Then 122 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: years later this writer named Jonathan Swift. Now you guys 123 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 1: may know Jonathan Swift because he's this Irish satirist who 124 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 1: basically wrote one of my favorite pieces that I've ever read. 125 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 1: It's super interesting, this thing called a modest proposal, where 126 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: through I won't give too much away, while I probably 127 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:36,119 Speaker 1: will give the entire thing away. But basically he makes 128 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: a proposal for why rich people should be allowed to 129 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 1: eat poor people's children. It's satire, it's super interesting, and 130 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: it's really a great uh, holding a mirror up to 131 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 1: the funked up parts of our capitalist society. But Jonathan 132 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: Swift in seventeen thirty eight said the devil was beating 133 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 1: his wife behind the door with a shoulder of mutton. 134 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 1: What's interesting is that this is just an example of 135 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 1: how people repeating back a clever phrase from some art 136 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: piece happens over generations. It's no different, in my opinion 137 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 1: than the way that more money, more problems, more money, 138 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 1: more problems. I don't know why I put the r 139 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 1: E on the end of that motherfucker, but more money, 140 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: more problems has made its way into contemporary communication. Right 141 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 1: every time we say that if it's raining while the 142 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 1: sun is out, the devil's beating his wife, it's just 143 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 1: all it's just us all saying bars to some old 144 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:35,520 Speaker 1: French dude, you know what I mean. It's just us 145 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 1: big up in some French dude who had a dope 146 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 1: ass rhyme all the way back in three now. Another 147 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: version of this was recorded in eighteen ninety three and 148 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 1: inwards weather lore, if it rains while the sun is shining, 149 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 1: the devil is beating his grandmother grandmother in this case, which, 150 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 1: if I'm being honest, sounds way more like devil behavior. 151 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:01,960 Speaker 1: You know. The devil is definitely the type of motherfucker 152 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 1: who beats the ship out of his own grandma. I 153 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 1: don't know he as a wife, but he fus his 154 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:09,079 Speaker 1: grandmother up. I think we can all agree on that. 155 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 1: More interesting though, and this is this is the part 156 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: that really piques my interest, is that this phrase, while 157 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:20,439 Speaker 1: more common in the United States, there there are hundreds 158 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 1: of phrases that actually in idioms that exist all over 159 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 1: the world to describe this exact same phenomenon, phrases that 160 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 1: are very different than the one that we use in 161 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: the US. In fact, in this assistant linguistics professor at 162 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 1: Harvard actually put together a comprehensive list of idioms from 163 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 1: around the world. And I'm gonna read just a few 164 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 1: of them to you now, because some of these are 165 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 1: pretty fun. There's a there's a fun list of them. 166 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:52,160 Speaker 1: In Armenia, when it's raining and the sun is out 167 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:54,680 Speaker 1: during you know, a sunshower, they say the wolf is 168 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:58,839 Speaker 1: giving birth on the mountain in Cape Verdia, Cape Verdi, 169 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:01,560 Speaker 1: I think, I don't Cape Verdian people, you know these 170 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 1: motherfucker's The groom has eaten unheeded food. In English, the 171 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 1: devil's beating his wife with a cod fish uh. In Finnish, 172 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:16,240 Speaker 1: a wedding is being celebrated in hades look at me 173 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:19,200 Speaker 1: during research that connects to what the Finnish people believe, 174 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 1: and my genius hard to know. In German, the devil 175 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:25,680 Speaker 1: has a parish fair. I don't know what the funk. 176 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 1: That means in Greek the poor are getting married. Who 177 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 1: the Greek are problematic. They do not care for the poor. 178 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 1: This has to be like a weird ironic thing. I 179 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 1: would hope, but nope, I guess the Greek people are 180 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 1: a piece of ship. That's why their country failed multiple times. Anyway, 181 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:46,200 Speaker 1: In Hindi the jackal's wedding. In Polish the witch is 182 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:50,679 Speaker 1: making butter. Portuguese the witches are making soft bread. Apparently 183 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 1: anywhere with the pa they're obsessed with witches making food. 184 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 1: In Spanish the rabbits are giving birth. And in Zulu 185 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:02,679 Speaker 1: monkey's wedding. Real simple over in Zulu, it's just monkeys 186 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 1: getting married. Now, that's pretty much it. That's a full 187 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:10,080 Speaker 1: breakdown of this. Of this not conspiracy theory. You brought 188 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:18,319 Speaker 1: to me, Chauncey, You dumb motherfucker. I wanted this all 189 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 1: time to be like you, dumb bitch, this ain't even 190 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 1: a conspiracy theory anyway, is I'm glad you brought it 191 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:26,680 Speaker 1: to me. I guess I don't know that this has 192 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 1: been a delight. If you yourself would love to send 193 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 1: me idioms that have nothing to do with conspiracy theory, 194 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:35,960 Speaker 1: but a fund of research and talk some shit about 195 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 1: and if you want to hurt my feelings with all 196 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 1: your roasts at the top of it, you can send 197 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 1: that ship to my Mama pod at gmail dot com. 198 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:47,960 Speaker 1: I would love to hear from you. Uh, please subscribe, 199 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 1: write a review, say something, Say something remotely reasonable about 200 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: the about the podcast. In my voice, I I can't 201 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 1: take any more of the hurt that you just keep 202 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 1: throwing my way. Otherwise, Uh, I don't know. I love you, dearly. 203 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 1: You're my special Someone's bye bitch. Motherfucking mini years, so 204 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 1: mini episode, motherfucking mini years, so motherfucking mini years, so 205 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 1: many episode, motherfucking mini episode.