WEBVTT - Devil May Slap: Motherf*ckin Mini Episode 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:15.720 Motherfucking many years. So motherfucking many years. Yep, yep, yep, 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:19.239 there it is. There it is. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:23.800 to another phenomenal episode of My Mama Told Me a 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:29.920 Many episode, you bitches. The podcast. Well, we got deep, 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:33.239 deep into the pockets of black conspiracy theories and we 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:36.600 finally work to prove the theories that you, the listeners 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.879 have at home. It's your time, baby. We're deep in 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:43.080 them pockets, your pockets. What you got in them pockets? 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:45.680 Let me see pull them out, pull them out like 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:49.160 an old timey cartoon where people prove that they're broken 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:51.880 because they pull out their pockets and butterflies come out. 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:55.520 But this time it's not butterflies. It's just crazy ass ideas, 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:58.920 personal ideas that you've been keeping secret, but now you 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:01.400 finally get to share them. And boy, did we have 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:04.960 somebody who wanted to share today. I got a message 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:09.560 from a person named Chauncey. Chauncey sent me a message, 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:13.440 and I'm gonna play his message for you, now, Yo, 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.480 what up? Langston? All right? So, first of all, I 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:18.840 want him to tell you, nigga, you sound like a 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:23.200 young Alfalfa. You got the worst voice of a nigger. 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:26.960 All right, man, women hat his club. You've grown ass 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:31.600 toddler and nigga, you look like a long lost curer. Brother. No, 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:33.679 is that the one that didn't make it to the 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:36.800 league nigger that don't get no bitches Other than that, 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:40.600 you're cool, dude, Man, you're cool due I focus your pod. Anyways, though, 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:44.920 my mama told me, when it's raining outside and the 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.480 sun is shining, I mean the devil is beating his wife. 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:52.720 As my mama told me and me personally, I never 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.520 figured you know the devil to be. You know, a 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.080 marrit type of nigger. He always struct me as a bachelor, 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:00.960 like the type of nigga that your girl hate because 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.400 you're bad. Influence nigga be calling you and one one 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.240 in the morning saying, hey, yo, nigga ware you wet 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:08.959 what a bitches that nigga meet me at the club? Bitch, 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:13.079 let's go. I don't know, but yeah, she's crazy though. 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.359 All right, Well, first of all, then let me get 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:20.400 this out the way. Immediately, suck a butt, Chauncey, sucking 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:24.079 open but just a wide open butthole. Get a big 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.840 old whiff of that motherfucker with your with your lungs. 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:30.400 Fuck you, you piece of ship. How dare you come 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:33.760 on my podcast making fun? If you've lost your mind? 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:35.880 You want to talk about how I sound? Do sound 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.000 like you read with your finger and then you suck 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:42.320 on it afterwards. You sound like you wipe once and 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:45.079 then you don't check to see if you're finished afterwards. 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:48.600 He Chauncey, you sound like you sell ass outside of 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:54.160 an auto zone, auto parts, just soliciting people with mufflers 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:57.000 in their hands to to rub it off. You know 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:01.120 what I mean? You? Oh, I'm very it's Chauncey. Now 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:04.040 to your question, the suggestion of the devil beating his 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:08.040 wife during a sunshower, as they're commonly called. I don't 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.720 know if we can so much qualify this as a 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:16.840 conspiracy theory, as we can't objectively prove the devil's existence, 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:18.800 you know what I mean? Now, we can't prove that 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:22.160 the white Devil exists, right. We know his name is 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:26.200 Joe Rogan, But unfortunately there's no evidence that Joe Rogan 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.320 hits his wife. We can't prove that he does. Seem 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.280 more like he would like make his wife chug mussel 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:34.920 milk while she begs for him to stop, you know, 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.040 just deep into the night. He's like, you fucking drink 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:42.000 that mussel milk. You get, biggest strong bitch, you stupid bitch, 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.920 and you better listen to all eighteen hours of my 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:49.360 my interview with with Bill Gates. He's ready to apologize 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.840 for his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, but in a different way. 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:56.800 He's gonna do drugs first. Anyway. The idiom that you're 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.800 referring to of the devil beating his wife during a 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:04.280 on shower has long existed in history. Apparently, the phrase 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:07.720 itself is said to imply that the sun, which is 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:11.640 a large ball of fire, represents the devil with his 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.680 his fire and his brimstone. You you're familiar with the 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:19.280 devil and and the rain. Chauncey represents the tears of 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.760 his wife. Now, I too, like you, had never considered 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.320 the possibility that the devil was married. I didn't think 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.080 that he so much went to the club the way 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:30.240 you're pitching it. I just knew that a man who 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:34.760 pours water bugs down a person's pe hole doesn't exactly 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.440 go home to a family afterwards, you know what I mean. 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.400 That's that's not something you talk about over a dinner table. 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.000 So I never pictured that the devil had a wife 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:46.960 and a family. However, there are plenty of examples of 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:52.200 devil like figures in literary history who got married. For example, 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:56.280 in Greek mythology, Hades, the god of the underworld, is 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.640 said to have married Persephone, who is the daughter of Demeter, 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.839 and Demeter is basically like mother Nature. I'm probably fucking 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.480 up some of these one for once, but you get 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:09.599 the idea. But when Demeter finds out that Hades and 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.240 Hades has a big old crush on on Persephone, so 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:15.600 much so that he basically kidnaps her. Not cool, Hades. 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:21.400 Not in Hades, you don't kidnap women anymore, Hades, You're 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:26.599 canceled Hades. Anyway, Hades kidnaps Persephoni, takes her to the underworld, 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.040 and Demeter is so fucked up by this. She's so 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:33.640 angry that she actually refuses to to make the earth 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:37.680 fertile until Persephoni is returned to her, and then, through 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:42.080 a series of of wacky hijinks, her and Hades come 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.359 to an agreement where Persephone will basically spend half the 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.800 year with Hades and half the year with Demeter and 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.760 staying true to her word. As long as Persephone is 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:55.920 in the underworld, Demeter does not make the earth grow. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:06:00.560 Thus that is the origin of winter on So long 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:04.080 as Persephone is gone, everything is cold and dry and 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:07.560 we don't have flowers. And then once Persephone comes back, boom, 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.839 you hit spring, ship blossoms, and then summer. I guess 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.360 that's when, uh, Persephone and Demeter are really fucking kicking it, 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:16.200 you know what I mean, They're really having a good 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.520 old time. And then Hades comes and he's like, I 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:23.840 want my bitch back, And now where where we started? Anyway, 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:27.360 this phrase of the devil beating his wife is largely 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.919 connected to the Southern States of the US, right that 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:34.320 that's some Southern ship. That's your your mississippies, your sippies 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:37.799 as I call them, and your Alabama's. I don't call abamas. 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:41.360 I call him Alice. That's my style. They also apparently 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.760 say this exact same ship and Hungry. For some reason. 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:48.719 I don't know why Hungary and uh and Jiah I 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:53.080 called Georgia Jia are are sharing this similarity, but apparently 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.719 they are. It seems like the phrase itself can actually 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:58.760 be traced back hundreds of years though like it has 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:01.480 a deep deep his three. The first recorded use of 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.520 this phrase was actually in seventeen oh three in this 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.800 French play where they go, Uh, somebody said to go 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:11.600 and trash him round the churchyard as the devil does 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:15.440 his wife in rainy weather when the sun shines. Then 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:19.040 years later this writer named Jonathan Swift. Now you guys 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:23.120 may know Jonathan Swift because he's this Irish satirist who 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.040 basically wrote one of my favorite pieces that I've ever read. 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:29.600 It's super interesting, this thing called a modest proposal, where 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.520 through I won't give too much away, while I probably 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:36.119 will give the entire thing away. But basically he makes 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:39.920 a proposal for why rich people should be allowed to 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:44.360 eat poor people's children. It's satire, it's super interesting, and 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:47.960 it's really a great uh, holding a mirror up to 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:52.600 the funked up parts of our capitalist society. But Jonathan 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:55.760 Swift in seventeen thirty eight said the devil was beating 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:59.400 his wife behind the door with a shoulder of mutton. 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:03.480 What's interesting is that this is just an example of 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:07.720 how people repeating back a clever phrase from some art 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:12.200 piece happens over generations. It's no different, in my opinion 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:16.440 than the way that more money, more problems, more money, 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.240 more problems. I don't know why I put the r 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.680 E on the end of that motherfucker, but more money, 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:24.640 more problems has made its way into contemporary communication. Right 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:28.040 every time we say that if it's raining while the 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.080 sun is out, the devil's beating his wife, it's just 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:33.400 all it's just us all saying bars to some old 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.520 French dude, you know what I mean. It's just us 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.760 big up in some French dude who had a dope 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:42.800 ass rhyme all the way back in three now. Another 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:46.400 version of this was recorded in eighteen ninety three and 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:50.480 inwards weather lore, if it rains while the sun is shining, 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:55.280 the devil is beating his grandmother grandmother in this case, which, 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:59.000 if I'm being honest, sounds way more like devil behavior. 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.960 You know. The devil is definitely the type of motherfucker 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.120 who beats the ship out of his own grandma. I 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.640 don't know he as a wife, but he fus his 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.079 grandmother up. I think we can all agree on that. 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.280 More interesting though, and this is this is the part 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:16.160 that really piques my interest, is that this phrase, while 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:20.439 more common in the United States, there there are hundreds 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:24.440 of phrases that actually in idioms that exist all over 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:28.480 the world to describe this exact same phenomenon, phrases that 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.360 are very different than the one that we use in 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:37.120 the US. In fact, in this assistant linguistics professor at 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:41.360 Harvard actually put together a comprehensive list of idioms from 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:43.760 around the world. And I'm gonna read just a few 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:45.640 of them to you now, because some of these are 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.600 pretty fun. There's a there's a fun list of them. 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:52.160 In Armenia, when it's raining and the sun is out 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:54.680 during you know, a sunshower, they say the wolf is 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:58.839 giving birth on the mountain in Cape Verdia, Cape Verdi, 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.560 I think, I don't Cape Verdian people, you know these 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:07.720 motherfucker's The groom has eaten unheeded food. In English, the 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:12.400 devil's beating his wife with a cod fish uh. In Finnish, 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:16.240 a wedding is being celebrated in hades look at me 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:19.200 during research that connects to what the Finnish people believe, 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:23.080 and my genius hard to know. In German, the devil 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.680 has a parish fair. I don't know what the funk. 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.720 That means in Greek the poor are getting married. Who 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.880 the Greek are problematic. They do not care for the poor. 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:34.800 This has to be like a weird ironic thing. I 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.120 would hope, but nope, I guess the Greek people are 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:41.720 a piece of ship. That's why their country failed multiple times. Anyway, 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:46.200 In Hindi the jackal's wedding. In Polish the witch is 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:50.679 making butter. Portuguese the witches are making soft bread. Apparently 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:54.120 anywhere with the pa they're obsessed with witches making food. 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:58.040 In Spanish the rabbits are giving birth. And in Zulu 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:02.679 monkey's wedding. Real simple over in Zulu, it's just monkeys 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:06.040 getting married. Now, that's pretty much it. That's a full 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:10.080 breakdown of this. Of this not conspiracy theory. You brought 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:18.319 to me, Chauncey, You dumb motherfucker. I wanted this all 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.520 time to be like you, dumb bitch, this ain't even 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:24.160 a conspiracy theory anyway, is I'm glad you brought it 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.680 to me. I guess I don't know that this has 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.760 been a delight. If you yourself would love to send 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:33.720 me idioms that have nothing to do with conspiracy theory, 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:35.960 but a fund of research and talk some shit about 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.400 and if you want to hurt my feelings with all 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:40.520 your roasts at the top of it, you can send 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:44.280 that ship to my Mama pod at gmail dot com. 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:47.960 I would love to hear from you. Uh, please subscribe, 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:53.720 write a review, say something, Say something remotely reasonable about 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:58.120 the about the podcast. In my voice, I I can't 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:00.480 take any more of the hurt that you just keep 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:05.360 throwing my way. Otherwise, Uh, I don't know. I love you, dearly. 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:13.240 You're my special Someone's bye bitch. Motherfucking mini years, so 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:23.880 mini episode, motherfucking mini years, so motherfucking mini years, so 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:29.360 many episode, motherfucking mini episode.