Speaker 1: Motherfucking many years. So motherfucking many years. Yep, yep, yep,
Speaker 1: there it is. There it is. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome
Speaker 1: to another phenomenal episode of My Mama Told Me a
Speaker 1: Many episode, you bitches. The podcast. Well, we got deep,
Speaker 1: deep into the pockets of black conspiracy theories and we
Speaker 1: finally work to prove the theories that you, the listeners
Speaker 1: have at home. It's your time, baby. We're deep in
Speaker 1: them pockets, your pockets. What you got in them pockets?
Speaker 1: Let me see pull them out, pull them out like
Speaker 1: an old timey cartoon where people prove that they're broken
Speaker 1: because they pull out their pockets and butterflies come out.
Speaker 1: But this time it's not butterflies. It's just crazy ass ideas,
Speaker 1: personal ideas that you've been keeping secret, but now you
Speaker 1: finally get to share them. And boy, did we have
Speaker 1: somebody who wanted to share today. I got a message
Speaker 1: from a person named Chauncey. Chauncey sent me a message,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna play his message for you, now, Yo,
Speaker 1: what up? Langston? All right? So, first of all, I
Speaker 1: want him to tell you, nigga, you sound like a
Speaker 1: young Alfalfa. You got the worst voice of a nigger.
Speaker 1: All right, man, women hat his club. You've grown ass
Speaker 1: toddler and nigga, you look like a long lost curer. Brother. No,
Speaker 1: is that the one that didn't make it to the
Speaker 1: league nigger that don't get no bitches Other than that,
Speaker 1: you're cool, dude, Man, you're cool due I focus your pod. Anyways, though,
Speaker 1: my mama told me, when it's raining outside and the
Speaker 1: sun is shining, I mean the devil is beating his wife.
Speaker 1: As my mama told me and me personally, I never
Speaker 1: figured you know the devil to be. You know, a
Speaker 1: marrit type of nigger. He always struct me as a bachelor,
Speaker 1: like the type of nigga that your girl hate because
Speaker 1: you're bad. Influence nigga be calling you and one one
Speaker 1: in the morning saying, hey, yo, nigga ware you wet
Speaker 1: what a bitches that nigga meet me at the club? Bitch,
Speaker 1: let's go. I don't know, but yeah, she's crazy though.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, first of all, then let me get
Speaker 1: this out the way. Immediately, suck a butt, Chauncey, sucking
Speaker 1: open but just a wide open butthole. Get a big
Speaker 1: old whiff of that motherfucker with your with your lungs.
Speaker 1: Fuck you, you piece of ship. How dare you come
Speaker 1: on my podcast making fun? If you've lost your mind?
Speaker 1: You want to talk about how I sound? Do sound
Speaker 1: like you read with your finger and then you suck
Speaker 1: on it afterwards. You sound like you wipe once and
Speaker 1: then you don't check to see if you're finished afterwards.
Speaker 1: He Chauncey, you sound like you sell ass outside of
Speaker 1: an auto zone, auto parts, just soliciting people with mufflers
Speaker 1: in their hands to to rub it off. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean? You? Oh, I'm very it's Chauncey. Now
Speaker 1: to your question, the suggestion of the devil beating his
Speaker 1: wife during a sunshower, as they're commonly called. I don't
Speaker 1: know if we can so much qualify this as a
Speaker 1: conspiracy theory, as we can't objectively prove the devil's existence,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Now, we can't prove that
Speaker 1: the white Devil exists, right. We know his name is
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan, But unfortunately there's no evidence that Joe Rogan
Speaker 1: hits his wife. We can't prove that he does. Seem
Speaker 1: more like he would like make his wife chug mussel
Speaker 1: milk while she begs for him to stop, you know,
Speaker 1: just deep into the night. He's like, you fucking drink
Speaker 1: that mussel milk. You get, biggest strong bitch, you stupid bitch,
Speaker 1: and you better listen to all eighteen hours of my
Speaker 1: my interview with with Bill Gates. He's ready to apologize
Speaker 1: for his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, but in a different way.
Speaker 1: He's gonna do drugs first. Anyway. The idiom that you're
Speaker 1: referring to of the devil beating his wife during a
Speaker 1: on shower has long existed in history. Apparently, the phrase
Speaker 1: itself is said to imply that the sun, which is
Speaker 1: a large ball of fire, represents the devil with his
Speaker 1: his fire and his brimstone. You you're familiar with the
Speaker 1: devil and and the rain. Chauncey represents the tears of
Speaker 1: his wife. Now, I too, like you, had never considered
Speaker 1: the possibility that the devil was married. I didn't think
Speaker 1: that he so much went to the club the way
Speaker 1: you're pitching it. I just knew that a man who
Speaker 1: pours water bugs down a person's pe hole doesn't exactly
Speaker 1: go home to a family afterwards, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: That's that's not something you talk about over a dinner table.
Speaker 1: So I never pictured that the devil had a wife
Speaker 1: and a family. However, there are plenty of examples of
Speaker 1: devil like figures in literary history who got married. For example,
Speaker 1: in Greek mythology, Hades, the god of the underworld, is
Speaker 1: said to have married Persephone, who is the daughter of Demeter,
Speaker 1: and Demeter is basically like mother Nature. I'm probably fucking
Speaker 1: up some of these one for once, but you get
Speaker 1: the idea. But when Demeter finds out that Hades and
Speaker 1: Hades has a big old crush on on Persephone, so
Speaker 1: much so that he basically kidnaps her. Not cool, Hades.
Speaker 1: Not in Hades, you don't kidnap women anymore, Hades, You're
Speaker 1: canceled Hades. Anyway, Hades kidnaps Persephoni, takes her to the underworld,
Speaker 1: and Demeter is so fucked up by this. She's so
Speaker 1: angry that she actually refuses to to make the earth
Speaker 1: fertile until Persephoni is returned to her, and then, through
Speaker 1: a series of of wacky hijinks, her and Hades come
Speaker 1: to an agreement where Persephone will basically spend half the
Speaker 1: year with Hades and half the year with Demeter and
Speaker 1: staying true to her word. As long as Persephone is
Speaker 1: in the underworld, Demeter does not make the earth grow.
Speaker 1: Thus that is the origin of winter on So long
Speaker 1: as Persephone is gone, everything is cold and dry and
Speaker 1: we don't have flowers. And then once Persephone comes back, boom,
Speaker 1: you hit spring, ship blossoms, and then summer. I guess
Speaker 1: that's when, uh, Persephone and Demeter are really fucking kicking it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, They're really having a good
Speaker 1: old time. And then Hades comes and he's like, I
Speaker 1: want my bitch back, And now where where we started? Anyway,
Speaker 1: this phrase of the devil beating his wife is largely
Speaker 1: connected to the Southern States of the US, right that
Speaker 1: that's some Southern ship. That's your your mississippies, your sippies
Speaker 1: as I call them, and your Alabama's. I don't call abamas.
Speaker 1: I call him Alice. That's my style. They also apparently
Speaker 1: say this exact same ship and Hungry. For some reason.
Speaker 1: I don't know why Hungary and uh and Jiah I
Speaker 1: called Georgia Jia are are sharing this similarity, but apparently
Speaker 1: they are. It seems like the phrase itself can actually
Speaker 1: be traced back hundreds of years though like it has
Speaker 1: a deep deep his three. The first recorded use of
Speaker 1: this phrase was actually in seventeen oh three in this
Speaker 1: French play where they go, Uh, somebody said to go
Speaker 1: and trash him round the churchyard as the devil does
Speaker 1: his wife in rainy weather when the sun shines. Then
Speaker 1: years later this writer named Jonathan Swift. Now you guys
Speaker 1: may know Jonathan Swift because he's this Irish satirist who
Speaker 1: basically wrote one of my favorite pieces that I've ever read.
Speaker 1: It's super interesting, this thing called a modest proposal, where
Speaker 1: through I won't give too much away, while I probably
Speaker 1: will give the entire thing away. But basically he makes
Speaker 1: a proposal for why rich people should be allowed to
Speaker 1: eat poor people's children. It's satire, it's super interesting, and
Speaker 1: it's really a great uh, holding a mirror up to
Speaker 1: the funked up parts of our capitalist society. But Jonathan
Speaker 1: Swift in seventeen thirty eight said the devil was beating
Speaker 1: his wife behind the door with a shoulder of mutton.
Speaker 1: What's interesting is that this is just an example of
Speaker 1: how people repeating back a clever phrase from some art
Speaker 1: piece happens over generations. It's no different, in my opinion
Speaker 1: than the way that more money, more problems, more money,
Speaker 1: more problems. I don't know why I put the r
Speaker 1: E on the end of that motherfucker, but more money,
Speaker 1: more problems has made its way into contemporary communication. Right
Speaker 1: every time we say that if it's raining while the
Speaker 1: sun is out, the devil's beating his wife, it's just
Speaker 1: all it's just us all saying bars to some old
Speaker 1: French dude, you know what I mean. It's just us
Speaker 1: big up in some French dude who had a dope
Speaker 1: ass rhyme all the way back in three now. Another
Speaker 1: version of this was recorded in eighteen ninety three and
Speaker 1: inwards weather lore, if it rains while the sun is shining,
Speaker 1: the devil is beating his grandmother grandmother in this case, which,
Speaker 1: if I'm being honest, sounds way more like devil behavior.
Speaker 1: You know. The devil is definitely the type of motherfucker
Speaker 1: who beats the ship out of his own grandma. I
Speaker 1: don't know he as a wife, but he fus his
Speaker 1: grandmother up. I think we can all agree on that.
Speaker 1: More interesting though, and this is this is the part
Speaker 1: that really piques my interest, is that this phrase, while
Speaker 1: more common in the United States, there there are hundreds
Speaker 1: of phrases that actually in idioms that exist all over
Speaker 1: the world to describe this exact same phenomenon, phrases that
Speaker 1: are very different than the one that we use in
Speaker 1: the US. In fact, in this assistant linguistics professor at
Speaker 1: Harvard actually put together a comprehensive list of idioms from
Speaker 1: around the world. And I'm gonna read just a few
Speaker 1: of them to you now, because some of these are
Speaker 1: pretty fun. There's a there's a fun list of them.
Speaker 1: In Armenia, when it's raining and the sun is out
Speaker 1: during you know, a sunshower, they say the wolf is
Speaker 1: giving birth on the mountain in Cape Verdia, Cape Verdi,
Speaker 1: I think, I don't Cape Verdian people, you know these
Speaker 1: motherfucker's The groom has eaten unheeded food. In English, the
Speaker 1: devil's beating his wife with a cod fish uh. In Finnish,
Speaker 1: a wedding is being celebrated in hades look at me
Speaker 1: during research that connects to what the Finnish people believe,
Speaker 1: and my genius hard to know. In German, the devil
Speaker 1: has a parish fair. I don't know what the funk.
Speaker 1: That means in Greek the poor are getting married. Who
Speaker 1: the Greek are problematic. They do not care for the poor.
Speaker 1: This has to be like a weird ironic thing. I
Speaker 1: would hope, but nope, I guess the Greek people are
Speaker 1: a piece of ship. That's why their country failed multiple times. Anyway,
Speaker 1: In Hindi the jackal's wedding. In Polish the witch is
Speaker 1: making butter. Portuguese the witches are making soft bread. Apparently
Speaker 1: anywhere with the pa they're obsessed with witches making food.
Speaker 1: In Spanish the rabbits are giving birth. And in Zulu
Speaker 1: monkey's wedding. Real simple over in Zulu, it's just monkeys
Speaker 1: getting married. Now, that's pretty much it. That's a full
Speaker 1: breakdown of this. Of this not conspiracy theory. You brought
Speaker 1: to me, Chauncey, You dumb motherfucker. I wanted this all
Speaker 1: time to be like you, dumb bitch, this ain't even
Speaker 1: a conspiracy theory anyway, is I'm glad you brought it
Speaker 1: to me. I guess I don't know that this has
Speaker 1: been a delight. If you yourself would love to send
Speaker 1: me idioms that have nothing to do with conspiracy theory,
Speaker 1: but a fund of research and talk some shit about
Speaker 1: and if you want to hurt my feelings with all
Speaker 1: your roasts at the top of it, you can send
Speaker 1: that ship to my Mama pod at gmail dot com.
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Speaker 1: take any more of the hurt that you just keep
Speaker 1: throwing my way. Otherwise, Uh, I don't know. I love you, dearly.
Speaker 1: You're my special Someone's bye bitch. Motherfucking mini years, so
Speaker 1: mini episode, motherfucking mini years, so motherfucking mini years, so
Speaker 1: many episode, motherfucking mini episode.