11-16-17 ｜ This Past Weekend #52
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Summary
In this episode, Theo talks about a new shirt he's wearing, why he doesn't have a neck, and what it means to be a black man in the 21st century. He also talks about the James Franco and Louis CK scandals, and why he thinks Black people get nervous.
Transcript
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This shirt makes it look like I don't even have a neck.
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But you can't be infected with the idea or with more really the affliction that life is supposed to be a hundred watt.
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And if you can live at 80 watt, man, then you are really, I mean, you're living under a beautiful lamp of existence, I think.
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And I just, I'm just saw my reflection on it on this camera.
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Because it just kind of feels, I'm having one of those days.
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It just highlights the lack of distance in my neck.
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That my neck don't have that reach that I've always wanted.
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You know, you kind of wish sometimes that one of your great, great grandparents fucked a giraffe.
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You know, you might have that, you know, your neck looks like it could dunk a ball.
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I'll be seeing you tonight through Sunday night.
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So Friday night, I'm just featuring for another man that's local there.
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If you have a friend in Huntsville, tell them to come on out.
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As always, great place to get a hit of that pie here in Los Angeles.
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And coming soon, a new shop in Portland, Oregon.
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I know you don't want to hear about my tough day.
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So we'll hear about, you know, we got some good follow-up calls.
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You know, one of the topics that was brought up on the last episode was, do black men get nervous?
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You know, and do black people get nervous, I guess.
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I mean, I haven't spent, you know, I mean, black people to me have always been, seemed extremely confident.
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You know, and so last time on the episode, we talked about that a little bit.
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And so we had some great calls that came in from you guys.
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The Louis C.K. stuff, I want to comment on it, but I don't know if I'm going to get to that today.
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If not, I'll make sure to follow up on it on the next week's episode.
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And also got to let some of the more of the information come out and things that's going on, you know.
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It's a scary time to be a man in a lot of places.
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And I don't know if it's like that in the rest of the country, but here in Los Angeles, it definitely feels that way.
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You know, I'm on a lot of text chains where, you know, men are scared.
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Scared. Scared. Scared that, you know, if someone who doesn't like them comes out and says something, that it could damage their career, their future.
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Or also that if they did something, I haven't had any friends come to me and say, hey, Theo, I did this, and I'm scared it's going to come out.
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But I could imagine that men who have, you know, who have, you know, done some ice-cold activities, that they could be worried.
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I heard a crazy rumor today that someone's going to make accusations against James Franco, and that's going to be coming out next.
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You know, there's a lot of rumors going around out here in Hollywood, but that's what I heard, that he has a movie coming out,
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and that before that, someone is going to drop that drop-up accusation in order to put him on the rocks.
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I'm just sharing stuff that I've heard, you know, because it's scary.
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It's a scary time, even for dudes that aren't getting any.
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I'm sure there's dudes who have just been in their apartment for a decade, just J-O-ing to themselves,
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wondering if, you know, maybe one night they accidentally shot a load out a window,
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and it might have, you know, landed on a shoulder dropped on a woman who was going to get some groceries,
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or visiting, or, you know, or putting some stuff in the recycling bin.
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You know, but I think overall that it's, change is always, it's always good.
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You know, I think this kind of stuff is going to clear some of the air.
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And when I think about what some women have been through sometimes,
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that shit's got to be pretty dark, you know, because every dude have nuts on him.
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You know, in a man's nuts is a little bit of fire.
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And sometime that fire grows, and sometime that fire waits.
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You know, it's also, it's part of the, you know, it's part of the, what makes us, you know,
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humanity and existence and the Big Bang and everything.
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It's part of what makes all that work, you know, is that that fire exists inside of a man's crotch and nuts.
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But, you know, it's, you know, it's half of the element.
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Because you've got to have the fire, and then you've got to have something that will, that will mate with the fire.
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You know, and scientifically, that's what the, you know, that's the woman.
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You know, it's like you have this dance between the fire and the kindling.
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And then the flame creates, you know, that spark in the kindling.
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But it's wild when you've got a fellow, you know, some dude's running around out there.
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Or just a bunch of Luigis just slanging fireballs off into the distance.
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You know, hoping it just lands on some random lady, you know, passing by or laying out at a beach or just having a conversation.
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And I'm going to tell you guys, before we even get into the rest of this episode,
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what I want you, what I would love to have more calls in about are the dark arts.
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But, and if you don't think that I'm a holiday boy, then you're wrong.
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I swear to you, when I was young, for my birthday, my mom was like, what kind of shoes do you want?
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And I said, no, I want those Christmas stockings.
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She goes, those are just for, you know, the gifts at Christmas.
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But for probably about eight months, I wore Christmas stockings as my socks.
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You know, popping up out of my K-Swisses and popping up out of my BK Knights.
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And, you know, I loved Christmas so much that I wore Christmas stockings on my feet.
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And that's truly wild, you know, when you really think about that activity.
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If you've been, you know, if you've got an affliction of the dark arts, we had some good stories that came in this week about the dark arts.
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And the dark arts is if you've had an affliction.
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You've been caught up in the, you know, getting into the seedy forces of dark nature.
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You know, or when you feel that little thing just tickling at the top.
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When you feel the devil just licking the top of your spinal column.
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You know, you could be taping razor blades to a frisbee and throwing that thing into a, you know, out towards a bunch of majorettes.
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You know, out there dancing with their, you know, flag team or whatever.
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Or you could be, you know, you could be drinking gasoline and then, you know, urinating in somebody's car trunk and throwing a match in there.
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Just to see if gas can make it through your body.
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You know, there's a lot of things you can be doing that are the dark arts.
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And I want you guys to share some stories because I want us to purge ourselves.
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You know, I want us to get us, I want us to get this out of our system.
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You know, we're about to come into a time of reflection, a time of gratitude, a time of thanks.
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I want us to be empty of the things, of these plagues that are within us.
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Man, my buddy had a cat that could eat Skittles.
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My buddy had a cat that could eat Skittles when I was young.
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I just don't mean, you know, you could, you know, kind of rustle one into it.
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So this coming episode is going to be a little bit about those dark arts.
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But this week we had a lot of good calls, man, that came in.
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And you know, the saddest thing, I didn't get any calls from any black listeners.
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So I, my goal this and this next couple days is to find some black friends and get them to call in and give a couple of two cents on how nervous do black people get.
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Because to me, it seemed like black people never got nervous growing up.
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Because those are the people that I was around the most.
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You know, I was in a group when I was young called NFL.
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And that was when I was in fifth and sixth grade.
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You know, if that, you know, throws any hints out the window.
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But, you know, I would notice that my friends did not get nervous.
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You know, my friends within that group did not get nervous.
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We had the ears pierced and the, you know, the Chicago White Sox hat.
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You know, we rode NFL on our shirts and on our necks with charcoal and with lipstick sometimes.
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Because one of my friends' mother wore dark, dark lipstick.
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Because she had moles on her lips and she tried to cover them up.
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You know, I used to go to the College of Charleston there.
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I was a bouncer back in the day when I used to be on performance enhancing drugs.
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And they apparently enhanced my performance so well that I was able to barely make minimum wage working the front door at an Irish bar.
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So this boy came in there one time with my brother's ID.
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He used a fake ID from Louisiana to get into this bar.
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And it happened to be my brother's, which is so bizarre.
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Because I barely even knew my brother very well at that time in my life.
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And then to see his picture pop up right in front of me, that was pretty wild, man.
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So I throw my two cents in on this little black dudes getting nervous thing.
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I thought you were going to say, so I used to be a black dude.
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I was going to be like, this is going to be good.
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I always just thought that he was like a cocky asshole.
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He had this one line that kind of turned things around for me.
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Because he had this line that says, I'm a black man with the confidence of a white man.
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I'm a black man with the confidence of a white man.
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And I really respected him for that line because I thought that that was like his slick Kanye
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way of saying that he was a black man dealing with the insecurities that we all know white
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You thought it said it was him saying, I'm a black man dealing with the insecurities that
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I don't follow that a hundred percent because he's talking about confidence, but let's hear
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Black guys are the most confident dudes on the planet and drunk white girls, but it's
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mostly, like I've always thought that that's always been a stereotype in my head.
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So when I heard that line and it like changed things with the way I look at Kanye and then
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I took it to my black friend to like tell him, you know, how I felt about it.
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And I had to flip the script and that it was like a stereotype on the opposite side that
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white guys are known for being the most confident in a black community.
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So I think that, I think that it's just a misconception on both sides.
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If your friend said that, you know, that he thinks that white men were the most confident,
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I guess it also could be environment based, you know?
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Like if I walked down the street in a black neighborhood and, you know, I'll use an example
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that I'm familiar with, you know, in certain black neighborhoods in New Orleans, I might
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feel unconfident and a black guy might feel the same way in a white neighborhood, might
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Um, it might even feel nervous, you know, or maybe black people have, you know, maybe
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because of the history they've had in America, maybe a lot or some or many black people operate
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And that's just, and so we don't even notice it because it's so ingrained in the histories
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that they've had to live, you know, the, the environments that they've had to live in.
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I mean, that's an interesting, you know, an interesting thought that's just kind of flying
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You know, maybe when black guys look at us, they think, man, those guys are so, you know,
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confident because why wouldn't they be, you know, they, you know, uh, I mean, going on
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another white privilege thing that, you know, that white guys are so confident and comfortable
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in this world because it's their world, you know, or this is that, you know, that's an old
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I'm not saying that it's a white man's world, but you know, um, that, that could be a perception.
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Well, I definitely, I got to get some black friends to weigh in on this, but, uh, but
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Hey, what's up, Theo, Zach from Birmingham, Alabama.
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Hey, Zach, I'm coming to Birmingham next week, Mauro.
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I'm coming to Huntsville actually, uh, you know, tomorrow, Thursday, I'll be there Thursday.
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I'm looking forward to seeing you in Huntsville this, uh, Saturday.
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Um, wanted to call in and, uh, just drop a line about, uh, your topic for, uh, black
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Um, I grew up as part of a four man posse, uh, middle school and high school, three of
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Ironically, I was the only one with a car, but, uh, that was fine.
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Cause you know, when we had it in the NFL club, you know, everybody had some color and
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then I was that white jelly bean, the one that, you know, doesn't really have a specific
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What the fuck is the taste of white jelly beans anyway?
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Um, I had a, one of my good buddies, uh, Jeff, uh, grew up playing football with Jeff, uh,
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And in high school, he would get so nervous before games that after warmups, before we
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took the field, he would throw up every single game.
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So that's a real, I mean, look, that's a real thing.
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That dude's vomiting, you know, cause all vomit is, is your, whatever your feelings are
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trying to escape your body and using food as their mode of transportation.
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So he had some, some fear, some feelings, some nervous energy trying to get out of his
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body, you know, and dark Jeff there is blowing it out.
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He's going for that six, that 17 point conversion out on the front yard before he even starts
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Uh, so that's consistent Jeff on that vomit four years in high school, two in middle school.
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So, but still consistent Jeff, four years of vomiting.
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He's actually playing arena league football now.
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I'm not sure where, uh, but he used to get so nervous that he would, uh, I'll tell you
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Let's hear some more, uh, throw up for every game and then get like three pigs and a touchdown
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But, uh, yeah, black people definitely get nervous.
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Um, maybe it's because, you know, they got such good skin and maybe we just can't see
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the, the, the frowny wrinkles in there, the nervous, uh, wrinkles there.
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We got, we're, we have a little bit more of a, if you have any radar for nervous energy,
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you can see it on a, on a white person, you know, or on somebody that's light skinned.
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You can see it, you know, you know, you can see, you know, the redness in their cheek
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You know, sometimes people neck get a little pink when they nervous.
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So they nerved up, you know, you can see a little bit of, you know, you might see them
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sweating, you know, you might see them a little bit more hectic.
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You might see that, uh, it's interesting, man, you know, and black people have, have
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had a such, I mean, have had a, such a struggle in America.
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I wonder if you, you know, evolve past nerves a little bit, you know, like, fuck, how can
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I be nervous when I have so many other things to deal with, you know?
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Um, and I, you know, and I hope this conversation isn't striking anybody as like a racist conversation.
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I wish that I had, you know, a black person here to discuss it with, but at the same time,
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Um, and it should always be okay to talk about things and, uh, and to voice ideas, thoughts,
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opinions, um, always, you know, to have a discussion.
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And that sometimes I think is part of the problem in like in the mainstream is that you never get,
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uh, there's never, everybody's opinion isn't taken into account, you know, it's only one
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And I think that that's one of the problems, you know, that our country faces the most is
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that a lot of mainstream media just wants to focus on one opinion and doesn't want to
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And that's why we get stuck in a lot of the problems.
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I think we continually have in America is because we don't, you know, we're not getting
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A lot of times we're not addressing all sides of issues.
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Um, you know, you're making me think there that we show it.
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We, you know, our true colors come shining through.
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Like if you're nervous and you're white, that shit could flare up pretty easy.
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But even with that said, I mean, I just, I mean, I just, and maybe a lot of, I take
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it back to sports, you know, because that's where I spent a lot of time with my black friends.
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But even like, I remember being high with my black buddies and I would be so paranoid
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and rarely would I find or feel that my black friends were paranoid like that.
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Like they had the same level or space inside of them for paranoia to bounce around.
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I heard that there's going to be virtual reality in the future.
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I'm not sure where I read this, but where you can know, you can have an idea of what
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And unfortunately it won't be some, you know, hoity toity liberal thing where it's just,
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you know, it's like you're a black guy walking through a mall and every white person in the
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mall turns and looks at you like you don't belong, you know, because a lot of that kind
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You know, that's one thing that I don't like a lot of times is that, you know, a lot of
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media focuses, uh, the white opinion on black people is, is, it's not a, is that it's not
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I mean, when I was growing up, nothing really made me sadder a lot of times than, you know,
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seeing the level of poverty that some of my friends had, whether they were black or
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white, you know, or, you know, seeing the, the inherited poverty that comes on down, you
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know, it's like, you know, when you're real poor, if your grandfather got a parking ticket,
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You know, that's how, that's how just one little slight can really adjust a generation
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And I always felt, you know, I felt bad for my black friends that were, that were, you
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know, that didn't have a parent or, you know, only had one parent.
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It's not like I was blind, you know, to some of the plight.
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Um, and I don't feel like a lot of people were, you know, but I do think sometimes at the
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news, you know, a lot of these networks, they focus on like the only time people from
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my neighbor or wherever on the news was when, you know, they wanted to have an alien sighting.
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That's the only time poor white people was on the news.
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You get some idiot, you know, and he saw an alien sighting, you know?
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So I just felt like there's always been a very bad representation of, uh, of what, you
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know, a lot of, of what it's really like for, you know, in some of these neighborhoods,
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um, especially what it's, you know, the view of poor white people, you know, like, like
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that it was all people just running around with rebel flags and all this shit.
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Now, Edgar, I just drove out through the Mojave.
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And the Mojave, I don't even know what that's, uh, Spanish for, but I appreciate it.
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Um, big Edgar, you know, I like, uh, I, I love Latino culture, man.
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I think, you know, my father's, uh, you know, I'm Polish Nicaraguan.
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And I, um, one thing I noticed a lot about, I was thinking about Mexican dudes the other
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day, trying to do this skit on stage where I tell a story about the first Mexican kid that
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And I think it's funny how, like, a lot of Mexican dudes, and maybe you can call back
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Why do a lot of Mexican dudes start talking like they're, they're drowning, bro?
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Like, like, Mexican dudes, if they're getting angry or something, they'll start looking straight
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Like, what is, like, if they're arguing and stuff, it's like, it's like water is rising
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And also, Edgar, if you get a chance, I got, uh, there's this girl, Raven, uh, Raven Felix,
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She got a new album out called Vala Fornication.
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She's from, I don't know if she's from your hood, but she's from, uh, somewhere close,
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So we're getting at least a little bit closer on that diversity chain.
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As a kid, man, paint the scene, paint this picture.
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Had a good friend named Steven, black gentleman.
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So you had a good friend named Steven, black gentleman, but also I'm going to tell you this
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I'm hearing some birds in the background, you know, and I know a bird sound when I've, when
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I've been around a bird sound because a huge crow one time flew into the back of my father's
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thunderbird and, uh, and broke all the windows out with his beak.
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And I remember, I'll never forget that, that glass falling, that bird being violent.
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And my father was so old, he couldn't turn his neck and he thought it was a black man
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back there because I kept saying black, black, and he thought it was a black man in the back
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of the car, but that was a black bird, a raven.
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Also another time I went to Vietnam when I was a student, I went to Vietnam to, uh, you know,
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doing studies and while I was there, right when I got there, I was there on a ship.
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I went there on a ship and this is a, this is a true story.
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And right when I got there, we got off the ship and we told the taxi driver to take us.
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We wanted to go to a museum, but right the taxi driver, first place they take you prostitution
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So right when I got there, they took me to a hooker place and, but I didn't know it was
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We walk in, it's a pet shop, birds everywhere, birds, beautiful birds, tall birds, short birds,
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So you don't really know, you know, how they're going to end up height wise.
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Um, but then behind you, next thing you know, this lady pop out, this beautiful lady.
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And I'm like, damn, Vietnam has some of the finest matches selling pets.
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Next thing you know, me and two of my buddies, uh, are back there laying on beds.
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And the birds is just a front for prostitution, you know, and they trying to give us all
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a little bit of beak, you know what I'm saying?
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And showing us their crotches and showing us their bee, their buh, buh, buh, buh, you
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know, bee holes and trying to get us to do sex, you know, we're offering sex.
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I got a little bit nervous, honestly, because you're all, you know, laying right there with
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your buddies and it's, you know, like, you know, I get nervous sometimes in the sensuality
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And I ain't, I ain't training the seal in front of my buddies.
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If you know what I'm talking about, I ain't training the seal in front of my buddies.
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So, but let's hear more that black people definitely do not get nervous.
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You had a friend onward, good family, Kaiser parents, mom was a nurse, dad was some kind
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So you had a good friend whose mom was a nurse.
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He came from a good family onward up at the Kaiser.
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And Kaiser's a Kaiser's a hospital for those who don't know.
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You would connect to the Nintendo and my fat ass would run and you would have to jump and
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His older brother, Keith, green eyed bandit, black gentleman, light skinned gentleman.
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About six months, a year later, the house gets raided.
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Dude, I've always wanted to rob a bank, honestly.
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I think inside of a man, in that fire that's in your nuts, we were talking about in the
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beginning, in that spark, you know, in that little bit of, in that nad spark, in that,
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in that sack, in that, in that, in that sack, in that, you know, that little spark, in that
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little, that little tricity, in that tricity that's, you know, chirping down in your nuts
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all the time, telling you to be a man, be a man, be a man, be a man, it's that last flicker
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of existence from the great beyond, from our forefathers, you know, it's that little
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whisper that's down in your, in your fucking, in your, in your, in your wick.
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You know, I think in there, that thing also tells you to rob a bank, rob a bank, sometimes.
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He finally gives himself up after a couple of hours.
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Comes out smoking a cigarette like a fucking G.
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Helicopter, smoking a cigarette, putting his hands up, taking the cigarette out, putting
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And I remember looking at this from across the street like, what the fuck?
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First of all, one helicopter would make me nervous, you know.
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It definitely would piss me off if I'm trying to sleep.
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And I've had that happen many times here in Los Angeles.
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Talking about that robber, Keith, that bank robber.
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When brothers be bank robbering, they still don't be getting nervous.
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You can open your mouth and clean water will just fall in it sometimes.
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Find that hard to believe in your neck of the woods, but let's hear more.
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When I was in the Army, and let me tell you, when I saw, when we were in Afghanistan, I saw
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a couple of nervous black guys, and they were fucking nervous as hell.
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I think people that serve in the military should be able, that their votes should count for
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You know, people can think whatever they want about their own thoughts.
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You know, if you don't think that their votes should count for one and a quarter votes,
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You know, you're talking about Afghanistan, you're talking about being in a real place
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where there is real, you know, and that's a unique fear that we can't replicate.
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You know, I can't replicate that fear on Halloween.
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You know, that's not a fear that we can replicate easily, you know, by letting a mouse, you know,
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sharpening up a mouse's teeth and letting them loose, you know, at the cotillion or letting
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them loose at the, you know, at grandma's house.
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You know, that's something, that's not something we can easily replicate, you know, creating
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a war environment, creating a, um, a defending America environment, creating being in a foreign
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So then that makes me think there's certain environments where it doesn't matter, race,
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ethnicity, culture, that, that, um, well, I think culture could play more of a part though.
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Because when I think about the black dudes that I grew up with, I would not think they
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When I think about some of the black dudes I see now, you know, definitely seem a little
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bit more nervy, you know, you know, more chill, like, you know, a lot of, you know, just mixed
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black dudes, a lot of, you know, more nerves, more nerves, dude.
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Um, and maybe that comes with just some of these, you know, some, finally some black
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people being able to be raised in places where they have less, you know, they're not
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under the affliction of constant anxiety because of their race, you know, that could be it.
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Or, you know, black kids growing up in, um, you know, statistically better homes and stuff
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like that, or having more opportunity, you know, maybe it's not that, um, you know, maybe
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they're not so defense, maybe there's not like a defense going on.
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I mean, I'm brainstorming here, but I appreciate that call.
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And, uh, I just wanted to share this story about a time that a black friend of mine did
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My, uh, this black friend, he enjoyed his marijuana, you see, and he, uh, he was brothers
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And look, I tell you this, a brother, I seen a brother one time just smoke a whole joint,
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smoke a whole joint and then get on a balance beam.
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And I don't even know if I know a white man who could do that.
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I was hanging out with him and we were watching TV.
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And, uh, I stood up to go grab a drink out of the kitchen and on my way midway, I stopped
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because something interesting had happened on the TV.
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And then I was just standing there in the middle of the room.
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Well, he looked up at me and he goes, Hey man, what you doing?
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I'm just going to get a drink out of the kitchen.
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When white people stand up like that, that's how shootings and shit start happening.
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And I thought it was hilarious at the time, but that is both the time that a black friend
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of mine got nervous and had some real shit, bro.
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Whenever a white guy stands up, you got to think about a gun popping out these days.
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I don't know if, uh, you know, I don't know if we're in a white guy, since you have, if
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you have a gun popping out these days, I don't know.
00:35:06.780
You know, the last line, yeah, it was some, sure.
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I mean, I think, you know, everybody got guns, you know, people have guns for sure.
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And maybe that goes back to, yeah, it's like fast moving white people that could make black
00:35:23.780
people nervous, you know, that can make black people nervous.
00:35:28.100
And a lot of this also, you know, if you live in, uh, Beverly Hills, this conversation might
00:35:35.200
If you've always grown up in Beverly Hills, or if you've always grown up in, you know,
00:35:40.840
some fancy neighborhood in Seattle, you know, where your neighborhood is mostly white people,
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maybe a couple of Asian people, you know, I mean, a lot of these thoughts, I think, and
00:35:53.280
a lot of my own personal relationship to this conversation came from my own environment,
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you know, and that was more of a poverty environment.
00:36:03.340
Um, more of a, uh, racially tense overall, you would assume racially tense the South, um,
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more of a rural environment, not as much Southern because, you know, um, you know, they didn't
00:36:19.680
have any rebel flags in our neighborhood, you know, but more of a tense and, you know, uh,
00:36:25.200
more of a Southern environment, but yeah, that could be something that makes black guys nervous.
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So I, you know, I now just feel, I feel like we got to make that, obviously the next thing
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is we have to get, uh, some black opinions, some opinions from African-American mixed guys,
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I'm going to hit a couple of dudes up and see what's going on.
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Uh, some friends of mine and see if I can get them to call in and I can give those on
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the upcoming episode, but thank you for that call.
00:36:49.000
All right, let's hear a little bit, a little bit more.
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Uh, your boy, One-Legged Patrick had a couple of good points about things that make black
00:37:00.720
And, uh, One-Legged Patrick is the dude who called in on, um, this past Monday episode,
00:37:07.540
And he referenced a conversation that I had on the fighter and the kid, which, which is
00:37:16.420
He, he beat me to the paternity test one, but, uh, two things off the bat that come
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to mind that black people get extremely nervous about dogs.
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I don't know why, but anytime you see any kind of dog around a black person, they get nervous.
00:37:34.240
And second, any swimming pool that is deeper than they are tall.
00:37:44.420
When I was growing up, they had, you know, in some neighborhoods, you know, black, black
00:37:50.360
families had one type of dogs or two or three different types of dogs.
00:37:53.480
And then white family had other types of dogs, you know, black families have more defense
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dogs and white families have more, uh, peacetime dogs, you know, dogs that weren't, um, on active
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duty, you know, dogs that were more like in the national guard, you know, whereas black
00:38:08.940
men, black families have more dogs that were, uh, Rottweilers, pit bulls, more aggressive
00:38:14.260
type dogs, um, which made me so nervous, you know, and I don't know if that was part of
00:38:21.140
Maybe it was, you know, at those times and we're talking in, when I was growing up, we're
00:38:25.380
talking eight late, early nineties, you know, or mid nineties, you know, and that's a, you
00:38:31.160
know, a time when there was not, you didn't see much black wealth in America.
00:38:35.220
You saw a lot more disparity, you know, the only wealthy black men I ever even saw and
00:38:41.820
not even personally were, um, in that movie coming to America or were athletes.
00:38:48.980
Uh, and you know, that, that's, that was my truth that I saw, you know?
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Um, but yeah, the dog thing was definitely true.
00:38:59.120
And then a lot of black neighborhoods didn't have pools, you know?
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So I think pools were more of like a white person type of country club type of thing.
00:39:06.920
Like I remember my buddy Devin, his family got, um, one of those big kind of cistern things
00:39:12.540
and we would bathe out there, you know, we'd swim out there, kind of just fill it up with
00:39:17.880
And yeah, black kids, I remember him and his sisters and everybody got, we'd definitely
00:39:21.580
kind of get nervous in the water, have fun, but be nervous because I think they just didn't
00:39:35.880
And I would remember that while, cause sometimes we would, you know, like bathe, sometimes his
00:39:40.800
mom would bring out the shampoo and we'd all bathe out in the cistern thing in the yard.
00:39:45.200
And, you know, we were kids, you know, so we weren't doing nothing perverse, but people
00:39:48.920
had their genitalia around, you know, you could see, you know, if he was looking downward,
00:39:53.080
you could probably see some different genitalias.
00:39:55.080
And, and it was, it was definitely a little bit unique.
00:39:59.620
You know, I remember that was unique, um, because we, because they would, him and his
00:40:04.080
sisters would get nervous and his little brother would get nervous when the water was on them.
00:40:10.040
So maybe some of this goes down to comfortability, you know, but why in a general way did a lot
00:40:18.640
I think it's time for me to get them to call in.
00:40:20.460
And I tried this week, um, you know, one of them didn't want to deal with the hotline.
00:40:25.840
So I'm going to reach out to, uh, to a couple more and see if I can just get it done quicker.
00:40:31.020
Um, this was a fast turnaround, uh, and I'm not used to doing this Thursday episode, but
00:40:40.080
Uh, I appreciate everybody for calling in, hitting the hotline, 985-664-9503.
00:40:47.820
Um, you know, assuming what happens over my weekend or in the world, you know, on, on the
00:40:53.540
Monday episode, ideally I'd like to think about, you know, what's going on with men these days
00:40:58.880
and the, and the fear that, that is out there, you know, some of this response to the Louis
00:41:03.860
CK, I might put that up separately, uh, in the next couple of days if I can, or I might
00:41:17.000
Um, and that's something to be embraced, you know, uh, that's something that's cool.
00:41:21.980
I think we're at a time now where we all are able to talk about things.
00:41:27.200
Now, some outlets, some environments, you know, I reference the news and stuff a lot,
00:41:32.100
but I don't think that they want us to find comfortability as humans.
00:41:36.380
I think that a lot of these, because if you look at two different networks, they don't
00:41:47.340
I used to love yahoo.com and that website has gone to shit.
00:41:55.560
And I'm all, I'm all about thinking, but if we just sit here and hate, then something's
00:42:00.960
We're not doing the best service we can, uh, to ourselves, but I appreciate you guys
00:42:05.300
calling hit the hotline nine, eight, five, six, six, four, nine, five, zero, three.
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It is actually, I want to be completely transparent with you guys.
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It is, uh, it's a Wednesday night here right now.
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So I got to get this done and get it posted so I can catch the plane in just a little bit,
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Ladies and gentlemen, I'm Jonathan Kite and welcome to Kite Club, a podcast where I'll
00:42:53.640
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00:43:05.360
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00:43:13.800
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00:43:22.820
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00:43:28.860
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00:43:31.880
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