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David
Motherfucking Mini Episode Mini Episode Motherfucking mini Episode.
Langston
What would you do if your son was at home crying all alone on the bedroom floor cause he's hungry. There it is. There it is. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another phenomenal episode, a mini episode of My Mama.
David
Told Me the podcast where we dive deep into the pockets of black conspiracy.
Langston
Theories and we finally work to prove the conspiracy theories that you, the listener, the little mamas and gentiles alike have at home. This is a motherfucking mini episode.
David
I would have been swallowed up. Have you ever been swallowed up? Have you Gone through a time of swallowing where everything was overwhelming.
Langston
You know what's upsetting about that one is the visuals. It's so long. Yeah, it's so long. He just keeps saying it. He won't stop. And it's like, bro, you gotta stop.
David
But as someone who's been in flow state before, like, you see him and you're like, yep, that's how it'd be. Like that. Like when you just can't miss. So you're just going crazy.
Langston
He was cooking too hard.
David
Yeah, I've done it. You probably had sets like that where you're like, oh, I could say anything and it's gonna work. Now I'm going nuts, you know?
Langston
No, there are times, and it's the reason I despise the crowd work clips that our art form has sort of devolved into. But there are times when you're, like, engaging with an audience in such a funny, sincere way that it goes on for like minutes.
David
I've had it where you're like, oh, shit, that riff was 15 minutes.
Langston
Yeah, it's just a long ass time. And that's not cuttable. You know what I mean? Like, that's not a thing that you can chop up and make into like a thing you offer up to an audience.
David
Oh, yeah, that's why don't ever trust a 5 second crowd work clip. It's not real. Yeah, it wasn't that funny. Five seconds. What are you talking.
Langston
They had a big laugh and then it stopped really fast because they didn't know how to keep going.
David
Yeah, yeah. It was like somebody said one interesting thing. Anyways, we're not here to talk about stand up comedy. We're not.
Langston
It stinks. And the art that I love has become something that I barely recognize. But that's not the point of this podcast. This podcast, especially today, we're talking to you, the listener. We're reading your emails, we're engaging with your thoughts, your suggestions. And we got an email from a person named Aaliyah. L I y.
David
Just like the singer got cheap personality, jazz mentality. Oh, man.
Langston
Anyways, I miss her.
David
I do too, man.
Langston
She was great. We all miss her.
David
Nothing, Nothing. I wish they had. Anyways. I just. Sometimes I feel like somebody needed to take care of that little girl. Like, you know, yeah, she was, like, bounced around to a lot of men. It feels like dark.
Langston
Yeah, no, I think that's 100% true of a person who maybe needed somebody just to look out for in a way that she never really got by the end of it.
David
So you want to read an email?
Langston
No, let's just have a moment of silence now. Let's just sit in that feeling for a second.
David
It was two seconds too late. I'm sorry.
Langston
That's okay. We got an email from a person named Aaliyah, who sent us a subject line. Satan's Yoga. Satan's Yoga. She says, hi, David and Langston, longtime listener, back again with another conspiracy. This one actually comes from my grandmother, a southern black woman who later in life became a Jehovah's Witness one day. Later in life, she started that shit. Later in life?
David
It makes more sense than starting it earlier in life. Like, you can't convert to Jehovah's Witness in, like, your mid 20s.
Langston
I don't picture early in life being your mid 20 conversions. I picture early in your life meaning you grew up in the Jehovah's Witness.
David
Oh, but she converted, she said.
Langston
Right? And I'm saying that converting to Jehovah's Witness is a silly thing.
David
You've already had some birthdays.
Langston
Yeah. You know what Christmas feels like. What the fuck are you gear shifting back for?
David
Taking that away from your children, you monster.
Langston
Yeah, no, that's an odd fucking choice. So you want to go door to door? Okay.
David
Anyways, I'm sure your grandma's a sweet woman. Aaliyah or nuts? I don't know.
Langston
Hard to say, but I'm leaning towards the latter.
David
One man's cuckoo is another man's Cocoa Puffs.
Langston
One day, after watching a commercial about yoga clothes, she went on a rant about how doing yoga is evil, and if you meditate, you will mess around and open up your mind so much, you will let Satan in. I understood her to mean meditating can be a pathway to connect with Satan. Similarly, how praying is a way to connect with God. I grew up going to church as well as the Kingdom hall, so I am conflicted. I believe in spirits and have an ancestor altar myself. So just as there is a way to channel the good spirits, there has to be a way to channel the bad ones. I'm interested in hearing what you gu. Think best, Aliyah.
David
Well, Aaliyah, I think you're a witch, and I rebuke thee in the name of the one true Lord. No, I think that. So here's what I don't like about this. Right.
Langston
Yeah.
David
The idea of, like, if you meditate or you do yoga, you're gonna open your mind so much. So that's what, like, I don't like. It's like, I Like the idea that an open mind is what leads to the devil. That means God wants you to have a closed mind. That means he's like reductive as fuck and does not want you to open you up to whatever your true potential is. He doesn't want you to be free. And that's not like the God. That's not like a God I'm trying to serve.
Langston
Right. A God that encourages you to sort of live in a bubble is not a God that you, you recognize well.
David
Just like, yeah, any type of, like, don't open your mind is a great, like, really think about what you're saying within that. That's like, that's terrible. Nobody, okay. Nobody ever leave your small town. Don't ever try to do something that no one in your family did. Like, don't ever push for anything then. You know what I'm saying? Don't open your mind. That's fucking. That's like, that's. That's trash. And I would argue, I don't think that God is like, I don't think the God of Abraham. I don't, I don't know if that is what he's pushing.
Langston
I will say that, that I myself read this to mean something slightly different. Although I do agree with your sentiment that, that if this is about just sort of keeping people close minded, then that feels reductive and not at all like a progress or even a. A love that is suggested to be shared by the God above us, whatever. That said, I thought about my relationship with like, spirits and in a lot of ways this tracks for me of like, I don't fuck around with Ouija boards. I don't fuck around with like, haunted houses. Like, genuine haunted houses. I'll go to a play one, whatever.
David
But what do you mean by that? What do you mean by genuine haunted houses?
Langston
Like, you know how like, some people will be like, oh, this hotel is haunted. We should stay there. I won't. Do you know what I mean?
David
Yeah, you're very serious right now.
Langston
Like, no, no, no, I will not. And I will choose. I have the resources to choose differently and I will, like, I don't need that feeling and I'm not interested in exploring it just because it's like novel or cute.
California Psychics
Right?
David
But you'll go to like a haunted.
Langston
House, like, like a silly one where I know adults are being paid minimum wage to hide around a corner with chainsaws that don't work properly.
David
Cause I went to one of those. Me and my girl went to one of those over At Halloween. And that was fun.
Langston
Yeah, no, that's a good time. I like that.
David
Except they tried to play me. They tried to play me a little bit.
Langston
What happened, man?
David
So we went to the haunted house, and then there was like, if you pay, like an extra, they, like, take you to a secret bar in there and give you a shot during the haunted house.
Langston
Oh.
David
So we went and we went to the secret bar and this nigga, bro, he was pouring drinks and he poured my girl one and he poured me one. He was like, you look scared as hell. I was like, I'm not scared, though.
Langston
Yeah, yeah. He thought he could cuck you a little bit.
David
He was trying to cuck me?
Langston
Yeah.
David
Oh, you. You look. She looks like she's having fun. You look scared. It's a children's playhouse.
Langston
I look like I'm not about to tip your ass.
David
I look like I don't work at the fucking. Fucking haunted house because I can't make child support. That's what I look. I look like I fucking took a Uber black here.
Langston
You broke, boy?
David
I didn't. She drove. She drove.
Langston
I was about to say, why. Why are you taking Uber blacks to the haunted house?
David
I've actually never taken an Uber black. I was trying to impress you guys.
Langston
Nah, it worked, I thought. But no, I try not to mess around with sort of like dark spirits and ghosts and all kinds of things out of fear that I do think it welcomes some of that into your world that, like, if you go seeking that shit, you will find something, even if that something you find is just made up in your own head. And so in that way, I recognize what she's saying to simply mean, like, seek it and you shall find it in both good and bad ways. Now, why the fuck yoga is her passion for where Satan is lurking? I have no idea.
David
Here's what I'm gonna say.
Langston
Yep.
David
This is having lived, I've lived among the woo woos, you know what I mean? I lived in San Francisco, Big witch country, Los Angeles, also. Big witch country. If you're far away and you don't quite know, I understand how these yoga ladies and men could seem like they were into some evil shit, you know what I mean? Just, like glancing and being like, what are they doing over here? They're dressed all wacky. They're burning sage and shit. It could feel like some witchcraft for sure.
Langston
Yeah, I will say that to that point downward dog.
David
What is that?
Langston
That ain't doggy style.
David
I'll tell you that where I come from. Dogs stand upright.
Langston
Hey, shake your hand like a man.
David
Look you in the.
Langston
I will say that to that point, a lot of what yoga is in America is just a sort of like cherry picking of other people's cultural identities and like, their actual spirituality. And so in that way, it does feel like sort of a false manipulation of spirituality, right? That, like, the shit that we recognize as yoga is not what they were doing when Indians invented the shit. You know what I mean? It's just some shit that like some white women took and then like, decided to take some words and leave some words behind. In certain poses, yes. Certain ones, no. And that, that is not. Not sort of like fucking around with spirituality in a. In a messed up way.
David
I think it does lead to this whole idea of, like, that's why I don't like people when they say they're just, I'm spiritual. Because it's like, pick a discipline.
Langston
Yeah.
David
You know, you gotta commit, commit to something. You're loosey goosey. Then you might as well just be agnostic. Like, what does that mean? I think this could be true and that you need rules. There needs to be some sort of rules. It is.
Langston
It is the one part of the Bible more than any other part that I think I most connect with where it talks about God not wanting you to be lukewarm. That like a lukewarm person is maybe the worst person you could be. That you gotta be hot or cold. Either believe in something or don't believe in something. But, like, kind of fucking around in the middle is like, dangerous and frankly, just condescending to the fundamentals of the actual belief.
David
Don't stand for anything, you'll fall for something, yeah. Don't stand for something, you'll fall for, yeah.
Langston
You ain't get it right.
David
Fool me twice, you ain't gonna fool me again.
Langston
You can't fool me again.
David
I'd rather on my feet than stand on my knees.
Langston
I was getting some head, getting some head.
David
Knock if you buck.
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David
Yeah, I think that's reasonable.
Langston
Yeah. So I don't agree, per se, that like, Aaliyah, if it makes you feel better, I think you can do as much yoga as you want. I don't think the devil's sitting on a mat being like, yeah, finally got that bitch. Yeah, finally.
David
I mean, I think that's exactly what I think he's doing.
Langston
You think he's hanging out in yoga studios?
David
I think he's just watching ladies bend over.
Langston
If that's the case, you're only selling me on the devil.
David
I think he's got a toothpick.
Langston
Yeah. Okay. Oh, somebody's limber.
David
Yeah. Look at that child's pose. That probably should have been the one, I think.
Langston
Don't look like no child to me.
David
Yeah. Look like a woman pose.
Langston
I look like grown woman pose to me.
David
Look like how a woman posed to be.
Langston
Maybe that's what the devil is doing. And if that's the case, I think more of us should be worshiping the devil. He sounds like a cool guy, and I'm into him.
David
Langston's gone full 360. I'm fucking it up.
Langston
Nah, I did a spin move.
David
Damn. That's pretty cool. Have you ever done a spin on the dance floor?
Langston
When I was a high. When I was in high school, I was a dancing ass. Kid. And so, yeah, I used to do. I used to do shit. And now as an adult, I couldn't possibly. I can't even imagine attempting it.
David
Yeah, I can't imagine. That would be crazy. It would be cool.
Langston
It would be cool. But, you know, I live with a constant fear that it won't work now if it doesn't.
David
Like, if you try to commit to a spin and it doesn't work. Yeah, that'd be bad. And, like, you're dancing with your wife or something.
Langston
It can only ruin my family.
David
Yeah. Is it like. Is it that you worry that you will fall down?
Langston
I worry about it all. I worry that I would fall down. I worry that I don't even make it the full 360, and. And now I'm just a dude who tried something and it failed. You know what I mean? Like, there's just so much vulnerability when people are counting on you that you.
David
Is that how you feel about the dance floor?
Langston
Yeah, there's motherfuckers counting on me, man. I can't.
David
My baby needs this.
Langston
Yeah. My baby just needs me to keep being consistent. I can't. And now. And now I could go viral. Imagine. Imagine your father going viral because he tried to do a spin move and.
David
It didn't work at the JFL after party.
Langston
Come on. And now everybody's like, bro, my daughter's going to school and they're making fun of her because her father failed.
David
That's. That's fair.
Langston
People are counting on me. I can't risk it.
David
No, I. Listen, I also am conservative on the dance floor. You know what I mean? I'm a Biden in the streets, but I'm a Trump in the shit.
Langston
There was that run where those kids were doing that sideways moonwalk. That, like, airwalk shit.
David
Oh, the Usher. Usher is the first place to do it.
Langston
Yeah, well, no, not that sideways moonwalk. That one I learned to do when I was the. In high school. I could still do that shit. Sidewalk, moonwalk, walk.
David
Walk.
Langston
Yeah, I'm talking about that shit where you're like. They're like, skipping sideways.
David
Oh, that one's fun. Yeah, I like that one.
Langston
The amount of times I practiced that alone in my home and realized, like, I don't think I'm in a position to take this into a public space and be successful.
David
Really?
Langston
Yeah.
David
Cause that one seems easier than the sideways moon one.
Langston
It is not. It's just so unnatural to the way that I move that. I don't think I've ever figured out a way to make it not look.
David
Like it's like a pacing thing.
Langston
Yeah. It's just you look gumpy and fucking weird. Or you look awesome. And I don't know that I ever looked awesome, so I chose never to bring it out.
David
Yeah, I tried to learn the sneeze once. The same thing.
Langston
Yeah. You just gotta. You gotta realize, like, these Ls are not worth taking after a while.
David
That's fair.
Langston
When I was 15, if I didn't do a move. Good. So you know what I mean? Like, what are the repercussions here?
David
Wait. Can I ask you a serious question?
Langston
Yeah.
David
Have you ever been in a dance battle?
Langston
I've been in many a dance battle, yeah.
David
This might be its own episode. Ok. Do you have footage?
Langston
I hope not. I hope there's no lingering footage of any dance battles I was in. I pre. You know, thank God. I think we predated camera phones.
David
We? What was the group called?
Langston
No, I wasn't in, like, group dance battles. I was, like, dance battles at, like, parties and shit.
David
Oh, excuse me. That would be way lame. Yeah. Excuse me.
Langston
I wasn't assembling an entourage.
David
I wasn't in a group. I was rogue.
Langston
Yeah. I was a fucking Highlander, baby.
David
Did you have a dance name?
Langston
No, I didn't have a fucking dance name. I was just a cool dude who.
David
All right, all right. Who.
Langston
At a party, if a circle happened, I would pop in the middle and then another dude. There was this kid in my high school named Dom Perignon and. I wish I was making this up.
David
No, it's way too specific to be a lie.
Langston
Don Barryam, he would constantly. You know, the circle would happen and he would get in and he'd be popping and shit. And then I would get in and I would pop. And me and Dom would go back and forth, popping.
David
Did you ever crop him?
Langston
Damn. I don't think so. I don't think I ever had the flexibility for. For doing back bends and shit.
David
Okay.
Langston
But I ate his heart sometimes. Oh, no. Yeah, I ate his heart. I pop from the bottom and pass it up and go back down and snatch his heart and then put it in my own chest.
David
Put it in your own. Bump into his rhythm. Wow. You're a wild guy.
Langston
Nah, I lived a life, man.
David
Yeah, that's very interesting. We'll get more into that.
Langston
We'll get more into that.
David
Do you have pictures?
Langston
I hope. David. I hope there's no documentation of this period in my life.
David
Lil mamas, if you guys could. Let's see if I'm hoping we could find someone who battled you. If you guys know Dom Paramil and he's in the Chicagoland area, I don't think he left.
Langston
I don't think he went anywhere.
David
Please, we gotta get him on. We gotta get him on. I would love to hear an oral history of these battles.
Langston
Dom was a great dancer, man. I don't know that I won any of the. You know, I wouldn't call myself the champion of those battles, but he. I was, I was honored to be a partisan.
David
But you got in the ring.
Langston
You know, I got in the ring.
David
You got in the ring.
Langston
But yeah, I think to the larger question at hand. I fear the evil spirits enough that I am willing to cut myself off from certain activities. And I recognize that if you are a stringent God fearing woman, so much so that you're willing to join the Jehovah's Witnesses later in life, then you probably are afraid of a lot of things that seem vaguely spiritual. That is Yoga and poses and whatnot.
David
Yeah.
Langston
Beads. Beads, sure, yeah. White women with sage. That's not a good combination.
David
Jade.
Langston
Come on. Get that jade out of your goddamn vaginas and put it back in the earth where it belongs.
David
Take that jade out of your pussies.
Langston
That's the name of the episode.
David
Well, I think we did it.
Langston
That was really good. I think so. I think we covered it all. Could you tell the people where they can find you and what cool shit you have going on?
David
Cool Guy Jokes 87 on Instagram. All my stuff is gonna be there.
Langston
As always, you can follow me. Langston Kerman on all social media plat I be there. I don't be doing nothing, but I'll be there. And if you want to send us your own conspiracy theories, if you want to send us your drops, send it all to my mamapod gmail.com give us a call at 844-lil-moms. We want to talk to you. Bye, bitch.
David
Mini Episodes Mini episodes Mini episode. Motherfucking mini episode. Mini episode. Motherfucking mini episode.
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Podcast Summary: Devil's Pose: Motherf*ckin Mini Episode (RE-RELEASE)
Title: My Momma Told Me
Host/Authors: Langston Kerman and David Gborie
Release Date: March 27, 2025
Network: Big Money Players Network and iHeartPodcasts
In this re-released mini episode of "My Momma Told Me," comedians Langston Kerman and David Gborie dive into a lighter yet thought-provoking discussion on Black conspiracy theories. The hosts set the stage by acknowledging the episode's brevity while promising an engaging exploration of the topics at hand.
Langston:
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another phenomenal episode, a mini episode of My Mama."
([02:17])
David:
"The podcast where we dive deep into the pockets of black conspiracy theories and we finally work to prove the conspiracy theories that you, the listener, the little mamas and gentiles alike have at home."
([02:34])
The core of the episode revolves around an email from a listener named Aaliyah, who introduces a unique conspiracy theory linking yoga practices to satanic influences. Aaliyah shares insights from her grandmother, a Southern Black woman and later a Jehovah's Witness, who believes that yoga and meditation open pathways to satanic entities.
Aaliyah's Email Excerpt:
"One day, after watching a commercial about yoga clothes, she went on a rant about how doing yoga is evil, and if you meditate, you will mess around and open up your mind so much, you will let Satan in."
([07:07])
Langston:
"I reject it all."
([18:08])
David:
"I think he’s just watching ladies bend over. And I think he’s got a toothpick."
([20:00])
Langston and David dissect Aaliyah's grandmother's claims, debating the validity and implications of associating yoga and meditation with satanic practices. They explore the tension between spiritual practices and religious beliefs, particularly within the context of Jehovah's Witnesses.
David's Critique:
"The idea of, like, if you meditate or you do yoga, you're gonna open your mind so much. So that's what, like, I don't like. It's like, I like the idea that an open mind is what leads to the devil. That means God wants you to have a closed mind."
([08:12])
Langston's Perspective:
"A God that encourages you to sort of live in a bubble is not a God that you recognize well."
([08:50])
The hosts express skepticism towards the notion that spiritual openness inherently invites malevolent forces, emphasizing the importance of personal belief systems and discernment.
Langston shares his personal stance on engaging with spiritual activities, highlighting his reluctance to partake in practices like Ouija boards or haunted houses due to fears of attracting negative energies. David relates with his experiences at haunted houses, injecting humor and relatability into the conversation.
Langston:
"I don't mess around with haunted houses... I recognize what she's saying to simply mean, like, seek it and you shall find it in both good and bad ways."
([10:33])
David:
"I've had it where your riff was 15 minutes."
([03:58])
They further discuss the commercialization of yoga in America, critiquing its departure from traditional spiritual roots and its adoption as a fitness trend devoid of deeper meaning.
Langston:
"A lot of what yoga is in America is just a sort of like cherry-picking of other people's cultural identities and like, their actual spirituality."
([13:30])
The conversation shifts to a more personal and humorous territory as Langston and David reminisce about dance moves and the vulnerability associated with performing them. Langston expresses his fears about executing dance moves in public, fearing failure and the potential embarrassment it could cause.
Langston:
"I worry that I would fall down. I worry that I don't even make it the full 360, and now I'm just a dude who tried something and it failed."
([21:56])
David:
"Have you ever been in a dance battle? This might be its own episode."
([24:36])
This segment highlights the hosts' ability to blend personal anecdotes with broader thematic discussions, maintaining engagement through relatability and humor.
Langston delves into his high school dance battle experiences, particularly his contests with a peer named Dom Perignon. He recounts the intensity and competitiveness of these battles, illustrating the fervor and passion he had for dance during his youth.
Langston:
"Dom was a great dancer, man. I don't know that I won any of the, you know, the championship of those battles, but he. I was honored to be a participant."
([27:04])
David:
"Lil mamas, if you guys could... I don't think he left."
([26:56])
The hosts muse over the nostalgia and the timeless nature of dance as both an art form and a form of personal expression, tying it back to their overarching theme of exploring belief systems and personal convictions.
As the episode draws to a close, Langston reiterates his stance on rejecting what he perceives as superficial spiritual practices that lack genuine depth or connection. The hosts reflect on the importance of authenticity in spiritual endeavors and the dangers of blindly following misconstrued beliefs.
Langston:
"If that's the case, I think more of us should be worshiping the devil. He sounds like a cool guy, and I'm into him."
([20:54])
David:
"Yeah, I think that's reasonable."
([19:38])
Langston:
"We want to talk to you. Bye, bitch."
([28:25])
The episode wraps up with the usual sign-offs, encouraging listeners to engage with the hosts through social media and contribute their own conspiracy theories, maintaining an open channel for future discussions.
Langston:
"A God that encourages you to sort of live in a bubble is not a God that you recognize well." ([08:50])
David:
"If you try to commit to a spin and it doesn't work, that'd be bad." ([21:15])
Langston:
"How the devil is lurking? I have no idea." ([12:39])
David:
"One man's cuckoo is another man's Cocoa Puffs." ([07:07])
Langston:
"I don't think the devil's sitting on a mat being like, yeah, finally got that bitch." ([19:56])
Critical Examination of Beliefs: The hosts encourage listeners to critically evaluate the origins and implications of their spiritual practices, questioning the blending of cultural traditions with modern interpretations.
Authenticity in Spirituality: Emphasizing the importance of genuine engagement with spiritual activities, Langston and David caution against adopting practices superficially without understanding their deeper meanings.
Personal Vulnerability: Through discussions about dance and personal fears, the hosts highlight the universal nature of vulnerability and the courage it takes to express oneself authentically.
Humor and Relatability: Balancing serious discussions with humor, the hosts maintain an engaging and relatable tone, ensuring the content is both entertaining and thought-provoking.
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