Dogs can Sense Racism and Trump is Segregating Schools (with Yassir Lester)

Summary

My Momma Told Me – "Dogs can Sense Racism and Trump is Segregating Schools" (with Yassir Lester)

Date: January 20, 2026
Hosts: Langston Kerman & David Gborie
Guest: Yassir Lester

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Episode Overview

This episode of My Momma Told Me continues its comedic, sharp exploration of Black conspiracy theories with guest Yassir Lester. The trio delves into two main conspiracies: whether dogs can sense racism, and the idea that former President Trump is actively promoting segregation in schools. Their discussion bounces between keen cultural insight, deeply Black familial dynamics, and boisterously silly tangents (complete with sound drops and running jokes), always maintaining their irreverent and community-centric tone.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Should Politicians Wear Suits?

[04:40-08:25]

• Langston proposes an end to politicians wearing suits, suggesting people should dress according to who they really are.
• Bori: “I like that because, like, have you ever gone out with somebody that you worked with? … Oh, shit, you’re a Juggalo?” [04:59]
• Yassir counters, saying the suit is a revealing costume (“It’s like dressing like Batman”), and for some, the illusion is the point.
• Langston insists that people deserve to see politicians’ true selves.

2. Sexy Politicians and The Influence of Appearance

[08:26-12:01]

• Debate: Would “hot” politicians become more successful if freed from dress codes?
  • Examples: Obama (“good looking guy”), AOC (“would do huge numbers”), with a detour into adult-site search analytics and social perceptions.
• Yassir: “In a world where every Pornhub search is ‘angry Latina’ … AOC could put up bigger numbers.” [09:02]
• A lighthearted yet astute digression on the “hotness streak” in U.S. presidencies, ending with a tongue-in-cheek celebration of “throat goat” First Ladies and the need for authenticity.

3. Dogs as Racism Neutralizers

[15:32-25:00]

• Yassir’s Conspiracy: "My mama told me: Dogs can sense racism." He refines it, suggesting dogs aren’t just sensors, but “the ultimate racism neutralizer.” [16:02]
• Observations:
  • White people with pit bulls act most like regular Black folks.
  • Imagining communities designed around dog breeds instead of income or race: “If we sincerely created communities around dogs, everyone's living there.” [17:13]
  • Personal stories: Yassir’s three dogs, the cultural divide between Black men and women over animals, and family histories with cats vs. dogs.
• Generational Change: Black women opening up to pets with age; different ways Black families relate to animals.
• Bori: “In my mom’s old age, she’s softened to animals ... she comes to my house now and she’s like, talk [to the dog]. And I’m like, who is this woman?” [23:02]
• Langston and Bori discuss growing up with lots of cats, the challenge of dating when your house is overrun with animals, and the broader cultural implications.

4. The “Trump Segregation” Conspiracy – Education & Policy

[41:51-60:20]

• Yassir presents a well-researched conspiracy: Trump is engineering a new era of school segregation, this time with misleading “gifts.”
  • 2025: $500 million shifted to HBCUs and Tribal Colleges—but by pulling funds from Hispanic-serving institutions [42:31].
  • The legal chess match: The SFFA vs. Harvard/affirmative action case leads to “whitening” of Asian/Latino identity as Black students are steered toward HBCUs.
  • HBCUs (often in the South) must comply with new, increasingly “white Christian nationalist” state education mandates.
• Yassir: “It’s the most sinister way of doing things… It’s a Trojan horse.” [46:44]
• Group Reflection:
  • Is this “bad” for the Black community, or could it spur innovation and foster new movements?
  • Langston: “We've spent so much time in a white system without making major forward progress. … It is kind of exciting to be like, well, shit, we ain't tried it yet.” [58:59]
  • Concerns about institutional capture, resource control, and the creation of devalued educational “islands.”

5. Voicemail: Penguin Propaganda and Climate Change Activism

[66:05-76:02]

• Caller’s Theory: Gen Z’s climate activism is a product of “penguin propaganda”—the onslaught of penguin-centered kids’ movies.
• Panel Reaction:
  • “Madagascar” and similar films don’t count as “penguin movies;” confirmation bias at play.
  • Broader riff: movie trends, animal training in Hollywood, and cultural memory.
• Yassir: “It's generous as a premise to say you care about the Earth's demise because of some [penguin movie].” [68:24]
• They then drift into animation, odd tears over “The Wild Robot,” and parenting habits around emotional expression.
• Langston, on crying at movies: “So many of my tears are like, I'm crying but my wife is here so I'm going to keep this together...” [71:43]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Langston (on politicians’ suits): “It’s nasty that you get to put this fucking uniform that posits itself as like, I’m a good person, I’m strong, I am well put together. No you’re not, you nasty.” [05:17]
• Yassir (on the Trump/HBCU ploy): “It’s brilliant in the way that it comes as a gift… It’s a Trojan horse.” [46:44]
• Bori (on pets and culture): “I feel like Black dudes—we’re more open to animals than Black women.” [21:49]
• Yassir: “White people with pit bulls are the closest to regular Black people. My heart wanted to refute it, my head knows it’s true.” [16:23]
• Langston (on growing up with too many cats): “At one point...we had nine cats. That was too much.” [28:48]
• Yassir (on innovation and segregation): “Any siphoning off of a population becomes a breeding ground for innovation… until the lid is blown off.” [56:16]
• Caller’s Penguin Theory: “There has been upwards of 10 movies dedicated to penguins… And I think that's why Gen Z cares so deeply [about climate].” [66:36]
• Langston (on systemic oppression): “We don’t have a lot else, but we got Garrett’s popcorn.” [51:24]
• Yassir (on innovation from oppression): "Is there a weird experiment that's about to take place where Mississippi suddenly becomes the economic center of the United [States]?" [57:04]

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Major Segment Timestamps

• [04:40-08:25] – “Politicians Shouldn’t Wear Suits?”
• [08:26-12:01] – Sexy Politicians
• [15:32-25:00] – Dogs and Racism Neutralization
• [41:51-60:20] – Trump, HBCUs, and School Segregation Conspiracy
• [66:05-76:02] – Voicemail: Penguin Movies, Gen Z, and Climate Anxiety

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Additional Highlights

• Long-running jokes about “beating off niggas everyday” as the original Bone Thugs-N-Harmony acronym, infusing the show’s playful style into even the most serious segments.
• Musings on how cultures shift with pet ownership and what family structure (and trauma) says about comedian origin stories.
• Playful roasting and deep camaraderie between the hosts, with Yassir seamlessly merging into the show’s rhythm as a recurring “OG guest.”

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Tone and Style

The conversation is irreverent yet insightful, rooted in Black community traditions of “playing dozens,” mutual ribbing, and side-splitting asides—but always circling back to generational concerns about survival, authenticity, and institutional design. In classic My Momma Told Me style, the episode is peppered with running gags and playful call-backs, but delivers sharp cultural analysis (and the occasional, unexpectedly moving reflection) under the laughter.

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Final Word

This episode expertly embodies the podcast’s signature: using comedy as a vector to examine conspiracy thinking, cultural pain, and the quirks of Black American life—always keeping it both “problematic” and profoundly real.

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For more conspiracy theories or to join the conversation, call 844-LITTLE MOMS or email [e-mail]. Catch Langston on the Aspiring Deadbeat Tour and Yassir Lester online @YassirLester.

Transcript

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[Bori]

That's pretty terrifying.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

Nah, it was scary, dog.

[Bori]

Were you wearing clothes you wanted to die in?

[Langston Kerman]

No, that's.

[Bori]

That's.

[Yasser Lester]

That.

[Bori]

I think about that sometimes.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah, I thought it was a nice outfit, but no, I wouldn't say it.

[Yasser Lester]

Were you in your show outfit yet?

[Bori]

I was. Oh okay.

[Yasser Lester]

Okay.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah, you would have been.

[Bori]

You'd been all right.

[Langston Kerman]

I'd have been all right.

[Yasser Lester]

Wow. He died in chrome hearts.

[Langston Kerman]

Well, that's a choice.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah. Wow.

[Langston Kerman]

Okay. Damn.

[Bori]

It's not going to age like you wanted it. Yeah, but you're killing it right now, right?

[Yasser Lester]

A guitar belt buckle.

[Bori]

20 years from now, they're going to have to be like that. Was that in 2020?

[Yasser Lester]

You don't.

[Langston Kerman]

You have to understand.

[Yasser Lester]

It was.

[Bori]

It was.

[Yasser Lester]

It went away for a little bit, then it came back, and that's what. He was wearing it.

[Bori]

He, like, died in one of those tall tees.

[Yasser Lester]

Listen, we didn't.

[Langston Kerman]

You weren't there when Soulja Boy told him.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah.

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[Yasser Lester]

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[Bori]

The government growing babies Microchips in your anus all koala bears are racist.

[Yasser Lester]

The.

[Bori]

Ozone layer owes me money Far she's a vet and turkey stuff Y' all can't tell me nothing.

[Langston Kerman]

Shaboing, boing, boing. There it is. There it is. Ladies and gentlemen, little mamas and gentiles alike, welcome to another phenomenal episode of My Mama Told Me podcast where we.

[Bori]

Dive deep into the pockets of black conspiracy theories.

[Langston Kerman]

And don't make me say bitch, you know we ain't proving nothing.

[Bori]

We don't even care about you.

[Langston Kerman]

It's not an investment piece for us.

[Bori]

We're selling all of your data.

[Langston Kerman]

Now. You know, now it's out in the open.

[Bori]

Yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

That's all we're saying. Data brokerage.

[Bori]

That's what we. I don't know if you watched last episode where we talked, touched on it. We've gone into business for ourselves.

[Langston Kerman]

Those fine gentlemen at Google and the rest came to us and they said, we want your data. And we said, yes.

[Bori]

And we said, the black data is powerful.

[Langston Kerman]

We said, republicans wear data, too.

[Bori]

That's. Seriously, though, give us your data.

[Langston Kerman]

You know what? I have been thinking about this for a little bit, that I don't think that politicians should be allowed to wear suits anymore.

[Bori]

Whoa.

[Langston Kerman]

I think it's crack or otherwise. I think we can start exploring track suit, but I think you should just have to dress what you actually are.

[Bori]

I like that. It's like, I like that because, like, have you ever gone out with somebody that you worked with? Yeah. And then you're like, oh, shit, you're a Juggalo. I didn't even. Because we were at work the whole time. I understand that we're allowing people to.

[Langston Kerman]

Cover up too much of who the fuck they are.

[Bori]

Yeah. Now they got those Iron cross tattoos and shit.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

And like, we should be able to see all that and then make a choice about, like, what you truly represent for the goodness of our well being, whatever the fuck, right? Like, it's nasty that you get to put this fucking uniform that posits itself as like, I'm a good person, I'm strong, I am well put together. No, you're not, you nasty.

[Yasser Lester]

I would argue that keeping the suit on is weirdly more reflective of what they do than wearing something else. If they wear something else and it shows you who they truly are, right? John Fetterman wearing shorts, you're like, yeah, of course. Right?

[Bori]

That's a weak man.

[Yasser Lester]

But when you wear the suit, you're like, all of this is for show. Like it for me instead. Instead of being like this, I'm like, oh, this is. It's like, to me, it's no different than like dressing like Batman where I'm like, this ain't. None of this is real. But I'm.

[Bori]

The point, right, Is like, let's get closer to like, what your essence is.

[Yasser Lester]

No, I know, and I'm saying it on the opposite, is that I like that they do it because it informs me immediately. Like, if I see someone wearing a suit, I'm just like, oh, you're a pretend big boy. It's just like when you see someone wearing, like, holding a briefcase, you're like, there's no briefs.

[Langston Kerman]

But I think you're.

[Bori]

There's no briefs anymore.

[Yasser Lester]

There's no briefs.

[Bori]

There's a boxer country.

[Langston Kerman]

I think you're speaking from a position of like, a person who is. Who has moved beyond looking at the. The man on the TV and going.

[Bori]

We gotta do this for the dummies.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah, you gotta do it for the dum dums.

[Bori]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

And the dumb dumbs deserve to see Trump in that polo outf more than inside of a fucking suit.

[Bori]

I would love to see how Trump would dress just of his own accord. But even without societal stint. Like, if it wasn't like, if he. Cause you know, he's so entrenched in being a rich white man, he knows what. But like, if it. I want to see what he wants to wear.

[Yasser Lester]

Like the id, but like the ID that Donald Trump is wearing.

[Bori]

I bet he dresses like that horny coyote in them cartoons. So it's still a suit, but it's huge and yellow. He does like the mask. That be fun.

[Yasser Lester]

That would be really. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

That actually would be fly. Yeah. If he was just like, no, I dress like a designing woman.

[Bori]

Yeah, yeah. I Got shoulder pads on.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah. That's pretty fun. I feel like. I don't know, I would, I genuinely would love to see, like, George, like, if everyone still wore suits, but like, George Santos got to dress the way he wanted. Yeah. Like it's a balance. Right. Again, you have John Fetterman in JNCO shorts and then you have Jorge Santos in like a sheen hall and you're like, oh, interesting. Lace gloves.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah.

[Bori]

Like a virgin.

[Langston Kerman]

A meth cumberbatch. A cumberbatch.

[Bori]

Okay. I do worry that it would lead us to keep the hot ones would win even more. Like, it would, like, because now you're wearing whatever you want.

[Langston Kerman]

I think sexy will outsell.

[Bori]

Yeah. Yeah. Like, I think some people don't lose anything. I think AOC stays where she is, right?

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah. Yeah. But I think she would put up bigger numbers.

[Bori]

You think she put up bigger numbers?

[Langston Kerman]

She could be sexy. Yeah, 100%.

[Bori]

I saw her on a plane one time.

[Yasser Lester]

Like, I just, I think in a world where like every, like pornhub search is just like angry Latina, which is just AOC coded by the way, you know.

[Bori]

Are they typing in the word angry?

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah. If you look at like pornhub searches in, in states with the harshest, like, trans laws.

[Bori]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

Trans porn is the number one watch thing.

[Bori]

Do they say angry trans?

[Yasser Lester]

No, I mean, it's. I think maybe docile trans. Just well meaning trans.

[Bori]

Trans to me, but kind of rude to other people.

[Langston Kerman]

Shuts the up about who was here.

[Bori]

Transit can keep a secret, but not secret trains. That's a California trans.

[Yasser Lester]

Who looks at you from across the room and you kind of leave at the same time, but no one suspects anything. Um, yeah, like, I think, I think she would do bigger numbers.

[Bori]

You think so?

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, I really do. I do. Yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

But I also think that, like, we as a society don't actually really want sexy politicians. Like, we've shown that over and over again. We don't really have a lot of evidence of that.

[Bori]

You don't think we're careening towards that?

[Langston Kerman]

Probably, but I do. I have some optimism that like, the types of people who would want to play over there are still specifically not the hot ones.

[Yasser Lester]

I mean, like, okay, like, look like Trump's a outlier. Whatever, whatever. Yeah, but like, you know, Obama, I really feel like not sexiest man alive, but I feel like we were like, oh, that, that is a good looking dude.

[Langston Kerman]

Good looking guy.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, your JFK's, your Bill Clintons.

[Bori]

I think we ugly. I think we were pretty ugly.

[Yasser Lester]

I think we Were on a timeline. You have to shift the timeline.

[Langston Kerman]

You have to shift the timeline.

[Yasser Lester]

You have to shift the timeline into what was happen.

[Langston Kerman]

I think we were on a hot run, Bush included.

[Bori]

I think W1 isn't our cup of tea. I don't think that's an ugly man. I think that's like a fairly attractive man.

[Yasser Lester]

Bush won.

[Bori]

Bush won. No, but he was not. I think he was still pretty good. I think, like, we gotta go back to, like, who was the last ugly one. Carter didn't have a great face, but he was. And that's an outlier too, though.

[Langston Kerman]

He was a real fireside chat.

[Bori]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

He had like, very Southern, big boy, like, I can care for you.

[Bori]

You felt like he could get cheeks, right?

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, yeah. He was clapping. So, I mean, so, like, Carter was clapping, bro.

[Bori]

Yeah. Come on.

[Langston Kerman]

That's fair. Gerald was a football player.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

Ronald Reagan was a celebrity movie star. God damn. Did his wife have a mouth on her?

[Bori]

Come on. We put her in the hall.

[Yasser Lester]

You gotta respect. Also, the fact that his forehead did not fall off after that photo is crazy. You gotta respect it, though. Like.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

Oh, no, man. We look.

[Bori]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

Why not marry a throat?

[Langston Kerman]

Go marry a throat.

[Yasser Lester]

It's still a go. You know what I'm saying?

[Langston Kerman]

I'm a marry. I'm a marry. The best.

[Yasser Lester]

Okay, I'm gonna get out of here.

[Langston Kerman]

Our guest today.

[Bori]

That is funny that that's the whole wall.

[Langston Kerman]

I actually did not think about how that these are scam artists of more minor notes. These are throat goat.

[Bori]

These are our robots.

[Yasser Lester]

Robots.

[Langston Kerman]

Absolutely. This is so well curated.

[Bori]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

Oh, my goodness.

[Yasser Lester]

I will say I have a question about the Steve Harvey thing.

[Langston Kerman]

Absolutely.

[Yasser Lester]

Because it's a flag. It's an American flag.

[Langston Kerman]

Clearly. Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

So did we add the mustache more in the sense that. Just, like, we wanted to keep the thematic of, like, mustache, teeth, lip. Cause, like, technically the flag is just red, white, red, white. Right.

[Langston Kerman]

So, like, I think it's an important question you're asking. I think you don't fully get the effect of Steve Harvey unless you have top lip.

[Bori]

And it still works. It still works. That's true. Who won it?

[Langston Kerman]

I think it's a beautiful piece of art and we couldn't be more proud of it.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

We couldn't be more proud.

[Yasser Lester]

We couldn't be more proud.

[Bori]

We couldn't be more proud of this collection.

[Langston Kerman]

This is a fine collection of art.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bori]

That's actually our country's flag. This is a sovereign state.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah. Look, who am I to Challenge.

[Langston Kerman]

And we do have this sovereign state for another hour and a half.

[Yasser Lester]

Okay. Yeah, yeah. Until the next one. Yeah, yeah.

[Bori]

It flips over to Stratio Lab after this.

[Langston Kerman]

Our guest today is a dear friend, one of the funniest people on the planet. You know him from so many things, most importantly, his film the Gutter is on Hulu. I would argue.

[Yasser Lester]

Look, I'm gonna stop the introduction. I would argue triple OG Status on this podcast. First guest ever.

[Langston Kerman]

That's true.

[Bori]

And been on in every era.

[Yasser Lester]

Every era.

[Langston Kerman]

The first guest ever of this podcast.

[Bori]

That's fair.

[Yasser Lester]

You know what I'm saying?

[Langston Kerman]

OG Triple OG you want to go.

[Bori]

On the goat wall?

[Langston Kerman]

You would have to go over here. Redo. That is where we put you.

[Yasser Lester]

Okay. You know what?

[Bori]

Okay. All right, I'll do it.

[Yasser Lester]

I'll do it.

[Langston Kerman]

We are going to put a little red string connecting Nancy to you to Puffy.

[Yasser Lester]

You know, before you added. Before you said the D in red, I thought you were going to say a little rel. And I was like, what do I.

[Langston Kerman]

Have to do with Lil Rel? Brother, wake.

[Bori]

We only got the room for 90 minutes. You got to catch up.

[Langston Kerman]

Yesterday, everybody.

[Yasser Lester]

Hey, hey.

[Bori]

Have you ever had a dreams that. That you. You had? You. You. You could. You do you would. You want. You. You could do so. You. You do. You could. You. You want. You want him to do you so much. You could do anything.

[Yasser Lester]

You know, that's when someone's like, explain voting. So it's like, explain one good thing happening in your life. Just stare at him.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah, that's what I explain. Medication. That's why I did it. I thought it would make me. Yeah, man, make me.

[Yasser Lester]

What's up with my dogs?

[Langston Kerman]

We chilling, man. You came to us with a few conspiracy theories.

[Yasser Lester]

I do. I like a lot of them.

[Langston Kerman]

And we're going to slide down a line of conspiracies, and we'll see where the conversation takes us. You said, my mama told me.

[Yasser Lester]

Dogs can sense racism.

[Langston Kerman]

Tell us about that.

[Yasser Lester]

I think there's a little bit of a misnomer, because I think that it's sensing it, but I also think that dogs are the ultimate racism canceler, if you will. The ultimate racism neutralizer. Yes, neutralizer.

[Bori]

Big time.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah.

[Bori]

Yeah, big time. I feel like, like, when you're out.

[Yasser Lester]

With them, but I also feel that, like, I mean, this sincere, like, because, like, look. Yes. Like, white people with pit bulls are the closest to regular black people. Okay?

[Bori]

So you know what's crazy? My heart wanted to refute it, and then My head did look at the timeline of my life, the rooms I've been in. I think that's pretty correct.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah. And I think, wow. The thing that we keep doing is we keep building city planning, neighborhoods around income. Right. Location, all this stuff. If we sincerely created communities around dogs.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

Everyone's living there.

[Langston Kerman]

What's your relationship to pit bulls? You might belong in this side of town.

[Bori]

That's interesting. It's almost like pit bulls take them out of the game. The way that other breeds of dogs put us in the game.

[Yasser Lester]

Correct, Right, but.

[Bori]

And they self fight, but they do it themselves.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah. That's a violent. You have become a pit bull, man.

[Bori]

You know what they should do is pit bull stings for neighborhoods. Hey, come on down. We're giving away free pit bulls for white people. And then we round them all up. There's cameras in here.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bori]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

No, for sure, for sure. But I genuinely, I, I. So first of all, I have three dogs. I think I need to make this clear. I have a little spaniel terrier mix. Then I have a German shepherd husky mix. Then I have a regular Alaskan husky.

[Bori]

Whoa.

[Yasser Lester]

Now when I'm with the dog.

[Langston Kerman]

Now, I only knew you to have the little dog. Where did these big dogs come from?

[Yasser Lester]

So the husky shepherd mix tragically fires in Los Angeles earlier this year. My wife was like, we were already talking about getting a second dog for our first one.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

And then she was like, we need to do it now. Like, everyone's setting dogs on fire. I was like, I don't think.

[Bori]

Wait.

[Yasser Lester]

I don't think everyone is.

[Bori]

But.

[Yasser Lester]

Take it easy.

[Bori]

That's a crazy reason to set your dog on fire.

[Yasser Lester]

Oh, no. Everything else is get the gas can. You.

[Langston Kerman]

Know how much insurance money we.

[Yasser Lester]

Could get for this dog? So we got him then. And then the third dog, my God sister, or I almost said her full name and address, but my God sister, her family member just couldn't care for their dog anymore. So we were like, oh, we'll foster this one. But then they got along so well.

[Langston Kerman]

That we just got a family of.

[Bori]

Dog common of the foster system, you know?

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah, you can stay.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah. So my son loves you. It's, it's. Here's the thing. I do think and I, you know, I just, you know, dog, you got a dog? Are you a dog? Okay.

[Bori]

Big pretty bitch.

[Yasser Lester]

Okay. And you don't, you don't.

[Langston Kerman]

My wife is not an animal person.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, cold, cold. It's all like, here's the thing. I weirdly get it. But then I also, like. It's. I don't know. It's just so beyond me. But then I'm like, oh, I'm kind of reverse, where it's like, I understand having 40 dogs, but if someone was like, here's a child right now, I'd be like, you need to jump off a bridge. Even coming to me on kid stuff.

[Langston Kerman]

I think she very much is like, the exact opposite.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

No. Where she's like, I can care for children at all times. If you put a human being in front of me, they will find love here.

[Yasser Lester]

Right.

[Langston Kerman]

And an animal, I feel nothing.

[Yasser Lester]

Okay. But. Oh, wait, let me ask.

[Bori]

Because my heart is warm to. I used to be really closed off to animals.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

And then I was never closed off, but I was like, you know, we had dogs growing up. You know what I'm saying? But I was always like. My mindset was always, if a dog is in front of me, I will love it endlessly. Any dog. But the moment a dog is not in my purview, it's almost as if dogs don't exist. There's just no feeling.

[Bori]

Did you ever get chased by dogs ever?

[Yasser Lester]

Oh, all the time. And I'm not even like, in the ghetto. You gotta survive.

[Bori]

No.

[Yasser Lester]

Yes. But I think 90s dogs used to just.

[Langston Kerman]

90S dogs got out.

[Bori]

Yeah, 90s dogs would get out and they would chase you. And I don't think that happened. Happens nearly as much anymore.

[Yasser Lester]

When I was.

[Bori]

You always knew the houses with mean dogs.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah. People five or six. Me and my cousin Rashad were walking down the street and. A Dalmatian, by the way. A Dalmatian of all time. They're mean. They're mean. Popped the fence, ran towards us, bit my cousin's face off. Like, just snatched it off. So crazy.

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[Yasser Lester]

Also, I don't know what it is. It is objectively funnier that his name is Rashad. I don't know why a Rashad getting bit in the face by a Dalmatian is a better story. Getting bit in the face by a Dal.

[Langston Kerman]

For sure.

[Bori]

Yeah, That's. Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

So it was a dog person. But I will say, because your wife. Your. Your wife's mother is a black woman. Correct. I find that, like, I feel like this. This is a take, by the way.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah, I'm listening.

[Bori]

Let's go.

[Yasser Lester]

I feel like black dudes. We're more open to animals than black women.

[Bori]

On the truth.

[Yasser Lester]

There'S something that, like. Cause my. Most of my family is like. Is like your wife. Where like, they, like, see the dogs and they're like, okay. You know, and they're like. All my cousins and my uncles are like, come here. Spit my mouth or whatever, you know? It's very interesting. It's very interesting.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah.

[Bori]

People can soften, though. Cause, like, I know. So I didn't have a dog until high school.

[Yasser Lester]

Okay.

[Bori]

And my mom, very African. I don't think she ever looked at that dog that we had in high school.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bori]

I don't think she looked at it. I don't think. I don't recall her ever touching it.

[Yasser Lester]

Right, right. Or doing it just to season it.

[Bori]

Yeah. Come on, man.

[Yasser Lester]

I'm sorry. I just. Look, hey, look. Langston told me to say it.

[Bori]

Can we have a dish? I thought we were having a good time.

[Yasser Lester]

We are.

[Bori]

Okay. We're doing.

[Yasser Lester]

Eating dog food, but for the spell. For the spell she was gonna do.

[Bori]

Come on, man. I'm just. I was just.

[Yasser Lester]

You don't think I'm trying to connect with you?

[Bori]

Your name is Y. Be against him.

[Langston Kerman]

How am I in it?

[Bori]

I don't know.

[Yasser Lester]

Oh, you know, I think Buddy knows.

[Bori]

The point is. The point is, in my mom's old age, she's softened to animals in a way that I never had seen come. She likes Stella. Like, she comes to my house now, and she's like, talk. And I'm like, who is this woman it for? And nothing happened. She didn't, like, get a dog in the interim or anything. She just opened up.

[Langston Kerman]

For a lot of my life, it was always black women sort of emphasizing the nastiness of dogs being like, ah, they're clean. You gotta wash your hands all the time around them. And it wasn't until, like, being around, like, other groups of people were there, People aren't like, touching a dog and then immediately scrubbing down afterwards.

[Bori]

Right, right, right.

[Langston Kerman]

They're just sort of like, yeah, yeah, it's gonna lick you. It's gonna do stuff. Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

My mom did the same thing you did. Like, we had dogs growing up, but she was always just like, yeah. She's like. When I was older, I'm like, it's not gonna shoot you.

[Bori]

You know what I'm saying?

[Yasser Lester]

And then now she, like, loves our dogs.

[Bori]

It's crazy.

[Yasser Lester]

So weird.

[Bori]

It's crazy.

[Yasser Lester]

So weird. But, yeah, but also the excuse that I always hear, and it's for everyone. This isn't particular to anyone in one group, but they're just like, you know, there's so many kids out there without homes. Like, how could I bring in a dog?

[Bori]

Because that's More work.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah. And I'm also just like. Then adopt 40 kids.

[Bori]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

Like this dog eat and sleep. I walk it the end. Like, I'm not gonna be getting addicted to meth. It ain't gonna kill me after living in my guest house.

[Bori]

It's not gonna steal my alcohol.

[Yasser Lester]

You know what I'm saying?

[Langston Kerman]

I don't have to teach it to read.

[Bori]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

But if I wanted to, I'd be wasting my time. But yeah.

[Bori]

License out in the garage again.

[Yasser Lester]

The movie is make duh duh.

[Langston Kerman]

Do a th sound.

[Yasser Lester]

But to bring it full circle.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

I do believe if communities were. And maybe it goes to all pets. Maybe there's cat communities. Maybe. But I do that. Here's the thing. I don't.

[Bori]

We have one. It's called four chan.

[Yasser Lester]

That's a wild boy. That's a wild boy right there.

[Bori]

I got two cats. Full disclosure. Not my idea.

[Yasser Lester]

Okay.

[Langston Kerman]

And you should be honest about one of them.

[Bori]

She got hair now.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah. He thought he had a hairless cat. And it was a hairless cat for a while.

[Bori]

Yeah. But now she's got like an active amount. I don't know what's going on, man.

[Yasser Lester]

She started molting.

[Bori]

I don't.

[Langston Kerman]

It's the opposite.

[Bori]

It's growing. It's growing hair.

[Yasser Lester]

Right. But doesn't molting is the con. Is the entire process.

[Langston Kerman]

Oh, it's the whole process.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah. Yeah. It's the shedding and then regrowing.

[Langston Kerman]

It's the full cycle.

[Bori]

She never shed. She came out. She was naked. She came out. She was bald. You've seen her. You've seen her in both of her.

[Langston Kerman]

I remember she was seeing you in tiny and bul.

[Yasser Lester]

You wanted a bald. Or were you just like. This is a plus that she's bald.

[Bori]

The love of my life loves a bald ass cat. She bought one in the mountains from a grifter woman. We had her for about a year. She was bald. We moved back to California in the last three months. Grown a grip of hair.

[Langston Kerman]

Full head of hair.

[Bori]

You know, it's crazy. I feel like we got scammed by a man.

[Yasser Lester]

Shotgun.

[Langston Kerman]

Looks just like you.

[Yasser Lester]

I was gonna say someone who paid a lot of money to get their hair back. I gotta say, I love anything that.

[Bori]

Was bald and came there's really a triumph story.

[Yasser Lester]

What you're describing is a miracle.

[Langston Kerman]

It sounds like I found my next play.

[Yasser Lester]

Oh, God.

[Langston Kerman]

Isaiah, we gotta get to work, bro.

[Bori]

But I do understand the irony of a bald cat being the most cattiest cat for a cat person.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah.

[Bori]

But that was. My lady did that.

[Langston Kerman]

Nah, that's okay.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

You got tricked.

[Yasser Lester]

But buying an animal from someone in the mountains is already. Like.

[Bori]

She drove far, too.

[Yasser Lester]

Oh, this wasn't a spur of the moment. Like, it was like.

[Bori]

It was. But it was fun. Facebook Marketplace. You could get anything these days.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bori]

You know what I mean? And I think she was just perusing, looking for.

[Langston Kerman]

It was spur of the moment on the end.

[Bori]

Stolen bike parts or whatever we needed for the house.

[Yasser Lester]

Right, right.

[Bori]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

Y.

[Bori]

And then there was a cat on there, and she went and got it, and it was. It is like, I never even. I never thought about a cat, let alone a dog, let alone a hairless cat. But it has grown up the ranks to be my second favorite animal in the house.

[Yasser Lester]

Wow. Okay. You know, my ex, she had. Or we had a cat together. And this is like a weird thing. My mom always described cats because, again, we had dog. My mom always specifically called cats spooky. So I think, like, it's hard for me to.

[Bori]

Cause they sit beside the door.

[Yasser Lester]

There's just, like, a lot. Like, there's. Even when a dog is, like, extremely smart.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

You're still like. That is smart for a dog. You're still a dumbass dog Feel more akin to, like, a crow or a raven, where you're like, there's a process of thought happening here.

[Langston Kerman]

You can strategize.

[Yasser Lester]

Yes, exactly.

[Bori]

It feels like it's perceiving more.

[Yasser Lester]

Yes.

[Bori]

When a cat skews evil, it feels evil with intention.

[Yasser Lester]

Right.

[Bori]

As opposed to when a dog is evil, you sort of just feel like it was mistreated.

[Yasser Lester]

Right.

[Bori]

Like, you're like, oh, it just. It doesn't.

[Langston Kerman]

It didn't have to be this. It's just brute.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah.

[Bori]

But, like, when a cat is evil, you're like, that's right. That's in you. There's intent.

[Langston Kerman]

Right, Right.

[Bori]

Which is kind of how I feel about mine.

[Langston Kerman]

Nikki believes them all to be that. And that is why she. Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

Refuses to.

[Bori]

Okay.

[Langston Kerman]

She's like, nah, they're all. Every single. A lot of them evil.

[Yasser Lester]

Every cat or every animal.

[Langston Kerman]

I like cats, but I grew up with an unreasonable amount of them.

[Bori]

What's an unreasonable amount?

[Langston Kerman]

At one point in the house, we had nine cats.

[Bori]

Wow. Because all names. They all got names in a way.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah. It's like farm, Marlon, Michael, Tito, Jermaine.

[Bori]

There was also two Joes.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

Two Joes. We can't tell Joe and Joe apart. It really did become that where, like, I think my mom was letting my youngest sister name them. And so they all had like weird, like, that's mittens. That's Mittens. White.

[Yasser Lester]

That's.

[Langston Kerman]

It's like, all right, man, let's just.

[Bori]

Does that cause an aversion to you to not want to have. Because I have always felt, it seems like, because cats are like a presence in the house more than I had kind of.

[Yasser Lester]

Of.

[Bori]

No, like the dog is like, I don't know, I feel like the dog is more active in the way that you have to care for it. Right. But like, I feel like it's a presence in the house. The cat is like, it's in there.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah.

[Bori]

So like nine feet, I would feel like, would feel like, like a, that's.

[Langston Kerman]

Like roommates almost, I think when I was my youngest, we had seven when I was young and that was exciting because I'm a boy and there's just a lot of animals around. And then once I became an older person and we had like nine of them in there, I was like, ah, this is, this is too much.

[Bori]

And it's hard to bring pussy around if you got nine cats.

[Langston Kerman]

I wasn't bringing a girl nowhere near my mother's home by this point in my life.

[Yasser Lester]

So, I mean, he already had nine of them. Come on. Why is he bringing another one in?

[Bori]

I got all these bad bitches right here. I ain't gotta bring Sam to the beach.

[Yasser Lester]

Wow. That man. Every time. Like, like, you know, I, I, I feel like every comedian's villain story, every, like you always are like, how did this person end up in this profession?

[Bori]

I've said that to him on this podcast, I think a few times. Sometimes he'll drop some and I'll be like, yeah, I get it, cuz, like from far away before I got to know you, I was like, oh, confident, light skinned man. I.

[Yasser Lester]

Why would you, you're like, yeah, yeah.

[Bori]

Why would you do.

[Yasser Lester]

Too good looking to me. Yeah.

[Bori]

Why would you do stand up comedy? And he drops. And then you're like, oh, okay, you're a dog with the rest of us.

[Langston Kerman]

I had a weird situation where I had resources for half the week and then no resources for the other half of the week. But because of my situation, I always knew I had resources. So I was, I was just in some shit and be like, all right, yeah, there's a bunch of cats over here.

[Yasser Lester]

I got a place, my mom had the cats.

[Langston Kerman]

I got a PlayStation at my dad's house, so I'm okay.

[Bori]

That's, man, that's crazy.

[Yasser Lester]

It's crazy to have a white savior in your own family. Your own father is a white savior. Like, please.

[Bori]

Did you have survivor's remorse the half the week?

[Yasser Lester]

Oh, wait, did you go to the same school all the. Like, that was the other thing.

[Langston Kerman]

I stayed in the same school district the whole time. My life was never uplifted. I just knew that part of my week was very different than the other part of my week.

[Bori]

It's like a controlled chaos.

[Langston Kerman]

It was a completely controlled chaos.

[Bori]

Did you stay going back and forth until a certain age? Did you get to an age where you were like, nah, I'm not doing this anymore.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah, but I picked my mom.

[Bori]

You picked the cats?

[Langston Kerman]

I picked the cats, yeah.

[Bori]

Interesting. Was that just like. Was it like a neighborhood thing? Like, you liked where she was at better?

[Langston Kerman]

No, it was because me and my dad's wife never got along. And so, like, that was the trade off was like, I had resources at my dad's house, but I was amongst literally my greatest enemy for the bulk of my life.

[Bori]

When your parent marries your greatest enemy, I've been there. That is not a good.

[Langston Kerman]

It's a bad feeling. So for me, you're always like, for me.

[Yasser Lester]

My mom married Charlie Kirk recently. I've been much happier. But for a few years there, I was not happy.

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[Bori]

Hell no.

[Langston Kerman]

No.

[Bori]

Hell no. Hell no. No, no, no.

[Langston Kerman]

Oh, my God. All right, we need to take a break. I think. I think we did what we could here. More yester more. My mama told me.

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[Yasser Lester]

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[Yasser Lester]

We're not gonna let Joe Biden and.

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[Yasser Lester]

That's dead on that. That's dead on that.

[Bori]

You heard it here. My mama told me uncut.

[Langston Kerman]

Agree to disagree. Certainly it's founder feels differently.

[Bori]

But, but, but the new bad boy of the party.

[Yasser Lester]

Oh God.

[Bori]

He's coming with his bad boy.

[Yasser Lester]

My mama told me is wild credit.

[Bori]

Bad boy of a nice boy podcast.

[Langston Kerman]

The bad boy of a pretty harmless institution.

[Yasser Lester]

Yes. Who shouted y' all out in a magazine recently?

[Langston Kerman]

Nia dacosta, dude.

[Bori]

Oh yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

That was really cool.

[Bori]

It's crazy.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah.

[Bori]

I'm excited to see her movie too.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah, that was a really weird thing that she was like. Yeah, they, they're not being responsible at all. I like it.

[Bori]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

Wait, do y' all know Her.

[Langston Kerman]

No.

[Yasser Lester]

See, that's when it counts. It counts when you don't know them.

[Langston Kerman]

No relationship.

[Yasser Lester]

You know what I'm saying?

[Bori]

Funny thing about me, I know, like, six people.

[Langston Kerman]

People.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah.

[Bori]

The fact that anybody listens to this is pretty amazing.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, it's way tight.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

Shout out Nia Dacosta, bro.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah, bro.

[Bori]

I'm. I am looking forward to that movie a lot. What's the new one, 28 years later?

[Yasser Lester]

Oh, that's right. She did it.

[Bori]

That's right.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah.

[Bori]

Like Bones, Bone something.

[Yasser Lester]

Empire or something.

[Langston Kerman]

Bone Church. Of course. We all remember Bone Church.

[Bori]

That was actually the aggregate website I used to get my pornography.

[Yasser Lester]

It's where I used to go where Flesh and bone used to.

[Bori]

To preach.

[Yasser Lester]

And he was. His all of a su. Was like, well, how come no one's talking about me? I was. Yo, they got. They popped when I was.

[Bori]

Was he the one who was in prison when they got in prison? It's very.

[Yasser Lester]

It's very Tony Yayo. It's very. You know that.

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Can I.

[Langston Kerman]

Can I say as somebody who has now met what? I met four of the five Bones. Okay.

[Yasser Lester]

Okay.

[Langston Kerman]

Nice. This Bone.

[Yasser Lester]

Flesh.

[Langston Kerman]

Flesh.

[Yasser Lester]

Okay.

[Bori]

Oh, that. You did say that. But that's. Cause he did the. Cause of the time, probably.

[Langston Kerman]

I think so. But what a. Like, genuinely, like, so happy to be in every room.

[Yasser Lester]

But that's it. Because he's like. He didn't get the.

[Bori]

You know, it's also like, what was his verse on Notorious Thugs? Because you know, who we remember.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bori]

The scary one.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

Who do you consider the scary? Oh, yeah. Well, yes, in real life. But I would say vocally, it's crazy. He has the deepest.

[Bori]

Oh, but Bizzy's. I feel like Bizzy's is the most, like, get somebody steep.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bori]

That's pretty scary.

[Langston Kerman]

Bizzy was the one talking about the most, like, violent shit, right?

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone was just like, what if I was spooky? And he was like, the devil. The devil, the devil. Okay. You're, like, directly saying the thing that we're all inferring. There's a darkness in my eyes. He's like, satan is kissing me.

[Langston Kerman]

I thought this was a tasteful relationship with the devil. You're making devil smut.

[Yasser Lester]

It was like, Mr. Weezy, bring me your side. He's just like, I killed every kid in the neighborhood. Resurrected them. So wait, you did Pet Cemetery? Like.

[Bori]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Yasser Lester]

Like, wow. You harmonized that beautifully. You harmonized the plot to Pet Cemetery.

[Bori]

No, it was really the most Apt name in hip hop.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah. Yeah, they really. But they used to stand for something like Bone used to stand for something. Like the first tape, it was N.

[Bori]

E. Oh, I thought you meant, like.

[Yasser Lester]

It was like B O N E.

[Bori]

This country used to stand for show.

[Yasser Lester]

Oh, God, that would be like.

[Bori]

Here's my.

[Yasser Lester]

Like, if we can talk about bone for a quick second, you know, I find it. Huh.

[Langston Kerman]

Originally the acronym BONE in Bone Thugs in Harmony. Originally Bone Enterprise with a money sign. Oh, my God. The original acronym was Beating on niggas every Day.

[Bori]

Well, I was gonna say big old niggas everywhere.

[Yasser Lester]

Nah, but that's.

[Langston Kerman]

That sounds more scary.

[Bori]

Yeah, that sounds. Yeah, That was Bizzy's idea.

[Langston Kerman]

It also was apparently their origins and style suggested meaning. And then buddies of natural extremes, which. That don't feel right.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

Representing their Cleveland roots and unique melodic. No.

[Yasser Lester]

Well, I also feel like people were like, I'm sorry, your name is Beating off niggas every night. They're like, on.

[Bori]

We're beating on.

[Yasser Lester]

They're like, you beating up you beating up niggas.

[Bori]

All right.

[Yasser Lester]

Hey, we should drop the period.

[Bori]

Maybe we're just bold. Plus, I can see this from you, but busy.

[Langston Kerman]

I'm so busy beating off these.

[Yasser Lester]

And then one was like, what if we're buddies? What if said we're. No, no, we're not beating off anybody. We're buddies.

[Langston Kerman]

On what are the natural extreme.

[Yasser Lester]

That sucks. What are we talking about? See, that's when you're like, oh, they're from Cleveland. You're like, that just feels like a weird thing. It's like, okay, I know four words. Buddies.

[Langston Kerman]

Clearly. Clearly we look like buddies, right?

[Yasser Lester]

Buddies have braids. All right.

[Bori]

Think about a bunch of.

[Yasser Lester]

Dudes just being drunk and high. Like, okay, we are buddies. I think we're all buddies.

[Bori]

One of them was still riding for the beaten off niggas.

[Yasser Lester]

He's like, I don't know.

[Langston Kerman]

Wish you are like a buddy to me.

[Yasser Lester]

Oh, weird. What a weird little fun. What a fast door.

[Langston Kerman]

What a.

[Yasser Lester]

Good for them. Good for them.

[Bori]

Yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

Well, Yasser, you also came to us with a concern.

[Yasser Lester]

Okay, this one's a real one.

[Bori]

Okay.

[Langston Kerman]

You said, My mama told me. Trump is trying to resegregate. Scar goes.

[Yasser Lester]

Yes, mom, do you ever.

[Langston Kerman]

Feel, you know, not so fresh?

[Yasser Lester]

Ew. No, no, no.

[Langston Kerman]

Yep.

[Yasser Lester]

I mean, how do you follow? I don't know. Okay, are we ready? Not. We don't. It's not even a tinfoil hat thing. This is. I'm. I'm going use laws and I'm going to use court case, and I want to prove this. All right.

[Bori]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

In 2025, Trump awarded $500 million to HBCUs and TCUs, which are tribal colleges and universities, those that are, you know, specific to Native Americans.

[Bori]

How many are there? Is that like.

[Yasser Lester]

There's not a ton. I was gonna say there's not a ton. So a lot of that money is going to HBCUs, which. But for us, that's great. That money comes exclusively from him taking $500 million, maybe a little bit less, to schools that have a specific Latin and Hispanic population. Right.

[Bori]

Payment money from them.

[Yasser Lester]

Yes. So $350 million that was earmarked for them. He took it and then added another 150 million. And now that's this plot, Right? Or this pot of cash. That's important because in 2023, there's an organization called the SFFA, and it stands for Students Sucker free. Okay, but. Where's the. Where's the end? Like, Okay, so the SFFA is the Students for Fair Admissions, right?

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

Created by a dude named Edward Blum, but the support he got was from Asian Americans in the US who believed that they were not getting into Ivy League schools because of affirmative action. Right?

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah. Right. So, yeah, Asian students really kicked off the affirmative action wave.

[Yasser Lester]

And Edward Bloom is the dude who took this case to the Supreme Court. They win, affirmative action is effectively wiped out at school.

[Langston Kerman]

Congrats, y'. All.

[Yasser Lester]

Congrats. It worked. The issue is, I got nothing is that now Asian American representation admittance in Ivy Leagues has stayed the same. It's gone up by a percentage point and down by a percentage point in certain places. Right? Right. This is important because affirmative action has been wiped out of these places at all these colleges. They will stop letting in black students now because there's no precedent for them needing to anymore. Right. So he's flooding all the black schools to be like, this is where you are going.

[Bori]

All influx of money and.

[Yasser Lester]

And. And. And. Which is very important. A lot of these schools, a lot of. Of HBCUs, as we know, are in Southern states. The problem with that is to be an accredited school, you still have to meet a government mandate on what you are teaching. As we know, all of these government mandates are now based on religion and anti racism, faux anti racism, but as we know, very, very racist. So I believe the plot was. Was. Is give them. It's the same thing we see all the time, right? Give the black people what we think they want, which is the money for the HBCUs. We all celebrate. The most sinister part of it is that because Asian American representation is staying the same in all of these colleges, they will then be moved culturally into what is considered whiteness. And then the same thing will happen with Latinos because as we know, in popular, you know, whatever culture, whatever you want to call it, we consider Latino and Hispanic to be an ethnicity but not a race. Right. So all of the powerful white Latinos will then also be moved into the white category. The darker skinned ones will either be moved into Native American, you know, whatever, if they can prove a certain percentage of that, or into HBCUs. But, but we will be split in education within the next three years, I truly believe.

[Bori]

Whoa.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

You're saying that this isn't.

[Bori]

I was having so much fun beating off niggas.

[Yasser Lester]

I, I, it's, it's, it, to me, it's the most sinister way of doing things. Like, I genuinely, and I know we've like, joked about it before, but like, I like when you're walking down the street, someone's like, nigger. And you're like, at least I know, you know what I'm saying. I don't like when they're like, shake my hand and then, you know what I'm saying, they're robbing.

[Langston Kerman]

You would prefer them being vocal about, about who they are rather than.

[Yasser Lester]

Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think that, like, and it's, it's the, it's the, it's brilliant in the way that it comes as a gift. Right. It's a Trojan horse. And I think we're all like, I don't know. Because at the end of the day, it's like, you also don't like me personally. When I have kids, I'm like, I don't want them to go to a Harvard. I want them to go somewhere that has diversity and all of these things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wherever Coach prime is, that's where I want my child.

[Langston Kerman]

I don't even want them playing in the organization.

[Yasser Lester]

I just want to know he's there.

[Langston Kerman]

With his cowboys, this man's leadership overseeing their education.

[Bori]

Colorado. It's nice when he's there.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

Do you feel there's more black people in public?

[Bori]

No, not at all. I don't, I don't think that culturally it's spread sway. I think that it, I, I think culturally, outside of the state, I don't think within the state.

[Yasser Lester]

Right, right.

[Langston Kerman]

But it made the teams fun.

[Bori]

Yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

And that's something, I do think that.

[Bori]

And it was cool. It was, Listen, it was crazy to See Cameron in Boulder. You know what I mean?

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah.

[Bori]

Like nuts.

[Langston Kerman]

Offset showed up in Boulder, Colorado.

[Bori]

But at the same time, Jokic is also undermining the black athleticism of the state.

[Langston Kerman]

Sure, sure, sure.

[Yasser Lester]

But that. I feel like he. We give him some.

[Bori]

The Denver Nuggets are the least cool team. You do know that. And I love that they won, but like, it's not.

[Yasser Lester]

I wouldn't even say it's a coolness thing, but like the way they. Like anyone who is that big is good at basketball. Anyone? Anyone. Anyone.

[Bori]

He's pretty.

[Yasser Lester]

He's, he's, he is. I think he has my skill.

[Bori]

His numbers are insane.

[Yasser Lester]

He has my skill, but he's a giant. And he's like. He's a door. How.

[Bori]

You know, I don't think so either. I feel like this is like when dudes are like, I could beat up any woman UFC fighter.

[Yasser Lester]

No, no, I don't believe that. I don't think.

[Bori]

But I mean, I feel like you beat all women.

[Yasser Lester]

Put your mouth right over that Hol.

[Bori]

My.

[Langston Kerman]

And that's how you get out of that. I. I do think speaking to, to this question of like segregation, right. That like, very often with politics, truly the best politicians in the world. In the world are the ones that are able to hide the medicine inside of what they consider to be the sugar. Whatever the it is, is. And so it becomes this weird thing of like, Trump is like truly a vile, like an awful, awful man, but he is a very effective politician.

[Yasser Lester]

Yes.

[Langston Kerman]

And I think it's a weird wrestling that we culturally have been doing for a long time of being like, calling him bad and being like, this guy sucks, he's fucking awful. But he's so much more effective than anybody we've ever had before. And it's kind of weird to be like, like, man, he's really getting his done.

[Bori]

Is that a Project 2025 play or is this like, do you feel like this? I don't know what's in there.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like cuz every time a new thing comes up, people like, that's Project 2025. Getting rid of kettle corn. Was. That was on their mandate. That was on their agenda. And they're like, yes, very important to.

[Bori]

Exactly what movies they wanted to make.

[Langston Kerman]

They know got a sweet tooth night, but they don't want too much sugar.

[Yasser Lester]

I feel. Can I also say, I just feel like the quality of kettle corn. Like, I feel like when kettle corn really hit, we were all like, yeah. Now I'm like, are we even talking like Are we even talking about kettle corn like that anymore?

[Bori]

No.

[Langston Kerman]

This still means a lot in my house, but I respect it.

[Yasser Lester]

Really?

[Bori]

Are you guys. A big kettle corn?

[Yasser Lester]

Okay, but like a smart pop. I like a smart pop, too, but.

[Bori]

Here'S my pink salt one.

[Yasser Lester]

Here's my question, though. We love a kettle corn, right? But. But when it's Christmas, when it's New Year's, how are we feeling about a giant tin of three different flavored popcorn with a cheddar with a caramel with a regular butter? So for school, I mean, just like they have it at Target. You know, it's in a festive. It's in a festive large tin. How do we feel about a Popcornopolis? How do we feel about Chicago? Garrett's.

[Langston Kerman]

Garrett's. Yeah.

[Bori]

What's carrots? I don't even. Oh, the one with the blue stripes? Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

Get it, man. Get out.

[Bori]

I really. I really don't.

[Yasser Lester]

You don't even pop corn like us, bro.

[Langston Kerman]

It's one of our more essential resources.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

We don't have a lot else, but we. We got Garrett's popcorn.

[Bori]

Oh, they got it on the plate now.

[Langston Kerman]

They got it everywhere, baby.

[Yasser Lester]

It's the finest popcorn.

[Langston Kerman]

You met him?

[Yasser Lester]

I met Garrett. I was at.

[Bori]

Oh, are you for real? There's a guy.

[Yasser Lester]

I swear to God, I was at a party in Brentwood once, and I'll never forget it. There was a dude making popcorn, and I swear. Hold on, hold on. And this. This, this. It was in a mansion, by the way. I won't say who it is, but it was Epstein and not the one you're thinking. This guy's name was Jeffrey.

[Langston Kerman]

He had a cool plane.

[Yasser Lester]

The whole house sat on a moat.

[Bori]

But I just signed my name on some logs to get in. But that's. Whatever.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, yeah. That's not gonna come back. No one's ever gonna find out about this. But no, there was a dude, like, making popcorn. He was, like, kind of weird and had, like. I was gonna say had hair. Most people have hair, but it was just, like, kind of. Anyway, he was like, in his own world. You were like, that's Garrett of Garrett's Popcorn. I was like, whoa. Bro shows up and does the thing. Like, that would be great, like, if Michael Jordan showed up to the party. Was just like, y' all want to see me shoot some?

[Langston Kerman]

What if he's making the popcorn?

[Yasser Lester]

It t. Yeah, but risky, right? That's what I'm saying. It's like, wow, you are confident.

[Langston Kerman]

Nah, he really believes in this.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

So anyway, who cares, man?

[Langston Kerman]

I do. I do very much believe in the possibility of. Of any. Of like the. The sort of like, shitty things that. That are being presented.

[Bori]

Yes.

[Langston Kerman]

Being sneak. Sneaked in. Snuck in Very stealthily and very quickly.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

Like, I think the. The rate at which these things feel like they can happen now is so fast that I believe.

[Bori]

Yeah. It felt like this administration turned up the heat on everything.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah. Yeah. I do have an addendum to the question or to the premise posed.

[Langston Kerman]

Sure.

[Yasser Lester]

Is it necessarily a bad thing?

[Langston Kerman]

Okay.

[Bori]

That's the real question. Right.

[Yasser Lester]

Are we. And I think about this a lot in terms of like, religion. Right. I think that white Christianity is a completely different thing than Christianity as a whole. Right.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah.

[Bori]

You're talking about like, white nationalist.

[Yasser Lester]

Yes. Even.

[Bori]

Just.

[Yasser Lester]

Even white evangelicism is a completely different thing than evangelicism around the world. Right. Like, and evangelical being the, you know, proxy term for just like more extreme zealot. Whatever, Whatever, whatever. But if we are not. It's not. It's no longer. Do you go to an HBCU or, I don't know, Vanderbilt or whatever, you know what I'm saying? You have to. And the education system there. Now granted there are government mandates, but. Which I do think he will revoke at some point. But if we are in charge of everything, you know, is it bad or does it just become Tulsa again? And once. Once we hit the ceiling, we get bombed out. But I do think it's an interesting thing.

[Bori]

It feels like it's on a bigger scale than that though, right?

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah, I think.

[Bori]

And I mean. I mean to. That then it's like, I don't think that you can control it in that way. So, like, that was like a pretty good setup.

[Langston Kerman]

I think what scares me is less of like, can we control education, but more like once it becomes importing and exporting, like they control so many of the resources that come in and out of this country.

[Yasser Lester]

Right.

[Langston Kerman]

And. And I don't know that there are a lot of black organizations that even come close to a level of control of what comes in and out. And even if they do, they serve at the hand of a white.

[Yasser Lester]

Right.

[Langston Kerman]

You know, a white hand.

[Yasser Lester]

And so like, it's always Elucian Grant.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, black BP ain't right actually serving our community. And so in that way. A bone.

[Yasser Lester]

Petroleum. Yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

That'S petroleum. Bone.

[Bori]

Grease, man.

[Yasser Lester]

Shiny, bro. Sorry, sorry, sorry.

[Langston Kerman]

He don't rap.

[Yasser Lester]

He manage now, guys moisturize and go out there A second, grease up and make me some money.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah. I just think it feels so much bigger than just like, oh, we get to be in charge of our schools and therefore, or get to produce, you know, strong.

[Bori]

I also don't think you put in a plan like that in play without. The plan was always for control. Right. It's not like they're like, oh, we're gonna, we're gonna do it like this. Oh, my God.

[Yasser Lester]

There's no time over there. Hooping. Yeah.

[Bori]

What?

[Yasser Lester]

I didn't.

[Langston Kerman]

I couldn't tell. This is better than the ncaa.

[Bori]

Yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah. They're not gonna, like, give us a chance to, like, turn.

[Bori]

Yeah, I'm sure there's checks and balances.

[Yasser Lester]

Well, look, I, I mostly agree, but I do think that any, Any siphoning off of any part of the population, I, I, I do think becomes a breeding ground for innovation, and innovation in a way that makes itself unknown until the lid is blown off. Like, I also.

[Bori]

It also feels like now, if you siphon it off that way, now you put that jacket on, all those degrees, you graduated from X. We don't really hire X's over here.

[Yasser Lester]

You know what I mean?

[Bori]

Like, it's like, so easy to. Now you can spot it, you know.

[Yasser Lester]

But here's the thing. I agree with all of that. When I say, is it bad? I mean, like, of course they're bad in the, in the greater sense of, you know.

[Langston Kerman]

You mean for the greater progress for society?

[Yasser Lester]

Yes. I feel like, is there, Is there a weird experiment that's about to take place where Mississippi suddenly becomes the economic center of the United, like, you know what I'm saying? Does something weird happen. Happen in the negativity? You know what I'm saying? Like, so I think that, like. And also, we've never, Every time we come close to, you know, I always think back to, like, the watermelon farming thing, right? And, like, how that's how we made our money. And then all of a sudden, they were just like, only black people eat it. And they tank the, you know, So I, I genuinely wonder. And it's. Again, there will be mass surveillance on this thing. I genuinely. That. And, and also the fact that they are lumping us in with Native American Americans clearly means that there is. There's a very low.

[Langston Kerman]

We already took them out.

[Yasser Lester]

That's what I'm saying. So it's like, there is a fear to it, but if there is a positive spin to take or if there's a positive outlook.

[Bori]

Fusion cuisine coming out of these universities.

[Yasser Lester]

More corn Dishes. I don't really know Native American cuisine like that. I know corn.

[Bori]

I was thinking more of the darker Mexican.

[Yasser Lester]

Oh, okay. Then we go. Now we get oxtail tamales.

[Bori]

Everybody's got a hot plate now. I did this. You did this. We're coming out. Oh, shit. This is a new Wolfgang Puck.

[Langston Kerman]

He pronounces it differently, but yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

Oh, no, I find it. I find it very interesting, though. But it was the first, you know, like. I know. So it's easy to, like, you know, especially for us to, like, look at things and be like, what's this? What's this?

[Bori]

What?

[Yasser Lester]

You know, like. And I'm connecting dots, but it was the first time in a long time I saw this thing and I was like, oh, this is the quote, unquote, red line that goes. Yeah, the little rail line.

[Langston Kerman]

What does make me excited when I hear that is that we have spent so much time in the sort of most royal sense of the weather, have spent so much time sort of living in a white system without making major forward progress. And so the possibility of exploring a system even if it won one, logically, that, like, sits wrong with me. It is kind of exciting to be like, well, shit, we ain't. We ain't tried it yet.

[Bori]

To develop without meddling. Feels like there's all kinds of possibilities to that. Like you said, who knows what could come of.

[Yasser Lester]

But yeah, and we've also. There's two things. Like, there's like the jellyfish theory of it, right? Where it's like we evolve separately than everything else, but at the same rate and have same level of intelligence, whatever.

[Langston Kerman]

Right, sure.

[Yasser Lester]

And it's also. It's not like we haven't been exposed to all of this, right? Like, it's not like we don't have their textbooks and all that stuff, but, like, all of them have been written with a very specific directive in mind. Right? And so, like, what happens if we are truly given the chance to break that open? And I don't know. Like, I'm not super hopeful for it, but I do think that there is. There is a discussion worth having about what it could be.

[Langston Kerman]

You see a possibility of a silver lining, regardless of, you know, the bleak sort of like, whatever sky it sits on.

[Yasser Lester]

And I also think that at the very least, least, you know, maybe a New Panthers, maybe a new Weather Underground, maybe a new whatever evolves from this. You know what I'm saying?

[Bori]

A more a larger scale. Right, with him.

[Yasser Lester]

Yes. Yeah, exactly.

[Bori]

That's like. That is exciting.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah. So new.

[Langston Kerman]

Chris Tucker.

[Bori]

Yo, but like yo, Native American. Chris Tucker, right?

[Langston Kerman]

Come on, man.

[Bori]

Yeah. Yo, Rush Hour five, let's go. It's Jackie Chan, man. With a Chippewa, huh?

[Langston Kerman]

That's Chris Tucker's time.

[Bori]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

Chip Tucker.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah. He didn't know he couldn't do that. All right, we need to take one more break. We'll be back with more Yasser, Lester More. My mama told Me.

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[Yasser Lester]

Not at all.

[Langston Kerman]

No. Look at my dog.

[Bori]

He's as black as can be and we're as back as can be. Welcome back to My mama told me.

[Langston Kerman]

You get better and better every time.

[Bori]

I'm really working on my craft, man. Thank you.

[Yasser Lester]

I really appreciate that. It's just you and dead Kevin Samuels.

[Bori]

Oh, you think he's dead? Okay, that's part two.

[Langston Kerman]

Wake up, brother. That's part he and the administration now Reddit.

[Yasser Lester]

I would say it would be a great way to tank the black value of Red Bull and then have him come back and be a spokesperson for Celsius.

[Bori]

What's the Celsius play? Wow. What's the blackest energy drink?

[Langston Kerman]

It's like when the Verizon guy flipped his Sprint.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, yeah. Blackest energy drink, man.

[Langston Kerman]

That's a good question.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Bori]

I don't.

[Langston Kerman]

I have no juice.

[Bori]

Come on, man. You're not going to take the question seriously?

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, I was just. I was gonna say coffee and a ticket.

[Bori]

I don't know. I never bought a crunk juice.

[Langston Kerman]

Oh, you didn't?

[Yasser Lester]

Oh, I'm from Georgia, though. So it's just like you kind of had to. You did the gas can thing. Yeah, I was 19, so there was no liquor in it, so I was just drinking crunk juice.

[Bori]

Oh. I just realized I was just pumping gas.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah. Just drinking regular crunk juice out of the gas can. Yeah.

[Bori]

Yeah, no, there was no liquor. Liquor in it. Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

No, no, I was an energy.

[Bori]

Yeah, Yeah, I know. But like, you didn't.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, you were supposed to mix it. Yeah, yeah. I'm saying. I did not. So I was. I was essentially drinking a regular beverage. Yes, exactly. I was just really excited. Damn, that nigga's a loser. Yeah. Y' all gotta try this stuff. Grape juice out of a tire. What if you did something fun like that?

[Bori]

We have a.

[Langston Kerman]

We have a voicemail from one of our listeners. Let's play it now.

[Voicemail Caller]

Y' all that voicemail is absolutely. That's stupid. I. I'm calling pause because I want.

[Bori]

To be on the record saying, I don't like this. I think this is going to be. Be bad.

[Yasser Lester]

Okay.

[Bori]

I don't like it at all.

[Langston Kerman]

Right from the beginning, you don't like their vibe.

[Bori]

Something about it bothers me.

[Yasser Lester]

Okay, all right. I was like, I want to throw it back on Lori. Like, you spoke too soon, man.

[Bori]

Now you up.

[Yasser Lester]

Now you got no chance.

[Langston Kerman]

Now you got no chance with this person whose voice you've heard once.

[Voicemail Caller]

I have a theory, and my mom did not tell me this, but I've, I've observed this, that I think the reason Gen Z is so obsessed with doing the climate is because we were pumped penguin propaganda in our youth. Because from my understanding, or from what I can recount, there has been upwards of 10 movies dedicated to penguins that came out in early 2000s. And this was like, you know, around the time where people were really saying global warming is real and the ice caps are melting. And I think that's why Gen Z cares so deeply about it, because we were. We were told about it and pushed heavily about it. Anyway, I'm going to name some penguin movies. March of the Penguins, Happy feet, happy feet. 2. Madagascar. 1, 2 and 3. 3. The penguins.

[Bori]

Let's wait a minute.

[Yasser Lester]

Okay, let's take a second.

[Langston Kerman]

Because Madagascar is not a penguin film.

[Yasser Lester]

It is a zoo movie.

[Bori]

Yes.

[Yasser Lester]

First of all, and the penguins do.

[Langston Kerman]

Play a major part. Let. Let us not discredit their consciousness.

[Bori]

Penguin movie, though.

[Langston Kerman]

Penguin movie is crazy.

[Yasser Lester]

Crazy. I mean, that is like saying the Lion King is a toucan movie.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bori]

What are we talking about?

[Yasser Lester]

The title. That's how Sebastian Maniscalco would say, what's wrong with you?

[Bori]

Yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

I'm looking at this thing.

[Bori]

That'S going good.

[Langston Kerman]

I don't have enough confidence.

[Bori]

It's going good.

[Yasser Lester]

Very.

[Langston Kerman]

It's generous to call it a penguin film.

[Yasser Lester]

It's also generous as a premise to say you care about the Earth's demise because of some.

[Bori]

That's why we hate Gen Z. That's what I'm saying.

[Langston Kerman]

It's.

[Yasser Lester]

If I'm not. If I'm in a house that's on fire, I'm not like, oh, I care about this because I met a firefighter when I was six. Yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

I watched a lot of fireman movies.

[Yasser Lester]

So. Yeah, it's hot in here. Yeah. What a. Like, I. Sorry I cut you guys off.

[Langston Kerman]

No, you're right. I think that the. I think that, that while I Agree that there were a lot of penguin films at during an era. I think it's the same way that there are, like, multiple types of movies that just sort of happen and people ride each other's ways.

[Bori]

Teaching white girls to dance. Movies. There's all kinds of multiple. Everybody sucking off everything. That's like movies.

[Langston Kerman]

They.

[Yasser Lester]

Sucking off everything.

[Langston Kerman]

Sucking off everything.

[Yasser Lester]

Oh, it's.

[Bori]

I'm still on the bone rib.

[Yasser Lester]

Freaking pause.

[Bori]

Broski.

[Yasser Lester]

Sucking off a penguin movie.

[Bori]

She also hasn't said surf's up yet, which is my favorite.

[Langston Kerman]

I bet it's in there. I bet it's in that list.

[Bori]

I really like that one.

[Langston Kerman]

I can't imagine if she had Madagascar on the list she's gonna miss.

[Bori]

She's open with that, though.

[Langston Kerman]

That's fair. Madagascar was early.

[Bori]

This might be a case of, you know, we always tell people to call in drunk.

[Langston Kerman]

And she was like, fucking penguin. Penguin, penguin. Madagascar. Madagascar 1.

[Bori]

Penguin.

[Yasser Lester]

Penguin, penguin. Batman Returns.

[Bori]

Chris Rock, Zebra. Interracial. Madagascar.

[Yasser Lester]

Can we go on an animation tip real quick?

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

Bori, my good friend told me years ago, maybe a year ago, he said, you have to see the Wild Ride.

[Bori]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

And I was like, that's so interesting. Like, I know you as someone who. I was like, there's no reason for this movie to have. And you were like, I went in the theater. It was just something. And you were like, I go see movies on the road.

[Bori]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

You were like, it's incredible. I watched Wild Robot and I cried in a way. And I mean it sincerely. I just want to go to therapy. I do all the emotional things that you were supposed to do. I cried in a way that was relieving.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah.

[Bori]

Like, you actually cried.

[Yasser Lester]

I cried in a way that, like, I felt like. Have you ever had. Have you ever done, like, a breath? I'm saying breathalyzer, but that, you know, makes you think of, like, alcohol. But I mean, like a breath. Sorry, an air, like, lung thing.

[Bori]

A nebulizer.

[Yasser Lester]

Nebulizer. You've never done a nebulizer? And you, like, cough and you go, like, I have not felt like that in forever. Like, whatever that was inside of me, that's what my cry for Wild Robot was. I was like that.

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[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, I was like that. There's were tears in my ducts that, like, had just been sitting there and calcified. I was crying rocks for a second.

[Bori]

It is fucked up.

[Yasser Lester]

It was a crazy thing when you.

[Langston Kerman]

Are crying without a filter.

[Voicemail Caller]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah.

[Bori]

You know what I mean?

[Langston Kerman]

Like, so many of my tears are like, I'm Crying. But my wife is here, so I'm going to keep this together. It was certain.

[Bori]

Yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

You gotta like kind of turn it up. I can cry, but I can't let the whole fucking faucet.

[Bori]

Yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

And you're crying some moments like the turn.

[Bori]

Like a baby.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, like a baby.

[Bori]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

Like with no judgment. But I wasn't even. Cause I. I was not screaming though. I should have been. I could have easily been screaming.

[Langston Kerman]

Sure.

[Yasser Lester]

I couldn't even like. I couldn't even have enough breath to cry as much as I wanted to cry. And I was like. Like, I think AI is good.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah.

[Bori]

No, that's why the movie pissed me off as much.

[Yasser Lester]

I'm kidding. Like, it was like. To the penguin propaganda. The. The. The joke slash thing that I really did want to bring up was that like it is. It is softening what we think about like a robot in the house. And I was like. Cuz I was crying and I was like, wait a man, these are real animals. And this little wrestling running around, like.

[Bori]

There'S so much subtle in that movie too. When the ducks are flying in, San Francisco's underwater. And you're like, what the is it?

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Bori]

I gotta chill.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah.

[Bori]

That movie came at a crazy time.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah.

[Bori]

I was. I was dealing with a murder. There was a lot going on in my life, sure. But it's also. Yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

That movie, it hits you in.

[Bori]

It's so complicated.

[Langston Kerman]

Hit y' all in the right.

[Bori]

Because it is good. It's really good. It's really, really good.

[Langston Kerman]

I haven't watched it.

[Yasser Lester]

Oh, man. Let me say as a father.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

As a father of children. Bro.

[Langston Kerman]

They are children.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah. Yeah. You think? Okay, that's. You could be wrong about that on the next episode. You think?

[Langston Kerman]

They do.

[Bori]

You should watch it though.

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You should.

[Bori]

It's worth watching.

[Langston Kerman]

My daughter is four. It is not an easy sell for.

[Yasser Lester]

A four year old.

[Langston Kerman]

No, it's actually.

[Bori]

Well, they talk more than you think though.

[Langston Kerman]

But the opening of it is so sort of like intentional and sort of like beautiful and slow. That ain't how kids watch.

[Bori]

Oh, you gotta get to it.

[Langston Kerman]

She wants her shit right when. When the movie starts. And if it ain't that, then turn this off so we can watch.

[Bori]

You gonna show her Zootopia too?

[Yasser Lester]

Whatever.

[Langston Kerman]

She saw Zootopia too. She rocked with Zootopia.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, she loved Cops.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah, she loves. She said one time, man, this nigga.

[Yasser Lester]

Raising cop lovers, bro, that one time this nigga took his daughter to Zootopia. She was wearing a Punisher Shirt, bro.

[Bori]

Punish it.

[Langston Kerman]

Love cops. Famously.

[Yasser Lester]

Famously.

[Langston Kerman]

I. Let's finish this voicemail. But I think. I think we know what this.

[Voicemail Caller]

This is Mr. Pauper's penguin special. Shout out to Club Penguin. And if anyone knows the pebble and the penguin. That one as well.

[Bori]

She didn't say something.

[Voicemail Caller]

I've said penguin so many times.

[Langston Kerman]

I don't know if she said.

[Voicemail Caller]

But yeah, that's my. That's my conspiracy.

[Yasser Lester]

It's not. If you take Madagascar out of it as for example, you're like, wow, that is, I would argue, a well informed thought.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

But then you just, you know, you're just like. It feels very. What's it, Confirmation bias? You're just saying the thing.

[Bori]

Play along.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah, well, I think, I think very often movies are making films about animals that you can train a little bit. And I think that there are only like eight of them that we can even train to be on camera most of the time. And so like any of the live action ones, penguins, fucking whales, dolphins, a dog, a horse. Like those. You can get to do some stuff. Nobody's making them about tigers because you. You can't really. You can't get them to be.

[Bori]

Watch the penguins was like documentary. Yeah, it's like a documentary, right? They're not.

[Langston Kerman]

And they train the. Out of those penguins in that. Morgan Freeman had them work.

[Bori]

He seems like a harsh penguin master.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, yeah. You know, talks about the full title is Nazi March of the Penguins.

[Langston Kerman]

You don't want to know what they were marching for. Their arms were up here.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah, yeah. So I think we did it.

[Bori]

That's pretty good.

[Yasser Lester]

I don't think we did.

[Langston Kerman]

You don't think we nailed all.

[Yasser Lester]

I feel like there's more to talk.

[Langston Kerman]

Could you tell the people where they can find you what shit you got going on?

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah. I have a new podcast on Turning Point usa. It is called Big Daddy Hours. It's me and Erica, you know, we talk about some stuff. But sorry, sorry, in all seriousness, I did start working for the administration, so we have a new podcast.

[Langston Kerman]

It is featuring Erica.

[Yasser Lester]

Yeah, this one features the Erica. No, I'm on Instagram Yasterlester. Please watch things that I've been in, I guess. And thanks for having me, y'. All. I'm glad you moved back. I'm sure everyone knows that you moved back, but I.

[Bori]

No, no, no, I can't.

[Langston Kerman]

We didn't make a formal announ, so.

[Bori]

I keep it tight.

[Langston Kerman]

Okay.

[Yasser Lester]

I'm personally glad that you're back. Are you an AMC pass member?

[Bori]

No, But I like going to the movies.

[Yasser Lester]

Okay. Well, no, there's some fire out right now. I'll be trying to get ready to go. I'm trying to get.

[Bori]

I like going to the movies.

[Yasser Lester]

Oh, I got to get a lineup.

[Langston Kerman]

Yeah.

[Yasser Lester]

What are you talking about? You gotta get a lineup.

[Langston Kerman]

Come to the movies. I got lineups three days a week.

[Bori]

What you. Nothing.

[Yasser Lester]

All right. Okay.

[Bori]

I don't know. Because we don't know when this comes out. Yeah.

[Langston Kerman]

Follow me at Langston Kerman on all social media platforms. You can see me still on tour. The Aspiring Deadbeat Tour continues into 2026. Lots of cities for you to enjoy and send us your drops, your conspiracies. Just give us a call at 844-little moms and give us an [e-mail] by the Merchant Merch. Get Movie Pass. Bye. My Mama Told Me is a production of Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network and I Heart Podcast, created and hosted by Langston Kearney, co hosted by David.

[Bori]

Bori, executive producer by Will Ferrell, Hansani.

[Langston Kerman]

And Joel Monique, co produced by Bay Wayne.

[Bori]

Edited and engineered by Justin Comey.

[Langston Kerman]

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[Bori]

Artwork by Dogon Krieger.

[Langston Kerman]

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[Yasser Lester]

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