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Langston
Tiger am I going to do with that?
Mandel
You put a tooth around the necklace. Proposed to a lady back then. You know, jewelry was all tactical back then. Yeah, yeah, it's animal bone.
Langston
You had to be able to wear it and stab somebody.
Mandel
You had to be like, man, look, y' all see my queen? She got a shark tooth on her. You know what I had to do for that one? I got in there and wrestled it.
Guest
Growing babies.
Langston
Microchips in your anus. All koala bears are racist. The ozone layer owes me money Martians invented turkey stuffing.
Guest
Y' all can't tell me nothing.
Langston
Blame it on my roots. I showed up in boots and ruined your black tie affair. There it is. There it is. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another phenomenal episode of My Mama Told Me podcast.
Guest
It dives deep into the pockets of.
Langston
Black conspiracy theories, and we finally work to prove whatever bullshit y' all got going on. We ready, we're willing. Let's go, let's talk.
Guest
Let's do it.
Langston
Ok. You got something. Let's address something. I don't like that people keep pretending like Barack Obama is funny.
Guest
Ooh, shit.
Langston
Yeah, that bothers me.
Mandel
You know, he's not.
Guest
He.
Langston
You know, that's. You know he's not funny. Stop.
Mandel
He's not. But he was a leader of the free world, bro.
Guest
That's not what we're talking about.
Mandel
I feel like you get certain perks.
Guest
But being funny is not one.
Mandel
I don't. Well, you can have the computer drop the bombs on you. Nope, I'm laughing. He was letting the computer drop bombs on me.
Langston
You're listening to survival. You're sitting here like an anim. Yeah, no, you right.
Mandel
Yeah.
Langston
That's not what I'm talking about. I'm saying, when you go home at night. Mandel, you're not reflecting on, like, funny Obama jokes.
Mandel
That's true. He wasn't.
Guest
The one he got off.
Langston
The one I know is the one where he told the turkey one and looked at his daughters and begged them to laugh.
Mandel
But he a dad, though.
Langston
Nigga, I'm funny.
Mandel
But here's the thing. You got an uphill battle. Cause as you have more children. Cause you are being fruitful and multiplying.
Langston
Okay?
Mandel
It's gonna be. It's gonna be harder.
Langston
Don't put that curse on me. It's done.
Mandel
It's gonna be harder for you to be funny, bro. Cause the dad jokes.
Langston
Nah. Obama and I got the same amount of daughters.
Guest
Trump has kids, too, and he's hilarious.
Langston
Huh?
Mandel
That's fair.
Langston
Trump is very funny.
Mandel
Very funny.
Langston
I would say the funniest president to ever exist.
Guest
Bernie Mac had kids. A lot of funny people got kids.
Langston
Funny people got kids.
Mandel
That's a fair point, bro.
Langston
Well, that's not funny. Y' all just want him to be funny because you want him to be a good guy. And that's not, first of all, not the same thing. And second of all, not how that works.
Guest
I think he should maybe ease up on humor. I think he should lean into being handsome. If you're really looking For a Barack. Trey.
Langston
I think he's a handsome guy.
Guest
That should be allotted. He should be a handsome guy.
Langston
I think he's aged exceptionally. Yeah, That's a good looking old man.
Guest
Yeah.
Mandel
Speaking of Obama, who did y' all really want on the podcast today instead of me? I don't know if I. I should let the. But I was called here T minus two hours beforehand, which means that somebody else did cancel.
Guest
That's not. But that's not. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. And you're hard to tie down, bro. You're hard to wrestle. I'm surprised.
Mandel
Not really. If I got that sick.
Guest
Listen, listen, listen.
Mandel
This clip was a short shot from Langston.
Guest
Are we doing this? Are we doing this? I have another engagement this evening for a recording that you were requested on and did not respond to.
Mandel
This evening?
Guest
This evening.
Mandel
What was it for?
Guest
It was for a different podcast. Oh.
Langston
This nigga tried to big dog us. But you the big dog.
Mandel
I don't even know who's dogging the big dog. I don't even know about this.
Guest
Okay. That's what I'm saying. So it's like, you're not easy. We don't know where you're at all the time.
Mandel
I don't even know about this. It's hard. I feel cool. Cause I don't know what you're talking about.
Guest
I was upset, too. I was like, damn. Mandel doesn't want to do it. That's too bad.
Mandel
What was it?
Guest
It's another podcast.
Mandel
Okay. Tell me about later.
Guest
I will.
Mandel
Yeah, absolutely. I would love that.
Langston
I don't.
Guest
No, it's too late. You got.
Mandel
You didn't. I'm pretty sure I just didn't see it. Whatever it.
Guest
I be saying that too.
Mandel
Yeah, man, but y' all. Absolutely.
Langston
I bet there was a time in your life where you wouldn't have not seen it.
Mandel
You know something? I ain't gonna lie, bro.
Guest
The DMs with the checks used to always get answered.
Mandel
I used to wear glasses, bro.
Langston
Whoa.
Mandel
I probably did see it back then. But then I realized glasses was how they was trying to infect us with bad vision.
Guest
Okay, that's cool.
Mandel
All you gotta do is do just like Prince. Prince lives to a thousand years old. Cause he was sleeping in an aquarium every night.
Guest
I don't think Prince was old even.
Mandel
When he look this up. Wikipedia gonna try to lie to y' all. He used to sleep in an aquarium. How tall is Prince?
Guest
I'm saying he died at like. What are you like 55 or some shit. He wasn't out.
Mandel
He was a thousand, bro. How tall is Prince?
Langston
5, 3. 5? 3.
Mandel
He was in a five full size aquarium. They sell them by the height down at the aquarium shop in Minneapolis. Used to go down there, they'd be like.
Langston
They sell them in human height is what you're saying.
Mandel
They sell them five, fold, six foot, whatever height you want, bruh. Y' all ain't never had fish.
Guest
He had a bunch of fish.
Mandel
He went down. He went down to the Minneapolis aquarium shop. They say, man, what you want? Rocks at the bottom? He like, no, I want a tempur pedic, bro.
Guest
Like the shop at the end of the. Like the aquarium gift shop?
Mandel
No, he goes to a shop for aquarium.
Langston
Where you would assemble your aquarium. He's the fish tank store, the pet store.
Guest
Oh, the pet store.
Mandel
Yeah. I can tell based on that response, you don't believe in small aquariums.
Langston
Okay.
Mandel
You think that aquariums only belong in vast spaces. This aquarium technically covered up. Fish could live in there. They had Prince sleeping in one of these. Horizontal, of course. Cause people don't sleep standing up. He spent eight hours a night of that. And he looked to a thousand year old. They tried to lie and say he died. Cause of Ambien or something. This cat is not Roseanne Barr. This cat was messing around. Messing around, sleeping in water. And that's why he looked so youthful, brother.
Guest
But he was. No, he was not old. They have him on the news when he was a little boy in the 70s.
Langston
How do you respond to the allegations?
Guest
You know what I'm talking about?
Langston
When they interviewed him, Footage of Prince as a child.
Mandel
Listen, man, y' all think this stuff that they showing y' all, they just got.
Langston
Okay, okay.
Mandel
Intelligence been artificial.
Langston
Whoa.
Mandel
You know what I'm saying?
Guest
Whoa.
Mandel
Intelligence been fake.
Langston
You know why I like that? It kind of had a rhythm to it. Yeah, it didn't make sense at all.
Mandel
But now a good rhythm. Look, they'll show y' all pictures and video stuff. Have you ever met Prince?
Guest
No.
Mandel
Read them in Wheat. I'm saying, yeah, boy.
Guest
I don't even know what happened.
Langston
Nah, he got you. I never met friends. It's like, how could you even.
Mandel
Hey, man.
Langston
Damn, he got you good.
Guest
I don't even know what I would be looking for.
Mandel
Yeah, bro.
Langston
Yeah. You just got to shut the fuck up and take it after that damn mando. I'm sorry, we haven't introduced you.
Mandel
Yeah, I'm sorry, man.
Langston
Yeah, but then. No, it's okay. I'm so happy you're here. You're one of our favorite people on the planet. You are a hilarious comedian. The man. Netflix.
Guest
Come on.
Langston
Other places.
Guest
Your favorite Internet, probably.
Langston
I would say maybe my favorite animated thing in the past, like, five years is a clip that regularly goes viral of that Mandel is responsible for.
Guest
Which one?
Langston
What's his name? Lil.
Mandel
Lil Daddy.
Langston
Lil Daddy, the little cartoon.
Guest
I like the Air Force One's one.
Langston
A lot of classics on the Adult Swim.
Guest
Boy, were they lazy.
Langston
Yeah.
Guest
Yeah, that was fun.
Langston
Mandel contributed a lot of good stuff onto Adult Swim, man.
Mandel
Let them know the acronyms, too.
Guest
What's the acronym?
Langston
Man Against Negativity. Distributing All Love.
Mandel
Come on, man.
Guest
Let's go.
Langston
We all know the acronym.
Mandel
I feel very warmly welcomed into this environment.
Langston
That's all we ask for. Ladies and gentlemen, Mando. Mando's here.
Mandel
Thank y' all so much, man. The blessings of God.
Langston
Mm.
Mandel
That's hard, bro. And I'm gonna be honest with y' all. I'm a huge fan of y' all, bro. Love this podcast.
Guest
Hell, yeah.
Mandel
Langston has helped me get employed when I came here. Langston has done a lot of favors for me and I.
Langston
And you came on here nasty. You came on here.
Mandel
I came on Nasty? Yeah, I came here nasty.
Langston
Coming with accusations that you weren't a top priority for us.
Mandel
No, that is the truth. That's not an accident.
Langston
But that could have been quiet. But you could have lived with that. You could have went to bed with that feeling.
Mandel
That's true. That's true.
Guest
That's true.
Langston
You didn't have to say it out loud.
Guest
Preach the gospel of Mando out into the world regularly.
Mandel
That's true. That's true.
Guest
Club just is about to hit you up. Cause I told him to hit you up.
Mandel
Really?
Guest
Yeah.
Mandel
Hey, bro. Hey. I'm gonna say something, bro. It be. People be doing me a lot of favors, man. And I really appreciate that, man.
Langston
We all wanna see what happens when you survive.
Guest
We want you to win.
Langston
Here's the thing.
Mandel
You know what I mean?
Langston
Like, we all.
Mandel
This is funny.
Langston
I think we all see a potential of either, like, insane success or true psychopath, like, behavior that, like, one way or the other, I wanna see this book finish, man.
Mandel
I appreciate it. It's a weird thing. Cause I do feel like a lot of the support is from comedians actively fighting against my own mental health issues, man.
Langston
That's right.
Mandel
Yeah. Y. And it seemed like I be team mental health issues. And y' all are actively winning that battle, bro. And I Can't thank y' all enough, bro. Like, I'm very happy about that. It's been a great experience. I would have never moved from Atlanta ever in my life if it wasn't for the opportunities to be provided for me.
Langston
Mando, I can't let you jump. I need to see what happens when you meet Don Cheadle.
Guest
Yo.
Mandel
That's what I'm saying.
Guest
That's gonna go nuts. I need you.
Langston
I need him in the room.
Mandel
Yeah.
Guest
I need to see the first mandal. Dramatic role.
Langston
I gotta see the full story finished. Cause this might be the greatest. Genuinely, I'm saying it. This is like some.
Guest
It's hard because we're good, right? We're all very funny. You're funny in a way that people are like. Yeah. It's just. That's like another thing.
Mandel
But see, the thing is, the issue is I can't read or write for real.
Langston
That's okay.
Mandel
That's okay.
Guest
Two huge things that you can't get you Jobs, baby.
Mandel
Come on.
Langston
We gonna see you through that.
Guest
Come on.
Langston
We gonna figure that out.
Guest
The greats couldn't. One of the greats couldn't, bro. You think Jim Gaffigan can read?
Mandel
Yeah, that's a great point.
Guest
Yeah.
Mandel
Cause that cat is that cat fire. What he do? He going straight like Sally.
Langston
Yeah.
Mandel
Like, that's hard. Like, I wish I could do that. Like, man, this apple take alone. That's fired.
Langston
Reflect on me. No, thank you. I'mma be over here with it.
Mandel
He 5, bro. He 1 of the coldest to do it. I ain't going to lie. Like, the arbitrary. I wish I could go arbitrary. You know what I'm saying?
Langston
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But, yeah, we're very happy you're here, Mando. You came with the conspiracy theory that we've been excited to talk about.
Guest
Yeah. This is a good one.
Langston
This has been an ongoing conversation for us. You said, my mama told me giants used to exist.
Mandel
Yes. And I have some information here.
Langston
Here we go.
Mandel
That is going to kind of close this out a little.
Langston
You're not even gonna explain yourself where you live in it? Nothing. You just gonna go ahead and say.
Mandel
I didn't think that there was a reality where giants live?
Langston
Yep.
Mandel
Right. I can't put this on my mom. Cause she would hate that.
Langston
Sure.
Mandel
But there had to be giants at some point. And I'm gonna say this. I think that maybe they weren't ne. It's two pathways. I got a fun answer, and I got an answer that is just probably what actually happened.
Langston
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Give us a fun one.
Guest
Yeah, let's start. Fun.
Mandel
Fun answer is giants was there. They was stumping on folks. It was Donkey Kong with the red tie. Ray Ray on Cats. Right. And then. But that cat was dumb. And we was like, oh, slingshot. You know what I'm saying? Booby trap it.
Langston
And Goliath situation died off.
Mandel
The stupid.
Guest
Okay. By the smaller ones took him out. Yes, we took us. Right.
Mandel
Yeah. Well, it depends. Now this one, it depends on what you. Because it could be Homo sapiens versus Neanderthals. Neanderthals was bigger. They had big old eyebrows.
Guest
I don't think they were that tall, though.
Mandel
They was taller than us, though.
Guest
Are you sure?
Mandel
Yeah.
Langston
No, that's actually not true at all.
Mandel
Neanderthals weren't taller than Homo sapien.
Langston
No, not at all. They're inches. Like, for real. For real. Shorter than us.
Mandel
Really? Yeah. Okay, well, I'm sorry, I got that wrong.
Langston
No, it's okay. I don't want you to lose what you call Steve. Don't lose Steve.
Guest
Don't lose Steve.
Mandel
My second one is.
Langston
Yeah, here we go.
Mandel
Is that I have a theory that a lot of the information that we have today was. I think that history at some point was also narrative at the same time for a while. And so I think that some of the storytelling was. It was really just Shaq of day time.
Langston
Yeah.
Mandel
But the narrative is like, this cat is a giant.
Langston
He fought a giant.
Mandel
Because this cat is just bigger than the average. You get what I'm saying?
Guest
Have you that's like the biggest booty in high school that you knew.
Langston
Yes, yes, yes. That is the biggest ass in the world.
Guest
There was nothing like it. You had never seen it.
Langston
Yep.
Guest
She was a young. Whatever, you know what I'm saying? And then you go to college or you the workforce, and then you're like, oh, small bond.
Langston
Yeah, it was still a good ass. But it wasn't. It wasn't the legend that I thought it was.
Mandel
I talk about it on stage, bro. Cause, like, you probably heard me say this before, but, like, I think all the narratives in there, it's a little sauce in it because that's how people tell stories. You get what I'm saying? So, like, it probably was a giant individual, but it's not like, bro, it's a bunch of that knowing them.
Langston
Yeah.
Mandel
CDs was like 500ft back then. No platypus around there. No kangaroo. Anything that was in Australia was not. Ain't never been in that region.
Guest
Yeah.
Mandel
So to them it was, this is all the animals we know, therefore, this is all the animals.
Guest
Yeah, it's like 10 animals.
Mandel
Yeah, it was like 10.
Guest
Yeah.
Langston
You got snake, right? Because I saw a snake once. I know. We got.
Mandel
They're like, snake, pig, cow, dog. They like what we say. The whole universe ain't got no map. They don't know. They don't know how vast the world was, man.
Langston
No, it also is so silly when you find out like that pandas only breed every six years.
Mandel
Yeah.
Langston
It's like you got two of them. That ain't gonna solve the problem.
Mandel
No, but here's the thing. Like, I believe a flood happened, right? I believe this guy had a boat.
Guest
What's happened every day.
Mandel
I believe he put stuff on said boat.
Langston
But it wasn't panda, it was billy goat.
Mandel
You know what I'm saying?
Guest
It was just local.
Langston
That was billy goat on that.
Guest
Do they ever talk about bugs on that boat?
Langston
They don't bring up the bugs very often.
Mandel
But see, that's what I was saying. Cause I'm like, bro, he had to put the mosquitoes in. That boy really doing the work of the devil.
Langston
For real.
Mandel
Damn.
Langston
Now we're digging into it.
Guest
He could have just stopped it. He could have just cut spiders out.
Langston
Bro, why'd you bring anything besides a dog?
Guest
Why'd you. Yeah, you should have just brought it.
Langston
Fuck you bringing it.
Guest
Okay.
Langston
I guess we need the ones we eat.
Guest
A couple ones we like to hang out with. That's. You don't really need any other animals.
Mandel
No, for sure.
Langston
Yeah.
Mandel
But I want to make my point about giants, if I may.
Langston
Yeah.
Mandel
This argument is over because Genesis 6:4. And if you do not take the Bible as truth, guess what? I'm walking straight out that door. I'm not playing that Hollywood devil stuff y' all on. Y' all love the devil out here and they get on my nerves. Genesis what? Says there were giants in the earth in those days. Let's wrap it up, guys. We're done. Any argument against that is the work of the devil. And I know this is not my platform, but I cannot have that, bro. Come on.
Guest
Can I ask just a short follow up question?
Mandel
Yes, sir.
Guest
Can you read me Genesis 6:3 and Genesis 6:5 as well?
Mandel
Okay, okay, let's get.
Langston
That was a nice follow up.
Mandel
We're going straight through the Genesis. Y' all remember how they dropped the Genesis?
Langston
Yes.
Mandel
Yeah. That's when they first started making the car slant work.
Guest
Yeah. Now they got the ionic.
Mandel
Woo. And you know what? That Means. Okay, you said six. Six. Three through four.
Langston
Go ahead and hit the one after.
Mandel
Okay. Three through six. Three is a Bible app.
Guest
Is that a Bible app?
Mandel
I am getting a little nervous because this is becoming very reminiscent of a very, very dark popcorn situation I had in middle school.
Langston
Okay. Popcorn's when you had to read. You got called on to read.
Mandel
Okay, so then. Okay, so the Bible says. Okay, it did. Nah, y' all boy scared for me to read. Oh, y' all. Y' all know I'm about to read so crazy. I really. I really don't want to embarrass y' all like that with my reading skills. That's not. That's the only reason. Hesitant Mandal.
Langston
You gotta do it.
Guest
You gotta try your popcorn.
Mandel
Then the Lord said, my spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal. Their days will be 120 years. I missed. The word will be 120 years.
Langston
They're doing fine.
Mandel
Okay, here we go. The Nephilim were.
Langston
Hold on.
Mandel
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also afterward, when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old men of renown. The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on Earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil at the time. Only evil all the time. Oh, yeah, man. I butchered that. But I will say this, but this is a different. Hold on.
Langston
This is. None of that was connected to anything else.
Mandel
This one, what we had.
Langston
That's. That's so troubling that you didn't. You weren't even close to what you've introduced to us.
Mandel
Genesis 4. The giants never came out of us.
Langston
What happened? This nigga was reading from Revelation.
Guest
Yeah.
Mandel
Okay, wait. Genesis 4. Hold up, man. See y' all. Oh, hey. All that Bible play. Where y' all doing? I'm gonna walk straight off this podcast, bro. Y' all not scared enough for me to walk out this podcast. That's the issue. Okay, hold on. Now.
Langston
We got what we needed out of here.
Mandel
I went Google. I Googled it. Let me go straight to the Bible app.
Langston
Yeah, yeah.
Mandel
Cause, see, the Bible app is where we go up. That's what application means.
Langston
Now, remember, it's six, three through six, five.
Mandel
Okay, six, three.
Langston
Cause I think you put in, like, three, four or some shit.
Guest
Okay, you started with. With chapter six.
Mandel
Okay, six, three through five is what I just said before.
Langston
And where's the giant stuff?
Mandel
The giant stuff?
Guest
You said it was 6, 4.
Mandel
It came from Google. Let's see, hold on. Let's type it in the sentence. Let's type in the sentence.
Langston
It's rare you get to watch somebody fully fail. So you know what I mean all the way to the end where like he introduced a premise where he had one upped us. He had figured it out. Giants are real and he can't even locate the text.
Guest
This is tough.
Langston
This is hard to watch.
Mandel
Okay, no, no, no. Okay, okay. Nephilim. Let's hear that sounded out.
Langston
Yep.
Mandel
Okay, spell it. Hold on, hold on. I got you.
Langston
Now. You gotta let him. Okay.
Mandel
Nephilim is a giant.
Langston
Okay, Nephilim.
Mandel
Okay. What's the meaning of the word niflam? The Hebrew word niflam is sometimes directly translated as giants or taken to mean the fallen ones. Okay. So I think these cats weren't even on Earth. For real. Hold on, hold on. No, no, no. Giants on Earth.
Langston
Yeah, they're saying that the Nephilim began to fuck around with human beings and they created an evil race of people who sort of lacked in all the humanity. And that is why God will then wipe the slate clean on everybody.
Mandel
That's the story of Yaqub.
Langston
It is in part the story of Yaqub.
Mandel
Yeah. Oh, snap.
Langston
But Yaqub is.
Mandel
Yaqub did it with that.
Langston
Yaqub is an alien race, man. But same premise that he had that big old head.
Mandel
Okay, so made him a separate system, I think Google. And that's what's wrong. That's why we gotta get these. These phones, this AI up out of here.
Guest
Nah, I'm with you.
Mandel
Google tried to translate it to giants on its own. Not even respecting the text for what it says.
Langston
Right? You're a niffling man.
Mandel
Say the words for what it is. Don't try to interpret for me and try to embarrass me on Langston and David podcast.
Langston
That's well said.
Mandel
That junk crazy, bro. Bro, I'm not as dumb as I present, bro.
Langston
No, I've never.
Mandel
I know that this is a very like.
Guest
Aren't you a college graduate?
Mandel
Yeah, yeah, I know. This is very marketing, bro.
Guest
Really?
Mandel
Yeah, bro. I've been graduating.
Guest
I wonder if it's like, this is all like a really great play that you're doing now.
Mandel
I am a low IQ individual, but sometimes I be like, dang, bro, like, that was embarrassingly stupid, bro. Like, that was really stupid. You know what I'm saying? That was stupid. Like shaming my family.
Langston
Nobody feels that way. Nobody said after Him.
Mandel
Yeah, man. Sorry about that, y' all about that misinformation. But I will say this. The texts do say that the giants exist.
Langston
Bori, where do you fall in this? Are you a giants are real ass person?
Guest
I think it, it's really size based to me. What do we mean? Are we mean like 12ft tall? I think what's the height that we're talking?
Langston
Certainly the suggestion. And maybe we could maybe. If that's the question and I think it's a valid one because it sort of connects to Mando's suggestion. Your suggestion of like some people are just Shaq and that's a giant in a real sense, but not in a, you know, whatever. We're a race of people.
Guest
Consistently. That's the base size.
Langston
Yeah, exactly.
Guest
Is different than an outlier.
Mandel
Yes.
Guest
Or even an outlier group. Like the Maasai warriors are all tall.
Langston
But that's. You know what I'm saying? But you're not consistently that height.
Guest
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Langston
Shaq is not your five.
Guest
Yeah, yeah.
Mandel
You know what I mean?
Langston
Like that is. That's something else.
Guest
Yeah.
Langston
That said, we should take a break and when we come back we can maybe dig into some of this research where maybe we'll unpack. Exactly what all that means.
Guest
All right.
Langston
More Mandel, more My mama told me.
Mandel
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Langston
Yeah, somebody got dick in the face. Crack. See if he's okay.
Guest
We're back.
Langston
That's about right. Mando, you're breaking news.
Mandel
I got Another angle. Okay, now this is where we going. Evolution with it. Right? So you know how, like we. Primates. Primates or whatever.
Langston
Yep.
Mandel
And, you know, it's different ways to go. Some people went, is this completely different.
Guest
Than the Bible thing? Cause you just.
Mandel
Huh? I'm about to wrap around. I'm about to wrap around.
Langston
I'm excited.
Mandel
So, you know, some cats, it's like a common ancestor. And then we all went different ways. Some folks went orangutan with it. You know what I'm saying? Some folks went Donkey Kong Racing. Some folks went Bonobo.
Guest
Yeah.
Mandel
Chimpanzee, humanoid with it. But there was one little branch that was called Gigantopithecus. Right.
Guest
It's a giant primate.
Mandel
This cat was huge.
Langston
Yeah.
Guest
Okay.
Mandel
That's what they assume people have referenced for Sasquatch. It was a giant. It was like an ape. But bro was like 8ft tall.
Guest
Okay.
Mandel
You know, he. You know, good post game, all that type of stuff.
Guest
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mandel
Now let's say if there was a branch of that on the gorilla side.
Langston
Okay. Yeah.
Mandel
That could be a reality. That there was a giant version of the human side that died in a previous time.
Langston
That there were. There was. There were humans that evolved from that specific branch that then became.
Mandel
Oh, we had our own branch of Gigantopithecus. You get what I'm saying?
Langston
Yeah, yeah.
Mandel
I'm gonna look up a picture.
Guest
Do they have a picture?
Langston
Yeah, they do have. I have pictures of it. And the Gigantopithecus, first of all.
Guest
Is this already in your research?
Langston
You guys crossed Olivia, had some of this same information, but it basically was a primate ancestor. Gigantopithecus. Black eye is what it's called. I swear to God. B, L, A, C, K, I. But they make a point of calling it black eye, even though that's blackie. It is the great ape. And it may have stood up to 10ft tall and died out just a few hundred thousand years ago, meaning our evolutionary cousin existed alongside them, too.
Mandel
You have a picture and yeah, he looked like an orangutan, But Buddy was 10ft.
Guest
Just big.
Langston
Yeah, it's fucking big. Giant. That's the difference in skull sizes for humans.
Mandel
One thing them anthropologists go do, they go take this skull and this skull and be like, ooh, look at this.
Langston
Yeah, look at that.
Mandel
They love that. They too.
Langston
That skull ain't like that skull.
Mandel
They weird about that, bro.
Host 2
It's.
Langston
It's the nasty thing that they do because they know that there's so much in eugenics that is that.
Mandel
Yeah, exactly.
Langston
And they pretend like they're not doing eugenics.
Mandel
And they are doing it.
Guest
They're still doing it 100%.
Mandel
When you go to the Natural Life Museum in DC, it's the whole back half. It's just like, all right, bro, These type of humans had this skull. These type of humans had that skull, bro.
Langston
Yeah.
Guest
And why are we even playing these games?
Mandel
But then they start going, and we found a lot of these skulls in Africa.
Langston
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mandel
We found a lot of those skulls in Europe.
Langston
Yeah.
Mandel
Not saying these are dip. No, I'm saying now we're all. But back then, no skull. And it's like, what you trying to say, bro?
Langston
I know what you're doing.
Guest
Yeah.
Mandel
Like you're not.
Langston
Yeah, yeah. You're being weird. We're descended from something like fucked.
Mandel
They trying to. They weird, bro. They weird about that.
Langston
Nah, it's super nasty.
Mandel
I thought that was weird in that museum. But yeah, if the orangutans had their own giganto face, why wouldn't we?
Langston
Why wouldn't we? It's a fair argument.
Guest
Every animal has like a giant one, right?
Langston
I guess.
Guest
I'm pretty sure most of them got a giant one.
Langston
I think it's more that every animal has a little one than they have a giant one.
Guest
Are we the little one?
Langston
Okay, I like how you say, I.
Mandel
Think we kill everybody else.
Guest
We're good at killing.
Mandel
That's our best humanoid joints. We said, man, what y' all over there, you got eating berries, boy. Don't look too good.
Guest
Cause that's crazy. We killed all the ones that even looked kind of like us. Yeah, like the monkeys and stuff. We kept them. Cause that look, that's a different animal. But everything that was like in here, that's all.
Mandel
We killed them all. That's all them joints.
Guest
Mongoloid, all that shit.
Mandel
We're so down in Indonesia. Who got the fishing early?
Langston
Uh huh.
Guest
Yeah.
Langston
We're so good at killing, we don't even. We don't even have to worry about, like, where our food comes from. You know what I mean?
Guest
We bought it once this week.
Langston
We just know that another murderer is gonna have our food prepared for us exactly the way that we expect it to be prepared. It's the greatest. We're the greatest killers. No, it's not even close.
Guest
Apex, for sure.
Langston
Yeah. So, yeah, I believe that we could have killed off some giant beast.
Mandel
Yeah, for sure.
Langston
It reminds me, or it in some ways reminds me of how many animals we have in our possession that are like great killers. Like Literally, the killer whale fucking has to spit water at us upon request.
Mandel
I was just about to say, you go down.
Guest
We got polar bears in zoos.
Langston
Yes, let's.
Guest
That's the craziest bear that.
Mandel
When Barner and Bailey went out, they had them elephants in there doing the nae nae. They was in there. They was in there. They said, hey, give me $10, I'll let you file for this elephant right now.
Guest
That's crazy.
Mandel
The government came down, was like. You was like, hey, bro. Like, you can't keep doing the punch the elephant competition, bro. You know how they do the punching bag? Yeah, they were doing that on the. On the trunk.
Guest
Yeah.
Mandel
They was measuring it based on it.
Langston
And they were like, don't worry. He can't feel it.
Mandel
But you know what was crazy about it?
Guest
It was a bunch of drunk Irish immigrants.
Langston
But you know what?
Mandel
You know the craziest thing about it, though? When the first elephant thing happened? Cause they just came back, like, maybe like two years ago.
Langston
Oh, they brought elephants back to the circus?
Mandel
No, they just. The. The circus just came.
Langston
Oh, you're saying Barnum and Bailey.
Mandel
Barnum and Bailey. When they cracked down on the elephants, they're like, y' all can't have elephants no more. They was like, man, we ain't gonna do no show. This circus was around for, like, almost like a hundred years, forever. Once they said, no, y' all can't beat up no elephant. They was like, well, forget it. Nobody get no circus. It ain't no circus without punching no element. That Joe was crazy, bro. Like, they was like, we shut down the whole operation.
Langston
You think the trapeze artist is what people came to see? They came to punch an elephant. I'm not shooting shit down.
Mandel
Them folks are sick, bro. They told them folks 0% on Donkey Kong and the elephants. They said, no Donkey Kong or elephant. Wrap it up.
Langston
Yeah. And you're saying that they were willing to lose their lives over that shit?
Mandel
They was willing to end a hundred year business.
Langston
Yep.
Mandel
Cause them folks was like, dumbo abuse, bruh.
Langston
Shut it down.
Mandel
Them folks was dedicated to being fucking.
Langston
Be mean to an elephant.
Mandel
Yeah. I don't wanna live. Them folks was crazy. I'm pretty sure somebody.
Guest
How hard do you think you could punch an elephant, though?
Mandel
Oh, nah, that junk will kill you, bro. I've seen an elephant pull a tree out the ground.
Guest
I would worry about it. Cause they're so smart. I would worry about it. Like, it's just if I'm gonna fight an animal, I want it to be stupid.
Langston
I. When we went on safari for our honeymoon, we, like, had a day where it was raining a little bit. And while we were driving, basically, they tell you that the Jeep is. The animals perceive it as a single new. Like, an animal. Like, they don't see you as individuals inside of a Jeep. It is just a single, like, animal that they get used to. They're, like, aware of them, and they're usually not bothered by them too much. But we were driving, it was rainy, and a bull got. We accidentally cut off a bull from, like, part of its herd, and that motherfucker started backing up at us and, like, snorting. And the fear that, like, took over my body was so intense that I would never even approach one of these motherfuckers.
Guest
Elephants. They're so snoring.
Mandel
Is it like a water buffalo or something?
Langston
No, this is a full elephant. Like a bull elephant.
Guest
It was just a man.
Langston
One of the big ones.
Guest
Freeway was Freeway.
Langston
We cut them off from the rest of the state property, bro.
Mandel
It started back. Life was on charge.
Langston
Like, it was going to charge, and it was, like, huffing and, like, fully. It would back up, and then it would charge a little, and then it would back up again because it's warning you. And we had to, like, very slowly back away. Everybody's like, nobody can breathe type shit. I mean, the guides are fine because they're so used to this shit, but anybody that, like, has never experienced it. Me and my wife were sitting there like, fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck.
Guest
God damn.
Mandel
Why y' all. Whenever these things happen, why they don't just keep driving?
Langston
Because it'll kill you.
Mandel
It'll catch you if you run.
Langston
They're literally, like, to your point, they walk around. They're. Every tree in that area is, like, damn near knocked down because they just walk around and the trees fall beneath them. It's not like they're, like, just uprooting them. They do that, too. But just their path is crazy. They create the trail.
Mandel
Yeah.
Langston
It's nuts. It's a fucking monster, and we own it.
Guest
What about a kid, though?
Langston
Like, the little baby elephant?
Guest
Yeah.
Langston
I'll punch the shit out of there.
Mandel
Okay. Okay.
Langston
Yeah.
Mandel
The kid be, like, five, nine.
Guest
Yeah.
Mandel
Like, that'd be a big animal. Yeah. I'm pretty sure some of the stuff I said about Batman Bailey was untrue, but the meat of it was basically.
Langston
I like that.
Mandel
Yeah.
Guest
Yeah.
Langston
That's kind of the point of this podcast. You're all good, for sure.
Mandel
That's crazy, bro. Yeah.
Langston
Here's the Other piece of research that I think is worth. Worth talking about a little bit. The gigantic gigantis gigantism in science, genetics. Apparently, gigantism does exist in some version of our genetics. It occurs in children. The overproduction of growth hormone occurs during puberty when a child is still naturally glaring, growing. This causes increased height, size for the child's age. And then, you know, there are estimates that there have been just 100 cases in the U.S. so far since.
Guest
The U.S. yeah.
Langston
That it's, like, very rare.
Mandel
But don't the kids be dying early?
Langston
They do. And, like, they're the ones with the weird voice and sort of like the odd shadow giant. Yeah, exactly.
Guest
Anybody write a peanut?
Langston
George Mirasan as shit. You know what I mean?
Mandel
Green Khalid.
Langston
Yeah, exactly.
Guest
And that's not a race. That's like a weird thing we got going on is the thing.
Langston
I think it's like.
Guest
When we say giants, I think about it as like, there's a mom giant and a dad giant and a baby giant.
Mandel
Oh, yeah, yeah, that's true.
Guest
You know what I'm saying? And there's like a group of them, and they have a giant family reunion.
Mandel
Like them blue people. What, y' all never seen them blue folks?
Langston
Oh, you're talking about Avatar.
Mandel
No, no, I'm talking to some real blue people. Look it up. They was. They some. There was some hillbillies in this mountain, and they're blue. They incested. They incested their skin until they're blue. Yeah, blue.
Guest
Oh, in Kentucky.
Langston
Blue people of Kentucky.
Guest
Yeah, I've heard about that. I've heard about that, too.
Mandel
They went incest with it, and then God punished them by giving them blue skin.
Langston
Get the fuck out of here. This isn't real.
Mandel
They got Augusta Augustus Gloop from the incest.
Langston
There's no fucking way that a human being turns out.
Guest
Get off the images and go to news.
Mandel
Look it up. It's articles. You can watch YouTube videos of him talking.
Langston
Okay.
Mandel
He got Augusta Glue from the nonsense.
Guest
I thought it was the girl that turned into a blueberry.
Langston
The Blue Fugattis or the Blue People of Kentucky.
Mandel
I don't remember.
Guest
Augustus Glue. Poop went up in the tube.
Mandel
Yeah, I'm talking about the original.
Langston
He was eating the chocolate.
Mandel
No, no, no. Yeah, you're right. You're right.
Langston
The Fugattis, commonly known as the Blue Fugattis or the Blue People of Kentucky, are an ancestral family living in the hills of Kentucky starting in the 19th century, where they are known for having a genetic trait that led to the blood disorder methylmyl moglobinemia, causing the skin to be blue.
Mandel
Yeah.
Langston
Holy shit.
Mandel
Yeah. Them fucking blue. And they like, hey, we gonna keep it going by going cousin to cousin with it?
Langston
They're like, nah, we fuck with being blue.
Guest
Yeah, we're blue now.
Mandel
Yeah.
Langston
Daba. Dba.
Mandel
Dab. Yeah.
Guest
Bro, the hills of Kentucky is complicated.
Langston
But, you know, that's fucked up.
Mandel
But you know, with that incest too, man, you know they gonna have them asymmetrical eyes.
Guest
No, I don't know what you're.
Mandel
So when you go cousin to cousin with it, one eye gonna always be bigger than the other.
Langston
Oh.
Mandel
They go zig and zag.
Langston
Yeah, zig and zag. It does. I think incest does hit the eyes first.
Mandel
The eyes go zig and zag with it.
Langston
I think always, if incest is like. That's when you start getting, like, weird eye shit. They're in different places a little bit.
Mandel
One gonna be up here, one gonna be down there.
Guest
You know what is crazy? I knew a guy who had a milky eye, and everybody said it was cause he had sex with his cousin. Oh.
Langston
Cause he had, like. As punishment.
Guest
I guess so.
Mandel
Yeah.
Langston
Like, God smited him.
Guest
It went to milk.
Mandel
Well, what's gonna happen is sometimes people think that the poison go pass through the generation. Sometimes it fill up the body itself.
Guest
Is that the blue?
Mandel
That's. That.
Langston
That's what that blue is.
Mandel
Whatever May have yous. Yeah, damn you. Whatever May have yous with sins of the father. Yeah.
Langston
If y' all had it, if y' all had the opportunity to be a different color, you could have asked which cousin.
Guest
No, no, I would not choose.
Langston
You would not choose.
Mandel
No. I'm gonna put African descent every time.
Langston
No, but keep. You keep.
Mandel
Oh, I'm still black.
Langston
You just get to be.
Mandel
I'm still black, But I don't know.
Langston
You just get to be neon or some shit.
Mandel
Wow.
Langston
I don't want it to be some coon shit where you're like, what would you be if you getting. That's not the game.
Guest
Okay.
Mandel
Yeah.
Langston
You just get to the.
Guest
It's me. I just. I got like a back. I'm backlit.
Langston
Yeah, you just. We find out you got a blue disorder, and now you get to be something else.
Mandel
I ain't gonna lie. I ain't gonna lie. I feel like in middle school, everybody who had the hazel eyes had a run.
Langston
Okay.
Guest
Okay.
Mandel
You know what I'm saying?
Guest
Not past middle school. You don't feel like that run continues.
Mandel
I feel like Maybe a little bit of high school. But I feel like once the R and B wasn't on top as much, the hazel eyes kind of took a hit. You get what I'm saying? Before catch was first hazel in it, when people was going eye contact.
Langston
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mandel
They was on top.
Langston
You're saying a cheaper brand started to emerge.
Mandel
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think once it got too hot, everybody pivoted.
Langston
I had a family of students that I taught that were like pretty dark skinned Haitian family that all had silver hair and blue eyes.
Mandel
Really? Yeah, really.
Langston
Like every, like three of the four children have like blue eyes and they had a run.
Guest
They were. They were doing good.
Langston
No, I wouldn't say that. Yeah, I don't want to. I'm not shitting on them. But it wasn't like everybody was like, whoa, the sexiest people of all time. I think they were kids figuring it out.
Guest
But it was tough to have those traits and be ugly.
Mandel
You know my favorite thing, you know.
Langston
You'Re putting me in a nasty position. I don't know what to do with it and it's scaring me.
Mandel
You know my favorite thing is when people was having. When people had that phase on the Internet where they was like, black people can have blonde hair too.
Langston
Yeah.
Mandel
And then they'll show this one rare example of this lady. And it was like, I don't think we have to be attached to having blonde hair, bro. We could just not have that. You know what I'm saying? Black people can also have blue eyes. And I'm like, all right, okay. That's not like making or breaking nothing for me.
Langston
Yeah, I got what I got.
Mandel
Yeah, I got what I got. And I think it's great.
Guest
You know what I mean?
Mandel
Yeah.
Guest
I'm really not trying to change my setup.
Langston
It is the craziest thing. I do remember people getting the color contact lenses and I do you look mentally ill with the dramatic change was hard to make sense of.
Mandel
I remember, I don't know what this lady was doing, but I remember when I was in, it was this lady who had contact and she could roll her eyes back and you could see the contacts.
Langston
Oh, that's not good.
Guest
Yeah, it's not supposed. I think it's supposed to move with the eye.
Langston
No. But if you roll them far enough, in theory, they will desuxion from where they are. So they'll sit in the place where the contact is living.
Guest
Okay. Do you guys wear contacts?
Langston
I used to.
Mandel
No.
Guest
Oh, yeah. You got lasik.
Langston
Cause of the podcast, man.
Mandel
You Got Lasik?
Langston
Yeah.
Mandel
It's hard.
Guest
I wish I needed it.
Mandel
Lasik.
Langston
You didn't need it.
Mandel
I always got scared of Lasika. What happened if you blink? You just got them eyelid tattoos like Lil Wayne.
Langston
They. They put little.
Guest
Yeah, they hold it down, right?
Mandel
Things on you with their hand.
Langston
Yeah. A man goes in Looney Tune style.
Guest
It's like Clockwork Orange, right?
Langston
Yeah. They put like grips on your eyes like this. You can close them if you wanted to.
Mandel
Dang. And it be burning.
Guest
Do you feel it?
Langston
It's pressure more than it is painful.
Guest
Can you smell it?
Mandel
But I'm saying you're not you in a staring contest. And your eyes start to burn. Your eyes will start to burn when they got you like this.
Langston
It does feel uncomfortable at first, but it's more once it's on. It's not. You couldn't close if you wanted to. So it doesn't feel like you're struggling at all.
Mandel
It doesn't dry up at all.
Langston
You're only. The whole surgery lasts like 10 minutes.
Guest
But you had to go to New York, right?
Mandel
Ten minutes. No blinking.
Langston
No blinking.
Mandel
In elementary school, you would have won four contests.
Langston
Yeah, but they did both eyes in 10 minutes.
Mandel
Oh, okay. So five per eye at best. Did they have both of the eyes open at the same time or they.
Langston
Went one and one with it?
Mandel
Yeah, yeah. Five minutes. I can handle that.
Langston
It's the simplest surgery I've ever had. Might be the only surgery I've ever had.
Mandel
David Blaine should try to do that. You know how he like, do like those time interval tricks. What if he had like, hey, I'm gonna keep my eyes open for like four days. Just regular. Just.
Langston
You watch that?
Mandel
What? I watched that?
Langston
Yeah. Would you watch that?
Mandel
I go back and forth with it. I tune in for a little while, see what's on hbo, come back.
Langston
Ah, he's still ain't blank. That's what's up.
Mandel
Yeah, it was a bad idea.
Langston
We should maybe take one more break and then we'll do this. Voicemail.
Guest
Yeah, we'll do a voicemail.
Mandel
Yeah.
Langston
All right. We'll be back with more mantle the more my mama told me.
Mandel
This.
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Langston
Have you ever had a dream that. That you.
Guest
You had.
Langston
You. You. You could. You'll 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.
Mandel
That's always a great video.
Langston
It's the best.
Mandel
Yeah. It's good.
Langston
Yeah. I talk to my daughter every day. She talked like that.
Mandel
I know.
Langston
It's so endearing that he really thought he was saying something.
Mandel
He was cooking. It just took him a while to get it out.
Guest
Yeah.
Langston
If you get the best of all of what he was trying to say.
Mandel
Something about a dream.
Langston
That's nice.
Guest
You had a dream where you thought you could do anything.
Langston
Yeah. That's all he's saying.
Guest
Some days I feel like that.
Mandel
Yeah.
Langston
Amanda, we got a voicemail.
Mandel
Love that, bro.
Langston
And I haven't listened to it, but I'm excited for you to listen to it with us.
Mandel
Let's go for it.
Langston
Okay, here we go.
Caller
I have a conspiracy theory that I've been developing over the last couple of years.
Mandel
Uh oh.
Caller
This conspiracy theory pertains to Kevin Durant.
Langston
I like that. He doesn't introduce himself.
Mandel
Yeah.
Guest
And he doesn't address us.
Langston
He doesn't say hello.
Mandel
Yeah.
Langston
He doesn't say thank you.
Guest
Get in it.
Langston
He just gets into the business at large.
Mandel
And I'm guessing this is a phase dreads combo.
Langston
Okay.
Mandel
Ooh. You know what I'm saying?
Guest
That's how you feel.
Mandel
Yeah. Fade, dreads combo.
Langston
Now the question for you. How high up is that fade and how long are those dreads?
Guest
Where are the dreads?
Mandel
He going Miles Morales with it. You know what I'm saying?
Langston
Oh, it's standing up. Dreads.
Mandel
The dreads hang a little bit like that. The dreads ain't super long, but the fade is high.
Langston
The fade is high.
Mandel
Full lineup for sure. Killer monger with it. Yeah, yeah.
Guest
Okay.
Langston
Okay, yeah, Here we go.
Caller
And if you saw the clip recently, he was looking at Cameron Brink and he was sizing her up. And my conspiracy theory is that Kevin Durant is about to start breeding with women's basketball players.
Langston
Okay.
Caller
Kevin Durant is going to create a super race of basketball players. And I think this theory begins with me. When Brittney Griner kissed Kevin Durant at the Olympus.
Langston
Oh, I don't.
Guest
I never seen. I'm gonna look it up.
Mandel
Yeah.
Langston
Brittany Griner was kissing Kevin Durant. I don't want to list those two kids. That sounds disgusting. You know what I mean? Just. Just as a fan of watching niggas kiss. That sounds like not the right. That's.
Guest
You're a self described phantom.
Mandel
I ain't gonna lie, bro.
Langston
I've always been that this whole time.
Guest
Yeah, it's cool.
Mandel
It's cool, man. They had put her in the dang chambers for the reefer stick.
Langston
Yeah, yeah. They definitely locked her up for.
Mandel
That's crazy.
Langston
I love you, girl.
Mandel
I'm from the dmv. All right.
Guest
That was nice.
Langston
She had a mask on.
Guest
And he was that Brittney Griner for sure.
Langston
Yeah, it was Brittney Griner for sure. But it was.
Mandel
But I will say this. I do think he has a point. Cause I do think athletes do do that. I just think the word breed is starting to make me a little anxious. But I do think that athletes probably do be like, okay, this lady has attributes of also creating another me. You know what I mean?
Guest
Tiq was just on saying, like, if you want all stars, call me.
Langston
Yeah.
Mandel
Oh, buddy. Buddy Daddy.
Guest
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's. I think that at that level, athletic people, I mean, you hear it or like, you ever seen it on Tinder where it's like, I want to have D1 babies.
Langston
Yeah. I think these people.
Guest
Yeah, I think it's. That's. That's exactly what happened.
Langston
I think these people have to have some level of a God complex. Yeah.
Guest
I don't think this is even a crazy conspiracy. No. Because I think this is what athletes do.
Langston
He's like one of the greatest basketball players of all time. Why would he. He get with a dud.
Guest
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Langston
You gotta be able to like, you.
Guest
Gotta keep that going. Yeah, yeah.
Mandel
But I mean, it is an interesting thing though. Cause like, how many really athletes, kids. I think in order for your kid to go be very, very good at a sport, you had to be mid. You had to have all the physical. Griffey Sr. That's what I'm saying. You had to have like all the physical attributes of a star, but you didn't have the work ethic. And then you put the work ethic into the kid.
Langston
You're saying that the LeBron formula, it will not work. This reverse of it will not work.
Mandel
Cause I think if you so busy. If you so busy having a good career, being an athlete and killing it, you ain't got enough time to put that safe self hate into your kid. To have them an insatiable desire to be great.
Guest
They need to overcome something.
Mandel
They gotta have some void that cannot be filled.
Guest
Yeah. And it's really the best thing you could do is leave them.
Langston
I will say that that has always surprised me with Michael Jordan's kids. Where I go. Well, he was like, had to be absent enough and not interested in y' all. That. That should have driven you in a way that solves that problem.
Mandel
Do you know what I mean? Yeah.
Langston
But LeBron is present.
Guest
Yeah. He's a good dad.
Langston
He may not have been.
Guest
He got taco Tuesdays. He was in the house.
Langston
He was in the house. And Michael Jordan was not. And I gotta assume that like, them.
Mandel
Kids, but I think Marcus Jordan, like, six one.
Langston
Yeah.
Mandel
You get what I'm saying? I think it's gotta be both. It's gotta be the genetics.
Guest
Genetics.
Langston
Juanita was a little lady that wasn't a big.
Guest
Yeah. She wasn't talking.
Langston
He didn't breed with.
Guest
I almost feel like Michael Jordan did that on purpose.
Mandel
Yeah.
Langston
He's like, nobody will be greater than.
Guest
You will not surpass me.
Mandel
Yeah. Cause, like, bro, I think about, like, this as a cat who probably genetically, like, I feel like maybe in previous human history, they would have probably killed me on sight, like, as soon as I came out the womb. You know what I'm saying? I do think.
Guest
I think you should probably not just.
Mandel
Straight off a jizz lie.
Langston
You saying they gonna look at him and be like, nah, Hit it with a rock.
Mandel
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cause just based on, like, it wouldn't advance society in the way it's supposed to.
Langston
They're like, I'm a person who has.
Mandel
Peaked beyond my genetic ability.
Guest
Okay.
Mandel
You get what I'm saying?
Langston
Yeah.
Mandel
Like, where I'm at. Where I'm at in life based on my height, the weight to width ratio, my coordination, my ability to focus, my. You know what I'm saying? I'm susceptible to having bad breath more than the average person. I feel like I have a lot of people who've been nice in this point in my life where if you a cat like Marcus Jordan. Right. Not him, but let's say you a cat who blessed with the genetics. You already at a. You already got a. Got a place to start at. It's kind of like when you see, like, a white homeless person.
Guest
Okay.
Mandel
Where you like, hey, bro, you had a start. So this is way worse. You had a start at a place. We might have to cut this out. That program.
Langston
It's like this.
Mandel
It's A start. You had to start at the place and all you had to keep was. You know what I'm saying? Versus another person. Might start a little lower, right?
Guest
Yeah.
Mandel
A cat like me, breast ain't good. Hanging head gut over there. I mean, good everywhere, right? It's gonna be a hard. It's gonna be a harder path towards success.
Langston
Why do you keep that? Your breath stinks, man.
Guest
I've never experienced that being with you ever.
Langston
Listen, man, you gotta relax on. Your breath stings.
Mandel
Okay? Check this out. Other cats, they in there.
Guest
Brushing their teeth.
Mandel
Hold on, hold on, hold on. This. Then they. Yeah, I'm go to sleep, man. Maybe have a little pasta. You know me, it's all bigger. It's.
Langston
Yeah, whatever.
Mandel
That song.
Langston
You know that song, you're giving it your all.
Mandel
Come on.
Langston
It still ain't hitting the way you want it to be.
Mandel
Two, three times. And I still gotta be like, they don't be in the club. In the club, people want to yap face to face. I can't get no shot at like that, bro. She get one piece of the dragon and burning her, but you gotta get her.
Langston
You gotta get her home. So what are you doing?
Mandel
You should get a water pit, bro. I go straight. When I first started talking to shawty, I'm going straight, all nose, keeping the mouth closed. But once the love and endearment come around. Yeah, that overcomes the nose of your queen. Will come a little bit more. Be a little bit less stressed.
Langston
Yeah.
Mandel
You know what I'm saying?
Langston
The nose knows.
Mandel
And so, but. And it happens in all of our lives, right? You might have had a situation where, okay, like, man, you like to go and. Do you know what I'm saying? You like to play Yukio. You know what I'm saying? Your girl might find that embarrassing.
Langston
Yeah, right.
Mandel
But that love let us overcome whatever the Yukio issue is. And that's what I'm saying, when it comes to genetics, if you a cat who you could be working as hard as you can, Muggsy Bowles probably had the. Muggsy Bowles was probably in the gym. As much as like, they talk about KD.
Langston
Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, right.
Mandel
But this cat was 5, 6. So it's like this cat had to work 5, 4, 5, 4. This cat had to work super, super hard to get to be not that good in the NBA, bro. But if you bond with them, with them hands and them web feet, yeah. They said, hakeem Olajuwon, pop them shoes off, skin go straight like this.
Langston
Just like A duck.
Mandel
That cat, was he either bouncing the basketball or he going, you gotta get.
Guest
Him in the pool.
Mandel
Yeah. He grabbing gold out the. He either that or he like. Y' all ever seen the cranes that get the toys?
Langston
Yeah, go ahead.
Mandel
Before they. Before you know, the robots and stuff around, they used to get cats just.
Langston
Like him, put their little feet in there, grab the toy out, grab a.
Guest
Toy out, get some gold.
Mandel
So what's up, man? Yeah, man. But I did say a lot of crazy things.
Langston
Let's finish this voicemail.
Caller
But there was also footage of them being playful together as well. So I think that Kevin Durant's first super baby is Brittney Griner's child, Brittany Griner's egg, and put it inside of her wife with Kevin Durant's sperm.
Langston
Whoa.
Caller
We won't know about this probably for the next eight or nine years until that time of basketball playing age. And when that kid is windmilling from the foul line in the fourth grade, we have our answer.
Langston
Holy shit. I'll say this. I've seen a few documentaries as of late dealing in the practice of men who, like, are sort of like scamming women on the Internet, presenting as, like, guys who just want to help them have children. Like, oh, you. I donate my sperm as, like, helping and I engage and we talk. And you think I'm a good person and you think I'm smart. I come from good bloodline, whatever the fuck. And I give you my sperm. And then these women are finding out that there are hundreds, if not thousands of other women that similarly in that area were given that sperm by that.
Guest
Oh, yeah. That's a common. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Langston
And it causes, like, all the cross breeding dangers and weird, like, I'm fucking my sister. Risk if.
Mandel
Wow.
Guest
Because a bunch of people in that.
Langston
Neighborhood are secretly the product of the same dude.
Mandel
Wow.
Langston
And I.
Guest
And people do it if they don't know that shit happens a lot.
Langston
And one of the things that they talk about in the documentaries is that this dude in particular, one dude has like this insane God complex.
Guest
Yeah.
Langston
He just like, cannot not want to fucking make more of him. And I. It doesn't surprise me at the possibility that like a fucking seven foot God of basketball would similarly be like, I should build more of me.
Guest
No, this is not even. This is. This is not even crazy at all.
Langston
No.
Guest
Now the only part is the Griner part. I don't know about that.
Langston
Yeah. Where it does feel crazy to me is Kevin Durant has been very intentional not to have kids.
Guest
Yeah.
Langston
He don't even really have public relationships like that.
Guest
Really openly.
Mandel
Nah.
Langston
My boy plays basketball and he misses them haircuts and that's it.
Mandel
But I think that's what might. That's what. But that lends itself to bro theory. Cause it's like he could have got this off without us knowing. Because he's not a very public figure when it comes to that stuff.
Langston
You're saying that he more than anybody has the potential to get away with that?
Mandel
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cause we all know his business.
Langston
Damn.
Mandel
Damn. Well, I wanna see a documentary you're talking about.
Guest
Yeah, it's on hbo.
Langston
It's really good and very, very sad. You spend the whole time being like, fuck, fuck, fuck. This sucks. This is sad.
Mandel
Man.
Langston
Don't tell the people where they can find you what cool shit you been.
Mandel
Continue to rock out, guys. Do y' all thing, man. Watch this podcast, man. Watch this podcast. Listen to this podcast. They got a TV right here. Turn the TV up. Turn the TV off. So they had it turned off. That's what I got.
Guest
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Langston
Follow me at Langston, Carmen and I guess. Watch this podcast. Turn your TV off.
Mandel
Turn your TV off.
Langston
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Podcast Summary: "Giants Used to Exist! (with Mandal)"
Podcast Information:
The episode "Giants Used to Exist!" features hosts Langston Kerman and David Gborie, alongside guest Mandal, delving into Black conspiracy theories with a humorous and investigative approach. The discussion navigates through historical myths, biblical interpretations, and modern-day speculations about giants and their supposed existence alongside humans.
The hosts kick off the episode by expressing skepticism about the portrayal of former President Barack Obama as humorous. Langston states, “I don't like that people keep pretending like Barack Obama is funny” ([03:08]). The conversation evolves into a debate about Obama’s leadership versus his comedic portrayal, highlighting differing perceptions among the hosts:
Mandal joins the conversation, bringing forth the central conspiracy theory that giants once walked the Earth. The discussion touches on biblical references from Genesis and attempts to rationalize the existence of giants through both mythological and scientific lenses.
The hosts explore various explanations, including misinterpretations of historical texts and the distinction between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ultimately aiming to debunk or support the notion of giants in Black history.
Mandal attempts to anchor his theory in biblical scripture, referencing Genesis 6:4, which mentions the Nephilim, often interpreted as giants or fallen ones. The conversation becomes a blend of scriptural analysis and skepticism towards modern translations and interpretations:
Further discussions highlight frustrations with automated translations and the need for accurate interpretations of ancient texts.
Shifting focus to evolutionary biology, the hosts discuss Gigantopithecus, an extinct genus of large apes, as a possible explanation for the giant myths:
They critique anthropological practices and express distrust towards scientific institutions, suggesting that evidence supporting giants is overlooked or misrepresented.
The conversation transitions into personal stories and encounters with large animals, particularly elephants, drawing parallels between myths and real-life experiences:
These anecdotes serve to illustrate the hosts' fascination with large beings and their impact on human narratives.
A voicemail from a listener introduces a conspiracy theory involving NBA star Kevin Durant and women's basketball player Brittney Griner:
The segment explores themes of genetic manipulation, ethical boundaries in sports, and the potential consequences of such conspiracies.
Langston introduces medical insights into gigantism, explaining how it affects child growth hormone levels and the rarity of the condition:
The discussion emphasizes the distinction between mythical giants and individuals with medical conditions that cause extreme height, fostering a deeper understanding of the topic.
The hosts attempt to consolidate their theories, debating the plausibility of giants in historical and modern contexts:
They conclude the segment by reiterating the need for critical examination of historical narratives and scientific evidence.
The episode wraps up with lighthearted banter and promotional content, encouraging listeners to engage with future episodes and share their own conspiracy theories:
Notable Quotes:
"Giants Used to Exist! (with Mandal)" offers a captivating blend of humor, skepticism, and investigative discussion on the intriguing topic of giants within Black conspiracy theories. Through a mixture of historical analysis, scientific insight, and personal anecdotes, Langston, David, and Mandal invite listeners to question established narratives and explore the boundaries between myth and reality.
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