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Langston Kerman
I think it was somewhat recently it came out that Bea Arthur and Betty White couldn't stand each other. Yeah, I was like, yo, Golden Girls drama.
David Borey
It was like a Martin Gina situation.
Ryan Seacrest
Well, same circumst circumstances.
David Borey
That's what I was. Identical.
Ryan Seacrest
And you know who was Martin in that relationship?
David Borey
You know she was trying to kiss her, right? For real.
Ryan Seacrest
Lee Arthur was picking Betty White up and trying to kiss her.
Langston Kerman
Little did we know what was happening in the back bedrooms, right?
David Borey
The government growing babies.
Langston Kerman
Microchips in your anus.
David Borey
All koala bears are racist. The ozone layer owes me money. Martians invented turkey stuffing. Y' all can't tell me nothing. It's my turn to do the intro.
Ryan Seacrest
I forgot you had a song.
David Borey
I did not have a song. I can think of one right now. I like pretty girls, girls, girls. Welcome, little mamas and gentiles alike, to another phenomenal episode of My Mama Told.
Ryan Seacrest
Me, the podcast where we dive deep, deep into the pockets of black conspiracy theories.
David Borey
You know what I've been thinking? Yeah, man. I was really sitting and thinking about it. I think we were too hard. And maybe this is just me personally, I think we were too hard on the ball is life, guys. The more I think about it, it's like maybe the best life advice coming out of social media in a long time. Because it's not about making money. It's not about grinding. It's about, like, relentless pursuit of a passion. Because you love that thing.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, they really. They were the people that believed, lived by, that were centered in a way that we didn't acknowledge.
David Borey
Yeah. Yeah. I think it was like. And I mean, sure, yeah, a lot of them are at 24 hour fitnesses at times that you should be at work.
Ryan Seacrest
Not great.
David Borey
And. But so am I. I mean, I'm in the Y. Like, I'm downstairs, I'm fucking around, ignoring calls or whatever. Yeah, it's just like. It's like so many things, especially now coming out of social media, are so commodified, and it's this idea of you as a product and a brand and grind time for. And these guys were just like, balls life. That's just what I love.
Ryan Seacrest
I just like dribbling and Jamel, you ain't gotta hide from it. You have thoughts on this?
Langston Kerman
I have no thoughts on this. Oh, is ball life. It's like, yes.
Ryan Seacrest
I don't know that it is for me, but I respect anybody that lands on what they truly love.
David Borey
Exactly. And I think that we all have a ball. It's just their ball is maybe, you know, you have a ball. You have a ball, Right?
Ryan Seacrest
So it's like, yeah, weird stuff on the Internet. That's my ball.
David Borey
Right? Okay. Yeah, yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
And yes, I have a family, and.
David Borey
Yes, you have a family and you love them.
Ryan Seacrest
I acknowledge that. They are also life. But you have a ball.
David Borey
Come on. That's the point of it. Is that I think the relentless pursuit of a passion. And just because it feels like passion for passion's sake, not for gain. And I think that is an important aspect to have in your life. And I think when it came out, I was upset because I'm not good at basketball. And I really was mean.
Ryan Seacrest
You took this personally.
David Borey
I hate basketball players because they get to play basketball forever.
Ryan Seacrest
You really. White lives mattered. This movement in a way that.
David Borey
I don't love your angle.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah.
David Borey
I don't love your tone. Right.
Ryan Seacrest
You saw some nuping and you were like, I could do stuff too.
David Borey
No.
Ryan Seacrest
That rubbed you wrong.
David Borey
I've always hated it. Because basketball gets to be a lifelong obsession. And as a little fat kid, you just gotta play football. And they don't tell you this just goes away.
Langston Kerman
Right. You're just done physically. You can't do it after a certain time.
David Borey
You shouldn't do it at that time.
Langston Kerman
Well, I mean, I don't know. Debatable.
David Borey
I think. I think a lot of people get fucked up in a battle.
Langston Kerman
They do.
David Borey
But the point is, like, after high school, it's done.
Ryan Seacrest
They do keep it going.
David Borey
Especially. We were talking about this, especially linemen, you know, now we don't. There's no seven on seven for fat dude. Now you're just done. Now it's just over. You bench 3:30 for no reason. And you work at Target and you're angry. And these basketball guys, hey, let's go to the park. We're still having fun. Girls are here.
Langston Kerman
Yeah, but see, you just picked the wrong thing. Like, I wish. And we talk about Boston.
David Borey
My other sport was wrestling. What was that gonna do?
Langston Kerman
Okay, you weren't gonna wrestle after certain. Otherwise it'd be weird.
David Borey
Yeah, it was weird to not be.
Langston Kerman
Allowed within a school district.
David Borey
But a lot of people let me know it was weird then.
Langston Kerman
But like golf, for example. So, like, golf is. Is life for me. Like, I Reese, me and my husband, we. We got into golf, like, three years ago. I'm completely obsessed.
Ryan Seacrest
Whoa.
Langston Kerman
This is something that you definitely could have taken up younger, still would be playing now. And you meet crazy, like, engaging, fun people on the golf course. Like the social aspect. Now I get it. Like, now I get what people say of golf. Of golf. Like, I.
Ryan Seacrest
You're saying that I have the ab pivot. My life. And it doesn't always have to be the same ball.
Langston Kerman
Correct. It could be a different kind of ball. And so. And then listen, how many sports are there where you can drink and do it and still be good at It.
Ryan Seacrest
Not a lot.
Langston Kerman
Golf, softball. You could be a softball. Life.
David Borey
Basketball for a couple guys.
Langston Kerman
Well, yes, because there's always one dude.
David Borey
They said AI in Denver was going nuts.
Langston Kerman
Why just Denver? Cause he also spent time in Detroit, where I'm from, and the stories about him are legendary. There ain't a Friday safe. Wherever AI is. That's my homie.
Ryan Seacrest
That's so crazy.
David Borey
That's those Virginia athletes, man. To be drunk and play a sport.
Ryan Seacrest
I will say, can you think you.
David Borey
Could play basketball drunk? No.
Ryan Seacrest
Not even a little bit. And it does make me feel more passionate in a different way than I ever thought I would. I've always been like, oh, the game evolves. It gets better over time. The players of today are objectively better than the players of yesteryear. That is my position. LeBron is the greatest because LeBron has surpassed everything that Jordan could do at that time.
David Borey
Right.
Ryan Seacrest
That's where I live. That's where I live. I'll take that shot. If that don't feel right to you.
Langston Kerman
Not wrong, per se. But I do think some of this might be. Is somewhat generational because everybody's protective of their era. Like music, sports.
Ryan Seacrest
Yes.
Langston Kerman
Entertainment. Those are the three areas. Because, you know, you could not have convinced my mother that rap wasn't trash and wasn't just a regurgitation of samples of all the shit that she grew up on and y' all ain't creative and blah, blah, blah. So I get that. But I mean, he's definitely, you know, right there. He's in the. Like. Anybody I know that young people now will. They. Will 10 years from now be like, I can't believe that was ever an argument that it wasn't just LeBron. Whereas probably for my generation. But it's like, no, it's Michael Jordan.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah.
Langston Kerman
Like, yeah. And that's no disrespect to LeBron because I think to be as firmly in the conversation as he is is a testament to how good he is.
Ryan Seacrest
But here's. Here's a little nod to it possibly being Michael Jordan is that LeBron has spent a million plus dollars a year on his body every year. He has eaten clean. He has figured out a way to chisel the form into the perfect form for the sport as he plays it. Michael Jordan was drunk.
Langston Kerman
He was drunk every night. That is not true.
David Borey
You don't think so?
Langston Kerman
Do you not know this story?
David Borey
And I ain't playing. No. You don't think this motherfucker wasn't getting wine drunk every night?
Langston Kerman
No, he wasn't Every night he talked about this. Listen, okay, Michael Jordan talked about the fact that he did not drink when he played.
Ryan Seacrest
He's a liar.
Langston Kerman
Oh, I have heard stories about him, yes. He didn't drink when he played.
David Borey
Well, I mean, I've heard stories about him drinking.
Langston Kerman
He was getting. I think it was either 4am or 6am he worked out every. Every day regardless, right? Like, he kept his body in immaculate condition. The worst thing he probably did was cigars. That was probably the worst.
Ryan Seacrest
I don't mean to suggest that Michael Jordan wasn't putting everything he had into it.
Langston Kerman
No, but he was not known as being a drunk at all.
Ryan Seacrest
I only mean, and this is more jumping off of the AI example that there are guys who are comparable to the legends of now that also were doing it with other shit going on. You know what I mean? In a way that they don't do it now. I mean, like, listen, Allen Iverson, literally, the whole.
Langston Kerman
A good portion of the 80s, like, every third player was sniffing coke. I mean, like cocaine. Like, everybody was. So that was. That was the league. That was the big league issue. You know, Michael Ray Richardson, good guy. To me, that man had a Jerry curler just doing blow. Like, hey, hey, this is Miami Vice right here.
David Borey
Basketball players are too big to be doing that much cocaine.
Ryan Seacrest
It's scary.
David Borey
That seems like. Could you imagine Charles Oakley?
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, man, you, Charles, sober. That's some scary shit. I don't want him nowhere near intoxicants.
Langston Kerman
Well.
Ryan Seacrest
Our guest today. I can't believe she's here. It's so cool. She is a force, a person, you know, from media in all forms, entertainment, writing, television, the news, the. Not news, all the stuff. She's won Emmys and you know her best now from her own podcast, Politics. Give it up for our phenomenal guest, Jamel Hill, everybody.
Langston Kerman
How did all of this trouble begin? Living in America.
Ryan Seacrest
Yes.
Langston Kerman
Well, thank you all for the kind intro. I'm happy to be here, happy to have some fun, you know, and we are a journalist in my line of work. And even though sports was. Sports is really my background and still the foundation of what I do, people start thinking that, like, I'm not a fun person.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, yeah.
Langston Kerman
Like they think I have no sense of humor and that I'm just walking around, you know, pointing out injustice. Like, oh, there's a white crack in the sidewalk. Somehow it's a white man. Like, that's. I'm like, that's not the energy I'm on. Right.
David Borey
Which is crazy because that's what we do.
Langston Kerman
I mean, sometimes. I ain't gonna lie.
Ryan Seacrest
I didn't like how you pretended to be us. That's so nasty.
Langston Kerman
Like, it was a white valet. Sometimes that happens where people just have this sort of picture of me as being super serious. So I'm always happy to be in spaces like this where we can just laugh and fuck around in a space.
David Borey
I love it. I love it. Cause sports is. Do you like how serious the sports world is? It seems like people just don't play about that shit.
Langston Kerman
No. What I don't like about it is that there are just too many, too much of a machine built around taking the joy out of sports.
David Borey
Yeah.
Langston Kerman
Yeah. Everybody, one. Everybody has an opinion, which sounds like a really crazy thing to say, considering I'm in the business of giving my opinion about sports, but an opinion in the sense of, like, something's gotta be wrong with everything, right? It's like, we can't just enjoy what it is. Like, two minutes after OKC wins the finals, the conversation is, was this a tainted championship? Cause Tyrese Haliburton got, you know, got injured. And I'm like, man, fuck that. Can we just celebrate the fact that this team from wire to wire, the way it was constructed, you have, you know, sga, who wins the scoring title, mvp, finals mvp, and a championship all in the same year. Only one of four dudes to do that.
David Borey
Come on.
Langston Kerman
So I feel like the joy of what sports was supposed to bring us gets lost in this machine of conversations and debates about shit that don't even matter.
Ryan Seacrest
And also, that injury is part of the bigger story. Do you know what I mean? History remembers things. It's like, oh, they were neck and neck. Anything could have happened. And then their hero goes down.
David Borey
Yeah, he goes down.
Ryan Seacrest
That is how a championship can be won, too. And it's not. That doesn't taint the story. That just makes it the fucking story.
Langston Kerman
It just adds to it. It's like something that you remember. But as I've tried to tell people, even though this is probably for the situation, the most devastating injury I can think of.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, for sure.
Langston Kerman
But along any championship path, it's always something that happens where somebody, A team, benefits from someone else's misfortune. I mean, you know, I grew up. My coming of age with basketball was in the 80s. And when the Pistons, when they played the Lakers the first time in the Finals, I mean, Isaiah was hurt. They lost. Lakers are a better team for the series. That's fine. The next year, Magic was hurt. They were healthy. And they beat the Lakers ass.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. Yeah.
Langston Kerman
So it's just. That's just sports. Like, that's what happens.
Ryan Seacrest
I think about how different the league would be at large if Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson don't get injured in that. That Toronto series.
David Borey
Right?
Ryan Seacrest
Like, I think there's a world where, like, they win another championship and maybe still together, they work out the shit that they were struggling with emotionally, socially, whatever the fuck I mean, and they keep riding, you know what I mean?
Langston Kerman
Like, maybe Draymond doesn't fire on Jordan Poole. Like, I don't know, man.
Ryan Seacrest
Jordan Poole learns to act right, because he gets slapped every week by this man. Jordan Poole got brain damage because of Draymond. All that could have been avoided.
David Borey
Man, that shit seems so bad. Like, getting bullied at work is the worst.
Ryan Seacrest
That's crazy.
David Borey
It sucks.
Ryan Seacrest
It's crazy.
Langston Kerman
Sucks, but only acceptable to sports. Like, yeah, I got football stories that are just far worse than really. I mean, people be fighting. Shit.
David Borey
You know what, though? You can get bullied at Target, too. Like, I think it does happen everywhere.
Langston Kerman
It does have just. It's just more extreme. Like, the docu series or the documentary that's on Netflix right now is part of their. That Untold series.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, I love those.
Langston Kerman
The Gilbert arenas, Javarris Kritner 1. These dudes. I never would have thought the story would be two NBA players both bring their heat to the locker room. Like, they both bring their guns to the locker room, and one of them eventually gets charged with murder. And then it's like, what?
David Borey
One brought two. Yeah, two cartoon guns. Two. Elmer Fox. He was, like, looking first, I have a tiger striped.
Langston Kerman
3.
Ryan Seacrest
He was, like, looking for silly ones. He said, what's my silliest gun? That's gonna make everybody laugh when I pull it out on this nigga.
Langston Kerman
This wild. But. Yes, but I wish we concentrated a little bit more on the. On the joy of sports. The fact that we're watching very ridiculously physically built human beings do things that nobody should be able to do.
David Borey
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Ryan Seacrest
We. We didn't even come here to talk about any.
David Borey
No, no.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
David Borey
This is.
Ryan Seacrest
This is not the plan. But this is. This is beautiful. You came to us, Jamel, with a conspiracy theory that I'm excited to say is the first ever conversation he and I had on this podcast. On this podcast. But you framed it in a way that I don't think we ever really thought about.
David Borey
No, I didn't understand the format.
Ryan Seacrest
That's not what I'm accusing you of.
David Borey
Okay. I do remember, though.
Ryan Seacrest
I was like, I think you've evolved. The conversation is what I mean to say. But you said, my mama told me only black celebrities get put into the Illuminati.
Langston Kerman
I mean, the Illuminati. I'm struggling to understand what. What it is, like, what is supposed to be the goals of the Illuminati?
Ryan Seacrest
That's a great question.
Langston Kerman
Is it just world domination? Is it establishing a global currency? What's the end game of the Illuminati?
David Borey
There does seem to need to be some kind of, like, they need some structure. Yeah. Because it's also because I think if it was anything actually that important, it wouldn't be celebrities, I. I guess. You know what I'm saying? There's no. You don't ever. Nobody's ever like, oh, all these brain surgeons and doctors and it's always just like, basketball. It's like, rappers. What are you talking about?
Ryan Seacrest
You're not like, I think my. My. I think my orthopedist is in the area.
Langston Kerman
Right.
Ryan Seacrest
You're making a lot of money over.
David Borey
A Nigga who owns 15 Burger Kings. Right. Like, you know what I'm saying?
Langston Kerman
Just your run of the mill business person, that's like, part of the Illuminati.
David Borey
There's like, actors.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
David Borey
Who aren't really good at anything.
Langston Kerman
It's like, oh, okay, she twerks a lot. Got it right. Illuminati material.
David Borey
Yeah. Clearly some type of a higher order.
Langston Kerman
Yeah. But you never hear white celebrities being put in the Illuminati. And I was like, is it racial? Is like, what is the racial divide there? Like, you don't. You hear Tom Cruise associated with a lot of other shit.
David Borey
Obviously, I was gonna say arose by any other name, right? What, the Top of Scientology?
Langston Kerman
What is it a different kind of Illuminati? Is that.
David Borey
That's what I think.
Ryan Seacrest
I think that. That certainly, if we're talking about goals. Right. Part of what I've always understood to be the Illuminati's intention is, like, co op. I think they're like a co op of rich motherfuckers. And so in that way, it's like this shared work of just keeping our co op thriving.
David Borey
Right.
Ryan Seacrest
And so, like, if you make it in, you never go broke again. You get all the protections of what this institution represents, so long as you're willing to play the game the way we play the game.
Langston Kerman
This. This sounds like the co op that Prop Joe built in the Wire.
Ryan Seacrest
Okay.
Langston Kerman
Is that what it's like?
Ryan Seacrest
I like this.
Langston Kerman
I Mean, is Marlo eventually gonna be like the price of the brick going up?
Ryan Seacrest
And I think. And there are some arguments to be made about the Diddy situation that, that, that is the conspiracy that people are making about Diddy's situation is that he was buying into the co op. He did wrong by the, the alcohol company that asked him to do certain behaviors. Whatever. He said no. This is the hero story they always tell. Diddy said no. I'm a business of my own. I stand on mine. And then suddenly we're finding out about all of his sexuality.
Langston Kerman
It's like an evolution of. Bill Cosby was buying NBC.
Ryan Seacrest
There we go.
Langston Kerman
Ok. Right. It's like that.
Ryan Seacrest
Which, which we now know to be true.
Langston Kerman
What?
David Borey
Here we go.
Ryan Seacrest
That's 100% true.
Langston Kerman
That is 100% true.
Ryan Seacrest
He was legitimately trying to buy NBC. But where people fuck around is. The years are way off from what he was doing. Do you know what I mean? That like, was this at like the.
Langston Kerman
Height of Cosby or something?
Ryan Seacrest
This was. No, this was like after his, his second Cosby, after like that other one got canceled. He then was like furious with the institution at large and was like, I'm gonna change the whole thing. Made them an offer that was more, more than they actually were like meant to be getting. And they still said no on some, like, we just don't fuck. We don't want you to be the guy. And so like, he was legitimately trying to buy NBC. That said it. It ain't timing out the way people wanted to. Like, he did that. And then the year later they were like, we got you, Bill.
David Borey
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
It was like, you know, 10 years before anybody even accused him of any.
Langston Kerman
Okay, okay. Cause I totally thought that was completely false. Like Bill Cosby about to buy it.
David Borey
You know what I always think about the black Illuminati? I'm just thinking about this is also, like, have some decorum. It's a lot of first time members. Oh, oh. You know what I'm saying?
Langston Kerman
So you feel like it's not enough legacy?
David Borey
I think that would be. That's like how you build a strong base. Right? But you're letting all these first time celebrities in.
Langston Kerman
A lot of money. A lot of new money.
David Borey
Come on. A lot of new money. And that's my issue with the black Illuminati is like, save it for your children. How.
Ryan Seacrest
How far into your career do you have to be to make it into the Illuminati?
Langston Kerman
Like, is there money, nigga?
David Borey
Hoping 15 years.
Langston Kerman
Like, is there A money minimum to being in the Illuminati. The three names you hear about the most in the Illuminati are Oprah, Jay Z and Beyonce. Right, Those three. Are there other black multi?
David Borey
Who's the woman who owns bet?
Ryan Seacrest
Deborah Johnson. Ain't that it?
Langston Kerman
Well, Sheila Johnson was Bob Johnson's ex wife. Yeah, yeah, right. Like that's. They were married and then.
David Borey
Right.
Langston Kerman
And now, I mean, Viacom runs bet, so I'm not really sure.
Ryan Seacrest
It used to be the lady.
David Borey
That's who I'm thinking of.
Ryan Seacrest
UDocs made fun of.
David Borey
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Langston Kerman
Oh, oh, you talking about Deborah Lee?
Ryan Seacrest
Deborah Lee.
Langston Kerman
Deborah Lee. Yes, yes, Deborah Lee. Right. Correct. Okay, so she is not or is in the Illuminati.
Ryan Seacrest
I think if Debra Lee ain't in the Illuminati, it's not a real institution. I think that's a powerful, powerful figure.
Langston Kerman
Like, you gotta. If you don't have Deborah Lee in it, how good is your Illuminati?
David Borey
Right?
Ryan Seacrest
That's what I would say. Yeah. Because if we're talking about, like, for real, not celebrity, she's not really a celebrity. We only know her name because she's rich. We don't even like what she makes. Do you know what I mean? Like, everybody's always going like, man, fuck bet. But you still know the president's name.
David Borey
That's some heat in the catalog. No, I'm not saying.
Ryan Seacrest
I'm not saying that's my position. I'm saying that is the language around bet. We've always been very sort of judgmental of bet. And we still know to kiss the ring. That's a powerful individual.
Langston Kerman
Well, but the thing is, though, with BET is like, this is why I never understood the judgment. It's like we judge bet, but watch the same shit somewhere else. It's like you just don't want bet to show it.
David Borey
Right?
Langston Kerman
It's better bet got this money.
David Borey
That's what it feels like, baby boy.
Ryan Seacrest
Feel good wherever you watch it.
David Borey
Come on, come on. I just want to watch the game. Season 50.
Ryan Seacrest
Come on.
Langston Kerman
Don't take away my margaritas.
Ryan Seacrest
I'm telling you.
David Borey
Right. Also, I thought they went crazy with those New Edition movies.
Langston Kerman
I thought they were pretty good.
David Borey
Those were great.
Langston Kerman
They did that.
Ryan Seacrest
They were pretty good.
Langston Kerman
Yeah, yeah. My guilty pleasure. BET watch is for my man.
David Borey
I'm not even up on.
Ryan Seacrest
I don't know this one.
Langston Kerman
All right, so this is about women who have murdered or done something. It's usually murder, though. It's not usually stealing. It's usually like, straight up murdered for my man.
Ryan Seacrest
Whoa.
David Borey
Yeah, That's a beautiful premise.
Langston Kerman
See what I'm saying?
David Borey
I do like that.
Ryan Seacrest
And this is a documentary.
Langston Kerman
This is a docuseries. Yeah, it's like, first 48, but it's like the. It's like the nigga version of Snapped. Right? That's like, what it is. And it's like, all women, and they just like, yeah, like, heal for my man. Like, I put this down for my man.
David Borey
Like, everyone that's available on the app.
Langston Kerman
It is available on the app. It is on bt. It is supreme watching. And it's.
David Borey
No, I like that one.
Langston Kerman
You shot, like, a Hype Williams video. Like, it's amazing.
David Borey
I really like everything about that bet.
Langston Kerman
Like, I like bet.
David Borey
I've always liked bet.
Langston Kerman
I had no issue with bet. If anything, My issue is, like, they don't take enough chances, right? And it's like, there's things like, the New Edition one, to me, was a very strategic swing. They know the audience they were going for. They drill down on what is a story that's important to black culture, and they told it right. And I think there's a lot of those opportunities that's out there for them.
David Borey
I also kind of oversaturated the market, though, because they did New Edition, then they did the Bobby Brown, which was also good. Amazing three movie series. But then they also had the Bobby. Like, they just kind of like. It's like, we only nine of these movies. There's.
Ryan Seacrest
Spread it out a little bit.
Langston Kerman
Maybe we'll get that Ralph Trazmat.
David Borey
You know what I want is a Shine movie. I've been saying for years, but they have a doc.
Langston Kerman
They don't have a movie.
David Borey
But that's a film. That's a life worth a film, right? I think.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah.
David Borey
I'm gonna be shy.
Ryan Seacrest
I don't think I'm gonna be shy.
Langston Kerman
No.
Ryan Seacrest
Thank you. That's cool. That's cool in that way.
David Borey
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
I think I'm all good on being shy.
David Borey
Yeah, that's right.
Langston Kerman
But I mean, the conspiracy theory with the Illuminati, the other thing, I also wonder about it. Other than, like, what's the goal? What's the agenda is. Oh, you know what? Will Smith, he was another one that's supposed to be the Illuminati.
Ryan Seacrest
A hundred percent. Yeah, he was an early. I would say early.
Langston Kerman
Yeah, he was an early favorite in the Illuminati.
David Borey
Yeah, definitely. I think that's like the Smith family in general, I think, is, like, maybe the number one thing I Think about.
Ryan Seacrest
When you think Illuminati about the Illuminati.
David Borey
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
I think that's, I guess, my question.
David Borey
And that's also maybe my age as well. And, like, you know, me growing up, seeing Will Smith's catastrophic, you know, the whole rise.
Ryan Seacrest
My question off of that, then, and this is for us at large, is, are we the ones that are making the Illuminati black? You know what I mean? That, like, are we. Because this is who we're consuming. That is the names we're circulating, rather than it being like, oh, everybody's. They have. They talk about the Illuminati in the white community. We're just not clocking in that, like. Yes, they do.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
David Borey
I never hear them say anything about it.
Langston Kerman
I don't think that they. If they. Well, I'll tell you what I think. If they do put people in the Illuminati, if white people are out there, they're putting people like Elon Musk in the Illuminati.
Ryan Seacrest
Sure.
Langston Kerman
Cause so your point is, like, we're putting all the entertainers, and maybe that's just because that's our obvious picture of wealth.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, right.
Langston Kerman
It's like the one we're more familiar with, the sports figures, the entertainers, you know, that kind of thing. And for, like, white people, I think they would put in, like, Elon Musk or the Rothschilds, or they're putting something.
David Borey
Like Dude Minute hot glue.
Langston Kerman
Exactly.
Ryan Seacrest
And we like who. They're like, no, no, no, you don't get it. This motherfucker made glue hot. He's pretty much the richest man that ever was.
David Borey
I have heard a lot of white people talk about the Rothschild. So in a way that I don't love bringing it up on this podcast, to be honest.
Ryan Seacrest
The Vanderbilts, you know what I mean?
David Borey
Like, weird families, institutional American families, they.
Langston Kerman
Will put in the Illuminati. And I don't know if that refle. Just where we are as black people. The fact that we are putting like, yes, Oprah. It's gotta be her. She's the richest black woman ever. You know what I'm saying?
David Borey
But when we talk about these richer white families, I think there is also a level of, like, you know, there are presidents in the skull and bones or whatever. Like, all that kind of stuff is. Is that not Illuminati?
Langston Kerman
Yeah. Is Obama Illuminati? Is Obama, I think.
Ryan Seacrest
Absolutely.
David Borey
I really can't tell you.
Langston Kerman
Undecided.
David Borey
I waffle with him. I waffle with him.
Langston Kerman
Is it?
Ryan Seacrest
You think he's you think he's like, not. You think he's chilling?
David Borey
I think I want him to be a good man so bad. Oh, and I see. I see this current Jennifer Aniston situation, and I'm like, look, if he was in the.
Langston Kerman
Oh, shit, I forgot the conspiracy.
David Borey
If he was in the Illuminati, they would have thrown him a friend. They give you a friend in the Illuminati. You get a friend if you're in the Illuminati, right?
Langston Kerman
Do you mean like an actual member of the Friends cast, or do you mean just a friend?
David Borey
I mean, if you're in the black Illuminati, they let you fuck one of the friends.
Langston Kerman
Okay. I do think that I'm like Courtney Cox. What?
David Borey
Anyone? Anyone?
Langston Kerman
Anyone?
David Borey
It could be David Schwimmer. Is that David Schwimmer?
Langston Kerman
Yes, he is. He's a friend.
David Borey
He's a friend.
Ryan Seacrest
He's a friend.
David Borey
Yeah. I think you get a friend if you're in the illness. Get a friend and it doesn't leak.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, I think. I think it would be absurd to call an American president somehow safe from the Illuminati, that he's, like, not tapping in over there.
David Borey
You think every president was in the Illuminati?
Ryan Seacrest
100%.
Langston Kerman
You think every president.
David Borey
Jimmy Carter was in the Illuminati.
Langston Kerman
No way.
David Borey
Jimmy Carter was not in the. Come on, let's move.
Ryan Seacrest
100%. That's you.
Langston Kerman
If he were really in the Illuminati, he would have lasted. He wouldn't be on that list of incumbents that lost.
Ryan Seacrest
I think that's.
David Borey
The man was a bean farmer.
Ryan Seacrest
I think that's why they. They got mad. Y' all have to remember that Jimmy Carter wasn't like, this groundbreaking dude right from the start, right? He came in and then started doing them fireside chats and acting funny and being weird to them, and they were like, hey, hey.
David Borey
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Langston Kerman
He was too human.
David Borey
He was too human.
Ryan Seacrest
He was seeing those meetings. He was experiencing what they were doing in there. And he was going, bro, I gotta talk to the people.
David Borey
Right?
Ryan Seacrest
This is crazy, right?
David Borey
And then they were like, fine.
Ryan Seacrest
You'll go, yeah, we don't care.
David Borey
Yeah, we wanted Billy anyways.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, we'll replace the drunk brother.
David Borey
Was Billy your brother who sold beer? You know he had that drunk brother who sold beer?
Langston Kerman
I didn't remember that vaguely. I didn't remember his name. Every president.
David Borey
I don't. I don't.
Ryan Seacrest
Give me one who ain't.
Langston Kerman
I mean, I don't think JFK was in the Illuminati?
David Borey
I don't think so.
Langston Kerman
Because if he was, he be here.
Ryan Seacrest
You think they don't let that shot get off? If the Illuminati.
Langston Kerman
I mean, if he was really part of the Illuminati.
David Borey
Come on. They do.
Langston Kerman
There's gotta be some protection in the Illuminati.
David Borey
Camelot out. See what I'm saying, right? Like, as far as. Like, I think there were.
Ryan Seacrest
I guess what I'm saying is, I think that if the Illuminati is in fact this. This real co op, as we are now understanding it, that it is. It is like any co op where if you rub the wrong people wrong, you will find yourself put out quickly or upcharged or in debt, in danger in a way that you weren't previously.
Langston Kerman
I think if you've been assassinated, I don't think you've been a part of. Or the Illuminati didn't accept you, it was something you didn't do.
David Borey
What if there was an attempt? You think the same thing?
Langston Kerman
No, I think that's just a scare tactic.
David Borey
Okay.
Langston Kerman
They're not just trying to scare you into acting, right?
David Borey
I don't think they would have let Trump in. Because he's a hillbilly. Mm. He's uncouth.
Langston Kerman
He is. But he also would try to come in on some Wrecking ball shit and they, like, weed out a certain order.
David Borey
To our shit, but everybody rejects him. That's his whole get down. Right.
Ryan Seacrest
I don't know, y'.
Langston Kerman
All.
Ryan Seacrest
I think.
David Borey
Also, why are we talking about any Italians?
Langston Kerman
Any Illuminati?
David Borey
It's. No. Okay. This is not. This is not.
Ryan Seacrest
Hey, no.
David Borey
Don't lose me right now, you playboy. Don't lose me right now.
Ryan Seacrest
Find your camera.
David Borey
It's clearly an Italian word. It started in Italy. We have it talked about. No Italian.
Langston Kerman
You're.
David Borey
That's crazy.
Ryan Seacrest
Both of those things are not true.
David Borey
It's an Italian word.
Ryan Seacrest
I think it's a Latin word.
David Borey
Oh, that's different. I thought it was about. I thought it was Italian.
Ryan Seacrest
Illuminati.
David Borey
I don't think it's that. I thought it was started by the fetuccinis.
Langston Kerman
Yeah, I don't think.
Ryan Seacrest
I don't think you're going to find this on, like, a menu.
David Borey
That's disappointing. I really thought it was based in Italy. I thought it was like La Costa Nostra. I thought it was started over there and came over here.
Langston Kerman
That sounds true, though.
David Borey
That feels right.
Langston Kerman
I just say it feels. That felt right.
David Borey
Yeah.
Langston Kerman
I was like I was sitting here.
David Borey
I was like, no one Italian. This is crazy.
Langston Kerman
Sorry. What can I say?
David Borey
But it did start in Europe. It didn't start here.
Ryan Seacrest
That is true. And maybe this is a good segue for us to we're going to take a break and when we come back, I did some research on the Illuminati that I'd like to discuss and we can, we can see if we can come to a conclusion on this whole.
David Borey
Thing and we can find where the Italians are.
Ryan Seacrest
Find those Italians. We know you're in there. We'll be back with more Jemele Hill More My mama told me.
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Ryan Seacrest
But we're gonna do this respectfully. Otherwise we'll end in a duel.
Unknown
And I mean a duel.
Ryan Seacrest
Real life duel where only one person walks away.
David Borey
We can meet with guns, bottles, knives.
Ryan Seacrest
Or books and equations, but we're gonna do this like men.
David Borey
So get ready and get ready for this. Langston did some research on the Illuminati.
Langston Kerman
I'm just imagining an equation fight. That's what I was thinking of. I was like, my ex versus your wife. What you gonna do gravel.
David Borey
Parabola.
Langston Kerman
Time.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, they're both curved. That's pretty cool. He's the funniest man.
David Borey
Yeah, he's really, really pretty.
Ryan Seacrest
Pretty much the greatest guy.
David Borey
We got close.
Ryan Seacrest
Jamel. I did some research. We were talking about the Italian roots of the Illuminati moments ago, but the Illuminati is actually Bavarian. It originally started in Bavaria.
Langston Kerman
Okay.
Ryan Seacrest
It was a secret society that operated from 1776 to 1785.
Langston Kerman
That sounded a long run.
David Borey
That is not a long run. Is it just a coincidence that it started when America started? Whoa.
Langston Kerman
There you go, connecting the dots.
David Borey
Right?
Ryan Seacrest
Okay. I don't know that I ever thought about that. I don't know why it's 1776, but it did start exactly when America started. It had some shit going before that day.
Langston Kerman
Started is an interesting word.
David Borey
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
This wasn't, like, a vacant parking lot.
David Borey
Nobody's there.
Langston Kerman
So did they disclose who was in the Bavarian Illuminati?
Ryan Seacrest
So it was started by a dude named Adam Weishaupt.
David Borey
I'm out.
Ryan Seacrest
You don't like that? That rubs you wrong.
David Borey
I thought it was Freddy Spaghetti and them. The idea that it's a bunch of German dudes.
Ryan Seacrest
That's right. It is a German.
David Borey
This doesn't seem nearly as interesting as I thought.
Ryan Seacrest
A German lawmaker who believed strongly in enlightenment ideals and specifically worked to promote the principles among the elites. So it was trying to get enlightenment to the elite class of society.
David Borey
Always works well when Germans go that way.
Langston Kerman
It's such an amazing track record. Amazing.
Ryan Seacrest
Three for three. You say we, not the goat, but three for three?
David Borey
This is racist. Like, as soon as you started talking about this, I was like, oh, this isn't even sexy anymore. All right. The Illuminati, I thought it was a bunch of suave.
Ryan Seacrest
That's liking those cloaks, but they're naked underneath, and you're like, damn, this kind of nasty. Y' all get down.
David Borey
I didn't think about any of them eating sausages.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. Nah, this is goofy shit. It was a part of a European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th century that emphasized an individualism and reasoning over tradition, which I will say, then kind of makes me feel like at least what people claim about the Illuminati makes sense.
David Borey
Right?
Ryan Seacrest
That their intentions are, like, gaining individual power beyond reason. Like, beyond, like, I mean, some talented 10 shit, basically.
Langston Kerman
Right. But in that case, I mean, it might have been even less than 10% that they were trying to appeal these ideals to. So does it. Does it say beyond that? Like, what were they trying to take over the world or they were just. Just trying to enlighten the rich people. And then I'm like, enlighten them to do what?
David Borey
Yeah. Also, you set a hard end date, which makes me wonder. Like, they just were like. They quit.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah.
David Borey
So they were like, nah.
Langston Kerman
They're like, this kind of didn't work out.
David Borey
We tried it. We tried it.
Ryan Seacrest
Y' all just want to stop calling each other that, right? Yeah.
David Borey
We still need up. We just.
Ryan Seacrest
You ain't got to call me Mr. No More. It's cool. We friends again.
Langston Kerman
Illuminati. Okay.
David Borey
It's just Rick.
Langston Kerman
All right.
David Borey
This is Rick now.
Ryan Seacrest
So the group originally started with six to nine guys, and at its largest grew to somewhere between. And this is a pretty big range. 650 to 2,500 people.
David Borey
That's a huge.
Ryan Seacrest
Wow.
Langston Kerman
That's. That. That is not as indiscriminate as it seems like it should be.
Ryan Seacrest
No. And you would think the Illuminati would have a clearer track if they hadn't did that. But maybe that speaks to some of, like, how it becomes this larger lore. Right? Is that because they don't know exactly if it's 650 or 2500, everybody becomes a weird suspect of this organization that didn't really do shit.
David Borey
That's what I was going to ask. What are their notable accomplishments? Because it just still sounds like kind of some shitty rich guys hanging out. Like, do they get anything done? They get some books.
Ryan Seacrest
What's weird is the Illuminati, at least in the beginning, was largely opposed to the ruling class. Like, it was meant to be like.
Langston Kerman
Like, anti establishment.
David Borey
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
Anti establishment shit. And they were closer to, like, Anonymous, you know what I mean? Like, Skull and Bones type shit. And then eventually found themselves shifting, I think in part because you can't get the elite together without them protecting a large. Right. That's the danger of capitalism as we talk about it. It's like, I make money and then I start to build a community with people who make money, and I can't. I can't fuck up your money.
David Borey
No.
Ryan Seacrest
I gotta be cool and, like, not do bad things to your money, even though I know your money is nasty.
David Borey
I can't even really disrupt the system in a real way.
Langston Kerman
No. So they clearly weren't trying to disrupt the system. They were just trying to overtake it and be more powerful, which is.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, I like.
Langston Kerman
Disappointing, huh?
David Borey
It was way better as Italians.
Langston Kerman
Who would be the lead Italian in.
Ryan Seacrest
The Italian Illuminati that's a good question. And I'm.
David Borey
Are we talking about current day?
Langston Kerman
You do current day.
David Borey
I mean, look, I think the fascists were in there, right? Mussolini was probably.
Langston Kerman
Oh, Mussolini for sure. Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
Now give us a fun one. Go ahead and throw a fun one in there.
David Borey
I mean, there's so many fun ones. They're such musical people. They're such a light hearted.
Langston Kerman
Is Tony Danza in the Illuminati?
David Borey
I think Fellini. I think Fellini was probably right.
Ryan Seacrest
You're thinking of like over there Italians.
David Borey
Oh, I was not thinking of ours.
Langston Kerman
Oh, you weren't thinking about American?
David Borey
I wasn't thinking of ours. No, no.
Langston Kerman
Like a combination, like Pavarotti.
Ryan Seacrest
I thought you were gonna be like Guy Fieri in the Illuminati.
David Borey
That's why you said Tony Danza. Tony Danza.
Ryan Seacrest
What? Yeah, that money kept him safe. He did. You know what I mean? He had a right person pocket.
David Borey
Tony Danzler is probably caked up though, right?
Ryan Seacrest
He's caked up syndication in the 80s.
Langston Kerman
Hell, he's on. He's in the power universe.
Ryan Seacrest
And that's what makes me think Illuminati. Because something changed.
Langston Kerman
Something went wrong.
Ryan Seacrest
This isn't the Tony Danzler we grew up with. What the fuck is he doing over there? Unless he burned a bridge.
David Borey
Is his name a Tony on power too?
Langston Kerman
No, I feel like it's not. I feel like it's something else.
Ryan Seacrest
I hope his name is Tony in everything he does.
David Borey
Yeah, that's the amazing.
Ryan Seacrest
Wasn't it in Taxi too? He was Tony.
Langston Kerman
Oh, my God.
David Borey
I think that's the way to get into show business.
Ryan Seacrest
You're right. That's a flex.
David Borey
Really? Really? That. That would be great.
Ryan Seacrest
They were like, bro, we can't even imagine you different.
David Borey
You got to be Tony.
Ryan Seacrest
You got to be Tony.
Langston Kerman
But he's allowed to be different types of Tony.
Ryan Seacrest
That's true.
Langston Kerman
Because he was like the. The goofball, like dummy in Taxi right then.
David Borey
He was very different from who's the Boss.
Langston Kerman
Very different from who's the Boss. It took him like 35 years to finally get with Judith Light, like, hooked up to.
Ryan Seacrest
He was like more smooth talking.
Langston Kerman
Yeah, smooth talking, but yet a very progressive man for the time.
Ryan Seacrest
He was progressive.
David Borey
Oh, because he worked in the house?
Langston Kerman
Because he was. Yeah, he was the house manager, if you will. And.
Ryan Seacrest
And he protected those women.
Langston Kerman
He did.
Ryan Seacrest
He really, like, was like, nah, I believe in y'.
Langston Kerman
All. Raised a single dad.
David Borey
Raise a dumb.
Ryan Seacrest
He was like, I'm dumb. So you're right.
Langston Kerman
You're right. Exactly.
Ryan Seacrest
That was his whole thing. Every episode.
David Borey
I didn't really care for him on that show. I was a Mona guy.
Ryan Seacrest
Whoa. Oh, really?
David Borey
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
Mona was a baddie.
Langston Kerman
She was spicy.
David Borey
Yeah. No, it's like the same. I was a Blanche guy as well.
Langston Kerman
It's like a. Oh, you like the spicier.
David Borey
That's the word for you.
Langston Kerman
You like spicy white.
David Borey
Yeah.
Langston Kerman
Okay, I got it.
David Borey
I think that I like older women who like to entertain.
Langston Kerman
Seasoned.
David Borey
Yes.
Langston Kerman
Seasoned ladies of spice.
David Borey
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
I will say that Blanche's stories always felt like the life most lived.
David Borey
Yes.
Ryan Seacrest
Like everybody else, they'd recount the story, and it's like, ah, that's kind of sad.
David Borey
Oh, yeah. And Dorothy would be like, oh, what time in Minnesota is like, bitch, shut up. Blanche out here fucking. Like, I don't care what you have to say.
Langston Kerman
Oh, wait, no, that was Betty White. That was Rose because she was from St. Ola. Rose was from Minnesota.
Ryan Seacrest
Blanche was the big old sad one.
David Borey
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're talking about Bea Arthur.
Langston Kerman
Bea Arthur. Blanche was the. The. Dorothy was the big old sandwich. Yeah.
David Borey
Blanche had. She had a guy named Big Daddy for a while.
Ryan Seacrest
She was going crazy.
Langston Kerman
Blanche was a city girl.
David Borey
That's what I liked.
Langston Kerman
Like, I mean, and, you know, that's my thing. She's in Miami. When you watch Golden Girls, it is like, it was ahead of its time in so many ways. And, like, some of the episodes you forget about, like, some of the. The deeper, like, social justice kind of episodes they had. Like when Blanche. I think her brother was gay. That was one.
David Borey
Yeah.
Langston Kerman
Yes, her brother was gay. Then they did a racial. They did a racial one, but I'm.
Ryan Seacrest
Sure a few racial ones.
Langston Kerman
They did a couple racial ones, and I was like, look at Golden Girl.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, they.
David Borey
By the way, I think that's the best setup for a television show is give me whatever and then let me see them face everything I don't want to see. Not everything has to be this niche group and only what they experience. Yeah, I don't mind. Just like, give me five people and then have it all happen to them. Like, I like that.
Ryan Seacrest
You know, I do, too. Carmichael's show did a good job of that.
David Borey
They did.
Ryan Seacrest
Hey, this just is happening in this area. So y' all gotta. Y' all gotta deal with it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's nice when it feels like they're living in the same world that we live in.
David Borey
Yeah.
Langston Kerman
So you. No love for Sophia, like, that was.
David Borey
She was funny. She was funny. She Was funny.
Ryan Seacrest
She was very wonderful.
David Borey
She was cutting. I. I liked that.
Ryan Seacrest
They never really wrote any story for.
Langston Kerman
That's what I'm saying.
David Borey
She never had much to do. She never had much.
Langston Kerman
I mean, she was just there, really, to roast people.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah.
Langston Kerman
That was, like, effectively, every once in.
Ryan Seacrest
A while, she admits something to be Arthur that, like, kind of rounded out the character, but, like, it wasn't.
Langston Kerman
That wasn't her.
Ryan Seacrest
It wasn't a lot. You know what I mean?
David Borey
She was the oldest lady, you know.
Ryan Seacrest
But she was also the youngest lady.
David Borey
In real life, right?
Langston Kerman
In real life, yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
She got a bad one.
Langston Kerman
The recent. They didn't do her dirty, though.
David Borey
That is crazy. Yeah.
Langston Kerman
You know, and then I remember it would freak me out when I would see her not in the Golden Girls, like, you know, get up, and I was like, oh, my gosh, she's like 30 years younger than the character she's playing.
David Borey
She's still around now?
Ryan Seacrest
No.
Langston Kerman
No, she's not.
David Borey
Yeah, I think.
Langston Kerman
I think they're all gone. Yeah, I think they're all. Damn.
Ryan Seacrest
Betty White was the last one. Betty White died in, what, 99?
Langston Kerman
I mean, woof.
Ryan Seacrest
You guys asked the question, and I do have an answer to it, but maybe we should take the. Well, no, no, we'll do this. Before we do the break, the question of how the Illuminati got broken up. In 1785, the Duke of Bavaria banned all secret societies, and the Illuminati was, quote, unquote, wiped out. Now, in 1798, though, this is where it gets exciting. In 1798, George Washington stopped and they did. Yeah. He was like, hey, don't do that kind of Illuminati.
Langston Kerman
Right.
David Borey
Italians would never. Would never.
Langston Kerman
Tony Danza never.
David Borey
Would never. Come on.
Ryan Seacrest
He was the boss.
David Borey
He was the boss.
Ryan Seacrest
Well, it's just. Who was it? We don't know.
David Borey
But Angelo was one of the bosses.
Langston Kerman
He was one, at least. Exactly.
Ryan Seacrest
But in 1798, George Washington wrote a letter about the Illuminati where he speculated that the threat had largely been beaten, but mentioned the group helped their infamy by sort of, like, not being clearly wiped out. That, like he said, they had largely been beaten but left enough space in whatever he was saying that it started to build lore around the Illuminati and a few other guys after that start to do something similar where they'll, like, acknowledge its existence but not fully be like, it's stupid. It's old. It doesn't exist anymore.
Langston Kerman
There's a lot of questions there, because those original Illuminatis have descendants, right? Where did those descendants wind up? And, you know, especially, I imagine everybody wasn't down to just in the Illuminati. So they might have been teaching another Illuminati class. How to Illuminati.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah.
David Borey
Well, okay. And that's my question, though, is what is how to Illuminati? Cause still sounds like they ain't on shit.
Ryan Seacrest
I mean, but if you got.
David Borey
What if they got. What if they. What are they doing?
Ryan Seacrest
If you got the President of the United States writing letters. You got a point.
Langston Kerman
About presidents, right?
Ryan Seacrest
You're a mover and shit shaker. And yes, George Washington acknowledging it means he was a part of the Illuminati. And I stand behind my original statement.
Langston Kerman
I feel like Andrew Jackson was too loose to be like. They would be like.
Ryan Seacrest
I think they liked him the most. I think they were like, look, I say crazy shit. This nigga does it. That's cool.
Langston Kerman
I mean, he was a drunk. He was a gambler.
Ryan Seacrest
He was walking down street, the street shooting people in the head. He didn't give a.
Langston Kerman
That's true.
Ryan Seacrest
That's. That's like, tell me they let old.
Langston Kerman
Stale ass R B Hayes up in the Illuminati.
David Borey
Come on. There's some boring ones that.
Langston Kerman
Some boring ones that you gonna be like, eh weng Harding.
Ryan Seacrest
They had a big bathtub.
David Borey
They had a big talk with Tap.
Ryan Seacrest
After the T. I think they talked to him.
David Borey
This man did other stuff. He wasn't just a fat guy.
Ryan Seacrest
I think they said he was a president.
David Borey
Respect him. That's all we talk about is the dub with that guy.
Ryan Seacrest
They said, hey, man, you're doing something real nasty to your situation and we gotta be better. And he said, I'm sorry. I will. And I think he did some stuff. I think you're right. He probably did some stuff. But we're gonna remember that bathtub.
David Borey
No, we don't. I don't know what he did. What's the most. What is his biggest legacy as the president?
Ryan Seacrest
Bathtub and mustache. That's what I know.
Langston Kerman
Yeah, bro.
David Borey
We don't know anything. We don't know anything that man did.
Langston Kerman
You are right about abe Laken Illuminati 100%.
David Borey
But he was black.
Ryan Seacrest
He got shot by a celebrity, was young. He was like the Brad Pitt of that generation. Brad Pitt shot Brad Pitt shot the president.
David Borey
I knew he was an actor, but he was that.
Ryan Seacrest
He was that guy, dog.
Langston Kerman
Oh, okay. I thought he was just some struggling. Didn't nobody know who he was.
Ryan Seacrest
This was Timothee Chalamet climbing up there in and shooting the President.
David Borey
Was he tiny, too?
Ryan Seacrest
I don't know. Timothy Chalamet is actually pretty tall.
David Borey
Really?
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, he's like six feet. Six feet.
David Borey
I thought he was a little guy.
Ryan Seacrest
Nah, that's a big dude. That's how he has all that confidence.
David Borey
That's not nearly as good of a story.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, yeah.
David Borey
I think I thought he was like. I thought he was tiny dynamite, like a little firecracker.
Ryan Seacrest
You thought he was above all odds, I will succeed.
David Borey
Yeah. I thought he was just like a little baby guy.
Ryan Seacrest
Nope. Just a tall, handsome, sexy dude.
David Borey
Oh, so he's a tall guy who's having. It says, we're modeling. That's not even cool.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. Nah, it's pretty slack.
Langston Kerman
Oh, my God, the things you learn.
David Borey
I know.
Langston Kerman
That's Lincoln.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah.
Langston Kerman
But it's the whole, you know, him ending slavery thing, sort of. Kind of.
Ryan Seacrest
I think that could be the argument. Sure.
Langston Kerman
It's like, maybe it's, you know, the Illuminati not being down with that said, you know what?
Ryan Seacrest
Imagine how many people's money he fucked up.
Langston Kerman
Exactly.
Ryan Seacrest
A lot.
David Borey
Half the country.
Ryan Seacrest
And you fucked it up in a way where, like, I ain't never gonna see that again.
David Borey
No, because they knew how sweet. They. I mean, listen, free labor is like. They. They were like, this is.
Langston Kerman
I mean. And the reparations, again, went shit compared to, like, what they lost. Right.
David Borey
I don't know. Putting myself in the mindset of them, but they must have been like, yes.
Langston Kerman
Channel your inner slave.
David Borey
To get free labor is like. You must have been like, and you came over here and stole the land anyways. You must have been like, this is never gonna stop. And then somebody coming and being like, no, you have to try to kill him.
Ryan Seacrest
It's crazy.
David Borey
You gotta try to kill him.
Ryan Seacrest
I'd shoot my brother for it.
Langston Kerman
Frederick Douglass.
Ryan Seacrest
Illuminati, I think Frederick Douglass. Absolutely. Illuminati.
David Borey
Come on, man. I think I married a white woman.
Ryan Seacrest
He married a white woman.
Langston Kerman
Immediately. Immediately.
David Borey
As soon as you did.
Langston Kerman
And he was like, you know, made a narrative.
David Borey
He had a black lady.
Langston Kerman
But to do that during that time. And he was like, that's some Illuminati shit right there.
David Borey
Yeah. He felt. He felt untouchable.
Ryan Seacrest
He was like, baby, I don't know how to explain this to you, but we can't be together no more. Your hands, they got scars on them. I can't. Oh, I gotta move on.
Langston Kerman
See the keloids?
Ryan Seacrest
Like, yeah, that's not.
Langston Kerman
That's not where he was.
Ryan Seacrest
Look. Cause if I take you to dinner, to Mr. Chow's, they gonna see it on your fingers.
Langston Kerman
They gonna know.
Ryan Seacrest
They gonna know. I can't.
Langston Kerman
Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Do you think there's been a lot of black leaders, political leaders who've been other. I mean, not counting Obama, you wouldn't put him on the.
David Borey
Wait, I have one. Al Sharpton.
Langston Kerman
Illuminati.
Ryan Seacrest
You think Al Sharpton is Illuminati?
David Borey
No, I'm asking how you feel.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, I don't think Al Sharpton's in the Illuminati.
Langston Kerman
I don't think Al Sharpton, man.
Ryan Seacrest
I think Al Sharpton.
David Borey
Who fun is there?
Ryan Seacrest
He's happy to be there.
David Borey
Who fun is there? Who's fun there?
Ryan Seacrest
Who's fun?
Langston Kerman
Yeah. Is there, like, a comedian in there? Is like, Eddie Murphy in the Illumina.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, Eddie Murphy's in the Illuminati.
David Borey
Eddie Murphy. Murphy.
Ryan Seacrest
I think Eddie Murphy's in the Illuminati.
Langston Kerman
He's Illuminati material.
Ryan Seacrest
He makes reggae albums. He's so free. You know what I mean? Like, you have. That's a level of, like, evolved.
Langston Kerman
He's too peaceful to be.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah.
David Borey
He seems so Zen.
Ryan Seacrest
I think they may. He may have been one of those hires where it just was clear from the beginning. Eddie, we're not going to ask too much of you. We like your vibe.
David Borey
You're just so talented.
Ryan Seacrest
We like what you can do for sort of public manipulation. We're not gonna ask too much of you.
Langston Kerman
Could he have been, like, an honorary Illuminati?
Ryan Seacrest
I think it might be that.
David Borey
Yeah.
Langston Kerman
Like, when you get an honorary degree. Honorary membership.
Ryan Seacrest
It's how Bill Cosby is a doctor. Yeah, exactly.
Langston Kerman
There you go. He's honorary Illuminati.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah.
David Borey
That's really probably the best position to sit in as a black man is the honorary.
Langston Kerman
I think you don't have to be too committed.
David Borey
Yeah.
Langston Kerman
And you didn't have to go through the same ritual process that maybe the other ones did.
David Borey
That's what I think. I think Eddie Murphy, they were like, hey, just pick somebody up on the street one time, we're gonna catch you, humiliate you a little bit.
Ryan Seacrest
Or maybe he rubbed somebody wrong and they were like, we gotta do a humiliation ritual.
David Borey
Sorry.
Langston Kerman
Look.
David Borey
Love you.
Ryan Seacrest
You're so funny, dude. Come on.
Langston Kerman
Yes.
David Borey
But the clumps, I loved it.
Ryan Seacrest
But you did. You said some nasty things about him. So we're gonna have to.
Langston Kerman
Yeah. I feel like Sammy Davis Jr. Would have been in a little bit. I think Definitely, I think definitely from an entertainer. Fun guy.
Ryan Seacrest
This is actually my favorite.
David Borey
You heard him talk about the devil?
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. Eddie Murphy tells that story.
David Borey
Eddie Murphy tells a story where he's like in a limousine with Sammy Davis and out of nowhere they're at dinner, they're at dinner And Sammy Davis Jr. Is like, you know, the devil's just as powerful as God, right?
Ryan Seacrest
And Eddie goes. Eddie goes, what? And then Sammy goes, nothing.
Langston Kerman
See, that's some Illuminati shit. That's it. Where do you take the conversation when somebody says that? What's the follow up to that?
David Borey
Okay, that's my problem though is I keep asking.
Langston Kerman
Oh, you, you would have entertained.
David Borey
I have to know because now I.
Langston Kerman
Gotta know where this came from.
Ryan Seacrest
And to bring us full circle, this is why I'm so scared of Tyler Perry, is because I would find myself at that time being like, you know who's so funny? Sammy Davis Jr. I would been like, he's the coolest guy and we should hang out with him every week. And now suddenly I'm worshiping the devil just cause I want to be around this funny ass dude.
David Borey
Yeah, Just cause it's hilarious.
Ryan Seacrest
That's such a funny way to talk about the devil.
David Borey
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
To be like, you know, he's just as powerful as Jesus, right? What? I don't know.
Langston Kerman
Sammy, on that shit, like, what's going on?
David Borey
What did you say, Sammy?
Langston Kerman
Yeah, you just. It's either one of two reactions. Either you ask more questions as you seem to do, or I'm like the piano player in Color Purple where I'm just packing my shit immediately and be like, it was nice and I'm out. Because like, I don't know where you're going after that.
David Borey
That's smarter. That's much smarter.
Ryan Seacrest
I just, I don't know how to pack up.
David Borey
Yeah, I mean, I want to know. Too bad. I like weird people too much.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, I'm gonna stick around for a while.
Langston Kerman
I mean, I made it for the story nine times out of 10. But I'm like, eh, maybe this one I don't need to hear.
Ryan Seacrest
The last piece of information that I'll give you as it relates to the Black Illuminati. Well, the Illuminati at large, let's say that while this secret society is proven to have existed and for generations they have not figured out ways to land down exactly what or who the Illuminati is to the larger point that we talked about in terms of it being celebrities that always get brought up. The American Legislative Exchange Council ALEC is essentially that of businesses and tycoons and people. It is like a secret organization that focuses on sort of like this collective hive mind. How do we strategize to keep all of these businesses and people afloat? There's an active business or organization in front of us. That is the Illuminati. We're wasting our time getting distracted, in.
David Borey
My opinion, by the black one.
Ryan Seacrest
By. By accusing Beyonce.
Langston Kerman
By the celebrity one. Right. We need to be on the.
David Borey
There's a group.
Langston Kerman
There is. To your point about how. How come the experts. How come the experts are the major billionaires that are black people? How come you know that in the business world.
David Borey
Yeah.
Langston Kerman
How come they aren't put in the Illuminati? It's kind of. It's kind of like when they. From a government standpoint, when they want to create black policies or.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, yes.
Langston Kerman
They never bring the social scientists. They're like, you know what? Let's call Ice Cube.
David Borey
What?
Langston Kerman
I mean, no offense, but, you know.
David Borey
She makes me feel crazy.
Langston Kerman
Yes.
David Borey
It's like when you talk to a rapper about anything. Yeah. I love rap music. But I'm just saying, like, there are people who just go to school for stuff.
Langston Kerman
Yes. I mean, strangely enough, they have degrees or they've been on the grassroots in that field. It's like, well, we want to figure out how to reshape mass incarceration. Let's call it 50 cents.
Ryan Seacrest
Like, what if I had 100 numbers in my phone, Ice Cube would not be on the list of people I would send. And that's not. We were just thinking highly of him yesterday. But what the fuck does this nigga know that's gonna be helpful towards, like, true change?
Langston Kerman
Correct. They never call experts for us. It's like, always, like, you know, Keisha Cole in charge of hood. It's like, what the fuck are we.
David Borey
Wondering why it's so disrespectful to just like, it's so disrespectful. You know what I mean? To think that. To just to think of that.
Ryan Seacrest
And to the larger point, it makes me feel like we are in some ways creating our own. Own narrative by continuing to accuse our own of being in these secret societies when, in fact, Beyonce's not in the secret society. The company that owns the record label that Beyonce is under is in the secret society. You know what I mean? Like, that is. She's as much a product of what they want. And maybe you can argue that she is being handled by the Illuminati, but certainly she's not like at a meeting.
David Borey
Yeah. I mean it's also like as front facing as they are, celebrities are the tip of the iceberg for whatever money that there is being funneled into that. Right.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. They're always.
David Borey
None of them run the industries that give them that.
Ryan Seacrest
They're always the poorest person in first class.
David Borey
Exactly, exactly.
Langston Kerman
This felt like a. Remember how NBC used to have. The more, you know, I just feel like a rainbow should just come over right now.
Ryan Seacrest
Like, the more, you know, Alec. Yes, Alec is the devil.
Langston Kerman
So it's like it feels like we need to get our Illuminati game up. That we have been greatly underestimating our people. Like we're throwing all these celebrities in there. It's like. So what I have learned today is that if I'm thinking about the Illuminati, I'm going to eliminate the celebrities. I'm going to immediately put like Robert Smith in there, the multi billionaire and other people. Melody Hopson.
David Borey
Yeah. Byron Allen.
Langston Kerman
There we go. There's our. Yes. Let's bring some power and some economic muscle to our Illuminati.
David Borey
And also because we're in here having these ideas. Us.
Langston Kerman
Okay.
David Borey
Yeah, I think, right. We're restarting.
Ryan Seacrest
I think you're actually moving backwards in.
David Borey
Terms of the argument. No, I'm just saying. But like if we're restarting it up.
Ryan Seacrest
I think if we can luckily get Byron Allen on the podcast, we can ask him straight up, like, what's up?
Langston Kerman
You and the Illuminati or not?
Ryan Seacrest
And can we join your Illuminati honorary.
David Borey
Eddie Murphy style, man.
Langston Kerman
Barbie does feel like an honorary Illuminati.
Ryan Seacrest
100%.
David Borey
Yeah, definitely.
Ryan Seacrest
You know, they're replacing After Midnight with his show.
David Borey
Let's go. His show that he built himself by buying that dog shit airtime.
Ryan Seacrest
But it's comics Unleashed reruns. He bought the airtime after at four after midnight to show his show that he don't even make no more.
David Borey
That's so funny.
Langston Kerman
That's genius and petty. I like the. I like the combination.
Ryan Seacrest
He's just going to be sitting across from dead men. Do you know what I mean? Half these comedians ain't even with us no more.
David Borey
No, he's not running. So, dead fan, I heard you got into a funny altercation at a McDonald's.
Langston Kerman
Hey, yo, did he just get some money from them? From McDonald's?
David Borey
That fan did.
Langston Kerman
No, no. Pirate Allen.
David Borey
Like, yes, you got it, man. Keep. Keep fighting. Oh, he did. He got a bunch of money from there.
Langston Kerman
He sued them for racial discrimination and got.
David Borey
Sued McDonald's like nine, nine, nine figures type money.
Langston Kerman
Like yo, he got. I don't even know the details. I was just about that why he got it Or I was like, what the did he sue him for?
Ryan Seacrest
Like know you could sue McDonald's.
Langston Kerman
Hey, hey.
David Borey
I think, I think at the end of the day, I think we all have to give it up. Byron Allen. Byron Allen, one of the greatest of all time.
Langston Kerman
Say something. Let's put him on a secret ballot to be president of the Illuminati.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, Come on.
Langston Kerman
The new black Illuminati. That's what we got now.
Ryan Seacrest
I like what you're thinking. Absolutely. And I think for anybody who's been wondering who's in the Illuminati, who are our real threats? Both serve and feel threatened by Byron Allen and the likes.
Langston Kerman
There it is.
David Borey
Yeah.
Langston Kerman
Yeah, there it is.
Ryan Seacrest
Jamel, we're gonna take one more break.
Langston Kerman
I'm in.
Ryan Seacrest
And then we're gonna do a voicemail. But this, I think we solved it.
David Borey
I think we figured it out.
Ryan Seacrest
I think everybody feels good. So more Jemele Hill, more My Mama Told Me.
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Langston Kerman
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Ryan Seacrest
Give him a little something. Go ahead, man, break it down.
Langston Kerman
When you really break it down.
Cindy Crawford
We're just two honks and a Negro.
Langston Kerman
Serving the Lord we're just two honks and a Negro singing our song.
David Borey
And we're just not gonna comment on that last clip. We're back. I do love that clip, though.
Ryan Seacrest
Have you seen that? Have you seen that clip?
Langston Kerman
What is that from?
David Borey
It's the group DC Talk on Arsenio Hall.
Langston Kerman
Oh, DC Talk. Yeah. I can loosely remember the name.
Ryan Seacrest
Arsenio walks up and he goes, hey, come on, y', all, sing something for us. And then. And they go, yeah, we got you.
David Borey
I think he says, who are you? Tell them who you are.
Ryan Seacrest
Or something like that.
David Borey
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then this underwater black man and these two white men sing that to Arsenio and Arsenio. The funniest part is he gets it. So they're singing it and Arsenio's just like.
Ryan Seacrest
He like, immediately is like, nah, this.
Langston Kerman
Isn'T what I had in mind.
David Borey
Oh, so you didn't do what you thought you did here?
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, that's crazy. You're being crazy. And in particular, like, they all like hit that, like that 90s ass.
Langston Kerman
Oh, yeah. That little sort of weird pop lock. Yeah, yeah.
David Borey
Because it goes longer. Ooh, yeah, yeah. Two hunks and a Negro singing a song. It's rough.
Langston Kerman
Then they add some soul to it.
David Borey
Yeah, That's a bad day.
Ryan Seacrest
No, it was pretty crazy.
David Borey
They were a Christian group, right?
Ryan Seacrest
I have to assume so.
David Borey
I think they were a Christian group.
Ryan Seacrest
I don't think there's any other reason.
Langston Kerman
Makes that funnier.
David Borey
It's so much funnier.
Ryan Seacrest
I think that was non denominational Christianity.
Langston Kerman
I mean, it did have that tone.
David Borey
Yeah. But I think also that was a play from a Christian record label executive who's like, we're gonna cross you over into the black market. We got you on Arsinio. He said it wrong and he was like, here's what you're gonna see.
Ryan Seacrest
I don't disagree.
David Borey
Yeah. Anyways, we got an email.
Robert Lamb
Voicemail.
Ryan Seacrest
A voicemail from one of our listeners. Let's see what they talking about.
David Borey
They're probably drunk, so, you know.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah.
Langston Kerman
Hi.
Unknown
Just wanted to say, really huge fan. Black conspiracy kind of my shit. This is a conspiracy theory that I think, think would solve the male loneliness epidemic. I believe that as a nation, if we truly want to save the black loneliness male epidemic, which I also don't believe is real, but for shits and giggles, we're going to pretend it's real. Okay, I think every man. Black man.
Ryan Seacrest
I'm just going to pause that for a second.
David Borey
Black men can't be lonely.
Langston Kerman
Well, is there a black male? I mean, I know they talked about a male.
Ryan Seacrest
I've certainly heard male loneliness.
Langston Kerman
But is. Is this something much like every other problem in society that is disproportionately impacting black men?
David Borey
I think this is the one time we get away clean, because I had not sensed that.
Langston Kerman
I had not sensed that there was a. That specifically black men were.
David Borey
This is the one thing I think that is not. I don't think it's.
Ryan Seacrest
I think we are doing some of the things that their actual loneliness epidemic like experiences, like the nutrition conservation, whatever, you know, people not wanting to bust their nut to hold on to their. Their. Oh, I'm the only person who studied the Internet. For real.
Langston Kerman
Okay. I don't know.
David Borey
We just hang out in different corners. We just hang out. No, no, no.
Ryan Seacrest
You guys are pretending to be culture experts.
Langston Kerman
Okay.
Ryan Seacrest
I'm really down in the trenches.
David Borey
Is that the trench?
Ryan Seacrest
That's part of what people. Semen retention.
David Borey
Popular sort of like Kevin Gates preaches it.
Ryan Seacrest
Trend that's happening amongst a lot of young black men.
Langston Kerman
You actually listen to Kevin Gates?
David Borey
I hear things. He says, oh, okay.
Langston Kerman
I'm like, oh, I don't.
David Borey
Like. I don't process it, and I don't believe it.
Langston Kerman
Yeah. He just sort of like. It's in the atmosphere. Like, okay.
David Borey
He said that he's very funny.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah.
David Borey
And that's where I. Traffic is. Humor. He is very, very funny.
Ryan Seacrest
He's one of the funniest people on the planet.
Langston Kerman
He's like that unintentionally. He doesn't know he's serious, which makes it funny.
David Borey
Yes.
Ryan Seacrest
And then sometimes you can't tell which one he is.
David Borey
You almost hope it's like a Borat character.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. Whereas, like, if it's going too far, Kevin. And you're scaring me, but keep going. Also keep going.
David Borey
Yeah.
Langston Kerman
Okay.
David Borey
Okay. So I have heard of semen retention.
Langston Kerman
He is a proponent of semen retention.
Ryan Seacrest
I'm saying that there are young black men that are certainly mimicking some of these behaviors that you see in the white epidemic. But I don't think that they're interpreting it in the same ways. I don't think they're retaining their semen and then wanting to hurt people because of it. They're doing it because they're like, this gonna make me hoot better. This is like. This is really how I like. They're like, yo, if I.
Langston Kerman
If I really wanna be out here on some Steph Curry shit.
David Borey
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
If I'm gonna make the combine.
David Borey
Yeah, Here we go.
Ryan Seacrest
I gotta jump 2 inches. Higher.
David Borey
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
And the only way I'm gonna do that is if I don't have. What else would help?
Langston Kerman
Right.
David Borey
Yeah.
Langston Kerman
I would think that would be.
David Borey
225 goes up that much easier.
Ryan Seacrest
I don't get it.
Langston Kerman
Like, I. This is.
Ryan Seacrest
Listen, I'm not keeping mine.
David Borey
No, listen, it's. It's phrenology. It's. This is not good.
Ryan Seacrest
I want to be very clear with everybody. Mind is free.
David Borey
Yeah. I can't give it away.
Ryan Seacrest
You ain't got to worry about me being backed up in the least.
David Borey
I promise you. I don't want that. That poison inside of me.
Langston Kerman
Seems like the semen retention movement is having some struggles that perhaps they need a diversity outreach. The one. The one part we don't want to be DEI is in is semen retention.
Ryan Seacrest
That's right.
David Borey
Keep that over there.
Langston Kerman
Keep that over there.
David Borey
We don't want to take their job.
Langston Kerman
All right. The things you learn. I tell you so. Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
I worry that this black loneliness epidemic is not in fact a thing. But maybe, I don't know know, maybe I'm not.
David Borey
Internet culture has gotten so big for the youth, though, that it goes to places that I don't know. And it. I will acknowledge that. That there are large.
Ryan Seacrest
For sure.
David Borey
Yeah.
Unknown
Undiagnosed or diagnosed depression needs to be assigned a white woman who wore Cookie Monster pajama bottoms in high school.
David Borey
Wait, where did that go?
Langston Kerman
What? I'm sorry. How did we get you.
David Borey
You got what I need? I'm trying to. That's not what I thought it was.
Langston Kerman
Where did the Cookie Monster. What?
David Borey
I'm sorry. I got viscerally very angry.
Ryan Seacrest
That was.
David Borey
Run it back for a second because we did. I don't think we got it played. That sucks. I hate this.
Ryan Seacrest
This is a hard thought. I hate to wrestle with. Here we go.
Unknown
Who has undiagnosed or diagnosed depression needs to be assigned a white woman who wore Cookie Monster pajama box in high school. He gets her for three years. She is going to build him up, right? Build up his confidence. She's going to cook, she's going to clean. She's going to do what Cookie Monster pajama bottom mamas do.
Langston Kerman
Cookie Monster pajama bottoms.
David Borey
We throw this man in the trash and we never talk about this again. Get the fuck out of here.
Langston Kerman
The thing is, I know exactly the type of white woman.
Ryan Seacrest
I know 100%.
David Borey
We all know her name is Chastity.
Langston Kerman
I mean, I went to college with a bunch. So I'm like, I know exactly who this White woman is.
Ryan Seacrest
I know exactly who it is. And I know for certain that is not a person who has built up anybody or anything she will take from you.
David Borey
She steals.
Ryan Seacrest
That is not. Come on, man. That's not a good spirit to put on anybody.
Langston Kerman
I mean, three years too.
David Borey
The.
Langston Kerman
I mean, that's.
David Borey
That's a bid.
Ryan Seacrest
And I'm depressed.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
Remember this person saying, you're at your lowest. You're thinking to yourself, I can't go on.
David Borey
This is ass.
Ryan Seacrest
And then you introduce this.
David Borey
This is ass.
Ryan Seacrest
This is terrorism.
David Borey
She ruins lives.
Ryan Seacrest
This is terrorism.
David Borey
Niggas die behind.
Langston Kerman
Like, if you're going to introduce a emotional support white woman, it wouldn't be the white woman in the Cookie Monster house.
Ryan Seacrest
Absolutely not.
Langston Kerman
That's not the white woman. You.
David Borey
It better not be one from Oklahoma. No.
Langston Kerman
Hell no.
David Borey
This is not.
Ryan Seacrest
Give me Nancy Reagan.
David Borey
That's what I.
Ryan Seacrest
Give me. A pure psychopath.
David Borey
Top tier. If you're gonna do it.
Ryan Seacrest
If you're gonna do it, you gotta go with a bony psychopath.
David Borey
Yeah, man.
Ryan Seacrest
Cause I can get ass over here. Give me friends.
David Borey
Give me one of the friends.
Langston Kerman
Yeah, I want one of the friends.
David Borey
One of the friends.
Langston Kerman
Cookie Monster, Courtney Cox, Oprah, Aniston.
Ryan Seacrest
That's the right order.
Langston Kerman
Is that the right order? I was like, I just.
David Borey
Bitch got dog food in her pockets. That's what you're fucking offering.
Ryan Seacrest
No, that's nuts. That's literally nuts.
Langston Kerman
It's been a long time since I have heard something that unhinged.
Ryan Seacrest
This isn't helping anyone.
David Borey
This is an awful take.
Ryan Seacrest
It's an awful take. And I'm embarrassed to admit there's so much more to it.
David Borey
What is it?
Unknown
And then if at the end of the trial session, he doesn't get better, we just take him behind the yard and off him. Or. Yeah, we just do that.
David Borey
What?
Langston Kerman
Hold up, hold up.
David Borey
This is a fan of us.
Ryan Seacrest
This is a person who likes what we do. What are we doing to these people?
David Borey
That's what I just. I just got scared of every decision I've ever made.
Langston Kerman
You need to. I feel like y' all need to reevaluate some things.
David Borey
That's crazy. But usually people just call drunk. This is. This is.
Langston Kerman
So she went from Cookie Monster to then murder.
David Borey
Like, what if we can take the whole thing in? This man is proposing that we murder depressed black men.
Ryan Seacrest
Yes.
Langston Kerman
Yes.
Ryan Seacrest
First they're depressed, then you make them way more depressed.
Langston Kerman
Correct.
David Borey
Catch a case for sure.
Ryan Seacrest
You throw their life into a whirlwind of chaos. And then if they somehow don't get better from the hell that you've unleashed on them. You take them behind a tree, Old Yeller style, and you shoot them. And then they went.
David Borey
Maybe.
Ryan Seacrest
I don't know. Nah, that's what we should do.
David Borey
That's. Wait, that's the end. That's.
Ryan Seacrest
No, there's still more to this.
Langston Kerman
Oh, wait. There's still more to this.
Ryan Seacrest
Yes. Okay, I'm sorry.
Unknown
I think we can perfect it. A lot of people know Little Dirk.
Langston Kerman
There's room for improvement.
Unknown
She was a white bitch who wore Cookie monster pajama bottoms. And I think without her, he wouldn't be the rapper that he is today.
David Borey
Who's she referencing?
Unknown
A lot of people know Lil Durk, his first baby mama. She was a white bitch who wore cookie monster pajama bottoms. And I think without her, he wouldn't be the rapper that he is today because really put him on.
David Borey
You know where Dirk is right now?
Ryan Seacrest
He's not doing good.
Langston Kerman
Yeah, that doesn't help your argument.
David Borey
Yeah, that's what I'm. This.
Langston Kerman
Yeah, this is.
David Borey
Yo, this is a psyop.
Ryan Seacrest
This is.
David Borey
I don't. I don't like using those drugs.
Ryan Seacrest
This is a nasty attempt at brainwashing.
David Borey
Something about this. This is. This is. I don't like even. This is not good.
Ryan Seacrest
This is like a crazy. Like, they have. This is like temu level, like, efforts at washing our brains.
David Borey
This is.
Langston Kerman
But, you know, the crazy part is that her whole description of what needs to happen, like, white woman, cookie Monster pajamas, three years, whatever. If you pitch that in a Hollywood meeting, they say yes.
David Borey
Oh, yeah.
Langston Kerman
I mean, they'd be like, oh, a psychotic white woman that kills black dudes. Yeah, can we get Jordan Peele on this? Can we get him to come in and do this? They call in monster fuck. I'm saying that sounds like the Hollywood elevator pitch of the year.
David Borey
Well, I also don't think.
Ryan Seacrest
Proprietary. It's proprietary.
Langston Kerman
That's right. Right.
Ryan Seacrest
You put it on our phone, so it's ours now. Yeah.
David Borey
I also don't think this person knows that all black men aren't rappers.
Ryan Seacrest
It's unfortunate.
David Borey
Why am I poking holes in the argument? This person's a psychopath.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, let's.
Unknown
When we get down to the nitty grittiness of, like, the procreation and stuff, like, I don't really give a fuck about that, but I do think we can solve the male loneliness epidemic with the power of uniting crusty, dusty, depressed, gross black men with white bitches who wear who wore cookie Monster Pajama Bob in high school again, super huge fan of the show. Yeah. Thank you.
Ryan Seacrest
This raggedy bitch.
David Borey
I don't want you to listen to our show anymore. I'm not a fan of you. Stop it. I don't like you. I like your ideas. Stop listening to it.
Ryan Seacrest
This sucks, man.
David Borey
Fuck you.
Langston Kerman
You, you, her ending it with it. By the way, huge fan of the show. Just fan. What? Spectacular.
Ryan Seacrest
Dusty black man. And we.
Langston Kerman
I was like, so every black man that's depressed has to be. I was like, this is not exactly. So I guess she feels like she's gonna help depression because by her theory, there will be less black men who will actually be lonely because she's murdered them.
David Borey
I appreciate you going that deep. This is a devil.
Langston Kerman
I mean, there's no.
David Borey
We need to treat this person as such.
Langston Kerman
And my question. You guys need to call Homeland Security now.
Ryan Seacrest
But I'm saying is at my most empathetic. I go. This is a person saying, I think we should collect the bottom tier of one community and make them mush into the bottom tier of another community to solve a loneliness crisis. And I think that that is eugenics. I think that is. Do you know what I mean? Like, I think that is vile, vile shit that is being proposed to to us. And this is a nasty person.
David Borey
No, that was horrible.
Ryan Seacrest
This person scares me to my bone.
David Borey
Yeah, I don't.
Langston Kerman
Yeah, I think that she might need some help. I mean, I don't. I don't know that. I would love to know. I. I would. I. I honestly hope some kind of substance was involved when she. She sent you all this angel dust.
David Borey
Yeah.
Langston Kerman
I was like, please let there have been drugs involved.
Ryan Seacrest
It better be a drug that ain't even out there like that anymore.
Langston Kerman
Like some. Some retro.
David Borey
Some we don't know is drugs. This is huffing oven cleaner. Yeah. Calling us.
Langston Kerman
This does seem like it could be helium. Like, it could be a helium. You know, sort of, you know, if.
Ryan Seacrest
You put it up your butt. You sound like that for a long time.
Langston Kerman
Right. It's like a. A unusual drug that they put in a not so usual. Or like a combination of. That led to.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. You smoking nitrogen out of pipe. This is something weird. You're, like, being odd.
David Borey
I hate. Oh, man.
Langston Kerman
I just, like, need a camera in her brain to see, like, what is not happening there. Like, is it. I'm not sure.
Ryan Seacrest
No, this is bad.
David Borey
I think this is a person who has been hurt and who seeks to hurt. I think that's probably hurt people.
Langston Kerman
Hurt people.
David Borey
Exactly.
Ryan Seacrest
Well, Jamel, this wasn't supposed to be how we ended the podcast. I mean, listen, sometimes they ain't good. This was not.
Langston Kerman
It's okay.
Ryan Seacrest
This is nasty.
Langston Kerman
I know the opinions expressed are not of those of the host, of the esteem host, so I do get this. But this was an amazing time, a lot of fun. It does not take away from all the things I learned about from, you know, the semen retention movement there to how the Illuminati was actually formed. That George Washington was. Was probably in the Illuminati.
David Borey
No Italians.
Langston Kerman
No Italians in the. Listen. Huge, gaping blind spot there. To not have Stevie Wonder, Illuminati, or no.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, Stevie's in that Illuminati.
David Borey
Stevie's in. Ray Charles is not what.
Ryan Seacrest
I could see that.
David Borey
I could see that Ray was nasty.
Ryan Seacrest
I could see that. I think there were a few members that fucked with him, so they kept him taken care of. But I don't think Ray was in there. But Stevie can see.
Langston Kerman
Well, I mean, if this podcast hasn't addressed that, then, like, what are you guys even doing? Right? That's what I figured. I was like, what? Kidding me?
Ryan Seacrest
You know, I think. I think he didn't always. I don't think he was always able to see. I think they got him some new eyeballs.
David Borey
Yeah, they got it back.
Ryan Seacrest
And they gotta make him play it cool. You know what I mean?
David Borey
Yeah, like how the government has technology.
Ryan Seacrest
Way before civilians, I think. Songs in the key of life. Yeah, you go ahead. We giving you some new eyeballs, my man.
Langston Kerman
Yeah, after that, you worked it.
David Borey
Hey, know what? Hey, hey, hey. This one's on the house.
Ryan Seacrest
Hey, you see that ribbon in that sky? Yes, you do. That's thanks to me, Charles. Illuminati. We got some other products for you too, Steve.
Langston Kerman
That's what it was. The Illuminati gave them. They got Stevie new eyeballs.
Ryan Seacrest
They got Stevie new eyeballs.
Langston Kerman
There it is.
David Borey
And hey, good on them. Cause he does deserve. It's cool. He does deserve it.
Ryan Seacrest
I think that's cool.
Langston Kerman
The Illuminati could. It doesn't necessarily have to mean something apocalyptic. Perhaps there's some good the Illuminati could do.
Ryan Seacrest
I think they were like, we want every funeral, every famous funeral to be slapping from now on. We gotta keep Stevie taken care of. Yeah, he gonna say that he will pay us back in song.
David Borey
Almost as if it's like a guiding hand for society. Not like something meant to drip us apart part.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, this nigga's nasty. I saw it. You saw it, Jamal? Tell them where they can find you, cuz that's a bad guy.
Langston Kerman
Get my sight back. Do you have a white woman with some cookie mouth in her pants?
David Borey
No. My life is going good. I'm not depressed at all.
Langston Kerman
Well, people, I have my own podcast, as you mentioned earlier, weekly podcasts. You know, we tackle like you the light subjects, racism, you know, xenophobia. But it's a. It's a sports and politics podcast called Spolitics, covering the intersection between sports, race, gender and culture. So. Yeah, so I'm very excited and happy to be doing that. In fact, this particular week's episode is. Chris Paul.
Ryan Seacrest
Whoa. CP3.
Langston Kerman
Not in the Illuminati.
Ryan Seacrest
Not in the Illuminati?
Langston Kerman
I don't think so. I don't get any Illuminati from him.
Ryan Seacrest
You. You say he gets to be on the banana boat and not on the Illuminati.
Langston Kerman
Oh, banana boat.
David Borey
You think the banana boat was a humiliation ritual?
Ryan Seacrest
Look, guys, I'm not here to make that decision. It's the end of the show.
Langston Kerman
LeBron definitely in the loan.
Ryan Seacrest
Come on, come on. What are we talking about? Go ahead, tell your story.
David Borey
Because I. I got nothing, man. I'm. I'm Moving. Cool Guy Jokes 87 on Instagram. Buy my special on Patreon.
Ryan Seacrest
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David Borey
I want you to know this. If your prayers include me, to stop drinking, stop smoking and stop having fun. And stop watching these little pop their ass. If your prayers include any of those things, they're not going to work because I'm rejecting them all. And I will be continuing in my same wicked ass ways. I guess that's the way you want to put.
Ryan Seacrest
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Podcast Summary: "Only Black People Are In the Illuminati"
Podcast Information:
At the outset (02:09), Langston Kerman introduces the central theme by referencing a recent revelation about the strained relationship between Bea Arthur and Betty White, setting a light-hearted tone before delving into deeper discussions.
The conversation shifts focus to the Illuminati, with Jemele Hill posing the intriguing assertion that "only Black celebrities get put into the Illuminati." This sparks a multifaceted discussion among the hosts about the nature and objectives of the Illuminati.
Clarifying the Illuminati:
Celebrity Focus:
Historical Context:
The hosts explore the concept of a "Black Illuminati," contemplating its members, goals, and differences from the traditional Illuminati.
Membership and Influence:
Impact on Culture and Business:
The discussion turns to specific celebrities and their alleged ties to the Illuminati, blending humor with conspiracy speculation.
Eddie Murphy and Sammy Davis Jr.:
Historical Figures and Presidents:
As the episode progresses, the hosts reflect on the societal impact of conspiracy theories and engage with listener feedback.
Listener Interaction:
Cultural Commentary:
In the closing segments, the hosts transition from conspiracy theories to more personal reflections and comedic interactions, maintaining the episode's engaging and humorous tone.
Reflections on the Illuminati Discussion:
Episode Wrap-Up:
Langston Kerman (05:01): “We’re just throwing all these celebrities in there. It’s like, so what I have learned today is that if I’m thinking about the Illuminati, I’m going to eliminate the celebrities.”
Ryan Seacrest (22:34): “If you make it in, you never go broke again. You get all the protections of what this institution represents, so long as you’re willing to play the game the way we play the game.”
David Borey (33:28): “I was sitting here. No one Italian. This is crazy.”
Ryan Seacrest (39:32): “A German lawmaker who believed strongly in enlightenment ideals and specifically worked to promote the principles among the elites.”
Langston Kerman (64:25): “We need to be on the Illuminati. We have been greatly underestimating our people.”
Ryan Seacrest (75:25): “He’s not doing good.”
David Borey (85:03): “If your prayers include any of those things, they’re not going to work because I’m rejecting them all.”
Reimagining the Illuminati: The episode explores the idea that the Illuminati, traditionally portrayed as a secretive elite group, might have a distinct "Black Illuminati" composed of influential Black figures in entertainment and business.
Cultural and Racial Dynamics: There's a notable discussion on the racial aspects of conspiracy theories, questioning why Black celebrities are predominantly associated with the Illuminati compared to their white counterparts.
Historical Context: Providing a brief history of the Bavarian Illuminati, the hosts differentiate historical facts from modern-day myths, highlighting how the original society's goals differ from contemporary conspiracy beliefs.
Celebrity Influence: The conversation humorously speculates on which Black celebrities could be part of this redefined Illuminati, blending real-life figures with fictional elements.
Societal Impact: The hosts critically examine how conspiracy theories can influence perceptions within the Black community, emphasizing the need to address genuine societal issues without resorting to unfounded claims.
Engagement with Listeners: Through processing listener voicemails, the hosts demonstrate the podcast's interactive nature, addressing and debunking harmful theories with a mix of humor and critical analysis.
Conclusion: In "Only Black People Are In the Illuminati," Langston Kerman and David Borey, joined by guest Jemele Hill, navigate the intricate and often humorous landscape of Black conspiracy theories. They dissect the notion of a Black-centered Illuminati, juxtaposing historical contexts with modern-day celebrity culture, all while maintaining an engaging and critical dialogue. This episode serves as both entertainment and a thought-provoking exploration of how societal narratives shape and are shaped by cultural myths.