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Langston Kerman
I think that's why I always avoided that corner of the Internet was the fear that I would be like, oh, I do need this.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah, I get that.
Langston Kerman
I actually want this more than I realize and now I'm a sicko.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah, now you're.
Langston Kerman
Now I'm like really? On some weird shit and I should be over there.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Matt, honestly, mine was always about hustle. Like I was always trying to find ways to make money or like get unlimited porn Pass.
Langston Kerman
Okay.
Unnamed Speaker 1
That's also. Honestly, that is also making money like it comes from the same.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Yeah, those are sellables. Those are sellable assets.
Unnamed Speaker 1
That comes from the same place I would have before I got my first credit card. I'd have killed somebody for a bang. Bros. Three day.
Langston Kerman
Whoa.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Like. Cause you would see it and you'd be like, man, that would be. I call in sick. Three days. That's all I.
Langston Kerman
That's enough to bring Jesus back.
LaRussell
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
That's all I need is three days, right?
Unnamed Speaker 2
Yeah, it's seven. I could do it in three.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Exactly. At that age, I'm living off of two days worth of actual memories, and I've been wearing that shit out.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah. Three days. Unlimited.
Langston Kerman
Three days would go crazy.
Unnamed Speaker 1
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Langston Kerman
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Unnamed Speaker 1
The ozone layer owes me money Marching.
Unnamed Speaker 2
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Unnamed Speaker 1
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Langston Kerman
Me the podcast, where we dive deep, deep into the pockets of black conspiracy theories.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Does he say. What does he say first? Cadillac chills.
Langston Kerman
Ludicrous. Cadillac grills.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Cadillac feels.
Langston Kerman
Yeah, it was something with grill. It was something with an F sound more than, I think, a chill sound.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Okay, so Cadillac feels. Cadillac. Does it say Cadillac wheels?
Langston Kerman
You know what they mean?
Unnamed Speaker 1
Maybe.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Cadillac wheels, Cadillac wheels, Cadillac grill Check.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Out the oil my Cadillac spills. Man, what a run.
Langston Kerman
Cadillac meals, Cadillac meals.
Unnamed Speaker 2
You ever, like, listen to old rap that you thought was like, damn, this nigga going. And then you listen at 30, and you're like, ever, bro.
Unnamed Speaker 1
That's. Bro.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Every. Have we been bamboozled?
Unnamed Speaker 1
Every day of my life, have we been bamboozled.
Unnamed Speaker 2
I be.
Unnamed Speaker 1
We talk about it a lot on here. The amount of music that I grew up in my room thinking like, I'm a genius. I'm a genius for listening. You know what I'm saying?
Langston Kerman
I truly. I understand the greater truths of the world because I'm tapped in right over here. And then you listen to it later, and you're like, you ain't talking about a goddamn thing.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Or it's just, like, real wasted.
Unnamed Speaker 2
My contribute to the culture, bro. Not like we're acting like have. It's like, bro, what did this say? It's been a few. Like, I had to be like, what did he say?
Unnamed Speaker 1
What did he do?
Langston Kerman
No, I get it.
Unnamed Speaker 2
He had a knit hat like, A.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Didn'T add that knit hat was crazy. Because, listen, there's. I just. Man, so many lines I think about or just rap that we were told was good. So I listened to it on the idea of it being good. And now I come back and I'm like, I don't. I don't think that, like, 100%. I think you like karate.
Langston Kerman
Yeah. Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
You know what I'm saying? I think that. That if that's cool.
Langston Kerman
I think you were a weirdo.
Unnamed Speaker 1
I think you were a weirdo, and I'm weird.
Langston Kerman
I think I used to gravitate to weirdos. And I think sometimes weirdos are just weird and not necessarily talented because they're weird, right? Which is like, nah, you're od, dude. And I like that. I'm always gonna be a fan of that, bro.
Unnamed Speaker 1
That's truthfully why I'd rather it be nonsense. Like, then the people who were trying to put us on Ghostface was like, yeah, sometimes I'm just saying shit. And like, that, to me, feels like a better form of expression.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Than like, trying to make me feel like it's something that it's not. You know what I mean?
Unnamed Speaker 2
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Cause that's so crazy. I was thinking about this the other day. I was listening. Me and my little bro. Me and my little brother were listening to Michael Jackson, and I was like, bro, Michael Jackson, the coldest shit is, like, the words are the least important part of the whole thing.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Like, the actual words that.
Unnamed Speaker 2
It's the feel.
Unnamed Speaker 1
It's the feel behind it. And then you're like.
Unnamed Speaker 2
But the words still meant something. Right? Like, there's songs where everybody's actually talking about something still. But I'm like, I used to be the biggest Lil Wayne fan.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Like, I thought Lil Wayne was the great. Like, this is the greatest rapper alive.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah. Our listeners, when you go back now, we got a lot of the mid 30 dudes.
Unnamed Speaker 2
I be going back. Sometimes I go back. Cause I'm like, man, I gotta. What was it?
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 2
And I'm like, you a vibe. Out of 500 songs, he's probably really talked about something. And 20 or 30 of them. Okay. The thing is, though, in those ones that he did, it's like, man, miss my dogs and tie my hands in some of my favorite songs ever. You feel me? But when you go through the catalog, you're like, what the fuck is he talking about?
Langston Kerman
It's a lot of creative ways of saying he got pussy and money and.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Doesn'T always need to be more than that. Cause he wasn't coming to us saying it was anything other than, here's how I get pussy in a different way. And it's like, damn, this dude said Ruth Bader Ginsburg. That's crazy.
Unnamed Speaker 2
It's crazy, though. Cause, like, to be so influential and not, like, say things that really, really change people's lives is crazy to me. And like I said, I was a huge Wayne fan, and it took me getting older to be like, did I get anything from this?
Langston Kerman
I think to your earlier point, it's another realization of like, oh, I ain't got nobody in here trying to help me move forward.
Unnamed Speaker 2
That's.
Unnamed Speaker 1
That's the difficulty.
Langston Kerman
One dude to be like, hey, man, you ain't gotta be over there. You can go try this shit, bro.
Unnamed Speaker 1
That. That's. That's the difficulty, I feel like, of getting older is these people that were heroes. Not necessarily that they said that themselves, but that you looked up to them in the way that. And maybe I think a lot of times, especially rappers, I think maybe a lot of times the responsibility of what, being a hero to kids is maybe not taken that seriously.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Which you can't. You can't necessarily fault anyone for that. But there is, like, a level of like, damn. But I do wish somebody was like, yeah. You know what I mean? I wish somebody. It wasn't just popping at. Cause I thought that was like, getting out into the world. I thought that's what the world was about for a long time.
Langston Kerman
Yeah. Somebody at least wanting the position of hero.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah.
Langston Kerman
Is that something you're very. We might as well do your.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah, let's get started. I think we started. Come on.
Langston Kerman
I think it's a perfect segue. Our guest today. Hey. We couldn't be more excited that he's here. This is fucking. It's the coolest shit ever. He is a nigga. You cannot have missed on the Internet. He is everywhere, throwing fucking concerts in his backyard like nobody else has ever done.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Come on. I took the stairs on my leg day. You hear me? Come on, bro.
Langston Kerman
The pride of Vallejo, California. He's here. LA Russell, everybody. Give it up to him.
Unnamed Speaker 2
What was that?
Unnamed Speaker 1
That was Mike Epstein. Through the Blessings of God from next Friday.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Okay, okay, let me hear it one more time.
Langston Kerman
Through the blessings of God. No, that's. Isn't that the future one?
Unnamed Speaker 1
Nope, that's next one. That's next Friday. When he was smoking weed and he said, Craig took a doo doo so bad, nobody wanted to go in the bathroom. When we were little boys, only the Pastor could go through the blessings of.
Unnamed Speaker 2
God.
Langston Kerman
Shout out to Friday for doing the same dookie joke the whole time.
Unnamed Speaker 1
I don't really need a lot of other classics.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Classic. You just need a classic.
Langston Kerman
You just need a classic. We got one dookie joke, bro.
Unnamed Speaker 1
You could make a whole movie off of. Doo Doo Smells Bad.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Oh, God.
Unnamed Speaker 1
And that's like that.
Langston Kerman
Yeah, I really respect that. They were like, we ain't fixing nothing. This first one worked. We gonna do it again.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Oh, dude.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Bro. And he wrote that movie. As a rapper, I don't think we give credit for Ice Cube for being a multidiscipline. Like, he wrote a. Like, you know how many rappers come out with a movie?
Unnamed Speaker 2
And it's like, he wrote a classic movie.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah, man.
Langston Kerman
Cause it's like, unbelievable.
Unnamed Speaker 1
I love Belly, right? I put it on, my girlfriend falls asleep.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Yeah, yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
You know what I'm saying? It's not like an actually good movie. Rapper movies aren't usually good. I saw Get Rich or Die Trying in the theaters. It's not like a great.
Langston Kerman
No, they took like three Nas songs and they were like, let's turn them into plays.
Unnamed Speaker 1
That would be better. That would be better.
Langston Kerman
What if we made these bad plays with Nas music?
Unnamed Speaker 2
Hilarious.
Unnamed Speaker 1
That's all it is.
Unnamed Speaker 2
That's hilarious.
Langston Kerman
Everybody keeps trying to pretend like it's not because Hype Williams did. You know what I mean? Like, made it look so crazy.
Unnamed Speaker 1
It looked amazing.
Langston Kerman
Yeah, but like, no, these. These are bad. These are Tyler Perry level plays. But Nas wrote them.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Fucking hilarious, man.
Unnamed Speaker 1
But anyways. And Ice Cube did that. That's a real movie, bro. That's like a real true. Like, that's a comedy. Hilarious holds up.
Langston Kerman
That's great. La Russell, we were talking about this before we did your intro, but I now want to know, are you the type of person, are you positioning yourself as the hero that you were hoping kids had when you were coming or that you had when you were coming up?
Unnamed Speaker 2
I don't, like, intentionally try to position myself as that, but my soul kind of leads me in that direction. Like, sometimes I just do things because it's like, bro, I ain't never had. I like to do things that I didn't get to experience. Especially when it comes to the kids and the little homies. I'm throwing field days now. I be at the school hoovin with the kids. I just. For the kids, it's like, bro, I gotta make sure they get that experience. Cause I never got it. Like, the fact that I was a kid and I Thought being famous was just like a television thing and not like a tangible thing. Not even just fame, but success. I thought it was like a TV thing, you know, Not a tangible life thing. And so for me, yeah, in a way, I just. I make sure that I could give people an experience that I didn't have. But not as a hero, just like as a regular nigga.
Langston Kerman
Yeah, I'll bust your ass in basketball and make that the memory, Right? This ain't gotta be a good memory.
Unnamed Speaker 1
You're just gonna feel it just has.
Unnamed Speaker 2
To be a memory.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah. And that is better to position yourself that way. Cause I got on and I think about the same thing of, like, giving myself experiences that I didn't have as a kid. But that just leads me to like. Like, I'm in Papa Doe's on Wednesday at 2pm.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Like, you n can't do this. You know what's crazy though? It be I got a little white homie named Roman. Little kid, like I was. I just be outside and this nigga and his little brother, they end up coming up one day, shout out to.
Langston Kerman
You for collecting a white child. That's really cool.
Unnamed Speaker 2
That is really crazy. He come up and he'll be sliding my music. He like, you laro da da da, you know? And it went from that to like, he'll text me and be like, hey, can I come with you to this show? And we'll take that nigga, like. And I gotta give him the talk. Like, hey, don't be in here touching shit. Da da da. Make sure you don't get lost. But he like, as a child, you never think you just gonna hang out with your favorite rapper randomly, and he gonna drop you off at home and walk you back to your crib. And you meet that ain't real. You feel me? But, like, those are the problems.
Langston Kerman
School. One day, it would have changed everything, honestly.
Unnamed Speaker 2
There's some shows, you'll see me and there's just a little white child with men. You're like, who is this? It's Roman. That's just the little homie from the block.
Unnamed Speaker 1
I will say little boys be careful about hanging out with grown men.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Yeah, yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Hey, it's hella funny.
Unnamed Speaker 2
You know, it's crazy. One time he came to a show with, like, another adult, and I'm like, why you just hanging out with an adult? And then I'm like, well, I get it.
Unnamed Speaker 1
I get it.
Langston Kerman
He like, nah, but I'm cool.
Unnamed Speaker 1
I'm not like the other ones.
Langston Kerman
You only know one strange man, and that's me. That's fire, though. So it's not so much about positioning with intent. It's just positioning. It's just being present in the world. That's very fire. We talked about this before we started recording. We want to cover a conspiracy that frankly. You've been doing your own independent research, it sounds like.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Which one?
Langston Kerman
The conspiracy? Yeah, the hooping one. No, no, no. Oh, no, no, no.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Okay, okay, okay. The other one.
Langston Kerman
The other one. Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
My own research is. I have my own feelings about it.
Langston Kerman
Yeah, okay.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Like I said, independent research.
Unnamed Speaker 1
You know, do your own research.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Here's at home. Like, you know, I'm really digging into that.
Langston Kerman
The way I presented it, he was like, man, I've been thinking about this. I've been working on this for a while.
Unnamed Speaker 1
I do have. I have a fully. I have a pretty fully fledged.
Langston Kerman
But the conspiracy told me the Internet is dead. Give us your just first reactions to what that might mean. What does that mean to you when you hear those words?
Unnamed Speaker 2
It's a dead place in terms of humanity. This is discussions me and the homies have often. The Internet has caused people to lack very, very necessary human skills. People can't talk anymore. People are negative. We're in a world now where niggas is hyper negative. Like a hater to the 100th degree. Like, it'll be a nigga. It's cultivated a space where people could be nasty that you don't do in your regular life. Like, some of the things a nigga comment on Instagram will come up and say, they'll never. You'll run into them in person and they will never.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 2
You feel me? Like. Like, it's kind of like. It's just. Yeah. It's a space.
Langston Kerman
They're not even making eye contact.
Unnamed Speaker 2
It's a space where a lot of ethos just die. Like, just. Yeah. Yeah. It's an interesting world now.
Unnamed Speaker 1
And to that. I have a friend who just went through that shit where he used to shout out to homie. He probably watches it. He used to wake up and like, that was part of his morning, was just going online and talking shit to people. Whoa. But he was like. He was on some. He was like that anyways. Like, he's like.
Langston Kerman
He was a. I go outside and I'll say something slick, too.
Unnamed Speaker 1
So it was just like. It was like almost like a way to funnel it and get it out. Yeah. And then go out into the world.
Langston Kerman
He's like, this is my morning stretches.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah. This is my.
Langston Kerman
My cup of coffee. But now I gotta go be a person.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And eventually he got over it, but it was crazy to see because he just like. Cause I would be like. I'd be on my shit scrolling. Just some random shit.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
And then it'd be like, why? Why comment on this and be like, that food look like booty. And I'm like, oh, he's just like. You're just. You're just like. You gotta get it out of you. You know what I mean? And at first I thought that was great, but then you realize that there's, like, it becomes a place that you can't trust because the whole thing is people doing this. Right. Like, you can't take it seriously because of the ability to do that.
Unnamed Speaker 2
But you know what I've learned is, like, some days I wish those people were bots. Those are real humans. Oh, you're saying you'll go into the world and experience a nigga who's like, oh, you don't got it. You just live on the Internet. Like, you. You a little off.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Now more than we walk in and we like, hey, you know, like, that shit really crazy.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Like, it be real humans.
Langston Kerman
Part of the conspiracy the Internet is dead. Is the claim that people are saying the Internet is, in fact, fully literally dead. That, like, a lot of the people you're engaging with on a daily basis are bots. But your argument is sort of the opposite, where you're saying, nah, they're not bots. These are just really sad, sick motherfuckers.
Unnamed Speaker 2
That you're talking to, which is kind of like a bot. Like, they're lifeless. Like they have lost their humanity. It's like, bro, you can't even look at nobody in their face in here like you are. It's gone.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah, if you let it, the Internet will blow your speakers up. Yeah, truly, if you let it. If you let it, you will. It will sensory overload you to the point of, like, nothing is nothing feels like anything.
Langston Kerman
We talk about it all the time. Both he and I, I think, in very different ways, have, like, kind of little fucked up algorithms, you know what I mean? Like, I get real twisted little odd shit that I like, and I. I am into it in a way that I'm not ashamed of, but it's not good. It's not making me better. I'm not pushing anyone forward with whatever this corner is. And the idea that somebody would curate that corner, would find themselves in it and be proud of this and feel like that is progress is only gonna turn them into Some twisted version of.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Like, we're talking, brother. That's what I think is so fucked up about the Internet is like, it's like. Like I don't feel that way. But I easily understand how somebody who maybe doesn't have anything or any power in the world comes to see that corner of the Internet is like, that's my comfort. That's my space. You know what I mean? I have no maybe autonomy because they're young or maybe they live at home or like, I have no whatever within the real world. But here in this thing, it is mine and I did make it. And as toxic as it is, I feel like that's why people ride for it.
Unnamed Speaker 2
And you get a level of validation that like, generally an unsuccessful, non thriving hating ass nigga doesn't make it further than the basement. But now they can make it on a public forum where people could like their comment and see it and they can get a response like it does something to the brain. It's like, no, bro, don't forget you're like a loser in real life. Like, you don't you forget.
Langston Kerman
He was doing this at the gas station and now he's doing it and getting a thousand immediate reactions. That changes the way you see yourself.
Unnamed Speaker 1
This is gonna sound fucked up, but that's why losers gotta be losers. There should not be any community in these antisocial behaviors. You shouldn't be able to find another one. And I understand, right? I understand there's some shit you could be into, some weird shit. And it's like, man, you're in the anime and nobody around is in the anime. You should be able to reach out for that. But it's these, like, more extreme behaviors.
Langston Kerman
I actually disagree.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Damn.
Langston Kerman
I'm gonna be honest with you because I grew up an anime kid when it was illegal, you know what I mean? When they had a fucking law against it. If you said that out loud, square up. You're weird. We all like that shit. The only reason I even got to watch Dragon Ball Z was because my stepdad had some weird ass tapes that he got from like a weird dude and had him. And we could watch like half the Frieza saga. And it was enough for me to be like, this is what I am. This is who the fuck I am. And I had to figure it out. There was nobody else popping in to be like, yo, I see you, I hear you. I made it out. Y' all should have to make it out.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Damn. I do wanna say shout out to the weird dude. Videotape economy that's crazy. That that shit was getting like a sisterhood of the traveling kids for Japan to mission.
Langston Kerman
Sign this song, Big Dog. I think he played it.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Imagine the NBA making a new team and they're like, this is just for all the last niggas on the bench. Right? Because like, these are like you were never going to get into the game. And here we love how you swing.
Langston Kerman
Your towel like this. We're going to let you play, we're.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Going to give you this team and a bunch of Nick who love the last niggas on the bench get to come root for you. Yeah.
Langston Kerman
And that's the danger of it, frankly, is because that's how you make more losers. Is a bunch of people go, I do identify with the dude on the last end of the bench because I was that kid.
Unnamed Speaker 2
You make it cool. And that's not cool. That's why, like places like Shade Room and like, there's some places that are able to get to a level that like in natural life, like N. When I was growing up, when you see a N who like hating that much on some shit, like, and being that nasty and nigga like, N, we not hanging out with you.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 2
You feel me? But now they've been able to build community and communion amongst negativity and just nasty ass shit.
Langston Kerman
For sure.
Unnamed Speaker 1
It's like, yeah, it used to be like if you saw a dude talking about a rapper's child, everybody would be like, you're being weird, right? But now it's like 6,000 people. Like what you said about Blue Ivy. So now you're empowered to continue to behave that way when you're talking about.
Unnamed Speaker 2
With think pieces on Blue Ivy, bro.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Adults. Come on, man.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Adults.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Come on. People with jobs. And it's. It's not a job, bro. You got somewhere to be right now.
Langston Kerman
What's crazy is it's not even always even just negative. It's the obsession. Do you know what I mean? Where that also is a flag of like, why did you write a think piece on her progress?
Unnamed Speaker 1
Right?
Langston Kerman
What the fuck are you tracking here? Just be like, she danced good.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Move on.
Langston Kerman
It's a baby. Leave that baby alone. But now it's like part of our culture to just exist. Both bot bot, as you put it, in brain and in spirit, where we're just like. Everything is a canned response. Be it absolute vile shit or like obsession to the point of like, when do you exist? When do you get to be a person?
Unnamed Speaker 2
And that's the thing. Reality. You don't like when we Younger and a kid come, the family having a party, and you go dance. It's like, hey, hey. Then, like, get your little ass home.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Like, we're done.
Unnamed Speaker 2
It's on. That's it.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 2
That's what you, like.
Unnamed Speaker 1
You get 10 minutes in a party, you go back to that weird room with the other kids.
Unnamed Speaker 2
And as a kid, that's like, you know, and that should be. But, yeah, we in a world now where, like, they are degrading this child and overly indulgent in what a child is doing because they can. Because they get the ability to.
Langston Kerman
Yeah. And then there's somebody in the corner being like, fuck that kid the whole time he's dancing.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Fuck that little boy. I told Tiana the other day, I said, bro, we've gotten to a point in society where some niggas is so wild that they lose their social media. You know how wild you gotta be for Twitter to be like, hey, I know.
Unnamed Speaker 1
I know. I know. A couple of. I know a couple of them, hey.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Look, give me this. You ain't. You give me this.
Langston Kerman
You know, you. And I.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Give me this.
Langston Kerman
I ain't even got rules. Cause you being crazy.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Because you ever notice those people, too? It's never the first time I'm thinking of a couple friends. I haven't. And it's always like, they got me again.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Like, bro. Again.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Again.
Unnamed Speaker 2
A repeat offender.
Unnamed Speaker 1
No, they talk about it like, jail. Probably do two weeks.
Langston Kerman
It's like, yo, this isn't good, man. These places are lawless. How the fuck did you find the one? Sheriff, you're being crazy.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Ins.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Insane.
Langston Kerman
Insane when you think about, like, that kind of reaction, right? Because inevitably, it's gotta be coming your way with the scale that you're working at, Right? How do you manage that? Are you finding yourself being like, I have to be shooting back at this, or is this truly, like, y' all got it? Go crazy.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Cause I do see you responsible.
Unnamed Speaker 2
It depends on the state you catch me in. I'm just. I'm naturally, like, petty and comedic. So sometimes, like, if I'm in a good space, I'm just gonna respond. Cause it's like, I know who you are. I'm gonna make fun of it. You feel me? But depending on the state I'm in, like, if I'm not in a good state and I see the wrong shit, it will affect me, you know, negatively. Just because it's like, nigga, you don't know me. It's like, bro, you're. What are you. Like, why are you even here? That's the thing about social media is, like, it's an open house, dog. So it's like any could walk in your shit and on the floor and be like, I'm out of here. And it's like, nah, nigga, you're not out of here.
Langston Kerman
Come here. You shit on your floor.
Unnamed Speaker 2
I'm gonna let everybody know, hey, this nigga shit on the floor like that. You feel me? That, like, I be broadcasting that shit sometimes. And then, you know, if I'm in a. In a right state, it's like, bro, it's water under a bridge. It's like, yeah, you know, you can never escape. But now it's crazy. I didn't used to never experience nearly as much, like, negativity and hate as I see today on things I be doing. And that's one of the signs of, like, damn, I've made it to a point where it's niggas who come across my shit who didn't want to. I'm just that big that they have to see it.
Langston Kerman
They like, nah, I made them.
Unnamed Speaker 2
What the fuck is this across my. You know. But it's like it pissed them off because they weren't even. They weren't even the target. But it's. That is moving that much, right?
Unnamed Speaker 1
And that's a testament to what you've built. Cause I was curious. In talking about this dead Internet thing, it seems to me like you specifically have built a space that relies a lot on interactions with your fans and your people. So even the idea that you're coming across so much negativity when your shit is like, you really seem to be focused on what you're doing and your people, bro.
Unnamed Speaker 2
I almost stopped posting because of it. Cause I was just like, I don't even want to give niggas the chance to, like, add to what I'm doing. Like, I don't even want to. But it made me like, I realized I was robbing the people who love what I do. Like, I'm one of the only places online you can go and get, like, joy from the. Or you'll see a kid rapping or just some dope. Like, people come to my page and smile. You feel me? It's like you feel good and we don't get that. Sometimes I'll scroll and I'm like, damn, there's nothing like my page. Like, there's no place you can go and get this type of. Of engagement and experience hip hop and see juvie in a backyard and Mike Jones that don't exist nowhere it's just us. You feel me? So I feel like I have a due diligence to continue. But some days it be like, bro, I don't even wanna share shit. Cause I don't want these niggas to see it and be like, man, I'm gonna chime in here. You feel me, bro?
Unnamed Speaker 1
And that speaks to the nature of being an artist right now. And putting shit out is like, I was thinking about that with this dead Internet theory. Because a lot of the reasons I feel, like, hesitant is like, you said you don't want to. And it's like, that's why we have. We had so much bad art. Because a lot of the art you're seeing is just people who are willing to expose themselves to that. And artists are sensitive by nature. So a lot of people are flying under the radar because they don't even want to give themselves to that shit.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Especially like, on a smaller level, you know?
Langston Kerman
Yeah, it's been. It's been overused, you know, to the fucking bone. But like that Erykah Badu, that live performance of Tyrone where she's like, I'm an artist. Keep in mind, I'm an artist. I'm sensitive about my shit is like, God damn, that spoke to me. Where I was just like, yes, we should be able to just say that and not. And frankly, build a little bit of a wall between this where you feel this constant need to engage with what I've done.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah.
Langston Kerman
I'm truly just wanting you to experience it more than I'm wanting, like, the direct feedback half the time.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Yeah. It's like you can write a song about your mother that means something to you and post it. And a N in there, like ass. And it's like, I didn't make this. I didn't make this for this nigga to be under my shit talking about ass, trash can emoji. Like, that wasn't my goal ever. And like, this wasn't for that. Like, I was just sharing something that meant something to me.
Langston Kerman
This is on my heart. Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah. I mean, I think so much of it, too, is like, as far as, like, with the art of it. The nature of art for me, I think, is like, this is the lens through which I communicate.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
So this is my communication. It's not necessarily for interpretation as much as it's like, this is me getting.
Unnamed Speaker 2
It out for feedback.
Unnamed Speaker 1
No. But then you gotta like, the way it is. You gotta give it to everybody.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
And they want it. There's people, like, we're talking about there's people who wake up every day to shit on the fact that you did that. Cause they can't. Or whatever it is. Whatever.
Unnamed Speaker 2
It's that duality. Like, if you want people to talk good about it, you have to run the risk of people talking bad about it, too, you know?
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah.
Langston Kerman
I mean, Patrisse talked about that with his comedy, where he. Patrice o' Neil, his position was that if everybody in the crowd liked him, he was bombing or at least not doing anything of note. And that was. He intentionally was like, I need at least, like, a handful of y' all to be deeply upset with what I'm doing in order for this to truly be effective. And I think that's probably. It doesn't have to be your intent. That's what made him a crazy person. But it also might be the way that art is at its best is polarizing. It's affecting both good and bad. The unfortunate part of the Internet is that we feel like we have to vocalize that feeling rather than just feel it and move on.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Right?
Unnamed Speaker 2
There's so much shit that regular people feel like. There's so much shit like, I'll see something or hear something that I'm like, man, this ass. But I don't be like, hey, this ass.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Delete it.
Unnamed Speaker 2
You know.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Never. I click send. I send it. I scroll down, I say, langston Kerman. I say, look at this bullshit, bro. Look at this trash. Bullshit. And we keep it in the DMs. Langston says, yeah, that nigga should kill himself. And then we go on about the rest of our life.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Regular humans, civil, civil folk.
Langston Kerman
I tell my friend.
Unnamed Speaker 1
And then I go.
Langston Kerman
I go. And I shake their hand politely.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Some niggas go on an entire run.
Langston Kerman
Of just like, no, it's crazy. It's genuinely crazy. And it's never existed at any point in history, right? Like, there was never, like, a town dude who just went to the square and was like, I don't fuck with Lorraine.
Unnamed Speaker 1
I don't fuck with Deborah.
Langston Kerman
John getting on my. Like, that never happened. So, like, now we have this ability to talk to everybody, and it's bringing out this instinct for vileness, brother.
Unnamed Speaker 1
There's in the house stuff still. I feel like there needs to be in the house conversations 100%. Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 2
There's not everything we know that is like, bro, why this shouldn't be news to us? Like, I've never. When I was growing up, I never knew my favorite rapper's baby mamas or how many of them it was or none of that. I just knew their art.
Unnamed Speaker 1
I knew what they said. And I was like, yeah, this guy's amazing. I didn't know Future. Like, Future. You think of, like, Future, right? Yeah, yeah. Nobody at any time did I know that much about them. Nor should you.
Langston Kerman
I know how many kids he has. I shouldn't know that. That's not my business. No, he's gotta figure that out.
Unnamed Speaker 1
I didn't know my favorite rapper's first name. Usually.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Sometimes. Right, Right. Unless they said it.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah.
Langston Kerman
You remember how excited everybody was when you found out Kanye's real name was Kanye?
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah. Yeah. That ain't a.
Langston Kerman
Okay, let's go.
Unnamed Speaker 1
I also remember feeling crazy when I found out Method Man's name was Clifford. And I don't know why, because that's a real name. But in my heart, I was like, I thought his name. I thought his name was Method Man. No, Takal. I thought his name was Method Man. Takal.
Langston Kerman
Man being Middle man.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Langston Kerman
Takal being.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah. MMC being the dead. Let's take a break and let's come back.
Langston Kerman
We're gonna come back more, little Russell. More. My mama told me.
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Langston Kerman
And then she said in my ear, go deeper. Stay with me now. And what hurt me is I was.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Already all the way in, just like you're all the way in on this podcast. We appreciate y' all. Welcome back to my mom and told.
Langston Kerman
Me you nailed that.
Unnamed Speaker 1
That was all right.
Unnamed Speaker 2
That was good.
Unnamed Speaker 1
I felt good about it. I was. I was. So when you brought this up, you. I had told you that I had been thinking about it. Research is like, loose.
Langston Kerman
I think what conversation about the Internet being dead.
Unnamed Speaker 1
I think that what. What has happened to the Internet is what has happened. What happens in general. It just what happens to humanity where it's like, it's become regional. And that's how you have to think of it at this point. It's become regional where you go. I think some spots are dead. I think there's some Internet that is just bots conversing with bots. And that's the whole thing. But I do think there are pockets of, like. I think it becomes difficult when a platform gets as large as yours or even where I hope we go someday. But, like, I think that there. It's just become a regional thing. And to engage on it, to engage with it in a real way, you sort of have to do your due diligence to find where that pocket is. And it's made the Internet become. It's not like it's not carefree anymore. It's like you have to protect your mental health when you go on this thing.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
So you really have to pick your spots these days.
Langston Kerman
I think that is why I gravitate towards, like, lil weirdo odd shit. Is that it is sort of like a protection of my sanity in that. To your point. And this is gonna feel strange as the connection, but it does make me genuinely happy. And it's not violent. I never like some graphic thing. It's just a person who clearly is in need of mental health there that isn't hurting themselves or anyone else.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Bro. My favorite is weirdos. Happy weirdos on the Internet are just like the only thing. Like, have you got. I be sending Langston this guy who has a leggings company. He's like a Puerto Rican guy. And like the whole shit is. He'd just be like, they say you can't wear leggings. They say you can't wear leggings to a wedding. And then he throws a fit. And that shit makes me Feel better than anything else.
Langston Kerman
I feel like you're not doing enough service to what he looks like. He looks like Eric lasalle from Coming to America. Remember the soul glow if you squished him into play. D'oh. You know what I mean? He's little and buff, but not the buff that you aspire to be. The buff that your shit didn't work right.
Unnamed Speaker 1
You know what I mean?
Langston Kerman
You're doing the wrong exercises, my man. Cause this ain't. This don't look good on nobody. And he puts on big ass bright leggings with a fucking fit, right? He'll like, throw on a fit and be like, going out for the night and put on leggings and then.
Unnamed Speaker 1
And it's amazing. And it makes me feel good, bro.
Langston Kerman
Right?
Unnamed Speaker 1
It's like him dressed in low out the dough. That old couple you ever seen, it's like two old people. It's like, I think he was in the Marines and now he's retired and they live in Hawaii, so. Black couple. And they'll just be like what they're gonna wear on vacation today.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
And then that's the shit that I like. That's what I like.
Langston Kerman
Like, on the Internet, it's positive for you.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah. Or like, people with weird bodies. That guy Unk the bodybuilder.
Langston Kerman
I know he's got his shirt off.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Un the bodybuilder, but he's.
Langston Kerman
He's really fun. And you got to check out un the bodybuild. I'm sorry, Larry, the promo for Sick.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah, he's not sick. He's not sick. He just used to be a bodybuilder.
Langston Kerman
But he's funny because he'll take his shirt off and be like, I. He's like. A lot of y' all gonna say, I'm not a bodybuilder, but I'm a bodybuilder. To me. Yeah. And it's really him protecting himself, where he's like, I am an artist.
Unnamed Speaker 1
And the beauty of it is this old lady is on there. Like, Tammy used to be a bodybuilder.
Langston Kerman
She's gassing him up, but it's every video she's reminding him. You gotta tell him, yeah, it's beautiful, man.
Unnamed Speaker 1
But those are pockets that I can find joy in the Internet. Obviously. People probably do.
Langston Kerman
Do you have a favorite corner of the Internet? Do you have, like, some shit that you're just like, all right, this. This is where I thrive. This is where I really feel safe.
Unnamed Speaker 2
My algorithm is like, ass cheeks. Pickleball, tennis.
Unnamed Speaker 1
I understand Completely.
Langston Kerman
That's not a common combo.
Unnamed Speaker 1
I would say ass cheeks and pickleball. Yeah.
Langston Kerman
That's not the second thing I would do.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Yeah, no, I'm quite eclectic.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah. Yeah. The thing about ass is it really takes over the algorithm and then.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 2
It like, swarm you and then you're not seeing anything else. You know, you go from one and it's like, oh, you love ass. And it's like. I mean, I like that one. I didn't. But I mean, you know. And next thing you know.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 2
You're caught up in, like.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Now it's cartoon asses.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Yeah. That's not even what Wilma looked like. I don't get cartoon asses.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Well, you fucked up. Freaking frog. You freaky. You a freaking frog. That's how it is sometimes.
Langston Kerman
This guy's a freaking pro.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Not me.
Langston Kerman
Not me. All my asses are real. La Russell. Human ass.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Human ass. You know what's crazy? I had a thought the other day that was just like, there are people walking around with fake asses and we're just okay with it.
Unnamed Speaker 1
It's crazy. It's.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Like we're not making fun of them as much as we need and we shouldn't. Cause, like, you know, if you're in that position where you're, like, altering your ass, you probably not in the best state. But there's just some things that's like, we have to be like, hey, bro, you going a little far.
Langston Kerman
Like, I struggle with it all the time.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Like, it's not. It's as common as n done made it. Now I buy you a body after. It's like, bro, that's not. That shit is like, it's crazy. You a little off, and it's crazier.
Unnamed Speaker 1
On the low end is what I think. Like, when you see people with cheap ones where you're like, damn, you fucked your whole. Like we were in the other day. Yeah. And you fucked your whole shit looks crazy. That sucks.
Langston Kerman
I think about it all the time when I see a bad, bad bvo and I go, why aren't we all reacting to this? You know what I mean? Like, I think we all owe this young lady for, frankly, the respect of being like, whoa, hey, something happened to you.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah, you got a booger on your nose.
Langston Kerman
Yeah. Instead of all just pretending that everything's fine because then that person's not ever gonna, like, do the worst of things.
Unnamed Speaker 2
They found a pocket of the world that agrees with it, and there's some nasty nigga who sees one of those crazy ones and it's like, I'm all in. And it's like, bro, this, like, he don't make it no better for some.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Dud in form for some dude. That's his comfort place.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
On the Internet, like, I got a man with leggings you felt you fell in love with.
Langston Kerman
With Frieza's second form.
Unnamed Speaker 1
All right, I gotta be honest. I don't understand the reference. I know. I know you enough to know it was good. I know you enough to know it was good.
Langston Kerman
Look, y' all, I told you, I dug in. I earned my shit. No, it really. They look crazy. And I think sometimes we owe people more honesty than we're willing to give them. Person to person. I think where it gets dangerous and we've already been talking about this is when it becomes, like, Internet engagement, because that's not a real human engagement and therefore only gonna come off as violence.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah.
Langston Kerman
You know what I mean?
Unnamed Speaker 2
Yeah. We've gotten to a point in society where we're hyper complicit. Like, instead of choosing what. What's possibly best for humanity or best for people's mental state, we're like, nah, I just. I just get the money.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 2
You feel me?
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah. I mean. Yeah. That's the nature of everything, right?
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Because I. I do wonder. I know how that. That I view the Internet, and I do wonder what percentage of the people view the Internet in maybe a similar lens as me. As, like, I look at it and I'm like, this is not the Internet on the whole, but, like, social media specific. Specifically, I go on Instagram knowing it's all bullshit. I don't. That's why I. I had looked into the dead Internet theory so much, bro. I. I find myself not believing anything anyone says on the Internet. People be like, oh, I saw this and I cried. Nope. I'm doing. Nope. I don't believe. But that. But that cynicism is like, that. That also makes me feel detached when I go on the Internet.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Which is like, it is a place that's possible, clearly, to build community. Right. You're on there building community. And I'm rejecting everything everybody says.
Langston Kerman
My wife almost daily sends me some kind of, like, parenting tip video where it's like, oh, these people are telling their kids instead of, no, they're saying, how can we reconsider our position on things? And maybe we should try that language. And every time she sends it, it's only meant to make us better parents. It's only meant to make us a stronger family that says we should definitely and I go, better cut it out.
Jana Kramer
I think I'm looking forward to cracking up.
Langston Kerman
I hope I can, like, you know, totally crack up. So I haven't, like, totally cracked up.
Ryan Seacrest
In a long time.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Hey, you know what's hella funny? Like, the generational. No difference in, like, how we were raised and how we're, like, choosing to raise our children. Especially in regard to me, it's like, it's beautiful to see in some instances. Cause you see, like, children get an opportunity to be a version of a child that I've never got to experience myself being. And it's really, really dope to witness.
Unnamed Speaker 1
And that's a huge positive. I feel like kids are people more now than they ever have been, bro.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Kids are. And they always. I've always been like. Like, when I was a kid, I kind of seen. I just didn't have an understanding of what I was, like, experiencing or comprehending. Cause I couldn't be like, hey, what is this? What is this? Why is this? It's like, shut your ass up. You know? Like, you don't.
Langston Kerman
You don't get who.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Yeah, you feel me? Like, no one wants to explain. I remember one time we were going somewhere, and my daughter was like, where we going? And I was like, just get in the car. Like, you know, because that's how I was like, why? You don't need to know where we're going. And her mother either was like, wouldn't you want to know where you're headed? Like, if someone pulled up and like, hey, we're about to leave, wouldn't you want to know?
Langston Kerman
Imagine how crazy it is. It's like, as kids, where you're sitting in a car and just being like. I guess when we stop, we stop. I don't know what this is.
Unnamed Speaker 1
I remember situations like that, and my mom would be like, none of your business. And you're crazy.
Unnamed Speaker 2
It's like, well, I'mma be there, though. But I'm going to be there.
Unnamed Speaker 1
I'd like to think about how I.
Langston Kerman
Might walk into this room.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Kids for so long have been, like, very dehumanized to be like, it's like, you're not a human. You're a child. That's precisely.
Langston Kerman
Is this a gas station or a gala? Which one are we going to? Let me know.
Unnamed Speaker 1
I need to pick shoes.
Unnamed Speaker 2
It's insane. It's really insane. But it's so dope when you, like, cultivate a relationship with a child where you're like, they're able to talk and they're thriving and you can see the benefits of what you're pouring into there. And then when you meet kids that has parents that's doing that, and you're like, oh, you. You know, like some kids you run into and you're like, you're behind. Or you're like, oh, you're advanced. Yeah, but they're really not advanced. They're just like being treated like a human. They're being lowered. Oh, yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
I mean, you meet it, you see it as adults too, where you. You're like, oh, you. They did right by you.
Langston Kerman
Yeah, you.
Unnamed Speaker 1
You're like, oh, so you're just okay.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Word.
Langston Kerman
You got no complaints at all. Good for you, my man. I'm happy for you, player. I'm. I'm fine too. I'm me.
Unnamed Speaker 1
You're disgusting.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Hilarious.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Give me $200.
Langston Kerman
That was good. So we. We. Let's take one more break.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah, let's take a last break.
Langston Kerman
Let's take one more break, and then we're gonna do a voicemail with some of our listeners.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Let's do it.
Langston Kerman
That'll be the whole thing.
Unnamed Speaker 1
All right. Perfect.
Langston Kerman
More la Russell, more. My mama told me.
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LaRussell
Addy, or flibanserin, is for premenopausal women with acquired Generalized hypoactive Sexual Desire disorder. HSDD, who have not had problems with low sexual desire in the past, who have had low sexual desire. No matter the type of sexual activity, the situation or the sexual partner, this low sexual desire is troubling to them and is not due to a medical or mental health problem, problems in the relationship or medicine or other drug use. Addie is not for use in children, men or to enhance sexual performance performance. Your risk of severe low blood pressure and fainting is increased if you drink one to two standard alcoholic drinks. Close in time to your ADI dose. Wait at least two hours after drinking before taking Addi at bedtime. This risk increases if you take certain prescriptions, OTC or herbal medications or have liver problems and can happen when you take Addi without alcohol or other medicines. Do not take if you are allergic to any of Addi's ingredients. Allergic reaction may include hives, itching or trouble breathing. Sometimes serious sleepiness can occur. Common side effects include dizziness, nausea, tiredness, difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, and dry mouth. See full PI and medication guide including boxed morning@addie.com PC Addy.
H
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Unnamed Speaker 2
You think the bigger the booty, the finer it is. And now we can convince her.
Unnamed Speaker 1
She walks out, switching that big old.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Booty and all that. It ain't nothing but doo doo in there.
Unnamed Speaker 1
But it ain't nothing but blessings in here, y' all. Welcome back to My mama told me.
Langston Kerman
LaRussell's still here. We're still talking about the fact that the Internet, in theory, is dead. It seems like we've reached some agreement that while there are real people still engaging on the Internet, maybe a part of our humanity has died on that space and we would do well to manage and maybe bring some people back to life. You think they could come back to life?
Unnamed Speaker 2
Yeah, I think it could be. Complete opposite. I've witnessed people be nourished and become better humans and people in the world through consuming my content and through joining my community and ending up at shows and finding people like minded. Like, the Internet is a very, very, very useful tool when used properly. But some people just choose to. It's like, bro, this is what you chose to do with your fucking screwdriver. You know? Like, this is what. This is what you chose to do. You know, it's like some kids you could get a fucking. You give a tablet to and they'll like, fucking start coding and do stem. And some will chew on it.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
And shout out to the chewers. You're not worse. You're just different. I'm a chewer.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah.
Langston Kerman
Look at me.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
On YouTube.
Langston Kerman
I'm actually devastated to find out I've been working with a chewer this whole time. Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
What did you think this was? You knew what this was. You knew this was when you called me. I'm a chewer from way back.
Langston Kerman
All right, we need to. We're going to do a voicemail. You. I haven't listened to this. Let's find out what these people are talking about.
Unnamed Speaker 2
First of all, y' all ain't gonna gaslight me with that weird, freaky voice message and then act like we're the ones who be acting weird leaving messages.
Langston Kerman
Okay. Just to catch you up, because I can. I don't want you. I don't want this to end on the wrong foot.
Unnamed Speaker 1
No, it's been. This has been an ongoing.
Langston Kerman
We. We, our listeners have accused us quite a bit of having a freaky voicemail that, like, whatever. And we don't remember what we said. I have no memory of it.
Unnamed Speaker 1
It was, like, months ago. That's probably.
Langston Kerman
But apparently the voicemail that we asked people to leave a message on is, like, real freaky, to the point that they now get upset with us that we ever pushed back on them being like, hey, y' all are being freaky.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Also. They send freaky stuff.
Unnamed Speaker 2
So what do y' all put out? Like a post that say, leave a voicemail or like a. Yeah, we got.
Unnamed Speaker 1
A phone number and we were just in here. Bullshit. They were like, you need to record a voicemail. So we just recorded one. I, I, we thought that was funny.
Langston Kerman
I thought we were being silly. And now apparently, we were up there being hoes.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Everybody now is like, oh, you guys are being freaky.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Okay, okay.
Langston Kerman
I don't know what I said.
Unnamed Speaker 2
A little preface.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah.
Langston Kerman
I'll be high a lot, so.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
And I just don't care to listen to it. Y' all asking for it anyways. All right, so not really a theory.
Unnamed Speaker 2
But I got stereotyped.
Unnamed Speaker 1
I went in the group grocery store.
Unnamed Speaker 2
And outside the grocery store, hell Scout.
Unnamed Speaker 1
I was like, yo, Girl Scout cookie time. Let's go.
Unnamed Speaker 2
As soon as I come outside, I'm gonna have some cash.
Unnamed Speaker 1
I'll be right back.
Unnamed Speaker 2
I come back outside. Okay, Give me two boxes. They was like, which ones? I go, 10 minutes. And the mom said, I knew it.
Langston Kerman
Who? Whoa.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Okay.
Langston Kerman
Wait a minute.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Let him finish. Let him finish. Because I do have some feelings.
Unnamed Speaker 2
And I kind of laughed it off at first, until as I was walking back to the parking lot with my cookies and I realized I had been stereotyped. Thin mint Girl Scout cookies are the new ports of Girl Scout cookies, black man.
Langston Kerman
They're menthos.
Unnamed Speaker 2
I knew I needed that menthol.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Anyway, thanks, y' all. Okay.
Langston Kerman
Fuck.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Okay. Right?
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
You hear what he said?
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
I don't think that that's what happened.
Langston Kerman
Oh, you don't? You don't take this to be a true interpretation of the moment?
Unnamed Speaker 1
I don't think that. I, first of all, don't know. I don't. I don't know the numbers enough on Girl Scout cookies to understand what is the blackest Girl Scout cookie, but I don't know if it is Thin Mints.
Langston Kerman
What's your favorite Girl Scout cookie?
Unnamed Speaker 2
I don't even really eat Girl Scout cookies.
Unnamed Speaker 1
See? What's your favorite Girl Scout cookies?
Langston Kerman
They. Mints.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Samosas.
Langston Kerman
Okay.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah. With the peanut butter.
Langston Kerman
All right. I honestly only.
Unnamed Speaker 2
I don't think we ever really bought Girl Scout cookies. Like, never.
Unnamed Speaker 1
See?
Unnamed Speaker 2
Okay. Like, y' all try em man, they're pretty good. Yeah. I don't have, like, vivid memories of Girl Scout cookies in my life.
Unnamed Speaker 1
They're really good.
Unnamed Speaker 2
I know what they are. And I'm sure I've had some, but it was, like, very pat. Like, this wasn't a thing. I don't think her. I knew it was stereotypical. It was probably like, this is the best seller. And I think it's not stereotypical if you walk away with, like. If you pull up to the chicken spot and they like, three piece, right? And then you walk away, you're like, yeah, that's exactly what I wanted. It's like, I mean, accurate.
Langston Kerman
She didn't know it. And she was right.
Unnamed Speaker 2
She was right.
Langston Kerman
Yeah, what do you want?
Unnamed Speaker 1
And that's what I think happened here as soon as I heard this. Cause I had been in that position where at first I would have been like him. Because for whatever reason you're in that situation, and in your head you're like, bitch, what you mean? You knew it. But then it's like, like you said, maybe it's the most popular one. Maybe he had a green shirt. Like, I don't think.
Langston Kerman
Well, if it's the green shirt, she's been nasty again. This nigga's not Mr. Mint. He's a human being. Stop being crazy.
Unnamed Speaker 1
All right, but I'm saying that I think there is a level sometimes where, like, you find yourself stretching, where I think maybe that lady just wanted to connect. I think maybe she was just like an old lady. And she was like, you know what? I thought you. Yeah, I don't know. You know what I mean?
Langston Kerman
I tend to agree. I will say that I think that that is the horror of what racism actually leaves behind in a tangible way, where, like, you spend your entire day reading every human interaction with somebody who doesn't look like you as a potential offense, rather than just like, no, this is somebody who. Who wanted to talk to me more than they had the equipment to do.
Unnamed Speaker 1
And I think you said that perfectly. That's like, the difficulty. It's not like always the out and out races. It's the little shit where he went back to his car and for a minute, that fucked his day up.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Yeah. You know what I mean?
Unnamed Speaker 1
He was in a car.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Like, I think that's what it be like. Some people be so serious about life or so borderline. Like, I could be that those things don't. Like earlier when I asked him, when I was like, how's your Juneteenth? Like, very funny moment. If he. If he had, you know, like, that. That for. For someone who's like, right there and they're like, trying to figure out that could be the thing that's like, yeah, I'm all in now.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah.
Langston Kerman
You were trying to radicalize the staff here for some reason. Yeah. You gonna be in the nation? Like, wait a minute, I gotta research. Yeah. I think at its core, we're just. We're all sensitive because of a history. We're artists of sorts.
Unnamed Speaker 1
And I think that that is the type of thing. When I heard that, I was like, I think that's the type of thing that maybe, like, American, the culture, white people don't understand that that's the type of thing that gets you off. You know what I mean? Where. That's the type of shit that'll fuck your day up. It's not like. It's not like blatant always like that. It's that level of being on guard and what should be a winner.
Unnamed Speaker 2
Such as, like, you can't have a fucked up day with Thin Mints in your passenger seat. You already negated that. It's like, you can't be the main with Thin Mints in your passenger seat. It's like, let it go.
Langston Kerman
Yeah, you're gonna take those home and freeze them mad. You're gonna make them chilly and then be mad still. Just eat your Thin Mints.
Unnamed Speaker 1
But also in that, it could be the new port of cookies. I've also put Newports in the freezer, and that's complicated.
Langston Kerman
Whoa, what's that do?
Unnamed Speaker 1
I don't know, man. I was just like 19, trying to figure some shit out.
Unnamed Speaker 2
I knew a guy, you're, like, trying to recharge him.
Unnamed Speaker 1
I knew enough. He was like, battery, it comes. There's like. There's like two more hours in this.
Langston Kerman
They say, put them in, we get ready to smell.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Don't let me sit like this, man. Somebody send us a voicemail and let me know that you also put menthols in your freezer.
Langston Kerman
I got this before in my life.
Unnamed Speaker 1
You don't smoke cigarettes. I don't smoke cigarettes anymore either, but there was like, a time.
Langston Kerman
Yeah.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Damn.
Langston Kerman
Yeah, I think we did it.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah, this was good.
Langston Kerman
I think this was a good episode.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm pretty good with that.
Langston Kerman
Laronzo, could you tell the people where they can find you what cool shit you got going on?
Unnamed Speaker 2
I'm everywhere, like air. You hear me? I got a lot of cool shit going on. You just gotta tap in and tune in. You can Google that's the best place to find me.
Langston Kerman
Yeah, Google this nigga, man. He's great. Yeah, what you got?
Unnamed Speaker 1
Cool Guy Jokes 87 on Instagram. Look at us on YouTube. Call us. I got nothing. I don't even have dates coming up. I'm moving. I ain't got nothing.
Langston Kerman
Yeah, you're on the move.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Yeah, man.
Langston Kerman
Damn. Well, you can follow me at Langston Kerman. I ain't got shit to tell you about other than. Yeah, follow the pod. Like subscribe. If you want to send us your own email, send it to mymamapodmail.com we are still reading the emails. We're still engaging with those. If you wanna leave us a voicemail, send it all to 844-LIL-Moms. Give us a call and stop calling us drunk.
Unnamed Speaker 1
Oh, yeah, you gotta chill, man. I listened to the last round. It's like a lot of. There's a lot of drunk people.
Langston Kerman
You gotta chill.
Unnamed Speaker 1
You can tell by how they start.
Unnamed Speaker 2
It's the lean of like when you dive into conspiracies. There's like three kind of people that are into conspiracies. Right. You know, there's like the hyper intelligent who kind of like, they just like, you lose it a bit cause you start finding out too much. And then there's like the nigga who's on dope and then the nigga who's drunk.
Unnamed Speaker 1
And that's really. That's really extended to women on dope. And that's really what we're getting. That's who calls. Yeah, like some guys who are like, oh, I gotta figure out this out, you know. And then somebody like, I thought you.
Langston Kerman
Freaking like, oh, man, yeah, they're calling us and we love you and don't leave us. Don't you dare stop calling. Just sober up a little bit and. And that's the whole by My Mama Told Me is a production of Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network and I.
Unnamed Speaker 1
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Unnamed Speaker 1
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Langston Kerman
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Unnamed Speaker 1
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Podcast Summary: "The Internet Is Dead (with LaRussell)"
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The episode kicks off with Langston Kerman and David Bore introducing the central conspiracy theory: "The Internet Is Dead." They invite their guest, LaRussell, to discuss his perspectives and research on this intriguing claim.
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LaRussell elaborates on the "Dead Internet" theory, suggesting that while the Internet still exists, a significant portion of its interactions lack genuine human engagement. Instead, many online interactions are driven by bots or individuals who have lost essential social skills.
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The hosts and guest discuss how the perceived decline of the Internet affects mental health and societal behavior. They highlight the addictive nature of certain online corners that provide comfort but also contribute to isolation and toxic behavior.
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LaRussell shares his experiences as a content creator navigating the challenges of the "Dead Internet." He emphasizes the responsibility of artists to provide positive and meaningful content amidst the prevalent negativity.
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The discussion shifts to the importance of building supportive online communities that uplift rather than degrade. LaRussell explains how his community focuses on shared interests and positive interactions to create a nurturing environment.
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The episode features humorous and insightful voicemails from listeners, highlighting the diverse range of interactions and misunderstandings that occur online. These segments add a comedic layer to the discussion, emphasizing the complexity of online communication.
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In their closing remarks, Langston Kerman and LaRussell reflect on the potential for revitalizing the Internet by fostering genuine human connections and promoting positive engagement. They encourage listeners to be mindful of their online interactions and seek out supportive communities.
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"The Internet Is Dead (with LaRussell)" episode of "My Momma Told Me" offers a compelling exploration of the current state of the Internet, highlighting both its detrimental effects on human interaction and the potential for positive community-building. Through engaging dialogue and insightful anecdotes, Langston Kerman, David Bore, and LaRussell provide listeners with a deeper understanding of how to navigate and revitalize their online experiences.
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