Is there a war on Christmas? Langston and David slide down the chimney with no care on this conspiracy theory. Tangents arise when discussing why people are so angry. Is it the language? Is it our current world? Who knows, but talks of IG baddies and multiracial Albinos are discussed. Also, they talk about how far to lean into the Christmas spirit. Since this is the last episode of the year, we here at MMTM want to wish you Lil' Mommas a Happy Holidays (Kwanzaa, if you're nasty) and stay tuned for the next two weeks showcasing The Best of My Momma Told Me Pt. 1 and Pt. 2.
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I was about to say, there's probably no person in Hollywood I would say, I'm objectively afraid of more than Michael Jai.
White actually, or just like the fist fight.
Like a fist fight, I truly fear for my life if I were to go truly attempt one on one with Michael Jaiwah.
Yeah.
I also get the feeling that he wouldn't be with any of my nonsense. You know what I'm saying, Like, I don't think you would find me funny. Mmm, he'd be like, actually, that's a great problem in our community.
I said, if you don't get your big ass.
Out of here, fuck, can't your ass back on the box?
Think I would be growing.
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I can't tell me. Come, let me take you on a party ride. I'll teach you, teach you, teach you the Electric Slide. Welcome little Mamas and gentiles alike to another phenomenal episode of My Mama.
Told Me, the podcast where we dive deep deep in the pockets of black conspiracy theories and.
We finally worked to prove that George Foreman was not only one of the most prominent African American boxers of all time. He was also one of the most prominent mixed race boxers of all time. Mixed with what you asked? Baby that man? What's that baby? Look at that face? Look at that little baby face. I'm David.
Man.
That was That was a journey.
That was good.
It took me somewhere.
I was.
I was like, where is this going? What was he mixed with him and baby wasn't what I thought?
It was good. I kind of got a zig when they say.
You know, yeah, that's a twist.
That was.
That was the sixth sense ending if I ever had one.
I love it. I'm glad, I'm glad you got you.
You move me. I'm Likeston Herman, and I am I am pleased with your work today so far, sir.
Before we started, kind of want to get this out of the way because I feel it's like it's gonna come up. Yeah. Yes, my face does have a bit of chemical burns on it, and I'm just gonna I'm gonna be honest with you the listeners. A lot of you guys know you know we work in Hollywood, likes to and I oh, it's very no, it's a very vain business. It's very it's very vanity driven.
If I may, I I and I know you're laying down a little bit of pavement here somehow, But I would like to remind our sweet listeners that you in fact live in Denver, Colorado.
You don't do that to me. Don't be like that. I got shows on max, I got shows on Netflix.
Don't do no, no no. And you're absolutely are a very talented person. You're you are working always. This is not a belittlement of the career, but it is sort of a recognition of your distance from the stereotype that you are person you are currently selling to us.
I'm telling you that I live under the same beauty standards as we all do. I live under you live under the same thing. Right. So yeah, some night, some nights, you go out, you have a show, you have a good show. Ye come back to your house. You're buzz. You're not drunk, but your buzz.
You you got a little something going.
You are buzz for a Friday evening and you go to the bathroom. You're doing your nightly routine and.
It's it's I imagine going a little slower than usual, slower.
You are listening to uh, you know DJ academics reaction videos on YouTube. Wall brushing your teeth, You go to your bathroom closet, you realize that you have an emergency box of texturizer, and you think.
Whoa, I'm gonna pause you there when you say emergency.
What do you mean? You know, like if I have to get wavy? Now? Wait, so you're saying that you have like I don't love this, I don't love this.
You have a product saved where you're like, motherfucker, you got a meeting in twelve minutes.
Well it takes out the good stuff. Well, for course hair it takes twenty six to thirty minutes. But m yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So and then I was like, you know what, let's go. Yeah, you know, because you don't know you got you have good hair because of the mixture.
Yeah yeah.
I have tight coils, deep deep from the jungle. Deep tight coils. It's like the like the shackles that were placed upon our people on the ships. That's how tight. And I just wanted to loosen up those curls a little bit.
I got you, I got you.
In the in the hair as well as the beard.
And then so that's where we fucked up.
Okay, that's where we fucked die.
I was waiting for the point. I didn't know if you had like put so much in that it had dripped down and scarred your face like the joker.
I just it was just I put some in my beard, and then I was.
Man, no, that's not what you're supposed to do. I don't think.
And then also a nigga was watching Yellowstone because that shit's gripping, it is, it's very good. So I was watching Yellowstone and I just and then I kind of got wow. And then and then yeah, I got some a little bit. Uh, there's like some some plantation and then my hair is is straight.
Wait a minute, you gave yourself the loon, you fucked up and texturize yourself to be goddamn puffy in there.
Don't I need a Girl Part two video?
Like I said, it's twenty six to thirty for coarse hair. Yellowstone episodes are so so long, and then you're also tipsy, so you think it's just supposed to be burning.
This nigga's over here with hair like Detroit red underneath.
That was what it was like. It's like Spike is burning Spike is burning, it's burning spike.
This nigga gave himself a Detroit red yeah on his goddamn face.
Yeah, it's crazy. It's crazy, man. Honestly, the beard not that much different.
You gotta go natural now.
I'm never gonna do that again. I'm never gonna do It's just man. I mean it's because if you my hair is always so curly. It's a little boy. You go to the Sallies with your mom or whatever Korean owned black beauty supply store, and you can see these strong, virile men on these boxes. You remember the boxes.
Of course, that's that's the main sale.
These guys look like a crime fighting team and you want a piece of that. Yeah, and they make you think that it's a box away. Truly.
What's so fascinating is I always wonder what happens to those men because they're so gorgeous.
Why they never stepped up and claimed all the pussy that they've clearly.
Yeah, Like, why are you not on the cover of every magazine? Why are you not Denzel Washington.
At least the Shade Room.
Yeah, like you're.
Gonna get Jeremy Weeks get more popular than you. Is that what your name was, I don't know, but yeah, sounds right to me. Light Skins, the light skinned guy that everybody who had the mug shot.
Oh yeah yeah you're talking about, uh prison Bay.
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah he can get somebody like guys. Those guys don't that.
Is I'll tell you this. Prison Bay can't be on no on no wave box.
Damn niggers was wet.
Yeah, they were. They fucking had it and so you had it.
Like they have to be.
They have to be like finding these guys and like rehab centers and beard fucking like there's that island where all the pedophiles live in New York, Like they have to be like getting.
You know what I mean, they have to tratting.
That was a New York joke for you.
Was just a shade in New York City, Hey pedophiles that now.
It's not me.
Yeah, I don't know what's happening to these guys that keeps them so trapped in the in the box world.
What I worry is it's actually a sad story. Like we're gonna get a documentary, oh.
That this is like some sort of like sex cult that so.
You know what I mean, it's gonna be like I was in the Zulu Nation, It's gonna be something you didn't want to have happened happen.
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised. There's like that that uh, that world where like these older people now are poaching young TikTokers and making them like live in these houses together and sort of like train up making videos until they're ready to be their own star that escapes from.
I'm sort of for that. That's what Korea is doing, and that's how they got better than us at R and B.
Now, I'm not saying that there isn't some value to it if you have consenting parties, but I am saying that when you poach someone that young, I don't know that you truly ever get their consent. I think you get a fucking child being like yeah, yeah, I'll do that, and then you know, a year and a half in, they're like, I think I'm being molested.
I don't, I don't need to, no, no, I.
I just think there's there's something probably predatory happen to the niggas on the fucking boxes.
Yeah, I think so, because it's like it just doesn't make sense that they haven't stepped up into the culture. Yet Yeah, you know what I mean, it's I would have you would have claimed it, right, like absolutely, let me pull this let me pull this guy for you.
There's no fucking way that I would go a day, a single day without reminding people that I am the the nigga from Just for Men, Come on, whatever the thing is, sixty styling, come on dogs. Everywhere everywhere I go, I'd be telling people I'm this guy.
The one. If you scroll down the guy on the extra Strength kit, he looks like Michael JAHI White. Mmmm, that might just be Michael White.
That's Michael Hi what.
They got the same thing. They got him young, They got him in nineteen seventy four when he was thirty eight. Because that niggas a hundred.
Right, Michael Jai White.
I think he's very old, is he? Yeah, he's just buf.
Believe it or not, we have a conspiracy for today. We talked about this right before we jumped on. But in light of the holiday season, it is in fact the holiday season, and we don't give a fuck which holiday that is for you. I give it doesn't mean a goddamn thing to us, but celebrate however you choose to celebrate. And in light of that, we said we were going to say, my mama told me there's a war on Christmas.
Oh yeah, come on, come on, I love this one.
You love this. I was worried. I was worried this wouldn't sit well with you. But I'm excited. Tell me everything. You know.
Oh, I love it because I think it's for stupid people.
Like the entire concept of a war on Christmas is shutout.
Yeah, you're stupid. Well, eighty percent of households in this country still celebrate Christmas. You win, you win. We're not gonna overtake you white guys or you're Judeo Christian holiday that all this consumerism is based around. We're so upside down. We got Jews celebrating Christmas. I know a lot of Jewish people who do both. Christmas won. We won. It's not even a shut up. Oh, because you have to say happy Holidays. That's your big problem. It's still Christmas. You don't got to go to work on Christmas. You gotta go to work every fucking day. Hanika though, yeah you know what I'm saying.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't. It does feel like.
I think legally you can't even ask for kwans off. I don't think you're even allowed to.
They're like, hey, man, don't say that.
We know it's made up.
Don't say that, because now you're making me feel weird as a boss. And I didn't even want to be that guy. But you know how, you know I'm not fucking giving you that stupid ass holiday.
You know, damn well, you don't celebrate no Quansah, go break down these boxes.
You good?
You know good?
And god damn well, I wasn't about to give you quans of days off.
Yo. I know I were Facebook friends. I saw your throwing apart.
I know you DJ, I know all your secrets, my man.
Yeah, were you ever Facebook friends with like coworkers? Yeah?
When I was stitching, Yeah, I had a few that I was really friends with that I didn't I never.
I never, like maybe one or two. I never added them.
I knew which ones I could be and which ones I couldn't be. Like, there were some teachers who like, if they saw me out partying, we're gonna bring judgment back to school. And then there were some that were like, I would have been there if you would have invited me.
You know what, I mean like, yeah, yeah, this was in the cracking days.
Yeah, this is when I was. This is when I was blacking out on cracking.
Yeah, blacking off cracking.
I was blacking on cracking then waking up and they're like, so, kids, the decimal system, what did we think of Sylvia palass.
And they were like, mister cracking, why do you smell like a bodega they called?
They knew already there. Yeah, this is drunk on cracking.
I get to oh man, uh but yeah, so to say I say all that, to say I, I it's so funny. The war on all this stuff is like, do I think there are legitimate wars on some social constructs? Yeah? Sure, Christmas, I don't think is one worth even talking about?
I agree. I wonder if there's any benefit to playing some devil's advocate inside of this, Yeah, for the benefit of of sort of like, let's let's create a little bit of chaos to be.
A Oh you don't want it to be you don't want it to be an eighteen minute podcast.
Yeah, I was hoping not to be.
Uh. I think that.
I think what they're with what people are claiming when they say that there is a war on Christmas is not just rooted in like the literal happy holidays of it all, but more in like the larger fear of the United States, no longer reflecting the values that they claim it was built on right, that like, this is a transforming nation, and they would claim that the transformation itself is being reflected in the holidays of it all.
Outside of but that's what I'm saying, outside of you having to say happy holidays. Let's be honest. And I love them. Yeah, I'll start by saying that I love them, big fan. Is this I really gaining ground?
Oh No, I've never thought about that at all. I'm not getting new recruits.
Ever. I don't think they're gaining. I think they're keeping it. I think they're keeping it. I think shout out to Philadelphia. I think they're I think they're doing good. But I don't think, at least in my lifetime, I don't think there's been like some ground swell of any other religion. If anybody's coming up, it's the witches. That's the only bitches I've seen more of now than from when I was a kid. And nobody even believes you. You dizzy ding.
Dong' I would say it's it's witches, and scientologists are are the only people that I've seen make are real fucking like whoa where'd that come from?
You know? Yeah, and even scientologists. Do you know scientologists who don't live in California? Mm hmmm, exactly, No, not a one, exactly.
I've met some people that that don't live in Californifornia that identify as former scientologists.
Because I've never met at California.
Yeah, they like escaped and now they drive a cab in Minnesota and they're they're happier, but also got a story to tell and even if you didn't ask for it, they're gonna tell you.
Yeah, exactly.
But na, I don't know any active scientologists and like fucking Chicago.
Bro, I don't even know any scientologists out of La County. Mm hmm.
You're saying you get to Orange and they're like, I ain't doing that bullshit.
I think maybe you get to Orange. I'm saying you go north. No, I got you Like in the Bay, I never knew anyone, and they got some weird religions up there. You could get away with pretty much anything, damn. So that's all I'm saying with.
This devastating news for those Muslims out there.
I can feel if Carlos is like he's firing up his computer right now.
He is typing with the ferocity he has never typed before.
I don't think he's typing. I think he's dictating to his girlfriend, maybe agreedous.
First of all, the fact that you think that man has a girlfriend is insane.
Girlfriend, that's insane. There was no way if every if everybody on six hundred Pound Life can get a girlfriend, Carlos can get a people get girlfriends and boyfriends.
I think that the reason that the people on six hundred Pound Life are able to find their partners is because they have a good enough heart on the inside.
Are you kidding me? That's why that show is so fun, because they're trash.
They're bad people.
A bunch of them are kind of bad people WHOA you never watched it?
I always thought that was no. I've never watched a moment of it.
Oh yeah, no, you should watch it. Sometimes they've got of bad people because the doctor calls them out. They'll be like, I don't know what's happening. Needs to be like, you keep eating pizza?
Can I tell you why? I've never watched it. Can I be completely honest, why I've never watched it?
Come on, it's Christmas. Go crazy.
I'm scared. I'm still a bigot, and and I don't want to know how I really feel.
That's not you got to push yourself to the You gotta know where you gotta know you. It's just you.
Nah, But that I don't. I think some stuff we don't need to find out. And maybe I don't want to be that guy, you know what.
I mean, Like you're too judgmental.
I think there might ugliness might come out in me when I'm watching that that I don't want to find it interesting.
But I mean because it's like, but when you watch it, you do feel for the situation.
And I'm scared I won't Wow, I'm scared I'll just spend the whole time with my arms folded, being like, I don't know.
Can I say this is this is the first ever true villain turn I've ever seen you take.
I don't. I don't want that to be true, right, Like I do genuinely want to feel all the feelings that the storyline is trying to guide me towards. I want to feel like I'm an empathetic person. I am a caring individual. I don't want hate in my heart, but I'm scared there might be hate in my heart, and I don't want to explore.
That is hate. What you think is? I don't know, but I don't want to.
I don't want to short change it by like being like disrespect discredit.
No.
If I if I truly don't have like a real reaction inside of that, I think I'm a hateful person and I don't want to be hateful. So I'm just gonna leave that alone.
Wow, that's I don't It's like, I understand the restraint, right, because you're keeping yourself and that's that's difficult, right. You have discipline in your in your villain villainry. Yeah, I think though, Wow, that's so complicated. I never felt that. I just am always like, you know, oh it's three am. I'm in Cleveland. Let's watch something that makes me feel better about me. You know, who can I judge on the TV? I need to judge somebody.
You're like, these seem like easy targets over here.
Come on, I'm not trying to I'm not trying to play it a high difficulty at three am.
Who is at there? Lois tonight, Dear TV.
Guid Come on, I need somebody who has possibly more room service in the bed with them than I do. No, I'm just kidding. I cut that out, But there was a time.
Oh man, Well, I will say to the question of the war on Christmas, one of the things that I briefly looked up a few things that relates to this conversation. Oh, but we need to throw to a break, so maybe we should. Yeah, let's take a break and then we'll come back and we'll talk about some of the brief research that I did relating to this. All right, Yeah, we'll be right back.
Just talk.
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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 bitches spop there as if your prayers include any of those things and not gonna work, because I'm rejecting them all, and I will be continuing in my saying we could add motherfucking waves.
I gets it that the way you want to put we are back. I think our souls have been laid batter this episode. I think so.
Yeah, we've really opened up into some of our are darker maybe thoughts.
Yeah.
But I hope that that comforts the listener a little bit. I hope you guys know that we do consider this a safe space to open our hearts.
Yeah, And I hope that that convinces you to walk in your truth and really look and see how you feel about my six hundred pound life, yeah, or the one about Little Women in Atlanta.
M m mmm.
Really, whichever show has the bodies that you judge the most, really look inside of yourself and say, why, why? Why?
Why do why do I feel that way? Why do I gain power from whatever these people are losing?
You know what I think is crazy is how come there's no black albinos show yet? Damn doesn't that seem like it seems like it's right there. We all have known one.
I've known too.
I've seen and serily own there's a ton of them. Oh really, Oh yeah, you see him pretty much every time you go out.
We didn't. We did an episode a long time ago about black albinos, which I think, if I'm not mistaken, the conspiracy was that if you have sex in the daytime, your baby's gonna come out albino.
That that's not the numbers just start there for that. The numbers are just you know how many of us are day nut babies.
That's just like, it's just too I don't Oh yeah, if you Wady Way came with that one, and I.
Don't disagree with you.
I don't disagree with you, but I do. Boy, does it make me laugh to think that somebody is like purposely avoiding day sex at the possibility of having a black albino on the other side of it.
Is it weird? Okay? All right now this is Come with me on.
This, buddy. My hand is extended.
I'm ready, I'm steepled, so you know it's real. Uhh. I don't know how to say this is This is gonna require something eesse to even get this opinion out. I think uh oh, I find albinos of African American descent to be more attractive than white albine What does that mean? Because it feels like level playing field.
Right, You're you're essentially the same color. There's not that big of a drastic difference. I think it just means that you're more attracted to Africanized features that you like a wide nose and some big old, juicy lips.
I don't love that how you talk about it, No, don't do it big old. You know they're gonna see you do that. They're gonna see you make that gumbo lips face. You like this.
Gumbo lips.
Oh God, we might gotta cut that. We gotta make it. The promo for this episode. I don't really know.
Yeah, I think it just means you're attracted to black people truly, like at the fucking route.
What do you feel about that?
I think I agree with you. I think pound for pound, I go black albino over white albino, and it.
Just seems like a more dynamic faces on.
Yeah.
Also gonna say this, my algorithm we all know is trash. There's a lot of there's been a rise of let's say, unconventional batties mm on Instagram.
Do you think you think we're in the middle of a rise.
I think that I think it's the time of the unconventional batty. Yes.
And when you say that, are you referring to no, no, no, no, I'm not gonna names, but are you referring to like sort of a you're seeing this across the border or is this just then like comedy? Like what do you mean?
Where?
Where do you mean? Specifically? These batties are popping up?
Okay?
Where It's just like I would not have thought you are a batty, but here I would.
Have because I celebrate the entire catalogue of humanity. But I think traditional kind of moras are being knocked down.
I can say that.
I think I think it. I think Winnie Harlowe started it, and then a lot of people have taken it and ran with it.
I think there's, uh, we're just becoming a world without experts in any form, do you know what I mean? Like, there are no more kings of anything.
Nobody like probably completely No.
I think we need a few emperors. You need a couple of each industry to keep things balanced. I think we're in hell with I mean, we see it in comedy. Comedy is literally hell.
Now.
It's where the worst of us are becoming fucking like kings. And it's like, bro, I get it. This is a subjective art form. We're not all meant to make it, even the most talented of us. I'm fine with all of those being a fact of this, But y'all are making absolute clowns into the greatest of all time level shit.
Yeah yeah, yeah, we need experts.
And so I think to that point, every industry sort of is seeing that, And that's not necessarily a bad thing as it relates to beauty standards. I don't think that that's a horrible thing. I think that's actually kind of nice that Like, no, because a bunch of different types of women make me horny, and it didn't have to just be the fucking like, you know, stick thin ones that they keep propping up. I'm cool with that.
Let's be honest. That one's lasting line.
Yeah somewhere in there for me.
Oh shit, Oh man, what happened? Did you know they have Asian ones.
Asian albino Yeah? No, well yeah, but.
I was scrolling through. I knew it in theory. Never crossed my mind. Yeah, I mean like I was scared, I mean fun, like I was surprised to see one.
No, yeah, no, I think we get it. It's this is a discovery for all of us. Asian albinos is not something that I think we've all thought about. On a right, let's get a look at these bad boys, let's get eyes on these things.
Super saying, yeah, I'm gonna go ahead, and uh, I'm gonna go ahead and see your full menu.
I don't think we want to sit at the bar. I think we want to sit down at the big table.
Oh wait, this is wait. I don't know what this is. I got to a weird this is maybe not I don't think this is the right page. Oh oh no, I gotta get out of here.
I gotta get out, okay, because I'm looking at few and they're pretty cute. These are here people?
Thank you?
Is that adorable? I didn't say normal, you're you're you really want me to be the worst guy, and I I don't think that's fair.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry for that. I'm lashing out because I still feel uncomfortable about the additial bino comment. Is that fair?
That's okay?
Thank you?
Uh. Ultimately, some of the research that I found does point to not there in fact being a war on Christmas, but instead reminded me pretty quickly how little Christmas is the tradition we think it is, that even Christmas as we celebrate it is not like this ancient, fucking you know, generation after generation after generational type thing. And they pretty much point to like Charles Dickens era, like America or fucking Britain whatever, as the origin of Christmas as we understand it.
Now, right, I mean, because the Night before Christmas was like the first reference to Santa Claus, Right, you know that the poem twas the Night before Christmas and all through the house.
I don't know if that's the first reference to Santa Claus, but it might be the first that sort of applies him the way that we understand him, now, do you know what I mean?
That?
Like, there are iterations of Santa Claus that have existed for a really long time in other sort of like cultures and communities and shit, but they've never necessarily understood him as like jolly goodfellow who like eats cookies and sugar snaps and whatever the fuck I mean.
It seems like Valentine's Day, right, It's like the modern day. They got you to start spending money and that's when it blew up.
Yeah, I think it sort of is all connected to like capitalism, right that. Like so, Charles Dickens, I guess, in some of his shit starts to really write about Christmas, not just as like a technical holiday that sort of is listed in the Bible and recognized, but he attaches morality to it where it becomes like sort of this sanctifying holiday where we are meant to share, share, spread cheer and share gifts and love and reconsider our our own choices and think about how we can be better people. All of that shit is like very new in his generation. And then suddenly people run with that because of capitalism. They're like, yeah, if you've got to be a good person, then you better buy these gifts or these items to be able to justify your good.
Right, right, right. And that's why I also don't care much about a war on it to be honest. Yeah, I was gonna do what I was gonna do regardless, Like what is the war? The war is attacking you buying presents for people.
Right, it's not, It's just this is just an allegory. It's just a part of the year where we very brief briefly go and we probably shouldn't be the worst version of ourselves right now because our family's around, because we're feeling nostalgic. Whatever the fuck is the sort of like actual attachment. But like it's it's just an allegory.
Do you let me ask you and I'll take it personal. Do you feel like your behavior personally improves during Christmas?
I think I have less stuff to do.
Niggas same, you know, Yeah, it's easy to focus on relationships and ship when I don't. I don't really have a ton of gigs or nothing.
Yeah, I think I slow down and so like I reflect on the things that are important to me in part because there are other part of the year where I ain't working that much and I do the same shit. Right, But yeah, if we're just all doing it collectively, all right, cool, that's tight.
All right, that's fair. I you know what I mean.
Like, I think if everybody got a week off of work and just had to like chill and not really have to be stressed about a bunch of stuff, we'd be more moral people.
I think that's fair. I mean, yeah, I mean, the constant grindstone of capitalism kills everybody. But do you feel like, like, do you get caught in the Christmas spirit? Do you find yourself like out and you got the baby and your wife and you're hit your target, You're hearing the music, maybe you got some make knog in the car, and like you're just feeling like, yeah, let me give this almost guy five bucks.
Uh Yeah, But I think that's largely brought on by my kid more than like the enter my kid. My family sort of makes that feel more.
You don't have to put it in the quotes.
Bro, Well, I planned the lead, so I don't want any lead.
Good connections. We were never a family.
How was your care teamer.
I stayed here.
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But no, I think, like, you know, you feel all of the things because your kid is getting excited for the things. Like my daughter now understands what it means to receive gifts, and obviously she gets excited for fucking Christmas and Santa Claus and all that shit, but she also is beginning to at least understand that there is a giving inside of like Christmas or too, and so like she'll like see stuff and be like, I want to give that to my cousin, and that's beautiful and sweet. And to be some like fucking Scrooge around that doesn't that's not human, you know what I mean? Like I'm still a person. I'm just like as fucking beautiful. Yeah, I want some eggnog while I watch her, you know, stuff a teddy bear into a bag and call it a gift.
That sounds that's a gift. Why'd you do that?
Because she's gonna stuff it dumb and I'll have to fix it, I because I'm a father, David, Because I'll have to put the bag down and she'll barely be able to get the teddy bear in because her stupid little hands don't even work right yet, the synapses don't fully connect well enough, and she'll get distracted and want to color, even though we agreed we were gonna wrap gifts and make this a sweet, beautiful thing. But for three seconds, she is sincerely going to try to stuff that bear into that bag. And she'll say it's for her cousin and that's so meaningful to her. And I'm gonna enjoy that for that three seconds that I can you.
Really paint a glowing portrait of family life.
Hey man, I gouldn't be happy.
I could not be happier, all right, that's a good answer, though, that is a reasonable that's a good because I don't really care about Christmas spirit at all, but I don't have a child.
Yeah. I think. I think it's just you get certain things in your life that gets you, know, you rarely get to experience life again a new.
Right, right. I mean, I do feel like as though I have a giving spirit, I just don't it's not limited to I get kind of more annoyed when it's limited, when it's asked to be limited to this time of year.
Yeah that you obligatory and stuff?
Yeah, Yeah, that it just becomes like, oh, this is just another job.
Yeah, that's fair.
I can see that.
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To go back to the initial issue, which was the war on Christmas, I stand by my first statement where it's like I don't think because who's waging this war? Even the people in power are at least Christian usually, you know what I'm saying. But even liberals, a lot of really wealthy liberals are still Christians.
And the ones that aren't are pretty actively going out of their way to acknowledge Christian values at all times exactly.
And it's like, who do you think is going to take the spot?
Yeah, you know, the most now at this point, Congress has continued to make like ilhan Omar like the most evil lady alive who's secretly plotting Muslim you know whatever the fuck, But she's playing Christian games. She's just being you know, Muslim, she's practicing Islam personally, but she does she plays by all the Christian rules by just being in the government in the first place.
That's what I'm saying. Everybody does, like we're all that's the system we're all under inherently. I don't think it topples that easy as getting people to say happy Holidays. Instead, I think there's a war on verbiage. I think if that's like if we're if we're speaking to that, I think there's a war on policing how people speak. I'm not going full right wing or anything, but I do think there is a very prominent movement to police the way that people speak, maybe more than ever before. I think that's probably true, like in this idea of like propriety, right yeah, and like so like it's like the idea of like I go to Target in the suburbs and they say happy holidays? Who is that four? You know what I mean?
Yeah, I think the corporations are making choices like that exactly. That's why I don't even know that I know anybody who truly gives a fuck about most of the stuff that ends up being the argument like not for nothing. And I've never met a single person who has heard happy Holidays and felt at all put off by it.
And maybe.
Where they're like, yo, don't say that.
You never you never worked to Target in the suburbs and I didn't know, and it shows.
Yeah, I guess I've.
Definitely had it. I've definitely had it with people like or people like people love to be like. This just happened to me the other night. I was I was in Target and we were shopping and this lady was like, we were talking to this lady, this is actually very funny. This has to do with you. I was with the lady and then I was I was like, oh, look, these are the expansion packs for that whack ass game lengths and told me about and then there wasn't.
I'm gonna eat that. I was, okay, I'm not gonna say you're defended anymore. I tried. I tried, they're upselling again. You clearly you're not willing to play, and uh, and that's okay, that's okay.
I really watched the whole I watched for a second you entertainment, and then it was very beautiful to see that's emotional maturity. But we were in there and I was like, this is a game because they had like four expansion packs for that game.
Yeah, there was a lot of expansion packs.
Yeah, it was like four. And I was like, this is a game.
Yes, I have all of them, but go ahead.
I figured because I was like, I wonder if blanks were like one for Christmas, and then I was like, nah, okay, he got hold of them and they were like it was like the Star Wars one and then the one with like whatever, that's not the point.
I don't go into the other properties. I I'm we we have Disney and then my buddy has the Marvel packs.
OK.
But I don't personally purchase outside of the Disney brand.
Okay, Okay, that's understandable. The whole point is I was like, look, this is that game blah blah blah blah. And there was a true crime game for little girls and I was like, ha ha, little girls play this. And this lady comes up and she's like, my daughter loves that. I was like, your little daughter plays true crime board games. She's like, all the girls are into it, and then she did, and then she was like women are always worried about getting murdered. And I was like, oh, okay. And then but when she was leaving, she was like, Merry Christmas. You can't say that anymore and then walked off.
Whoa.
It was like this like seven hours ago. Whoa, So she did last night, So I guess not so.
So she didn't hear anything judgmental in your original question of like little girls playing this. She was like, oh, I bonded with a man, and now I'm going to tell him that I think he's a good Christian and he should be he should honor that.
And it was like a really nice interaction. We were having fun, we were laughing, we were joking. Besides that, and then I wasn't even mad at it, but it was just it was odd, it was, you know, And I wasn't even in the suburbs. I was just here in Denver.
Damn. Yeah, I don't know any I guess when I said know anybody. I've certainly seen it acted out in real life, but I've never had a personal interaction with someone I even remotely value who cares about the difference between holidays and Christmas.
I haven't had it with anybody at value, but I have seen it pretty year, which is like, but that's like people love like a phantom menace, right, That's the easy thing to be mad about.
That's what I was wondering is how many of the people do you think felt that way twelve years ago? And how many of them are mostly passionate about it because of what they've already been told. Is the scary subplot of that language.
I think it's just something to say because also I don't know if you've met people from other religions kind of snooty as far as I viewed religion, everybody sort of thinks better than everybody else and doesn't want to recruit as bad as they make it seem except for like foreigners, they love to recruit to go to other places.
You know.
Yeah, yeah, sure, put your ooga booga sticks down. I've got this beautiful white god for you. Yeah.
I don't know that that anyone really cares about this shit the way that they sort of put on, And if they do, I do think some of it is just a coaching into this passion, because that is, you know that now we get to wear our politics out in public in a way that we never had to in the past. Right, Like we used to just be quietly at home with your thoughts and you voted a certain way, and if an argument happened at a dinner you you both agreed not to like repeat this anywhere. And there were decent times in the past where we just kept everything to ourselves. And now it's like, but if I don't say Merry Christmas, people aren't gonna know I'm a Republican cook.
Do you think there are more Republicans and Democrats?
Yeah, I don't think that Democrats have to call themselves cuks.
I just don't because that's one thing I don't understand. I think that the I don't understand where it comes from. I don't know. I don't know what it is in you that makes you do I really, I really don't.
I don't think that it's like, oh, only Republicans are that. I just think that the Democrats, liberals left whatever, part of like their agenda is to be able to loosen up the definitions of all of these things, right, and so in that way, it's like, well, I'm not a cuckold, I'm a this that mixed with a little bit of this and that, and occasionally I like to watch a little this, a little that. That's there's no definition for what I am, whereas la Republicans are truly like I'm straight, I'm straight. I'm straight, I'm straight, and then also still need to watch their wife get banged down, and it's like, okay, well no you're not. But yeah, okay, I get that there. It's probably more complicated to explain. So, yeah, you're a cup.
That's a whole world that probably it's like you ever have a friend and then you find out they're really into roller skating and then you find out it's like a whole world and you're like, oh, that's just a part of you. I know nothing. That's how I feel about cupholdingyere. It's like, oh, I don't even I don't even set off the alarms when I go on bars go to nobody thinks I'm on either side of the side of the cup holder. Yeah, no, I don't.
I don't get that either, And frankly I don't. There's nothing in me that that desires it or even no, not at all judges it. Like a lot of times I'm like, bro, it's.
So foreign to me. I don't that cool.
I don't. I have no thoughts on that. Yeah, I really don't care. I will say I take it back, though, I will say, And you probably had this to stand up comedy on the road, You've had like after a show a couple definitely seems like you could get you could that could go down.
Yeah, I think there's It happens a lot where there's like two people being too excited for who you who you are in a way that like extends beyond just that was a fun show where they're like truly trying to get to know you, and you're like, bro, I don't know what this is, but but I gotta I gotta go to bed.
Or do you ever get it? When the and then we'll move off of this. But like, do you ever get it when the wife starts nagging the husband in front of you and then he's like into it, and you're like, what's happening?
M yeah, very little like mean and flexing in front of you and the white and the husband's not like fighting back at all.
Oh yeah, or he's like he's like, oh yeah, she makes the rules. Yeah, And then you're like really uncomfortable and she's like making too deep eye contact and you're like, ma'am, I just want to go back to the marriotte. I want to steal from the pantry because I'm not going to charge it to the room. I want to take my little box of pizza upstairs. I want to drink it with this tea that I stole as well.
Yeah, I think it's it's weird, but I definitely think that a lot of what we're talking about in the cup space does apply to this war on Christmas right, Like so much of it is just repressed people not being able to fully express who they are and needing now the identity of being like Chris, I celebrate Christmas life.
I'm a Christmas guy.
Yes, Like part of like proving that they are they exist, they are man, and man must roar as man was meant to be.
I agree with that. I think that I agree with that completely.
Yeah, so there's no war on Christmas. I think we both agree, you more vocally than I.
Right, Wait, come on, we run it together, do that? I know, falling apart at the end.
But there's no war on Christmas. But but we are trapped in a Christian Judeo Christian capitalistic hellscape that will always make it so that Christmas not only exists, but is trained to feel threatened, so that we never are able to liberate ourselves fully and and make the peace that Christmas actually asked us to try to make.
Yeah, yeah, well we got to the bottom of it. That was good.
It's dark.
I mean, you know, they have two weeks to fucking sit and think about it.
And we knew we don't get no better.
Yeah yeah, I really, we all get two weeks and nobody just gets that mushroom transformation where you're like kind of a better person after the high.
No, I'm gonna go see Godzilla again. I'm gonna do on the break.
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