October 2, 2025 • 56 mins
Hey Lil' Mommas! Here's another classic for you this week. Is the Ark of the Covenant buried underneath a church in Ethiopia? Langston and David start their adventure with Biniam Bizuneh (FX Dave) to uncover the truths behind this ancient and sacred box.
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He's like, hey, bro, give me a ride. We're family. Well,
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You know him as.
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A writer on Dave season seasons one and two, I believe,
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Let's go.
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he's very hilarious. You've seen him on Comedy Central. Give
it up for our guests today, mister Bennion Bazoona, what up?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I'm so excited what I doing. I've been a longtime
fan of the show. I loved watching when it first
came out and you had like all the different animations
and people were taking it just was such a cool
con and I love talking shit about conspiracies. So very
honored to be here.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
That's that's wow. What a nobody ever volleys it back
to us and says nice things. So that's that's really
sure that you would do that.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I mean, I didn't know when did when did you
become a co host?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Bory?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I didn't even know that hurts.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
He's been here for long enough. If you're really a.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Fan, you would know, goddamn it.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I've gone onto the podcast app and listened to episodes
with the like like Yasser's upisode, and I think I've
listened to like Garrick's or somebody's like, but these were
this was all like during COVID maybe or like. So
I didn't know that there was like a new change
up to them. When I heard you were gonna be
on it too, I was like, oh, two for one,
(03:47):
let's go.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, Bory has proven himself to be an essential player here.
We value his his membership very much. And and yeah,
probably the last like twelve episodes you can hear his
voice in all of them. I would say, maybe, all right,
we've bullshitted long enough. Because you came with the conspiracy
theory that frankly I had never heard of Bory. I
(04:13):
think you said you had Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
This, Bory, you knew about this because it's an African
thing like this is like Ethiopia is. One of their
claims to fame is that we don't jump.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
The gun here.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Shit, well, we got to intro it. I love I
love the enthusiasm. But you said, my mama told me
the Arc of the Covenant is hidden in a church
in Ethiopia. Yes, tell us more, tell us everything you know. Okay,
(04:49):
So my parents.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Are Ethiopian, you know, born there, moved to America in
like the eighties, and one of my dad's favorite pastimes
is tell me about Ethiopian history and lore and just
having a lot of pride. He's always saying things like
Ethiopia was never colonized, Ethiopia beat Italy. They tried to
get us. We beat there twice. You know, there's a
(05:14):
lot of a lot of pride, and that's that. I
think that's like central to the Ethiopian ethos is this
kind of superiority complex, like they think they're great.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Oh you think that's just you guys.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Oh, tell me, tell me what it's like over there,
Sierra Leone.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
We also think we're great. That's all I happen.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
All Africans think they're the best Africans.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, it was like, yeah, I will say that that
we we did an episode earlier this year about a
different Ethiopian conspiracy theory, or at least somewhat rooted in
Ethiopian conspiracy theory. But I discovered, and I didn't know this,
that Wakanda is theoretically based on Ethiopia. That like, wow,
(06:00):
y'all are the inspiration for this idealistic society existing on
the African eight. And part of it is the fact
that you guys, to your point, are one of the
few nations that has never been colonized and had like
a bunch of wealth at certain points that like far
(06:20):
exceeded everybody else.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
You know. I've been to Ethiopia and let me just
say the movie is not an accurate depiction. They really
upped it. But yeah, I think there is like this
kind of like you know, Hyla Selassie was like this
dude who created the African Union and a bunch of
(06:44):
people have like pride over him being like the last
emperor all this stuff. I did not know that though
I didn't know what kinda was based on that. Who
brought does Solomon Georgio bring that in?
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
That sounds like something he would know.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I feel like it might have been Solomon who came
with what kinda is real? If I'm not Missay So
I'm not a big Wakanda guy. I'm just saying that.
Oh shit, that's a hard stance.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
When you saw.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
David, when you saw the movie where.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
You like, we have to do this now because this
is why I don't have a Twitter.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Well, let's put her on the record. Let's get it
out there. When when you saw the movie where you like,
finally like African excellence depicted, how did you feel?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I felt like in the movie they were like, we
have this magical space rock that makes us better than
the rest of the Africans. They said it. They literally said,
then we would be like the rest of them. Well
I'm the rest of them, sucker, dick. That's how I
felt about that whole shit. I have the one superhero
(07:50):
movie based in Africa, and you still fight Africans at
the end. So now the major war is still black
people for black people. That's it, Say who, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You've been mad about this the whole.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Time since I went in the theater.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
And you know what, that's why a lot of people
left the movie being like kill Monger was right was
because that was basically his point. He was like, you
guys got all this power, all this money, all these weapons,
and you're not sharing it with anybody, and.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
They're actively hating on everybody else. Damn. But no, sure,
go save the fucking do what the EU wants you
to do.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
But but they do open the borders at the end
of it. That's what they say that they're they're welcoming
the world in.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
That's the ending of it.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
True.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
But he only changed that way because kill Monger like
had rubbed off on him, right.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
He was like, I don't know how they hadn't seen
it before.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I'm just saying, if you beat my ass afterwards, I
rethink some things. That's what they got. He got punched
in the fucking jar and he was like, you know
what I do got to be a better person. And
that's kind of nice. That's a good moral of the story.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
We are not here. I just know a few other
Africans who feel the same way I did about that movie.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Well, what I will say that's accurate, that ties back
to what we're talking about, is that he's tied. Is
that like Ethiopians, and I've heard this from other Africans too.
They have a feeling of being better, you know, and
like you were saying, clearly young people think they're better,
and like I've heard my aunt say terrible things. She'll
(09:31):
be like, oh, you're not black, you know Ethiopian and
like shit like that, where you're like, Yo, you're black, dude,
what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
You know, the diaspora is very complicated.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, he's like these older people who come to America.
You know what I think it's it's rooted in. It's
like people you're you know, you're you're African. You live
in a country where everyone looks like you. You come to
America and then you see how black people get treated
and then you're like, oh, let me separate myself so
I don't get like something like that. It's like my
(10:03):
model minority type bullshit happens. And I guess that's what
Black Panther accurately depicted with that attitude.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I will say that that is what you're speaking to
is as an American black person, what sort of like
for us is the thing where y'all are like man people,
all the black people always hating on Africans some of
it and some of it's obviously so like some of
it is because y'all motherfuckers walk around constantly telling us
(10:36):
you're better than us.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
It is true and like and then like but like
also while wearing like penny loafers and track bands.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah yeah, yeah, you got on the same school uniform
I do, Bro, how much better than me?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I mean, that's the thing is it's coming. It's never
coming from people. Our age is coming from a dude
driving your uber telling you that, and then you're like, bro,
come on, like.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I mean, but they're not just driving ubers. There's a
bunch of Nigerian really everything.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I would say, Nigerians are the most educated I think
diaspora group in general, not even just African groups, Like
they're the highest educator, right, really, this is what That's
what OPI told me. He said that, yeah that, like
I mean, and it's true because like Nigerians are rich,
(11:31):
they're all like there's so much businessmen, lawyers. But I
haven't I don't know. I can't speak for Nigerian's. I
haven't heard Nigerian saying that. I don't know, but I
know I have heard it from older Ethiopian people, and
I think that like it's it's all part of that.
And the Ark of the Covenant thing is that they
(11:52):
think that in this church, in this place called Oxom,
that this Ethiopian hang Menialik brought back the arc like
centuries and centuries ago and brought it to this church,
and I think from Israel.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Right.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
We'll get into some of this in the research, but
basically he's believed to have stolen it from Solomon's son
that like Solomon had like a bastard child that he
that showed up late in life, and Solomon gifted him
the Arc of the Covenant, and then that dude fucked
with Ethiopia super hard and was gonna like travel to
(12:35):
Ethiopia to like kick it. But in meeting up with
this this emperor dude, the Emperor dude tricked him and
replaced the arc with a fake one and then stole
the other joint.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
See it's like that that level of detail is what
my dad knows. I know. I just know the basic part,
which is that in this church in ox Room, and
they appoint people to be guards, and if you're appointed,
it's like a supreme court, whereas for life, you are
(13:10):
a guard and you're and the only people that are
allowed to look at it is that I've read things
that say that there are two guards. I've read things
that say that they're one and they switch off. But
that's the only person allowed to lay eyes on it.
So if you were trying to do some independent research
and verify if it was real, you're not allowed to.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
And see that sounds crazy because if you're a guard
for life, I'll beat your ass at eighty do you
know what I mean? Like, I'll just wait til you
get old and then I'm gonna go look at that
goddamn mark, you know, if.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
You weren't supposed to look at it. And maybe that's
just is that what happened in the movie. I thought
if you looked at it, your face was gonna melt.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah, that's that's what Indiana Jones said.
Speaker 7 (13:54):
I feel like they just text, Yeah, they needed it
to be like some some like shit for the movie
so that there was like a surprise or whatever.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
But in that's not in the Ethiopian text. They just
think that this is the shit that held the stone
tablets that have the Ten Commandments on them, and it's
like a wooden thing that's caked in gold, and it's
like the original shit that like Moses had, right, yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
That's the belief that Moses was like, hey, y'all build
a container for the commandments, and then they did that.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah. And I also read this other thing that said
that the guards are trained in hand to hand combat,
to like fight anyone who comes up. Now, what I
don't know is when you do get to be eighty,
like you're saying, do they then go like, bro, you
got to retire. You're not going to be a very
(14:57):
good guard. Like, you can't choose to retire, They'll retire
you because they like know that you know.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah, that's a good question. Also my question, what is
just like some type of Ethiopian kung fu, Like what
is this? Because I'm impressed if you guys have your
own karate.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I've never heard of any Ethiopian fighting style. I would
say that's not good news.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Never A lot of people are gonna listen to this
and be like, I'm gonna go see that fucking arc.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Because if there was an Ethiopian fighting style, I think
we would be good at any sport other than long
distance running. That's the only thing we can do, and
it's the like only non contact type like non combat,
non strength based thing. Damn yeah, like that, that's that's
the one thing we dominated. Any other type of sport
(16:01):
like that takes. They always say this, They say, like
East Africa's slow twitch muscles, West Africa is fast switch,
so all of the like yeah, yeah, so it's like sprints,
football whatever.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Wait, who always says that? That's why? I never who
always says.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
That athletes like Iran tracking white athletes.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
It sounds like, don't let him say that.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
It's that sounds like some eugenic ship that's like fucked up,
But it's actually a term in kinesiology like fast switch
and slow twitch muscle.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
No I know about I know, I know about muscle
fast fibers. I'm talking about regional, regional African benefits of
muscle fibers. Sounds like fucking phrenology. And I wouldn't let
some white boys sprinter talk to me like that.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I think it sounds like you're you're saying, Joe Rogan
is an athlete, and listen, he can kick the ship
out of a bag, but I I wouldn't call him
an athlete.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I heard this from track coaches all through like I
ran cross country and high school and college, and they
would say, like all of the world records can be
traced to West Africa in sprints, and all the world
records in distances five thousand and above can be traced
to East Africa. And they were like, it's due to
(17:24):
just you know, like in East Africa, all lots of
things are at altitude and you're just growing up in
that way, and over time, people it's like weight training
because it's like you get so good at training when
there's like no oxygen in the air, and then you
go to sea level and you're just racing. It's like
Goku taking off the heavy clothes. It's easy. And then
(17:46):
as far as West Africa goes, I have no idea
why there's just like faster ROTI.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
As a West African from the Mile High City. I
do tell you, I will say to you when I
go to sea level, I am like a god. You're
the term god body. That's how I feel. I'm so
fast on the beach man.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I wish that there were I wish there was one
good Ethiopian sprinter. It's never happened. We're like people would
always like because I ran like long distance. I would
do like the mile and two mile and the five
kN stuff. People would always be like, oh, you're you're
the runner, you're fast, And I'm like, yeah, over like
(18:35):
a mile or longer. You get me in a hundred
or two hundred meters, I'll get dusted by most people.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
The fast twitch and slow twitch shit does sound like
some shit. Oh, like, yeah, you're a European scientist, was like,
the Africans on this side of the continent are faster.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Yeah, yeah, they're so musical.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
You know what the problem is is that we've commodified
athletes so much that we can't disassociate like the language
of like of science and slavery, do you know what
I mean? Like it truly is like I don't know
if the reason you talk like that is because of
slavery or because that's literally the only way we could
describe what you're seeing.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
Yeah, And I guess it's It's like it also goes
along the same it takes the same route as most
coded racist language, you know what I'm saying where they're like, no,
it's it's physically, it's it's it's science.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
It's not it's just a regional like that's like, that's right,
we'll get into when it talks. Then they're talking about
smaller heads thus as smaller breath. It's like it lives
in the same place.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
All yeah, it's not Lebron James' is a genius that
that should be acknowledged as such. It's Lebron James just
got that big old body in those fast twitched muscles.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Nobody ever talk talks about his photographic memory.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Though, yeah, true fully.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Has because I will say there's.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
A way he's better than Jordan. He's a genius. Michael
Jordan's not a genius.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
All right as well.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I didn't like the way this took a turn, But
Beniam you were speaking.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I mean, the part that gets left out of these
kind of like conversations about certain areas of the world
and why athletes are as good as they are is
that there's a bunch of Ethiopians who are slow as
hell and suck it long distance running. There's a bunch
of West Africans that are not good at the one
hundred meters dash. But the correlation is what makes people
(20:44):
go like, oh, okay, you can you can draw some
but even that it is a little dangerous. I hear it.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
It's scary.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yeah, yeah, listen, we have to take a break. But
when we come back, we're gonna find out if Jilliam
is willing to quit common to become the fastest Ethiopian
on the planet. This is this is exciting ship that
we're building here. We'll be back with Morbinian Parsona more.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
My mama told Meang we.
Speaker 9 (21:23):
Are yes, yeah, all right, we're back here with Morbinion
pasiona more.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
My mama told me. We're still talking about the possibility
that the Arc of the Covenant is not where Indiana
Jones was hunting, but in fact hidden in a church
in Ethiopia, surrounded by potentially very old warrior monks.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I love the term warrior monk, by the way, because
I feel like it's a very very thankless job that
these guys have. I would be very surprised if they're
allowed to have sex. I bet probably not well.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Up there, No, not not next to the arc. That's disrespectful. Yeah,
not even hand stuff thing. It's also because like how
many people are running up on the Ark of the Covenant,
Like That's what I think. The hard thing about that
job is is they probably never have to how often
do they really have to defend it?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Oh, so this might get into the research. But I
was reading up on this and there was a researcher
European dude, I assume he was British, who like sometime
in the middle of the twentieth century, like nineteen fifties,
nineteen sixties. He wanted to see if this arc was
(22:48):
really in this church. And he came up and he
had like gunmen with him and he was like, sorry, y'all,
I don't give a fuck about your customs. I'm just
walking in. And he walked past, went inside, and he
wrote that he looked at it and thought it was
just a replica, and he was like, sadly, this isn't
the arc of the Covenant.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
But also they just rolled over and let that. They
just let that happen.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I guess I don't think they have guns. All they
have are just like they just have like walking staffs.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Like, man, if we have.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Guns that, they're like, no, no, no, man, you got it.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
You got that East African karate.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Use some slow twitch muscles.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I feel like if all you can do is be
good at running away, probably not gonna be good at fighting.
The dude with guns. They I would love to have
seen how that went down, if they like put up
a fight, or if they were just like I have.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
To assume they were, like, you got it.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Oh man, it makes me so sad.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
You just make me sit in a cellar all day
preparing for the worst job, which is defending this this
wooden basket. No, go ahead, look at it.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
But the one time you get to prove yourself and
that the job was worth it in the years of
commitment that you put in learning hand to hand Ethopian combat,
and then you were just like, nah, come.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
On, man, you got a gun. I thought we was
just doing fistfights down here, but all right, you shooting.
Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
See.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I just feel like you're supposed to die for it.
That's probably what they were told, right, you got to
die for this. And I when I read this account,
it didn't talk about any bloodshed, so I think that, yeah,
(24:52):
I don't blame them because I would do the same thing.
But it sounds like they weren't really about it about it,
you know.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Yeah, they need to get some fast.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
If we had, if we had we had a couple
of the people from the film that Our Country is
based on defending it. Then you know, maybe they want
us to a chance.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
But so you already started talking about some pretty important moments.
But I think, if I'm not mistaken, the last known
non Ethiopian person, and I'm not sure if this is
the person you're talking about or if this is a
different individual, but the last non Ethiopian person who is
said to have saw the ARC is this dude, Edward U.
(25:38):
Linndorf is his name, who basically found himself stationed in
Ethiopia while fighting for Britain in World War Two and
then becomes friends with Haley Selassie and then it's basically
like escored it in like they become so cool that
he's like, yeah, fuck it, I'll show you the ARC.
(25:59):
And he says he sees it and believes it and
writes stories about it years later.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
So that's what I'm talking about. It's the same guy.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Whoa so this is an example of the way that
history can be fucking rewritten like a motherfucker.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Man the White side of history. Dull.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yeah, that's the same guy. Yeah, because I'm looking. I'm
looking at the article right now to make sure. And
he says that Uhllendorff was concerned after he gave an
interview that he hoped that Ethiopian authorities did not become
aware of the Los Angeles Times article, and then he
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never spoke to reporter again about what he saw. But
I guess he said, this is this is how, this
is what it says entirely. He went to the church
of mary Zion with a couple of soldiers. He might
spoke to the monks in the church and I heark
asking to see the arc. His request refused. They said,
you can't go in. This is holy. He said, well,
I'm sorry, but I want to go in, And he
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did go in with his soldiers behind him. They couldn't
do anything to stop him.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
WHOA, Yeah, that things that I've read have made him
seem like much more of a sweet, neutral figure who
like kissed a king's hand enough times that he like
carried him in there is that's wild.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
I don't know which one is true, but this version says,
do I think.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
I know which one?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I think that he marched in with his guns, because that's.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
The one that's true to dog I think. I don't
think there's any doubt in my mind that he did
a meaner thing than what he's been telling people.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
This is from I'm reading from Live science dot com.
By the way, I'm just gonna trust that they're reputable.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Whoa.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
And it says that what he saw you can find
in any Ethiopian church, which is a model of the
Ark of the Covenant. He says it didn't differ in
anyway from many arts you see in any other churches
in Ethiopia. It wasn't ancient, and it certainly wasn't the
original arc.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Now, how many how many arcs? How many arts are then?
So why is it so many arts?
Speaker 1 (28:13):
So in all these other churches in Ethiopia they have
replica arcs kind of. I don't really know why.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
I think it's it's in reference to the fact that
it is widely understood in Ethiopia that they are housing
the Arc of the Covenant. And so if you are
a you know, following the same Christian Judaic principles, then
you're gonna be like, yeah, this is a symbol of
our thing. And only the priest is allowed anywhere inside
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the circle where the arc is kept during like you know,
any sermon, like in any church, only the priests can
go in that area.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, And I remember when I was eleven. That's the
only time I've been back there. There was this lake
that we went out called like Lake Tana, and there
were like little islands all on this lake and there
were churches on them, and I remember going like we weren't.
There was like something where like only men were allowed
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in the church or something. But I even think like there,
we weren't allowed to like look at the arc. We
were just even the replica I don't we're allowed to look.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
At They're trying to play theirs off.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
They're like, uh yeah, and it's like I can't remember
if we were allowed in or out, but I remember
there is like being told that at the time, like
we have these replica ones, and what was it about
to say, yeah, it's just widely. It's just it's another
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point of like, yo, we're out here killing it never
been colonized. We got the arc points on the board
that yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
So so just just to walk us back a little bit,
because I feel like we jumped immediately into uh, some
parts of this conversation that may not be totally clear
to our audience. The Arc of the Covenant is a
sort of like large wooden structure that has a little
like house over it, where in theory it's like a
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chest basically with like a bunch of fancy things around
it that is said to be the holster for the
ten Commandments as commanded by Moses from God. And then
the Israelites carried that that exact thing through the desert
for forty years while they were trying to find their home.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yep, and it's got those The finding feature is like
those wings.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yeah, the two I think there are angels. What are
those things on the top?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I think it's I.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Think they're wings. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I always like they're are facing towards each other.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
And it's like covered in gold shiny and then it's
got these like sticks for carrying, so that you could
have like almost like pall bearers, you know, like four
people kind of like supporting it from all sides.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Because yeah, you don't put your Ark of the Covenant
on the ground.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I get no.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Nah, yeah, you gotta.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Don't put your purse on the ground. Don't put your
ark of the Covenant on the ground. Those are just
two facts.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
It is either way somebody's slipping something in it or
taking something.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Now, I mean, if somebody roofi's the arc of the Covenant.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
That's how they got.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Right, that's what they did. They pulled the ocean's eleven
switch Peroo type ship to get it there.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
That's a movie I want to see, Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yeah, I mean, just eleven Ethiopian in suits being like
we're gonna steal the.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
I mean, it sounds amazing.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
It feels like it wouldn't take.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
All you have to do is show up with a
gun and it's.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
That makes me feel like I could go get the Covenant.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I mean, if it's this valuable and you think about
all the other art thefts that have happened where people
like steal a monet or whatever, you would think that
someone would have tried to steal it.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Well, well, that's that's one of the things that I
wanted to bring up, right, is that like, look, you
went into detail about how crazy they have to feel,
or at least feel like they're protecting this this item,
and it's insane in part because museums are filled all
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across the world with items that were stolen from other countries.
So they're sitting there and they don't feel the same instinct.
Then I guess in some forms they do. They make
it very hard obviously to steal a debatable right exactly.
Things get stolen from museums all the time. And then
even with that, they don't feel no shame about it.
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They're not like, yo, we gotta hide it away so
nobody can even lay eyes on it. They're like, not
look at it, but I'll fuck you up if you
touch it. Are stolen shit.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
And I feel like with the arc their thing is based,
it's like it's not because of shame, it's because it's like, oh,
it's so holy that your eyes aren't worthy to look
at it. And they from from what I've read, it
seems like they feel like they are the rightful keepers
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of it, like because it's it's a Christian thing more
so than a it belongs to this country or that country,
is how they think of it.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Yeah, I if I'm remembering correctly, I think Ethiopians have
a something in that they they stayed loyal on some
like Christian shit and sort of like we're devoted to
Christianity when every other sort of like sect of Christianity
at one point in the Bible bailed like they were like, yo,
we do we can't even rock with this shit no more.
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And Ethiopians were like, nah, we're still with it. We
like this is where we're at. And so then they're like, no,
we are the original Christians. We are sort of like
the source of everything that makes this thing valuable.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
I wonder if the Black Israelites think that they have
claim over the Ark of the Covenant, you know, hmmm,
because if they're like, we're the original Israelites, maybe they're
like we should have.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
It right because they're like, yeah, maybe they have it.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Maybe they have it.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Has anybody actually listening to what they're yelling, they might
need ye, what's what's the math?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
I heard the best thing. This is like maybe twenty
fourteen or so, and I was like around Slawson and
there were some dudes doing the Black Israelite thing with
the megaphone, and there was like a main dude and
then he had a couple like helpers and they were
reading from the Bible and uh, like, I was reading
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back this thing and he said like and from the
water the Leviathan came and the main guy was like,
read that back, read that back, and then the guy
said it again and from the waters the Leviathan came.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
And the dude was like lockness monster is real. But
also I understand where he's coming.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
From, and that's that was you know, that was where
my brain went where I was like, is that is
that insane? Or is that just a hard ass bar
that like you can pull more information from when you
need it, you know what I mean, Like.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
He's yeah, all of it's just English class That's how
I feel. You find a little proof and then you
can extrapolate and be like this is what this means.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Right right right? You just you can half read a
book and get a whole lot of messages from whatever
that is.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Who we're talent. You think I finished to people's history
of the United States, I'm like, no, no, I haven't.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
So I looked up some of the examples of like
things sort of like the most famous things I guess
that were stolen by other other countries that are kept
in other museums that you know, truly, everybody feels real
comfortable flexing. The Rosetta stone is an example that the
British literally stole from Egypt and now have on display
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without a care in the world, like truly, and it's
written in Egyptian hieroglyphics. It's not like it's, you know,
a shared language. These motherfuckers just have their shit in
their museum.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Egypt's gotta go get it back, though, that's on them
at this point.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
They got to pull a kill monger Like I didn't
even know the Rosetta stone was a real thing. I
thought that was.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Oh how in Spanish.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Yeah, it was like, this is a cool name for
a company. If anything, Egypt should be getting some money
off them too.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
I think has something to do with the uh and yes,
I agree with you there capitalism boom.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
I mean if we're going to start kicking back to
Egypt everything that they invented, I mean that's a long day.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Yeah, there's a lot of dudes I know with tattoos
that are gonna have to kick some bread.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Yeah, every every unk tattoos got to give them ten bucks.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
For fucking Yukio. That entire show that I saw in Egypt.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
I feel like KADU's gotta kick.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Some money up, ergo baduos a lot of money to
Egypt right now?
Speaker 1 (37:42):
What are what are what are these other things?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Additionally, there's something called the man Eaters of Savo, which
are displayed in the Chicago Field Museum. Great museum and
are taxidermy bodies of two lions, which at their peak
killed somewhere between twenty eight to hundred and forty people
in Kenya. So these lions are killing the fuck out
of Kenyan people. Well, no, it's specifically Indian workers in Kenya.
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At the time, I don't know, geopolitics was wild. Anyway,
They're killing all these people and then one dude shoots
them and has them taxi dermied and then ends up
sending them to the United States for five thousand dollars,
And the Kenyan government was like, bro, what the fuck?
This is the most famous two lions that have ever
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existed in history. Don't sell our shit, and now they
just don't get them back.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Yeah, I mean if there's anything that, like, you know,
like after World War two, how they were like, okay,
we have like the World Court, and we can hold
people responsible for shit, Like can they do the same
thing for these artifacts that were stolen from places in
ancient times? They could be like, well, you're under our
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jurisdiction because we're the world, you know.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Yeah, I don't think so, because everybody just points to
the transactions that justify it. So again, this dude technically
did say we gave him five They gave him five
thousand dollars for the fucking lions, Like, why what are
you talking about?
Speaker 1 (39:16):
He made a bad deal, But yes, I guess it's
a deal. Though, you know what could they say?
Speaker 4 (39:21):
Now?
Speaker 2 (39:21):
I think that's the justification. Now you can turn back
and look at like, yo, there are cultural justifications, human
justifications inside of this. But I think any court is
going to lose out when they try to do that.
Instead of being like, well, there's a receipt right here,
it says five g's.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
I mean, I guess it's the same as like Israel Palestine,
because it's like whatever land stolen, place is taken, whatever.
But you can't really who's going to listen?
Speaker 3 (39:48):
So how far can we go back?
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Exactly how far? How far back can we really source it?
Speaker 2 (39:53):
We can quote this episode Biniam says Israel whatever.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
But in terms of listening to an outside foreign power
or like a World Bank or whoever the fuck is
gonna be the jurisdiction. No one is gonna If you're
the one in the situation, you're always gonna have your
own self interest and you're not gonna be like, well,
you're right, you're gonna be like, nah, this is my lion, now,
I got it.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
You know this lion, he loves the bears. He loves
Italian beef.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
So the last example I'll give you beef and we'll
take a break after this. The last example I'll give
you is specific actually to Ethiopia. Ethiopia fell victim in
the Battle of Magdala. Am I saying that right? Magdala
in eighteen sixty eight. It was a basically when the
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British came in and took pieces of Ethiopia from y'all,
or at least y'all gave off like a little taste
of Ethiopia to make to keep them from fully colonizing
the entire country. So you've never been colonized, but you
have had to give up a few parts to get
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get good with people.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
See, I didn't even know about this battle. I've never
heard that name. Magdala.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
Yeah, m A g d A l A. And so
in this this fight, the British end up taking so
much shit, literally so much shit, including something called the
Crown of Aboud, a gold crown that was once that
once sat a top like the head of the Ethiopian Church.
But they took so much shit that they needed fifteen
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elephants and one hundred mules to transfer all the stuff
to a nearby town for auction.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
That's crazy. And now it's like is it displayed in
England just proudly?
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
My favorite part of this is this is gonna be
the most devastating part. My favorite part is when the
Ethiopian when the Ethiopian government has like come back to
them and been like a bro, we're in modern times,
now give us back our ship. The response was, oh,
for sure, you can have some of it, but we
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will return it to you only as a loan. And
you have to then take your name off of any
any suggestions that this was yours to own in the
first place.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Wow, that's so fucked up.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
It's wild dug And they can't and it's not.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
I don't like this section, and they can't.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
I guess they can't do it. They just gotta. It's
just like the dudes with the guns walking up to
the church. They're just like, Okay, yeah, what are you
gonna do?
Speaker 3 (42:46):
I don't like how happy.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
It's all so silly. They were like a bro, I'll
lend you your stuff back to you after I stole it.
Come on, that's just that's just good clean fun.
Speaker 3 (42:58):
This typical bully. But Ethiopia is getting bullied out of
their items. I don't like that.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
All Right, we're gonna take one more break. We'll be
back with more Beni and Presuma, my mama told.
Speaker 10 (43:09):
Me, and we oh, all right.
Speaker 7 (43:24):
So.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Anyway, yeah, we're back here with more Beni and Presiona more,
my mama told me, and Beniam can't wait to tell
you goddamn more about the arc of the Covenant being
in Ethiopia.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
I like waited for a second. I was like, Okay,
there's no sound he here. Let me just jump in
at that.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
There's always a sound key.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
You know what's crazy is in Ethiopia. And I think
this is like in a lot of like newer democracies,
there's no such thing as like is this candidate pro choice?
What's this candidate's views on the environment. It's just like
it's just like, are you the same ethnicity as me,
then you're gonna be looking out for this ethnic group.
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That's all it is.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
That's how I vote.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
I voted like that once before. It didn't change much
for me, but I felt good about what I did.
Speaker 4 (44:27):
Which is.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
Which is so interesting because like, are things that go
into when we vote so different?
Speaker 3 (44:36):
That's what they say. It's the same shit.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
Yeah, I don't think there's anybody that's like really focused
on the issues as.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
Much as there's like twenty people in LA who pretend
on Instagram everybody else they're like that one looks like me.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
I like the way that one. I like the way
his jim is cut.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
I like it that he's not one of those.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
I will say, yeah, if there was someone who looked
like me, I would vote for them as I have
in the past.
Speaker 3 (45:05):
Immediately you just run for anything. Yeah, you gotta let
it slide.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
If there was somebody that was from your exact neighborhood, city,
all the ship, but you don't agree with them on
all the issues, would you be like yeah, but they're
like they're of my area and they look like me.
How what would be more important to you?
Speaker 3 (45:28):
How far against my issues are they? Is it?
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Like?
Speaker 3 (45:31):
Is it like minimal stuff? Because I got some deal breakers.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
I mean, let's say they are fiscally conservative but socially whatever,
like liberal, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (45:45):
I can fuck with that. How fiscally conservative are we
cutting are we cutting out social services or are we
just like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Yeah, yeah, they're like pull them up by your own bootstraps.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
I can't get down. Look all I'm saying, but if
they lived next door to me, they wouldn't be like
that because I was broke to like three years ago.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
You would you would have you would have rubbed off
on them.
Speaker 3 (46:15):
They would have been broke, like, they wouldn't even they
had strong senses of community. That's what I'll say.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
Okay, all I'm saying is I need to know the
exact alternative to this person, meaning like whoever they're running against,
because if they're still better than the other person, I'm
going black, baby, you know what I mean? Like, yeah,
I'm going black every time.
Speaker 3 (46:35):
Like, do you know the level of white excellence you
have to have for me to vote you over? Just
like a regular black person to be completely just a
bus driver with a briefcase. Yeah yeah, got a job,
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you might manage the buses. This guy's really.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
What was the name of that Godfather's pizza Republican black dude?
Speaker 2 (47:05):
Uh fuck? What was his name? It starts with the
H Herman Kane.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Herman Kane.
Speaker 4 (47:10):
Now it seems like.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
There are people like this every couple of years who
just get thrust at the top of the Republican Party
and there's not a chance that I look at them
and go like, but they're black, because they're just like so.
Speaker 3 (47:24):
Well, no, you know, but that's different.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
That's yeah, you know, you know, talking about her, I
don't know, you're talking about regular motherfuckers. So you would
kick it with not fucking Herman Kane.
Speaker 1 (47:41):
But regular motherfuckers you would kick it with. Are never
like running for president? Like there you I mean, that's
the problem.
Speaker 3 (47:50):
Yeah, issue, you know, what we need is a black Trump.
Speaker 4 (47:55):
I want to know.
Speaker 3 (47:57):
I want to I want to live up there and
say like, yeah, he's saying it, I'm thinking it. That's
what I know.
Speaker 4 (48:04):
You know, Oh, now we're off. Now we're off. I
thought we were.
Speaker 3 (48:10):
I thought we were banking on the community.
Speaker 4 (48:13):
But I know what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
It's like someone who's black with the Trump attitude, but
they don't know positions.
Speaker 3 (48:21):
Yeah, yeah, I'm being completely facetious. I think that your
political candidate should be better than you. And if you
don't think that, you're kind of stupid.
Speaker 2 (48:29):
Yeah. No, I do think that we should be clear.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
I wan him to be like me. I hate Robin
three times this week, like I want him, you gotta
be better.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
But can he be better than you but also be
a populist at the same time. Yeah, yeah, I think
that exists.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Yeah, I listen. I grew up in a in a
very Marxist household.
Speaker 4 (48:48):
I don't agree.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
There's no yeah, there's no version of this that I'm
going to be like, hell yeah, if we just vote
on the right way, we're gonna fix it. It's like, yeah,
I feel I you know, one way or the other,
and I do vote. I ain't.
Speaker 5 (49:03):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (49:04):
I like that you won't even let us play make
believe for a second thing like you had to. You
had to, like listen, brother, time Marxist.
Speaker 2 (49:14):
Look, man, I vote, but I don't believe in that ship.
I'd just be doing my civic duty.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
You know, man, what was that like growing up in
a Marxist household.
Speaker 2 (49:24):
Well, you drink a lot of Mountain dew, but my
dad drank dia coax, so I had I had to
show him that I was younger and more gnarly than
he was.
Speaker 4 (49:38):
I don't know it was.
Speaker 3 (49:39):
You know, you had like Christmas and ship right.
Speaker 2 (49:43):
Yeah, we were we weren't sad. We were just you know,
politically there was a different political slant.
Speaker 3 (49:49):
Were you allowed to watch television?
Speaker 2 (49:51):
Yep, we had it. We had multiple TV's which we
could turn on and off whenever we wanted.
Speaker 1 (49:57):
Would would your parents how would they think of, like
voting in a national election where they like.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
Well, it's not both my parents. There's specifically my dad
my mom broken homes, but specifically my dad is that
that's his political lean.
Speaker 3 (50:15):
Okay, what was your mom?
Speaker 2 (50:17):
Mm? So trying to make it.
Speaker 1 (50:20):
Okay, but we ran ahead above water making no way.
Speaker 4 (50:25):
When she can mom river, I mean.
Speaker 1 (50:39):
So, here's something that's kind of in common is that
when my parents were in Ethiopia and they were students,
this dude, Hyla Selassie who was the emperor, like they
wanted him to be overthrown because they wanted feudalism to
be gone. They thought it was unfair, they thought the
rich were just getting richer. And they were part of
these like student groups that would meet up at night
and you had to be all secret, and they wanted
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to overthrow this dude, and they wanted Communism to come
to Ethiopia because they were like on paper, this.
Speaker 3 (51:07):
Is great, you know, And then they came to America
and you became a comedian.
Speaker 7 (51:11):
Is it that.
Speaker 1 (51:14):
Out?
Speaker 2 (51:18):
All them apologize for what you.
Speaker 4 (51:21):
Got.
Speaker 1 (51:21):
The Marxist dad, you feel the same struggle. But then
the dude got overthrown by the military, and the military
was worse than this dude, and they were like, okay,
now let's overthrow this military. And they were part of
these like they were like medics for gorilla fighters, trying
to they they worked so hard and were so about
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their political ship and then came to America to have
a better life. And we're like, okay, American system, now,
all that communism, all that shit, you know, we're just living.
Speaker 2 (51:56):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's the older I get, the
more I can see how you can feel devastated by
your kids' choices, even you know what I mean, even
if you're not doing it to hurt your parents, you're
truly just pursuing the things that make you feel whole
and precious in the world. And like they didn't come
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here for that, you know what I mean, that's not
what they that's not the reason they're here. And it's
like we are talking the same cha.
Speaker 3 (52:26):
But also they came here in one way or another
for you to cast some checks exactly, so you know
what I mean. Like, ultimately, I'm sorry, I'm not a doctor,
but it's we're doing all right.
Speaker 1 (52:37):
Yeah it just have a better life than me, have
more choices, right exactly, more the freedom to do what
you want. The only reason they wanted you to be
a doctor was because that was a straight path to
financial freedom, better life. But if you could do it
another way, still accomplishing it, you know, yeah right right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (52:57):
Yeah no, and they'll still be proud. Who cares that
you live in a one bedroom apartment?
Speaker 1 (53:01):
You Yeah, it's one it's a one bedroom in l A.
Speaker 3 (53:06):
Which is a house.
Speaker 1 (53:07):
That's a house in Indiana, well, Colorado.
Speaker 3 (53:10):
But it's it's good, you know what. I keep it clean.
I keep it clean. Big ass TV, yeah, big as
all the streamers, all the platforms.
Speaker 2 (53:20):
I love the baby. You watch this Paramount Plus.
Speaker 3 (53:23):
I got stars, Oh you watch you can watch Raising
Canaan on my ship all the fifty.
Speaker 1 (53:32):
Bro. If you have Paramount Plus, you know you're eating I.
Speaker 3 (53:36):
I do have Paramount Plus.
Speaker 1 (53:37):
That's an ancillary streaming platform.
Speaker 2 (53:40):
I hope I'm not overstepping here. They I hope they
give it to you for free. I hope they at
least uh kicking and we.
Speaker 3 (53:46):
Are that just came up recently, are in no way
expressed by the Viacom Corporation.
Speaker 1 (54:00):
I don't think people get I mean, as with all
my interactions with people, no one's never been like, yeah,
I have free Hulu or I have like, it doesn't
seem like it's a thing.
Speaker 2 (54:10):
I got free Peacock for a year.
Speaker 3 (54:12):
Well that's just for a year.
Speaker 2 (54:15):
Yeah, that's the first time that any of them have.
You know, HBO has been It's Comedy Central and HBO
have employed me for a lot of shit, and never
once either of them have been like, what's up here?
Speaker 1 (54:29):
They're like, oh, well you can afford it with that
salary we're paying.
Speaker 3 (54:32):
Yeah, They're like, we know what you're they know what
we're paying you.
Speaker 2 (54:35):
That's crazy. I don't know what this episode turned into.
It went far off the rails, it really went far,
But god damn it, I think we did it. I
do think we nailed We nailed all the essential parts.
And there's a whole lot of fat on that bone,
so you know, we'll enjoy the meal all the same.
Speaker 1 (54:56):
I think what you know what. We one thing I'll
say this, The best thing to come out of this
is that I'm gonna write The Oceans eleven Ark of
the Covenant, and.
Speaker 3 (55:06):
That's really important, very important.
Speaker 2 (55:08):
I want to founders feed now, definitely.
Speaker 3 (55:11):
In fact, I'm gonna wear I'm gonna wear to the
movie theater.
Speaker 2 (55:16):
Okay, we do it, all right, Beniam, could you tell
the people at home where they can find you and
what cool shit you have going on?
Speaker 1 (55:24):
Yeah, you can find me, bennim bizzed on any of
the things. Yeah, you go on YouTube search my name,
just see some ship.
Speaker 2 (55:33):
Yeah, hell yeah, YouTube them go watch his ship. He's
written on a bunch of cool things and god damn it,
YouTube agin, I don't know, just keep youtubing, Beniam David,
do you want to tell the people where they can
find you?
Speaker 3 (55:47):
A cool guy? Joke City seven on Instagram?
Speaker 2 (55:54):
As always, you can follow me at Langston Kerman And
as always, if you want to send us your own drops,
your own conspiracy theories, your own bullshit, please send it
to mymama pod at gmail dot com. I would love
to hear from.
Speaker 3 (56:07):
You and give us a call.
Speaker 2 (56:10):
A four fourt moms, A four four little moms. We
want to hear from you. Otherwise you know what to do.
Speaker 4 (56:17):
Bye bitch.
Speaker 5 (56:21):
The government babies, my crow chips and your fabies. All
Kuala bears are racist. The money, our ships and Turkey stuff.
Speaker 4 (56:38):
I can't tell me
I think it was a great choice because anything that
boris added to immediately becomes better, just like saying yeah,
when you became the voice of Comedy Central, stock went up.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I disagree. Now that's where I'll disagree.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I am.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
I think.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I think under the Kyle Kin name regime, they were,
they were pretty good. And now they say.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Park just twenty fifth anniversary. That doesn't happen by accident.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
The Daily Show is stronger than it's ever been stronger.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
You had a black daily show. Now that's me.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
You know what the streets were calling for a black
daily show. You're rid of yo, MTV reps. We want
a black daily shows.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
A racist.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
The money.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Stuff I can't tell me. Yup, yup, yup.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
There it is there it is. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome
to another phenomenal episode of My Mama Told.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Me, the podcast where we dive deep into the pockets
of black conscution.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
And we finally work to prove that Ben Diesel is
in fact working on an alternative energy source that is
not powered by gasoline, but in fact powered by family.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
You bring the family together, you protect the family, and
that's what makes your car go froom froom. I'm your
coast like sticker.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
And I'm David Bory and I love family.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
You love family.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I knew you.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I knew that about you.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, that just means I'm not a guest.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
He's like, hey, bro, give me a ride. We're family. Well,
we can't bullshit about family any longer. We have a
very funny, very talented guest today. We both know him
very well.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
You know him as.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
A writer on Dave season seasons one and two, I believe,
if I'm not.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Mistaken, seasons two and three, but two and three, okay.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
And four, five and six. I just called my shop.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
He's going it.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Let's go.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
U's in the air.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It'll come down in about six months. But that said,
he's very hilarious. You've seen him on Comedy Central. Give
it up for our guests today, mister Bennion Bazoona, what up?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I'm so excited what I doing. I've been a longtime
fan of the show. I loved watching when it first
came out and you had like all the different animations
and people were taking it just was such a cool
con and I love talking shit about conspiracies. So very
honored to be here.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
That's that's wow. What a nobody ever volleys it back
to us and says nice things. So that's that's really
sure that you would do that.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I mean, I didn't know when did when did you
become a co host?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Bory?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I didn't even know that hurts.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
He's been here for long enough. If you're really a.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Fan, you would know, goddamn it.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I've gone onto the podcast app and listened to episodes
with the like like Yasser's upisode, and I think I've
listened to like Garrick's or somebody's like, but these were
this was all like during COVID maybe or like. So
I didn't know that there was like a new change
up to them. When I heard you were gonna be
on it too, I was like, oh, two for one,
(03:47):
let's go.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, Bory has proven himself to be an essential player here.
We value his his membership very much. And and yeah,
probably the last like twelve episodes you can hear his
voice in all of them. I would say, maybe, all right,
we've bullshitted long enough. Because you came with the conspiracy
theory that frankly I had never heard of Bory. I
(04:13):
think you said you had Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
This, Bory, you knew about this because it's an African
thing like this is like Ethiopia is. One of their
claims to fame is that we don't jump.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
The gun here.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Shit, well, we got to intro it. I love I
love the enthusiasm. But you said, my mama told me
the Arc of the Covenant is hidden in a church
in Ethiopia. Yes, tell us more, tell us everything you know. Okay,
(04:49):
So my parents.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Are Ethiopian, you know, born there, moved to America in
like the eighties, and one of my dad's favorite pastimes
is tell me about Ethiopian history and lore and just
having a lot of pride. He's always saying things like
Ethiopia was never colonized, Ethiopia beat Italy. They tried to
get us. We beat there twice. You know, there's a
(05:14):
lot of a lot of pride, and that's that. I
think that's like central to the Ethiopian ethos is this
kind of superiority complex, like they think they're great.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Oh you think that's just you guys.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Oh, tell me, tell me what it's like over there,
Sierra Leone.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
We also think we're great. That's all I happen.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
All Africans think they're the best Africans.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, it was like, yeah, I will say that that
we we did an episode earlier this year about a
different Ethiopian conspiracy theory, or at least somewhat rooted in
Ethiopian conspiracy theory. But I discovered, and I didn't know this,
that Wakanda is theoretically based on Ethiopia. That like, wow,
(06:00):
y'all are the inspiration for this idealistic society existing on
the African eight. And part of it is the fact
that you guys, to your point, are one of the
few nations that has never been colonized and had like
a bunch of wealth at certain points that like far
(06:20):
exceeded everybody else.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
You know. I've been to Ethiopia and let me just
say the movie is not an accurate depiction. They really
upped it. But yeah, I think there is like this
kind of like you know, Hyla Selassie was like this
dude who created the African Union and a bunch of
(06:44):
people have like pride over him being like the last
emperor all this stuff. I did not know that though
I didn't know what kinda was based on that. Who
brought does Solomon Georgio bring that in?
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
That sounds like something he would know.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I feel like it might have been Solomon who came
with what kinda is real? If I'm not Missay So
I'm not a big Wakanda guy. I'm just saying that.
Oh shit, that's a hard stance.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
When you saw.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
David, when you saw the movie where.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
You like, we have to do this now because this
is why I don't have a Twitter.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Well, let's put her on the record. Let's get it
out there. When when you saw the movie where you like,
finally like African excellence depicted, how did you feel?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I felt like in the movie they were like, we
have this magical space rock that makes us better than
the rest of the Africans. They said it. They literally said,
then we would be like the rest of them. Well
I'm the rest of them, sucker, dick. That's how I
felt about that whole shit. I have the one superhero
(07:50):
movie based in Africa, and you still fight Africans at
the end. So now the major war is still black
people for black people. That's it, Say who, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You've been mad about this the whole.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Time since I went in the theater.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
And you know what, that's why a lot of people
left the movie being like kill Monger was right was
because that was basically his point. He was like, you
guys got all this power, all this money, all these weapons,
and you're not sharing it with anybody, and.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
They're actively hating on everybody else. Damn. But no, sure,
go save the fucking do what the EU wants you
to do.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
But but they do open the borders at the end
of it. That's what they say that they're they're welcoming
the world in.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
That's the ending of it.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
True.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
But he only changed that way because kill Monger like
had rubbed off on him, right.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
He was like, I don't know how they hadn't seen
it before.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I'm just saying, if you beat my ass afterwards, I
rethink some things. That's what they got. He got punched
in the fucking jar and he was like, you know
what I do got to be a better person. And
that's kind of nice. That's a good moral of the story.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
We are not here. I just know a few other
Africans who feel the same way I did about that movie.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Well, what I will say that's accurate, that ties back
to what we're talking about, is that he's tied. Is
that like Ethiopians, and I've heard this from other Africans too.
They have a feeling of being better, you know, and
like you were saying, clearly young people think they're better,
and like I've heard my aunt say terrible things. She'll
(09:31):
be like, oh, you're not black, you know Ethiopian and
like shit like that, where you're like, Yo, you're black, dude,
what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
You know, the diaspora is very complicated.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, he's like these older people who come to America.
You know what I think it's it's rooted in. It's
like people you're you know, you're you're African. You live
in a country where everyone looks like you. You come to
America and then you see how black people get treated
and then you're like, oh, let me separate myself so
I don't get like something like that. It's like my
(10:03):
model minority type bullshit happens. And I guess that's what
Black Panther accurately depicted with that attitude.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I will say that that is what you're speaking to
is as an American black person, what sort of like
for us is the thing where y'all are like man people,
all the black people always hating on Africans some of
it and some of it's obviously so like some of
it is because y'all motherfuckers walk around constantly telling us
(10:36):
you're better than us.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
It is true and like and then like but like
also while wearing like penny loafers and track bands.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah yeah, yeah, you got on the same school uniform
I do, Bro, how much better than me?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I mean, that's the thing is it's coming. It's never
coming from people. Our age is coming from a dude
driving your uber telling you that, and then you're like, bro,
come on, like.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I mean, but they're not just driving ubers. There's a
bunch of Nigerian really everything.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I would say, Nigerians are the most educated I think
diaspora group in general, not even just African groups, Like
they're the highest educator, right, really, this is what That's
what OPI told me. He said that, yeah that, like
I mean, and it's true because like Nigerians are rich,
(11:31):
they're all like there's so much businessmen, lawyers. But I
haven't I don't know. I can't speak for Nigerian's. I
haven't heard Nigerian saying that. I don't know, but I
know I have heard it from older Ethiopian people, and
I think that like it's it's all part of that.
And the Ark of the Covenant thing is that they
(11:52):
think that in this church, in this place called Oxom,
that this Ethiopian hang Menialik brought back the arc like
centuries and centuries ago and brought it to this church,
and I think from Israel.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Right.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
We'll get into some of this in the research, but
basically he's believed to have stolen it from Solomon's son
that like Solomon had like a bastard child that he
that showed up late in life, and Solomon gifted him
the Arc of the Covenant, and then that dude fucked
with Ethiopia super hard and was gonna like travel to
(12:35):
Ethiopia to like kick it. But in meeting up with
this this emperor dude, the Emperor dude tricked him and
replaced the arc with a fake one and then stole
the other joint.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
See it's like that that level of detail is what
my dad knows. I know. I just know the basic part,
which is that in this church in ox Room, and
they appoint people to be guards, and if you're appointed,
it's like a supreme court, whereas for life, you are
(13:10):
a guard and you're and the only people that are
allowed to look at it is that I've read things
that say that there are two guards. I've read things
that say that they're one and they switch off. But
that's the only person allowed to lay eyes on it.
So if you were trying to do some independent research
and verify if it was real, you're not allowed to.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
And see that sounds crazy because if you're a guard
for life, I'll beat your ass at eighty do you
know what I mean? Like, I'll just wait til you
get old and then I'm gonna go look at that
goddamn mark, you know, if.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
You weren't supposed to look at it. And maybe that's
just is that what happened in the movie. I thought
if you looked at it, your face was gonna melt.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah, that's that's what Indiana Jones said.
Speaker 7 (13:54):
I feel like they just text, Yeah, they needed it
to be like some some like shit for the movie
so that there was like a surprise or whatever.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
But in that's not in the Ethiopian text. They just
think that this is the shit that held the stone
tablets that have the Ten Commandments on them, and it's
like a wooden thing that's caked in gold, and it's
like the original shit that like Moses had, right, yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
That's the belief that Moses was like, hey, y'all build
a container for the commandments, and then they did that.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah. And I also read this other thing that said
that the guards are trained in hand to hand combat,
to like fight anyone who comes up. Now, what I
don't know is when you do get to be eighty,
like you're saying, do they then go like, bro, you
got to retire. You're not going to be a very
(14:57):
good guard. Like, you can't choose to retire, They'll retire
you because they like know that you know.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah, that's a good question. Also my question, what is
just like some type of Ethiopian kung fu, Like what
is this? Because I'm impressed if you guys have your
own karate.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I've never heard of any Ethiopian fighting style. I would
say that's not good news.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Never A lot of people are gonna listen to this
and be like, I'm gonna go see that fucking arc.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Because if there was an Ethiopian fighting style, I think
we would be good at any sport other than long
distance running. That's the only thing we can do, and
it's the like only non contact type like non combat,
non strength based thing. Damn yeah, like that, that's that's
the one thing we dominated. Any other type of sport
(16:01):
like that takes. They always say this, They say, like
East Africa's slow twitch muscles, West Africa is fast switch,
so all of the like yeah, yeah, so it's like sprints,
football whatever.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Wait, who always says that? That's why? I never who
always says.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
That athletes like Iran tracking white athletes.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
It sounds like, don't let him say that.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
It's that sounds like some eugenic ship that's like fucked up,
But it's actually a term in kinesiology like fast switch
and slow twitch muscle.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
No I know about I know, I know about muscle
fast fibers. I'm talking about regional, regional African benefits of
muscle fibers. Sounds like fucking phrenology. And I wouldn't let
some white boys sprinter talk to me like that.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I think it sounds like you're you're saying, Joe Rogan
is an athlete, and listen, he can kick the ship
out of a bag, but I I wouldn't call him
an athlete.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I heard this from track coaches all through like I
ran cross country and high school and college, and they
would say, like all of the world records can be
traced to West Africa in sprints, and all the world
records in distances five thousand and above can be traced
to East Africa. And they were like, it's due to
(17:24):
just you know, like in East Africa, all lots of
things are at altitude and you're just growing up in
that way, and over time, people it's like weight training
because it's like you get so good at training when
there's like no oxygen in the air, and then you
go to sea level and you're just racing. It's like
Goku taking off the heavy clothes. It's easy. And then
(17:46):
as far as West Africa goes, I have no idea
why there's just like faster ROTI.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
As a West African from the Mile High City. I
do tell you, I will say to you when I
go to sea level, I am like a god. You're
the term god body. That's how I feel. I'm so
fast on the beach man.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I wish that there were I wish there was one
good Ethiopian sprinter. It's never happened. We're like people would
always like because I ran like long distance. I would
do like the mile and two mile and the five
kN stuff. People would always be like, oh, you're you're
the runner, you're fast, And I'm like, yeah, over like
(18:35):
a mile or longer. You get me in a hundred
or two hundred meters, I'll get dusted by most people.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
The fast twitch and slow twitch shit does sound like
some shit. Oh, like, yeah, you're a European scientist, was like,
the Africans on this side of the continent are faster.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Yeah, yeah, they're so musical.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
You know what the problem is is that we've commodified
athletes so much that we can't disassociate like the language
of like of science and slavery, do you know what
I mean? Like it truly is like I don't know
if the reason you talk like that is because of
slavery or because that's literally the only way we could
describe what you're seeing.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
Yeah, And I guess it's It's like it also goes
along the same it takes the same route as most
coded racist language, you know what I'm saying where they're like, no,
it's it's physically, it's it's it's science.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
It's not it's just a regional like that's like, that's right,
we'll get into when it talks. Then they're talking about
smaller heads thus as smaller breath. It's like it lives
in the same place.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
All yeah, it's not Lebron James' is a genius that
that should be acknowledged as such. It's Lebron James just
got that big old body in those fast twitched muscles.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Nobody ever talk talks about his photographic memory.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Though, yeah, true fully.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Has because I will say there's.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
A way he's better than Jordan. He's a genius. Michael
Jordan's not a genius.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
All right as well.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I didn't like the way this took a turn, But
Beniam you were speaking.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I mean, the part that gets left out of these
kind of like conversations about certain areas of the world
and why athletes are as good as they are is
that there's a bunch of Ethiopians who are slow as
hell and suck it long distance running. There's a bunch
of West Africans that are not good at the one
hundred meters dash. But the correlation is what makes people
(20:44):
go like, oh, okay, you can you can draw some
but even that it is a little dangerous. I hear it.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
It's scary.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yeah, yeah, listen, we have to take a break. But
when we come back, we're gonna find out if Jilliam
is willing to quit common to become the fastest Ethiopian
on the planet. This is this is exciting ship that
we're building here. We'll be back with Morbinian Parsona more.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
My mama told Meang we.
Speaker 9 (21:23):
Are yes, yeah, all right, we're back here with Morbinion
pasiona more.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
My mama told me. We're still talking about the possibility
that the Arc of the Covenant is not where Indiana
Jones was hunting, but in fact hidden in a church
in Ethiopia, surrounded by potentially very old warrior monks.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I love the term warrior monk, by the way, because
I feel like it's a very very thankless job that
these guys have. I would be very surprised if they're
allowed to have sex. I bet probably not well.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Up there, No, not not next to the arc. That's disrespectful. Yeah,
not even hand stuff thing. It's also because like how
many people are running up on the Ark of the Covenant,
Like That's what I think. The hard thing about that
job is is they probably never have to how often
do they really have to defend it?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Oh, so this might get into the research. But I
was reading up on this and there was a researcher
European dude, I assume he was British, who like sometime
in the middle of the twentieth century, like nineteen fifties,
nineteen sixties. He wanted to see if this arc was
(22:48):
really in this church. And he came up and he
had like gunmen with him and he was like, sorry, y'all,
I don't give a fuck about your customs. I'm just
walking in. And he walked past, went inside, and he
wrote that he looked at it and thought it was
just a replica, and he was like, sadly, this isn't
the arc of the Covenant.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
But also they just rolled over and let that. They
just let that happen.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I guess I don't think they have guns. All they
have are just like they just have like walking staffs.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Like, man, if we have.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Guns that, they're like, no, no, no, man, you got it.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
You got that East African karate.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Use some slow twitch muscles.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I feel like if all you can do is be
good at running away, probably not gonna be good at fighting.
The dude with guns. They I would love to have
seen how that went down, if they like put up
a fight, or if they were just like I have.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
To assume they were, like, you got it.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Oh man, it makes me so sad.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
You just make me sit in a cellar all day
preparing for the worst job, which is defending this this
wooden basket. No, go ahead, look at it.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
But the one time you get to prove yourself and
that the job was worth it in the years of
commitment that you put in learning hand to hand Ethopian combat,
and then you were just like, nah, come.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
On, man, you got a gun. I thought we was
just doing fistfights down here, but all right, you shooting.
Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
See.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I just feel like you're supposed to die for it.
That's probably what they were told, right, you got to
die for this. And I when I read this account,
it didn't talk about any bloodshed, so I think that, yeah,
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I don't blame them because I would do the same thing.
But it sounds like they weren't really about it about it,
you know.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Yeah, they need to get some fast.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
If we had, if we had we had a couple
of the people from the film that Our Country is
based on defending it. Then you know, maybe they want
us to a chance.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
But so you already started talking about some pretty important moments.
But I think, if I'm not mistaken, the last known
non Ethiopian person, and I'm not sure if this is
the person you're talking about or if this is a
different individual, but the last non Ethiopian person who is
said to have saw the ARC is this dude, Edward U.
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Linndorf is his name, who basically found himself stationed in
Ethiopia while fighting for Britain in World War Two and
then becomes friends with Haley Selassie and then it's basically
like escored it in like they become so cool that
he's like, yeah, fuck it, I'll show you the ARC.
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And he says he sees it and believes it and
writes stories about it years later.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
So that's what I'm talking about. It's the same guy.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Whoa so this is an example of the way that
history can be fucking rewritten like a motherfucker.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Man the White side of history. Dull.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yeah, that's the same guy. Yeah, because I'm looking. I'm
looking at the article right now to make sure. And
he says that Uhllendorff was concerned after he gave an
interview that he hoped that Ethiopian authorities did not become
aware of the Los Angeles Times article, and then he
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never spoke to reporter again about what he saw. But
I guess he said, this is this is how, this
is what it says entirely. He went to the church
of mary Zion with a couple of soldiers. He might
spoke to the monks in the church and I heark
asking to see the arc. His request refused. They said,
you can't go in. This is holy. He said, well,
I'm sorry, but I want to go in, And he
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did go in with his soldiers behind him. They couldn't
do anything to stop him.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
WHOA, Yeah, that things that I've read have made him
seem like much more of a sweet, neutral figure who
like kissed a king's hand enough times that he like
carried him in there is that's wild.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
I don't know which one is true, but this version says,
do I think.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
I know which one?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I think that he marched in with his guns, because that's.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
The one that's true to dog I think. I don't
think there's any doubt in my mind that he did
a meaner thing than what he's been telling people.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
This is from I'm reading from Live science dot com.
By the way, I'm just gonna trust that they're reputable.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Whoa.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
And it says that what he saw you can find
in any Ethiopian church, which is a model of the
Ark of the Covenant. He says it didn't differ in
anyway from many arts you see in any other churches
in Ethiopia. It wasn't ancient, and it certainly wasn't the
original arc.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Now, how many how many arcs? How many arts are then?
So why is it so many arts?
Speaker 1 (28:13):
So in all these other churches in Ethiopia they have
replica arcs kind of. I don't really know why.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
I think it's it's in reference to the fact that
it is widely understood in Ethiopia that they are housing
the Arc of the Covenant. And so if you are
a you know, following the same Christian Judaic principles, then
you're gonna be like, yeah, this is a symbol of
our thing. And only the priest is allowed anywhere inside
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the circle where the arc is kept during like you know,
any sermon, like in any church, only the priests can
go in that area.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, And I remember when I was eleven. That's the
only time I've been back there. There was this lake
that we went out called like Lake Tana, and there
were like little islands all on this lake and there
were churches on them, and I remember going like we weren't.
There was like something where like only men were allowed
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in the church or something. But I even think like there,
we weren't allowed to like look at the arc. We
were just even the replica I don't we're allowed to look.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
At They're trying to play theirs off.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
They're like, uh yeah, and it's like I can't remember
if we were allowed in or out, but I remember
there is like being told that at the time, like
we have these replica ones, and what was it about
to say, yeah, it's just widely. It's just it's another
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point of like, yo, we're out here killing it never
been colonized. We got the arc points on the board
that yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
So so just just to walk us back a little bit,
because I feel like we jumped immediately into uh, some
parts of this conversation that may not be totally clear
to our audience. The Arc of the Covenant is a
sort of like large wooden structure that has a little
like house over it, where in theory it's like a
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chest basically with like a bunch of fancy things around
it that is said to be the holster for the
ten Commandments as commanded by Moses from God. And then
the Israelites carried that that exact thing through the desert
for forty years while they were trying to find their home.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yep, and it's got those The finding feature is like
those wings.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yeah, the two I think there are angels. What are
those things on the top?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I think it's I.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Think they're wings. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I always like they're are facing towards each other.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
And it's like covered in gold shiny and then it's
got these like sticks for carrying, so that you could
have like almost like pall bearers, you know, like four
people kind of like supporting it from all sides.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Because yeah, you don't put your Ark of the Covenant
on the ground.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I get no.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Nah, yeah, you gotta.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Don't put your purse on the ground. Don't put your
ark of the Covenant on the ground. Those are just
two facts.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
It is either way somebody's slipping something in it or
taking something.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Now, I mean, if somebody roofi's the arc of the Covenant.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
That's how they got.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Right, that's what they did. They pulled the ocean's eleven
switch Peroo type ship to get it there.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
That's a movie I want to see, Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yeah, I mean, just eleven Ethiopian in suits being like
we're gonna steal the.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
I mean, it sounds amazing.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
It feels like it wouldn't take.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
All you have to do is show up with a
gun and it's.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
That makes me feel like I could go get the Covenant.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I mean, if it's this valuable and you think about
all the other art thefts that have happened where people
like steal a monet or whatever, you would think that
someone would have tried to steal it.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Well, well, that's that's one of the things that I
wanted to bring up, right, is that like, look, you
went into detail about how crazy they have to feel,
or at least feel like they're protecting this this item,
and it's insane in part because museums are filled all
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across the world with items that were stolen from other countries.
So they're sitting there and they don't feel the same instinct.
Then I guess in some forms they do. They make
it very hard obviously to steal a debatable right exactly.
Things get stolen from museums all the time. And then
even with that, they don't feel no shame about it.
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They're not like, yo, we gotta hide it away so
nobody can even lay eyes on it. They're like, not
look at it, but I'll fuck you up if you
touch it. Are stolen shit.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
And I feel like with the arc their thing is based,
it's like it's not because of shame, it's because it's like, oh,
it's so holy that your eyes aren't worthy to look
at it. And they from from what I've read, it
seems like they feel like they are the rightful keepers
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of it, like because it's it's a Christian thing more
so than a it belongs to this country or that country,
is how they think of it.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Yeah, I if I'm remembering correctly, I think Ethiopians have
a something in that they they stayed loyal on some
like Christian shit and sort of like we're devoted to
Christianity when every other sort of like sect of Christianity
at one point in the Bible bailed like they were like, yo,
we do we can't even rock with this shit no more.
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And Ethiopians were like, nah, we're still with it. We
like this is where we're at. And so then they're like, no,
we are the original Christians. We are sort of like
the source of everything that makes this thing valuable.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
I wonder if the Black Israelites think that they have
claim over the Ark of the Covenant, you know, hmmm,
because if they're like, we're the original Israelites, maybe they're
like we should have.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
It right because they're like, yeah, maybe they have it.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Maybe they have it.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Has anybody actually listening to what they're yelling, they might
need ye, what's what's the math?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
I heard the best thing. This is like maybe twenty
fourteen or so, and I was like around Slawson and
there were some dudes doing the Black Israelite thing with
the megaphone, and there was like a main dude and
then he had a couple like helpers and they were
reading from the Bible and uh, like, I was reading
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back this thing and he said like and from the
water the Leviathan came and the main guy was like,
read that back, read that back, and then the guy
said it again and from the waters the Leviathan came.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
And the dude was like lockness monster is real. But
also I understand where he's coming.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
From, and that's that was you know, that was where
my brain went where I was like, is that is
that insane? Or is that just a hard ass bar
that like you can pull more information from when you
need it, you know what I mean, Like.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
He's yeah, all of it's just English class That's how
I feel. You find a little proof and then you
can extrapolate and be like this is what this means.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Right right right? You just you can half read a
book and get a whole lot of messages from whatever
that is.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Who we're talent. You think I finished to people's history
of the United States, I'm like, no, no, I haven't.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
So I looked up some of the examples of like
things sort of like the most famous things I guess
that were stolen by other other countries that are kept
in other museums that you know, truly, everybody feels real
comfortable flexing. The Rosetta stone is an example that the
British literally stole from Egypt and now have on display
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without a care in the world, like truly, and it's
written in Egyptian hieroglyphics. It's not like it's, you know,
a shared language. These motherfuckers just have their shit in
their museum.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Egypt's gotta go get it back, though, that's on them
at this point.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
They got to pull a kill monger Like I didn't
even know the Rosetta stone was a real thing. I
thought that was.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Oh how in Spanish.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Yeah, it was like, this is a cool name for
a company. If anything, Egypt should be getting some money
off them too.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
I think has something to do with the uh and yes,
I agree with you there capitalism boom.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
I mean if we're going to start kicking back to
Egypt everything that they invented, I mean that's a long day.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Yeah, there's a lot of dudes I know with tattoos
that are gonna have to kick some bread.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Yeah, every every unk tattoos got to give them ten bucks.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
For fucking Yukio. That entire show that I saw in Egypt.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
I feel like KADU's gotta kick.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Some money up, ergo baduos a lot of money to
Egypt right now?
Speaker 1 (37:42):
What are what are what are these other things?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Additionally, there's something called the man Eaters of Savo, which
are displayed in the Chicago Field Museum. Great museum and
are taxidermy bodies of two lions, which at their peak
killed somewhere between twenty eight to hundred and forty people
in Kenya. So these lions are killing the fuck out
of Kenyan people. Well, no, it's specifically Indian workers in Kenya.
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At the time, I don't know, geopolitics was wild. Anyway,
They're killing all these people and then one dude shoots
them and has them taxi dermied and then ends up
sending them to the United States for five thousand dollars,
And the Kenyan government was like, bro, what the fuck?
This is the most famous two lions that have ever
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existed in history. Don't sell our shit, and now they
just don't get them back.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Yeah, I mean if there's anything that, like, you know,
like after World War two, how they were like, okay,
we have like the World Court, and we can hold
people responsible for shit, Like can they do the same
thing for these artifacts that were stolen from places in
ancient times? They could be like, well, you're under our
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jurisdiction because we're the world, you know.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Yeah, I don't think so, because everybody just points to
the transactions that justify it. So again, this dude technically
did say we gave him five They gave him five
thousand dollars for the fucking lions, Like, why what are
you talking about?
Speaker 1 (39:16):
He made a bad deal, But yes, I guess it's
a deal. Though, you know what could they say?
Speaker 4 (39:21):
Now?
Speaker 2 (39:21):
I think that's the justification. Now you can turn back
and look at like, yo, there are cultural justifications, human
justifications inside of this. But I think any court is
going to lose out when they try to do that.
Instead of being like, well, there's a receipt right here,
it says five g's.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
I mean, I guess it's the same as like Israel Palestine,
because it's like whatever land stolen, place is taken, whatever.
But you can't really who's going to listen?
Speaker 3 (39:48):
So how far can we go back?
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Exactly how far? How far back can we really source it?
Speaker 2 (39:53):
We can quote this episode Biniam says Israel whatever.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
But in terms of listening to an outside foreign power
or like a World Bank or whoever the fuck is
gonna be the jurisdiction. No one is gonna If you're
the one in the situation, you're always gonna have your
own self interest and you're not gonna be like, well,
you're right, you're gonna be like, nah, this is my lion, now,
I got it.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
You know this lion, he loves the bears. He loves
Italian beef.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
So the last example I'll give you beef and we'll
take a break after this. The last example I'll give
you is specific actually to Ethiopia. Ethiopia fell victim in
the Battle of Magdala. Am I saying that right? Magdala
in eighteen sixty eight. It was a basically when the
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British came in and took pieces of Ethiopia from y'all,
or at least y'all gave off like a little taste
of Ethiopia to make to keep them from fully colonizing
the entire country. So you've never been colonized, but you
have had to give up a few parts to get
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get good with people.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
See, I didn't even know about this battle. I've never
heard that name. Magdala.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
Yeah, m A g d A l A. And so
in this this fight, the British end up taking so
much shit, literally so much shit, including something called the
Crown of Aboud, a gold crown that was once that
once sat a top like the head of the Ethiopian Church.
But they took so much shit that they needed fifteen
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elephants and one hundred mules to transfer all the stuff
to a nearby town for auction.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
That's crazy. And now it's like is it displayed in
England just proudly?
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
My favorite part of this is this is gonna be
the most devastating part. My favorite part is when the
Ethiopian when the Ethiopian government has like come back to
them and been like a bro, we're in modern times,
now give us back our ship. The response was, oh,
for sure, you can have some of it, but we
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will return it to you only as a loan. And
you have to then take your name off of any
any suggestions that this was yours to own in the
first place.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Wow, that's so fucked up.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
It's wild dug And they can't and it's not.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
I don't like this section, and they can't.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
I guess they can't do it. They just gotta. It's
just like the dudes with the guns walking up to
the church. They're just like, Okay, yeah, what are you
gonna do?
Speaker 3 (42:46):
I don't like how happy.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
It's all so silly. They were like a bro, I'll
lend you your stuff back to you after I stole it.
Come on, that's just that's just good clean fun.
Speaker 3 (42:58):
This typical bully. But Ethiopia is getting bullied out of
their items. I don't like that.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
All Right, we're gonna take one more break. We'll be
back with more Beni and Presuma, my mama told.
Speaker 10 (43:09):
Me, and we oh, all right.
Speaker 7 (43:24):
So.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Anyway, yeah, we're back here with more Beni and Presiona more,
my mama told me, and Beniam can't wait to tell
you goddamn more about the arc of the Covenant being
in Ethiopia.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
I like waited for a second. I was like, Okay,
there's no sound he here. Let me just jump in
at that.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
There's always a sound key.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
You know what's crazy is in Ethiopia. And I think
this is like in a lot of like newer democracies,
there's no such thing as like is this candidate pro choice?
What's this candidate's views on the environment. It's just like
it's just like, are you the same ethnicity as me,
then you're gonna be looking out for this ethnic group.
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That's all it is.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
That's how I vote.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
I voted like that once before. It didn't change much
for me, but I felt good about what I did.
Speaker 4 (44:27):
Which is.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
Which is so interesting because like, are things that go
into when we vote so different?
Speaker 3 (44:36):
That's what they say. It's the same shit.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
Yeah, I don't think there's anybody that's like really focused
on the issues as.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
Much as there's like twenty people in LA who pretend
on Instagram everybody else they're like that one looks like me.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
I like the way that one. I like the way
his jim is cut.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
I like it that he's not one of those.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
I will say, yeah, if there was someone who looked
like me, I would vote for them as I have
in the past.
Speaker 3 (45:05):
Immediately you just run for anything. Yeah, you gotta let
it slide.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
If there was somebody that was from your exact neighborhood, city,
all the ship, but you don't agree with them on
all the issues, would you be like yeah, but they're
like they're of my area and they look like me.
How what would be more important to you?
Speaker 3 (45:28):
How far against my issues are they? Is it?
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Like?
Speaker 3 (45:31):
Is it like minimal stuff? Because I got some deal breakers.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
I mean, let's say they are fiscally conservative but socially whatever,
like liberal, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (45:45):
I can fuck with that. How fiscally conservative are we
cutting are we cutting out social services or are we
just like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Yeah, yeah, they're like pull them up by your own bootstraps.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
I can't get down. Look all I'm saying, but if
they lived next door to me, they wouldn't be like
that because I was broke to like three years ago.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
You would you would have you would have rubbed off
on them.
Speaker 3 (46:15):
They would have been broke, like, they wouldn't even they
had strong senses of community. That's what I'll say.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
Okay, all I'm saying is I need to know the
exact alternative to this person, meaning like whoever they're running against,
because if they're still better than the other person, I'm
going black, baby, you know what I mean? Like, yeah,
I'm going black every time.
Speaker 3 (46:35):
Like, do you know the level of white excellence you
have to have for me to vote you over? Just
like a regular black person to be completely just a
bus driver with a briefcase. Yeah yeah, got a job,
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you might manage the buses. This guy's really.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
What was the name of that Godfather's pizza Republican black dude?
Speaker 2 (47:05):
Uh fuck? What was his name? It starts with the
H Herman Kane.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Herman Kane.
Speaker 4 (47:10):
Now it seems like.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
There are people like this every couple of years who
just get thrust at the top of the Republican Party
and there's not a chance that I look at them
and go like, but they're black, because they're just like so.
Speaker 3 (47:24):
Well, no, you know, but that's different.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
That's yeah, you know, you know, talking about her, I
don't know, you're talking about regular motherfuckers. So you would
kick it with not fucking Herman Kane.
Speaker 1 (47:41):
But regular motherfuckers you would kick it with. Are never
like running for president? Like there you I mean, that's
the problem.
Speaker 3 (47:50):
Yeah, issue, you know, what we need is a black Trump.
Speaker 4 (47:55):
I want to know.
Speaker 3 (47:57):
I want to I want to live up there and
say like, yeah, he's saying it, I'm thinking it. That's
what I know.
Speaker 4 (48:04):
You know, Oh, now we're off. Now we're off. I
thought we were.
Speaker 3 (48:10):
I thought we were banking on the community.
Speaker 4 (48:13):
But I know what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
It's like someone who's black with the Trump attitude, but
they don't know positions.
Speaker 3 (48:21):
Yeah, yeah, I'm being completely facetious. I think that your
political candidate should be better than you. And if you
don't think that, you're kind of stupid.
Speaker 2 (48:29):
Yeah. No, I do think that we should be clear.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
I wan him to be like me. I hate Robin
three times this week, like I want him, you gotta
be better.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
But can he be better than you but also be
a populist at the same time. Yeah, yeah, I think
that exists.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Yeah, I listen. I grew up in a in a
very Marxist household.
Speaker 4 (48:48):
I don't agree.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
There's no yeah, there's no version of this that I'm
going to be like, hell yeah, if we just vote
on the right way, we're gonna fix it. It's like, yeah,
I feel I you know, one way or the other,
and I do vote. I ain't.
Speaker 5 (49:03):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (49:04):
I like that you won't even let us play make
believe for a second thing like you had to. You
had to, like listen, brother, time Marxist.
Speaker 2 (49:14):
Look, man, I vote, but I don't believe in that ship.
I'd just be doing my civic duty.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
You know, man, what was that like growing up in
a Marxist household.
Speaker 2 (49:24):
Well, you drink a lot of Mountain dew, but my
dad drank dia coax, so I had I had to
show him that I was younger and more gnarly than
he was.
Speaker 4 (49:38):
I don't know it was.
Speaker 3 (49:39):
You know, you had like Christmas and ship right.
Speaker 2 (49:43):
Yeah, we were we weren't sad. We were just you know,
politically there was a different political slant.
Speaker 3 (49:49):
Were you allowed to watch television?
Speaker 2 (49:51):
Yep, we had it. We had multiple TV's which we
could turn on and off whenever we wanted.
Speaker 1 (49:57):
Would would your parents how would they think of, like
voting in a national election where they like.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
Well, it's not both my parents. There's specifically my dad
my mom broken homes, but specifically my dad is that
that's his political lean.
Speaker 3 (50:15):
Okay, what was your mom?
Speaker 2 (50:17):
Mm? So trying to make it.
Speaker 1 (50:20):
Okay, but we ran ahead above water making no way.
Speaker 4 (50:25):
When she can mom river, I mean.
Speaker 1 (50:39):
So, here's something that's kind of in common is that
when my parents were in Ethiopia and they were students,
this dude, Hyla Selassie who was the emperor, like they
wanted him to be overthrown because they wanted feudalism to
be gone. They thought it was unfair, they thought the
rich were just getting richer. And they were part of
these like student groups that would meet up at night
and you had to be all secret, and they wanted
(51:01):
to overthrow this dude, and they wanted Communism to come
to Ethiopia because they were like on paper, this.
Speaker 3 (51:07):
Is great, you know, And then they came to America
and you became a comedian.
Speaker 7 (51:11):
Is it that.
Speaker 1 (51:14):
Out?
Speaker 2 (51:18):
All them apologize for what you.
Speaker 4 (51:21):
Got.
Speaker 1 (51:21):
The Marxist dad, you feel the same struggle. But then
the dude got overthrown by the military, and the military
was worse than this dude, and they were like, okay,
now let's overthrow this military. And they were part of
these like they were like medics for gorilla fighters, trying
to they they worked so hard and were so about
(51:43):
their political ship and then came to America to have
a better life. And we're like, okay, American system, now,
all that communism, all that shit, you know, we're just living.
Speaker 2 (51:56):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's the older I get, the
more I can see how you can feel devastated by
your kids' choices, even you know what I mean, even
if you're not doing it to hurt your parents, you're
truly just pursuing the things that make you feel whole
and precious in the world. And like they didn't come
(52:19):
here for that, you know what I mean, that's not
what they that's not the reason they're here. And it's
like we are talking the same cha.
Speaker 3 (52:26):
But also they came here in one way or another
for you to cast some checks exactly, so you know
what I mean. Like, ultimately, I'm sorry, I'm not a doctor,
but it's we're doing all right.
Speaker 1 (52:37):
Yeah it just have a better life than me, have
more choices, right exactly, more the freedom to do what
you want. The only reason they wanted you to be
a doctor was because that was a straight path to
financial freedom, better life. But if you could do it
another way, still accomplishing it, you know, yeah right right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (52:57):
Yeah no, and they'll still be proud. Who cares that
you live in a one bedroom apartment?
Speaker 1 (53:01):
You Yeah, it's one it's a one bedroom in l A.
Speaker 3 (53:06):
Which is a house.
Speaker 1 (53:07):
That's a house in Indiana, well, Colorado.
Speaker 3 (53:10):
But it's it's good, you know what. I keep it clean.
I keep it clean. Big ass TV, yeah, big as
all the streamers, all the platforms.
Speaker 2 (53:20):
I love the baby. You watch this Paramount Plus.
Speaker 3 (53:23):
I got stars, Oh you watch you can watch Raising
Canaan on my ship all the fifty.
Speaker 1 (53:32):
Bro. If you have Paramount Plus, you know you're eating I.
Speaker 3 (53:36):
I do have Paramount Plus.
Speaker 1 (53:37):
That's an ancillary streaming platform.
Speaker 2 (53:40):
I hope I'm not overstepping here. They I hope they
give it to you for free. I hope they at
least uh kicking and we.
Speaker 3 (53:46):
Are that just came up recently, are in no way
expressed by the Viacom Corporation.
Speaker 1 (54:00):
I don't think people get I mean, as with all
my interactions with people, no one's never been like, yeah,
I have free Hulu or I have like, it doesn't
seem like it's a thing.
Speaker 2 (54:10):
I got free Peacock for a year.
Speaker 3 (54:12):
Well that's just for a year.
Speaker 2 (54:15):
Yeah, that's the first time that any of them have.
You know, HBO has been It's Comedy Central and HBO
have employed me for a lot of shit, and never
once either of them have been like, what's up here?
Speaker 1 (54:29):
They're like, oh, well you can afford it with that
salary we're paying.
Speaker 3 (54:32):
Yeah, They're like, we know what you're they know what
we're paying you.
Speaker 2 (54:35):
That's crazy. I don't know what this episode turned into.
It went far off the rails, it really went far,
But god damn it, I think we did it. I
do think we nailed We nailed all the essential parts.
And there's a whole lot of fat on that bone,
so you know, we'll enjoy the meal all the same.
Speaker 1 (54:56):
I think what you know what. We one thing I'll
say this, The best thing to come out of this
is that I'm gonna write The Oceans eleven Ark of
the Covenant, and.
Speaker 3 (55:06):
That's really important, very important.
Speaker 2 (55:08):
I want to founders feed now, definitely.
Speaker 3 (55:11):
In fact, I'm gonna wear I'm gonna wear to the
movie theater.
Speaker 2 (55:16):
Okay, we do it, all right, Beniam, could you tell
the people at home where they can find you and
what cool shit you have going on?
Speaker 1 (55:24):
Yeah, you can find me, bennim bizzed on any of
the things. Yeah, you go on YouTube search my name,
just see some ship.
Speaker 2 (55:33):
Yeah, hell yeah, YouTube them go watch his ship. He's
written on a bunch of cool things and god damn it,
YouTube agin, I don't know, just keep youtubing, Beniam David,
do you want to tell the people where they can
find you?
Speaker 3 (55:47):
A cool guy? Joke City seven on Instagram?
Speaker 2 (55:54):
As always, you can follow me at Langston Kerman And
as always, if you want to send us your own drops,
your own conspiracy theories, your own bullshit, please send it
to mymama pod at gmail dot com. I would love
to hear from.
Speaker 3 (56:07):
You and give us a call.
Speaker 2 (56:10):
A four fourt moms, A four four little moms. We
want to hear from you. Otherwise you know what to do.
Speaker 4 (56:17):
Bye bitch.
Speaker 5 (56:21):
The government babies, my crow chips and your fabies. All
Kuala bears are racist. The money, our ships and Turkey stuff.
Speaker 4 (56:38):
I can't tell me
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