"Anti-Brusher" with Ego Nwodim

of this ecosystem. Wrong. I think I think hose are essential. And I'd say this, and I want to be clear because some of our listeners are going to take this in the direction and say, you can't talk about women this way. Hoses everybody everybody's homes anybody, because everybody, everybody's everybody st Yeah, y'all, y'all homes they exist everywhere. Let's not try to to break this down to some gender

or race thing. No all, y'all, are some homes. If we're trying to this side, how valuable you Holt are to our survivors in your quos are racist? The host money, she'stern stuff. I can't tell me. Oh, oh there it is. Hell, yeah,

there is. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another spectacular, amazing, incredible episode of My Mama Told Me, the podcast where we dive deep, We go deep, we splunk into the world of black conspiracy theories, and we agree, We collectively agree that you call her Janet if you are regular, miss Jackson if you're nasty, and Professor Jackson if you're really confused about how vacation works. Those are the names she prefers for all of her qualifications, her names. That's

what Janet's going by now. Professor Jackson if you don't know how the school is. I'm your host, Langston Kerman. I'm here. I'm in my friend's house still because my WiFi doesn't work in my new home, and it is hot. Is fucking this house. I don't know why he keeps his home so hot, but I'm sweating already and the podcast hasn't even started. You know who's not sweating. You know who's keeping it coolest ship is my guest today. She's fantastic, she's hilarious. You know her from fucking Saturday

Night Live. It's the coolest show. She's the coolest lady. She's hilarious. Give it up from my guests, Ms Eggo, Woda, thank you for having me, and that is yes. The crowd goes wild. Love it. I love it. What's going on with the temperature over there? I'm concerned about I

am too. He's been my friends since we were in college, and I don't know what's going on with his body heat that so I think he explained it to me that his air conditioner previously did not work, and then for some reason he tried it like a year ago, it still wasn't working, and he had to try to get it fixed in between. Just to be clear, Oh no, he's he's begged endlessly for them to fix this air

conditioner and they've refused. They said, no, you whore, you'll be hot, and then okay, you'll be a hot in your home. They love alliteration. The weather you speak to him, uh, And so he tried to get it fixed and then someday he I guess recently he turned it on and it did work. But I think his body has has calibrated now to the heat, if that makes sense. So now he would be too cold if the A C got turned on despite the heat waves, I believe, so

I think he I think he's cold blooded. Now I think he's like one of those lizards on a rock if that kind of okay, that makes sense I feeling. Normally people say cold blood, it's like kill somebody just but yes, yes he is. I'm not sure he's not trying to kill me. This is I'm in a jungle heat that I am struggling to maintain. Maintain, say for your friend, though, because I feel bad complaining about I just went on a grand tour escaping New York, uh

for a few months. Yes, and so people let me stay with them or stay at their spots, namely, and I had like notes everywhere I went, And I was like, you can't have notes when someone's letting you stay in there. You can't like thoughts. This isn't a luxurious getaway like people are doing. You don't get to show up with requests. Yeah, the couch is the couch. That's just what it's gonna be like. Or you figure out less cost effective way to you know, record with internet and in my case,

all the other things agree. Wait, what was one of the requests that you made? What was one of the notes that you would leave behind for your Why are you gonna do this? Why are you gonna Okay, okay, I'm gonna need hold on, let me think back because I'm trying to think of whose feeling is I'll hurt the least, Okay, Okay, So this is exciting. So I feel like I need sunlight. I need natural light. I'm a play. A lot of people are lacking natural light

for your girl, and I was. I was struggling because I was like, on one hand, this is a wonderful thing. Somebody's doing me a favor. But on the other hand, I'm dying inside because there's night this bitch, and you know, I could have gone and done my own thing and found my own spot. But it was like, no, like I don't want to spend that money. Can't you just install a better window in your home? Yes? Yes, obviously,

let's get some. Should I be put out? Let's saying like, let's get some east facing, west facing even I'll take a south facing window, you know, but a lot of north facing windows and people's homes and it really messed with my mental So that would be my request, that my request, let's get some sunlight. Let's move this apartment to the to the east side of the building. Yeah, I don't know. Hands up, that's all I requested. It's only temporary, a monk believe to come back, exactly right.

But hearing you shift on your friend and his a C situation just made me feel like maybe I am going about it wrong. Maybe we can be out here given notes to people in their own homes. I think we should be giving notes, and I also respect that they're going to think that we're monsters afterwards. Okay, you know the two can exist, and that's sometimes I do a splitting thing in my brain that only one or

the other can be true. But no exclusive here. I'd like to introduce you to the Venn diagram, where you can be you can be both preferential and an asshole at the exact same time. Okay, well that's me. That's me all the way. That's me. I got more notes, but we won't get into that because I don't know. My friends listen to this ship and we we can't afford to get into it because you sent over a conspiracy theory that I'm very excited to dig into. I

personally had never heard this before. This is not one that I subscribed to, nor had even I hadn't even gotten a briefing on it before this. I'm so excited that you sent this. You said, and I'm quoting here, my mama told me, if you don't brush your teeth that night, aunts, we'll crawl around in your mouth. It's true, and I can't and I don't know her to be a liar, but I think about that all the time.

I think, I still think about it, like I almost want to talk to her about it now that I'm an adult and be like, why were you telling me that? Like there was a period when I was younger it worked on me. I was legitimately, I don't want any ants crawling around in my mouth in my sleep, just like these niggas like crawling around while I trying to get rest, taking advantage of the real estate. I was like, I don't want that. I legitimately remember brushing my teeth

many a night because of that. Just because of that, and then one day it occurred to me, I was like, man, because answer so little, You're not gonna feel But I was like, you would feel them, I and I feel like I said to my mom, and I confronted her as a child, and I was like, look, if they were really crawling around in my mouth, if ants were really crawling around in my mouth, I feel them, and how are they getting into my mouth? I don't know

that I sleep with my mouth open. And she just kind of like let it ride, like she just she never I think for her it was a moment like finding out your kid, No, Santa Clause isn't real that She was like, well, it sounds like to some extent it was like a loss of power for her in that moment where it's like, damn, all right, this trick ain't gonna work no more. I just move on, right. She didn't even try to defend it, which I'm glad because that would have caused I'm sure a wedge in

our relationship if I was looking back on this right now. No, but she fought me on it. She didn't, but it worked for a significant amount of time. I think that's the difference between like the things that our parents tell us that are all our parents lie to us. It's part of like it bringing a person up and trauma, right is like if you tell me answer crawling in my mouth and I believe you, fine, And then at the point that I say no, there are no ants

in my mouth, and you go, okay, fine, we move on. Now, you're just being a decent parent. But if you beat me for it, now we've got trauma. Imagine my mother beating me when I found out there ants crawling around and by a mouth, and she beats me for that, and that would be that's actually, yes, that it would be actual trauma and other among other things, very problematic. You permanent. Now the ants are always there. They aren't

even crawling in the mouth, there in the heart. Ants in my heart and not got my passwhip by my mother. Let me tell you. I just remember being like so scared of that, and like I don't know with ants like right now, I'm like definitely, uh it's it's actually obnoxiously and I don't find it amusing or like a cute personality quirk. Like I'm really scared of roaches and I wish I wasn't because I fancy myself a hard

body human being. Sure, these streets all right, but like the roaches, roaches and mice, I can and rats, rats, mice, they're the one and same. I cannot do so hearing ants were calling around my mouth I'm like, I'm not I remember not being scared of ants, but I'm like, you just don't want those in your mouth, like a bunch of them, a gang ants in your mouth. Ants

can't be that far from roaches, right on. It's not that they're the same, but it's if you got ants, you're not better than roaches, right, you're not above the possibility of roaches. Right You're probably kicking it with roaches, and so that's a different thing. If you're an aunt, you are probably at some point I had kicked it with a roach, like it's a symbiotic. Yeah. Yeah, y'all

are kind of after the same ship. And so I feel like if there was one night where I specifically went to sleep, like, oh no about this ship, I'm gonna be asleep and commit to my sleep, but I'm also gonna, like, in one sense, keep one eye open, like and I didn't actually the eye open, but it was just this, like I decided, like tonight's the night that I want to put in my mind that if I feel ants crawling around in my mouth, like I might be ants crawling around in my mouth, God, wake

me up, Like wake me up. I want to I want to wake Oh, I love that you're the prayer that you said before you went to bed. It was just Lord, uh, please bless me with the power the strength to wake up in the of the ants crawling in my mouth. Lord. Yes. And then I was like, look, that was a smooth sleep. And they remember like waking up and me like, I slept just fine. There were no ants because in my mind I also remember just

being like, Okay, I feel them. But also they got to come inspect to see if I brushed my teeth. They're not they're not gonna know. I know. She wasn't selling me on that, Like ants have this superpower to know. I was like, they're gonna come and inspect to see if I brushed my teeth, and and like like at least one of them is gonna come check up and see what the situation is. And then, well, this is fascinating. Now you're introducing a part of this that I had

never even considered. These ants are not crawling around for their pleasure. Now suggesting that these ants are going in as an inspectors of your teeth. Yes, because they're trying to find out if they can find something. They're not gonna tell the whole the whole crew to come unless there's something to be found, right, so they're not just like they're not like on the bed, And that was the other thing. I'm like, i'd see you know, Like

I mean, now I know about bedbugs. We don't have to get because that's the whole other thing that stresses me out. But I'm like, aunts, you'd like see them. I'm like, I don't see ants in our house on a normal basis. I haven't seen ants in the house. So you're telling me aunts are going to crawl in my mouth. I'm like, they're gonna send one or two to check up on if I brushed my teeth, And are we telling the whole crew like it's a party

over here. She's still got hot dogs in her in between her teeth, like you know, just come let us feast. And so when I realized, I was like, I would feel at least even if I did brush my teeth, i'd see an ant crawling away from the bed in the morning or getting ready at night. I'm like, I

don't see them here. And so yeah, I thought they would come inspect and let everybody else know it was popping off in my mouth that's so funny because well, on a number of levels, because the suggestion here is that the ants are seeking the crumbs in your mouth more than like the in your garbage, than the crumbs that have probably fallen in your kitchen floor, even somehow maneuvering into your refrigerator and eating the fucking food, Like no,

we need that sweet too already, you know, just already e at that two thoughtop because it's already like and it's chewed up for them, ready to be ingested, little little bites. I'm just like, this is what they want. I've done the work for them in a sense. It's in my mouth that's ready to go. I'm asleep none the wiser while they feast. And sort of like maybe ants are like little sneaky bastards, but I don't ants are that sneaky though. Ants don't be that sneaky, Like

they're pretty straight up. They're straight up there like we are in here, like we're in here, and like they'll so many ants gathered to look like one big bug. Whereas like roaches you come home, Yeah, they sneak and they fall. That's how they get you. Because the roaches, they there's some mels. They some motherfucker's wait till the lights are off and they yeah, they don't bunch of independently. No, But I will say, speaking on roaches, if we want

to touch over, I talk a lot about roaches. I feel like I'm so sorry so I think too much about them. I want to speak on a specific roach. L A roaches are a little more thuggish, ruggish. They don't scatter. They don't scatter. Wait, you think l A roaches are worse than New York roaches because you're in New York. I'm in New York. But let me tell you most of your year, I am in year for most of the year. But so I should give you some backstory here, Lankston, if we have time for your story,

so everything. So I feel like I maybe have told the story. But before I left Los Angeles, I lived on the west side of l A. And that's a little she she or whatever. My last five months in Los Angeles, I moved into my own little apartment in Los Spelis adjacent. I'd say, like, right on the board, they're important because I was like dirty East Hollywood. But it was right on the board, okay, right now, I was like, I want to be a hipster. I think

I am a hipster. I wear birken stocks. Uh So I was like, I'm a little bit I fancy, but I'm kind of a hipster. So I haven't I can handle this town? Yeah, right, move in my apartment. I signed this lease. Um so, first time I'm living alone. I signed this lease. And the day I signed, I go downstairs to like leave the building. My unit that I've signed for is right above the laundry room, and the baund room is sort of like outdoors. There's it's

not outdoors, it's under the building. But the door leading to the street is like not touching the ground. We're right on the street. It's like access to the street is right there. That being said, I looked down in the laundry room. I see like ten big roaches on their backs. They were laid out in the laundry room, which is under the unit I have just signed up to it. I have a little bit of a panic, and I was like, what have I done? I don't know what have I done. I'm having and my d

was like doing extensive research on places. My friend lived in this building in the Lake twenty units, but he lived on the other side of the building and up on the upper level. So he lived there for five years. So he has this experience and he's like, I had no problems, not a single problem ever, not once now. But he's not in the roach on the road of the building. The roach sector, oh a lot. So so so these roaches were on their back where they liked

tanning or were they dead? Were these dead roaches that you were? I think some some more dead guys, and some of them were dead guys, and some of them were tanning. I do think because you could see them. There's still some movement, right, so there's still life in there. They were tanning, But I'm like, you're not even in

the sun, you know. So that being said, the apartment had roaches, and uh, that caused me quite a bit of anxiety, and as a person who is deathly scared of them, and so I moved out of the apartment very abruptly. I say this to say that when I moved to New York, my number one Crichier was like, I know this is New York. I know New York is far dirtier. Uh. My number one thing was this, wherever I live, I cannot have vermin at all, Like

it just I can't happen. And I talked to people at work, and some of them wealthy, presumably living in very nice places, and they'd be like, you're not gonna be able to help it here. You're going to have roaches. It's gonna happen. But check this is like it's standard in New York City. As a former person in New York there was no apartment I was in that didn't at least have some roaches. Now, I was blessed to have times where there were way fewer roaches than other times.

But we baby, they were all up in like I hate to hear it. No, I was like, and I was on something like, no, my faith will prevail you by there are roaches, but my God says I will have none. Okay, I was on. So I was like, no, you could say that. I know you probably live in a nice glass place. One of the people that I work with, she and her husband had just bought an apartment in the city and she's like, girl, we have rats in this, bitch like, and she was like, don't

live on this. She's like seventh floor or up or eighth floor above. She's like so I live on the ninth floor of my building. But here's the thing, lean that's like low key all I cared about willing to forego the sun, you know, I said, I with son, willing to forego that. I just knew I couldn't handle the roaches literally down to take a box with no windows, just a shell of concrete. Get yes, absolutely, because I

knew that New Yorkers too. I was like, I know, I'm not gonna call my super in New York and be like, hey, so there's a couple of roaches and the unit because I knew I was gonna get like okay. And I was in a hotel before I started my job before was it before I started? No, I just started my job. I was in a hotel for like

thirty days. On day twenty five, there is a roach in my hotel room and I call the front desk and I'm like, first of all, I'm like, did I bring these bitches with me from l A Because I haven't ever been in a hotel room. This motherfucker's trying to give me. I recognized you, Joseph, Joseph, get your grass out of here. I know you. I really was. I was like, this was like a cousin because it was a different style, it was a different it was different shade and shape. But I was like, this is

the roach. And so I called down the front desk and again, this is New York City, and here's my thing. Though, to be fair, I've never been in a hotel room where I found a roach in my hotel room. I have not had that experience. I've also never been in a hotel before that time for thirty days, and mind you, I'm finding this on day like, and so I called down the front desk. I was like, hey, there's a

I knew I had to lie. I said there's a bunch of roaches in my room, because if I said it was run roach, I knew that I was gonna get like, I'm being overtaken by roach piling up everywhere, and we need to get there's a couple of roaches in here. I don't know what's going on. So they come up. Who comes up first? The housekeeper comes up first, and she's like I loved that that. They were like, look,

just saying Martha will start the real issue. Will actually get the professional send the lady that we don't pay very much to get deal. What's fucking roaches? I'm like, they say, what she's signed up for? So she comes and she's like where is it? And I was like, it's behind the arm war. I was like, it crawled behind the arm and I said, I couldn't move it.

I was like, I couldn't move it to try to grab it because I don't want to look like a little bit and I know I love looking like I don't want to look like a little bit on and I mean that in both senses of the words. So I was like, So I was like, yeah, I can't move it. So she's like I can't either, So she calls like the maintenance guy. This becomes a whole ordeal for this one, like medium sized rop and I was like, he comes. I remember him coming and being like, what's

the problem. She's like, there's a roach. And first of all, this woman trying to tell me they've never had this, never had a roach in any of the rooms before. And I was like, why are you gonna do me like that? And she are we doing? Are you? It's just me and you? It's just me? Why are you doing this? And mind you, they're above a restaurant like it's not even their restaurant. The hotel itself is above a restaurant. I'm like, you never had a roach, and

she's like, never had this? And I look at her, but not even like mad, because I can't process it because what I am still dealing with is like did I bring this? There are these roaches in my luggage and so so she sees my face, but it's not like again, I'm not angry with her, and she was like, I'm kidding, Like I'm kidding, She's like, but she wasn't she It was a very weird moment because it wasn't

like that I'm telling a joke. She wasn't kidding. I think she was worried about my response and that I was about to get mad or something. You know what that is that' said Nelly. Uh unless you're gonna do it? Yes, yes, yes, take them close. You know I'm trying to see you make it unless you ain't cool with that, and then I'll chill. But it's your gas lighting me. You're playing a game where you pretend like you're worried about my feelings. Yes,

it was that. It was exactly that because she wasn't joking, so then maintenance guy comes. He comes and he's like, what's up. She's like, there's a roach and he was like so killing and he tried to walk away. He was like every day he's like whatever, New York, you know, New York X, saying that what we what are we doing here? I was like, it's behind the thing, and she was like, yeah, neither of us can move it. So now she's in on it. I don't even ask her to be in on this. She's like, we can't

move it. So he kills it with a towel. He moves the thing. He's kind of piste off. He kills it with the towel. He's like, there has it. Takes the dead roach in the towel with him and I'm like, what is happening? But I said all this, I'm looking for apartments in New York. I was like, I refuse, I can't have it. But I have to tell you, by the way, just real quick, what I did. I was really proud of myself because I had to stay in this hotel for five more days. I I see

that bitch out. I was like, they don't like because I like the temperature to be that kind of warm. I'm not like, so I I see that shipped out. I was like, I had it like the lowest the a c after that day, the lowest temperature possible. It felt like iglu in that bitch, and I was like, never again. I was like, this will work. And every time a housekeeping would come in to clean, like when I was away at work, they would like turn the temperature to like a normal temperature, like seventy two, and

I'd be like, no, you're sucking up the plant. If I make it so cold in here that I might die, the roaches too will die. So if it feels like I'm keeping pork shops hanging from the ceiling and here I can't live here, they will want to be in here. And so I was really proud of myself for that.

But when I went looking for an apartment, I had this whole like ninth Flora, But it can't be an old building because if it's an old building, that bitches live in the walls Already they've they've they've settled down. So I'm gonna tell you right now, in my two years in New York, I don't have I stayed in the same apartment and I refused to move, even though my neighborhood sucks because I don't want roaches. I haven't had any roaches. But here's no roaches in two years

in New York City. But let me explain in New York City. In Manhattan, they spray every single week in my building like a preventative treatment, every single week in the pandemic. I did call the front desk to be like, hey, are you guys still spraying? I love I love the idea that you found the one building that doesn't have roaches, but it also gives you cancer because they're spying every week, just straight into your mouth. Yes, And I was willing.

My friends were like that can't be healthy for you guys, and I was like, I don't care. Every Wednesday they ship glows so, you know, radioactive. I'm like, what was that Alex Mack. I'm like, Alex mack nicola. Yeah, because she turned into like water right, like she'd be a puddle. Yeah. I gotta tell you a story about Alex Mack. I got in trouble as a child because my cousin, who was like a year apart from me, were like sisters,

grew up like sisters. She used to throw up all the time when we were younger, just like everything would make her throw up, everything would make her throw up. I don't know, like honestly, like she threw up, she threw up. We were watching Alex Mack. When Alex turns into the puddle, but the puddle looks like a puddle of ship, she throws up. I got in trouble, like what did you do? I love? I love that her superpower is throwing up and her one like Alex Mack

is her weakness. Yeah, I would. I got in trouble like what did you do? What were you guys doing? I was like, I don't know how to explain to these Nigerian adults that we were watching Alex Mack. I was watching a white girl with a brimless hat turned into a puddle and she started throwing up. I don't know,

I don't know. I didn't do anything. So many times I got in trouble as a child for just like the disconnect of a Nigerian board parent and me being an American board an American board child was like, I don't know how to explain this teath. I can't explain this to you, and you can't explain ants in my mouth. So let's just so get the antswer in my mouth. I remember telling confronted my mom about that, though, like I remember, like that's a lie. There were no ants

in my mouth last night. I would feel them if they were running around my mouth. She left it alone, and then I think I can't remember if I kept brushing my teeth that night or if it was like a rebellious like I'm not brushing my teeth that night anymore after this, because y'all and like, I'm not, but I do now, to be clear, I do now, in fact, I brush You heard it her first, folks, Ego went years without brushing her teeth, and we've learned more about that.

After our next break. We'll be back with more egg more, my mama told me. And we are back. Yeah, we're back here with more of my mama told me more Eggo WoT them. We're still talking about those ants in your teeth if you don't brush them, uh, crawling through your mouth when you're sleeping. Uh. And so you were saying, and this is very exciting for me that at a certain point you were rebelling against the possibility of this

by not brushing your teeth that you became likes. Okay, to be clear, anti Knight Brusher, anti Knight Brusher, we're not spreading lives like, we're not saying lies. I know this was that you weren't going to school with a hot tongue. You were just saying in my dreams, I'm not going to your hot, white, cakey tongue. Know I was not. I was not. I just had to decide. I was like, oh, I don't have to do this. I don't have to be living in fear that if I don't do this, there will be ants, there will

be bugs making home in my mouth. So yeah, I went some period of time where I was like, I don't have to do this. Plus these little ships are going to fall out. I was brushing like teeth that weren't gonna be ever on top of it, I don't. These weren't your permanent So you're like, yeah, I had to risk it. Who cares? These was carrot? For all I care? Out of here in a matter of time, burning hell, you shitty teeth. I'm gonna get new ones,

and your motherfucker's won't mean ship ship. I don't even remember you, and I are you exactly, but you're not even really part of me, by the way, Like my mom never told me again Nigerian mom, don't think we did the tooth fairy thing. I don't. Yeah. So I was also the kid at school who knew Santa wasn't real, the tooth fairy don't exist. But so she never lied to me about like the fun pleasant stuff in life.

It was that antswer we're going to crawl it by about So I knew Santa wasn't real, and I knew the tooth fairy didn't exist, but I didn't spoil that for any of my friends. I don't know how where with all, but she was like, the stuff you will tell me is that there will be bugs in my mouth should I not brush my teeth that night. And that's kind of sucked up now that it is. But it's great that you didn't become that person who goes to school like some sort of like weird type of

woke where you're like, Santa Claus ain't real. You know what is real? Ants send your teeth, they go in there at night. If you don't brush, all right, let's go play jump rope. It's like this is I don't know how I knew to do that and not be I guess what I'm trying to say is I've never been a bit like I've been a bit you know besides that moment, that and the room I've been cooling my whole life is you know what that deserves. That deserves a little celebration, bacon anyway, that's tight. Ego has

never been a bit. Y'all celebrate, celebrate the good things in the world. Up, I can't fathom. I don't. I don't like being controlled. So I don't know that sounds like so rudimentary, Like who does I have such an aversion to being told what to do and being manipulated. It's like beyond I think what's normal. So I was like, I'm not out here brushing my teeth at night. I'm not gonna let the man dictate how I brush and when I brush just because of ants potentially over crawling

over my mouth mouth. I'm straight, And so I did. I do just want to be clear here because leg since out here trying to spread lies. He falls, we went on commercial break. He left it on a lie, and we left on a lie. This is a podcast about conspiracy theory. There's there's no lies. We just all have alternative true that I put in the world. I can't fathom. We're not going to be saying I didn't brush my teeth for years, but I will say that I did start brushing my teeth at night again when

I got braces when I was six to fourteen. When I was fourteen, and I'll tell you why. No one had to tell me. No one had to tell me any fucking lies about it. What had happened was I saw several friends who got bracest before I did, get their joints taken off, and they all had white squares in the middle of their teeth. They weren't taking care. They weren't taking care. And so when I got braces, I began to care way more about my dental hygiene than I ever had, because I was like, I can't

look like so and so out here. I'm not going to yeare of it. So then I was like, we funk with brushing our teeth at night, having ship multiple times a day, Why not lost lost every day? I've lost multiple times a day. So I just want to defend my name and my character and what I stand for as far as hygiene goes, because the lengthy was out here trying to spread alternative truth. Listen, CNN tries

to refute Fox News every night. It don't work out here. Wow, Let's dig into some of this research that I did. I wanted to look up exactly where this comes from and who claims to have experienced it, And fascinatingly enough, there are a lot of people on the internet asking the exact same question that a childhood ego was asking about ants crawling in mouths. Specifically, this is where it

gets especially fascinating. They're less concerned with the possibility of them just hanging out in the mouth, but there's a ton of questions about ants crawling in their mouths to get to their brain. That's like an ongoing theme in all of these questions, So I'm gonna read off some of them to you. The first question that pops up on a website called Cora, which I think is just a space where people can ask questions. I tated a guy who was big on Cora and yet questions a

real nerd. Yeah, that's yes, that's exactly what it is. Sorry that work out? How was that was that he actually turned out to be full crazy and told me had cancer when he didn't. But we can come back and another child. Okay, So not a great resource for for healthy thinkers. And I think this question is probably a good example that the person asked, if I sleep with a candy in my mouth, will ants get inside the brain and feed on it? Seriously? Is it possible?

Should I be careful? I'm presuming this is a child because turning out on Cora children is a lot of grown people. Like anybody who's listening go to court, it's a lot of grown people. Oftentimes they're asking questions that I'm like, you don't have a single friend in your life to ask You couldn't just google this yourself. Yeah. What I find wild about that question is that why

do you want to sleep with? Like? Why do you want listen, you're talking to person with the sweet tooth right now, try to sleep with candy in my mouth? Why does this person want to sleep with candy in mouth? Why are they so curious if they can bait ants into getting into their brain. Most of us are trying to protect our skulls. Well, that that is his concern. Is he is saying like, I don't want ants in

my skull. I don't want ants in my brain, but I do want that candy in my mouth when I sleep, and I don't know how to balance the two, which is insane. I don't know why you want candy in his mouth. And a lot of the people who responded to him had the exact same concerns you did. They were like, hey, man, please stop doing that. You could choke. It's not healthy. And he was like, nah, funk that the candy stays. What about these as? This is see this is the Also this is a person who perhaps

my mom got it here. I mean, cor didn't exist back then in the early nineties, But this is the person who does not give a funk about his dental hygiene. If we're just going to tie in the dental hygiene aspect of because if you did, you certain you would not be sleeping with candy in your mouth. So it's something there is some sort of common thread here about like aunts will funk with you if you had bad

dental hygiene, That's what I'm gather. Like that actually brings me to a really fascinating route of where a lot of this comes from, because I, like you just assumed that this was parents offering up stuff to scare kids, right, like my mom. This is a great example my mom when I was a kid, whenever I did something wrong, she would have one of her friends pretend to be one of the Ninja Turtles on the phone. So like, if I was like acting up in the house, she'd

be like, Hey, I'm gonna call down to Tello. I'm gonna tell him you're being an asshole. And then I'd be like, you can't. You don't know, Donna Tello, you can't call him, And then she would literally like call up her friend Furl, and then Furl would be on the phone like, hey, listen, it's me Donna Tello. Looks

like you can't be in Ninja Turtle no more. And I no devastated, crying, And she did it to me for years because yeah, that's why Pharaoh, why I was Parrel So, But I don't want to derail this here, but I think why I was Farrell so willaid how Farrel so? I think for I think, well, Farrel was her best friend and she now Farrel is is she? But my mom was a supportive friend in Farrel coming out and sort of like discovering herself in the world. And I think Farrel for that reason, was just down

for whatever my mom asked for. Ride will a child for you? What's crazy that? I do? Think my mom had a friend, Um, if I remember correctly, her friend had also told me this live. I remember both of them being like, yeah, it's true to me at one point. So yeah, their parents friends be out here riding to lie children, to terrorize children. Okay, So I thought it was just that right, But it turns out that the actual route of this comes from an article that was

published in eighteen seventy three. All the way back in eighteen seventy three, this wreck putable at the time, very reputable medical journal called The Clinic UH published this article called the tooth Ant. The tooth Ant. It's published in this reputable medical journal. But here's the caveat here's where it gets crazy is they didn't do any science attached

to this. They just pulled this article from a New Jersey newspaper that they found that some guy basically wrote about himself and said like, Hey, this happened to me, y'all should publish it. And then they did. And so the tooth Ant, as it UH plainly, sort of sounds basically, this dude claims that he goes to a doctor complaining about a toothache. They pull the tooth and it's rotten.

It's like a bad tooth. It's eighteen seventy three. You know, either you had rotten teeth or you stole them from slaves, you know what I mean, like pretty much that was the only option back then. But so he had he had this rotten tooth. They send him home with his rotten too and when he gets home, he's like, I gotta know what was so bad about this tooth. I gotta know why it was hurting me so bad it

made me want to cry. I need to know. And so he cracks the tooth open, and the tooth opens, and an aunt crawls out and then runs for its life towards off his kitchen table. Uh. And apparently this aunt had been living in his tooth the entire time. Okay, this is crazy. We think this man is lying, right like, because we do have to get on the same box and Sanna need to get on the same page. We think this man is lying. I do believe he's lying, but I'd love to hear why you think he's lying.

I mean, okay, so it's living in his tooth the whole time. All right, I just want to unpack it, unless, sir, you have a cavity, which maybe it does sound like you did, because okay, at least that's why I'm rotting,

and it hurts so bad. So so the ant crawled into the cavity, he never got it, so it rotted, right, But the ant just stayed in that bitch for whatever period of time from when the cavity formed to the point where it rotted, to then it was removed from your mouther had fallen out to you preserved it and then like got curious. This is a stretch of time

we're talking about. So here's where it gets even more upsetting for you is that his claim is that there was like a tiny hole in the tooth that he found and that something had basically crawled in there and then grown as it was inside of there, like nourishing itself off of his like leftovers, And so he basically had built a home in his tooth, not had like crawled through the cavity, but like had just burrowed in. And I don't know it's to cocoon like that. I mean,

I don't know it's personally either. But I mean, I'm not only talk like I know these men, i'd be talking to him, but like I don't know them to cocoon, and I don't know them to like be parasitic in that way. He's like sort of describing what feels like a tape worm or something in a sense like instead of it being in your intestines, it's in your tooth. Like but just I just, I mean, Okay, if it grew when you drank water, wouldn't it have washed down

It's presumably he drank some liquid at some point. Wouldn't it get washed down into your throat. That's the part that really confuses me, is like, Okay, all right, I'm gonna follow you along the possibility that maybe this thing burrowed into your tooth. I find I'll make that. I'm so sorry. It's just it's in my nature to listen to these people and kind of agree. But even if we follow that entire journey, why does it just stay inside of the tooth? Why isn't it like how is

it eating? Because then you're just telling me it's eating the root of your like nerve, you know what I mean, Like, what is it eating? That's sustaining it so much that it's grown own to the point that it's causing pain. That it's not pain, then a little aunt would be causing pain. Remember, still, how big could it have grown? Right, let's okay, we'll go on the walk. We'll go on the walk with him. Welcome, welcome, welcome. No, no, unfortunately no,

But how big could it have grown? Most teeth are I was, I mean, most people's teeth besides Steve Harvey's are like roughly the same. Everybody's like roughly the same size. Let's say, like at best an inch or two if something's really gone awry with you. So how big did this ant grow? That? I again, that it would not have gotten washed down with a liquid and that it's going to stay burrowed in your two to the point that it is causing pain. And it's like, what is

it eating? I don't know ants to like you're saying it was eating the root of your tooth, your nerve endings. It was it was like thriving on your nerve endings. We don't have evidence of that one. Yeah, there's no history of that in the ant's community. Yeah, at best, this aunt is like a two inch ant Okay, two inches in leng that's pretty big. That's that's a big fucking ant. Yeah, that's right. Hold on, okay, so that's the aunt is one because the two inch tooth is

a problem. I know, not even see so not even not even they would be like, what's wrong with you? Man? Come on, man, imagine Steve Harvey truly get shipped on somebody else's teeth. He got some choppers on. You know, you don't get to do this. You're not allowed. Steve, so a one inch ant and it's just going to and you never felt it. Let's also go to say that, let's touch on that, because it's eating your nerve endings. You're going to feel. The nerve endings exist to receive

signals um and you're going to feel that. You're gonna feel that. You also feel if your nerve ending is kind of cut off. So again, if it's eating the nerve endings, I think you would have at some point felt it eating those nerve endings aside them, you don't sense a living thing inside your mouth. That is let's call it one inch. It got that's a big that's

a big ant. We're giving him a lot of friend here, you don't feel a one inch living thing in your mouth for around time, just moving around, just moving around, at least when it's eating. You've seen Aunt, little Hands. We've seen the movie Ants, like how the little feet their feet work together and get the mail up in there. Like we've seen you know that anatomically correct movie Ants with the little because side. We've seen Aunts, we've seen them singing songs. But like, I just it's absurd. I

just it's absurd. I think this person was clearly lying. But I think the danger that sort of existed was this medical journal deciding that they were going to publish it and make this potentially a story that parents could then turn into something they weaponize against children. Uh and in particularly because in my research I looked up how many times ants crawl into our mouths, and it turns

out that that's not a thing at all. That apparently ants are pretty smart and they know that a thing, a living thing breathing out carbon dioxide is probably a threat and not something you want to crawl into and burrow at night. You know what I mean. I mean, you see how they organize. Ants are so organized, like legitimately they go take food back to a queen or whatever. And then like, when they're trying to transport a big thing, they know how to organize and mobilize. Like that's a

smart that's a smart insect. And so I'm like, in a sense, that journal, by posting that too, you know, is calling aunt stupid and I didn't. They don't have to tell you. I just like, why are you calling aunt stupid? We don't You're like, first of all, I don't like what they're saying, but I, more than an anything, don't like them disrespecting ants. Ants are smart? And how dare you? I want to be taken seriously here because I don't even like ants, right, I don't hate them

like I hate. I don't like them, um one aunt whatever. But if you see one, there's many others. When I see a gang of them, then I start to get deeply uncomfortable and uneasy. But that being said, I'll never call them stupid, and so I do feel I'm like, we can all agree ants are stupid, So that this journal publish something that would be suggesting that ants are dumb, I'm like, that is irresponsible. That's irresponsible. You lost credit in egos book, and I think that means a lot

for the clinic. And if I don't know that they're still around, they existed in eighteen seventy three. But if they do, fuck you the clinic, you're glad to us the one the clinic, the clinic. Okay. This is this is where the research got especially fascinating for me, though, because I basically found out that ants don't crawl in your mouths a night. That whole argument that people make about like you swallow so many spiders a year, it's

completely bullshit. We're not actually eating spiders. Spiders have no interest in being swallowed, Like that's not a thing. Um. But what I did find especially fascinating is that apparently ants communicate through mouth and mouth contact. That like they do little like kisses with each other with like us, they like low kisses, but that's how they like tell each other, like, hey, don't go over there is some wild ship over there. Oh we got some food. This

way they like through little mot canceled. If I just want to say, I'm like, dang ants consent. I love that. I love that the ants are just out here, like it's like you didn't ask me, and you didn't need to ask me you're trying to get me information all on my mouth, Like, but okay, I'm sorry, I'm just

I'm thinking that so much. But okay. So the ants communicate through mouth and mouth contact, and a part of me and I don't know if you'll follow me down this train, but I'm excited to see how you'll responding the way. A part of me wonders if, in fact, ants do go in our mouths, are they trying to communicate something to us that we don't know? Are they

trying to tell us something? The ants? I mean, here's an interesting thing is that the ants don't necessarily to the extent that they have thrive without us the ecosystem at play, so it does behove ants to try to protect us in a sense, right, And so perhaps they would be trying to communicate something to us as well. If they were crawling in mouth, it would be like they communicate by mouth to mouth. They can recognize our mouths and they're like, you, look, we don't really eat

unless you buy these groceries. These grocers don't get made if y'all don't exist. Really a dog, we're a little lower on Captain crunch, and I'm gonna need you to, right, That's That's what I'm saying. Like, So, on one hand, you wonder if like answer, like, I recognize that we need these people because otherwise we'd be eating grass, Like, you know, we'd be eating grass and perhaps whatever vegetation happens to grow naturally without any sort of human hand

in the in the matter. But then every non human organism would be trying to get those few tomatoes, every non human organism would be trying to get those few pineapples. So we do we need each other? And so maybe they're like, yeah, we want to communicate with you all like one office. Like, I think that's a real possibility. The other thing that I was sort of battling with is I've seen like this alien documentary, right, I was

watching this alien documentary. I think it's called Unacknowledged. It's on Netflix. It's insane, but it basically suggests that aliens do exist. We've known about them for years and they won't tell us because the government blah blah blah blah blah. But the thing that it's sort of positives is that aliens are not in fact coming to Earth to terrorize us. Aliens are coming to Earth to teach us how to be more like efficient and thus not kill each other.

That like, they're trying to stop the end of humanity, And so a part of me wonders if these little bitty ants are giving us these sweet little kisses in our mouth at the possibility that, like, yo, this is how you stop murdering the earth? Yes, is it? Yeah? This is how you work together. This is how you build. That's how you work as a community. This is how you you know, we we have a leader too, we

know what that's like. There's a chance there's a chance I am concerned about the alien thing only in that Like, if aliens main thing is to try to teach us how to be more efficient, I'm like, I think our problem is not necessary our desire for efficiency or are figuring out how to be efficient? It's maybe is I think like capitalism? Right? So there coming to like capitalism it then I go like, okay, I will like to

vide that they are just. But then of course that documentary you would watch would be deemed propaganda, and so you know it's a big web. Well, I have to assume the aliens don't give a funk about our money, you know what, I mean, they're not coming down like, hey, this is how you make your planet more carbon neutral, but you better respect that George Washington dollar bill, that that means something to us that's valuable. They don't give a ship I know, But I'm just like, teach us

something more. Efficiency sometimes, like efficiency feels like part of the root of like capitalism, the way like productivity, how we value productivity and efficiency so so much. I'm like teach us something good, like to be better people. It feels like such a vague, sort of like umbrella statement that it it fall into like eugenics, where you're like, well, that's not an efficient person, so you should kill them,

And yeah, I get that. No, I don't know aliens have a heart, you know, that's I guess I'm not sure that we know that. I don't even know if ants have hearts, So maybe we can't listen to these motherfucker's. But yeah, I'm trying. I'm trying to think of ways

to fix this. There is a chance that ants stand to benefit or gain from making sure that we are straight, like humans are straight, and we're all in a sort of like symbiotic relationship in the ecosystem here, so it is not so far fetched, you know those um Peter billboards that's like where do you draw the line as

far as like what do you eat? And it starts to cow, pig, whatever, then it's dog and it's like most people who eat meter like yeah, and I draw the line right there, right, it's the one that I like, I wonder like it's trying to send the message that like all living things right are feel and are worthy of their life and living. So I'm like, do ants go on that as well? I want to do do you know vegans kill aunts? I'm sorry now I'm like

kill ants. I don't think they're supposed to, but I have to assume that there are some vegans in New York who are stopping the ship out of some roaches that like they didn't want in their own Like, if you're vegan in New York, you're not being cool about the road, you know what I mean? Come in your

apartment because you love all living things, right, Okay? So I just I want to just say as far as the ants go, for like looking at it in the peta sense of it, like ants should be on that billboard too, if the billboard could spand Miles over several states. I feel at the end of it would be like ants, because I like when people try to tell people they're smaller and significant, they'll be like that person is an aunt. Like so I'm like they feel like at the end

of that list that Pete has created. But I'm like, they are part of the ecosystem and they are living. So I don't know. I don't know hands up links, I don't know hands up. I love it. Well, we figured it out. Ants need to be included on your peda posters. Otherwise we're gonna keep eating these fucking pigs. That's the deal that Eggo and I made. And we're gonna take a break and we'll be back with more, my mama told me. And we are back. We're back

here with more. My mama told me more. Eggo WoT them. We're out here. We're enjoying very deep conversation that possibly saves the planet. I think we're potentially saving the planet here. I think we are. I'm not sure, and I don't know that if we ever learned to talk to ants, it's over for you host. That's how we see and who are you host? Though? That's the thing though, if

we're trying to save the planet and say all lives. Yeah, right now, Okay, now you're getting into something because now we gotselves that it's over for the right Host suggests that somebody is less than and we can't have them be less than. They have to be valuable the same way that these ants are. I'm just saying, you got Yeah, this is tough because either either we heal the planet

and we save everyone's lives. But here's the caveat no more hopes, and that's still I'm gonna say homes are valuable. I'm gonna say hose are valuable. Um As a progressive yeah, we can't say it's over for these homes. We need to cut that out of our vocabulary. I'd say it's offensive language. It's open for you, Host, Come on, it's a continuation for you. Host. We're gonna keep letting you be because you're valuable. You mean the world to me. Host. I'm good with that. See I can. I can rest

with that. I love that. We're gonna we're gonna play a game. And this game is called Okay, And this is a fun game where I am going to introduce to you a standard fact in the world, a fact that, for the most part, it seems like everybody agrees with right. And then I would like for you, using whatever skills you need uh to hotep that fact, to make it as hotep as you possibly can. Feel free to go as wild and crazy as you possibly want. All Right, the fact that I want to introduce to you, and

I learned this one today. This is new for me. I learned that Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise has been married three times to three different women, Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman, and Katie Holmes. He married three women, all of which he divorced at the age of thirty three. Thirty three they with out do what you want with it. Okay, Well, I'm gonna tell you this right now. Off tops. The thing about it is thirty three. That is a significant number.

That's the age of white Jesus. And that's them. You remember the time Tom Cruise was all in the news and all you know he jumping on Oprah's couch. That's because they wanted you to accept white Jesus. They're trying to send a message at thirty three. In fact, none of us would turn thirty three if it weren't for the man trying to control us. It's actually intended that our ancestors in Africa, they went from thirty two to

thirty four three. When you learn if you study your own history, if you study your own history lengths, and young man, listen to me, I'm trying to and you giggling, but I'm trying to give you the rail if you studied your own history. The way numerology even works, thirty three was not a number, alright, thirty three wasn't a number. And you know some of my brothers and sisters argue that same way. Twenty two and eleven are not numbers.

I'm not gonna go so far as to say that when they when they doubling up the numbers, and you see what I'm saying, eleven, you see what eleven have in common. This is an attempt for them to thirty three was significant. Jesus died at age thirty three. This is an attempt for them to make us accept some form of their Christianity. And Tom Cruise and knows he's in the know. This is one of the biggest movie stars in White America. And I'm gonna be distinct here

in White America and everybody's movie star. No not everybody's movie star. He ain't my movie star. I'll tell you right now, okay. And so he is in on it, all right. He's in this agenda to brainwash our brothers and sisters into thinking like they have to think like

the man thinks. They elevated him. He made a deal you see, with the head white man, the head one, yeah, the one in charge, that he would marry three women three lengthston you're following three women, three and he would divorce them at thirty three each of them to send a message I am for you. I'm all about this agenda to get me. Do you understand what I'm I don't know, Okay, I get it. Listen, you did it thirty three three. He's just showing off for the man.

He's just demonstrating to the man. Look here, white man in charge, I bow to you, and I will service all of your needs. And then meanwhile, y'all watch his movies Mission impossible, this that, watch him on the couch Mission impossible three, Yeah, exactly, and y'all revere this man. But his agenda is not for you. His agenda is not simply to entertain you. It is to brainwash you, y'all, falling for it all along, y'all falling for it house in my house. Nobody in here has the period, so

there it is, there, it is. You know nothing about that. That's called motherfucking bars and that's homemade hope up with egg that would be tried. Thank you so much. I've only seen a couple of those videos. I saw that they were I've seen a couple of them. You did it exactly the way it was supposed to go. I've seen a few, and truly they make me laugh every time. But they're dead serious. Well, you got all the essential parts.

They go into numbers. They love to break down numbers, and then uh, they love to uh at some point degrade women in the midst of whatever that is. As long as you're doing that, you're blaming white people, you're breaking down numbers, then you hate women. You nailed it. It's perfect. It's perfect. I feel like I did it, and I feel like, given the opportunity again in the future to do a HOTEP situation, I would only I

would only get stronger and better. But yes, thank you so much, thank sure, Look, thank you, thank you for being here today. What a spectacular episode of my Mama told me ego, could you tell everybody where they can find you what cool ship you got going on all that? Yeah, um, you can find me guys on Instagram at Eggy Boom that's e g g y b o o M. On Twitter at Eggie underscore Boom. The underscore is because someone else has the Eggy Boom handle and girl, give it up.

Why are you playing? I'm like, why are you playing? You don't even use it? Just give me the handle. And as I recently said on another podcast, I will not offer money for it. I'm not that best, but I will plead and I will plead with you on every podcast. Do you know all those podcasts you're not listening to, Well, guess motherfucker, I am going to make my case. I'm just gonna I'm listening. I'm gonna try to say, you know, maybe someone she knows is listening.

But anyway, find me on there, catch me on SNL when we return, and what else. Just keep an eye. I'll kept all my stuff on my social So yeah, thank you for Yeah, you were great, And as always, you can follow me at lengthston Kerman and follow the podcast and subscribe and say nice things on the internet. If you so choose, and if you don't, I'll never fucking forgive you. Okay, Bye, chips in your qual racists, mostly money stuff I can't tell me.