Cry2K (with Monroe Martin)

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there it is there it is. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another phenomenal episode of My Mama Told Me, the podcast where we dive deep, deep into the pockets of black conspiracy theories and we finally worked to prove that Russell Westbrook will be the first man to dunk on a nigga in a skirt it's happening. This man is setting a precedent. He's laying out a future that we all should believe in. Don't listen to Boosey Boosy don't know a goddamn thing. We want to see Nigga's duncan

and skirts. Russell Westbrook, you are our lord and savior from this day for we serve at the hem of your dress, Russell Westbrook. We're so excited for you. I'm your host, Linkston Kerman as always. You know how I come in. I don't funk around. I come in the way I come in, and I ain't even gotta tell you what the funk that is. You know you if you listen to this, you know my behavior. Now. Who you don't know and who I can't wait for you to hear is my guest today. He's so funny, hilarious.

He's a stand up comedian, he's an actor, he's a writer. He does all the ship. You know he's work. He was on last Comic Standing, killed it on that ship. He was on Master of None. You know him from a lot of Dope ship. Give it up for my guest, Mr Monroe Markino, What up? What ut dogtro hell? Yeah, you didn't say convinced that I was gonna give you a good intro when we were discussing it ahead of time. That's just show me, I guess if that's what you

want to say, I don't. I'm very excited you're here. You came with a conspiracy theory that I think is probably one that that I don't know that I ever even associated with black people, if I'm being honest, that like it. It felt like a very quote unquote white conspiracy theory when we were growing up. But I'm very glad that you are the person bringing it to us because I I know enough of your history to know that this is gonna be a very interesting conversation. So

what that said? You said, my mama told me why two K was real? Yes, And it wasn't even my mama. It was because I grew up in foster care. So somebody else's mom. This problem is I spread last to me? Yeah? Okay, So so a foster care parent. Do y'all call them parents? How does that work? Is it? A I call him and Mr? Whatever the fun they named like? And some of them hate that ship. Some of them are like, no, just call me uncle this or just call me that

or call me mom, and it's like I'm not your family. Yeah, you Mr and Mrs Blante Black. Yeah, and they hate that ship. I have to assume that to call somebody mom and then they return you is that's a that's a tough feeling to deal with. It's like, bit, I did the thing you told me to do. I call you mom. I gave you permanent lady energy, and you gave me temporary kids. You know what I mean returns. That's not how this works. So a a foster MR or missing yes basically told you that hy two K

was a legit thing. Yeah, my foster family, it was um where was I was living. I think I was living with the Johnson's at the time, and it was super like churching family church every single day, like maybe took off on like Tuesdays or something like that, but every single day we went to church. And they truly believed it, like like it was the end of the world. So we had to go to church. We had to pray.

I don't know if you know, but like in church you do like the whole write your sins down to the not your since but the thing that you really want to achieve or you're grateful for you had to write that down to a piece of paper and you throw it in like a burning trash. Can you stand around and pray? That is? That was not standard I think in every church. Oh yo, no trash can basketball with your prayers. No, I don't think everybody's doing that for the Lord Matthew. No, I I didn't do that,

but I'm so happy to hear that. That's the thing that mother's They only talk about white people's craziness with religion, but black people take this ship too serious too. And as a kid, and I read the Bible like before that point. So it's just everything they were saying just made sense because I believed in the religion as hard

as they did. So when they were like, we don't know, like like they believed, but somehow it was like internet conspiracy that they believed, and it was also something religious that they believed. Yeah, that's the part that I guess I felt confused about, is you're saying that these are are super religious people and why two K At least as I understood, it was such a technological, contemporary thing that most religious people, I would assume want nothing to

do with yeah. No. They sucked it at hard and and we we unplugged dotty appliances. We didn't have a computer, which was like weird, like how you believe that this ship called crashed? And you know we didn't have like both sponsor homes. I was then had like a computer in the living room. They have none of that ship. We had to go to the library and using computer. But they were like now we had to get prayed up.

And we was in church like holding hands into the clock, Drick, I mean I said the clock dry in said the board dropped the ship. It was like, okay, well things still here? Okay, sucker, Yeah, that was That's what I was gonna ask. Was there any embarrassment on the back end of this? Was anybody like hey, y'all my bad. I was really bugged bad. It was more of a the Lord will provide right, Yeah, that's when it turned into it quickly turned into yeah it worked. I think. No,

you were wrong. Yeah, no, that you don't get to do that. You made a bet, you lost the bet. You don't get to be like, well, I always knew I was gonna lose, But that's winning in my book. And it's like come on man. So, so you guys go to church the night of you know, December nine, you spend the entire evening in church. You're praying. What what do you think it is that they are or maybe you remember what are you praying for? Is it for your salvation? Is it for the world to actually end?

Because that's the part I guess that confuses me, Like do they want it to end or is it I wanted to keep going, but if it doesn't, I want to be saved in this ship. They didn't. Yeah, they want to be saved. They wanted to keep going. But if if it did end, if that was the day and end it, then you know, then they just wanted

to seek salvation. So well, we was writing down, we was riving, writing down what we was grateful for, and also yeah, just kind of like putting that energy out that we can continue because you know, the pastors always get everybody routed up, especially the youth, because old people he don't believe in them, because he believed in them. Young vibrant prayers, the young, juicy prayers, you know, the prayers that are just weird. The old prayers don't got

the slides to the prayers. So they kind of really lied on like the youth board and all the young people to really participate. So we were like all set around praying. We went to the back of the church where we threw like the ship into the fire. Were just all around praying, holding hands and then we ate and it's just like an all day thing. But once it was like five full three to one, we are like out there like singing and sucking, holding hands and ship.

And I didn't have any embarrassment just because look, I didn't have no investment because I was just like, Okay, it works, you know what I mean. So you you were bought in on them, were serving absolutely because that was given to me. I was like it was given to me years back, like religion, Like my grandmother used to give me the Bible to read when I was

in like group homes. And if I'm like like Grandma, I don't like I'm sad or whatever, ship, but I read how you reading your Bible, So like all those stories like you're not pastor flip ship. So like the world itself was like side of Lingamorra and like all that ship. So that's why they were able to like kind of believe that this is true, you know what I mean. That's how tied it to it. It wasn't

just like oh, electronics. It was just like, yo, this has been coming for a long time because of what's happening on earth with the drug use and the and the and the violence and all of that stuff. So it was believable to me because I've been reading the Bible up until that point. I'm with this religious as family. We go every day. They're really in the church. So to me, I was just like, Okay, well this is this is this could be the end, but we're gonna

pray that it ain't. Yeah, you're doing some I think important math here for our listeners that probably it may be obvious, it may not be obvious, but I think the implication is that Y two K And for those of you that probably are too young to remember what the funk y two K was, but basically, at the year at the clock struck two thousand, theoretically a bunch of computers couldn't handle changing to two thousand because they were only set for a two digit time code, and

so that zero zero meant that computers would think that we had gone all the way back to nineteen hundred and they would like shut down. That was the big scare of of Y two K. And so what you're saying is that that shutdown, which ultimately would have landed all of us in like darkness for a while and hunger and all kinds of crazy things, is just the rapture coming to life. It's the action, like real thing exploding.

And so for you, a person who's reading the Bible, aware of these stories being coached by these adults in your life, to believe this ship, all of it's colliding in a way that you're like, hell, yeah, I'm gonna pray in a church all the way through midnight. All the way through midnight. We was in that like six six and clock. We ate two dinners, which is not what God teaches you. God doesn't go like, hey man, you gotta eat two dinner. You know, you still only

need one dinner, only dinner. But we had to. We had the church dinner and then they ran and everybody got like, I think, like chicken from Popeyes, even chickens waiting for the end of the world to happen. We're gonna die. We're gonna die. Gluttonous and weird, just filled with Popeyes. So you pray all night, you buy into what these people are selling. Do you remain a believer in what was offered to you as a as a child? Yeah, for a while, I still was like like it was

more of like a shoth. I'm glad it didn't turn out that way, but you never know, you know what I mean. So it wasn't like it wasn't like this ship is fake. It was like I was like, all right, we had faith and maybe it just wasn't that time, you know what I mean. But nobody, like nobody in that church walked away like snaked tripping, Like nobody walked away through like that. Everybody walked away like yeah, okay, we did that blessed, you know what I mean, that's

the blessed. Let's continue to live our life righteous from this moment on. So it's like another it was like everybody's going, okay, we got another opportunity to can't you tend you living? And you literally made it out of a car crash that wasn't a crop crash. We was there, We was all walking, ain't We wasn't in a car? Okay? So so you walk away, you're feeling positive. I guess about the fact that you survived this really scary thing. I guess what I'm curious about is how long does

that carry you? Do you continue to believe that to this day? Are you like still like secretly on some religious ship or you like no, After about a year and a half, I knew they were bullshitting and I was ready to move on that you were. I believe the religion heavily until at least like maybe like sixteen seventeen, and then I started to be like, man, this don't make more sense because if you really start to read

the Bible, it's a scary thing. And the way the stories are, it's like it applies to everything anytime, you know what I mean, like anything, and that's a scary thing. So for me, like I was just like, I don't know if I can believe in religion this hard. I believe that I believe in God. I'll keep one foot in the door, but you know what I mean, Like I kept the God part. I lost that book Like yeah, yeah,

niggas taking this book too serious. For a while, yes, until like sixteen seventeen, I was very religious and very like you know, we're on borrow time and we're sucking up as people and any day God can just come down the end. It's motherfucker. Because there was like mud slides, like like I lived in fear because there was always something happening, and especially because a lot of my foster parents watch world news, not local news, not just they're

always violence, you know what I mean. There was always some killings. There was always like some natural disaster happening in another country. So it just felt real. It just felt like yo, okay, like this world is coming to an end. We just don't know when it's going to happen all at the same time. And then once like that I said, what sixteen seventeen happened? I was like always breaking like that's how it looked that. I was

like countries always get bit with ship. But yeah, it would be as if, uh, there was like some sort of ant hill network that ants were finding out how many of their hills got kicked over every day. And it's like if they knew the number of ant hills I lit on fire with magnifying glasses and kicked over, they'd be terrified. But if you just think you're if you just live in your aunt hill and don't have all that other information. The world is not as scary

of a place. It's it's relatively peaceful most of the time. Absolutely. Absolutely, Yeah, it's a weird game that we play, I think as humans where we're wanting to to make bigger connections and in those bigger connections just scare the ship out of us and then make us turn to things like going to church five days a week to ensure our our

salvation from the horrors that that faced us. Yeah. Absolutely, And it was more than like ship shutting like y q K was more than like just computer shutting down. It was like now and I know, I'm like, oh ship I was told a different story. Like our story was more like like anything can happen at that point, like nuclear missiles and ship can like launch and go off and stuff like that. It wasn't just like, oh,

we ain't gonna be over there email our friends. It was like, nah, all the ship we created is going to implode on us than you know what I mean. Yeah, why two K was this close to like the terminator sky net like thing that that we've been warned about at least up to this point that you know, at some point all this AI we keep inventing is going to actually like murder us. But until that day, this was Skynet. This was fully our bombs are gonna are gonna turn and face us and shoot us in our

our fucking noses, you know what I mean. So so you you believe this, you're bought in on this, and then at some point you're not bought in on it. Where do you stand now with the I'm curious about this just having done some of the research, and I won't I won't flag anything that I found yet, but I am curious to know where do you stand with Y two K in general? Or do you feel like that's a ridiculous premise? Are you? Like? Nah? Y two K had its legitimacy? Like where where does it live

in your head? Like it was definitely some you know what I mean? It was definitely like yeah, just like it just didn't make sense after that, you know what I mean, Like looking back at it was just like like why would the computers just like everything clock off and just not be able to go, oh ship, it's two thousands, like it didn't like looking back up now and I know how computers working, I'm like, and they get updates when you switch coast. They can't remember to

go two thousand, right, you know what I mean? The computer you're saying the computer could have figured this out, that this wasn't Yeah, yeah, this wasn't like some complicated math problem that like they just couldn't equate. It's like now they would have They would have come around eventually on this. Yeah, it was like more like like when I realized it was just like, oh, ship's gore shut down because people, well, I'm like, what people ain't gonna

be at their death? Like who what? What series of computers had to shut out for like bombs and ship to go off And there's no set there's no fail safe. They didn't program it to not blow up if they can't access some ship, right you know what I mean? So like now knowing more and I'm like and knowing and when I say knowing more, like when I was young, I didn't know how advanced computers worked. Like there was just some ship we was forced to use in school for a class. So I didn't know then, you know

what I mean. We just like wrote papers and sucking, played mind sweep and ship like that, but I didn't know how advanced it really was. And knowing how advance it was, I was like like now and I'm like, man, that's a bullshit. Like now watching documentaries on like how far computers came, and when they got to my aids, they were pretty like already like used around the world and for businesses and they can pretty much do anything. And I'm like, oh man, I was just sucking stupid

as ship like I was with some stupid ass people. Yeah, trail is not the the the greatest potential of these machines. There are other things that they can do. Yeah. I think you're making a really important point because I think a lot of people, on average, most people don't know

what computers can actually do. And I do think that that was sort of like the sweet spot that Y two K kind of found us in, where like there were still homes in America where people didn't have Internet access, didn't have computers, weren't connected in that way, and so when a bunch of people start screaming that like the Internet and the computers are going to destroy us, it's like, yo, I don't even got one of those. I'm scared as fuck.

Whereas now we know everything about computers, or at least everything about computer potential to be like, bitch, I'll kill my computer first, Like you know, I feel yea through something. I'm not gonna beat me up. Are you talking about? Okay, my last question before we go to break and I and this. I can't imagine that this is true, but I'm curious do you still keep in contact with this family?

Is there is there any communication at this point? No, I don't keep it because I had too many families, you know what I mean, Like I lived like fifteen different like foster families and foster facilities and all that ship. So I was with too many to really just like keep track. But they were the most religious people I haven't lived with. Like everybody else after that point kind

of believed in it. Like they believed in religion like if they needed like a raise that work or something, you know what I mean, Like they're like I need a blessed real quick. Let me go to church for like two weeks. And then to me, like getting to see those different relationships with like God and ship like that that got me to be like people don't know what the funk they talk about or what they're doing.

They're just reading this book that they don't know where they got it from they just like, that's that's such an exposing thing. I have to imagine for a young person to like, it's one thing to get religion from your parents, right or from the adults in your life, because you are getting their information the way they see it all the way through, start to finish. But if you have fifteen different iterations of this thing, at some point you just see all the holes. You can pope,

you know, in all of it. None of it's real. It's all just whatever you decided it should be. And I guess I'm here for a while, so I'll pray along with you. Yeah. Absolutely, that's oh man, that's magnificent. What we would all benefit from a little bit of foster behavior, you know what I mean? Yeah, just just like I think we all should just like you know how they do like wife swap, I think you should.

Everybody should have to live with everybody's family, just to realize how ridiculous the ship you'll believe it is, Like this, ain't how you supposed to eat spaghetti white. A goddamn minute, I'm getting out of here. Oh yeah, my Figer, I didn't learn the spoon thing until at least like was it like nineteen Yeah, spoon just spaghett it. I'm like, that's just too many utensils. It's too many utensils. And frankly, if you did it in public, people would be like,

what the fund is wrong with him? Yeah, they don't go al, he's classy. I'm like, NIKEL get it on your shirt like a real man, spit it, slurmit and then seeing some splashback when you goddamn shirt. Yeah, and then regret it and ask if they have clubs at the bar be a person. All Right, we're gonna take a break. We'll be back with more Monroe, Martin more, my mama told me. And we are back. How is my man supposed to the fun? Yeah, we're back here.

We're Morma Romar and more. My mama told me. We are still talking about that why two K scare and the potential rapture that came along with it, the fear that that Jesus was gonna return and he was not gonna be cool the second time. All right, let's jump into some of this research. And I have to say, I think this is gonna be a great jumping off point for us. Is as it turns out, because I, similar to you, walked into this feeling like Y two

K complete horseshit, none of it. It was just all a stupid thing that we made up and got very extreme about. But as it turns out, why t K, the threat of Y two K was something that the government and these various organizations were very very scared about that they spent years, literally years, having to prep for it, and in alone they spent over a hundred billion dollars testing and coordinating and doing system examinations to make sure that why two K didn't actually come to pass. Wow, yeah,

church wasn't that far. All government had their bibles open to Yeah. The government was like, please don't let this Jesus come back. Man. We got to do everything we can. So apparently what they were prepping for was that that computers up to that point, while they were as technologically advanced as you and I talked about, they also had just limited capacity in some of their their reasoning, and so in at least in my understanding, it wasn't going

to turn into the nuclear devastation that we imagined. Right, that all these people bought bunkers and like cans of beans to live off of We're probably exaggerating, but what they were right about is the fact that like a bunch of the technologies we had were completely reliant on computers that would have shut down or at least glitched. And if you are in charge of financial systems, that is not fucking cool in America, you know what I mean,

startingly across the world, but especially in America. Yeah, holy shit, goddamn that. I'm a little scared. I really felt like dots. Now, tress can praying, Tress can fire, prayer works, you posted up one more prayer, and and there we are. We're

all free. Because well, it's it's so I read something that was talking about how like, uh, like cash registers were a big problem, right because the cash registers were computers, and there was a fear that they wouldn't be able to open cash registers as soon as midnight hit for these various you know, it's equipment like that that then

fox up their potential of accessing money. And then on a grander scale, you have like the stock market and a bunch of other computers that are involved in that that would have sucked up and they would have been able to fix it. Right Like this isn't like an end a world ending glitch. But I do think that it's the type of glitch that maybe would have launched us into a potential recession or something more extreme than that, because it's more like a brown out than a full

blackout of society. Mm hmm. Damn yeah, it's heavy, ship, man, God, damn ship. Well. The thing we we got the Internet to the point where we can just post as videos. Yeah, you know, the as jacking video has never hurt anybody, you know what I mean? And and thank god, I'm sick of them doing medicine. Focus on that as baby girl. Now. One of the things I found most interesting in unpacking some of this research is that though many of the people in charge of these systems felt hesitant, so they did.

They spent all this money, a hundred billion dollars in a single year just to be able to like fix all this ship. But even though they made all these changes and did all these checks and theoretically solve the problem, a bunch of the people in charge were scared to come out and say, hey, y'all, everything's cool. We fixed it. At the possibility that they did not fix it, and they would have been embarrassed on the back end when

ship came to pass. M hm. So it's like this this weird game similar to what you're describing of the people in church, where it's like, Yo, I believe, but I don't know how far I can commit to my beliefs because if I go too far, then I'm gonna be embarrassed. I'm gonna be fucked up. Because really, if you believe in like the rapture and all that ship, kill yourself, you know what I mean, like be be forward with the ship and just just end it all so that you can be closer to God when when

the time is right. Yeah, No, that'sh It is funny. Everybody's just standing out there like a yeah, they're like relieved to be able to keep living. Does the ankle kill myself? But I'm gonna yeah, Yeah, you claimed you wanted to be with God, you wanted to be in heaven, but instead you're like, nah, I like Earth. I'm gonna keep kicking it all. Yeah, nobody wants to Like people wanted to be with God, but not now. Nobody wants to go home now. No, that's why it's his time

to call you home, not not your time. To be called home. Yeah. So another part that I found particularly interesting, especially relating to to what you've been talking about, is the weird rise of religious and militia groups that came from the Y two case. There were a ton of like of militia groups and religious sort of like you, I guess you could call them cults, although I think that that word is sort of weighted. I think a lot of ship is coldish and we just know treated

like that, you know what I mean. There's plenty of things, including regular religion that like truly as a cult. We just don't call it that because Christianity is at the foundation of American values, you know what I mean? That said massive rise in Y two K because exactly what you were saying before, of the possibility that we're in the middle of signs or or we're seeing these signs of the rapture coming and it's a a chance to sort of coax believers to the other side, to get

them more aligned with your your position, your values. Yeah, with that, did you find I guess that that this religion was being weaponized in your community? Did you see more people coming to church than ever before? Was this like now we got our consistent crew. It was more of a consistent crew because it wasn't a big church. This family didn't go to like, uh, make a church. I was with families that did go to like super churches that were in like sucking, like damn, they're looking

like stadiums and ship like that. But this one was like a little small church and so they didn't have a big congregation to begin with, you know what I mean. They only has so many kids. And most of the churches, and most of the church were like old, older black women, you know what I mean. So they believe super hard, and we just following their footsteps because we were brought Biden. Yeah, they made the mac and cheese, so I'm gonna go out, like look, and then they say I can nap the church,

so I will go. So I didn't see the whole blog. Honestly, I like when I see like people like party, not even party. They were just going about their lives and I'm going to church, you know what I mean. Like my next door neighbor at the time, like his mom wasn't like, oh, we're going to Like they weren't scared at all, and it was kind of like as a little kid is kind of like, Damn, I may not see this motherfucker again, you know what I mean. It's like damn, Okay, Well, and then what you get back

home do like what? I think? That's right? You were right? Do you think this was wrong? Should have been a partying with your friends and ship, but instead it does feel weird. I and I had a period in my life where I was I very dissimilar to you. I was the one that that tricked my family, tricked that told talked to my family into going to church. Like I. I made a point of being like, hey, I want us to be church people. We gotta go. And I was going like three times a week just because I

liked it. I was like churches cool. I fun the church. And there is that weird feeling of bringing that back to your peer group who are never as into it as you are, you know what I mean? None of I can't imagine any of your friends were like, fuck, yeah, I'm glad you spent y two k in a church video games while pants are getting drunk. Yeah. They lived a very very different and probably more peaceful uh transition

into the new millennium. Absolutely so. The other thing that I found pretty interesting in all of this that I never thought about, but I do think makes a lot of sense, is that we spent a lot of time talking about the Christian rise of these religious cults are sort of like religious factions, if you will. But it

wasn't just Christian fundamentalists. For example, there were a bunch of far right Jewish groups that believed they needed to liberate the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, destroyed the Dome of the Rock Mosque, and build the Third Temple that was foretold by the prophets before the year two thousands struck in order to sort of like help bring their own religious ending to pass God. And so a bunch of Christian fundamentalists actually supported this theory. And this is my

favorite thing that happens these groups. Interestingly, basically like the Christians supported these right wing Jewish people, but and in their takeover of this like this space and Jerusalem, because they believed that Jews taking over was they was proof of the end of days. So like they wanted the Jews us to win because if the Jews win, then that means the world is anything, and then their theories are correct. Yeah, holy ship is deep. Yeah, well it's

it's a psychosis. We're all sick as fuck, you know what I mean. It's all because our our fucking you know, big Booty Macintosh is weren't gonna we're gonna be working the way that we planned them. And people are like, yeah, I gotta take over that temple that was promised to me in Hebrew text. It's a bad it's a bad look now. So we talked earlier about the fact that I never really associated Y two K with black people. It's it always for me felt like a very white thing.

Do you feel like you knew a lot of black people that were sort of concerned with Y two k? Uh? Yeah, just um, no one who didn't go to that church, Like, like I said, everyone out, Like I got some members of that church that went to like my middle school and ship, but none of them really like was talking about it, you know what I mean. Yeah, So it was mainly just like a very like small community of people who I would say gave a fund or just knew. I don't think a lot, you know what I mean.

I don't think that. I don't think the rest of the block even knew what the funk everybody was, like these church people or the news or whatever it was going crazy about it, just like we're about to turn up. Yeah, I mean, and I think in a weird way, it's it's a in a weird way, it's a conversation of access.

But it's also I think a reflection of the way that black and white people differentiate in America that like, truly white people have the capacity the space to care about a fictional, theoretically fictional thing that might happen to us, and for black people, I think oftentimes it's like, Yo, if the ship hasn't come down already, we're good, we're chilling. I'm not gonna be afraid of some ship that hasn't happened yet. I'll be afraid of some ship once it happens,

because we're already afraid of this ship that's happening. Yes, we've got space for this new ship. We're like, what what's the name? I see? Yeah? Yeah, yeah. It's like one of my fucking goes like, I'm gonna pop my trunk on your ass, liker man, I'll see you what's up. Then they run back with the gun. You. Oh, this niggas aren't reasonable. It's like, yeah, he told you, he

told you. Before he left. He wasn't a reasonable person. Yeah, but I didn't see the like I didn't seem like a big influx of like black people who are just walking around. You know, this ship is over right, like maybe like the Israel Lights, because I grew up like Israel Lights. You always preach the coming of the downfalls, but you just got you think it's just sucking, just rambling.

Even though they're saying the same exact ship. Like, it didn't take a while for me to realize they were saying the same exact ship that these pastors were saying. They just didn't have a shiny church behind them. They're just doing that in front of like amazing, right, you know what I mean? And you're saying the black israel Lites not yeah yeah, the black Wait, I don't know any other israel Lites. I thought it was an israel Lite if they were black. Well that's what I'm saying.

I think for the average person when you say Israelites, I think they're in theory thinking about people from Israel and you're saying no, no, which I guess would be Israeli's Israelites is a reference to the black israel Lites. But for those of us who you know, I have a fair amount of white listeners, and I don't like

that the year, but these motherfucker's keep coming back. But anyway, for those of us that are unfamiliar with the Black israel Lite, they are, I guess the best way to put it is an extremist religious sect within the black community that sort of believes that black people were the original men of God. That like, within the Bible, when it references the Israelites, it is actually a reference to black people and not who we now associate with the

people of Israel or Palast nine. I ain't getting involved, Uh yeah, yeah exactly. That ain't got nothing to do with me. But that said, they are wild and also very noisy in public spaces. Yeah yeah, So those are the only other people preaching like into the world, get your ship together stuff. Like everybody else, like I said,

was just going about their their business. And even like I said, even after that, I didn't see any like real extremism like since that since that home, Like like I said, everybody else just had a healthy relationship with God, you know what I mean. I like that. I like that that that black people remained unaffected in the midst of what everybody else was calling the end of the world.

That's pretty tight. Yeah, I tried to look up and I'll put this in before we go to break, but I tried to look up what black people were doing during Y two K, which is not an easy thing to to figure out because and you know, I looked up and I googled it basically, what what we're black

people up to during Y two K? And most of the responses were related to uh y two k innovations in fashion, Like, there were a bunch of articles from from places that wanted to give us credit for our y two K innovations and fashion specifically, they kept saying that Destiny's child uh needs more credit than than they got. I guess, uh, you know what I mean. Meanwhile, white people were figuring out how to and hamburger. But we're like, yeah,

it's like this is how you get fresh. Yeah, that's in the child back the belly belts, right, the belt over their pants that wasn't holding up ship right the end of the world. Let's talk about these petty pelly jackets. These are the key. No, it's it's a it's a weird game. To your point, it's a weird game that we're constantly playing of both being at the front of everything that America in the world is talking about, but also being very isolated in the ship that we're communicating

with each other about. Yeah, it's a weird dance. Well, all right, we're gonna take a break. It's not supposed to end that way. We you know, sometimes we find ourselves in a wall. We we talk, and then we find ourselves just hitting the wall, and that's okay, We're not and it from it. We're gonna take a break. We'll be back with Marmon ro Martin More. My mama told me. We are that. No, no, no, Yeah, we're back here with Mormon Romartin More. My mama told me.

We're still talking about the influence that religion had on Y two K or vice versa, the influence Y two K had on religion and the way that we believe in the ship. I'd love to play a game. Let's let's jump into a game. I have a brand new game that I would love to play with you. It's it's a game that I've I've very cleverly called shay Away.

Y two K still exists. General state of ether denial, compreational sheet, or even ampathy about both the reality and the potential effects of hy u K jay away Y two K in this game. I am going to read to you a couple of quotes that I found of people sharing their their Y two t K stories. I just would love to hear your thoughts on them. Stuff you you aligned with, stuff that sounds crazy to you. Let's chat about it and see where it goes. Right, Okay,

let's start with this one. This These all came from a site called did you Know facts dot com? So I don't know that this is a legitimate site. I just googled the ship and and had some fun. But this person said, I'm a firefighter and I was working on the the Y two K night. Right at midnight, all of our primary radios and C A D systems failed. It was huge system wide failure, just like everybody predicted

would happen. We were getting dispatched by backup radios in our dispatchers were writing down calls on pieces of paper. The suck is that my engine company had the first call of the year, but we didn't get credit for it because of the confusion when they put calls into the computer. After it was fixed, we ended up with call zero zero zero one three, fuck you Engine three. We were first, sincerely Engine twelve. Mm hmm, you're unimpressive, Like yeah, I like this just sounds like white rambling.

That's why I like, all right, girl, it just sounds like, y'all, i've been your operating system. Like yeah, the younger me would have been like, oh, ship, I'm signed now, and I'm like nah, just y'all probably got old computer systems. This isn't the story of a hero. You're saying, this is a motherfucker who didn't update. And it's like trying to play it off like yeah, cool ship. Yeah, Like, man, just what happened to us is it's like with the

batteries DIT or your walkie talkies. And I think that's fair. There were a bunch of technologies and that's sort of the annoying thing with y K and some of the Ship that I felt for a long time is like everything doesn't have to be a computer. Some of this ship should just be regular as ship, and y'all made it a computer and made that a problem for me, you know what I mean. Like, now, if you have a car, your car has a computer in it that

if that computer fails, your car is useless. And for years we had cars that could function without computers, and that was fucking easier, and that lasted forever. I don't think the Tesla is gonna last as long as like the show cars, like these old school cars that people pull out. I don't think it is any of these electric cars because you gotta keep updating and operating system and eventually they'll do what they'll do the cell phones, which is just like make them that you just can't

use them. This is like your car gonna be driving slower than everybody's on the road and ship like that, your car gonna get hot. I was talking to somebody about it. Might have been my barber, who, uh you know this nigga always got a conspiracy theory, but he was saying that, uh that, I guess he's looking into a Tesla. Has been talking to somebody about the Tesla and they were saying that the the battery life for

those things is like ten to eleven years. That like, after ten to eleven years, the battery no longer works or doesn't work the way it's supposed to, which in theory, that's pretty long time for a battery. But the battery for Tesla is the most important and expensive part. Everything else is just junk around it, the batteries, everything. So the ship's gonna cost you a brand new Tesla price to fix, you know what I mean? Yeah, Okay, let's

dig into another one. This is a fun one. In October, this person says, my dad finished off the spam he purchased for Y two k. He bought twelve cases of it. Spam. Uh, he bought twelve cases of it because it was super cheap leading up to Y two k, and he just really enjoys spam. I'm honestly impressed at the dedication of someone who ate two hundred cans of spam over twenty years. Oh oh, I mean good for him, though, you know what I mean, Like, good for him for big committing

and going. Look, I'm a good Like the world may not go, but I'm gonna go, and I'm gonna need to give my money. But like because they're just gonna throw his ship away where he passed away, they're gonna be like, oh, we gotta get rid of Dad's old spam cans, no for like a keepsake. So he's like this ship, I'm gonna eat my investment. Yeah, he's like, I'm not letting this go to waste. Someone to finish it.

I like spam if I was meals like your feet like actually like cooked it up, or he just was like straight out from the can, like yeah, that's it. I don't I've never had spam. I'll be real with you. I've done everything I can in my life to avoid jello meat. That's not a thing that I think I would enjoy. So I've just avoided it. But I have to great, No, you don't know. It ain't great. Come on, now, there's no way you've made it out of foster care.

There's no way. You're looking like what spam is? Fancy? Now? Some places, uh spama, Sup? You ever had spamacy? Well? No, you never had spam. Sup. It's basically just like a like it's like I think it's Hawaiian or some ship I don't know or whatever. It's spam rice and then um something else. It's a good have you have you enjoyed it? Yeah? I ate spam as a as a foster kid. Well that's what I'm saying. Yeah, they used to cut it and then fry it up. I'm all right.

There was a time. There was a time when my mom had what was it, five of us living in a one bedroom apart we we were all me and my two sisters were sharing a a big sort of living room type space and and my mom and her husband had the bedroom. And that was we were very close. We had a lot of camaraderie. But I would never go back to that ship. That is not a way that we should have lived. It is not a convenient lifestyle in any means, you know what I mean, Like

it was fucked up. That said. I can look back and have fine memories, but I'm not going back. I feel like spam has to be the same where it's like, look it filled the meal, and I'm glad I ate that day. But there's no fucking way I want to go back to that ship. No, but they made it. Heard the thing in New York makes you fancy. They make poor foods, fucking fancy Like I I grew up eating ramen, paying like fucking ten cents a pack for ramen. Now just twenty whoa, you know what i mean. I'm like,

oh man, not, it's different. Fair. Yeah, I'm like it's different now, it's not the same poor food. Yeah, there's definitely a different game being played with these poor foods that nobody knew how to play back when we were kids. Yeah, all right, I'm gonna read you two more. This is

a fun one. Uh. This person says, my favorite thing with cemetery heading stones that were not why two K compliant people had headstones made before they died with the nineteen pre engraved planning on filling in the last the next two ditch it's when the time came. Oops, they kept living. Oh yeah, that's a lot of money to get them things re engraved, because it ain't like they just like erasing to sketch it out, and like, now we sucked up a whole new headstone. Now you gotta

like resement it. They're filling the blood out. Yea. It is very expensive, and those fucking headstones in general, all of the funeral service whatever stuff is super expensive. Yeah. So do people still do that, like by head stones. I feel like that's like a family thing. Let them handle that ship. I'm dead, Like I can't see that ship. It's weird because like I, you know, my grandparents, My

grandfather died last year. And he was the type of dude that had been predicting his death for or or at least flagging his death for like decades now, literally since I met him. He spent every day like I'd call and I'd be like, how are you, Papa, And he'd be like, hey, I could die any day now. And it's like, whoa man? Why is that the energy you face the day with every time? Maybe some positivity, but now that was he was. That was who he was, you know what I mean? I think there are just

some people who are like, look, I'm gonna die. I don't want my family to have to pay for this ship. I'm just gonna make my own headstone. But don't do it on on the year. Stupid wait until yeah, wait till you got like a big cough, and then you're like, I gotta get that. Okay, I'm gonna read you my my favorite of this this this, this is a fun one. This person said. I grew up in rural Tennessee, and my neighbors at the end of the road were a

legit militia. Like they had built a bunch of bunkers and stockpiled food and fuel and weapons and went out in the woods and trained and exercise. Through the Clinton administration, they were mostly preparing for the new world order Hillary Clinton taking over scenario. But y to K really messed with their worldview and offered to let my neighbor mechanists machinists. How does that word work? Uh? And welder machinists. Hell yeah, joined their crew. But I but I guess they didn't

have much use for my family. In October, we got a misdelivered Xerox newsletter in the mail. It was totally creepy, full of helpful tips for setting up your own little warlord dome after y to K, how to subjugate the population, set up roadblocks around your fire dome, getting the most of your surfs. Once civilization fell, building alliances with their

neighbors warlords. My machinist neighbor, who always had some shady characters hanging around his place, told the militia he'd be fine and went and went and bought a fucking machine gun. After New Year's we didn't see the militia much. Their leader died a few months later, which was really a shame because nine eleven would have been right up his alley. Goddamn God damn that. I like, that's crazy. But I foxed with it, you know what I mean, that's cool.

They like we're ready, like were praying. They like, no, this is what you need to do, yo, how we become kings of this ship. I love it. Yeah, it's it's a while. It's one thing to like buy a bunch of cans and like guns and ship, but there's a whole different thing of being like and this is how you subjugate the people around you so that you make sure you're the one in power when everything falls. Yeah, because I don't think a lot of it. Yeah, a lot of people didn't have no plan. It was just pray,

throw your prayers in the trash can. But you know what I mean, these red Wow, this was forward thinking for sure. I was like, if I had to choose between those church people and the militia, I would have probably chose the militia. I think that I would have definitely chose the militia. I think the older I get, the more I understand militia. Motherfucker's Like, I could fully see myself joining a militia. I don't want to subjugate people, but if I if I was a part of a

group that felt like that was necessary. I'd buy in. I'd listen, you know what I mean. I'm not about to be the weirdo that's like now, it's treat everyone fairly. It's like, no, we gotta we might gotta kill somebody. I don't want to pull the trigger, but I'll support you, bro. I ain't gonna snitch. Yeah, I'll clean up. I'll bring thee Yeah. Hey, I got money on the bullets. You got it all right? Well I think we did it. I think we nailed. This is a lot of fun. Yeah,

and I have fun. Man. Yeah. Could you tell the people at home where they can find you what cool ship you have going on. You can find me on Instagram. Marro Martin I II Twitter, same thing, Marro Martin I. I'm a website. Monro Martin Comedy dot com is where I have all my dates. I'll be in Riley, North Carolina at good nights, So if this comes out around that time or whatever, definitely come out see me. Uh yeah, it comes out next week, so yeah, go check him

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