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Harder, Better, Faster, Extra Tendon (with Jordan Temple)

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Do Black people have an extra tendon in their legs to help them jump higher and run faster? Langston and his guest Jordan Temple (Atlanta on FX) kick in the problematic door of this age old conspiracy.

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Do you ever think about the white version of yourself? You're like, I'm successful, but if I was white, I'd be over the moon. And I'm like, if I was white, I'd be sucking. J J. Abrams like like, people like you're successful, You're doing great. I'm like, do you know the insurmountable seeming odds I had to be here? Man, I'm sucking. I'm Macdonna, nigga. What are you talking about? All right? You know, you know I want to imagine

clover Field monsters too, but black got in the way. Yeah, man, Yeah, mans racist, mostly mostly money actually stuff I can't tell me. Yeah. Welcome, ladies and gentleman to another spectacular episode of My Mama Told Me the podcast where we died deep deep into the world of black conspiracy theories, and we proved that Terry Crews killed Michael Clark Duncan so that he could take over the big buff black man position in Hollywood.

Michael Clark Duncan had it all. He was the only buff black man we needed, and then suddenly his heart exploded in a tragic heart explosion accident. I don't know how he died, and then we got stuck with Terry's goofy ends, and I know that this was all just a big, sinister plan that Terry cooked up to get rid of Michael Clark Duncan. He was sitting there building up his titty meet and planning against Michael Clark Duncan.

And now we're stuck with this motherfucker who is comfortable going on America's got talent and shucking and driving for Simon Cowell. Awe, I'm your host, Langston Kerman. I'm accusing Terry Crews of many things, and I'm excited to be here. We have a hell of an episode ahead of you. My guest today has been walking around more than most guests I think I've ever been on the podcast with. He journeyed into his kitchen. He's now making his way back to a quiet area in his own I'm so

excited he's here. He's a dear friend. He's a hilarious comedian. You know him from his work on Comedy Central. You know him from writing on Mrs Mazel, you know him from writing on Fucking Atlanta. He's so funny, so great. Give it up from my friend Mr Jordan's Temple. Everybody, how my guy, Hey, I'm I'm blessed, highly favorite. How are you saying, Man, they ain't get me yet. Maybe tomorrow, maybe the next day, but at this exact moment, they

didn't get me. Who's day, man, non gender conforming police officer. Sure, gender is not the factor here. It's the police that's that's the issue. That make sure you get them pronouns right before they shoot you. You know what I'm saying, You don't want to disrespect, you gotta keep it tight. I love that. Well. I'm excited today because you came to me with I would say conspiracy theory that remains sort of a constant argument, a constant issue in the

black community at almost all times. But you said, now, I want to get this right. My mama told me black people have an extra leg tendom to help them run faster and jump higher. Yes, tell me more, dig in, let's do it. Well, you know, you know me. My life is in shambles. Um, sure, so stop ragging and get to the conversation. I'm not generally not right now, but you know, the successes is complete opposite of what

my life has been up to before this point. So you know, when I was in my first community college, I went to when I was in my first community when I was on my first tour, community collegiates, Yes, community collegiates. I was on a community college baseball team, third Division, Great times and the onon Dogga Lasers l A Z E r S. After our practice we were having in the gym because you know, it's too cold for us to play baseball up state up State New York and a dogar in Syracuse and like we we

had indoor baseball team. Now we we just played like this, Yeah, we just need a human door man. We start hitting good, put your squeaky shoes on. We didn't go outside today, fellas, Yeah, not today. We are We're a basketball team, fucking man. I was. I was mostly riding the bench, but I was It felt like a fitness class generally because I was so bad. But one day my boy were riding up back to the little dorms and we were sitting in his car smoking a cigarette and he's like, I

got something to ask you, man. You're my friend, right, and I'm like, yeah, your friend Jeremy whatever. And he was like, uh so, huge red flag and he's like he's like, do black people have an extra tending? An extra leg tending, And I was like, what would bring you to ask you that? You know? Because they're just faster, better everything. I'm like, we are in the same Division three community college baseball team, Sir, whatever extra tending you think black people have, I didn't get it. I'm here

with you. Yeah, that's the craziest ship. I've always heard that generally, you know, people like does it come from slavery? Does it come from this? Doesn't come from that. It was always confusing to me because it's like the reality didn't match the stereotype. Like some you could have an example or something, but I don't know. Well, I I love that he asked you this because it's such a ridiculous. I don't know what tendons I have in my legs

right now, period. I don't think most people do. And I don't presume that if I ask some dude and the community college that he's going to be able to break down the tendons in his legs. So it's just a wild thing to ask somebody like, hey, do you got something different than was in my leg meet that neither one of us can see. The only tendons I know about are in pork tender tenderloins, right, I assume

that's a tendon, that's a that's a pig tendon. Sure, I don't actually think it is, but I love I don't know what I'll be honest, I'm not even sure what attending is. I think it's the connector between muscles, if I'm understanding correctly. And I don't think that we eat that ship. I don't think that's what pork tender loin is. Well, I guess, I guess that's how you know. I don't went to community college there. You go a

damn fool? How you know? That's how you know? I'm sharing it because I don't know what the tender loin is. I got money to eat it. I came here to lead, not to read. So so he he says this to you, He questions you about this possible secret tending in your leg, and your first response is what what do you say to him to handle this situation. I'm a curious person, so I think it just started probing. I was just like, you know, why do you think I have an extra

leg tending? I mean, I asked him, ask him if you thought I had one? Yeah, I said, you're saying black people do you mean me? Because sometimes white people do the oaky dog we're asking something. Then generally that's the third type of black people. But they don't ever get around to asking you as if being their friend makes you not black, right, that you're somehow exception to the rule, that they're also still positioning you as the

answer to the thing that they want to know. It's like they're doing, I'm not black, I'm o j But for you, you're not Jordan's. You're not black, you're Jordan. Jordan's your third base, baby girl. Now you're black, your third base, sometimes left field, you're sometimes sometimes you're the bat boy a matter of fact, go go I'm go get me a bat with your black but not gives you black you Jordan, Yeah, you're right because your ass is black, right, And so you become curious, you say,

do you mean me? Does he then say like, yeah, you dude, Jordan, or is he more like no, it's more in general, I I'm just curious about the overall status of black people. Yeah, he was. He was like, I just want to know because I see some black people who I'm like, they definitely must and I'm like I'm like who, And he's like Baron Davis, and I'm like, I'm like Baron Davis. He's not like a big dunker. He's like, no, but he's like a smaller guy and he can he's dunked on big guys. I'm more he

was a dunk. He was a dunker, and he's like, he's like Alan Iverson, but he's dunked on people like I see dunks and stuff. He was like, I don't even want to say I'm not racist because they're I feel like a lot of people are like, I'm not racist, and it's like, it's not that I'm not racist, it's just's I just want to ask questions. And I'm like he's like, no, I'm not listen, my guy, I am racist, but also I got questions. Don't get me wrong. I'll say the hard arm, but I say it with curiosity.

There's a question mark at the end of Oh, that's so fun. I love that he already had a list prepared. I love that he knew exactly who he thought was criminal of this supposed secret tending he had. He knew Alan Iverson, Baron Davis, all these people who I can't explain why they physically are able to do the things that they do. They clearly must have an advantage that that he didn't have. It was never anybody, though not sports related, who maybe would do something like you can't

have like a tent extra tending for your mind. You can't be like, wow, this nigga Baron Davis, or rather Colin Powell, when he delivered that speech about drone strike, it's like he had extra like he had an extra brain tending when he was deflecting all of those drones strike. What Obama was talking about, how that he would bomb the Jonas brothers. They didn't know. You know, he was so agile with his mind right, there's never it's not like the black mind. The synapses fire at a different

rate than the white mind. It's always like, no, you guys are big, old idiots. We don't think you're smart at all. But your legs they must have a secret weapon in them because of how fast and strong you are. That's the real problem. We need to change the stereotype from leg tendons to brain tendons. You know what I'm saying. When we we do extra this nigger must have an extra synapse, you know, No, we have to keep it at tending so that it fox them up and they're like, wait,

brains don't have tendons. They think it's actually dumb. I don't know. I thought was just the thing we made up to be malicious and hurt them. But dumb is the new smart. So it's just like the dumber you can go, the more smart niggas would think you are. So it's like, I don't know if I understand this. Tell me more. Seemed like you're the one that's lost my brother. Seemed like Mama didn't tell you ship. Uh,

so you're talking to this kid, Jeremy. He says what he says, he wants to know, he goes down his list. Do you then feel angry at this? Are you offended by this question? Where are your feelings at this point in relation to this question? Name? Well, I mean I was already like the Jackie Robinson on the team, but

but like didn't break any color. Barrias wasn't good. I didn't experience any racism, and you know, I was like Jackie Robinson if if he was just there because of the race card, Like that's the time, like that was the one time that you had to actually really really be good but people wouldn't be like, you're just there because you're black. It's like they were mad at you because you were black, and then you had to be

twice as good. Right. I do think that it's such an absurd question that it almost feels silly to get angry at it, if that makes sense. There are there are some questions where it's like that clearly is coming from a grounded, hateful place that like I feel like I anger is the right response because I need to be able to show you how offensive this is, and

that one feels almost cartoonish. It's like all right, bro, yeah, and we got you know, a little like extra netting under our arms that help us fly once we in the air, Like we could just make ship up if that's what you wanna do. But what are we talking about? Yeah, I've had so many white kids in in my very suburban experience, like try to, you know, very passively make that suggestion that like, well, you're built different than everybody else. It's like, my dad is white. I could have got

your shitty tendons, Like what are you talking about? How do you know that I specifically ended up with the tendon that you're claiming existence ship tensions and that Hank hill but need to need to need to wear orthopedic gas. Look, I'm just like you. Pull your pants down, just like I'm just like you. So you sort of come to this conclusion that this is absurd, but you're not gonna get angry at this kid. Uh. You, then, I guess go on to continue to ride the bench on this team.

Uh does this ever come back up again? Does he ever revisit the conversation? No, it's not revisited. But I that we had weird interactions after that, Like the one time I did have a play that could potentially challenge that theory was I was like running in the outfield, and the one time I made a play on the ball, like I made a bad path to the fly ball and I auto corrected it, and I had gotten much faster and was working out in the gym a lot, and I actually caught the ball like on a diving

like head first reaching for the ball like catch, and afterwards, like he was so happy for me, but he was like holding it in, like as if he was like keeping a secret, right, he knew you were superpowered, but he was gonna be cool and not tell nobody that he already knew. He knows that I ain't good for you, but I know about the secret tending. I ain't gonna

tell nobody. Because my coach was picking up me. He was like, man, and you made a bad path, but like, clearly the gym is like working out, and he was. He was happy for me, like saying like he worked hard. But my friend was looking at me like, man, we know what was working. Black Jesus worked out on you, that one that one you, that's the Lord that gave you that gift. Look at God and God also has an extra legend of because we're made in his image.

God is God is a black woman with an extra legtender. God is a black woman who can jump real, real high. For some reason, I love that. So this continues forward. Had you heard that before this kid said it to you? Was there a point in your life where where you've heard it either before or since? Then We're like, you've had to readdress this conversation. I've never really heard of it before that, But I was watching like Jackie Journa Cursey and Maryan Jones or whatever, and I would be like,

there's something extra about them. It ended up being steroids. But you know that, you know, I also have, Like you know, no matter how like conscious or woke or like black people are, they don't they never realize how much subconscious like not even self hate, but like biased they have, like against their own celves. Is like they need to undo the white man living in their brain or in your case, living in the house. It wasn't some conscious It was whispering and under the door while

I sleep. He didn't come by the door and be like listen to the white man, and he was talking about himselves specifically, but it applied. It went for everybody. No. I mean, it's just so fascinating to me because so many of the arguments that I heard came when I was a kid, Like it came from like young people who were sort of speculating about the athletics of black people.

But then we get older and like we're on a fucking podcast, we tell jokes like whatever this secret weapon that either of us may or may not have had, it didn't go to good use, you know what I mean, Like, there's no way you're gonna convince me Bruce Bruce has an extra tendant in his leg. I would argue Bruce. Bruce is the only nigga who does have a tending. Okay, I'm listening to tell me more. Yeah, I mean, have

you seen a move. I'll say this. The man can carry a big suit in a way that it almost seems humanly impossible, and he puts all that silk on his shoulders and and somehow manages to make it look seamless, look just smooth across the stage. It's just it's not it's not affecting any athletic ability. He can get on stage and just kind of like riff and do anything, and like people will laugh. And it's like part of just witnessing a man as large as he standing up

there with energy and poise. And that's the only kind of energy employees you can have if there's an extra piece of meat connected to your hit bone the leg, And it just made him more graceful and poised on stage, especially if you're large. You know, it's like you have to have a kind of grab atass, you know. And it's some people are like described it as jona Qua and it's like all the French ship the jonas Qua is the leg ten dome, that's the doona si qua

and it's like there's just something about him. I can't put my finger on it. It's the goddamn leg. And he don't need to jump high. You just smooth and silk silk robes. Don't jump high. For what he's got all this charisma flowing through him. He ain't got to jump. I love it. Yeah, man, all right, Well, we're gonna take a break and we'll be back with more Jordan's temple and more of my mama told me. And we are back. I'm supposed to meet his meat with this ship. Bro,

What the fu? Yeah, we're back here with more Jordan's temples and more of my mama told me. We're still talking about that mysterious leg tending that these black people supposedly have hiding in their calf muscles making them jump high up in the sky. Have you ever been able to jump? Sprior? You? Are you a very fast or very good jumper? I might be a good jumper, I'm

and I'm like gracefully underrated. That's how I described myself because because there's a lot of things I'll do and I'll surprise myself and then people would be like, Hi, are you good at so? And so, and I'll be like, I'm fine, and then I do it and they'd be like this, Nigga's amazing, I got you. That sounds like a self esteem you know what I mean? That like one of those things where it's a difference between professional athletes and people that end up, I guess hosting podcasts.

You have to have enough faith in yourself to believe that when you jump it means something for the world, as opposed to when I jump, I'm like, I was embarrassing. I'm never gonna do it again. But yeah, I go between having a lot of confidence and no confidence. But also it's like if people ask me if I could jump, and it would be like, one example, I would never jump because it's not I wouldn't ever jump for nobody that. It's like, I'm also not trying to compare it to

nobody's ship. I'm like, can you jump? Let me see. I'm like out here, all right, you're too much of a contrarian, like to participate in a group sport where they ask you to line up and be like the dude in front of you. Yeah, that's some that's some sucker ship. I get that. Hell yeah, that's that's how they get that's how they get. Yeah, I got you,

I see what you're doing. Alright, let's get into some of this research, because I took my time to really try to figure out if there's any legitimacy to this black people tending conversation. And one of the things that makes this whole conversation so problematic or difficult to research is that in unpacking things, I discovered that a fair amount of reputable, peer reviewed sites at some point in history had different thoughts on this issue than they probably

would today, you know what I mean. So there's all these articles that come out in nine that are like, yeah, black people's legs are different than than white people's legs, and then that same source would now say like, h No, there's absolutely no difference between black people's legs and white people's legs. So it's one of those things where I think, depending on when you decided to research it, you get

completely different information, if that makes sense. And then you find out that they're also burying things even further, like something au peer of view thing like Yale would try to be woken out about some stupid ship like that. Meanwhile, they had slave quarters. They're like we don't we don't have any of this about black people. But it's like, not only did y'all have slave quarters, but y'all like predominantly white institution that's benefited from slavery itself. Right, Yes,

it's exactly that. I think that there's so much of the way that we frame history that is just rewriting the bad ship we already did. And so it's like, I get it that you personally were not a participant in this thing, but you don't get to just skip over the fact that, like your institution fully supported a bad idea no more than thirty years ago, exactly very recent. Yeah, Yale had slaves. Shout out to Catherine, shout out, Katherine Cohen, Yale had slaves. You already your first I don't know

if that's true. It sounds right to me, so I support it all. Right, here's what I found. There's very little evidence, as I think we both know that the negro has some sort of secret tendon. How Ever, there is a lot of evidence throughout history of white people trying to figure out the physical differences between black and white people as a way of identifying their own advantages and disadvantages. Right, So, I'll start us off with one

of the beginnings of a lot of these things. In seventeen eighty seven, this British doctor Benjamin Moseley claimed that he could, basically, through the study of white people, figure out one of the major differences, or the two major differences between black and white people, was that black people number one, had a wider threshold for pain, like we

could deal with pain better than white people could. And then number two, we had weak lungs compared to white people, and those weak lungs could only be fixed through forced labor. That by being forced to do physical work, we were always going to have like a weaker capacity for breathing than our white counterparts. Oh my god, that is insane. Yeah. Wow.

So he he writes this article or or basically like does this study and one of the things that he does in this study, and he writes about it, he says, uh, and this is him talking about like these surgical operations he was doing on black people, obviously against their will. But he would say, what would be the cause of the insupportable pain to a white man? A Negro would

almost disregard. I have amputated the legs of many Negroes who have held the upper part of the limbs themselves that basically, while he's cutting off black people's legs, the black man is able to hold his own thigh and not scream out because we just don't feel pain the way that white people do. Oh my god, kill me. They're just like, hey, right here, doc ain't nothing. That's the way. That's the weirdest thing, because it's like a lot of slaves ran away. They try to act like

we ain't like to do that. It's like, you can't have a weak lung capacity if we talk, people don't think and see Africans and African Americans are the same, but they'll be rooting on like Kenyans and ship when they're jogging, and it's like, we got the same lungs as Kenyans, we just don't have the same air. They

got like thin air. We got polluted, shitty air. And they're just like, I guess they got bad lungs or the same lungs as those, Or they're in circumstances that require them to run more often, or they're not hit with distractions that allow for them to constantly be doing other things. They get to focus on the sport more effectively. There's a lot of explanations. As a lot we might run differently, but it certainly is not that we don't feel pain and our lungs need to be trained through

forced labor. Definitely not. We got slave lungs. We got good. So I'm glad you're bringing up the idea of slaves running away because in eighteen fifty one, this physician and again all of these are doctors, All of these are

highly respected people in their fields. Right, This physician, Samuel Cartwright, who was like very famous dude, releases this study that, among other things, claims that black people have a disease of the mind called drape tonia, drape tomania, that's what it is, drape tomania, which caused them to run away from their enslavers, insisting that enslaved people contracted this ailment when they're enslavers treated them as equals, and the only way to get rid of it is whipping the devil

out of them. Hm. Wow, This is a medical doctor in eighteen fifty one saying that slaves have a sickness that forces them to run away and the only way to fix it is to beat them until the devil leaves their bodies. Damn. Now romania drape tomania. Oh, at first I thought you meant dracomania. That's when has got a bunch of got a bunch of DraCos. Well, listen to yeah, listen to me goes, Listen, I wish those slaves that Draco's back. Then this would have been a

different conversation, Yeah to son. But in America. So this

is where it gets even more complicated. Right, is that Cartwright, amongst you know, all the crazy things he said about sort of like this mental disease, was also one of the first physicians, in order to prove that whole lung capacity thing, to use something called a spiral meter as a way of measuring respiratory illnesses, right, And in that measure of respiratory illnesses, he basically decided that black people have twenty less capacity than white people when it comes

to breathing. Now, in current society, we still use his spiral me eater as a measure of like the way that we measure lung capacity. And even more so, there's still functions in the software that function for race correction, meaning that like there's a part of the algorithm that if you encounter a black person corrects itself presuming that our lung capacity is somehow less than our white counterparts. Today, what I really changes the meaning of black lung, black lung.

It's a black coal. Mine got black lung. You got double black lungs, guys, man, can your lungs living in double jeopardy? The saddest thing about that is what technology is, like you scan it. It's like nigger, Yeah, it's like right, this technology is basically being like I don't let him

sit down, make him go through the back door. It's like, it's all problematic to think to your point earlier that like we pretend as if we made this progress, when in fact, the literal utensils and logic of people we've deemed crazy and irresponsible are still being treated regular today. So there's this book that gets published in eighteen fifty five by this dude, John Brown, who was a former slave.

It's called a Slave Life in Georgia, narrative of the life, sufferings and escape of John Brown, a fugitive slave now in England, where it chronicles his journey John Brown as he basically is being experimented on by this doctor Thomas Hamilton's And one of the things that Dr Thomas Hamilton believes is that black people's skin is thicker than white

people's skin. Right that it's literally like we got more layers of skin than they do, which is part of the argument for us not feeling pain the same way that they do. But one of the things he does to John Brown is over a nine month period, he like brings John Brown in every day and and intentionally blisters his skin over and over again to see if every time he blisters it he can keep it from going down to the white meat. Like he just wants to prove that each blister only stays that at black

meat all the way down. H He wants to see where black people are white. Well, he wants to see how far that meat goes down? You black? But how black are you? Does it keep going or is this just stopping at the surface. That's what all these hosts say. See how far that meat goes down? Do comt how black are you? How far does that meat go down? You're gonna find You're gonna find out, stupid. We gotta make that the name of the episode. How far does that meet go down? I love that that's a perfect name.

I'm getting a note from Hans in two of first and second year medical students endorsed the belief that black people's skin is thicker than white people's. So he's already jumping ahead to the larger point here that I think what we're seeing is a bunch of evidence that the things that were treated as normal in the eighteen hundred seventeen hundreds in relation to what is obviously like huge

racial bias, is still being treated normally today. Right, that like we didn't somehow get better in any of this ship, right, And it was justification for all the experiments that we're talking about earlier, which included this Tuskegee experiments and giving black men syphilis and all this stuff. And you know, yes, much differently, much different from today. Exactly get syphilis themselves, right, We earn it on our own. If I'm I'm a symphilist, I want to earn it. I don't want it to

be given to me by some evil white doctor. Let me go out and get syphilis from a kind, dirty woman the way I deserve. Yeah, I'm gonna get syphilis from a goofy white woman who right after she asked me how far does that meet? Go, I think that's right. People mad at that statement, but it's like, how far did black people go for a black man to say he got syphilis from a white woman? Come on, this

is progress, goofy bitch niggas. Niggas loved Kamala Harris, but they don't like a black man getting syphilis from a white man. And that's the problem in this goddamn country. If I should say so myself, you know what I'm saying, and I think you should. I think everybody needs to hear your thoughts on syphilis and equality. Absolutely, it certainly is pushing us closer to our dream. Yeah, lest people should vote more black men should get syphilis from white woman.

That's the only way that such is gonna see a change, the real correction in this We gotta just keep passing inter racial syphilis. That's the only way that should be the name that should be in parentheses. How far does this meat goes syphilis? Nope, you're not gonna turn this into some psychotic mind dream, Nope, this is We're gonna keep it as something very clear and very simple of interracial pairing. Wow, the self hate is clearly coming. I got work I've got work to do, just like the

rest of us. So I think I'll bring up one more example of exactly what I mean. But so this dude, Jay Mary and Sims, who is basically considered like the father of modern gynecology. Right, he writes basically about this study he did from eighteen to eighteen forty nine where he would cut the gin those a black women over and over again in an effort to perfect this surgical technique to repair something called that's a co vaginal fistula. I'm not a doctor. I don't know how to say

these words. But the whole point is is that over and over again he basically took these slaves and cut their vaginas, trying to cira an issue with women's bladders and their vaginas. No, no, sir, cut it out exactly. But that man, that person is considered a father of the study that we still practice. Even though we know that what he was doing was wrong, we still celebrate him as like the conceiver of like these important types of research. No, that man protect black women. Shout out

to Henrietta Lacks. Read that book about Henrietta Lacks. Ourselves everywhere day in space, you know, what I'm saying that man, they all kinds of ship. Shout out to Henrietta lax wanted for real man, Henrietta Lax Man, whole family. Man, they need billions of dollars. Man, Shout out Henriette Alex. So I I want to bring up one final thing that I think is really important for us to talk

about in this one. Actually was was something that I had never considered before, and certainly in relation to this conversation when everybody claims that black people somehow have this magical tendon that doesn't exist in white people. One of the things that scientists often point to in its absurdity is the fact that the only research they've ever really

done to support this is based on professional athletes. So they're the silliness of suggesting that we could measure any human based off of the physical attributes of Lebron James is insane. That's not a regular human being, do you know what I mean. It's not it's not fair ever to like take somebody like Lebron or you know, all these basketball players and ship. They're also overcoming tremendous odds.

It's not just that they're six eight, six nine, six ten is that they have to play at the highest level of every level, and in Lebron's case, have a single mom. Having a single mom and not having your dad around is the biggest indicator for being able to dunk on niggas and and people maybe thinking you have an extra legtendant or definitely having something wrong with you. Sure, even if he has an extra legtend and he has one less dad, and that should calculate into his performance.

Absolutely they need to have, you know, missing a dad index instead of all these other indexes. That's the only thing that pushes you. That's the only thing that pushes you, you know. And that's one of the things that scientists say is that there are plenty of examples of people who make it to six eight, six nine who don't become professional athletes. Are certainly not to the scale of the Lebron James who basically fit his same physical profile.

So the suggestion that all black people somehow share this quality is absurd. And then they go a step further in this part really cracked it open for me is that they say that obviously of black people in America are sort of like a part of like the African slave trade, right, that like we are the product, if nothing else, of slaves being brought from Africa to America

and then put into slavery. And that's part of the reason that they claimed that this tendon was able to grow or spawn or where it came from whatever, whatever.

But what they never factor in is how many people are truly mixed in their genealogy, right that, how many of these slave owners raped and mixed with their slaves and and created lines of black people who are not in fact entirely black, but are very much a part of white history in a certain way, right right, they got they know, you'll realized, like the leg tending that they're saying black people have is being canceled out by some like slave on or some accountant back in the day,

Like you got as much accountant genes as you do, like you know, and accounting genes cancel out the fucking leg tending genes exactly. So there's a real possibility that y'all are just skipping over the truth because you're jealous of the fact that like some niggs jump higher than you. And that's that. And something is also could write off the taxes better than you because they got them them

white accountant genes. Yeah, I heard something interesting about like light skinned people the other day or just just in terms in New York Times. Oh that don't make it better, but go I mean yeah, I mean maybe niggas for Trump. Like I was saying, speaking to the mixed ness and the rape, you're talking about black people slaves. This woman was like, you know, I don't have light skin. I

have rape colored skin. And it's like that. It was wild because just to be reminded and to be like, there's a reason for this, and then it was self segregated for other reasons, you know, sometimes even in your own home. Because my brother's my brother's a light skin and um, you know we got the same mom, different dad. His dad's Dominican and my dad is Haitian. You know, growing up that get along fine. And man, growing up, he had most of the room. M hmm, just like

the island we called it Hispaniola. We're real nerds, and and every day somebody would come through and be like hurricane motherfucker and knock all your ship over. Yeah. People be like, man, did you hear what happened on Dominican Republic? And I'd be like, you mean that side of the room. I can't go on, and they're like, no the country. I'm like, get the funk out of here. I never heard of that ship. What is that? Uh So honestly,

I don't know. Let's start to a break. We're gonna throw the one more break and then we'll be back with more Jordan's Temple and more of my Mama told me. And we aren't that. Yeah, we're back here with more

of my mom told me or Jordan's temple. We we are still talking about the possibility that all of these speculations about black people's physicality is mostly rooted in a type of jealousy that white people have had about things that they can and cannot do and uh probably try to do but just weren't quite as good at m Just like everything else, they dusty, They dusty. That's the big takeaway is that white people are dusty, and uh they just need to get over it. Just be dusty

and be honest about it. All right. So I want to play a game. This is a game that I thought of mostly in relation to this topic. We've spent this entire time talking about this secret tendon that black athletes are supposed to have that makes them jump higher,

run faster, all that stuff. What I think would be a good time is us going down a list of famous white athletes and for us to speculate what kind of special attribut you think that they might have in their body that makes them so successful at what they do that makes sense? M hell yeah, Okay. The first athlete that I would love for us to discuss is Peyton Manning. Peyton Manning, famous quarterback football star, arguably one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. What would you

say makes Peyton Manning special physically? What secret muscle or tendon does Peyton Manning have cooking up in his big old body? Hmm, I don't know. Probably that his fucking face. Yeah, he got disarming, like ugly handsome. Oh, Like he's definitely not handsome, you know, he's disgusting, but he looks like he's like weirdly charming, like the nigga from the Goonies.

He's like, yeah, he's like slow. I think you're nailing something because Peyton Manning's got all that extra head, right, and I think that some of that extra head is maybe encased with extra bone, if you will, that allows for him to take hits to the head better than the average black person who might be getting hit in the head in football, which makes him a more capable quarterback. Yeah,

I think so too. I think if he was on the field and he was a defensive tackle in instead of trying to line up and tackle him, you shot him in the head, he would just be like right, that bullets bouncing off and he didn't even lose concentration, na, not at all on that extra head. Okay, so Peyton Manning's got extra head and we agree on that. Let's go to another athlete. Uh, let's do uh Sean White,

you know Sean Wright. Uh, he's snowboarding fame. I think it must be like I'll go back to the face the freckles, Like I think freckle also like disarm you. Like they must empower you too for niggas to think like you know that you're like a humble person, and like clearly he's not, Like he's just like, yeah, I'm just weak and attacked by the sun. And then he busts out a nine hundred. You know what I'm saying? Like that, I think that Shaun White uses his freckles

to put his competitors at a disadvantage. Right, the sun bounces off the freckles and forces his competitors to be blinded in the snow, and then he gets to go and do all his cool tricks uninterrupted, unblinded. They actually, absolutely they actually have strings connected to the ends of them, and they just like pull him closer to the hair. Those freckles were watching. God, I get what you're saying. They connected. Okay, let's try a different person. Let's do uh,

who's a Who's a fun one? If we're gonna keep doing canceled people, let's do Lance arm Strong Lands arm Strong. What do you think gave him his special technique, his special powers as an athlete. I think it's probably his balls. I think his holds in his you know, like he survived the gesticular cancer. But it's not about that. It's how he can keep his nuts on the bike, you

know what I mean? Like a white man, you know, populates the world with so much evil, and all the evil comes from the white man's bass, Right, the white man's balls are the most evil thing on the planet. And he got testicular cancer not just because cancer, but because he's an evil ast white man. And it didn't kill him like it doesn't kill most white men. I think that's the statistic because most evil comes from white man's bass, because the white people are evil, right, those

technical no listen, brother, listen now. I feel like, as someone who came from a white man's bass, you're not understanding the evil that I've discussed it that lurks within. We have to pass, we have to pause, we have to pass the reel from the faith. And the fake is seeing that a white man winning a bicycle race. It's just an extension of his evil nut sack laying on a place for an extended period of time, naturally, because the evil is canceling out the pain from the

black seat. Because what's more evil than a white man's bass, honestly nothing, Definitely not a bike seat. I mean, God bless him. People toesticulate cancer is a terrible thing. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the evil of a white man's balls. Okay, a white man's nuts land on a bike seat for an extended period of time would give him the power to be the greatest cyclist ever. Because a white man has all these seeds he spreads around the earth. Right, we call little white

devils and there's not a sperm leaking out right. I feel like you don't even believe in track. No, I ain't on track. I'm on track, just like, what do you want to That was beautiful? That's cool, motherfuck. I think honestly, I think that that's a pretty clear finishing move. I think, by your suggestion, Lance Armstrong, losing that ball allows for him to fit more comfortably on the seat, and although he can't spread his evil the way that he was before, it does give him an advantage in

a bike rate. God blocked it blocked his level, but empowered his biking. It was beautiful. I think we did it Jordan's I think we we nailed everything today. I think everything was covered. Could you tell the people where they could find you? What cool ship you have going on? You can find me on hands busting it open, you know, out the pussy for a real nigger. If you want to find me on Hinge. I'm on Instagram, you know, spreading joy and love at Jordi ploy. I'm terrible at Twitter,

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