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Snow Dragons

The Brilliant Idiots

CHAPTER

Interracial Dating Preferences, Mythical Creatures, and Melting Permafrost

This chapter explores interracial dating preferences among different communities, touches on the nuanced difference between racism and preference, and discusses terms used for people of mixed racial backgrounds. It transitions into a conversation about dragons and mythical creatures, questioning their existence and origins, and speculating on how ancient societies may have perceived them. The discussion then shifts to the impact of climate change on unique ecosystems, ancient diseases released from melting permafrost, and a controversy surrounding an online personality's comments about an old rapper.

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Speaker 2
Now, what if you're one of those people who talks so pro -white? We got a black woman. But got a black one. What do you say about that? Pro -white as fuck black woman. I think I respect it. I never thought about it, right? Yeah, I never thought about it. Wouldn't that be kind of fire?
Speaker 1
A black man. What do you mean? A black man with a black dude? Oh, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. Magga in the streets. Nope. Nope. Something else in the street. No. Magga in the streets. N -W -A -C -E -E -T. no, man. I like black. How do you say that? By the way, what's wrong with saying that? Saying what? Black men should be with black women. And listen, Asians like to keep it in their community, right? That's not true. Jewish men have been dating Asians. I bet you some people on your wife's side had a little problem with it, right? No, they're incredibly happy. They didn't at all. They love that. It's an accomplishment. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Asian woman match made in heaven. Some Chinese people don't like the, they don't like the, uh, people marrying black people. Well, that is different. Different story. It's a different story. It's a different story. There's a different, story. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Speaker 2
yeah yeah yeah yeah. That is what we would call racism. That's what you're... That is what... That's racist. Is it preference? Is it community?
Speaker 1
Yeah. Sometimes. I don't know. I don't know if it's racist that they just want to keep it in the community. I don't know. Well, they're fine not keeping the community when it's a Jewish guy.
Speaker 2
Ooh, black with Asian girl. Black male Asian girl.
Speaker 3
White Asian. I never
Speaker 1
heard what Christian said. I thought that was a fucking GPS app. Wait. There you go, Christian. Who about a mask?
Speaker 3
Oh, baby. So it used to be any half Asian kid in America was known as Hoppa. Hoppa. That's a West
Speaker 2
Coast thing. East Coast never said that. Because he was Hawaiian, actually. Yeah,
Speaker 3
yeah, yeah. That was supposed to be the official term. What does Hoppa mean? I think it's a Hawaiian for mixed. Okay, okay So you could be half black half Asian half Jewish efforts and whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1
according
Speaker 3
to my kids the in New York City at least it's blasian Which is black and Asian or ways in which is white and Asian Wow and they they oh, yeah She's ways, you know that other go there a lot of ways in kids in this class Yeah, a lot of bl kids in this class. But I think the kid, I mean, like we always, like Whitney Houston always said, the children of the future, right?
Speaker 1
So I think the kids are way more progressive than the generations before them were. So they probably won't even look at it as, oh, it's a problem to be with a black person. It's a problem to be with a white person. It's the oldest, us older folks that's saying, keep it pure.
Speaker 2
Have you heard what Dr. Umar has said about the half white half Asian? No. He calls him snow dragons. I'm
Speaker 1
telling y 'all right now, no dragons. Snow dragons is going to stick. Yeah, listen,
Speaker 2
no dragons is crazy though.
Speaker 3
Can I ask something about dragons though? Yes. So I was in, speaking of snow dragons, I was in the national palace, which is the biggest museum in Taipei. All the... That's Taiwan? It's in Taiwan. Okay. And it's all the artifacts and ancient Chinese art that got brought over to Taiwan when China fell to Mao. And everything is dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons. And I'm looking at all these dragons and I'm like, it's interesting because it's a mythical creature. But you think about Scottish, right? St. George and the dragon. Like European history. He slay the dragon. must have been dragons. Because all these cultures that had no connection. The Loch Ness Monster. That's a, that's a dinosaur. Well, fake. Yeah. Not a lot of research.
Speaker 1
I don't believe you think the Loch Ness was fake. That's a real. I think all this, y 'all know how I get there. I think all
Speaker 3
this shit existed at one
Speaker 1
point. But dragons. Must have walked the earth. What is so, but if they think just think about a dragon, right? Forget the mythical part of it. Yeah. What's so like outlandish about a dragon existing? Nothing beats fire right now. Okay, that might be the. Okay, I can't give you that. That might be the one part. You know what I mean? But everything else, the flight. You know what I mean? It's just a lizard. Right. It's just a big ass reptile. That's where I landed. I was like...
Speaker 2
I never seen somebody fold so fast. What's so unrealistic about dragons? Well, nothing really aspired out. Okay.
Speaker 1
Okay. If you want to lean with that. I was going to lean with that. I was going to name about three other things. The flight, the fact that the fact is a reptile. You know what I mean? Reptiles exist. Flight exists. Yeah.
Speaker 2
Okay. Two out of three. So do you think that the dragons were predominantly in Asia?
Speaker 3
That seems to be the heaviest dragon mythology,
Speaker 1
but. Is the reason they're no longer exist because they've eaten them all? Could be could be could be probably still find some nice aged dragon wings on the wet market from years ago Gotta pay top dollar though. I'm sure Well snake snake wine is a big thing if I want really yeah, son. That's I mean yeah, yeah, I'm all in bro I'm telling y 'all that right now, because I really do feel like all of those things existed at some point in time. And you know what makes me think like that? The shit we see now. Like, think about the things we think we take for granted. Can you imagine the first time somebody saw a fucking whale? Wow. A giraffe. You know what I mean? Our elephant. This is about the first time a human laid eyes on that shit. You'd be like, what the fuck was that? So I feel like all of that stuff probably did exist at one point.
Speaker 2
Yeah. I think so anyway. I mean, yeah. I guess, I don't know. What do they say about, like, what is the etymology of some of these mythical beasts? I think Phoenix is another one that
Speaker 3
I feel like it pops up in different cultures. What's the Phoenix, the Phoenix Rising? Yeah, Phoenix, I don't know. What is it? This is a bird though, but it's consumed by fire and it comes up out of the fire and it's reborn so that must have happened at some point because I feel like South American culture has Phoenix. Yeah, I feel like you're I don't know Phoenix and dragons. I feel you
Speaker 2
know The dragon shit is the weirdest thing because like I don't know what it like Phoenix is a bird. Okay birds on fire Okay, I can see a little whatever but where do you get dragon from and if it did exist where the bones at because we got bones for all these other things like where does dragon let's say they made it up where did they make it up from is it alligator and you're like what if an alligator had wings that would be the craziest animal ever so is are there alligators in Asia like that? Uh, probably. I don't really know. I mean, it's reptiles. I'm sure it's some type of big ass reptile. That roams there's the orphan Asia. What is it? A Gila monster or something like that? Like the closest there's not in Scotland. So where the fuck did the fucking
Speaker 3
thing? That's what I want to know. Well, dragons fly.
Speaker 2
They probably flew over Scotland. So where the f - where the bones at, dude? We got to find dragon bones. If we got dinosaur bones. In the bogs. Hey, man. In the what? Bogs. Oh, in the bogs of Scotland. And the bogs are starting to disappear. And when they disappear, you're going to see where that fucking lock -nest monster. That's
Speaker 1
a fact, bro. That's a fact. Oh, no, that's real. You know what's so interesting? You say that I was in my backyard. I was in the woods. And I've already cleaned up back there. Like when I first moved in, I cleaned up behind the woods and shit. And I went back there this weekend and I'm like, all types of shit that wasn't there. Like bottles and shit. And I'm realizing something must have happened to where all of this stuff was still buried under stuff and it came up. You're saying like the water level went down? Well, I do have a creek, but not in the areas of the creek. It's just areas of where like, it's something happening with the ecosystem, bro. There's this rock in my yard that used to be a whole rock. Literally a whole, like a whole round rock. And now it's like cut in half. So it's just like a big strip like it's like it's like somebody was giving somebody a haircut and they just took the clippers and went right through their head. That's how the rock looks. Come
Speaker 2
on, Charlamagne.
Speaker 1
Why y 'all talking to me like you're talking about fucking fire breathing rocks. What
Speaker 2
do you mean? Come on, Charlamagne.
Speaker 1
I had a sinkhole in my driveway. You know the sinkholes that are popping up? A sinkhole popped up in my driveway, bro. So
Speaker 3
you've got water underneath your property. Well, you think that's
Speaker 1
what sinkholes are? That's what happens, right? Really? Think so. Oh. I be thinking it'd be shit coming up at night. Wait, what? Shit is climbing out, bro. I be thinking shit be climbing out of the fucking ground and they don't be having time to cover that shit back up. Like
Speaker 2
all your white neighbors going like black person moves in there
Speaker 1
goes the neighborhood, but like literally a
Speaker 2
very
Speaker 1
diverse neighborhood. This is very diverse. Yeah, but the rocks blend half. I'll take a picture and send it to you you'll look when you see it you're gonna be like what the fuck? I need a before and after though. Isn't it possible maybe you didn't see the split? No, I've been sitting on this rock for a long time. Like that's my thinking rock. That's my meditation rock. I bought that picture of the guy sitting on the rock. He does like this. The thinker. That's what that shit's called. That's what I go out there and do. And it's like I went out this weekend, I'm like, what the fuck happened to the rock? It literally looked like somebody took some cliples and ran it through an afro, bro. Like, it's just a straight script. And it's nothing there. And actually, you can still see remnants of the rock underneath the ground. So it's just like, what the fuck happened? There's something going on, bro. You'll see. you ever seen these sinkholes. I've been popping up all over the place Yeah, oh this is happening everywhere from the Bronx to Asia to China You didn't see the shit they found in one of those Asian countries and they say it's like a whole other ecosystem I'm a world that's crazy, right? Yes. Yes. I'm dead serious. Okay, am I making this up? I'm not making this up. This's some shit going on. What do you think it is? I don't know. We about to see it. It's some shit that we haven't seen before. That's about to happen. Really? Yes. Like? I don't know. I don't want to speculate. I'm just telling everybody to keep their eyes open and know that the thing we're not paying attention to.
Speaker 3
Well, the one that they say in terms of climate change and the, you know, the water levels changing and the temperature is going up is like in Siberia, there's germs and diseases that have essentially been under the permafrost for oh yeah, I knew that thousand. Oh yeah, I've heard about that. I've heard about the permafrost. And now they're melting and all those.
Speaker 1
I think that's real. No, the permafrost made them. I've been reading about that. I've said that on podcast before. What's that? I've talked about that, like the climate change is causing, the glaciers, the melt, and it's all of these ancient diseases that are underneath that shit that's about to start
Speaker 3
being an aspect. So then you'll find a bison that's been dead and preserved for 30,000 years. That's right. But was sick
Speaker 1
with some disease, and then all of a sudden, that disease has been. We're gonna
Speaker 2
get it. But wouldn't disease potentially die in the permafrost?
Speaker 3
guys from 3,000 years ago, perfectly preserved. You can see all their faces. It's like... Wait till Captain America pop out that motherfucker. Yeah. When Captain America pops out,
Speaker 1
y 'all gonna know shit is real, bruh. See, look at this shit, look at the headline. Giant sinkhole. What did he say? You gotta... Who's bringing this up? As you are. Giant sinkhole with a forest inside found in China. Species unknown. The science could be hiding in this gaping hole. It's a whole ecosystem down there, bruh. How did those trees grow? How did the grass grow? Under, that's what I'm saying Don't discount the fire breathing dragons all the fucking rocks that's got a part bro There's some real shit happens. The sinkhole is 630 feet meters 630 feet deep That's crazy. Yeah What did you think about all of the academics controversy yeah, can you break that down to me what like well academics was on his twitch and I think that's the thing right academics is a lot like Brilliant idiots well things I say about brain idiots and what I mean by that is we have an audience. We have an audience of people who know us, who fuck with us, who listen to the whole podcast and understand anything that has been taken out of context on this podcast. They understand exactly where we were coming from. But it's like when this gets introduced to a new audience, that conversation we're having with friends, amongst friends, gets introduced to strangers who don't know us and not even like, well, what the fuck does this person talk about? If you go and you listen to what academics were saying, academics did use the word dusty in reference to an old rapper.

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