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Are you new to comedy podcasts, overwhelmed by the array of options and wondering where to begin?
Simpson, and more.
In Black Man in a Little Dress, Kerman comes in hot.
We only know the name Crispus Attucks because of white peoples unquenchable thirst for Black death, he says.
That n- - - - did nothing in the Revolutionary War.
He didnt contribute one bit.
And for some fucking reason, they keep putting him in our history books.
Theres no reason for us to know the first man who died in a war.
They dont do that for any other war.
Kerman, Gborie, and Walker take the opportunity to riff about Attuckss backstory and legacy.
Now, whos gonna dance after supper?
Gborie imagines the other racist Revolutionary War soldiers asked after hearing the news of Attuckss death.
Whos gonna play the spoons?!
I love, so much, that this podcast is on Will Ferrells connection, Walker chimes in.
They get that dress on you yet?
Walker remembers an Uber driver asking him after finding out he performs stand-up.
As Gborie puts it succinctly, People got uncles.
But why is this conspiracy theory so prevalent?
Its a tricky question to unpack.
Doubtfireas evidence that many white male comedians have done it too.
Who didnt they get?
Pretty much just Patrice ONeal, Gborie says at one point.
He would be hilarious in a dress!
And the underlying assumptions behind this theory about what constitutes emasculation dont get left unchecked.
At the root of it, a dress is not necessarily emasculation, he says.
A dress is a dress.
And thats what makes this complicated.
Its not the dress itself that makes us weaker.
Its what makesMy Momma Told Mesuch a valuable platform.
Kerman and Gborie always strive to tell the full story.
