Americans Who Use Only Toilet Are Nasty! | One54 Africa Podcast

Added: 2026-05-21

[00:00:00]You'd use it to dry or to clean.

[00:00:02]>> no, if >> [clears throat] >> if a person just cleans their butt with toilet paper, are they nasty?

[00:00:06]>> Yes.

[00:00:07]>> [laughter] >> Wow, okay. All right.

[00:00:10]>> Very nasty.

[00:00:10]>> Yeah, okay.

[00:00:11]>> [laughter] >> All right.

[00:00:12]I grew up cleaning my butt with >> Imagine Imagine if you have on your hands.

[00:00:16]>> Yeah.

[00:00:17]Would you clean it with your Would Would you clean it with with with with toilet paper Would you wash it?

[00:00:22]>> No, you have to You have You just ANSWERED MY QUESTION.

[00:00:24]>> [laughter] >> YEAH, I WOULD BE LIKE >> SO, YOUR IS a part of your body like hands. I grew up I grew up cleaning my butt with water. Okay, good >> Yeah, yeah, I grew up My father raised us to clean them and people thought that that was weird. I thought that was How is cleaning your ass in this country >> How is that How is cleaning your ass weird? How is that weird? How is that >> Well, you know, I had to keep that quiet when I cuz I thought, you know, I was like, "Oh, yeah, you guys, you know, you clean your butt with water." It's like, "Uh, you clean your butt with" And I was like, "Oh, that's how the first time I remember I was in the fourth grade when I just, you know, volunteered that information." And I was like, "Oh, this is not Everybody doesn't do that with There was no toilet paper in my house.

[00:01:05]We didn't have toilet paper in my house." Ever?

[00:01:07]Yeah, not until I got to high school we had toilet paper.

[00:01:09]>> just would kind of wash it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, you just You wash and dry. You wash and dry. Oh, yeah, yeah.

[00:01:14]Yeah. Yeah. That's what they say, you got to up your ass. Yeah, you're right.

[00:01:18]>> More about cleaning after [laughter] after the break.

[00:01:23]What about hand gestures? We We We make a reverse middle finger.

[00:01:28]How do you do a middle How do you How do you flip someone?

[00:01:31]>> You flip someone like this, right? But it's this way. Like this. No, we do it like this.

[00:01:35]What?

[00:01:35]>> Oh, oh. Oh, like you guys do it like this. We do it like this. Oh, it's just so Or Or this. Like you see, because this is actually more biologically, if you think about it, because you need these to rest and the other one to do the job.

[00:01:47]>> Are you Are you messing around? Are you even real?

[00:01:49]>> No, no, no, it's true. So, if you if you And you And you know, if like my our friend Muhammad, he said like it's like "Batista." It's like in your ass. That's Palestinian. Egyptian is they usually just like do it like this. So so you do you do this? You do this or this. Like from up or from down.

[00:02:03]It's Chicago. You do it like this.

[00:02:05]Depending on where you're >> [laughter] >> going.

[00:02:08]WHERE? WHAT POSITION?

[00:02:15]I DID THIS. LIKE WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WHERE >> [laughter] >> THIS IS KARATE KID.

[00:02:21]LIKE I THOUGHT IT WAS LIKE SOME OLD STAR TREK STUFF, you know?

[00:02:25]It's like [laughter] Uh what about married couples holding hands? What what what's that all about?

[00:02:29]Is it cool for married couples to hold hands?

[00:02:31]>> What? Yeah, what do you mean married?

[00:02:32]Yeah. I don't know if men hold men hold.

[00:02:34]I know in Yeah, men men men have this kind of like, you know, What's that?

[00:02:38]What's that? It's just like it's it's it's cool. And you know, I actually when I when I grew up, I found that weird because maybe you don't see it much in in the in the big in the in certain parts of the city, but maybe people have this kind of like camaraderie that like kind of like, you know, men just like go in and and just like walk like this. And it's not like it looks gay, but it's not. It's like I only saw it in Egypt. I was like they they they Yeah, they just like walk like this. It's kind of like It's cool and they're like No, they're literally I know I know It's kind of American be like, "Hey man, you want to go to the park?"

[00:03:12]>> [laughter] >> That's just the idea. No way. Did you did you ever have like >> like that. I I I would like >> So you didn't come to America and say, "Hey, I want to talk to you." No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Okay. All right.

[00:03:24]Let's go to the gym. Uh >> [laughter] >> what about leaving food on the plate? Uh Oh yeah, that's that's Okay, so we have a saying when we were younger, like kind of like 4 5 years old, our grandmothers, our aunts, our mothers, they would tell them, "Don't leave the food on the plate or else that food will run after you on judgement day."

[00:03:44]It's not like there's people starving in Africa. those people. No, it's just like they this food Yeah. is going to run and chase you down. It's going to chase you So basically if you leave like a an half-eaten drumstick, that drumstick will be reanimated and run after you.

[00:04:01]That's right.

[00:04:02]>> And I They never tell us how the chase ends. They never tell us that. It's like we are stuck with that image that whatever like food remnants are left it's just going to run after you.

[00:04:13]>> food is going to chase after you? It's going to be like >> exactly. So we as the as the younger children we learn like oh my god we have to eat that because the oh my god That's smart. This like three peas will run after me and and I don't want that. All right. I I want to talk more about uh Egypt. Uh I want to talk about the pyramids, pharaohs, the gods, goddesses of Egypt.

[00:04:31]Uh let's start with the pyramids. I've been to the pyramid of Giza. Had a chance to go inside of the pyramid of Giza. Um I didn't realize how small the opening was at you know 6'6". I'm like, "Hey, I got to kind of squeeze my way through here." I was kind of surprised um by that. But um there's all these conversations on who built the pyramids.

[00:04:50]Let's talk about it. Who the hell built the pyramids?

[00:04:53]>> Aliens.

[00:04:54]>> [laughter] >> No, I love saying aliens. Well, here's the thing. If if pyramids were built by white people, if the pyramids were Scandinavian, nobody would have doubts.

[00:05:02]It would be like, "Oh, maybe it's the aliens." I don't know. We don't trust the abilities of these Egyptians. You know, nobody would say that.

[00:05:09]But it seems for some reason Yeah.

[00:05:12]like we are the only culture that everybody is claiming it's theirs. Mhm.

[00:05:16]Wow. The Jews said like a we built the pyramids. Get the out of here. They were not even there when the pyramids were built. Our archaeologically and historically people build their uh their impression about history by a cartoon called The Prince of Egypt. It was directed by Steven Spielberg. So everybody thought like, "Oh my god, we built the pyramids." They didn't. All right.

[00:05:35]Some other people say, "Well, it's the aliens." All right. All right. Okay.

[00:05:38]Good luck. At least the aliens chose us.

[00:05:41]So >> [laughter] >> And then there is this whole thing about the Afrocentric thing. With with with due respect, you know, this whole thing people trying to claim that the pyramids were built by an African culture and then we as Arabs came as invaders. This is very dangerous and this is very wrong. First of all, Western African culture are extremely rich. They have any You have an incredible history. You have, for example, you have the kingdom of Mali, which was one of the richest kingdoms in history. Mhm.

[00:06:12]The fact that people would claim other cultures as theirs and then consider other people as invaders, it is insulting and it is it is kind of like, you know, it's it's factually and historically not true. And I believe that there is a lot in the African culture and in the African history that they can be proud of instead of trying to get or or claim some other cultures as theirs. So, Africans So, Egypt is not African?

[00:06:38]>> No, no, no. And It's in Africa. No, no, no. We are in Africa. So, I I I am everything. I'm African, I'm Arab, I'm Muslim, I'm Coptic. Mhm. I am [clears throat] a product of all of these things. I do not claim a purity of race or purity of genetics. Mhm. People who live there now are a product of a of a sequence of very rich uh civilizations that came whether from the pharaohs to the to the Romans to the to the Arabs to the Christian all of that.

[00:07:10]We We were as a product. But it it now it becomes this whole thing about there's like this whole new wave of a discussion calling us the the the people who live in Egypt as invaders, as people stealing the the history of other people. That is that I completely reject. You think it's a combination of people that built >> Yeah, I mean I'm I mean if you go to Egypt, for example, did you Have you been to Cairo? Have you went down to Aswan or Luxor?

[00:07:37]You you would you would find like Egypt is so diverse. You would find people with like a little bit fair skin like me and you have people as dark as you down in the south like the Nubians. That's never portrayed though. I've never I I've never really see that portrayed.

[00:07:50]They never show Nubians. They always show like As far as like cuz I know the Nubians are more south, right?

[00:07:55]>> Show them where? Whether it's cartoons or whether or just the imagery that we movies What movies? Which movies?

[00:08:02]>> They 10 Commandments. Yeah, but that's not our We don't show it was Moses. It is that's that's the that's the problem of trying to understand the a culture through basic entertainment because entertainment is not true. Yeah. And you know, for example, you have President Sadat who's like, you know, Anwar Sadat. Yeah, you see his Yeah, he was like a black guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, look at him. So so with the this whole thing about trying to turn whatever's happened in Egypt history as white versus left. That is not our thing. This is the white versus left is like an American thing.