2563: Fun Aunty And Uncle

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
To the Black Guy Who Tips podcast. I listen because
of Rod and Karen are hot. Hey, welcome to another
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kind of show?

Speaker 2 (00:36):
A feedback show?

Speaker 1 (00:37):
A feedback show that's for all the people who leave comments,
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we got some thoughts, and then what do we do?
We read them and we go we got some thoughts,
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everybody that said the money. You know we love it.
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we just out here prosperity pimping. All right. We also

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have a five star review. This is an interesting one
because the five star reviews for the Blackout tests sport
move reviews. Yay, but the actual review. The words are
from Fink Heart Music and it says the fun Auntie
and Uncle in my Head. I enjoyed this podcast because
Roder can take ripped from the headlines and turn it

(03:13):
on his ear with their interactive segments like guess the
race of white people news? Truly the fun aren't and
Uncle in my head? Keep it up. I do like
being the fun aunt and uncle in your head? But
I feel like spot Move Reviews is really more for
the move reviews.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
I guess. I guess that will popped up first. Yeah,
when they was such an you know that's hilarious.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
But you know we ain't mad at it.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Okay, we'll take the five stars on either one.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, it all counts towards us.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yeah, it does.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
All right, Let's get to your comments. Episode twenty five
fifty nine on the blackoutis dot com. The episode is
called one of the best black owned podcasts. Has six comments.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
What y'all had something? Well?

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Three of them are from Appia. So she says the
short version of the German abortion law before you are
the fourteenth In the fourteenth week of pregnancy you can
get an abortion. You have to talk to a place
before that explains to you, all the options that all
the help you would get from the state should you
decide to have the child. Every guy to collegist can
do their abortion. We don't have special clinics. After the

(04:16):
fourteenth week, you can have an abortion if there's a
medical problem with the child or the pregnancy would put
the mother in danger. Abortion is never part of political campaigns.
They is a sorry and then latershear O sorry. I
may have missed the clues about Clarence Thomas when you
talked about him. Yes, I know these kids, these kinds
of women who turn against other women and will be

(04:40):
in the media like see every woman says that men
are cool and women are the problem. It's an interesting
psycho psychological phenomenon to see yourself as something better than
the others in your group and to think if I
can make it, everyone can. No one needs help. It's
a total lack of empathy. Yes, it is agreed, agreed,
so you get it and after a whilelight like if

(05:00):
you're thinking of some woman that is like that, after
a while it just doesn't It becomes second nature and
you just don't bring it up. So like that's the
thing with Clarence Thomas. He's been around in the American
zeit guy so long, we just don't It's like bringing
up there he's black as who don't know now he's
a black person. That's a white supremacist, at least in

(05:23):
the way that he rules. I don't care what he thinks.
His thinking is for the ultimate effects is the same
thing white supremacists want. Yes, Sir k Can says, I
voted yes and the poll. The poe was, are you
about that life? I voted yes and the poll it
seems to let me vote twice, once before log it
in and once after I logged in. But yeah, I'm
about that life. But it depends not on some dumb

(05:45):
Mickey mouse.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
Shit.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Had to check this guy at the comedy club a
few weeks back because he was intentionally invading my space
by leaning on me every time he laughed. I have
way too much to lose to fuck him up. But
he got those verbal hands, and yes, he was the
only Macedonia macadamia nut in the room, so I guess
he was white. I'm assuming also laughing owned someone at

(06:08):
the comedy club in a pandemic just feels like all
the Nope, AJ says, hey, Rid and Queen Karen, why
didn't get to be King Rod and Queen Careen. I'll
see what you're doing. Ah, great episode is always Karen's
talked about going through school in the South of how
education is really about memorization of facts resonated with me.
I went through the public education system. It was not

(06:29):
a good experience overall. I barely learned anything, and we
were watching full of feature films and multiple classes where
the film shown had little or nothing to do with
the academic subject. Some were movies I did not like.
During those times, I would be reading my book and
not paying any attention to the movie. Even when I
hidh study hall, movies were shown there as well. To escape,
I started working in the attendance office, running passes to

(06:51):
other classes and students. That's interesting because I always looked
at movie time as like a reprieve. But it was
honestly the opposite of learning about a lot of stuff
you know, or it was like the easiest way to
quote unquote learn and movies. Now that I'm an adult,
you just see how much creative license movies take. Like

(07:13):
maybe they teach you a feeling or a vibe, but
they're not always trying to teach you the actually lot
facts of what happened.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
No, and and I guess being down here, I'm not
that funny. I got tired, particularly when it came to
the shit I cared about, which is black history. It
was only doing the shortest most of the year, and
a lot of times. You I can't tell you how
many times that I've seen eyes on the prize like
I'm tired of that shit. I'm like, okay, all right now.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
How many times are I gonna show me this every year?

Speaker 2 (07:42):
It ain't nothing but but maybe six or seven preapproved
negros that we can cover and dak like nobody else existed.
Like for me, it was so boring.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, And movies to me is more like Shindler's List
because like documentaries and stuff I never kind of is
like watching a movie that felt like you still were
learning in class. But when they would come in and
be like, we're gonna watch sound of Music, to me,
I'll be like, yeah, I like this better than what
we were gonna learn. And I'm not sure that that

(08:13):
was good, you know what I mean, Like, it's probably
not good that I was like, oh, I'll take this
entertaining version of something, because well, I'm gonna think out
the song slap when really I should be learning like
the facts of the Holocaust or something. Agreed swavey p
says what a brother Rod and sister k I'm not
trying to be funny, caaring man. Y'all said something when

(08:36):
you mentioned that activist can be an attractive occupation for
a lot of social paths. I believe this to be true.
The high mindedness of some people can consider themselves activists
can be annoying and draining. I once stated of a
girl who ran around in an activist face, and let
me say it was pure hell. At first, she seemed
nice and we hit it off quite well. But let
me slip up and choose, choose the wrong words or

(08:58):
if I pose a different point of view or anything,
and the conversation would go off the rail. She always
had a trump card to pull off, I e. You
hate black women, yep, respectability, the excessive use of words, trauma, problematic,
et cetera. Never once did she consider that she may
be in a minority a lot of her altruistic beliefs.
Accountability was a foreign language to her. As far as

(09:19):
I'm concern. At the weeks of this I realized that
we were there were that there was more going on mentally,
she had bipolar disorder with this person that had to
cut her off completely. It was for the best. Yeah,
I think a lot of times, yeah, these things can
be attractive to these certain professions and stuff can. And

(09:41):
I think activism, especially in the age of social media,
is very attractive to people who are like, I don't
want accountability, but I do want all the attention, and
I want to have this hierarchy of being able to
like embellish all this pain and trauma and shit into
turn it into like now I have a bully pit

(10:02):
pullpit because I have paid No one else's pay matters,
and I get to end I should have sole domination
of the discussion and all this stuff. And I think
that's fucked up, you know what I mean, But also
totally predictable that they would attract a certain type of person,
and you know, having dealt with certain activists and stuff

(10:25):
like that in the past, or just seeing how people
fall out so so easily in these spaces that are
supposed to be about Like it's weird to me to
think that in these spaces which have become like very
proprietary and very like territorial shit in these spaces where
these motherfuckers can't even get along. How the fuck they

(10:47):
think they supposed to like have the solution to solve
all these other problems, like y'all can't even stay friends
like it, And it's and it's like a lot of people,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
The board, You see him fall out online a lot.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah, and it seems like the prioritization because they're human beings,
and I'm not trying to say they shouldn't be humans,
but the prioritization of like me, me, me, me, me
pops up from time to time and it's like, well, unfortunately,
because of social media, we see it all the time,
and it's just easy to just go either A, I

(11:25):
don't care about this shit, so suck it up, because
if you're trying to solve a problem that's bigger than you,
and then you want me to stop at but what
about me, it ain't gonna happen. You know. It's because
it's just the reality of it. I'm not saying it
should be that way, but the vast majority of people
are gonna be like, yeah, I don't care about you
and your friend because you promised me we were gonna

(11:48):
stop I don't know we were gonna stop overturn the
ROADV wait, we're gonna stop that. And instead we got
to hear about how you and her don't talk anymore.
Who gives a fuck? So it's a cold world in
that way. But if you think you know to believe
your house and tell everybody what the solutions are for
the world, yeah, you kind of gotta have an ego.

(12:09):
I don't think it's possible to be an activist without
some level of huge ego to think that you had
to answer. So I'm not knocking this hard to be
a podcast or without some ego. I'm thinking I'm giving
y'all some y'all should have to hear my opinion or
want to hear my opinion. Like ego is attached to
all this shit. It's just can you be honest about it?
And can you have some humility about it and be like, yeah,

(12:31):
the end of the day, I don't get to decide
for other people.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
No, no, you don't. And like you say, when it
comes to certain things, particularly if it's something a greater
cause or a bigger cause than you EPU on the
outside looking in. They don't give a fuck about your squabbles.
They don't care who did what to who, They don't
care about who's not getting along, they won't result. And
if you're not producing them, they just don't care.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah, even when I like when we're doing the podcast,
I think one of the reasons I can listen to
so many shows that I disagree with and I'm not
saying like I'm listening to white supremacist shows something crazy,
but just shows. Well, I'm like, I like these people,
but they don't get down the way I get down
is because I just don't expect it and I can't

(13:19):
be but so injured by something that I'm just like, Yeah,
it's a difference of opinion. They don't have any real power.
They just different opinion than me, and I don't if
I was talking to them face to face, I tell
them I disagree. But at the end of the day,
that's all I got, you know, And I think that's
one of the reasons I were able to absorb so much,
you know, have so much room for people, even when

(13:41):
you know, even when I'm talking about activists, I'm never like,
we don't need activists, and no shit like that. I'm like, no,
they got a job to do. Yes, they do, you know. Anyway,
back to the comment, I also just wanted to point
out I think your feedback episodes offer some of your
best content. If you're listening you tend to skip feedback episodes,
then you're doing yourself a huge disservice. Keep up the
great work, y'all. Yeah, they you know, they don't get

(14:03):
like a ton of less listeners, but they get enough
less listeners that I'm always a little surprised because to me,
you could almost skip the regular episodes and check in
with the feedback to see if you should have listened,
you know, for the week. PS. Roger, you frequently mentioned
during the post that the people on Spotify have money.
Please explain. As far as I know, the music quality

(14:24):
is sub part of other platforms the ghetto, and to
me at least, it seems that most of the people
that use Spotify don't even opt for Spotify Premium. We'll see.
The thing is, we were behind the Spotify paywhill and
we had access to stats that you'll never see, so
we know where the money is. Okay, number one. Number two,
the music quality is so par compared to other platforms.

(14:47):
What you're probably saying is Apple Music, and you're probably
saying it's Title which both do not have our podcast
on them. Apple podcast has our podcast on it. I
don't know about the sound quality of that because it
never comes up. So of the places where people would
spend money and listen to podcasts, it's Spotify. Every other

(15:08):
place is a place where you either listen to podcasts
for free or you spend money, but you don't listen
to podcasts. See what I'm saying. Think about the Vin Digner,
how do how do you broke you justify putting on
a Spotify playlist during sexy times only for a random
ad from zip recruiter to come on and kill the move.

(15:28):
Well that's only if they're not premium. So seem like
you're trying to Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah, it seem like you know, that's that's why you
spend money so you don't have to worry about the commercials.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
Also, is Title only pay? Is Apple Music only pay?
Or do they have some ad versions too? I'm just asking.
I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
I pay for both of them services.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah, I mean I pay for the premium. I got it,
so I'll tell you one thing, Spotify premium. I'm wanted
the premium, So that's how I know they got money.
You know what I'm saying because I'm over there with them.
Uh ew Anyway, just wanted to see if you could
share some context to your claim that they got money.
If you ask me, the real people with money would

(16:06):
be Apple Music users, seeing that there isn't a free
Apple Music option that I know of. Love to show
god Swabi. Yeah, Apple Music people don't have Apple don't
have a podcast on the music app. That's all.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
They separate theirs. They're not in the same thing, right.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
So now you know the poe. Are you about that life? Yes?
Or no?

Speaker 2 (16:28):
Oh no me I'm not about that life.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
Eighty two percent of the audience says they are not
about that life. Eighteen percent say they are about that
life on our page. Now when it comes to Spotify
the niggas with money, are they about that life? Apparently
forty seven percent of them about their life. Wow, what
a drastic difference, because when you got money, you can

(16:53):
afford to be about that life. Apparently, you go to
the hospital you can get you got the good Endshane.
You know what I mean? You could get a gun.
But when you ain't got, when you out here living
on a wing in the press, like I don't know
about that life, everything could go wrong.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
I'm definitely not about that.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
So it's almost fifty to fifty on the damn pole.
It makes sense. Give it up for yourselves was a
comment for the episode. Marvin says, thank y'all so much,
but I wouldn't be nothing without my girl koche Neegra
for helping me do right in this Pandapaloozer Rakesha says, well,
get on your feet, put your hands together, give it
up for the twenty twenty two Librarian of the Year

(17:32):
Brooklyn Shoe babe ay, congrats. Raphael says, thank you, thank you.
You're far too kind of accept the ward on behalf
of me and me, honorble sexy chocolate at your service.
Carlin says, takes about thank you, thank you, thank you,
and Ms Barr says, I always my greatest cheerleader. Hey,
if you ain't gonna be there, whizzel.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
If it ain't nobody else in your chin section, be
your own chance section.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
Right, can't wait on everybody else, You'll be waiting forever.
The next episode is won't he do it? Where we
had our girl Janelle James on the show. Great, great episode,
It was fun comments.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
I went back and was a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
Ms. Barnes says, I was so excited about Janelle coming
back and so excited about all the great success she
richly deserves. This means we are not getting the podcast
anytime soon. Yeah, you in danger girl. Yeah that's a rap. However,
I can only be excited about more Janelle than we
get to see that we get to see on these
TV streets. Shout out to you Roder Karen for these
luxurious guests you're lining up for us. Thank you. Thank

(18:37):
you also forgot the shout out toler for being the
elder statesman of the show with the great advice you
love to see it. Yeah, and she was nominated for
that Emmy, as was a lot of people are abbad
and the next day and so it was cool to
see the next day. You know, she got nominated because
she definitely deserved the written one says, I answered not

(18:57):
at all on the pole. The poe was do you
freak out when you see it's liberty in person? Answer?
Not at all on the poe because the way my
social awkwardness is set up. I'd become the meme of
Homo Selxter disappeared to the bushes. I wait until I
was home by myself to lose it. Rasidjinga says five
stars for all the black excellence. Also shout out to
Janelle James her receiving her first Emmy nomination hashtag black

(19:18):
girl magic. Yeah, it shout out to first because I
would love to see her win many more, I mean
getting nominated at win. Also the Poe results. Do you
freak out when you see a celebrity in person? Yes, intensely, yes,
but only a little or no, not at all? Care Uh, probably.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
No, because a lot of times I don't really be
thinking this a celebrity, or either I don't recognize them,
which is terrible. It happened to me with I Think DMX,
and it also happened to me I think years ago,
was that media play one of the shallow hornets came
in there and I went through the whole transaction that
somebody was like, did you know.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
That was such and suching I was like, oh for live,
I feel Blivia. Yeah, I'm a no, not at all.
I don't like even when I notice celebrity Anthony Hamilton
and Roldwood Junior. And all to me is that, I like,
that's the one thing I'm really not It's not a
joke to me, even though I'm a fan of people

(20:16):
and maybe I just haven't seen the right person, but
I really just see people as humans. And that's not
like some lip server shit that you know a lot
of these podcasts say, and then they go on to
be like, you know, mad at celebrities or staying in
celebrities and shit, I just literally see a lot of people.
It's just people, and I, you know, unless something, I

(20:40):
can't imagine the scenario where it's like they're not just
a human trying to mind their business and probably don't
want me freaking the fuck out in front of them,
because I would imagine that would be a very weird
fucking thing I have to deal with. It's just grown
ass man, like, oh my god. You know anyway, yes,
intently three point four percent, Yes, only a little forty

(21:01):
about forty two percent and not at all fifty five percent,
So the majority of people do not freak out at all.
And I feel like I'm in that. I'm in that majority. Uh.
And then of the pole for the Wow, the pole
is almost it's almost exactly. It's four percent for intently,
forty six percent say only a little, and fifty percent

(21:23):
say not at all on Spotify. So yeah, that's interesting.
And then as far as the Q and A, Janelle
better win an Emmy or we burning Hollywood to the ground.
Michael says, Steve Carrell never won, Janelle better win. Ignatia

(21:44):
says burn baby burn. He says, if we don't burn
it down, nature will take care of itself. But she
got that non woohoo. But I'm still gonna run up
on for Mandy Moore because she was robbed. I tell
you robbed. Keith says burn Hollywood Burn. Bg R s says,
I know this is the corny thing to say, but

(22:04):
I'm super happy she is nominated. However, I do have
matches in my pocket. Ernest says, hey, Siri, play a
Star in the ghetto by average white band. Siattrell says,
damn straight. Ms Barr says she better win or I
got the Ohio players playing five in the background while
I'll light up Hollywood. Katie and says, yes she's back.

(22:26):
Jane says, burn it all down. We're playing public enemies, burn,
Hollywood burn. Janelle is the real MVP teller. I says
that I said so, she is great, and it says
Raphael Chrissy says, facts or is it chrese my bad facts?
Make way? Smart kid coming through. Don't look at him
with your regular IQs Keening says, wait, is it a

(22:49):
bad thing to be the Janelle James foot guy. I'll
let you just start for yourself. Rogers says, burn it down.
How do you see the gas prices? Dorena says, as
Hollywood don't want none of the temples. So proud of
Janelle and all the big things she's up to. Congrats
on that enemy nod. Yeah, you love to see it, man.
And she's always been so gracious and so kind that

(23:11):
you can come on the show right in the first place.
Then we talked to Greg Iwinskey, who was my coworker
and writer on Game Theory. We didn't get comments on
this one, but we did have a Poe the Poet.
Have you ever moved to another city to pursue a dream? Yes? No,

(23:32):
fifty percent, and I moved, but not for a dream
twenty eight percent.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
No, I've never moved like Sue a dream. I've only
time I actually like moved a way to live was
when I went to college and I was like two
and a half.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
I was a way.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
I don't know what it would be or what it
would take to get me to not you for the
actually uproot, because I maybe it's just me. I love
it down South like people say what you want to,
but this is my home.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
I was born and raised here.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
I love it here.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
Where I would be willing to go and how many
zeros and comments I would.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
Have to see to be willing to get me the up.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
Route And then no comments on the Q and A,
which was there is no writer's block, but the episode
Poe was on Spotify. Thirty three percent yes have moved
to pursue a dream, which makes sense that it will
be higher because that's where the money is with the.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
Mother reside with a mother.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
Reside no thirty nine percent, so that's lower. And twenty
eight percent have moved but not for a dream, which
is about almost exact same. So once again, these motherfuckers
got that money.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
How about you, baby, you moved for a dream.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
I haven't moved. I mean I wouldn't. Would you consider
me going to New York for three months moving. I
wouldn't consider it necessarily moving, but uh, like I think
what Greg did was just fucking like brave, courageous, whatever,
Like that's that's the shit you make movies off of,
like telling all your shit, just being like I need
to be in this city to pursue this, and a

(25:10):
lot of times comedians and stuff have that journey, you know,
twenty five sixty two, what fear for their lives really
looks like? We had five comments. Appia says Ride is
right again. The non mr NA vaccine came out here
and it changed nothing. Anti vaxx people stayed anti vacs.
By the way, a mutation doesn't have to be worse

(25:32):
by definition, is just different, can be worse, can be malder.
The new mutation seems to be worse on the lungs,
so that's not great. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm sorry if
that got conflated or whatever. But yeah, we know because
there's been several mutations of the coronavirus that actually literally
were not as bad, and there's been a couple that

(25:55):
people got like very like, oh my god, it's coming.
There's such and such variant. Remember the flu NA, which
is supposed to be a flu coronavirus variant, and it
just either it didn't take off for whatever reason, had
bad public relations. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
Ah, it's people didn't get in front of the story.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah, they found some old racist tweets that flew half.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
And they had had the delete hist post.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
It got canceled. But yeah, ras d Jingis has five
stars with shout out the Big Freeda and Slim Thug
for having a conversation. They had their conversation is what
most of us should do, and we want to learn
more about people. Also shout out the College Hell Celebrity
Edition for highlights. I'm positive. Yeah, the main thing I
kept thinking about is respect. Man, if you come at

(26:40):
something like a topic with respect, and you come at
people with respect and they return it. I think there's
so much beautiful humanity in the fact that, no, we
don't have the black and white, perfect language academic way,
but human beings have been figuring out ways to exist

(27:01):
with each other for so goddamn long, and it's so
fucked up how divisive shit has gotten to where everything
has to be a signal to other people about how
what you really feel, as opposed to being or just
being addicted to like the moral high ground as opposed
to being like I like, maybe this person doesn't have

(27:25):
the perfect words, but I know they had the perfect
love or the perfect intent or whatever. I just you know,
it just feels like that is getting lost. And that
was a beautiful moment, and it's the way that people
liked it really showed me that, Okay, there's a lot
more of us out here than them with the and

(27:46):
not by them, I mean one your hateful people, but
also just your people that disguise their hatefulness as tolerance, right,
you know what I mean. And I think we've all
met those people before. It's like when like when it's
like like this is something and maybe y'all can relate

(28:07):
to y'all understand. But I don't have a big thing
about my name. Is it? Actually? Now it's a running
joke right people right up here, if I start Ron
or whatever the fuck. I don't have a big thing
about my name because I don't. If you mess up,
you make a mistake, it's fine. I more care about
the disrespect if it's on purpose. So if someone thinks

(28:30):
my name is Ron and they call me Ron at
the basketball court, most of the time I don't correct them.
And it's not because I don't respect myself. It's because
I realize it's not that important, you know, to me,
it's just not It doesn't affect my self esteem, the
way I view myself, it doesn't affect the way they
treat me. And most of the time, if it comes

(28:51):
up and I correct them or something, people are very
polite about it. People are fine. I've never had a
situation where someone said, oh, I thought your name was right.
You told me it was Rodrick, and then they go, man,
fuck you bitch'. Then you know, they were like, yeah, okay,
it's Roderick. My bad, sorry about that, and they don't
intend it, and they may fuck up again, they still
don't intend it. To me, the act like that, there's

(29:15):
no difference between that guy and the guy that calls
me motherfucker every day. Is that's what we have fallen into,
is acting like it's all the same and yeah, and
it's like you know, and like I said, it's just
my personal disposition. But I feel like a lot of
times people are trying to make up for someone trying
to compensate for something when they're like, we must control this,

(29:37):
And it's even worse when discussions where we're talking about
gender and sexual identity and stuff, because a lot of
times we're not we're not even talking as the people
who are dealing with the issue. We think we're being
helpful by talking for them, and what we're really trying
to do is show people we're better than the biggest.

(29:59):
But like, that should be your default, nigga, everyone should
be better than the biggest. Like what the fuck? That's
not a compliment, you know what I'm saying, Like, of
course I think it's whack if you fucking are purposely
trying to be harmful the trans people or gay people
or women or whatever, like, of course I should be
better than that. But there's also this thing where it's like, well,

(30:21):
sometimes people make mistakes, sometimes people are learning, Sometimes people
don't know. I don't need to I don't need to
come down on them, right. That's the part that I
think gets lost, is this idea we need to come
down on them as hard as we come down there.
It's like, no, because that's about your ego at that point.
And so to see a conversation where it really had

(30:41):
a nebulous answer, you really didn't have a definitive black
and white moment that felt so much more authentic than
the bullshit did you see out the time? That's like,
you know, this person asked them and said she, but
you know that person goes by they and it's like, yeah,
but you know they didn't mean to. Why are you
treating them like fucking Marjorie Taylor Green because they're not

(31:03):
the same.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
Nope.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
And it's not saying they can't get better. It's just
that coming at them with that level of aggression and
shit is more about.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
You, not them, yep, And it is a turn off.
And everybody does not respond positively to that.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Yeah. So I like that conversation and I hope we
see more of it, and I hope I hope that
becomes more normal and maybe people will get the language
and stuff as they get better at it. But it
takes a while for language and stuff to catch on.
It's almost never instant. Capa Donna says, Macy Gray's not
apologies more confused and garbled than Aquafina's black sent That
was where I dropped the ball. I really meant to

(31:38):
play that clip when she was up there struggling. I know,
I don't know. I meant to play it. I had
it in my head. I thought I played it, But
play it now. You know, I'm open to the conversation.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
I think I think it.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
You know, it's.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
It really is something that I think it's. It's a
little bit multifaceted and layered. And so yeah, yeah, that
she sounded to me.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
But yeah, and to your point, Piers Morgan is the
rustling bob uptight Midland Tories. They're not exactly Macy Gray
fans her press agent should be fired.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
That was the real part to me, was like, cause
I you know, I'm willing to understand you might not
know what you're talking about and you might fuck up.
That's human. You're on Piers Morgan show. That's a lot
harder for me to explain. You see what I'm saying, Like,
it's like the difference between like somebody saying something sexist

(32:48):
or something or something that something inarticulate about women or
something like that. Okay, cool, you know that happens. Maybe
you just need to learn or read or talk to
somebody and then you figure out, oh, I didn't mean
to say that. But if you say that and you're
on the fucking I hate Women's show. It's just harder
to be like, damn, you didn't see that coming, Like

(33:11):
you know, it's more like an intellectual level of disrespect
where it's like you didn't see that coming, Mazie Gray.
Soon as as motherfucker started bringing that topic up, you
didn't realize where you was going with that. So either
A I got I can't respect you because it was
just so stupid, or I or you're complicit and you

(33:33):
really believe those things and you're only apologizing because somebody
got in your ear and told you you was in trouble.
And as with all this shit, actions will tell us mhm,
you know, uh, let's see uh. Classic R and B
lover says Hello, Rod and Carro. I noticed a couple
of months ago to self check out at the BJ
at Costco now has automated system that tells you begin

(33:55):
scanning and take your change, et cetera. Started loud started
loudly saying did you remember understand the items at the
bottom of your cart. It was an annoyance because it
was loud, but I looked at it as a friendly
reminder because I could see someone forgetting something. Once I
saw that TikTok about the dangers of self checkout. I
realized that this change was not meant as a friendly reminder,
but rather as a way to eliminate the easy out
for customers who take things, be it delivered or inadvertently.

(34:19):
Those box stores are looking to prosecute people now and
excuse me, will no longer be tolerated. My question is,
percentage wise, what are the demographics of the areas the
stores that now have the automated message, and oh what
areas would would Will those stores be more likely to
prosecute offenders? Although it might take more time to get

(34:40):
this data, Yeah, if that's yeah, Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know. We'll find out. I guess. I feel
like I do wonder how much so conspiracy had. I
do wonder if that's a real issue where a lot
of people are facing that, or if that's TikTok like

(35:01):
things she just kind of knew would get a lot
of people's attention. Everybody would be scared about it, but
ultimately it's not really happening a lot. I just wonder,
because I don't know these school these a lot of
these stores have overhead and shit, and they you know,
have it built in that there will be a certain
amount of theft and stuff. And I haven't heard of
anyone anecdotally, you know, I haven't seen it go viral

(35:23):
something where someone's like, I'm going to prison. They they
said I had gatorade under my cart and they you know,
so I don't. I wonder because TikTok is good for
shit like that.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
You make it something that's like one to two, like
it happens consistently and all the time, and a.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
Little bit of research finds out that it's not exactly
what they were talking about, but it's down to scary
enough to go viral. Uh. Do you worry about being
accused of stealing from self checkout? Yes, even though I
don't steal, Yes because I do be stealing, or no,
m m no. Thirty two percent said no. The highest
was fifty eight percent saying yes even though I don't steal. Uh,

(36:05):
And then yes because I do be stealing was about
ten percent. Let's check the people with money, pole, Yes,
even though I don't steal forty five percent. See they
got money, They're not that worried about it. They can
afford it if they even if they get sued, they
can pay. Yes, because I do be stealing ten percent
and no forty five percent, so the percentages kind of

(36:28):
line up with the money havers, I get it, and
then the.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
Q and as and do be stilling? Be safe out
there in them streets they fuck around to get prosecuted.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Q and A. Stop taking picks on the wrong side
of volcanoes. Yes, please, please please don't go them mounts
in the cording off area. Think you doing something, Ignacio says,
White folks man. Carly says, thanks for the remainder. Keith says,

(36:56):
but that's the only way to get them fire picks. Yeah,
high like lava. Raphael says, what if this? What if
it's the volcano that refuses to stay on the right side?
After all, I'm too sexy for this heat, too sexy
for this lava, so too sexy and must have myselfie

(37:17):
now uh ms. Bond says, this story can be a
free square guess to race. Why a white people so hardheaded?
The entitlement is unreal? Renee says, is.

Speaker 4 (37:27):
There a right side?

Speaker 1 (37:28):
Apparently we know there's a wrong side. This nigga feeling
the volcano least says, I wish that they would accuse
me of stealing. I have heard of several people winning
large settlements after being wrongly accused of stealing. Also, I
don't trust TikTok lawyers, so at least on the same
ship we are. And Rachel says, I stay on the
right side of them bitches thousands of miles away staring

(37:50):
in the volcanoes is some white folks. Shit. I feel
you valid, valid point. Let me see if we had
any voicemails. No voicemails this week, which means we can get.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
You want to leave us a voicemail, you can at
seven O four five five seven zero one eight six.
That number again is seven O four five five seven
zero one eight six.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
All right, so yes, it's always in the show notes.
Let's get to the emails. He did get several of those.
This is from Katrina, who says, Hi, roight, I'm listening
to your response to regarding Kate's email, which tried to
clarify that CIS HAD wasn't inclusive of all CIS women.
Of course, you are correct in what you said specifically

(38:36):
targeted CIS HAD women, and I was praised dancing when
I heard you get granular with it and say these
white patriarchs specifically want to control the bodies of white
cis had women because it is their bodies that are
the engine of white supremacy. I'm saying that as an
academic and a person who knows American brand of patriarchy
quite well. Oh all right, I got the academic backing

(38:58):
on that one. Uh huh. A couple of weeks ago,
immediately after the life altered the Scot's decision, I made
a TikTok that succinctly explained why this decision was really
about getting white women back into the patriarchal fold. No dancing,
I promise it's at the bottom of this email. Of course,
black women and other women of color are affected by this,
but American white women. American white supremacy has always had

(39:19):
a way to control our advancement. Between the terrible maternal
mortality rate for black women, lack of funding for early
ED programs, stripping public school funding, and feeding is to
the private into the private prison industrial complex, straight up
hunting and shooting us. Jerry Mander and I rote away.
Along with and other forms of racism, they have the

(39:40):
means to mitigate black people's population growth. They've been building
up that interlocking system of control for over a century.
But without white women's participation, even coerce, white patriarchy cannot
be made glorious in their odds. It's the numbers that
twenty forty five prediction of falling falling white population below
fifty percent has got the white patriarchy shook. Have been

(40:03):
for a long while. This is them calling in their women,
but everyone else gets caught up in the net. And
then she linked to the TikTok video. I'll see if
I can put it on screen.

Speaker 3 (40:15):
I believe that I believe that really had them shook.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
Yeah, Okay, So I want to.

Speaker 4 (40:20):
Be clear not using the word fault, but what I'm
saying is that the target.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
Okay, oh, so it says, can you explain why is
white women's fault? I mean, I'm sure it is, but
like how exactly I guess talking about Roe v Wade.

Speaker 4 (40:35):
Of these overturning the abortion laws are not guaranteeing it
in all of the United States. He's directed at white
women because of white supremacy.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
Hear me out.

Speaker 4 (40:48):
White people are projected by the census to be a
minority by twenty forty five, meaning their numbers will fall
below fifty percent, and the Republican right has been in
christ like ever since then. White women's bodies are the
engines of white supremacy. They are the engines of white

(41:09):
supremacy because they produce the white people. White supremacy has
also made whiteness so narrowly defined that obviously only white
women having their white babies will do so, although technically
the rate of abortions is higher among black women in

(41:31):
the United States, according to the CDC's there are more
white women by pure numbers. White people are losing white people. Literally,
the minorities are growing at a faster rate than the
white population has been growing. This entire thing is about

(41:52):
shoring up white power, and white women have been a
very key part of white supremacy all along, whether they
want to accept that or not. Without white women's bodies,
white masculinity, white patriarchy can't really get as far or
be as productive as it needs toss gender, straight or

(42:13):
straight men in general depend on women's bodies in order
to know themselves. They are taught this way that they
need women in order to fully realize themselves as men,
and so the white population in the United States cannot
fully realize itself without white women. Women having these white babies.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Yeah, there you go, she said it. That's what I
was trying to say. Like I said, I think most
people understood it. We only got that one email about it,
and then even when we talked about it, knowing in
the chat was like, I don't understand, like, and then
to take it even further, I think cutting off the
I think you could train us for wright men and

(42:53):
adult TikTok. It does follow the trend of attractive people
telling us stuff you read books, uh, stuff that stuff
we should be reading. But it's just like I need
a person, I need a man with an eight pac
ad to tell me the same thing. Anyway, I like it.
It follows the trend. But what I think is interesting

(43:15):
there is cutting off the welfare services and stuff that
makes a lot of sense. And it wasn't really till
you just said that. It made me think about this.
But if you cut off the assistance in addition to
the racial aspect of it, right, that's what all of
us go to immediately is oh, they don't want black

(43:35):
kids and immigrants stuff. It also means white women, if
you want help, you need to attach yourself to a
white man. So you want help, taking care of that baby,
come home, come all the way home. If like anything other,
if you wanted to use the government or allow on
your job, no, we're gonna make it punitive as fuck.
But if you just come on back to the home

(43:56):
to the crib, the white man will take care of
you and your baby, and we'll continue to create and
produce these white children. That seems to be the ultimate plan.
And yeah, that's what it makes sense.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
And it wouldn't and I might be wrong, and I'm
gonna put on my controversy had of what Third Eye had,
whatever you want to say it. It would not be
surprising if a lot of this pushed to a lot
I mean, because like I said, this Roby Wade was
stuff that they have been preparing for years. But it
would not surprise me if the pandemic sped the process up,

(44:30):
because yeah, I think white people would drop like flies
all across this country with this pandemic and them, you know,
refusing to wear masks and all that stuff, like the
white populace here.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
So the only thing with that is because it went
through the courts and it was being challenged the whole time,
and it was a combination of a fifty year process.
I don't know that it sped up the process, you
see what I'm saying, because it seemed to be an
all ready thing, not that you shouldn't get the Yeah

(45:07):
it's it's wit go ahead. I'm sorry, I'm gonna say it.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
Ain't it a co wit sudence?

Speaker 5 (45:19):
Yeah, that the coronavirus is wiping out these white folks
in DNA, Like you know what, We're gonna pass this
bill so these white women can keep having these babies because.

Speaker 1 (45:31):
We like it's definitely some third ship the problem. So that,
like I said, the real problem with the conspiracy theory
is that what when this really took place with twenty sixteen, Okay,
because that was when Trump runs. Yeah, that's way before coronavirus.
That's when Trump won. That's how they got the judges.
And a lot of these cases happened under Trump, but

(45:54):
before the pandemic, like to bring these to court. But
but either way, like you know, yeah, either way, it's
still fucked up. There was something else I was gonna say, Oh,
with all this equality, with all these opportunities in America,

(46:16):
even with it being a sexist, misogynistic country, white women
are still the most prepared to benefit from all these policies,
whether it be affirmative action, whether it be paywage equality,
whether it be you know, the welfare state is still

(46:37):
a white woman will benefit more than almost any other demographic,
more than black men, more than black women, more than anybody.
So when you think of it that way, they have
been positioned because after the feminisms like Wave or whatever,
the seventies and sixties, they've been positioned to gain the most.

(46:58):
So that is a implicit threat to whiteness. White women
have a choice, white women being free to marry who
they want, to be gay, to leave home, to be single,
to have children later in life. They benefit the most
from that, from choice and power and money and access.

(47:20):
And so of course whiteness is like, we need a
reaction to this. We can't allow that to infester. We
can't allow that to happen. So the second we can
make them come back home, we're gonna do it. And
that's what they're doing right now. Arby's and Old Spies,
Scott says, have you seen the advertisement that combine Arbis
and old spies anti antiperson, anti anti persperate. The concept

(47:43):
for the ad is that old spies can protect you
from the meat sweats that you get from eating a
huge Rvy's roast beef sandwich. After watching the ad, I
was confused. The image of a tiny Isaiah Mustafa climbing
a wall of Arvey's meat is disturbing. The ad makes
Rvy seem even less appetizing. Their product is clearly the
butt of the joke in the spot that Old Spice
marketing team managed to completely food of management at Arby's.

(48:07):
What's going on here? All right? Let me see, I
haven't seen this commercial. Normally, whenever Rvy's commercial come on,
I just turned my TV off.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
But of us have not seen this one.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
Okay, beef piled high with migswats. Who said that old
spice meat sweat defense defense against the meat sweats. It's
very literal. Get out of this. I'm on a Horsey sauce.

(48:41):
RB's we have the defense. Yeah, the common makes no sense.
You can do that when your job isn't to sell sandwiches.
When you're front for a drug operation, you do a
lot of things that don't make sense, like commercials that

(49:02):
say your product makes people smell bad and have sweats
and you're gonna need to get deodorant after eating this food.
Nobody else has that fucking advertising. You know. That's like
Taco Bell doing a cross promotion with Charman, but they
don't sell food. They sell drugs with food as a front.

(49:26):
Boden running for re election? This is from Kyle hey
Rod and another question that I love for you to
discussed on the show if you haven't already, maybe I
missed it. Should Biden run for re election or is
he too old? Should he step aside for someone like
Kamala or Gavin Newsom. I'm personally torn on this and
just can't decide what I think is best. A New
York Times colonist argues he's too old, and New York

(49:48):
Times he printing anything, But then many of the commenters
make good counterpoints. Hope all's well with you, best Wisious Kyle.
Here's the thing, he probably was too old to run
for president the first time, right, But I mean if
you're talking about in the way that people are measuring
this age thing, and by which I mean like they were,

(50:08):
it was like we younger candidates should be the ones
to win. The thing is for me, you should run
if you can.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
Win, right if you want it, beat them?

Speaker 1 (50:19):
And I don't understand this idea of like moving out
the way because in what they think moving out the
way means. And this is just the problem with a
lot of liberal thinking online. They think there's a mandate
for democratic people and liberal people to win. They think
progressive values are gonna win out everywhere, and we'll obviously

(50:41):
will get a progressive utopia if it just wasn't for
these damn moderate Democrats running for office. And my personal
belief is if those moderate Democrats weren't running, they just
be Republicans winning those spots. In a lot of cases,
it's the elaborating a second, but I mean a better

(51:04):
another example in a second, But it's just to me,
that's what's obvious. The other thing is is if it
does feel ages, I'm not. I'm not. I never understand
the agism thing, like when are we supposed to do that?

Speaker 2 (51:16):
Right?

Speaker 1 (51:16):
Cause, like it's supposed to be a thing you don't do,
it's frowned upon, it's fucked up. But whenever it comes
to president or political office, especially with Democrats almost never Republicans,
it turns into like there's a certain age where you
just supposed to step down, right, and then the next
Democrat up who we like more for some reason will

(51:37):
always just step into the shoes and completely do a great.

Speaker 3 (51:41):
Until they get too old.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
Kiss my ass, take it from it.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
Yeah. And I feel like if you earn your spot,
and you can win your spot, and you can defend
your spot, that's your spot. Somebody got come get.

Speaker 3 (51:52):
It, Come get it.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
You have primaries for a reason. I'm not. I'm not
anti primary. Like when people say I want to primary somebody.
I mean there's times where I think it's a bad idea,
or you probably won't be successful, or you know, it's
a waste of time or something. But I'm never gonna
be like, you can't do it. That's the system. And
if you don't beat them, then hopefully you shut the

(52:13):
fuck up and jump and sit in line when it's
time and don't just throw a tantrum and try to
just throw the whole party into shambles because you didn't
get your way. But I don't mind primary everybody. I
don't give a fuck, you know what I mean? Like
that that's your thing.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
And my thing is beat them. Come up with your
ideas and see how the motherfuckers do.

Speaker 3 (52:33):
Since you got out of answers.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
Yeah, I'm cool with that, like not threaten right out.
So the thing, the example I was gonna make is
I was asking Twitter just a general question, which is,
why don't progress this run from manching in cinema seats?
Like they always talking about primary Democrats that already are
doing a good job. So you have an issue with

(52:58):
manching in cinema and your solution is the primary other
Democrats who already vote the way you want them to vote.
Tell me the math logic there. I just want to
understand because you're telling me the people the problem with
the Democratic Party are the ninety six percent of people

(53:18):
that already vote in the way you would like them to.
And we're still gonna have the same issue if you
get your way, which is okay, Cool, you just got
a bunch of Democrats replaced by even more left leaning Democrats. Cool,
love it awesome. I'm with that. Shit, what are we

(53:38):
gonna do about mentioning the cinema because they're still gonna
have all the power, right because you not, you're not
trying to compete against Republicans, right, They like, you don't
really see these very liberal progressive people saying we're gonna
go to a Republican district and fight that person for
the battle to take the seat. They only want to
fight the battles where Democrats have already done a whole

(54:00):
whole lot of the groundwork right, and they're like, can
we just push you a little bit more left? And
it's like, that's cool, but we still won't have the
numbers to pass the big legislation you keep saying you want,
So why aren't you going after Republican seats? And I
just mean this mathematically, not on the emotional level that
so many people are gonna get on because they're mad
at progressives and they want to like yell at them

(54:20):
to be like to do something impossible. That's not my deal.
This isn't like when people say, how come Black Lives
Matter don't protest at the Trump rally. I don't. I'm
not even going for the theatrics that I'm asking a
actual question, why aren't they doing that? And if your
answer is a very obvious answer, which I think most
people would say, because they can't win there, right, If

(54:43):
that is your answer, then you're already admitting there's a
limit to the socialist, liberal, progressive politics of the left.
You're admitting it. It is not a winner everywhere. And
it brings me back to the fucking thing I've been
saying the whole time when we go back to like
defund and stuff like that, when I said, well, defund's
not gonna work in South Carolina and people were like,

(55:05):
you know, basically you're a sell out for saying that,
But you're also admitting that there are places where the
liberal progressive shit runs out and people don't want it.
Not there's not a trap or treat. The voters don't
like those ideas. If either you got to put in
more groundwork and you gotta and you gotta win to

(55:26):
win it that way, or you gotta admit, okay, we
can't win there. What can we win? Right? If it's
that cynical, then why do you think progressives will be
the only people doing that math? People that are Democrats
are doing that math too, Blue just your moderates are
doing that math too. Where can I win is where
people are running. So I think that's what's getting lost.

(55:46):
That being said, back to your big picture thing with
Joe Biden. I don't think I've ever seen an article
about Trump being too old, right. I don't think I've
ever seen an argule about Trump being too old. Dog.
It's crazy the standards that we put on the Democrats
compared to the Republicans. It's so weird. And I don't

(56:13):
know why is this accepted to be that way. Yeah,
you know, if you don't want to be president because
he's too old, that's fine, But that just I've never
seen Donald Trump is seventy six, Joe Biden seventy seven.
At the time, it's victory. I don't know how they are,

(56:34):
you know, I was tweet, so I guess two years
older for both of them. You just don't hear You
just don't hear this for that side, and it's very
interesting to see it that way.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
So Nope, because on the Republican side, they've had biggotings
in and the House and the Senate that have down
here been eight and ninety something years old. They held them,
some of them held them positions till their mother fucking died.
And one time was any article wrote wrote about these
fucking racist talk about they had too motherfucking old.

Speaker 1 (57:06):
And also like a lot of the Russian propaganda that
was trying to make him seem older than he even is,
like showing every stutter sometimes even falsifying things out of
order to make there was a There was one going
around last week when he gave the Medal of Honor
to a couple of people. Someone photoshopped it to make

(57:26):
it look like he put the metal on backwards, and
there were people sharing it like it was real because
they want to believe he's an old feeble see now
man and and all this shit. And I hate to
see people on our side buying to that shit, even
with jokes, cuz that shit has a real impact and
the fact that it's not true should bother us, you

(57:47):
know what I mean? You know, him falling on his
bike because his thing got stuck in the goddamn peloton
thing like so many other people, and then later he
gets up and like does a hop. We spend so
much time making fun of that that we kind of
buy into and help spread that fucking agenda that Yo,
he just needs to step down. It's like, you know

(58:08):
what I'm afraid of he steps down, Kamala Harris sees
him and then loses.

Speaker 2 (58:14):
Right.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
You know what I'm saying. I don't want that to happen.
I'm gonna vote for Kamala Harris happily, but I don't
trust white people. Nope, and misogyny. Yeah, I don't trust
a lot of people. Joe Biden is kind of running
full back for Kamala Harris right now. He's a white
dude that can take the beating of being unpopular in
a way that she never would be able to because
and not because she personally can't, but because we wouldn't

(58:37):
let it happen. We would fold on her to be
like this. She just why we don't need a black
woman as president? That kind of shit, Yes.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
And it's the same shit that made me mad because
uh and uh, I know we talked about this before,
but when the field was open and it was time
for everybody to come up and run against Joe Biden,
she was in there, and you know what, you said
everything about her and called her all the things and
then call her cop maler and came up with all

(59:04):
these motherfucking excuses you did not support her. But the
motherfucking second she was like vice president. Everybody comes out
with their race, bitch. She had a chance to be
first place. You were more excited about second place. And
so it's like, why would you think if you was
if it.

Speaker 1 (59:22):
Was to step down?

Speaker 3 (59:22):
She was a step up.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
Did you want to support her? You wouldn't you?

Speaker 3 (59:25):
And whatnot?

Speaker 1 (59:26):
Like people was crying on election night, and I just
kept thinking, like, you know, it was a momentous moment,
but it was a moment that was bittersweet than me
because I said she could have been fucking president, right,
you know what I mean as far as like she could,
like she was qualified and everything we loved about her

(59:47):
we loved until the second she ran for president. And
it's sad. And I saw so many people fall for it,
and I loki stopped fucking with them people like because
I was just like, oh that's sad. I don't give
a fuck with your black woman. If you was anti
Kamala Harris, I was like, yeah, you are so fully
in with the Russia, like woke, fucking like propaganda shit,

(01:00:10):
where we gotta hate this black woman you so fully in.
It's sad. I went and listen to so many resources
to actually get the details on her record and those
cases that people were pointing out to be like this
is what she fucked up and get the full context
and see that, Oh man, this is sad as shit.
And I still remember this one podcast. So these two
dudes that was super anti Kamala going viral. They lived

(01:00:33):
in the area of California that I think she made
at first originally hell from or just they lived in California,
and they made a big deal out of hating Kamala Harrison.
They supposed to be pro black women all this shit,
and those dudes were like, she need to be accountable,
she need to do this. I ain't voting for I
don't give a fuck. Those dudes had a weird sex

(01:00:56):
scandal shit that happened with they podcast No account Ability,
And I said, oh, that's interesting. When it was your turn,
you know, back to that activism attracted sociopaths when it
was your turn to be accountable, you couldn't do it
when it was your turn to practice restorative justice, and
it got inconvenient. It was just like, well, I guess

(01:01:18):
this dude just gets to be a rapist. And it's like, Okay,
that's interesting because Kama would have locked your ass up,
and that's what and maybe that's what we need, because
if you can just opt out of the motherfucking justice,
is it really justice? You know what I mean? I
remember thinking that listen to that show and thinking of
all the criticisms they had about that woman. So yeah, man,

(01:01:40):
people just be saying anything and it definitely hurt Kamala
in the long run. But yeah, if she would have run,
I don't I think it would just come right back.
I don't think people would be like, we learned our lesson,
she can be president. They'd be like nine something about
this means we should vote Trump or not voted offer correct.

(01:02:00):
So let's say it's high Rod and Karen. This week's
been something. I was so happy to hear Janelle James
again on the podcast Sorry for a Current Success. She
is so funny. The show is amazing being ful Philly.
The references hit different, especially since I did go to
an underresourced school in the poor neighborhood, but that really
did have dedicated teachers, etc. With the wonderful Cheryl Lee Ralph.

(01:02:22):
She is married to a local state senator who is
the real deal and has tried to fight the good
fight for the years here with COVID News. I wonder
what is to come with the BA five variant and
the response from the public and the government will be.
In the US, I'm sure, just like before, it would
be varied based on the political affiliation, race, etc. What
you both said in one of the episodes this week

(01:02:44):
is so true. I think it's so true. And that
is really is people their choices and what information they
want to accept to act upon. And one reason I
know it's a human thing is that it really is global.
Even in very authoritarian countries you don't even see uniform
mask wearing. Yes, places like China can enforce lockdown, but
even with that, there's been some pushback, which is astonishing,

(01:03:09):
even when it's for our own good. People just don't
like being made to do things. It's amazing humans have
survived this long. Actually, the other thing that is irritating
and furiating from those who never wanted to take the
vaccine or do any of those other steps, are almost
gleeful that the vaccine is losing some efficacy, at least
as far as stopping infection and illness. But now the

(01:03:29):
only thing that probably would change that is if we
encounter our variant that just kills people pretty quickly. That's
the only way we could get lockdowns and total mandates.
As long as it's about to be the same level
of severity, I don't see much changing.

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
And you know, and what's so fucked up, and it's
sad to say, but even if we was to have
it come back and people say down here in the States,
I could still see some states going fuck it, don't win.
No masks just drop like flies because everybody is like,
I got back to normal, audiata action free, coronavirus, don't exist, jobs,

(01:04:05):
open it up. Everybody doing never the way the fuck
they want to do, so they like, well, drop dead,
drop dead.

Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
The main thing you pointed out that I just think
people are missing is that it's worldwide. Everyone in America
thinks it's some type of uniquely American problem. And I'm
not saying America is not, you know that worse on
some things than others. But this shit is rising around
the globe again. This variant is kicking everybody's ass, and

(01:04:33):
people just go, this is why we just need a
mask man date or whatever. It's like no other country
has been able to successfully stem the tide of this
particular variant, and I don't know that there's the willpower
around the world even to go back to masking unless
you come from a culture that was masking before COVID, right,

(01:04:55):
So I mean that's sad because I don't want to
feel hopeless like that. But yeah, I don't even get
mad about it because it's like the administration has advised
people to go back to wearing masks. The CDC and
the FDA of the CDC has the airline travel people
trying to bring it back. People ain't doing it. A
few words about the road decision. Where are all the

(01:05:17):
white women activists in the streets. Where are all the
progressives leading a mass movement of civil disobedience to force
politicians to do something right? They are waiting for black,
brown indigens and Asian women to do to organize the
form again.

Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
VB.

Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
Harris has been NonStop on the ground having means, pulling
together policies and action to try to mitigate the harm.
I know she really took the lead on a lot
of the federal action. And it really insenss me to
see people say the federal government is doing quote unquote nothing,
And I know that it's a lot of just chicking

(01:05:50):
little skuys falling people hanging out online all day in
these silos, But god damn man, like you could possibly
read something. It's right there. It's not like I'm fucking
a policy wonk. I'm not you know, researching this shit.
I just see it floating down my timeline like anything else.

(01:06:11):
It's Kamala Harris met with all the governors of this
If Kamala Harris is meeting with all the ags and
getting them the promise not to prosecutor.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
It's not a white man.

Speaker 3 (01:06:21):
So they just ignore the shit like the shit not happening.

Speaker 1 (01:06:24):
Man. This is crazy. People keep not giving her credit
or lying on her. If you look at some of
the phaves of the progressive left, they're doing the same
thing they did before. Talk a lot of yin yang,
but don't come up with actionable plans. This list of
what people want to hear. I know that is infuriating,
baying of my existence. Q. They trying to steal the
election music. I hear what you're saying that there isn't

(01:06:46):
anything new for those of us who saw it in
real time what was happening, and accessed it accurately, accurately.
I find it interesting in a depressing way that even
with the good job they're doing, most white people default
setting in this country is to never hold the other
accountable for any wrongdoing. I too, will wait and see
if the DJ will ultimately even attempt to hold the
major players accountable by charging them, and what the response

(01:07:09):
will be. Listen, I will be happy if they charge
some of the current Congress, Senators, governors, and local reps
so that they can't hold office here in Pa. The
knock the coup that is running for a governor as
a whole ass insurrectionist and he is still poland high.
Anything outside of Philly and Pittsburgh is basically clan country.
Many people don't know that PA has one of the

(01:07:29):
highest numbers of militia and supremacists in the country. There
are two cities and some surrounding counties that are blue.
Everything else is dark red. And Fetterman's dumb ass should
drop out and let Connor Lamb who came in second
take his place. That man is a post stroke and
has commercials running, but we haven't seen him. We cannot

(01:07:49):
have doctor Oz and the Senate here. He doesn't even
live in PA's ridiculous. Oh damn, I don't know anything
about that, you say earlier. Yeah, I guess I'm not
saying people shouldn't watch it, but I'm not watching the
the jor six hearings. I'm hearing some of the highlights

(01:08:10):
I will say the secret Service thing that was new
to me. I didn't know that, didn't expect that. Can't
say I'm shocked necessarily, but that is a twist I
didn't see coming. I hope they subpoena those fucking texting
I can't wait to see what's in the motherfuckers anyway.
Do you ever plan on bringing back reading Rainbow? I

(01:08:32):
had a book, have a few book recommendations Head the
McGee's and some of us cal Anderson, The Second Race
and Guns and a Fatally Unequal America, Sweet Summer Baby
More bb Moore Campbell a little lighter, but a nice
memoir that's a little older about the experiences growing up
in Philly and going down south with a dad for
the summers. Parable The Soul Octavia Bucket, Butler Faces at
the Bottom of the Well, Derek Bell, have a good weekend,

(01:08:54):
have a good week thank you. And not right now.
I haven't been reading that much. I've been reading a
lot of comic book but I haven't been reading a
lot of pros and I don't know when it'll start back.
It's like I lost that when the pandemic started, and
I just haven't had the willpower to come back to
reading anyway. Don't play around with the RONA, sit down

(01:09:17):
and rest. This is from Gath who says, hey, Rod
and karens are in advanced I'm a little long winded.
I'm listening to episode twenty five to sixty two and
y'all were talking about pushing yourselves with long COVID. I
caught the RONA earlier this week this year because of the
university I worked for A got tired of hearing kids
complaining about wearing masks and said we couldn't force them
to wear them in the classroom anymore. The school said

(01:09:38):
that we are low risk for infection that spread according
to the CDC guidelines at the time, they said we
could drop the masking rules. But that ignores the fact
that just a few weeks earlier, Mississippi passed the law
said if you knowingly infect someone with COVID, you paid
them a five to five K Immediately after that was passed,
testing rates plummeted in the state, and since testing it's

(01:10:00):
so low, cases were all so low because if you
don't know if you had COVID or not, you can't
be liable and have to pay that fine. We weren't
low risk. We just weren't didn't have tested happening, so
the school drops the mandate. They sent the students an
email telling them they didn't have to wear any mask.
We faculty and staff didn't get the email to the
next day, so I walked into them my morning class.

(01:10:20):
I asked my kids to put their mask on. They
were like, we don't have to do that anymore. At
the one day in class, the students and a few
of them coming into my office all up in my
space to chat. I wasn't allowed to ask them to
put on masks in my office, and that evening, I'm
having feverish chills. So I know, I'm happy to announce
that I've left that school and I'm out of Mississippi.
I'm not working at a different one that is taking
COVID and employee health well being much more seriously. Anyway,

(01:10:43):
back to that the old school, I hadn't been working
there that long, and I already used my pitiful three
day sick days to go to an interview that landed
me my new job. So I got sick, and no
one else at that school could teach my classes because
I was the only person in my field at that school.
They told me I had to teach SI remotely and
complete all my other work or not get paid. At
that point, I didn't have a choice because a lot

(01:11:06):
of those COVID protections were gone and not renewed, so
when they dropped the mandate, I couldn't request to teach online,
and our campus didn't have classrooms large enough to social
distance for my course. Even if we did, the university
didn't have to do it. I was so exhausted. It
doesn't surprise me that if I had rested like I
should have done, I might not have been wrestled with

(01:11:26):
long COVID so severely. I had sharp pains in my chest,
trouble bleathing, joint pains, and my doctor just said, you
gotta wait this out. Waiting it out was over three
months of breathing problems and still have joint pain I
didn't have before. I try not to think about if
it was worth it or not, but I couldn't afford
to lose the nearly three weeks of pay. That's how
long I was tested positive for Goddamn. But I just

(01:11:46):
wanted to share my story and say to everyone else, please,
if you can't rest as much as you can while
you're dealing with COVID. Drink water, sleep a lot, and
eat well. I love y'all's podcast. I'm glad I'm at
a place I can listen more consistently. Again, y'all always
keeping it real. Both love you, but to keep nice
gath Wow, sorry about that or dem right?

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
And these mass mandates matter, particularly when you talk about
that universities and schools where.

Speaker 3 (01:12:13):
A lot of these places don't have good ventilation.

Speaker 2 (01:12:16):
You know, a lot of them may it may depend
on where you're a may or may not have windows
it open and things like that. Like it is a
lot in these environments, and you are putting a lot
of the staff and positions that they may not want
to be in.

Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
That was interesting, the whole fine thing having the opposite
effect though maybe the intended effect right, maybe the intended right, Well,
well I just want to get tested then, and then
the state can say, hey, look we got low COVID levels,
when really it's just people trying to avoid that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
Fine wow, yeah, because then you hold the people accountable,
and nobody wants to be accountable.

Speaker 3 (01:12:51):
Everybody wants to just do.

Speaker 2 (01:12:52):
What they want to do and be like, oh, well
you just caught it from me, but I don't give
a fuck.

Speaker 1 (01:12:55):
Last one, the infamous Miss Barnes right said, I would
like to speak to the villain. Please, good afternoon, Karen,
and the villain known as rodermus Prime. I only have
a simple request. Please leave the Arby's around the corner
from me alone. You have to smirch my lovely Arbies
in ways that are just uncalled for. First, I started

(01:13:20):
with the non descript thank you bags instead of the
Arvey's logo bags. Then when I wanted dinner, I see
a piece of copy paper at the drive through that
says they closed at two pm that day it was
five and I wanted dinner. Well one, this just sounds
like what happened. Hold on, let's they can't get out
of system.

Speaker 3 (01:13:39):
Then I say, I'm interrupted.

Speaker 1 (01:13:43):
Year Do you think you got it? So one? No
one them telling give you thank you bags like what
you put in a forty inn and shit that just
tells you the quality of food, or putting that in
quotes that they're selling out of there, that they give

(01:14:05):
me the same thing you put a mad fit of
mad dog in or some shit. And then the other
part of it is that they're closing at two pm.
They're closing the food side, not the drug side. You
can still go in there and get your key of cocaine.
But what was really agreed was when they did go
for dinner days later and was told they ran out

(01:14:25):
of roast beef, and I thought, of you, Rod, this
is your doing. I lay this at your doorstut. Well,
they probably only taste selling one sandwich for a reason,
run out of roast beef because.

Speaker 3 (01:14:35):
They probably got what.

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
They probably got one roast or the roast beef and
once that's gone, that's it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:39):
Well, they probably don't even keep it in stock because
they're not ordering roast beef re ups because ain't nobody
supposed to be eating it? Nobody else run out of
the main product. You never know McDonald's that ran out
of burgers even in the pandemic. The only way you
do that is if that's not your main product. If
burgers isn't what you sell. Now, if you went inside

(01:15:00):
and said, are y'all out of heroin, they would laugh
at you and be like, bitch, will never out of heroin?
A nigga, we do it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:08):
Were selling heroin every day.

Speaker 1 (01:15:10):
Just go around back and ask for a number seventeen
and make sure you have the money. Not even Megatron
does shit like this, sir. This is the work of Nemesis.
Prime just saying please leave my army's alone as it
is innocent. I don't even know why you blame me
for this. I would never touch you.

Speaker 2 (01:15:30):
The reason for it the shortage, apparently black Man.

Speaker 1 (01:15:33):
Blame push your t and as this past week we
celebrate Prime's Day, do you do this, villainy Rod? For
the record, selling out roast beef means that they are
moving product. It means they didn't order any product. You
know what, Rose, Well, you know how Arvey's over to
roast beef the same way you do. They go up
to Public's Deli and they be like, let me get
three slices of roast beef. That's all it's gonna take

(01:15:55):
for the whole day because no one eats this shit.
Thank you, and I love you can like I love
seafood to Rod, I love you like I love Cilantro.
Take care of Miss Barns.

Speaker 3 (01:16:05):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:16:06):
As long as you don't love us like you love Arby's,
I'm fine. Nobody want to be a part of that sick, demented,
nasty just blasphemy. All right, all right, y'all, that's it.
We'll talk to y'all next week, I mean Sunday. Until
next time, I love you, yeah,