3175: Convincing Your Mate to Go Premium

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I listened to the black Guy Who Tips because Rod
and Karen are hot.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hey, welcome to another episode of the Blackout Tips podcast.
I'm your host Rod, joined us by our co host Karen,
and we're here to make you dance, make you shake
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It was. It just felt the sleek towards the last hour, water.

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Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah. So for those of you that are premium, particularly
the people that paid the whole fifteen y'all about to
get about five hours podcasting once chopped this up plus
this feedback show.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Absolutely, and I just wanted to point that out, man,
cause like, uh yeah, you will never get cheated out
of your fifteen dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
You will not.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
And the just the Tippers is five dollars on Patreon
and they don't get cheated either. They get access to
but all right, anyway.

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Yeah, we do more from from one from one of
our shows that some people give you all week for
their show show for the right for their regular ass
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Speaker 2 (01:38):
Patreon that y'all paid for right anyway, So anyway, I'm
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is what I'm saying. If my energy depths a little bit,
it's just only because we've been up since eight and
we've been podcast for five hours and now we're about
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Speaker 1 (02:04):
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Speaker 2 (02:05):
Speaking of which, for the feedback. There are people who
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We're gonna give you a shout out. And that's what

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Speaker 1 (02:39):
May have a We're now listening to Charlotte's Hoe, Rod
and Karen.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
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Yeah, We're gonna get there.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
We're gonna get everything back up to date and working
like it's supposed to work. It works, but it just
does one thing that it's like out of date because
the people stop supporting it. And now I can't update
my website security all the way because it's one fucking app,
So I gotta get a new plug in. It's a
whole thing, y'all. Don't want to hear about it, y'all
is behind the scenes. I'm working on it. I'm paying

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people to fix it. Every time y'all put in on this.
It's honestly going to make sure we can continue to
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Thank you everybody, you babe. Appreciate y'all, We really do.
All right. Now, the sad part, we didn't get no

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new five star reviews. So here's some commercials, motherfuckers.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
This is commercial.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Enjoy this is just a question. All right, we're back,
and I hope you enjoyed those commerce I hope they

(04:53):
were gambling commercials. I hope they was for the Republicans
running in your district.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
You don't want it, just wanted you to prevent the
commercial break.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
You could have. You could have not had to deal
with those. Nope, but you chose that by your inaction.
All right, let's get to comments. The first episode was
a feedback episode thirty one seventy one Racist Roads. We
had eight comments. Sean says, I'll get back with sources,
but I just had to post this stop before I forgot.
AI has made us all. Inigo Montoya, do you happen

(05:26):
to have six figures on your right hand? L O,
my name is Inigo Montoya Montoya. You probably my favorite artist.
Prepared to die, Alicia replies, I just wanted to say
I went to school in the ninety nine, in the
two thousands with a guy who has six figures on
one hand. He was in a bed and was a
beast at the clarinet. Makes sense, Obvious, says, thinking that

(05:47):
the other side is just not educated enough. It's interesting.
Maybe the other side thinks the same. I felt very
validated for guessing that the ratcher was postponed. I wonder
how often he will use this explanation. Yeah, can he
do it again? Because he already pass to postponed.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Date for the second time?

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Are they still coming to church every week? And he like, okay, guys,
this time for real? For real, I know I said
last week, what I really I looked at the calendar again.
I didn't account for daylight savings time. Okay, that's on me.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Didn't I didn't account felipiya.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
So it's actually gonna be next week anyway, put some
money into.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Account if you don't get out of here.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Sean says in America's current for the past fifty year's
political climate, the left season the term uneducated as an insult,
while the right season is a badger honor. But anti
intellectualism and assertions that education is in doctrination have been
a hangover the Reagan administration. Is one of the reasons
state universities have been consistently increasing tuition, which HBC used
at other private universities have users permission structure to raise

(06:46):
their own tuitions. It is also because the homeschool and
the charter school movement. So I don't do not think
that the right would accuse the left of being uneducated
because they see it as a positive. Appia says, obviously
don't know America so well, but didn't all those people
do their own research, and that's why they think they
know stuff better because their research is obviously more reliable
than what the leftist university would teach. I agree with you, Apia,

(07:08):
I'm on your side for this. I think they would
call us uneducated as a different in a just a
different way. Like I know what Sean's saying, which is
they see the idea of traditional education in schools as
a negative. But it's not really true. Like they say that,
But then you look at who they give jobs to
it and put it on MTV.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
And you look at a lot of their pedigrees. They
come from a lot of these universities.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, JD Vans like their sellouts that will they will
so they'll use that coding, but they don't really believe it.
They don't live those values. But most importantly, their idea
of uneducated is you get in a college degree, makes
you uneducated. The real knowledge of real America is somewhere
in the Midwest, you know, learning about how to till

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the soil with your.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Bare hands, right, Because the real problem is the education
helps you see through their bullshit and you like, that's
not right. But oh shit, we gotta get you dumb,
because dumb people don't challenge us.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
And he said, he said a link to Prospect dot org,
which said. He said, it was a quick article that
goes into the funded of the abundance movement, which is
being pushed by Klein and others. So I'm so out
of my depth with this. I'm uneducated. I don't know
anything about the abundance movement. This is Sean putting me up.

(08:24):
I just need to take some time to read this
and see how it connects to Ezra Kline and stuff,
because I just don't know. Not that I need another
reason to think Edward Kline is a milk Toast advocate.
But yeah, Ab says the white woman tears are not
working here as well. They made differently in the US.
When I cried doesn't help people get annoyed and want

(08:47):
me to stop. I tried to use it for my
benefit after I heard on the show they were magical
and must report being unsuccessful.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Oh the thing that a lot of white people are
finding out those tiers are work here in America and
no El and they don't understand that because a lot
of times they go to other countries, and some of
these other countries like we don't give tuk about your
white tiss. You're still going to jail, like like it
ain't the same that shit only works here with our
racism and our white people.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
I don't have enough knowledge of what happens outside the
United States to speak on it with any level of authority.
I wonder how much of it is about the society
being made up of white people and not really feeling
threatened by inclusion, meaning like a white woman saying she's

(09:39):
a victim in a place where the only other victimizers
would be white people. Maybe it works a little bit less.
I also wonder how much is that is genderized, meaning
if a white woman cries about men abusing her in
Germany or people like shut the fuck up, bitch, get
over it, or where they go, no, no, no, there's
something to be done about this. I don't know. Also

(10:00):
wonder how much it's culturally about German because I understand
that German have a different relationship with expressing emotions than
like American people do. So there's just more questions than not.
And I don't know. I mean, I don't know if
the white woman tears are working or not. This I
take your word for it, and I don't know if
you mention your personal white woman tears or what. Who knows.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
Good luck, yeah, yeah, good luck to you all that
I'm just generalizing when I say that statement. Yeah, yeah,
I just I was thinking about the answer, and I
was like, I don't fucking know if you say so,
but I don't have the answer. I don't think they
should be working in negative ways. But I mean, obviously
white woman tears TM the idea of like this fake
upset and it's not genuine hurt. I agree, not genuine

(10:45):
hurt and pain. It's different.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Evie says, I would never guess like you guys, just
like I'd never buy a steak from a fast food restaurant.
That's like ordering lobster at a piece of joint. For
all we know, that could be monkey meat. Not that
I would think ARBI would do that, but because they
have integrity and they're definitely not operation for a drug
front smiley face emoji. That's the thing about gas lighters.

(11:07):
They do it right in your face, and dare you
to call them out on it. It's basically you basically
just Stephen A. Smith of Arvey's Yeah, I said it,
and I don't take it back. We got five comments
on the YouTube. Let's see what we got here. The
girl on the Other Side of the Road says, I'm

(11:27):
horrible at spotting AI videos. Now without the sore AI
watermark or the comments, I wouldn't tell see. Nathan says
Karen needs to make a shirt that says it's one
of those things where dark Nandra says she was a
UK crany and immigrant and someone put a bug in
Trump's ear. Yeah, about the woman who died here in Charlotte.

(11:47):
Good feedback, shall thanks, thanks y'all, and you know what
fuck it. I'll check the comments on Spotify to see
if there was anything y'all had to say about this one.
See comments one. Victoria says, you made an outstanding point
about the current culture making people choose sides. What kind

(12:07):
of music world would we live in if we could
like both Michael Jackson and Prince Also, I'm a new listener.
I understand the title The Black Guy Tips. Can you
point to the podcast or you explain the origins of it?
Shout out to Charlotte. I live in Concord. I've explained
it a few times. I'm sure I'll try to give
you a quick synopsis. Victoria. I started a blog called

(12:29):
The Black Guy Who Tips back in the day blogspot
dot com. I used to make jokes and put random
thoughts there. The reason that I titled it that was
because I was a waiter. I worked in the service industry,
and I was tired of racist people saying black people
don't tip. I think it's a self fulfilling prophecy. If
you don't treat us well, you will not get a tip,
because we're fucking human. And I worked in the industry

(12:50):
where I discovered that these people that I was working
with were racist. They used to do things like give
me their black tables and then later on they were
in exchange for some white table. Later now they wouldn't
say that. They would just go, oh, I'm busy, can
you take that table for me? And then later they'd
be like, oh, I gave you a table earlier, can
I take them? And what they and what I realized
over a few course of a few days, they were

(13:12):
doing that strictly off of black people versus other people.
And so black people come in, they don't want the table.
White people come in, even if it's my table. Oh
I gave you a table earlier. And I realized how
insidious racism is and how infuriating is because these people
would talk to me, they were my coworkers. It's not
like they would walk up to me and say racist shit.
But so I said, instead of you saying black people

(13:37):
don't tip, because we probably don't tip, your racist ass,
but instead of saying that I'm a person, I'm black,
I tip. You know at least one black person that tips.
Can you just stop fucking saying that racism, like we
all don't tip. That's not true. And I also understand
now obviously that some people are gonna surface level judge.

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It is like, oh, you're one of the black people
that tips. You think you're better than other black people.
The defaults. They don't tell you no. But if you
can't even make it past the title or the show
to understand the explanation, you're not gonna be a fan
of us anyway. This is a show about nuanced contexts like.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
You, you were out not the place for you.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah, if you just looked at the title said these
are Republican black people that hate that are anti black,
you weren't gonna make it here anyway. And the last
thing is, I wouldn't have named the podcast that at all,
and we probably wouldn't have been famous or famous. We
wouldn't have been successful. We're not famous. It had been
to show or something, I would have named it the
Ride and Karen Show. But when I approached KM with
the idea of us doing a podcast, I will she

(14:36):
would be my co host. She was like, I don't
know if I'm gonna be good enough to be your
co host. You might want to replace me. And at
the time, we were both kind of anonymous on the
internet because this is a time before everything blew up,
and uh, you wanted your government name attached to this
kind of work. So she was like, I don't know

(15:00):
if I want to do it, and so I was like, okay,
what if we just named it the Blackout Tips. That's
what the blog is already named. And you're just on
there talking with me, and you know, yeah, if the
day comes where we want to switch it out, there's
no pressure and it's not. But of course I was
never going to switch it out. I would never do
an episode without caring.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
I didn't know that at the time. That was kind
of the way to trick me, because I was like,
I was like, who, what we like? I don't I
don't understand, I guess.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
So that's the story of Victoria. I appreciate you asking
that question. We've answered it multiple times on the show.
I don't have a specific episode in mine where we
did it, but anytime people ask, we explained it. And
that's what the feedback show is for. Yes, and thank
you for listening. We appreciate you the poe for of
this episode. Do you believe Taylor Swiss fans have officially
turned on her? Now, let's see what they say. Ninety

(15:52):
seven three percent. Yes, And that's what I had been feeling,
and I'm glad I'm not alone.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
No doom. White women love her, and you know it's
it's uh because like not trying me fun I've been
online too, so I see what people were seeing. It's
like all of a sudden in my feed and it
wasn't even that I was looking for her, but it
was more black people talking about the white women turning
on her. I wasn't really getting a white women not
trying to funny, raging on my timeline. I was getting

(16:21):
the black women going, it's about time, you know, it's
about time they turned on I was like, but they
love that woman. I was like that. I was like,
her little little music thing she did was like number one.
So they was in there rocking. I was like, the
album came out, it was number one. Who are these
white women that is tunning on her?

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yeah, it's wish casting, and it's kind of ridiculous because,
like it's from people that claim that, like the fifty
three percent, these white women can't be trusted, they vote Republican,
and then they like, oh, the white women are turning
on Taylor's this, they are finally revolting. I was like, no,
they're not. So I just thought that was kind of ridiculous.

(16:58):
And I expect if she goes on tour with just
hour the stadiums and the shows we sold out again
because these white women aren't going anywhere. That's her fan
base and they like her, even the few that flex
for the rest of us to try to get some
content out of shitting on her. I don't know if
rings hollow to me, and I'm not a Taylor Swift
hater at by any level, but I'm also not really

(17:20):
a big music fan of hers at all. So I'm
just observing this going. Why is everybody pretending that she's
gonna be like unpopular from now on? She's gonna just
be fine because she's fucking Taylor Swift agreed, All right,
let's go to the next episode, thirty one seventy two
sword Hatchetness. We had four comments, Sean says. In their defense,

(17:43):
the Young Republicans did have a deep conversation on how
to handle the situation. They even had a survey ignored.
And the news will stop covering it. Blame it on
George Soro slash and TIFA hacker slash bot double down
on the racism and shout down critics as opponents of
free speech. So they are taking it seriously and thinking
about the professional ways to handle situation. That's true, they
probably did. I've just said it's consuming ignorant content doesn't

(18:04):
work for me at all. It makes me depressed. I
think this is how people really are. No wonder the
state of the world and start feeling helpless. Maybe it
would be better for my mood if it did make
me feel better, but this is how it is for me. Yeah,
sometimes I think if if I'm a frustrating friend to

(18:25):
have for some people in my life now, because they'll
send me clips or bring up topics about things that
are happening on the internet, and I have such an
aversion to even wanting to know, right, because I just
think it's like drinking a little bit of poison or something,

(18:48):
and it's I know it's not that serious, but I
mean people send me shit at the time where I'm like,
I don't even click on it because I'm like, I
don't I don't want to have this in my brain.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
You know.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
It's like, here's a clip of like I mean, I
could probably look at my phone and find something, but
it's like, ooh, here's a TikTok of this. Oh, I'll
give you a great example, and hopefully it's don't pissing
nobody off, but fuck it, that's what I saw. I
went on TikTok to post something. That's the only time
I go on TikTok. I don't really scroll TikTok or

(19:22):
consume TikTok. I'm not judging those that do. I do
it with other things. It's just not TikTok's not my one.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
But it's not my quote unquote d choice.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yeah, I've done it. I've done it with other stuff,
but in general, anyway, I post this thing, but before
I can post it, it takes you to the for you page,
and the post that it showed me was a brother
from Charlotte that was walking around. I was like, maybe
it's showing me this because I go walking in Charlotte
all the time. But the video you had, in addition
to being too long, was like how he was a
black man. It's like how I feel about interracial dating

(19:53):
and Charlotte, North Carolina. I'm like, okay, and it's outto playing,
so I'm like, so I unmute it, and I'm like like,
what is coold? Did this possibly be? And it was him,
and like why is the algorithm choosing this show? And
it's him walking down the street saying how he sees

(20:13):
white women and when he sees a white woman, he
crosses the street because she's not gonna try to get
with me. I look at these interracial couples out of
time and the brother, you know, you could tell he
just want to be one of these white girls, and
the white girls they want them A man dean going
da da da da, And honest to God, thought this

(20:33):
was one of the craziest, most ridiculous things I've seen.
And I thought, oh, he's a comedian. This is just
like it's kind of hacky, but it's like a funny.
It's like it's hacky, but it's a joke. I get it.
Ha ha ha. White women scared we cross the street,
the black man cross the street when they see a
white woman. That's y'all cutching your purse. Don't worry about that.
And so I look in the comments to be like, oh,

(20:56):
maybe they send it to me because it's a comedian,
and if he's a comedian, I'll never know. Every comment
was one hundred percent dead serious, no laughing emotions, nothing.
It was like, yeah, that's how they be. Yeah, cause
this and this, you know, racial stereotypes and slurs and stuff.
And I was just like, this is brain rot. Yes,

(21:16):
and part of me is like my friends who see
stuff like that, and this happens all time. We send
it to each other to be like, oh did you
see this is crazy, like so we know we're not
alone and thinking it's crazy. And I just didn't send
it to them at all. I didn't send it, but
I did talk to them about it in the message,
like I said a voice note, like yo, I saw

(21:37):
this thing, and it's crazy that the algorithm showed me this.
But it's also crazy that people treated this one hundred
percent serious and not like a joke or mental illness,
because that's I live in Charlotte too. I'm walking all
the time. I see white women. They're not chasing black
men and down and trying to like rape us on
the side.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
Of the road. Right, you sound ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
This is like and I couldn't believe it wasn't a joke,
or maybe it's it's a joke. It was delivered in
a way I didn't pick up or something. I don't
know anyway, point being I my brain doesn't activate from
that ignorance, like ooh, let me send this to everybody
so we can talk about it. Isn't this crazy? How
dumb he is? It was like, get this away from me.

(22:17):
I can't believe I watched a minute of that.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
That's that's you know. And the thing is us saying
don't mean we're above it. We're just saying like for me,
I'm similar to you, I'm like, this is stupid. I
live here, people are gonna have interestal relationship. These are
your hang up so and for me, I always start
kind of thinking deeper, deeper than the video itself, like oh,
you're projecting like like like my mind goes beyond the

(22:39):
video with.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
C Yeah, it's yeah, it's just I just felt like
it was ignorance, and of course ignorance does well on TikTok,
but it was like, do I have to let this
in my body? And I feel like sometimes I'm a
bad or. I might be a frustrating friend because so
many times people send me things now and I'm like why.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Why?

Speaker 2 (23:00):
But why?

Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (23:01):
But why like and not in a dismissive of your
feelings way, like I want to be clear here, I
don't I'm not a I'm your friend. I don't care
about this. Stop sending me shit. I don't do that.
I'd rather not respond and tell you I stop sending
me something because I don't want to be a jerk
to my friends. But like, they'll send me a link

(23:22):
of TikTok and one of my first thoughts is like,
why are you sending me a TikTok to explain something
to me that you can explain to me? And not
because I want to save time. I want to take
the time. I want to hear what you have to say.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
Yeah, he thought.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
I actually would rather hear you say it than them
say it.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
Because it's going to be more fleshed out.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
Yes, I want. I want to know your feelings. What
I want to know this stranger's feelings. That's just a video.
I don't know them, but I know you. I care
deeply about how you think. So let's talk about how
you think about shit. And I think that's a change
I'm going through in life. That uh yeah, that so yeah.

(24:02):
I'm not motivated by the ignorance and consuming it. It
does make me sad, you know, And I'd rather hear
directly from people I know. Ms Bard says. Going to
the farmer's market has been my new obsession for the
past year. I love buying my veggies from the market
as they taste better, last longer, less expensive, and I'm
supporting a local farmer.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
They do taste better because chav Roger bust that god
damn watermelon. Not that was the sweet.

Speaker 4 (24:24):
Watermelon I had him if that watermelion was delicious.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
I get everything from veggies, fruits, cheese, bread, desserts, pasta, meats,
fresh flowers, you name it. I have started to supplement
my grocery shopping for more items at the market as
it's saved me money. I hope your camera visit the
market often. Yeah, for sure, I'll definitely go back. I
need to cut them potatoes, but yeah, I'll definitely go back.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
M hm. And we actually have another one that's closer,
but we have the hours a struggle a wild Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah, it's not the proximity for me. I like it
because it's on the path that I walk now, and
I think I'm gonna start stopping there on the way
back from the walk to grab things every once.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
In a while. Right, Okay, I see it's saying right
because it's more convenient. Yes, I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Yes, I'm a farmer's market girly, he says. Ev you whatever,
you're r's market. You don't eat no fresh vegetabs, you
curly fries. And that's it. See that's the thing. You
can't even stick to your lives.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
So is it?

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Which one is?

Speaker 1 (25:30):
They could be versatile nah, even ease.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Of gas likeness Again, I used to have basic. I
used to have basic white woman of color Sundays where
I go to the farmers market with a hot drink
in my hand, walking around the east dollars, I took
a piece of imaginary hair behind my ear, asking questions
like is this organic? I love it. I love a
farmer's market more than our finds. O Riviera loves white women.

(25:54):
Nobody loves anything that much.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
That's some love, honey.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
I don't think that's possible to love anything more. And
Alfonzo likes white.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
Chick, that's alast comparison.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
I think he's I think I think Carlton uh gave
us all of it.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
I think he got you beat on now like me
because this is some hot white.

Speaker 5 (26:18):
Now, I'm gonna say, listen, I have been known to
some white girls in my lifetime. I have spent my
life on some t MC. And every time you see
me in the club, just who I walk out with.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
One white ship.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
I love the hype man. The hype man accuse me
every time I hit this hite bitch.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Yeah, why he went to the bitch route, I just
do not understand.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
And it's sending it over the top of it and
it made it makes a fucking clip and even hilarious.
He was like, I know, white bitch.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
She says, you can get anything closed and meats. I
got dog bones for my fur baby. I admit I
like some trash TV. My addiction is love and lock
up because it's Hella Messing. It's true that when I
watch sometimes I think to myself that sometimes things in
life are bad, but it can never be as down
as those people. Yep, speaking of The Biggest Loser. I
used to watch that show religiously, but at the time

(27:23):
I thought it was inspiring to tell all the articles
about what happened to the scene started coming out and
I realized the humiliation retro these people were put through.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Yeah, yeah, that was kind of for me. Then I
was like, Oh, we're not watching this for the same reason. Oh,
y'all abusing these people? I was. I was flat on blipyus.
Don't ask me why. And thing is I like trash TV.
But I but I like the you know, the straight
up cocaine like like like like the real deal, like
out of the show's now more water watered down quote

(27:51):
unquote versions the version I like, you be like, goddamn
you like that.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yeah. I can't pretend to be better than people. My
favorite reality show is Cheaters and Yes, and before that,
it was Jerry Springer when they allowed people to fight.
I remember not liking Jerry Springer when they put rules
in that you couldn't beat each other up. So I'm
not to My argument is not that I'm a good person.
It's more just like, let me stay away from this
crack cocaine.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah, yeah, because I know it's an addictive drug type
of thing. Because I remember when I when Jerry Springer
was at his height. I used to be in college.
We would take all our classes and take a nap.
Everybody woke up like that five thirty six o'clock whenever
we would come on five five, thus right around that range,
and like the whole sweet all the TVs would be

(28:35):
on and we were like Jerry Jerry. We would just
watch them fighting, beating each other up every night.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
The documentary that came out about it recently on Netflix
was I opened it immediately. I do still watch My
six hundred Pounds Life because I like transformation shows. But
I do end up feeling bad for most of the
people because the extreme weight gag usually comes from a
place of trauma at the end of the day. I
think everyone has that guilty pleasures like true crime or
Real Housewives. Yeah. Absolutely, That's why I said, I'm not
really trying to judge it, but I can only speak
to like what is or isn't for me? Right, Let's

(29:08):
see YouTube. How many comments fourteen whoa. Okay, we're talking
about let's see. Okay, some of these are just like
emoji comments. Oh okay, Tiffany says you need writers. I holler,
got loud. Okar, you do take on me, love y'all.
Someone guessed the race. The Colisseum in Greensboro used to

(29:30):
be managing staff by the City of Greensboro. But what
you said about them trying to use the same system
they use for swarm games must be the issue. They've
hosted other events with more people, not sure why they deviates.
This is a larger space. Thank you, O Lohause saw
eighty four and of course what I've read on the
reddit was that some people were able to get their
money back for their tickets, like if you email the
Colosseum contact form or whatever. They were giving people refunds

(29:53):
because it was that bad. It was egregious. People were
literally in line for forty five minutes to an hour
just to get in.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
That's under acceptable, right, and the way it was going,
and we missed the first quarter, and there was people
coming in like halftime, third quarter, and so I can
imagine I people going, I missed the fucking game. Yes,
give me my money back.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Crazy. Uh provocative? Af says, what was happening to Ken?
Fulk I Misshall, thanks for another great show. Resiph Dune says,
give five give five stars to Rod for getting into
Steven A Smith's rs. Ken says, why Steven a Smith?
That man is a sufferable bag of self hate? Why
is steven a Smith such a funny and great question?
Just why? As a concept? Why is he?

Speaker 1 (30:30):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Is steven a auditioned to be the new Uncle Rucket?
Says Christoph Donald TiO says Steven A Smith is a
tap dancing like Gregory hines, he is really embarrassing himself. Well,
greg tap dance with integrity. Kim Doc says, eighteen dollars
at the grocery store is one tube of tooth paste
and one store brand paper. Talent's insane. My gauge for
how much prices are going up is the price of

(30:51):
coffee creamer Jason says, I mean from being fair to
the young Republicans? What else did I expect their group
chat to sound like? Was it going to be?

Speaker 5 (30:59):
You know?

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Actually I got to pimp I got to pimp a
butterfly over dom Or. I think Winby might take the
next step this season. I thank them for confirming what
we already knew. I gotta say I'm a fan. Well
here's the thing about this too, though, they did confirm
what we already knew. But when are our allies like
Ezra Klein gonna take it in, you know what I mean?

(31:22):
When are they gonna say, Oh, this is who these
people are behind closed doors, this is who they really are,
this is what we're fighting against. Okay, I gotta stop
saying why so pessimistic to Tanahasi Coast to start listening.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
I agreed.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
I gotta say, I'm a fan of mixed Sheriff. There
really is a bell curve for me. When he gets going.
The first couple of mick jokes are laying, but the
third one is I'm like, oh, this is really happening.
Then by the six and seven is lame again. I'm
just glad he's keeping our streets mix safe. That's funny
street sort of hatchiness. Comments on Spotify, Yeah, Spotify, Sorry,

(32:03):
I was like, what is apposits again? Get these comments
from everywhere for y'all. We got three comments. Okay. Adam
Bowler says, why is this man stephen A always yelling
and yelling ignorant shit that that had to turn my
volume down, and the thing he was tone police In
Jasmine Crockett.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
He's the loudest shit just natural.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Him talking about you got to learn how to talk
to people and him being him is crazy. Jedmo eight says,
you are right, Ride about the Biggest Loser. There's documentary
on Netflix and many of the contestants talk about how
there was no support to keep the weight off and
they pushed to do unhealthy practices on the show, even
against medical advice of the doctor owned staff. Annie Ride,

(32:46):
I couldn't It couldn't be my two hundred and twenty
five pound life. That hits too close to home. Too
many people would be like, maybe I should go for
a fucking walk, Maybe I should put the chips down.
Me slowly lowers my tortilla chip from my lips. Y'all
are so fun, that's hilarious. It is true, though, man,
if it was, if it was, if it reminded you

(33:06):
of your actual life and not made you feel like
it's not as bad as if it wasn't escape as
you wouldn't watch.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
It, agreed.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
Do you frequent your local farmer market? Yes? Forty fifty
seven percent no, and three percent they don't have a
local farmer's market. Yeah. Hm, out here living in the wild.
I hate to see it. Couldn't be me, could not
be me. All right, let's go to another break so
we can, uh, you know, get some money out of

(33:36):
all this shit. Let's see what what song do I
want to play? Let's go to one of these old
ones from the back in the day. All right, Digital Madness,

(34:17):
Episode thirty one seventy three. We got seven comments. Ibiah
says I reduced to use the social media a lot.
I use LinkedIn for work and sometimes Instagram for real
estate content. I like to look at weird houses. It's
common to me, well, have you ever thought about getting
off the internet opia and getting into real life? Why
don't you leave your house and start walking up and

(34:39):
looking at people's houses and windows. Okay, dude, it's time
to get off of social media. And I just think
LinkedIn and real estate content is still social media, is
still looking at a digital device on a screen in
your hand. It's time for us to wake up and
get out here and touch our neighbors and stuff. So
you walk right in the front door and you go ooh,

(35:00):
I like the bones of this this is this house
got some good bones? Is this granted on this countertop?
Just going in there and make yourself at home. Girl, there,
I understand. We got to stop being afraid of each other.
Otherwise it's making me afraid of depressed. I didn't see
it like that before, but must admit that it's working
on my brain in a bad way and I need
it out. Thank God, I don't have an addictive brain,

(35:21):
because I absolutely can see how it's addictive for me.
It's only depressing. But I can distance myself. I mean,
you say you don't have an addictive brain, but you
can't quit this podcast.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
Girl, Okay, we got you.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
Michael says, I don't regularly sit outside, but this episode
got me thinking maybe I'll should change that.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
Hey, sit outside and enjoy the sun.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
There's something really nice about being out in the fresh
air and sunshine. It is in the sunshine.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
I went to the gym late last night. It's dark
and kind of cold, but I went because I knew
today was gonna be super busy and I didn't know
if I was gonna be and make it to the gym.
And I'm glad I did that. Ship because now I'm
feeling tired and this might turn into a day off
as opposed to a day from the gym where I
just go walking. But if I won't, if I don't

(36:11):
go to the gym on Saturdays, I will go for
a walk like and I. Sometimes the best part is
just sitting sitting on a bench.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
Yeah, I do that whenever we go walking. Sometimes on
the weekends, That's what I do. We'll sit sometimes, just
sit in the sun and just kind of particularly now
this is not so like ravagely hot, like orpressively hot.
It's just really cool just to sit out there. And
that's why my vitamin D has went up. I didn't
even think about that till you have mentioned it on

(36:39):
the pregame about me talking about vitamin D about because
it had been low for years, and she had really
been like, hey, so I started taking supplements and stuff,
and then their number was still low. But actually me
and I don't go out that often. But when I
do go outside with you, I realized those few times
have actually made those number spike.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Yeah, and get your heart pumping and get out there.
Sit down here being the nature a little bit, even
if I'm just listening to music, people watching whatever. Like
sometimes it's just you know whatever, read a book, play word,
I don't. I don't give a fuck, But being outside
it means something, Joannina says, or maybe it's Janina anyway,

(37:20):
Joannina says. The husband and I have a small patio.
We sit outside multiple times a day, watch birds. Doesn't
matter if I start, if it started, so we don't
stink up the house with the devil's lettus. He even
built a bench for us, and now we spend about
three hours a day just being outside. It's the cheapest
therapy out there. Yeah. I really need to clean the
back patio because I saw I looked out the other

(37:41):
day like I was gonna go and I saw a
bunch of leaves on the ground, like I don't know.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
Yeah, every time I look at that too, and I
was like, you know what, I actually do need to
go out there and clean.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
At the broom and just take care of everything.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
I think that's because because I like sitting out there
when it's not hot and right now it's perfect. I
love fall, I love the leaves changing. Yes, I know
I'm a basic bitch. I don't care. It's my life.
Fuck you you got all the other summers and winters
and springs like y'all, y'all do y'all things. I'm not
hating on y'all shit. I don't be like it's hot.
I gotta be out here anyway. Fall is great. I'm

(38:12):
sorry I went that well. I'm tired. I've been up
since eight The voices in my head they won them
post the thoughts, they won for a second and they
came out.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Sorry, but I love fall and sitting out there after
the leaves are falling and everything's beautiful and different colors,
and uh man, I can just go out there and
sit sip on some coffee or something, and there's less
bugs and shit to worry about, a lot less bugs.
I love it. So yeah, I gotta clean off that
patio or something to get get out there and sweep

(38:45):
it away, brush some of the cobwebs off, and uh
so I can start sitting back out there, because I'll
go out there and just read a book, you know,
and they don't have to be long. Uh and maybe
some of that Devil's let us. It's not a bad idea. Uh,
You're not wrong, aj says Rod and Karen Reverson Black

(39:07):
unemployment count me as one of the many I posted
a few months ago about how my job was eliminated
in the public education sector. Do the policies of the
Tangerine Terrorists administration and our governor who's one of his disciples.
I've applied for three hundred and fifteen positions, have not
received any officer, and I've had less than ten interviews.
Now that I've been formally terminated, I apply for unemployment
this week. It did not have to be this way often, absolutely,

(39:30):
and I'm so sorry.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
I did not. My heart goes out to all the
government workers out there that are listening to my voice,
because these things are beyond your control. And you know,
y'all get ready to go miss for a lot of
you miss your fair first paycheck. So for a lot
of you, this is going to have a great impact
on your lives, and so I completely understand. My heart

(39:52):
goes out and trying to find a job right now
is hard because people who have jobs are actually keeping
them because of the way the economy's going. And they've
actually done study now that a lot of younger people
used to do and not get it, like every four
to five years. A lot of people used to consistently
job hunt because you know, after so many years, you
would actually get paid more coming in than you would

(40:12):
be in the current employee. But they would say, now
the percentage jump is like maybe one to two percent
versus used to be a lot higher. So they're telling people, hey, doll,
if you got a job, keep it right now. If
you won't, you quit and get another job. It was like,
you better keep your job before you get another job.
And then yeah, get an a job before you leave
your current one. And so, yes, babe, my heart really

(40:34):
does go out there and the biggest part agree with you.
It did not have to be like this at all.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
Yeah. I think a lot of people don't think about
the collateral damage that was being done to the country
when they made these votes, and they just think of
the government as like some nebulous entity and they think
of cuts and spending, not as people. They don't think
about the government is made up of the people, and
unless we are active, engaged people, we will suffer from it.

(41:00):
I want representatives from my community in the government. The
government is going to exist one way or another, I
would like for it to be people that have some
tie to my community, not just a bunch of rich folks,
not just a bunch of elitists, not like people that
make me feel represented but also hold it accountable, but

(41:20):
also bring a wealth of expertise and knowledge and lived experience.
And I just feel like now that we're watching this
and we're seeing how much the Republicans are delighting in
the suffering. They're calling the cuts partisan that they're doing,
even though there's no proof of that. They're not walking
around the desk and going these are Democrat desks. They're
just fucking us all and then going, oh, yeah, this

(41:41):
is just a Democrats crime. It's their white woman tears.
Let's see where was I. Oh, Eve says with the
MLKAI issue, Yes, it's super disrespectful, but kind of funny too. Well,
an Arvey's person would think that whenever I see those
club posters with MLK, I shake my head a little bit,
but I giggle. I have a poster with Malcolm X

(42:03):
and the club that said the party will go on
by Ene means necessary ais out of control. Sean says
it's important to be able to balance the protection of
parody with the needs to prevent defamation and prevent for
unlawful use of name likeness for marketing. It's not a
new issue, but one that needs to be clarified the
age of AI.

Speaker 6 (42:19):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
C Jeter says, oh man, did we get an accidental
reading rainbow? One of my favorite segments made a sneak comeback?
I'm here for it, thanks, C Jeter.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
It didn't make a sneak, it really did.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
I wasn't even planning to talk about it that long.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Yeah, but you kept going and which made me want
to ask you more questions about it because I didn't
read it. So I was like, well, let me kind
of find out, you know, why he thinks this way,
where his mind was, how these things you know, impacted
him and things like that, and you know, uh, that
was a side of you not doing funny A lot
of people don't really get to hear.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
Yeah. No, I appreciate it. Honestly, I hadn't thought. I've
been reading a lot of stuff. I've been you know,
it's a fine line because like you know, we do
the show and that's part of our jobs. But uh,
some stuff I've just been keeping to myself lately. And
it's not out of any like shame or fear or whatever.
I just feel like there's a value. Sometimes it just

(43:11):
this was just for me. Yeah, And sometimes so sometimes
I read stuff and I'm like, not that y'all wouldn't
be interested, It's just more like that was for my
own edification. And maybe people will relate, maybe they don't.
But I have to be careful about that because we
do do a show, and I do want to share,
and I do want y'all to to experience things and
communicate back and forth. So I you know, I have

(43:33):
to pick my spots. But yeah, digital madness was and
and the reason I have to point that out is
also because I need to be careful about things turning
into work that are supposed to be relaxation, edification, education, escapism,

(43:53):
those type of things. I still need those things. And
if I turn everything into I'm not just watching task,
I'm reviewing a task, I'm now working. And it's and
it's hard for people that don't do this for a
living to understand what I'm saying sometimes, but I promise
you it's different to watch something and be like I
can do what y'all do. I can go fuld close,

(44:15):
I can miss an episode, I can fall asleep on it,
and and that's it as opposed to let me take
some notes, let me remember this, let me Oh, you know,
I gotta put this down. We gotta recap it like
it's a lot of work, and so sometimes I forget.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
Yeah, and then you know, and like I said, because
you when it comes to work, you want to put
out the best product possible. So because of that, it
is very time consuming on your end, not read on
my end, on your end. And so I get that party.
Yes you do need that, that that split, but because
you know, when we press play, particularly on the regular show,

(44:51):
Roger has a layout, but sometimes you just never know
where the show's gonna go. When that just happened with
that just happened to be where win that day?

Speaker 2 (44:57):
Yeah, I didn't even write that down to talk about provocative.
AF says, what's happening yo? That hatt and shirt is dope, Rod,
thank you. I think that was my Panther's hat and
storm shirt.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
Yes. The shirt you got on to day tickles me.
Oh no, it was a tack on Titan shirt.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
Yeah, that shirt you got on day tickles me because
it made me think about you weren't working on my
tablet yesterday, you want.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
I wore it because I've been working on the website.
Stuff behind the scenes. It's stuff none of y'all will
really get to see or know about. Hopefully, if it
works right, it'll be basically a seamless transition for y'all
that a premium on our website. But yeah, the shirt
says involuntary tech support with a sad computer, and it

(45:52):
says on call twenty four to seven. And honestly, that
is what the job is. That I have a lot
of times like y'all be emailing me. I don't ever say,
ain't nothing, because I don't want anyone to ever feel
like I'm picking on them or something, even if it's not.
It's funny to me, but it's not. I don't want
I don't know y'all, and I don't want y'all to
feel bad, the same way that if you call Colm Warner,

(46:12):
I don't want time. Warner shouldn't make you feel bad.
You know it probably does. Anyway, some of y'all be emailing.
It'd be four in the morning, like, hey, I'm locked
out of the website, and I'll be like, man, how
are they even up?

Speaker 1 (46:25):
Somebody up?

Speaker 2 (46:26):
Like, but if I'm up and I can fix it,
I'll fix it, you know, or you know, I get
it the first thing, the first chance I can. But
it's just interesting because yeah, you're really when you work
for yourself, you're on time. You're on clock all the time. Anyway,
now to these comments, oh my mom says, hopefully the

(46:47):
conversation about Digital Madness book will piuk your audience to
read the book. Life has ever evolved in growth to
become a better version of yourself. Thank you, y'are. Actually,
my girl said she read the book. She posted it
on her Instagram stories that she was reading it and
I wasn't even finished with the book. I like, so
I don't recommend books unless I finished the book because

(47:11):
just because I started reading something, shit be going left.
Sometimes you be thinking it's one way, and then you
get halfway through that bitch like, oh no, I'm glad
I didn't tell anybody to get this, you know. Now,
Digital Man Is I thought was a really good read,
and we went into detail about why, and talking to
Karen helped me reconcile the ending. Even if I still

(47:32):
am a little less sold on the ending. I get
why he ended it the way he did because he
needed a solution to all that depressing shit he just
told us. And whereas I would have never got the
book published because would have told my publisher like, no,
that was it. They were like, you got to give
people some hope, and I was like, no, that was it.
It's no hope. You're cooked, and that's how the book ends.

(47:54):
And they should just put the book down and jump
off a bridge. Fuck it. Rasi pH Does says five
stars with sharing an insight on the book. That Jodo madness,
none of your bit, says thank you for covering the
black unemployment numbers two times. Thanks for calling out the
celebrity cocoons that were kissing Trump's ass around election time
last year. Keep up your platform in an incredible way.

(48:16):
Ed it gets snooped out of your head. Don't give
that ninja shit, more like snoops upside your head. Am
I right now on your bus? Okay, bucket hat Rod
says Kim Doc, Thank you, Kim Doc. You know when
the panther's winning, it gets fly around here. You know
it doesn't happen often, but when it does. I got
plenty of stuff to wear in there. That's just blow

(48:37):
the dust off of it.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
Just I got plenty of Panthers shit in here, I
might pull out.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
Yeah, if I hadn't a loss, I gave it away
a lot of my clothes because they now they were
too a little too big. I'd have even more Panthers stuff.
But I have a lot less clothes sports clothes than
I had before. But I'm gonna restock, so kim Doc
says Karen. I just went to Trader Joe's the years
got the peach drink they have. Oh my god, it's

(49:03):
just as banging as before and will also go great
with sour apple Crown Royal.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
I have.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
Trader Joe's peach drink. You know, Trader Joe's is close
to that walk that we took it right there, So
maybe we'll go one of these days. Comments on Spotify,
that's what we were doing. Let's see digital madness. We
got four comments on this episode. Let me see you,

(49:30):
let me see what everybody's saying. Devon says or Davy David, damn,
y'all cooked on this one. Newer listener, very much, enjoy
your perspectives the great work. Also, when y'all say I
love you and kiss at the end, I feel it
every time.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
Oh thank you. I do love him a lot.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
Yay toun Day says, I missed you talking about books
you'll read, and I enjoyed this. Boy, I never know
what the fuck gonna hit.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
You know, you don't never know.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
What I'm fucking this algorithm up. Man, I'm just out
here living my life by like I don't have no plan.
That's what my problem is. I'm supposed to be catering
to this shit like, oh, we got more views on that.
I should talk about that every day. Instead, I'd be
like I felt like talking about the book. Big Bunny says.
I agree with everything you and my girl Kerrents Karen

(50:20):
said about needing safe spaces to be bear and have
a healthy source accountability as a provider. I agree with
the author. Individual therapy can only do so much. We
need community and while therapy can aid in community building
leading with positive intent openness, but it doesn't replace the
impact of being engaged in healthy in person engagement. Keep
rocking it out you too, Yeah, and like that is
one thing I do like about reading stuff like this book.

(50:43):
It validates and affirm certain feelings and thoughts that I
have that maybe I haven't articulated or I have, but
I haven't heard other people talk about it that much,
and I'm like, maybe I'm tripping, maybe I'm not, But
like that stuff about the group therapy and the purpose
and community that was real, Like I've experienced that myself.

(51:06):
Of like, yo, I used to be just scrolling, scrolling,
I would have anxiety attacks, I would feel panic attacks.
I would yeah, I'd be extremely anxious and caught up
and just telling and yelling and explaining stuff to shit
and the people that felt important in the moment. And
then really as I just kind of just talk to people, like,

(51:28):
you know, about just life stuff, not just what was
happening on the internet, but just like, oh, what's going on?
Tap in check with you. You know. Sometimes I take
a walk, somebody give me a call. I'm just sitting.
I talked to BOWMONI like an hour and some change
the other day, just walking in the park. You know,
Chris Lambert, every once in a while he'll call me.
We'll just talk, or I'll call him, or we'll just talk.
My brother. You know, there's other people too.

Speaker 1 (51:51):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
The only thing is now we're so digital. I don't
know who likes that and who don't. So you gotta
be careful and I'm not a stirb the piece type
of person, meaning that if you uh, you know, if
you haven't hinted that you would like phone calls, I'm
not gonna phone call your ass. So I'm like, okay,
text or whatever. But even with some of my people

(52:13):
that I do text with a lot, every once in
a while, it's just like, let me call you, like,
let's hear your voice.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
And I think that's a big thing for me. It's
nothing like hearing your voice. And the thing about hearing
somebody's voice. You can understand intentions, you can understand emotions
even if I'm physically see you, Like, there are certain
things and your reflections in the way that you sound
and things like that that gives me a better understanding

(52:40):
of where you're coming from.

Speaker 2 (52:42):
When you said reflections, did you mean inflections, Like, oh, okay.

Speaker 1 (52:45):
Yeah, I said reflections. I mean inflections.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
I don't know it kind of work. Kind of work.
I was like, maybe that's a maybe that's a way,
that's anyway my bad. Uh, but thank you, big Bunny,
Big Bunny.

Speaker 3 (52:56):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
But that's cool name. Shoe Booty, says Karen. I gotta
recommend the Calm vodka in some apple cider, a little
shot of fireball too. If you're feeling spicy my fall
go to cocktail.

Speaker 1 (53:07):
Oh, I've heard of that. I don't know if they
got that one here in North Carolina.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
Or yeah, I don't know. I feel like I got
too much alcohol and now already how to finish. I
haven't drank. I don't be drinking as much as I
used to lately, so I need.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
The exercise of getting fit and shit.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
I know I'll just be thinking like should I do that? Anyway,
Let's go to the pole. Do you routinely go outside
and sit forty yes, fifty eight percent? No, yeah, man,
highly recommend it. I know it sound corny to be long,
just to be outside. I know it sound like it
wouldn't do shit. I promise you would do.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
And I know everything.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
It's like everything else. That's that's you know people, Hey,
can you give me podcasting advice? Yes? Go podcast do
it routinely, stick to it, like enjoy yourself. Like it's
not deep advice, but it's but it's actually the right advice.
And I think that's kind of what to sit outside.
Shit is go for a walk. Shit is your brain?
Will it will thank you? Later, but right now while

(54:09):
you're kind of being skeptical or whatever, it's not gonna hit.
But I take this podcast. What you want to go
will be your friends. You ain't gotta walk fast, you
ain't gotta like it's not a goal of like, it's
not a have to be a set amount of distance,
maybe set a certain amount of time. I'm gonna walk
thirty minutes and walk ten minutes. I started with ten
minutes and then now I'm probably walking a little over

(54:30):
an hour. But you know that's it, So go go outside.
I promise you it will make you feel better. It'll
take a few times, but once you get a routine help.

Speaker 1 (54:40):
And it's also, you know, one of those things where
you know everybody complained about how much everything is so expensive,
how much everything is going up and costs. Actually, just
going outside, even if it's in your own yard or
your front yard, your backyard, your little back patio, just
going out there and sitting outside is absolutely possibly free. Yeah,
you might be paying a lit down, but just walking

(55:00):
outside is the free party. You just go and.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
Sit and if you're happier, walk up into your neighbor's backyard.
Sitting there for a couple of hours.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
Chill.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
It's cool.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
If they come over to you white woman tears that
I'm laid in trouble, don't forget your boy ride tell
them I sent you. All right. Let's wow, care wow.
You had to take a joke out of that boy.

Speaker 4 (55:24):
I'm not being held accountable for somebody to take you
commercial break.

Speaker 2 (55:59):
That's lover girlbalu all right. Last episode of the week,
thirty one seventy four static shock five comments Here we go.
Abia said it's great to hear that DT will free
gay people and black people just the same when the
circumstances fit. Oh yeah, saying he freed. George said thos

(56:20):
and maybe did he is after my former humorous comment,
here is more. I don't know if it's better to
add floriade to drink of water or not. I just
know we don't do it in Germany because it said
we have enough of it, and there's also floor out
of and toothpaste and salt. We used to add it,
but not anymore. I don't know what's better, are our
teeth worst? I have no idea. I just check if

(56:40):
we add it, and we don't. Mike Lawler is a gay,
married man and a Republican. This makes my head spin anyway. Still,
it's good that he said that trans people are no danger.
I don't see it as the lowest bar. Uh yeah,
you know what, You're right, it's not the lowest bar.
That's a good. That's that's a that's a fair point. Boy.
It's like, maybe not. It shouldn't be a world where

(57:02):
we had to allaud him for doing that. But you're right,
it is not the lowest bar. Sean says, while Germany
has naturally occurring fluoride in their water, adding floride and
would likely improved mental health. That being said, the anti
fluoridation movement fluoridation movement in America comes out of the
red scare politics and was most strongly promoted by right

(57:23):
wing racism and conspiracy think tank the John Birch Society,
although it has spread its wings much wider and it's
more of an issue than it was even in the
nineteen forties and fifties. That being said, the fact that
conservatives carve out tiny self exemptions is not news. Uncle
Justice Thomas, when talking about how the absurd and completely
anti constitutional decision and Dobbs versus Jackson Women's Health Organization,

(57:46):
stated that he was interested in going after all forms
of equal rights protections except for anti missionation laws, where
that is likely because his loopy piece of fetied this loop.
His loopy piece of Fedi Fieshi's wife, who asked the
victim of her husband's sexual assault to apologize to him
is Hawhite. And Dick Cheney thought gay rice was more
acceptable after his daughter came out because conservatism in America

(58:10):
is fundamentally a selfish ideology. Port Monteau of idiot ideology. Okay,
port Monteau of idiots, idiocy and ideology, got it. It
is not hard to see why they are willing to
carve out personal exemptions. Sean, I'm gonna be honest. I've
been up since eight. It's hard to read your stuff today. Okay,
I'm struggling. I was like, what idiot am I am?

(58:33):
I needing it correct what he just said? Or I'm
like he spelled ideology wrong. It's like, oh, no, of
course he didn't. It's Sean. I've just says after my
former humorous come. Oh wait, no, ro see he told
you I ain't sharp roning. Rafael says, I know that
you don't care about n y C n Y politics.
All right, cool, so I'll move on even he said, Okay,

(58:53):
I'm joking, Ronning Raphael, I'm want to finish your comment. Obviously, however,
you indirectly covered it twice this week Mike Lawler speaking
up for trans people and against racist young GOP kids
along with Ellie Stephanik, whose attacks on black Harvard president
wasn't racist, I guess, but I digress. It's just confirmation
to me that he is gearing up for the New
York governor's race next year. He has been seen as

(59:17):
a GOP front runner along with Stephanic. I keep tabs
on my enemy so they can't fool me. Smart move
my man, and thank you for the hat tip. I
didn't know that Cheryl was right about a lot of support.
By the way, if you add all the Chris Pratt
for the multiverse, that's a lot. Give that lost woman
her flowers. Absolutely no flowers for her.

Speaker 1 (59:37):
But you're right.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
But also I do wonder how many Chris Pratts that
are like I think anyway, I'll never know for sure,
but my guess is that these people over index how
many secret conservatives there are to make us think secretly
they're very popular. Everyone and love conservatism. Hollywood is all

(01:00:02):
about it, but they just afraid to pay the cost
for telling y'all there about it, and that fuels our
hero complex as consumers of Like, Yeah, because I'm better
than Hollywood and I knew not to trust those sons
of bitches. It's not that I'm jealous of their money,
the good looks, and their fame, and I just think
it's all doing too much work. I think a lot

(01:00:24):
of people who are conservatives are not that secret at all.
And even someone like Chris Pratt, I never felt like
he's not conservative. I was like, he's the type of
conservative that I used to appreciate. Yep, the ones who
just shut the fuck up about it. Don't make it
my business at your job that you hate trans people.
That's right, Go be star lord, do a good job,

(01:00:46):
and then go have your secret weird beliefs on your
secret weird.

Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
Life, but your own time.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
Yeah, Like, I'm not going to oppress you as a Christian,
but I don't want you oppressing me in the disguising
it as victimology and then talking yourself out of a
job that I never gave a fuck about. Meaning. Uh,
Gina Carano, Right, I never gave a fuck about her
being that character, and now I thought she did a
great job.

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
I did too. You fucked that off, like you. You
weren't being oppressed out of the job.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
They didn't come fire you for being Christian at work
or being you know, like, oh, you don't like trans
people in your personal life. They fired you because you
couldn't help yourself right anyway. Evie says, I love when
you do who news because I don't know who most
of these people are in that segment. What I have
learned is that it's not safe to be a drill rapper.
Yeah gonna get drilled. Yeah, yes, with all the bullets.

(01:01:40):
Let's see YouTube for this episode static Shock. We got
five comments. Let's see what we got. Uh l H.
H Emiani says, hey, riding Karen, great show. The firefighter
bloody tampon story is wow. The term Karen was reaching
for its toxic shock syndrome. But back to the story,
these people are nasty, Rock says great show. Give Karen,

(01:02:05):
Give Karen, I love y'all be easy. I guess give
Karen love y'all be easy. Let him know, Karen, says Christoph.
At the twenty seven minute Mark. What was said? I
don't know, but I said something. Let me see if
I can find it. Twenty seven minute Mark. Uh, I

(01:02:25):
think I almost got it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:28):
See, you ain't gonna have no basics. You fucking kill
the people that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
They can't hear this ship. They can't hear this ship.
Let me move, I gotta share.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
It was yelling about something.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
Yeah, I gotta Okay, let's see what Karen was talking.

Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
About depending on to keep these companies functioning.

Speaker 2 (01:02:46):
Yup? All right, Yeah, I think that that was it. Yeah,
we're definitely mad. That was a politicians well get mad. Yeah,
Karen be going off, y'all. She's always got it the
heat that aries fire. Leonardo says, I was covered year.
It was covered years ago. But they were selling parties

(01:03:06):
for two million dollars and Giuliani was the person to
go through. That was the first time around, and they
probably got better. He even fired a partner attorney this
time around. I'm telling you, I'm on the something. Jason
says man based on all the hate I've been hearing
all year. When I saw there was a plot on
Hakeeen Jeffries, I was like from the right or the left.
As a general statement, I like Cardi, but speaking out

(01:03:27):
against Trump now is a free throw in the first quarter.
We need folks to bang in the paint. Last year,
the fact that Megan McCain and Cheryl Hines even feel
comfortable going into restaurants shows that delusion. With as many
immigrants that work in restaurants, they have probably not had
an untampered with meal since February. That gender Wars was fantastic.
Cornbread hasn't caused that much drama since the lunch seen

(01:03:49):
in life. It was good, dam and the guest the
race about the tampons was Wow. From what I hear,
she was upset because he kept hold on stringing her along.

(01:04:12):
That's a good one, Jason, You magnificent son of a bitch.

Speaker 1 (01:04:15):
That's hilarious.

Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
Shoe Booty says on our comments on Spotify. Joe Exotic
is gonna be so mad if did he gets a
partner before he does, Oh, he.

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
Gonna be big high. He been begging for one forever.

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
Yeah. Yeah, he ain't got the two mills, is what
I'm here.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
Yeah, he ain't got the coins. That's that's that's why
he's still locked up. He can he couldn't pay the fee.

Speaker 2 (01:04:37):
I don't think he would be a great advocate for
Trump either. He's a loose canon wild card. He probably
get out here and ship on Trump the second he
get free. He would the pole. Are you looking forward
to the upcom NBA season? I was shocked at the
results of this poll. Sixty eight percent of y'all are
thirty two percent or not. I'm shocked this that high.
I didn't think that many people watch the NBA like us.

Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
Yeah, I love the NBA. The NBA is my favorite spot, yea,
And I love football too, but I love basketball is
my first sports love over all the sports.

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
Somebody even say basketball is my favorite sport.

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
It is. I love basketball and the first games and
watching the Hornets and we you know, we do League
past every year. It has been a ball.

Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
Yeah, no pun intended. Basketball is my favorite sport. I
like the way they gam but off the court.

Speaker 1 (01:05:25):
Oh no, oh no, no, we don't.

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
Oh no, oh man, y'all should listen to Walls Deep today.

Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
It's a tree that can promise you that much.

Speaker 2 (01:05:37):
I should get premium just to hear it. Okay, yes,
you should hate to feed on the freight t line.
You want to hear us talk about these gambling allegations.
Don't tap the glass on that table, mm hmm and
chop si billups what's stilling? Cards? And Terry rose Hip

(01:05:58):
fact that injury in the quad? All right, you know what,
let's move on. We've gotta do some voicemails. I'm getting loopy,
guys have been up too long. That's beyond by infrared crypto.

(01:06:46):
All right, voicemail time. I think we got five new ones.
Let's start with this one.

Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
Good morning, Rod and karenn.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
Hey, baby, I just wanted to keep the three simple,
and this is my first time.

Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
He'st me off.

Speaker 1 (01:07:06):
I know how to perfectly fold a fittish sheet.

Speaker 4 (01:07:14):
That's all.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
Wonderful today.

Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
Take care.

Speaker 1 (01:07:22):
I'm still gonna bot it up in a not Why
did that feel like a threat to me?

Speaker 2 (01:07:26):
I don't it was. I don't think it was.

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
It was not a thing.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
It sounded like she was letting us know, like I
killed people. Okay, I'm just letting you know. I'll bury
a body in my backyard right now.

Speaker 1 (01:07:36):
It's just I will wrap them up in his finished sheet,
and you'll never be able to find them, like you
won't be able to fold this finish shep.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
I don't like a take on Titan just because I'm
capable of all that ship, you know, means I don't
know finish people. Y'll scare me, all right. Dre left
a couple.

Speaker 3 (01:07:55):
Of voicemails m Man when y'all were talking about the
algorithm and how it shows you two completely different things,
and that same feedback episode people were talking about like
someone had brought up to Drake and Kendrick things. For
a minute, I really have like something that kind of

(01:08:18):
showed me that in my real life the algorithm thing,
because like during the Drake and Kendrick leave, all I'm
seeing on my timeline is like these ludicrous like points
from Drake fans. You know what I'm saying, Like reasons
why Drake won, reasons why Kendrick ain't all that you
know that, oh, Kendrick ain't selling out the shows. I'm
seeing all of this from Drake fans quote unquote, and

(01:08:41):
I'm even gonna take out the box because we know
that there was a lot of bots involved in that,
But just for the actual quote unquote people that may
have been right, I've seen this all up and down
my timeline, So it would lead you to believe that like,
Drake fans are all over this, but in the real world,
I'm married to a hypers Drake consumer, Like my wife

(01:09:06):
loves Drake. When I tell you that that Drake and
Kendrick beef has been like, it's not even really on
her radar, but she knows it happened. She hasn't heard
most of the songs, she hasn't.

Speaker 1 (01:09:19):
Seen any of the memes.

Speaker 3 (01:09:21):
And for a while there, I was just like, that's
wild that you can support somebody so strongly you will
pretend you don't see the blessings of return in front
of us. All Right, now, I realize she's not pretending
it's our algorithms. She consumes Drake musically, not through social media.

(01:09:42):
She's not like I want to know the up to
dates on where Drake is in the world. She actually
listens to his music all the time. Right, I don't
really listen to his music at all. I'm more involved
in Drake. My consumption of Drake actually came more from
the beat, not like I hated Drake, but just I
was a very casual listener. So my algorithm wants me

(01:10:04):
to think that all the Drake sands think all of
this stupid shit so that I'll stay engaged in this
dry ass, old ass beef right her algorithm though she
didn't give a fuck about that, so she didn't see it.
So it's literally like, when it comes to this, we
are in two completely different worlds and that what happens
with us, not us as in me and my wife,
but us as in us all existing in the world

(01:10:27):
all the time and on much more serious issues, and
ultimately that's why we're fucking cooked. And I don't know
what the solution to that is other than people living
more in real life and less online. But I don't know.
I don't think people really want to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:10:45):
That's it. Love you guys, Thank you Dray. And that's
so real because as a fan of Kendrick who was
like I was a head, I'm a heavy fan of
Kendrick be shitted anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:11:01):
And.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
I'm watching my friends who are very online gravitate into
becoming Kendrick fans. Was basically because social media kept pushing
them to be like check this guy out, look at
this and look at this impressive thing. He didn't look
at what he said because both of those guys are
such huge stars that you were like, there's so many
people that I know that don't even like rap, that

(01:11:25):
are like, Drake is a fucking pedophile. It's funny that
he got thissk. He's Waggy's corny. Like that is the
Internet that did that? You know that part of it.
And if you are able to purely consume somebody off
of just their art, which I strive to do a
lot of times, I'd actually say that's kind of one

(01:11:46):
of my major goals in life when it comes to art,
is to just consume the art and try not to
get into parasocial followings of these celebrities.

Speaker 1 (01:11:54):
Agree, because then I'm able to enjoy the art more
because there are a lot of people that make a
lot of great shit. This shit is people.

Speaker 2 (01:12:00):
Yeah, I like to carve that out, but sometimes it
gets me too. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie like everybody,
and I can't. I don't think it's just social media.
But I definitely am a lot less of a Drake
fan than I was before, and I was a decent
I was. I was like you, casual, like I would

(01:12:20):
throw a shit on and I work out to it.
I still know some of the songs and stuff like that,
but now the way that he acted after the beef
and how much of that I am aware of because
I'm I was getting fed that stuff all the time. Now,
like I don't even want to listen to this guy.

(01:12:41):
You know. It's kind of which is kind of weird,
right because I'm like, am I do I stop liking? Uh?
It's a rolling out a stop watch shit, don't ever
stop not really. If I put that song is a
song that I like. I don't think it's like the
the greatest expression of art in the world, but it's
like a good go to the gym lift some weights,

(01:13:02):
take a walk like it's a good song put in
a car and now I'm like, I can't even hear it. Crazy,
So yeah, you're right, it does affect our brains. And
shout out to your wife for being able to avoid it.
I don't know how she did that shit, but that's
that she stayed focused.

Speaker 1 (01:13:15):
She was like the music, what's this other bood? You're like, Okay,
they beef and I ain't got nothing to do with that.

Speaker 2 (01:13:20):
Although for her, the real test would be if she
hated Kendrick now, because see, the algorithm shows us the
opposite of what we think we want, So you think oh,
I just want here to support Drake, and it's like, well,
let me tell you why Kendrick gan'ts shit. Now you've
seen algorithm full of people like fuck Kendrick Lamar. So yeah,
but yeah, shout to you and your wife and to

(01:13:41):
be able to make that enter Drake Kendrick marriage work,
it's very I'm sure it's very dark.

Speaker 3 (01:13:48):
Very.

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
I'm sure you almost love each other a lot. It's
very hard to do. We got two DJ's at the
Horners game, and one of them the algorithm told him Kendrick.
One it did DJ a minor, and the other one,
whose name I don't know, clearly is in drake algorithm
because he plays so much Drake. I'd be like, do

(01:14:10):
he know this man lost this battle?

Speaker 1 (01:14:12):
He don't give a fuck. Stop harshening the vibes of
the crowd.

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
We not pretending this didn't happen, right, You see how
everybody was going up when you dropping out like us,
when a minor dropping out like us, everybody's going crazy
and then you drop.

Speaker 1 (01:14:27):
Don't give it, damn you dropped that. It's a roaly
not to stop watching everybody sat down.

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
Let it go, brother, please let it go. He don't
kill anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
He's like, y'all, y'all gonna get these songs.

Speaker 2 (01:14:36):
Drake called back.

Speaker 3 (01:14:38):
This one is the you. I have been listening to
you say that slavery is the point for years now,
and I've agreed with you the entire time. And finally
I have put together with my big conspiracy brain exactly
what these motherfuckers are really trying to do, and that

(01:15:00):
even to me it feels far affected that I believe
this in my soul, because really, this isn't me playing
the conspiracy games. This isn't me saying wouldn't it be crazy?
Is I actually believe this? I genuinely believe that this
increase in immigration enforcement trying to get all these illegal,

(01:15:20):
illegal undocumented people out is all really because when they
see them motherfucking Hispanics and them feels picking fruit and
on top of rules and certain grass doing all these
low wage jobs, they feel like them supposed to be

(01:15:41):
niggas doing it. Yes, that we done got too high
on the hall, you know what I'm saying, And now
we think that we them and they like no, y'all
are supposed to be them people. And that's why at
the same time you see this increasing in immigration enforcement.
You see, they're trying to make the student loans hit

(01:16:02):
everybody at one time. They trying to take all the
protections for your credit score away. They trying to make
your banks be able to race you on overdraft fees.
They're trying to take away all of your government subsidies
that you may have been using to keep yourself aflow,
your snap benefits, your medicaid, any level of assistance you
may have been getting. They trying to take that away
because they know that when you press people and you

(01:16:24):
put them up against the wall, they become more likely
to engage in criminal activity, and that criminality allows them
to put you back in that prison industrial complex. And
that's the only way that they legally allowed to treat
you like a slave still, And that is exactly what
I think this administration is trying to do. That's what

(01:16:45):
I think all of this white supremacy is really about.
And I think that is the true goal. It's to
get this. We have an in their mind, an underclass
of people here doing all the manual labor, and we
have allowed our under to feel as though they are
no longer that. And we need to make America great again.

(01:17:06):
And get these fucking illegals out and put the niggas
back outside where they belong. And that's what I genuinely believe.

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
Love you guys, that's deep. I can't put it past
this administration.

Speaker 1 (01:17:17):
And and I have one hundred percent agree with that
statement because and when you say that that those things
you do, you put it in better words than I have.
But I've always felt like that. And it's one of
those things because uh, time has passed and people think

(01:17:38):
these things are decades ago, but we only like a
few generations away from slavery, like literally a few generations way.
But if you let the young people said, they act
like it was, you know, three thousand years ago, and
you're like, no, bitch, it wasn't like it's it's like
your great great great great great grandma, Like it ain't
that far away. And so it's just one of those

(01:17:59):
things to where when I was smaller, I used to
hear like older like Greg Grey aunts and uncles tell
you tell us about, you know, slavery. I was a child,
but you know, we'd go down to the country down
in Waysborough and used to hear them tell you about
these stories and like that show you their scars and
shit like that. Tell They would literally tell you somebody

(01:18:20):
I could look in the eye. They wasn't a myth,
they wasn't a legend. There wasn't something I read on
a goddamn book. They were family members telling us that
these things happened to them. And so when you sit
around and you and and you think about these things,
and when you look at your life experience, and when
I was young, I would see things and not really understand,

(01:18:45):
you know, why family members would call certain things races
and things like that, because I was young and I
didn't know, and it was their way of protecting me.
But as you get older, and as you begin to
go out into the world, and as you begin to
cease to really see what the world has in store
for you, you will begin to see this society for
what it is. And so for me, I always said

(01:19:08):
that white people have always been upset once Niggers were free,
and they are like, we want to take America back.
The whole time Donald Trump was running the first time,
and he kept saying take America back to what bitch?
Back to where? Bitch? That was my whole point. What
are we taking get back to? And I've been very
adamant about that. You know, America used to be great.

(01:19:29):
What do you mean? Used to be great, bitch? When
I didn't have rights? Used to be great, you know,
and winter you could treat me like a piece of furniture.
Used to be great, you know, type of thing. You
have to watch people language and what they say, and
I don't. And I'm not one of these people, particularly
when it's come to these things, always to keep saying, no, bitch,
he meant that, he meant that. And there are millions
of people in this country that believe that shit. This

(01:19:51):
is why they can go and say, what wasn't sle
what weren't slaves happy? No bitch they want We have
written documents to say they were not. We have written
documentations from slave owners and slaves to tell you about
the ship that they happened, that happened to them, the
ship that they endure like like like this is on wax.
And so you're not gonna sit here and look me

(01:20:12):
in my eye and tell me this whole country is
a grift. We came here, there was somebody already hear,
and we said this is a new land, No bitch,
it's new to you we were already here. And the
thing is, they wanted to do to us like they
did to the Native Americans. Basically wipe out whole ass
tribes and take them away and make it so their language,

(01:20:33):
you know, nobody even knows their language or anything like that.
Talk to the people with the with you know that
that have that have gone through these things, put them
on reservations, basically almost wipe the whole population. Now, they
wanted to do that to us. But the thing about it,
we happened to be resilient. It's not that they didn't fight,
it's not that they didn't resist. They did. They have
their own stories, but they wanted to do the same

(01:20:56):
thing to us, and they couldn't. And every time they
see one of us, it remind them of a failed
group project. They failed eight years of slavery. They was like,
the fuck the fuck is this? They felt like they
failed in their project. So now they were dedicated that
we're going to get them back. We're going to let
them know their place, We're going to let them know

(01:21:17):
we think they're worthless. We're going to let them know
we don't like them, never have, never did. And so
they want to remind us of these things. And so
in my opinion, they have been very adamant about this.
And so the society in the populace has let these
people get back in power. And they was like, never forget,
like like like I use and this is something I

(01:21:39):
used to be. I used to believe that when it
came to race and racism, older people would die and
younger people would change. No, they actually passed things just
like my great grandma and great uncles and all them
passed down the stories of slavery. They passed down the
stories of racism. Ex. The daughters of the Confederacy, them
bitches still out there. Ask them, Ask them about that,

(01:22:00):
asking them about the Klan. Bitch. They're still out there too,
you know. And so it's one of those things where
these generations pass these stories down. And so the tradition
of hatred, the tradition of not loving thy neighbor, these
things have been passed down, the tradition of we are
better than like like, they've passed these things down, and

(01:22:20):
so they've wented decades. And this is a result of
the country letting us down, like like like letting other
people who are not white down. And they have let
these people in because white people don't hold white people
accountable in this country. They never have and they never will.
And that's what's painful. And so this is why a
lot of black people demand that they stand up and

(01:22:43):
we don't take bullshit like like they don't really like
us going but that you know, we have a problem
with that. And and because these are their family members,
their uncles, you know, I don't I don't care because
I'm not the one wiping the ass and feeding them,
like like, these people don't matter to me. All I
know is they want me dead like that. And for me,
it's that simple to me. But they don't see it
like that. And that's why we have this back and

(01:23:05):
forth and this wavering when it comes to things, because
at the end of the day, they don't care about
your rights. That's why you have to fight for your rights.
So when you have to vote, that's why you can't
be taking bullshit. That's why you have to stand up,
like tell me find out why you have to go
in march and protest. And if you don't want to
do that, give money, give time, do these other things,
you know, and and and and and and and For me,
this is why I have a fire within my souvity

(01:23:25):
will not let me roll over and die and give
them my goddamn country.

Speaker 5 (01:23:32):
Hello.

Speaker 2 (01:23:33):
My thing is if slaves were happy and uh, you know,
slavery wasn't that bad? How come is it never said
about anybody that's volunteering to go be a slave?

Speaker 3 (01:23:45):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:23:46):
You do it? Then? Don't you want to be heavy?
Go be go be heavy? Oh it's not for you.
Slavery for me, not for the not Okay, all right,
next voicemail and also, you know excellently.

Speaker 6 (01:23:59):
Said Hi, Rod and Karen. This is Mary and I
love your podcast and I want to give some tips
based on my own experience to any listeners who are
thinking about going premium, but they need to get their
spouse or whoever they share finances with on board. So
first tip, pick your moment to talk about it. I

(01:24:20):
did this wrong the first time because I tried to
talk to my husband about it. Well, we were on
our way to work, we hadn't gotten our coffee yet
and it was raining, so he's trying to drive in
the rain, and then he knows that he's going to
run in to get our drinks while I just sit
in the nice dry car like a princess and then
we're just driving along and I was like, Hey, I

(01:24:43):
want to spend money on this podcast that I already
listened to multiple hours a week for free, but I
want more and I have to pay for more. And
he was like, okay, well that sounds like scam. What
are you talking about, which brings me to my second tip,
don't be scared to try again, but obviously like give
it a few days and then pick a better moment.

(01:25:05):
So I waited till a few days later, and after work,
when we were settling down for the evening and everybody's relaxed,
I brought it up again so I could actually like
explain it better and talk about what the premium shows
are and what I wanted out of it, which brings
me to my final tip. Appeal to their interests. So

(01:25:26):
I wanted to listen to Spoiled Movie, the reviews and
the nerd off. I'm not into sports, he is into sports,
so I was like, hey, they also have a sports
podcast and one of their premium shows is about that.
And also Rod used to write for Game Theory, which
is one of his favorite shows, so like, you could
get something out of this, sir, so Anyway, now I'm

(01:25:50):
a premium listener and it's great, and I hope this
helps anybody who's thinking about going premium but needs to
figure out their podcast relationship balance. Last thing, this is Friday,
October twenty fourth, when I'm leaving the sportsmail, so everybody
will probably hear it on Saturday the twenty sixth. So

(01:26:10):
everybody for the week of October twenty sixth. I've got
the five star review. Okay, then somebody else needs to
clean the week after that. All right, I hope every
dudy let me's doing great and I love your podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:26:24):
Thanks, Oh my god, shout out to you. Yeah. She
was like, look I got I got next week. She
was like, Hey, we're gonna have the tag team and
take turns. Shout out to you for being consistent.

Speaker 2 (01:26:36):
Shot shout out to you, Shout out to the coordination. Like, wow,
y'all already getting one less commercial break. She thought of
everybody and everything. I like the way your brain works. Yees, yay,
I appreciate you. And yeah, and that's the thing, like
what our premium stuff was something for everybody, but it's enough,
meaning like if there's a movie podcast, here's to and

(01:27:00):
they do a Patreon, it's like, oh, you get an
extra movie review. It's like, not with us, you get
a lot of extra shit. Like actually, I actually owe
y'all a lot of movie reviews. I'm gonna bang those
out in a couple of days and just do like
a fucking marathon session. It's gonna be crazy because I
had to watch all this shit by myself. But yeah,
so anyway, yes, thank you. That was very fun, very dope,

(01:27:21):
and I hope he enjoys the sports podcast as much
as you enjoy the movies and nerd off.

Speaker 1 (01:27:27):
Yes, and also the thing about particularly if you paid
the full fifteen, you have access to everything. And there
are people that are like, I don't like sports, but
they was like, I love y'all pre game and I
love y'all Sports podcast cause it's sports and quotes quote unquote.
That's what I tell people. It's sports and quotes. So
once you really start listening to it, you will learned

(01:27:49):
it's not like your typical sports show and so and
like lips mack and good and things like that. So
I appreciate that. Thank you, sweetie.

Speaker 2 (01:27:57):
All Right, last voicemail, that was fun, Rod Karen, This
is the Blue wave writer.

Speaker 3 (01:28:03):
I heard what I recorded last week.

Speaker 5 (01:28:06):
I was talking in.

Speaker 3 (01:28:06):
My normal voice, and I sounded real low.

Speaker 2 (01:28:10):
I could barely hear me with my ear BUDJAD. So
I'm just from now on, I'm going to advise all
your callers to take it up a couple of notches
on the volgan so you can hear yourself. Y'all, have
a good one out. Thank you, very constructive voicemails this week.

Speaker 1 (01:28:30):
Straight to the point.

Speaker 2 (01:28:31):
Y'all was helping each other out. Yes, stay to the point,
making the show a little better.

Speaker 1 (01:28:35):
Come on, appreciate your community.

Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
Listen, y'all got me through this. Let's see, we started
at a that's two thirty, y'all. Y'all ain't got me through.
How long I've lost count? I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:28:46):
Seven hours into the whole workshield. We need to take
a lunch break.

Speaker 2 (01:28:52):
Just voicemails left and then I can well, then I
got to edit it right anyway, don't worry about that.
That's not your job. That's not your job. That's why
I make the money, Okay, that's why you have these commercials.

Speaker 7 (01:29:12):
You watch my shadows and move so smooth, trying to
copy my steps with the QK group. The word I said,
you echo, you repeat, but my styles of fight you
can't come pete the eyes on my crown that you
dream to where thrones and chi in the middle and
know what, keep talking my name like a block in
the street, but you ain't got the bite just to

(01:29:32):
yapping beat.

Speaker 2 (01:29:33):
You're so jealous of me. See it's man that's up
my life like on the zoo and there.

Speaker 1 (01:29:39):
You can't keep my name.

Speaker 2 (01:29:40):
I can't let me be everything that you can never be.
That's jealousy vibes by psychle music that I think is
about Obama uh and how Trump is jealous of Obama.
Very well done, but also that might be the first
song you sent without that psycho music dropping in, like

(01:30:03):
in the song Kevin Wright saying, episode thirty one seventy three,
Hey guys, I wanted to give you to a shout
out for the part of the conversation where you called
out some black celebrities and influencers crapped all over the Dems.
During the last election. These people were allowed and large
about accountability for the Dems, but now say absolutely nothing
about accountability for DJT and the Republicans. I wish more
people in podcasts will call out these people as well

(01:30:24):
as you two did during this episode. You two definitely
keep it real. Kevin. Thank you, Kevin. Here's what bothers me, Kevin.
I don't think what we did was that special or
hard or researched or well done as far as like, man,
you really got to be in the know about politics

(01:30:44):
to know this shit. I just think what we did
is not popular with a certain type of person in
the community, and especially with a lot of gatekeepers and influencers.
Stephen A. Smith would never do it. I just did.
Charlemagne doesn't want to do what I just did. Joe
Budden's not gonna do it. I just did. There's a
lot of smart, educated people that have some pretty cool

(01:31:07):
politics and everything, but like they know, there's a social
cause for what I did. What I did when I
did that, Rent was basically not cool. And and by
not cool, I don't mean like, oh party foul, I
mean like you can't be cool and say what I said. Well,
I basically said water is wet, the sky's blue. Everybody
needs to be an alternative thinker. You gotta have a

(01:31:27):
hot take, you gotta have something nobody else is gonna say.
Blah blah blah. But the only reason that nobody's saying
what I said is because it's so obvious, and I
think that lets people off the hook. We should be
we should be calling these people out, like Accountability isn't
just for Democrats, Accountability isn't just for Republicans that or conservatives.

(01:31:48):
You don't like, accountability isn't uh for just the Obamas
or Oprah or whatever the fuck. Like, if it's gonna
be universal, then call ball and strikes. And we don't
spend enough time calling balls and strikes that are obvious,
cause it's like, well everybody would agree with that, Nah,
man say it, because I know when I listen to shows,

(01:32:09):
I'll be wishing somebody would say that shit. And I
know a lot of times they don't because the moves
and shakers within this industry don't get down like that,
like they think they'll act like I'm corny. If I
was on the breakfast club talking like this, it'd be like,
what that's like? But you don't think something about the Democrats.
You don't think this. It's like it's no, they don't
want to let that be the obvious talking point. But

(01:32:32):
it's so obvious it's like watching basketball and being like, man,
I think people should not turn the ball over, and
it's like, well, can we got to come up with
another talking point. That's too good, that's too easy. I
don't know. We don't do enough of the easy shit,
and it just makes it go unsead. So we got
Snoop Dogg and Snoop and Ice Cube walking around like
they didn't contribute to this environment. And then the thing

(01:32:56):
is I would be willing to look it, overlook it,
but then people want to pat him on the back
when they finally show up and say something. I've seen
that clip of Charlottmagne talking about Donald Trump so many
times this week on my social media. I haven't engaged
with it, but it's just been like, but he was
part of the people that helped usher this in, and
how are we gonna not do this next time if

(01:33:18):
we just allow him to come to the party late
and pretend like he didn't do that shit right? I
don't know. Maybe that's why we cooked Dan Wright seeing
comments on Trump and stat Slash static shot, Hi Rod
and Karen First Love You guys wanted to comment on
your podcast about George Santos and Trump, getting paid to
give pardons. You're not wrong about him being transactional. I
think he has been caught before selling partons. But with

(01:33:40):
all the dirt on this guy, who can even remember.
I think, aside from money, Trump wants to create a
world where if you're on his side, you can do
whatever you want and to whoever you want. And if
you're on the other side, you can get thrown in
jail for nothing and you never get out right. If
you're on my side, you can litch he's still murdered.
But if you're on the other side, we are coming
for you. You will never get out of jail. So
thet He'll get on my side now. Thanks for helping

(01:34:02):
us keep us saying thank you, Danator. I think you
you're absolutely right, my girl said talked about her earlier.
She wrote in about Digital Madness. I'm so glad you
talked about the end of the book. It felt very
weird to me. You really articulated the experience. We had
a good flight, but landing was crazy. And then she
replied to that, I'm back. I listened to the next
twenty minutes. I really appreciate you taking your time to

(01:34:24):
understand the connection. I still felt it still felt like
a disjointed ending, but you helped me appreciate the end
of a bit more. I'm glad on both counts of that,
because honestly, uh, that shout out really goes to Karen,
because I was really like, not I wasn't, so I'm
overstating it for comedic effect, but I was like, man,

(01:34:45):
fuck this book. I didn't like that ending. I was like,
it just felt like he copped out at the end.
I was like, okay, but you had a status and
like findings and studies and research, and you were leading
me somewhere, and then you just kind of started like
what about philosophy? Have we thought about the way that
ancient Greeks used to walk outside in the morning and

(01:35:06):
every day? I was like, how the fuck is that
gonna get us out of any of this what? But
then as I'm talking to Karen and I'm thinking like,
why didn't I like it, It's like, oh, wait, cuz
he's right. It just it won't be the same for everybody.
He was asked, probably to give a uniform this thing

(01:35:26):
and this thing, know your thing, your solution for your
life that's gonna make you healthier, and off the digital
crack is not gonna be his right, right, like whatever,
we're not all gonna build that ironship. But the idea
of fellowship Okay, look at me words still wordsmithing. Okay,
I figured it out. It only took eight hours to

(01:35:47):
get it back on track. But my brain's coming back around. See,
you're not gonna build an iron ship, but you can't
build a fellowship with the people that you have relations
will Okay, and when you do that together, you got
a navy. Okay that I lost it, but I had
it for a second. My brain's getting back. But yeah,

(01:36:09):
I do feel like he was onto something with that part.
And then when I thought about it, I was like,
oh wait, that has worked for me, So he's right.
It just didn't look how I didn't read no fucking
play though, But but but I was, But but I was.
But I saw what he was saying. And even when

(01:36:31):
he brought it to his credit, when he brought up
those Greek philosophers and shit, he was like, who got
a lot of their ship from Africa? Like don't it
don't have to beat these people. These are the people
I studied. But it does not have to beat these people.
You can go all the way to any culture, and
you will find deep thought thought leaders and thinkers and
philosophers of the ancient days with different ways before all

(01:36:53):
this shit came along that will provide some level of basically,
go yo ass back outside, meet, commune with your fellow people,
get out in the nature, do things that help your
life in a personal level. Get your body right, get
your mind right, get your art and creativity right. Go
find those things and stop just hoping that you'll scratch

(01:37:20):
the itch by scrolling and scrolling and scrolling on an
app where the people in charge of it are basically
evil and they will never ever, ever, ever care about
your well being. So you got to care about it
more than them. And we have to care about each
other in our communities more than they will, more than
they care to abuse it. And that's the only way out,

(01:37:41):
and which is why we won't ever get out. But
that is the only way out. And I think he
was right in the end. But yeah, it was real
hippie dippy philosophical and it's a hard shift in the
book because I'm hippie dibby.

Speaker 1 (01:37:53):
Oh okay, Yeah, the transition wasn't like a slower It was.

Speaker 2 (01:37:57):
Like it was like a chapter ended, and next thing,
you know, is like, okay, Plato had said, I'm like,
uh wait what we were just talking about the oligarchs
of technocracy.

Speaker 1 (01:38:09):
It'd been different than for you to be like, okay,
I'm transitioning this book into yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:38:14):
And I should have known because he had wrote a
thing in the tech chapter that was a parable about
big tech and like it had all these allegories and
different names and and uh and uh what do you
call those things? Not what do you call those things?

(01:38:34):
Analogies and analogies and it was kind of corny. It
was like bad sci fi. And I was like, it's
weird that you just telling me statistics and backing it
up with data and studies, and then you just took
a wild turn into like in the future of the

(01:38:55):
year is thirty ninety nine and technocracy has rewed the order.
The man ain't from the mountain with the commandments of
the digital AI Beast, And I was like, what what
when did this turn into fiction? And then that should
have been my hint. This man does drugs, and he
will be you know, he used to be doing them drugs,

(01:39:16):
and he will be giving us a more like unorthodox
solution at the end of this book that is not
going to be like the rest of his book. So
it's half it's like three fourths tech book that you're learning,
and then like one fourth like let's all put flowers

(01:39:36):
in our hair book and uh, anyway, it's still hit
for me at the end. But I'm glad Karen brought
that made me question all that stuff because it actually
resolved itself. All right, last one, it's just Linda, And
she replies, just listen to your response. On the feedback
show when we talked about she was asking, what about
our local politics? Do we ever talk about that? And

(01:39:57):
she's and I told her, yeah. On the pregame to
pay well now the pregame's more germane to us is
us and Justin and uh, you know, we talked about
early voting today. We talked about like we gotta go
do research on our school board officials because we can
go early vote right now. I can pull the lever

(01:40:18):
for all Democrats if I want to, but then I
would have to leave school board blank because I actually
don't know enough about the school board candidates yet.

Speaker 1 (01:40:25):
And they wouldn't know though when we voted before.

Speaker 2 (01:40:27):
Yeah, they're not. Yeah, in the in the primary, they
weren't even listed that I remember, And so now I
need to actually look up our school board before I
go vote. And the thing is, some people want our
show to be like an educational political show and encourage
you like we're activists, and I hear you, but I'm

(01:40:48):
not an activist.

Speaker 1 (01:40:49):
I am not.

Speaker 2 (01:40:49):
And if anything, I hope y'all hear our example because
I can't and will not learn all the laws of
your state and when you vote and all. We're all
trying to help where we can, but I hope you
hear the example and go, well, if Rod and Karen
can look up who's on their school board, I can
look up on who's on my school board.

Speaker 1 (01:41:10):
If your local area that will impact you.

Speaker 2 (01:41:13):
From if they know when the early vote, I can
know in the early vote. This shit ain't rocket science.
And so let's go ahead and use those rights while
we still have them for the next ten to three
when's the for the next like twelve months, eleven thirteen months,
before you know, we're back to slavery. All right, y'all,
thanks for listening. We'll be back, Oh man, we'll be back.

(01:41:36):
I'm tired I'm gonna finish putting these episodes up and
then smoke some crack. All right, y'all, We'll talk to
y'all later. Until next time, I love you.

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