Rod and Karen banter about pay phones, revisiting the TikTok discussion, and a car show at the breakfast spot. Then they discuss Trump threatening Putin, DOGE IG influencer, Trump declares national emergency on electricity, people are paying to dine with Trump, Trump bans the HuffPo from White House, CEO resigns after Nazi salute, CDC defies RFK Jr, White House reverses cuts to 9/11 First Responders, Justice department shuts down law enforcement monitoring, R. Kelly remixes in jail, small plane crash, Girl Scout cookies sued over alleged contaminants, Stephen A confronted by Lebron, White People News and Sword Ratchetness.
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Stephen A talks a good game but I bet he was nervous when LeBron confronted him. I think he’s lucky LeBron was at work at the time because he might have gotten yoked up. He reminds me of those reality shows where one person talks a lot of shit because they know security will step in.
Finally, the tariffs are helping someone, and it’s great, I’m sure everyone is happy.
From my daily Pharma news:
Drugmakers Mallinckrodt and Endo get a bump from tariffs in $6.7 billion merger. March 13 (Reuters) – Mallinckrodt and Endo drugmakers which recently emerged from bankruptcy after a wave of U.S. opioid lawsuits, announced plans Thursday to join forces in a deal valued at $6.7 billion.
Mallinckrodt Chief Executive Siggi Olafsson said the companies’ operations and products complement each other. With large manufacturing facilities in the U.S., he said the combined company could actually see some benefit from U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imported goods.
“We saw (tariffs), in a way, as an opportunity,” Olafsson told Reuters, adding that the companies have a manufacturing base in the U.S. for many key products. “That helps us.”
Justice department shuts down law enforcement monitoring, but both sides are the same?
Voting doesn’t matter? And now you have it.
I tried Tik tok out when it started and found that it was extremely addictive, so I never went back.
But also, I am extremely selective with my media consumption because I know, that I can be emotionally affected pretty easily, even if my brain knows that it’s not necessary.
R. Kelly maybe isn’t doing himself any favors when what he communicates is : where’s my money , instead of I’m a changed man now.
But what do I know. Maybe Trump will free him soon somehow just out of spite and make him write a new national anthem that praises him.
Rod and Karen, yall hit on a conversation that I’ve been having recently with my people. All of the folks in my life that use to remember everyone’s phone numbers are all out of order. Not one can remember more than a few numbers because they just don’t have to commit to remembering those numbers anymore. That phone dies and they get stuck with the person whose number they actually remember, and they don’t have a phone for some strange reason, just hang it up. Y’all just living here wherever here is now!
But I as a non remembering fella who use to have to write all the numbers in a little book, at times feel like I have the keys to the phone kingdom. So every so often a friend will call to ask me for someone’s number and I go to my little book of numbers, then flip through.
Most of my people have been fairly responsible adults and haven’t changed their number in decades so it works.
Another follow up I didn’t think the commenter was “defending” TikTok I think he was pointing out that your description of TikTok wasn’t wholly accurate because you can accumulate a following and make money on there without being super attractive in a way that has not been done on IG. Nobody is “defending” righteousness of the app. We all know they boost certain creators who have a certain esthetic. But your characterization of the kind of content on the app was not wholly accurate.
And with all due respect, as someone who doesn’t use the app I think you can let the people who do use it vouch for the kind of content that is on there. It’s still a terrible company like the rest of them. It’s not pure in any way. I’m just saying you don’t have to be beautiful to have success on there.
Ok, now I’m done.
I have to agree with the commenter you brought up on the show who wrote in about TikTok. It may just be your algorithm but there are people on there not in glam, hair undone, bonnets on, looking raggedy and they do have a lot of followers. I cant name any specific ones because I just don’t keep up with TikTok creators like that, but
I promise I’m not lying to you. Lol.
I be SHOCKED how people get on there sometimes because the millennial in me can’t fathom getting online and looking crazy but they do it. A lot of times they will start off saying “I know I look crazy right now but…”
Even the people who don’t get on disheveled, a lot of the content creators who produce very niche content are not conventionally attractive but the content they put out is what draws people in.
I think the glam look was big in the pandemic but not so much now. Instagram is more centered on looks but TikTok is all about the content.
Things I said “I’m not saying there aren’t outliers.” Things I never said “You HAVE to be attractive to blow up on TikTok.”
Things no one has done yet, Named these unattractive TikTok stars. Let’s see some some examples. There were exactly ZERO of them in the top TikTok followed accounts in the list I provided.
It’s not about TikTok. It’s deeper than that. It’s about visual media that requires someone to be on camera vs media that is written. Check out “Amusing Ourselves to Death” by Neil Postman if you’d like to see more about it.