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I also wanted to thank you for continuing to cover political news – TBH for the moment, your coverage is the only one I can listen to right now. Until media can be honest and say what the real thing is and admit their complicity in this mess, how do we even start. Last week you articulated so well how saying we’re “Democrat” cannot be seen as something to be embarrassed about. It reminds me of the LA mayoral election here where the knock on Karen Bass was that she was a career politician — is that so bad? It means a career of public service, knowing how the system works, and forging alliances. This almost led our city almost voting in a billionaire real estate dude who was being framed as a maverick. FOH. And Karen, thank you for continuing to voice your anger at those people who forced our candidate Joe Biden out of the presidential race. I’m still pissed too for real – fuck them forever. I hope Joe and Jill are enjoying their grandchildren and having a good life.
Walmart lost out in Germany as far I remember because people the German unions are strong and wouldn’t let them exploit people so much, the European competition and cultural problems. Germans really don’t like singing motivational chants in the morning or other corporate motivational methods. I mean, who does? I don’t see the TBGWT family liking it?
Sorry to extend Hot Dog Gate another week and Karen, my baby you know I love you but, mac n cheese was not a side, it was a topping. If i worked at a hot dog place that offered mac n cheese and someone ordered one with everything, I too would include mac n cheese. Also, and Rod you know I love you and I know this isn’t your doing but it was like someone turned on the Nic signal, as the official Bay Areaen of the show I had to write in to say food don’t slap. Nothing but music slaps. Yaddadamean!?! xo
I live close to four Walmarts and three are white and one is black, and I notice the black one has all the baby formula, hair care products and basically every hygiene product behind the plexiglass so I only go to that one if I’m in that part of town. They do our people so dirty. But once I was in one of the white Walmarts around Christmas and was randomly hugged by a man in a Santa hat who smelled like he shit himself and I have to say it’s not an experience I care to have repeated. Bottom line is every single Wal-Mart whether black or white you enter at your own risk.
If a stranger hugged me in Walmart, I don’t think I’d ever shop in a brick and mortar store again. Shut-in instacart life from there on out.
I was on a drive from Amsterdam back to my base in Deutschland listening to this episode while getting my weekly frying from my good brother Rod. Then I thought about the last time I set foot in a Walmart? Probably before the pandemic, so I voted NO. I recently discovered a Japanese store with prices in the Walmart range that’s excellent for my walking goals. See you can’t go wrong with my leadership, walk with me, we gonna sing hail Mary together!
Yeah the downgrade in our Seattle Targets is definitely a post pandemic thing, some of them used to be super nice but not anymore, they went downhill crazy fast the past 5 years. They’ve closed some of them down entirely, and they’re always meddling in our local elections and politics too so I already had a vendetta against Target before any of this boycott stuff happened.
The snob in me voted NO in the poll because one evening, I went to the neighborhood Wal-Mart to pick up some items and in the store, there was a wine tasting. Keep in mind, I have been to many a wine tasting, but I have NEVER seen a wine tasting that included Barefoot wine, random-ass box wines and any other cheap $8.99 and under offering. And bless the brother who was doing the pouring, who could not tell me any tasting notes and just looked like he was pouring wine against his will. He might as well poured out some Old English and call it white wine. The fact they had a wine tasting was something….bless their hearts.
Members of the disasterbating punditocracy have still not apologized for the part they played in the 2024 mess. Not only that, they are doubling down on the idea it was all Biden’s fault.
They continue to lie about the fact that there was a primary and Biden won.
They continue to say that the annoying gadfly who got half as many votes as Biden came within a hair’s breadth of winning the primary… Bernie got his ass whooped thrice, get over him. he’s not the savior of the party, he’s just an annoyance.
That being said, I want to thank all y’all for your contributions to the discourse. Your politics segment is radically reasonable, and your choice to end it when you get mad is very responsible.
And sorry for any comment I made that may have been misinterpreted as a suggestion that Karen was less than brilliant. It was not intentional, and I apologize for the possibility that my comments seemed disparaging to Karen in any way, I will seek to be more cautious with my wording moving forwards.
The German laugh exchange rate is a different one, it’s true.
I’m very proud to know that when I face for example a very serious German administrative employee in an office, they will still laugh and let their human side out in the interaction.
It comes from dealing with customers/physicians/ people used to be in charge for two decades and getting something like an additional sense for an entrance to the sweet person behind the hard German shield.
Politics until we get mad is a great segment and a real service,
When you do it, I feel understood and think: “ cool, other smart people are also seeing it, good. I’m not going insane as by having my views. “
And also, you are seeing it, talking about it and are able to make it fun when you decide to move on to other segments. Because it’s ok to still laugh and find joy elsewhere, Its ok not to make the terrible politics the only content of our lives.