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I’d like to clarify my statement about southern grocery stores. I still think they’re elite but the more I think about it there are good grocery stores up here as well. I’m surrounded by wegmans and ShopRite is pretty decent depending on the location. I just think grocery stores in general cater to the area they are located and up here they wouldn’t have a peach heat chicken. I’m from the south so I love southern cuisine. I live in a pretty white neighborhood so if I want to get the good seasoning and the cuts of meat I like I have to drive to the city where more black people live. I remember last year around thanksgiving I was looking for turkey necks to make dressing but none of the stores in my area had it. So I had to drive to the city. I know they would have been in a southern grocery store no matter what neighborhood. Plus I miss boiled peanuts.
I’m not sad that Charlie Kirk died. And if I’m keeping it 100 I don’t think a lot of these people who are publicly mourning him do either. I’m finding a lot of this online carrying on performative. And Dump is definitely using him to keep us distracted from the Epstein files. In a couple weeks his passing will be buried under another cycle of news and in a few months, no one will hardly speak his name. Remember Rush Limbaugh? He was once a lionized conservative and I bought him up to a friend to prove my point and she didn’t even know he died. Forgotten because he added absolutely nothing to society but hate. And the fact that no one who is supposedly mourning him can quote anything he’s said or state anything of worth that’s he’s done, he’ll be forgotten too when the media and content creators can no longer get clicks or views from his name.
This was an amazing episode! Thanks to you both for two-and-a-half hours of greatness. Both of your reactions to that email from Stephanie that implied you might take time off because of Charlie Kirk had me crying! I needed that laugh today. Much love and gratitude to you both!
In terms of Charlie Kirk, while it not acceptable that he was assassinated, mourning him is not necessary. Some people deserve a eulogy and some people deserve a fuqeulogy (term coined by Andy Zaltzman), I think that it is pretty clear which category Kirk falls in.
It’s a difficult balance to acknowledge that the world is a better off place without him, while also acknowledging that the world would be a better off place without political assassinations. However, it should also be acknowledged that every thing ICE is doing is political violence and should be condemned as harshly or more harshly than the assassination of a nazi piece of shit.
I absolutely see your point and I thought about political violence a lot the last week. My conclusion is pretty much, no political violence is the best amount because if it’s normalized, someone we like might be next. As it already happened in the past.
Hey Rod and Karen, I’m listening to the feedback show you can get mad later. I think it’s what it’s called where you are responding to the feedback. you’re mentioning about people being radicalized online. This is honestly something that I have been waiting to hear others talk about now you’re discussing about The clear men being radicalized online, however, I have noticed in my personal life black men as well with this red pill movement. I honestly think it is all under the same umbrella.
these men are somehow becoming indoctrinated and I can’t really find much information regarding others experiences, but what I noticed in my own personal life is my now ex-significant other. It started various innocently with him, laughing and joking about certain things he was hearing people talk about online saying how crazy it was and the rapid progression to him, embracing those same ideologies. listening to Jordan Peterson, literally all of the time to also listening to the red pill ideologies in it completely rewired his brain, and he essentially almost became a conservative, stating how it wasn’t so bad and they never did anything to him. This is a black man which is insane…
Again, there is definitely something going on his algorithm somehow started showing him all of these things and he, for whatever reason embraced it. I remember our daughter giving me a girl’s rule bumper sticker and him becoming so enraged asking what about boys and that’s when I really knew he had gone on the deep end. Kevin Samuel, Andrew huberman, Andrew Peterson, it’s a dark, dark rabbit hole that leads to the manosphere and I think a lot of these people are becoming brainwashed essentially.
I’m only just now getting to episode 3154 and I’m not on social media, so this is the first I’m hearing about the passing of Coqui Negra. I became a fan of hers listening to her and P-Funk on Molecules and Shit, but MTR Network doesn’t really have a feedback show or even an email line, so I am writing in to y’all in the hopes that you will extend my condolences to her online family. Sorry for your loss.
Exactly Rod, about others things also having side effects!
An extreme diet of any kind ( think about strange diets of the past) would have side effects. Even if it’s feeling dizzy from hunger and being able to concentrate less.
So even if I don’t take weight loss medication, I don’t judge anyone who does. And all the data that came out about them was very positive, there was new data on positive effects on the heart recently published for example.
I had to reduce social media because I noticed that the fear and anger stay with me for a long time. They are very strong emotions and obviously motivate people to stay online more. They have nowhere to go, and if I would engage more, they would only grow.
I can’t just shut them down, and I dont think most people can.
I’m not an angry person in general, I always think, i have to be selective about what angers me, because I don’t want to be in an angry place all the time.