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Government Assistance, Election News, Political Change, and more | S14 E3 | Live! w/ Fefe & Freddy · Live! with Fefe and Freddy

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Hello, hello, hello. Good evening, good evening, good
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evening. Well, welcome back.
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Welcome back, especially you. I know I'm, I, I would just
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first of all like to apologize to everybody.
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I had every intention of being here last week.
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I even up until it was literally right up until about the time
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when I had to start getting ready, I was on the couch
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miserable. This migraine knocked me out for
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a full like 24 hours. It was not fun.
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So I apologize to everybody for missing.
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I do like, yeah, that was that was not so fun.
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So I apologize to everybody. For now, talk about it.
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So welcome back to your Wednesday night conversation.
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This is live with Fifi and Freddie.
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I'm Felicia Fifi minor. If you're new here, that's
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Freddie Prince Charming over there and we today usually
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things are kind of light and you know, like, ha ha, but we got a
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lot of. Housekeeping, we got a lot of,
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we got a lot of stuff. We got a lot of housekeeping
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items that we need to take care of and that we'd like you to
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join in on the conversation. But today is packed with like,
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things like how to check your privilege in times of need, the
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latest in politics and election results.
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I'm interested in talking about that and what the government
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shutdown really means because life hasn't stopped for us.
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I mean, I'm not building an east wing on my house, are you?
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No, I've opted in fact for a S wing.
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I I don't care for east wings as far as funchue goes AS wing is
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actually more cohesive for us. I see, and your neighbors
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probably appreciate it more, I'm sure.
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Oh no, they've they've been building AN SE and West Wing for
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the last four years. Oh shit, oh damn, we're in
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trouble. Then we're in trouble and
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trouble and trouble. But my question for the audience
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would be because things have changed.
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This is what I wrote. Last night.
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Sorry, my bad. But what's your comfort, Your
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current comfort Show, movie or song right now?
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Because I feel like in times like this, we get to the point
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where we have like a movie we watch to feel good.
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We have a song that we you don't even know which way is South.
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South is down, N is up. Whatever.
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We don't teach those kind of things here.
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I'm sorry. I'm very directionally
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challenged so. What's what's your comfort show?
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Lately it has been watching like documentaries on people that you
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know like you have like the shallow knowledge of them.
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Like the last one I watched was the John Candy one.
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I haven't watched that yet because everybody I know that
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has watched it said they started bawling within the 1st 2:00.
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Minutes and yeah. So, yeah, so I, I haven't, I
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haven't, I haven't gotten there yet.
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So documentaries because it it takes you to a point in time,
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especially if the person has passed where you get to like
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study where they were and get to know that time and why they were
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the way they were. It it kind of gives you, it
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takes you out of where we are right now.
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If if you're a fan of like biographical or autobiographical
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documentaries. If you haven't seen it yet, I
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highly recommend the Paul Rubens one I'll have.
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To check that out. Pee Wee Herman.
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Absolutely. Because was it you that told me
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that you might cry? Oh, I, I, I knew I was going to,
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but it was, it was so good. And there were so many things
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that I didn't know about him and about what he did in his career
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and like, it was what he gave up for his career.
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It it's, it's brilliant. So if you're into those kind of
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documentaries, you definitely watch Paul Rubin's once because.
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It's it's amazing. What's that on?
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I want to say. Not HBO.
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I think it's HBO. Pretty sure it's.
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Calling it these days, HBO Max. It's.
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It's flip flopping. It was HBO and then it was HBO
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Max and then it was just Max. And now I think they just went
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back to HBO, but I'm not sure. This is how I this is how I find
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it. I just, I, I just talked to my
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remote and then it brings oh. Yeah, that too.
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It's for me like comfort shows and things are are a little bit
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difficult because when I'm I don't, it's hard because like I
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tend to want to not have to think about things.
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I don't want to have to necessarily feel things either.
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So I will usually either put on some stupid reality show that I
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don't care about, like a Real Housewives, something that I'm
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not even invested in, like I don't really care.
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It's just on in the background or whatever.
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Or I will like play a video game, which is the video games
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are how I got through the pandemic.
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Like I, that's, that's what the pandemic is what turned me into
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like a gamer that I, I never was when I was like younger.
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So, but it's, I think it's for me, it's a form of of sort of
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disassociating. Like we'll, we'll sit and we'll
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watch things together like myself and my partner or
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whatever. But I as far as like me watching
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something, it's hard. I don't want to have to think.
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I don't necessarily want to have to follow a plot and I don't
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necessarily want to feel deep feelings.
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So it's, it's tricky. It's tricky when it comes to
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shows like that to kind of. So no biographical documentaries
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for you. It depends on how like feely
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they are. I know, I know.
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And I know that you are a true kind baddie too.
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So I feel like some of your I don't feel like you have to
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really think because like by the middle of the episode you're
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like, yeah, the husband did it, but I'd like to know why.
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But. Pretty much.
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Pretty much that's, I mean, yes, that's and the reason I am like,
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I like, I, I watch a lot of like documentaries on like serial
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killers and like true crime stuff, whatever.
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And a lot of it is because the psychology behind it is
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fascinating to me. It's like what, like these these
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normal seeming people that, you know, are often, you know,
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leaders in their community or whatever are like have these
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secret lives and nobody knew, right?
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You know, and either either nobody knew that they had like,
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you know, 27 bodies in their basement or, you know, they they
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didn't realize that this charismatic individual that was
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convincing them to do all these things was a sociopath.
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Like I'm like, how do you? OK, you didn't know you you
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didn't know, right, that he had like 72 girls in his backyard.
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How you didn't know, right, Right.
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It's. Like OK, good for you.
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The ones with the people that survive, that freaks me out
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'cause then I'm like, oh. Yeah, those are those are those
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are the. Trauma they're living with I
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don't Lord. Yeah, no, no, I try to, I Yeah,
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no. No, thank you.
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support us. But also, we like to think wigs
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of a kind. I am wearing a wigs of kind wig
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tonight. Freddie is not.
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It didn't go with me unless she makes hats.
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I. Would like to inquire.
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One would consider this to be a hat too.
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I have to be a patron or I don't know anything happening in my.
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But except that she never looks at the the Patreon.
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She never looks at the Patreon. What?
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So I don't like she doesn't she has no like she'll say something
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and I'm like we have. To be talking mad trash about
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her. A gerbil is trapped in my OK.
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OK I love it when we get the weird little trolls from
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YouTube. That makes me happy.
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That's cool. I can't wait to talk more about
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that later. If you're on the podcast, we've
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had a troll drop in. Does that mean we made it now?
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Probably. I think so.
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I think that that's but since we've made it, how was your
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weekend? Because I they have heard from
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me twice. So, so I'll, I'll catch you up
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on a little bit because I didn't, I wasn't here last week.
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So I have like a whole weekend before that to kind of catch
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everybody up on. So like I said, I did get hit
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with a migraine last week, which was miserable and I like I could
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feel it coming on and it was just not all right.
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So I didn't get to talk about the trunk or treat that we did
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the weekend prior with Epic Rd. Coffee.
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That was fun. They had a great turn.
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Out I showed pictures of you and.
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Oh, but we that's cute. We, we got the our oldest and
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his girlfriend to come out with us and they like did the trunk
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or treat with us and they both had a really good time.
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Like the oldest one is he's great with kids, He loves kids.
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And we had a whole like carnival set up and it was, it was great.
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The kids were awesome. There was this little guy that
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was probably, I don't know, maybe 2 and we have like little
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mini carnival games set up. And there was like a ring toss
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with like the little like almost like traffic cones and like the
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colored rings. And he just kept coming over and
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like matching the rings on the colored, like the colored the
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cone. And every time he did it, he
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would like put it over and he'd be so excited and there like it
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was, it was great. It was so much fun.
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Halloween was very low key at our house.
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We didn't have the kids and. Where were they at?
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Their dads. I'm in your business.
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You're welcome. And but like, we don't really do
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Halloween. It's like, I don't know it, I
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think. I feel like it's a drag day off
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for some of us. Well, there's that, but it's
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also like, I don't know, it feels like you go out and you're
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around a bunch of people that are a lot younger that like if
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you're not in like a harness and like a jock strap, then it's
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like you're not. Oh, you mean gay?
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Christmas, So it's like, I don't know, it it it's kind of I'm
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not, I'm not so much I'm a probably makes me a bad gay, but
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I'm not really like into this sort of Halloween thing anymore.
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Like it just, it's, it's just like another night out because
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you see all the same people in drag, but it's spooky drag,
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which you see anyway, you know what I mean?
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Everybody's wasted and it's like, no, thank you.
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Was it spooky though? I saw some people dressed as
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Freddy Krueger and I was like, that's just saying makeup
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though. Right.
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I mean, is it is it is it alt drag if everybody's doing it?
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So we just had like a, we just did like a a movie night.
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We had like a few friends over and we just did like we watched
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the shining because a bunch of people hadn't seen the shining
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before. And we watched Tucker and Dale
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versus evil, which if you haven't seen it, that is a great
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movie. It is cheesy as hell.
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It is fantastic. It's, it's one of those like
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horror comedies Like it's it's. It's.
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Guess yeah, It's campy, it's gory, but you're laughing the
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whole way through it. Because Alan Tudic is amazing.
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And anything that Alan Tudic is, I will.
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I will. I block them and now they're
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back. Oh.
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That's exciting for them. We also decided and it's I'm a
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shameless plug. So we got married in March and
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those of you who know, know that it was done in a matter of four
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days like it was proposal. And then four days later we got
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married. And you know, when we put the
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the invitations and things out, it was we knew that a lot of
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people with four days probably wouldn't be able to go.
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And that's fine. It was.
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We're OK with it. Had a good helping.
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It was, I thought it was great. I, I, I don't know that I would
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have changed anything, honestly. And so we had originally planned
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on doing sort of a bigger, more, I don't know, traditional
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wedding, I guess in March for our one year married
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anniversary, six year together anniversary.
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And then we decided, you know what?
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No, we really don't want to do that because our wedding that we
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had was great. I right, it was perfect.
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I don't, I wouldn't have changed anything.
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The people who showed up are the people that we love and who love
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us. And we know that the you know,
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but some of the people who weren't there, some of the
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people who weren't able to make it whatever kept asking us if we
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had any sort of a registry and we didn't.
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And people were like, well, do you want you to set something
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up? So we went back and forth on it.
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We're like, I don't know, do we? Do we not?
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Do we? So we finally decided to set up
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a honey fund, which if one would like to to contribute to said
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honey fund, instead of having a wedding in March, we're going to
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go on an actual honeymoon, which we haven't done so.
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You haven't travelled in a minute.
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I know it's been, we haven't really done anything in a while
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and it kind of sucked. But you know, that is the plan
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for March is to go and actually take a real honeymoon.
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We've taken a couple weeks off so that we can actually go and
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enjoy some places. The plan is, you know, like
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Disney and Universal. So if anybody would like to
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contribute to our honey fund to, you know, help us do the thing,
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let me know. I will send you the link.
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We will also, we can also post it on the show page as well.
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And one of the other things that I'm doing is I last week or so,
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I have been putting together the application and putting together
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all the docs to get the application in for my Canadian
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citizenship. There is a loophole that I
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technically fall under. Hopefully I will get approved.
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We shall see. But I have until the end of the
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month. So I'm like scrambling to get
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everything situated. So fingers crossed on that, that
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I once I get everything turned in and everything, they'll look
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at it and go, Oh yes, this person really should be a
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Canadian citizen and send me my Canadian citizenship so I can
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stop telling people I'm American because I fucking hate it.
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So anyway, how was your? Weekend Felicia on that now.
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Oh my God, look. I have.
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I have. I have never.
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I have never felt any sort of an attachment to this country.
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The only reason I am an American is because I have the misfortune
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of being born here. Had my mother decided to wait
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just a couple of weeks, I would have been born in Indonesia and
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I would have then I would have had dual citizenship, I would
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have had an American citizenship, and then I would
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have been a naturalized Indonesian citizen.
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But instead my mom decided to bullshit the airlines fly when
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she was like 8 1/2 months pregnant just so I can be born
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in Michigan. So it's all her fault.
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Wow. It was the 70s, nobody cared.
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Wow, I know. Yeah, she should have been.
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No flight. No flight.
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All she all she had to do, all she had to do was just hang on
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for just a little bit longer. But no.
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The nerve, The nerve. So first thing I did last week's
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show and I thought I did pretty well, but I guess the Internet
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didn't so. If you want.
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To watch last week's show, I think it's still on YouTube.
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I'll have to double check, but last I checked I So at some
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point I because I have gotten into the habit of as soon as
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we're done here, I'll download the episode, upload it to
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Spotify. If your mother had waited, I
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think this is you coming too early.
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I don't think so. She would have been fine.
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I would have been on time, but I would have been there.
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That's an excuse. Anyhow, but then so my episode
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disappeared off of Spotify. I've tried to delete it, I've
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tried to upload it again and I don't see it.
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I've gone to other apps and I don't see it.
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I see our season 14 premiere. That's weird.
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And then gone. It was there because I shared
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it, but then it was gone. That's so weird.
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It's in the lost file somewhere. I have every.
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Episode downloaded, so there's that.
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It's the, it's the, it's the random missing episode.
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There's always at least one that kind of happens like that every
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season. There's one that just disappears
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into the ether and we have no idea where the hell it went.
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And that's what is going on. So if you're ever it, you don't
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miss much, but if you are ever so interested, you too can have
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this episode that you're longing for that I decided to.
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I felt like I had deleted 'cause, you know, like you go
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like, oh, maybe I deleted it on accident.
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No, it's there. Right.
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And check that. It says like it says.
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It says a number of people listen to it, so not sure what's
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going on, but trick or treat, I'm Speaking of Halloween.
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I went trick or treating with the girls as a grandpa.
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My outsides matched my insides. And I can share that with you if
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you are not on the face of books, as some of you are not on
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the face of books. Yeah, I didn't even go.
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I wasn't even in costume. I was wearing an octopus onesie
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on which is so. Cute.
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I was like, let me see. But yeah, where's everybody
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else? Where?
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Where did we go? I don't know.
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Can. OK, there we are.
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So yeah, my, I just kind of threw this on, but you would
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have thought in this neighborhood they were like,
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this is great. And I was like, it's just a wig
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and a mustache and like I just drew the lines.
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That's all I did. I didn't even.
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Put foundation on. I that was it, glued A mustache
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to my nose very haphazardly and put on a wig.
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We appreciate the effort. Yes, but the girls had fun and
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that's all that matters. And the switch which came.
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Have I explained this to you all, the switch witch, I'm
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trying not to talk to you all because their bedroom is the
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bedroom is like right here. Like they're right there.
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The switch witch. So you collect all your candy on
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Halloween night and then like depending on the switch witch
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conditions, the switch witch will come pick up your candy.
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You leave it on your front door and the switch which will come
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pick up the candy and replace it with a toy.
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Now last year the switch which got overzealous and had Target
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coupons. This is before Target lost its
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mind and the switch which could go there and not feel like a
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guilty half hazard. So.
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But this year I did not and so the switch witch brought play
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DoH that she has stashed in the closet.
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It was still fresh I'd. Say it's all crusty and hard.
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It wasn't, I don't know, as a parental unit, I have things
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kind of like stashed away just in case, like I can't make it to
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a birthday party or something. I have some you know, here,
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there and everywhere items. We have random shit like that
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around the house too because my partner is in early childhood
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education so like we always we always have something random
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like. Oh, look at, there's a random.
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Shit up. I was like, right, Like you
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would think that a lot of times you'd come in and think that we
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have toddlers all over the house because there's like either
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games or toys or fidgets or something like everywhere.
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And I'm like. Well, in education, sometimes
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they give you those things for free.
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Like they like totally, like, oh, here's like a book set and
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you're like a whole book set. Yes.
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OK. And you just give these things
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anyway. So they got a bubble machine and
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play DoH. That's nice.
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So the switch witch was very generous.
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See, I think the switch witch and I'm like, like you're gonna
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switch and you're gonna. No, that's, that's adulthood.
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We're down here, we're still growing.
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We're on Saturday. Lots of work and kids and
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things. But.
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Work and kids. Sunday was good, but I don't
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think we did anything. I think I just caught up on
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tours. But on Saturday I watched South
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Park and I don't watch South Park normally.
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Except somebody had brought it up like in passing.
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Like you should see the latest South.
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Park. I haven't watched any of the New
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South Park. I haven't watched any South Park
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in years. Well, because there's a lot
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going on. So I don't understand the whole.
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I work with high school students, so 6-7.
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It has a lot of floating meanings and.
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I don't hilarious and I don't understand the whole 6-7 years
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like everything it it all but every time you like you if you
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look it up, it all looks everything like there's
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different explanations for what the fuck it is Yeah, which.
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So 6-7 is in there, the latest Internet craze whatever.
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And then dump truck is also featured in there and supposedly
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he's having a butt baby with Satan because Satan when he fell
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from heaven God made his butt hole like this small and only
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dump trucks penis fits in it. See I wish they wouldn't with
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like the tiny Dick jokes because.
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Yes, I understand, I understand, I understand.
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But it's making fun of dump truck so that.
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Yeah, I know. I'm just like.
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Yes. And in there they're like saying
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like, you know, we are so sorry for talking about the president.
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You know how SNL kind of did a couple years ago.
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So as a result, Satan is having a butt baby at the White House
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and I haven't gone any further because Satan is mad that dump
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truck is destroying the east wing when it's supposed to be
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the nursery. So stay tuned for my because I
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don't usually watch that kind of TV.
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So we'll see. Maybe I'm into, maybe now I'm
27:54
into South Park, I don't know. I'm like with, with all the jabs
27:58
they've been throwing at like twitler and things, I'm like, I
28:02
maybe I'll start watching it again, yeah.
28:05
I was like, Oh my gosh, OK, that's funny.
28:08
OK. But with that being said, let's
28:12
move on to the tip. OK so this week my tip we are
28:35
going to talk about privilege, government assistance and not
28:40
being a Dick basically. So someone posted today on the
28:47
Facebook a thing that said I drove by a food bank and all the
28:50
cars in line were new. What the fuck?
28:53
And I'm like. What?
28:57
And I'm sure that everybody has seen all of the debates about
29:02
people on Snap being able to buy luxuries with large quotes like
29:08
cake, cookies, things like that. You know, people are like, well,
29:12
you're going to buy cake, I don't want you, blah, blah,
29:14
blah. It's so fucking stupid.
29:15
So there's a lot to unpack when talking about things like
29:21
government assistance, especially when it comes to
29:24
privilege first and foremost. On assistance then.
29:29
I have. Back in the day I have.
29:35
And here's the thing, if you are not on, or if you've never been
29:39
on any kind of government assistance, shut the fuck up
29:44
'cause you have no idea. You have no idea what it's like.
29:47
You have no idea what that means.
29:50
If you have an issue with a family buying a cake for a
29:53
birthday party, but have no issue with your tax dollars
29:57
funding wars or paying the salaries of government officials
30:01
who are continue to work against your best interests, shut the
30:04
fuck up. Here's the thing.
30:07
Buying groceries is expensive. These days.
30:12
It is expensive. We probably spend not OK, so in
30:18
my family there's myself and my partner and then every other
30:22
week we have three teenagers in the house with us.
30:27
We have 5 people around math right?
30:30
So it's 5 people and we probably spend anywhere between 100 and
30:36
150 every time we go to Fry's, and that's even just going to
30:41
Fry's if we just need a few basic staples.
30:46
And that doesn't include like, soap that doesn't include
30:52
laundry detergent. Yep, this is basically just food
30:58
and we are we are privileged in that if there's something that
31:04
we really want, we can usually get it.
31:09
We're able to make extra of a lot of what we have and feed our
31:14
kids friends if they need it. Like our oldest has a Co worker
31:20
who when he's closing with him, a lot of times he'll be like,
31:23
you know, I'll be like, hey, you guys eating here?
31:26
I guess. All right.
31:26
The ones that we're having. Right.
31:29
And you know, he's like, hey, you know, Isaiah wants to know
31:33
if there's enough for him. And I'm like, yes, there's bring
31:37
your friend, we'll feed him. It's fine.
31:38
Like we, we got that we're still able to go out to eat on
31:43
occasion, though admittedly it's been quite a bit less frequently
31:47
than usual. It's like I, you know, we, we
31:55
have a, a, a, a deep freezer Outback.
32:00
And honestly, this has been one of the big, the best investments
32:05
that we could have possibly made.
32:06
Because what we'll do is like, if we're shopping at Fry's,
32:10
we'll look for meats and stuff on clearance.
32:13
So you buy meats on clearance and you?
32:16
I like this idea. And it's honestly, it's been
32:19
brilliant. Like we finally and and yes.
32:22
Sometimes reason for my birthday.
32:24
That's how you know how old I am.
32:26
Right. And it's like sometimes we don't
32:28
go through all of it, but we we usually do.
32:32
Like we usually make a pretty decent dent in it, although
32:36
right now we have an excess of tilapia, catfish and salmon, but
32:44
that's a lot. No, it's a lot of tilapia,
32:46
catfish and salmon like. Like how much we talking?
32:50
Like a lot, like I think we decided we had, if we ate
32:54
nothing but tilapia, catfish, 'cause it's always on clearance.
32:59
But like the other day, in fact, right before, or was it the, it
33:03
was like the night before I got hit with the migraine.
33:05
I made the coconut rice with salmon and the smell of it made
33:11
me so nauseous. That's one of the reasons I knew
33:14
that it was, no, it was like, no, it was not seven days worth
33:18
of food. It was like 2 weeks worth of
33:19
food. It was 2 weeks worth of salmon,
33:21
tilapia and catfish. It was a lot of salmon, tilapia
33:24
and catfish. But we, we buy the food, the,
33:28
the meats on clearance, freeze them and then we're able to like
33:31
pull them out as we need it. And, or we also have a Costco
33:37
membership. So if Costco has a good deal on
33:39
some stuff, we're able to get stuff at Costco, freeze it,
33:42
which helps. A lot of times our meals are
33:47
dependent on what we have in the freezer, you know?
33:50
Absolutely. So I have been on food stamps or
33:55
EBT before and I would get the cheapest food I could and a lot
34:03
of times that was like beefaroni for a dollar or like a pack, you
34:08
know, frozen burrito, shit like that.
34:10
And I hate eating that stuff regularly.
34:13
I occasionally will like sometimes I'll have a weird
34:15
craving for like beefaroni so I'll get like a couple cans of
34:17
beefaroni. But regularly I hate eating that
34:23
stuff like all the fucking time. Like I, I fucking hate it.
34:28
But when you're on assistance like that, especially if you
34:31
have kids, you make sure that your kids eat before you do.
34:34
You get what you're, you're going to a lot of times you're
34:38
going to, you're going to, even if it doesn't seem like the best
34:40
food, like your kids are going to eat chicken Nuggets, which
34:42
have actual protein and things like that.
34:44
Well, meanwhile, you eat ramen, you know.
34:46
You. You rely on things like free
34:49
school lunches to take care of at least one meal a day.
34:52
Because when we're talking about government assistance, when
34:55
we're talking about EBT, food stamps, things like that, it's
34:58
not as much as you think it is. Like there people are not
35:03
getting like $1500 a month in food stamps.
35:06
Like that's not, that's not a thing.
35:07
No. And we used to get it when we
35:10
first got the girls. And I want to say we weren't
35:16
getting more than like $200. And if you've ever fed kids
35:21
before, that does not go very far, especially.
35:27
It doesn't. If there's five of us here, we
35:30
can't feed 5 people on that at. All not, not, not, not well, not
35:37
healthy, no like, and everybody's like I.
35:39
Can make like big stack meals as I called them 'cause you can buy
35:43
like, you know, like you buy the meats, I buy the meats and the
35:47
noodles and the thing and I make a big pot of something 'cause it
35:50
can last. You know, we, we, I'll make a, a
35:54
big pot of spaghetti and then freeze the sauce, whatever's
35:56
leftover, you know, like 'cause and eating healthy is expensive.
36:03
You know, anybody that says otherwise, you're full of shit
36:07
and you're completely out of touch with reality.
36:09
Vegetables. Have you seen how much
36:10
vegetables cost? It's insane.
36:14
And like especially you're talking about like fresh
36:17
veggies, you know, because all right, you can get canned
36:20
veggies, but canned veggies are really not that healthy with the
36:22
sodium and everything that in them.
36:23
Like they're not that great. The cost of.
36:26
They're. Disgusting.
36:28
It's like the the cost of of fresh produce is insane.
36:36
Well it's because dump trucks not supporting the farmers.
36:42
So it's like we, you know, like I'll go in sometimes and I'll be
36:46
like, Oh my God, how much is this?
36:48
Like and it it's. And I get excited when it's on
36:52
sale. Right.
36:54
So trying to like say that, you know, whatever you can't, you
37:00
know, God forbid somebody buy a cake for somebody's birthday or
37:02
something like, no, you poor people deserve, deserve to have
37:10
nice things, period. Regardless of whether it's a
37:12
package of fucking Oreos or a car.
37:15
And let's talk about cars because this is like, this is
37:19
where you need to recognize privileges is where you need to
37:22
like, so people have to work, right?
37:28
That's one of the biggest things.
37:30
Oh, everybody on assistance is lazy.
37:32
You know, unless you are like disabled and unable to work or
37:35
like a child, like most people on government assistance, but
37:41
they're making less than minimum wage because this country is
37:44
shit. So people have to work and
37:50
people have to have reliable transportation to get to work.
37:54
And yes, there is public public transport.
37:56
And for some people that works great.
37:59
For some people that is, that is easy.
38:01
You can buy a bus pass you're, you're down the street.
38:03
You know, you can take the the light rail, you can take the
38:06
subway, you can take whatever it is, right?
38:09
Great. That's that is fantastic,
38:11
especially if you have a city that has really good public
38:14
transport. Not this.
38:15
However, no, Phoenix is not that city.
38:19
Phoenix and the surrounding areas, we are not that city.
38:22
We are like one of the biggest cities like collectively with
38:26
like all the the. Surrounding suburbs and ships.
38:28
If we were like New York, I should be able to get to work in
38:32
like 15 minutes. Right, that doesn't happen.
38:36
Our trip, our public transport here is shit comparatively to
38:39
any other big. City hour and a half if I
38:41
decided to take public transport.
38:43
Exactly. So public transport isn't always
38:47
practical or feasible because you have to kind of weigh your
38:50
options, right? So maybe you live in like this
38:53
city or this suburb over here because rent is a lot cheaper,
38:56
right? But you have to work in a
38:59
different city, and getting to that city is either going to be
39:03
an insanely long ride on public transport or an expensive Uber.
39:08
Maybe you work late nights, maybe you work graveyards, maybe
39:11
you know, whatever. When public transport isn't
39:13
running, not everybody has 24 hour buses or 24 hour trains or
39:18
you know what I mean? That's not always a thing.
39:21
And so people are going to get mad regardless, right?
39:25
So somebody has a safe working, reliable vehicle or which means
39:31
that they can get back from work, which you know, back and
39:33
forth from work, which means they have a car payment, which
39:35
means they have stupid insurance because insurance, let's face
39:37
it, is stupid. Or they're away from their
39:41
children all this extra time because they have to take public
39:43
transport and then they make their a bad parent.
39:45
So which is it? Which would you prefer?
39:49
Also, I'd like to say that 'cause you know, I'm not broke,
39:55
no poor, but I'm pretty much cutting even every pay period
40:06
but childcare cost. Childcare is expensive.
40:11
Childcare is dumb. Yeah, and I'm one of the lucky
40:15
few that doesn't pay as much as I should.
40:18
I could be. Not that I should be that I
40:21
could be universe, don't hear me wrong, but I could be paying
40:28
more and I definitely could not afford more than what I'm
40:33
paying. And then you have to, you know,
40:37
we're lucky that some meals are provided for some of the kids
40:42
and but I can't imagine being like, there's parents that pay
40:51
thousands of dollars for their kids to be watched after school.
40:55
Even even if you get subsidized for childcare, it's still
40:59
fucking expensive. And you have to like, not all
41:03
childcare is great, you know? So it's like, then you have to
41:06
sacrifice the cost of it for some place that's not great, but
41:09
you have to have somebody watch your kids so that you can go to
41:11
fucking work. It's like it is this vicious
41:13
circle that this country just refuses to fix.
41:17
And when we're talking about like, you know, lines at a food
41:21
bank and people in cars that are newer, newer, First of all, how
41:27
do you know? Maybe they just take care of
41:29
their car and it looks good. My car is now almost six years
41:33
old, but it's still in really good shape.
41:38
So you would think that it's a newer.
41:39
Car. I would say that at some point
41:43
we were on food boxes from the food bank 'cause we couldn't
41:46
afford food and we were both working and we had a car and it
41:57
still was not. And at the time it was just the
42:01
two of us. So I can't imagine trying to
42:03
feed kids but now. I've, I've had to go to food
42:06
banks and get food boxes and I've, I've had to do all that
42:10
like, and you, when you're looking at, you know, whatever.
42:17
OK, so there's, there's cars, some of them look newer.
42:19
Mine's not that new anymore, but it looks newer because it's not
42:23
a, you know, whatever people can take care of it.
42:26
But also a car payment right now is cheaper than rent.
42:33
So you don't know if there's a family that is currently living
42:37
in their car? Yeah, right.
42:43
So and you know because. No one's going to be like, hey,
42:49
look at me, I'm living in my car unless you do it on TikTok,
42:52
which I'm like, OK, whatever. But there are families that live
42:57
in their car and it is cheaper to pay a car payment than it is
43:02
to pay rent right now. And if you're going to have, if
43:06
you have to choose between a car payment and rent to keep some
43:12
sort of shelter over your kids heads, then why not have a nicer
43:17
car or a minivan or an SUV or something?
43:20
That is, you know what I mean? Like the, the big thing here is
43:24
check your privilege. People are struggling right now
43:28
like they're struggling. And if you are not in a position
43:32
to help, that's OK. You don't need to.
43:37
You don't need to be a savior. You don't.
43:40
Have to. Right.
43:42
Like you don't have to be able to help everybody.
43:44
Maybe you're not able to donate, maybe you don't even have the
43:47
spoons to volunteer. That's OK, But that doesn't give
43:52
you then license to turn around and judge the people that may
43:57
need that help. I would say and add to is that
44:03
be careful 'cause you don't know who's seeing this.
44:10
You don't, you don't know who's seeing you post this and you
44:15
don't know who's going to keep that in their memory bank.
44:17
Because I'll tell you what I scroll and I don't comment, but
44:22
I remember a lot of y'all Doesn't mean I'll tell you in
44:26
your face, but I, I know, I, I know that I won't talk to you
44:30
about certain things. I, I have admittedly told people
44:35
that I'm like, you ain't talking to me about this.
44:38
But like at work, be careful how you talk because you don't know
44:45
what people are going through. You don't know how much they're
44:48
being paid unless that's your open work environment and you
44:51
know how everybody's getting paid, but still.
44:55
But you don't, yes you. You don't treat people poorly
45:03
because of their disadvantages or where they are in life.
45:06
You are closer than you think to being that person.
45:11
You are closer to that than you are to being a fucking
45:13
billionaire. Way closer.
45:16
So yeah, like I there was a, there was a point in time when I
45:21
lived in Hawaii, I spent several months and nobody would have
45:24
known this because I never said anything to people.
45:28
I was basically living out of my car and crashing on people's
45:31
couches. I had a storage where I had all
45:36
of my shit and I, I was still working.
45:38
I had, in fact, I had two jobs. And but at the time it's, it
45:45
still wasn't, and this was years ago.
45:49
It still wasn't enough for me to be able to get on my feet
45:53
without help and I without having like a permanent address
45:58
back when like I had APO box somewhere, but the PO Box was
46:01
like a physical address. So my dad never knew that I
46:04
didn't have anywhere. Oh, I cover, I, I, I made sure
46:09
that there was like nobody, nobody would have known except
46:12
for the people that, whose couches I were crashing on like
46:15
things like nobody would have known because I, I didn't tell
46:20
anybody. So you don't know.
46:25
And unless you've been there, you, you, you haven't, you can't
46:30
judge. You cannot judge.
46:32
So leave people alone. You have no idea what their
46:36
situation is. And unless you're paying their
46:38
fucking bills. Unless you are like then.
46:41
No pay my bills or pay you no mine, right?
46:46
You want to pay my bills, come pay my bills.
46:48
I mean even if you are paying my bills you still don't deserve.
46:51
No, that's still you don't get that.
46:52
No, that's like. That's so again, check your
46:56
privilege and I don't care who you are, you have some privilege
47:02
but. The thing is, we're all human,
47:06
right? The fuck?
47:07
You know, and if you cannot acknowledge that privilege,
47:10
that's a whole another. Conversation.
47:12
Are you helping the people that are closest to you 'cause?
47:16
Are you do like I, I like, you know, like we're doing like a
47:19
friendsgiving and we don't care. Like if people want to come and
47:24
grab A to go box and grab shit and put it in their fridge for
47:27
later. We're not going to ask
47:29
questions. We're not, we don't, we don't
47:31
care if you need like, you know, and that's one thing we always
47:35
tell people is that we will feed you.
47:38
We almost always have extra, you know, like.
47:41
It's always these times like this and like during the
47:45
pandemic, 'cause I kind of saw this, I kind of saw the same
47:49
thing during the pandemic. People talking about like, I
47:54
can't believe that, like people are lining up to get food and,
47:58
you know, all these things. And I'm like, but wait, aren't
48:00
we all in the same situation? Like the government shut down,
48:07
there are some. People, I will tell you like I
48:11
am very grateful that we are a 2 income household right now
48:14
because if it were just me, I. I know somebody that their
48:26
partner works for the FAA and they, they are starting to
48:33
scramble. So when you look at the nice
48:38
fancy car and then wonder why they're at the food bank, 'cause
48:42
like I said, when we were in need, we had a car, we had a
48:47
house, we, Yep, you would have never assumed that things were
48:51
going haywire. You just don't know.
48:55
And so this person, you never know if they might need help.
48:59
So we've kind of. Like maybe maybe you have to
49:02
decide between groceries and a car payment so you don't lose
49:05
your car, you know, like, oh God, I'd be very.
49:10
Cautious, especially right now because there's furloughed
49:14
employees all over the place 90. The government is trying to,
49:20
basically. 100,000. Starve us out of existence.
49:24
So just check your privilege, be mindful and don't be a Dick.
49:30
So Speaking of being a Dick, let's look at current events.
49:53
Those are such fun commercially Thingy mobile.
49:57
I need to update mine though, because I, I have feelings.
50:06
Speaking of feelings, gosh, you have to put that in there first.
50:12
You're welcome. Kim Kardashian Kim Kardashian
50:19
Kim Kardashian blamed failing her new her law exams on using
50:25
ChatGPT to study. I would like to add I would like
50:31
to add at the bottom of ChatGPT it says ChatGPT can make
50:36
mistakes and if it's ChatGPT it made a mistake.
50:43
ChatGPT can make mistakes. The hell you say?
50:52
And Speaking of privilege, Arizona had a turquoise alert
50:57
this weekend for a missing child that is still missing.
51:00
No, she was found. Oh, did she?
51:02
Yes, she was found alive. She was found unharmed.
51:05
OK, but I would still like to continue that folks were posting
51:12
like how the folks were posting about the cars in line.
51:16
They were posting about. Oh my God, how dare you wake me
51:19
up? I'm sorry that letting you know
51:24
that a child was missing was inconvenient for you.
51:27
When would be a more convenient time for that for?
51:31
You so I saw stuff. Like I said, you never know
51:36
who's screenshotting your shit so be careful.
51:42
But I'm sorry that you were bothered at 5:30 in the morning,
51:47
5:00 AM, whatever it was. But as a parent, I would want, I
51:52
wouldn't even fucking care. I would have said doing it at
51:54
midnight. Where being like, oh, my child
51:56
is missing, but go, you know what?
51:58
Go ahead and wait. I need folks to go ahead and,
52:00
you know, wait till they wake up.
52:01
I don't want to wake anybody. You know what, wait until they
52:03
get like their morning coffee. I this is sound like they'll be
52:07
ready by like 10. OK, so we'll send it out then.
52:10
Go for 10, maybe noon would be better.
52:12
That gives me that. I would be distraught.
52:15
I would be distraught. I would be like, I don't care
52:17
what you do, do something. I the the people that were
52:23
complaining about it and I saw like 1 post in particular people
52:25
like Oh my God I know it woke me up and I'm like God forbid you
52:30
are ever in. That community leaders.
52:33
Leaders. Yeah, I'm like, really?
52:36
OK, so then right you, well you go ahead and and let us know
52:40
when it would be convenient for you then to let you know that a
52:43
child is missing. What's the best?
52:44
We'll make sure to get. Right.
52:47
And all the phones going off in your household, I don't care.
52:51
Mine didn't go off. My husband didn't go off either,
52:55
but it was mine that scared the shit out of me.
52:58
But willingly I I didn't like, I didn't get up and be like, Oh my
53:03
God, how dare they. You can just ruin whatever like.
53:10
Unfortunately my kids get up that early on the weekends.
53:12
I don't understand, but if one of them went missing, I.
53:22
Yeah, right. Tell me that I'm overreacting.
53:26
Tell me not to send out an alert.
53:30
Yeah. The thing that we should be
53:33
alarmed about is we are going into four weeks where we're over
53:38
4 weeks of the government shutdown, which started on
53:42
October 1st. So.
53:47
If only the Democrats would open the government.
53:50
They're the ones going to work every day, right?
53:54
Oops. Oops.
53:55
Did I? Oh, I'm so sorry.
53:57
This episode might get deleted too.
53:59
Who knows? We're starting to see setbacks.
54:03
Pay for 2 million people has been suspended.
54:06
Could have been one of those cars that you saw.
54:09
They could have been. They could have a nice cushy job
54:11
with the government. But we've decided not to give
54:14
them their their money. Right.
54:18
OK, we have 900,000 that have been furloughed, so that could
54:25
have been the other right have. And then you have to remember
54:32
back, back, back when this all began, he like let go of people,
54:36
then he tried to bring them back in, then he let go of people,
54:39
then he tried to bring them back in.
54:40
And some of them were like, right, Yep.
54:47
So what to put this in perspective to what we were
54:50
talking about 20 million homes, which is approximately 42
54:55
million people. I don't know if you know how to
55:01
math but that means like a whole household could be affected and
55:06
multiple people could be affected.
55:13
But they are affected by SNAP benefits being halted here
55:18
recently at the start of November.
55:20
And federal judge did say that he's not allowed to do that.
55:23
But then Trump was like, well, no, I'm going to do it anyway.
55:30
So yeah, they're. Great.
55:33
So also I want to include that SNAP doesn't just include those
55:38
that are working or have working vehicles, it also includes the
55:44
elderly. The elderly could have vehicles
55:50
that run, but if they're on a fixed income and need SNAP.
55:55
Right, right. The people with children.
56:03
Children. 'S make them children work.
56:07
Children are expected. They should get jobs.
56:10
Oh God, I don't know if like that would be interesting
56:14
anyway. People with disabilities.
56:17
They're not disabled, they're just lazy.
56:19
Oh no. Yikes.
56:25
That's what they keep telling me.
56:26
So I mean that's like it's. Got to be these are all people
56:31
who are relying on these programs to buy groceries, so
56:34
they aren't just the people that have fancy cars.
56:38
We've just now listed 3 populations of people plus.
56:43
You forgot about all the illegals.
56:45
Oh, they're buying up all the the snap.
56:49
They can't qualify for it. Not a thing.
56:55
Not a thing. Not a thing with.
56:57
This is it, the dump truck. Oh, the the all the Republicans
57:02
are that they're that's why they said that the the Democrats
57:05
refused to reopen the. Government.
57:06
Oh, and on the voicemail it says it too, right?
57:09
I actually they want, they want illegals to be able to get SNAP
57:12
benefits and health insurance, which is is.
57:16
That what we're doing. Categorically false.
57:20
False it. Is also shout out shout out to
57:24
Chicago's mayor, current mayor for not letting people refer to
57:29
other people as aliens. I mean, unless you're an actual,
57:35
like, if you wanna be an alien, like I feel like we're ready for
57:38
that. I am ready for that.
57:40
They keep talking about like we're about to be invaded.
57:43
So I'm like. Is there a qualification
57:47
process? Look, I will volunteer to get
57:49
probed at this point. Like I don't care.
57:51
Is it like a pack? Just I mean, Oh my.
57:54
God, but but. Can I be Miss Space 2000
57:57
whatever. Can it be like the rapture?
57:59
Take all of the conservatives and like all of the like, right
58:02
wing people so you can study how their tiny little minds work.
58:04
Leave the rest of us here to like fix shit.
58:08
Put them all in like little, like bubbly.
58:11
Things where you can hope and caught them.
58:13
There are folks that will turn out to be worse than we
58:17
anticipated, but with SNAP benefits being halted or
58:21
partially restored, I'm not sure what the decision is at this
58:25
moment. I saw 50%.
58:27
I saw maybe not. Maybe I will do something else.
58:30
Whatever. It's put a high demand on the
58:34
food banks and hunger relief organizations.
58:38
There are people from other countries thinking of coming
58:42
over here and feeding Americans where I have never heard that
58:45
before. The thing is, is that we have
58:48
had a hunger issue here for years, but nobody ever wants to
58:54
to deal with it. Until.
58:56
Like, and nobody wants to admit it, nobody wants to look at it,
58:59
nobody wants to admit the fact that, you know, there are
59:02
literal families that depend on, like I said, like free school
59:05
lunches because that may be the only real meal that their kids
59:09
get. I've been trying to do my best
59:13
on resharing, especially on Instagram with the reshare
59:16
button. People that are giving free
59:20
meals to folks affected by this. Shay Cheese is giving free meals
59:27
to people that have been affected by this.
59:33
There are a lot of places, a lot of restaurants, a lot of stores
59:37
are either doing like free or discounts on food on meals.
59:45
I've seen some places where like kids eat free as long as you
59:48
have your snap card. The fact that we have to do this
59:55
is mind blowing and what is supposedly the greatest country
59:59
in the world which? Run by the greatest leader
1:00:04
question. So Speaking of that, Satan's
1:00:10
claw machine fucked up again and grabbed the wrong prize.
1:00:15
The wrong Dick was grabbed. Dick Cheney died instead of the
1:00:20
Dick in the office. Not this often, but the.
1:00:25
Couldn't give a shit about Dick Cheney dying.
1:00:27
That dude should have died years ago.
1:00:30
He's part of the reason we are where we are right now.
1:00:33
So he can go fuck himself. Don't care.
1:00:36
But like, seriously, like you have all these other people, you
1:00:39
keep missing the big ones. Can you?
1:00:42
Yeah. Do they need a list from us?
1:00:46
Do they? We just go.
1:00:47
Here you go. Seriously, like read the room?
1:00:54
It's always the stubborn ones, it's always the ill intentioned
1:01:00
that we get to hold on to and suffer through.
1:01:06
But instead of suffering through in some places, we saw that
1:01:11
Election Day brought a Democratic sweep to the nation
1:01:15
and I saved the nation 'cause I was celebrating.
1:01:18
We didn't. I don't know what happened in
1:01:21
Arizona. We didn't really have anything
1:01:22
going on here. Big wins nationwide, but we
1:01:29
still have work to do. Let me say it again, we still
1:01:34
have work to do. I love that we all went out and
1:01:39
voted. I only had one thing on my
1:01:42
ballot. Some people had two in Arizona
1:01:45
and I still was running to the polls.
1:01:48
I don't want to miss the chance. The most talked about race was
1:01:53
the mayor of New York City. Can you help me say his name?
1:01:58
They elected their first Muslim mayor.
1:02:02
Not just Muslim, but a democratic socialist.
1:02:05
Yes. Zoran ma mamdani.
1:02:10
Ma Dani. Mamdani.
1:02:14
Mamdani who? Trump says he's much better
1:02:17
looking than he is. I have a mirror if he needs it.
1:02:27
And as a gay person, he could never.
1:02:35
Yeah, we have never. But that was that was probably 1
1:02:38
of. That was probably like 1 of.
1:02:40
The why is that the argument though speaking?
1:02:46
I don't want to damper this celebration, but I could not
1:02:52
believe the Republican reply. The Republican replies have been
1:02:57
outrageous and I don't want to say them.
1:03:01
They've been exactly what you would expect.
1:03:03
Basically, yeah. Abigail Spann Burger is set to
1:03:09
become Virginia's first female governor.
1:03:13
And big news, Every county in Virginia turn blue.
1:03:18
That's a big deal. That's primarily a red state.
1:03:23
That is, that is like. Isn't that a swing?
1:03:26
Is that a swing one? Let me double check that.
1:03:31
Let me see if Virginia is. I feel like one of the
1:03:34
Virginia's is a swing. I could be wrong, but as you're
1:03:41
looking that up, I feel like this next one is Mikey.
1:03:45
Cheryl won New Jersey's governor race.
1:03:52
Pennsylvania voters re elected 3 Democrats to the state Supreme
1:03:58
Court, which is a big deal because as you recall, as we've
1:04:02
talked about on the show, different levels controlled.
1:04:07
Virginia has never really been a swing state.
1:04:09
OK. Yeah, I'm looking like Virginia
1:04:16
has never been. OK, a swing state, not even
1:04:20
West. Oh, no, West Virginia.
1:04:23
No. No.
1:04:28
Must be able to read here this one.
1:04:34
Oh, I have a update for this one too 'cause I think we're both
1:04:41
were up late working on this document 'cause I'm like trying
1:04:44
to read through like newspapers and the dot coms and the making
1:04:51
sure that everything is right. So California did a big thing
1:04:57
because Texas thought that they were the shit.
1:04:59
California passed passed Prop 50A measure that allows a new
1:05:05
map for AUS House districts that favor mostly Democrats.
1:05:12
So. You know how you know how like
1:05:15
the red states keep trying to change like borders and things
1:05:20
to basically take these sections over here and make them very,
1:05:25
very Republican. And then you have like this
1:05:26
little bit over here that's like the black community and they
1:05:29
have like this much represent like that's what the red states
1:05:32
have been doing. So California basically fired
1:05:35
back. Yeah, and so when they change a
1:05:38
map, it they make it easier or we would like to think for the
1:05:43
Democrats to win more spots. As you recall, other states were
1:05:48
trying to redraw their lines with their crayons so they could
1:05:55
potentially get more Republicans to have a seat at the table.
1:05:58
This should allow Dems to snag up to 5.
1:06:05
Five additional seats in the House of Representatives, that's
1:06:09
big. And with California being the
1:06:12
way it is, I think that that's very likely that that'll.
1:06:15
Happen now here in Arizona. Sigh.
1:06:21
Prop four O 9 and many other measures were voted on.
1:06:26
Not as big as the other stuff but four O 9 was is still a
1:06:31
close one. Last I checked it was 51 yes and
1:06:35
49 no. But it would bring in an
1:06:42
898,000,000 bond that is proposed for valley wise health.
1:06:48
Another thing to help the public with their health care.
1:06:55
Why would we want that? I'm sensing a theme here.
1:06:59
We don't right care about each other.
1:07:05
We care about ourselves. We don't care about each other.
1:07:09
Right. Many of the districts, though, I
1:07:15
read this morning that some of them did not pass, did not get
1:07:19
their overrides or bonds, but some did.
1:07:24
So yay, schools teach better. Anyway, this one, I don't know
1:07:31
how I found this but it somehow it just blew into my lap.
1:07:36
But I I need to double double double double double double
1:07:41
check some more but this is real and I didn't think it was.
1:07:47
Oh no, it is. Governor Katie Hobbs pause
1:07:51
drastic cuts to services for kids with developmental
1:07:56
disabilities after families raised alarms.
1:08:02
I didn't think that she should be doing this at all, and as a
1:08:04
social worker I felt like she should know better, but wrong.
1:08:10
No, she has to she because the the cuts were going to happen.
1:08:15
So she paused the cuts, she stopped the cuts.
1:08:18
I see. So because what was going to
1:08:20
happen and. Because a dump truck.
1:08:23
Yeah, I think so is a lot of, no, a lot of a lot of of of
1:08:30
funding and a lot of layoffs were happening for like income
1:08:34
in in home care things like that.
1:08:36
Because of the program. Were getting cut and it was
1:08:41
affecting families with like children who have like severe
1:08:44
disabilities that need this care.
1:08:46
And when she found out that this was happening, the governor was
1:08:50
like, what the fuck? No, you can't do that.
1:08:54
Got it, Got it. Got it.
1:08:57
Paused the cuts. She paused the cuts.
1:09:00
So trying to figure out what the fuck is going on because that's
1:09:04
a problem when you have like, and again, these are the
1:09:07
families that are usually on the assistance.
1:09:09
You have kids that are, are maybe they're severely autistic,
1:09:14
maybe they have other developmental disabilities that
1:09:18
they are, they are non verbal, they are incapacitated.
1:09:24
They are, you know, refined to a, a, a, a wheelchair or they're
1:09:28
bedridden or whatever it is. And these families need these
1:09:32
this fucking in home care so that they can go out and fucking
1:09:36
work. And then we took them away.
1:09:39
Right. OK, so.
1:09:42
I'm glad I got a better, I got a better understanding.
1:09:45
I too learn on this show. But at first I was like I don't
1:09:49
get it. Like why?
1:09:52
Yeah, No, no, no, no, she, she stopped the cut.
1:09:54
She she she stopped the cuts as opposed to.
1:09:58
For our state, it looked like that she was looking for further
1:10:02
measure, that she was going to see how she could protect it
1:10:07
further. Because the families are like,
1:10:11
what am I supposed to do if this gets cut off?
1:10:17
And it's so strange for me. I don't.
1:10:20
Even during the Bush era I felt like sometimes he was like not
1:10:24
compassionate, but I felt like he would never.
1:10:29
Bush was a dumb as a box of rocks.
1:10:31
I don't. I don't.
1:10:32
Yeah, but I still felt like there wasn't this like ill will
1:10:36
toward everyone and. Well, that's because while,
1:10:40
while Bush was a right wing conservative at that point,
1:10:45
there, there's, there, there's like there's a tipping point
1:10:48
where right wing conservatives went from being just kind of
1:10:52
assholes to fascist assholes. And now we're, we're basically
1:10:55
living in a fascist state right now, regardless of what anybody
1:10:58
says. And that's the problem.
1:11:00
And if we can get rid of all the like the poor and undesirables,
1:11:04
then that makes it easier to be able to take over as a fascist
1:11:08
dictator. We just get rid of the
1:11:09
undesirables. And a quick follow up to the
1:11:12
California story because I forgot the Republicans are now
1:11:17
suing and trying to block the measure that was passed by the
1:11:20
voters, right? And as far as lawsuits, Arizona
1:11:25
is bringing a lawsuit to the Trump administration because
1:11:30
they still haven't fucking sworn in.
1:11:32
Representative Grijalva, who is now going on like over a month
1:11:36
now without being sworn in. Can you imagine if that had been
1:11:40
a Republican thing? And they were like, no, I'm just
1:11:42
going to come. So we're just going to wait on.
1:11:44
That well they already kind of so done it and separately.
1:11:50
I don't think the Democrats have ever refused to swear in a
1:11:53
Republican. I don't think that's ever
1:11:56
happened. But this is now we're going on
1:11:58
over a month. And the reason being is because
1:12:00
she's going to be the deciding vote on releasing all the
1:12:03
Epstein files and everybody's terrified.
1:12:06
Terrified. If their names are not in it,
1:12:10
then why? I don't know.
1:12:11
I mean, they're, they're obviously very innocent.
1:12:13
There's nothing to be concerned about, but so there are.
1:12:17
There's a. Lawsuit that's being brought
1:12:19
against the administration for that and I this is so this
1:12:23
timeline that we are in right now I'm like can I go back to
1:12:27
like the real timeline like I don't know the space-time
1:12:30
continuum bubble that we're. In right now marvel thing the
1:12:34
multiverse cause like. It's like if you watch Star
1:12:38
Trek, a lot of times they'll end up in a like a wormhole and then
1:12:40
they'll go the other side of the wormhole and the Enterprise is
1:12:42
beat to shit and they've been in a war for like ever.
1:12:44
And everybody is just like Warren and Haggard.
1:12:47
That's the timeline we're in right now.
1:12:49
And I don't want to be in that time.
1:12:50
I want to go back through the wormhole and get back to the
1:12:55
Enterprise. That is not this.
1:12:58
Like, I want to get back to the Enterprise that is on a peaceful
1:13:02
exploration mission and that everybody is happy and Riker
1:13:06
doesn't look like he was put through the wringer.
1:13:08
Like I want to be on that Enterprise where Picard is this
1:13:11
kind, gentle, slightly grumpy dude but still has a heart of
1:13:16
gold. Like the I don't know what
1:13:19
wormhole we got sucked through but I'm over it.
1:13:22
I don't like it. I know I'm so we went through.
1:13:25
It the first time and then we got a pandemic.
1:13:28
And then we just, and then we made it out.
1:13:30
We made it out. We got through the wormhole.
1:13:32
It still wasn't the like, we still went back to our actual
1:13:34
reality, but we're in a better reality.
1:13:37
I don't know where the fuck our reality actually went.
1:13:40
I I don't even have the opportunity to be like
1:13:42
delusional at this point. I would love to be delusional.
1:13:48
There are some people that are. Like I would love to just live
1:13:52
in this world and be like, everything's fine.
1:13:55
What's what's what are y'all complaining about?
1:13:58
Like everything's. Good.
1:14:00
I've had a fun time blocking this Election Day also with the
1:14:08
gays that have the red hats on that say Make America.
1:14:15
It's not the, it's not the gay. Right.
1:14:19
The parody version, well, even even then, the parody version is
1:14:22
just icky. It's like that the I'm like, why
1:14:25
would you want a hat, right? Like the Red Hat, just in
1:14:28
general. Like hats.
1:14:30
Just like it's not. It's not cute.
1:14:33
Have you gotten to the point where it doesn't have anything
1:14:35
on it? You just don't want somebody to
1:14:37
wear a Red Hat. No, 'cause it, it's, it's an
1:14:40
immediate like, it's just like it.
1:14:42
Honestly, it gives me the same reaction as I do when I see
1:14:44
somebody that has an American flag because now it's turned.
1:14:49
To an ick right? Like.
1:14:53
Before I had basically no opinion about the American flag.
1:14:56
I'm like, I don't really give a fuck.
1:14:57
It's it is, it's a flag, I don't care, whatever.
1:14:59
Now I see someone with an American flag, I'm going to
1:15:03
immediately assume that you are a fascist, racist dickhead.
1:15:07
Whether it is on your house, whether it is on your car,
1:15:10
whether it is on your person, whether it is on your clothing.
1:15:13
I'm going to assume that if you have an American flag on you
1:15:17
anywhere. Or on your vehicle that gives
1:15:19
me. Right.
1:15:20
That's why I'm like, it doesn't, it doesn't say patriotism.
1:15:25
It doesn't say anything like that.
1:15:26
It says I am a fascist. And it's like, it's so clear.
1:15:35
It's coming in 365 days. Yep, like I just, I don't it's
1:15:47
it's it's. I fell.
1:15:50
Yeah, yeah. So yeah, red hats, American
1:15:54
flags, these are all things that I see.
1:15:56
And I it's an immediate like, no, thank you.
1:16:01
And usually I dress up in the American flag.
1:16:06
I have not like I have dresses that are made those colors and I
1:16:11
have not. I've been kind of like it's kind
1:16:16
of weird. Like I've gone from like being
1:16:17
so like, Oh yeah, let's it's the 4th of July.
1:16:20
Let's have fun to. We have a, so we have a, we have
1:16:28
a pride flag in our, our, our flagpole out front.
1:16:33
And The thing is starting to look a little worn.
1:16:35
It's like it's all kind of tattered.
1:16:36
And I'm like, no, you, you know what, It's fine, 'cause it's
1:16:38
very representative of what is happening right now.
1:16:42
Like that. That is, it's like, it's like
1:16:44
we're in, we're in, it's like a war zone.
1:16:46
And it's like, you know, you have the the flag that's all
1:16:48
like beat to shit and it's still waving like.
1:16:50
That I'm like, it's. I'm like it's, it's appropriate
1:16:55
for what's going on right now. It's appropriate.
1:16:56
So we're just going to leave it. I promise we're going to make
1:16:59
it. It's going to be let's go.
1:17:04
Into fun stuff? Yeah, fun stuff.
1:17:08
So what's going on? Right, What is happening this
1:17:13
weekend? All right, so for folks looking
1:17:15
for stuff to do this weekend, I'm going to be at Fall Fest.
1:17:21
That's going to be put on by Queer Center.
1:17:24
It's from 7:00 to 11:00. It's going to be at Bunkhouse
1:17:28
this year. It's usually at Newtown, so make
1:17:32
sure that you're paying attention.
1:17:33
Don't go to, I mean, you could go to Newtown, but it ain't
1:17:34
going to be there. It's going to be at Bunkhouse.
1:17:39
Bunkhouse. There's gonna be also there's a
1:17:42
pumpkin contest bobbing the bobbing for dildos is always a
1:17:45
riot. Oh my God, just go just for that
1:17:48
there's going to be a Bake Off silent auction 5050 auction.
1:17:51
It's gonna be hosted by Sonya J Savage.
1:17:53
I will be out there. Why is there an extra E on
1:17:56
Savage? Jesse The.
1:17:59
Have AG. Have AG.
1:18:03
So go check that out. It is raising funds for Queer
1:18:07
Center and supporting Queer Center.
1:18:08
Go do the thing. I will be there doing stuff.
1:18:12
I took this off their Facebook page so.
1:18:15
Terrible shoddy, Shoddy craftsmanship.
1:18:18
Shoddy craftsmanship. If you need somebody to design
1:18:21
Flyers for you, you I can do that.
1:18:23
For you. There you go.
1:18:25
If you can't see it, Jesse, I'm pointing at the extra E at the
1:18:28
end of Sonia J Savage. It's 1 E.
1:18:32
It's Savage, not Savagey. There's one.
1:18:35
I'm pointing at it. Even though you can't see it.
1:18:37
I'm pointing at it. You did not approve it.
1:18:41
See, that's just see, that's shoddy leadership right there.
1:18:44
It's on Jesse. It's all Jesse's fault.
1:18:48
And then on Sunday we have the Emperor's Ball honoring Romeo
1:18:55
White Emperor 19. It's two hours, go have some
1:19:01
fun. Whatever.
1:19:02
Suggested donation is $7.00. What happens there?
1:19:06
What happens at these balls? I've never been to.
1:19:08
I've never been to the Emperor's balls.
1:19:11
Honestly, I'm not. I don't know what you know.
1:19:13
I don't know. It's two hours.
1:19:14
Report back. Thanks Pretty.
1:19:17
Interesting. I mean it, it's good.
1:19:19
It's from 4:00 to 6:00 PM, so at least I get home early and then.
1:19:27
Oh my gosh. 2 hour ball Cinderella would never.
1:19:31
She'd be like, oh bitch. No, she was there for an hour
1:19:34
and then she left. She was done.
1:19:36
Yes, but she wouldn't have gotten there at all had it only
1:19:39
been a 2 hour ball 'cause it took her four hours to get the
1:19:43
fucking pumpkin to do the very. Gobbler's bullshit, like the
1:19:46
whole thing, that's assistant. We can't have that.
1:19:49
Like she was government funded, the fairy godmother was.
1:19:55
You could join us on November 14th for Drag Bingo and Cats.
1:20:00
This is not the official flyer. I just stuck the date and the
1:20:02
the event on it because yeah. Anyway, so I caution you, this
1:20:12
happened the last time. My inbox is not the ticket
1:20:15
place. You have to go to the Phoenix
1:20:19
Cat Cafe. Site yeah, so you go to
1:20:23
phoenixcatcafe.org and you can buy tickets there, but don't
1:20:30
it's. BYOB so bring some drinks, bring
1:20:34
snacks, bring things. Don't message either one of us.
1:20:36
Go do the thing and it does sell out, so go do it now.
1:20:41
Yes, I challenge you to bring a charcuterie board.
1:20:48
Bring snacks, bring drinks, especially since Trumpets Ale
1:20:51
House is closing. What?
1:20:54
Yeah, right. So the availability of being
1:21:01
able to go get a growler and bring it over, that's not going
1:21:03
to be happening anymore. So make sure that you BYOB.
1:21:07
Is there any other places nearby?
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I don't know. I've never.
1:21:12
I mean there's plenty of places, but I don't know if you can get
1:21:14
like stuff to go. Interesting.
1:21:21
And then November 20th, I will be at Drink Me Tea Room, even
1:21:26
though it does not say Drink Me Tea Room on here anywhere
1:21:29
anyway. Yeah.
1:21:29
There. There's nothing on there that's
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great. Super helpful.
1:21:33
I didn't make this super. Helpful.
1:21:38
But I will be at Drink Me Tea Room for the scary Merry
1:21:41
Christmas Drag Bingo on November 20th and then this fire is so
1:21:48
fun, I love it. So I'm excited for this event.
1:21:52
This event is being put on by the Grand Dutchie 19 of this
1:21:58
year's Imperial Court. It's going to be hosted by Ben
1:22:02
Havoc and myself. It is the Sugar Plum Showdown
1:22:05
Holiday Bake Off and we're telling you this now so that you
1:22:07
have time to prep. All right, so it is Sunday,
1:22:12
December 7th from 4:00 to 7:00. It's going to be at the ripple
1:22:17
space on 15th Ave. and Indian School and it's benefiting drag
1:22:23
story hour Arizona. It is 20 bucks to enter the
1:22:25
competition. So bring your your baked goods,
1:22:29
whatever it is, it can be it can be anything holiday, holiday
1:22:32
baked thing. It can be whatever it can be,
1:22:33
you know whatever, but bring enough to share because people
1:22:37
have to be able to taste it. So whatever it is, make sure it
1:22:40
can either be cut up into smaller pieces or it already
1:22:43
comes like split up either, you know, brownies or cupcakes or
1:22:46
whatever it is. That way if you are not a Baker
1:22:49
but you would like to come and participate and do things, you
1:22:53
can pay us $5 and you get a little tasting kit and you can
1:22:58
vote for like Taster's Choice. It is 18 and over.
1:23:02
It is an alcohol free event. We're going to have guest
1:23:05
judges. We're also going to have
1:23:07
mocktails that are going to be available, some holiday theme
1:23:10
performances. It's just going to be a fun
1:23:12
time. So mark your calendars for that.
1:23:15
Get your like aprons and shit ready to go and come out for
1:23:19
that because it's going to be a good time.
1:23:23
And then in December I just want to tell people that you should
1:23:29
all come out because I got asked like 3 times when the sex trivia
1:23:34
again and I was like oh maybe I. Should I know?
1:23:36
I get asked all the time and they're like, oh, that's so far
1:23:39
out. I'm like.
1:23:40
Let me start telling you right now on December 11th at I put
1:23:46
7:00 PM, but I don't think that's right, but we start at
1:23:50
8:00 but show up at 7:00. Get there early so you can get
1:23:53
signed up. The last couple times I've been
1:23:55
there so I have no idea why but at Gracie's tax bar it's free
1:24:04
for those that are 21 plus and we usually choose an
1:24:10
organization to I believe the drink is sex on the beach that
1:24:16
we donate like a dollar or a certain amount of I.
1:24:21
Think it's a dollar from everyone?
1:24:23
Yeah. So you too can support the
1:24:27
community and learn about sex. Yes, yes, yes.
1:24:40
That is all. And as we close the show, this
1:24:43
may not go as well because I wrote this last night.
1:24:52
One thread ties us together, and that is choices.
1:24:56
From California's elections and redistricting to Democratic
1:25:01
governors, mayors and justices being elected across the
1:25:04
country, it's clear that when people focus and work together,
1:25:09
change is possible. We've been saying that for
1:25:12
years. But you know, we just two people
1:25:15
on the Internet anyway, and our votes truly matter and there's
1:25:23
so much more work to be done. Yup, we're not like this is this
1:25:28
is this is a good? Start Democrats hit is the way
1:25:32
they should have been hitting for years, right?
1:25:34
Not at it. They shouldn't just do it when
1:25:36
people make them angry and they don't.
1:25:40
Whatever. The story of the missing child
1:25:44
hits hard, and as a parent, I can't imagine that kind of
1:25:48
worry. And I'm glad that the child has
1:25:50
been found. It's a reminder to pause,
1:25:53
reflect on our own lives, and choose compassion and support
1:25:56
even when it's not our own family in crisis.
1:26:04
Snippet this part and put it on the Facebook for the comments.
1:26:15
We I'm skipping that part. So as we head out tonight,
1:26:19
remember this. Notice the world around you care
1:26:22
about the people in it. Never underestimate the power of
1:26:26
your choices. A vote, a word, a moment of
1:26:31
compassion, which we need more of kindness.
1:26:37
Because just because that person is driving the Mercedes doesn't
1:26:39
mean they're not living in it. Just because they're driving a
1:26:42
Mercedes doesn't mean they're not a furloughed employee of the
1:26:47
US government. And also the Mercedes may be 20
1:26:50
years old, you have no idea. But since your head is so far
1:26:54
over your butt, you don't know. But that's all to say that they
1:26:59
all matter, and in most cases, you matter too.
1:27:05
Most of the. Time.
1:27:06
So thanks for joining us, and we'll see you next week for your
1:27:12
Wednesday night conversation. Unless you're a douchebag,
1:27:14
don't. Then don't.
1:27:16
Please wait, wait, don't. Have the day you deserve.