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April 28th, 2026 - Ink & Lace Fashion Event · The Big Gay Radio Show

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It's time for the Big gay radio show.
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Welcome to the Big Gay Radio Show.
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My name is Chris Gorman. I'm your show twink here, joined
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by the vivacious Vince Suasion. Good morning.
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And the electric trans queen of radio, Miss Esme Russell.
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Hello. Hello everybody.
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How are you guys doing today? I'm a little hungry but I feel
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great. Good, it's almost lunchtime.
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I know some people listen to us on their lunch break.
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And to those people, hope you're enjoying your meal.
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A lot of people listen to us after we air.
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Yes, yes. Because I get calls all the time
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for my friends. Oh, I listened to last week's
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show. I'm like, you finally listened
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to it. You got around to it.
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Got to love streaming. Yeah, it is.
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I've been, I've been stuck in Facebook jail the entire week.
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I got banned on Wednesday and I've just been living living
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life. I'm trying to figure out what is
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the reason for the ban. I don't know.
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So on the after show we did talk about salmon ejaculate that is
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used in skin care products. And I did say that in one of the
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in the, in the, in the one of the descriptions of the post.
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So I don't know. I'm going to share on the after
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show why I think you got banned. It's probably the Speedo pick.
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And there's I have plenty of reasons and absolutely it's
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because of the Speedo pick. Oh yeah?
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Are you kidding me? It's Chris, the Speedo pick.
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Yeah, 'cause you were, I don't know the things you do, Chris.
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I I guess you know, I'm I'm you. Have to behave on this show.
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Like a mother figure type of thing.
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When I look at you, as soon as I see photos of you and I go,
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somebody needs to cover up this young man, I'm thinking like a
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mother, right? Because I look at him because
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he's so young, right? But he's very mature in one way,
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but then he's also very young man in another.
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You know, when you're young, you're kind of crazy.
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You do wild stuff. And like the other day he called
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me and I said, after we had a long talk, I said, where are you
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at? He goes, oh, I'm at cocktails,
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just drinking, but he sounded completely sober.
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And you can't. But you know what's funny?
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I'm glad you said that because I always view him as so like
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profound and mature and just really has a great head on his
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shoulders. He does.
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And then he calls me and he's drunk and like maybe 3 or 4
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drinks already in and I'm like oh.
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Way more than that baby. Ohh it's got it gets me I.
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Appreciate you being honest. So normal to me, right?
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I would have been Rahul. How you right, you know, but you
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were just like, oh, yeah, yeah. Cocktails.
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Just drinking. I only know.
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Drunk, I'm not a I'm not a I'm not a weird drunk like that
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unless I'm talking to Vin. I know what it is about Vin, but
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I go ahead and I I get like, I get like delusions of grandeur.
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But anyways, he's so passionate. We'll talk, we'll talk about
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this on the after show. We're joined by two very or
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three very special people. We're joined by Jesse Harley and
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Danielle from Incan Lace. Welcome to the studio, guys.
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Thank you. We're so.
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Glad to have you guys. Please make sure you guys speak
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a little bit closer like so. Danielle, you are the creator of
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Ink and Lace. I am.
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I am so. What is ink and lace?
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Ink and Lace is a platform for heavily tattooed models to get a
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chance to walk in a fashion show that they have always
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potentially dreamed of doing. Due to the fact that we are
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usually passed up a lot of the times because of the stigma that
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is placed against our tattoos that our tattoos would take away
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from the designs. So I didn't really, that didn't
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really settle with me too well. So I decided to create the show
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for women like myself and like Jesse and Harley over here, and
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to help them either become a little more noticed or do you
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just give them a chance to do something that they've always
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wanted to? I love that because honestly,
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you know, one of the main things that like I'd kind of talked
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myself out of like the idea of getting tattoos when I was
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younger was because I had delusions of grandeur again,
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Vin, I I go ahead and always talk about that, but.
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Be dreams, you know but. I was like, oh, I might want to
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be a model someday or I might want to be an actor.
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So I don't want to go ahead and and get any tattoos.
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But now, nowadays I just, I don't have the creativity.
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I don't know what I want anymore.
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I can't make that decision. But so when it comes to, you
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know, being in a, you know, fashion show, how do you go
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ahead and highlight the tattoos? Or do you just primarily focus
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on the fashion? I try to do a little bit of
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both, to be quite honest. We try to fit the models and
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designs that will kind of enhance their tattoos too, as
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well as the design. I think that certain color
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schemes and depending on the placement of the tattoos on the
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models could really bring out a certain dress or a certain Jean
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outfit, pantsuit, anything like that.
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It's just all a matter of really taking the time to see who your
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model is, see where their tattoo placement is, and seeing what's
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going to match with them. Awesome, so the event is going
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to be themed Studio 54 Jungle Night.
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So where did that idea come from?
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What is the inspiration behind that?
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So honestly, I used to listen to my parents talk about going to
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Studio 54 in New York City all the time when they were younger.
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They used to love going there to dance and to have a good time.
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And they used to tell me stories that that the people that would
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attend this club were all walks of life.
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You could find people from gays, straights, people who are
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dressed in drag, just all coming together and having a good time
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and not caring about somebody's identity or who what they, you
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know, you know what I'm saying? Just.
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Living life the way. That we should be.
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And it's an all inclusive thing. And that's what I really loved
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about it. And I really loved the music
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around that time, the 80's, the 90s kind of music.
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Well, the obviously the 80s back then because it was 1979.
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But I do really love 80s music and I grew up a lot on it with
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my parents. And just hearing my parents talk
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about that, really, I really wanted to kind of bring that to
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life and 80s. Music really didn't take off to
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like around 8384, like towards the end of the 70s into the
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early 80s. We're still kind of in the disco
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era. I was.
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Born in 89 so like. I was there.
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Were you at Studio 54? I went to studio. 54 Really.
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Underage and I stood in line forever and the only reason they
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let me in was because I was in drag.
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Yeah, my friends didn't get in and they said, oh, my, we're not
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going to be. And I, they were underage and
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they said, are you a girl? You're a boy.
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I said, I'm a boy. And they said, oh, then you're
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coming in, let me in. So I I part, I thought I was
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going to party by myself and I didn't.
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But I'm going to tell you, back in those days, it was nothing
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but famous people. Halston was there, the designer.
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I remember that. And what was that guy that did
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all the artwork? The Mayor Hall.
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Warhol. Yeah.
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Danny Warhol. He was there that night.
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I remember that, yeah. Wow.
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Yeah, club kid days. But everybody was just walking
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around really normal and they had.
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It was all normalized they. Had trapeze artists and wow,
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yeah, I do remember very, very well.
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The show's definitely gonna have plenty of drag performers,
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that's for sure. That's exactly what I wanted to
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bring this as well. I went home with some lady had a
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limo. I don't even know who she was.
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I had my address in my the address.
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I was staying out in my pocket. She took me.
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She took me back. So, yeah, in her limo.
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Because back then there's just all limos in front of that
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place. Yeah, I knew it was different.
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It was definitely different than.
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That's what I want to bring. I remember getting on the subway
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and nobody looked at me, You know, here in Tampa, because I
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lived here in Tampa, when you get on you, when you walk right
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and drag back in those days here in Tampa, everybody stared at
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you. In New York, nobody even looks
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at you. It's like you're just.
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So normal. Yeah, completely.
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Normalized so. Something that I really like
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about the ink and Lace fashion event is that it's partnered
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with us, an organization that is very near and dear to our
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hearts, Project No Labels and Emerge New growth.
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So I want to kind of know how did that partnership start?
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OK, then you might be able to help.
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OK, I've I've. Been waiting to like chime in
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because I love you Danielle. You know I love you.
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You are my sister to the death like I will warrior with you for
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the rest of my life. I got the opportunity to meet
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Danielle through another fashion event that I was hosting and she
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saw me there and then hired me as the host for ink and lace
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fashion runway event. Also, if you're listening to
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this, it is one of the most gorgeous shows that happens in
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Tampa Bay. OK, I'm talking like, Oh my God,
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inclusivity. But yeah, you sit there and
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chill for a second and let me talk you up for a minute.
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OK, It's good because there are some games.
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Advertising. Oh, oh, I'm not advertising.
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No, I'm sharing my experience, OK.
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I'm sharing my experience because there's as an
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entertainer in Esme, I'm sure, I'm sure you understand this.
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There's we, we do this for work. This is our job.
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This is our profession. We love what we do.
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And there are places that we show up, where we show up and
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then we leave, you know? Yeah, and I did that Sunday.
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Respectfully. I did my job and then I said,
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OK, well what time is it? It's time to go.
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Right. Respectfully, you know, Ink and
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Lace is an event that I actually enjoy as an entertainer that I
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respectfully will go work at and then also go have fun at.
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So it's fun to talk about and it's fun to invite people to
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because I have a great time. So it's going to be on August
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1st. Of course, that's again ink and
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lace fashion event. So where can people find more
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information about it? I can find more information on
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our Facebook. We have a business page, it's
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called Ink and Lace, the fashion event.
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You can find all of your questions and information on
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that page there. We also we do have an Instagram
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as well, which is ink dot lace .22.
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The 22 is for the first year. We actually put the show on and
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you can find more information on that page as well.
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All right, so Jesse and Harley, you guys are not off the hook.
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Don't think that I'm going to let you guys.
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So how did you guys get involved?
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You guys are obviously models for the event.
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So what what did you guys start? How did you guys start with us?
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So I actually met Danielle at another runway show and we just
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bonded and she reached out to me and was like, hey, I saw your
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walk, loved your walk. Do you want to be in my fashion
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show? Honestly, I was like inspired by
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her and all her work as well, so I was super excited because I
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think it's so important to highlight tattooed models and
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give them opportunity to show that we can do it just as good
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as people without ink. Yes, ma'am.
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All right. And I met Danielle, her and I
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worked together a couple years back and she had mentioned
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something about her show and I just never really paid
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attention. And then this year when I saw
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the flyer, I was like, I have got to do this.
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It is such a body positive thing.
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Like I've dealt with body image my entire life, dysmorphia.
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And when I went into that room with all those ladies, I was
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beaming. I just felt beautiful.
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And it was really just something that I'm over the moon to be a
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part of, really. I'm so glad that I was able to
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have, we are all able to be together right now because
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Jesse, we were talking earlier about your son and honestly I
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kind of want to talk about your experience if that's OK.
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Yeah, absolutely. You said that you had a trans
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son. Right.
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I do. I do.
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He's 22 and lives in Colorado. Oh wow.
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Wow, so obviously a little bit more friendlier up there than
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here. Yeah, the trans Very safe.
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So my question to you is, is sort of how does that experience
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as a transparent or a parent of a trans person, I should
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transparent, but how was that experience like shaped you?
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Oh God, I mean it. I've I've always been an ally of
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the community and when he came out to me, it was just beautiful
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the the trust and I've just seen him grow so much as a person, as
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confidence. I just, it's the most beautiful
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thing that's happened right before my very eyes.
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And it's almost, I can't find the words to articulate how
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moved I was by his transition, his bravery, his courage to be
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authentic. And so that has taught me to be
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authentic to myself as well and, you know, really hold true to my
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morals and the things that are important to me in life.
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That's powerful. That's very powerful.
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You know, there's so many parents out there that are kind
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of they're a little bit not sure of how to, you know, handle
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having a a trans child. Do you have any advice for those
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those parents? I say listen to understand, not
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to respond. Definitely open your ears and
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just listen. Validate.
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I, I didn't know what to say. So I, I just listened and it was
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the most powerful thing I've ever heard.
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And so that's what I would tell people is just really listen to
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your kids. You want to be their rock.
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You do. And if you are, you know, that's
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pretty big already. I got chills.
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And you know, if that's incredible, if I were to have a
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kid, you know, obviously, you know, in my opinion, I would
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always want to tears. Over here I'm trying all my tik.
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T.O.K live you can see all the. Hey can I?
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Share. How can I share why I think this
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is so powerful? Also the partnership with Inking
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Lace. Yeah, this is.
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Thank you so much for sharing that so.
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Thank you for asking. And being a parent to to such a
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now, I don't want to say fragile because it's resilience.
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Trans to trance lives are resilience.
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So something that I find so powerful about partnering
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Project No Labels, Pasco and Emerge new growth community with
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ink and lace is literally this. The stigma of modeling the
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stigma of beauty goes out the window and the gathering of
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people that gets included in what is fashion, what is beauty,
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what is art gets. It's all a gathering in one
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night and we get to meet all these different people in
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different walks of life and experience beauty in different
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ways. That is why Ink and Lace, it's
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such a freaking fun show. Such a fun show.
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King is fine. It's such a fun show, it really
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is. It's such a great time to have.
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It fills the spirit. I'm excited to see y'all walk
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genuinely and respectfully. Y'all are tatted.
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It's so cool. It's so cool.
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Thank you I'll. Be honest, like and you can't
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really see it on the on the air, but you guys have some really
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nice tattoos. But you can on my TikTok live.
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Esme, do you have any any questions?
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No tattoos for Esme. No tattoos for.
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Esme No, no. If I went this, if I went this
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far without tattooing the Bentley, we're not doing it now.
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You. Know my mom.
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Says too, though my mom says the same thing.
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I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it and I'll tell
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you why because I'll share with my my mentor on that.
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You know, Cher, you know, she said to remove many tattoos.
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Why? Because the skin is starting to
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change and I don't want, you know, to be in my 7070 year
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woman with my skin changing and my tattoo.
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I hear that. Getting that's.
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All about expression. Because I'm the opposite.
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I think I'm going to look sick. I can't tell you girl, I'm I
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don't want to have to wear long sleeves if I don't want to.
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I hate to be that guy, but you're 65 years old and you're
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not. It's not sagging yet, so.
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I know, and by the way, my dad did his sag.
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My dad, no. You sent me pictures, Yeah, No,
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if you. Work out too.
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You can also keep the skin I said tight and it would but.
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Share, said. Girls just smile, she said.
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I kept the kept removing them. She's I started removing one and
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then she's removed a lot of them now.
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You know, yeah. My mom says don't put bumper
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stickers on a Lamborghini. Yeah, well, everybody's stupid
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though. Like my uncle had them.
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God bless his we're. F1 cars.
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My yeah. How much F1 car is I respect
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that they're full of stickers. I.
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Respect that. My uncle is the only person in
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our bloodline I think, that had tattoos, but he was AI was just
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telling Chris he was a political prisoner in Cuba.
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So he had a lot of tattoos when he was in a concentration camp.
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But if he was there for 9 years trying to overthrow the
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government, which is a whole different story about my yeah.
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My father, my sister, nobody in my family besides my mom I
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think, and she didn't get a tattoo and tell her so.
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She was in her late I think 50s to be honest.
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So Zendaya, you know, Tom Holland's quiet, right?
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She's got, she doesn't have any tattoos.
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Zendaya is all, you know, big movie star, right?
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She has one. She, she, she does have one.
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So, so does he under his foot. It's a spider underneath his
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foot. I'll see I have a arm full of
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spiders. But yeah, she said she recently
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got her mother to start tattooing, so she's living
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vicariously through her because, you know, she's an actress and
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it's very expensive to cover tattoos when you're on set, say,
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it costs a lot of money. So they avoid not trying to get
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so many of them. But her moms got full of tattoos
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now. Well, anyways, so how can you
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guys go ahead and find more information about Ink and Lace?
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It's going to be on August 1st, right?
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Correct, it is going to be on August 1st.
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I did mention before that we can find it on our Facebook, our
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Instagram, both ink and lace, the fashion event and then ink
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dot lace .22 for that as well. Awesome, Miss Esme, what are we
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talking about on the after show? Oh.
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My God, we're going to talk about assisted suicide.
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Oh my God. Well what a great freaking
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topic. How happy is that?
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And the reason is really weird. I'll tell you what that story is
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all about. Also, a Minnesota teacher loses.
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Well, he loses his job. They're not sure if he was fired
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or if he stepped away, that that's still questionable, but
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I'll tell you what happened to him.
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Also a cat and an Amazon driver. It's a very sad story and I
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don't like it. And Chris, you're a cat
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collector. I call Chris the Catwoman, so
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I'll tell you about it. Makes me sad.
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I don't like talking about animals, but I got to talk about
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it. And then I got to talk about
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these identical twin brothers. That something really bad
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happened to them and it's just devastating.
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So that that's and it's a weird thing to happen.
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Also, we're going to talk about the correspondents dinner.
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We should do that as soon as we get back.
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Yeah, definitely. I think the correspondents
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dinner. I also want to go ahead and talk
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about the soldier that was involved in the Maduro raid who
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is being charged with something. We're going to go ahead and find
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out what that is after the break.
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But first, let's go ahead and throw it over to Claire Leeson
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from Project No Labels for our big gay news.
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Then over to Joe on Joe Anna Grosso for Joe on the go.
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We'll be right back. I'm Claire Leeson from Project
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Noli Wilson. This is your LGBTQ plus news
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from around the country and right here in Tampa Bay in
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Orlando from WESH. No charges will be filed against
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six people arrested for using chalk to repaint the Post
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Memorial Crosswalk. The rainbow crosswalk honored
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the 49 lives lost in the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting, but it
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was removed overnight in August 2025 under a directive requiring
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roadways to be free of what officials call distractions or
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political messages. After its removal, protesters
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used chalk to recreate the rainbow.
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State Attorney Monique Wherelle says the arrest that followed
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amounted to selective enforcement, noting that some
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individuals were detained while others, including public
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officials, were not. Morrell also said there was no
21:31
evidence of property damage, calling it a cleaning operation,
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not a damage remediation, and ultimately declined to file
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charges. Also in Orlando from Watermark
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Out News, Anthem Orlando is facing a 30 day suspension
21:44
impacting its hours of operation following issues tied to a third
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party security vendor. Owner Mike Visarca says the
21:51
vendor failed to follow proper protocols on one evening and was
21:55
immediately terminated. The venue has since brought in a
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new security company and says safety remains its top priority.
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Under the suspension, alcohol sales must stop at midnight,
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followed by a structured closing timeline.
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Anthem is now working with the city to revise its mitigation
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plan after previous proposals were denied.
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In Florida State News, also from Watermark, Governor Ron DeSantis
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has signed new legislation targeting diversity, equity and
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inclusion efforts at the local level.
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The law, said to take effect in January 2027, will prohibit
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local governments from funding or promoting DEI related
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initiatives, eliminate inclusion officer roles and give the state
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authority to remove officials found in violation.
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Advocates warned the measure could impact community events
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25:00
My name is Chris Gorman. I'm your show twink here, joined
25:03
by the vivacious Vince Suasion. Happy National Blueberry Pie
25:07
Day. OK, I don't really like
25:09
blueberry pie. I do.
25:11
It's delicious. That's unfortunate.
25:12
It's OK. Anyways, we're also joined by
25:14
the electric Esme Russell and. Blueberries are so good for you,
25:18
they are. I don't eat a lot of things that
25:20
are good for me. Oh man, they're so good for you.
25:22
They're so good. They are so good for you.
25:24
They're filled with antioxidants for your body.
25:27
They're great for your heart and everything.
25:29
It's just it's a great fruit to eat all the time.
25:32
With ice cream. Oh, that's delicious.
25:35
You know what I love about it? That when it's frozen and you
25:38
unfreeze them, they don't lose their power.
25:41
Yep, they're still good. That's a that's one of those
25:44
fruits that you can freeze in the freezer.
25:46
I know I started a problem, I'm sorry.
25:48
Well we also, we've got a message from Brian Hinkson, a
25:51
specific individual from the show.
25:55
He's got 5 tattoos and wanted to say that he agrees with us on
25:59
the stigma about it and that all those his, that all of his
26:04
tattoos are sentimental and that they mean something to him, but
26:08
of course is art as well. We're also joined by Jesse
26:12
Harley and Danielle from Ink and Lace.
26:15
Thank you guys for joining us. And I wanted to go ahead and,
26:19
and give a special shout out to Brian because he guys, he helped
26:22
you guys with your, your visuals.
26:24
He certainly did. He really, really did.
26:26
I was so happy with how the flyer turned out.
26:30
It couldn't have turned out any better.
26:32
I mean, he from the color scheme to the grids to the throwing
26:37
back into the like him actually taking the time out to like
26:40
research and look up and see how to, you know, kind of like take
26:44
inspiration from other 80s artists and things like that.
26:48
One of his inspirations was he told me was Prince and that that
26:51
logo was, was amazing. I love retro.
26:54
It was very retro. I I love it.
26:57
He did great, Brian. Hankston.
26:59
Thank you him again and again. Well, I, I want to go ahead and
27:03
again, special shout out to Ink and Lace.
27:06
It's going to be on August 1st. If you missed our the first part
27:09
of our interview, you can always go ahead and listen online at
27:12
wmnf.org or we also got the big Gay after show and the big Gay
27:17
radio show streaming on all streaming platforms as well.
27:22
So that's all there and everything.
27:24
There's also going to be a a karaoke fundraiser event at the
27:28
Garage on Central on July 1st for Ink and Lace.
27:31
That's Danielle's going to be there.
27:33
I'm going to be there. That's going to be a great time,
27:35
too. Fun, fun, fun.
27:37
Well, Miss Esme, what's up with the shooting?
27:41
So look, I got on social media right after it happened, you
27:46
know, the correspondents dinner shooting.
27:50
And what really shocked me wasn't the information about the
27:53
shooting, but how many people on my feet.
27:57
And I have 22,000 people just on my feet alone believe that it
28:02
was fake. That didn't happen.
28:06
And I'm going to say this in defense of the I can't believe
28:09
I'm saying this in defense of the Trump administration.
28:12
Please. Put on your coats.
28:17
Pause. No, but I don't believe that it
28:20
was. I believe that that was an
28:22
active shooter. I really believe that.
28:24
What I also believe is that he is a show person.
28:28
He's a theater person, and he took advantage of that moment.
28:32
He said, oh, wait a minute, we got a shooter.
28:34
This is the perfect opportunity to connect us with the ballroom
28:38
so I can get my ballroom. If this judge is blocking.
28:40
You see what I'm saying? He thought quickly on his feet.
28:45
I just don't believe it was fake.
28:47
Now, there's been a couple of other shootings with him that
28:50
I'm not. I'm not going to say they were
28:51
fake, but they look very suspicious.
28:55
I'm just saying, like the one with the flag dropped into
28:57
position and his trembling hand came up and the blood you.
29:02
Mean his intact. Ear and the blood on the ear
29:04
that it's just the blood on the ear that he said it was
29:07
completely destroyed and now that ear is perfect so.
29:11
'Cause it's regenerated like a lizard.
29:14
Apparently he can regenerate, so that one may be suspicious.
29:17
But this one, this one is definitely, you know, and the
29:22
guy, the guy he doesn't lean, I, I wouldn't looked at his
29:26
California registration information.
29:29
So he doesn't lean right or left, but he did he, he doesn't,
29:33
he's not registered on either one to Republican or Democrat,
29:36
but he did donate to the, to the Democratic Party like 3 or 4 *
29:42
25 dollar donations. So he probably, I'm going to say
29:45
leans left, you know, but he said some things on and why
29:49
would you? The other question is I would
29:51
ask ask this to Chris because Chris will probably have a
29:53
better answer for me. Why?
29:55
If you're going to commit a crime like that, which is that
29:58
is a crime, OK, even even just say it out loud should be a
30:02
crime. I believe it is.
30:04
Why would you write a manifesto? What do you?
30:08
What do you? What's that?
30:10
I don't know why you think I would be the person for that.
30:13
Yeah, because you're smart. I mean, the reason why I, I
30:19
would think would be that if he was successful, then you know,
30:24
he can get it out there. But also, I think that he
30:28
probably was going, he thought might have thought that he was
30:31
going to get killed in it. So I and honestly, it's all
30:37
speculation. You can't really go ahead and
30:39
and you know, go either way. I think he didn't think he was
30:42
going to make it because they said that he they, they first
30:45
said when they did the interviews right after it that
30:48
he was tackled. Not true.
30:50
So one of the reporters, several reporters that were there said
30:52
that when he was told to stop, he literally stopped running and
30:57
he dropped to his knees and he dumped the the pistol.
31:01
So he wasn't going to go. He he kind of knew he wasn't
31:04
going to make it. I I don't understand what he was
31:06
trying to do. It was like he was never near
31:09
the president by the way, he never got near him.
31:11
They could hear the shots because they were in the
31:14
ballroom, you know what I mean? But by the way, some added step
31:19
to it, what about all the reporters stealing the wine off
31:23
the table? No, OK honestly.
31:27
So if I ever got invited to a place, you absolutely will see
31:30
me do that. See honestly, I have precedent.
31:34
I went to the Rays game. They had the the all you can
31:37
drink all you can eat things. And I I went ham.
31:41
I think I had 6 hot dogs. I had like 8 glasses of wine.
31:44
I was wasted. I saw.
31:46
This one lady, this blonde lady which she clearly is visible on
31:50
camera, sticking bottles in her purse.
31:53
She. Was shoving new shoving,
31:56
literally shoving bottles of wine into I mean, and that, you
32:00
know, that's not cheap wine they're using there.
32:02
By the way, the man of the hour was the the white guy, older man
32:06
probably about, I'm going to say 65, you know, around there.
32:11
He's sitting there eating his Cobb salad very slowly, mind
32:15
you. They're, they're screaming.
32:17
Everybody body underneath the tables, active shooter, active
32:20
shooter, everybody's going down. You can see all the faces of
32:23
people trembling. He's slowly eating a salad,
32:27
looking at the stage, going. I wonder what's next.
32:29
I wonder who comes out on the stage?
32:31
So what really, you know, the other part of it was the
32:35
aftermath involving a, a video that kind of went viral was with
32:40
Erica Kirk and she she was screaming that she just wanted
32:44
to go home. And I hate to be that guy, but
32:49
Can you imagine how the kids of that are involved in school
32:53
shootings feel every single time that there's a school shooting?
32:58
Great point. I I I'm so glad that the
33:02
Republican Party is finally experiencing what these children
33:07
have been experiencing for decades now.
33:10
Thoughts and prayers. Thoughts.
33:12
And freaking. So you made a lot of fireworks
33:15
together. I think most of you in here, how
33:18
old are you? You're very young.
33:19
How old are you? So most of you in here have
33:24
lived through the era of active drills at school.
33:26
I never went. I didn't have it.
33:28
The only drills we did were fire drills.
33:30
I say I've only done fire drills much so.
33:32
You never did. That I did shooter drill.
33:34
But I know Chris did. Them oh, I got I.
33:35
Regular active. So I went to.
33:37
School of shooter drills. I went to school in New York.
33:40
And I also went to school in Connecticut when I was younger
33:43
and in New York and in Connecticut, we had to do active
33:46
shooter drills and we had to do bomb drills and.
33:48
It was just crazy. I grew up in South Georgia, so
33:51
we're not very progressive, I would say, yeah.
33:55
Drills are kind of sadly, they're traumatizing, but
33:58
important. The drill itself.
34:00
Well, it was like somebody was like on campus that we had to
34:02
make sure that we were like tucked away, quiet, like on your
34:05
hands and knees, kind of like like almost out of sight as much
34:09
as possible so that if they were to look into the doors, they
34:12
didn't see anybody and you were as close to the grounded
34:15
potentially. Did that for tornadoes, yeah.
34:17
That too. We did it, yeah.
34:18
Weather we were just. Like talking about.
34:20
Yeah, we did it. We did it for both.
34:21
Listen. I'm just gonna say this because
34:23
Patricia Heaton, by the way, the actress, she said that she is
34:27
asking people on the left to lower the rhetoric against not
34:31
just the president, but the administration.
34:34
I agree with her 100%. Surprisingly, even though I know
34:37
that she is MAGA, I still agree with her.
34:40
We all need to lower the temperature, but we can start
34:44
from the very top, can't we? We can.
34:48
Start, we can start from the people that we look forward to
34:52
for guidance. OK.
34:53
When you go on TV and you say I'm going to blow up that whole
34:56
building, you know, I'm going to blow him out of the world.
34:59
I mean, that's not the kind of things you want to hear from
35:02
your president. You know what I'm saying?
35:05
Listen, what happened? Was it Saturday night?
35:07
I think it was Friday night or Saturday.
35:09
Saturday night. It was terrible and it shouldn't
35:11
happen. We shouldn't be acting like
35:13
that. That's just, it's just
35:14
unacceptable behavior to, you know, to want to destroy, hurt
35:18
somebody or if you don't like someone, vote them out.
35:21
That's what we do in the United States of America.
35:23
We don't load up guns and go hurt somebody, you know, and,
35:27
and we don't scare people like that.
35:28
I don't like that part of scaring people.
35:30
You know, 'cause there was some people like the Cobb salad man.
35:34
He didn't care. But there was a lot of people
35:36
there that were scared. There's, you know, that brought
35:38
to my attention to on Facebook, there's a video that's going
35:42
around of the of different angles of people being escorted
35:47
out of the room. Yeah.
35:48
And they were protecting the men and leaving their wives.
35:53
I. Saw that.
35:54
Yeah, that is 100% true, Yeah. My mouth.
35:56
Literally was shaking under a table while his wife was holding
36:00
hands with another man. I saw that.
36:03
Art. FBI Director.
36:04
Reportedly, yeah. And the, and the suspect, they
36:08
took Kennedy out. They they covered him up and,
36:11
and, and the wife, Kennedy's wife got left behind.
36:14
She was running after them. So I kind of want to go around
36:16
the room and get your guys opinion on this.
36:18
Danielle, what's your what's your team?
36:20
A room full of confident women. Let's go full of confident.
36:24
Women my opinion on as far as. As a correspondent's dinner of
36:28
the shooting, what? What do you feel and what are
36:31
you thinking? Look, I usually, I tried to kind
36:35
of stay away from a lot of the news and things like that
36:39
because right now this world is scary and there's a lot of bad
36:42
things happening. And especially something like
36:44
that where, you know, we, you know, we rely on, you know,
36:50
protection, security, things like that, and to have them
36:55
protect the men instead of the women, things like that.
36:57
And I just, it upsets me. So I really try to say.
37:02
No, I completely get it. Yeah, no, absolutely.
37:05
I can't look bad on camera. I try to, I don't want to try to
37:08
like ignore any of it, like no, but I just I can't.
37:14
So that is such a good thing to bring up.
37:17
And I'm going to be honest because you know, they're,
37:19
they're always as everybody has to have a limit.
37:22
You know, there's only so much that you can intake and right
37:25
now with the media, every single thing is breaking news, breaking
37:29
news and you must need to know so and, and honestly, it's a
37:34
really healthy thing to especially have those topics
37:37
that you understand. You kind of need to take a step
37:40
back. For me, it's honestly the school
37:42
shooting situation. On the other hand, you know, the
37:46
USF, the, the two students that were the two doctorate students
37:51
that went missing. I've, I've tried to limit as
37:54
much information that I get about that because I really need
37:57
to focus on finals. I'm really stressed out in terms
38:00
of my own stuff, but that's from my own campus.
38:04
Yeah. So I.
38:05
Know myself, I'll get really sucked into things like that and
38:07
then it consumes me and then I'm not in a good mental space.
38:10
So I'm like, yeah, I really do have to take a step back from
38:14
media and news and all. That's such a valid opinion, and
38:19
I think that more people really need to do that because I think
38:21
a lot of people run themselves mad just constantly thinking of
38:25
the media and constantly thinking about social media and
38:29
all the trends and all the things that it says.
38:30
What's Donald Trump said? What's Hillary Clinton said?
38:32
What's this person said? I felt guilty to that.
38:35
I definitely felt guilty to that.
38:37
I when I saw that as a brother, as someone who has sisters, as
38:42
someone who has a profound respect for women, I was
38:46
enraged. When I saw that I was disgusted.
38:48
I was enraged. And I was like, I'm falling into
38:51
the. Melania, even Melania was, was
38:54
on the floor and Trump was taken out before she was.
38:57
That's the. Conservative traditional way it
38:59
was. Just weird.
39:00
It was just really weird, you know?
39:02
Disgusted. It was, it was just this.
39:04
It's on camera. You can see the tape.
39:06
You can see it. It's not like, Oh well, they're
39:08
making it up. You can see it and it's all over
39:10
the Internet. It's all over the Internet.
39:12
It's. Totally what?
39:13
What's your perspective on this whole thing?
39:15
I want to give you the floor. Yeah, so for me, it's just, I
39:19
guess I obviously I'm kind of from the realm of like
39:23
conspiracy theorists. So like, I'm not like I don't
39:25
vote anything out, I would say. But if it wasn't a setup,
39:31
obviously, like I do have my dad in the back of my head being
39:33
like the logical, you know, if they're if it's not the
39:37
conspiracy theory, like that's all debunked everything, then
39:40
they should have better security.
39:42
Well then the correspondence dinner never does exactly.
39:45
This is what and, and you know, it's not for the president.
39:49
The president is a guest there. So when he says we need to do
39:52
this in the ballroom, the the correspondents dinner is for the
39:56
people that work in the journalism field, right?
39:59
So he's there as a guest. So you need to bring your own
40:02
security. Exactly.
40:03
You know what I'm saying so well.
40:05
The Secret Service did their job.
40:06
I mean, the guy didn't. He didn't kill anybody.
40:09
No, he shot a Secret Service agent.
40:11
But the Secret Service agent's fine.
40:13
Like shootings and threats happen all the time to
40:16
presidents and they just make they see as a like opportunity
40:19
to take advantage of it too, and it doesn't.
40:21
It's sad for the people. There were 6.
40:23
Attempts, I think, on Obama's life during his presidency and.
40:26
He didn't make a show about you. Never hear about.
40:28
Him. No, just never hear about him.
40:30
Not one. Yeah, you just don't hear about
40:31
them. It's like it never happened.
40:32
And also speaking about like limiting yourself, I think it's
40:35
also just really important to know who you are as a person and
40:38
what like, like we were saying your limit, but also not letting
40:42
people that just genuinely don't care to use that as an excuse
40:45
not to be involved and be like, oh, I'm just not political.
40:48
I think that also is something to think about because you can't
40:51
always have your head in the sand because it does, you know,
40:54
people say I'm not political. I'm like, well, politics do you
40:56
then? Yes, because, you know,
40:58
politics, everything. Yeah, everything is politics.
41:01
Everywhere, unfortunately. Everything is politics.
41:03
Ground yourself and discern. Everything you eat, everything
41:06
you consume where your medical. Doses your job you have to have
41:10
just like you have to have everything in there.
41:12
Yeah, I want to pull. Back out.
41:13
You know, sometimes it sounds a little bit like the the seagulls
41:16
from Finding Nemo. Because I'll hear Vince say
41:20
every everything politics and then as May says everything
41:23
politics, everything politics, everything politics and says it
41:25
like 5 times. I'm like mine, mine mine like
41:30
y'all. We heard y'all the first time.
41:33
By the way, everything is politics and we're gonna
41:37
continue to stay. And I agree, do not, do not get
41:39
me wrong, I I completely agree as a political science major, I
41:43
completely agree everything. But you know, no need to people.
41:46
Say I'm not political. I always go, God, yeah, you are
41:50
political. Your breath, every breath you
41:52
take out. Somebody decided how clean the
41:55
air is gonna be pretty. If you're not at the table
41:56
eating, you're gonna be eating. My that's.
41:58
True. That's I love that that's.
42:00
Actually a really good point. It's really quick before.
42:03
We keep going, I have some people on my TikTok live asking
42:06
how they can and listen to this after.
42:08
So it's on Spotify and Apple podcast.
42:10
They're also on WMNF dot. Org cool, awesome.
42:13
Thank you. Also, you know, the something
42:16
that I also like really wanted to go ahead and and bring up is
42:20
the fact that if you wanted to go ahead and have a higher
42:24
security, you could have done it.
42:27
He he knows how many times has had how many times he had
42:32
attempts on his life. He.
42:34
Literally had multiple times already so you would think that
42:38
he would be able to invite. Iranian government has a like a
42:43
hit. Out on him.
42:44
On a bounty, Yeah. Hello.
42:46
Well, there was even a clip of a Fox News host joking around
42:50
about the fact that there was security issues.
42:53
So I, I, it's really interesting to go ahead and sit back and be
42:59
like, oh, how could somebody go ahead and get in here like this?
43:04
It's pretty freaking easy. They're saving.
43:06
He didn't. Walk through the door yeah, he
43:08
got tackled. They did do their job when it
43:10
happened, but exactly he literally walked in he.
43:13
Literally walked in through the door.
43:14
He literally just walked into the.
43:16
Door we had to be buzzed in well.
43:17
Just so you know, he. You know what I mean?
43:18
Just so you know, he was staying in the.
43:20
Place has higher security than he was.
43:22
A guest, he was a guest in the hotel.
43:24
So I think the mark that they missed was they didn't check the
43:27
people that were staying in the hotel or if they did, they
43:29
didn't. Do a good Duh.
43:31
I mean, yes, I would have said who is staying at?
43:33
This thing you should. I want to see who's staying in
43:35
the hotel. All right, moving on.
43:37
Moving on. So Governor DeSantis has
43:40
unveiled some new congressional maps that would give the GOP an
43:44
extra 4 seats. Esme, I kind of want to go ahead
43:48
and get your perspective before I get mine.
43:51
It's going to backfire. Yep, It always does all these
43:54
stunts whenever you try to cheat, and that's cheating.
43:58
That is cheating. You can call it whatever you
44:01
like. No matter what political party
44:02
you're on, it always is going to backfire.
44:05
That's all I got to say about it.
44:06
So they can go ahead. They can go ahead and do it.
44:08
It's not. I'm telling you, when people are
44:10
ready to vote, they're going to vote with their conscience.
44:12
People right now, the food's too expensive, gasoline is too
44:15
expensive, Healthcare is too expensive, rent is too
44:18
expensive. We were all promised that all
44:20
these things would go down. Have they gone down?
44:23
They've gone up. So, you know, you can do
44:27
whatever. What do you want to do,
44:28
DeSantis? I'm just telling you, these
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folks are going to vote against you straight across the board.
44:33
I just don't. I don't think it's going to.
44:34
I don't think it's going to win. And you know, the Democrats are
44:36
not playing either. They're doing their own version.
44:38
It's, I guess they're cheating, too.
44:40
Everybody's trying to cheat. I think that it is a very much a
44:45
tit for tat situation. You know, it's and I really wish
44:50
that we would go ahead and have, you know, no gerrymandering.
44:53
I wish that the entirety of the congressional, you know, map
44:58
should be go ahead and be fair. But if?
45:01
One group Texas, is going to go ahead and act as if they can go
45:07
ahead and cheat then, and it's legal, then let's do the legal
45:12
cheating. And honestly, if it's legal, it
45:15
ain't cheating. You're right, just not cheating
45:18
like the laws protecting them. And so, and honestly, it all all
45:24
goes down to the Supreme Court, all goes down to the Supreme
45:26
Court and it goes down to this Florida Supreme Court as well
45:28
because it's part of the Florida Constitution that it, you know,
45:32
there is a fair delegation. I believe that that's within
45:36
there. So we'll see.
45:39
We will definitely see. Esme, what's the team?
45:41
So a physically healthy 56 year old woman dies by assisted
45:46
suicide. So she's from the UK.
45:48
Her son had died a few years ago and she could not bear to live
45:54
with the thought of him being gone.
45:56
It's her only son. So what did she do?
45:58
She went to the UK and asked them to let her die and they
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said they could not help her with assisted suicide.
46:03
She didn't want to do it herself.
46:05
I guess she didn't want to do it that way.
46:07
So maybe because she was scared, I don't know.
46:10
So she, so she paid 13,000, excuse me, $13,500 in
46:16
Switzerland and I guess they used injections or whatever and
46:19
they put her to sleep and she died.
46:21
She was perfectly healthy. Nothing wrong with her.
46:24
The only prop and she signed all the documents saying I'm upset.
46:27
They call it a sane suicide. So you're completely aware that
46:31
this is what you, the decision you've made and it's totally
46:34
legal in Switzerland, which, you know, so I'm just gonna ask
46:37
everybody, what do you think about that?
46:39
I'm Oh yeah, your religious stuff.
46:42
Kick. Kick kicks in right.
46:44
Why? Why did she decide to do that?
46:47
What was the reasoning her? Son passed away her.
46:49
Son passed away, she felt like she couldn't go on anymore.
46:53
And if that was your only son, I mean, I guess it really depends
46:57
on what headspace that you're in there.
46:59
Yeah, I know. I'm on the fence about it.
47:01
Really, I am too. As a I have suicide in my family
47:04
so I feel really deeply and strong about it but I also feel
47:09
I I just don't know like if she lost her son are there not other
47:12
people that love her? Because I think suicide is
47:15
extremely selfish. I don't think it's.
47:19
About that, that's what I make up in my.
47:21
Head, I can't say. I get it.
47:24
It's tough, she. Has family, they didn't want her
47:27
to do it, but she said she couldn't live without him.
47:30
Just she was sound mind and I was excited about.
47:34
She might be quote UN quote, sound mind at that time, but
47:37
like, think about how much pain she's in.
47:39
Like do you think that she could have hurt others or could have
47:41
it could have been a worse situation.
47:43
So it's like, I mean, maybe that's her way.
47:46
I don't know. That's her way of coping.
47:48
So I was, you know, obviously I'm transgender and it's every
47:50
time I say this, it's always a controversial to some people,
47:54
but I'm a person of faith, You know, my family raised me in the
47:58
church. So I'm thinking to myself, this
48:01
is against God. I mean, we can do some things
48:05
that are against God and it can be worked out.
48:07
I always say, but it's, it's a disruption, my sacred life that
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God has given me the breath of life to exist in this world.
48:17
It's a privilege to be alive. I don't know.
48:19
I don't know if I I don't know if I have the I don't know if I
48:22
have the bravery to interrupt what God has deemed his will,
48:27
which is my purchase, my brain. That's how I see it, You know,
48:30
again, that's my religious belief.
48:32
So. Yeah, I was gonna say that's
48:33
your religious belief. You're not, not your.
48:36
Unfortunately, not every person has the same morals, or
48:40
unfortunate as that is because there's a lot of bad people out
48:43
there. Anyways, we got a text message
48:44
from somebody that I kind of want to go ahead and address.
48:48
It said that the shooter may not have shot the Secret Service.
48:52
He hasn't been charged with shooting anybody.
48:55
The charges that he is currently facing right now are attempted
49:02
assassination of the president, Interstate transportation of a
49:05
firearm and ammunition with intent to commit a felony, and
49:09
discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence.
49:12
So he has not been charged with any assault.
49:14
He did shoot at a Secret Service agent, but he didn't hit him.
49:18
He may not have hit him. He.
49:19
Did not hit him. He did not.
49:21
Did not. Well, it's so friendly Fire.
49:23
Yeah, that's what I. Was thinking.
49:27
Chris, there's no such thing. Well, maybe.
49:30
Maybe a war. There's probably if you come
49:34
barely to a hotel with a gun that's not friendly fire.
49:38
Well, no, I was talking about the, the school, the the, the,
49:40
the, the shooters. Yeah.
49:41
Next to me, the Secret Service. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, those guys,
49:44
man, they risked their lives and God bless them.
49:46
You know, I'm I appreciate every I.
49:48
Think we got time for one more topic, but I want to go out and
49:51
take this one. So no charges will be filed
49:54
against six people who are arrested when they went ahead
49:59
and shocked the mural outside of the Pulse crosswalk.
50:03
All right, Pulse shooting so very much a huge win.
50:08
It seemed like from from the the the, I guess prosecution said
50:13
that there was no X me. I have it written down because I
50:18
don't want to go ahead and get this wrong.
50:20
They said that the claims of damage didn't hold up because
50:23
the chalk was water soluble and could go ahead and it could just
50:28
be cleaned off. And some, and apparently, you
50:33
know, some of the some of the those who were arrested had lost
50:36
job interviews and job opportunities while the cases
50:39
were pending just for standing a street, just for talking a
50:44
street. So this is the, this is the
50:46
stuff that we are going ahead and focusing on.
50:49
It's petty. It's petty bullcrap.
50:51
It's annoying. People right here, there are
50:55
people that can't even feed their kids.
50:57
Exactly. I mean, I would rather go ahead
51:00
and have all of this effort go towards, I don't know, you know,
51:04
helping attack the insurance industry and the amount of, you
51:08
know, price gouging that they've been.
51:10
Doing let's focus our energies here, people.
51:12
Let's. Focus on something that actually
51:14
you know. Oh, I don't know, like mental
51:16
health? Yeah, mental health is another.
51:19
One the. Reason polls that happened was
51:22
hate and mental health. Focus on that.
51:24
I don't know. I also want to go ahead and we
51:26
got another message that said at least the Democratic states are
51:30
asking voters to vote about redistricting changes, correct?
51:35
Very much so. That's great.
51:37
True. So I mean, you know, one side's
51:40
being a little bit more, you know, and.
51:41
One side is asking the people to decide.
51:44
One more one. Little people share which side,
51:47
right? Yeah, the democracy.
51:50
Hello. How surprising.
51:51
Right. What a crazy concept.
51:53
There's people that don't think we live in a democracy.
51:55
I want to be an American. They don't seem to understand
51:58
we're. In a Democratic Republic.
51:59
That we live in a Democratic Republic.
52:00
So it is a democracy. It is both a Republic and a
52:04
democracy at the same time. And they, they don't cancel each
52:07
other out there. They work to together.
52:09
It's just crazy. I don't know.
52:11
I think it has to do with the fact that people don't trust the
52:13
government to be just. Well, if we didn't have so much
52:17
reason. Can I be a boy and a girl at the
52:19
same time We. Wouldn't have this issue.
52:21
Anyways, Anyways, anyways, anyways, anyways I want to go
52:24
ahead and once again promote ink and lace a little bit more.
52:28
So where can people find more information, Danielle?
52:31
Again, people can find more information on our Facebook
52:35
page, Ink and Lace, the fashion event.
52:37
They can also find more information on our Instagram at
52:40
ink dot lace .22. You can also find information
52:45
about Ink and Lace's event through Project No Labels and
52:49
Emerge New Growth Communities Facebook and Instagram.
52:51
Perfect. And where can people find you
52:53
guys all on social media? I'm just a normal person.
53:00
I'm not. I'm much of A social media gal.
53:02
I just got Instagram for the first time and I have like 7
53:05
followers. My Instagram is Jay the fish
53:10
sleigh 'cause I used to fish. Hey, I'm Florida Turtle.
53:17
I like it. I like.
53:19
It I am on social media, that is my everything.
53:22
So whatever. I am miss Rebel Visions on
53:26
Instagram. Awesome.
53:27
And Danielle? I am this sounds fun.
53:32
I am Red Widow 1989 on Instagram yes, I mean I do.
53:38
I don't have a arm full of spider tattoos for nothing, you
53:41
know, so. Well, we're going to go ahead
53:43
and go into the after show. I am not what are.
53:46
We going to go ahead and talk about Miss Esme real quick.
53:49
We got, we got less time. I am not a normal person.
53:53
What are we talking about? So we're going to finish those
53:56
stories of cat that I told you with the Amazon driver.
53:58
We'll talk about that. The twin brothers also, we're
54:01
going to talk about Melania and Donald Trump are asking Jimmy
54:04
Kimmel to do something. I'm going to tell you where they
54:06
are they're at. I'm so tired of them, man.
54:08
God, I'm so tired anyway. And a party balloon causes so
54:12
much damage in Georgia, it's made history.
54:16
A party. Balloon.
54:17
A party balloon. You're going to be shocked at
54:21
what this balloon is done. Literally.
54:23
Well, we got all that and more coming up on the Big Gay After
54:26
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54:29
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