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Freddy Flies Solo, Just the Tip, Headlines, and More · Live! with Fefe and Freddy

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Hey, good evening, good evening, good evening.
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Welcome to season 14, episode 13 of Live with Fifi and Freddie.
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This is your Wednesday night conversation.
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And tonight it is just Freddie. No Fifi.
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She's work stuff, something totally fine.
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So it's just you and me in this casual one-on-one conversation
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So today is National Lego Day. Happy National Lego Day for my
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fellow Lego nerds out there. Does anybody have like a
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favorite Lego set or a favorite Lego collection or, you know,
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anything like that? Let me hear it because I can't
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be the only Lego nerd out there. So put, you know, put it in the,
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Let's find some good background music this evening.
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What do we got what we have here?
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What the fuck is that? That says R and BI don't know
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about that. Let's try something different.
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We're going to find some good. We need some good background
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music here. I think we're going to find some
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good background music. I don't know what this is, but
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we're going to go with this. They call it lounge.
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Lounge it is because you know right now it is a kickback.
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Super chill, you know, and hey, Felicia, Felicia is obviously
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able to check in at home or online or wherever the hell she
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is right now, which is fantastic.
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Appreciate you. All right, my weekend.
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So let me just preface this by saying that my weekend was
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actually, it was relatively uneventful.
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It was one of those things where I didn't have anything on the
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calendar. And by not having anything on
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the calendar, it was one of those things where I'm like, Oh
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my God, am I missing something? Because there's always seems to
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be something on the calendar. And when I don't have something
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on the calendar, I almost get, I almost like, I have this, this
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thing where I'm gonna get a message from somebody and
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they're gonna be like, hey, where you at?
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I'm like, fuck. But no.
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Super, super chill. Weekend.
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Friday was supposed to be sort of a casual date night with my
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partner and myself. Didn't go quite the way we
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planned it. So what happened was I
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accidentally roofied myself on Friday.
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It legitimately was an accident. It was not something that I had
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planned on doing, obviously, but we were going to spend a chill
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evening at home. We're going to break out one of
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our new board games, maybe play some video games.
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You know, it's just going to be, it's going to be fine.
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There's going to chill. Totally fine.
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I'd kind of had a little bit of like a, a headache.
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So I have these new prescription headache meds.
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And so I'm like, all right, I'm going to go shower, get comfy,
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I'm going to take a headache Med, which I, I've taken them
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before. So it's not like it was the
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first time taking them. I wouldn't have done it if it
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was the first time I've been taking it.
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So, you know, but figured I will let me, let me take a headache
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Med, let me kind of head this off so it, you know, it doesn't
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turn into a migraine. Let me, you know, so I thought I
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was being responsible. So I take my I shower, I take my
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headache Med, finish making dinner, I make us a couple of
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fun mixed drinks. And when I say mixed drinks,
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mine had very minimal alcohol in it.
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Anybody that knows me knows that I'm not like I am not a huge
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drinker and even if I make a mixed drink, I don't really want
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to taste the alcohol. So all the other stuff is going
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to overpower the alcohol because I don't like tasting the
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alcohol. So my mixed drink was really
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weak, really weak. But I also hadn't really eaten
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much all day, like at all. So I finished making dinner, I
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make our plates, we're sitting there eating dinner, no problem.
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And then we break out one of the board games and we were on our
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second mixed drink again, mine was more mixer than anything.
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It had a little bit of alcohol, but not my 2 mixed drinks,
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probably didn't have nearly as much alcohol as one normal mixed
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drink. Like just, it's just not how I
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roll. So we're sitting there, we're
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getting the, we're getting the board set up and we're getting
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everything We're, and I'm, I'm, I'm reading, I'm trying to read
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like the rules and how to set it up.
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And I'm like, this isn't I like I, it wasn't, I was struggling.
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I was like, why can I not like read this right?
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And I'm like, here, you, you read it.
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It's like, that's my partner and she's reading and I'm looking at
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these cards that have like words and stuff on them.
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And I'm like, I feel really tipsy, like really tipsy.
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And it was the strangest thing. So I'm like, I don't, I don't
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get tipsy off of two extraordinarily weak mixed
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drinks. Like I can hold my alcohol
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better than that. Like I'm not, I'm, I'm a
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lightweight, I'm not that much of A lightweight.
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And I'm thinking, OK, maybe it's because I just, I waited too
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long to eat before having a mixed drink.
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Like it was, I just, I was like, this was not, it was really
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bizarre. And I finally, I was like, I
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can't, babe, I can't do this. I cannot my, my brain isn't like
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I was struggling. Like it was literally me trying
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to like look at stuff and I could not, I couldn't focus.
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I was like, this is this is awful.
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So I was like, maybe we can try a video game.
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And she's like, no, there's no way.
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Look at you. There's no way.
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So we, we decided instead to watch the interview with the
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Vampire series, catch up on it, keep cool.
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So we're sitting there. I got comfy.
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I apparently I, I kept falling asleep, like falling asleep.
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Like, are you awake? I'm like, yes, I'm awake.
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What are you talking about? She's like, you're not fucking
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awake. You are like dead asleep.
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And yeah, it was I, I, I was, it was awful.
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It was not OK. I'm like, this was not how I
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wanted this evening to go. And I was finally went to bed
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and I got to bed and basically just passed out like there was,
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Yeah. And then the next day I'm
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thinking about it. And I was like, that doesn't
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make any sense. And then I was like, I wonder if
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it was the combination of the headache Med with the alcohol,
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even though there wasn't that much alcohol.
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And I was like, oh God damn it, I totally fucking roofied
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myself. So that was my embarrassing
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moment on the weekend of me literally roofing myself and
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spending the D night with my partner snoring next to her,
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holding her hand while we tried to watch Interview with the
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Vampire. Like it was just not.
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It did not. It did not go the way I
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anticipated it going. It's fine.
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Saturday, I actually had the day to myself, which was like, it's
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rare that I have a whole day to myself.
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My partner was with my meta, her other partner.
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And so I decided that I was going to start making some
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limoncello. I have a lemon tree in my
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backyard that is a mutant lemon tree.
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This thing is a beast. Yeah.
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Tell me about it. I failed.
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I failed hardcore. It was so dumb.
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I felt so stupid, but so Saturday I go out and I grab
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probably a good three dozen lemons from my tree.
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And just to give you an idea of how many lemons are on this tree
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currently, I took more. It was more than three dozen
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lemons. And then a couple weeks before I
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had given 2 very large bag, no three very large bags of lemons
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to people that were over. And then just the other day I
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packed up another like shopping bag, like like a reusable
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shopping bag full of lemons for another friend.
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And there are still a fuck ton of lemons on this tree.
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So I got all of these lemons and I was sitting in my kitchen and
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I peeled all of them, which sucked because at some point I
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peeled my finger. So then I was trying to trying
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to peel lemons with a cut on my finger.
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It was not. It was.
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It was. Yeah.
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And but I finally got it all done.
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I got it all peeled, and the peels are now sitting in a giant
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jar with 100 proof of vodka and Everclear sitting on my kitchen
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counter. They're going to sit there for
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about another 4-5 weeks, if not longer.
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And then I juiced the peeled lemons and made lemonade and two
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types of simple syrup. Yeah, lemonade's good.
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I made a strawberry ginger simple syrup, but that shit was,
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that's good. And then just a plain simple
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syrup. And then sundae again.
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Nothing really much during the day.
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And then we drove to Apache Junction to have a dinner with
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my aunt and uncle, which is always interesting.
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And when I say Apache Junction, for the folks that are in
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Phoenix or in Arizona, they're in like a nice part of Apache
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Junction. Their house was custom built.
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It's like literally at the bottom of the foothills are the
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superstitions. Like they're right there.
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The superstitions are literally like in their backyard.
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So hi, Brenda Miguel. So but that was fun.
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Like they're they're my my family is interesting.
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I'm not particularly close to anyone.
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Like they're probably the closest people, the people I'm
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closest to, I guess, in my family.
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And even with them literally living here, I maybe only see
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them a couple times a year. But they're, they're good
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people. They're they're liberal, so I
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don't have to worry about dealing with right wing
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bullshit. But again, let's be fair, if
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they were right wingers, I wouldn't even see them because,
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you know, Oh my God, Jesse, for fuck's sake, come get some
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lemons. I have a lot of lemons.
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I will give you lemons. I have so many, but that was
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fun. They my my uncle cooks most of
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the a lot of the men in my family cook, which is kind of
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where I get it, I think. But he, he made us dinner.
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My aunt made dessert. Bless her heart, she isn't, she
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is not a cook, but she tries. But that was good.
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It was super chill. And then, you know, home and
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there we go lemon. But OK, I look, I can only do so
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much with lemons, like, and then I start getting sick of lemon
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stuff. I already made a lemon
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buttermilk icebox pie. Then there's the lemonade.
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And then there's the things that I will, I'll make, OK, I will
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find a good recipe for lemon bars and I will make lemon bars
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'cause I like lemon bars. I like lemon bars when they are
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not too sweet, when they're a little bit tart.
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I make good lemon. I'll make, I'll, I'll find some
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lemon bars. I will make some lemon bars.
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I actually made a couple of years ago, I made cranberry
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lemon bars. Those things were amazing.
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Those things were so good. And I have to fight something
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because that was like you had the, the, the lemons, which were
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a little bit sweet and a little bit tart and then a little bit
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sweet and tart with the cranberries.
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I liked it. My some of my family were like
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eating whatever, but I can't just live my life to please
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them. I will make Felicia lemon bars,
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but I will I will have to find a good I'll see if I can either
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remake those lemon bars. I can still find cranberries I
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think, or just find a good recipe for lemon bars.
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I will I will make that happen. So what what what the hell do
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you think this is fucking Burger King.
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You just have things your way. Like you're just going to have
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some cranberry lemon bars but sugar free bitch.
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You think I'm just going to go and get some like monk fruit
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extract or whatever to make you some fucking cranberry lemon?
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Good Lord, man, does it say personal chef on my forehead?
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Cuz shit, I just think I'm just going to make things for them
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all the time. This is not Friendsgiving.
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Anyway, let me go on to my tip, which is not really a tip.
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It's going to be whatever the fuck I feel like talking about.
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So, all right, so welcome to my just
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the tip this evening where I'm a talk about whatever I feel like
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talking about. I'm going to OK, I'm going to,
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I'm going to preface this, I'm going to say that and I'm going
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to acknowledge that things are very heavy right now.
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We are literally watching federally sanctioned goons
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murder people in plain sight and then kind of laugh about it and
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we're just supposed to sit back and accept it.
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Also, I need to acknowledge that while the two most recent
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murders by ICE are the ones that are getting the biggest
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headlines, we need to also recognize that I believe this
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year ICE has murdered nine people total.
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The most recent just happened to be white, which is probably why
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they're getting most of the hype.
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But the previous seven were, I believe, all people of color.
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And I had their names and I lost them and I will try and find
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them before the end. But this is, you know, this is,
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this is not new. Anybody that says that this is
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unprecedented obviously doesn't know a goddamn thing about
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history and it doesn't know goddamn thing about American
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history because none of this is unprecedented and none of this
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is new. It's literally just wearing a
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different costume. And it none of this is has this
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isn't we're we haven't changed. We haven't changed.
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This is just, you know, another round of the same bullshit.
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So if anybody tries to say that this has never happened here
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before, it has 100%. It's interesting how things like
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this can sort of unite people and, you know, all over it, It,
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it, it. It's unfortunate that it's
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things like this that tend to unite people.
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I wish that we could unite under better things, but that's not
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usually how that happens, unfortunately.
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But right now, all over the country, people are coming out,
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they're protesting, they're marching, they are showing up
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where these fucking goons are and making things uncomfortable
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for them. Which honestly, that's kind of
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one of the best things that we can do right now is bully the
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bullies. Fuck them.
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We've already seen that calling them names makes them bigly mad.
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Like, they don't like being compared to thugs.
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They don't like being compared to Hitler's Gestapo.
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They don't like being compared to any of that.
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They don't like being called Trump's minions.
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You know, they, they don't like that.
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They don't they're, you know, the fact that they are
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completely unqualified to do anything else.
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They don't like being reminded of that.
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They don't like having, you know, their, their inadequacies
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thrown back in their face. But so if you are planning on
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going to a protest or you know, if you're planning on making
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some signs and meeting them at any of the lovely places that
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they have been showing up, we've got some great names for them.
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If you want some good options, even for social media protest
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signs, whatever it is that you would like to use for them.
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I, I, I enjoy Goodwill Gestapo because none of them look like
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they're in any sort of actual uniform.
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They look like they kind of went to Goodwill or like the surplus
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store and grabbed whatever they could.
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Most of it doesn't fit right because most of them would never
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pass a fucking fitness test for any sort of actual military
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service. I mean, and this isn't about
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body shaming. This isn't about fat shaming.
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This is about the fact that, you know, for things like law
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enforcement, for all this stuff, you know, you have to go and you
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have to be, go through physical tests.
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Some of these boys, no honey, no, you know, so they, they go
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to Goodwill, they get, you know, whatever, whatever they can
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find. And you can see their shirts are
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a little tight. Nothing, you know, Gravy Seals,
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that's another good one. Meal Team 6 is another good one.
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Vanilla ISIS is also one of my favourites because there's
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nothing that they love more than being compared to other
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terrorist organizations. So, you know, Goodwill, Gestapo,
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vanilla ISIS, those are my 2 favorites because they, they get
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ruffled, they get, they don't like it.
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They, they, they will, you know, try to tell you that, you know,
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that's, they don't, they don't like it, they will throw
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tantrums. It's not OK.
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And that just makes my little heart happy.
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Like there's nothing that makes me happier than to see them get
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mad at some of the things that are are written on some of the
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signs. I'm like, what?
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I mean, if you don't like the truth, then I don't know what to
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tell you. But like, maybe find a different
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vocation, you know? Maybe do something that makes
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you more qualified for something else instead of being a federal
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goon. Like I don't know what to tell
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you. Do better.
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Nah, not my fucking problem. There's always some great, you
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know, nobody out there. I'm gonna, I'm gonna say it one
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time. Nobody out there wants to say
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Trump's name because nobody wants to give him any more
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press. No one wants to give him, you
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know, the attention no one wants to.
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So there's been some great nicknames, shall we say, for
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him. The Cheeto in charge is always a
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good one. I enjoy that one.
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There's a couple ones that I found that are are new to me and
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I think they're great. And now I have to, I have to
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tell you that a lot of these names, you can tell that the
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nerds have come out because let me tell you, mind failure is
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great. The Clementine Caligula that you
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have to know your history for that one.
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You have to know your history for that one.
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If you don't know who Caligula is, go do the Google.
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An infamous Roman emperor who was a little fucking crazy and a
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tyrant and just go go. It's interesting.
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An interesting character. This one is actually one of my
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new favorites. I enjoy this one, the Tangerine
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Palpatine. It's nice rhymes, rolls off the
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tongue nicely. I think it it's, you know, I
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think it, it adds a little something.
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Definitely got the Star Wars nerds in on that one.
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Twitler is one of my favorite. Not one of my favorite.
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That's a good, just short, you know, Shitler.
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I've heard that one as well. The Trekkies got in on this one.
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The kumquat gull ducat. That's another fun one, that
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little rhymey thing happening there.
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Darth Marmalade is a good one. Resident Chump.
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This is a good one. This.
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This got some Lord of the Rings flavor to it.
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Seditious Saruman? Yup.
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Mango Mussolini. Cheeto Benito.
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If you're not, again please. Benito is the Mussolini
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reference. Benito Mussolini, Italian
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dictator during World War Two. Please know your history.
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And Phantom Menace is another great one.
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I love the nerdy ones. They're like, I that's, that's
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because the nerds come out to play and they're like, no bitch,
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man, because you see some of these people writing some things
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and they're like, you know, we're the Jedi's, you're the
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stormtroopers. It's like, no, no, no, you are
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the fucking Stormtroopers. What are you talking about?
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And remember, you always lose. So you, you, you are the ones
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that are on the wrong side of history.
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Definitely not us. And on sort of along those
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lines, I have seen a few folks get very heated on the socials,
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saying things like, if I don't see you speak up, then I'm going
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to assume you're a fascist. Here's the problem with that.
27:01
There's a couple of them. Not everyone is on social media
27:08
all that much. The algorithm doesn't always
27:11
show you everything and just because someone isn't posting
27:17
fuck eyes 24/7 doesn't mean they're a fascist or that
27:20
they're not doing anything. Like I literally see like the
27:26
same four people on my feed because the algorithm is fucking
27:29
dumb. And I'm, I'm not going to go to
27:32
every single person on my friends list.
27:37
I'm not going to go track down their, their, their profile to
27:40
see, oh, are they, are they posting about this?
27:42
Have they, have they said anything against ICE?
27:44
Like, because if not, then they're obviously fascists.
27:46
It's like, that's not how that works.
27:51
You know, be careful who you condemn as a fascist because
27:56
they're not doing what you think they should be doing.
28:00
And we've had this conversation before, you know, we've, we have
28:05
talked about how some people are like, well, you know, if you're
28:10
not protesting this way or if you're not, you know, doing
28:14
things the way that I think you're doing, then you're
28:15
obviously, you know, against me. And it's like, no, no, no, you
28:22
know, not, not everybody is able to go to the protest.
28:26
So you can't be like, well, if you're not going to the protest,
28:29
then you're obviously a fascist. That's not how that works
28:31
either. But people are doing things in
28:38
different ways. Like we talk a lot about it on
28:40
this show, but unless you watch or listen to the podcast, you
28:47
wouldn't know that, you know, like we, we use this platform to
28:55
be able to speak out and to educate and you know, and things
29:01
like that. And not everybody listens.
29:05
Not everybody watches. You don't have to, I'm not going
29:08
to call you a fascist because you don't watch my fucking show,
29:11
but you can't, you also can't flip that around and call me a
29:18
fascist because you don't watch the show.
29:21
Therefore you don't know what we talk about on here.
29:24
You know what I mean? Like we, we talk about this a
29:28
lot and that's another thing jobs like not everybody can post
29:35
things because of their jobs. And you know, if you're just
29:42
going to say, well, fuck your job, you know, you should,
29:44
should be better than that. No, no, no, no it not.
29:49
That is a privilege that most people do not have.
29:53
I have a lot of privilege that is 1 privilege I do not have.
29:56
I can't just be running off at the mouth and be fine if I lose
30:01
my job because I have kids that need to eat, I have animals that
30:06
need to eat. I have bills to pay, I have a
30:09
mortgage to pay. And to just say, well, fuck all
30:14
of that. I'm going to do what I want.
30:16
You know, if I lose my job, that's unrealistic.
30:20
People have to take care of themselves and not everybody.
30:26
Like, I have different profiles that can't be, you know, traced
30:32
back to me, but you know, somebody we're going to go
30:36
search whatever. But even then, like, you don't
30:43
want to put yourself at risk to the point where you're not
30:50
taking care of the things that you need to take care of.
30:53
If I lose my job because of that and the burden falls onto my
30:58
partner, that's irresponsible. That is awfully irresponsible.
31:02
And it's not fair to my partner. So no, like that's not, you
31:11
know, that's not a good sort of, you know, expectation.
31:17
One of the things that I, we do here, even though we don't post
31:22
about shit all the fucking time and we post a lot, like I post a
31:24
lot of stuff I do. I don't post every day because
31:31
sometimes it's like, I don't, I don't want to post every day.
31:35
It's like sometimes I need to process, you know, But you know,
31:39
we, we talk about what's happening with our kids, you
31:44
know, we make sure that, or we do our best anyway to make sure
31:48
that they understand what's going on and how it affects this
31:53
family and to understand the privilege that they have.
31:59
You know, like the fact that they're going to if, if, if you
32:06
think that they're just going for the black and brown people
32:09
and everybody else is safe. Nah, you're next.
32:15
And I am part of a marginalized group.
32:19
I'm part of a couple marginalized groups.
32:22
Yes, I am white. Yes, I am sis assumed and I do
32:28
have male privilege. I have a lot of privilege in
32:30
this and we've talked about this before, but I'm also trans that
32:37
you know, and you can look up public records, you know, if you
32:44
look at my Social Security number, you can see that the
32:48
name I have now is not the name that I had before, you know, So
32:53
if they decide to start pulling shit, I could end up on a list.
32:58
You know, like I'm my passport expires next year and I'm
33:05
nervous about trying to renew it because I don't know what's
33:10
going to come back to me. I don't know if it's going to be
33:13
all correct. I don't know if I'm going to get
33:15
it back and the gender marker is going to be different.
33:18
Like, I don't know, I could be on, you know, so it's like we
33:26
don't know, you know, we, we never know.
33:29
So, you know, we, we try to, to educate our kids.
33:32
We try to, you know, make sure that they understand that this
33:36
isn't just a them thing. You know, one of our kids is a
33:43
darker complex. He's darker complected than
33:45
anybody else. He's got dark hair.
33:47
He's way more brown than pretty much anybody in this family.
33:55
And you know, we've let him know that you need to be mindful
34:00
because right now they don't care.
34:03
They don't give a fuck whether you are a citizen, whether you
34:08
were born here, whether you are white as fuck, but you just
34:11
happen to have like Italian roots or something.
34:13
And you're, you know, they don't care.
34:15
They see brown, they think that you're probably illegal or
34:19
you're a criminal or whatever, and they don't care.
34:22
So we've tried to help him understand that he needs to be
34:25
mindful of what he's doing. You know, his girlfriend's
34:29
family could be at risk. His friend's family could be at
34:33
risk. This isn't just a them thing.
34:36
This effects people that are close to you.
34:38
You know, so it's like you have to you have to be mindful of it.
34:42
You know, am I posting about things 24/7?
34:44
No. Does it make me a fascist?
34:46
Abso fucking lutely not. So don't make assumptions when,
34:51
and this we, we've talked about this too, when you start to
34:57
alienate people for not protesting or, or, or speaking
35:02
up or doing the things that you think that they should be doing,
35:06
that is how you lose allies, You know, and regardless of what
35:15
community it is, you know, just like like within, within trans
35:21
community or the LGBTQ plus community, it's like not
35:25
everybody is out. Not everybody is able to be out.
35:27
If you start condemning people for not being who you think they
35:32
should be, then you start pushing people away.
35:37
And we need people to be able to stand up right now.
35:42
You know, like you, you, you need to be able to have people
35:47
that are willing to fight because not everybody's going to
35:50
be able to. And it is scary right now
35:54
working in schools, you know, and they're with, with the
36:01
fucking Goodwill Gestapo targeting everything from
36:05
schools to medical facilities to whatever, you know, my, my, my
36:11
partner works in a place that could very easily be targeted,
36:16
which is like, you know, my, my area that I, the area that I
36:22
live in is very not gentrified. You know, I have on either side
36:30
of my house, I have, you know, 2 extended, you know, Hispanic
36:34
families that I don't know what their status is.
36:40
And I don't give a fuck what their status is.
36:43
You know, it doesn't affect me at all.
36:46
It makes no difference to me what their fucking status is.
36:49
They're fucking people. I don't the the neighbor on one
36:52
side is one of the hardest working people I have ever met.
36:54
He is constantly working on his shit.
36:57
You know, that's more than that's more than the the fucking
37:00
white folks across the way that do nothing but pretty sure
37:05
they're peddling meth because I've never seen so many cars
37:10
that like pull up someone gets out, they go to the house,
37:15
they're there for 10 minutes, they come back, they'll be like,
37:17
come on, man, Like we know what you're doing, right?
37:20
You're not selling Girl Scout cookies.
37:23
Like, you know, our, our Meanwhile the neighbors on
37:26
either side bust their ass for their families.
37:30
You know, so it's like, no, I don't care what your fucking
37:34
immigration status is. I think it's bullshit.
37:36
It's all a bunch of horseshit. If you're a criminal, then you
37:42
should be, you know, if you're committing heinous crimes, if
37:44
you are out there murdering and assaulting people and whatever,
37:47
then yeah, you should probably be punished for it.
37:53
But that is, you know, regardless of immigration
37:59
status, look at our fucking Cheeto in charge.
38:03
Like for fuck's sake, he's a fucking 39 time felon.
38:08
Like for God's sakes. Like if you're going to be going
38:11
after criminals calls coming from inside the house y'all like
38:17
yeah, so don't be judging people on what they post or don't post.
38:25
I mean obviously if they're like pro ICE then call them what it
38:29
is or fucking fascist. At this point there is no Gray
38:31
area. Like it's not even, it's not
38:35
even about politics anymore. Now it's just basic human
38:40
decency. So call out the fascist, call
38:44
out the Nazi sympathizers because that's what that's what
38:46
they are at this point. There's there's no excuse,
38:48
there's no like that's what they are.
38:51
Call a spade a spade. And if they don't like it, if
38:54
they get all defensive, they it's because they know that
39:00
there's, there's truth to that shit because there's no argument
39:02
for it. There is 0 argument for it
39:06
anyhow. Criminals are criminals, doesn't
39:08
matter who they are. I don't, I don't give a fuck who
39:10
you are if you're doing. And let me say that when it
39:17
comes to some of the petty shit, it's like, I don't, I don't, I
39:20
don't care. You're gonna shoplift food, go
39:22
right on ahead. I don't blame you, you know,
39:24
it's the, it's the bad stuff that I'm like, you know, let's,
39:29
let's not go murdering people, Let's not go raping people.
39:33
Let's, let's not, let's not harm children.
39:35
Let's let you know these things. Those are the things that need
39:37
to be taken care of. The other petty shit.
39:40
I don't give a fuck. It's whatever.
39:42
You know, capitalism is bullshit.
39:44
You know, people can't afford to eat, so people are stealing
39:47
food. No, they're not.
39:50
So, you know, just be mindful and don't judge to the point
39:54
where you're going to alienate everybody because we need to be
39:59
able to have allies. You know, we need people that
40:03
are able to go and stand up when others can't.
40:09
So all right, let's move on to some current events and newsy
40:13
stuff. OK I have some interesting
40:35
things to to talk about this evening.
40:42
Everything is just a fucking mess.
40:43
So for those of you that weren't aware, like if you've been
40:48
hiding under a rock, TikTok was purchased by AUS company that is
40:54
Trump backed like and it is already proving to suck balls.
41:01
Casual users and influencers alike have been experiencing
41:04
technical issues with posting you to no views on post
41:10
etcetera. And while the general consensus
41:12
is that the platform is suppressing anything that
41:14
doesn't align with the current regime, TikTok itself said that
41:17
there was a power outage at a data center.
41:21
Even so, numerous users have already removed themselves from
41:23
the platform. Hi Selam.
41:29
So yeah, I noticed this like I I knew that the sale was
41:35
happening. I forgot it was happening and I
41:40
posted a video and I did have there were some technical
41:44
issues. I was like, what the fuck this
41:45
isn't working. And now mind you, I do not have
41:51
by like thousands and thousands of of of followers on TikTok and
41:56
I never get like millions of views.
41:58
But I averaged usually around 4 or 500 views on on videos and
42:04
stuff. Some some are more, some are
42:06
less, but on average it's a few 100, you know, like and usually
42:10
within a couple hours I've hit at least 100 views.
42:15
I had 0 views on this video for almost 24 hours.
42:23
Like it was, I was like what the fuck?
42:28
It was really it was bizarre. Plus they've limited the the
42:35
number of hashtags that you can use on a post.
42:37
And now Instagram is doing the same thing where they're
42:39
limiting you to I think 5 hashtags on a post, which is
42:42
like we're trying to like streamline the blah blah blah.
42:44
It's like, bitch, please no, you're not trying to streamline
42:50
anything. You're trying to minimize and
42:52
you're trying to censor. That's exactly what's happening.
42:55
And it's all shit. And I know a lot of people have
42:58
already bounced from TikTok. It's it's it's all going to
43:04
shit. Anything that is Trump backed,
43:06
you know, is going to be censored.
43:07
You know that they're going to go after people.
43:10
You know that they're going to like cherry pick what is seen
43:13
and what isn't. Like power outage my ass.
43:20
Oscar nominations are out. People are really pissed that
43:25
Wicked for good didn't get a single nod.
43:29
But OK, let's be real folks, the first film received 10
43:34
nominations and honestly is basically one movie.
43:38
Like you're not going to like the Tonys, you're not going to
43:43
nominate, you know, act one but not act 2 or you're not going to
43:47
nominate act 2 but not act 1. You know what I mean?
43:49
No, it's a play as a whole and it's 1 fucking movie.
43:55
Like let's it's not even it's not a it's not a sequel.
43:59
You know, it's it's a continuation.
44:01
It's and I don't I didn't think it warranted any nominations.
44:05
I was like, you guys had 10 nominations the first round.
44:08
I don't, I really don't think there's necessary to have more
44:12
of the seven round. Like I don't know.
44:15
I I'm sure people are going to be mad at me for saying that,
44:19
but I don't I don't know. There there were better movies.
44:22
Speaking of better movies, Frankenstein and Sinners, which
44:29
if you haven't seen those movies, you need to go watch
44:33
those movies. They are both absolutely
44:36
phenomenal from just all of them.
44:39
Like the both movies in their entirety are so fucking
44:44
fantastic. And if you are one of those
44:46
people that are, are going to say no, then I'm just going to
44:48
say that you have no idea what a good movie is and you have no
44:51
idea what art is. And I'm just going to I'm just
44:53
I'm going to call it out. They both of those movies have
45:00
snagged multiple nominations at the Oscars.
45:05
Best picture for both of them, best actor sinners supporting
45:11
actor for both, supporting actress for sinners,
45:14
cinematography for both costume design for both editing with
45:19
sinners, casting for sinners, makeup and hair for
45:24
Frankenstein, original score for both original song for sinners
45:29
and more like they between the two of them it like they should
45:36
between the two of them, they should sweep the the the Oscars
45:41
like legitimately like they're both so good and they deserve
45:45
every single nomination that they got.
45:47
There's some of the movies on there that I'm like, I don't
45:49
even know what this is. I've never heard of this movie,
45:53
which it's fine. There's a movie with Leonardo
45:59
DiCaprio in it, and I'm like, OK, why are we nominating
46:03
groomers? I'm just going to call it what
46:05
it is. And OK, so get this.
46:09
Apparently the rules have changed and now the voting
46:16
members in the Academy must watch every film in a nominated
46:20
category before casting their vote.
46:26
Why? What?
46:29
So you're telling me that this was not a rule before that you
46:34
are on the you, you are a voting member in the Academy and you
46:43
can vote for films in a category but not actually have watched
46:50
the films in a category? That sounds like some bullshit
46:57
and that should not be a thing. I feel like there needs to be
47:01
like, I don't know, like they all need to be in a room
47:05
watching it so that you can verify that they've watched
47:08
these movies because why would you allow that?
47:12
That's like, that would be like me judging A pageant, but I'm
47:18
only going to watch the one contestant that I'm interested
47:22
in and then I'm not going to watch the other ones and then
47:24
I'm just going to score accordingly.
47:26
Like what? How are you not?
47:30
I don't understand how this wasn't a rule.
47:32
How are you going to vote on something if you've never seen
47:36
the things that they're competing against?
47:39
Like if you're like that, I don't.
47:44
I don't know. That just seems sketchy as fuck
47:47
and I don't understand why that was never a rule before.
47:52
Like that just seems very odd to me.
47:56
Maybe it's just me, I don't know.
47:59
I that, I, that doesn't make any fucking sense.
48:03
I don't, I, I don't, I don't know how that goes.
48:06
How do you, how I don't know? Here in Arizona, the Goodwill
48:16
Gestapo rated all of these Zips locations in Phoenix on Monday
48:22
and protesters as soon as they heard about it, people showed up
48:26
at pretty much every location they were recording, documenting
48:30
all of it. And I fucking love that.
48:35
Like it literally took it was a matter of minutes.
48:41
I think honestly, where the alert started going out on
48:46
everything from social media to like the next door app,
48:51
different things like that. Every every possible thing was
48:55
showing that they were raiding zips and it was minutes before
49:05
we saw like protesters showing up it and good on fucking them.
49:14
There's a there's a zips. We are actually, there's two
49:17
zips right around the corner from where we live.
49:20
And I'm like, what the fuck? And it's absolutely insane.
49:30
But I am so stoked that people are able to mobilize within a
49:34
matter of minutes to get to these places.
49:40
And it's it's scary. There is the the one zips over
49:46
central is right around it's in the same complex right around
49:51
the corner from cobalt, which is an LGBTQ bar.
49:56
So like it it's things are are literally getting close to home.
50:07
You know, and I'm, I'm loving that it takes just a matter of
50:15
minutes for folks to be able to be like, all right, I got my
50:18
signs, I got my phone. Let's go, let's go do this.
50:21
And they jump in their fucking cars.
50:23
They walk across the street, they leave their apartment
50:25
buildings, whatever it is that they're doing, they are right
50:28
there. And I fucking love it.
50:30
And I saw a thing today where they were talking about
50:35
protesters. And, you know, they're showing
50:39
pictures and videos of protesters showing up with
50:43
weapons, with guns. And, you know, it's like, look,
50:48
you can't expect peaceful protesters when you have taken
50:53
away that that idea of peace. This is on you.
50:59
You have already proven that we can't protest peacefully because
51:06
you are putting us at risk. And not just with rubber bullets
51:11
and, you know, pepper spray anymore.
51:13
Now it's you are, you are literally just killing
51:15
protesters and killing people for no reason.
51:19
So we're going to show up armed. And I kind of love this because
51:24
it is making the right wing go batshit crazy because, you know,
51:33
they're all about the Second Amendment, blah, blah, blah,
51:35
right? And now they're like, no, you
51:40
can't show up, you know, armed to a protest.
51:42
Oh, you can't. But what about Kyle Rittenhouse,
51:45
who literally showed up at a protest with an AK47 and shot a
51:50
bunch of people and people are called him a hero, so that's OK.
51:56
But we can't show up with a with a weapon like no, no, no, and
52:01
you can't have it. It will, you know, And then they
52:02
start it's like, well, either you either it's the right to
52:06
bear arms or it's not the right to bear arms.
52:08
And when you have the NRA that chimes in on this shit, that's
52:11
when you know you've done pissed people off.
52:14
Like when you have the NRA that's chiming in and going no,
52:18
no, no, no, no, you can't say that what he was doing was
52:21
illegal when you know, blah, blah, blah.
52:23
It when you have the NRA on the side of the protesters.
52:28
Whoo like it's it's things have gotten interesting and I think
52:32
they're going to continue to get interesting.
52:34
And I am not suggesting that anyone show up with a weapon
52:41
just because we've already seen that it antagonizes them.
52:54
Vanilla ISIS does not like it when someone is exercising their
53:00
rights, whether it is the right to bear arms, whether it is the
53:04
right to a peaceful protest. They don't.
53:07
They don't like that. So just if you are choosing to
53:13
go to a protest and you are choosing to carry and in Arizona
53:22
we have open carry laws, you can carry whatever the fuck you
53:24
want. If it's out in place, that plain
53:26
sight, you only have to have a permit for a concealed carry.
53:30
But for an open carry, that's why people are, you know, people
53:33
here can show up any type of weapon as long as it's out in
53:36
the open and you want to carry a machete, carry it out in the
53:40
open. You want to carry a fucking
53:41
bazooka, as long as it's not in the open, whatever, it didn't
53:43
fucking matter. But just be mindful that if you
53:50
are going to show up at a protest with a weapon, that you
53:56
could potentially antagonize these fucking goons and they
54:05
could escalate. So just be mindful.
54:10
I am all for it. Exercise that fucking Second
54:13
Amendment right. We have the castle doctrine here
54:16
in Arizona, which means that if someone tries to come into my
54:18
house, I can shoot them. I don't have a gun.
54:23
Maybe I should get a gun. We talked about it.
54:25
I don't know. But I have the right to defend
54:31
my house. So if anybody tries to come in
54:33
illegally, I can shoot them and basically be fine.
54:38
But just please be careful if you are out there, if you're out
54:44
there protesting, if you decide to carry, bring weapons,
54:50
whatever it is, just please, please, please be careful.
54:54
There are a lot of ways to be, you know, make sure to, you
54:59
know, keep yourself safe. There are some good maybe we'll
55:04
cover that next week. Tips and tricks, protesting,
55:07
things to do, things to not do when you are protesting.
55:10
I think that's maybe important thing should do that next week.
55:15
But just please be careful out there.
55:19
Go with a a buddy. Please don't go by yourself.
55:22
Make sure that people know where you are.
55:26
Have you know location turned on, whatever it is that you need
55:29
to do to make sure that people can find you.
55:33
And if things go South, there is no shame in running because you
55:39
again, need to take care of yourself.
55:43
So if you, you know, if you are a parent, if you are a caretaker
55:48
or caregiver, there is no shame in taking off if you need to
55:55
take off like that's. Yeah, I remember a few years
56:01
ago, I remember marching for Black Lives Matter.
56:05
And, you know, we, we were marching, we were in the thick
56:09
of it. And then they started bringing
56:11
out the tear gas and the rubber bullets and you're like, Nope,
56:16
all right, we're done. We're out.
56:17
So we we were out and we, we were dodging.
56:21
We were heading down like alleyways and side streets
56:25
trying to avoid the cops in downtown Phoenix.
56:29
It was, it was interesting. It was interesting, kind of
56:32
scary and you know it, but like, I'm not going to let somebody
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shame me for not hanging around so I get shots, you know what I
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mean? Like we were like, no, we got
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it, we got to go, So what? All right, let's see.
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What do we have coming up? Felicia on February 12th, which
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is right around the corner. I keep forgetting that it's
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almost February. Felicia has a Queen of Hearts
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themed drag bingo at Drink Me Tea Room.
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You go to I believe Drink Me Tea rooms, socials and website.
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You should be able to get tickets for that there.
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On February 28th we have our Drag Story hour seven-year
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anniversary fundraiser. This is our big annual
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fundraiser. And if you want to buy tickets,
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you can scan the little QR code down here.
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If you you want to, you can use the little what the fuck the
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link and if you use the code live 2026 you can get 20% off of
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your tickets. And we are still looking for
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sponsors. If you want to help sponsor, if
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you want to donate a raffle prize, a raffle basket,
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whatever, a good service, we are not picky.
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Contact myself, I'm the best person to contact for that.
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And I will make sure that you get all the info and that we get
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you set up. This is like our big annual,
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like once a year. This is our big fundraiser.
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It's this fundraiser that allows us to basically take care of the
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programming for the rest of the year.
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So this is like, this is our big 1 + 7 years.
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Like that's a big deal. We've managed to push through
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all the bullshit and happening in March on the 20th, Friday,
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March 20th, myself and a few other amazing entertainers will
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be at the Wild Wild West Steampunk Convention in Tucson
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for the drag and burlesque show, which is super exciting.
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It is going to be at the Westward Look Resort this year
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and tickets for that should be going on sale very soon I hope.
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But you can go to the show without being a part of the con.
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So you don't have to get tickets for the con to see the show.
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You can get tickets for the show separately if you're in Tucson
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or even if you're in Phoenix and you want to head down to Tucson
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to see it. It's a great cast and it's going
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to be a really, really good show.
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Very excited for it. And then on April 17th, and
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look, I get it. Why am I telling you these
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things ahead of time? So that you can plan
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accordingly. Put it in your calendar, get
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tickets early because on 4/17, we've got Drag Bingo and Cats at
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the Phoenix Cat Cafe. They do sell out very quickly,
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very quickly. So make sure that if you want to
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go to Drag Bingo and Cats that you get your tickets before
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April 17th because don't come the week of and go, I don't
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know, everything's sold out. We are it's gonna it will sell
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out and we tend to sell out early on the drag bingo and
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cats. So if you're interested, get
1:00:03
those tickets as soon as possible.
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And remember that, you know, Felicia and I are both available
1:00:08
for any sort of parties, gigs, whatever MCS hosting, bingo,
1:00:11
trivia, you name it, we got it. I am also ordained, so is
1:00:14
Felicia, so we can run a wedding.
1:00:18
You can get a nifty deal where I can do the the wedding and
1:00:22
Felicia can take pictures actually done that before.
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So there are there are options and we do all sorts of things.
1:00:27
We are not picking, we will do anything for a dollar because
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you know, totally fine. Anyway, thank you all so much
1:00:35
for hanging out with me this evening.
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I think I did all right. Managed to keep things lively, I
1:00:45
think see tells you people always say I want to go and then
1:00:53
they never did because we always sold out.
1:00:56
So and now she lives in Austin and has just that's it, you
1:01:00
know, that's it. That's what happens.
1:01:04
Make sure that you follow both Felicia and myself and the show
1:01:09
on all the socials and be sure to, you know, check out our
1:01:13
Patreon. You you should check out our
1:01:16
Patreon. Go do the thing and we will
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catch you. I've lost the button.
1:01:24
That's the button. It's fine.
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I got you. I got you.
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I'm here. We will catch you next week for
1:01:30
your Wednesday night conversation.
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Good night.