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State of Dilemmas, Gay Prime Ministers, Headlines, and More | S14E16 · Live! with Fefe and Freddy

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  None. Literally, I'm hi, hi, hi, hi,
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  hi, hello, hello, hello, goodbye, hello, goodbye, hello.
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  And it's not an it's not an episode of Live with Fifi and
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  Freddy without one of us disappearing or.
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  I don't even know what the fuck happened.
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  That makes no fucking sense. Like what is it?
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  Well, welcome to episode 16 of season 14 of Live with Fifi and
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  Freddie. It's still Black History Month
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  for another 3 days and I will be black all year long for the rest
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  of my life. So you're welcome.
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  And I'm Felicia Fifi Minor, and we did not plan these outfits at
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  all. And he's gone again, but we
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  didn't plan our outfits. Freddie Prinze Charming is
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  coming back, signed off. Coming back signed off.
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  I don't know. Anyway, welcome.
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  We've got a pack show for you tonight.
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  We are talking about favorite books.
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  We're talking about current events, including the State of
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  Dilemmas or the State of the Union.
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  Some kind of union. I don't know.
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  I don't know, girl, I don't know.
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  And then, well, do the weekend recap, especially if Freddie
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  comes back. And then, I have no idea.
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  He disappeared from the Internet.
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  Are you there? Are you coming back?
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  Are you there? You're blinking.
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  I don't know what the fuck is happening right now.
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  What the fuck? Just about to text you.
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  I'm like, are you OK? No idea what's happening right
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  now. No idea what's happening.
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  It's fine. Oh my God.
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  Everything is fine, we're good. I'm back, hopefully.
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  One question. OK, so I've asked several
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  questions over the course of Black History Month and I was
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  talking to someone that some of the answers are OK, some of them
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  are to be expected. But the latest question that I
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  asked was what was the first lesson of black history that you
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  received or something like that? Like what's the first?
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  Let me see if I can pull up Facebook.
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  But some of them were very, as the kids say, unhinged.
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  And I couldn't, it's very unusual for me to get these kind
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  of things. But I was like, huh, OK, let's
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  see. OK, You don't want to.
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  I don't want to share the screen for the, you know.
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  Right. I don't want to be, I don't want
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  to be messy, but I could be. I definitely could be.
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  Let's see, it says. So what was your first Black
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  history lesson you learned? I'll tell you mine, but I'm OK.
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  Somebody remembers the day that they were shot.
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  Doctor King's March on Washington.
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  My dad telling other adults about underground speakeasies.
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  I'm Latino. I'm a Latino that grew up in
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  upper class in an upper class neighborhood in Tucson.
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  In fifth grade, I had my first black American classmate.
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  I don't think people understand. Did I need to?
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  Did I say something different? Did I?
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  People don't always read or like, like we, and we know this,
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  Felicia, we know this. Like people don't always read.
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  And when they do read, sometimes reading comprehension isn't like
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  people's strong suits. Like we, we know this.
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  We know this. And I'm like, what's going on,
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  'cause this person goes on to say he bullied me and I called
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  him the N word and I'm like, he probably beat your ass.
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  And that would probably be the first black lesson that you ever
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  learned. Right, right.
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  Like interesting. So it's on my Facebook page,
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  it's public. I just haven't really responded
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  because I don't. I'd be like this.
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  What does this have anything to do with the question that I
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  asked? I didn't ask when was the, you
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  know, when was the first time you got your ass beat by, you
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  know, by a like what? What like that?
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  Like, I don't know. That makes no sense.
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  To me, so I'd love to know anybody else's answers on what
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  is the first black history lesson that you learned?
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  I will say, and some people can't believe this when I say
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  it, and I think Dee put this, but I've always been raised that
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  you have to give 100% and then give 110% because I will always
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  be looked at through a lens of less than.
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  And that can be truer than what this administration is doing
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  because they are definitely acting like the Obamas did
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  nothing and didn't do anything. But I've I feel like I am living
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  black history and have always been taught things that have
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  been passed down and I really don't take it for granted where
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  I am. Could I be better?
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  Yes, I'm. Trying to, I'm trying to think
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  like for me, what my first sort of black history lesson would
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  have been because my, my schooling was very different
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  than most people's, did they? So it would have been worked
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  into not specifically like black history, but it would have been
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  worked into like world history, you know what I mean?
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  And it could have been and I'm trying to.
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  I'm trying to think it could have gone back to.
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  Like Egyptians? Yeah, like ancient, ancient
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  African history, including Egyptians and some of the the
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  tribes rolling sort of into like South African, like apartheid
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  and American slavery and things like that.
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  But I think it was, it's a part of, was always a part of world
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  history and not a specific, you know what I mean, like black
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  history. Yeah, it's it wasn't as hateful
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  as it is here. At least that's what I at least
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  that's what I I think anyway, because I don't I don't think I
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  remember anything being specific like to.
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  The world learns from our the more I keep getting into this
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  like the Jim Crow and learning about all these things, it's
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  like interesting, interesting. So America's a leader, but it's
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  a leader in enslaving people. Just want y'all to know that
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  not. Just, I mean, we weren't the
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  first, but. I know we weren't the 1st, we
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  just upheld some weird tradition or something.
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  Right. I didn't like, I mean, slavery's
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  been around since. Beginning.
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  Right. Like we've always, there's
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  groups of people have always enslaved other people to do the
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  work that they didn't want to do.
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  But like over the years, like people have learned to not do
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  that. And we we missed that memo,
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  apparently. Gabe says yes, an AZ education
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  system. We have world history and AZ
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  history. I had world history, but that
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  wasn't until high school. I feel like elementary was
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  definitely the first time learning about being that people
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  were shipped over on boats. Kinda had me confused there for
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  a SEC, 'cause I was like, why are we shooting people on boats
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  against their will? Yeah.
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  So anyhow, that's a question I think about and if you're
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  interested and want to be enthralled in what we have going
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  on over here on my Facebook page, some people actually ask
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  people question. So that's good.
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  You said I, I don't ever expect, my expectations are very low
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  when it comes to reading comprehension with most folks
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  because people they, they don't, they don't, I don't know, they
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  pick in like they see certain like buzzwords in something and
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  then they latch onto that and it's like, OK, but you've missed
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  now all of what we're literally talking about.
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  Like literally not like, but OK. Thank you for joining the
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  conversation I guess. Like, so I'm like, oh, and then
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  if you don't answer people, then they get they give.
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  If I just answer the thread, come on.
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  Oh Jesus, what's going on here? OK, so we'd like to thank our
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  patrons because they are the large support of our community
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  that keep us going. We like to thank Bill, Brandon,
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  Cassandra, Chris and Michelle, D Drake, Jensen and Michael,
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  Casey, Star, Carrie and Corey, Joan, Laura, Madame, Askew and
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  the Grand Arbiter, Nicole, Patricia, Mason and Shannon.
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  Is D better? Yeah, it she was literally down
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  for the count all of last week. Like all of last.
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  Week I don't know what these things never happened.
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  This is are but they be taking us out.
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  I still don't feel like 100% to be honest, but nothing I can do,
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  yeah. It's it's, it's pretty bad.
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  It's pretty bad. I haven't gotten.
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  Sick yet? And I'm hoping I don't get sick.
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  I'm just going to keep knocking on this wood right here 'cause
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  I'm going on vacation in a week and 1/2, so good luck.
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  Thanks. I'm like, I don't care.
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  I'm dragging my ass all around Universal Studios and you know,
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  I'm fine, I'm fine. I'm.
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  Fine, a huge shout out to Wigs of a Kind for supporting us this
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  season. I don't.
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  Know not a wigs of a kind wig this evening.
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  I don't think that mine is either my other.
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  Sorry Marissa, we are well, I usually do.
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  You can message us to find out ways that you can support us.
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  You can just send us money If you follow us on social media.
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  You you just press like Messenger has like this pay
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  button and you just like send it to us.
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  I'd be OK if you just wanted to send me money.
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  I I wouldn't complain about that.
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  I mean, if one day you were like, I have $5 and I should
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  just give it to Freddie and Felicia, Yeah.
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  Yeah, yeah, I'd be down. I'm here to support you anyhow.
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  How was your weekend? Uneventful.
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  Like I said, my my partner has been was sick like all last
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  week, like literally all last week.
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  So I was pretty much at home with her because if she's
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  contagious and I've been exposed and I could end up contagious,
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  and it was just, you know, so I basically didn't do anything all
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  week. She finally sort of started
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  feeling better on the weekend. So Sunday we were able to go to
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  Costco because we were out of literally everything.
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  So we needed to go to Costco so bad.
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  So that's pretty much it. I've been working on costume
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  stuff for mostly Wild West Con. A couple of things I had to do
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  for the fundraiser this weekend, but most of it's been for a Wild
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  West Con and I'm still working on that and I don't even know
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  what I'm doing. So Nope, probably not.
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  It's gonna be. I don't.
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  I don't even know. I don't even know.
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  It's fine. It's fine.
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  It's fine, Nobody will notice. It's that's it.
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  That's so unusual. That's literally, yeah, that's
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  literally that's it. Ain't done a damn thing.
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  So I, I guess I didn't put it on the show sheet, but we had a
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  little one that was sick with the flu A.
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  Yep, that's what's going around. So then we basically were at
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  home and then Sunday I was at Testal for Cheese Spinosa.
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  Folks, if we're doing an event for you, can you show up on
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  time, especially if we're raising money for your, your
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  organization? No team, lots of shade, but for
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  the Phoenix allies for community health, great organization,
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  supports and works with like people or organizations like
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  transcript Pueblo Pueblo. And I was like, where are the
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  people? And they're like, they're on
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  their way. And I'm like, but like.
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  You know what, At least they showed up because I've totally,
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  I remember doing fundraisers for people who didn't show up at
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  all. And I'm like, oh, yeah, oh,
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  yeah, totally, totally happened couple times.
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  And I'm like, yeah, you know what?
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  Not doing this again, but thank you so much.
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  Yeah. 'Cause I'm like.
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  So anyhow, when they finally did get there, we did play some drag
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  bingo, played music and talked to folks, including folks that
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  had been at a drag bingo of ours before at Test stalls.
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  And it was a couple years ago and it was when we did the drag
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  bingo for Desert Star. And it was like school themed.
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  I think back to school theme maybe.
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  I don't know, but it was when we were on that like bar stool and
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  they have some people outside. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
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  I remember. And so I'm looking at these
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  people 'cause I'm like, I recognize them and I'm usually,
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  I remember names, but like I just kept looking at them and
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  I'm like, you look so familiar to me.
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  So then we're talking later and they're the ones that I like
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  laughed in their face because he kept messing up on the bingo and
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  I like, laugh. Sitting outside.
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  Yeah, and I remember like running out the door and like
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  screaming, laughing at him. Yes, I remember actually have
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  and the I. Remember that.
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  So I call this the redemption round, 'cause he won a couple of
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  bingos and then his friends won a couple of bingos.
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  I was like, this is like your redemption round.
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  You, you didn't fuck it up this time.
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  But for you, yeah. But I, I wasn't sure if you
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  would remember them, but I was like, Oh my gosh, I kept
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  laughing so hard at them 'cause they kept thinking they had
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  bingo. But it was great to catch up
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  with them. I learned a whole bunch.
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  There was a whole bunch of chiefs made going on, which is
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  like gossip, 'cause I learned a lot about how they all became
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  friends. It's interesting how things go.
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  But anyhow, and here we are. Here we are and nothing is
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  disconnected yet. But feel free to share the
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  episode. On to the next.
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  Let's talk about it. I lost the button.
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  It went away. Yeah.
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  OK. Huh.
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  So that's the second time now we've played a video that it
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  didn't work on my end and it said that our connection was
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  lost. Oh, I haven't had any of those.
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  That's bizarre. That's literally happened twice
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  now. It happened with our intro and
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  then it happened then. So I wonder what's going on.
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  I don't. Interest.
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  I don't see that. Any I totally saw that and I
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  don't know why that doesn't make any sense to me, but whatever.
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  I'm like, I'm hardwired, started into my thing.
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  It's fine. Anyway, so for tonight's tip, I
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  was actually kind of inspired by Felicia's post today.
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  I think it was today, yeah. Was it today that we all need to
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  read more? OK, so it was today about
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  needing to read more and it made me think that, you know, we
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  really kind of should be reading more, whether it's an e-book
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  paper, you know, an actual physical book or an audiobook.
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  And yes, audiobooks count. Don't.
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  List. I didn't think of that.
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  Let me go back in here. Don't be that guy.
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  So I used to be a voracious reader.
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  I would go through multiple books every month.
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  Like. I would just inhale books like.
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  Like. Nobody's business.
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  I know now I I still read, but it's definitely not as often as
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  I want to or as I need to. But it doesn't stop me from
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  continuing to hoard books because that's what I do.
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  I have a lot of books. I do.
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  I have so many books for me, like actual physical books will
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  be superior to ebooks, but back when I was traveling more,
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  especially by plane, ebooks were a lifesaver so I could just put
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  on my kindle, throw my backpack and go.
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  If I had had a Kindle when I was a kid, Oh my God, that would
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  have been a. Game they would be one of the
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  ones that had to. With all the.
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  Clear space on it. Oh my God.
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  So if you imagine like, because I've been reading since like
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  pre-K, since before pre-K, I've been reading and anytime we
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  would fly anywhere, I would always have several books in my
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  backpack. And you figure we're doing a lot
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  of travelling. When I was younger, we'd spend,
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  you know, 24 to 48 hours on planes and airports and things.
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  And I can only fit some in my backpack.
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  So if I could have put like 50 books on a Kindle and thrown
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  that in my bag, Oh my God. And.
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  This week before we have to like check bags and stuff 'cause like
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  back in the day you. Did right there.
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  Security was barely a thing, but again, you can only carry so
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  many books in your bag, especially when you're like a
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  kid, you know what I mean? Like, so.
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  So it got me to thinking, I'm like, OK, we need let's, let's,
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  let's talk about books. Why the hell not?
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  Between Felicia's post and the fact that I didn't have a topic
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  for the tip tonight, I figured that was.
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  A little honesty. You know what?
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  That's what we're here for. There are actual benefits, like
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  health benefits to reading things like reducing stress and
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  anxiety, which you'd think would be like a given, but not
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  everybody realizes that like it is a stress reliever.
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  It can help you process emotions.
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  It strengthens brain connectivity.
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  It expands your vocabulary, and I know some folks probably need
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  that. It improves in memory, right?
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  It boosts empathy, which makes sense in the and it kind of
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  explains the right wingers who probably haven't cracked a book
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  in like decades. It helps boost focus and can cog
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  can combat cognitive decline. So things like Alzheimer's or
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  dementia or things like that run in your family or you think
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  you're at higher risk for for dementia or Alzheimer's.
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  Reading can kind of help keep that at Bay.
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  It can help delay it for a while.
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  Sam. So reading is a good thing.
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  And I'm still going to die on the hill that ebooks count
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  because you still have to a lot of people think that reading has
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  to be you have to be reading. It's like, OK, but so you're
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  going to say the the blind people that listen to audio
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  books for do you like books on tape and shit Like that's not
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  reading. The reason why they were created
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  in the 1st place was because of the.
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  Rights and now like folks that maybe have have issues with
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  reading have trouble reading can listen and things like that and
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  actually enjoy books more than they could before because they
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  didn't want to read because they they couldn't you know, maybe
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  you're dyslexic maybe you have you know something that prevents
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  me from from being able to actually enjoy reading so.
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  Like books? Absolutely.
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  I feel like especially since I was one of those kids that grew
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  up with electronics and very much latched onto them, I think
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  that reading would have been better for me if it had been on
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  a like electronic device. I will say that I started out
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  not being a fan of reading even though my parents read with me.
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  I myself had a hard time verbalizing.
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  I still sometimes do as often as you all can tell.
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  Yeah, but it was bad. And it wasn't until like maybe
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  like the 3rd or 4th grade that something in my brain was like,
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  oh, well, you know, if you do this.
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  And it became enjoyable for me. But like, if you're a parent, I,
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  I from a young person's perspective, be patient when
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  like, words don't come easily. Doesn't mean they don't know how
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  to read. It just means maybe they need a
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  little more help. Great.
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  And it could be an indicator that there's something else, you
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  know, because there could be a learning issue.
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  There could be, you know, something.
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  So it's like if, if obviously if your kid is struggling to read,
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  don't just get mad at them. Maybe figure out what's going
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  on. You know, are they swapping
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  letters? Are they, you know, are they
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  things like that? Because if you're, you know, pay
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  attention and I am will always say that reading has to start in
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  the home and you have to start reading to your kids when
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  they're young. Get them interested and get them
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  excited about books and reading and stuff as part of why I do
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  like Drag Story Hour, you know, so, so I often see like on
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  online and stuff people asking for recommendations for
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  different books. And I thought it might be fun to
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  kind of talk about like some of our favorite books and authors.
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  And maybe it'll inspire folks to try something new, something
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  that maybe they've never thought to, to pick up before, you know,
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  maybe I'll turn them on to a new author or something.
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  So I actually have like visual aids and stuff so that can you
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  know? I'm not as prepared.
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  I I I got you. I got you.
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  It's OK. So we've mentioned before that
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  like my my favorite series of all time is Elf Quest.
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  It's written and illustrated by Wendy and Richard Pinney.
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  It graphic novels are regular novels.
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  There's all the things I have let.
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  Me. Are you going to be OK with the
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  technology this evening? I'm going to share my screen.
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  I'm gonna try to share my screen.
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  So this is kind of what some of them look like.
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  There's a fuck ton more. This is only a drop in the
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  bucket, but the. I I will like every month,
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  right? I went when they released a new
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  one. Yes I literally have read and re
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  read all of these over and over and over again for like 40
• 29:21
  years. What's the name?
• 29:25
  Of it again, elf quest, it's right there big, big letters.
• 29:29
  Most of them are released in graphic novel form, but there
• 29:33
  are a few sort of additional novels that are add different
• 29:39
  stories or a different part of like add they add to it.
• 29:45
  And I will literally, you'll see me sitting in the corner like
• 29:48
  bawling my eyes out at parts of this even though I've read it
• 29:50
  100 fucking times. So if you are into fantasy type
• 29:58
  stuff, graphic novels with a really good storyline, brilliant
• 30:03
  artwork, everything, I highly recommend Elfquest.
• 30:05
  I will always recommend Elfquest.
• 30:07
  Always, always, always. Available app.
• 30:11
  I think you can actually find them online now on you can go to
• 30:17
  elfquist.com and they've got a whole bunch there.
• 30:19
  But you can find on Amazon. They're actually re releasing
• 30:24
  the first four. They've released the first four
• 30:29
  graphic novels, the first original 4 graphic novels in new
• 30:32
  colorized hardbacks and they're gorgeous.
• 30:35
  I got them for Christmas and I reread them and then reread
• 30:38
  everything else. So I I love them.
• 30:43
  I love them with the revamp of Interview with the vampire and
• 30:48
  series and the Mayfair which is series looks like folks are kind
• 30:51
  of picking up and rice again which.
• 30:55
  I haven't heard in a. While right, and I've I've read
• 31:00
  like all the vampire books, it's been a while.
• 31:02
  I've read the Mayfair witches, but it's been a while.
• 31:05
  My favorite of the vampire chronicles is not one of the
• 31:08
  like it's not the vampire Lestat.
• 31:10
  It's not interview with the vampire.
• 31:12
  My favorite is actually Pandora, and I think it's because I've
• 31:17
  always had a thing for ancient history and Pandora like kind of
• 31:23
  panders to that and I love it. It it's like it helps kind of
• 31:28
  set the stage for all the rest of them.
• 31:29
  It's it's like a prequel of a prequel of a prequel.
• 31:32
  Like it is, it goes way back to like Armands Maker every like
• 31:38
  it, it goes ancient. So it's yeah, it's great.
• 31:41
  I love it. So my favorite genres tend to
• 31:46
  lean towards like fantasy, sci-fi, historical fiction, but
• 31:51
  I love I mean I love really anything.
• 31:54
  I love general fiction, non fiction.
• 31:56
  My book stash is about as eclectic as my music playlists.
• 32:02
  So some of my favorites let me talk.
• 32:05
  Let's see here. So if you were a child of the
• 32:08
  80s, you were probably completely traumatized by this
• 32:12
  cartoon. But the book is even more
• 32:14
  disturbing. But it's wonderfully written.
• 32:16
  Watership Down is actually going to be one of my top novels ever.
• 32:23
  I I have read it. I I read.
• 32:28
  It that's gonna make me cry. Oh for sure, 100%.
• 32:33
  Old Yeller. Oh my God.
• 32:36
  It's, it's a different sort of thing, but yes, but I, I read
• 32:42
  it, they had us read it for school when I was in 6th grade
• 32:45
  and I. Why do they always have like
• 32:50
  this look? Do you know what I'm talking
• 32:52
  about? Like Old Yeller kind of has that
• 32:54
  look. Right.
• 32:56
  And I think that's just meow and.
• 32:59
  You're like, what's going to happen?
• 33:02
  Right. So Richard Adams has a lot of
• 33:06
  really good books. One of them is called The Plague
• 33:08
  Dogs. And I've tried, I've started and
• 33:12
  tried to read it. I don't even think it's
• 33:15
  necessarily a kids story. I think it was designed for
• 33:18
  kids. I don't, I don't know.
• 33:20
  But The Plague Dogs is follows the story of two dogs that
• 33:24
  escaped from an animal testing lab.
• 33:27
  And I can't, that one's difficult for me.
• 33:30
  I can't do it. It's well written, but I just, I
• 33:34
  struggle with it. Another one of my absolutely
• 33:37
  favorite books ever is The Kiss of the Spider Woman and we
• 33:44
  talked about this a few weeks ago and.
• 33:48
  The has that come out yet? Yes, it came.
• 33:53
  We, I think we discovered that it came out a while back, but I
• 33:55
  can't find it streaming anywhere.
• 33:56
  I'll have to look for it, but the book is so good, especially
• 34:05
  if you're one of those people that when you read, you get the
• 34:08
  the very sort of vivid. The feels and.
• 34:12
  The right because you know. See the characters walking.
• 34:15
  Yes, if you are one of those like people that are able to
• 34:18
  really vividly like imagine what's happening in the
• 34:22
  characters and the things like this is so I love it.
• 34:26
  It is absolutely amazing if you are a fan of like the fantasy
• 34:32
  type stuff, Jennifer Robertson Robertson's Chronicles of the
• 34:36
  Chaise, Suli, It's an older, it's an older series.
• 34:45
  It's an they're older novels. I think they were written in the
• 34:48
  80s or 90s. But the storytelling is so good
• 34:53
  and. This is on HBO Max.
• 34:55
  The spider kiss of the spider woman.
• 34:58
  Is it the original or the new one that came out?
• 35:01
  The new one. Yeah, I'll have to see if I can
• 35:04
  find it. So this one is like it it again,
• 35:10
  if you like the fantasy type of thing, the storytelling is
• 35:12
  great. There are a number of books if
• 35:17
  you find the omnibus, the omnibi I guess I don't know it's
• 35:20
  multiple books in one but it follows like a a clan of shape
• 35:29
  changers I guess species or whatever but I've always like.
• 35:33
  These are ones that I've read and re read I don't even know
• 35:36
  how many times. But again, really freaking good
• 35:39
  storytelling. If you are a fan of sci-fi and
• 35:44
  like the post apocalyptic stuff, this is a fantastic series.
• 35:50
  It's the Silo series written by Hugh Howie.
• 35:54
  If you have Apple TV, there is actually a series on Apple TV
• 35:58
  that is based on these books. It's called Silo, which it was
• 36:05
  funny because I found it sort of by accident and I was like, Silo
• 36:10
  is that I had to Google it. I was like, Oh my God.
• 36:13
  But these are really, really good.
• 36:14
  If you watched Fallout, if you watched the Fallout series, this
• 36:20
  is going to be there's some similar sort of story, plot bit
• 36:27
  things that go in with this. It's a lot less bloody.
• 36:30
  It doesn't have like heads exploding and shit, but it's
• 36:34
  really, really, really, really good.
• 36:37
  It was published in like the 20 tens, so it's not like new new,
• 36:41
  but it's newer than some of the other things that I've read.
• 36:45
  But it's a fantastic series and it's really, really good.
• 36:49
  Really really good, especially if you like this sort of post
• 36:51
  apocalyptic stuff. We have been doing this show for
• 36:56
  more than a decade. Yes, yes, we have another good
• 37:06
  sort of sci-fi horror type thing.
• 37:09
  So I don't know how many of you all read the Christopher Pike
• 37:12
  books as a young adult. You would have recognized them.
• 37:14
  They would have. Their titles were usually in
• 37:16
  like some sort of neon color and they had like some sort of
• 37:19
  artwork on the front. Wasn't my type of book.
• 37:23
  I read them so Oh my God, I read them so I all of them.
• 37:26
  I think I owned all of them at one point.
• 37:28
  What? What kind of genre?
• 37:32
  So they were like young adult like mystery stuff.
• 37:36
  But this one is written by Christopher Pike, and it's one
• 37:42
  of his adult novels. He has a handful.
• 37:44
  This is one of the adult novels. And it is so good.
• 37:49
  So good if you like. It's, it's it's like, it's
• 37:54
  sci-fi. It's horror.
• 37:56
  It's it's it's good. Yeah.
• 38:00
  It's I, I love it. It's another one of those that I
• 38:02
  have reread I don't even know how many times.
• 38:04
  I can't even begin to tell you. So Something Wicked This way
• 38:07
  comes by Ray Bradbury. I think, again, most of us, if
• 38:12
  we were a child of the 80s, we watched the movie.
• 38:19
  Book is better. Or movie.
• 38:22
  Oh, the book is better, but the movie is the the movie is one of
• 38:26
  those where like it was actually a Disney movie.
• 38:31
  Disney produced this movie. Goodnight.
• 38:34
  And it's like watching this, I'm like, Oh my God, this is like
• 38:40
  good. It's so dark and so creepy and
• 38:43
  but it's great. The book is fantastic.
• 38:48
  Ray Barberry again, if you're into like a sci-fi type things.
• 38:51
  See you so Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters.
• 38:57
  This book is one of those sort of historical fiction ones.
• 39:01
  All of her books are great. Fingersmith, Little Stranger,
• 39:06
  There's God, what's the other one?
• 39:09
  Affinity. But they're all great.
• 39:12
  But Tipping the Velvet was the first one of hers that I picked
• 39:15
  up and this book and along with the miniseries, the BBC
• 39:20
  miniseries that came afterwards, is actually a big influence on
• 39:27
  or my one of my biggest inspirations for doing drag.
• 39:32
  Yeah. It's, yeah, it's, it's, it's so
• 39:37
  good. And it, it takes place in the,
• 39:39
  the like, say, 1800s, you've got, you know, male
• 39:45
  impersonators and lesbianism and all sorts of fun things.
• 39:48
  It's a very queer, very great. Book it's so well.
• 39:51
  Written though but. It's and it's not on the band
• 39:53
  books list. It probably slips through, Yeah.
• 39:57
  So another one of my favorite authors is Truman Capote, if
• 40:01
  you're familiar with Truman Capote.
• 40:03
  You probably have heard his name in conjunction with In Cold
• 40:07
  Blood, which was a book he wrote.
• 40:10
  It was a true story about murders that happened.
• 40:12
  He also wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's, right?
• 40:17
  And I was like, oh, I know that movie.
• 40:19
  Yeah. He wrote the story.
• 40:21
  He wrote the book. He's a lot of.
• 40:24
  He's very queer and. Well.
• 40:26
  I'm gonna be one of those people.
• 40:28
  I didn't know that there. Was A and he a a lot of his a
• 40:35
  lot of his books have some sort of subtle queer themes running
• 40:40
  through it. Other Voices, Other Rooms is one
• 40:43
  of those. He was very, very gay, very
• 40:47
  flamboyant. But a lot of his short stories
• 40:51
  and his little novellas and stuff were were great.
• 40:53
  So I highly recommend him. Dorothy Parker is another one.
• 41:00
  She wrote mostly short stories and poetry.
• 41:03
  I think I have two of her books and they're like, they're just
• 41:07
  they're just fun little short stories like they're.
• 41:11
  But again, a great author, Christopher Moore has written a
• 41:18
  lot of sort of they're a lot of them are more satire.
• 41:25
  One of my favorites of his is called Lamb and it's about it's
• 41:30
  a childhood story of Jesus and his best friend Biff.
• 41:37
  But a lot of his stuff is sort of dark comedy, satire, stuff
• 41:43
  like that. They're they're great.
• 41:45
  The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove was the first one of his
• 41:48
  that I read and I was like, Oh my God, this is fucking
• 41:50
  brilliant. So if you're if you like that
• 41:54
  sort of thing, they're easy reads.
• 41:57
  Their books are relatively short and they're fun.
• 42:01
  And there's he's got a whole bunch of them.
• 42:04
  Let's see, what else have we got here?
• 42:07
  So Gregory McGuire, who have you?
• 42:12
  I'm actually probably most people have that, which is why
• 42:15
  people are like, Oh my God, spoiler.
• 42:17
  OK, anybody that has anybody that had complained at all about
• 42:22
  any wicked spoilers while it was happening?
• 42:24
  Like, look, the book was written in the 90's.
• 42:27
  The play is like over 20 years old.
• 42:30
  Get over it at this point. But he sort of retells a lot of
• 42:38
  a lot of different fairy tales and stuff.
• 42:43
  So you have Mirror Mirror, which is sort of a retelling of Snow
• 42:48
  White, Confessions of an Ugly Step Sister, which is Cinderella
• 42:52
  Loss, which is Hansel and Gretel.
• 42:54
  I think it just sounds so Gretel.
• 42:57
  I think it sounds so Gretel. But he's his stuff is always
• 43:01
  fantastic. You can't really go wrong with
• 43:03
  that if you you know he's. Why haven't they made movies out
• 43:08
  of his other books? I believe there's actually one
• 43:11
  out there that was done Confessions of an ugly step
• 43:14
  sister. I think there's 1 based on that
• 43:15
  but I could be wrong but I don't know.
• 43:18
  Wicked was the one that took off because everybody.
• 43:20
  Like he's so creative that a lot of these would make good movie.
• 43:26
  They they would I would love it so if someone decided to make a
• 43:32
  movie and not like a a musical, but an actual movie of of wicked
• 43:40
  that was based on the book more and then did all the rest of
• 43:44
  them out of Oz the lion among men instead of a witch, things
• 43:49
  like that. If if they did all the the
• 43:51
  sequels the like the other books, I think it could be
• 43:57
  really, really good, but it would have to be done.
• 44:01
  You can't do it as a musical. So anyway, like you, you'd have
• 44:04
  to actually do it as a more serious drama thing, but I think
• 44:12
  that it a great. Theory like.
• 44:15
  I think that if if the right director and the right writer
• 44:20
  and the right cast got on board for it, they could do the whole
• 44:27
  Wicked series and it would be like Hunger Games good.
• 44:32
  Like it would be really, really good, but you'd have to do it so
• 44:36
  that it wasn't a fucking musical because but you'd like.
• 44:43
  I cry every time. Stop making fun.
• 44:45
  Of them, I'm not making fun of the musical.
• 44:46
  I enjoy the musical but I can only watch like Ariana Grande so
• 44:50
  many times before I'm like I can't do this anymore.
• 44:58
  So. But there is a good, I think
• 45:01
  list of some books and some authors and stuff for you to
• 45:05
  like if folks are interested in, in, in checking them out,
• 45:08
  please, please do. And if you do like, if you grab
• 45:11
  any of the ones that I recommended, let me know what
• 45:13
  you think. Felicia, do you have any
• 45:16
  favorite books? So I do, but I am.
• 45:24
  So when I became an adult, I don't know if anybody feels this
• 45:29
  way, but when I became an adult, I was very intimidated by
• 45:33
  reading because my mom's a reader and I would say she's
• 45:38
  more of like the reader, like you are.
• 45:40
  She can pick up anything and go to town and she can read like 6
• 45:46
  books in a week and you know, and I'd be like, OK.
• 45:49
  And I'm not, I'm not like, like she could like sign up for book
• 45:54
  club and talk about. I have never really been the
• 45:58
  person that's like, I can talk about, you know what I'm saying,
• 46:05
  like. No, I get it.
• 46:06
  I get it. I.
• 46:07
  I think I, I think I have like a, a limit, but I, I read quite
• 46:14
  frequently. But I want to, as you were
• 46:18
  talking about like childhood, my childhood was filled with like
• 46:21
  the this may surprise you. No, I won't.
• 46:27
  So when the joy of reading came around, it was first the
• 46:32
  babysitters Club. And if a new one came out, I was
• 46:36
  like, I need to read it. And I.
• 46:38
  Read a few of those, they weren't my like they weren't my
• 46:41
  my main go to but I do remember reading pretty much all of them
• 46:47
  and for some reason. But this is when I should have
• 46:50
  done like there's some kind of. Did you read any of the Sweet
• 46:53
  Valley High? Sometimes, but I wasn't.
• 47:01
  It wasn't no, it wasn't my life. I.
• 47:06
  It wasn't my go to either, but it was one of those things where
• 47:09
  like if it was there I would read it because I'll read pretty
• 47:12
  much anything like. I loved Goosebumps and then I
• 47:22
  loved Choose Your Own Adventure or my God, I remember that,
• 47:26
  whatever those were. So I never read goosebumps.
• 47:30
  Did you ever like go back? Did you ever like read the
• 47:34
  adventure and you're like, I don't like how this adventure is
• 47:36
  going and then go back and then be like, I'm gonna try.
• 47:40
  Like this is dumb. I don't like this Newtones.
• 47:42
  Again, Judy Blume. Yes, yes.
• 47:45
  I love Judy Blume when I was younger, Beverly Cleary, the
• 47:48
  Ramona books. I love the Ramona books.
• 47:52
  I never read Goosebumps. I was never into Goosebumps, but
• 47:54
  I was into RL Stein's young adult series, which if you watch
• 48:03
  The Midnight Club on Netflix, those are actually not, Those
• 48:07
  aren't RL Stein, those are Christopher Pyke.
• 48:09
  So Christopher Pyke and RL Stein were writing young adult books.
• 48:12
  They're all like the sort of young.
• 48:13
  Adult horror. Mystery things sort of at the
• 48:15
  same time and I always thought Christopher Pyke was better than
• 48:19
  RL Stein and but I read RL Stein but Christopher Pyke was better.
• 48:28
  But the Midnight Club on on Netflix, if you watch each
• 48:34
  episode of the Midnight Club is based on a Christopher Pike
• 48:37
  book. And when I first watched it, I
• 48:41
  was like, why does that font look so familiar?
• 48:44
  And it was totally based on the his original like 90s books that
• 48:49
  I fucking read like nuts. So that's.
• 48:53
  Yeah. But then as I got older, I
• 48:57
  definitely was into Robin Cook. And I love things that are kind
• 49:05
  of like, could that really happen?
• 49:07
  Like, And of course, I never remember anything, but there was
• 49:13
  one where, like, this disease kept going around and then they
• 49:17
  made a movie out of it. Was it Outbreak?
• 49:20
  Is that the name of it? I should have prepared for this,
• 49:23
  but the one with the monkey, I didn't.
• 49:26
  But it's like I'm like very hit or miss.
• 49:31
  And lately it's been like more of especially since 2020 sent me
• 49:36
  on a it sent me on a little journey.
• 49:41
  Did we not all go on that little journey together?
• 49:45
  So this one is black boy Joy. Gosh, I showed earlier when I
• 49:53
  showed it to you, you could see it.
• 49:55
  Anyway, is this my influence just like this?
• 49:59
  Oh, it is. Right.
• 50:03
  This is a series of like, mini stories and like, poems.
• 50:10
  There's like, 17 stories, it says, celebrating Black boyhood.
• 50:15
  And what I feel like a lot of men are raised as is that you're
• 50:22
  gonna be, like, hard, like a brick, and you're not gonna have
• 50:24
  any emotions. And I think it's like 10 times
• 50:27
  that when you are a Black boy growing up.
• 50:32
  And so, like, Joy feels like this luxury because you're
• 50:36
  fighting basically for your life.
• 50:40
  And then we read this often for Drag Story Hour.
• 50:47
  Can you see it? Jeez, all boys aren't blue.
• 50:54
  And this is by George M Johnson. Both of these books make me cry.
• 51:02
  And I think it's because I think that I really came into who I am
• 51:12
  as an adult in the way that these books are talking about.
• 51:16
  Like I didn't experience joy the way I knew how to relate to it
• 51:23
  as a, you know, a queer person, as a, you know, just eyes wide
• 51:30
  open and seeing like racism for myself and not being protected
• 51:36
  or seeing that being gay and feminine are just like taboos.
• 51:43
  Sometimes. Other books that I have been
• 51:48
  into lately is like biographies and I, I maybe I'm just like
• 51:54
  into knowing how people are living or I don't know.
• 52:02
  So I'm into that until a lot of self help books, especially
• 52:05
  since I'm in business surprise and you know something else
• 52:17
  because you, you learn all these things that nobody tells you.
• 52:21
  And I think that's where 2020 made me have this big ass pile
• 52:27
  of books that I still need to get through because I was, I
• 52:34
  started buying books 'cause I was like, oh, that's yeah, that
• 52:36
  sounds like something I would do, you know, like, oh, let me
• 52:39
  read that. Have I?
• 52:40
  No. I also want to encourage folks
• 52:46
  to do the audio books because sometimes you can get through a
• 52:52
  book quicker just by listening a little bit.
• 52:55
  See, I I struggle with the audio books because I don't it it I
• 53:02
  like I don't even. Have a podcast?
• 53:04
  Yeah, and I listen to podcasts, but when it comes to the
• 53:07
  audiobooks, I I don't, I don't care for them for myself, 'cause
• 53:12
  like I'm the person that like I want to be able to imagine
• 53:14
  things in my head without somebody else's voice.
• 53:17
  And if it's somebody else reading it, it sort of applies
• 53:20
  that to. I don't the.
• 53:23
  Thing and also maybe for. Me to more of the self help and
• 53:28
  the biographies. No, that could be that I don't
• 53:32
  like, especially like if it's a celebrity's autobiography and
• 53:36
  they're reading it, that's that could be more of what you're
• 53:40
  talking about. Right.
• 53:41
  That, that makes sense. Like that makes sense.
• 53:43
  Like if it's like, if it's an autobiography and a celebrity's
• 53:45
  reading their own autobiography, like that makes sense.
• 53:48
  But if it's like fiction, that's what I struggle with.
• 53:50
  I'm like. I do like if the audio book, if
• 53:55
  they've taken the time to have different character voices, then
• 54:01
  yeah, I get into it. But I struggle.
• 54:04
  OK, so I found an. Hunger Games.
• 54:09
  So The Hunger Games, actually all The Hunger Games are really
• 54:12
  good. Did I read The Hunger Games?
• 54:18
  So I found there's some of the Christopher Pike.
• 54:21
  So I mean, look at this the if you look at the like the the
• 54:29
  sort of the neon his name up at the top.
• 54:32
  If you look at the midnight club on on Netflix, the title is done
• 54:39
  in that same style. That's what I was like, wait a
• 54:43
  minute. Why does that look familiar?
• 54:46
  You know who I reasoned like Judy Blume, Gabe, but I also was
• 54:51
  into I don't know how this happened.
• 54:55
  Oh yes, I do, because my for some reason, if you don't know,
• 55:00
  I'm very nosy. But my mom had books on the
• 55:05
  shelf. I was into Nancy Drew and the
• 55:08
  Hardy Boys for a period of time. And oh, I read a whole bunch.
• 55:12
  Yeah, I read those when I was younger.
• 55:13
  Too. What was her name?
• 55:14
  Harriet the Spy. Harriet the Spy Never read
• 55:17
  Harriet the Spy. You know, it's just, I just
• 55:20
  remembered I ended up reading as like a child that was probably
• 55:24
  way too young to be reading this, but my stepmom almost
• 55:29
  always was reading some sort of Danielle Steele romance.
• 55:32
  That's what I was just about to say.
• 55:35
  And I because sometimes I'd finish my own book and I'm like,
• 55:39
  I have now, I have nothing to read.
• 55:40
  So I'd pick up hers and I'd go reading.
• 55:42
  I don't know how many fucking Danielle Steele books I read
• 55:44
  when I was younger. Like stupid amount.
• 55:47
  Of Danielle Steele books they're they're almost so addictive that
• 55:53
  you're like the awkward it's. Awful.
• 55:55
  It's awful. I know what's going to happen in
• 55:58
  this and I'm still going to read it.
• 56:00
  Right. Like, you know it's going to be
• 56:02
  shit. Awful.
• 56:04
  It's shit. Sometimes I walk by one,
• 56:06
  especially if I see it out of goodwill.
• 56:08
  I'm like, I pick it up and I'm like too many memories.
• 56:14
  There's some like, like some of those specific.
• 56:16
  I remember some of the specific ones.
• 56:17
  I don't remember the titles, but if I see them, I'd be like, Oh,
• 56:20
  my God, I remember reading that one.
• 56:22
  I remember reading that one. I remember reading that.
• 56:24
  Way too many inappropriate books from when I was younger.
• 56:27
  I should not have been reading them, But my dad encouraged it.
• 56:31
  Even. He was like, look, there's a new
• 56:32
  Danielle Steele. And I'm like, yeah.
• 56:38
  Like but I'm 12. What?
• 56:41
  No, literally like that's when I was, I was reading them when I
• 56:44
  was like 10, like because like I said, I would finish my own
• 56:48
  books and I didn't have a Kindle so I'd have to pick up whatever
• 56:51
  book was around to read. Like sometimes they were those
• 56:56
  God awful romance novels that no child should be.
• 56:59
  Reading at all at. All but I, I highly recommend
• 57:12
  like if, if go find a book and, and, and read a book, whether
• 57:16
  it's an audio book, whether it's an ebook, whether it is a
• 57:19
  physical copy, like I need to start putting time away.
• 57:23
  I need to start reading before bed or something because I'm, I
• 57:27
  miss reading and there's so many books that I'm like, oh, I need
• 57:29
  to read this or I want to read this again.
• 57:31
  I want to, you know what I mean? Like there's so many things, but
• 57:35
  reading is a good thing and I think we need to do more of it.
• 57:39
  And maybe if we did more reading.
• 57:45
  I don't know you better. People like, but there's so much
• 57:50
  to it and you like, you can't say that.
• 57:54
  Well, there's no book that I would enjoy.
• 57:55
  And it's like, I guarantee you there's one book, one author,
• 58:00
  one genre that media. I I'm surprised that more people
• 58:04
  aren't sharing books. I think the problem is is that I
• 58:09
  think the problem honestly is social media because we spend so
• 58:14
  much time doing this. We appreciate you being here on
• 58:19
  the social media watching us, but.
• 58:21
  I mean, yes, but it's like I think that with the rise of
• 58:24
  social media, I think reading has gone down because what do we
• 58:27
  need to read for? We have enough fucking drama
• 58:30
  online. You know, we get caught so
• 58:32
  caught up and just scrolling and scrolling and scrolling and
• 58:35
  watching these like 5 second videos and 32nd videos and one
• 58:38
  minute videos that I think our our our attention span is has.
• 58:47
  Decreased significantly. I work in IT so I feel like I'm
• 58:55
  very careful with screen time. I try anyway and weird thing is
• 59:03
  I'm on social media and all these digital channels all the
• 59:07
  time for work and so by the time you all are like, did you see it
• 59:11
  on Facebook? I pretty much want to be like,
• 59:14
  you know, no, 'cause I'm not looking at it, it, it, no, no.
• 59:24
  And excuse me, and I know the science behind it.
• 59:27
  If you've been to Vegas or have been to a casino, the thing that
• 59:30
  you hold in your hand has been programmed to make you chase the
• 59:33
  dopamine that you feel when you pull a slot machine.
• 59:37
  And it's actually been designed so that Do you realize that this
• 59:45
  is the motion that all of us are chasing because this is the same
• 59:54
  as this. So that's why I said we all need
• 59:59
  to be picking up a book because, yeah, suddenly some of the
• 1:00:05
  things I have read, when I do spend time online, I'm like,
• 1:00:12
  even if you read like fictional history or you would be like,
• 1:00:19
  oh, we've done this before. Right.
• 1:00:24
  Yeah. You know, whatever that was,
• 1:00:29
  that was, that was very good. And I I love the books that we
• 1:00:35
  get to read for drag story hours.
• 1:00:37
  Some of them are so creative and so out there, some of them are
• 1:00:41
  so simple, but they drive home this, you know, the message that
• 1:00:47
  needs to be carried forward on to the next generation.
• 1:00:50
  So I feel like maybe in the next 10-15 years I need to sit down
• 1:00:58
  and write a book because not in the book, like a children's
• 1:01:03
  book, but like a book that my imagination came up with.
• 1:01:08
  Or maybe it's a biography. I don't think I have that much
• 1:01:10
  of A life to write about, but 'cause I feel like legacy lives
• 1:01:17
  in books. Because right now we're talking
• 1:01:19
  about, you talked about like 10 different people and their
• 1:01:23
  legacy is gonna live past their, you know, right, some half past,
• 1:01:28
  but you know, like we're still talking about them.
• 1:01:32
  So anyhow, Speaking of legacy, let's talk about current events
• 1:01:40
  and news, shall we? I'll try not to cry.
• 1:02:04
  Oh my goodness, that video kind of did a little chicka chicka
• 1:02:08
  chicka chicka. Why did I put this one first?
• 1:02:15
  It's OK. Again, I got the whole disk that
• 1:02:18
  said it disconnected when you play the video.
• 1:02:22
  I've been talking for like a minute.
• 1:02:23
  I don't when you watch the replay just skip it.
• 1:02:28
  I'm just kidding. It plays fine on the replay
• 1:02:31
  cause the one day you said something was wrong.
• 1:02:32
  I watched it. I don't see anything.
• 1:02:36
  An update from last week. The community has shown an
• 1:02:42
  outpouring of love for Michael Baine, who was reported missing
• 1:02:45
  last week. Who was found dead in Mesa?
• 1:02:54
  We have not heard, or at least I have not heard what happened,
• 1:02:59
  but. Now let's see if the if there's
• 1:03:03
  any more of like anything done with this one and compared to.
• 1:03:09
  Other So reading some of these news stories, somebody said the
• 1:03:12
  same thing I said it's shockingly similar to the person
• 1:03:16
  that went missing last was it last year around this time and
• 1:03:21
  I'm like what is going on? And I hope there's not, excuse
• 1:03:28
  me, somebody out there messing around with people, but.
• 1:03:33
  No, it's just like what we've we've talked about when it comes
• 1:03:35
  to safety, when it comes to dating apps and things like
• 1:03:38
  that, like be smart out there, kids.
• 1:03:42
  Share your pen with somebody and if that pen doesn't move after
• 1:03:46
  30 minutes then I'll tell. People, where you going?
• 1:03:51
  Yeah, Speaking of telling people where you're going, an Amber
• 1:03:55
  Alert was issued for a three-year old girl this
• 1:03:58
  weekend. And thanks to who's calling me
• 1:04:04
  right now, I'm on air. Thank you.
• 1:04:11
  Do you not? This person follows me on
• 1:04:13
  Facebook, so why are you not watching the show?
• 1:04:16
  I mean, it's it's been over a decade, you'd think people would
• 1:04:18
  know by now. That I have Wednesdays booked.
• 1:04:22
  Right. Anyway, but this terrified me
• 1:04:30
  because I have young people, young girls too.
• 1:04:35
  She is home safe and her doctor was is in custody.
• 1:04:43
  Did you, did you see the video of the the moving guys that saw
• 1:04:47
  her and then blocked her in so she couldn't leave?
• 1:04:51
  Like that was fantastic. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 1:04:55
  yeah, yeah. So what are we gonna do now?
• 1:05:01
  That was amazing. I wish I had put it up.
• 1:05:07
  I can look for it. But yeah, probably don't trust
• 1:05:12
  somebody that you just kind of just met, if I understand the
• 1:05:16
  story correctly. And supposedly this abductor,
• 1:05:21
  they didn't even know how to spell her name, but they let her
• 1:05:27
  in the house around their kid. What?
• 1:05:31
  The hell? And she's supposed she allegedly
• 1:05:35
  smoked drugs around the kid. So like vet vet your people
• 1:05:42
  before you let them in your house and or.
• 1:05:44
  Negligence and shit too. Like what the fuck?
• 1:05:50
  Yeah, so the House of Horrors had a state of dilemmas,
• 1:06:00
  otherwise known as the State of the Union.
• 1:06:02
  I can't wait. I didn't watch any of it.
• 1:06:05
  I have no desire to even look at clips.
• 1:06:07
  Like I just, I can't 'cause everything that comes out of his
• 1:06:09
  mouth is bullshit and I can't, like I just can't I.
• 1:06:15
  The things that make my heart feel pitter patter are I think
• 1:06:21
  that I have adjusted my my social media enough that it is
• 1:06:28
  showing me Barack Obama's State of the Unions instead of Donald
• 1:06:33
  Trump's. So whatever universal power is
• 1:06:40
  doing that, I thank you because I have only like seen like two
• 1:06:44
  or three clips of it. Which leads me to say that the
• 1:06:50
  Dems, the Democrats, Dems as in, is this the right thing?
• 1:06:57
  I don't unders. I understand that it's a silent
• 1:06:59
  protest but almost is it whatever the dem sat down when
• 1:07:07
  dump truck and his wife came out.
• 1:07:10
  Others were encouraged to stay that's were encouraged to stay
• 1:07:14
  home if they were going to get. I understand the peaceful
• 1:07:19
  protest method, but are we past the peaceful protest?
• 1:07:25
  At this point, it needs to be more than just like staying
• 1:07:27
  seated. I think there needs to be.
• 1:07:30
  I think there needs to be more, especially from the fucking
• 1:07:33
  people that are in Congress and shit like why aren't you doing
• 1:07:36
  anything? Like I don't give a fuck if you
• 1:07:38
  stay seated. Why aren't you doing anything?
• 1:07:39
  Like cool, good for you, but you're literally like do
• 1:07:45
  something. There right Congressman Al Green
• 1:07:52
  had a sign that said black people aren't apes and it was
• 1:07:57
  more in and I think that more people should do this when they
• 1:08:02
  have the opportunity is hold dump truck accountable for the
• 1:08:06
  things that he did and not listening to.
• 1:08:10
  I'm not racist when clearly you're trying to get rid of
• 1:08:13
  everything. Black history, the is.
• 1:08:17
  Anyway, he was escorted out. Other things that people have
• 1:08:24
  pointed out to me was that some of the Democratic lawmakers
• 1:08:30
  invited some of the Epstein victims.
• 1:08:33
  I want to say victims, I want to say survivors to the State of
• 1:08:40
  the Union, But I feel like you could have done something else.
• 1:08:44
  Like, right again, what is that supposed to do?
• 1:08:46
  It's not going to do anything because fucking Twitler is just
• 1:08:50
  going to be like, I've never seen any of these people before.
• 1:08:53
  I don't even know who Jeffrey is.
• 1:08:56
  I've never been there. I've never seen him.
• 1:09:00
  You know what Dump truck reminds me of?
• 1:09:02
  Since we have gotten I feel like a We need to go back to pop
• 1:09:08
  culture moments whenever we can, cause everybody was totally into
• 1:09:12
  our discussion about America's Next Top Model.
• 1:09:16
  But Dump truck reminds me of the same feeling I get when I watch
• 1:09:24
  Tyra go. Well, that was a different time.
• 1:09:29
  And you know, that was a sign of the time.
• 1:09:31
  Yeah. Like lying to your face.
• 1:09:33
  So. Like, like, it's very cringy,
• 1:09:39
  like they know they are doing something wrong.
• 1:09:42
  Right now that it's like, OK, so if you want to talk like, 'cause
• 1:09:47
  that seems to be a common thing to say, but OK, we're talking
• 1:09:50
  about the 2000s, right? We're not talking about 1930s,
• 1:09:55
  which if you want to talk about, you know, sign of the times,
• 1:10:02
  there were things that were done in like films and, you know,
• 1:10:06
  movies and books and, and things like that and shows in the, you
• 1:10:11
  know, 20s, thirties, 40s, fifties that now would never,
• 1:10:17
  never because we understand that there, you know, things like
• 1:10:22
  racial stereotypes and blah, blah, blah.
• 1:10:25
  To be filming in like the 2000s and being like, no, blackface is
• 1:10:30
  fine. This is just a sign of the time.
• 1:10:32
  No, it is not. But I feel like when he says
• 1:10:38
  like, I'm not racist, that's almost the same level of she's
• 1:10:42
  like, no, that's the sign of the times.
• 1:10:45
  And you're like, what? No.
• 1:10:50
  And see the people that are like clobbering behind him at like
• 1:10:58
  and. I mean, the only thing I keep
• 1:11:03
  telling myself is that, you know, people did the same thing.
• 1:11:07
  Feels like I'm on like the Harry Truman Show or something.
• 1:11:10
  I don't. Know that you mean The Truman
• 1:11:11
  Show, Harry. Harry Truman was the president.
• 1:11:17
  Whatever. But I'm like, oh.
• 1:11:20
  My, but it's like it's the same thing with all these people that
• 1:11:22
  that did the same with Stalin and Mussolini and Hitler and
• 1:11:27
  things like everything, you know, they applauded him, they
• 1:11:29
  defended him until it all came back and bit them in the ass
• 1:11:36
  hardcore. And he killed their relatives.
• 1:11:39
  Well, no, even then they still kept doing it.
• 1:11:41
  It was, you know, it wasn't until after Hitler died, they
• 1:11:46
  were all there. You know it.
• 1:11:48
  Well, you know, it doesn't affect me.
• 1:11:49
  It doesn't affect me. I'm following orders, blah,
• 1:11:51
  blah, blah, blah, blah. I don't agree with all of his
• 1:11:53
  policies, la, la, la, la, la. Which is why when people are
• 1:11:56
  like when like when people talk about like Charlie Kirk and
• 1:11:58
  they're like, well, I don't agree with everything that he
• 1:12:00
  said. OK, so then what do you agree
• 1:12:04
  with? Because you just said you don't
• 1:12:06
  agree with everything. But that means that there were
• 1:12:09
  some things that you did agree with.
• 1:12:11
  So what exactly did you agree with?
• 1:12:14
  So it's like the the people pick and choose and it'll all come
• 1:12:17
  back and bite them in the ass. And all the people that are like
• 1:12:19
  standing behind Trump with all of this shit, they're going to
• 1:12:22
  go running for the hills when the shit hits the fan.
• 1:12:26
  Because I have a feeling after these midterms there's going to
• 1:12:28
  be a big switcheroo. Gabe is asking if we follow any
• 1:12:36
  independent news channels on YouTube.
• 1:12:39
  I do. Not I follow Brian Taylor Cohen.
• 1:12:46
  Like I've seen them, I think I've, I've like, I've seen
• 1:12:49
  different videos from different people, but I don't like, I
• 1:12:52
  don't religiously like I don't follow them.
• 1:12:55
  I don't like seek them out, you know what I mean?
• 1:12:57
  Like I, I'm familiar with them. I've seen some of their videos
• 1:13:01
  but I don't follow. But I'm also not gonna tell you
• 1:13:07
  that I'm I'm definitely not one of those people that's like, I
• 1:13:11
  see it once and then go for the word.
• 1:13:14
  I definitely go like looking around to see if I hear the same
• 1:13:19
  thing right? Yeah, I always, I always check.
• 1:13:21
  Our news has different. Things like I'll Google
• 1:13:25
  something and I'll see what comes up and check a couple
• 1:13:28
  different sources and check some videos and stuff 'cause.
• 1:13:34
  Or when somebody says like in 1993 this person did this, I'm
• 1:13:38
  like, let me find out what that was.
• 1:13:41
  Did that actually happen or is this bullshit?
• 1:13:43
  Because a lot of it is bullshit. Half the shit that people are
• 1:13:47
  sharing now is complete fucking bullshit.
• 1:13:50
  Like guys, come on, come back to the reading comprehension.
• 1:13:53
  Like we've said before, right? Please read through the
• 1:13:59
  articles. Yes, Great News is a great news
• 1:14:02
  source. OK, I'll check it out.
• 1:14:05
  I will. I can't guarantee anything.
• 1:14:08
  I can't. I don't.
• 1:14:10
  I don't subscribe because I don't want to get abused.
• 1:14:14
  I felt like the pandemic. I got abused by the news
• 1:14:17
  channels. Yeah, as soon as you like
• 1:14:19
  subscribe or as soon as you click on something, all of a
• 1:14:21
  sudden you get spammed with a whole bunch of shit and I'm like
• 1:14:23
  Oh my God, stop. I do subscribe to the donut,
• 1:14:28
  yes, and that's the name of the service, but it's supposed to be
• 1:14:31
  unbiased as well. FedEx.
• 1:14:37
  Speaking of dump truck, FedEx wants a full refund from the
• 1:14:41
  dump truck because of all of the tariffs and all the cost that
• 1:14:46
  they've had to endure. I, I, I see and this is the kind
• 1:14:50
  kind of shit that needs to happen.
• 1:14:51
  Is that like? Business companies are expected
• 1:14:56
  to do so. Businesses need to jump on board
• 1:14:59
  with this shit like they need to be like no you fucked us for no
• 1:15:04
  fucking reason like. And.
• 1:15:09
  I've had to send things. Dump truck, Yeah.
• 1:15:11
  UPS. Yeah, dump truck is like I could
• 1:15:17
  do whatever I want, right? And I'm like, I've had to, I've
• 1:15:21
  had to, I've had to send a couple things via UPS to Canada
• 1:15:25
  over the last few weeks and it's fucking expensive.
• 1:15:30
  It was never that expensive before.
• 1:15:32
  It was like 85 bucks to send something via UPS and all it was
• 1:15:37
  was paper, just papers. It was like an envelope.
• 1:15:39
  Oh my God. Yeah, basic UPS ground, nothing
• 1:15:44
  funky, but it needed to go via UPS cuz it needed to be like
• 1:15:48
  Courier and our post office is shit right now so it needed to
• 1:15:52
  be UPS or FedEx. And it was like, I've never I've
• 1:15:57
  had to ship boxes of things overseas and a box of shit
• 1:16:01
  overseas used to be 80 bucks to send.
• 1:16:02
  Wow, yeah, it's unbelievable. Unbelievable.
• 1:16:15
  Voting your midterms though, people will say that's not
• 1:16:18
  important, but also I've noticed on the signs around my house
• 1:16:23
  that if you're voting for the SRP board that some of the
• 1:16:28
  candidates are sponsored by Turning Point.
• 1:16:32
  Yeah, I've been seeing that. So it's yeah, check your
• 1:16:36
  candidates, check your candidates.
• 1:16:38
  If you're going to vote for the SRP board, make sure that that
• 1:16:44
  we've been saying this for years.
• 1:16:45
  They're everywhere. Yep.
• 1:16:49
  Check your candidates, check them now they're out and proud
• 1:16:56
  'cause every time I see a turning point thing it just
• 1:16:58
  tells me that. Oh, they're nobody's hiding
• 1:17:00
  anymore. Nobody's.
• 1:17:02
  Hiding. It's like weird.
• 1:17:04
  It's like I am a proven racist. Thanks.
• 1:17:07
  Like, they may as well just be posing in like Klan hoods and
• 1:17:12
  shit. Like there's, they're, they
• 1:17:14
  don't care. They don't care.
• 1:17:16
  They're they're out and proud and because they've been given a
• 1:17:19
  platform and they've had no consequences.
• 1:17:23
  So like, let's, let's not vote more racists and shit into
• 1:17:30
  positions of any sort of power, shall we?
• 1:17:32
  I'm. Going to be really gay with this
• 1:17:38
  because the Netherlands has sworn in its youngest and first
• 1:17:44
  ever openly gay Prime Minister Rob Jettin.
• 1:17:49
  And he's kind of cute. He's kind of cute.
• 1:17:55
  I'm not going to put his poster on my wall, but I might.
• 1:18:01
  A black queer animated short called 2 Black Boys in Paradise
• 1:18:08
  wins a BAFTA. Is that what that is for?
• 1:18:13
  British short film even beating out a 2026 Oscar nominee.
• 1:18:22
  So I thought that was pretty cool.
• 1:18:27
  I put this in here, so I should be OK with this, but I'm not.
• 1:18:31
  Mariah Carey is nominated for I think the third time, if not the
• 1:18:38
  4th, for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
• 1:18:42
  So it's so weird to me how like some people that you expect
• 1:18:51
  would just be like shoe wins because a couple years ago, it
• 1:18:56
  was like somebody that I thought was like, OK, just put them in
• 1:19:01
  there. They've been a part of American
• 1:19:03
  history, part of music history. Just put them in there.
• 1:19:07
  But here we are. We have to vote for them anyway.
• 1:19:15
  Other nominees include Phil Collins, who sounds like a shoe
• 1:19:18
  in, Melissa Etheridge, Lauryn Hill, Billy Idol, Sade, Luther
• 1:19:26
  Vandross, Pink, the Black, the Black Crows, Jeff Buckley and
• 1:19:33
  the Wu Tang Clan. Like, can we just put them all
• 1:19:38
  in there and we'd just be done with it?
• 1:19:40
  Like why? Don't we?
• 1:19:41
  I don't like why? Why are we?
• 1:19:45
  Why are you making us vote? I don't know, just put them in
• 1:19:48
  there. You can get the full list and
• 1:19:53
  vote for your favorite nominee at rockhall.com, because
• 1:19:59
  Rock'n'roll halloffame.com would be a very long web address
• 1:20:08
  anyway. And let's end on some positive
• 1:20:11
  news, shall we? Even with no support from Dump
• 1:20:14
  Truck, where'd you go? Oh no.
• 1:20:17
  Even with no support from Dump Truck and a strain on healthcare
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  for LGBTQIA Plus folks, Spectrum Medical is expanding its
• 1:20:28
  healthcare in Phoenix, including with a new campus that will
• 1:20:33
  launch lesbian health initiatives and have a pharmacy.
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  So I saw their post about the the lesbian health initiative
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  and things like that. And of course a bunch of the
• 1:20:50
  comments were why don't you focus on gay men's health?
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  Why not a Center for men's health?
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  Why not? I'm like for.
• 1:20:56
  Decades now, right? Like we're moving on to.
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  Lesbian Lesbian health is is and Women's Health in general, AFAB
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  health in general is underfunded and no like it is no we you, you
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  Mensk go go away. No, stop it.
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  Like seriously, it was like. Oh, that leads me to a thought.
• 1:21:24
  Oh gosh. I forget which celebrity is
• 1:21:27
  behind this, but there's a documentary that I have saved on
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  my list about menopause and how, like, women are not fully
• 1:21:40
  educated on what they, what they're going through.
• 1:21:45
  And basically, like, if a man is getting older, he's getting
• 1:21:49
  wiser. He's getting, you know, like,
• 1:21:53
  and you, you're like, yeah, check the box.
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  I'm gonna get a colonoscopy. I'm gonna do this.
• 1:21:58
  A woman gets older. It's like, Oh, no.
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  I mean, we've already seen how many women in AFAB folks know
• 1:22:08
  very little about their own bodies.
• 1:22:10
  We've seen it. We see it all the fucking time.
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  And that's there's. So, right.
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  And there's so little like research that's been done on
• 1:22:20
  medication and like effects on women in AFAB folks.
• 1:22:23
  Like for Prep, both Truvada and Descovy neither have had any
• 1:22:35
  clinical trials on AFAB people. Oh, really?
• 1:22:40
  Yep. Neither one of them technically
• 1:22:42
  is approved for AFAB people, but Truvada.
• 1:22:45
  There's something about the, the the meds and Truvada which works
• 1:22:52
  better with the mucous membranes in like the the vaginal canal
• 1:22:59
  then works better with than Discovy.
• 1:23:03
  So Truvada technically is the only one that's approved for
• 1:23:07
  AFAB people, but Discovy is not because there's been nothing
• 1:23:14
  like nobody gives a fuck about any of this shit on.
• 1:23:17
  And it's because it's like, it's like the only AMAB people will
• 1:23:21
  take Prep and it's like what? No, no, no, Prep is literally
• 1:23:27
  for everyone. Like why in the world?
• 1:23:29
  Would you not? Right, right.
• 1:23:32
  But there's been like there's been no real anything on, on
• 1:23:41
  AFAB people and taking Prep Yeah, but that's, that's pretty
• 1:23:48
  much everything. Like there, you know, it, it
• 1:23:52
  Women's Health and AFAB health is so lackadaisical, right?
• 1:24:01
  And the fact that I, the fact that people when they were like,
• 1:24:04
  yeah, we're doing a, you know, lesbian Health Center, people
• 1:24:06
  were like, what about gay men's health?
• 1:24:08
  What about blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, come on,
• 1:24:11
  seriously? But literally everything is talk
• 1:24:15
  about oh these must be people that didn't click the link
• 1:24:18
  'cause it explains all the day. No, all they see is lesbian and
• 1:24:23
  they just see lesbian and they assume now that they're being
• 1:24:28
  oppressed. You see what's happening.
• 1:24:30
  They're not reading. And then so then they make their
• 1:24:33
  own assumptions. Oh, the alcohol, Read the press
• 1:24:36
  release. Oh my, no.
• 1:24:38
  We don't want to do that. We see lesbian and we
• 1:24:40
  automatically assume that as a man, I am being oppressed.
• 1:24:44
  It literally because this isn't being catered to me, the gay
• 1:24:46
  magazines and all so. Literally everything.
• 1:24:51
  Everything is geared towards men's health and gay men's
• 1:24:53
  health. Literally everything.
• 1:24:56
  Shout out to the lesbians in the AFAP community 'cause this is so
• 1:25:04
  ridiculous because things like that keep happening and also
• 1:25:09
  that some folks continue to think like because men's health.
• 1:25:14
  Also, men's health is not just a checklist, but they seem seem to
• 1:25:18
  think so. And so instead of having a
• 1:25:22
  spectrum for healthcare, we continue to go down this one
• 1:25:26
  list for everyone. And that's not how it is.
• 1:25:32
  The body is so complicated that we probably should have more
• 1:25:36
  systems in place to protect ourselves and have preventive
• 1:25:41
  care and. No, preventive.
• 1:25:43
  Preventive care doesn't doesn't make anybody any money.
• 1:25:47
  So we don't want preventive care.
• 1:25:49
  Oh, also, you don't want us living longer.
• 1:25:51
  That's right, I forgot. It's, it's, it's more, it makes
• 1:25:57
  you more if people are sick. Oh, that's right.
• 1:26:00
  You don't want me to go to the doctor at all, but you want me
• 1:26:03
  to come. You want me to come to the
• 1:26:04
  doctor when I'm definitely ill and then make money off of my
• 1:26:09
  funeral. That's right.
• 1:26:12
  I forgot we don't want to, we don't want to make sure that
• 1:26:13
  there is like a cure for cancer or preventative, you know,
• 1:26:17
  things for cancer. We just like, oh, look, you can
• 1:26:19
  screen it and we can be like, oh, look, yeah, you're you're,
• 1:26:21
  you're definitely going to get cancer.
• 1:26:23
  Sorry. Also your.
• 1:26:25
  Meds are going to cost between. 10 and $25,000 a month like.
• 1:26:30
  Anybody think it's freaky how so many celebrities keep dying of
• 1:26:33
  cancer? Just me.
• 1:26:38
  OK, just wanted to check in. But that was my good news is
• 1:26:44
  that we're expanding care in our community.
• 1:26:48
  During the pandemic, I spent time with a health group on the
• 1:26:53
  socials talking about expansive care for everyone.
• 1:26:59
  And we have a lot of work to do. It doesn't matter.
• 1:27:04
  Nobody's going to do it for us. So we need to figure out a way
• 1:27:06
  to do it and this sounds like a step in the right direction and
• 1:27:10
  I hope that even with dump truck being an asshole that we can
• 1:27:14
  figure that out. Well remember we lowered the
• 1:27:17
  cost of medications like 650,000.
• 1:27:21
  Percent. When I was at the pharmacy the
• 1:27:24
  other day, that's not what I felt like I was.
• 1:27:28
  Never am I. I will let you know my wallet
• 1:27:35
  did not feel that. OK, thanks.
• 1:27:43
  What we have coming up, we have the Drag Story hours.
• 1:27:51
  This weekend, it's gonna be great.
• 1:27:54
  There's gonna be, it's gonna be a great show.
• 1:27:56
  And we've got some aw, awesome raffle prizes and you can only
• 1:28:00
  get the raffle tickets at the fundraiser and but trust me,
• 1:28:04
  like we have so many. Awesome things get on your
• 1:28:09
  things for you. Right, we have so many raffle
• 1:28:14
  prizes, like so freaking awesome every we have artists and we
• 1:28:20
  have body painters and we have photographers and we have food
• 1:28:24
  things and we have like all the things you can possibly imagine.
• 1:28:27
  It's going to be a great time and a really good show.
• 1:28:30
  So make sure that you come and check that out and you can still
• 1:28:34
  get a deal on your tickets and save 20% if you want to by using
• 1:28:38
  Live 2026 when you go to check out.
• 1:28:43
  If you want to. Yes.
• 1:28:46
  Or you just give us the 20%, right?
• 1:28:49
  Not us, but drag store 'cause it is a fundraiser.
• 1:28:56
  I mean, but you can give us money too.
• 1:28:59
  We're we're a charity. I, I think, like to think I am.
• 1:29:05
  I should be. I have Irish tea bingo on drag
• 1:29:10
  bingo at Drink Me Tea Room on March 12th.
• 1:29:14
  Get your tickets dressing your best green and four leaf
• 1:29:21
  clovers. There was a a lady that had a
• 1:29:24
  dress that was covered in four leaf clovers the last time.
• 1:29:27
  I was very jealous. Did I go and make that dress?
• 1:29:31
  No, I wasn't that jealous, but. And then March 20th, we have
• 1:29:40
  less than a month from Wild Wild West Con, which is happening in
• 1:29:43
  Tucson at the Westward Look Resort.
• 1:29:47
  And our Dragon Burlesque show is happening on March 20th.
• 1:29:51
  That's the Friday show starts at 7:00 PM.
• 1:29:55
  You can get tickets to the show even if you are not going to the
• 1:29:58
  con. So if you are in and around
• 1:30:00
  Tucson and you want to do that, I highly recommend it because
• 1:30:02
  it's going to be a damn good show, got oodles of burlesque
• 1:30:06
  and drag and it's gonna be exciting.
• 1:30:11
  It's your last one there. It is the last one.
• 1:30:15
  Not to bring up bullshit, but. Yeah, thanks.
• 1:30:18
  Thanks for that. And I think in March, maybe late
• 1:30:25
  March, forgot what she said, but tickets will be released for the
• 1:30:31
  April 17th Drag Bingo and Cats at Phoenix Cat Cafe.
• 1:30:36
  And the tickets do go fast 'cause you all like to inbox me
• 1:30:42
  and say like can is there seats still available?
• 1:30:45
  And if the website says 0, then that means there isn't, right?
• 1:30:50
  Don't do that. So don't do that.
• 1:30:56
  Remember, you can book us for office parties, celebrations,
• 1:31:00
  divorce parties, bar mitzvahs, you name it.
• 1:31:09
  Yeah, I don't know about funerals.
• 1:31:12
  I'm kind of iffy about funerals. I mean, if it's a fun funeral,
• 1:31:16
  we can put the fun in funeral. So morbid.
• 1:31:25
  And with that I bid a do and I wish you all a good night and we
• 1:31:30
  will see you next week for your Wednesday night conversation.
• 1:31:34
  Good night.