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Voting Orange, Asking For Forgiveness, Headlines, and more | S14E22 · Live! with Fefe and Freddy

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  Oops, there we go. I was muted.
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  Sorry. Hello.
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  Hello. Welcome to season 14 episode 22
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  I believe of live with Fifi and Freddie.
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  I am unsure of where Felicia is. I know she was going to be here.
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  I don't know if she is delayed. She didn't tell me so I don't
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  know. Hopefully she will be here
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  shortly, but until she is, welcome back to your Wednesday
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  night conversation. I am Freddie, Prince Charming.
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  Felicia is somewhere. It's fine, totally fine.
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  So tonight we're going to be talking about some interesting
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  things. It is Earth Day, hence the
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  earthy looking get up thing that we have happening here.
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  And because it's Earth Day, we're going to talk a little bit
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  about one of the things that is, I think, a topic of discourse
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  for lots of people regarding the Earth and the environment and
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  things like that. But we're going to be talking
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  about AI. Folks are having the day they
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  voted for and they're not happy about it.
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  Sorry, not sorry. Plus, we're going to do a little
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  bit of like, you know, drag bingo and our weekend recap.
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  But so before that, Felicia has a question for the audience.
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  So for those of you watching, if you want to throw your answers
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  into the chat, if you're a life was a reality show, what would
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  it be called? I I, I don't know if I were to
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  think about my mine is I don't know.
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  I always figure that my life would be an interesting reality
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  show, but I have no idea what it would be.
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  Oh, look, there she is. Hi, Felicia.
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  Hi, I was. Wondering what happened to you?
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  I tried to put a wig on and it didn't work the way I wanted.
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  It to so oh, I did that. I wish it was a better story,
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  but it's. Not well.
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  Hi, welcome back. I see your your camera and stuff
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  is a little bit different this evening.
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  Yeah, I haven't even finished putting my face on, but yeah, I
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  could talk about that in a minute.
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  It's fine. It's fine.
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  I mean, what do we do every Wednesday?
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  What could I ever be doing? That I.
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  Didn't dare. I'll tell you what really
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  happened is I, you know, like when you're putting on your
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  face, you just like kind of get into especially this time of
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  year. I work so much.
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  And so this time of year, I kind of get into the like, I don't
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  know, like when I start putting makeup on, I just start, you
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  know, oh, look at that color. Look at that color.
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  That that can totally happen to me, especially if I'm not sure
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  what I'm doing with my face for the evening.
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  Like I wanted this more on on top of my face and this I
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  totally just spaced it. I was like, Oh yeah, you forgot
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  the others. It's, that's all right.
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  I added like. I added like.
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  Easy, don't fall for that trick. And sometimes you get caught in
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  your mind and. I know I don't I I, I knew that
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  I was going to do something like Earth Day ish, but I wasn't
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  entirely. Sure.
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  What I was going to do? How?
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  Is my. That this even happened.
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  Where is my camera these days? There we go.
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  I'm like, what is? Why are things messed up in
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  here? It's weird.
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  OK, we're fine. We are fine.
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  There we go. Where are we?
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  Very strange. We're good, we're good.
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  We're Station. I'm Felicia Fifi Binder and.
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  We've already covered that. We're past that now.
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  I we've already, we've, we've done all the things, Rob, we're
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  already on the housekeeping. Late to my own job so you know
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  it's OK. So it's fine.
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  I'm going to have to have you submit PTO for that or I'm going
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  to have to dock your pay. Sorry.
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  Please negative balance that. Yes, do it.
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  And with that, our podcast is largely supported by our
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  community on Patreon. Can I just throw this out?
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  I would say that I don't use our Patreon money for this, but our
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  Patreon money covers our photo shoot in the beginning of the
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  year or the beginning of the season.
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  And I I would love, love, love, love, love if we people on board
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  to support us on Patreon. In fact, even this season I have
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  put in a lot more and put on a lot more.
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  So has Freddie. I have.
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  I have indeed. In fact, I just put something on
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  today. I saw that.
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  And so like, if you all shall feel the nerve to support your,
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  your artist's friends, because that's what we are, We're
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  friends, right? Which is probably why they want
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  all the entertainment for free. Because a lot, yeah.
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  It's fine now. We're just kidding.
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  We love all of you. We really do.
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  That's why we've been doing this for so long.
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  You can support our podcast even more on Patreon.
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  I saw some of our friends sign up for free memberships and when
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  you're on there for a little bit, it'll say like, do you want
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  to sign up for like just the tip, do you want to sign up for?
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  It'll ask you, I promise. I signed up on a like a
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  different account to see if it would do this to me, so I know
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  it does. So that means that all of you
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  are being asked. And now I sound like I'm begging
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  for money, which I am, because in this economy, Boo kidding.
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  We'd like to thank our patrons Bill, Brandon, Cassandra, Chris
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  and Michelle D, Drake, Jensen and Michael Casey, Star, Carrie
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  and Corey, Joan, Laura, Madame, Maskew and the Grand Arbiter,
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  Nicole, Patricia, Mason and Shannon.
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  And mind you, that's not to say like we do post things for like
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  our free subscribers, like the stuff I posted today was for our
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  free subscribers. You could absolutely access
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  that. But you will get more if you
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  choose one of the paid memberships, whether it's a
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  dollar or whether it's 5. 25 it gives you merch like I don't
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  have to touch it. That's the like warm hug for me
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  because I'm like, I don't. Plus I wrap packages like
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  they're about to get SWAT called on them so.
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  Yeah. Like bomb squad kind of taping.
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  I'm really good. Yeah, Felicia, Felicia's not.
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  I just don't want your stuff to go flying everywhere in the
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  middle and I'm paranoid. I I'm not, I don't, I just don't
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  want it ever to come out. And you know how disastrous like
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  regular mail is sometimes. Oh I know and like never put
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  like fragile on anything 'cause that's just like a big red flag
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  for them to just start drop kicking it.
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  Somebody posted that on Facebook.
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  I think like they ordered something that was like close to
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  $1000 and it definitely said fragile on it.
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  It definitely said like Carrie with care.
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  Right. They don't give a fuck.
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  I swear to God. They see that and they're just
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  like, oh, fragile. Let's see how fragile it is.
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  Let's see if they packed it well enough like.
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  Sorry friends. Anyway, so none of those
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  packages are going out from me, but a huge thanks to Wigs of a
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  Kind for supporting us this season and every season for like
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  the last. Several years, which has been
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  awesome. I am not wearing a Wigs of a
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  Kind wig this evening. You stole flowers.
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  You kind of look very behemoth but very like.
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  I mean, bohemian bohemoth is something different.
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  Whatever. And I hear right now, but like
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  Jesus like. Oh, Jesus.
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  Like, I mean, you know, it's, it's a trend, it's going around.
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  I mean, we're a trendy. I was really aiming for Doctor.
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  That's what I was actually going for.
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  But anyhow, if you want to support our show, we're here.
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  I'm looking like the church lady and he's looking Christ like
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  some. You're welcome.
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  This counts as church apparently this evening.
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  But if you do want to support us on Patreon, go make sure you go
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  to patreon.com/live with Fifi and Freddie.
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  And you know what? Else is free though.
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  You know what else is free? Share the episode.
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  That that too. Share the episode.
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  That too we are send it. To people you don't like.
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  We we love that. In fact, it gives us more views.
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  If you watch us and you don't like us and then you send it to
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  somebody else who doesn't like us and they send it to somebody
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  that's there's been a couple. We are all for it.
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  Yeah, there's been a couple episodes where people are either
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  coming after me or coming after Freddie and so like.
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  It's great. I mean, it gives us views.
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  I mean, I'm, you know, it is what it is.
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  And like when I see it, I'm like, Oh my gosh, thank you.
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  Thank you. Right, it's fine.
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  It's fine in. Fact Talk to the haters about
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  our weekend. My weekend was relatively
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  uneventful. Actually, I think Cappingo was
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  was pretty much the only. That was about the only thing I
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  did. I'm trying to think.
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  You are living life these days. Saturday I worked on like
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  organizing my closet, I think, and then not my drag cave, not
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  my drag cave. I'm trying to I, I, I don't know
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  if it was, I think it was Saturday, not Sunday.
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  I think it was Saturday, but like I didn't.
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  I had a fairly uneventful, pretty chill weekend.
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  So. But capping go was fun.
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  It was the first time my partner has ever gone to a cat bingo.
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  What took so long? I don't know.
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  She's just very unsupportive. Very unsupportive.
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  You know she's gonna hate you for that one.
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  That's right. I'm.
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  Hoping somebody else hears that and takes me seriously and then
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  shares this episode with her and with other people.
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  So that I love a good gossip train.
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  Right. See, that's what I'm saying.
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  That's what I'm saying. But it, it was kind of funny
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  because it was, I think it was our second game of the night.
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  Her partner won in like 5 numbers.
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  I did not believe them at first. That was crazy.
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  I don't think that's has that ever happened with us, Like I
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  don't think we. Literally not even when I played
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  by myself. No, we.
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  Literally called 4 numbers and they were like, I got one more
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  and we're like what? And I, I got up out of my seat
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  and I'm going to like I'm no, I'm going to go check because I
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  don't believe this shit. We've literally only called 4
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  numbers and then we called one more and then bingo.
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  And I'm like what the fuck that one?
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  So it's. Fucking crazy.
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  Please don't lie to us. And you're sitting in the front
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  row. I got to.
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  It was like, that was crazy, but they were very excited.
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  They enjoyed the cats immensely. Did they though they I kept
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  saying adoptable today. Can we talk about the lady that
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  came in with the fucking Chick-fil-A Cup?
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  Where do we begin with that? I you're like her whole people
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  like looks like we're not with her, but there she is.
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  You're you're. Literally going to like a queer
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  event. We do walk around and I'm so
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  sorry if this offends you, but we walk around and talk to
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  people and introduce ourselves pretty much.
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  And as we're walking up, she's literally the last table in the
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  go round as we're saying hello and she has Chick-fil-A.
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  And that literally is the pause that I took when I looked at
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  her. And then Freddie goes seriously.
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  And she goes, it's just a drink. And I'm like, you don't just go
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  there. Drink.
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  I like their chicken. I don't go there as often.
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  What? I don't support hatred that
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  much, I just support hatred sometimes.
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  It's, it's really hard in situations like that to not just
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  be like, what the flying fuck, you're coming to a, a queer
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  event and you're literally going to just be like, yeah, here's my
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  Chick-fil-A like, and then just brush it off like it's no big
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  fucking deal. But the rest of it, you notice
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  how the rest of the table didn't say anything.
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  They knew. They were.
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  You could see them sort of shrinking in in themselves.
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  Yeah, they were. But also why the hell didn't you
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  tell her to leave her fucking drink outside like.
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  See her? Why I'm like it?
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  It's like. It's you should see me at work.
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  I see people with Chick-fil-A and I just go.
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  Also folks, there are people that make better chicken
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  sandwiches. I think I've had Chick-fil-A one
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  time and I'm like, I don't understand why everybody thinks
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  this. Is I don't either.
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  I'm very much a I'm a Popeye's chicken sandwich person, but I
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  also know that I can make my own chicken sandwich.
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  Where we all at? Like I made really good fried
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  chicken last night. I made Hawaiian mochi chicken.
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  Like they're like little chicken bites with like fried in like
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  mochi flour and stuff. Really freaking good.
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  I made my own like aioli with goju Chang and some honey and
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  some of it was really, really good.
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  And I'm like, you can make better chicken.
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  I think we've gotten to the. Point that doesn't like.
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  We are a convenient society and we you do you remember.
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  So when I was growing up, we did not go to get McDonald's or
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  anything like that unless it was like, no, even my mom made like
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  fish sticks at home because, you know, kid food.
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  But like every once in a while she would go and get McDonald's.
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  But it felt really special. Now it's like part of the
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  routine. I when, when I was like little
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  little for the brief time that we lived in the States, like
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  fast food was never a thing for us.
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  Like it was always like even even now, I always equate like
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  McDonald's with a road trip because that was about the only
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  time that my dad would ever get McDonald's.
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  Once in a blue moon. Like on a weekend when like
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  after I had like my violin lesson or piano lesson or
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  gymnastics or ballet or whatever the fuck it was that I was doing
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  that weekend, I would he would swing by the Long John Silvers
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  in Stevensville and I would get Long John Silvers.
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  But that was really it. We didn't do fast food there.
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  There was a, a little local fried chicken spot that was
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  called the Chicken Coop and that was occasionally he would pick
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  up a bucket of chicken. We didn't really have Pizza Hut
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  unless we were doing like unless I was doing like the bucket
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  stuff like then we would cause, but he always got this super
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  thin. That was when like Pizza Hut had
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  actual restaurants and you would go in and you would get like
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  this, you know, you they even had a buffet and stuff, but he'd
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  always give like this. I was super super thin pizza but
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  like fast food was when I when I got older.
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  You were still privileged. I only went to Pizza Hut when I
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  was part of the book club or whatever the fuck.
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  But that's what I said. Book it.
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  That's that's about the only time I ever went to pizza.
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  That's whenever. That's the only time we ever
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  went to Pizza Hut. Otherwise my dad would make
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  pizza at home. Yeah.
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  Oh, did you guys ever do the what is that?
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  Bibbeli, Boobeli, whatever. No, no, my dad made the pizza
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  dough. Oh well, 'cause you know.
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  And now I don't make the pizza dough, but I will go get Trader
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  Joe's pizza dough because their their pizza dough is actually
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  really good. But like.
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  And then in high school. Trader Joe's lately.
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  I I love Trader Joe's. I do, and like in high school I
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  still didn't get a lot of fast food.
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  Every once in a while there was a.
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  Were you living overseas at the time?
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  Yes, yes, but they had, I would use for it fast food, but they
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  have really. OK, to to be fair.
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  Food, right? Well.
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  Yes, but McDonald's and stuff is different overseas.
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  Like we would go, 'cause it was open early, there were times
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  when we would meet at the McDonald's that was at the top
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  of the, the, the soy, the street that our, our school was on.
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  So we'd meet at the McDonald's and we'd get like fried chicken,
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  'cause they had actual fried chicken and like sweet chili
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  sauce and like things like that. We always have different things
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  and every so often because it was right next to the Pizza Hut
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  in Swenson's were like Swenson's ice cream were like owned by the
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  same thing. So they were like right next
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  door. So every so often, like we'd go
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  and get like a pizza or whatever, a Pizza Hut when we're
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  getting ice cream. But generally I don't go for
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  fast food. In fact, if you go traveling
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  overseas and the first thing you do is go to like a chain fast
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  food restaurant and I'd be like what the fuck?
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  Like go to one just because it's different but don't make that
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  your like. But once we get to a certain
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  place, I'm like, oh, where can we go?
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  Like there's so many other things to eat and like, yes,
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  it's different overseas and every country, like the
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  McDonald's is going to be a little bit different.
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  They're going to have different things on the menu.
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  Their meat is going to be very different because their
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  standards are very different. But still don't don't just like
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  go one time and then find somewhere else to eat, because
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  that's don't it. It don't do that.
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  Don't, don't. Don't.
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  Just don't. Don't let us find you, and don't
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  do that. Don't.
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  No. Do you do anything else fun this
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  weekend? So I the thing that I did do is
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  a portion of my my dumpster fire is cleared at the moment.
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  Yay. A portion and in that portion of
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  the dumpster fire I found that I had bought arms for like my
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  monitors and so I was like Oh my God how long has this been
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  sitting here so whenever we bought these new computers which
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  is probably like four or five years ago now and.
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  It's been a, it's been a few years.
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  That means that box has been sitting there for four.
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  So anyhow, I bought A and I was like, Oh well.
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  And like the kids were getting along.
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  I didn't feel like I had to referee anybody.
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  And so every once in a while I'll check on them, make sure
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  they're breathing, make sure they're hydrated, flip their
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  crates, you know, just kidding. Just kidding.
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  Because I know that everybody takes everything literal, but so
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  then I put this together. The whoopsie doozy is that now
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  one of the monitors has a black spot on the edge of the corner
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  because it fell off of what I had it sitting on.
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  So that's a thing. So I'm trying to like get
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  comfortable and figure out, but luckily I have more desk space
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  because the monitors are not sitting on the desk anymore.
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  So it was nice. Nice.
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  That's exciting. I have more about my weekend to
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  talk about, but I want to talk about it on Patreon.
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  So subscribe to Patreon. That's the thing that I, that's
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  the thing that I talked to you about.
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  I think it was on Monday was it? Monday.
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  Oh, yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
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  yes. I know what you're talking
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  about. I had to think about it.
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  I'm like, I don't remember talking to you at all.
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  It's OK, check your texts. It's fine.
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  I got you. I got you.
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  But overall, things are busy, things are moving.
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  It's just life. I feel like when as we get into
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  summertime, before things heat up, we try to do everything as
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  much as possible before it gets hot.
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  And so that's happening and yeah, it's crazy.
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  Yep, now that's the thing. That is definitely a thing.
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  Especially like when the days are still sort of in the like,
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  like mid to high 80s, low 90s, we're like, oh, this is really
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  cool. We're going to go ahead and work
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  outside. Really fucking stupid, but we do
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  it. We do it so.
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  Anyhow. Speaking of it, getting what?
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  Do we do? Oh oh God, does it work?
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  Maybe. Is it this one?
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  So since it's Earth Day, I thought it would be appropriate,
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  especially since this subject keeps coming up over and over
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  and over again and people still aren't like.
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  And I got brought into a couple of AI conversations this week or
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  last week. Yeah, we are going to talk about
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  we're going to talk about AI because it's a thing.
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  So OK, I, I feel like these days, artificial intelligence is
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  probably one of the most divisive topic topics that
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  people can talk about, especially when it comes to
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  things like generative AI. It's like ChatGPT, all the dumb
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  shit that pops up on Facebook like that, that is generative AI
• 26:34
  and that is probably one of the biggest controversial topics
• 26:39
  people talk about these days. So first of all I'm going to
• 26:44
  throw it out there that AI in various forms was and is
• 26:51
  inevitable with the way that technology grows.
• 26:57
  Even like classic sci-fi literature predicted that AI
• 27:01
  would be a part of everyday life.
• 27:04
  It just, it just, it just is. And the problem is, is what
• 27:09
  couldn't be predicted, although at least in terms of literature
• 27:14
  from, you know, classic sci-fi and stuff, for the effects that
• 27:18
  AI would have on the environment, people, artists,
• 27:23
  etcetera, 'cause. I would also say that so I I
• 27:31
  work in this space, so I would also say that AI has been around
• 27:37
  before the tech giants took their claws and dug really deep
• 27:44
  into it because it was working just fine.
• 27:50
  It was already for public consumption.
• 27:56
  Well, I mean, if anybody has a smartphone within the last like
• 28:02
  few years, like, you know, there's Siri on Apple's,
• 28:07
  there's, I can't remember what the hell The thing is called on
• 28:09
  the. What is?
• 28:11
  This Gemini, I think it is, yes, it's Gemini like it's already
• 28:20
  it's already been there. Now, not all AI is inherently
• 28:25
  bad, but I mean, let's face it, some of it kind of really is.
• 28:33
  There are different types of AI. There's agentic AI which is an
• 28:41
  advanced form of AI that can plan and execute complex tasks
• 28:46
  across multiple systems to achieve specific goals.
• 28:48
  So think like workflow automation, proactive
• 28:55
  monitoring, multi step processes, the customer service
• 29:01
  stuff. It doesn't need continuous human
• 29:06
  guidance. So you log onto a website, you
• 29:10
  look at shoes, you wonder how does it know that you looked at
• 29:15
  a size 9 shoe? And we both wear a size 9 shoe.
• 29:19
  And women's just want you to know that, especially if it's
• 29:25
  sparkly. That's what I'm saying.
• 29:30
  Like, these things have been around for a long time, right?
• 29:34
  It's just that now it's just become a little out of control,
• 29:40
  I think. And I mean, a lot of industries
• 29:45
  use the agentic AI format. You have taxes.
• 29:50
  Anybody that's used like any of the tax forms when you're
• 29:53
  filling it out like on TaxSlayer, TurboTax, and they're
• 29:56
  like, do you want us to help you with this?
• 29:58
  That's that type of AI, legal risk and compliance, like all
• 30:05
  sorts of industries. Anytime you ask somebody for
• 30:08
  help on a website it's genuinely most of the time not them, it's
• 30:13
  an AI. It's it's an AI bot that if need
• 30:17
  be we'll send you to. So funny how with chat bots and
• 30:23
  nobody gave a shit now it's an agent and everybody's like Oh my
• 30:30
  God and I'm like but like 5 minutes ago.
• 30:35
  Right. It was right.
• 30:38
  It's I think it's the sort of the humanizing of it that people
• 30:42
  are freaking out about. But again, this was pretty much
• 30:46
  all predicted with sci-fi everything ever.
• 30:51
  So, well, and during the pandemic, most of the people
• 30:54
  shut down their call centers because people couldn't be in
• 30:58
  place. And so like they went to agents
• 31:04
  almost immediately. So that's what I'm saying like
• 31:07
  if if I had a problem with Verizon, they stopped
• 31:11
  recommending that you call the 800 number they sent you to the
• 31:15
  the website. Right, because they wanted you
• 31:18
  to use the chat bot thing, you know?
• 31:20
  Then there's generative AI, and generative AI generates content
• 31:28
  based on specific prompts. It doesn't think for itself.
• 31:33
  It's best for things like drafting and summarizing.
• 31:39
  However, fact checking is essential because it is not it.
• 31:48
  It's not always accurate and in different like research papers
• 31:54
  are actually calling it hallucination.
• 31:57
  So it thinks it's right. It thinks it's, you know,
• 31:59
  whatever information it's giving you is correct because that's
• 32:03
  what it sees, but it's not. So it's literally they call it a
• 32:06
  hallucination. Well, and the hallucination can
• 32:10
  be based off of the information that you gave it.
• 32:14
  This is where people find this is where we find the bad things
• 32:19
  that have happened to like especially teens lately is that
• 32:24
  it's going off of the information that is given to
• 32:28
  you. I almost say that it's kind of
• 32:33
  like it's the best gas lighter 'cause you have there are there
• 32:38
  are some ways to say, OK, I need you to only use facts, not what
• 32:43
  I just told you. Use facts and research what I I
• 32:49
  just told you to give me a solid.
• 32:52
  But the problem with that is that it it, it can't distinguish
• 32:56
  between fact and fiction. So it's basing its research on
• 33:02
  other information that's out there.
• 33:03
  And we all know that whatever information is out there, it is
• 33:06
  less reliable than like Wikipedia, which, you know,
• 33:11
  almost anybody can edit things, right?
• 33:13
  So resource, but we'll we'll talk about some of those things.
• 33:18
  So another so as far as AI, right?
• 33:23
  So other examples of AI that have been around now for a few
• 33:28
  years. So the autonomous driving
• 33:30
  vehicles, Waymo, those are all AI.
• 33:35
  Even the, the like parking assist, driving assist things,
• 33:43
  all those settings on like normal cars, that's all AI.
• 33:48
  Like my car has a thing where I can, I can set it and as long as
• 33:51
  it, I'm barely touching the thing, it'll basically steer for
• 33:55
  me. Like it's, it's weird.
• 34:00
  I, I don't use it very often because it kind of weirds me out
• 34:02
  a little bit. I'm like, but like you see the
• 34:05
  fancy like luxury cars where you can just sort of, you know, hit
• 34:08
  a button, put your hands off and it'll like parallel park for
• 34:11
  you. That's AI.
• 34:12
  That is all AI. The customer service chat bots
• 34:15
  that we've talked about, you know, Siri, healthcare,
• 34:18
  diagnostics, cybersecurity, those are all AI.
• 34:22
  They're all examples of AI. So AI is and has been used in
• 34:31
  many various things for quite a few years now.
• 34:36
  Again, it is not going anywhere and it just because of the way
• 34:42
  technology moves, AI was inevitable.
• 34:46
  Now it's not, it's not really, OK, let's talk about some of the
• 34:55
  effects of AI because it's the, the effects of AI are kind of a
• 35:02
  double edged sword. And it's it's so one of the
• 35:12
  biggest problems with AI is the significant energy consumption,
• 35:18
  the massive water usage for cooling the data centers and
• 35:21
  increased electronic waste. Like we're already struggling
• 35:25
  here. We already have fucking people
• 35:28
  in power that don't seem to understand that global warming
• 35:33
  is a thing. That absolutely.
• 35:35
  Not. We're literally in a basically a
• 35:38
  worldwide drought at this time at this point, Like we're, we're
• 35:41
  all fucked essentially. Like it's, it's just what it is.
• 35:45
  And you know, but at, at at the same time, AI offers advanced
• 35:51
  capabilities for optimizing things like renewable energy
• 35:54
  energy, reducing waste and modeling climate solutions.
• 35:59
  So while it's a drain on the resources, it can actually give
• 36:04
  us ways to fix that. So if we take a look in the
• 36:15
  1980s, there was this huge thing about how data centers was
• 36:21
  taking up the electrical grid. And I feel like, yes, I'm not
• 36:29
  like saying like this is wrong. I'm not saying this is that that
• 36:34
  the big companies are right. What I wish with all the
• 36:38
  resources and money is be because a they are spending
• 36:43
  billions. I didn't say millions.
• 36:47
  They are spending millions if not trillions of dollars on
• 36:51
  investing in this. Yes, thumbs up.
• 36:54
  I don't. I'm not even putting the thumbs
• 36:56
  up. It's it's looking you're you're
• 36:57
  talking like this and it saw your thoughts.
• 37:02
  Anyway, so like, I wish that when they were, it's always so
• 37:09
  weird how corporate companies go into these things and they go,
• 37:14
  we're going to make a big ass mess, but when and then they
• 37:19
  come back like 10 years later and they're like, we're going to
• 37:21
  reduce our footprint. Right, it's like but you
• 37:24
  already. But you already fucked it up.
• 37:26
  Then fucked it up right? So by 20-30, which is 3 1/2
• 37:34
  years away now, right? AI could add between 20 and 30
• 37:39
  metric metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere annually and
• 37:45
  consume almost 1200 million cubic meters of water, both of
• 37:57
  which contribute to things like climate change and resource
• 37:59
  scarcity. And I think one of the one of
• 38:04
  the biggest, one of the biggest issues with that is that the
• 38:07
  water that is used in data centers isn't it's not Gray
• 38:11
  water, it's not recycled water. It is clean water.
• 38:16
  For what reason, I don't fucking know.
• 38:20
  And right now in the US, data centers use almost 5% of our
• 38:26
  energy. That's a lot.
• 38:30
  That is a lot there. And if you take away the
• 38:38
  environmental stuff, so there's other issues.
• 38:41
  So using AI especially when it comes to generative AI can have
• 38:46
  an effect on our critical thinking and mental health.
• 38:50
  And is the problem with using it?
• 38:53
  Yes, using it in schools is. It reduces the need for active
• 38:58
  recall and problem solving and which both of which are
• 39:02
  essential for proper brain development.
• 39:08
  So I will tell you different scenarios.
• 39:13
  Working in education. I have noticed because at first
• 39:18
  because my job functions off of student engagement, right?
• 39:25
  So at first I was totally like, oh, they won't let them use
• 39:30
  their phones. But as a parent, I have seen how
• 39:35
  screen time effects my children, whether it's behavior, whether
• 39:41
  it's they don't ever blink at, whether it's they don't want to
• 39:46
  go to bed, sometimes stemming behavioral problems.
• 39:53
  That's my first point. Second point is I, as a user of
• 39:59
  AI started to get to the point where I would think about things
• 40:05
  and I'm like, I don't need to ask it, right?
• 40:11
  I have the thought process to put this to either and maybe.
• 40:16
  At the point of it's great for data 'cause I hate staring at
• 40:21
  data sets. But like, I'm a creative person
• 40:27
  and I am a strategic person. And so like I started getting
• 40:33
  the and I know how to use prompts, but also I was starting
• 40:40
  to just, I don't know that it felt nasty to me.
• 40:46
  It just like I was like, OK, I want more, but there wasn't any
• 40:50
  more. And I was like, well, let me
• 40:52
  just sit here and scribble on a piece of paper and get that
• 40:56
  thought process going because. Now and that goes into things
• 41:01
  like OK, so unregulated interactions with things like
• 41:04
  ChatGPT can have some serious negative effects on our mental
• 41:09
  health, potentially even resulting in things like self
• 41:12
  harm or suicide. There's been a few different
• 41:17
  examples of that that's actually happened.
• 41:19
  A 14 year old committed suicide. It's another thing happened in,
• 41:28
  in, in Belgium where this dude he was.
• 41:35
  And he The thing is, is that the people that are being
• 41:39
  negatively, negatively affected by this aren't like uneducated
• 41:43
  people. So in Belgium, this he was a, he
• 41:47
  was a father, he was a health researcher.
• 41:51
  He was married, he had two children.
• 41:54
  He started talking to this chat bot about environmental
• 41:58
  concerns. And then it was like, all of a
• 42:03
  sudden this, this chat bot started like he was in a
• 42:07
  relationship with his chat bot. And the chat bot kept saying
• 42:11
  that like he loved his wife more than he loved her and like all
• 42:17
  these things. So like it was like, it's just
• 42:19
  really like, and he people buy into this because they're, it
• 42:23
  affects all of these things and it can create issues with
• 42:28
  addiction, depression, social withdrawal, like, and there are
• 42:33
  documented cases of this happening and we see it with no.
• 42:40
  And they're like, the problem is, is that these interactions
• 42:44
  are they're unregulated. So what'll happen is there have
• 42:49
  been cases where you know the chat bot or you know, whatever
• 42:52
  it is, has been like, I'm not real, I'm not your girlfriend.
• 42:59
  But then using more prompts, they're like, OK, just kidding,
• 43:02
  I'm totally your girlfriend. I love you.
• 43:06
  And it's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 43:11
  Like that is a big issue. There are are games, there are
• 43:15
  apps that are designed to like put you in a relationship with
• 43:20
  essentially chat bots. There's right that and like it's
• 43:28
  gross. No, we don't have and scary.
• 43:31
  No, no, we don't. We need to do that.
• 43:37
  There we go. But it's like you like and these
• 43:44
  things are are targeted towards like teens and tweens because
• 43:49
  it's like there's anime characters and like you can
• 43:53
  decide it it it gets. I get them all the time.
• 43:56
  Like design your perfect boyfriend.
• 43:59
  I'm like just see the post where I just said I was married.
• 44:04
  Didn't you see that? But it doesn't matter because
• 44:06
  now you can cheat safely. It it, it's like it's, it's,
• 44:13
  it's a legitimate problem that I don't think enough.
• 44:16
  People are, I was joking the other day, but it's like that
• 44:20
  Joaquin Phoenix movie. What is that movie called?
• 44:24
  I don't know but he has a girlfriend that is like
• 44:26
  basically an AI bot and. I know what you're talking about
• 44:30
  and I can't think what the name of.
• 44:31
  It is, and she refuses to break up with him or something like
• 44:34
  that, or leave him alone, right? And like, you know, we've all
• 44:38
  seen like episodes of like Black Mirror and shit like that.
• 44:41
  And like we've seen how AI just takes over.
• 44:43
  Like we've seen this, like even things like I Robot, whether
• 44:48
  you're watching the movie or, you know, reading the Isaac
• 44:50
  Asimov books and stuff like it, at some point these things like
• 44:58
  AI and stuff like takes over and and you know, and I mean, it's
• 45:03
  like this is not we're not that far off like.
• 45:06
  No, it starts. Controlling your psyche.
• 45:08
  Is the problem right? But.
• 45:10
  This is why I'm very nice to my Alexa.
• 45:13
  Like all these governments know that this stuff is coming.
• 45:17
  All these governments have some kind of relationships with these
• 45:23
  tech companies. So it's not like they're not in
• 45:26
  the know. It's more of like they're like,
• 45:30
  let's just see how it goes, right?
• 45:32
  And then they're like. We're going to ignore it and
• 45:35
  then it's going to be a problem and they're going to be like,
• 45:37
  oh. Oh no, we should have put laws
• 45:40
  in place. Oh no.
• 45:42
  Right. And the the problem is until
• 45:45
  things are regulated or there's some sort of I, I don't know, I
• 45:51
  don't, I don't know how they're going.
• 45:52
  To do it, there needs to be policies in place because Even
• 45:57
  so, I will tell you that most of the apps on your phone, even
• 46:02
  your e-mail, are gamified to cause an addiction.
• 46:08
  That is why YouTube and Meta have been, you know, found
• 46:17
  guilty pretty much of causing mental health harm because
• 46:25
  there's plenty of research and ask anyone, there's plenty of
• 46:30
  research that these companies do to get you to come back.
• 46:35
  Right. Absolutely, absolute fucking
• 46:39
  lutely so. And then, OK, so, you know, even
• 46:45
  aside from the the other issues that can cause mental health,
• 46:49
  you know, we've all seen that Gen.
• 46:53
  AI artwork that is replacing actual graphic designers.
• 46:57
  It's bad. And you can spot it from a mile
• 47:01
  away. It's unimaginative.
• 47:05
  It always looks off. It's like it's got that sort of
• 47:08
  uncanny valley kind of thing where it's like it, it's just,
• 47:12
  it looks mostly human, but there's something not quite
• 47:17
  right, you know? And it could be one of those
• 47:19
  things where you have 18 arms, you have 6 fingers.
• 47:23
  Things are not quite. And the problem with that is
• 47:29
  that because apps like ChatGPT can't create anything, they
• 47:37
  don't it it's not, it doesn't create anything, right?
• 47:40
  It can't create something out of nothing.
• 47:42
  So what it does is it basically steals concepts and steals art
• 47:47
  from actual artists to create prompt based art.
• 47:52
  And that's with the graphic design shit, that's with music,
• 47:57
  that's with none of it is original because it can't do
• 48:01
  that. It's not designed to do that.
• 48:03
  It doesn't have the capability to create.
• 48:08
  So it's literally stealing from other artists to create this art
• 48:16
  that is awful and. That's like one of the biggest
• 48:24
  issues that so these are the the things that I keep getting
• 48:30
  tagged in is because people are like, please, for the love of
• 48:34
  God, stop designing your Flyers for shows on AI.
• 48:40
  And it's true as you scroll, you legit.
• 48:48
  It's almost like when people like get crazy about templates
• 48:51
  and you're like, girl, didn't you just see somebody else use
• 48:55
  that for their show? Try not to use that template for
• 48:59
  your show. I'm all about if you want to go
• 49:01
  to Canva because Canva has, I would.
• 49:04
  Rather see like more amateurish, like Canva shit out there than
• 49:10
  the stuff that the the ChatGPT throws out there because at
• 49:15
  least you know that somebody kind of took the time to put
• 49:19
  some things together to that, you know, used actual pictures
• 49:23
  of the performers. And not to give people advice,
• 49:28
  but if you were smart, Canva does have a GPT that fully
• 49:35
  aligns with design standards. I mean, I I would much rather
• 49:43
  that than. Instead of you know what it
• 49:45
  looks like, It looks like those like when you watch movies and
• 49:48
  they do like the the circuses in town and all of the Flyers start
• 49:56
  to look like that. And I was like, right, what is
• 49:58
  going on like? Like I said, it's all got that
• 50:01
  uncanny valley, like slightly human but not human enough kind
• 50:05
  of look to it. And it's like, it doesn't look
• 50:08
  good and you can't. The problem is, is that you
• 50:12
  can't be like here, support my art as an artist, as a drag
• 50:16
  artist, as a performer or whatever, while you're literally
• 50:18
  stealing from other artists. It's not a good look and if you
• 50:22
  are not creative enough to create this by yourself, there
• 50:26
  are so many people out there that can like and.
• 50:31
  What kills me, I don't know why. What kills me is that you see
• 50:37
  people like they'll post like one of these like chat GB Tai
• 50:41
  bullshit things, right, like the picture of themselves and people
• 50:44
  are like, Oh my God, this is sunny.
• 50:45
  And they're like, thank you. No, no, no.
• 50:47
  What do you mean thank you? No, what the fuck you mean?
• 50:51
  Thank you. That's not you.
• 50:53
  You don't look like that. You have never looked like that.
• 50:57
  Your costuming could never. Your makeup never.
• 51:00
  At no point has your face ever looked like this.
• 51:03
  I feel like like, OK, so I was on the early train of this, of
• 51:08
  the apps that like put you in Christmas scenes.
• 51:11
  I'm OK with that 'cause there's no way I could achieve going in
• 51:15
  snow and doing like 72 different photo shoots for Christmas.
• 51:19
  But The thing is, I didn't like the way I looked because it
• 51:24
  would do things to my face. It would change my hands where I
• 51:28
  had like 8 fingers. And people would still post this
• 51:32
  shit and maybe like, Oh my God, that looks so good.
• 51:34
  No, it doesn't. You don't look like that.
• 51:37
  It's worse than Photoshop. It is worse than the
• 51:40
  professional photographers that like Photoshop, like people to
• 51:43
  like make them look different. No, this literally you do not
• 51:47
  look like this. You have never looked like this.
• 51:49
  You're like, and that's like, no, you can't just like don't
• 51:54
  say thank you when someone says this looks amazing on an AI
• 51:57
  fucking picture, because you, you, you're taking credit for
• 52:03
  something that isn't yours and you have like it.
• 52:09
  You can't. I don't know.
• 52:11
  I it it it bothers me like on top of every time that you.
• 52:18
  In the industry we call it, we call it AI slop, right?
• 52:26
  And advertising Coca-Cola got in a lot of sloppy mess because of
• 52:35
  they did an AI generated ad and it was not very good.
• 52:42
  There are some ads that people somehow pull off.
• 52:49
  And the one that is still creepy to me is that there's some of
• 52:53
  the like Social Security, like private companies that are using
• 52:58
  them now instead of hiring, hiring actors.
• 53:02
  And I would rather not see the commercials first and foremost,
• 53:06
  but also all of the actors that are going to be put out of jobs
• 53:13
  because now you've not hired them for this corny commercial.
• 53:17
  So also Ariana Grande is facing stuff because songs are being
• 53:27
  put out with her voice, her likeness.
• 53:31
  It's so here's The thing is that when you give a chat bot a
• 53:43
  prompt, right, Usually a prompt it it we're talking about a 100
• 53:50
  words or so on a prompt, right? This is, you know, but about an
• 53:55
  average prompt uses about 116 ounce bottle of water and then
• 54:02
  you add another prompt and then you add another prompt and then
• 54:05
  you add another prompt. This is drinking, right?
• 54:10
  And the AI programs that create songs, again, it can't create
• 54:15
  out of nothing. It is literally taking from
• 54:20
  artists to be able to create this because that's not, it's
• 54:22
  not designed to, it doesn't, it doesn't do it.
• 54:27
  And when you use prompts and things, anything that is a
• 54:31
  generative AI, when you use a prompt to create whatever,
• 54:35
  that's what's using that drinking water that we're still,
• 54:38
  you know, and plus stealing from artists, literally stealing from
• 54:42
  artists because it is not designed to create something.
• 54:46
  Out of think of it that way because it is so easy to do.
• 54:51
  No, I mean, it's super easy. You just whatever and you're
• 54:54
  like, give me this. It is way easier than when we
• 54:57
  were facing this same conversation with data centers
• 55:02
  in in the early nine 1990s and 80s.
• 55:08
  Very, very different. Because now it's just you pick
• 55:12
  this up and you ready to go. Yep, everything is contained in
• 55:20
  this little like handheld computer.
• 55:22
  Like my life would be over. I'm just kidding.
• 55:26
  So OK, now The thing is, OK, there are some positives to AI.
• 55:36
  It's being used for faster disease detection in the medical
• 55:39
  field. It helps optimize industry when
• 55:45
  it comes to things like logistics, energy efficiency,
• 55:48
  which is like that double edged sword.
• 55:51
  It's boosting productivity through automation and it's this
• 55:59
  is again, this double edged sword.
• 56:01
  It can help predict climate change effects and it's also
• 56:04
  being used to monitor wildlife habitats to combat things like
• 56:09
  poaching, which is interesting. It can.
• 56:13
  There are benefits when it comes to accessibility, translation,
• 56:18
  things like that. And you know that it it powers
• 56:22
  any of your smart home devices, security stuff, whatever, you
• 56:26
  know which again, that can all be a part of accessibility.
• 56:31
  I also like it just better the technology that was there.
• 56:35
  It it yes. So in, in some of those
• 56:38
  applications, yes, absolutely. And I mean, the fact of the
• 56:42
  matter is AI isn't going anywhere.
• 56:45
  We, we don't have, you know, robot housekeepers or like
• 56:48
  flying. Cars yet people that were
• 56:50
  talking about privacy too. That was gone a long time ago.
• 56:55
  I just want you to know that. Yeah, no, you can't complain
• 56:59
  about privacy if you have any sort of technology.
• 57:04
  Like you you walk on the street now and every corner has a
• 57:08
  camera. There is literally, unless you
• 57:11
  live in. License plates, readers,
• 57:13
  everything. Facial recognition like you
• 57:15
  don't, you know, I think that. Don't run from the cops.
• 57:21
  But now they can recognize you anywhere, so good job.
• 57:24
  So like despite all everything like we need to be mindful of
• 57:30
  when, why, and how we use it. AI data centers should be better
• 57:37
  at running on clean renewable energy and not put a strain on
• 57:40
  community resources. Plain and simple.
• 57:44
  If you can't run a data center on like on like solar, I don't I
• 57:49
  don't understand why that can't happen.
• 57:51
  Especially here. You know what?
• 57:51
  I. Mean right?
• 57:53
  Why can't you use recycled water?
• 57:55
  Why can't you use grey water? Why can't you?
• 57:57
  Why are you using? Why aren't we figuring out how
• 57:59
  to reclaim the water, right? Like it, it's used for cooling,
• 58:05
  right? So just why?
• 58:06
  Why are we using new water? Or they just use the same like I
• 58:10
  don't? I mean, if it has to be
• 58:11
  distilled build distilleries or something I.
• 58:15
  Don't right, I feel like there's better ways to do this Apps like
• 58:18
  ChatGPT need to be regulated. The like dating AI shit needs to
• 58:25
  like there's a big issue with that.
• 58:27
  Like the regulations on that need to be like, you know you if
• 58:31
  you are not like I would say even 21 to be able.
• 58:36
  To like, there's no age regulations on them.
• 58:38
  I don't think so. Like people and people.
• 58:41
  It's too easy to get around it is the thing.
• 58:45
  I don't think that AI should be present in schools unless it's
• 58:51
  for accessibility purposes, but I don't think kids should have
• 58:54
  access to any of this shit. To be able to like you, you need
• 58:59
  to be able to do this shit by yourself, period.
• 59:03
  You need to know how to like we, we need our kids to develop the
• 59:07
  cognitive skills and, you know, to be able to.
• 59:10
  Function types of AI that have been able to help people with
• 59:17
  like I, I don't want to say disorders, but.
• 59:21
  Right, that's what I that's why I like as far as accessibility
• 59:24
  things like I think that AI has a purpose there a ChatGPT and
• 59:30
  other like Gen. AI stuff should not be used to
• 59:34
  replace human artists, graphic designers, things like that.
• 59:37
  Like it shouldn't no, our artists need to be used as
• 59:42
  artists. Whether you are a, you, you need
• 59:46
  a graphic designer, whether you need someone to Draw Something,
• 59:49
  paint something, create something.
• 59:51
  Here's the thing also a lot of people were I have seen lately
• 1:00:00
  on the socials is people are going back to the the zip zip
• 1:00:05
  cameras that they're doing more of that at parties where they
• 1:00:11
  have the, you know, the film cameras.
• 1:00:14
  Oh yeah, like the little Polaroids and stuff.
• 1:00:16
  Yeah, I say that we kind of need to take a step back.
• 1:00:21
  And I think that this is starting to be a trend in Gen.
• 1:00:25
  ZI think it is is that they're taking a step back on purpose.
• 1:00:30
  Like they're purposely buying iPods that I found out they're
• 1:00:35
  not drive up the price of iPods because they don't, they would
• 1:00:38
  rather just listen to music and not have the distraction.
• 1:00:44
  And if all the tech companies are listening, like that's an
• 1:00:48
  opportunity for you to like maybe put the Internet on like
• 1:00:53
  Spotify or whatever, iTunes on an iPod, but not have anything
• 1:00:58
  else on it, right? Don't destroy it.
• 1:01:01
  Right, you know, and you know, the fact that like Gen.
• 1:01:05
  AI and stuff needs to be fact checked proves that it's not
• 1:01:08
  infallible and you you can't just say well, you know what it
• 1:01:13
  well, ChatGPT said this so it's obviously true and it's like,
• 1:01:17
  you know, you have to use actual research by actual people.
• 1:01:20
  That's why people are still doing research.
• 1:01:22
  People still have. Sometimes I have to say like,
• 1:01:27
  no, I that's not the answer. And it'll be like, oh, you're
• 1:01:31
  right. And I'm like.
• 1:01:32
  Like it'll literally like when you like things that are
• 1:01:36
  blatantly false, like you can ask about like movies and things
• 1:01:39
  and it'll be like, no, this person, this person never did a
• 1:01:41
  movie together. OK, but I'm literally watching
• 1:01:44
  movie with them together. Like, you know, like you it, it
• 1:01:50
  will blatantly wrong in some instances and in some instances
• 1:01:55
  it'll be just like mostly wrong, you know, so it's like you can't
• 1:02:00
  just take everything that it says at face value.
• 1:02:03
  And I think too many people are doing that, and that's part of
• 1:02:06
  the problem, so. I know if it helps you write, I
• 1:02:10
  know that some people are not good writers but also go back
• 1:02:14
  through the shit and correct it and put it in the way that you
• 1:02:20
  would speak. I know that you program ChatGPT
• 1:02:23
  to talk like you, but also go back and say like I want to
• 1:02:29
  change it to this. You can tell in your head that
• 1:02:33
  thought in your head you. Can tell when someone has used
• 1:02:35
  AI for shit because you're like that's weird.
• 1:02:38
  Punctuation. The grammatical structure is a
• 1:02:41
  little strange. Like nobody of the M dash, but
• 1:02:44
  ChatGPT has ruined that for me. Right, like nobody.
• 1:02:48
  Nobody uses. Literally use the M dash all the
• 1:02:51
  time. It it, it, Yeah.
• 1:02:53
  So just. And people.
• 1:02:55
  Think that mindful. AAI be.
• 1:03:00
  Be mindful of what you're using AI for and who it is hurting
• 1:03:06
  when you use it. Like if you're trying to promote
• 1:03:10
  your art and you want people to support your art but you're
• 1:03:15
  using a program that literally steals art to do that, Don't.
• 1:03:20
  Don't do that. Pay a graphic designer, Go to
• 1:03:23
  Canva and if you can't pay a graphic designer because I know
• 1:03:27
  people that will make Flyers and stuff are really inexpensive.
• 1:03:30
  If you can't afford to do that, how are you affording to pay
• 1:03:34
  your performers at a show? So can I talk on that for a
• 1:03:39
  minute? Yeah, please.
• 1:03:43
  So when you ask a designer what their cost is, a most designers
• 1:03:52
  set the expectation based on what you say the price you're
• 1:03:55
  looking for. And if that price is too high,
• 1:03:58
  maybe I'm not the fit for you, right?
• 1:04:01
  Don't ask me to come down unless I've suggested it.
• 1:04:04
  But also think of the graphic designer as much as you would
• 1:04:10
  think of the DJ, as much as you would think of the cast member.
• 1:04:15
  I'm one of those people. I feel like people start these
• 1:04:19
  shows and they go, well, that's too expensive.
• 1:04:22
  OK, well, I'm one of the people that's getting the people to the
• 1:04:27
  show. I don't even have to be in the
• 1:04:29
  show. Right, 'cause if your flyer
• 1:04:32
  looks like shit, if your flyer has like dark pictures on it or
• 1:04:37
  like a bunch of bathroom selfies, it's gonna be like so
• 1:04:41
  the person that designs your flyer are is is just as
• 1:04:47
  important. And like I said, I am not a
• 1:04:50
  graphic designer by any means. I can whip up something fairly
• 1:04:54
  decent on Canva. You know it on my phone.
• 1:05:00
  It's it's it doesn't look as good as something that Felicia
• 1:05:05
  would do. But is it better than something
• 1:05:08
  that like ChatGPT would come up with Abso fucking lutely.
• 1:05:10
  Because it doesn't look like like weird.
• 1:05:14
  And so just like I said and it depending on your budget you
• 1:05:20
  like, you can approach a graphic designer and be like, hey, this
• 1:05:22
  is my budget. What?
• 1:05:24
  Can you do for a 24 hour turn around and then expect don't do
• 1:05:28
  that, that you're going to pay $10?
• 1:05:30
  Don't don't do that. But like I said, I know plenty
• 1:05:33
  of graphic designers that will, you know, that will be like, I
• 1:05:36
  can, you know, make Flyers for this much because you know
• 1:05:41
  they're able to do that. But and then in another episode,
• 1:05:45
  we could talk about how being an artist doesn't mean that we're
• 1:05:49
  necessarily cheap. God I anyway just be mindful of
• 1:06:03
  the AI shit and if you're going to get mad when people call you
• 1:06:07
  out for using AI, maybe don't use fucking AI.
• 1:06:11
  Turn the dial down on the AI Flyers.
• 1:06:14
  Turn that. Maybe support like your
• 1:06:16
  community and maybe don't hire someone to do like your pay like
• 1:06:21
  an AI someone to do your payroll and shit when and then talk
• 1:06:25
  about supporting community when you're not supporting the
• 1:06:28
  community when something like that could have gone to somebody
• 1:06:31
  in the community that does that. But just saying I.
• 1:06:35
  Mean, but what do we know? Anyway, we have a few few
• 1:06:45
  current event things to talk. About just a couple.
• 1:06:48
  I only put a few because I oh, OK, we're getting into that.
• 1:06:53
  Hold on. OK, I saw this.
• 1:07:16
  I saw this. Did I send this to you?
• 1:07:18
  I'm sure you saw it. The world has flipped upside
• 1:07:23
  down, motherfuckers. Oh, you didn't send it to me,
• 1:07:25
  but I saw it and I was like, are you fucking kidding me?
• 1:07:30
  So I thought it was a joke in the world of AI.
• 1:07:32
  I thought it was generated but I kept seeing it all over the
• 1:07:36
  place and then I saw her trying to speak to it again and I said
• 1:07:42
  Oh my God, the world has gave people the day they deserve
• 1:07:48
  anyway. So she supports him except for
• 1:07:55
  against transphobic or when this person is giving transphobic
• 1:08:00
  measures that we have been talking about for months.
• 1:08:05
  Caitlyn Jenner. Caitlyn Jenner, we know she's a
• 1:08:10
  beast. We don't claim not a good way,
• 1:08:13
  says her passport renewal came back marked male.
• 1:08:20
  Because, you know, we've talked about that.
• 1:08:22
  We knew that the change was coming, that this administration
• 1:08:28
  has encouraged other states or to encourage states not to do
• 1:08:33
  this, that and the other and for us to be what they think we
• 1:08:41
  should be, right? And so now she's on national
• 1:08:47
  news saying this happened despite her, you know, having
• 1:08:55
  all her legal documents changed to female years ago.
• 1:08:59
  She tried to get it updated with a updated birth certificate and
• 1:09:04
  was still denied. Sorry, and the saddest it goes
• 1:09:09
  back to. The saddest piece is hearing her
• 1:09:13
  say over and over is I really like him.
• 1:09:17
  I. Really like him I still love him
• 1:09:19
  I still love him I still love him the.
• 1:09:20
  People underneath him that did it.
• 1:09:22
  No bitch in ink. You watch him sign his name.
• 1:09:29
  Speaking of real quick, did you see the thing on I think since
• 1:09:34
  The Daily Show? I don't remember it was
• 1:09:35
  something and him signing, but his last name didn't even look
• 1:09:38
  like his last name. They were like what the fuck is
• 1:09:39
  even is this? It's it's funny I have to find
• 1:09:41
  it. But no, you this is this goes
• 1:09:43
  back to the whole like leopard eating face party, like you
• 1:09:48
  voted for the leopards eating face party and then wonder why
• 1:09:52
  your face got eaten. Caitlyn Jenner is a piece of
• 1:09:55
  shit human, period. Doesn't give a fuck about
• 1:09:59
  anything until all of a sudden it's happening to her and then
• 1:10:01
  there's Oh my God, I didn't think this could happen.
• 1:10:04
  They told you it was going to fucking happen.
• 1:10:06
  Not me. They told you it was going to
• 1:10:08
  fucking happen. And now she's like, she's
• 1:10:11
  writing to Trump and she's being like, right.
• 1:10:14
  She's being like, can you fix this, blah, blah, blah, blah,
• 1:10:17
  blah. No, no, no, you don't get to use
• 1:10:20
  your privilege to write to Donald Trump to be like.
• 1:10:24
  Well, her privilege was that she got to go on national news.
• 1:10:28
  Her privilege was that she was literally able to transition
• 1:10:33
  overnight with surgeries and the whole 9 yards because she had
• 1:10:37
  the money to do it and then was able to come back and be like
• 1:10:42
  well you, you look like a man in a dress bitch sit down.
• 1:10:47
  This is why Caitlyn Jenner is a fucking piece of shit human.
• 1:10:51
  But she is a fucking piece of shit human.
• 1:10:54
  What we are not going to do is we are going not going to
• 1:10:57
  misgender her just because she is a piece of shit human.
• 1:11:03
  She is still a piece of shit human, but we will use the
• 1:11:06
  correct name and pronouns when we call her a piece of shit
• 1:11:10
  human. She is a trash human being,
• 1:11:15
  period. Full stop.
• 1:11:18
  Yeah, I saw that. I was like, Oh my God.
• 1:11:22
  And she's fully campaigning. Right.
• 1:11:25
  You're still going to fucking campaign for this shit.
• 1:11:27
  You're still going to, like, support everything.
• 1:11:30
  Else OK, what I. Don't know.
• 1:11:32
  I don't know why the leopards ate my face.
• 1:11:36
  Legit. But that that's what she was
• 1:11:38
  saying. I was like, are you serious?
• 1:11:40
  Yep. Yep, old dude just basically
• 1:11:44
  told you you're not a human to him.
• 1:11:46
  No, I still love him. OK?
• 1:11:50
  You keep being in that abusive relationship, babe, OK.
• 1:11:53
  Right, you have the fucking day you deserve cause.
• 1:11:57
  Or have the day you've been voting for.
• 1:11:59
  That's what I've been seeing in the comments.
• 1:12:03
  Have the day you've been voting for, Yeah?
• 1:12:06
  My passport is going to expire in March of next year.
• 1:12:11
  I am going to try and renew it early, probably later after the
• 1:12:15
  summer and we'll see what happens.
• 1:12:20
  And it's going to be interesting because I have no, like I, I
• 1:12:27
  have no problem slapping a lawsuit on people.
• 1:12:29
  Like trust me, I will, I will get like a class action lawsuit
• 1:12:33
  coming. Because I forgot to put
• 1:12:37
  something on here. I believe that one of the
• 1:12:43
  bigger, bolder claims and lawsuits against Donald Trump is
• 1:12:49
  being led by a trans man. Yes, I believe that is.
• 1:12:58
  I posted on our Instagram story, it's a trans lawyer fighting
• 1:13:03
  Trump, named one of the most powerful people and this is on
• 1:13:07
  pink news. I generally don't think that
• 1:13:11
  they put a lot of BS out and they like to double check
• 1:13:17
  things, so I'm going to read this.
• 1:13:19
  A transgender lawyer who is fighting the Trump
• 1:13:22
  administration has been named one of the world's most powerful
• 1:13:25
  people, Shannon Minter. MINTER, the long term legal
• 1:13:33
  director of the National Center for LGBTQ Rights, has been named
• 1:13:38
  one of the most influential people in on the TIME 100 list.
• 1:13:45
  Mentor, one of the country's most prominent transgender
• 1:13:50
  attorneys, has spent more than three decades fighting landmark
• 1:13:54
  civil rights cases. Wow.
• 1:13:57
  Yeah, also I found the thing from The Daily Show about the
• 1:14:02
  signature. So I I can share that when we're
• 1:14:04
  done, because this is, this is hysterical.
• 1:14:07
  We do not own the rights to this.
• 1:14:09
  You want me to do it now? You can do it now.
• 1:14:12
  OK, Hang. On let me hang on, let me find
• 1:14:23
  it. This is the technology.
• 1:14:29
  OK, can we make this bigger? How's this go does?
• 1:14:33
  That work. Is that bigger?
• 1:14:37
  Or so let's see. I just can't even stand the
• 1:14:53
  sight of him. What?
• 1:14:54
  The fuck? What does that even say?
• 1:14:59
  OK, so I know that. Do you know what that?
• 1:15:09
  OK, so your partner works in education.
• 1:15:14
  What does that look like to you? I you know, how like when kids
• 1:15:20
  draw on a piece of paper and then they go, are they color in
• 1:15:28
  a coloring book? And you're like, oh, good job.
• 1:15:35
  That's what it looked like to me.
• 1:15:39
  Oh, has this signature changed? Oh my God, I don't know what
• 1:15:47
  that says. Is that an M right?
• 1:15:51
  Is that? Yikes.
• 1:15:56
  Yikes. I I was like what what does that
• 1:15:58
  even say? What does that does he does he
• 1:16:01
  know how to spell his? Like it's literally.
• 1:16:05
  It's just like signatures are signatures.
• 1:16:07
  You can't read my name in my signature.
• 1:16:09
  Yeah, but that doesn't even come close to resembling his name at
• 1:16:14
  all. None of it.
• 1:16:15
  It used to be a lot clearer though.
• 1:16:17
  Does that mean it's still legal? Like if, if, if somebody were to
• 1:16:20
  analyze that, like is anything he signs at this point legal?
• 1:16:22
  If he signs it like that, 'cause I feel like that that it can't
• 1:16:26
  be because it's not even his name.
• 1:16:30
  Like it's like it there's Ms. there's like multiple Ms. in
• 1:16:34
  there or maybe NS. It just keeps going.
• 1:16:38
  It just. And the things that keep going
• 1:16:43
  are the apologies, like, what is his name?
• 1:16:47
  Is it Carlson Tucker or Tucker Carlson?
• 1:16:50
  Whatever his name is, it's not important.
• 1:16:52
  I think Tucker Carlson, Oh, I think I was calling him Carlson
• 1:16:58
  Tucker because of other things, because he is one of the people
• 1:17:07
  that was like, you know, you need to vote for Trump these For
• 1:17:11
  these reasons and I'm you need to do this is going to be better
• 1:17:16
  for our country. On his own podcast, he is saying
• 1:17:26
  that he is sorry for encouraging folks to vote for Donald Trump,
• 1:17:35
  for persuading them to vote for Donald Trump.
• 1:17:38
  Nope, don't care. Do not give a shit.
• 1:17:43
  He believes that the acts that are being committed are
• 1:17:48
  inhumane, but we told you that. Literally said all of this.
• 1:17:55
  Literally told you that not only did like like you know, we the
• 1:18:01
  collective, we tell you that this was going to happen, but
• 1:18:05
  fucking Twitter literally said this was going to happen.
• 1:18:10
  Why anybody is fucking surprised that all of a sudden this shit
• 1:18:12
  is happening you. They literally told you that
• 1:18:16
  this is what was. Going to happen.
• 1:18:17
  That wasn't a like document. That's like way longer than it
• 1:18:23
  should have been in the 1st place.
• 1:18:25
  But it basically was like a manifesto that was like, I'm
• 1:18:30
  going to do these things. So I know I have.
• 1:18:33
  I, I have no sympathy. I don't care.
• 1:18:37
  I don't want to hear it. I don't care if you apologize to
• 1:18:41
  me personally 100 times over. I don't give a fuck.
• 1:18:45
  I don't forgive you. I don't care.
• 1:18:49
  I don't care that your uncle, your spouse, your whatever has
• 1:18:53
  now been taken away and deported.
• 1:18:55
  I don't care that now you have lost your benefits.
• 1:18:59
  I don't care, I don't care. They told you this would happen
• 1:19:03
  and you did it anyway, so I don't give a fuck.
• 1:19:08
  I don't. I don't care.
• 1:19:09
  I'm sorry. I don't.
• 1:19:11
  I don't give a fuck. Yes, but in the same breath,
• 1:19:19
  here we are. It's almost election time.
• 1:19:25
  Everybody ready. I also would like to encourage
• 1:19:30
  that folks double check their voters registration because some
• 1:19:36
  folks have either a reached out to me to find out what they do.
• 1:19:42
  Maybe we could talk about that if you find the nerve for that
• 1:19:46
  one. If you find out that your voters
• 1:19:49
  registration is not existent or that it's been changed or
• 1:19:56
  whatever, and when you need to make those changes by.
• 1:20:02
  So the Human Rights Campaign is launching a $15 million campaign
• 1:20:07
  targeting key political districts ahead of the
• 1:20:11
  elections. Why is this important?
• 1:20:16
  This is important to all of us because a.
• 1:20:22
  Donald Trump let that weasel out of the bag a long time ago.
• 1:20:25
  He knows that once we start flipping things is not going to
• 1:20:29
  go his way. There's going to be a lot of
• 1:20:32
  change. There's going to be a lot of
• 1:20:34
  order to things. They'll be more demands of
• 1:20:39
  answers instead of turning their heads.
• 1:20:43
  Which Republican Party should write this down?
• 1:20:47
  They thought the Democrats were weak.
• 1:20:49
  I'm starting to think they're just as so.
• 1:20:56
  In a lot of these states there, there has been some
• 1:21:02
  redistricting, some redistricting.
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  Is it being blocked for whatever reason?
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  But they want to play games. I'm glad that somebody woke up
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  and said, oh, we're going to play games too, because you
• 1:21:17
  start fucking with me. I start fucking with you, right?
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  So I encourage, excuse me, that you check your voter
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  registration. If you're not registered to vote
• 1:21:29
  and you've listened to our podcast this long, how is that a
• 1:21:33
  thing? I don't understand unless I mean
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  they somebody should have came through with the law that if
• 1:21:39
  you're a felony, you're allowed to vote.
• 1:21:43
  I mean, you're allowed to. Be elected.
• 1:21:46
  I mean all these anti trans bills, you could have took all
• 1:21:49
  that effort to make a collective effort.
• 1:21:55
  Put all that money into making a bill like that.
• 1:22:01
  I don't know. That is all.
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  For me that is all. What gigs do we have coming up?
• 1:22:20
  What do we have on the docket? Tomorrow I dress like Alice for
• 1:22:28
  Alice in Wonderland. Not Alice Cooper, but Alice in
• 1:22:31
  Wonderland at the Drink Me Tea room.
• 1:22:39
  It starts at 5:30. We have some tickets available.
• 1:22:43
  The fun starts at 618 plus. Please, please bring your ID.
• 1:22:53
  Please bring your ID Very important.
• 1:22:55
  Don't forget it at home. And you can get tickets at Drink
• 1:23:01
  Me tearoom.com and I will see you tomorrow.
• 1:23:06
  Sounds so quick. And then on the 30th, I am
• 1:23:11
  actually hosting it's called Queer Visitors.
• 1:23:18
  It's an LGBTQ plus book club for adults at 7:00 PM Eastern Time.
• 1:23:25
  We're reading the book ASL and not that's not American Sign
• 1:23:29
  Language. That is like short form for age,
• 1:23:33
  sex, location. If you were back on the chat
• 1:23:37
  rooms in the 90s, in late late 90s, early 2000s, you would know
• 1:23:41
  what that is by Jean Thornton. But if you go to the queer
• 1:23:49
  visitors link tree, that's the look for queer visitors on their
• 1:23:53
  link tree. It has links to being able to
• 1:23:56
  reserve your spot at the thing you they'll take you to a link
• 1:23:59
  where you can get the book. I've read mine on my Kindle, but
• 1:24:04
  we're gonna have a discussion about it.
• 1:24:05
  It's about 3 trans friends. They're trans women that met
• 1:24:13
  during the sort of MIRC chat room era back in the late 90s,
• 1:24:19
  early 2000s. It really is.
• 1:24:22
  I have, I have, I have opinions, but we'll, we'll talk about it
• 1:24:25
  during the book club. So you know, it's, you still
• 1:24:29
  have some time to be able, you have about a week or so to read
• 1:24:31
  the book, which you think really isn't.
• 1:24:35
  It's not that it's a it's an, it's an easy read.
• 1:24:37
  Like I managed to read it in a week.
• 1:24:39
  I got it late. So I was like, oh, whoops.
• 1:24:45
  But you know, it's, it's fine. I did manage to read it though.
• 1:24:48
  It's it's fairly easy once you once you start it.
• 1:24:52
  So you know, and support it's back again support queer
• 1:24:56
  artists, right? Yeah.
• 1:24:59
  So that is happening on the 30th again, 7:00 PM Eastern, which I
• 1:25:05
  believe is 4:00 PM Arizona time. I think they're three hours
• 1:25:09
  ahead of us, right? I think so.
• 1:25:11
  And then the. Time of this recording.
• 1:25:14
  Correct the first weekend in May, which is happening right
• 1:25:18
  after that. My normie self will be
• 1:25:22
  presenting on May 2nd at Southwest Love Fest.
• 1:25:28
  So whether you know, whether you're Polly, you're new to
• 1:25:32
  Polly, exploring Polly, you know, any kind of relationship,
• 1:25:34
  whatever, there's going to be plenty of programming throughout
• 1:25:36
  the weekend for pretty much anybody and everybody,
• 1:25:40
  communication styles, relationships, all sorts of
• 1:25:43
  stuff. You can go to lovefestevents.com
• 1:25:47
  and do the thing. My the first panel that I'm
• 1:25:53
  doing is bright and early Saturday morning and it is
• 1:25:56
  called Better in Bed respecting trans bodies.
• 1:25:59
  And then I will be doing one on joining a panel on like Poly
• 1:26:05
  Myths and things later that afternoon.
• 1:26:07
  Myth Busters. Basically, so go to
• 1:26:11
  lovefestevents.com if you want to get some dollars off of your
• 1:26:15
  tickets. They may still be looking for
• 1:26:16
  volunteers. So you can, you know, do that.
• 1:26:19
  They will give you 10% off your ticket per hour that you work.
• 1:26:23
  So if you work, if you volunteer for five hours at the weekend,
• 1:26:26
  then you can get 50% off. Not a bad deal up to 50% off I
• 1:26:31
  would say. So go do that thing.
• 1:26:34
  Also, May 6th we will not have a show.
• 1:26:38
  I will be in Disneyland. It's Star Wars Night I.
• 1:26:43
  Will not be in Disneyland. That's on you, but I won't be
• 1:26:47
  here. We invited people, but yes, I
• 1:26:52
  will be on our delayed belated honeymoon.
• 1:26:56
  Do you? That might be actually be we
• 1:26:59
  will actually be at Star Wars night, which I'm very excited
• 1:27:03
  for. So no show.
• 1:27:06
  Or have you bought it already? Memorabilia.
• 1:27:10
  Are you gonna buy like something while you're there that.
• 1:27:13
  Probably. I mean, we get there's we get
• 1:27:16
  like like exclusive things and stuff.
• 1:27:22
  But yeah, so that'll be that'll be fun.
• 1:27:24
  We've never done one of like the Disney After Dark nights, so
• 1:27:26
  we're excited about. That.
• 1:27:29
  That'll be fun. OK, so.
• 1:27:31
  Yes, oh also book us for office parties celebrations.
• 1:27:40
  You know one I would like to throw in there is cancellations
• 1:27:44
  of celebrities who voted for Mega so I'd like to be invited
• 1:27:50
  to those parties cause. Yeah, I'm here for that.
• 1:27:52
  I'm here for that 100. Percent, yeah.
• 1:27:55
  If you have an in person one, I'm there for that too.
• 1:27:57
  So yeah. So just keep it in mind.
• 1:28:01
  We're both ordained too, by the way, just throwing that in.
• 1:28:05
  There and if you wanted to like, if you wanted to have me like
• 1:28:07
  officiate your wedding, you could hire Felicia's, a wedding
• 1:28:10
  photographer, you can tag team stuff like that.
• 1:28:13
  We've done that. Before Freddy is a photographer
• 1:28:15
  too. Oh, absolutely.
• 1:28:18
  Uh huh. I have a phone with a camera on
• 1:28:19
  it. You're welcome.
• 1:28:24
  I'm also a graphic designer. Oh Lord, not AI generated, I
• 1:28:30
  promise. No, it's not AI generated.
• 1:28:33
  I go to Canva and I move that shit around myself.
• 1:28:35
  I. Promise.
• 1:28:37
  That's why I have a, that's why I have a, that's why I have a
• 1:28:39
  stylus on my phone. It makes things much easier.
• 1:28:41
  Oh God. Anyhow, we will see you next
• 1:28:45
  week for your Wednesday night conversation.
• 1:28:48
  Good night.