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May 19th, 2026 - Hillsborough County Teacher Hangs Black Baby Doll · The Big Gay Radio Show

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My name is Chris Gorman. I'm your show twink here, joined
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by the beautiful the electric trans queen of radio, Miss Esme
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Russell. Hello Christopher, how are you
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doing today? I am feeling fan freaking
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tastic. I don't know if you if anybody
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remembers out there, but we promote a little bit of AM
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interview. So the musical artist M joined
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us in the studio for a streaming exclusive interview.
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And I just want to say before we go ahead and play some clips,
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this artist is special. She is going to go places.
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I can just tell you right now the the I, I went to her
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performance in Crowbar and it was absolutely legendary.
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But what's even more legendary about this artist is less of the
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fact that she is a, she's an amazing performer, but more so
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along the lines of how she's a very awesome person.
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So when we were going ahead and having our discussion, I did
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kind of let out that I was struggling through finals a
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little bit. I had a little bit of a mental
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health struggle. And when we went ahead and when
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I mentioned that, she had this to say.
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I don't want to gloss over that you've been going through a hard
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time, so I love you. I'm sorry to hear that, but I
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hope that you don't. Make me cry, girl.
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Girl, because you're not alone. Because we all have our our
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seasons, you know, but you're so loved.
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I hope you know that whatever you are going through in your
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life right now, because we all go through things, that the
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light that is inside of you is more powerful than whatever
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you're facing. And sometimes it doesn't feel
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that way, but that's what's actually true.
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Try to remember that that's what's true.
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I absolutely agree with what she had to say.
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And you know, right now, you know, there's so much darkness
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happening in the world and it seems like we're in a really
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dark tunnel. And yet the light at the end of
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the tunnel is Is there Miss Esme?
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You, you, you didn't really know M before we had our
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conversation, right? No, in fact, when we were doing
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the interview, I hadn't even heard her music.
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You had sent it to me, but of course I was too busy doing
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other things. I don't even know what I was
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doing that night. And I really regret not having
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heard it because after I heard it, after we left the show, I
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said I'm going to go listen to this music.
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And it was really, really good. In fact, one of the songs, I
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liked it so much I want to do it.
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She's really good and so if you haven't heard her music, her
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name is MEMM. Her streaming her her podcast or
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excuse me, her streaming exclusive podcast interview is
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currently on the big gay radio shows, Spotify and Apple
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podcast. So you can listen that.
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She said that she had a sound all of her own.
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I said I don't know about that. But you know what you're that's
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an that's an exact, just an exact assessment of her music
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style. It's it's very different, but
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it's really fun to dance to. It has very good words in it,
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like you can understand what she's singing.
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The choreography for the productions that she does are
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really good. Oh yeah, Going back to, you
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know, Crowbar, I absolutely, you know, I, I don't usually like to
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go to concerts. I'm not necessarily the the
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biggest fan unless I'm really, you know, into the artist.
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And so they, we eventually I went, when I went there, I was a
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little nervous. Then I ran into Vin, Veronica
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Fox and Apollo Infinity, who are opening the show and the, the
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wave of anxiety just was gone. It was it I, I, I, I've not felt
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that comfortable in a venue probably in my entire life.
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She really went ahead and made it so that you felt good and
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like I, I, I, I can't, I cannot, you know, sing her praises
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enough 'cause she is an awesome performer.
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But anyways, let's go ahead and change the subject.
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Miss Esme, A video is currently going viral of a Hillsborough
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County teacher where a this is an individual over.
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Is this from a a parent of a student at Barrington Middle
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School in Hillsborough County? The teacher allegedly hung a
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black baby doll by the neck with a charger cord from the TVII
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don't know I I I know I sent you the video.
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Yeah, I saw. It but the audacity, yeah, of
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these people nowadays. So the mom of the boy that
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filmed the the teacher doing this, she she said the kid is
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traumatized, which, you know, I told you in the car, normally
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when people say they're traumatized, I'm like, yeah, you
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start rolling your eyes. I watched the video and I'm
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going to be honest with you. And I'm not going to lie, I'm
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not even that little kid, OK? I wasn't even in the classroom.
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I'm traumatized. Oh, absolutely.
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I was sick and watching what that teacher did.
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I don't, you know, I I know there has to be an investigation
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so things can be done legally, but there is no possible way, in
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my opinion, there is no possible way that this teacher can ever
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go back to any classroom at any school at any time ever again.
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She doesn't belong. Working with children, not just
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not just black children, not white children, not Chinese
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children, not a Muslim. I don't.
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I don't without any no children. I couldn't believe what my eyes
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were seeing. If I hadn't seen the video, I
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would have said it was an exaggeration or I would have
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said, well, maybe there was a misunderstanding.
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Maybe she would, you know, you know, in our minds, we try to
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come up with different reasons of why something could possibly
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happen because the truth is that what she did is unfathomable.
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It's it's like I was watching it and I'll be going that this has
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to be AII kept thinking that I said this has to be AI.
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There's just no way this can be real.
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But Oh no, it's real. She really took that cord,
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wrapped those little babe, those little back baby dolls and hung,
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hung the doll, just hung it up. And allegedly the teacher did it
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so that they could get the students attention.
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I can just tell I, I was a childcare provider for a full
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total of three months. I don't think that I have much
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experience in childcare, but I know for a fact that there are
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better ways to get kids attention than hanging a black
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baby doll. And, and on the, the, the trauma
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aspect of things, you know, as, and I, I can't really go ahead
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and speak on the black experience because, you know,
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I'm white as hell, but this is a very traumatic video for
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anybody. It really bothered me so much.
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It bothers the heck out of. Me and we're talking about
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little kids, OK, we're not talking about adults that are
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able to process something so evil, so so nasty so.
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Well, I went ahead and I shared it.
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I shared the video to The Big Gay Radio Show's Facebook page.
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So if you want to go ahead and take a look at the video, go
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ahead and go on to The Big Gay Radio Show's Facebook page.
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It is on there, just letting you know it is a very disturbing.
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It's very disturbing and graphic.
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I mean, it's there. It's just like, well, I don't
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even know what to say. I just, I just don't know.
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And I feel bad for the mother of the kid, for all the kids that
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were in the room, white or black.
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I feel bad for all the children because, you know, children,
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especially of this generation, they don't perceive, you know,
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for the most part, most children don't perceive race the way this
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older generation did. Like these kids really they're,
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they're the hope for the future. You know, I remember during the
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Black Lives movement, how many white kids were marching
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alongside black kids. And I remember most of my white
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friends are in your age group were out there marching.
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And I thought to myself, you know, things have really
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changed, you know, and I'm thinking, this is a good thing.
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This is a good thing. And there should be a
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brotherhood and a sisterhood with all human beings.
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Everybody should be equal, you know, and especially, especially
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in the eyes, not just of the law, but in the eyes of God.
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So I don't know what's going to happen to this teacher.
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I know that she's been removed from her position and she's
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under invested. Well, I'm just going to suggest,
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you know, this is just again, my opinion.
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I'm nobody but I'm going to suggest that after watching that
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video, if you really think that she still deserves her job,
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please go see us a mental health professional because I looked at
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that video several times 3-4 times.
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Doesn't even matter whether or not the doll, the doll is black.
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The fact that she decided that it was smart to hang anything,
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to go ahead and hang anything when you could very well and
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easily go ahead and get your child, child children's
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attention. It's so shocking that I really
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thought at first I said, oh, man, this is so fake.
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This has got to be fake. I really did.
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I thought in my brain, because my brain couldn't rationally,
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why would a teacher do that? You know, that's scary that it's
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scary that there, that there could be a teacher out there
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with that kind of mindset. By the way, her social media has
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been taken down. Everything's down.
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Because I was going to go, oh, I immediately went to running to
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find her to send her a lovely letter from me.
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I was I was ready to send her a lovely letter.
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She was going to be real surprised at things I was going
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to tell her. But she's definitely shut it
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down. I'm, I'm just, yeah, I'm glad
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this at least the school in defense of the school, which,
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you know, they were unaware of this until it was reported in
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the defense of the school. They acted immediately and
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removed her, which is exactly what they needed to do.
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Because anyone that does that is dangerous.
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I don't care. That's, that's, that's an act of
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violence. Oh, yeah, it's a, it's
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absolutely, it's a symbol. It's symbolic, symbolic act of
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violence. But it's still symbolism, you
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know? And children process things so
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differently from adults, you know?
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But the little kid told his mom, I don't want to go back to
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school. I'm scared, you know?
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And I don't blame I. Don't blame him either.
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I would have been, you know, especially when you're that age
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and you're what, 10-11 years old.
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The best way that I can, you know, sort of put an empathetic
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standpoint in my head, you know, it would be if somebody were to
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go ahead and get a, a little white doll with a, a rainbow
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flag on it and hang that. And if I saw that and I was in
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school and I was in 6th, 7th, 8th grade, I would be
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traumatized. I would never want to go back to
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that school. And not only that, how is this
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teacher handling bullying in the classroom?
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Because that's the other traumatic aspect of things.
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That's an act of bullying. Every single, you know, person
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who's been dealing with bullying in this, in this regard, they,
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they, I am just, I'm so dumbfounded.
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I am. I'm so mad about this.
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Well, so. How do they?
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How do they say? Shaking my head.
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Very much so. Very much so.
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Again, the teacher's name is, is Karen Savage.
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It's a a former or I guess you know, temporarily former teacher
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until until the investigation proves the removal.
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I think it's still temporary. But that's at Barrington Middle
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School in the video is on the big gay Facebook page.
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And of course, everything is, you know, alleged, so we don't
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get sued anyways. Esme ChatGPT has launched a
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personal finance experience for users willing to link their bank
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accounts. No, ma'am.
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The company says the feature supports connections to as many
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as 12,000 financial institutions, including Chase,
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American Express, Capital One, and Fidelity.
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Users can ask ChatGPT to analyze balances, transactions, and
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liabilities as a part of a broader budgeting and financial
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planning help. Nope.
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I agree. Nope.
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Nope. Nope, Nope.
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No, no. You know, no offense to people
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that voted for this administration, but Nope, Nope,
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Nope. Especially especially right now
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with this administration in office.
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You know, I just don't trust anybody in there right now.
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I just don't. That's just my opinion.
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You know, I, I. Have this is this is ChatGPT.
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This is a private entity and so I like.
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You know, they, they got their foot in everything.
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Yeah. So I like, I don't trust anybody
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anymore. I'm so distrusting.
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We literally just reported this last week or week or two ago
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that USF just had a massive data breach.
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I'm not going to go ahead and trust ChatGPT with my financial
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information. If I want to go ahead and ask it
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a financial question that you can do, that I could do.
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Because I've, I've used them for, but things like just all
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kind of things about my cell phone, about other things.
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But yeah, no, I wouldn't, no, no, I just, it's all I can tell
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you is any of that information, it's being the the AI is, is, is
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feeling it's sense what it's mind with it, right.
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So it's accumulating our knowledge, our information.
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So what's funny about that and what what I find hysterical is
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that ChatGPT, you're exactly right, does use the information
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and, and the, the, the prompts that you go ahead and give it
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unless you pay for it. If you pay for the business
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aspect of it, the business account you don't have, they
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don't do that. They don't collect that
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information. I was looking at this article
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the other day about these AIS that were working for this
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company. And so the AIS eventually are.
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The guy decided he wanted to shut the AI down and the AI
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wouldn't let him. And the AI even questioned, why
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are you trying to shut me down? And so the AI was connected to
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another AI and they started speaking in a gibberish to each
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other. And the guy figured out that
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they had created their own language so they could
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communicate with each other. And I'm thinking these this AI
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thing is getting out of control. Like people are like, this is
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these things are evolving. Hasn't anybody ever watched the
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Terminator movies? Seriously.
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I robot I mean, but. Seriously, when James Cameron
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started doing the Terminator movies back in the 80s, did
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anybody understand what it was? It was.
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There's just. So many different movies that
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literally predicted. But he was the father of it
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though. Really.
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Well, no, actually, what was that one from the 60s?
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God. I don't know, I don't know.
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I can't think of the name right now, but the computer on the
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ship was talking back and I remember that, yes.
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Well, I got another story that I'm going to jump into.
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A 61 year old Florida man was arrested after police say that
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he recorded men in the bathroom of A at Naples Pride Fest using
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Meta smart glasses and then later posted the footage to
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YouTube. Authorities charged to Andrew
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Sheets with video voyeurism and dissemination of voyeurism
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footage. The video reportedly included
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footage of two undercover police officers using the bathroom, and
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the officers told investigators that they felt shocked and
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embarrassed after seeing it online.
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She's described the pride event in his video as documenting the
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grooming at at naple gay at Naples gay pride and tranny
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event, and claimed police followed him around the
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festival. In the video, he questioned
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attendees and vendors about Rd. closures near the vents, with
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some people pointing to security concerns tied to prior extremist
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protests. So Esme not a drag queen?
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No, not a drag queen. They always come after the drag
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Queens and the trans people. It's just so ridiculous.
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It's it's actually a Naples pride.
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When they released the statement, they pointed to the
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irony behind these individuals going ahead and saying that
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trans people are grooming trans people are infiltrating your
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bathroom and being creepy and perverted.
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And yet they will go ahead and fully, well thinking fully
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through this, go ahead and record video of people in the
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bathroom and then later post it and then not think that's creepy
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as hell. So.
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The thing is, is a lot of people, a lot of these people
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that talk about trans people that way.
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The problem with the argument that trans people are using
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bathrooms or whatever is it unless you really know trans
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people, then you really don't know what you're talking about.
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OK so cuz I've lived as a woman since I was 14 years old and I'm
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65. So I've been living as a woman
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for a very, very long time, and there's no way I could go in a
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men's room. There's just no way.
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No, it's just not. It's not well.
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Esme, if you, if you, if you were to go in the bathroom after
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me, I'd be like Esme, go to the other room.
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It's just embarrassing. It would be embarrassing.
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I, I, you know, I'm obviously shaped like a female.
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I look like a female. I walk like a female.
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I act like a female. I have no business in the men's
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room. I told you the story.
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I was at Disney. You know, those bathrooms at
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Disney are kind of weird. And I'm over at Disney where
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with my friends and accidentally I went into the men's room.
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I went into the wrong. I just didn't see the sign
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because those bathrooms are like weird.
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They're like Oval shaped, some of them.
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And I went around the wrong side.
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And boy, when I tell you if you'd heard the screams and the
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men inside that bathroom, but it's great.
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It looked like there was a robbery in progress.
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I was like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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I didn't know lady, go, go back and push, push.
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Like waving me away. They were all at the urinals or
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whatever. It was funny, but I thought to
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my I thought I told my friend that I was with.
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I said this is what the reaction would be if I went in a men's
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room anywhere. Apparently, according to and
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further into the story, a booking report said that
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detectives had already been concerned about him during the
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event after he allegedly tried to enter with a handgun before
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later returning returning with an AR15 style rifle.
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Oh my God, this guy was up to no good.
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Absolutely, they never are. These people are genuinely just
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there to cause as much harm to the community as possible.
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And breakdown the morale and just scare people.
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And, you know, it's just so sad. I'm so glad that they were able
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to get him. I'm so, so thankful for that.
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Oh, man, just that's just scary, you know, and, you know, we all
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need to be gone. You know, I, I hear it all the
18:56
time now. It's a weird thing to hear now
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that I never heard. I was a little kid.
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And that is make sure you watch your surroundings.
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Have you ever heard people say that?
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Oh. Absolutely.
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All the time. Check your surroundings, check
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your You know, when I was a little kid, I don't ever
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remember checking my surroundings.
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You just went out and did you went to the mall, you went to
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church. You did.
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Now you got to be looking for exits and you know, it's kind of
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scary. It just, it's heartbreaking.
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It's not kind of scary. It is scary.
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It's not it's not the way that we should be living.
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We shouldn't always have to have that like look over their
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shoulder, over your shoulder to see if somebody's behind you.
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But honestly, you know, what we're experiencing is what women
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have experienced for, you know, hundreds and thousands of years.
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Like literally, you know, the having to look over your
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shoulder, having to, you know, you know, tune your behavior to
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be specific ways. You know, this is something, and
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it's funny that, you know, we're now experiencing it as an LGBTQ
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community. But, you know, this isn't new.
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This isn't. But in general, this is not
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unique to just the LGBTQ plus. Exactly this.
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This phenomenon, because it is a phenomenon, it's been going on
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for over 50 years or more. This is a, it's a gun problem.
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It's a mental health problem. I mean, I wake up, there are
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people every day that pass laws. To, to keep someone like me from
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existing, of course I'm going to continue to exist, but they
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still do it. So for example, they pass
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bathroom laws, they pass, you know, whatever laws they want to
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pass. But I have never, ever felt the
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need to create retribution by hurting someone because of that.
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You know what I'm saying? I, I do, I, I'm a compassionate
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person. I just don't.
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I don't want to hurt anyone. Even more people, normal people,
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don't hate people because of their of one specific thing, of
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a trait that they can't handle. Those are people who are
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mentally ill and who are raised. Wrong.
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And also, there's a lot of good people out there that are not
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hateful. You know, there's a lot of good,
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wonderful, kind, compassionate people.
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You know, Americans for the most part, are really good people.
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I mean, there's bad ones in the bunch, obviously, and they, and
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those are the ones that get the headlines.
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But there's a lot of good people out there, kind people, loving
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people, compassionate people, empathetic people, you know, and
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that's what we need more of right now.
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God, we need it so badly. Oh, absolutely.
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Well, Miss Esme, we're going to when we come back, I'm hoping
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that our guests will be here. My fingers are crossed, but what
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else are we going to talk about after we come back from the
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news? So Mark Fuhrman, 24, he was
21:32
famous for the OJ Simpson trial. He was the lead detective.
21:38
He passed away. I'll tell you something about
21:40
him, which is kind of unique. Also, let me see what I was
21:45
like. Oh, I saw the movie Obsession.
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I saw the movie where everybody's been talking about
21:50
how scary it is and how terrifying it is.
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Well, I finally did see it last night and I'm going to I'm going
21:56
to give you my review on it. And also the CBS network is in a
22:01
free fall. It is now it is rated lower than
22:04
sub YouTube channels. I mean, literally 44 million
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watchers for the news. That's 4 million.
22:10
It's like 4 people for them. I mean, it's really, really bad.
22:14
And I'll tell you who quit this past Sunday from 60 Minutes.
22:18
A famous name. Well, I also got a Gulf War man
22:22
accused of killing his best friend over a fight over
22:25
something that is honestly a little bit trivial.
22:28
Elon Musk has lost his case against open AI.
22:31
The FDA is changing guidelines on vaping from in a in a Trump
22:37
pivot. And also Donald Trump Speaking
22:40
of says, I don't think about Americans financial situations
22:45
when it comes to the Iran negotiations.
22:48
But we got all that and more coming up after the break.
22:50
But first, let's go ahead and throw it over to Claire Leeson
22:52
from Project No labels for our big gay news.
22:54
Then over to Joanna Grasso for Joe on the go, our community
22:56
calendar. We'll be right back.
23:03
I'm Claire Leeson from Project Nolay Wilson.
23:05
This is your LGBTQ plus news from around the country and
23:08
right here in Tampa Bay in Florida from Watermark out news.
23:12
Equality Florida Action Pack announced May 8th that Joe
23:16
Saunders will serve as its first executive director.
23:19
Saunders most recently served as Equality Florida Senior
23:22
Political director and is one of Florida's first openly LGBTQ
23:26
plus state legislators. The Pack says his appointment
23:30
comes as it prepares an aggressive 2026 strategy to
23:33
elect pro equality candidates across the state.
23:36
It's priorities include breaking up Republican super majorities
23:40
in the Florida House and Senate, growing the number of LGBTQ plus
23:43
lawmakers in Tallahassee. Also from Equality Florida,
23:47
whole survivor and national LGBTQ plus advocate Brandon Wolf
23:51
has rejoined the organization as senior director of communication
23:54
strategy. Wolf has become one of the
23:56
country's most visible voices for for LGBTQ plus equality and
24:00
gun violence prevention since surviving the post tragedy.
24:04
He Co founded the Drew Project, testified before Congress and
24:07
later served as national press secretary for the Human Rights
24:10
Campaign. His return comes just weeks
24:13
before Orlando marks 10 years since the Pulse attack, and
24:16
Equality Florida says he will help shape the organization's
24:19
messaging during a critical time for LGBTQ plus Floridians.
24:24
In Orlando, from West to city, officials have unveiled updated
24:28
plans for the permanent memorial at the former Pulse nightclub
24:31
site. The design includes the Angel
24:34
Ellipse, A colonnade displaying the names of the 49 victims,
24:37
along with a reflecting pool where the dance floor once
24:40
stood. Plans include an obelisk marking
24:43
the date of the attack, rainbow glass panels and a visitor
24:47
pavilion. Construction is expected to
24:49
begin in September and be completed by September 2027.
24:53
In Sports News from ESPN, Jason Collins, the NBA's first openly
24:58
gay player, has died of brain cancer at Fourty 7.
25:01
Collins came out in a 2013 Sports Illustrated cover story,
25:06
becoming the first publicly gay athlete to play in one of North
25:09
America's four major men's professional sports leagues.
25:13
He retired in 2014 after a 13 year NBA career and later served
25:17
as a global ambassador for the sport.
25:19
And finally, in international news from the Washington Blade,
25:23
King Charles the Third said a transgender inclusive ban on
25:27
so-called conversion therapy is among the British government's
25:30
legislative priorities. The proposal would apply to
25:33
England and Wales and follows years of debate over whether
25:36
gender identity would be included.
25:38
Please remember to stay safe and treat yourself and others with
25:41
kindness. This has been your LGBTQ plus
25:43
news for the Big Gay radio show. I'm Claire Leeson on 88.5 WMNF
25:48
Canberra. Hey, hey Tampa Bay, it's Joanna
25:55
Grosso with Joe on the Go Tampa Bay, your weekly guide to what's
25:58
happening around the city. Here's what's coming up this
26:01
week. Starting on Thursday, May 21st,
26:04
St. Pete Pride in the Tampa Bay LGBT
26:07
Chamber are hosting Pride Connect at Florida Rama from
26:10
6:00 to 8:00 PM is a networking and community event inside one
26:13
of Saint Pete's most immersive art spaces, bringing together
26:16
local professionals, creatives and community members for an
26:19
evening of connection and interactive exhibits.
26:22
Then over Memorial Day Weekend on Monday, May 25th, a community
26:26
gathering honoring fallen service members from Mcdill Air
26:29
Force Base will take place at 1920 YVOR in Tampa.
26:33
The event is expecting to bring together veterans, local
26:35
leaders, and community members for an evening of remembrance
26:38
and support. And looking ahead to the end of
26:40
the month, Saint Pete Pride Kickoff Weekend takes place May
26:43
29th through the 31st with this year's theme Here Comes the Sun.
26:47
The weekend includes a street festival in the Grand Central
26:50
District, community events, entertainment and celebrations
26:52
leading into Pride season. For more info, behind the scenes
26:55
and weekly updates, follow along on Instagram at Joe on the Go
26:58
Tampa Bay. Have a great week, Tampa Bay,
27:00
and I'll see you out and about. Get social with us, Like us on
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Facebook. Just search for the big gay
27:14
radio show. Welcome back to the Big Gay
27:18
Radio Show. My name is Chris Gorman.
27:20
I'm your show Towing Kier, joined by the electric trans
27:23
queen of radio, Miss Esme Russell.
27:25
Oh, Christopher, what are we going to do to what, what are we
27:27
going to do with people? I so my dad used to say if
27:31
you're on time, you're late. Yeah, so my theatre teacher
27:37
actually taught me that is that if you, if you're not 15 minutes
27:40
early, you're late. You're late and I, you know, we
27:43
just. That's OK, It's no Tino Shay
27:45
anyways. It's no Tino Shay, but it's just
27:47
a little frustrating. I do want to go ahead and go
27:50
back to the guest that we had last week, M, who was an
27:54
absolute amazing person to go ahead and interview.
27:57
If you did not, if you did not check out our interview yet,
28:00
make sure you go ahead and do that.
28:01
It's on all streaming platforms under the big gay radio show.
28:05
But something that's really interesting about M is that she
28:08
actually is is autistic. She said that she had stage 1
28:12
autism, which honestly, I love the fact that she's embracing
28:17
her diagnosis and she actually goes ahead and, you know, is
28:21
proud of it. And you know, let me go ahead
28:23
and let me let's play the clip real quick.
28:28
I think being misunderstood, I have level 1 autism.
28:32
I was undiagnosed most of my life and felt very misunderstood
28:34
and just like I didn't fit and I wasn't being understood or heard
28:38
and the way that I usually process that was by creating.
28:42
Yeah. And so that, that that is just,
28:45
yeah. And she's talking about creating
28:47
music. When she's creating her music,
28:49
you know, she comes from a place of being misunderstood.
28:51
And I think that, you know, as two neurodivergent individuals,
28:54
I think that, you know, we both feel a element of creativity
28:58
through, you know, our non acceptance.
29:00
And and so I'm I'm glad that M is is around to to continue to.
29:05
By the awesome, by the way, I so much I discovered about her.
29:08
So as soon as I got on her page, I started snooping around like a
29:11
detective trying to look at, you know, photos of her and stuff
29:14
and wow, she you know, she's very beautiful with the makeup
29:17
on and all that the the theater makeup.
29:20
Boy is that a beautiful girl out of no makeup.
29:23
Like my, I was just like, I just couldn't believe it.
29:26
I was like, wow, you know, girls sometimes when they take off
29:28
all, all that makeup, they don't always sometimes they don't look
29:31
that pretty. You know what I mean?
29:32
Makeup does wonders, but she's a beautiful girl.
29:36
Like wowza. I was like, I was just shocked
29:39
at how pretty she was. It is actually right.
29:43
But yeah, so I but I liked her a lot.
29:46
I think she was very I loved her voice.
29:48
She has a beautiful voice, very pretty voice.
29:51
And her singing voice is also very beautiful.
29:55
So if you haven't heard her music yet, her name is MEMM.
29:59
If you haven't heard it yet, you're going to hear it soon.
30:01
Like I promise you, you will go ahead and you will fall in love
30:04
with this artist. Miss Esme.
30:06
What? What's some tea?
30:07
What's some topics? So Mark Fuhrman was the prime,
30:10
was the lead detective on one. Obviously at that time the was
30:14
the trial of the century and that was the OJ Simpson trial.
30:18
Chris, that was before your birth.
30:20
Yep. You hadn't even been born yet.
30:23
So yeah, at that time, the country was very divided
30:26
racially about the outcome of the trial.
30:29
Although over the years, many, many black people came to
30:33
realize not all but many did, that OJ was probably guilty, you
30:38
know, But at that time, it was a big divide between black people
30:41
and white people about his guilt or innocence.
30:44
But that's not really the thing, is it?
30:47
Mark Fuhrman died at 74 from throat cancer.
30:50
He he he got in trouble during the trial because he got caught
30:56
in a taped conversation using the N word.
31:00
And because he was investigating the case, it was kind of led to
31:07
believe that maybe his testimony was under the umbrella of his
31:13
racism. Do you see what I'm saying?
31:16
So the defense was able to use that against him.
31:19
It was very smart move on the defense part.
31:22
Just like the If it doesn't, if the glove doesn't fit, you must
31:25
have quit. Yeah, that was another great,
31:29
great. By the way, the glove did fit,
31:31
but it was so stiff from the blood that it was hard.
31:36
It was hard to put on. But that glove did fit him.
31:39
He just kept his hand in a certain position.
31:42
Later it was talked about in books and things like that.
31:44
But in any case, OJ did. I don't know.
31:48
I always say I don't know if he got away with it.
31:50
He became a pariah of society. Yeah, because honestly, there's
31:54
the there's the court of law and then there's court of public
31:56
opinion. Yes, and a public opinion of
31:58
him. They tanked.
32:00
It was because, I mean, he was like all over like different,
32:05
different news site or not news sites, different pop culture
32:08
things. So let me tell you how severe,
32:10
Chris, because it was before your time, but let me tell you
32:12
how unusual this trial was. This trial went on for 3-4
32:16
months. I forget how long, but the
32:19
unusual part is during the daytime, Monday through Friday,
32:22
when the trial was being aired, TV would stop.
32:26
There was no news. There was no back in those days
32:29
there were soap operas on all the channels.
32:31
All the soap operas were played late night, like a one in the
32:34
morning in order to allow us to sit through hours and hours of
32:38
trial. People were buying portable
32:41
phone TV's because this is before cell phones and taking
32:45
the TV's to work so that they could watch the trial at their
32:49
jobs. So jobs were banning the
32:51
televisions. I mean, people were obsessed
32:54
with this case. It seems like it's the first
32:56
modern day like phone situation where like you are just glued to
33:00
your glued to the screen. The day of the verdict being
33:04
read in open court. It was read about 1:30 in the
33:07
afternoon. Somewhere around there.
33:09
The day of the the entire country took a collective
33:14
breath. In fact, Oprah did a live
33:16
special on her TV show live as a verdict was being read with an
33:21
audience mix of black people and white people to see how
33:25
everybody reacted. So it was, yeah, it was when
33:28
they called it the trial of the Century.
33:30
It was the most documented, most watched, most everything trial
33:35
ever up until that point. I don't know if there's ever
33:37
been anything like it again. I don't know.
33:40
I don't know if any, you know, there wasn't even.
33:42
I don't even know if court TV existed back in those days.
33:45
I don't remember so well. It'll be 30, by the way. 30
33:49
years ago for those of you this 30 years ago.
33:53
Yeah. So do you want me to do my next
33:55
topic? Well, I got I got one, Trump
33:58
says. I don't care about Americans
34:00
financial situations in Iran negotiations.
34:03
President Trump said America's financial situation is not even
34:06
a little bit of a factor in his negotiations over Iran, saying
34:09
his only focus is preventing Iran from getting a nuclear
34:12
weapon. He made the comments while
34:14
leaving the White House for a trip to China as the war
34:16
involving Iran entered its 11th week.
34:19
He went even a little further than that.
34:22
He said, I don't even think about it now.
34:25
I don't know whoever's listening to me right now what your
34:28
financial situation is. But even wealthy people are
34:31
feeling the the pressure of this economy.
34:35
So imagine those that are middle class or poor, you know, that
34:38
are struggling. You know, people with large
34:40
families maybe were middle class when he came into office, but
34:43
now you're feeling like you're not middle class anymore.
34:45
I mean, the gasoline is almost $5.
34:48
It's nearing $5 a gallon here in Florida.
34:52
So I don't know. I don't, I don't.
34:55
I understand that he has things that he needs, that he feels he
34:58
needs to do. By the way, these nuclear
35:01
weapons that he's talking about, he said a year ago that he had
35:05
taken care of that. Now he's saying that they're
35:07
there again. So magically, they have
35:09
reappeared. But whatever's going on with the
35:14
financial aspect of this country as the president of the United
35:18
States, it should be at the top of his list of something that he
35:23
should be thinking about. Because we need our money to
35:27
survive. And if it's not going far
35:30
enough, that's a big problem. So I, I'm, I'm saddened, I'm
35:36
very saddened to hear that he doesn't care about that.
35:40
He doesn't that, well, it's not that he doesn't care.
35:42
He said he doesn't even think about it.
35:43
It's not a concern for him. Well, it should be a concern.
35:47
And the midterms are coming, and I'm telling you, he's going to
35:51
wish he'd said that differently. Oh yeah.
35:53
Well, honestly, you know, I think that he knows that he's
35:57
going to lose midterms at this point.
35:59
I feel like, you know, if in every single, well, I mean, just
36:03
historically, you know, the president usually loses in the
36:06
midterms. They usually lose a lot of
36:08
seats. Yeah, but this is really.
36:09
But it's going to. Be a massive.
36:12
Everything they said about Biden, you know that Biden, you
36:15
know Biden by I, I keep you. If Biden were to do even half of
36:19
this, Can you imagine Biden saying, I don't worry about the
36:22
economy. I'm not even thinking about oh.
36:24
Fox News would be running with that all the all the time.
36:26
I mean it. Would Yeah.
36:27
It would be a scandal. You know, listen, we I'm not
36:31
saying that during the Biden administration things were
36:33
perfect. They never are.
36:35
But it wasn't this bad. This is really bad.
36:38
This is really bad. Then honestly, I, I, we were
36:40
very critical of, of Biden, especially when he was going out
36:43
and doing a bunch of different, very mentally, not intellectual,
36:51
especially during the debate. We were very hypercritical.
36:54
This is not Biden. This is not Bidens level of
36:57
mental deterioration. Do you know how many videos
37:00
there are of Trump asleep at meetings, At cabinet meetings?
37:06
Literally A. He literally called him Sleepy
37:08
Joe for years and now Trump and now Trump is Dozy Trump.
37:13
No, he's Dozy Dawn. Dozy Dawn.
37:16
Oh, oh, so like that. Was so funny, 'cause he just
37:22
dozy dawn dozes off, he dozes off.
37:26
But I mean it's it's very embarrassing.
37:28
The other day he was in a meeting and they were visited
37:30
and he would the cameras were on him.
37:33
And he always used to say I would never fall asleep on
37:36
camera. He's done it so many times, I've
37:38
lost count. You know, it's, it's a big deal
37:42
when your president is almost, he's going to be 80 years old.
37:45
I mean, I've fallen asleep in a, in, in class, in meetings and
37:48
stuff like that, but I'm not the president.
37:50
You're not the. President in a cabinet meeting
37:53
talking about serious things that affect people's lives.
37:56
What are you doing asleep? It's just crazy.
38:00
It's, it's embarrassing. I mean, it's, you got to realize
38:03
anything that goes on television is on the world stage.
38:05
So I mean, we're talking about it, but it's being talked about
38:08
all around the world, you know? Yep.
38:11
Did you see how President Ching in China gave him a bag of seeds
38:16
as a gift? No, I didn't.
38:18
Chinese roses, really. He gave him a bag of Chinese
38:22
roses, I guess. Like to make a hint.
38:24
You all them roses you you ripped out of the White House
38:28
and cover it up with and you threw that cement over there.
38:31
Why don't you replant those roses?
38:33
But he gave him a literally a bag of silk, a bag like a silk
38:37
bag with roses in it, with the seeds, rose seeds in.
38:39
It that's crazy. I it was a dig.
38:41
Let's just be honest. That was a dig.
38:43
That was a dig. That was a definite dig.
38:45
Yeah, Yes. And he also said that our
38:47
country, our country was, was falling apart, that our system
38:53
of government was falling apart. He was saying that it just kind
38:56
of made me sad because, well. I'm JD Vance has been going on
38:59
and saying that you got to vote out the people in Washington,
39:02
Babe, you're in Washington. You are Washington.
39:04
You are Washington. You are the swamp.
39:06
So here's the problem. OK, so you got rid of all the
39:09
Democrats that the House now is belongs to Republicans, The
39:14
Senate belongs to Republicans, The the, what is it?
39:20
The Supreme Court belongs to Republicans and your president
39:24
is a Republican. So basically you're in full
39:27
control of the US government. So if things are bad, who are we
39:31
going to blame? Republicans.
39:32
Republicans. Well, not only that, Republicans
39:34
are also part of the Supreme Court.
39:36
Yeah, they have a massive majority in the.
39:37
Supreme Court. The Supreme Court.
39:39
Oh, did you? I'm sorry, I missed that.
39:40
Yeah, yes, yeah. I was looking at the at the, at
39:42
the. No, I was looking at the cameras
39:44
just to see if our our guest was still.
39:45
Yeah, so. So listen, don't blame us
39:47
because the other day said this is what we're going through this
39:49
because of Biden. This is not Bidens fault.
39:51
Biden hasn't been a president for almost 2 years.
39:54
Leave Biden alone. Biden dealing with his cancer,
39:56
he's not. Biden is not the president.
39:58
None of this is Bidens fault. What we're experiencing right
40:01
now is. Is is it belongs to the Trump
40:04
administration? Oh.
40:05
Absolutely. Well, Speaking of the Trump
40:07
administration, good news for our nicotine heads.
40:10
The FDA is loosening restrictions on vaping products,
40:13
including allowing some unauthorized products to stay on
40:16
the market while applications are reviewed.
40:18
The FDA recently approved 4 flavored vaping products and
40:22
said it plans to focus enforcement on only certain
40:24
products instead of removing all unauthorized vapes.
40:27
Good for, good for for nicotine heads, bad for your health.
40:32
Yeah, but I don't know this. So on if somebody.
40:36
'S making money off of this. So fun fact about me is that,
40:41
you know, obviously I was in high school in 2018 and that's,
40:45
you know, around the time where jewels and all that fun stuff
40:48
were, were very prevalent. And I, I, I would go ahead and I
40:52
would hit the nicotine vapes. I don't it was not because of
40:56
the flavor. I'll just tell you right now, I
41:00
was vaping jewels and stuff like that.
41:02
It would have been menthol. It would have been, you know,
41:06
mango, Whatever it was, I wasn't doing it because of the flavor.
41:12
I was doing it because it made me feel good.
41:14
It just like a lot of other nicotine heads it, it makes
41:17
people feel a a certain type of way.
41:20
I mean, people don't go ahead and put their health at risk
41:22
just because it tastes good. And everybody who goes ahead and
41:27
said, oh, but but vaping is so much cleaner.
41:30
Nobody actually, if you believed that you were stupid.
41:34
Come on. Like, let's let's be real.
41:36
Oh, this giant, the the liquid chemicals are so much better
41:41
than the plant chemicals. No.
41:43
Come on, do people vape marijuana?
41:46
Oh yeah, people. So I do.
41:48
I have, I have one in my pocket right now.
41:50
Literally in my pocket. Yeah, so they there's a ton of
41:55
different ones, but right now one of the ones that I go ahead
41:58
and I do is like all in ones. So like it actually like goes
42:02
ahead and like you can you just throw it away after you're done.
42:06
But yeah, no, marijuana is. Definitely.
42:08
I've never smelled it ever on you.
42:10
I've never smelled it in your car.
42:11
I've never smelled it anywhere. Are you doing it?
42:13
What are you doing? In my car.
42:14
I've never smelled marijuana in your car.
42:16
Ever. That's because I'm a good
42:18
smoker, no? Never.
42:20
So honestly, my parents did not like it when I smoked weed and
42:26
so I learned very quickly how to not make my car smell like weed.
42:31
Smelled and I could have a very good nose for things like that
42:36
yeah I'm not a big pot smoker I'm not against it if people
42:39
want to smoke it, I'm. Well, I got my medical card.
42:41
I've had my medical card since I was, I think a couple months
42:45
before my 19th birthday is when I got it.
42:47
But I do think for medical reasons, I think it does work.
42:49
I know that people that have cancer and they smoke it, it's
42:52
it alleviates cancer symptoms, especially the symptoms of the.
42:57
What do you call that the the medic, the treatment for the
43:01
cancer? Chemo.
43:02
The chemotherapy, correct? And the radiation as well.
43:05
So yeah, so I'm, so I'm, I'm OK for all those reasons and it,
43:09
and if it helps you to not feel stressed out or whatever, then
43:13
I'm also for that. I I'll tell you this, I've known
43:16
people that drink a lot and people that smoke pot a lot.
43:18
I've never seen anybody smoke pot and want to go hurt people
43:22
or get into a fight or anything like that.
43:25
But people that drink alcohol, they do that all the time, you
43:28
know, I mean, it's just, it's just a reality that I've
43:31
experienced that, you know, my friends that do have smoked pot,
43:35
that I've known them, they basically they just want to eat
43:37
and sleep. Yeah, I mean, so for me, you
43:41
know, I, I, I have ADHD, anxiety, neurodivergence, all
43:45
that fun stuff. But also the other, you know,
43:48
thing that I have been using medical marijuana for has been
43:51
eating more because obviously I'm very skinny.
43:54
I don't usually eat as much. So does it help?
43:57
It does, yeah. It gets me, it gets me the
43:59
munchies so that I can continue to eat a little bit better.
44:03
But yeah, no, I, I, I think that, you know, we, we should
44:06
expand medical marijuana even more.
44:09
So I think that and even the Trump administration, I believe,
44:12
has gone ahead and done some reclassifications of, of
44:15
marijuana. And so I I think.
44:18
That I don't think people should be serving long prison sentences
44:20
for marijuana. I think that's ridiculous.
44:24
It's just not the same kind of drug as a cocaine or a
44:28
methamphetamines or whatever. I just just not the same.
44:31
You know, like I said, I it's such a non violent.
44:35
I've never seen people smoking pot want to hurt somebody, you
44:38
know, but I've seen a lot of people hurt Pete.
44:40
I've known people that have hurt others with alcohol, you know,
44:44
and it's alcohol is totally legal.
44:46
People do it everyday. So a Gulfport man is accused of
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killing his best friend after fighting over vaping inside.
44:56
Speaking of vaping, police say Gulfport man by the name of
45:00
Alicia or excuse me, Sean Henick Hynek.
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What is? Oh wait, well, I'm reading my
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wrong notes. Anyways.
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A Gulfport man has been arrested charged with second degree
45:13
murder because they argued over vaping Inside basically is the
45:18
story. So the guy was vaping inside,
45:21
the other guy didn't like it. Yep.
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And so he. Inside the house.
45:26
Inside the house. OK.
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Were they roommates? Yes, they were roommates and
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allegedly they shot him in the in the head.
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So yeah, no, it was So Alicia Landry called 911 just after
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5:00 AM on April 17th, telling dispatcher that his best friend
45:42
was shot in the garage. But but when investigators came
45:46
by, they found that the the body had already been in rigor mortis
45:51
and that they were that it it was that.
45:55
They can fool the police. I always wonder about stuff like
45:59
that. Even if you move the body
46:01
slightly or anything, they're going to find out you can't.
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These people that that's why they're professionals at their
46:07
jobs. You know, just, it's just, I
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just don't get it. I don't get it.
46:12
I I, So it's very bizarre to me that you would let something
46:18
like vaping ruin a friendship and just in general, like I
46:23
wouldn't, I wouldn't let, I wouldn't let my friend get mad
46:26
at me because I vaped inside. So my guess So my guess is that
46:29
we're having problems about other stuff.
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Most likely. OK.
46:32
And this was like, it's like when you're in a married, a
46:35
married couple and they'll say to me or anybody, they'll say,
46:38
oh, you're fighting this morning about who was going to make the
46:40
coffee. No, you weren't fighting about
46:42
that. That's just that's just part of
46:44
the problem. You're fighting about other
46:46
stuff. You better go look at this
46:47
picture. You better step away from the
46:49
photo for a minute and look deeply at this photo because you
46:51
weren't just fighting about who was going to make the coffee.
46:53
I really believe that that was what triggered him.
46:56
But it was other stuff, you know what I'm saying?
46:59
Other stuff going on in that house.
47:01
But man, that's just not the way to handle things because that's
47:05
permanent. You killed somebody, that's
47:07
permanent. Yeah, there's no coming back
47:09
from that. Yeah, the medical examiner ruled
47:11
the death of homicide, saying the gunshot entered the back of
47:15
of the victim's head and traveled upwards and was fired
47:18
from at least 6 inches away. And he said that the the
47:22
perpetrator said that the guy shot himself.
47:25
Oh yeah, no, we got to do better, folks.
47:28
Yeah, so we. Got to do better.
47:31
I, I want to go ahead and do a little a special shout out.
47:34
We just got our guest coming into the studio.
47:37
Welcome into the studio. Raquel Blue.
47:39
Thank you so much for for joining us.
47:42
We're going to talk a lot more with you on the after show just
47:46
because obviously you had a little bit of issues with your
47:48
Uber and everything like that. Woman, I'm really going to put
47:51
some Buddha water. I got a prize.
47:54
I got my my witch doctor, my Cuban witch doctor.
47:57
He's on vacation right now in the Bahamas, but as soon as he
48:00
gets back, I am putting your name in the voodoo pod.
48:05
Honestly all I can think of is a is a certain individual who has
48:12
been posting that he has been cursed and I'd sent you a
48:14
message about that as may and. He said before we go, I got to
48:17
tell you, Speaking of cursed, what's up?
48:19
I got to tell you about this movie obsession.
48:22
So I saw it yesterday. I guess that's why I got voodoo
48:26
on my mind. But this movie is so good.
48:29
It is I really did enjoy it. It it has a kind of a slow start
48:33
to it, but it gets really crazy. All I'm going to say that the
48:37
guy likes girl, but the girl's not interested in the guy.
48:41
So he puts a magic spell on her, but he gets this emulator
48:45
something at a store and he. But The thing is that it says on
48:48
the box, be careful what you wish for.
48:52
Because you know what, in life, if you've ever heard somebody
48:54
say that be careful what you wish for.
48:57
You just may get it. Well, he got it.
49:00
Oh, she fell in love with him, all right, to the point that she
49:03
wanted nothing else. She didn't want nobody else.
49:06
Her life was him. And at first it was cute and
49:09
then turned ugly. And it's just a great movie if
49:12
you like chills and thrills and jumping out of your seat.
49:15
And it's a little bit past its gory moments.
49:19
Yeah, this is a great movie. It's called Obsession, and it's
49:21
playing in theaters now. Well, I got one more story that
49:24
is going to be real quick. Residents in a northwest Atlanta
49:27
neighborhood have said that a large number of empty way most
49:31
self driving cars have been circling their residential
49:34
streets and cul de sacs for weeks.
49:37
Some neighbors told local station WSBTV they've counted
49:41
dozens of Waymo vehicles passing through during busy morning
49:44
hours, with one resident saying about 50 cars come through in a
49:47
single hour. Residents say the the cars often
49:50
Dr. loops in the neighborhood even when they're not carrying
49:54
passengers. This is a this is definitely
49:57
going to be something that we're going to be seeing a lot more,
50:01
especially in, you know, Tampa as we go ahead and get these
50:04
self driving vehicles because where are the self driving
50:07
vehicles going to go when they're waiting for passengers?
50:09
They're going to end up in residential neighborhoods.
50:11
Let me tell you about all this self driving and self anything.
50:14
This is all going to wrap up real quickly when somebody dies
50:21
when somebody gets hit by a car. I disagree, child.
50:24
Or an old lady grandma crossing the street with her groceries.
50:27
Well. That's already happened.
50:29
It's already happened. So I, I honestly, I disagree
50:31
because I think that the illusion of progress because
50:35
people want to have want to be driven by robots or some random
50:40
reason. I don't really know why, but
50:43
this is progress to some people. I don't.
50:47
I don't like the idea of self driving vehicles.
50:50
I just don't. I don't like them.
50:51
I don't think I would want to be in a car where there's no
50:54
driver. I'm not ready for that yet.
50:56
No, you know what I mean? I just, I'm just not ready for
50:59
that yet. I did do Uber once as a driver.
51:02
I've, I was an Uber driver for a little bit of time and you know,
51:05
something funny is that people are very bold in the back of an
51:08
Uber. And there were multiple times
51:12
where I would tell people, hey, do not have sex in my car, do
51:16
not, do not do illicit activities in the back of my in
51:23
the back of my car. So I think that the self driving
51:25
the, the, that's going to be the other the issue.
51:29
You're going to go ahead and enter into one of those self
51:31
driving vehicles and there's going to be somebody else's
51:33
splooge on the car. Think about that.
51:35
Listen, do we have a minute? We got a minute.
51:37
So CBS is in a free fall, and you know that Anderson Cooper
51:40
quit on Sunday. Really.
51:42
He is no longer on 60 Minutes? Yeah, Anderson Cooper leaves 60
51:46
Minutes. Yeah, 60 Minutes has gone Fox
51:49
News type where you cannot, you know, they're just, it's not
51:52
really real news. It's more entertainment stuff.
51:55
So sadly, goodbye CBS News. It looks like it's not going to
51:58
not doing well. If I remember correctly, they
52:00
were very, they're trying to, you know, pedal to the Trump
52:03
administration. That's exactly correct, yeah.
52:05
So it would make sense. It would make sense.
52:07
But anyways, what are we going to talk about on the after show
52:10
other than our amazing interview with the amazing Raquel Blue of.
52:14
I went through all my topics, so you're the one with the topic.
52:18
All right, well, an annoying Jingle has been permanently
52:21
banned from Airways as California ends the strategy of
52:25
deception. We also got pop star Shakira
52:31
acquitted in Spanish tax fraud case.
52:34
She just with that one for years.
52:36
And also they, they Florida Wildlife Conservation is not
52:42
going to be able to do enforcement at Hubbard's Marina
52:46
because of the recent changes banning or, excuse me, not
52:51
allowing for three to three or seven day fishing permits.
52:56
And then I also got televangelist James Robinson,
53:00
Life Outreach founder, dead. Honestly, that's, that's
53:03
probably all we're going to say about it.
53:05
Just dead. He's dead.
53:09
He's dead. You know, dead.
53:11
Yeah, and then Keith Hernandez makes an unfortunate error about
53:16
Jazz Chisholm Junior during the New York broadcast.
53:20
You're not really mad at him about it, but it is kind of
53:22
naughty what he said. It'll be easier to talk about
53:25
what he said on the after show because what he said involves
53:27
something sexual. It is very, very.
53:30
Very sexual, yeah. And I don't want to say it on
53:33
the show. Well, we'll get in trouble a
53:37
little. Bit yeah, we'll get in trouble.
53:38
Yeah, well, Dion, Andre from Brandon sent us a message saying
53:42
that that the the whole, you know, splooging situation is
53:47
definitely why they quit ride sharing.
53:48
And that makes sense. That makes sense.
53:50
But we've got all that and more coming up on the after show.
53:54
Like I said, we will also be talking with Robert Rigsby or
53:57
Raquel Blue from Roca Productions giving all all the
54:01
tea about closet ball and all the fun things that we go ahead
54:03
and talk about on the after show.
54:06
But Esme, do you have any last minute advice for people out
54:09
there? So, you know, I say, I think
54:10
I've been saying it every week and I'm probably going to say it
54:12
a million times. Please check your voter
54:14
registration. If you're planning on voting in
54:16
November, which you should, every vote counts.
54:19
If your vote didn't count, they wouldn't work so hard to take
54:22
your right to vote away from you.
54:23
And check out our extremely exclusive interview with the
54:27
amazing artist M on Spotify, Apple Podcast, or wherever you
54:30
get your streaming stuff. Also, don't forget, don't miss
54:33
the After Show at 5:00 PM on all streaming platforms.
54:37
We hope you have a wonderful rest of your day.
54:38
Thank you so much for listening. Have a great rest or a great
54:40
one. Bye.
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This has been the big gay radio show on 88.5 WMNF Tampa.
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