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Can We Address the Lavender Elephant in the Room? · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: Can we address the lavender elephant in the room. It's
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  Speaker 1: one more thing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm one more thing, but first, and I should have
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  Speaker 2: dung into this more.
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  Speaker 3: I was hoping there's more information.
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  Speaker 2: But during the show we were talking about the ultra
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  Speaker 2: rich now have these unbelievably lavish security systems in their
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  Speaker 2: homes and safe rooms and army corps of engineer grade
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  Speaker 2: filtration systems for their safe rooms. And the one guy
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  Speaker 2: who had eight swimming pools, I think he had the
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  Speaker 2: moat or was no, it was the other guy like
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  Speaker 2: in Scottsdale, who had spiky orange trees, steel gates, a moat,
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  Speaker 2: and in a two thousand pound front door with I
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  Speaker 2: believe it was thirteen dead bolts.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you're like under.
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  Speaker 2: Siege if you're that well equipped, or I guess you
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  Speaker 2: have so much.
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  Speaker 3: Money it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: But oh you're I think it matters. I think it
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  Speaker 1: makes you paranoid, A paranoid lunatic. You have a two
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  Speaker 1: ton door unless unless you're Maduro, who are you protecting
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  Speaker 1: yourself against?
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  Speaker 3: And it didn't do him much good.
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  Speaker 2: But the other aspect of it that I came across,
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  Speaker 2: and I should have dug more into this but maybe
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  Speaker 2: it will is uh, sooner or later. You gotta leave
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  Speaker 2: your fortress, right, So what are you driving?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 2: I suggest a Arkansas company that retrofits land rover defenders
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  Speaker 2: with electrified door handles. Yes, so somebody tries to carjack
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  Speaker 2: he or whatever you zapple God, I want that right right.
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  Speaker 2: Steel panels and side view mirrors that shoot pepper spray.
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  Speaker 1: I want all those things.
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  Speaker 3: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see, Oh, Helderberg, there it is there. Bellatrick model
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  Speaker 2: which starts the stripped down version is six hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty eight grand. Also has a smoke screen function to
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  Speaker 2: obscure the vehicles. Whereabouts if you need to get lost
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  Speaker 2: in a hurry.
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  Speaker 3: James Bob, Yeah or bow.
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  Speaker 2: So your base price is six hundred and fifty eight
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars. That's a house some places, most places, most places? Uh,
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  Speaker 2: helder Berg, Bella Tricks and after Bellatrix Las Strange from
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  Speaker 2: the Harry Potter.
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  Speaker 1: But again, unless girl or a rapper, I don't understand
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  Speaker 1: why you need that. What are you picturing happening in
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  Speaker 1: the world?
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  Speaker 2: Socialist Venezuelan rappers definitely need this.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, what's THEX mileage?
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  Speaker 1: How's the stereo?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, that's crazy. Oh you got a vast
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  Speaker 3: color palette.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I mean, you don't want to spend
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  Speaker 2: seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars on a James Bond
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  Speaker 2: death car and have it in some stupid color.
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  Speaker 1: Your choices are white and blue. Come on, yeah, week,
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  Speaker 1: So this is not new ground that I'm wanting to
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  Speaker 1: tread upon. It's actually tired conversation. But it struck me
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  Speaker 1: anew on Friday night as watching the quad fraud fall
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  Speaker 1: on his ass in the Olympics. So the world's greatest
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  Speaker 1: figure skater is out there and he has a panic
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  Speaker 1: attack or something and does really poorly and finish his eighth.
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  Speaker 1: But leading up to that, I ended up watching a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the men's figure skating, including the commentary by
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  Speaker 1: Who's the dudeho does commentary?
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  Speaker 2: Johnny Weird Johnny Weir who formerly known as Johnny Weird
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  Speaker 2: by some folks now.
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  Speaker 1: And my son had a different rhyming name for that
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  Speaker 1: is not appropriate. But oh boy, what is going on
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  Speaker 1: with the whole figure skating thing with the the like
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  Speaker 1: see through these dudes, these see through gloves with sequins
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  Speaker 1: on them and everything like that. That non't want to
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  Speaker 1: be as pretty as possible, no guy would ever wear
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  Speaker 1: and the glitter on their face and the sashes and
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  Speaker 1: the eyeliner, and and then after.
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  Speaker 3: So, how did it culturally?
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  Speaker 1: How did it come to be that they're some of
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  Speaker 1: the greatest athletes in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're unbelievably strong and flexible and then skilled and yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All that stuff and flamboyant.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, it's got to be a cultural thing.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, because the rewards are awesome.
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  Speaker 1: It does have to be a cultural thing. How come
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  Speaker 1: it's never been discussed? And I don't mean it in
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  Speaker 1: a mocking dismissive way. Really, it just doesn't seem kind
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  Speaker 1: of odd that you have one sport and it could
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  Speaker 1: just as easily be men's gymnastics. Is not that way
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  Speaker 1: at all. No, and it's similar, really strong, flexible, good
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  Speaker 1: balance athletes. Why did we carve out this section where
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  Speaker 1: if you're I assume a gay man and like a
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  Speaker 1: flamboyantly gay man, and you're athletic, you do ice skating.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for the record, my admiration for like Johnny Weir
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  Speaker 2: as an athlete isn't an iota di diminished by the
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  Speaker 2: fact that he prefers the company of men.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, that's is it that although lots of men
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  Speaker 1: prefer the company of men, as we've talked about over
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  Speaker 1: the many years, who don't wear sequins and put glitter
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  Speaker 1: on an eyeliner and sachet around, that's a certain specific
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  Speaker 1: kind of guy.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, yeah, absolutely after me.
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  Speaker 1: So, I was watching some of the competitors from other
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  Speaker 1: countries too, and then come off the ice and they're
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  Speaker 1: sitting there and they're just their lower lip quivering, waiting
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  Speaker 1: for the score to come in. And somebody hands them
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  Speaker 1: teddy bears and they kissed them, and then they hold
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  Speaker 1: their teddy bears up to their face and make this
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  Speaker 1: scrunchy face, and they hold their teddy bears waiting for
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  Speaker 1: the and you're like a twenty year old athletic dude
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  Speaker 1: holding a teddy bear, crying.
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  Speaker 3: What is this? How did this happen culturally?
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  Speaker 2: Was there some great innovator or two that were maybe
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  Speaker 2: it was Johnny wear himself flamboyant and very girlish, yet athletic,
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  Speaker 2: and all the effeminate boys of America.
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  Speaker 3: Stood up and took notice or sat up and took notice.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean because it's virtually well is that true? As
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  Speaker 2: I watched, like I watched the short program that that
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  Speaker 2: our boy lost to the Japanese guy, and it appeared
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  Speaker 2: to be overwhelmingly.
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  Speaker 3: Gay fellows. I mean, it app here to be.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that they're gay, but they're very flamboyant, effeminate.
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  Speaker 3: Flamboyantly effeminate. Yeah, why don't I just say that? And
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  Speaker 3: and it's it's mysterious.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's a certain body type excels at figure skating.
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  Speaker 3: Would that body type is more commonly seen among I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: There's there is an explanation for it, whether it's cultural, physical,
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  Speaker 2: or the both. And I realized this is incredibly thin.
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  Speaker 2: Nice to skate on, Haw haw haw, But it's an
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  Speaker 2: interesting sociological It's like all big hairy guys were or
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  Speaker 2: pistol shooters or something like that. I mean, it was
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  Speaker 2: like exclusively big mountain men looking guys.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have any guests on this skatie.
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  Speaker 3: The you also prefer the company of men?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, right, But you know what, I've had friends that
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  Speaker 4: have Oh god, I can't say this that I've have
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  Speaker 4: dated the effeminate guy who is straight.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they say they are. Okay, See they the efeminine
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  Speaker 1: guys you think were gay, ye're dating you now we're
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  Speaker 1: dating my friend.
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  Speaker 3: And I'd go.
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  Speaker 4: Because I've also known people who are gay that were
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  Speaker 4: quote unquote straight for a long time because they were
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  Speaker 4: afraid of you know whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, well I actually don't care about the sexuality
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  Speaker 1: part of it, but it is clear that it's flamboyantly effeminate.
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  Speaker 1: Is very popular among men's figure skating, and I just
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  Speaker 1: wondered how come it's never been addressed, and again not
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  Speaker 1: in a mocking mean way, just like, explain it to me.
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  Speaker 3: How did this happen? Why?
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  Speaker 1: And would it be okay? If you're like a you're
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  Speaker 1: like an you know, you're built like an NHL hockey player,
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  Speaker 1: you're just a really good skater and you came along,
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  Speaker 1: would you be shunned? Would you be welcome at most practices?
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  Speaker 1: Would people talk about you behind your back? Would it
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  Speaker 1: be uncool to I just wonder nobody's been like that.
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  Speaker 2: Well in your skating, UNI was just like some really
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  Speaker 2: good asthlete where something and not fairy princess.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it seems to be very popular.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I really don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder how come this hasn't been discussed more. I
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  Speaker 1: guess because it sounds bigoted or something, but.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah, it's it's the same thing as anything
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  Speaker 2: racial is racist, which is not true. But everybody's cowed
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  Speaker 2: into how we can't even don't even say the word,
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  Speaker 2: we can't even talk about it.
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  Speaker 3: It seems silly to me.
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  Speaker 2: Again, my respect for you know, whether it's Iliammelanin or
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  Speaker 2: who spends a hell of a long time at the hairdresser.
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  Speaker 2: But he's a professional performer, so you know whatever. But
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  Speaker 2: my respect for him or Johnny where his athletes is complete.
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  Speaker 2: I have nothing but admiration for them. The incredible hard
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  Speaker 2: work it takes to get to the level are at,
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  Speaker 2: the self discipline, to sacrifice, the mental concentration. It's awesome,
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing. So why are you all dressed like fairy princesses?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that's illegitimate or hateful because I don't
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  Speaker 2: hate it. Well, I got some people I hate.
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  Speaker 1: I'd be happy to give you the list you do
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  Speaker 1: you need to to score well? Is that it's so
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  Speaker 1: ingrained into the competition that if you came out there
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  Speaker 1: and like, you know, I wear kind of regular ath
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  Speaker 1: leisure outfits. And I'm you know, I don't put any
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  Speaker 1: glitter on my face ever. I never have had glitter
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  Speaker 1: on my face of my wife. Would you be would
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  Speaker 1: you score poorly?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I play enough golf to know that your young
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  Speaker 2: golf studs, not tour guys, but young studs. They wear tight,
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  Speaker 2: disturbingly short shorts, and because they want everybody to know
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  Speaker 2: what a stud they are there, their golf shirts are
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  Speaker 2: fairly tight as well.
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  Speaker 3: You could just like that and.
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  Speaker 2: Figure skate, sure, but you never see anybody dressed as
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  Speaker 2: you know, you know, a studley golfer on the ice.
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  Speaker 3: It's always a fairy prince.
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  Speaker 1: The whole clutching a teddy bear, lower lip quivering, waiting
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  Speaker 1: for your score is not the way everybody acts.
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  Speaker 3: Ski racers don't do that.
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  Speaker 1: No, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: All kinds of gay, straight or whatever, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a they're professional dancers with astonishing levels of
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  Speaker 2: athletic ability.
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  Speaker 1: And lots of eyeliner and glitter.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I was going to leave that out for the moment, but.
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  Speaker 2: I would say the cliche that gay men in general
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  Speaker 2: are better dancers on average and straight men.
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  Speaker 3: It probably exists for a reason.
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  Speaker 1: But again, why doesn't it apply to like gymnastics.
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  Speaker 3: I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I honestly don't. There might be a
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  Speaker 2: lot of gay gymnasts. They all just dress in the
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  Speaker 2: same uni, so you don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they don't put glitter on their faces.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe they want to. But again that gets to the
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  Speaker 3: question of a cultural norm. Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't watched that much You're skating in a long time,
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  Speaker 1: and it was just that they were they were like
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  Speaker 1: it was so monochromatic. I mean, they are all very
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  Speaker 1: similar hairstyles, amount of glitter and makeup and lower lip quivering,
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  Speaker 1: holding teddy bears. I mean, now a boy, the quivering
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  Speaker 1: and the teddy bear really bothered you. Well, it was
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  Speaker 1: just some days a grown man needs a teddy bear.
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  Speaker 3: Who do you know who?
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  Speaker 1: Name the twenty two year old man you know who
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  Speaker 1: holds a teddy bear with their lower lip quivering.
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  Speaker 3: I just can't help you, really, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: So a second ago, I almost used the term athleticism,
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  Speaker 2: but I stopped myself because I hate that term. But
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  Speaker 2: I don't hate it as much as I hate a
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  Speaker 2: meaningless word. You will hear fifty times watching football fifty
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  Speaker 2: times watching a basketball game, and and nobody has yet
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  Speaker 2: to define it.
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  Speaker 3: For me, it is a.
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  Speaker 2: Meaningless effing word used by lunkhead sports announcers. That word
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  Speaker 2: is downhill when he gets the ball and really runs downhill.
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  Speaker 2: Tell you it's tough to stop all downhill to the hoop?
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean straight ahead? We have words for
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  Speaker 2: that already. You don't need to invent terms to make
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  Speaker 2: yourself sound smart. All right, somebody can define the word
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  Speaker 2: downhill in sports. Please feel free.
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  Speaker 1: Boy, uh finish with this. NBC. They really got put
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  Speaker 1: in a rough position because they built such a package
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  Speaker 1: around because they knew they were gonna have so many
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  Speaker 1: eyeballs for Quad God's skate on Friday Night, and they
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  Speaker 1: built his package in nail, all of his records and
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  Speaker 1: his history and how he's the best ever and just I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean just interviewing childhood friends.
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  Speaker 1: The build up was tremendous. And then like immediately he
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  Speaker 1: failed and they were like, oh, that's stuff we said earlier.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know what, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Should we go ahead and run it? And one I
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  Speaker 3: don't know, No, no, we're not gonna run it.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry about that, whole is just a different sort of
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  Speaker 1: human being. I guess he's just a regular human being.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, but as.
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  Speaker 2: We discussed, he completely manned up afterwards, said, hey, I choked,
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  Speaker 2: I got nervous.
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  Speaker 3: It was just crazy. I can't believe it happened. But
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  Speaker 3: that's all on me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I bet it was the nickname. There's just
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  Speaker 1: too much pressure. Well, just all of a sudden, oh
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  Speaker 1: quad God, I'd never thought about that before.
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  Speaker 3: God. Yeah, I'm comparing myself to a god.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the hubrisk, What have I done.
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  Speaker 1: It was a lot like when the Summer Olympics were
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  Speaker 1: around and the Australian breakdancer.
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  Speaker 3: She was not really a breakdancer, but she was a
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  Speaker 3: just art. She was a performance artist.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I guess that's it.