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The Big Gay After Show: May 12th, 2026 - Child Support Justice · The Big Gay Radio Show

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Rules, no limits, just us. Recorded from the WM and F
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studios in Tampa. Welcome to the big Gay After
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show. Welcome to the Big Gay After
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show. My name is Chris Gorman.
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I'm your show twink here, joined by the vivacious Vince Wagon,
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Esme Russell, the trans queen of Radio, and Leo Anderson from the
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Queer Asian Museum. Welcome into the studio,
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everybody. Hi, Hola.
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Hola. Hola.
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Hola Hola. Miss Esme, how are you?
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You doing stuff? I'm always doing stuff.
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Some of it's good, some of it's not good.
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But being a Sinner. Yeah, I, you know, can I tell
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you something? What can you tell me?
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I I kind of like sinning sometimes.
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Oh, do you? I think we all do a little bit.
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I I. But well, I don't know if when
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I'm doing what I do, it's I think it's a sin, but maybe for
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other people it is. No, everything's a sin.
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Technically, we're all born with original sin, so everything you.
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Do is going to hell. We're all going to hell.
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You're the you're the most not going to help person.
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I know probably that that I work with.
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You are not going to me. Yes.
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Are you serious? Yeah, you're a really nice
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person. Well, that just means she goes
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ahead and hangs around with a lot of debaucherous individuals.
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That's that's kind of what I made-up of my head.
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No, you're. Not.
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You're just not a troublemaker, and you're not facetious and
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you're not shady and you're not mean and you're not you're.
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Not a bottom. You're not egotistical and
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you're not full of yourself and you're you're kind of not kind
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of. You're very compassionate and
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chill and a nice thanks. Right, Esme, keep sucking his.
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Dick, that actually makes me feel really good coming from
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you. Thank.
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You so much for saying that you are that you are very that yeah,
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you're not I. Can't agree with the
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troublemaker part though. But you're just not.
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You're not arrogant or none of that stuff.
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I know people that are just much more going to hell.
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If there is a hell, then you're definitely not on the list to
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go. No, but can I party cause?
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'Cause if going to hell means because you live as a man
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because you were born trans, that's not enough from for my
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taste buds. I'm sorry, but that's not.
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Well, we're all like I said, we are joined by Leo Anderson from
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the Queer Asian Museum. So for those who missed the the
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main show, who, what is the Queer Asian Museum?
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What is that? Yeah, so Queer Asian Museum is a
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little tiny museum on the central 1006 Central Ave.
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We are a queer museum focus on the multi nation Asian queer
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history and arts. Do people go in this museum all
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the time? We have about like 30-40 people
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visiting every day. OK, that's awesome.
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That's pretty good. That's actually great, yeah.
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That's actually that's really cool.
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And I say that that's really cool because you guys are going
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to have the Queer Asian Icons event.
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And again, I want to go ahead and and make sure to highlight
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that as much as possible because we have two of our own Queer
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Asian icons. We've got Claire Leeson from
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Project No Labels and the vivacious Vince Weigen himself.
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So I, I, I'm very much appreciative of, of, of what you
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have done for the queer Asian community and just the queer
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community in general. Because honestly, you know, as a
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white individual, you know, I need to learn more about other
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cultures and the other, you know, LGBTQ individuals that
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make up those cultures. I think everybody goes ahead and
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has their own sort of internal prejudice and internal
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understanding of what they feel is, you know, history.
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So it's important to go ahead and showcase, you know, all
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aspects of it, specifically in the queer community.
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So thank you for that. For more information about the
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Queer Asia Museum. Where can people find that?
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Yeah, go follow us on the Instagram's Queer Asia Museum or
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just qam.org. Well, I want to go ahead and
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highlight this good news story because it started off as one of
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the one of the story that a lot of people are, are, are
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struggling with in terms of immigration and everything.
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But Alan Mario Marrero, a gay immigrant from the Cayman
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Islands, was released after spending 150 days in ICE
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detention following a routine green card interview in New
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York. ICE detained Marrero after
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discovering an old removal order tied to a missed immigration
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court hearing while he was in alcohol rehab.
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He was He and his husband had been married for two years and
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were attending a marriage based green card interview at and the
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minister who accompanied the company.
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The couple described the the the interview process as
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dehumanizing and barbaric. And I, I want to highlight this
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story because it, it's, it's the light at the end of the tunnel.
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It is one of those things where you know, you, there's a lot of
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bad shit that is happening nowadays, but it's not going to
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happen forever. It will change.
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There will be justice and things will get better.
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And the doom and gloom shouldn't encompass everybody.
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And I know at least myself, I, I struggle with, you know, the
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depression of feeling overwhelmed when it comes to the
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media and, and what's been happening, especially with ICE.
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But these stories are the important stories because he's
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free, He's released, he's now not in ICE custody right now.
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So those are the stories that need to be highlighted.
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And I'm so glad that we that that he is free right now.
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Who? Is that the young man?
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Alex or Alan Marrero. The boy that was sick.
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No, this is a, this is a, this is a gay individual.
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Oh. OK, because the boy that was
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sick, the one that was dying of cancer, so I don't know if you
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heard that case. So he was dying of cancer.
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So he he spoke to his parents in Mexico and he told them that he
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was very close to death. And so his parents try to get a
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visa to come into the United States, what they call an
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emergency, like a, a sympathy, a not asylum visa.
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They didn't want to come here permanently.
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They just wanted to visit their son, stay for a while, like a,
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like a humanitarian visa, right. And the State Department
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wouldn't issue it. Oh, I'm really surprised.
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So these are the same people that cut off all the food supply
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to Africa, right, The way they used to send them and let the
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food rot in the warehouses. We can talk about that another
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day. Anyway, so his parents did the
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unthinkable, but the but logically, they came in
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illegally. And as they were crossing in
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from the border, they were both arrested and put in an ICE
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detention center. And they were there for about 90
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to 100 days while the young man was, you know, dying.
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So eventually they were let, they were released and they sent
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them back to Mexico and. They didn't let them to see.
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They did not let them sow. They finally let him now go to
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Mexico to see his family because his last dying wish was to see
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his mother and his father. So he's like very young, like 22
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or 23 years old. So just he was emanciated from
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the cancer. So he arrived, I guess yesterday
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or Mother's Day. He arrived on Mother's Day and
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he died the following day. So all Mother's Day, he got to
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spend it with his mother. And there are photos of them
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hugging. And, you know, the people from
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ICE robbed them of those months that they were there.
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And it's just devastating. And we need to highlight the
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severity. You know, people say that ice is
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good. Ice is good to a certain degree.
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I'm not opposed to having immigration, you know,
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controlling the immigration, the flow of traffic coming into this
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country illegally. I, I, I can accept that as an
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American, but we also have to have compassionate laws.
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We have to have compassionate, compassionate people and
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circumstances. There are individual
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circumstances that we need to address.
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And this is one of those that young man got one day with his
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family, just one Mother's Day was it, and then he died the
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following day. But his father was so grateful
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that they got to be with their son, you know, and all the
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photos next to the bed and they did videos.
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And so I'm just so happy that they got, I'm so happy that this
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young man got to see his mom. They talked about it on The View
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and every. So that's one of the reasons why
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the parents got sent back, so they could send him over there
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because they wouldn't let them meet here.
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Just just so crazy. I'm just glad that that they
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were able to see them. They he finally did.
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He finally did see them so. But it and, and it's also like I
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said, good because that the, the, the man that was released,
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he was, he's having like a press.
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He was having a press conference with his husband.
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The young man that yeah, so he was he here illegally?
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He had a green card. He was on green card.
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He. Had a green card.
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So allegedly he missed an immigration hearing because he
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was in rehab. And they, they hang on to any
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little thing, it could be a parking ticket and they'll say,
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oh, you got a, you got a ticket. What was a parking?
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Oh, it doesn't matter. You got a ticket.
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It's like they're, they're just, they're it's so they're trying
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to find any little thing to be able to deport because they're.
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Validate. Yeah.
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Yeah, because what they're trying to do is they got certain
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numbers that they're trying to reach, and they're nowhere near
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those numbers. Or you can go to the hearing and
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got arrested right there. Yes, exactly.
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Yeah, That's the other thing that a lot of people are having
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issues with, is literally going to these immigration hearings
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and then they picked up some random thing that you would have
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never thought and. You're doing an issue and you're
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doing. And you're doing everything
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right. No, it just, it breaks my heart.
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It just, we got it. Just I don't know.
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I I really hope that the the November midterms can go ahead
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and and get a referendum. So let me ask you this question
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now that we're talking about this, because this obviously is
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one of those conversations that upsets people a lot, makes makes
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you sad or, or there's other things that Trump has done that
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or the administration has done that's very upsetting.
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Do you feel under the definition of Trump Derangement Syndrome?
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Do you feel as an individual that you have it because they
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say that it's a real thing? Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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I'm literally looking at. This so.
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There are a good question though.
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There are a lot of people who, I, I'm glad that you bring this
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up. There are a lot of people who go
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ahead and make because Donald Trump is the head of the snake.
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Donald Trump is 100% the head of the snake, correct?
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But I think a lot of people go after the head when they should
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be going after the body. There is a lot of other
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individuals and there's a lot of, specifically there's a lot
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of judges that were appointed by Donald Trump within his first
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term that are not following the law and not following the
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Constitution. And those are the people.
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And I think that the the accountability should be going
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ahead and falling towards the entire broad system.
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OK, so. Then no, kill the snake, chop
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the head off So. Then, well, you can't kill the
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snake by just chopping the head off this kind of snake.
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This snake can survive without its head because it's the
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systemic snake. So then you're going to read the
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definition of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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What is it by definition? It is defined as a form of
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hysteria or irrational hatred that hampers judgment and
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perception of reality. So this Trump Derangement
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Syndrome is a pejorative term used to describe irrational,
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intense criticism of President Donald Trump, often disregarding
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his policy act, his policy actions primarily used by
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supporters to dismiss oppositions.
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It describes reactions ranging from extreme hostility to acts
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of aggression. And your question was?
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So none of us in this room have trumped.
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Arrangements, I wouldn't think so because honestly, we go ahead
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and we, in my opinion, we give it both ways.
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We go ahead and we we'll if, if Donald Trump does something
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right, which you know, a broken clock is right twice a day, they
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can we, we will go ahead and give him credit.
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But more than more than often, more than likely because I
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don't, he's doing something wrong.
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So like a perfect examples. I don't like all the attempts on
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his life. I I'm very I'm very
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uncomfortable with that. I was very uncomfortable with
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the Charlie Kirk assassination. I'm very uncomfortable with, I'm
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very uncomfortable with people posting online of photos of him
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in a coffin or photos or, or comments like, well, why doesn't
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he die already? What is he?
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I'm very, very, very, very uncomfortable with that.
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Very uncomfortable. I don't think that that's the
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way to resolve this. OK, as Americans, we vote.
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I don't, I don't have Trump. I I don't hate him.
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I just don't like what he's doing, how he's leading our
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country. I don't like the economy.
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I don't like, you know, those are the but I don't when I look
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at him, I don't go, God, I hate him.
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Like it's it's controlling me. I don't feel that way.
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I feel, I feel that this is Chris is 1 one of the people
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that always says it, it will end.
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This is going to come to an end whether whether he so Chris said
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earlier today, whether he wants it or not his.
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Domination is going to end. I want to highlight that his
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part, his part of it is going to end.
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But but the the the far right authoritarian movement will
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never go away. I mean, we've had that in the in
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the United States for from even the the Confederacy, when the
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Confederacy. This is the further it's gotten
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in a long time. Yeah.
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Yeah, and it really, it's always been here, but this is a further
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it's gotten but I but again, we can retract it.
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The people in Hungary did it. We can do it.
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I agree. Well, I got another story for
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you. A Polk County man was charged
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with aggravated child abuse and a hate crime in enhancement
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after deputies say he abused A5 year old boy because he believed
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the child was gay. Deputies say Andre Brown Junior,
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33, admitted he was trying to beat the gay out of the boy.
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Investigators say that the five year old suffered the most
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serious injuries including a fractured wrist, bruises across
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his body, and marks consistent with being hit with a belt.
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The investigation began after a nine year old girl texted that
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her mother that she was scared because Brown was whooping him
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so hard. Deputies say the three children
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in the home were abused after Brown became angry with the five
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year old and then starting hitting all three of the
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children with the belt. The Sheriff Grady judge called
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it a brutal and hateful attack on a defenseless child.
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He's currently being held at Polk County Jail and faces a
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resisting arrest charge. Brown has a lengthy criminal
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history that includes violent offense offenses such as
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aggravated battery, kidnapping and home invasion robbery.
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So these are the people. These are the reasons why we do
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our show in my opinion, because there are people out there who
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are so afraid of LGBTQ individuals that they will just
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go ahead and harm A defenseless 5 year old fucking child simply
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because of the fact that he might be gay.
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That's also only a little bit of what his actual, like, history
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of charges are. Yeah, there's a whole list of
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felony charges. Like like I said, it's lengthy,
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but it includes, you know, those aggravated.
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Guys, he's not a good guy. He is a terrible human being.
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He is a terrible human being. Let's just start dare.
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Poor little kid. I fear.
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Yeah, my heart. Hurts.
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And I know that this is shocking because I have heard straight
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people make this conversation, this comment.
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Now what I'm about to say. But children generally not
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always are born gay. They don't evolve into gay.
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This idea that, well, they became gay later.
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No, children generally are gay. And for example, in my case, at
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five years old, I was already an effeminate little boy to the
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point that my parents constantly had to remind me to act like a
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man. And you know that when you when
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you grow up hearing that, you know something is not right with
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you because other children are not being told that.
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My brother was never told that. Well, I was told.
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I was told that when I was singing.
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I feel pretty going down the hallways of Seminole Middle
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School. I'm.
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Going to tell you I feel pretty, I feel pretty, I feel pretty.
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Then what is it? What is it?
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I feel so pretty and witty and gay.
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You might as well just want to sign around your neck.
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You might have just just said it, but no.
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Just wear a shirt that says I'm with bottom.
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But listen, you can't. You just, you can't marry a gay
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person to a woman and make them straight.
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You cannot therapy. You cannot religion them.
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There isn't enough Jesus in the world.
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I was raised in the church. I taught Sunday school.
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I did everything by the book. I was a person of faith.
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I was even told by church leaders that persons that that
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demons in the pits of hell trembled at the name of Jesus.
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I was OK with that. They also said that a person
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that was demonically possessed could not claim Jesus in prayer
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because Jesus would not answer. And so they were trying to fill
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my mind with the thought that because I was effeminate, they
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were like trying to fill my mind that I had some kind of demon
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inside of me that was making me feminine.
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You know what I mean? Because at that time I was not
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even admitting that I was gay or trans, whatever.
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So most trans children start off as gay and then they become
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trans. It certainly was true for me.
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And that only is because of lack of verbiage.
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That's literally only because of lack of.
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It's the exact, I'm so glad that you said that, Vin, because
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honestly, what I, I, what really bothers me is the people who are
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part of the older generation that says why do we have to have
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all these additional letters and stuff?
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Well, because, you know, there's people who don't identify as gay
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or, and they feel as though they identify more so along the lines
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of demisexual, which is as, as some, as, as an individual who
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aligns himself with that sort of ideology.
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You know, I feel significantly more attracted to somebody the
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more that I get to know with somebody.
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In fact, I I genuinely don't feel much sexual attraction
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outside of knowing somebody on that.
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Person. It's not about sex though, it
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just identifies your preference. An attraction.
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Correct. Well, I know I hate to be that
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guy, but if a woman was, you know, giving me the same way
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that I, you know, would want, I'd be OK with that.
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I'm not. I'm not against, you know, so
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any gender. That's at least from my personal
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experience. That's why I identify more so
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along the lines of demo. So you can be you can be
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straight and still not have sex. Yeah, you can be gay and not
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have sex. You.
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Earlier said this is a spectrum. It is a spectrum, but.
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Like I want to extend that that idea is actually a multi
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dimensional thing. You have a gender expression,
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you have your sexual appeal, you have how you like, what kind of
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position you have, your relationship or molecule or
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molecule. There's so many dimensions and
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it's not just even just one line, not just one spectrum, but
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when you think about a person, there's so much more in it and
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why, like you said, just use the word gay or fixated about like
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how many letters are there? Like you're just a coward.
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I do also find it interesting that so this is coming from
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someone who's like English as a second language.
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I find it interesting that native speaking Americans are
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like, why are we coming up with all of this terminologies all of
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a sudden? Language evolves like, like it
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there's there's that's a real thing it.
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Always. Has and for as an immigrant to
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come to the United States and to have the argument from a Native
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American speak like English speaking person wondering why
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their English language evolves while I had to sit and learn the
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American language in its modern time and in the process of its
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evolution as like a Tagalog speaking person.
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Shut the hell up. It's actually really funny that
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you bring that up because Shakespeare literally made his
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own words up because he didn't feel as though there, there
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there was words to express what himself, what he was saying.
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Beautiful example. Beautiful.
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Language absolutely goes ahead and.
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And all language is created. We're literally making
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everything up. We're literally making
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everything up, including this conversation.
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Literally, we have just decided that these words that we're
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putting together to communicate with each other are what we need
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so you we can understand each other.
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But they were all created at one time.
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They didn't exist. I mean, at one time.
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Humanity grunted at each other. You know we still do.
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By the way, on a good Saturday night with enough fireball, I do
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a lot of grunting around 2:30 in the morning.
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Very little talking. It's the only time I don't talk
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very much. Noted.
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We learn something more just. Just a lot of grunting.
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Well, what are we going to talk about when we get back, Miss
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Azman? We're not going to talk about
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Trump Derangement Syndrome, I can tell you.
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That, or you're grunting so. Donald Trump wants to open Fort
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Knox. I am putting the word out right
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now. This is not a good idea and I'm
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saying it. It is not a good idea.
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So also 1/4 of Americans think that the assassination attempt
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at the White House correspondents dinner was
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staged. I'm going to tell you why I
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think it's really bad that people feel that way.
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I really do but it but it's good for Trump.
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It's just bad for us. Trump says that he's going to
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send an election integrity army. Those are his words into the
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midterms locations where people are voting.
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So we got that. And if you owe more than $2500
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in child support, the Trump administration is now saying
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they will enforce A991996 law, Bill Clinton law, that says that
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your passport and your legal documents documentals cannot be
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renewed. Well, we got all that and more.
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We also got ABC filing a complaint against the FCC
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alleging First Amendment violations.
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We've got Jeffrey Epstein's suicide note released by a judge
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and we also have the white the the commencement speaker who got
23:03
stunned when she was made comments about AI.
23:07
We're going to talk about that after the break.
23:09
But first, let's go ahead and throw it over to Clara Leeson
23:12
from Project No Label for our big gay news.
23:14
And then over to Joanna Grasso for Joe on the go.
23:17
We'll be right back. I'm Claire Leeson from Project
23:23
No Labels and this is your LGBTQ plus news from around the
23:26
country and right here in Tampa Bay in Saint Petersburg from
23:30
watermark out news. Saint Pete Pride officially
23:32
kicked off Pride season May 3rd with the 2020 sixth mixed Saint
23:36
Pete Pride pageant at 1920 Ybor crowning a new Royal Court in a
23:40
celebration of local LGBTQ plus talent and community.
23:43
The event built momentum towards next month's 24th annual Saint
23:46
Pete Pride Celebration and honored the 2025 title holders,
23:50
including Miss Saint Pete Pride's Seduction, Dickerson,
23:52
Mr. Saint Pete Pride, the Oscar de Milo and Make Saint Pete
23:55
Pride Roman Marco Lewinsky. Former Miss Saint Pete Pride
23:59
Jada Fuentes was also recognized for 15 years of service and
24:02
impact within the community. During opening remarks, St.
24:05
Pete Pride President Doctor Byron Green Khalid emphasized
24:08
the growing importance of diversity and inclusion efforts
24:11
as state legislation targeting DEI programs continues to impact
24:15
LGBTQ plus organizations and funding opportunities across
24:18
Florida. Crowned as this year's winner
24:20
were ashed in Opulent as Mr. Saint Pete Pride 2026, Emani El
24:24
Valentino as Miss Saint Pete Pride 2026 and Kenzie de Lavish
24:28
as Make Saint Pete Pride 2026. Congratulations to all who
24:31
competed also from Watermark in Key West.
24:34
Organizers say future Pride related events will no longer
24:37
receive state funding following the passage of Florida's anti
24:40
DEI legislation. According to a letter provided
24:43
to the Key West Business Guild, state funding tied to events
24:45
like Key West Pride, Tropical Heat and Women's Fest will end
24:48
beginning 2027 as a result of Senate Bill 1134 and House Bill
24:53
1001. Executive Director Rob Doherty
24:56
says the change will significantly affect how major
24:59
LGBTQ plus events in the Keys are organized moving forward.
25:03
The organizers say this year's these events will not be
25:05
impacted in Wisconsin. From the Wisconsin Examiner.
25:08
Governor Tony Ever says his administration has no plans to
25:12
repeal the state's ban on conversion therapy for LGBTQ
25:15
plus clients, in a sharply worded response to two
25:18
conservative groups seeking to overturn the policy.
25:21
Evers called conversion therapy an outdated practice linked to
25:24
depression, anxiety, substance misuse and suicide.
25:28
The dispute follows a recent US Supreme Court ruling that sent a
25:31
challenge to Colorado's conversion therapy ban back to
25:34
lower courts for further review on 1st Amendment grounds.
25:37
And finally, in religious news from the Washington Blade, a new
25:40
Vatican report acknowledges that many LGBTQ plus Catholics have
25:43
felt isolated within the church. The report includes testimony
25:46
from married gay Catholics and appears critical of so-called
25:49
conversion therapy practices. While the document does not
25:52
change official church teachings on homosexuality, marriage or
25:55
gender identity, LGBTQ plus Catholic advocacy groups welcome
25:59
the recognition and tone of the report.
26:01
Please remember to stay safe and treat yourself and others with
26:03
kindness. This has been your LGBTQ plus
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news for the Big Gay radio show. I'm Claire Leeson on 88.5 WMNF
26:10
Tampa. Hey, hey Tampa Bay, it's Joanna
26:17
Grosso with Joe on the go. Tampa Bay.
26:19
Here's what's happening around the community this week.
26:22
First up, on Friday, May 15th at 7:00 PM, head to Ten O 6 Central
26:26
Ave. in Saint Pete for a special celebration honoring queer Asian
26:29
icons in Tampa Bay. The night will feature
26:32
performances, storytelling and local talent including Alice,
26:35
Marine, Grip, Cat, Limb and many more than on Saturday, May 16th,
26:38
Equality Floors 2026 Saint Pete Gala is bringing the Rainbow
26:42
Disco theme to town for a night celebrating the LGBTQ community
26:46
with dinner, dancing, local honorees and a big disco
26:49
inspired party to close out the evening.
26:51
Then on Sunday, May 24th at 3:00 PM FGRA Country Sunday is
26:56
happening at the Garage on Central Ave. in Saint Pete.
26:58
The Florida Gay Rodeo Association is hosting line
27:01
dancing lessons, patio hangs, drinks in a super welcoming
27:04
country style social vibe. For more events, interviews and
27:08
Tampa Bay happenings make sure to follow Joe on the Go Tampa
27:11
Bay on Instagram. Have a great week, Tampa Bay,
27:14
and I'll see you out and about. This is the big gay radio show
27:25
on 88.5 WMNF. Welcome back to the big gay
27:33
after show. My name is Chris Gorman.
27:35
I'm your show twink here, joined by the vivacious Vin.
27:37
Vivacious you are the vicious. The vicious you are vicious.
27:43
Now today, Vin. I do feel a little vicious today
27:46
though, I'm not going to lie. I.
27:47
Don't growl at them. Craziest.
27:49
We're also joined by the Trans Queen of Radio the Rabbit
27:53
herself, Miss Esme Russell. Am I rabbit?
27:55
Is that it Rabbit? Rabbit.
27:57
Rabbit like the Bunny? 1st I'm vicious if.
28:01
I. Now you're rabbit.
28:02
If I was a furry, that's what I would be.
28:04
I would be a rabbit. Exactly.
28:07
Lola Bunny style. And it would be like a girl
28:10
Bunny like with big, long lashes and everything.
28:13
It would be just, she would be adorable.
28:14
And in honor of our Teletubbies, I would have to carry a big
28:19
purse. Yeah, because I, you know, the
28:21
Teletubby had that red. Purse the red Purse I.
28:23
Would have to have it so funny. I would have to have a big
28:26
purse. My favorite's the one with the
28:28
circle on his head. I love the one with the purse.
28:31
I just think he's just it doesn't have like a triangle.
28:34
I don't remember actually. I remember all the organizations
28:37
trying to malign and make the Teletubbies like a remember when
28:41
they tried to make them bad, like they were evil?
28:42
Yeah. And they were like gay icons.
28:45
Yeah. Trying to turn get kids gay.
28:47
You can't turn children gay. You either are gay or not.
28:51
Yeah, this is nature, not nurture.
28:53
Yeah, absolutely. Nature definitely not nurture.
28:55
Well, we're also joined by Leo Anderson from the Queer Asian
28:59
Museum over in Saint Petersburg. Welcome into the studio.
29:02
Hello, hello, hello. We're.
29:04
I'm also Rep it. Yeah.
29:07
Let's go. Well, I want to go out and give
29:09
a special shout out to our voice over artist Sean Patrick Kelly.
29:13
He actually had a exam over in Tampa today and he I'm happy to
29:19
announce that he passed his registered exterior wall
29:22
observer exam, which means he can look at buildings as they
29:26
dry. Be good for him.
29:28
I'm proud of him. You guys all looking at me like
29:31
I like. You know that.
29:32
You know that I'm a fan of Sean anywhere.
29:34
Y'all don't even know what. I'm not sure when he got it, but
29:38
it doesn't surprise me Sean isn't.
29:39
We're not sure what you'd got, but you did it.
29:42
You did it, but you. Did it?
29:43
But no, but I'm a fan of Sean. I really like the way he sounds.
29:46
He got a great voice. He's a very nice looking man.
29:49
But forget all of that part. The has a great radio voice.
29:53
Like I really like listening to him when he talks and he does
29:56
the voice overs and stuff for us.
29:58
I always go, wow, is that I always ask you right?
30:00
Is that Sean, because it sounds so professional?
30:04
Well, I wanted to go ahead and give him a shout out, even
30:06
though none of you guys in this room know what it what it, what
30:09
it is. Well, I know what it is because
30:10
I work in the company. Whatever he's got, we're very
30:12
proud of him. I'm very happy for him.
30:13
Yeah, he can watch paint and dry.
30:15
Good for him. Yeah.
30:16
Anyways, Donald Trump has announced that gas prices will
30:20
be falling soon, despite what experts say.
30:24
Former president or almost four? I said former president.
30:28
I wish. It was former president.
30:29
OK, keep putting putting it out there.
30:31
We're putting it out there. We're putting put.
30:32
The energy there this is. From your mouth to God's ears.
30:35
Come on. Come on.
30:37
Yeah. Well, it is currently surged
30:39
from 298 per gallon to roughly 423 in just nine weeks, the
30:44
fastest increase seen in decades.
30:47
And, and analysis say the spike is obviously done by, you know,
30:52
what's happening in the Middle East, which is, you know, Donald
30:54
Trump's fault. I, I hate, I, you know, what's
30:58
really funny is that we went ahead and were on air regularly
31:02
during the Biden administration saying the president doesn't
31:06
control the gas prices well. In this instance it.
31:10
Seems like he I know I. But but in this instance though,
31:13
it's, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's what it is, is something
31:16
that he did created the problem that the gas went.
31:20
Up Well, yeah, no. So, so the, the, the situation
31:23
is, yes, the the president can control the gas prices, he can
31:27
make it worse. Absolutely.
31:28
He can't make it better, but he can make it substantially
31:31
fucking. Worse, in this case, he started
31:33
a war, which he has not yet. He has given 87 different
31:37
versions of why he started the war.
31:39
He still cannot lock down on the reason.
31:41
Which means if he can't lock down on the reason, there's no
31:44
reason. He just want he was told to
31:46
start the war by Israel and that's what he did exactly.
31:49
So what I want to say is, but in this case he did.
31:52
The reason gas is going up, it's not because of Biden, It's not
31:56
because of Obama, OK? It's not because of Clinton.
31:59
All these little stories that you hear, it's because of him.
32:01
It's what he decided. It just bothers me because I
32:04
consistently see conservatives now going up in like a Commons
32:07
threads and being like the president.
32:09
You guys were saying that the president doesn't control gas
32:12
prices for years. Well, we said that we he doesn't
32:15
control it as a whole, but he can certainly make things a
32:19
fucking hell of a lot. Worse, he can influence in
32:22
circumstances create the rise of the gas prices.
32:26
In this particular instance, he caused a war, and now that war
32:30
has blocked the straight, the pathway to the oil getting
32:35
delivered around the world. That's a global problem, and you
32:39
know what I heard? This morning it is a global
32:40
problem. I've heard this morning at Asahi
32:42
News Japanese, they're taking the color out of their potato
32:47
chips. They're taking image out of
32:49
their pasta package because they can't afford to put more inks on
32:54
on the packages. Interesting.
32:57
Because of the. Just cause of the the straight.
32:59
Yeah, they can't get all the oil or whatever they want and they
33:03
have to limit the packaging on their food, isn't that?
33:05
Crazy. That's why this.
33:07
Is in China. That's in Japan.
33:08
In Japan, that's. Wild.
33:10
Huh, Yeah, I mean I you know those are some things that you
33:13
don't really think about as like you know that is like a lot to
33:17
go ahead and and so the make those packaging the.
33:19
Farmers didn't have oil this year for the planting, so a lot
33:23
of our crops did not get planted so in the fall and in the
33:27
winter. We're going to have a deficit.
33:29
We're. Going to have a deficit in food,
33:31
there's going to be food. Shortages, which means prices
33:34
are going to go up. Guess what though?
33:35
The. Food, the prices of food is
33:37
definitely going to go up. But you know what we can't
33:38
afford? According to GOP representatives
33:42
and senators, they are saying that we can afford $1 billion
33:48
worth of Donald Trump's ballroom.
33:51
According to the from the taxpayers, that is what some
33:55
Republicans have gone ahead and tried doing.
33:57
They added $1 billion to a budget package for Secret
34:01
Service security upgrades tied to the planned Ball House
34:04
ballroom project. Remembered Chris without I'm
34:08
sorry to interrupt you, but remember you hold your spot
34:11
there, but remember that the the his donors were going to pay for
34:16
this. So the I will go ahead and I
34:19
will, I will put a little bit of a, you know, attack in that.
34:24
He did say the ballroom. He didn't say what was
34:26
underneath the ballroom, so that is a little semantic, but it and
34:33
honestly what there's a there's a security bunker underneath the
34:37
of where the bomb. What now?
34:38
Know that man? Know that there's a massive
34:40
security bunker under the White House.
34:42
It's like massive now. Oh, that's been public
34:44
information for a long time. And it's going to connect with
34:47
the already existing 1, so we're gonna actually connect it.
34:50
But Vin for, for since you didn't know the, the last time
34:54
that that that bunker, the last time they approved, they were
34:58
approved for like a large spanning remodel was 1950.
35:05
So I kind of that's where I'm like, if, if another president,
35:10
if, if, if Joe Biden or Obama or even Bush or Clinton were to
35:16
have gone ahead and been in office and said, hey, the last
35:19
time that we had upgrades to this secure bunker, which should
35:24
be hosting, you know, the, the, the nation's top leaders.
35:29
If they said that that the last time that that was upgraded was
35:31
1950 and they need to upgrade the fuck out of that, I would
35:35
understand it. The ballroom on top though,
35:38
that's some bullshit and don't need a billion fucking dollars
35:40
for but I. Have a moment where you just
35:43
want to like put everything down and walk away.
35:46
Chris is right. Just had that moment.
35:48
You're right that he it was, it was never the the bunker was
35:52
never discussed. It was just the top level.
35:54
Yeah. That's all so.
35:56
The ballroom will be about 400 million.
35:58
So that's where I go ahead. And I, I mean, I'm not going to
36:03
say that it would cost a billion dollars to upgrade the, the
36:06
bunker. I don't know anything about the
36:08
fucking bunker apart from the fact that it exists and that
36:11
they've confirmed that. It so I know that it's
36:12
connecting with the existing bunker.
36:14
I don't know so that So what they're going to make is more
36:17
rooms. They're going to be, you know,
36:19
areas of entertainment, of security areas, computer areas.
36:24
I guess they're going to, you know, they're going to make us
36:26
something, something for of that.
36:29
In case of a nuclear war, the president and the administration
36:32
can go underground. Yeah, just worry about my money.
36:35
That that, but and is it now? Is now a good time to do it
36:39
though? And you're exactly right.
36:40
I don't think now when we're dealing with the Strait of
36:43
Hormuz, closing gas prices, doing exponential, all the
36:48
issues that we're currently having, I mean, we're $49
36:50
trillion in debt or some shit. Why do you think we're upgrading
36:53
a bunker right now? Are you enraged yet?
36:56
No. No.
36:57
So 'cause I'm gonna say, let me know when you reach the Trump
37:00
Derangement Syndrome level. We.
37:04
Can discuss a thing that doesn't exist.
37:06
I'm trying. That's why I asked.
37:08
Are you enraged? Like you, I'm not enraged.
37:12
You, just like you can't take it anymore.
37:14
I would like to, to get more information about what the
37:17
specific to fix upgrades would actually cost.
37:20
Because if we're going to go ahead and add like $100 pens in
37:24
there, then that's not a beneficial use of the billion
37:27
dollars. But if we're going to upgrade
37:29
the walls and make it so that it's actually secured for not
37:32
just, you know, Trump, but all future presidents that I'm, I'm
37:36
fine with. I'm, I'm down, but I don't think
37:39
it's going to cost a billion dollars.
37:40
I don't think it should cost a billion.
37:41
Dollars one of the reasons why we're having this conversation
37:45
is the same reason that 1/4 of Americans think that the
37:49
assassination attempt on the White House correspondents
37:52
dinner was staged and that is because this administration in
37:58
particular him Trump himself has lied so much to the American
38:03
people. We just don't believe nothing
38:05
they say. We just don't believe it.
38:08
So if right now you said it could be true, there's a flyer,
38:12
flying saucer hovering over the White House.
38:15
Everybody would say, Chris, I don't be the first one to go
38:19
distraction, distraction. Chris always does that.
38:21
Distraction, distraction because that's what it is.
38:23
It's another distraction. It's another.
38:26
You see the UFO things that they released the other day?
38:30
Every photo in those UFOs is stuff that we already know.
38:33
We've seen unidentified flying objects before.
38:36
We already know that there is something out there, we just
38:38
don't know what it is. Nothing new was revealed.
38:41
Did did you see any photos of aliens?
38:43
Did they say yes, aliens exist? We've had some.
38:46
No, they didn't release anything.
38:47
It's just another distraction. While we're still waiting for
38:50
the. Chris always screams
38:51
distraction. Distraction goes.
38:53
Well, it's what they want to do. The, the, I mean, Jim Bannon, I,
38:58
I think is, is what his name is. I forget his name.
39:00
Steve Bennett. Thank you.
39:02
He has gone ahead and talked about how his the the plan for
39:07
the White House and the presidency and the Republican
39:09
Party is to flood the media with as much information as possible.
39:13
So it basically goes ahead and makes people feel overwhelmed to
39:17
the point where they feel like they have no way to go ahead and
39:20
fight back. They want you to give up your
39:23
vote. They want you to feel as though
39:25
there's nothing that you can do. But in reality, what you can do
39:29
is you can get your ass out and vote.
39:30
You can go ahead and canvas for people.
39:32
You can make. You can do what the Hungarian
39:34
people did and get the fuckers out of office.
39:36
So here's another distraction. You want to hear another
39:38
distraction? What's this?
39:40
Trump says he will send an election integrity army into
39:43
every state during the midterms. That is a distraction.
39:47
That is a exactly what Chris just said right now to make
39:51
people feel like they don't have to get out and vote.
39:53
Why should I get out and vote? It's going to be scary out
39:56
there. There's going to be men with
39:57
guns standing outside my voting place.
40:00
It's not. Not worth it.
40:00
I'm just not going to go. That's what they want you to do.
40:03
I'm going to point out a couple of things here.
40:06
Go for it. First and foremost, his ear is
40:08
intact, OK. Well, he says that he that it
40:12
grew back. Yeah, these nuts, his ear is
40:15
intact. Let's, I'm going to leave that
40:17
there, OK #2 He. Could be part lizard.
40:21
You know I'd be damned, I'd be damned.
40:23
Well, they've been saying that Hillary's a lizard person.
40:27
Why couldn't? Trump be why?
40:28
Couldn't Trump exactly, he said, to drain the swamp, But he's the
40:32
lizard. He's a he's part of the swamp.
40:33
The ear grew back. He's part lizard.
40:35
OK, next. Have you ever?
40:38
Have you ever? Do y'all have first aid kits at
40:40
home? Yes.
40:41
OK, when was the last time you touched your first aid kit?
40:44
I haven't touched it in years. Regularly because I have cats
40:47
that attack me. Right, but you only touch it
40:49
when you're damaged and you need it I.
40:51
Haven't touched mine in years, but by the way, I'm glad you
40:53
said that to me because I'm going to go check on it, make
40:55
sure things are fresh in there. You're going to check on it to
40:58
update it though. But you don't.
40:59
But you didn't think about that because I'm until I mentioned
41:02
it, right? I haven't thought about.
41:03
It. Yeah, and the only time you'd go
41:04
to check on it is when you need it because something bad
41:07
happened, correct? Why do we need to go and upgrade
41:10
a bunker? Just think about that for a
41:13
minute. I mean, why do we have a bunker
41:15
in the first place? You're absolutely.
41:17
Right, so the SO. You're absolutely right.
41:19
No, I'm not the reason why I'm saying it was.
41:22
Built. We were under threat for a
41:24
nuclear war well at the time because we had just bombed
41:27
Japan. So why are we upgrading a bunker
41:30
right now of. All the time we've been under
41:32
threat of nuclear war. So you're so exactly so.
41:35
The important thing is, is that I in every instance, I still
41:40
think that the most powerful individuals that are running
41:43
this country absolutely should have.
41:47
Even if we're not in wartime, even if we're there is no
41:51
imminent threat, the having the preparation is absolutely
41:56
necessary. Oh, I'm not taking away from the
41:58
necessary, the necessary like demand to be prepared.
42:01
I'm not taking away from that, OK.
42:03
I'm saying if we're talking about upgrades, why haven't we
42:06
been doing it as the years go by?
42:09
Why all of a sudden we're making us that this shit that's like
42:12
it's just something that key. It's just.
42:14
Interesting to put a lot of presidents, a lot of presidents
42:17
specifically. Like I know Obama wouldn't have
42:20
done it because he went in and he doesn't care.
42:22
No, he inherited a a recession and was in a very bad economic
42:28
state. So going ahead and upgrading the
42:31
ballroom would have been essentially a fuck you to the
42:34
American people. And Donald Trump doesn't think
42:36
like that though. Well.
42:37
He's a Donald Trump president anyway.
42:39
Donald Trump is going ahead. He.
42:41
Doesn't He's a lame drug president.
42:43
You guys are literally saying my point.
42:45
You guys are literally, you guys understand this point, Yeah.
42:48
They he doesn't care about public opinion.
42:51
Yeah. Yeah.
42:52
So they're before he can go ahead and do something that he
42:55
wants to do, like putting the bunker honestly.
42:59
And he has said that other presidents and other individuals
43:02
that have been in the White House, and not just presidents,
43:05
but other people, media personalities, individuals that
43:09
are just going ahead and taking tours of the place, there's been
43:11
a lot of people that have mentioned that there should be
43:15
some sort of ballroom or event space.
43:17
All I'm saying is that I. He's not the first one that is
43:20
thought about it absolutely been talked about by other.
43:23
It has absolutely been talked about by other presidents, but
43:26
the active investment would have been suicide for any political
43:32
candidacy, especially one where you're inheriting A substantial
43:39
economic issue. Like Obama did.
43:41
Like Biden did, Like Bush did, Like every other president in
43:45
the most recent eras. He wants the arch, he wants the
43:48
fountain. What is it?
43:50
The reflecting pool, which now he calls the reflect.
43:54
It's it's always been called the reflecting pool because the
43:57
bottom of it was supposed to be like a mirror.
44:00
And. Now it's called the reflection
44:02
pool. He's changed the name of it.
44:04
I don't know why he's done that, but.
44:06
I don't think he realizes that though.
44:08
I feel like his stupid ass probably thought of it.
44:11
Thought it was reflection the entire time.
44:12
Not reflection. It's called the reflecting.
44:15
He probably, he probably heard it once and was like, oh, it's a
44:18
reflection thing, the reflection.
44:20
With all that being said, I'm actually with Mr. Wayne on this
44:23
thing. I just, I've seen, OK, I
44:26
respectfully, I have seen cowards go punch someone and run
44:30
away and go hide. And that's what this is.
44:33
That's what this feels like to me.
44:34
It feels like he started a war and now he knows that the war
44:39
has started at his catalyst and now where he's trying to find a
44:44
way to keep himself safe with the money that he doesn't have
44:48
well. If that was if that was the
44:49
case, then he would be in the bunker every single time.
44:52
Now he the bunker still exists. No, we're not making a new
44:55
bunker. He's.
44:55
Not he's not in the bunker now because he needs propaganda.
45:00
He has a intact ear, bro. His ear is intact.
45:03
He needs to be on the media. Not really following your logic.
45:06
But you gotta realize it is intact but it because it grew
45:09
bad. You're right, they're.
45:11
Just I'm, I'm not really, I'm not following the logic though,
45:13
because if he, if he's, if he's, you know, so afraid of having,
45:17
you know. Preparation bro.
45:19
If, if everybody, if he's so afraid, then why is he going
45:22
ahead and, and using the motorcade to drive over the
45:24
reflecting pool? If he's so afraid, you know, why
45:27
is he still making these public appearances where these
45:30
assassination attempts can't happen?
45:32
So. Is this what derangement feels
45:34
like? So it's, I think, I think Vin,
45:37
Vin, I think you might be feeling a little bit Trump
45:39
derangements. Arrangements.
45:41
Because honestly, I, I think that you're making theories up a
45:44
little bit too much. Just respectfully, I love you,
45:48
but I think it's a little bit too much.
45:50
I'm just. Going to mention that President
45:52
Xi and President Trump is about to meet tomorrow.
45:55
Yes, I know that. Oh my gosh, you're right.
45:58
Can I? Tell you something, a poll was
46:00
taken recently by Fox News. Did you know that President Xi
46:06
is more trusted than President Trump?
46:11
Well, we got 8 minutes left before I want to go ahead and
46:14
end the episode, so we need to do rapid fire as May.
46:17
So go ahead, throw out your topics.
46:20
So Trump says that he was. We all did the integrity.
46:24
It's a 2500 if you owe $2500 in child support.
46:30
Your your visas, your what is it your passport?
46:35
Legal documentation. You can travel with will be
46:39
vetoed, will be cancelled out. So but this is already a this
46:43
was already a law enacted in 1996 by the by the Bill Clinton
46:49
administration. So again, in Chris's words,
46:52
distraction. This is just a distraction
46:56
something else to throw in the news.
46:58
So we're we're not talking about the war, the economy and
47:02
gasoline. I'll be honest, I I completely
47:06
agree that if you have child support payments you shouldn't
47:09
be able to have a passport. Inside the country I.
47:12
Totally agree. With that, I'm totally 100 and
47:14
what I'd like is for that law to be enforced.
47:17
So maybe that's what he's talking about.
47:18
Sorry, sounds like social credit in China.
47:22
We're really going to go there. So yes and no, I kind of get it
47:28
a little bit in terms of social credit.
47:30
The reason why I say no is 'cause I mean, I didn't, I, they
47:34
chose to have the child. That was their choice.
47:37
If every single person was assigned that, you know, amount
47:40
like like told to like that you had to go ahead and pay some
47:44
sort of amount, then I kind of get it.
47:46
OK, and my final one is Trump is going to open Fort Knox girl.
47:54
With. I can't even believe I'm saying
47:56
this to see if the gold, the $700 billion in gold is still
48:01
there. By the way, 700 and $700 billion
48:04
wouldn't pay our national debt. It's not even the tip of the
48:08
iceberg that's helpful. Where are the trillions now?
48:12
So I don't even know why he needs to worry about this.
48:15
Maybe it's better that we don't know what's in there. 38.93
48:19
trillion, that's where we're at. That's how much in debt we are.
48:22
So 700 billion isn't going to pay for our debt, national debt.
48:26
So why is he worried about what's in there that doesn't
48:29
even scratch the national debt's butt hole?
48:32
The US Mint has said that Fort Knox holds 147.3 million ounces
48:38
of gold with no significant transfers but.
48:42
If you think about finding the gold and then rebuilding the
48:46
bunker like when you put those two together.
48:50
Together, he wants the money so that he can hide in the bunker,
48:53
so that when we when everything gets blown up, he's got those.
48:55
Are some of the most biggest conspiracy theorists I've ever
48:58
fucking met. You guys literally are
49:00
experiencing Trump derangement. Syndrome have it and I didn't
49:04
even know I had. It you guys got the Trump
49:06
derangement. You chop off my ear and see if
49:08
it'll grow back. I'll.
49:09
Shoot, because you're not Trump. You got to, you got to shoot
49:12
off. Are you part lizard?
49:13
That's right, I got to be part lizard.
49:16
You don't want that blood in your veins.
49:18
No, no, I don't want that blood in my veins.
49:20
You're. Right.
49:21
Well, I want to go ahead and highlight the a new show from
49:26
Fox is called The Nation's Dumbest, where it's going to to
49:30
try and find which celebrity is basically stupidest.
49:34
Donald Trump. And so we found him.
49:36
The Season 1 cast actually surprised me a little bit
49:41
because somebody accepted to doing it that I didn't accept.
49:45
Expect Andrew Yang, the former presidential candidate.
49:50
What about? Him, he's, he accepted the to,
49:53
to to be a contestant on the nation's dumbest show, where
49:58
it's essentially like they're going to reward contestants for
50:04
avoiding being called the smartest person in the group.
50:07
So if you're the smartest person, you get eliminated.
50:10
So I think Andrew Yang is probably going to lose this.
50:13
Andrew Yang's a smart fucking guy.
50:16
Other contestants include JoJo Siwa, Stevo L King, Ice T,
50:23
Carmen Electra, Anthony Michael Hall and among others.
50:28
So ice TI think that. I would love some iced tea.
50:32
Do you know where we can get some?
50:34
I don't know, but I think that either iced tea or JoJo is
50:37
probably gonna go ahead and and take the cake on this one.
50:39
Or maybe tea is an. Intelligent man, really, is he?
50:42
Yeah, he is. He is really.
50:45
Yeah. Well, don't let the.
50:47
Don't let the appearance I. Think it's more like the long
50:49
lines of like the trivia aspect. Ice tea.
50:52
Ice tea. He's married to that show.
50:55
Beautiful blonde Boncho, so I hear.
50:57
The SO I hear from people that work with him on when they
51:01
worked with him on what is it, SUV in order Yeah, that he has a
51:06
photographic memory. Really.
51:07
And that he's intelligent, that. He can that, he can.
51:10
He reads his lines once or twice and can memorize.
51:14
Them Well then I retract my statement and I apologize I so.
51:17
I have a photographic memory is very.
51:19
JoJo Siwa or Carmen Electra or my 2 choices.
51:21
I know that Bill Clinton had had that and Bill Clinton could
51:25
memorize his speeches like that. So, and very unusual.
51:29
Not everybody can do that, you know, to read your speech and
51:32
then be able to recite it back by memory.
51:35
And yeah. Yeah, he was one of the few.
51:38
I read it in some article a while ago, like a long time ago
51:41
'cause I I love Law and Order SVU but he was one of the few
51:44
actors that they didn't have to repeat scenes.
51:47
Shirley Temple as a little girl. That had.
51:51
A photographic memory with lines.
51:52
But her photographic memory was crazy.
51:55
She could learn everybody's lines.
51:57
So when the director said, you know, start the filming, if you
52:02
said your lines wrong, she'd go. That's not what it says.
52:04
You got to say she would correct the other actors because she had
52:08
a memorizing. Because she knows isn't.
52:10
That crazy? Yeah.
52:12
Yeah, I do. So children can be born with
52:14
that. Well, I got another topic for
52:16
you guys. the US Department of Education has an opened a Title
52:19
9 investigation into Smith College over its policy of
52:22
admitting transgender woman. Federal officials say the probe
52:25
will examine whether the all women's college violated sex
52:28
discrimination rules under Title 9.
52:31
Trump administration argues the law's exemption for single sex
52:34
colleges applies only on the basis of biological sex.
52:39
I would like to go ahead and get your opinion, Mr. Vin.
52:41
I fucking hate this place. That's my opinion.
52:44
I fucking hate this place. So I would never go to a place
52:46
where I'm not welcomed. Correct.
52:48
Well, this person, So the the The thing is, is that this it is
52:53
an all girls college. It's all women's college and
52:56
they accepted the trans woman. They wanted to have this trans
53:01
woman be in attendance. Because diversity.
53:03
Because diversity, the Trump administration is the one who
53:06
doesn't want it. So it's not that you wouldn't be
53:09
wanted there. It's that the Trump
53:11
administration doesn't want. You So the school wants it, the
53:13
student wants it, the organization has no problem with
53:17
it. But the Trump Organization comes
53:19
out of nowhere. Privately owned college I
53:22
believe. So.
53:23
Because if it's a privately owned college, they don't have a
53:25
standing, you know what I mean? They really don't.
53:29
The Trump Organization administration.
53:31
They don't have a standing, correct?
53:32
You have a privately owned college, correct?
53:34
You know, and the girl enters the you know.
53:37
Yeah, it doesn't. Say like, who are you to think
53:38
you can just walk anywhere and be like, hey, we don't like
53:40
this. Like I don't.
53:41
Even go here I wouldn't want to go to a woman's only college
53:44
only because I like being around male energy.
53:47
So Smith College is a private school.
53:48
Yeah, I, I like being around male energy as well because I
53:51
can feed off of it because my energy is not as strong in that
53:55
way. You know, that's why I, I love
53:57
my, my gay male friends because they have a different energy by
54:01
we have similar, but then there's different 'cause they're
54:03
boys, right? So and they live as boys.
54:06
I don't live as a boy, so it's a different, it's a different
54:10
take. So I like that.
54:11
I like that. Don't you like being around
54:13
women? I do enjoy, yeah.
54:14
I find that like since I started my transition, my confidence in
54:19
my femininity has strengthened in me transitioning into my
54:23
masculinity. But do you enjoy being around
54:25
females? Yes, 'cause I enjoy being around
54:27
men. Yeah, yeah.
54:28
But I do also find that my confidence is different in
54:32
comfortable ways. I wouldn't.
54:34
Be I wouldn't be that confident if I lived as a boy.
54:37
Saying yeah, I agree, I agree. I don't think I would be as
54:40
confident as I am around women now if I was a female.
54:43
Well, it just it doesn't feel the same it.
54:46
Is that time my friends? It is the end of the episode, so
54:50
I want to go ahead and what? Does adios mean Chris?
54:53
Yo, Mama. Yo, Mama.
54:55
No, Chris, that's not what Chris and his teacher that over there
54:59
at the University of South Florida that we're still trying
55:01
to find out what kind of Spanish she's teaching.
55:03
Oh God. Anyway, finish your thought
55:05
Chris. Well.
55:06
Leo, thank you so much for joining us For more information
55:09
about the Queer Asian Museum. Where can people find it?
55:12
Again, it's a Instagram Croatia museum or qm.org.
55:18
Awesome, and so thank you again. It's been truly an absolute
55:22
honor to be able to interview you because honestly, it is a
55:25
very important thing that what you're doing and you know, we
55:29
need to go ahead and highlight more historical aspects of
55:32
different cultures. I mean, you know, I, I think
55:35
that the, that history has been very whitewashed, especially
55:38
LGBTQ history, which is actually really interesting because
55:41
we're, you know, our own minority group and yet it's been
55:44
completely whitewashed. And yet, you know, the reason
55:47
why we started our fight for rights was a black trans woman.
55:51
So I think that, you know, we need to continue to highlight
55:54
all aspects of the LGBTQ community.
55:57
So thank you again for for what you what you have brought to the
56:00
discussion. Then one more time.
56:03
What's going on this Friday? So I'm really excited because
56:06
I'm going to be with Leo at the Queer Asian Museum on Friday
56:10
from 7:00 to 9:00. We are hosting the Queer Asian
56:13
Icons and just want a really quick shout out, Happy Asian
56:17
American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and we see you.
56:20
We love you. You deserve to exist.
56:22
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56:26
health providers appreciation day, So thank you so much for
56:30
everybody that is stepping up and creating a safer place for
56:33
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