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Happy Hour #140: Anney Goes to Pride! · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and Samantha.
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  Speaker 2: I welcome to stuff I've never told you production if
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  Speaker 2: I heard you, and welcome to another.
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  Speaker 1: Edition of Happy Hour.
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  Speaker 2: As always, if you choose to drink or what did
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  Speaker 2: you choose to do, please do so responsibly.
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  Speaker 1: Samantha, are you sipping on anything?
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  Speaker 3: I'm drinking my bubble water because we are coming together
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  Speaker 3: to celebrate in person the end of one crazy era
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  Speaker 3: slash part of our journey this last few months, and
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  Speaker 3: so I'm saving all of my like drinking. I don't
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  Speaker 3: beverage till then, because it does it does have to
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  Speaker 3: make them count because I get very sleepy.
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  Speaker 1: It's fair. What about you?
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  Speaker 2: I am sipping on some sake that I purchased actually
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  Speaker 2: because of one of our adventures I mentioned Listener Rose
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  Speaker 2: when we went to Seattle, gave us all of these
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  Speaker 2: great recommendations, which, by the way, we also, as I
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  Speaker 2: also said, we got to go and have dinner together.
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  Speaker 2: Samantha had already left, unfortunately, but I got to go.
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  Speaker 2: We went to a place called Kamam Neegie and it
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  Speaker 2: is run by a woman chef and they make soba noodles,
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  Speaker 2: which I believe they're one of only two places in
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  Speaker 2: the US that do it officially, so anyway to shout
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  Speaker 2: that out. But Rose was a very big proponent that
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  Speaker 2: I needed to try teriyaki, which at first I was
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  Speaker 2: kind of like, I've had taraiaki, I'm good. But then
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  Speaker 2: with much not much convincing. It doesn't take much convincing,
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  Speaker 2: but okay, so I'm convincing. I had it and I
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  Speaker 2: loved it, and so I'm going to try to make it.
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  Speaker 1: But I used sak in the recipe.
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  Speaker 3: That's one thing we didn't do. Like Rose suggested a
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  Speaker 3: great bonch on Korean spot ran by a woman and
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  Speaker 3: it was very delicious. Thank you very much for that recommendation.
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  Speaker 3: Also an oyster place in Fremont, I believe, and it
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  Speaker 3: was very delicious. And yeah, we went to all the
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  Speaker 3: women places. That's what we like. That's the way we
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  Speaker 3: like it. Thank you, Rose. But yeah, I got I
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  Speaker 3: missed out on the gathering together and the soba and
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  Speaker 3: the and the tariocky, but I got.
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  Speaker 1: To get eat all that good stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, so you got to put into wow.
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  Speaker 1: Ideal of I apologize.
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  Speaker 2: I am so sorry, but I mean that kind of
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  Speaker 2: leads into my next point. This episode is sort of
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  Speaker 2: a two things I want to examine. One is just
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  Speaker 2: general updates, and then one is about Pride, because Pride
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  Speaker 2: just happened in Atlanta. But yeah, we have been busy.
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  Speaker 2: We have, Samantha and I have had a lot of
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  Speaker 2: life events, some good, some bad. Some of them have
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  Speaker 2: been fun and some of them have been traumatic. I
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  Speaker 2: kind of feel like my life is in complete disarray
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  Speaker 2: right now. I know some of you know about my
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  Speaker 2: ear issue. It's really bad right now, and it's partly
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  Speaker 2: because I'm so busy, and it just takes a long
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  Speaker 2: time to fix it or try to fix it.
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  Speaker 1: If you if you want more information, I'll give it
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  Speaker 1: to you.
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  Speaker 2: But I just don't think it's very interesting. Essentially, it's
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  Speaker 2: just as a long process. And I'll also like, we've
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  Speaker 2: just been so busy, and I didn't know I was
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  Speaker 2: going to get jury duty.
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  Speaker 3: That was That was the extra wrench that was thrown
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  Speaker 3: in and we were like what wait.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because you had just had COVID.
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  Speaker 3: I had just gone back from COVID. Me Like, I
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  Speaker 3: still sound discussing even today, I still sound kind of gross, because.
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  Speaker 2: Right so I was kind of covering for you during
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  Speaker 2: that time, and then I had Jerry duty, and you've
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  Speaker 2: covered for me, and so just a lot of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But also during Jerry duty, I have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: plans because it's also it's Halloween. It's like October, It's
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  Speaker 2: one of my favorite times. So I had this plans
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  Speaker 2: with friends of like painting pumpkins and putting up degregations
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  Speaker 2: and going to our local haunted house, nether worlds and
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  Speaker 2: all of this stuff, which was all really fun. But
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  Speaker 2: I could tell my friends were like, are you okay?
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  Speaker 3: That just bought me a constant though. We all checked
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  Speaker 3: in with you sometimes, like you.
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  Speaker 1: Good, you're here, You're you're okay.
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  Speaker 3: How things going over here? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah I was off, I will I will say the
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  Speaker 2: whole week during Jersey duty, I was not.
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  Speaker 1: I was like barely someone would ask me something, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: god mm hmm.
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  Speaker 3: But they had texted you a couple of times, and
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  Speaker 3: it was just yeah, I'm not okay.
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  Speaker 2: And it sucked because I, you know, I want to
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  Speaker 2: do I feel like I took it really seriously. I
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  Speaker 2: want to do my civic duty. I'm glad I did.
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  Speaker 2: It was very traumatic. I will not say it wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: But you would get to the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: and I, you know, it reminds me of things you
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  Speaker 2: said when you used to work for child services. But
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  Speaker 2: I would just be like, I can't. I have time
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  Speaker 2: to do stuff, but I my brain is done.
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  Speaker 3: My brain is done, like it's over.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's no I can't even though there is
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  Speaker 2: time in this day left, it's pretty much done for me.
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  Speaker 2: But it was super fun. I've had such a great time.
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  Speaker 2: I do want to say I randomly fixed my shower.
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  Speaker 2: My shower has been broken for by broken, I mean
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  Speaker 2: slow draining, very slow draining for like I've talked about
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  Speaker 2: it on the show years.
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  Speaker 1: But I fixed it. And it's amazing. I like almost
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  Speaker 1: cried with toy when I was like, oh my.
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  Speaker 3: And the victory was also knowing that you did this.
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  Speaker 1: I did do it and it was totally accidental.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, and my toilet is fixed, which is great
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  Speaker 2: because I had a bunch of people come up to
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  Speaker 2: visit me for Pride that I was not anticipating. And
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  Speaker 2: there's nothing like having a toilet that doesn't work and
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  Speaker 2: you have a lot of people over. Also, I worked
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  Speaker 2: and voted early today. Yeah, and it was really really
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  Speaker 2: good experience. It was really organized so if you have
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity and that is something that works for you
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  Speaker 2: early voting.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmmm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: But I wanted to talk briefly about Pride, which Atlanta
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  Speaker 2: really does it up. I've been to Atlanta Pride in
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  Speaker 2: October twice. Once was accidental, and I've told that story
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  Speaker 2: where I accidentally got my car in the parade and
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  Speaker 2: got it covered in glitter. But the second time was
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  Speaker 2: years ago and I at the time it was much smaller.
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  Speaker 1: This was a huge. This was huge.
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  Speaker 2: And my friends who I have spoken about before have
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  Speaker 2: been my friend since elementary.
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  Speaker 1: School, middle school. They all came up. We all went together.
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  Speaker 2: I wore a rainbow light up cowboy hat that was
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  Speaker 2: a big hit with my friend Katie, who wore the
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  Speaker 2: same hat. That is from the episode of What We
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  Speaker 2: Do in the Shadows were Laslow the Pride Parade episode
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  Speaker 2: were Laslow really does it up? That's what it That's
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  Speaker 2: why I have it. Anyway, this was my first Pride
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  Speaker 2: event I think where I've been openly out when I went.
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  Speaker 2: The last time I went to this thing, I remember
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  Speaker 2: going up to the table. There was a table and
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  Speaker 2: it was like pick a pin based on how you
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  Speaker 2: identify and I panicked and ran away. So yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: this was my first time. I was nervous about it.
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately these events can be targets for hate crimes and stuff,
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  Speaker 2: but also just I haven't done it as like openly
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  Speaker 2: out person. And it was really really great. I had
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  Speaker 2: a great experience. The person next to us. The parade,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, must have been at least two and
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  Speaker 2: a half miles long or the parade just based on
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  Speaker 2: how long it lasted. And we didn't even stay for
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing because our feet started dart. But the
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  Speaker 2: person next to us on one side was an ACE
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  Speaker 2: person and she had a big ACE flag and I
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  Speaker 2: was wearing your ace the stuff you've given me, like
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  Speaker 2: the little hand warmers, and people in the parade would
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  Speaker 2: come up and be like my ACE people. It was
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  Speaker 2: really cool because I had kind of a anxiety about
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  Speaker 2: you know, oh that's not a thing, but it was.
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  Speaker 2: I saw it in a lot of places. And there
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  Speaker 2: was also a kind of a sex toy sex toy
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  Speaker 2: I hate that term. There's a better term, but you
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean, tent and it had an ACE
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  Speaker 2: flag in it that I really appreciated.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, yes, yes, yes, okay.
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  Speaker 2: And then on the other side of us, it was
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  Speaker 2: like a family and they had a young girl and
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  Speaker 2: she got every like give out item.
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  Speaker 1: You could imagine we were ignored for a girl that
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  Speaker 1: was the goal to get.
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  Speaker 2: It was very funny because we were like, finally we get something,
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  Speaker 2: and they would always go for the little girl.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you should have borrowed the little girl. I'll be like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: come over here.
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  Speaker 1: Well she started turning stuff down. She's like, it's too much.
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  Speaker 1: It was amazing. Honestly, I loved it.
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  Speaker 2: It was interesting though afterwards we all had to talk
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  Speaker 2: about how our parents never in a million lifetimes would
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  Speaker 2: have taken us to that park, but my parents more
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  Speaker 2: because they didn't like crowds, but everyone else because they
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  Speaker 2: were conservative.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: It was a day I wasn't expecting because I was
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  Speaker 2: recovering from Jerry duty. I haven't really had a day
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  Speaker 2: where I don't do anything yet. I'm going to try
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  Speaker 2: to do it this weekend. But it turned out to
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  Speaker 2: be so lovely and the weather was nice, and I
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  Speaker 2: haven't seen some of these friends of mine for so long,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, on time and we were just like melded
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  Speaker 2: together in that way, like good friends.
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  Speaker 1: You just do.
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  Speaker 2: And most of us are gay in some way, so
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  Speaker 2: it was just nice. It was nice to be like
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  Speaker 2: with them now that we're all sort of out, and
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  Speaker 2: be at Pride now that we're all sort of out,
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  Speaker 2: and have these conversations and just leisurely walk around and
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  Speaker 2: see these these shops and things. There was a cool
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  Speaker 2: place that was selling really risque art, but one of
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  Speaker 2: them was of like the Winter Soldier and Captain America together.
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  Speaker 2: There was like a sexy Darth Vader that was like
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  Speaker 2: call me Daddy.
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  Speaker 1: So fun. I had fun.
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  Speaker 2: And the parade was huge, and it did have one
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  Speaker 2: of the one of the sections was just people holding
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  Speaker 2: up characters who are gay and entertainment and there was
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  Speaker 2: a last of Us nice Yeah, a little banner that
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  Speaker 2: I really appreciated. That being said, you can listen to
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  Speaker 2: our past episodes on Pride and on Stonewall and on
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  Speaker 2: all that stuff. It was a very corporate parade, like
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  Speaker 2: every company you can imagine was there. There was also
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  Speaker 2: like plenty of organizations that.
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  Speaker 1: That was great.
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  Speaker 2: There were a lot of churches that were saying like,
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  Speaker 2: we're cool with gay people.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of churches.
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  Speaker 2: But so there was plenty of stuff that was really good,
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  Speaker 2: but like every company was there. One of the most
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  Speaker 2: interesting things to me was like a lot of like
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  Speaker 2: companies like Delta or south By, some West, all of
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  Speaker 2: them were there. And then later on in the parade
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  Speaker 2: there was a whole group that was like pay your flight.
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  Speaker 3: I love that good.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, so it's still that spirit is still alive
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  Speaker 2: and well, but it is it was so corporate. And
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  Speaker 2: one of the other things is like one of the
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  Speaker 2: points of contention or argument around Pride a lot is
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  Speaker 2: the presence of police. And it was cool to see
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  Speaker 2: police with like pink vess and stuff like that. But
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  Speaker 2: at the same time you're like, hmm, the history here,
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  Speaker 2: and like are we honoring this history? Also because it's
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  Speaker 2: an election year, so much political stuff, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: we we were like at the front of the little
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  Speaker 2: fencing and we're very like yeah, go and you feel
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  Speaker 2: bad because they're at the end of parade. Where we
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  Speaker 2: were is the end of parade, and so people were
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  Speaker 2: tired of cheering by that point, but also people were
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  Speaker 2: tired of marching. But so we would try to be
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  Speaker 2: like the people, you know, they're still like yeah, but
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  Speaker 2: there were some people I was like, oh no, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know about this, but some.
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  Speaker 1: Of the politicians. I was like, oh, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about you. I'm just gonna look over it.
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  Speaker 3: No, seriously, I think my friend part Cannon was in
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  Speaker 3: the parade too, did you.
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  Speaker 2: See Yeah, she was her Yes, yeah, yeah, And I
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  Speaker 2: mean it is important and it is like a selection season,
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not mad at that specifically. It was just
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  Speaker 2: one of those things where there are a couple of
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  Speaker 2: instances where like, I don't know if I want to this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's be very clear. Part Canon is a part
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  Speaker 3: of the community. She identified as being queer. She always
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  Speaker 3: has been. It's never been like, oh, like surprised it's
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  Speaker 3: a new thing, and it's never been a question of
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  Speaker 3: her alliance Slash being in this community. So for her
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  Speaker 3: to be a part of this parade, yeah, makes absolute sense.
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  Speaker 3: Like everything yet, so it's not like she's just doing
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  Speaker 3: it for political gain. It is a part of her.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely, and you can hear her. She's been on
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  Speaker 2: our Yeah. I think she was wearing like a sign
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  Speaker 2: that said like I'm a queer state representative or something like.
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  Speaker 3: She's probably like I know that. The conversations, like there's
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  Speaker 3: so like a few. There's only a few in our
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  Speaker 3: in our government, in the state government, so her and
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, like but one of the representatives from
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  Speaker 3: Gwennette he's a part of the quick community as well.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if he was part of that, but
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  Speaker 3: I know the two of them like do a lot together.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that was great, of course, But yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: was just one of those things where sometimes I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Right, it could be kind of feels gross because your
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  Speaker 3: reputation may not align with why you're exactly.
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  Speaker 2: But it was a really I got kind of teary
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  Speaker 2: eyed when I was walking home because I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I've never I've never experienced it where I felt.
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  Speaker 1: Like, oh, yeah, I'm gay, Like I don't know. It
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  Speaker 1: was just a really I'm glad I did it. I
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  Speaker 1: almost didn't.
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  Speaker 2: I was so tired from jury duty and everything else
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  Speaker 2: that's been going on. But it was a really nice
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  Speaker 2: experience and my friends were great and I'm so happy
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  Speaker 2: I got to see them. Also, asexuality or in this
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  Speaker 2: week is coming up. I think it's a twenty second,
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  Speaker 2: but it's that time period.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I sort of forget a lot of times we've
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  Speaker 2: talked about this before. I sort of forget in October.
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  Speaker 2: There's a bunch of there's a lot of pride stuff
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  Speaker 2: I always associated with June, but October is certainly a
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  Speaker 2: better time to have paraded in Atlanta. So I'm all
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  Speaker 2: for it, and I would love to hear from anybody
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  Speaker 2: else who has gone to Pride events or has thoughts
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  Speaker 2: about things like this, because it was.
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  Speaker 1: I felt.
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  Speaker 2: I I feel like something unlocked in me doing it,
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  Speaker 2: So I would love to hear from you listeners. If
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