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The Big Gay After Show: May 19th, 2026 - Robert Rigsby (Rockell Blu) · The Big Gay Radio Show

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  The views expressed on The Big Gay After Show may not
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  necessarily reflect the views of the Nathan B Stubblefield
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  Foundation or those of the staff or management of WMNF Tampa.
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  Listener discretion is advised. Unfiltered, unbothered, and
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  unapologetically queer. Welcome to the Big Gay After
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  show. Welcome to the big Gay After
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  show. I forgot what we're doing today.
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  Welcome to the big Gay After Show.
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  My name is Chris Gorman. I'm a show twink here, joined by
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  the electric trans queen of radio, Miss Esme Russell.
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  Merry Christmas. And we're also joined by
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  extremely special guests. We are joined by Raquel Blue,
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  otherwise known as Robert Rigsby, creator of Closet Ball
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  Tampa Bay and also Roca Productions.
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  Welcome into the studio. Is this thing on?
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  It is on yes. It's just the worst.
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  What a way to start the show. Me saying Merry Christmas and
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  you and you asking hello, hello, hello, hello.
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  Is this thing on? Just making sure.
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  That is just the fucking worst. I'm sorry, but it is.
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  It's that kind of day. It's just that terrible.
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  I'm like, are you serious? Is this thing on?
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  Well, so for those who do not know, we'll, we'll, we'll start
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  with Roka production. So what is Roka?
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  What is? What is Roka?
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  It is actually pronounced Roka. Is it Roka?
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  Yes, everyone says Roka, which is really funny, but it it was
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  my first, the first 2 letters of my name and my old business
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  partner Casey. We started back in 2015 because
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  we had gone to pageants and we were seeing all these dancers,
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  but they weren't trained dancers.
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  I get that. I get what you mean.
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  Like you could tell like they were using.
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  Them they were sloppy and and it was they weren't as as refined,
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  yes. As technical.
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  So that's kind of what we saw was a niche for us to make some
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  extra money and it worked. I'm still here.
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  Awesome. So for somebody to go ahead and,
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  you know, come up to you and be like, hey, I want to get
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  production going. How does that work?
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  What what do you go ahead and do?
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  What's your? Problem, you know, The thing is,
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  is that first it was all about word of mouth and then I got
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  onto Facebook and create a page and actually the thing was it's
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  just us showing up to different pageants and different events.
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  That was how we have survived. People don't really go to our
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  website, they kind of just say hey, I need dancers or they just
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  randomly call me I need dancers for this, I need go go dancers,
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  I need promo models. So it's very much of A word of
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  mouth thing still. And one of the things I do love
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  about Rocket Productions is I believe if you don't have work,
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  you can create it. So that's what I really had to
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  do was create the work, creating work for myself as a dancer who
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  moved to Florida at 35 years old.
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  I wasn't going to work at Busch Gardens because I was 35 years
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  old. You know, I'd just been dancing
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  in Las Vegas for 11 years and I'd come work at Busch Gardens.
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  That was another story for another day.
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  But it was very much, it's provided me work for a very long
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  time. And the places that we've, we've
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  traveled all over the United States performing and that has
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  been a blessing in itself because I really didn't expect
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  to come to Florida and just be dancing in Boston or dancing in
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  Chicago or. Have you ever worked for Busch
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  Gardens? I have.
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  Is it just me or is Busch Gardens in decline?
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  Yes. Well, I don't go to theme parks
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  because I don't do rides. I just drink.
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  I will jump on that and say, yes, I love.
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  I love love, love, love, love, love Busch Gardens.
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  My actually fun fact about me is that we've had me and my
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  parents, my family have had passes to Busch Gardens since I
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  was a toddler. And what's so funny about that
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  is that they never adjusted the price.
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  So we have a full on like past nowadays platinum pass for the
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  same price of a toddler price back in 2003.
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  So we, we've not increased the pricing.
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  So I for the people who have to pay full price, I feel as though
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  it is a little bit of a disservice the fact that they
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  are in, in the current state that they are currently in.
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  There's a lot of times where I see people arguing or not
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  arguing, complaining about the fact that rides are shut down,
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  multiple rides are shut down and it's a it's a mess.
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  It's it's a mess and shut it down.
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  I don't, I don't think Busch Gardens should be shut down
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  entirely. I think it needs to be revamped
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  a little bit more. Yeah, it looks kind of seedy.
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  It's, it's, you know, The thing is it when I first moved here, I
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  was excited to go to Busch Gardens because I had been to
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  some of the other parks when I was on tour.
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  And it was really exciting to see Bush because I'd like to go
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  see the shows. That's all I want to see.
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  I've never looked at a Bush and wanted to look at it.
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  Oh my God. And you know.
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  What you said, you said you don't have to look.
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  At the Bush. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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  I've never, so I've never in my life wanted to look at nobody's
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  Bush. Same here, I got to get a
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  haircut reminds me. But I do like to see shows and
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  theme parks. That's what I do, that's what I
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  want to see. So literally I just go from show
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  to show. I saw the ice skating Christmas
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  show and I liked it. It was really good.
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  I I haven't been to Busch Gardens any.
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  Yeah, it was really good. They were really good.
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  They're very talented. Yeah, they're great people.
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  I follow some of them on social media as well because I just
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  like to, you know, whenever I need.
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  The dancers do the dancers make good money there?
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  I think it is a perspective of why the dancers are so young.
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  I don't think the money is great there.
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  I think it's great if you're new and you're trying to get in the
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  career of being a professional dancer.
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  I think that is great. Because they prefer young
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  dancers. Yeah, yeah.
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  They're all young and, you know, moldable.
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  They don't know what's out there yet.
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  And it's easier to say you are late and, and you know, get that
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  excuse. But for me, like, I'm late, I'm
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  grown. I'm trying to do my best to be
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  on on time. And, you know, in the world of
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  entertainment, 15 minutes is early.
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  Yes, on time is late. Yes, exactly.
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  We say, we always say. That on this?
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  Oh, absolutely. We just said it today.
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  Yes. And we actually we were thinking
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  about you. Oh yeah, absolutely.
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  And you know what? I stayed in contact.
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  Yes, it was not. It was not.
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  And yeah. Yeah, it wasn't messy.
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  It wasn't messy. No 'cause if you don't stay in
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  contact, that is messy. That is definitely.
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  Well, you don't know if they're coming or not.
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  Chris kept saying she's gonna be here, She's gonna be here.
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  Eventually. Eventually.
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  'Cause I called him when all this thing went down and
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  everything like that. But you know, sometimes, like,
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  especially with the prices of gas right now, like Uber
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  drivers. Oh, sorry, sorry.
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  Uber drivers are choosing not to take certain rides because of
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  more gas. It costs more money.
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  Like the driver that I had, his name is Albert Awesome was
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  explaining to me like the people that are in your area, if your
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  ride is further away, they're looking at how much gas it's
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  going to cost them to get there and to get back because of the
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  gas prices have changed it and they're not making as much money
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  as Uber and Lyft drivers as they were.
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  They were making about 60%. Now they're making about 30%
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  and. Then also the people that don't
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  tip, that's got to be very. Was your driver local?
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  Was he here from Tampa or from Saint Pete?
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  He was from Clearwater. So yeah, so he took a little
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  drive. Yeah, he did, definitely.
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  Because I don't know where Sumner is.
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  And Sufner, Sufner, Sufner, Yeah, I've never even heard.
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  We're not in Sufner, dear. I, I I know this.
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  Yeah, well anyways, going back to to you.
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  So closet ball. What is closet ball?
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  Closet Ball is a amateur drag pad that I started 11 years ago
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  in October for a fundraiser for King of Peace.
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  It was supposed to be fun and, you know, just kind of can't be
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  to raise money for the church. And it became something I didn't
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  expect it to. The idea was based off of the
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  closet Vault that Nevada Gay Rodeo Association has in Las
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  Vegas. So I kind of took the idea, but
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  I do give them credit and I kind of ran with it.
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  And that first year Georgia Moore was my first winner.
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  She went on to go to National Comedy Queen.
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  She won some another title after Closet Ball and then she went on
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  to national coming National Comedy Queen where she placed
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  11th for her first time and she had only been doing drag for
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  three months. So I kind of figured I might be
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  good at this. And then I did it again the next
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  year and then it was again for the church and then after that
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  the church and I went separate directions and then I was
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  producing it myself. But what it has evolved from is
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  not just a fundraiser, it is an organization where now we raise
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  thousands of dollars every year for various organizations.
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  That is something I took on a couple years ago.
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  It was meant to when you step down, the reigning person
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  chooses the organization that the new person will raise money
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  for, for the following year. So it is, you know, we did Divas
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  and dialogue and we were able to get a couple of women of color
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  who were trans into their own apartment where it was paid for
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  in full. We were able to get them to DC
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  last year. We worked with assistance of
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  perpetual indulgence and we were able to raise a lot of money for
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  them. And I actually got to be a
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  sister for a day, like a real sister.
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  I live sister. I need a vaca.
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  I need a. What I need a vaca?
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  I need a vaca. What was it?
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  Fondi was my raining clouds about winter last year when I
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  did it. So she gave me that name and I
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  was like, that's cute. So this year we're doing Shelter
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  Strong and Largo because I've been working with them trying to
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  get the unhoused housing and that's been a journey in itself.
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  So it's a great thing 'cause I get to teach these kids who are
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  new in the community how to promote themselves, how to make
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  themselves business people. We did have Closetball here a
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  couple weeks ago, Morgana Morgan.
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  And it's also giving them experiences that they're not
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  going to get. Just being out there in a while
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  doing talent nights, getting a seat at the table was pretty
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  much what I do. It's taking them and letting
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  them know these are the things that you can be doing.
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  These are how you can show your face more.
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  You know a lot of people are going to tell you when you do
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  these contests every week, get new costumes, work on your
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  makeup. You need to make sure you have
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  your nails on. No ones going to tell you that
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  at those old competitions. Not that I'm I'm bashing them in
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  any way, shape or form. Don't get it corrected, but
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  there's no one there to help you.
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  And with Clausible, I get to be their biggest fan for 365 days
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  and give them the opportunities to do exactly what they need,
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  what they want, and introduce them to people who are in the
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  business, who have been around the business for a very long
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  time and know their stuff. Absolutely.
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  And if I remember correctly from the Morgana interview, the one
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  of the requirements is that you have to have only been doing
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  drag for less than three years, right?
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  That's a very, very interesting requirement because you know,
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  you see a lot of pageants that don't necessarily even have like
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  any sort of that other than like the newcomer pageants.
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  So it's, that's a very unique thing.
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  And I honestly, I think that it's really noble because it's
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  really hard to compete against somebody who's been doing drag
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  for 10/15/20 years. Like if Esme were to go into
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  Saint Pete Pride or something like that, she'd swipe the floor
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  like. We're not gonna do that.
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  But. But yeah, it's it's a guideline.
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  But even when you're good girl, sometimes they rig those
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  pageants. I'm sorry, but they do.
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  Period. Or or or what they do is they
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  they pack the judges table with judges that lean towards a
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  certain group or a certain person.
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  Or style. Yeah, or so and and making
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  making the judge judges table, not not rigging the pageant, but
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  making it ineffective to pick the right one, correct.
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  You see what I'm saying, right? So.
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  Because a lot of times you don't see the the behind the scenes
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  and the work that goes into things with pageants.
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  But this one it, it's, it's plain as day.
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  You have one hour to go get into drag makeup with a makeup artist
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  to help her. It's not a lot of long time.
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  No, it's not. It's very.
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  It's very. Hard to people.
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  People must get really nervous. It's.
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  So much fun. It's, it's a lot of fun because
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  you know, the one thing I tell people is, yes, have fun because
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  this is not going to be something that you're going to
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  get to do most of the time in your career more than once.
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  You've got to practice before you get there.
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  Absolutely it's in. It's in their information packet
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  to practice with your makeup artist so you don't go out there
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  for the first. Time and they can't do their own
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  makeup. They cannot, which is a prereq.
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  One of the first things that I tell drag children is learn to
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  do your own makeup. Right, right.
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  Because nobody like can be depended on all the time, you
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  know what I'm saying? So.
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  Well, I I do remember a drag queen in Las Vegas that never
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  painted her own face. She literally had a makeup
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  artist. Paul doesn't.
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  No, I know. No, she doesn't.
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  That's my sister that does her makeup.
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  But yeah, it was one of those things where I wanted people to,
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  well, before it was just to be fun.
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  But now it's more of a serious system now where people aren't
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  my my girls are, and my guys are going to national pageants now
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  and getting them there, choreographing talents for them,
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  especially with rocket productions and getting them
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  outside. Now you have a You have the male
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  Mr. Closet Ball and the female. No, Closet ball is a general
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  title. It does not have a gender or a
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  sexuality or all of the above. It is for anyone in any kind of
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  draft. So when the contestants compete,
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  they compete against each other and anybody could win, then a
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  man could beat out a queen. So I don't like that you could
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  never get me as a contestant in that kind of foolish, you know,
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  I'm telling that's just pure foolishness. yo-yo, I'll, I'll
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  tell you the truth. I'll.
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  But you know, I'm not gonna lie to you.
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  Well, I think that it's, it's everybody's personal
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  perspective. Cause honestly from an
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  individual's perspective, I would love to see an Esme
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  Russell versus Apollo Infinity drag off.
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  Not doing it 'cause let God forbid we get a bunch of his
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  friends on the judges table, then they then he ends up
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  winning and I sit and I sit there in the corner going.
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  I know this man did not beat me well.
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  You know, the thing that I do about I'm very specific.
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  I do have a formula for my judges and it's it stays the
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  same way. Every year.
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  I pick one of my judges is the winner from last year.
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  So this year Fondy will be on the judges panel.
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  I pick a local celebrity who has no idea anything about drag
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  whatsoever. And then I pick usually a male
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  entertainer and a female entertainer.
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  That's the other one. See, I'm because I for
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  pageantry. You got to realize though, I've
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  done a lot of pageantry. One of the things that used to
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  shock me all the time is when they start reading off the
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  judges panel and they go. And by the way, from A&B florist
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  shop right here, just as an example, or, or Sunshine Florist
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  shop right here in Ybor City. Hold on a second, a florist
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  judging my drag. What does a florist know about
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  makeup, hair, wigs? You know what I'm saying?
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  It would just send me into a tizzy.
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  I would just panic because let's just face it, drag is very hard.
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  It's very hard. It's very.
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  And it's very expensive. Right.
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  It's not good drag because anybody can do drag, but good
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  drug, it's expensive. Well, one of the things about
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  closet Ball, it is a very serious pageant.
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  But ideally what I want people to do is one of the rules I tell
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  all of my judges every year. You can take away the makeup,
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  you can take away the drag clothes.
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  Do you have a person that is talented?
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  Can I book this person to work next week?
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  That's what I'm looking for. Because all of the aesthetics of
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  drag can be fixed, can be helped and the drive for people.
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  You can't buy that. You can't teach that.
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  It's something that has to be there.
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  And that's why I always have a judge that doesn't have anything
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  to do with the drag community because I want to see from their
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  perspective. Are you entertained by this
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  person? And then the other, you know, I
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  have, you know, the former there because they have gone through
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  it. So they know exactly what I'm
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  looking for because they've just done it.
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  And then I have, you know, a male and female representing
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  judges on the panel every year. So that if I do have a male
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  contestant, there is the male perspective as well as the
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  female perspective. So that fifth spot is always
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  kind of a who's available or usually I keep it for like the
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  one stepping down, like is there a person you would like to see
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  perform at closet ball? So I usually leave that spot.
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  What did you have in? I know, I know.
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  You did it at Hamburger Mary's for years.
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  Yeah, it was at Hamburger Mary's last year.
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  It was at Shelter Strong, which is no longer there.
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  So you have to move it again now.
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  I have to move it again this year.
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  What? What are you thinking of?
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  I'm, I'm looking at, just looking at a couple of venues.
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  I know that Morgana Morgan, who's our reigning, she performs
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  a lot at Disco Pony. So we're looking at that because
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  it it would actually be a great venue.
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  But I am also looking at now that I have to find another
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  venue, the expenses of what it's going to cost me to produce it
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  this year. So that is always a huge
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  difference on where it goes, but it has to be somewhere local.
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  Yeah, of course, because you're doing it right here.
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  It's a lot. Of how many years have you done
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  it now? In October it will be 11 eleven
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  11th anniversary. I know it's exciting like all of
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  these people that I you know, Adam Cole, he was my first male
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  winner is my best friend. He's like my little brother, but
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  he does better than me. But you know, taking him and
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  learning all the things that I had to learn too.
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  For a male entertainer, how he needs to look at all times, how
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  he needs to represent the kind of music that he needs to start
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  performing. And I learned a lot from him.
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  And every, every year I learned Morgana is blue.
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  So learning and learning. We we interviewed her here.
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  Yeah, she came very normal looking, but you know.
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  She's amazing. I mean, like she loves the idea
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  of Comic Con. She loves the idea of, you know,
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  characters and anime and things like that.
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  So what I've been doing is investing time and learning
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  about Comic Con. I am a, I'm a stickler about,
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  I'm a stickler about so many things, you know, but even the
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  name of a person, you know, the name of a person has a lot to do
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  with how they're going to navigate in the, especially in
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  our industry, you know what I mean?
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  I always tell Queens avoid names that are offensive, that offend,
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  you know what I mean? Yeah, I think that's important
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  because I think when you're younger you're trying to have
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  something that's fun or effective.
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  But when I even when I was choosing my drag name, it was
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  something that related to what I do, which is rock Hell, which is
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  2 words ROCKHELL. As a dancer, that's what I want
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  people to know, that I'm going to rock it out on the stage.
• 19:39
  So it's and this. Is my favorite color.
• 19:41
  And then if God were to come, you'd go to hell.
• 19:46
  Well, I'm just saying when he saw you up there at high heels
• 19:50
  in a makeup, he was said you straight.
• 19:52
  So I get it. You're rocking it out while
• 19:54
  you're going to hell seeing. Curtains.
• 19:58
  I got to put curtains in there 'cause it's going to be hot.
• 20:01
  We're all going here. We'll be there alone.
• 20:02
  We're all going to be sitting down there with many little mini
• 20:05
  air conditioners trying to cool off.
• 20:08
  It's going to be warm, but we won't be alone.
• 20:12
  Well, you know, one of the things I forgot is with 'cause
• 20:16
  about how fun it actually is during the year for me is
• 20:20
  learning different aspects of drag, 'cause even as a promoter
• 20:23
  and the owner, I'm learning so many different aspects of drag,
• 20:26
  which helps my drag as well. So learning from these, these
• 20:32
  younger entertainers, like you know, Fondy was on the radio
• 20:36
  show too. I think all of them have been on
• 20:38
  here in the past four years. Yeah, at least if I remember
• 20:42
  correctly. I think most of them have been
• 20:44
  on here, yeah. You came to our nighttime show.
• 20:47
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 20:48
  So that's a rough one, wasn't it, that.
• 20:49
  Was more it was rough. Could you imagine if I had been
• 20:52
  late doing that this morning? We.
• 20:53
  Did it we would have been fine. We, we did it for years.
• 20:56
  I mean, we did it, you know, we talk about it all the time.
• 20:58
  How many years we did it And, and it was it was hard.
• 21:01
  It was that 12 to 3 three. I mean literally, you have to
• 21:05
  stay up past your bedtime to get to work well.
• 21:09
  What I always did was I always went to sleep early so I could
• 21:12
  wake up and I didn't bring anything to drink at all.
• 21:16
  Yeah, well, you can't drink in here.
• 21:18
  No, I know. But like I usually really
• 21:20
  thirsty late at night, so I always had like something
• 21:22
  because I know that you have to have it by the wall, but.
• 21:25
  Yeah. Well, even in here it has to be
• 21:28
  in a closed container. Yeah.
• 21:30
  But I think we got in trouble because of our, our Co, our Co
• 21:35
  anchor or host Brian, I think he had a drink or something.
• 21:39
  They saw him on camera. No, he was eating.
• 21:42
  Ohh he was eating, he was eating.
• 21:43
  I'm gonna tell you, Candy by the board.
• 21:45
  By before he got caught I had been doing it for not eating,
• 21:48
  but I had been drinking in my for a long time.
• 21:50
  Hmm. You know, just I don't even, I
• 21:53
  don't know how it happened. But I remember the last time I
• 21:55
  was eating nuts and cranberries from the gas station that was
• 21:59
  next door. Yeah.
• 22:00
  Yeah. But it's fine.
• 22:01
  But yeah. Yeah, but eating when you're
• 22:03
  talking on the mic is just not great.
• 22:05
  I'm not into AMSR. I'm not into it.
• 22:08
  I can't stand. It what is what is MASR?
• 22:12
  It's like the the when like you're listen to something and
• 22:15
  it gives you like that tingly feeling and stuff like that.
• 22:18
  It's like where you like see people on TikTok and everything
• 22:21
  like that and they're intentionally making the noise.
• 22:23
  So it's autonomous sensory Meridian response, a deeply
• 22:27
  relaxing static like tingling sensation that typically starts
• 22:32
  at the scalp and moves down the neck and spine.
• 22:34
  Can I tell you what sets me off? And, and we were talking about
• 22:37
  it yesterday and I you're wearing flip flops today, but
• 22:43
  those those flip flops had the two straps that like they called
• 22:48
  the lesbian flip flops. Oh my God, do you know which
• 22:50
  ones I'm talking about? OK, let me say something.
• 22:53
  What's the company that makes them I?
• 22:55
  Have no idea. OK, they're not cheap, by the
• 22:57
  way. They're very expensive.
• 22:59
  They're like the Dark Martins for lesbians.
• 23:01
  OK. Yeah, they're like $100.
• 23:03
  They're not cheap, These flip flops, I can't stand seeing them
• 23:06
  on men. OK, well, I can't stand seeing
• 23:09
  them on women. First of all, I don't know what
• 23:12
  it is about those flip flops. And last night I was with my son
• 23:16
  Shane and my my daughter Veronica.
• 23:19
  We were at the movie, watching the movie and this guy, I
• 23:23
  arrived early with Shane cause Veronica was with Autumn V.
• 23:26
  They had gone to dinner somewhere.
• 23:27
  So I'm sitting there in the theater getting ready to walk in
• 23:31
  to go see our movie. And Shane says to me, look at
• 23:33
  those flip flops. I've got a pair at home.
• 23:35
  And I look at the guy's feet and I go, don't you ever wear those
• 23:38
  flip flops around me because those flip flops are nasty, He
• 23:42
  said. You don't like, I'm gonna say I
• 23:43
  have a phobia about those flip flops.
• 23:46
  So do you have a phobia with the sound, the crunchings and the
• 23:49
  paper? Oh yeah, It's like, like one of
• 23:51
  my biggest pet peeve is to hear people eat.
• 23:54
  And a lot of times like they will make you know.
• 23:57
  Noises. Sounds like crunching and.
• 24:01
  It does sound gross, right? It sounds very primal.
• 24:04
  Like that one of the OK Speaking of movies and Veronica.
• 24:08
  PS I'm referring back. Veronica was our host for Closet
• 24:11
  Ball last year and I think I've already asked her to host it
• 24:15
  again this year. But anyway, point of story, I
• 24:17
  don't go to movies because I hate the sound of popcorn.
• 24:19
  OK. Yeah, like hearing popcorn
• 24:21
  crunching during a movie. So I don't even notice it.
• 24:25
  So what's going to happen now, bitch?
• 24:30
  It's now the next time I'm in a fucking movie theater, I'm going
• 24:34
  to become hyper aware of the fucking sounds around me because
• 24:37
  that's what you just did right now, you fucking bitch.
• 24:39
  You just planted, you planted a seed in my mind and now I'm
• 24:44
  going to be like, man, this fucking theater is noisy as
• 24:46
  hell. You know what I mean?
• 24:48
  Because that's what happens. You somebody says something,
• 24:51
  can't unhear it. So I hope that the next time you
• 24:53
  see those flip flops, you think of me.
• 24:55
  I will think. Of I just stare at them.
• 24:59
  There was a really good looking guy last night with a pair on,
• 25:02
  mind you, very handsome guy. He had nice feet.
• 25:06
  Even with those nice feet I couldn't look at them.
• 25:10
  Fucking ugly ass. I wanted to walk up and say
• 25:12
  don't wear those shoes again, man, you're so fucking cute.
• 25:16
  You look like a lesbitarian in those those shoes.
• 25:19
  I'm going to go to Gulfport Pride and I'm going to take all
• 25:22
  the pictures of. Those shoes, people wear them
• 25:25
  there. Gulfport pride.
• 25:27
  Come on now girl, think about it.
• 25:28
  I just don't even. I can't even about it.
• 25:30
  I can't. I can't even imagine.
• 25:33
  No, seriously, I don't know what it is about about those shoes,
• 25:35
  but it really freaking affects me.
• 25:37
  And I try to like hold it like like I, I, I look at them and I
• 25:42
  start doing these weird contorted things with my face.
• 25:45
  Like it's like almost like I'm having a moment or something, I
• 25:48
  don't know. Well, I, I definitely have a
• 25:50
  tail like when it comes down to people eating, which is why like
• 25:52
  videos, like I'll watch a video, but I'll put it on silent when
• 25:55
  they start eating it, but like. Chris, any phobias like that?
• 26:00
  No, not really. You guys are really fucking
• 26:02
  weird to be honest. I don't know, we're weird.
• 26:04
  It's. Just not weird, it's just I
• 26:06
  can't. Some people can't do it, yeah.
• 26:08
  Well, I I know growing up my dad always had that smacking sound
• 26:11
  when he was eating and it just drove me insane for years.
• 26:15
  Yeah, I would give anything to hear it again, but.
• 26:18
  That's something. So you know what, what my it's
• 26:20
  not really a phobia, but it's the literally the most annoying
• 26:24
  thing that somebody else can do around me is overstay the
• 26:28
  conversation. When I'm having a conversation
• 26:30
  with somebody and another person comes in and then I go back to
• 26:34
  talking to the person that I was originally talking to and the
• 26:37
  guy just kind of stands there and just watches.
• 26:40
  Yeah, I'm like, I'm not a fucking entertaining.
• 26:41
  He also he also. Now come to think of it, he also
• 26:45
  hates breathing in the microphone.
• 26:46
  No, I think that was worse than the long conversation.
• 26:51
  Girl, this motherfuckers got an ear like a fucking deer in the
• 26:55
  forest. He will come back the next week
• 26:57
  about I don't know who was breathing in the fucking mic
• 27:00
  last week, but I could. I could hear it's like Darth
• 27:06
  Vader. It sounds like Darth Vader.
• 27:08
  But I get it though, because you're trying to be
• 27:10
  professional. You want the image of the show
• 27:13
  to look good, and that's just not a good look.
• 27:16
  It's a good time, Jesus. Jesus.
• 27:20
  You know the the other thing? When I was working in Ohio at
• 27:26
  Cedar Point, I used to watch this little video called Tiny
• 27:29
  Kitchen. I don't know if you've seen it,
• 27:32
  but it I was obsessed with it. Just sitting there at work every
• 27:35
  day watching this little tiny chef cook.
• 27:38
  Tiny. Tiny little food, tiny kitchen.
• 27:41
  But wait a minute and he cooks on a tiny little frying pan and
• 27:44
  tiny little pot. And when he makes the the little
• 27:47
  rice rice pot was this tiny like this little.
• 27:51
  That's that's my thing, but. Who the hell it's?
• 27:54
  Relaxing to me. So I was like, hold on, 'cause I
• 28:00
  like rice a lot. The rice pot really freaked me
• 28:03
  out because as a, you know, of a Cuban ancestry, when I eat rice,
• 28:07
  I have to have a lot of rice. OK, more than the actual food.
• 28:10
  I'd eat a lot of heavy rice. So I'm looking at the pot.
• 28:12
  There might have been in the little pot maybe 14 grains.
• 28:16
  I'd like it so cool. Like the little filet mignons
• 28:18
  are like I don't know how they make it.
• 28:20
  I don't I don't understand. Yeah, the little piece of steak
• 28:23
  is so tiny. Not it all looks real too,
• 28:25
  right? And I just don't understand.
• 28:28
  So cute. And like, you know, like this,
• 28:30
  the stove is done with like a little tea candle and then the
• 28:35
  little refrigerators and the little knives.
• 28:38
  I just don't know. But that's.
• 28:39
  But does that show still exist? Yes, yes, I watch it all the
• 28:43
  time. What?
• 28:43
  Channel. Is it on?
• 28:44
  It's on YouTube. Oh, I've got to.
• 28:47
  What is it called? Tiny kitchen.
• 28:49
  Tiny kitchen. I've got to go look this up.
• 28:51
  It's. So much fun.
• 28:52
  Oh, I'm going to watch it because you know that just I.
• 28:55
  I zoned out. I.
• 28:57
  Speaking of zoning out, I was zoned out the entirety of that.
• 29:01
  It doesn't matter. We, we were having our, we were
• 29:03
  having a very fun conversation. We're having a moment.
• 29:05
  Y'all's own moment. It's cute.
• 29:07
  Anyways, Miss Esme, what are we going to talk about on the after
• 29:10
  show or on the after? I have no idea.
• 29:11
  I have no topics. God damn.
• 29:13
  Today, today I really didn't do any topics and really today was
• 29:16
  one of those days when I should have done as many as possible.
• 29:19
  But but you told me, you kind of relaxed me when you said I got a
• 29:22
  lot of them. I always got a lot of topics.
• 29:24
  I got 18 pages worth of notes. There's definitely topics and
• 29:27
  topics and topics, but we've got an annoying Jingle permanently
• 29:31
  banned from Airways in California after their deceptive
• 29:36
  practices. We're going to go ahead and talk
• 29:38
  about that. After that, we're also going to
• 29:40
  go ahead and talk about that teacher in an uncensored
• 29:43
  fashion, the one that hung the black baby doll.
• 29:46
  We're going to definitely talk about that.
• 29:48
  Completely uncensored. Shakira acquitted in a Spanish
• 29:51
  tax fraud case. We'll talk about that and then I
• 29:55
  don't know what else we'll talk about.
• 29:56
  We'll talk about maybe Esmay's boobs a little bit, but first
• 29:59
  let's go ahead and throw it over to Claire Leeson from Project No
• 30:01
  Labels for our big gay News. Then over to Joanna Grasso for
• 30:04
  Joe on the Go, our community calendar.
• 30:06
  We'll be right back. I'm Claire Leeson from Project
• 30:11
  No Labels and this is your LGBTQ news from around the country and
• 30:15
  right here in Tampa Bay in Florida from watermark out news.
• 30:19
  Equality Florida Action Pack announced May 8th that Joe
• 30:23
  Saunders will serve as its first executive director.
• 30:26
  Saunders most recently served as Equality Florida Senior
• 30:29
  Political Director and is 1 of Floridas first openly LGBTQ plus
• 30:33
  state legislators. The Pack says his appointment
• 30:36
  comes as it prepares an aggressive 2026 strategy to
• 30:40
  elect pro equality candidates across the state.
• 30:43
  It's priorities include breaking up Republican super majorities
• 30:46
  in the Florida House and Senate, growing the number of LGBTQ plus
• 30:50
  lawmakers in Tallahassee. Also from Equality Florida,
• 30:54
  whole survivor and national LGBTQ plus advocate Brandon Wolf
• 30:58
  has rejoined the organization as senior director of communication
• 31:01
  Strategy. Wolf has become one of the
• 31:03
  country's most visible voices for LGBTQ plus equality and gun
• 31:07
  violence prevention since surviving the post tragedy.
• 31:10
  He Co founded the Drew Project, testified before Congress and
• 31:14
  later served as national press secretary for the Human Rights
• 31:17
  Campaign. His return comes just weeks
• 31:20
  before Orlando marks 10 years since the Pulse attack, and
• 31:23
  Equality Florida says he will help shape the organization's
• 31:26
  messaging during a critical time for LGBTQ plus Floridians in
• 31:31
  Orlando. From West to city.
• 31:33
  Officials have unveiled updated plans for the permanent memorial
• 31:37
  at the former Pulse nightclub site.
• 31:39
  The design includes the Angel Ellipse, A colonnade displaying
• 31:42
  the names of the 49 victims, along with a reflecting pool
• 31:46
  where the dance floor once stood.
• 31:48
  Plans include an obelisk marking the date of the attack, rainbow
• 31:52
  glass panels and a visitor pavilion.
• 31:54
  Construction is expected to begin in September and be
• 31:57
  completed by September 2027. In Sports News from ESPN, Jason
• 32:03
  Collins, the Nbas first openly gay player, has died of brain
• 32:06
  cancer at 47. Collins came out in a 2013
• 32:11
  Sports Illustrated cover story, becoming the first publicly gay
• 32:15
  athlete to play in one of North America's four major men's
• 32:18
  professional sports leagues. He retired in 2014 after a 13
• 32:22
  year NBA career and later served as a global ambassador for the
• 32:26
  sport. And finally, in international
• 32:28
  news from the Washington Blade, King Charles the Third said a
• 32:32
  transgender inclusive ban on so-called conversion therapy is
• 32:36
  among the British government's legislative priorities.
• 32:38
  The proposal would apply to England and Wales and follows
• 32:42
  years of debate over whether gender identity would be
• 32:44
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• 32:47
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• 32:48
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• 32:52
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• 33:00
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• 33:04
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• 33:07
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• 33:08
  Starting on Thursday, May 21st, St.
• 33:11
  Pete Pride in the Tampa Bay LGBT Chamber are hosting Pride
• 33:15
  Connect at Florida Rama from 6:00 to 8:00 PM is a networking
• 33:19
  and community event inside one of Saint Pete's most immersive
• 33:22
  art spaces, bringing together local professionals, creatives
• 33:25
  and community members for an evening of connection and
• 33:28
  interactive exhibits. Then over Memorial Day weekend
• 33:31
  on Monday, May 25th, a community gathering honoring fallen
• 33:34
  service members from Mcdill Air Force Base will take place at
• 33:38
  1920 Ybor in Tampa. The event is expecting to bring
• 33:41
  together veterans, local leaders, and community members
• 33:44
  for an evening of remembrance and support.
• 33:46
  And looking ahead to the end of the month, Saint Pete Pride Kick
• 33:48
  Off Weekend takes place May 29th through the 31st with this
• 33:52
  year's theme Here Comes the Sun. The weekend includes a street
• 33:56
  festival in the Grand Central District, community events,
• 33:58
  entertainment and celebration leading into Pride season.
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• 34:15
  You're listening to the only LGBTQ radio show in Tampa Bay,
• 34:19
  The Big Gay Radio Show on 88.5 WMNF.
• 34:25
  Welcome back to the Big Gay Radio Show.
• 34:27
  My name is Chris Gorman. I'm your show twink here, joined
• 34:29
  by the electric trans queen of radio, Miss Azmi Russell.
• 34:33
  Keep them flip flops off your feet.
• 34:34
  And Robert Rigsby, welcome into the studio.
• 34:37
  No chewing with Robert. No chewing.
• 34:40
  No. No smacking, no.
• 34:43
  No, no smacking and no no heavy breathing on the microphones
• 34:47
  with. Chris, So I had AI had a
• 34:49
  guidance counselor back in 6th grade who anytime that I saw
• 34:53
  her, I don't know if she was just caught, like I just caught
• 34:55
  her at the wrong times every time.
• 34:58
  But every time that she was there or that I would go and
• 35:01
  talk to her, she would be eating a salad literally every single
• 35:05
  time. And then and she would also go,
• 35:09
  yeah, yeah. And I'm like, bro, shut the fuck
• 35:13
  up. Like I don't want to hear your
• 35:15
  fucking smacking. Let's go move the fuck on.
• 35:17
  Anyways, moving on. Speaking of.
• 35:20
  Very aggressive. It's my trauma.
• 35:23
  It's my trauma. A California judge has ruled
• 35:26
  that the Cars for Kids ads misled donors by not saying that
• 35:31
  the the donations fund Orthodox Jewish programs connected to
• 35:35
  Aura, not broad children's charities in California.
• 35:39
  The ruling bars Cars for Kids from airing its famous
• 35:43
  commercials in California's unless the ads include clear
• 35:46
  spoken disclosures about the group's religious affiliation,
• 35:49
  where the money goes and who benefits.
• 35:52
  Testimony shows that about 25% of Cars for Kids revenue comes
• 35:55
  from California, but the organization has little direct
• 35:58
  programming there beyond what the the court described as
• 36:02
  branding exercises. Allegedly, the court testimony
• 36:07
  or it's not even alleged anymore.
• 36:08
  The court testimony revealed that $16.5 million was spent on
• 36:14
  on a building purchase in Israel, with another 437,000
• 36:19
  spent on Middle East outreach. Cars for kids has faced scrutiny
• 36:25
  before, including fines in Pinellas, OR, excuse me,
• 36:27
  Pennsylvania and Oregon. And a Minnesota investigation
• 36:31
  found that less than 1% of donations in that state actually
• 36:36
  benefited local children. What is it called?
• 36:38
  Cards, cars for kids. It's when you would go ahead and
• 36:42
  donate your car and they would take the money and, and very
• 36:46
  clearly go ahead and give it to Israel basically.
• 36:50
  Yeah. And then, of course, Hills
• 36:52
  Israel. Now that's a very, you know,
• 36:56
  controversial subject because, you know, they're dealing in, in
• 37:01
  the attack of the Palestinian people.
• 37:03
  Correct. So it's just that whole thing is
• 37:06
  just, you know, it's complicated, right?
• 37:10
  Because I'm not anti Jewish, but I am not anti Palestinian
• 37:14
  either, you know? So I think that an issue that
• 37:18
  is, you know, being presented and it's honestly from, you
• 37:22
  know, a lot of these Israeli nationals who are very, very
• 37:28
  wanting the Zionist state. They essentially believe that
• 37:32
  anybody who goes ahead and doesn't believe in Israel as a
• 37:37
  state is anti-Semitic and that's not the case.
• 37:41
  You can be pro Jewish individuals and also be against
• 37:46
  the Israeli state. Honestly I if if if you want to
• 37:49
  go ahead and buy up a bunch of fucking land and make your own
• 37:53
  Jewish state that's perfectly fine.
• 37:55
  But you shouldn't attack a the Palestinian people just because
• 37:59
  they won't go ahead and give you their land.
• 38:02
  And so I you can go ahead and be critical of the decisions that
• 38:07
  Israel is doing and not be anti-Semitic.
• 38:10
  The other thing is, is that it's very similar to the people who
• 38:13
  say that you can't be critical over America without being anti
• 38:18
  American. No, you can go ahead and call
• 38:20
  out the American government and still be pro America.
• 38:24
  I'm very pro America. I believe fully in the
• 38:27
  Constitution. Otherwise I wouldn't be fucking
• 38:29
  studying it. So it's a very, very unfortunate
• 38:35
  situation and it's all goes back down to branding and how things
• 38:39
  are marketed to us. Like we talked about this during
• 38:42
  the No Kings protest about how certain groups have very good
• 38:48
  programming in terms of how they market themselves and how they
• 38:52
  essentially make the other side look bad.
• 38:56
  And you know, honestly, the Israelis do a really good job of
• 39:00
  trying to go ahead and pair criticisms over the Israeli
• 39:04
  government with anti-Semitism. Azmi, what's your saying?
• 39:07
  No, I was thinking that, you know, with the No Kings March, I
• 39:11
  always thought that the name No Kings is was not a good name.
• 39:15
  I didn't like it. I always thought it was more of
• 39:18
  an anti fascism March rather than you know what I mean.
• 39:23
  Which I think that that would be, you know, because.
• 39:26
  Trump really doesn't want to be a king.
• 39:28
  He really doesn't. No, he wants to be a fascist.
• 39:31
  He wants control. He wants full control.
• 39:33
  Yeah, 'cause Prince Charles kind of let him have it.
• 39:38
  You know when he spoke to, you know when he spoke to the
• 39:40
  Congress, when he said even a king has to answer to his
• 39:45
  people, Girl, I mean, you can't get a dig better than that one.
• 39:51
  Well, even a king, he's even a king has to answer to his
• 39:54
  people. Well, the the the picture that
• 39:56
  came out yesterday of him in China or his hair all over the
• 40:01
  place. Oh yeah, I posted it.
• 40:03
  I'd laugh so hard 'cause he looked like one of those
• 40:05
  lollipops that stuck in your couch.
• 40:08
  Yeah, yeah. For like months.
• 40:09
  Yeah, yeah. Find it.
• 40:11
  And you're like, what is this? That's what he looked like.
• 40:14
  It was, yeah, he's, I, you know, the thing that's happening is
• 40:18
  it's really hard for us to get ahead what's happening overseas
• 40:22
  when we can't get ahead of what's happening at home.
• 40:24
  And it's very, very frustrating because we see the problem and
• 40:28
  how the world is reacting to what is happening in the Middle
• 40:31
  East. But we are also part of the
• 40:34
  problem too, where we're looking at other countries literally
• 40:39
  making fun of our government laughing.
• 40:41
  President Xi did it right in front of her when he spoke to
• 40:44
  the Chinese and Trump was in the audience.
• 40:46
  He said you are you. The American people, and I'm
• 40:50
  quoting him now, are living in a country in decline.
• 40:54
  Just full of clowns. Just.
• 40:55
  In decline. We're going down.
• 40:57
  We're not going up. And Trump interpreted as that he
• 41:01
  was talking about when Biden was in office.
• 41:03
  No, no, that's not what he said. He said you are currently living
• 41:08
  in a country in decline. Who's the current president?
• 41:11
  It's a Biden. It's you.
• 41:14
  Yeah, well, he was probably asleep during that part, girl.
• 41:18
  He does a lot. He sleeps everywhere girl,
• 41:21
  except except at at at at 1:00 in the morning.
• 41:26
  If you go on true social, he's posted 140 times.
• 41:30
  He's awake now because he's slept all day.
• 41:33
  It's it's very. It's just crazy to me.
• 41:36
  What was it A. Country in decline?
• 41:38
  That's a powerful statement. He did what, 20 something
• 41:43
  offenses just at that state dinner to the Chinese culture
• 41:47
  just by being himself. Did you see him when?
• 41:50
  When put Camilla and Charles were here?
• 41:51
  Did you see him push in front of Camilla?
• 41:53
  Yeah. He shoved her.
• 41:55
  Yeah, he shoved her. A woman.
• 41:58
  OK. I mean, it's just unbelievable
• 42:01
  to me. What is it?
• 42:02
  Yeah. What is it?
• 42:03
  Somebody walk up to walk up to him and say, excuse me, what is
• 42:06
  wrong with you? I what?
• 42:08
  Is wrong with you you. Know Melania is never anywhere
• 42:12
  so she hates us not. And when she, oh, by the way,
• 42:14
  when she is next to him, he does this.
• 42:16
  Have you seen him do this? And Melania couldn't come here
• 42:19
  today. Hold on.
• 42:20
  She's standing right there. But my favorite is like when he
• 42:24
  reaches out for. Her and she smacks.
• 42:27
  She smacks it. Don't touch me SO.
• 42:29
  What do you got, Chris? Well, I want to go back to the
• 42:32
  black baby doll story for those who missed it.
• 42:36
  A parent says a teacher at Barrington Middle School in
• 42:39
  Hillsborough County hung a black baby doll by the neck with a
• 42:42
  charger cord in an art classroom.
• 42:45
  The parent says students recorded the video and took
• 42:47
  photos after several children in the class questioned why the
• 42:50
  doll was hanging over the classroom television.
• 42:52
  According to the Post, the teacher allegedly told the
• 42:54
  students that she did it to get their attention.
• 42:57
  I would like to know what your perspective is on this, Robert.
• 43:01
  Because we, we went ahead and we went off on this person.
• 43:04
  We went the fuck off. Well, I, I, I know coming from
• 43:08
  Mississippi, a lot of people don't know that, but I'm
• 43:10
  originally from Mississippi. So I, I have dealt with the
• 43:13
  prejudices of all sorts and all kinds my entire life.
• 43:18
  Waking up black is something I don't do on purpose.
• 43:23
  It's just the hands that I was given.
• 43:25
  But again, I still 100% believe that hate is always taught
• 43:31
  because we don't come out hating people.
• 43:33
  We don't learn to speak hate because the words that we learn
• 43:37
  come exactly from the source. So when it comes down to this,
• 43:41
  again, like looking at something like that, even if it's an art
• 43:44
  class, you have to understand kids are impressionable and kids
• 43:49
  have, you know, unlike when I was growing up, we didn't have
• 43:52
  the Internet. You know, everything that we saw
• 43:55
  was actually happening in real time.
• 43:58
  So when it comes down to this situation #1 if that's how she
• 44:04
  needs to get their attention, then the school board needs to
• 44:07
  get her attention by having her completely released from her.
• 44:11
  Job Well, she's been suspended. Yeah, but completely.
• 44:13
  And, and they're reviewing the case, which, listen, anybody
• 44:16
  that sees that video, like I said in the earlier show, anyone
• 44:19
  that sees that video did nothing to review.
• 44:22
  OK, the video is self-explanatory.
• 44:25
  She's standing at the front of the class.
• 44:27
  She's standing at the front of the class with the black baby
• 44:29
  doll hung by a cord on the TV. So all the children are
• 44:34
  literally facing it, looking at it.
• 44:36
  And you could, you could. It's just it's, you don't hear
• 44:39
  any sound, but you don't have to hear any sound.
• 44:41
  The visual is very very strong. You didn't need to hear the
• 44:44
  sound. Yes, and that's not a class
• 44:45
  where she's teaching, even if she was teaching the lynchings
• 44:49
  and all that, which in the state of Florida, but they're happy
• 44:52
  they're not allowed to in the state of Florida because it
• 44:54
  didn't exist. So yeah, it didn't happen.
• 44:56
  It was all made-up. Apparently so.
• 44:59
  But since that can't be it, so it was done as a scare tactic
• 45:03
  for the children. But keep in mind the African
• 45:05
  American children or the black children, OK, that are in that
• 45:09
  classroom, they had to witness that.
• 45:12
  And it was bad enough for the white children, but the black
• 45:16
  children with a black doll, the representation is there, OK.
• 45:20
  And one of the children, the one that videotaped it, that the
• 45:23
  video is gone. You know, I'm, I'm sure that I
• 45:26
  am sure that by tonight's it, it'll be viral.
• 45:30
  It'll be all over the world. It'll be all over the world.
• 45:33
  I guarantee you that video will travel all over the world.
• 45:37
  Because I look got it and I couldn't believe what I saw.
• 45:40
  I thought it was AI. I thought Chris had sent me some
• 45:42
  AI thing. No, I don't.
• 45:44
  I was like this is crazy and 26 it's it's crazy.
• 45:48
  Well. It's currently up to 633,000
• 45:51
  views. Oh, no, it's going to go much
• 45:53
  higher than that. It's, it's going to go.
• 45:55
  I, I guarantee you. It's, it's, it's a must watch.
• 45:59
  It's a must watch because yeah, yeah, it's.
• 46:02
  Also from Florida. But are we surprised?
• 46:04
  We're not surprised. I mean, you know, I think it,
• 46:06
  you know, if it had been Mississippi, it probably would
• 46:09
  have been swept under the rug because of the the level of
• 46:13
  ignorance and Mississippi, But coming from Florida, like
• 46:16
  everything is being red flagged because people are just
• 46:19
  outlandishly crazy right now and we can't do.
• 46:22
  Anything. Did you know that the Democrats
• 46:23
  are leading in the polls here in Florida?
• 46:25
  I do. We are leading in the polls not
• 46:28
  only for governor but for senators as well, so we're doing
• 46:32
  very well here in. Florida and Florida is there.
• 46:35
  Florida can turn blue and the gerrymandering that they're
• 46:39
  doing, they're doing. But I told Chris, and I'm going
• 46:43
  to stand by what I said with the gerrymandering, it's going to
• 46:46
  backfire on them. It sure is.
• 46:48
  Because you know Republicans will turn on you if they're not
• 46:51
  if the if the if the bottom line on them hurts.
• 46:54
  And the bottom line for Republicans is not pedophilia.
• 46:59
  The bottom line for them? No.
• 47:01
  I'm telling. The bottom line is not racism.
• 47:05
  The bottom line for them is not. The bottom line for them is
• 47:10
  money, MONEY, money. That gasoline and food prices is
• 47:17
  out of control. The cost of living in Florida,
• 47:20
  out of control. It's bad.
• 47:23
  DeSantis has not helped the state.
• 47:24
  Well, the, the, the way we're heading, we're, you know, I keep
• 47:29
  telling people that we do need to make sure that everyone is
• 47:32
  registered to vote and to also check where your voting poll is
• 47:36
  because they can sneak up on you that it can change and you go to
• 47:39
  the poll and that's not the right one.
• 47:41
  So as you said earlier in the other show, please make sure
• 47:44
  you're checking where your voting poll is.
• 47:47
  Make sure it is the same location.
• 47:48
  Make sure you're registered to vote.
• 47:50
  Registered to vote is number. 1 I went to go get my driver's
• 47:54
  license to renew it between November of last year and when I
• 47:58
  went to get my license in April I had been removed from the from
• 48:02
  voting so I had to re register again.
• 48:05
  They took me off and I didn't take my and I didn't take myself
• 48:09
  off. So you need you need to check
• 48:12
  you need to check your voter registration.
• 48:14
  Make sure get get it confirmed. Well, I got another topic for
• 48:18
  US. Senators unanimously approved a
• 48:20
  resolution to withhold their own pay during government shutdowns,
• 48:23
  aiming to make federal closures personally costly for lawmakers.
• 48:28
  The measure passed with bipartisan support, which is
• 48:30
  very rare after a stretch of unusually long and repeated
• 48:34
  shutdown fights in Congress. Supporters say Congress should
• 48:37
  face consequences when it fails to fund the government, calling
• 48:40
  it one of lawmakers most basic responsibilities.
• 48:44
  Completely freaking agree. The proposal reflects growing
• 48:48
  frustration inside the Senate over shutdown standoffs becoming
• 48:51
  more common and more disruptive. I am on board.
• 48:55
  I think that if you can't do your job, you shouldn't get
• 48:58
  paid. Absolutely.
• 49:00
  It makes no sense. It it will literally never.
• 49:03
  The fact that it's still like that wasn't a thing before.
• 49:08
  That's mind numbing to me. How do you get paid to not do
• 49:12
  your job? Yeah.
• 49:15
  I agree. Like Esme, Can you imagine if
• 49:17
  you showed up to a booking and you just kind of stood there and
• 49:21
  did nothing? Those are the Drag Race girls.
• 49:24
  Girl, watch me cancel. Not cancel.
• 49:28
  Not cancel for telling the truth.
• 49:29
  You'll be cancelled. I'm gonna say for telling the
• 49:30
  truth. Not all of them, but most of
• 49:34
  them. There's.
• 49:34
  A lot of them there's. Just a lot of good ones that do
• 49:37
  there's a lot of good ones that do perform and they are great
• 49:39
  acts, right, But there's a lot of them girl, that when they
• 49:41
  show up, you're like it isn't just a performance, it's what
• 49:44
  they're wearing I'll. Be honest.
• 49:45
  Though that's all the money they made they don't have no money
• 49:47
  for. This it this it.
• 49:48
  One of the the people that I will always go ahead and and
• 49:50
  shout out as a performer is Discord Adams as a RuPaul girl.
• 49:54
  She actually actually fucking performs.
• 49:57
  I mean, she's, she was, she's doing music with Adriana
• 50:00
  Sparkle. I, I fuck with her, I fuck with
• 50:03
  her. She's.
• 50:04
  Great. Yeah, definitely.
• 50:06
  Well, I as made to you. Are you sure you don't have any
• 50:09
  other any other? No, I don't.
• 50:11
  Well, I still got a ton more so don't worry.
• 50:13
  Don't worry. Minnesota prosecutor has charged
• 50:16
  ICE officer Christian Castro with four counts of second
• 50:20
  degree assault after authorities say that he shot a Venezuelan
• 50:23
  man through a front door during a January immigration operation
• 50:26
  in Minneapolis. Prosecutors say the man who who
• 50:29
  was shot, Julio Caesar, Sosa Silas, Silas Whatever, was hit
• 50:35
  in the thigh after Castro fired into the duplex while chasing
• 50:38
  another man during a confrontation tied to the Trump
• 50:41
  administration's immigration crackdown in the state.
• 50:44
  I am glad that we are that 'cause I made this point earlier
• 50:49
  that, you know, out a couple shows ago while while by a while
• 50:53
  back was that, you know, these individuals who are doing bad
• 50:58
  deeds within ICE, they will be held to the prosecution.
• 51:02
  If they are not following the procedures outlined by ICE, they
• 51:07
  will have local prosecution. It might not be a federal
• 51:10
  prosecution, but Minnesota absolutely will go ahead and
• 51:14
  enforce their own laws against these ICE immigration officers.
• 51:20
  Whether or not that goes through.
• 51:21
  I, I don't know. I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm confident
• 51:25
  in the court system, in the judicial system that it, it has
• 51:28
  held up this so far and it'll continue to.
• 51:32
  But that said. So Nazi Germany, when the
• 51:37
  soldiers in the, in the, you know, the Nazi regime after the
• 51:42
  after the war, many of them were charged, many of them went to
• 51:46
  prisons because of the crimes that they committed.
• 51:50
  Because The thing is, is that the, the excuse that they made
• 51:54
  was that they were following orders.
• 51:56
  And that is simply not an excuse that just in just so, so all
• 52:00
  these ICE agents that are violating the law when they show
• 52:04
  up in court with their lawyers talked about, well, we were
• 52:06
  following orders. Well, you should have not, you
• 52:08
  should have left, OK, because that's not, you know, following
• 52:11
  orders. That's not an excuse.
• 52:13
  While you're breaking the law is not an excuse.
• 52:16
  But that's also come up again with the whole situation with
• 52:21
  the the military going over to the Middle East.
• 52:24
  A lot of them are like, this isn't our war.
• 52:26
  This has nothing to do with us. But yet they're having to still
• 52:29
  follow the orders of this clown that's in office that is not
• 52:34
  doing anything. And Cuba is going through things
• 52:36
  too, right now. And it's very sad because now
• 52:39
  they've gotten to the place where now you have Cuba, who's
• 52:43
  just stuck and they don't have anything because gas prices are
• 52:46
  so high and, you know, the people don't want.
• 52:49
  To I don't think the Cuban people are going to surrender.
• 52:51
  No, I think what they're going to and I think start coming
• 52:54
  here. And well, they will.
• 52:55
  They can't come here. I'm just going to tell you that
• 52:57
  right now. They're there.
• 52:59
  The, the, that border is like Fort Knox.
• 53:02
  They come here. I'm going to tell you, the Trump
• 53:05
  administration, I wouldn't be surprised if he even shot at
• 53:08
  them as they're crossing the border.
• 53:10
  I mean, I nothing with that, I mean, surprises me.
• 53:12
  Nothing surprises me. I would not advise anyone right
• 53:15
  now during this administration to attempt to cross that border
• 53:20
  illegally. So stay put wherever you're at.
• 53:23
  I'm not surprised. No matter how bad it is, you're
• 53:26
  better off there 'cause you're, you might not make it over that
• 53:28
  border 'cause I'm telling they've got it locked up right
• 53:31
  and they're not playing. We didn't have ice during Biden,
• 53:34
  no. So I'm well, we did.
• 53:35
  Have ICE, but it wasn't enforced the way that it is now.
• 53:38
  Wasn't what it is now. Yeah, it's evolved into
• 53:41
  something else. It's.
• 53:42
  Crazy. Yeah, and it's dumb.
• 53:43
  Yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's definitely ICE has gotten a
• 53:46
  different, has taken a different tone under this administration.
• 53:51
  Yeah. Honestly, I disagree and the
• 53:53
  reason why I disagree, other than the fact of, of personal
• 53:57
  policy, you know, I think that there was still a, a, a major
• 54:02
  issue when it comes to immigration.
• 54:03
  Yeah, but they weren't going into cities terrorizing people.
• 54:06
  Yeah, but they were still putting kids in cages.
• 54:08
  That that is correct. Jalen did that during the
• 54:10
  halftime. Correct.
• 54:11
  But yeah, but there was, it was a totally different energy.
• 54:14
  You know what I mean? This is this is I'm not saying
• 54:16
  that Biden or or Obama did it because Obama, Obama was doing
• 54:20
  it as well, but this is all of their policies on steroids.
• 54:24
  They've they've taken it up. That I can agree with.
• 54:27
  They've taken it up to another level.
• 54:29
  You know this level is just. But these, these vague, these
• 54:32
  vague policies that they have gone ahead and pushed have
• 54:35
  emboldened the people that were already a part of ICE and
• 54:38
  immigration and Border Patrol and all that.
• 54:40
  They have emboldened them and wanting.
• 54:43
  These people are racist. A lot of them, a lot of them are
• 54:46
  racist. Are in the KKK.
• 54:48
  Being emboldened to go ahead ahead and take drastic action is
• 54:52
  going to lead to what we have seen, which is multiple people
• 54:56
  getting shot, multiple people being killed.
• 54:59
  And honestly, I'm glad that there's prosecutors out there
• 55:02
  that are still going ahead and enforcing the law because it
• 55:07
  should be enforced and it shouldn't be a situation where
• 55:09
  these people go ahead and just get off Scott free for shooting
• 55:12
  people anyways. Trump Mobile has started
• 55:14
  shipping it's T1 smartphones about nine months later than
• 55:18
  originally promised. NBC News tested one of the first
• 55:21
  review sets sent to mobile, Excuse Me, sent to media outlets
• 55:25
  after customers who pre-ordered also began receiving shipment
• 55:29
  notices. The phone arrives heavily
• 55:31
  branded in with Trump imagery and messaging, including Trump
• 55:35
  branding in four places right out-of-the-box.
• 55:38
  The device comes preloaded with Truth Social.
• 55:40
  This an NBC note. NBC News noted that the phone
• 55:45
  has an American flag design on the back, but with 11 stripes
• 55:48
  instead of the traditional 13. The article also says that the
• 55:53
  Made in the USA language that appeared when the phone was
• 55:57
  first announced is no longer a part of the company's marketing.
• 56:03
  So the Trump phones that were promised to be made in the
• 56:05
  United States are no longer in the United States?
• 56:08
  Who would a fucking thought? It's almost like we didn't have
• 56:11
  the infrastructure to do something like make manufacture
• 56:14
  phones. Sense to me, you know well, I
• 56:17
  mean I what I was reading is that like the phones are going
• 56:20
  to prevent you from seeing any LGTBQIA plus information any
• 56:25
  anti republican information just random stuff but like y'all come
• 56:31
  on like I just I mean it was just on there that trump has his
• 56:36
  own prescription stuff now and I'm like why are you people
• 56:39
  investing in? Trump RX, which I I've had
• 56:42
  opinions over Trump RX because Good RX, which is in my opinion
• 56:48
  a substantially better platform that people should go ahead and
• 56:51
  use it. It's literally takes the deals
• 56:55
  just from Good RX and just puts them with Trump's name on it.
• 56:58
  It fucking pisses me off. Yeah, the the phone thingy is
• 57:02
  very much like y'all, because you look at the people that
• 57:05
  bought these phones, look at the people that bought these phones,
• 57:08
  okay? Most of them got 2 teeth in
• 57:09
  their mouth and they are fighting and it is very much
• 57:13
  like okay, let's get a gold Trump phone, okay?
• 57:15
  So if you can't afford gold, why would you buy a phone that is
• 57:19
  made out of gold, which is now apparently being made in China,
• 57:22
  correct? I don't know if it's made in
• 57:24
  China, but not in the US. Yeah, it's probably China.
• 57:27
  But I do believe it's being made in China because it's just dumb.
• 57:31
  Just dumb. And now he wants to put his name
• 57:32
  on money, too. And I'm like, I think that would
• 57:35
  be the only time I would ever burn money is if I got a dollar
• 57:38
  bill with that man's face on it. Esme, what's your perspective on
• 57:43
  the Trump phones? So, you know, there's the the
• 57:46
  phone got a lot of bad news this week, earlier in the week.
• 57:50
  Well, last week, actually, when when they said they weren't, the
• 57:53
  phones probably weren't going to get delivered at all.
• 57:56
  Last week it was. Very.
• 57:57
  Yeah. So they pulled these phones out
• 57:59
  of their ass. OK, I don't know where these
• 58:02
  phones have been, but somebody called them and said we got to
• 58:05
  find some phones. We got to put Trump's name on
• 58:08
  those phones. Don't be, you know, and they're
• 58:11
  probably crappy phones too. Yeah, I guarantee you they're
• 58:14
  crappy phones 'cause everything that he does is a grift, you
• 58:17
  know, it's just, absolutely. It's just just a big grift like.
• 58:21
  Money he's made, period. I don't, I don't.
• 58:24
  I don't want kids. Yeah, I know they're yeah, they
• 58:27
  are making so yeah. So I don't want any phone from
• 58:32
  Republican or Democrat. I don't want any phone that
• 58:37
  blocks any information from coming in, good or bad.
• 58:42
  I want to determine, I want to be allowed to determine what I
• 58:46
  want to look at at any given moment.
• 58:49
  OK, And that includes. Foot fetishes.
• 58:52
  Yeah, and that and that includes GOP stuff.
• 58:55
  I because I want to see what the GOP has to say.
• 59:01
  So let's say that someone came up with a phone that blocked all
• 59:03
  of Trump's words, for example. I don't want that.
• 59:07
  I want to know what Trump is doing.
• 59:09
  I want to know what everybody's doing.
• 59:11
  I want a phone that is not, you know, I don't want to block out
• 59:14
  LGBT so. Keep your enemies close.
• 59:16
  So they're going to lose a lot of money on those phones
• 59:18
  ultimately when people find out that they can't access their
• 59:22
  homosexual websites because let's face it, the GOP is stock
• 59:28
  full full of them of queers, Queens, fags and all kinds of
• 59:33
  other things. Just look at whatever the fuck
• 59:34
  Lindsey Graham is. Well.
• 59:35
  Yeah, all those people that like OK, diapers and things like
• 59:38
  they're, they're Republican. OK, so they're chock full of
• 59:41
  them, so you know what I'm saying?
• 59:42
  Real butthurt. So they're not going to be happy
• 59:44
  when they go to when they go on their favorite website and go
• 59:47
  girl, I can't see men eating ass.
• 59:51
  My favorite videos of men eating ass.
• 59:54
  Well, you, you better get you a, you better get you a new phone,
• 59:58
  sis. Or just go to Home Depot.
• 1:00:00
  Homeo Depot, Homeo Depot, Homeo Depot.
• 1:00:05
  I did learn that if you show your jock strap, that means that
• 1:00:08
  you are willing to do things in the bathroom.
• 1:00:10
  That's exciting. Interesting, interesting you're.
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  Well, anyways, a Spanish court has cleared Shakira in a tax
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  fraud case tied to the 2011 tax year, ruling that prosecutors
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  failed to prove that she was a legal resident of Spain.
• 1:00:25
  That year, the court ordered Spain's government to return
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  more than €55,000,000 in with Shakira's lawyer in fines, with
• 1:00:33
  Shakira's lawyer saying the total repayment with entrance
• 1:00:35
  with interest will be about €60 million.
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  So about $65 million. Yeah, so under Spanish law,
• 1:00:43
  someone must spend more than 183 days in account she.
• 1:00:46
  Spent 16163. 163 Uh huh. They only, but they proved that
• 1:00:52
  Shakira was only in Spain for 163 days.
• 1:00:55
  Prosecutors argued that Shakur's relationship with former soccer
• 1:00:59
  star Gerard Pique Piquet tied her financially and personally
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  to Spain. The court rejected that
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  argument, saying the relationship could not be
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  legally treated like a marriage and that officials failed to
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  show Spain was in the center of her economic activity at the
• 1:01:15
  time. So a lot of people in her camp
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  suspected after the breakup he went to the government.
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  And said hey. Go get her.
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  Do you see what I'm saying? As revenge?
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  But I'm gonna tell you this, this relationship broke up years
• 1:01:30
  ago. Shit I mean though that's close
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  though. 163 days compared to 183.
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  I know cutting it close, she was.
• 1:01:37
  Trying to get close, but I'm gonna tell you this.
• 1:01:39
  I believe that they they were just looking for it.
• 1:01:44
  They wanted, you know what I mean?
• 1:01:45
  Because let's face it, she didn't try to scam that
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  government, you know what I mean?
• 1:01:50
  That was the leasing on her mind, I mean.
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  But they pay. They're gonna pay her money
• 1:01:53
  back. They will?
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  Yeah. They're gonna give her money
• 1:01:55
  back. Yeah.
• 1:01:56
  Keith Hernandez had an awkward on air slip during Sunday's
• 1:01:59
  Subway Series broadcast when he accidentally mixed up Jazz
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  Chisholm Junior's name with jizz Chism or jazz jism.
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  Sorry, jazz jism. So.
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  He's made that mistake before. This is not the first time he's
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  done it. About 3 years ago he said it and
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  people laughed. People thought it was funny.
• 1:02:19
  They think it's funny now. He's not in trouble, but it is
• 1:02:24
  calling somebody jizz. Jazz Jism.
• 1:02:29
  It goes back to picking your names.
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  I'm telling you, but I'm going to tell you though, the man is
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  72 years old and you know, I'm not saying that that's an
• 1:02:38
  excuse, but you know, sometimes when you're talking really,
• 1:02:41
  really fast, you can mispronounce 'cause he did it
• 1:02:43
  before, about 3 years ago. So, and he's highly respected
• 1:02:48
  and he's never known to be racist or anything like that.
• 1:02:51
  But don't. Work.
• 1:02:52
  But jizz girl, the jizz part just kills me.
• 1:02:55
  So he's he's Mr. He calls him Mr. Sperm I.
• 1:02:58
  Guess, Mr. Sperm, I like that this.
• 1:03:01
  Is not on the radar, but it's. Just, it's just silliness.
• 1:03:05
  It is silliness. He he was embarrassed, but
• 1:03:07
  people are not making fun of him about it.
• 1:03:09
  You know he had a senior moment, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:03:13
  We all have those. Yeah, trust me. 2 Navy fighter
• 1:03:16
  jets collided mid air during an air show at Mountain Home Air
• 1:03:19
  Force Base in Idaho. All four aviators safely
• 1:03:23
  ejected. The crash happened Sunday
• 1:03:25
  afternoon during the Gunfighters Skies Air Show about two miles
• 1:03:29
  northwest of the base. Officials said the aviators were
• 1:03:33
  in stable condition and were being evaluated by medical
• 1:03:36
  personnel. Video shared online show The
• 1:03:38
  Jets colliding in the air before spiraling down in flames, with
• 1:03:42
  four parachutes deploying near the crash site.
• 1:03:46
  That's a very scary thing. I saw that video and it was, it
• 1:03:50
  was insane. I, I, I think that and I and I
• 1:03:54
  went to an air show before I, when I was working with the
• 1:03:58
  bone, they sent me to Macdill Air Force Base for their air
• 1:04:02
  show before they, they stopped doing them for, for renovations.
• 1:04:07
  And I, I loved it. It was great and all.
• 1:04:10
  It was cool. It was really cool to see all
• 1:04:12
  those jets, but I couldn't help but shake the I couldn't help.
• 1:04:15
  I couldn't shake the thought that, my God, this is a fucking
• 1:04:18
  waste of money. Yeah, this is one of the biggest
• 1:04:20
  waste of taxpayer dollars that I can think of right now.
• 1:04:23
  Like, apart from going ahead and giving money to Trump, like
• 1:04:26
  literally we're just burning jet fuel.
• 1:04:29
  I think they do it to promote the military and to and to give
• 1:04:35
  Americans a sense of pride of the military and what they're
• 1:04:38
  capable of doing. So it's kind of like it's like
• 1:04:41
  to soften the blow because no other part of our government
• 1:04:47
  absorbs more money than our military.
• 1:04:51
  The largest amount of money doesn't go to food or or to
• 1:04:55
  Social Security or to even healthcare.
• 1:04:57
  It goes to the military budget. So I think it's a way to say to
• 1:05:01
  the people, see what we do, this is where your money is going.
• 1:05:03
  These are what these crafts can do.
• 1:05:05
  It's, it's just, it's a way of showing off 'cause you know, you
• 1:05:08
  have the Air Force show choir. I got to see them a couple times
• 1:05:13
  when I was in Vegas. You now like just found out that
• 1:05:17
  the Army also has a cheerleading squad that just started, which
• 1:05:20
  is pretty awesome. But it's all those things like,
• 1:05:22
  excuse me, because I grew up at Keesler Air Force Base in
• 1:05:26
  Biloxi, Ms. So I grew up on the the military base.
• 1:05:30
  So these are all things that we all need as patriots of America
• 1:05:35
  to see that there is something else that the the government can
• 1:05:40
  offer through the military, something that's uplifting,
• 1:05:44
  something that gives you, you know, like when we're in a time
• 1:05:46
  of crisis, like where you see the military band come out and
• 1:05:50
  parade around and stuff like that.
• 1:05:52
  It's just to give you like a little boast of patriotism.
• 1:05:55
  There's nothing wrong with that. I mean, like, I don't believe in
• 1:05:57
  air shows are fun for me because it just looks like a disaster
• 1:06:00
  waiting to happen. Yes.
• 1:06:02
  Well, they play too much. Yeah, I'm like, that's great
• 1:06:04
  that you can do that. Let's you know.
• 1:06:06
  What happens when you play too much?
• 1:06:08
  You know exactly. What the fuck just happened
• 1:06:10
  literally. Playing too much the.
• 1:06:12
  Planes blow up and now we don't have two planes to bomb is or
• 1:06:15
  bomb Iran and. They're lucky.
• 1:06:16
  Oh, no, yeah, they're lucky. We didn't lose to any of the the
• 1:06:19
  pilots. Pilots.
• 1:06:20
  Yeah, That's that's. Jermaine Jackson's in the news
• 1:06:25
  and not for the Michael movie. Jermaine Jackson has been
• 1:06:28
  ordered to pay more than $6.5 million to a woman who accused
• 1:06:32
  him of raping her in 1988 after he reportedly never responded to
• 1:06:36
  the lawsuit. The judgement was entered by
• 1:06:38
  default, meaning the court ruled that the accuser in the
• 1:06:40
  accuser's favor because Jackson allegedly did not appear or file
• 1:06:44
  a response in the case. The lawsuit was filed December
• 1:06:47
  2023 under California's Sexual Abuse and Cover Up
• 1:06:50
  Accountability Act. The accuser, Rita Butler
• 1:06:53
  Barrett, claimed Jackson came to her Encino home in the spring of
• 1:06:57
  1988 and violently raped her, court documents say.
• 1:07:01
  The payout includes damages, court costs, medical expenses
• 1:07:04
  tied to the allegations. Wow.
• 1:07:08
  Yeah. What's your perspective, Esme?
• 1:07:12
  This family's always embroiled in something.
• 1:07:14
  It's just, you know, I mean, that doesn't surprise me at all.
• 1:07:17
  The fact that he didn't show up to court tells me everything I
• 1:07:19
  need to know, right? OK, 'cause even if I don't go, I
• 1:07:22
  would have sent a representative.
• 1:07:24
  I said let's hash out this situation, 'cause I'm innocent,
• 1:07:26
  I didn't do anything wrong. TMZ, OK, I'm not going to pay
• 1:07:29
  you no money, 'cause I didn't do anything wrong.
• 1:07:31
  The fact that he had to, the fact that he didn't show up and
• 1:07:33
  paid out means that everything that I need to know.
• 1:07:36
  TMZ reported that Jackson was never personally served because
• 1:07:39
  his lawyers allegedly struggled to track him down.
• 1:07:42
  Yeah. No.
• 1:07:44
  No, no. Not even.
• 1:07:45
  And the judges said you got to pay.
• 1:07:47
  No, no, you, you, you know, you were being served somebody.
• 1:07:51
  He probably got many messages from the court saying show up
• 1:07:54
  here, Let's let's get this resolved, 'cause if you don't
• 1:07:57
  show up, we're going to handle this without.
• 1:07:59
  You show up to your job like especially back in the 80s when
• 1:08:01
  it was important that they did hand deliver everything.
• 1:08:04
  Yeah, no, he's, he's definitely, he screwed up.
• 1:08:07
  Well, the fact that he paid because, I mean, innocent people
• 1:08:10
  don't pay, no. Well, he hasn't paid yet.
• 1:08:12
  It it, it just says that he is ordered to pay the rape accuser
• 1:08:16
  he has been ordered to Well. Let's see what he does.
• 1:08:18
  We'll see. Researchers say the Andes strain
• 1:08:21
  of the hantavirus may remain in human sperm for nearly six years
• 1:08:25
  after recovery, raising concerns that it could potentially be
• 1:08:29
  spread through sex. The study comes from a peer
• 1:08:32
  review or the findings come from a peer reviewed study in the
• 1:08:35
  journal Viruses that tracked a 55 year old man infected with
• 1:08:39
  the Andes strain. Scientists found no trace of the
• 1:08:42
  virus in the man's blood, urinary or respiratory system
• 1:08:45
  years later, but it was still detectable in his semen up to 71
• 1:08:49
  months after infection. Researchers say the test can act
• 1:08:53
  as a safe harbor for certain viruses or the testes, excuse
• 1:08:57
  me, not the test. Testes can act as a safe harbor
• 1:08:59
  for certain viruses because the immune system avoids attacking
• 1:09:03
  sperm producing tissue. So we might have another STDSTD
• 1:09:08
  to worry about. Oh my Lord, I don't have.
• 1:09:09
  Sex rat sperm. Rat sperm.
• 1:09:12
  We're good. I love it.
• 1:09:14
  We're good, Oh my God, but. Chris, I think we're trying to
• 1:09:17
  wrap it up. Well, yeah, I think, I think
• 1:09:20
  that I think that it might be that time.
• 1:09:22
  I think we need to end it on the rat sperm.
• 1:09:24
  The rat sperm, the. Rat sperm.
• 1:09:26
  That's so. I mean, I'm just telling you
• 1:09:29
  that's what it is. That's what it is.
• 1:09:32
  Girl, my poor ears are done. I don't know why.
• 1:09:34
  The hell that went that well, that was crazy.
• 1:09:36
  She got me together. Good morning, everybody.
• 1:09:42
  Good morning. She got me right together.
• 1:09:45
  Well, for some reason it wasn't playing.
• 1:09:48
  It wasn't playing. I was trying to have the
• 1:09:50
  background music. It wasn't.
• 1:09:51
  Wasn't doing it. Sorry about that, thank God I'm
• 1:09:54
  not hard of hearing but. Thank God you don't need to pee
• 1:09:57
  anyways, no. Oh my God, that's crazy.
• 1:09:58
  Well, Raquel, thank you so much for joining us.
• 1:10:01
  It's been a pleasure. Thank they say better late than
• 1:10:04
  never. Better late than never.
• 1:10:06
  Exactly. Do do believe in, you know,
• 1:10:08
  showing up, even if it's late, I'd still show.
• 1:10:11
  Up. It's good.
• 1:10:12
  Time they'll show up as a lady. I don't like this particular
• 1:10:14
  illusion very much. Well, for people who want to
• 1:10:19
  find more information about you and and all the things that you
• 1:10:22
  do, where can people find that? I'm I do not have Facebook
• 1:10:25
  anymore because I get tired of dealing with that, but you can
• 1:10:27
  find me on Instagram, Mr. Dance 40.
• 1:10:31
  You can also find me on Snapchat, Mr. Dance 30.
• 1:10:35
  All of the things, all the events.
• 1:10:36
  I'm new to the love the Golden Rule board.
• 1:10:40
  I'm very excited to that. I'm a new member of Florida Gay
• 1:10:42
  Roadie Association, so I have a lot of things coming up and I'm
• 1:10:46
  super excited for Pride Month and super excited for the next
• 1:10:49
  adventures. Please check it out.
• 1:10:52
  PSI cook a lot. So you're going to see a lot of
• 1:10:54
  that soon. Yeah, I don't.
• 1:10:55
  Know I won't be going to your house for dinner because of the
• 1:10:58
  rat sperm. The rat sperm.
• 1:11:00
  The rat sperm just not in my face.
• 1:11:02
  Yeah, well, but thank you guys so much for having me.
• 1:11:05
  Of course. And Speaking of Facebook, I'm
• 1:11:07
  glad to report that I'm finally back.
• 1:11:09
  I've been banned for three weeks and now I am back.
• 1:11:12
  Finally, yeah, I I don't know why I was banned for so long,
• 1:11:16
  but it is what it is. They according to my friend over
• 1:11:20
  at Meta, that department had a backlog of cases and I'm like,
• 1:11:23
  well maybe you should fix the fucking backlog anyways as made.
• 1:11:29
  Do you have any last minute thoughts or last minute advice?
• 1:11:32
  Well, no, I was just going to say the same thing I said in the
• 1:11:36
  first show in our daytime, right In our daytime show, the 11 AM
• 1:11:40
  show on Tuesdays. I always remind everybody,
• 1:11:43
  please check your voting status. November is literally right
• 1:11:47
  around the corner. Make sure you're I, I just went
• 1:11:50
  to the DMV to get my license renewed and I, I, I wasn't
• 1:11:54
  registered to vote. They had taken after last year,
• 1:11:57
  they took me off. So everybody make sure you
• 1:12:00
  check, don't wait until the last minute, get a confirmation.
• 1:12:03
  It was because you're trans. They took your voting because
• 1:12:05
  you're. Probably.
• 1:12:06
  Boo. Anyways, if you haven't heard it
• 1:12:09
  already, you are loved, you are appreciated and we thank you so
• 1:12:11
  much for your support of The Big Gay Radio Show and the Big Gay
• 1:12:13
  After Show and WMF Community Radio.
• 1:12:16
  Hope you have a wonderful rest of your day and we'll see you
• 1:12:17
  next time. Bye.