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War, Being Trans in Kansas, Headlines, and More | S14E17 · Live! with Fefe and Freddy

• 0:31
  Hello, hello, hello. It didn't disconnect me this
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  time, so I guess that's a plus. News to you, welcome to live
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  with Fifi and Freddie. It's your Wednesday night
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  conversation. And just to let you know, what
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  is that? Why does that always happen
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  every time? Like why does it do that?
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  I don't know. So trans women are women.
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  Just wanted to let you know and happy Women's History Month.
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  Yeah, yeah. Just in case that's up for
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  debate in your in your circle, you just go ahead and start with
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  that statement and then keep going.
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  And over there, drawn together. Barely, barely.
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  I kind of cheated. I'm sorry that I redid thing
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  'cause look, I am tired. My brain is like in the I just
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  want to be on vacation mode and I have two days left before I'm
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  off for two weeks. And my brain's just like, I
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  don't, I don't want to do anything I don't I don't want.
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  To oh, totally understand it. I totally understand it.
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  I haven't been if we ever decide to go on vacation.
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  I haven't been, I think the last time I I looked years.
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  So I haven't been on vacation in 10 years.
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  So yeah. No fun fact, my partner's other
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  partner also hasn't been on vacation in like 10 years and we
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  have now managed to convince them to come with us.
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  So they're actually coming with us.
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  On Oh Wow. Yeah, so that'll be fun.
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  So when I do come back, I'll be able to talk about vacationing
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  with my partner, our kids, one of our kids girlfriends and my
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  partner's other partner. So that'll be super awesome.
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  You know, this is going to be very interesting 'cause you have
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  like a very short like social battery.
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  But it's fine because like they're very chill and I'm a
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  little bit. So I do have a very my social
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  battery drains quickly, but it's also different when I'm.
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  I'm doing. Something because it's something
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  that I want to do and I'm not like in doing something with
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  people that I'm either forced to be around, you know what I mean?
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  Like I'm, I'm excited because it's, we're going to be busy.
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  Like we're, we're, it's, we're driving to LA on Saturday and
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  then Sunday and Monday we're at Universal.
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  We drive back on Tuesday. And so it's only like a couple
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  days at Universal, but we're going to be busy and I'm
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  actually pretty good to travel with you.
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  I mean you, you are like I'm, I'm.
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  Like a vouch for that, you know. I'm, I'm, I'm chill and my
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  partner's other partner is also very chill.
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  So like we already know that with myself and my partner, we
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  travel well together. The kids generally don't annoy
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  me too much and they're driving by themselves.
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  So they're they're taking a different.
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  Car OK, OK, so there's. They won't all be in my car.
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  There's some distance then. 'Cause then I would probably
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  kill them. See, see, that's what I was
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  thinking. I was like, they're going to be
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  in the car. No, no, no, no, no.
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  I wasn't even thinking of like the partner, I was thinking more
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  of the kids. They're going to be in the same
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  car. No.
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  So the oldest, his girlfriend and then his brother will be in
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  his car. They're driving and then our
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  youngest is probably going to ride with us.
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  We'll see if she changes her mind at some point.
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  To ride with the cool kids. I'm like, look, my car is going
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  to have the better snacks so. Indeed.
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  And sometimes he buys extra and some sometimes, sometimes he
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  shares. I'm making cookies.
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  So sometimes. I share mostly just don't eat
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  all my snacks 'cause then we're gonna have a problem.
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  I mean, that's. Alright, I derailed us.
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  My bad. I derailed us.
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  It's. OK, I, I was, that was the thing
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  that was on my mind. I was like, oh, how is this
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  working? But now that I've heard it, I
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  think you have some, what is it? Preservation or whatever you
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  have, you have space. I should I I should be good, I
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  think. And I'm one of the reasons why
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  I'm actually really excited about going to Universal is I
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  haven't been to Universal Studios since like Jaws was a
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  new attraction. Oh my God.
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  Yeah, so kind of dating myself there, but it's it's, it's all
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  right. So there's like all the new
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  stuff that we, we talked a little bit about part of it on
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  our Patreon that I'm a little like, but there's like there's
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  The Simpsons, there's Jurassic World, there's Super Nintendo
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  World, there's like all this other stuff that I'm like very
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  excited. For yeah, so and.
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  Of course, the whole Jaws thing and you know everything, so
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  it'll be fun. Is that still functioning?
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  Yeah, I think it's when you do the studio tour, I think you go,
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  I think it's still the same thing where you're doing like
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  this. You're on like the like the like
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  the trolley sort of thing. And then?
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  You're going over like the subscribe to our Patreon.
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  We talked about that for a bit. And then going over, I think
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  there's like part of the bridge or something.
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  And then Jaws like comes up over the thing.
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  I think. So it's still like the same.
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  I think they've revamped it a little bit, but he's still a
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  part of the the thing. And.
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  Yeah, Nope, it. Still shows demo.
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  Nope. There we go.
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  I guess we have to wait for like an actual, which I don't know,
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  it's weird. Yeah, We, we talked a little bit
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  about that on the Patreon and I'm, I'm it's annoying because
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  like, you know, a decade or so ago I would have been very
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  excited to go to, you know, the Harry Potter world or whatever
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  it is. And now it's like, well, fuck.
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  Like I can't even, I can't even enjoy it for what it is just
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  because of what it is, you know, and the fact that she gets a cut
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  of everything that is purchased in.
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  Yeah, she does. Yes, she does.
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  She gets a cut that directly goes to her pocket, which she
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  directly goes to fund anti trans legislation.
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  So yeah, it's stupid. And I swear to God, if my kids
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  are like, let's go do this thing and I'm like, if they try to buy
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  anything, I swear to God I will throw them off a ride.
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  I would hope that you have educated them enough that they
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  would. Yes, but the middle 1 is.
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  Really. Yeah, he doesn't give a fuck.
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  He like, and there's always the number of times that I've like
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  yelled at him for eating things like Chick-fil-A and stuff.
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  I'm like, dude, what the why? Like they don't, they're very
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  privileged and. So he doesn't.
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  And they're all like the, the, the oldest one a little bit less
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  so, but still the boys are very privileged in that they don't
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  really understand that this directly effects people that
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  they care about. So yeah, they're they're that
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  very sis head white male tunnel vision.
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  Which working. On but it's.
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  Speaking of privilege, my question for the chat is what is
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  a privilege and not a right that people mistaken as a right?
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  Oh, oh, I know, I know. I have 10.
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  Actually I have a couple. So a lot of times you hear
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  people throw around like a right to privacy.
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  There is no actual general right to privacy.
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  It's not explicitly stated anywhere in the Constitution or
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  any of the amendments. Oh shit.
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  So there is no like it's kind of implied by some of the
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  amendments, but there is no. Sort of general right to.
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  Privacy. There are privacy laws, yes,
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  which can vary from state to state, city to city, county to
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  county, things like that. So.
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  Sometimes city to city. Right.
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  So there's like. I got news for everyone, we are
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  constantly being recorded, not necessarily in our homes but
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  definitely out on the street 'cause now every corner has like
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  even stock lights are controlled by cameras.
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  Everything right, Like we're there, people have dash cams.
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  If you have any sort of a smartphone, you're you, you're
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  already being recorded and you know this how?
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  Typically, the news spreads for people.
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  Like literally, you just think about something and it pops up
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  on your feed. Here's an ad for this thing that
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  you were just thinking about. I'm sure pretty soon they'll put
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  something in our water that as soon as you drink it, the.
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  Right, I know another one too. I have another one.
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  I have another one. You have another one you you
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  loaded with them today. I know absolute free speech
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  people always like, well, a free speech free speech.
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  Well, yes, you, you the you do have a right to say whatever you
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  want to say, but that does not mean that you are not immune
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  from consequences. So like the First Amendment, the
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  protections that are in that First Amendment basically limit
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  government interference. However, private entities like
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  businesses or employers, social media, things like that can
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  restrict speech and you can face repercussions by saying dumb
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  shit on social media, which we've seen when people say dumb
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  shit on social media are you know, and then get fired for it,
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  so. Yes, I have seen our government
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  doesn't like free speech 'cause people keep getting arrested or
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  trolled by the president. Which that's not technically
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  you, that that's not technically if you're allowed to.
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  Do that, yeah, I said I don't know.
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  I I don't cover me though, 'cause I don't don't have any
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  money or assets, right? Like.
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  Don't conf like a thing that I think that people have the right
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  is sometimes they think they have the right to have access.
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  It's a privilege to have access, at least to me.
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  I feel like #1 we have these all the time, all the time.
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  And I feel like even coworkers, friends, family sometimes think
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  that that's like the easy in like, why aren't you answering
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  this, 'cause I grew up in a time where you called the house once
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  and you just said, OK, I guess I can't get a hold of them.
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  Right. Or you know, you leave a 15
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  minute message on the answering. Yeah, or you leave a 15 minute
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  message talking about every single detail that you wanted
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  that person to know, and then you wait for them to call you
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  back, right? If they didn't call you back,
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  then you saw them in the street and you were like, hey girl.
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  I think, I think that's kind of, I think for me, I think that
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  like, so we've talked about like the whole instant gratification
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  thing. And that's part of like the
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  issue with a lot of shit now is everybody just expects instant
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  gratification. And I think that's part of the
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  reason why I'm like, don't, don't call me.
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  You don't get to just call me. We now have the ability.
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  You can text me and when I am available and when I have the
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  spoons, when I have the wherewithal, I will text you
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  back. If it requires a phone call, you
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  can tell me in the text why it would require a phone call.
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  But the nice thing about having this shit now is that not
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  everything does require a phone call, and not everything
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  requires an immediate text back either.
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  No or sometimes. Sometimes I will forget.
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  To I prefer that you text me because sometimes I can answer
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  whatever you want to ask me in the text.
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  Right. If you weren't on the if you
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  were on the Internet, you couldn't reach.
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  You couldn't reach anyone because.
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  The dial up back in the day, yes, I was that, yes, very that,
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  very that. And I don't understand the whole
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  like people getting upset or using it to as a barometer,
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  'cause I was that person that was very clingy in the beginning
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  of all this, but using it as a barometer of like, they don't
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  love me. Bitch, if, if I could go back
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  and do this again, I would be like, bitch, you shut the fuck
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  up. Just go ahead with your life.
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  If people don't want to be in contact with you, then they
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  don't want to be in contact with you.
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  We don't, we don't, we don't have an obligation to just
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  because we have the device, we pay for the device.
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  So that means I get to decide how many times you call me or
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  right if you're blocked. No, you don't get to tell me to
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  unblock you, which is an another privilege, but not a right.
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  You don't get the right to have access to me.
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  Don't. No, definitely not.
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  So anyhow, Gabe, if you would like to support our podcast even
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  more, you go to ourpatreon@patreon.com/live with
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  Fifi and Freddie and support. All the things that you've
• 16:45
  missed, you have all of this to catch up on.
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  Oh, we talk about all kinds of things too.
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  And if you haven't caught up on the sagas, we talk about the
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  sagas. Oh.
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  I have I have some stuff that I can I can talk about this time
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  too I. Have this week.
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  I have some stuff. Anyhow, so join that Patreon.
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  We like to thank Bill, Brandon, Cassandra, Chris and Michelle D,
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  Drake, Jensen and Michael Casey, Star Carrie and Corey, Joan,
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  Laura, The Maskew and the Grand Arbiter, Nicole, Patricia, Mason
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  and Shannon. I laughed because Chris and
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  Michelle are a part of Drag Story Hour as well as support us
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  at one of the higher levels on Patreon.
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  And we first me 'cause I was like looking at all the baskets
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  at the Drag Story Hour annual fundraiser.
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  And I'm like, that shirt has a logo on it that I'm familiar
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  with. And it was our logo.
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  The logo you see down here, it's in pink.
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  And I'm like, Oh my God, how does somebody have a shirt that
• 18:13
  and I don't, how does Freddie not have a shirt?
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  And like, or at first I was like, I thought he had put the
• 18:20
  basket together. And then I was like, how dare he
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  like print a shirt and not like, give me one.
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  And and then he was like, what shirt?
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  And I was like, Oh, well, you don't know about an evil, No.
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  I was very confused for a hot minute.
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  Yeah, then we found out that Michelle put it in one of the
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  baskets to be given away and we we gave it to a lucky person who
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  won it. Luckily we didn't steal it, but
• 18:53
  we signed it for them, so they got a little keepsake or
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  whatever. But yeah, I was very confused.
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  So if you sign up for one of the tiers, I think it's the $25.00.
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  I don't. Know I'm not, I have no idea.
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  I don't know which tier it is. I did not sure we appreciate
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  your support though. But so that was I was like, Oh
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  my gosh, you got and then I was like, oh, shoot, I I wonder if
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  there's a way to buy them off of Patreon so that I could have
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  one. It was a very good quality
• 19:32
  shirt, very soft, very nice. So there you go.
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  There's a reason to like, bump up your membership.
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  Michelle has also gotten like a tote, a pen, and they come up
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  like every three months, so I don't ever have to touch it.
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  And we don't have to worry about it.
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  The only thing I miss is taping things closed so.
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  Yeah, I don't miss that. I don't miss that.
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  There I I still have the video that pops up every so often from
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  the pandemic of me trying to open the fucking shirt from
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  Felicia. That was like, yeah.
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  And they wanted to come out. I have a long story about
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  someone trying to reach me, but I'm not going to post it here.
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  Oh, we got to talk offline. I get I got that.
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  A huge shout out to Marissa of wigs of a.
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  This is a wigs of a kind wig. This.
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  Is also a wigs of a kind wig. I tweaked it a little bit.
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  It's from 20. Mine's from 2023 I think.
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  This is before. 23 I see the 20 I think 2022-2023 something like
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  that, that I tweaked it a little bit to give it more of the sort
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  of the pop art look so. I love it.
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  I don't know when mine was. I have a a collection a 1520
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  year collection of Marissa Wicks You're.
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  Welcome. If you want to support us, we
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  appreciate anything that you want to throw at us, including
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  Dimes, but we prefer the bigger bills, 50s, hundreds.
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  If you just want to drop a million in our account, then
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  won't take it. I mean, everybody's got it, I'm
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  sure at this point, right? Well, apparently, you know,
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  Trump said that he was going to send everybody $2000 stimulus
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  checks in February. Did you get what?
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  No, no I did not. OK, 'cause I wasn't say, 'cause
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  I got left off the list and I need to get there.
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  I got to. Get there?
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  No no, my wife didn't get one either which is like so and it's
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  March already so maybe mine just got lost in the mail.
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  So is this the same check that is supposed to be the tariffs
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  check? Probably, probably.
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  Or am I supposed to get 4000? Oh, maybe 4000.
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  That would be great. I'd be fine with that.
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  OK, Do I have to pay taxes on it like I did the last time?
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  No, I'm sure. No, I'm a second rate citizen.
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  I I don't even really. Exist and so do not go to
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  Kansas. Taxes on everything.
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  Anything. Don't go to Kansas.
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  No. You do not exist there.
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  No. Thanks Kansas for letting us
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  know how you feel. Anyway, how was your weekend?
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  It was good. I've been sort of in this, like
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  in this mode of, of costuming and stuff.
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  So like that's kind of what I've been doing my like the entire
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  week. Like work has been slow, which
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  has been good 'cause it means I've been able to multitask and
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  do shit. And then Saturday was the annual
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  Drag Story Hour fundraiser, which I'm, I'm very happy with
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  the way it turned out. We raised over $2000, which is
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  less than last year. But there was a lot of stuff
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  going on this weekend. There was the Melrose Street
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  Fair. There were other fundraisers
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  that were happening. There were other shows that were
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  happening. So I'm based on that and based
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  on a slightly smaller crowd than last year and the fact that
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  everything is just shit right now.
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  Like very few people have that. You know, those extra funds, the
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  fact that we did raise over $2000, I'm great with like I
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  think that I'm gonna count that as a win for sure, you know, so
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  that's. So this is where I, I feel like
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  we win is that I have been at like bar shows where there's
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  like a lot of people like, and I mean a lot of people, we've both
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  been in rooms where there's like a lot of people and then you
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  raise like $300 and you're like, right, that's it.
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  This whole bar is full like, right.
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  But we had like a small group of people and we raised $2000.
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  So that's where like I'm like. And I think it's, I mean, we had
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  some really, really good raffle prizes.
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  My partner actually won the body painting with Brandon McGill,
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  which she's super excited about. She has wanted to get painted by
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  Brandon McGill forever. I know she's, so she's very,
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  very excited about that, very excited about that.
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  So I'm excited. To see them.
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  A year of bloom for her, though. She had those photos earlier.
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  Now she's going to have a that. She did with Holly that are
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  absolutely phenomenal. So yeah, so she's she's very
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  excited about that and I'm very excited for her.
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  And then we had more artwork from Eric Turner and we did have
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  a auction, have an auction at the end for a Commission.
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  And last year, I think it was Gabe who from Brick Road Coffee
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  that they won the Commission last year.
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  So Jesse got to pick what the Commission was.
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  So this year they won again and Gabe gets to pick the
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  Commission. So and Jesse from queer center
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  won one of the Prince and the guys from Brick Road won the
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  other one of the Prince. So I'm you know, it was right.
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  They can check because they were they're technically a set if you
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  want the set, but it was it was it was good and people were very
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  excited about the raffles. The performers were great, like
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  everybody was was it was all around.
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  It was a really good evening. So I'm I'm really.
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  Good, really good and the audience was very flexible with
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  me not knowing how to read. I don't know my brain goes into.
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  I don't know what kind of trauma bound thing that was happening,
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  but sometimes my brain goes into.
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  We have talked about me and reading but sometimes my brain
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  goes into like trauma mode and I was like not today I was trying
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  to read but I. Yeah, it's, it's always, you're
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  trying to do something for Drag Story Hour, which encourages,
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  you know, things like early literacy.
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  And you're like, I don't know what this word is.
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  And it's. Fine, I was like so good on D
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  for reading them but I apologize for whatever malfunction was
• 27:11
  happening because that was not looks.
• 27:14
  Like it? It's fine.
• 27:15
  It's fine. Everything is fine.
• 27:17
  But thank you all for coming and to those that donate and support
• 27:25
  organizations like ours. Because it is community it is.
• 27:33
  The government is not helping as much as it could.
• 27:36
  We can send bombs to a foreign country to gain oil, but we
• 27:40
  cannot educate or feed our children.
• 27:45
  No, no, that would that would just make too much sense and,
• 27:49
  you know, be too practical. That was that was pretty much
• 27:55
  all I did. Sunday I woke up and I wasn't
• 27:57
  feeling great. And I don't know if it was
• 27:58
  because I did stuff the day before.
• 28:04
  I was just like, I'm like, I'm, I'm hoping that I'm not getting
• 28:07
  sick. So I'm just, I just didn't do
• 28:09
  much at all on Sunday. I just kind of hung out and.
• 28:12
  I was like thinking going on vacation.
• 28:14
  I know, trust me, I would have been extraordinarily mad if I
• 28:17
  had ended up sick this week 'cause I would have probably
• 28:21
  killed my partner because if I got sick it would have been her
• 28:23
  fault because she was the one that was sick last week and
• 28:25
  brought home those. Drugs we don't want, we don't
• 28:27
  want to play the blame game, but.
• 28:34
  How was your weekend? Pretty much the same did the
• 28:41
  fun, did the fundraiser and that was it.
• 28:45
  I so I'm not as sore as I thought I was going to be either
• 28:56
  boy. So I did take a slow though I
• 29:01
  did not do like dancing numbers back-to-back 'cause I've never
• 29:08
  been like the dancer type. I'm not like a Kennedy
• 29:14
  Davenport, knock the house down, kick my leg up until the sun
• 29:19
  shines kind of person, but I I can get down a little bit.
• 29:25
  But so then like the first number took it easy 'cause I was
• 29:30
  like, I don't need to, I don't need to exert ourself.
• 29:39
  The second number, which I was proud of because a anxiety is so
• 29:47
  real when you haven't done something in a while.
• 29:51
  I created that mix. The only thing I would have done
• 29:53
  is turn up the first song because I can barely hear it and
• 29:56
  that was my doing. But other than that I was like,
• 30:02
  oh this is cute. And doing that after being sick
• 30:10
  and down and out, which felt like I was down and out for like
• 30:14
  pretty much the whole month of February was like a pretty proud
• 30:20
  thing for me. And I, I danced a little bit.
• 30:23
  And thanks for those that sent me the videos.
• 30:28
  I'm so sorry that you got to see that.
• 30:31
  I'm so sorry. I was backstage, I didn't see
• 30:35
  shit, so you know. It was great, but yeah, I'm not
• 30:39
  as sore as I thought I would be and we just hung out.
• 30:42
  This weekend wasn't nothing too extraordinary, but I love the
• 30:50
  show. Thank you to Spooky Swirls for
• 30:53
  the cupcakes. I didn't share them with
• 30:58
  anybody, so they may be finding out right now on the podcast.
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  I ate them all. You're welcome, you're welcome.
• 31:14
  Shall we move on? Shooter.
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  To the deep. Let's see if it plays.
• 31:39
  Mookie, so tip is not so much a tip more of we're going to talk
• 31:47
  a little bit more about history because, you know, why the hell
• 31:50
  not? We are educational if nothing
• 31:52
  else. And in honor of Women's History
• 31:56
  Month and the fact that I'm going to be not here for the
• 31:59
  next couple weeks or so, I thought that I would talk a
• 32:02
  little bit about a brief history because otherwise, I mean, we
• 32:06
  could go in a deep dive, deep dive and it would take a, but
• 32:09
  we're not going to do that of, of, of women's voting rights.
• 32:14
  Now, I want to preface this by saying that when I talk about
• 32:22
  women's voting rights, I am primarily talking about white
• 32:28
  women's voting rights. And you'll see why.
• 32:33
  Because things didn't. Things didn't pan out so good,
• 32:38
  right? So the 19th Amendment is
• 32:42
  basically what guaranteed in parentheses, white women the
• 32:46
  right to vote. And it was enacted at the start
• 32:50
  of the Roaring 20s. So if you think about that,
• 32:57
  women have only white, white women have only been guaranteed
• 33:03
  the right to vote since 1920. That's barely 100 years.
• 33:12
  That's and it's it's been sort of a trickle down thing.
• 33:22
  So, but before that, we're going to back it up a little bit,
• 33:25
  right? So between 1776 and 18 O 7
• 33:30
  unmarried women who owned property in New Jersey could and
• 33:36
  did cast ballots. So Jersey was kind of ahead of
• 33:42
  the game in that sense. If you were unmarried and you
• 33:45
  owned property, you were allowed to vote.
• 33:50
  Not ideal, obviously, but at least it was something.
• 33:57
  The very first legal vote cast by a woman was in 1756 in
• 34:06
  Massachusetts by a wealthy widow whose eldest surviving son
• 34:11
  wasn't of legal voting age. So basically, she was made, she
• 34:15
  was given an exception, and she was able to vote in some local
• 34:21
  elections. Yeah, but again, she wouldn't
• 34:29
  have been allowed to under normal circumstances.
• 34:32
  But she was given sort of this, you know, right, Because, you
• 34:41
  know, her oldest surviving son, because apparently everybody
• 34:44
  else was dead, wasn't voting age yet.
• 34:47
  So they're like, well, you can go ahead.
• 34:49
  And since you know you have a son but he's not, you know, a
• 34:51
  voting age yet, you can go ahead and vote for him, essentially is
• 34:54
  what? Kind of shit is that.
• 34:57
  Welcome to the In 1867, women in western territories won the
• 35:06
  right to vote, and between 1869 and 1913, the following
• 35:12
  territories granted women's voting rights before they became
• 35:16
  states. So the territories of Wyoming,
• 35:20
  Utah, Washington, Montana, and Alaska gave women the right to
• 35:26
  vote. They weren't states yet.
• 35:28
  They were still just territories.
• 35:32
  Between 1890 and 1918, the following states granted women's
• 35:38
  voting rights before the ratification of the 19th
• 35:40
  Amendment. Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho,
• 35:44
  Washington, California, Arizona, Kansas, Oregon, Montana, Nevada,
• 35:50
  New York, Michigan, Oklahoma, and South Dakota.
• 35:54
  So they gave women the right to vote or the 19th Amendment was a
• 35:58
  thing. These are the states that only
• 36:03
  allowed women to vote after modification of the 19th
• 36:07
  Amendment. Notice that there's kind of a
• 36:10
  trend here. Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut,
• 36:14
  Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,
• 36:20
  Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, which is
• 36:23
  interesting, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South
• 36:28
  Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia.
• 36:31
  A lot of southern states in there.
• 36:34
  So I have a question. Yes, I have a very historical
• 36:39
  question. I am not.
• 36:40
  Able to answer. You don't have to if we we later
• 36:46
  but boys been fascinated and wondered why did the South
• 36:56
  become the place of Southern discomfort?
• 37:03
  And then like, I don't know. Oh, that's easy.
• 37:09
  That goes back. That goes back to slavery in the
• 37:12
  Civil War. Like that's that's.
• 37:14
  Always. Been a kind of so I.
• 37:17
  Don't know. That, that's, that's, that, that
• 37:21
  that goes back to, that goes back to slavery.
• 37:23
  Like that's, you know, so as far back as the 30's, the push for
• 37:29
  women's suffrage was very much entwined with the push to
• 37:31
  abolish slavery. They ended up kind of becoming
• 37:36
  sort of the same fight. Many abolitionists found their
• 37:40
  way into the suffrage movement, like Sojourner Truth, Lucretia
• 37:43
  Mott, Ida B Wells. People like that who were
• 37:47
  fighting to abolish slavery basically found themselves
• 37:51
  fighting for women's suffrage and women's right to vote kind
• 37:55
  of at the same time, because that makes sense now.
• 38:00
  The 19th Amendment allowed black women in the North and West to
• 38:06
  vote and hold office for the first time.
• 38:09
  But thanks to the Jim Crow era, black women in the South were
• 38:13
  still incredibly oppressed because, yeah, even, you know,
• 38:22
  even with like the the 15th Amendment, which went into play
• 38:26
  50 years earlier, which barred states from denying the right to
• 38:30
  vote on account of race, color or previous condition of
• 38:33
  servitude, The South had all sorts of racially discriminatory
• 38:40
  policies, poll taxes, literary tests, grandfather clauses,
• 38:46
  felony disenfranchise, disenfranchisement laws, like
• 38:49
  all sorts of shit that kept Black women, Black men and other
• 38:53
  voters of. Color out of this own land.
• 38:57
  Right. Like they basically the South
• 39:00
  just missed the whole thing. Native women, Asian women,
• 39:05
  Latino women faced racial discrimination and often weren't
• 39:08
  able to vote until the civil rights movement in the mid 20th
• 39:10
  century. So Asian immigrants weren't even
• 39:15
  able to become citizens until 1952.
• 39:20
  And then they were still treated wrong.
• 39:23
  Right, right. It wasn't until the Voting
• 39:28
  Rights Act of 1965 that black women 19651965.
• 39:39
  That is very recent history, y'all.
• 39:43
  So very recent, everybody is saying like that was history.
• 39:47
  That's way back then. Which is why when I talk about
• 39:50
  the women's right to vote, I'm when, when you hear women were,
• 39:56
  you know, guaranteed the right to vote, really you're only
• 39:59
  talking about white women, really.
• 40:03
  Because it wasn't until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that
• 40:06
  Black women were finally able to take advantage of the 19th
• 40:09
  Amendment. And it wasn't until the 1975
• 40:13
  extension of the Voting Rights Act that required voting
• 40:16
  materials to be available in other languages that the Asian
• 40:21
  and Latino communities were really able to exercise their
• 40:23
  voting rights. Yeah.
• 40:29
  So when people want to say, oh, you know, well, you know, black
• 40:35
  folks or whatever, I've always had these rights.
• 40:41
  That's very the waters are very muddy there because yes, like
• 40:48
  the rights were technically there for the north and the
• 40:54
  West, but the South made it very clear that they were not
• 41:00
  interested in letting that happen.
• 41:03
  Like when you say do you mean everybody or do you mean
• 41:09
  everybody? Right.
• 41:11
  And generally when you are talking about rights and things,
• 41:17
  unless you like really, we're talking about specific areas,
• 41:23
  any specific demographic, because when it comes to the
• 41:29
  Southern states, they made it very clear that they were not
• 41:36
  going to let, they were still bitter.
• 41:38
  They're they're still fucking bitter.
• 41:40
  They're still mad about the fact that the Confederacy lost.
• 41:44
  Slavery was illegal. They're still mad about it.
• 41:48
  They've been mad about it. That's why they still want to
• 41:50
  wave their fucking flag. Like you literally you're, you
• 41:55
  lost. You lost big time.
• 41:59
  Slavery was illegal. But the South?
• 42:02
  How a lot of the things that are behavior wise today are like
• 42:11
  just copy and paste basically, in my own opinion of the people
• 42:18
  that are like, no, no, no, no, you.
• 42:22
  We have seen Obama rise. We do not.
• 42:26
  We don't need this. We need to sit down.
• 42:31
  That's basically what all this is.
• 42:35
  I mean, any, anybody that wants to argue the point, it's very
• 42:38
  easy to look and look up all the the racially discriminatory
• 42:44
  policies and laws that were in place in the South that were
• 42:47
  designed to keep people of color and specifically black folks
• 42:54
  from being able to succeed. But it was women, but
• 43:04
  specifically black folks, men and women.
• 43:09
  They let white women vote. They just made it virtually
• 43:12
  impossible for anybody who wasn't white to do anything.
• 43:18
  And still to this. Day right and it's not there
• 43:24
  the. The.
• 43:25
  Voter suppression that is happening still, the
• 43:30
  gerrymandering, the all of that bullshit is specifically
• 43:33
  designed to keep anybody who is not basically white and
• 43:37
  Republican from being able to vote easily or really do
• 43:45
  anything. It's right, yeah.
• 43:50
  Yeah. So when we're talking about
• 43:55
  women's rights, women's right to vote, keep in mind that that
• 44:02
  it's still very recent history. And, you know, people like,
• 44:06
  well, that was like 100 years ago.
• 44:08
  Yeah, 100 years ago. Shit.
• 44:12
  It's not like they're, you know, they're people that are alive.
• 44:18
  They're very old, but people are alive that would have been born,
• 44:24
  you know, the same year that the 19th Amendment went into, went
• 44:28
  into effect. It, it's, it, it's recent
• 44:36
  history and when you think about, you know, the, the Voting
• 44:43
  Rights Act of 1965 and then the extension in 197575 is 4 years
• 44:50
  older than. Oh, hello, goodbye.
• 44:58
  There we go. That was weird.
• 45:00
  So 75 is very recent history, 65 is very recent history.
• 45:07
  So you know, understand and know your history before you start
• 45:13
  spouting off about stuff that. One, that's the thing about
• 45:18
  social media. I think that people have taken
• 45:21
  that's another thing that privilege and made it into their
• 45:25
  own right, their own right to be ignorant, their own right to be
• 45:30
  cowardly and spa off these things that are like, well,
• 45:35
  right, you know, being black, you know, you, you should be
• 45:38
  grateful that you have what you have, OK?
• 45:41
  What? What?
• 45:43
  No. And I think, I think we we are
• 45:45
  due for another discussion about what privilege actually is.
• 45:51
  So we should, we should bookmark that and talk about that at some
• 45:55
  point soonish, I think because people are still don't
• 46:00
  understand what privilege is. They just think it's money and
• 46:03
  there's more to it than that. So I, I, I think we're, we're
• 46:07
  overdue for a discussion on privilege.
• 46:09
  So expect that in the next few episodes at some point, because
• 46:13
  I think it's important to revisit it every so often.
• 46:17
  Some of the conversations that Freddie and I have been a part
• 46:20
  of, I just, yeah, we're due for one.
• 46:26
  Yeah. So we'll, we'll, we'll I, I
• 46:29
  will, I will make sure that that's a thing.
• 46:30
  I will, I will cause file that away and we're we'll we'll
• 46:34
  revisit the idea of privilege. Yes.
• 46:36
  Will you file that next to history of so I heard recently?
• 46:46
  I'm gonna put this out there for a future discussion of how
• 46:52
  people are starting to feel offended by how much diversity
• 46:57
  there is. I'll repeat that.
• 47:00
  People are offended by how much diversity there is and that they
• 47:09
  feel that white people are being discriminated against.
• 47:20
  Yeah. Sit with it, think about it.
• 47:28
  And with that, we'll move on to the next segment, which I.
• 47:56
  OK. I saw that you added that in
• 48:00
  there, which made me remember something else.
• 48:04
  So AWTF, there's a bill, I can't remember if it's nationwide or
• 48:14
  if it's just statewide. It can't be statewide because I
• 48:17
  don't think Hops allow this. Or maybe she would maybe just
• 48:21
  kill the bill when it came time. But to have ice at voting polls?
• 48:28
  There's a bill going around to have ice at voting polls.
• 48:36
  Yeah, that that should be illegal.
• 48:37
  Like in fact it it you can't. It just sounds like why do we?
• 48:42
  Need that's like that's voter intimidation.
• 48:44
  You can't do that. And also I want to, I want to, I
• 48:48
  want to remind folks because a lot of places now are, are
• 48:55
  having their, like I almost said, preliminaries, their
• 49:00
  midterms and things. Remember that you are allowed to
• 49:05
  call and report things that are shady as fuck at polling places
• 49:12
  and make sure that you do that. I will say it's been very
• 49:16
  interesting watching the voting for Texas.
• 49:21
  As you know, they have spots open and shady things have been
• 49:31
  going on. I don't know the full story on
• 49:34
  some of them, so I don't want to like comment on them, but it
• 49:38
  definitely reminds me of the election here a couple years ago
• 49:42
  when people were like, I can't get in line.
• 49:44
  And I'm like to me, you can't get in line.
• 49:50
  But it does. It does look like Texas may
• 49:55
  flip. Which I get ready, Governor.
• 50:03
  Very interesting, which I think is very, very interesting.
• 50:08
  I'm gonna. I like these.
• 50:10
  These midterms are very telling right now.
• 50:12
  And if you're in these states that are having the midterms
• 50:16
  right now, I need you to get get it together and vote.
• 50:26
  I'm no longer can you say politics is not my thing.
• 50:29
  No longer politics is in it and when your favorite like pop
• 50:40
  stars are like involved in things and probably going
• 50:47
  against some of your values which you thought they had your
• 50:49
  values and they don't. First of all, I learned a long
• 50:54
  time ago not to like idolize stars to the point where.
• 50:58
  I don't. Affect my day-to-day life.
• 51:01
  But like, come on, if you watch this show then there should be
• 51:10
  no question about if you should vote or not.
• 51:12
  But maybe we missed someone, I don't know, but I think that is
• 51:19
  something we should do anyway. But Speaking of ICE, at least 6
• 51:25
  ICE agents have shot themselves in the leg during training when
• 51:31
  polished during their own weapon.
• 51:35
  Yeah, sounds like exactly the type of people that I want out
• 51:37
  there. Do they have less training than
• 51:41
  a police officer? Is that?
• 51:42
  What I I think so at this point, I don't even think they have any
• 51:45
  training at this point. I'm pretty sure it's.
• 51:46
  Just gorilla. I'm, I feel like it's like, hey,
• 51:51
  you wanna go kidnap people? Here's your firearm.
• 51:55
  Enjoy here's your I'll fitting Goodwills like uniform because
• 52:02
  we're not actually going to make sure that you're fit turns.
• 52:04
  You anything because not against thick people and I'm I don't
• 52:10
  have no shame, no gain to talk shit about nobody's body but I.
• 52:17
  Like, like if you're, there's supposed to be, there's supposed
• 52:21
  to be fitness standards with any sort of law enforcement,
• 52:25
  military, like, you know what I mean?
• 52:27
  Like they're supposed to be fit. Like that's 'cause you're, you
• 52:33
  know what, if you're supposed to apprehend somebody, like you're
• 52:35
  supposed to be able to kick. Like, I don't know, I I'm like
• 52:39
  OK bro, I. Don't know.
• 52:43
  Also, it looks like toothpaste being squeezed at the top of it.
• 52:49
  It's where they just go and get their shit from Goodwill.
• 52:51
  They're like, here's some pants that kind of fit.
• 52:53
  If you can button them and, you know, move your beer gut over
• 52:56
  the thing, then you're fine. So anybody could do this.
• 53:01
  Also was disgusted outside as I was flipping through Tiktok the
• 53:06
  other day that there's like a gay that a gay guy that is like
• 53:10
  a ICE agent. I was very proud of it.
• 53:16
  Tell me I'm not the only one I saw.
• 53:17
  I mean you, you there's. Like gays?
• 53:22
  For Trump, there's the Log Cabin Republicans like we.
• 53:24
  This is not new. I was like I'll no get this off
• 53:28
  my screen immediately. People have no problem
• 53:32
  apparently working against their best interests and that's
• 53:35
  whatever. Like that's.
• 53:36
  Until it hits home, even. Then they're like, but even like
• 53:41
  that's actually that shit makes me chuckle when I see that shit
• 53:44
  now people that are like married to immigrants that voted for
• 53:47
  Trump and now all of a sudden they're like spouse is being
• 53:50
  deported and I'm like. There was a lady that was like
• 53:53
  very advocating for like, we need to get the immigrants out.
• 53:57
  And then I just came and took her son and she was like, well,
• 54:04
  why did he take my son? Like, how do I get him back?
• 54:07
  Right? And everybody in the comments,
• 54:09
  Oh well, you should have be careful how you said.
• 54:12
  People that like the like I, there was one woman I saw that
• 54:15
  was like very vocal about, you know, all this bullshit and then
• 54:20
  they took her husband and I'm like, I have no sympathy for
• 54:24
  you. I don't care none.
• 54:25
  I have 0 sympathy for you at this juncture.
• 54:27
  None. I you literally voted for this
• 54:32
  so I, I don't care, don't come crying to me 'cause I literally
• 54:37
  do not care. Like that's that's on you.
• 54:42
  So I believe it was this weekend that Alex Pretty is it Pretty
• 54:53
  Pretty the VA nurse that was killed by ice this weekend would
• 55:03
  have been his 38th birthday. No mention, no mention from dump
• 55:13
  truck at all about any of this. But what do we expect?
• 55:19
  You would expect class, but I expect trash.
• 55:24
  Anyway, you already talked about women's rights to vote, but I
• 55:33
  found it interesting that we are 113 years where they were like
• 55:41
  marching down by the White House demanding that they get the
• 55:49
  right to vote. And it's so interesting like as
• 55:54
  we have conversations that people are like, you shouldn't
• 55:57
  protest, but like these were like some of like the first
• 56:02
  groups that like protested and and you're like, we're not that
• 56:09
  far. That's why you.
• 56:10
  See, that's why you see, like some of these, these women in
• 56:13
  particular, when you know, they're out there protesting
• 56:16
  things, their signs are like, we've already fucking done this,
• 56:18
  why are we still doing this? Yeah, like, why are we still out
• 56:21
  here? Yeah, why do we have to keep
• 56:26
  telling you? It's because men suck, that's
• 56:30
  why. Basically.
• 56:33
  Basically. And some good news.
• 56:39
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• 56:42
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• 56:42
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• 56:45
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• 56:52
  a billion Spotify streams, according to the Rolling Stone.
• 56:58
  I bet you that the Conservatives are just so happy they.
• 57:04
  They they wouldn't even listen to it, you know what I mean?
• 57:07
  It's like they don't. I feel like it's our silent
• 57:10
  protest. I have even put it into my
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  rotation so it's fine. It's fine.
• 57:18
  The good news continues also with Bad Bunny for Bad Bunny, as
• 57:25
  the NFL announced this week that Bad Bunny broke the all time
• 57:29
  Super Bowl halftime record with 4.1 billion.
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  That was AB not an M billion global viewers and that is
• 57:45
  across like all platforms like. And you know, what cracks me up
• 57:48
  is that probably a good chunk of that are probably conservatives
• 57:53
  watching it, so they can be mad at it.
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  That's what I'm saying. Like if somebody wants to watch
• 58:02
  us and hates us, like let them do.
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  It I told you, I think that's what happened a couple weeks
• 58:07
  ago. Like be.
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  Mad. I'm like, thank you for sharing.
• 58:11
  Be mad, right? Please, please be even more
• 58:16
  upset and watch both episodes. Watch the pre show, watch you
• 58:21
  know what? Subscribe to our Patreon.
• 58:23
  Be so mad that you want to see what we're doing behind.
• 58:26
  You you can get even more mad by seeing the things that we do
• 58:29
  like that's not on here. Mm hmm, mm hmm.
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  Just, I mean, I can't hurt. And if you're traveling and this
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  is a thing now, 'cause there's a lot of people that have been
• 58:52
  asking about this that I have seen on the Book of Faces and
• 58:56
  Instagram, is that Canada has been named the second safest
• 59:02
  country for people of color, women and LGBTQ plus travelers
• 59:09
  in recent global travel safety indexes.
• 59:13
  I feel like that's just surveys. If you basically anyway, why is
• 59:20
  the space between Austria? Wait.
• 59:23
  I don't know you. You.
• 59:24
  I don't. I don't know your life.
• 59:26
  I didn't drink when I did this. The top five countries that are
• 59:37
  deemed travel safe are Netherlands, which was the
• 59:41
  number one 'cause I was like which one is #1 'cause I kept
• 59:46
  seeing the headline of Canada being the 2nd and I was like OK,
• 59:50
  so where is other places? The Netherlands, Canada, of
• 59:57
  course, France and Australia and Austria.
• 1:00:02
  Now I'm a I'm just just to be clear, this doesn't mean that
• 1:00:07
  bad. Shit doesn't happen.
• 1:00:10
  Right. Like bad shit happens
• 1:00:12
  everywhere. There are shitty people
• 1:00:13
  everywhere. We know this.
• 1:00:15
  Yeah, crime. Is no stress.
• 1:00:18
  Right. But as far as overall safety and
• 1:00:24
  overall, like, you're not gonna get weird fucking looks and, you
• 1:00:28
  know, things like that, that these are gonna be your top five
• 1:00:32
  countries, which really aren't surprising if you know the
• 1:00:36
  history of each, you know, which we kind of talked about actually
• 1:00:42
  a little bit when we talked about like LGBTQ plus history,
• 1:00:50
  you know, France and the Netherlands have always been
• 1:00:55
  hubs for our community, you know, So just that that's, you
• 1:01:02
  know, not not surprising. But again, this doesn't mean
• 1:01:05
  that everybody there is not a. There are shitty people
• 1:01:10
  everywhere, so and. Please still proceed with
• 1:01:14
  caution. Right.
• 1:01:16
  And also, oh, thank you Jesse. Thank you for being there and
• 1:01:21
  for winning things. Yeah, appreciate that.
• 1:01:25
  But yeah, so and again, just when and if you travel, make
• 1:01:31
  sure, especially if you are trans right now, be mindful of
• 1:01:35
  traveling. If you have things like
• 1:01:40
  passports and stuff, make sure that they are not in danger of
• 1:01:44
  expiring anytime soon. Make sure that all of your
• 1:01:48
  documentation is in order as much as possible.
• 1:01:50
  I am switched. Oh, can I give a pro tip?
• 1:01:53
  Yes. So I do recommend that your
• 1:02:00
  passport and any documents be like on your phone.
• 1:02:07
  You can do hidden folders on some devices.
• 1:02:11
  So that's a thing because somebody was telling me like
• 1:02:15
  they can some places take things away and I recommend like you
• 1:02:22
  scan them like so you have them like not even, I'm not saying
• 1:02:29
  like take a picture. I'm saying like go to like the
• 1:02:33
  library or something and scan them and send them to yourself
• 1:02:37
  or something so that they live somewhere else other than
• 1:02:42
  physical because then you have record that they existed.
• 1:02:55
  But Speaking of having your papers in order, Kansas right
• 1:02:59
  now is coming under fire because they're basically trying to
• 1:03:03
  invalidate all trans people's existence.
• 1:03:08
  Notices have been sent out that anybody who has had their gender
• 1:03:11
  marker changed on their license or whatever must surrender their
• 1:03:15
  license, which is complete and utter horseshit and the.
• 1:03:25
  Was there something else too like their birth certificates
• 1:03:31
  too? I don't think you can amend your
• 1:03:33
  birth certificate in Kansas. Oh.
• 1:03:37
  A lot of people, a lot of places make it almost impossible to be
• 1:03:41
  able to amend your birth certificate.
• 1:03:45
  I got lucky. I got very lucky and the me
• 1:03:50
  being lucky, for one thing for once doesn't have much to do
• 1:03:54
  with actual privilege. It has to do with I got lucky
• 1:03:56
  because I was born in Michigan, which made it very easy for me
• 1:04:00
  to change my birth certificate. I got lucky that I live in
• 1:04:03
  Arizona and I was able to change my gender marker on everything
• 1:04:09
  without much. Happening immediately without
• 1:04:13
  question. And the privilege is there only
• 1:04:17
  in that I was able to afford to get my name changed and all that
• 1:04:20
  good stuff. But as far as being able to
• 1:04:23
  actually do that, I just, it just has to do with location.
• 1:04:28
  But yeah, the the scary thing is, is that because Kansas is
• 1:04:33
  trying to do this, it's only a matter of time before other
• 1:04:38
  states also try to do something similar.
• 1:04:42
  If you think that shit like this is localized to just one area,
• 1:04:46
  you are going to be very, very you're you're, you're in for a
• 1:04:55
  very rude awakening when shit starts to come down.
• 1:04:59
  And. You all know that these people
• 1:05:01
  sit in the same rooms together, right?
• 1:05:06
  So. The majority of the year they
• 1:05:08
  sit in the same rooms together. And this is part of the reason
• 1:05:12
  why I'm trying to get my Canadian citizenship.
• 1:05:17
  A lot of people are looking into dual citizenship with things if
• 1:05:22
  they're able to do it based on their, their family, their
• 1:05:24
  family history, things like that.
• 1:05:26
  A lot of people are trying to get that dual citizenship with
• 1:05:28
  different countries because I mean, but if you again, if you
• 1:05:33
  think that shit like this can't happen to you, you know, how
• 1:05:37
  long before they make everybody put, you know, a pink triangle
• 1:05:42
  on their ID to identify you as a homosexual?
• 1:05:45
  I don't need a pink triangle, I am the pink triangle.
• 1:05:50
  You know what I mean? Like how long before they start
• 1:05:52
  going after like nail salons? You can't do men's nails.
• 1:05:57
  No right, You know what I mean? That's so just and if you think
• 1:06:03
  that is like. I don't think it's far fetched.
• 1:06:07
  I don't put anything. Like like I guarantee you it is
• 1:06:11
  not as far fetched as you may think it is.
• 1:06:14
  And what is happening in Kansas is very probable to happen
• 1:06:20
  pretty much anywhere else at this I.
• 1:06:22
  Feel like during or before the pandemic, I felt like something
• 1:06:27
  like this was happening and then it kind of got 'cause I think we
• 1:06:37
  were trying to squash it before it happened and then this time
• 1:06:43
  they just kind of we. We've been really lucky in
• 1:06:45
  Arizona that our governor has been like, no fucking way.
• 1:06:49
  Where I'm just, you could try it.
• 1:06:51
  It's going to hit my desk and I'm going to veto it.
• 1:06:53
  So don't even bother at this point.
• 1:06:54
  Like, yeah, like Jesse makes a good point.
• 1:06:57
  Jesse says travel with friends. I always suggest traveling with
• 1:07:00
  a buddy regardless, like a lot of people like traveling solo
• 1:07:04
  and having like solo adventures. Right now is probably not a
• 1:07:07
  really good time to do that. I would highly recommend.
• 1:07:12
  Especially some countries don't like Americans.
• 1:07:18
  Right which? Yeah, which I'm not calling the
• 1:07:24
  thing that happened over the weekend a war.
• 1:07:28
  Well, no, it's not a war. You have.
• 1:07:30
  In order to be a war, you have to get congressional approval,
• 1:07:33
  and there is no congressional approval.
• 1:07:36
  So right now we're just dropping.
• 1:07:37
  Bombs, checks and balances. Look at you.
• 1:07:39
  Look at you. Right.
• 1:07:40
  But they're not fucking working because we're going to drop
• 1:07:42
  bombs anyway. We've already lost service
• 1:07:45
  members because this is going to be, it's going to be a police
• 1:07:50
  action, just like Vietnam and Korea, even though we call it
• 1:07:53
  the Korean War and the Vietnam War, they were police actions.
• 1:07:56
  They weren't actually wars. That's what this is going to be.
• 1:07:59
  It's going to be a police action or some stupid loophole verbiage
• 1:08:04
  that makes it not a war. So therefore they don't have to
• 1:08:09
  get congressional approval. Oh my God that's the all boiled
• 1:08:14
  up. That is absolute bullshit.
• 1:08:16
  It makes me so pissed that people are so hell bent on
• 1:08:21
  making our lives so difficult. Why is it anyone's business what
• 1:08:25
  we do? They should look in their own
• 1:08:27
  backyard. Well you know they can't look in
• 1:08:30
  their own backyard. There's children back there, but
• 1:08:32
  you know, they're the ones us of having.
• 1:08:35
  Speaking of looking in your own backyard, I'm chuckling a little
• 1:08:38
  bit because I don't know if you all have seen the picture of, of
• 1:08:42
  Trump with the rash right on the right side.
• 1:08:45
  OK, so the somebody was like, you know, hey, for all the
• 1:08:50
  doctors out there on, you know, Reddit or whatever and they
• 1:08:53
  might know what this is. And a lot of people are like,
• 1:08:55
  that is a perfect, not fucked up right ear.
• 1:09:01
  Because remember, he was supposedly shot in the right
• 1:09:03
  ear. There's nothing, nothing.
• 1:09:07
  There is 0 damage to his ear 0 0.
• 1:09:19
  What's the rash though? Oh that's a good question.
• 1:09:24
  Could be anything. Is that like diabetes forming on
• 1:09:27
  his neck? Probably shingles or some shit
• 1:09:30
  and I hope it hurts. Looks like he doesn't shower
• 1:09:34
  very well. Melania, that's for you.
• 1:09:48
  Oh, and there's the thing now that the the White House is
• 1:09:50
  saying that Barron Trump is too tall to be in the military
• 1:09:55
  because he's 69. And but there was a basketball
• 1:09:58
  player that was 7 foot over 7 foot.
• 1:10:00
  It was in the military. So being too tall is now going
• 1:10:03
  to be the I have bone spurs and can't be in the military.
• 1:10:10
  Oh, they have desk jobs in the military too, so.
• 1:10:15
  It's going to be really unfortunate when like all of
• 1:10:18
  these, you know, Republican kids all get drafted.
• 1:10:23
  He won't ever let that happen. Oh I know, but you know they all
• 1:10:28
  signed up for this, so like you should all be first.
• 1:10:32
  In the draft, go sign up. Make sure your children all go
• 1:10:37
  to the recruiting office and make sure they sign up for the
• 1:10:40
  Army. None of this cushy Navy and Air
• 1:10:42
  Force stuff. You're going to support the
• 1:10:44
  troops, so go sign up for the Army or the.
• 1:10:48
  Marines Was he a Dodger? Yeah, he had bone spurs.
• 1:10:54
  Bone spurs. Just like he got shot in the
• 1:11:00
  ear. Right.
• 1:11:01
  Yeah, it's yeah. So I've got this.
• 1:11:05
  Amazing, I love it here. They're amazing.
• 1:11:10
  Other countries are laughing at us.
• 1:11:13
  I have friends abroad that asks me everyday how I'm doing.
• 1:11:21
  If I could afford to go live with them I would, but.
• 1:11:25
  And. So remember that Patreon we were
• 1:11:28
  talking about if you would like us to relocate to a safer place?
• 1:11:35
  If you would like to, you know, help us, we each.
• 1:11:38
  Have 5, you know a load of five so you'd have to re locate us.
• 1:11:47
  Oh, my kids aren't coming. That'll be fine.
• 1:11:49
  Oh. OK.
• 1:11:50
  OK. OK.
• 1:11:50
  We'll leave it here. OK.
• 1:11:51
  You know, I need I'd only need to re relocate probably with
• 1:11:54
  maybe with one of my kids, but it's difficult because I have I
• 1:11:59
  got animals so it makes. Sense that?
• 1:12:02
  I mean, you gotta get Noah's Ark.
• 1:12:04
  He's got Noah's Ark going on over there.
• 1:12:07
  I can't leave my babies. Fables and tails there.
• 1:12:13
  Speaking of fables and tails, we have upcoming events to distract
• 1:12:20
  us from these stupid things going on.
• 1:12:26
  On the 12th. I have an Irish tea themed drag
• 1:12:33
  bingo at Drink Me Tea Room and it's at 5:30.
• 1:12:38
  There's still tickets available. Tickets go fast, yeah.
• 1:12:45
  And then on the 20th y'all can get tickets.
• 1:12:51
  They're available now. Affordable.
• 1:12:54
  And they're affordable. But if you're not going to Wild
• 1:12:57
  West Con, but you are in the area and you want to go see a
• 1:13:00
  killer dragon burlesque show, go get your tickets for our final
• 1:13:05
  Dragon burlesque show at Wild Wild West Con, which is
• 1:13:07
  happening on Friday, March 20th at 7:00 PM.
• 1:13:11
  It is going to be so good. My cast this year is amazing.
• 1:13:16
  It's it's just we're we're going to go out with a bang, that's
• 1:13:18
  for damn sure. So make sure that if you are
• 1:13:23
  attending Wild West Con, make sure that you get tickets for
• 1:13:26
  it. If you are not attending Wild
• 1:13:27
  West Con, but you're going to be in the Tucson area or you want
• 1:13:29
  to make the drive down, I highly recommend it because you're
• 1:13:32
  going to catch some incredible entertainers from Phoenix, from
• 1:13:38
  I think we have one from California, one from talking we
• 1:13:42
  have, we got, we got people from everywhere and we're all
• 1:13:45
  incredible. I will say that we are all
• 1:13:47
  incredible. So do the thing.
• 1:13:50
  Incredible. Yes.
• 1:13:54
  And I have good news. I have such good news.
• 1:13:59
  April 17th is the next drag being going Cats at the Phoenix
• 1:14:03
  Cat Cafe and I have been asked several times about this, so
• 1:14:07
  here's your answer. Tickets are now available.
• 1:14:10
  They became available this weekend.
• 1:14:13
  You can get them before they sell out.
• 1:14:15
  This is your fair warning 'cause we are well over a month away.
• 1:14:22
  And they will still out. They will.
• 1:14:24
  Still in my inbox on the 17th of April, right?
• 1:14:30
  They're gonna sell out, so don't come being like.
• 1:14:32
  This happens to either me or Freddie and somebody goes, well,
• 1:14:35
  there wasn't tickets available. Do you think I could just show
• 1:14:38
  up or no? Can you get me a spot?
• 1:14:42
  No. Do that.
• 1:14:44
  No, we can't even know. No, no, still.
• 1:14:50
  That's you, Jesse. I love you.
• 1:14:51
  Still. Yeah, man, Still.
• 1:14:58
  Still I know 20 years doing this shit.
• 1:15:02
  So yeah, go do the thing. And if you need a host or MC for
• 1:15:07
  your event, consider us you know.
• 1:15:10
  Just don't make. Me do well together, you know,
• 1:15:12
  or you know you can book us individually too, I guess if you
• 1:15:15
  need to, but you know, it's always fun to just.
• 1:15:20
  Don't make me read anything at all.
• 1:15:22
  Don't make no, don't make her read anything.
• 1:15:24
  I'll read things. Recent Events.
• 1:15:29
  It's fine, it's fine. No, I haven't.
• 1:15:33
  But yeah, we're available for all sorts of things.
• 1:15:36
  Office parties, events, drag shows, bingos, you name it.
• 1:15:41
  Come talk to us, we'll figure some shit out.
• 1:15:44
  When they start having draft parties, I guess we'll be there
• 1:15:47
  too. Right.
• 1:15:50
  And just so folks know, next week and more than likely the
• 1:15:54
  week following, we will not have a show next week for sure the
• 1:16:01
  week following, because I'm going to be basically situated
• 1:16:04
  for a Wild West con. So we might well give.
• 1:16:08
  I'm great for raffle tickets, right?
• 1:16:10
  Yeah, don't let Felicia read raffle tickets.
• 1:16:13
  But we might, you know, maybe I'll be nice.
• 1:16:18
  Maybe I'll be nice and let Felicia have, you know, a couple
• 1:16:21
  weeks off as well, but there'll be plenty to talk about when I
• 1:16:26
  come back, so just be prepared for that.
• 1:16:30
  I'm. Sure.
• 1:16:30
  If they keep it up at this rate, we'll have a lot to talk about
• 1:16:33
  when you get back. Because I, well, I mean, I'll
• 1:16:35
  have like vacation stuff to talk about.
• 1:16:39
  Well, Wescon to talk about. Like there'll be all sorts of
• 1:16:41
  shit to talk about. So there'll be, there'll be,
• 1:16:43
  there'll be plenty. Do I even need to be here when
• 1:16:45
  you get back? I don't know.
• 1:16:47
  Oh God, do you need to be here? Like regardless, just.
• 1:16:53
  Kidding. Just kidding anyway.
• 1:16:57
  Just snatched my name off the moniker.
• 1:17:01
  Oh man, wow. On that note, thanks for being
• 1:17:07
  here. Thanks for watching on the
• 1:17:09
  replay. Thanks for continuing to support
• 1:17:11
  us on Patreon, even though Gabe wants the 411 and doesn't
• 1:17:16
  support us on Patreon. But we see how it is.
• 1:17:22
  We're not important. Anyway, we'll see you for your
• 1:17:29
  next Wednesday night conversation, whenever that is.
• 1:17:32
  I don't remember when. Yeah, but something but.
• 1:17:37
  We'll see you soon. See you soon.
• 1:17:40
  Something like that. Goodnight.