Appalachian Transcendentalism and Translucence
Correction to something Dash said: WYSO isn't affiliated with West Virginia Public Media, but is instead based in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
In this episode, we sit down with Lee Wade, creator of the podcast Translucent on West Virginia Public Radio. Lee shares the inspiration behind starting the show in the midst of rising anti-trans legislation, and how the name Translucent reflects his mission to shine light on trans stories that are too often overlooked.
Lee opens up about his journey as a Black trans person navigating advocacy, mentorship, and grassroots podcast production. He recounts powerful conversations from Translucent, including an emotional interview with a Republican trans woman about restrictive legislation, and a deeply personal exchange with his father following incarceration. Lee’s story highlights the importance of allyship, adaptation, and creating space for trans voices in media.
The episode begins with lighter moments—funny stories about cat fights and candid reflections on students cheating in online learning. We also discuss the ethics of AI, drawing connections to systemic issues like racism and environmental justice. The conversation flows into personal anecdotes about haircuts, tattoos, and cultural identity, exploring how barbershops and body art carry meaning in diverse communities.
Along the way, we spotlight Tudor’s Biscuit World, a beloved Appalachian restaurant known for hearty meals and community impact.
We close by encouraging listener engagement, introducing our new newsletter, and reminding everyone to follow us on social media for updates and behind-the-scenes content.
Keywords: trans stories, Black trans voices, Translucent podcast, anti-trans legislation, allyship, Appalachian culture, online teaching challenges, AI ethics, barbershop culture, tattoo stories, Tudor’s Biscuit World, grassroots podcasting, West Virginia Public Radio
Transcript
dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: actually
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got into a fight last night.
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:We and Pita, the
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:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012:
like a real fight.
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:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013:
Like a real fight.
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:Like I dove in the floor
to get between 'em.
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:gets really, Pita gets really
terror territorial about her food,
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:we didn't eat all of her dinner
last night, so Pita jumped on it.
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:And when Wenda jumped down to check out
her food again, she went for her throat.
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:Like yeah,
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:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: Oh my
God, What's going on with Wenda?
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:Why isn't she finishing her meals?
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:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: I don't know.
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:This is something, usually she eats
everything on the plate, but then
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:the, she stopped eating the, the brand
of food that we got her, so we got a
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:different brand of food and she really
liked the steak and eggs of that one.
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:And then one day she
turned her nose up at it.
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:So we gave her the chicken liver that
came with the steak and eggs and she
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:liked it, and then she ate half of it
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:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: Hmm.
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:Gotta gotta get it together, Wenda.
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:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: Maybe she's
just trying to watch her figure.
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:I don't know.
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:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012:
Her girlish figure.
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:, beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: I had
to turn in yet another person for
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:cheating academically this week.
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:Why do people take classes and then
just google the answers to things
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:and pretend like they don't do it?
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:Like, no, I didn't copy
that from student doc.edu
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:or whatever.
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:When you, you could just Google
it and like three people turned
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:in at stuff from the same essay.
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:You know what I mean?
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:Like it, it's crazy.
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:And one person had a 51% turn it
in score and swore they had no idea
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:how that stuff got in their paper.
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:No idea.
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:one had a 34%.
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:This one, this one this week had a 34%
and it had full sentences lifted from,
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:and it was only a one page paper and
34% of it was copied from an online so
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:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: I used to
do, of course this you're teaching
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:online so you can't really do this, but
I used to do a little presentation of
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:like how easy it is for me to prove.
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:Like I would take, if something
turned up, I would show them like,
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:I copy and paste this, put it into
Google, and it tells me what you.
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:Got this from, there's metadata.
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:I know for a fact, um, I show them
how Turnitin works and you know,
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:back then, anyway, it helped.
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:The thing, the classes that I taught
people were most likely to do that
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:in, were writing classes because they
were mad that they had to take 'em.
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:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: Right.
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:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: What
do I have to take this for?
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:Why do I have to take English?
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:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: Yeah.
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:Well, why do I have to learn
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:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: Because you
apparently can't string a sentence
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:together without Googling it.
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:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: And
AI is fun to play with, but you
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:gotta be real careful, you know,
'cause it's wrong all of the time.
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:it's fun to see what it'll spit out with
different things, especially the images.
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:I have a lot of fun playing
with that, making things into
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:different cartoons and books and.
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:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: they're, um.
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:A good negative exemplar and the, the
research on the fact that they, it's not
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:surprising that they're racist and ableist
and all that stuff because American
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:society is racist and ableist and it,
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:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: source
material is, is gets polluted.
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:It's like my
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:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012:
it only knows what we know.
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:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013:
It's like my theory of
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:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: Yeah.
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:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: where
it's the pee in the pool, it's in
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:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012:
The pee in the pool.
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:Yeah.
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:And like AI is only going to, it only
has the things we say to draw from.
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:But, so, you know, that is a,
that's a didactic on it of its own.
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:Um, , there's like AI in this software.
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:I was using, um, this, what's it called?
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:Citation software.
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:And I would put something in there
and I would say, say this back to
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:me, like, does this make sense?
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:Basically, like if it could summarize
it for me and it was what I meant for
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:it to say, then I was like, okay, if
even AI knows what I'm saying, then
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:I must be saying it pretty clearly.
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:But the, the pictures and things, I
just feel too guilty because of the.
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:The environmental impact, it's, it
reminds me exactly of when I was a
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:kid and I thought that I personally
could, could stop global warming and
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:the, and the ice caps from melting by
picking up litter in my trailer park.
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:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: I, you know,
I'm of the mindset that it really doesn't
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:matter what I do because there are
famous people with their private jets
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:and companies with their oil refineries
and et cetera, et cetera, and there's no
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:way I could do anything close to, to what
they do, so I'm just gonna live my life.
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:, I use way too many paper
towels and unabashedly
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:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: It is the,
well, this carbon footprint model, um,
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:I know why we created it because it's
kind of like the BMI It is, it is a
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:way to demonstrate a phenomenon, right.
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:Just a thing.
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:It is, it is not intended to be
applicable at the personal level.
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:at the level of the individual, the same
as it is at the level of an organization.
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:My personal carbon footprint is
not the same as Exxon or whatever.
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:I know that for people like me who
have, who have OCD it's really easy
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:for, for me to, to get, wrapped
up in what's right and wrong.
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:Like, what's the right and wrong
decision for me to make in a moment.
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:and so like that is really affecting
like this idea that, you know,
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:smokey the bear is looking at me.
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:Only you can stop global warming.
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:I don't even, maybe smokey was
right about the forest fires thing.
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:I don't know.
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:Like it is more likely that one person
starts a forest fire than it is that one
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:person contributes to global warming.
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:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: Well, normally
I would say we should spin the wheel
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:of what have you, but we actually have
a, a first on Queernecks listeners.
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:We have done something almost proper in
podcasting and we've invited a guest, so
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:we're gonna have, Our little buddy, Lee
Wade from the show Translucent on West
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:Virginia Public Radio on WYSO radio.
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:Um, come and talk to us about
his project and he's gonna play
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:wheel of what have you with us.
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:Your podcast creates a space for
conversations that are really
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:happening in mainstream media.
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:What inspired you to start this podcast
and how did you land on the name?
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:What motivated me to start the
project was during the time the
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:last year in a, a little earlier at
the end of:
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:a rise of anti-trans legislation.
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:I go to a, to a
predominantly queer school.
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:So there's, there was a lot of
talk about how this legislation is.
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:Affecting the trans community and I,
I saw that as a perfect opportunity
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:for me to start practicing, to use my
voice and also be an advocate for the
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:trans community as a black trans person.
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:When it came to choosing the name, I
was looking for a name that had the word
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:trans in it, and I came across the word
translucent, and it just stuck out to me,
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:like when I think of the word translucent.
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:I just think about something shining, and
I did research on the word and translucent
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:is to allow light to pass through.
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:I felt like it was, uh,
the, uh, perfect choice.
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:I think it's just the perfect name
for, for what it is you're doing.
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:Do you want to say a little bit about.
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:Whatever you're comfortable sharing
about, you know, where the project
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:is located, where you're located,
what kind of positionality is
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:bringing your, these stories to us.
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:So, uh, my name is Lee Wade.
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:I use he, him pronouns.
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:I'm a Antioch College grad.
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:Translucent is recorded on
the campus of Antioch College.
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:At the station, WYSO and translucent is
a collection of stories and interviews
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:from transgender people all over,
but the focus is mainly on trans
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:people here in the state of Ohio, but
we're working on expanding, getting
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:stories outside of Ohio as well.
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:For this to be your first show and
for you to be kind of out here as
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:your identity, and then taking on
something like audio production
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:and managing, interviewing folks.
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:That's ambitious.
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:It definitely hasn't been easy.
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:I, I think my, my, both of my bosses
that I work with on this project.
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:Chris Walter Will Davis translucent
wouldn't happen without them.
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:Not to bash my own journalism
skills, but I think of myself,
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:it wouldn't be as as effective.
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:They've helped me so much with the
editing and delivery and post-production,
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:finding people to interview, so it
is definitely been all hands on deck.
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:You would have eventually, but
having support earlier just helped
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:you out, you know, it helped
you get things get going sooner.
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:Yeah.
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:What we know about Driven folks is that
they will eventually find their voice.
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:So the episode with you and your dad,
the, I found that really interesting.
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:Did you go into that thinking
that he was gonna be as cool as he
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:was, or were you a little scared?
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:Or how did, how did that go down?
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:The emotions were everywhere.
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:My dad was incarcerated during my
first year of college for three
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:years in, around the time that.
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:He went into prison that same
month that he went to prison.
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:I started hormonal replacement therapy.
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:I came out to him as trans when
I was 15, so he already knew, but
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:he didn't have any idea that I was
going to start taking testosterone or
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:what those changes would look like.
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:Mm.
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:Yeah, over, over some time my dad got
the message that, that I had started
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:the testosterone and he would ask me
questions over the phone when he would
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:call, why is your voice changing?
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:Like, are you sick?
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:And I, oh yeah, I'm sick.
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:I have cold, yeah, I had a cold for
18 months, so I, I thought I was being
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:secretive, but when he came back home,
just so that the recording that I did.
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:Which you guys heard is, is our, our first
conversation after he came back home and
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:now it's just two weeks after he returned.
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:So yeah, it was, it was,
it was kind of bold of me.
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:I didn't know what to expect.
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:I didn't know if he was
gonna be supportive.
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:I knew whatever the answer would be.
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:My dad was still gonna love me and
he was, he would probably have some,
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:have a hard time adjusting, but
over time he would get used to it.
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:Whenever I'll ask him
questions, his response.
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because I wasn't expecting him to say
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:that on the, on the verge of tears.
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:He was just so emotional with his
responses and I could tell that he was
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:supportive and that that conversation
just kinda, you know, initiated us to.
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:Get to know each other a little bit
more since he, he had been gone.
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:Your life has been life and him.
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:Listeners, I, I, I recommend, you
know, Lee's show, translucent,
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:but I particularly recommend that
episode for a number of reasons.
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:One, I'm just so happy for
you and so happy for him.
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:But I think that there are a lot of.
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:Parents or guardians or caregivers
or siblings or loved ones out there
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:who've, who are afraid that they can't
rise to a challenge, like adapting
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or something like that.
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:And I promise you, if you love
them, you'll surprise yourself.
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:Because that really is like that
greases the wheels, the loved ducks.
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:And 'cause my dad was the same thing.
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:He told me, I'll never be
able to use those pronouns.
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:I'll never be able to use a name.
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:He said, I'll try, but
you know, it won't happen.
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:You know me, I'm old and this and that.
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:He's correct in my mom these days.
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:That's, honestly, that's it.
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:That's the same thought that I had.
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:It was like he wouldn't, or like different
family members wouldn't come around.
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:But yeah, like you said,
like dad and my twin sister.
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:Those are the two that I
was scared to come out to.
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:I thought they were detrimental,
but nowadays they're the
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:When I talk to other trans people
about family and acceptance and things
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:like that, I usually tell them this
transition that we're going through.
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:It's, it's not only a transition for us,
it's a transition for the people that
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:So it's gonna be a adjustment and
people may not respond to you the
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:way that that you want them to, but
just gently reminding them, it's what
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:Eventually, yeah.
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:When I work with young trans people,
the this process or these processes,
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:it's a lot of be there for them
if you can, but also take care of
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:number one and that, that even making
those decisions on the daily or
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:the minute sometimes is exhausting.
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:You, you mentioned you go to a
college that is predominantly
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:queer and were you were able to
participate in conversations about.
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:This adjusting climate
as it was happening?
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:I'm, I'm interested in that.
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:I'm interested in how you all are feeling.
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:I mean, it's scary times right now, but
I think a large handful of the people
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:that, that I go to school with, they're
also, most of them are also active and
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:educating themselves and, um, others.
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:Yeah, it's hard times
and we're talking about.
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:How the legislation is affecting us,
these different bills and things like
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:that, that we see popping up every
day and how access to stuff that
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:we usually are able to get hormonal
replacement therapy to affirming care.
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:There's conversations around that.
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:But, um, I'd say a lot of, a lot
of my peers are motivated to, to
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:Whether if it's protesting or
writing an article about these type,
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:these different things or, or even.
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:Having conversations with their family
members who may not be as accepting
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:or have a hard time wrapping their
head around Creating a podcast.
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:Yeah, creating a podcast that
I'm so proud of you for that.
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:By the way, about that though, what
are some like of your favorite insights
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:You're still kind of new at it, but
you had some pretty cool conversations
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:And um, this right here is definitely
a cool conversation as well.
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:Yeah, I'd say I spoke with a other
trans woman who's Republican.
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about her and encouraged me to reach
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:She wrote a letter to Governor Mike
DeWine back when Senate Bill 1 0 4
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:yes, was being brought to Governor Mike
Dolan's desk, and that bill would require
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:everyone going to a university or.
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:Type of school to use restrooms outta
line with their gender identity.
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:She's an instructor at a college and
so she wrote a letter to Governor
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:Mike Deline about her perspective
on that and how that bill would,
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:It was a very emotional interview.
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:You can definitely hear her emotions
coming through when she was reading
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:I bring up that interview because just
hearing a trans person being a Republican,
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:It just made me think a little bit
differently about politics and how
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about gender identity and how they're
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:And when she began to get very emotional,
when speaking about how this would affect
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:a young person who was already weighing
whether life was still worth living, just
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:There's a clip that I didn't put in to
the interview, but she was talking, or
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suicide rates would potentially go up with
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:those being proposed, and that definitely
made me think more about making sure
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:that trans youth are doing okay during
these times, whether that's creating
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:Yet, I can't imagine how
trainee are feeling right now.
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:We promised them a better world
than the one they're getting.
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:Just need strong, brave
people to keep, to keep going.
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:My boss sent me You all's podcast.
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:I love how the conversation can start
off with one topic and if you guys
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:bridge off to other stuff, you all
find a way to like be real and pull
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:in comedy and it's so refreshing.
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:To hear last week I was listening to,
to the first episode That, that you all
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:Well, thank you.
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:Thank you.
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:I wasn't asking you to flag it.
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:No, it's all genuine.
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:What prompted you two to start queer next?
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:What does queer next mean to to you two?
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:It's something I had been chewing on.
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:I think the back of my
mind was thinking about it.
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:I'm an Appalachian expat.
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:I had to move away.
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:From where I was at for medical
care access and just where I
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:was in particular wasn't an easy
place for a trans person to be.
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:So I just had this idea and
I knew that if it wasn't her,
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:I thought, you know, what I
would like right now is to hear
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accessible on the radio whenever
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:I wanted and I couldn't find it.
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:So I made it and first person I thought
of to help me with that was Beck.
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:'cause every, we always laugh
and every time we hang out, every
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:time we talk, all we do is laugh.
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:So I wonder, I, I actually haven't
asked yet, what was it like to, for me
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:message you and be like, Hey, do you
wanna start podcast called Queer Next?
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:I'm on summer Break right
now, and I am, because I'm an
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:instructor at a, at the university.
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:And this is my first summer
getting paid while doing that.
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:So I have been living the life, sleeping
in and reading and playing video games
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:And so Dash emailed me and was like,
Hey, do you wanna start a podcast?
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:And I was like, why not?
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:I have to give Famous somehow.
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:And this seems like the
perfect way to do it.
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:So here we are.
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:Some people are just, they
should shine too bright.
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:I think a lot of people should be
on the air and don't realize it.
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:And so I, I want also to just
make sure everybody knows that
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:yeah, there's a learning curve.
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:There's a little bit of a, a funds
exchange at the beginning you just, you
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:just figure out a way to make it work
and then get your voice out there and.
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:It started to feel like imperative
to have as many of those as we could.
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:And then I saw that you started up
almost exactly the same time as we did,
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:and so I was like, this is pretty cool.
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:Like there's more people out there
thinking that same way, I think.
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:You said.
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:What does Queer Next mean to us?
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:Honestly, for the most
part, it's self-care.
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:For me, it's something to look forward to.
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:It's something to love.
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:It's a play date with
my friend every week.
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:It's, it's a project that's mine.
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:Nobody can take it.
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:This, this isn't going, this
doesn't go to work with me.
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:This doesn't go to the,
to the DMV with me.
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:It doesn't follow me.
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:All the places I wish I didn't have to go.
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:It doesn't have to go
those places with me.
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:It's waiting for me when I come back.
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:For me, it's about being
able to go home a little bit.
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:I've talked about it on the podcast a
few times, but I lost all three of my
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:parents in a very short period of time.
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:And I had to go down there and
help clear out the house and get
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:rid of my, or shut down my dad's
business and do that kind of thing.
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:And then I had to move back up here
to go back to work, and I probably
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:won't be back in Appalachia if
I don't have anybody left there.
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:And being able to play with Dash is
a way for me to be able to go home.
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:I can hear the accent, I can, we
can talk about, you know, yard
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:sales and how fun those are.
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:There's just so many things that
we can do that makes me feel
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:like going home a little bit.
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:Speaking of, I think.
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:Why don't we give this wheel, what have
you, a spin here and see what wheel.
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:I don't wear my glasses, so I could
just make something up and tell y'all.
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:Ooh, we got music.
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:Which I've been thinking about a lot
because I don't know about you, Lee,
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:but we, I struggle with finding the
right aesthetic available for the show.
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you're not gonna find anything
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:So I'm like, what did
we listen to growing up?
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:'cause it was, yeah, there's some banjos.
391
:It was a lot of steel guitars.
392
:Steel guitars.
393
:Upright basses, a lot of just
regular guitars where I grew up.
394
:Something that has come up that comes
up a lot anytime in a conversation
395
:about Appalachia is how diverse it is.
396
:There's all kinds of music.
397
:What's what's, what's some of
your favorite songs at the moment?
398
:You know, I'm on a nineties
kick, so lately I've been really
399
:jamming out to these, uh, nineties
playlists I've made on Spotify.
400
:I actually will occasionally go, like,
what's my favorite song right now?
401
:The answer I came up with was
Gigantic by Pixies, and I've
402
:also been doing a lot of nirvana.
403
:So apparently it's
nineties for me right now.
404
:My wife is the connoisseur of music
in my, really in my family here.
405
:And she's into people like Megan Thee
stallion and rap and that kind of thing.
406
:And so I therefore
listen to a lot of that.
407
:But I'm also a nineties person at
heart, and if I have my ways about
408
:it, we're listen to it at what, I
guess it's an oldies station now.
409
:If we're listening to the nineties.
410
:That's wonderful.
411
:Yeah.
412
:So in your house, you,
you hear a, a mixed genre.
413
:Yeah.
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:If it were up to me, I would just
listen to NPR Most of the time, you
415
:know, growing up we are pre-internet.
416
:I wasn't allowed to watch MTV
that was invented actually.
417
:When was MTV first submitted?
418
:I was, I believe it was 1982.
419
:I think it's time for Red Dashes.
420
:Google Back Road.
421
:When did MTV start?
422
:81.
423
:So it was it.
424
:Okay.
425
:MTV started two months before I was born.
426
:Do you know the first song that was
on on MTV Video Killed the Radio Star?
427
:Yes.
428
:Very good.
429
:I actually learned that in
the class as an undergrad.
430
:I love that song.
431
:Do you know that song, Lee?
432
:I don't.
433
:It's great.
434
:The very first music video ever played
on MTV was video killed the Radio Star.
435
:It's a box, so it was
all radio, but I would.
436
:I loved a metal, like heavy metal.
437
:That was a revelation for me, like Ozzy
Osborne and that on the radio I would,
438
:I had tapes and you could record off
the radio, but you had to sit and wait.
439
:So I'd be, and I would know, like
they would do the top 10 or something
440
:if there was a song I wanted.
441
:Every time after commercial, I'd come back
and just in case it was a song I wanted.
442
:'cause you gotta hit
record or you'll miss it.
443
:So I was making Mix takes off the radio.
444
:Oh wow.
445
:What's your favorite song right now?
446
:Right now my favorite song is
Close to You by Frank Ocean.
447
:Do you ever get songs stuck in your head?
448
:Like internal Echo.
449
:I do, yes.
450
:Yes.
451
:I get the most annoying random
songs for, and they stay there
452
:for like a month at a time.
453
:Do you know the, the Eminem song you
make people or the Shake that ass song?
454
:The, the one with triumphant mystical?
455
:No, it's Eminem.
456
:The one that he did is
Triumph the The Insult Comic.
457
:It was, I ain't never
seen an ass like that.
458
:That song I have, I have that in
my head for literally a month,
459
:and every time I turned around I
was like, you make my peepee go.
460
:But knowing, knowing, knowing, which
is actually funny because I'm the
461
:biggest lesbian on the planet, right?
462
:To get a song out, you
have to do something crazy.
463
:You have to either find
a more annoying song.
464
:Sometimes I've written
the lyrics out before.
465
:I'll write the lyrics out to see
if I can get it outta my head.
466
:I actually am a musician
too, which is Oh, cool.
467
:Um, I used to do more musicing
before my hearing started to get as
468
:bad as it is, but you don't have to
be able to hear, to be a musician.
469
:Especially if you're not
trying to be a good one.
470
:My best friend's mother was deaf
and she was the church pianist
471
:at her church for 30 years.
472
:Memorization.
473
:Yep.
474
:There's other things that you know,
you need to be able to hear, to do.
475
:Like she was also a physician, so she
was like just an amazingly smart woman.
476
:Just out here making, do I come from a
family of musicians who can do that thing
477
:where they, they just decide to learn one
or walk past one and be like, I wonder
478
:how this works, and figure it out by ear.
479
:And so I have done that before, but
I am classically trained on guitar.
480
:So that was my major for a short amount
of time in college, like two years.
481
:What about like cruising song?
482
:Like you're cruising around, right?
483
:If you're driving around.
484
:This was all we had to do where like,
we grew up, I don't know if it was
485
:like this where you grew up, Lee.
486
:And so you have your cruising playlist,
your CDs, your whatever, your mix tape.
487
:It was very, it was as much about
having the windows down so everybody
488
:else could hear what you were bumping
as what you were enjoying because
489
:it was, this was performance, right?
490
:You're like, yeah, yeah.
491
:I got the new Dray cd.
492
:Did you guys get the new dray cd?
493
:'cause I got it.
494
:I remember when I got the chronic,
I thought I was just everything
495
:and I had to hide it from my mom.
496
:I hid it under the
mattress of my water bitch.
497
:For me, it was Weezer and the offspring.
498
:And those kinds of bands I wasn't
driving yet when I listened to those.
499
:I haven't heard of any of these
bands that you are mentioned, friend.
500
:My friend brought up the fact that
today is the 32nd anniversary of,
501
:oh my God, Becky, look at that butt.
502
:33, 32 years since that
song came out on the radio.
503
:And is that And Aconda, the
original was Sir Mixa lot.
504
:For Mix a lot.
505
:Yeah.
506
:Yeah.
507
:Baby got back and this song
was called Baby Got Back.
508
:Yeah.
509
:Yeah.
510
:This song changed the
time space continuum.
511
:The, there was a time where.
512
:The song I think was playing concurrently
everywhere in the world all at once.
513
:You just couldn't get away from
the song and the music video was
514
:everywhere, and it was so good.
515
:Everything about it was just perfect.
516
:It had that pop culture, heroine type
of spike I saw, and it's something that
517
:should never, ever occur at karaoke
and somebody always insist on trying.
518
:You ever seen somebody try
to do this song at karaoke?
519
:Yeah, I have not.
520
:Oh my God, I saw it at work.
521
:At Work, a white woman.
522
:Is up on stage at a conference at like two
o'clock in the afternoon on a Thursday.
523
:Yeah.
524
:Drinking yet I was like
looking for the exit.
525
:I was like, I can't be here for this.
526
:There's a certain level
of like cringe and shame.
527
:We just have to say goodbye.
528
:That's what V alcohol is usually for.
529
:We didn't listen to music in
the age of virality though.
530
:Where did y'all get, you know,
when you like found a song
531
:and you were like, this is it.
532
:This is my personality for
the next week at least.
533
:Where did that come from?
534
:That's a good question.
535
:Kind of similar to you.
536
:I'm also a, a musician
and my dad is a drummer.
537
:He played for a Slave, which was a funk
band in Dayton, Ohio for a little bit.
538
:And the house music was, would blast,
uh, speakers in, in, um, every corner,
539
:me and my dad are kind of similar
when there's a song that we like,
540
:it's on repeat for a little bit.
541
:I don't know.
542
:I think when I know that a song is
going to be on my repeat list for the
543
:next week, it has to make me feel a
certain way that another song hasn't,
544
:whether if that's happy or like a
reflective, it's definitely on repeat it.
545
:Our cultural products are a way, it's
like one of the ways we facilitate
546
:feeling and emotion and stuff, and
there's a reason art makes us feel things.
547
:There are times when I'll be thinking
like, I feel like I need to feel a
548
:certain thing and I'm too whatever.
549
:Too stressed too.
550
:To end this zone that I need to escape
from, that I can't conjure myself.
551
:I'll put on a song that I know will do
it for me or have a movie if I wanna cry.
552
:I put on, this is a classified for me.
553
:I watch the Wild Robot.
554
:Oh, it's such a good choice.
555
:Yes.
556
:I can't.
557
:Like, I don't make it through credits
before I'm crying because it's just a,
558
:it's an incredible story about chosen
family and receiving the accommodations
559
:we need to be successful as ourselves.
560
:And like, I, I feel so seen by this silly.
561
:Amazing movie.
562
:I forgot who said this, but it's something
like, along the lines of music is the only
563
:thing that can impact you emotionally.
564
:It's not, that's not
very journalistic of me.
565
:Okay.
566
:Leo Tolstoy said, music is
the shorthand of emotion.
567
:Yeah.
568
:I, I thought I knew what
you were trying to say, but.
569
:Um, I, again, you know, we're
talking about being researchers
570
:and writers and folks.
571
:I was like, let me get this together.
572
:So I, I Google things before I will be
certain that I'm gonna be right about
573
:it because I'm tired of looking stupid.
574
:No, I saw that.
575
:I have a habit of making
myself look stupid as shit.
576
:I'm a professional at it.
577
:So that, how much do we say about
where looking stupid can get you?
578
:Yeah.
579
:People who are afraid of looking stupid.
580
:People who refuse to risk looking
stupid, don't get anything done.
581
:Yeah.
582
:I worked as a photographer for
years and we did a lot of babies.
583
:And I would have to, you just
have to learn to make an idiot of
584
:yourself in front of the grown people
because the whole point is to sell
585
:the pictures of the baby smiling.
586
:And once you've done that job, there's
no, I could be cringe as I wanna be.
587
:I can.
588
:I could go do all kinds of cringey
things and not even stress.
589
:Well, Lee, I know you gotta get going.
590
:It's been just awesome
getting to meet you.
591
:And I'm just so.
592
:Impressed and proud of the work
you're doing and just proud of you
593
:and hope that other people see what
you're doing and feel inspired.
594
:Hope you continue this journey
of learning and growing.
595
:Is this a, you want to continue
audio production as a profession?
596
:Oh yes, for sure.
597
:I'm definitely motivated to continue
doing journalism, honing in on
598
:those skills and things like, yeah,
graduated from Antioch with my.
599
:BA in interdisciplinary arts and
creative practice with a focus in
600
:audio journalism and broadcasting.
601
:Just having conversations like
this with you guys definitely
602
:encourages me to stay on that path.
603
:Just hearing different people's stories
and how they resonate with translucent
604
:definitely motivates me to keep trying
and growing and continue learning.
605
:Yep.
606
:You're doing great work and you're
just gonna continue to get better.
607
:I appreciate that.
608
:Thank you, thank you.
609
:Thank you two for, uh, having
me on COR next and I know
610
:our, you're our first visitor.
611
:Yeah.
612
:Yeah.
613
:I'm definitely honored to be the first.
614
:Tell the folks where they can
find you, where they can listen.
615
:Are you on socials?
616
:Anything like that?
617
:Yeah.
618
:So you can find.
619
:Translucent on any podcast
streaming platform, including
620
:Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube.
621
:And then you can also take a look
at the project on, on the webpage.
622
:Hopefully we're planning on
doing some more digital things,
623
:making some content tiktoks and.
624
:Things like that.
625
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013:
What a nice young man.
626
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: He really is.
627
:Yeah.
628
:Uh, sometimes it's just nice to be
reminded that there is some hope
629
:for the future, and I know that
there's a, there's times getting old.
630
:You, you look at what young folks
are up to and Remember that people,
631
:you were also looked at that way.
632
:And then there's so many moments,
especially working with emerging
633
:adults in higher ed where you just
get to be like, that is so cool.
634
:Like you are just the coolest
thing, and I'm glad you're here
635
:and I'm glad I'm walking the
earth with you at the same time.
636
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: the,
that's why I teach those moments.
637
:That's exactly why I do it
638
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: Mm-hmm.
639
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: see the light
bulbs go off and When you, you see that
640
:they're internalizing the stuff that
you're talking about and, and doing
641
:good with it, it's, it's so worthwhile.
642
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: For someone
who, you know, I'm not gonna have
643
:kids, I mean, that would, some sort
of miracle would have to happen.
644
:I mean, if, if I, if I had a kid, we
would have to name it like Bealzebub or
645
:Damien or something like that, because
not something natural has occurred.
646
:But I, I do understand it.
647
:And the times when you're working
with just a younger person and you
648
:do like, see that is first it's
gratifying because you're like, oh,
649
:I'm not, somebody cares what I think.
650
:That's cool.
651
:Um, and then you get to see them
take something that maybe you have
652
:given or provided or even just, um.
653
:Came to with them and go off with it.
654
:It's so cool.
655
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013:
Yeah, it's awesome.
656
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: I do think
about their generation right now, though.
657
:This isn't what we told
them they were gonna get.
658
:I do you remember?
659
:It gets better.
660
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: Right?
661
:And,
662
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012:
We really dropped the ball.
663
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: time American
culture has swung to the right, it has
664
:always swung back to the left, right?
665
:So here's hoping that we, that we
come back from, where we're headed.
666
:history
667
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: Well, and
things are getting absolutely bonkers,
668
:The girls are fighting on social media.
669
:Trump and, the, it's people are just
clowning more and more every day.
670
:And I don't know what it means, but I,
I think that it's the right thing to do
671
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: Hm.
672
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: when
everything is just this fucked
673
:up and stupid, absolutely dunk
on every single one of them.
674
:They don't, they deserve
less than that probably.
675
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: I did see
an article that said the gay apps
676
:like Grindr, if they don't stop it
soon, are gonna release the, the
677
:information of who's on their roles from,
678
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: Yeah,
679
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013:
Congress, et cetera.
680
:love to see
681
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: I saw that.
682
:Oh, fuck yeah, I saw that too.
683
:Because you remember how every time
there's a Republican national convention
684
:Grinder crashes, like they're just, and
they think we don't know, or do they,
685
:do they just not care that we know?
686
:I don't know.
687
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013:
they think, we don't know.
688
:I, I think they're, that, shortsighted, to
put it nicely, I think they're that naive
689
:or the ego, they just
690
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: or they,
691
:they, uh, like they, they don't care that
we know, but I think they are probably
692
:correct that their voters don't know.
693
:How would their voters find out?
694
:They would have to read things like they
would have to read media other than.
695
:The punditry, we could do a whole thing
on, on what has happened to media because
696
:of punditry, which is a really funny word.
697
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:Her britches are so tight.
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:You figure she must be poured into 'em
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:Over in the corner, the blue-haired
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:drying caps, butterscotch candies in
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718
:been rooting for you your whole life.
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720
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721
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:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: That's awesome.
741
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: pattern
after my very own stylist, in Jellico.
742
:Yeah.
743
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: had, I went
to my, whoever my mom would go to or
744
:whatever, um, but when I got out on my
own, I couldn't really afford haircuts,
745
:so that's how I discovered the $6 haircut.
746
:And I got a
747
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: Yeah.
748
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: so bad one time.
749
:Oh my God.
750
:There weren't enough hats.
751
:There were not enough hats to go around
for that time period of my life, but
752
:to this day, I, I go to a salon, the,
the person that I wait six weeks to
753
:get into her, you know, I pay $45 now
for a haircut because it is worth it,
754
:because you don't wanna walk around
755
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: Yeah,
it's different when you're a kid, I
756
:guess, and like sure, a bad haircut
can become your, your whole thing
757
:for the rest of middle school, but
it's only the rest of middle school.
758
:once you're an adult and you
have to go to work and you
759
:definitely look like you just.
760
:You've done been fucked over.
761
:it's sits a little
different professionally.
762
:I say that as someone who
cuts my own hair though.
763
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: yeah.
764
:But your hair is like just
short and, you know what I mean?
765
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012:
It's just a fade.
766
:Yeah.
767
:I give myself the exact same
fade every, like, every few weeks
768
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: Do you
like going to the barbershop?
769
:I love going to a barbershop.
770
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: Yeah, I
like a barbershop, although, you know,
771
:so often barbershops are supposed
to be these apolitical places.
772
:They'll even sit you down and say,
they always say don't talk about
773
:religion, politics, or trucks.
774
:And they talk about all of them.
775
:Like they just start and I'm
like, and even if they don't,
776
:they ask me where I work.
777
:Okay.
778
:I work.
779
:At a university, what do you do?
780
:I'm, I'm a paid faggot.
781
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: Living
782
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: I had told so
many lies i'm the liberal menace that
783
:you heard about because barbershops
do tend to be intensely conservative
784
:places and so I've made the mistake of
being honest a couple times and it is
785
:so much work to make them comfortable
enough to finish cutting your hair.
786
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: well I went
787
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: Um,
788
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: experience.
789
:Um, I went to a black barbershop and
the politics there are a lot different,
790
:I think, than what you're describing.
791
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: yeah.
792
:Yeah.
793
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013:
and I enjoyed it immensely.
794
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: Well,
they don't have those here.
795
:Um, but I did, when I lived in Kentucky, I
would go to the, to the Black Barbershop.
796
:'cause they was, they would, they would
be like right next to each other, but
797
:they'd be three of 'em on one block.
798
:And I guess they, they
had their loyal customers.
799
:'cause they would do, you know,
different, like they would do a
800
:twist or some rows or they could,
they could do a certain kind of.
801
:style and so it worked.
802
:I was like, hell yeah.
803
:This is awesome.
804
:And, and it's like a fun place to be.
805
:So,
806
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: When you go to
807
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: but yes.
808
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: to a
beautician and you have short hair
809
:as a girl, they always wanna make
it more feminine, no matter what you
810
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: Mm-hmm.
811
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013:
And no matter what you show
812
:them, they wanna feminize it.
813
:And I went to the barbershop and
they gave me exactly what I wanted.
814
:I got a, I got a fade.
815
:It looked great.
816
:You know what I, I, I loved my
hair and I went every four weeks
817
:and my hair looked great for the,
the year that I was down there.
818
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: Yeah,
819
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: I totally, but
now I'm back with my girl at the salon.
820
:She's really good.
821
:She, she always takes care of me,
822
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: if you can find
some, they call 'em clear cuts, I guess.
823
:So there's, there's salons
or barbers that are.
824
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: yeah.
825
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: More
versed in the, the spectrum
826
:of, gendered hair presentation.
827
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: my, my check.
828
:She's, uh, she's bi.
829
:Um, she was married to a woman when
I first started going with her.
830
:, And now she's with a dude.
831
:I went and got my hair cut.
832
:Um, it took me six weeks
to get back in with her.
833
:Uh, and that was
834
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: Yeah.
835
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013:
available appointment that she had.
836
:Um, and she's always posting stuff
and she posts all kinds of rad hairdos
837
:and, and colors and, you can tell that
she has a very interesting clientele.
838
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: We're,
um, I've booked an agency that will,
839
:they're all, they're not all over.
840
:They're in like 30 states.
841
:Um, and they'll come and set up
for a day and give haircuts and.
842
:They're, you can ask like,
okay, can you do textured hair?
843
:Like I, I have a lot of students of color
here who don't have access to a barber,
844
:and so they're gonna come a couple.
845
:Right now it's just twice a semester.
846
:Um, I, I hope that we fill up all the
slots and I can add a couple more.
847
:'cause, you know, one, a haircut
every six weeks is a little rough
848
:for some people, but it's so cool
to know that that service is there.
849
:Like, there's people that'll do that.
850
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: that's awesome.
851
:I'm getting a tattoo in a couple of weeks.
852
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: What,
853
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: Yes.
854
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012:
is this your first one?
855
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: two.
856
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: Oh, okay.
857
:What, okay.
858
:Do you want, do you wanna share
or you want it to be a surprise?
859
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: well, I, it's,
so I probably shouldn't be getting any
860
:more tattoos, but I'm getting it anyway.
861
:because I have issues with my legs,
but I'm not getting it on my legs.
862
:See, so that's why I can still
863
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: Okay.
864
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: I'm getting
it on my arm and it's very basic.
865
:It's gonna be my mom's handwriting
saying, I'm proud of you.
866
:Love mom.
867
:I have a note that she wrote,
868
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: Oh,
869
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013:
me that says that, and
870
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012:
that is, that's fucking epic.
871
:That's cool.
872
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: My wife is
873
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: Um,
874
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013:
the moon phases somewhere.
875
:I don't know exactly what her plan is.
876
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: I don't, I
don't know if I've been having the itch.
877
:Uh, I have two tattoos that I, I
knew exactly what I wanted and why
878
:I wanted them, and so I got them.
879
:And that hasn't happened again,
nothing has spoken to me and said,
880
:you should get this on your body.
881
:But I, it's like the thought has
begun to appear in my head again.
882
:And so maybe something is, is
cooking back there and I don't know.
883
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: I have a very
redneck tail of how I got my first one.
884
:I was 15 years old and
it was the summertime.
885
:It was a few months before my 16th
birthday, and I wanted to get my nose
886
:pierced, and I asked my mom and she said,
887
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: mm-hmm.
888
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: not, but
I'll pay for a tattoo if you want one.
889
:I was 15.
890
:And so my, my brother-in-law took me to
this guy named Bubba Lou, and it was the
891
:first time I was ever around marijuana.
892
:And he had a, like a dentist
chair where he did his work.
893
:Um, and there was a giant aquarium
full of snakes sitting next to me.
894
:And that was really weird.
895
:And so he gives me this book to look
through to choose something I, I had not.
896
:I had not thought about a tattoo at
all, so I was not prepared for this
897
:moment, but I wanted to seize it big
while mom was still saying yes, right?
898
:So I looked through this book and I found
the only thing that wasn't a naked woman
899
:or a pot leaf, or a demon or a skull
and crossbones, and it's a music note
900
:with a comedy and tragedy faces on it.
901
:I do not have anything to
do with music whatsoever.
902
:So
903
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: is random.
904
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: random.
905
:And then I have, um, a sun
on my thigh, on my outer leg.
906
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: I am gonna,
even though we are have already kind of
907
:talked about it, I'm gonna add, uh, body
art to the wheel, what have you, because
908
:I got a bunch of stories about mine too.
909
:And there's stories we can tell about
o other people we know too, probably.
910
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: And
I'm sure I'm not the only one
911
:to have a bubble lu in my life.
912
:I'm sure some of the listeners can
913
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012:
That's a cool name.
914
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: Yeah.
915
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: well,
I would really love to hear about
916
:a noun of Appalachian interest
917
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: good one this
918
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: if you,
if you have brought one with you.
919
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: the
nouns of Appalachian interest are a
920
:person, place, or thing that is of
Appalachian interest, and this week
921
:I'm doing a place Tudors Biscuit World.
922
:Tudor's Biscuit World isn't just
a restaurant, it's an institution.
923
:If Cracker Barrel is the folksy
postcard version of Appalachia,
924
:Tudor's is the real deal.
925
:It's where you go when you need
a biscuit, the size of a softball
926
:and an atmosphere that feels
like your Aunt Brenda's kitchen.
927
:If Aunt Brenda was running a
full scale breakfast side hustle
928
:out the back of her kitchen.
929
:the biscuits themselves, they
are legendary that these are
930
:not delicate tea party biscuits.
931
:These are biscuits that could
double its structural support beams
932
:if your porch started sagging.
933
:They've got names like the thundering
herd and the minor, which sound less like
934
:the breakfast and more like a demolition
derby contender, and yet somehow both
935
:come with eggs, meat, and enough cheese
to put a cardiologist on retainer.
936
:And then there's the Mountaineer, which
was officially crowned the South's best
937
:biscuit in an online poll by Garden
and Gun, A Southern Lifestyle magazine.
938
:That's right.
939
:Tudors didn't just win the hearts
of the locals, they took home
940
:the crown for the whole south.
941
:For the record, a mountaineer is a biscuit
with country ham, potato, egg, and cheese.
942
:And tutors isn't just serving
food, they're serving community.
943
:Walk in on any given morning and
you're likely to see the cross
944
:section of all Appalachian life.
945
:The church ladies in their floral skirts.
946
:guys in camo straight from the deer camp.
947
:Teenagers and hoodies, inhaling
cinnamon rolls before school.
948
:And that one old man holding cord
at the corner table telling the same
949
:story he's told every day since 1993.
950
:It's the kind of place when you order
your biscuit and without even asking,
951
:they slap a styrofoam bowl full of
fried apples and a large icy mountain
952
:dew right in front of you because
they already know you want 'em.
953
:Tudor's biscuit world
is more than breakfast.
954
:It's a reminder that sometimes
the best meals aren't healthy,
955
:organic or Michelin starred.
956
:They're just made with a whole lot
of butter, a dash of pride and the
957
:kind of love that comes from serving
the same families for generations.
958
:And yes, you are going
to need a nap afterward.
959
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: I have,
is this a chain or just one place?
960
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: Um,
they, they, I think they started in
961
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: Whoa.
962
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013:
They're all over West Virginia.
963
:they're starting to
spread out a little bit.
964
:their food is There was a tutors in the
965
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: I have never,
966
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: If you ever come
967
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012:
never even heard of it.
968
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: you ever
come across one, make sure you
969
:stop because they are fantastic.
970
:The one that I would get,
971
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: Now I know.
972
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: I
got would, it had, um, potato,
973
:bacon, and cheese on a biscuit.
974
:Like a, it had a hash
brown bacon and cheese.
975
:Oh, it's so good.
976
:their fried apples
977
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: Oh dude,
these, the shaved ham melt biscuit and
978
:this listeners, you gotta look this,
you gotta go to this website and click
979
:on biscuits or just anything on the
menu because they are in it's mega
980
:hd, zoomed in view, like I can see.
981
:The grease glistening on the egg.
982
:It's, it's filling my whole screen.
983
:It's amazing.
984
:It's torture.
985
:I hate you.
986
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: It's my
wife's favorite place on on earth.
987
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012:
Where's the closest one?
988
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013:
Somewhere in southern Ohio for me.
989
:I think there's one in Jackson.
990
:Maybe they're starting
to pop up everywhere.
991
:Like Big B coffee.
992
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: I
forgot about Big B Coffee.
993
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013:
Yeah, they're everywhere.
994
:There's even one in my little hometown.
995
:dash_1_08-14-2025_182012: There's no
Tudor's Biscuit World locations near you.
996
:Primarily located in West Virginia,
Kentucky, Ohio, and Florida.
997
:Well,
998
:beck_1_08-14-2025_192013: that
is, but I mean they really were
999
:voted the the South's best biscuit.
:
00:44:03,998 --> 00:44:07,178
There were like six rounds they had to
go through and it was an elimination
:
00:44:07,328 --> 00:44:07,688
-::
00:44:08,034 --> 00:44:09,264
-:They beat out Bojangles.
:
00:44:09,264 --> 00:44:10,314
They beat out Hardee's.
:
00:44:10,314 --> 00:44:11,814
They beat out Bob Evans.
:
00:44:11,814 --> 00:44:12,384
They beat out
:
00:44:12,474 --> 00:44:13,434
-::
00:44:13,608 --> 00:44:15,528
And I thought Hardy's would be unbeatable.
:
00:44:15,558 --> 00:44:16,158
-::
00:44:16,158 --> 00:44:18,768
I just, Tudor's Biscuit
World is is obscene.
:
00:44:18,768 --> 00:44:19,488
It's so good.
:
00:44:20,559 --> 00:44:24,189
-:I'll be back in the region sometime.
:
00:44:24,189 --> 00:44:27,189
somebody on YouTube said that they
would definitely go see us in an armpit
:
00:44:27,189 --> 00:44:29,619
bowling alley in, um, in Kentucky.
:
00:44:30,909 --> 00:44:32,589
I said, don't threaten
me with a good time.
:
00:44:32,936 --> 00:44:33,569
-::
00:44:33,569 --> 00:44:35,676
-:I'll take this show on the road.
:
00:44:35,676 --> 00:44:35,886
-::
00:44:36,156 --> 00:44:36,906
-::
00:44:37,061 --> 00:44:37,271
-::
00:44:39,248 --> 00:44:41,768
-:uh, and, and folks are still, you
:
00:44:41,768 --> 00:44:46,598
know, giving us, uh, some five star
ratings on, um, iTunes and Spotify.
:
00:44:46,598 --> 00:44:50,378
So if you can, if you haven't
done that yet, and find the, the
:
00:44:50,378 --> 00:44:51,998
time or the energy, Please do.
:
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It helps us out a lot.
:
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Uh, it suggests us on the algorithm
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:
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And, uh, if you leave us a
little review that helps out too.
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And tell us something
interesting about yourself.
:
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00:45:04,178 --> 00:45:05,318
-:Yeah, we're lonely.
:
00:45:05,318 --> 00:45:07,838
We did this because we wanted
to hang out with people.
:
00:45:08,558 --> 00:45:11,048
-:had our first guest on, so there's that.
:
00:45:11,048 --> 00:45:11,468
I mean, we're,
:
00:45:11,528 --> 00:45:12,128
-::
00:45:12,218 --> 00:45:13,458
-:have a little more of that coming.
:
00:45:13,458 --> 00:45:16,638
-:I mean, I know for a fact and you know too
:
00:45:16,638 --> 00:45:19,368
that there's people out there doing all
kinds of cool stuff all over Appalachia.
:
00:45:19,413 --> 00:45:20,793
-:a few friends that I would love to
:
00:45:20,793 --> 00:45:23,743
have come hang out with us for a
little bit, doing some really cool,
:
00:45:23,803 --> 00:45:27,943
um, one, I have one friend doing
work in genealogy and archeology.
:
00:45:27,943 --> 00:45:32,533
She, um, she digs out garbage pits
around town, like from like the 18
:
00:45:32,533 --> 00:45:35,383
hundreds and things like that, and
she finds all kinds of cool glass and
:
00:45:35,383 --> 00:45:37,603
buttons and silverware and all kinds of
:
00:45:37,663 --> 00:45:38,153
-::
00:45:38,323 --> 00:45:38,693
-::
00:45:38,693 --> 00:45:42,953
and then I've got another friend,
um, he's a photographer and just
:
00:45:42,953 --> 00:45:44,833
his, his viewpoint is fantastic.
:
00:45:44,833 --> 00:45:45,523
and I, I would love to
:
00:45:45,643 --> 00:45:45,723
-::
00:45:45,793 --> 00:45:46,753
-:some more exposure.
:
00:45:46,813 --> 00:45:49,033
Um, I think he'd have a good
time coming to hang out with
:
00:45:49,033 --> 00:45:50,563
us, so he taught me to shoot a
:
00:45:50,728 --> 00:45:51,298
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00:45:51,298 --> 00:45:51,988
-::
00:45:51,988 --> 00:45:54,088
-:how you took care of all them babies?
:
00:45:54,782 --> 00:45:58,452
and you can also find us on
social media, on, um, Instagram
:
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:
00:45:59,702 --> 00:46:03,302
And we have, uh, a
newsletter now on Substack.
:
00:46:03,382 --> 00:46:07,402
We just say a little bit more about some
of the things we bring up and then some
:
00:46:07,402 --> 00:46:08,932
stuff probably that's totally unrelated.
:
00:46:09,112 --> 00:46:09,592
Who knows?
:
00:46:09,892 --> 00:46:10,882
You never know what you're gonna get.
:
00:46:10,882 --> 00:46:12,802
-:Especially with my A DHD brain, so.
:
00:46:13,204 --> 00:46:14,614
-:Well, they know that.
:
00:46:14,919 --> 00:46:17,919
well, uh, thanks for hanging
out with us for another week.
:
00:46:17,919 --> 00:46:22,149
Hope you enjoyed hearing from
Lee and go check out his show.
:
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:26,769
just short, sweet little interviews
with interesting folks and some really
:
00:46:26,769 --> 00:46:30,429
powerful and emotional things that he's
doing exploring his own experience.
:
00:46:30,429 --> 00:46:34,419
so I think you can find him on all
the, the major apps he told us so.
:
00:46:34,549 --> 00:46:37,369
-:NPR Translucent and it came right up
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Yep.
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Show him some support.
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We'll see you next time.
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Say hi to your mom and them.