How's My Policing?

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Welcome to Queernecks, the podcast that

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puts the Yee Hall in y'all means hall.

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I'm your host, Beck,

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

and I'm your host.

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Dash.

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Welcome to today's episode.

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

in high school.

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I had a teacher that if

somebody would burp, you'd say

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save the big chunks for me.

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And that's what I still think.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: awful.

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

My high school teachers

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were very colorful.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Yeah.

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

One of my teachers, we

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called him the shore.

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He was the French teacher

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Mm-hmm.

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

and that was the valley pronunciation

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of He was like five two maybe,

and like as that wide as well.

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He was a very round man.

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He would bring a two liter to work

with him every day, and he drove

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over an hour to come to work.

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Uh, usually Mountain

Dew, but sometimes Pepsi.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: I was

about to say probably Mountain Dew.

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah.

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Yeah.

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He drove over an hour just to come

to work every day because he lived in

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Huntington and we were out in Ville.

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So, but he tried his damnedest to teach

us French, and then at some point he just

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gave up and taught us the least amount.

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Though I did end up they do something

called scholarship tests in Ohio.

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I don't know if they still do them.

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But you take tests on different, like

a couple of people from each school,

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take different tests and you get ranked

and I be, I was 14th in the district in

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French, and I know like three words, so

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

What was the competition like?

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah, exactly.

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What did they know?

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I swear I got it because I

got the word for mustard.

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Right.

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Which is motard, which is

just objectively funny.

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You know what I mean?

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Like, that's just a fun word to say.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

gonna remember that forever, so.

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

exactly.

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And then we learned things.

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He taught us things like,

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I feel like chicken tonight.

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Like chicken tonight.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Yeah, I took,

uh, I didn't take French ever, but I

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took Spanish and Latin in high school.

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I do remember some Spanish, of course.

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I've also done, I've

taken Spanish since then.

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And like I, I took Spanish in college

and do those like Duolingo things

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every so often, uh, just to brush up,

especially when I was doing recruitment

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in like the Lexington area of Kentucky.

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of Spanish speaking parents so I,

I got to where I could nominally

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communicate with them, but I am.

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I don't even know what the stages are,

but I'm nowhere near like conversational

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or fluent or anything like that.

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I'm like, could help you get

out of a burning building

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level of like, we'll get there.

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It won't be pretty.

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But my pronunciation is really good.

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And so I have had some really awkward

moments where I've had to like, sort

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of let people down be like, no, I

don't actually know what I'm say.

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I mean, I'm like, I can,

I'm a really good mimic.

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Right?

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Just because I can sound like not

like you, because that's silly, right?

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No, we're not, you're never gonna sound

like a native speaker no matter how

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you get at like the language itself.

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But like, I can mimic you really well.

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The same thing happened with,

there was a woman, uh, a Chinese

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woman who came to the a CS program.

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A few years after I was still there.

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And, uh, so she introduced

herself and I just repeated her

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name back to her like you do.

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And she's like, wow, your

pronunciation is incredible.

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Do you know Chinese?

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And I was like, no, I'm just

good at mimicking people.

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So good that I don't think I

even have my own aesthetic.

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Uh, when I was like a singer,

I could mimic anybody, but I

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couldn't tell you what I sounded

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Right.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: I used

to be able to do impressions really

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good, but not since I transitioned.

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My voice is different now.

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah.

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I have no talents like that.

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My stupid human trick is that

I can cross one eye at a time.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: I don't know.

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I don't, I guess impressions

are, I just love people who

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are really good at impressions.

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

me too.

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Standup comedy and comedy itself was

really a big formative thing if, when

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I was growing up, I watched a lot

of Saturday Night Live growing up.

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And I read a lot of comedy books.

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Like there was this one book

that I tracked down years later

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called the something like the Big

American Book of Humor or something.

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And there was lots of jokes in it and it

kind of, I learned a lot from that book.

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And it was just contemporary

American humor in written form.

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Like there were skits and then there

were jokes and there were comics and,

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sketches and short stories and all

kinds of little things like that.

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It was a really good book.

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But all of that's really been, and

then when I got X XM radio, I got it.

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I was one of the first

million subscribers.

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Like I was early in on xm.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

is big in the comedy.

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah, I listened.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: that was

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

all I listened to was

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the Comedying channels.

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I really enjoy, I have,

I'm very particular when it

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comes to standup comedians.

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I don't like, I don't like comedians

that go straight for a dick joke.

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Like, that's my least favorite.

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Like, you know, that's

the lowest rung of humor.

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And if that's all you got,

then you probably suck.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: I don't

know much about standup, really.

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Like I enjoy it, of course.

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And there's a handful of, uh, comics

that I appreciate and can name and can

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reference specific things, but they're

probably ones that anybody could name.

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You know, I don't have any like deep cuts.

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but I love all kinds of humor though.

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And some, one of my favorite

things is improv, not like.

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Improv troops and stuff.

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That's cool.

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I don't think I could do that, but

I did fuck around with it some,

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because randomly in high school for

like one year we got a drama teacher.

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I don't think we ever

had one before or since.

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And shouldn't have stayed.

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She was a very inappropriate person,

but she did know she was educated.

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She knew a lot about drama and

acting and stuff like that.

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And so I took that course and then

was the year I was really active

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in the plays that we would do.

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Like, I don't think I was in a play

any other, well, maybe we didn't

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have 'em anymore after she left, but

that was how I learned about like,

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yes, anding and the generosity of

being in a comedy duo or ensemble.

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Right.

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Like how.

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How building comedy from

scratch among people works.

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And you can kind of, I saw, uh,

there's a podcast called Race

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Chaser with Willem Belli and 5,000.

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They are two former

RuPaul Drag Race queens.

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And they recap the

seasons they're critical.

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Willem hates RuPaul.

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It's hysterical.

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But she pointed out something like there's

a subtle kind of rigging and sabotage

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that goes on that Ru does, especially when

she inserts herself into the challenges.

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And they had an improv challenge and

there was a queen that was eliminated.

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And Willem's perspective was that

Ru sabotaged her by being a bad

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improv partner, intentionally.

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instead of Yes, anding.

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The scene was something

like, check into a hotel.

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Right.

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Classic improv scene.

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And so the queen was like, do

you have any rooms or whatever?

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And Ru just kept saying no, no.

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And it's like, okay, that's not, how

is she supposed to work with that?

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If you make a joke, they're

supposed to build on it.

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If you're not building on whatever the

joke was, you're sabotaging you're,

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intentionally stomping on the humor.

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Right.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: I don't

care if you don't like that person or

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what you're there to do a job and if

the job is to be funny or entertaining

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and that's all you got, fuck off.

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Like you really gotta try to show up.

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I think teaching is similar.

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I mean anything like we really

have to be so conscious of our

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biases when it comes to dealing

with people that we just don't like

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Mm-hmm.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: working with.

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People you don't like is Hard

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

It really is,

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

Founding Kitchen,

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

especially when you're doing a performance

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of it, you know, which is what teaching

is a hundred percent a performance.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: yeah.

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah.

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And so when you've got that one annoying

kid that you really hate or somebody

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asks a question that is, I don't know,

stupid, and you know, like, you know,

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sometimes there are stupid questions.

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I don't care what they say.

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Sometimes there are stupid questions

when they aren't listening or

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they, they get their news from

a dubious source or something.

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Sometimes there are some,

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

They're just bad faith,

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

yeah.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: like,

you're not asking that because

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you want me to inform you, you

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: something

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Like when Mr.

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Solved racism in my class a couple

of weeks ago when we did the model

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minority myth he went on about

how it's not such a bad thing.

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And I'm like, well, that's part of the

allure of the model, minority myth, right?

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It's the, you know, the, this

is a good thing, so why can't

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other minorities do it as well?

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Or you know, and what about, what if

you're an Asian person who's really bad

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at math, how are you supposed to feel?

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: like math.

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

Yeah I've done that too.

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Uh, in my trainings.

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I'll ask like.

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Is there any such thing

as a positive stereotype?

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Because white people, white middle

class people love to allege that

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some stereotypes are positive and

it's a misunderstanding of what the

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words positive and negative mean.

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If what we were saying was can and

can't, then maybe, but the a all

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Asians are good at math, one comes

up, or, uh, people from Mexico are

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hard workers or like, okay, we have

to dig into what you think that means.

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And then, you know, you're standing

there knowing like, I'm doing

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all of this labor and this person

is not going to give a fuck.

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah.

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Yeah.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Like, man

I've had, there was sometimes I've

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been like this, wow, this is some of

my best work and it is wasted on you.

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I.

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Been there too.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: there too.

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And every time you do

something, you get better at it.

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But still,

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

I showed the film White Like Me yesterday

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in both of my ethnic studies classes.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

uh, what's that one?

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Have Tim Wise?

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the educator's name, his name is

Tim Wise, and it's really kind

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of just a framework at looking

at racism through a white focus.

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And he talks about how when he

was a kid, his parents put him

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in a pre-K an elementary school

program that was mostly black.

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It was predominantly black.

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And here he was this little redheaded

white kid and he said that gave

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him an early appreciation for black

authority figures and things like that.

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And that's how he's come to see things.

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And it gives you a really good

framework for thinking about what you

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can do at, on a personal level because

you didn't create racism, right?

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And so you can't take, you can't

take ownership of it or whatever,

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but you do have to acknowledge the

system and that you benefit from it.

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And that's a big thing that people don't

wanna acknowledge is that as a white

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person, I have benefited from racism.

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And once you understand that and realize

that nobody's pointing a finger, they're

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just saying that's the way it is, then

you can open up to a lot of other ideology

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that, you know, to do anti-racist work.

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'Cause he is like, wouldn't it

be wonderful that if we, uh,

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learned about some of these

people that were anti-racist?

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And he lists like maybe 20 people.

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15 to 20 people who were agitators and

got arrested and sat with people during

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the sit-ins and walked with people when

they went into the s desegregated schools

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and, you know, and he talked about

the white people that did that stuff.

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He was like, how much easier would it be

if we talked about that there has been

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white involvement in this kind of thing?

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Has to be,

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

yeah.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: I saw a

woman and a granny was at a protest

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and you know, one of those like talkers

or YouTubers or whoever goes out

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with a microphone to the protest and

just barrages people with questions.

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And somebody thought they got

her, they were like, I've noticed

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that all the people out here,

uh, protesting are white people.

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And she was like, and

that's the way it should be.

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She was like, I'm, uh, an old white

woman what are they gonna do to me?

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You know, she's like, I don't risk as

much as any given person of color when

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it comes to civic action or whatever.

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah,

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: I

forgot what I was gonna say.

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Oh well.

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

I've got a lot of old lady white

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privilege, white old lady privilege.

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Like the last time I got pulled

over, knock on wood, I hope it

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doesn't happen anytime soon.

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But the last time I got pulled over

not only did I not get a ticket, I got

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a survey to rate the cop's performance

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and I was speeding in a school zone.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

How's my policing?

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah.

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I don't know if I just looked like

somebody that would be giving a good

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grade or whatever, uh, but I was like,

yes, sir, I'll do that for you, but

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you better believe I did not put my

name anywhere near that bullshit.

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So I just kind of tucked it

away and went about my day.

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Thank you.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Uh.

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Anyway, so we talk, we talked off

the air about maybe like the wheel,

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what have you, and how, one of the

reasons we haven't been doing it is

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because it is a shit load of work

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Right.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: up with like

topics that we haven't done before.

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And then on the spot, think of, you

know, like we're both old with a DHD

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and Haven't led entirely sober lives.

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So, so it'd be like days later

and I'll think like, oh shit,

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I should have said this or that

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yep.

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Yep.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: So, I've

been thinking, and what I think we'll

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do instead is like, keep the same

categories, keep them more general

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spin it and then we can just like it so

that it, they come up regularly we can,

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instead of trying to come up with new

stories about them I thought we could

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just bullshit about giving advice or

joking about them or something like that.

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What got me thinking about it was doing

the camel Cash last week and thinking

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about like how many rewards programs

keep me going right now or just how

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much like, bullshit financial things I

do I know people, for instance, here.

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I was talking about Red

Necking to a friend.

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I was like, Hey, I gotta go

to Fargo and sell some shit.

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Anybody can wanna go Red Necking.

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And he's like, is Red necking?

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I was like, well this is kind of like a

legal version, but I've just got a bunch

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of stuff I don't use and I'm gonna go

see if I can get some money out of it.

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And we were talking and I've

realized that he has no idea of

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what, of how to even do that.

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Like what would that say?

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I needed $20 or $50.

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I could easily do that.

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Right.

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I could.

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There's something in here that's

worth $20 to somebody somewhere.

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Right.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: It's

very easy to turn the garbage you

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have around your house into quick

cash if you absolutely need to.

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I just haven't needed to for a long time.

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And I have a bunch of it accumulated.

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Like right now I'm looking at

a bunch of keyboards that I

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built, mechanical keyboards.

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know I could get some dollars

out of those if I needed to.

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And so I'm.

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Preparing to maybe move or at

least like downsize some stuff.

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So I'm like, well, I'm just gonna

go make some quick cash, go over to

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Fargo where they actually have things.

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So anyway, I was thinking like we could

talk about just random shit like that.

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'cause I know that you have your

side hustles and things that you do

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Mm-hmm.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: So the

first thing I wanna do is tell this

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insane story of how, uh, we, well, we

both recently expanded our households.

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You adopted a new baby

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yes.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: I don't

think the listeners know about yet.

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We'll get you a picture,

uh, in the newsletter this

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week.

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You wanna tell us about it?

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

We, uh, we have a new

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addition to our family.

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Her name is Ru.

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She's a five-year-old Maltese.

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She was a dumped breeding dog that

came out of Indiana, and she is

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the sweetest, cutest little thing.

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Her name Roo came from the fact that

little white dogs like that often

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have tears like tear stains, and

hers look like rouge on her cheeks.

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So it comes from the rouge of

that, and also like McClanahan.

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Like Blanche Devereux we just thought

it, it really fits her, her, when we,

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when we got her name was Lily but we

were like, no, she's more of a ru so

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Yeah, for sure.

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

my niece said we should call her Rhubarb.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: I'm sure

she'll have plenty of nicknames

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as her personality emerges.

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That's a good one though.

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Well, and I

adopted a, Ram: 1500

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liter Hemi engine.

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But I wanted to do this with, I

needed to improve my finances and not.

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So I needed a truck.

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I need something that can tow things.

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A trailer.

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I needed something that

can handle some payload.

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I love my Subaru.

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I would've kept both if I

could have afforded it, but

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Subaru was worth its weight.

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Gold, if you like.

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It's those things are indestructible.

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And so out here, trucks are really cheap.

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I was having to go over to Fargo

a lot to go to the hospital.

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I started looking around.

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There's a ton of, it's like a

hub for wholesale over there.

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So if you are a cheapskate, and I

learned some of this from my dad

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too, who is also a cheapskate.

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But the first thing you do if

you know you're gonna be looking

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for a vehicle is case the joint.

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Become intimately familiar with

the inventory at every car lot

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in a driving drivable period.

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This takes

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: way,

I have spent weeks doing this.

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I did it.

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I used Autotrader and cars.com.

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I built a query of my price range,

what characteristics I wanted.

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And then as I saw vehicles that

I liked, I would then go to that

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Car Lot's website then take a

look at everything else they have.

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I would watch for whether their

prices adjusted or something.

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Some you like, want to know if one is

a negotiating car lot or if they do

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like that best price thing where they

absolutely will not negotiate with you.

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So, you know, that's kind of normal, but

you know, it, it takes a lot of effort.

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But the next level is you

invest in a sales person.

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So on cars.com.

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Their pictures are there.

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It'll say like, contact this salesperson.

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And they think they're getting, and

they are, they are getting access to us.

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: 00:17:29

If anybody ever has done sales

or marketing or anything, you

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know, that like their websites are

most likely run by Spark pages.

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And if you interact with them, like

say you send an email or something

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through it, it creates a record.

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: 00:17:40

You be of an inquiry, you get

assigned directly to that salesperson.

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So the one you pick, a

strategic point as well.

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So I was like, okay, men my age

think I'm much younger than I am.

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Oh, and they're all men.

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: 00:17:53

There are no women salespeople.

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: 00:17:55

So they don't really respect me.

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They feel, uh, we, we never meet

in the middle because they think

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they're in charge and they don't

realize they're not until too late.

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And so I was like, okay, I'm

gonna, I'm gonna pick a young one.

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there's this kid, he's like.

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Wore glasses real clearly, young,

really skinny, long straggly hair.

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: 00:18:15

And I was like, this is a snowboarder.

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He is in it for the quick cash.

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And he has expensive hobbies.

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And his name is fucking Blake.

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So I was like, all right,

you're my guy Blake.

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So I sent him a message.

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When you get the automated

message, it means that you've

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been, the record has been created.

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You've been put into their like, uh,

query base, but then they'll send

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you one that is, you can tell that

they've written it themselves 'cause

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it'll have poor grammar misspellings.

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: 00:18:42

He didn't capitalize the B in his name.

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: 00:18:45

And so that number is the one you can

always talk directly to them from.

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So I'm like becoming friends with Blake.

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And then I stopped by and I was like.

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Hey, here's what I'm looking for.

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: 00:18:57

And I drove a bunch of stuff.

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: 00:18:58

I knew I wasn't gonna buy, basically,

just so I could spend the day with him.

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I knew I was gonna buy from him,

so I wasn't wasting his time, but

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I was investing in him as a person.

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this all sounds so fucking

sociopathic, but it's not.

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: 00:19:10

I'm not a sociopath.

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So like the day after I bought the truck,

I was like, I wonder what Blake's doing,

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: 00:19:17

but like, if you, for wholesalers,

it's all, they don't get new inventory.

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: 00:19:23

Everything they sell is used

and they're just doing trade.

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: 00:19:27

So you can get a great deal from

them, but they have to spend.

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: 00:19:30

or $5,000 on them between the point

they get them on trade and then they,

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: 00:19:35

to get them professionally detailed

to get their professional headshots.

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: 00:19:38

so I was like, if you get one

of these in this project for it

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meets these categories, call me.

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: 00:19:43

I want it before you do all that

to it, because that bumps the

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: 00:19:46

price up by several thousand.

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: 00:19:48

So, and then here's what

I have, appraise it now.

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Let me know what you wanna

give it, give me for it.

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: 00:19:53

so I, I I got a really good deal on

this fucking truck just because I'm,

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: 00:19:59

the time, I guess, to mount of salt.

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: 00:20:03

Although gas is expensive now,

it's not a good time for that.

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: 00:20:06

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah, for real.

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: 00:20:08

We, we didn't go through all

that when we got our car.

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: 00:20:10

We searched, carvana a lot

and looked at different area.

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: 00:20:15

We knew the kind of car we wanted,

so that narrowed it down quite a bit.

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: 00:20:19

Uh, we knew we wanted to get an Equinox so

we looked at all the different places and

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: 00:20:22

we found a place that had a good one with

good mileage at a good price, and we went

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: 00:20:26

up and we were like, we want that one.

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: 00:20:28

And we bought it and left.

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: 00:20:29

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Yeah.

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: 00:20:30

Like you don't wanna be in

a position to have to haggle

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: 00:20:32

because they always win on that.

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: 00:20:35

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah.

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: 00:20:35

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: you're once,

by the time you're there looking at

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: 00:20:38

it, talking about buying it, whatever

the vehicle is, you're locked in.

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: 00:20:41

You're not gonna get the a, you're

not gonna improve your deal.

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: 00:20:44

It's not to say you can't get a good deal.

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: 00:20:46

Like it's the legwork you do.

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: 00:20:47

Up until that point, I also started

with Carvana to see what they would

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: 00:20:50

offer me on the car, which was good.

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: 00:20:53

They'll give you a different, uh,

trade-in amount than Kelly Blue Book.

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: 00:20:56

Well, what's your, do you have any

rewards programs that you like right now?

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: 00:21:01

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Kroger is a good one.

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: 00:21:02

I always get my gas at a discounted price.

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: 00:21:05

yeah, if you get your groceries on

Fridays, they usually have a coupon

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: 00:21:07

where you get four times the points.

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: 00:21:10

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: what?

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: 00:21:10

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Uh, yeah.

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: 00:21:11

And then you can get, use those towards

your, and then they started a thing

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: 00:21:14

where it's not as good, but if you

get a hundred points, you can trade

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: 00:21:17

it in for a dollar off your order.

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: 00:21:19

Instead of doing the 20 cents

off of gas or whatever it is.

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: 00:21:22

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Oh

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: 00:21:23

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

I'd rather have it off my gas though.

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: 00:21:24

'cause gas is so expensive.

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: 00:21:26

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: yeah.

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: 00:21:27

Well, and it's per gallon.

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: 00:21:28

So say you have like a large tank,

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: 00:21:30

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah.

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: 00:21:30

Mine's a 14 gallon tank.

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: 00:21:32

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: I

use the upside thing for gas.

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: 00:21:35

You connect your card to it, you select

whatever gas station you're going to,

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: 00:21:39

and it'll tell you how many it is.

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: 00:21:40

Like, say you get cash back

for whatever uh, gas you buy.

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: 00:21:43

So if it's cents.

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: 00:21:46

per gallon and you have a gallon

tank or something, then what is that?

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: 00:21:53

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

$2.

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: 00:21:53

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: $2?

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: 00:21:54

Yeah, so you got $2 for

filling up gas that day.

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: 00:21:57

And so like, and it just collects in a

thing, and then you cash out like a PayPal

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: 00:22:02

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Nice.

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: 00:22:02

What was it called?

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: 00:22:03

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: upside.

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: 00:22:04

And it's just, you know, it's a they

get paid through some sort of thing,

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: 00:22:09

like a relationship with the the gas

station, the company that does that.

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: 00:22:13

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah.

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: 00:22:14

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: and then I

used my credit card that has 2% cash

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: 00:22:18

back, so I linked that to the upside,

so I'm getting like double cash back

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: 00:22:24

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Oh nice.

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: 00:22:24

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

and then you collect points.

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: 00:22:26

So I'm just like hoarding

points for a rainy day.

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: 00:22:28

That's my, uh.

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: 00:22:30

Safety net is the points

I have on my credit card.

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: 00:22:35

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

I also do these two on my phone.

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: 00:22:36

One is through Facebook.

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: 00:22:37

It's like an invite only thing,

and mostly they just wanna see

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: 00:22:41

your data, which I don't care.

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: 00:22:43

But sometimes I'll send you a task to do,

like, they'll be like say these a hundred

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: 00:22:48

phrases and you record yourself saying a

hundred different, very random phrases.

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: 00:22:52

Um, I guess you're training their

ai and they'll give you five bucks.

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: 00:22:55

It takes you 10 minutes to do and

they give you five bucks for doing it.

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: 00:22:58

And I've made several

hundred dollars doing that.

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: 00:23:01

And then the Google Rewards.

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: 00:23:02

I think a lot of people

know about Google Rewards.

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: 00:23:04

I've made several

hundred dollars doing it.

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: 00:23:07

I don't know if it works on iPhones,

but I know that it works on Androids.

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: 00:23:11

Basically if you go, like, I searched

the Reds because I wanna know

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: 00:23:14

what time the game is or whatever.

524

: 00:23:16

It'll say, which one of these pages

would you have liked better, you know,

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: 00:23:20

to give you version A or version B.

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: 00:23:22

And you say, which one you would've rather

have had to give you the results that,

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: 00:23:25

that you needed, that kind of thing.

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: 00:23:27

Or it'll ask you if you have a receipt,

say you go to Bob Evans, it'll be

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: 00:23:31

like, do you have your receipt?

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: 00:23:32

And then you just put, take a picture of

it and it'll ask you a couple of questions

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: 00:23:35

and you'll get 35 cents or whatever it is.

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: 00:23:37

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Oh, Yeah,

I've seen, I was like trying to look

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: 00:23:40

at jobs and stuff on the job boards.

534

: 00:23:42

The only thing out here is survey taker

535

: 00:23:44

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah.

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: 00:23:45

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: and I, so

much, well, the last time I tried to do

537

: 00:23:48

that was 2007 though, so it was such a

pain in the ass and I wound up not doing

538

: 00:23:53

it enough to actually make any money.

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: 00:23:55

and I have the Casey's rewards.

540

: 00:23:57

Now that I don't smoke, I'm not really

racking up Casey's rewards like I used to.

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: 00:24:07

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Talking to about the camel cash the

542

: 00:24:09

other day made me look up the cigarettes.

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: 00:24:11

My mom smoked and like my heart

fluttered a little when I saw that

544

: 00:24:14

pack of cigarettes that I haven't

seen in like, I don't know, 30 years.

545

: 00:24:18

There was like such a

part of my childhood.

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: 00:24:20

And then, uh, there was a picture

of the back of the pack and it

547

: 00:24:23

was the coupons that came with it

and like it took my breath away.

548

: 00:24:27

Like Shannon said that she found

some of those going through mom's

549

: 00:24:29

stuff, like they were everywhere.

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: 00:24:31

Like those two coupons

got into everything.

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: 00:24:35

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

Oh yeah, I see 'em.

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: 00:24:36

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

The blue golden white pack.

553

: 00:24:38

Yeah.

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: 00:24:39

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Wow.

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: 00:24:40

People collect these old cigarettes

556

: 00:24:42

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah.

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: 00:24:43

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

cigarette packs and stuff.

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: 00:24:45

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

If I had disposable income like that,

559

: 00:24:46

I probably would buy a pack just to

have 'em for the memories, but I'm not

560

: 00:24:50

trying to spend money on that right now.

561

: 00:24:52

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Uh, I've

got the other day, like I had this

562

: 00:24:55

urge to smoke my pipe that I have

just 'cause I like the smell of it.

563

: 00:25:00

One of my favorite smells from my

childhood was my Uncle Jerry's pipe.

564

: 00:25:04

He smoked, uh, cherry tobacco.

565

: 00:25:06

And I have a pretty nice pipe

and some tobacco, but like,

566

: 00:25:09

that's just a gateway drug.

567

: 00:25:11

That's how you start smoking

568

: 00:25:12

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Right.

569

: 00:25:13

That's how cloves were

570

: 00:25:14

for me.

571

: 00:25:15

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: think like this

572

: 00:25:16

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

I,

573

: 00:25:17

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

just, it's gotta be all or

574

: 00:25:18

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

yeah.

575

: 00:25:19

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: You just

don't get to have tobacco again.

576

: 00:25:20

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yep.

577

: 00:25:21

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

And at this point I am not

578

: 00:25:22

fucking with my health anymore.

579

: 00:25:24

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah,

580

: 00:25:25

I feel that too.

581

: 00:25:26

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

is so ridiculous.

582

: 00:25:27

Were you ever that kid who said like,

well, I'm gonna die young anyway and

583

: 00:25:31

just continue to make terrible decisions?

584

: 00:25:34

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah, pretty much.

585

: 00:25:35

None of my aunts made it outta

their fifties except for my Aunt

586

: 00:25:39

Jenny, and she's like almost 80.

587

: 00:25:41

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: I met with

a geneticist yesterday and you know,

588

: 00:25:45

you can tell when a doctor or some

professional who's kind of studying you,

589

: 00:25:49

for lack of a better word, is about to

say something fucked up because they'll

590

: 00:25:52

go like, I have to ask everybody this.

591

: 00:25:54

And she goes, is it possible

your parents are related?

592

: 00:26:01

And I said, has anybody

ever said yes to that?

593

: 00:26:04

Because the answer's yes for me.

594

: 00:26:07

She said, no, most people say no.

595

: 00:26:10

And I was like, well, they're not like

siblings or first cousins, but yeah,

596

: 00:26:14

here's a little bit about where I'm from.

597

: 00:26:16

And she was like, okay that's

gonna change things a little.

598

: 00:26:19

I was like, great.

599

: 00:26:20

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

I am related.

600

: 00:26:21

I'm my own cousin by marriage.

601

: 00:26:23

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Yeah.

602

: 00:26:24

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah.

603

: 00:26:24

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Yeah.

604

: 00:26:24

I was like, do you probably don't really

talk to many people like me, like, for

605

: 00:26:29

whom that is actually a factor in their,

uh, genetic health that they know of.

606

: 00:26:34

You know, I mean, we're all,

you know, if you, we could

607

: 00:26:36

re on a long enough timeline.

608

: 00:26:38

We're all cousins

609

: 00:26:39

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Right.

610

: 00:26:39

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: but not

like in recent history that we know of.

611

: 00:26:44

And that's like, I have a cousin

who has traced the genealogy

612

: 00:26:48

of my mom's side of the family.

613

: 00:26:49

Shockingly, not a ton of.

614

: 00:26:52

Visible in breeding, but there's some

like, you know, cousins, but then on

615

: 00:26:59

dad's side of the family, there's no

gen, like the, all the, you don't get

616

: 00:27:02

to know that unless you're one of them.

617

: 00:27:04

They're very secretive about it.

618

: 00:27:06

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Right.

619

: 00:27:07

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: So

that's gonna die with grandmother.

620

: 00:27:09

Like, I don't know shit about

that side of the family.

621

: 00:27:11

I kind of want to like, I wasn't cur and

I remember listening to them all talk.

622

: 00:27:17

They would get together at the holidays

and talk about all the ones that,

623

: 00:27:21

well this one was related to that

one and is this one still living?

624

: 00:27:24

And which one was that one now?

625

: 00:27:25

'cause they had so many names,

like the same name that like, that

626

: 00:27:29

each generation would have, they

would just switch the names around.

627

: 00:27:32

So like, I had like three ions two NOLAs.

628

: 00:27:36

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

It was the liens and my family,

629

: 00:27:39

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Yeah

630

: 00:27:40

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Eileen Annaline, Starling Ethylene.

631

: 00:27:44

I'm kidding on that last one.

632

: 00:27:46

I'm surprised I didn't do that one though.

633

: 00:27:48

And my grandfather was Virgil.

634

: 00:27:50

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

Virgil's pretty good.

635

: 00:27:51

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah, my ma and papa

636

: 00:27:53

were Virgil in our lane.

637

: 00:27:54

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Wow.

638

: 00:27:55

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah.

639

: 00:27:56

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: That is country

640

: 00:27:57

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yep.

641

: 00:27:58

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: I

was looking at land for sale and

642

: 00:27:59

there's some, uh, acres down there

in Portsmouth for a pretty cheap,

643

: 00:28:03

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah.

644

: 00:28:04

'cause nobody wants to live there,

645

: 00:28:05

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

yeah, that's kind of it.

646

: 00:28:07

Like, and I had the

filter set so fucking low.

647

: 00:28:09

Like I was like this, I know

exactly what this is gonna

648

: 00:28:11

give me for this price range.

649

: 00:28:13

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

right?

650

: 00:28:14

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

And it was that.

651

: 00:28:16

And Booneville, Kentucky,

652

: 00:28:18

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah.

653

: 00:28:18

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: which

is in Ousley County, which.

654

: 00:28:21

It all is always one of the top five

poorest counties in the country.

655

: 00:28:25

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Oh wow.

656

: 00:28:26

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: The and

it changed, it shifts subtly just

657

: 00:28:29

because the economy does and people

move around and stuff like that.

658

: 00:28:31

But there was a solid 10 year period

where the top 10 poorest counties in the

659

: 00:28:38

country were at least 50% in Kentucky.

660

: 00:28:43

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Oh wow.

661

: 00:28:44

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Like that

part of Appalachia is the poorest,

662

: 00:28:47

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

I'm surprised

663

: 00:28:48

CIO County isn't near there.

664

: 00:28:49

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

I don't remember seeing it.

665

: 00:28:50

Uh, let's, I wanna see where,

let's see what it's at now.

666

: 00:28:53

Let's get morbid.

667

: 00:28:55

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

We do a pretty girl.

668

: 00:28:56

I am already obsessed with this dog.

669

: 00:28:58

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

Well, wow, things have changed.

670

: 00:29:02

So many of these have not been

updated since Trump became president.

671

: 00:29:05

That is interesting.

672

: 00:29:07

' cause they just, they don't,

they're not counting anymore.

673

: 00:29:11

Wow.

674

: 00:29:11

The most recent one I can find, and

I'm not familiar with this source,

675

: 00:29:14

so let me see what their metrics are.

676

: 00:29:16

This is 24 7 Wall Street.

677

: 00:29:19

Then site, oh, it's the very first

one is Slee County, Kentucky.

678

: 00:29:23

But they're, no, this is

counting down backwards.

679

: 00:29:25

Okay.

680

: 00:29:25

So that's 25.

681

: 00:29:26

So they've really, they're

not even top 10 anymore.

682

: 00:29:29

Alabama.

683

: 00:29:30

Alabama, South Dakota, Tennessee,

Louisiana, McGuffin County, Kentucky.

684

: 00:29:37

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

where all of my family's from.

685

: 00:29:39

That's the county that did

the genealogy of my family.

686

: 00:29:42

The goin County Historical Society.

687

: 00:29:44

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

that's the 19th poorest county

688

: 00:29:47

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah.

689

: 00:29:47

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: country.

690

: 00:29:48

And there was some land in Saville,

691

: 00:29:51

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

That's the town that my

692

: 00:29:52

family is the founding family

693

: 00:29:54

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Mississippi.

694

: 00:29:55

A lot more further south.

695

: 00:29:57

Okay.

696

: 00:29:57

Lee County, Kentucky.

697

: 00:29:59

Where is, oh, that's Beville.

698

: 00:30:00

Yep.

699

: 00:30:01

There was a lot of land for sale there.

700

: 00:30:02

Yeah.

701

: 00:30:03

It's more of like the true south now

than it was Appalachia at the time.

702

: 00:30:08

Georgia, Mississippi.

703

: 00:30:10

Louisiana.

704

: 00:30:11

Texas.

705

: 00:30:12

Texas, Mississippi, Wolf County, Kentucky.

706

: 00:30:16

I don't know.

707

: 00:30:16

Wolf County.

708

: 00:30:17

Where's that?

709

: 00:30:18

Uh, Campton.

710

: 00:30:20

I don't.

711

: 00:30:20

Or listeners, if you're from

Wolf County list, know where yet?

712

: 00:30:24

Uh, McDowell County, West Virginia.

713

: 00:30:26

So this is the top five.

714

: 00:30:28

County, West Virginia.

715

: 00:30:30

Ditt County, Texas.

716

: 00:30:32

Jackson County, South Dakota,

Randolph County, Georgia.

717

: 00:30:36

Uh.

718

: 00:30:36

Queen of county, Mississippi.

719

: 00:30:38

Wow.

720

: 00:30:38

So Mississippi has really gone to shit.

721

: 00:30:40

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Right.

722

: 00:30:41

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

So yeah, Kentucky's not even

723

: 00:30:43

in the top five anymore.

724

: 00:30:44

I mean, the highest we are is six.

725

: 00:30:45

That's interesting.

726

: 00:30:47

Wonder if it's something to do with that

cratic governor we elected in: 2019

727

: 00:30:53

Couldn't be.

728

: 00:30:54

Couldn't be that dude.

729

: 00:30:55

It's snowed yesterday

and it's sunny today.

730

: 00:30:58

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

It was 71 degrees here yesterday.

731

: 00:31:01

It was wonderful.

732

: 00:31:02

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: I

think it's gonna be warm today.

733

: 00:31:04

It's 50 already.

734

: 00:31:06

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

That's what it's supposed

735

: 00:31:07

to be in the fifties today.

736

: 00:31:08

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

shiny and beautiful.

737

: 00:31:11

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

3 81 degree days coming

738

: 00:31:13

in the next 15 days here.

739

: 00:31:15

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

It's about fucking time.

740

: 00:31:16

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah.

741

: 00:31:16

Right.

742

: 00:31:17

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Although

I'm, watch me pull up in this 10 day

743

: 00:31:19

forecast and it's gonna be some snow.

744

: 00:31:22

Uh, yeah, it won't be much, but

745

: 00:31:25

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Did it ever melt?

746

: 00:31:25

Do you guys have ground again?

747

: 00:31:28

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

yeah, it's gone now.

748

: 00:31:29

It's just muddy,

749

: 00:31:30

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah.

750

: 00:31:31

Year two.

751

: 00:31:31

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: nasty shit.

752

: 00:31:33

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

It's been raining a lot.

753

: 00:31:34

Here.

754

: 00:31:35

I'll take rain over snow any day though.

755

: 00:31:42

I got drenched the other day.

756

: 00:31:44

I bought a brand new, uh, umbrella

and didn't test it out and went

757

: 00:31:49

to open it and it was broken.

758

: 00:31:50

It did not work.

759

: 00:31:51

And I got drenched walking

from Central Hall over to my

760

: 00:31:55

car, like sopping wet, like

761

: 00:31:58

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

They kind of have one job.

762

: 00:32:00

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

yeah.

763

: 00:32:01

I even had two students try to fix it

for me and they couldn't do it either.

764

: 00:32:04

So finally I just gave up and

took my punishment and at least

765

: 00:32:07

my backpack was mostly waterproof.

766

: 00:32:09

Like one of the I always put all

my shit in big envelopes, like

767

: 00:32:12

for different classes, that way

they don't get mixed up in my bag.

768

: 00:32:15

And the top of one of the

envelopes was slightly damp,

769

: 00:32:17

but everything else was good.

770

: 00:32:19

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: I've never

been able to, I own some umbrellas.

771

: 00:32:22

I never know where they are.

772

: 00:32:23

They're never with me when it's raining.

773

: 00:32:24

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Right.

774

: 00:32:25

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: If it's

not a raincoat, it is no good to

775

: 00:32:28

me, it's not going to do anything.

776

: 00:32:30

So.

777

: 00:32:31

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Well, we bought another one.

778

: 00:32:32

So I do have another umbrella, but

it was too late for the other day.

779

: 00:32:36

It's been a long time since I got

caught out in a rainstorm like that.

780

: 00:32:39

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: I

remember it used to pour down there.

781

: 00:32:42

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah.

782

: 00:32:43

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: It

doesn't really hear like it'll

783

: 00:32:44

rain, but it doesn't storm.

784

: 00:32:46

Not that I recall anyway.

785

: 00:32:48

I'm deaf now though, so it could

be like thunderstorming and

786

: 00:32:51

I wouldn't even know, see my

787

: 00:32:53

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Small man.

788

: 00:32:54

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

decided to change things up.

789

: 00:32:56

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

It's a neat statue.

790

: 00:32:57

It's really big.

791

: 00:32:58

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Change,

uh, the conference on Creating Change,

792

: 00:33:02

used to be what used to be the gay and

lesbian Task Force is in Louisville

793

: 00:33:08

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Huh?

794

: 00:33:08

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: It's, uh, it's

ually in January, so January,: 2027

795

: 00:33:14

If I'm anywhere nearby,

I might go over there.

796

: 00:33:17

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Sounds like a good time.

797

: 00:33:19

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: It's

usually really informative.

798

: 00:33:20

Like for ins they're really

ahead of the curve on stuff.

799

: 00:33:23

The first time I learned about or

started to learn about, uh, like the

800

: 00:33:27

Palestine, the genocide and stuff,

like, essentially like the war machine

801

: 00:33:33

that is Israel was at a Creating Change

conference over 10 years ago, I was

802

: 00:33:38

like, yeah I'm pretty plugged in.

803

: 00:33:42

And I really didn't know of

what, you know, organizing

804

: 00:33:47

what's looked like in like other

countries that aren't Palestine.

805

: 00:33:53

You know, for instance, like

what people are doing in the us.

806

: 00:33:56

because it's, you know, queer people

are kind of like that, you know,

807

: 00:34:00

they're plugged into everything.

808

: 00:34:02

Some would say that we

are busy bodies, but

809

: 00:34:05

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

I think it's more that we

810

: 00:34:06

don't lead single issue lives.

811

: 00:34:08

You know, like Audrey Lord said

issues of genocide and Palestine are

812

: 00:34:12

my problem because there are, for

example, gay and lesbian people there.

813

: 00:34:17

So there therefore it

becomes my problem, you know?

814

: 00:34:19

And I think you get to be more sensitive

to things when you realize how much

815

: 00:34:24

more alike we are than we are different.

816

: 00:34:27

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: yeah.

817

: 00:34:27

And how, contagious oppression is.

818

: 00:34:31

I don't think people are consciously

going, like, everything that

819

: 00:34:35

happens to anybody else is fine, as

long as it's not happening to me.

820

: 00:34:39

Like, I don't think that we would be

able to live with ourselves if we were

821

: 00:34:42

phrasing it that way in our minds,

but through whatever process that is

822

: 00:34:47

kind of how we operate in general as

most of the mo most people anyway,

823

: 00:34:51

majority culture are like outta sight,

outta mind with like oppression, uh,

824

: 00:34:58

genocide, all that kind of stuff.

825

: 00:35:00

But the likelihood that if it's

happening to anyone, that it

826

: 00:35:04

would happen to you one day.

827

: 00:35:05

It's pretty high.

828

: 00:35:06

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Right,

829

: 00:35:06

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: I don't

understand how that can't be.

830

: 00:35:08

I mean, especially with as

selfish as we are as people.

831

: 00:35:12

Why isn't that your first thought?

832

: 00:35:13

Like, good God, if that can happen

to them, it could happen to me.

833

: 00:35:16

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

right.

834

: 00:35:17

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: I don't know.

835

: 00:35:18

Well, let's hear from this week's sponsor.

836

: 00:35:21

I saw on TikTok that it's prom season.

837

: 00:35:24

There's a lot of con, there's a

quite a few, uh, accounts that

838

: 00:35:28

post Facebook prom season stuff.

839

: 00:35:31

I don't know.

840

: 00:35:32

I didn't know this, but apparently

prom is a very big deal.

841

: 00:35:34

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

did you go to prom in high school?

842

: 00:35:36

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: I went twice.

843

: 00:35:37

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah, me too.

844

: 00:35:39

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: And it,

it was definitely like a thing,

845

: 00:35:40

it was rite of passage, but like,

not to what these people are

846

: 00:35:43

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah.

847

: 00:35:44

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: kids are

like renting Bugatti and, getting their

848

: 00:35:47

dresses made by these designers and stuff.

849

: 00:35:51

and it's clearly fun and I'm, I

hope they're having fun, right?

850

: 00:35:54

Because they should be, but that

is not what my prom was like,

851

: 00:35:58

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Some of them are getting photo shoots,

852

: 00:35:59

like they're getting married, they

look exactly like the photo shoots

853

: 00:36:02

I would do for somebody getting

married and they're prom pictures,

854

: 00:36:06

and that's just awkward to me.

855

: 00:36:08

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: It

reminds me of like debutante balls

856

: 00:36:11

and stuff, like kind of that.

857

: 00:36:13

And then there's also this performative

social media piece of how it's

858

: 00:36:18

actually, and this is of course,

parents who are doing this because a

859

: 00:36:22

kid doesn't have the resources for it.

860

: 00:36:24

So.

861

: 00:36:24

The parents also have to have

this, like, they have to believe

862

: 00:36:28

that it's this important.

863

: 00:36:30

Just be not a good parent because I would

be like, this shit is not important.

864

: 00:36:33

I'm sorry.

865

: 00:36:34

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah.

866

: 00:36:35

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: But

this week's episode of Queernecks

867

: 00:36:37

is sponsored by after prom party,

868

: 00:36:42

the second weirder and queerer act

of prom, where the shoes come off,

869

: 00:36:47

the truth comes out, and nobody's

parents know where anybody is.

870

: 00:36:51

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Amen.

871

: 00:36:51

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: it'll start

in a driveway or a field, or a house

872

: 00:36:55

that belongs to somebody's cousin.

873

: 00:36:57

They said it was fine.

874

: 00:36:59

are hitched up and ties

are already loosened.

875

: 00:37:01

Carefully constructed looks are

one wrong step away from becoming

876

: 00:37:05

a story for the following day.

877

: 00:37:07

pull in slow headlights sweeping

over people who suddenly don't

878

: 00:37:10

look like they did an hour ago.

879

: 00:37:12

The weight of posturing gives way

to freedom and impending revelry.

880

: 00:37:16

Nobody is entirely certain what's in the

cooler or who brought it, but it has a

881

: 00:37:20

kind of authority to sanction the evening.

882

: 00:37:22

Music comes from a speaker that

works harder than it should.

883

: 00:37:25

A playlist bounces between

sincerity and chaos.

884

: 00:37:28

Like it can't decide what

kind of night this is.

885

: 00:37:31

Somebody is laughing too

hard, somebody is very quiet.

886

: 00:37:33

Somebody is having the best night of their

life and they don't even know it yet.

887

: 00:37:37

Somebody else is realizing gently and all

at once that things are about to change.

888

: 00:37:42

There's a smaller circle with their

jackets on the ground, conversations

889

: 00:37:45

that won't make it to Monday.

890

: 00:37:47

This is where the real prom happens,

where people say what they meant

891

: 00:37:51

to say all year or almost say

it or say something sideways.

892

: 00:37:54

That still lands.

893

: 00:37:55

The after prom party holds

everything all at once.

894

: 00:37:59

relief in the nerves, a little

bit of performance, still

895

: 00:38:01

hanging on, but slipping.

896

: 00:38:03

You can feel the edge of summer in it.

897

: 00:38:05

You can feel the edge of leaving point.

898

: 00:38:07

Shoes are abandoned completely.

899

: 00:38:09

Somebody checks the time and regrets it.

900

: 00:38:11

Someone else decides that it doesn't

matter what time, it's by the time

901

: 00:38:14

the sky starts thinking about morning,

the group is smaller, quieter.

902

: 00:38:18

The music is lower.

903

: 00:38:19

People sit closer without

making a big deal out of it.

904

: 00:38:22

There's a sense soft but real that

the exact combination of people won't

905

: 00:38:26

happen again quite the same way.

906

: 00:38:28

The engines start and the doors

close and the night folds up.

907

: 00:38:34

My after prom party was in a field.

908

: 00:38:36

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

The first after prom party was with

909

: 00:38:39

my boyfriend, and we won't talk

about that, but the second after

910

: 00:38:42

prom party was with all my friends

and we were at a bowling alley.

911

: 00:38:45

They stayed open all night,

and that was, then we ended

912

: 00:38:47

up out at a girl's, uh, house.

913

: 00:38:50

Her parents were there, the whole thing.

914

: 00:38:52

We weren't that wild in high school.

915

: 00:38:54

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: We

occasionally, like once or twice we

916

: 00:38:57

were, we would have parties and so

the after junior year, after prom

917

: 00:39:00

party was one of the best like nights

like of partying in high school,

918

: 00:39:06

like special event type of thing.

919

: 00:39:08

And it was my friend Ben, he

lived out on this, on B Creek and.

920

: 00:39:13

Across from his parents.

921

: 00:39:14

Like falling down house was a giant

field, and we, we drank like high

922

: 00:39:20

school type drinks and we weren't

like hard partying or anything.

923

: 00:39:23

We had like some wine coolers

924

: 00:39:24

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Zima.

925

: 00:39:25

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: just put

blankets out on the sort of damp

926

: 00:39:29

ground and literally we pulled his

Ford escort up and turned this,

927

: 00:39:34

the, his radio up really loud.

928

: 00:39:35

The only expensive thing in that fucking

car was the stereo listened to like,

929

: 00:39:39

you know, really bizarre mixture of

music, I think until the sun came up.

930

: 00:39:45

I think the, like that

was when we went home.

931

: 00:39:48

We had to forge permission

slips and then lie it.

932

: 00:39:50

That was like the scariest part was

there was an actual after prom party

933

: 00:39:54

that we were supposed to go to.

934

: 00:39:56

You could get a permission slip from your

parents to go to the after prom party that

935

: 00:40:00

was hosted by the church or something.

936

: 00:40:03

we did that, we didn't go and

we, we just went somewhere else.

937

: 00:40:08

I don't know.

938

: 00:40:08

We should have been in so much

shit because I feel certain

939

: 00:40:11

that they knew what we did.

940

: 00:40:12

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Right.

941

: 00:40:13

My parents didn't ask a lot of

questions, but I was the first one

942

: 00:40:16

in my family to make it to prom.

943

: 00:40:17

So, you know,

944

: 00:40:19

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

You know, my mom was, they,

945

: 00:40:20

she was pretty rigid with me.

946

: 00:40:22

So that was one of the few times where I

didn't have to suffer intense consequences

947

: 00:40:26

for doing something that I wanted to do.

948

: 00:40:28

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

my mom was pretty lax and then

949

: 00:40:30

she hated my biological father.

950

: 00:40:32

And he got in some trouble and had to

start paying arrears on child support.

951

: 00:40:36

So he was, we were getting a bigger

check than we were used to, and she would

952

: 00:40:40

just give me the whole thing and that

would be my allowance for the month.

953

: 00:40:43

So I was going around with like $400 a

month, like to do whatever I wanted with

954

: 00:40:48

that was like a lot of money, you know?

955

: 00:40:50

And then she.

956

: 00:40:51

Yeah.

957

: 00:40:51

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: lot of money.

958

: 00:40:52

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

And now she's, she was concerned that

959

: 00:40:54

I wasn't good with money because you

didn't teach me to go be good with money.

960

: 00:40:57

You taught me, here's

some money, go spend it.

961

: 00:40:59

You know?

962

: 00:41:00

And I got good at that.

963

: 00:41:01

I can spend some money now.

964

: 00:41:03

I,

965

: 00:41:08

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: What was,

do you remember the, like, uh, your

966

: 00:41:12

first job, how much money you made?

967

: 00:41:13

What was minimum wage?

968

: 00:41:14

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

was like 7 25 an hour.

969

: 00:41:16

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: What

970

: 00:41:17

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

I think it might've been,

971

: 00:41:19

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: was four?

972

: 00:41:19

25.

973

: 00:41:20

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

That sounds about right back when.

974

: 00:41:22

'cause my first job was in 1994.

975

: 00:41:25

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Yep.

976

: 00:41:26

It was $4 back then

for, I think it was 4 25

977

: 00:41:30

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Well, I was working food service,

978

: 00:41:31

so it was even lower than that.

979

: 00:41:33

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Yeah.

980

: 00:41:34

At Pizza Hut it was $2 and 13 cents an

981

: 00:41:37

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Yeah.

982

: 00:41:38

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546:

And then if you made tips, you

983

: 00:41:40

were supposed to report them.

984

: 00:41:41

But we would just multiply the amount

of hours that we worked by 3.15

985

: 00:41:47

then say, that was how many tips we made.

986

: 00:41:49

'cause that would've at the, by

that time, minimum wage is 5 25,

987

: 00:41:54

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Right.

988

: 00:41:54

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: It went up

from four something to 5 25 in or six.

989

: 00:42:00

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

I did remember that.

990

: 00:42:01

I thought I, I didn't remember it

being that low, but I'm sure it

991

: 00:42:04

was 'cause I worked shitty jobs.

992

: 00:42:06

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: I

think it's still 7 25 in Ohio.

993

: 00:42:09

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546:

Maybe that's where I got the number.

994

: 00:42:11

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Ohio's

minimum wage, it went up this year.

995

: 00:42:14

As of January 1st, 2026.

996

: 00:42:16

Ohio's minimum wage is $11 an

hour for non tipped employees,

997

: 00:42:20

and five 50 for tipped employees.

998

: 00:42:23

For smaller businesses, the

minimum wage is 7 25 per hour.

999

: 00:42:28

What, how does that work?

: 1000

00:42:29,969 --> 00:42:34,859

This rate of, oh, the $11 per hour

applies to employers with annual

: 1001

00:42:34,859 --> 00:42:37,739

gross receipts over 405,000.

: 1002

00:42:38,139 --> 00:42:42,284

Okay, so if you work for like a big

corporation, you make $11 an hour,

: 1003

00:42:42,684 --> 00:42:44,604

but for a small business it's 7 25.

: 1004

00:42:45,004 --> 00:42:46,354

-: 2026

That doesn't make any sense.

: 1005

00:42:46,414 --> 00:42:47,974

I mean, it does for the business, but.

: 1006

00:42:48,374 --> 00:42:51,674

-: 2026

is still 7 25 across the board.

: 1007

00:42:52,074 --> 00:42:54,354

I was working at the bowling

alley when it went up to that.

: 1008

00:42:54,754 --> 00:42:55,234

-: 2026

Wow.

: 1009

00:42:55,294 --> 00:42:56,734

You were rolling in it then, huh?

: 1010

00:42:57,004 --> 00:42:57,904

No pun intended.

: 1011

00:42:57,904 --> 00:42:58,354

Rolling.

: 1012

00:42:58,414 --> 00:42:59,134

Get it rolling.

: 1013

00:42:59,134 --> 00:42:59,914

Like a bowling ball.

: 1014

00:43:00,314 --> 00:43:03,564

-: 2026

Yeah, I was, so that was 2009.

: 1015

00:43:03,564 --> 00:43:09,964

I started at the bowling alley

in: 2006

: 1016

00:43:09,964 --> 00:43:12,004

So minimum wage went up to 7 25.

: 1017

00:43:12,404 --> 00:43:16,549

And, I think I, that was when I went to

day shift, so I went up to 10 the most

: 1018

00:43:16,549 --> 00:43:21,941

money I made hourly before going on

to like a, real, a job, you know, like

: 1019

00:43:21,941 --> 00:43:24,131

this, a white collar job was 10 50 an

: 1020

00:43:24,561 --> 00:43:25,976

-: 2026

I worked for Amazon and made good money.

: 1021

00:43:26,181 --> 00:43:28,611

It was like 13 an hour

or something like that.

: 1022

00:43:29,091 --> 00:43:30,021

It was enough to pay our bills.

: 1023

00:43:30,421 --> 00:43:33,421

With Amazon, the best part

of the pay was the benefits.

: 1024

00:43:33,521 --> 00:43:34,691

We had really good insurance.

: 1025

00:43:34,691 --> 00:43:37,931

But then you got, uh, vested

company stock at the same time

: 1026

00:43:38,297 --> 00:43:40,358

-: 2026

such an, old person thing to say,

: 1027

00:43:40,358 --> 00:43:41,858

but I was thinking the same thing.

: 1028

00:43:41,888 --> 00:43:48,760

Like those things that are as good, if

not better money, like health insurance

: 1029

00:43:48,820 --> 00:43:51,530

or whatever, they're a really big deal.

: 1030

00:43:52,299 --> 00:43:53,709

-: 2026

well every six months or so you got

: 1031

00:43:53,709 --> 00:43:58,189

stock in the company for free, you know,

and Amazon stock was worth some money.

: 1032

00:43:58,459 --> 00:43:58,969

So

: 1033

00:43:59,074 --> 00:43:59,434

-: 2026

: 1034

00:43:59,509 --> 00:44:00,289

-: 2026

I know some people that

: 1035

00:44:00,289 --> 00:44:01,699

retired off their stock.

: 1036

00:44:02,099 --> 00:44:02,819

-: 2026

: 1037

00:44:03,219 --> 00:44:04,989

-: 2026

People that were there for 20 years.

: 1038

00:44:05,389 --> 00:44:06,349

-: 2026

I don't know if I can do it.

: 1039

00:44:06,484 --> 00:44:07,354

-: 2026

Yeah, me neither.

: 1040

00:44:07,754 --> 00:44:09,324

-: 2026

did you bring a down of Appalachian

: 1041

00:44:09,634 --> 00:44:10,714

-: 2026

I did, I bought it.

: 1042

00:44:10,714 --> 00:44:12,694

Brought a surprising one this week.

: 1043

00:44:13,094 --> 00:44:13,314

-: 2026

: 1044

00:44:14,096 --> 00:44:14,546

-: 2026

All right.

: 1045

00:44:14,546 --> 00:44:15,326

Let's see here.

: 1046

00:44:15,726 --> 00:44:16,836

Lemme get my glasses.

: 1047

00:44:17,236 --> 00:44:21,406

All right, so today's Appalachian noun

of interest is a person that doesn't

: 1048

00:44:21,406 --> 00:44:23,686

give off Appalachian energy immediately.

: 1049

00:44:24,086 --> 00:44:25,016

Steve Harvey.

: 1050

00:44:25,416 --> 00:44:26,136

Yeah, I know.

: 1051

00:44:26,136 --> 00:44:27,906

It's not the first name

that comes to mind.

: 1052

00:44:27,906 --> 00:44:30,036

As we've covered in earlier noun segments.

: 1053

00:44:30,276 --> 00:44:33,486

You're probably thinking of a

banjo, a front porch, or maybe even

: 1054

00:44:33,486 --> 00:44:38,136

someone like Dolly Parton, not a

six foot tall black man in a $3,000

: 1055

00:44:38,136 --> 00:44:41,646

suit telling somebody their answer

is wrong on national television.

: 1056

00:44:41,886 --> 00:44:42,636

But stay with me.

: 1057

00:44:43,036 --> 00:44:46,426

Steve Harvey was born in Welch,

West Virginia coal country.

: 1058

00:44:46,636 --> 00:44:48,016

His dad was a coal miner.

: 1059

00:44:48,136 --> 00:44:49,726

Like this is not a metaphor.

: 1060

00:44:49,726 --> 00:44:51,616

This is not a country aesthetic.

: 1061

00:44:51,616 --> 00:44:52,906

This is the real deal.

: 1062

00:44:53,146 --> 00:44:54,886

Dirt under your nails, long shifts.

: 1063

00:44:54,943 --> 00:44:56,673

A hard life kind of place.

: 1064

00:44:56,823 --> 00:44:59,223

And that's what gets me, because

somewhere along the way, we

: 1065

00:44:59,223 --> 00:45:00,693

just stopped claiming him.

: 1066

00:45:00,993 --> 00:45:03,213

Nobody ever says, do you

know who's Appalachian?

: 1067

00:45:03,213 --> 00:45:03,993

Steve Harvey?

: 1068

00:45:04,383 --> 00:45:07,743

We act like a, he just appeared

fully formed in a shiny suit.

: 1069

00:45:07,743 --> 00:45:12,393

Already disappointed in somebody's answer,

but no, that man came from the mountains.

: 1070

00:45:12,393 --> 00:45:15,933

Now his family moved to Cleveland when

he was a kid, which if you know anything

: 1071

00:45:15,933 --> 00:45:18,033

about Appalachian makes perfect sense.

: 1072

00:45:18,273 --> 00:45:20,463

That's part of the story

too, that people leave.

: 1073

00:45:20,793 --> 00:45:23,403

They go where the work is, but

they don't leave empty handed.

: 1074

00:45:23,403 --> 00:45:26,883

They take the stories, the humor,

the way of talking, all of it.

: 1075

00:45:27,183 --> 00:45:29,283

And if you listen close,

you can still hear it.

: 1076

00:45:29,613 --> 00:45:32,343

Not in his accent maybe, but

in the way he tells a story.

: 1077

00:45:32,583 --> 00:45:36,363

The timing, the side eye, the I

know exactly what kind of mess

: 1078

00:45:36,393 --> 00:45:38,523

this is energy that feels familiar.

: 1079

00:45:38,923 --> 00:45:42,463

I think part of why we don't think of

him as Appalachian is because we've

: 1080

00:45:42,463 --> 00:45:46,393

got this very narrow picture in our

heads that through stereotypes we've

: 1081

00:45:46,393 --> 00:45:49,753

come to expect a certain voice, a

certain look, a certain kind of life.

: 1082

00:45:49,813 --> 00:45:52,243

And usually that doesn't

include people of color.

: 1083

00:45:52,543 --> 00:45:55,903

But if I know anything about Appalachia,

I know it isn't just one thing.

: 1084

00:45:55,933 --> 00:45:57,043

We are no monolith.

: 1085

00:45:57,433 --> 00:45:59,833

Appalachia is cold towns

and church dinners.

: 1086

00:45:59,833 --> 00:46:01,663

It's people leaving and people staying.

: 1087

00:46:01,963 --> 00:46:05,683

It's struggle, it's hustle, and I,

it's knowing how to read a room and

: 1088

00:46:05,683 --> 00:46:07,423

knowing when something ain't right.

: 1089

00:46:07,453 --> 00:46:10,423

It's every color, every creed,

every kind of person there is.

: 1090

00:46:10,483 --> 00:46:12,823

And there's no one way

to be an Appalachian.

: 1091

00:46:13,243 --> 00:46:16,423

If you've ever watched Steve Harvey,

pause stare at someone and just

: 1092

00:46:16,423 --> 00:46:20,263

let the silence do the work, that's

Appalachian communication right there.

: 1093

00:46:20,293 --> 00:46:21,373

No extra words.

: 1094

00:46:21,553 --> 00:46:23,173

Just a look that says everything.

: 1095

00:46:23,473 --> 00:46:27,433

So yeah, Steve Harvey from Welt West

Virginia to Family Feud and somehow

: 1096

00:46:27,433 --> 00:46:30,343

still carrying a little bit of that

mountain energy with him, even if it's

: 1097

00:46:30,343 --> 00:46:31,993

dressed in a whole lot fancier now.

: 1098

00:46:32,495 --> 00:46:33,695

-: 2026

Uh, it's so true.

: 1099

00:46:33,755 --> 00:46:34,685

I did not know that.

: 1100

00:46:34,685 --> 00:46:35,765

Thank you so much,

: 1101

00:46:36,165 --> 00:46:37,155

-: 2026

Yeah, I have a friend who's

: 1102

00:46:37,155 --> 00:46:38,175

from Welch, and it's pro.

: 1103

00:46:38,205 --> 00:46:41,265

It's apparently a very

backwoods country kind of place.

: 1104

00:46:41,505 --> 00:46:44,085

If you're from Welch listeners and

that's not the truth, let us know,

: 1105

00:46:44,085 --> 00:46:45,825

but that's my understanding of it.

: 1106

00:46:46,225 --> 00:46:47,275

It's Southern West Virginia.

: 1107

00:46:47,339 --> 00:46:49,156

-: 2026

Well, and let us know if you

: 1108

00:46:49,156 --> 00:46:51,196

knew that, you know, how cool.

: 1109

00:46:51,596 --> 00:46:54,476

It makes total sense though

if you just look at his affect

: 1110

00:46:54,866 --> 00:46:56,456

and how he is with people.

: 1111

00:46:56,546 --> 00:47:02,989

You know, there's a really funny episode,

or maybe more than one episode of Family

: 1112

00:47:02,989 --> 00:47:07,349

Feud that is, think they did it for Pride

Month and maybe for, they'll do some of

: 1113

00:47:07,349 --> 00:47:09,329

them for charity, like celebrity versions.

: 1114

00:47:09,729 --> 00:47:10,959

And it was all drag queens.

: 1115

00:47:11,359 --> 00:47:13,639

My God, did they have a time with him?

: 1116

00:47:14,039 --> 00:47:20,069

and you know, he played it he did

like his job basically as the straight

: 1117

00:47:20,219 --> 00:47:24,186

cis host is to play the straight man,

to be the person who's sort of like,

: 1118

00:47:24,186 --> 00:47:27,156

oh, I don't know what I've gotten

myself into here, because obviously

: 1119

00:47:27,156 --> 00:47:28,536

the drag queens are gonna cut up.

: 1120

00:47:28,936 --> 00:47:32,706

But I watched it and I was like,

oh God, what's this gonna be like?

: 1121

00:47:33,186 --> 00:47:36,066

And it wasn't like, ew, disgusting.

: 1122

00:47:36,066 --> 00:47:40,386

he actually was playing this kind of like

ingenue, they were flirting with him.

: 1123

00:47:40,546 --> 00:47:41,956

It was kind of sweet.

: 1124

00:47:42,356 --> 00:47:45,446

I'm pretty sure, I think RuPaul was

the captain of one of the teams.

: 1125

00:47:45,816 --> 00:47:47,556

-: 2026

I watch a lot of compilations of things.

: 1126

00:47:47,556 --> 00:47:49,416

I watch a lot of YouTube on my tv.

: 1127

00:47:49,906 --> 00:47:55,773

And I am appreciative of news bloopers,

compilations in particular, and

: 1128

00:47:55,773 --> 00:47:58,773

sometimes the Steve Harvey compilations

come with those, like, if you like

: 1129

00:47:58,773 --> 00:48:00,063

this, well then you'll like that.

: 1130

00:48:00,483 --> 00:48:02,283

And so I've seen quite a few of those.

: 1131

00:48:02,283 --> 00:48:05,853

I don't actually watch Family Feud, but

I see a lot of those compilations, and

: 1132

00:48:05,853 --> 00:48:09,453

I think I've seen RuPaul on there, but

I haven't seen that whole episode, so,

: 1133

00:48:09,853 --> 00:48:10,843

-: 2026

Yeah, I haven't seen it either.

: 1134

00:48:10,843 --> 00:48:14,053

I'm pretty sure I saw a comp, a

compilation on TikTok or something,

: 1135

00:48:14,453 --> 00:48:18,023

but it's so true, like the point

about how we really whitewash

: 1136

00:48:18,113 --> 00:48:20,523

Appalachia, even those of us from

: 1137

00:48:20,753 --> 00:48:21,043

-: 2026

yeah.

: 1138

00:48:21,123 --> 00:48:24,133

-: 2026

I don't, I'm not sure how that happens.

: 1139

00:48:24,133 --> 00:48:27,883

Are we influenced by majority

culture's view of us?

: 1140

00:48:27,883 --> 00:48:31,153

Because I remember distinctly all

the people of color I grew up with,

: 1141

00:48:31,433 --> 00:48:31,783

-: 2026

Right.

: 1142

00:48:32,183 --> 00:48:34,669

-: 2026

when I put pressure on it, when I look

: 1143

00:48:34,669 --> 00:48:39,539

closely at it, I can see it I can, I see

like how the ways that they were kind of

: 1144

00:48:39,539 --> 00:48:41,429

different but also not different from us.

: 1145

00:48:41,829 --> 00:48:45,189

And those ways are

surprising because it's not.

: 1146

00:48:45,589 --> 00:48:49,909

It's not as simple as like they were

called a different kind of names

: 1147

00:48:49,909 --> 00:48:56,049

because I don't know, they were kind

of, uh, exotic I think to people.

: 1148

00:48:56,239 --> 00:48:58,139

Maybe, the word for that?

: 1149

00:48:58,139 --> 00:49:03,879

There's a word for how majority culture,

fetish sizes minoritized people.

: 1150

00:49:04,279 --> 00:49:04,609

I don't know.

: 1151

00:49:04,609 --> 00:49:08,069

It's a kind of Orientalism, but the thing

is like they weren't different than us

: 1152

00:49:08,069 --> 00:49:09,569

because they literally grew up there too.

: 1153

00:49:09,969 --> 00:49:10,359

-: 2026

Right.

: 1154

00:49:10,759 --> 00:49:14,449

And like my goddaughters, they were

mixed race, you know, and we don't think

: 1155

00:49:14,449 --> 00:49:17,869

of we just don't think of people from

West Virginia and the Appalachian region

: 1156

00:49:17,869 --> 00:49:19,909

as being a person of color whatsoever.

: 1157

00:49:20,390 --> 00:49:20,720

Um,

: 1158

00:49:21,095 --> 00:49:22,115

-: 2026

Have black cousins

: 1159

00:49:22,385 --> 00:49:22,675

-: 2026

yeah.

: 1160

00:49:24,357 --> 00:49:24,647

Yeah.

: 1161

00:49:25,047 --> 00:49:26,935

-: 2026

I kind of forget about 'em.

: 1162

00:49:27,335 --> 00:49:28,655

-: 2026

And I think you'll find that all through

: 1163

00:49:28,655 --> 00:49:32,375

the Appalachian region that, you know,

and that a lot of people do that.

: 1164

00:49:32,425 --> 00:49:32,845

I don't know.

: 1165

00:49:32,845 --> 00:49:35,395

I think you hit it right on the nail

when whatever that word you're trying

: 1166

00:49:35,395 --> 00:49:38,185

to come up with, or if there isn't a

word for it, you should invent one.

: 1167

00:49:38,585 --> 00:49:40,550

The Orientalism of Appalachia.

: 1168

00:49:40,950 --> 00:49:41,240

-: 2026

: 1169

00:49:46,641 --> 00:49:51,466

I, you know, when I wrote my

prelims there, uh, I did that.

: 1170

00:49:51,556 --> 00:49:54,826

I applied it was a

post-colonial framework.

: 1171

00:49:54,896 --> 00:49:57,166

I used Saeed and Spivak.

: 1172

00:49:57,606 --> 00:50:00,336

To write about Appalachia,

to write about white trash.

: 1173

00:50:00,426 --> 00:50:05,276

This was before Nancy Eisenberg's

book came out, so I didn't, I looked

: 1174

00:50:05,276 --> 00:50:08,306

and couldn't find any references

that had done that specifically,

: 1175

00:50:08,306 --> 00:50:09,476

and that's not really what she did.

: 1176

00:50:09,476 --> 00:50:11,036

She was a, his, she's a historian.

: 1177

00:50:11,436 --> 00:50:15,456

but the person who was the chair

of a CS at the time, you know

: 1178

00:50:15,456 --> 00:50:17,826

how they also have a grade on it?

: 1179

00:50:17,826 --> 00:50:18,816

He was angry.

: 1180

00:50:19,216 --> 00:50:20,506

He, that I had done that.

: 1181

00:50:20,506 --> 00:50:23,956

He sort of, he accused

me of racism basically,

: 1182

00:50:23,966 --> 00:50:24,426

-: 2026

Oh wow.

: 1183

00:50:24,856 --> 00:50:27,886

-: 2026

he said, uh, it's racist to do a

: 1184

00:50:27,886 --> 00:50:30,811

post-colonial reading of, you know what?

: 1185

00:50:30,891 --> 00:50:33,146

I, he didn't actually know what to say.

: 1186

00:50:33,476 --> 00:50:35,696

he didn't say white people,

but that was what he meant.

: 1187

00:50:35,966 --> 00:50:38,396

He was, he just said,

this is inappropriate.

: 1188

00:50:38,796 --> 00:50:40,546

And I was like, prove me wrong.

: 1189

00:50:40,946 --> 00:50:41,366

-: 2026

Right.

: 1190

00:50:41,766 --> 00:50:42,906

-: 2026

And then eventually he

: 1191

00:50:42,906 --> 00:50:44,436

finally just, he said like, I.

: 1192

00:50:44,748 --> 00:50:46,338

I, I hate that it works.

: 1193

00:50:46,788 --> 00:50:48,738

And I was like, well,

that's a you problem.

: 1194

00:50:49,138 --> 00:50:50,458

But they still passed me.

: 1195

00:50:50,623 --> 00:50:50,983

-: 2026

Yeah.

: 1196

00:50:51,118 --> 00:50:52,798

-: 2026

that was the year that they got rid

: 1197

00:50:52,798 --> 00:50:54,508

of the passing with distinction thing.

: 1198

00:50:54,908 --> 00:50:55,418

-: 2026

Oh, wow.

: 1199

00:50:55,818 --> 00:50:56,208

-: 2026

: 1200

00:50:56,268 --> 00:50:57,828

Our cohort was not good.

: 1201

00:50:58,228 --> 00:50:58,528

-: 2026

Yeah.

: 1202

00:50:58,528 --> 00:50:59,758

Mine didn't do great either.

: 1203

00:51:00,158 --> 00:51:02,588

-: 2026

to be me and they didn't want to, so they

: 1204

00:51:02,588 --> 00:51:05,211

just got rid of it like the year before.

: 1205

00:51:05,211 --> 00:51:06,051

They still did it.

: 1206

00:51:06,051 --> 00:51:06,711

They stopped it.

: 1207

00:51:06,711 --> 00:51:07,311

Our year.

: 1208

00:51:07,711 --> 00:51:07,951

-: 2026

Yeah.

: 1209

00:51:07,966 --> 00:51:09,556

-: 2026

claiming total credit, although

: 1210

00:51:09,556 --> 00:51:11,266

it was likely me that broke it.

: 1211

00:51:12,416 --> 00:51:13,196

-: 2026

Way to go, pal.

: 1212

00:51:13,596 --> 00:51:14,926

-: 2026

Yeah, it's fucked up.

: 1213

00:51:14,926 --> 00:51:15,436

It's made up.

: 1214

00:51:15,436 --> 00:51:15,886

Anyway.

: 1215

00:51:16,321 --> 00:51:16,711

-: 2026

Yeah,

: 1216

00:51:17,111 --> 00:51:20,291

-: 2026

you want to do Kinky Boots for next week?

: 1217

00:51:20,691 --> 00:51:20,981

-: 2026

sure.

: 1218

00:51:21,051 --> 00:51:22,341

That sounds like a good plan.

: 1219

00:51:22,741 --> 00:51:23,881

-: 2026

It'll be fun, and I don't think

: 1220

00:51:23,881 --> 00:51:24,931

it's a terribly long movie.

: 1221

00:51:25,231 --> 00:51:28,801

So, listeners, we, I looked

into it and we found this movie.

: 1222

00:51:28,981 --> 00:51:30,781

You can, there's a couple ways

you can watch it for free.

: 1223

00:51:30,781 --> 00:51:34,171

One is the usual, like watch

it on plu, on Pluto with ads.

: 1224

00:51:34,171 --> 00:51:38,351

But another this is our chance to re

uh, revisit how much we love Public

: 1225

00:51:38,351 --> 00:51:41,061

libraries is an app called Hoopla.

: 1226

00:51:41,121 --> 00:51:42,321

You have this right?

: 1227

00:51:42,721 --> 00:51:43,701

-: 2026

you can get it on your tv.

: 1228

00:51:44,101 --> 00:51:44,521

-: 2026

: 1229

00:51:44,581 --> 00:51:48,001

It is just like Pluto

or Netflix or whatever.

: 1230

00:51:48,001 --> 00:51:53,281

If you have a smart tv, a Roku or

probably Firestick or whatever third

: 1231

00:51:53,281 --> 00:51:58,541

party, you know, TV itself ha almost

certainly has an app for hoopla.

: 1232

00:51:58,931 --> 00:52:04,501

And if you don't know, this is a

service that you sign up to watch titles

: 1233

00:52:04,501 --> 00:52:06,691

available through your public library.

: 1234

00:52:06,691 --> 00:52:09,181

I don't think it's any, I think it has

to be available through your public

: 1235

00:52:09,196 --> 00:52:09,486

-: 2026

Yeah.

: 1236

00:52:09,491 --> 00:52:09,661

Yeah.

: 1237

00:52:09,691 --> 00:52:10,021

-: 2026

: 1238

00:52:10,421 --> 00:52:11,231

-: 2026

They pay a fee.

: 1239

00:52:11,631 --> 00:52:12,021

-: 2026

: 1240

00:52:12,255 --> 00:52:14,985

it is like that's an option on hoopla.

: 1241

00:52:14,985 --> 00:52:18,695

I don't know if it means that your

specific library has to have selected

: 1242

00:52:18,695 --> 00:52:23,535

it, you might be able to contact

them and ask them to, I don't know.

: 1243

00:52:23,935 --> 00:52:26,635

There's a university version

called Canopy that works that way.

: 1244

00:52:26,635 --> 00:52:26,875

If it's

: 1245

00:52:27,025 --> 00:52:27,385

-: 2026

Yeah.

: 1246

00:52:27,385 --> 00:52:28,345

-: 2026

you just contact them.

: 1247

00:52:28,465 --> 00:52:28,795

-: 2026

Yeah.

: 1248

00:52:29,195 --> 00:52:30,425

-: 2026

you wanna watch along with us, if

: 1249

00:52:30,425 --> 00:52:35,485

you haven't seen Kinky Boots either

log into or create a Hoopla account.

: 1250

00:52:35,485 --> 00:52:38,405

And if you don't have a library

card, go get one and then

: 1251

00:52:38,405 --> 00:52:39,845

ask the librarians about it.

: 1252

00:52:40,086 --> 00:52:40,296

-: 2026

Yeah.

: 1253

00:52:40,296 --> 00:52:44,946

Another thing I did on the Hoopla app, you

can get a free pass to the great courses.

: 1254

00:52:44,946 --> 00:52:46,356

Do you know the great courses?

: 1255

00:52:46,756 --> 00:52:47,046

-: 2026

: 1256

00:52:47,186 --> 00:52:47,486

-: 2026

Yeah.

: 1257

00:52:47,486 --> 00:52:48,386

I love watching those.

: 1258

00:52:48,386 --> 00:52:51,206

Sometimes they have some really

interesting different topics on there

: 1259

00:52:51,486 --> 00:52:54,186

but you can get a free pass to them

and you don't have to pay for anything.

: 1260

00:52:54,246 --> 00:52:55,986

So I'm a big fan of it.

: 1261

00:52:56,226 --> 00:52:57,036

I love hoopla.

: 1262

00:52:57,171 --> 00:52:57,231

-: 2026

: 1263

00:52:57,231 --> 00:52:57,261

I.

: 1264

00:52:57,546 --> 00:52:58,566

-: 2026

I'm always either listening to an

: 1265

00:52:58,566 --> 00:53:00,236

audio book or something on there.

: 1266

00:53:00,636 --> 00:53:01,416

-: 2026

: 1267

00:53:01,466 --> 00:53:06,276

I didn't know that there was a, a video

VI should have assumed, but when I was

: 1268

00:53:06,276 --> 00:53:08,946

looking, I found that there's a TV app.

: 1269

00:53:09,006 --> 00:53:09,546

I was like, fuck.

: 1270

00:53:09,561 --> 00:53:09,891

-: 2026

Yeah.

: 1271

00:53:10,056 --> 00:53:10,446

-: 2026

: 1272

00:53:10,846 --> 00:53:12,226

-: 2026

Canopy got me this week though.

: 1273

00:53:12,256 --> 00:53:15,521

The movie that I showed in class that

white, this, like white like me has

: 1274

00:53:15,521 --> 00:53:18,971

been on Canopy for years and then

out of nowhere this week it was not.

: 1275

00:53:19,301 --> 00:53:21,251

So I had to scramble to find it elsewhere.

: 1276

00:53:21,651 --> 00:53:22,041

So,

: 1277

00:53:22,326 --> 00:53:23,556

Yeah, that's what I thought too.

: 1278

00:53:23,956 --> 00:53:25,966

It had been a steady

source literally for years.

: 1279

00:53:26,366 --> 00:53:28,466

-: 2026

around and I wish they wouldn't, but,

: 1280

00:53:28,466 --> 00:53:30,386

you know, I also know why they do.

: 1281

00:53:30,786 --> 00:53:35,986

One time I was trying to teach, I was

streaming something via Zoom and it

: 1282

00:53:35,986 --> 00:53:40,426

had moved platforms and you know how it

has that, uh, digital asset management

: 1283

00:53:40,696 --> 00:53:42,046

thing that'll make it go blank if you

: 1284

00:53:42,196 --> 00:53:42,496

-: 2026

Right.

: 1285

00:53:42,616 --> 00:53:42,856

-: 2026

: 1286

00:53:43,256 --> 00:53:45,236

I was like, I guess class is canceled.

: 1287

00:53:45,656 --> 00:53:46,106

Fuck.

: 1288

00:53:46,506 --> 00:53:49,950

I promise I own this, but

it doesn't matter, you know?

: 1289

00:53:49,995 --> 00:53:50,265

-: 2026

Yeah.

: 1290

00:53:50,460 --> 00:53:51,990

-: 2026

doesn't give you streaming rights.

: 1291

00:53:52,125 --> 00:53:53,565

-: 2026

I learned that during the pandemic.

: 1292

00:53:53,565 --> 00:53:56,775

I, because I always play music

videos before class, like

: 1293

00:53:56,775 --> 00:53:58,335

something thematic to the day.

: 1294

00:53:58,635 --> 00:54:02,635

And we were talking about I think we were

talking about race that day in my women's

: 1295

00:54:02,635 --> 00:54:05,781

studies class, and I showed childish

Gambinos, Gambinos, this is America.

: 1296

00:54:05,781 --> 00:54:08,361

And they could see the video,

but they couldn't hear it, so

: 1297

00:54:08,361 --> 00:54:09,381

they turned the volume of it off.

: 1298

00:54:10,535 --> 00:54:10,565

-: 2026

: 1299

00:54:10,691 --> 00:54:14,891

There's a bot in Discord that'll let

us watch YouTube videos which is cool.

: 1300

00:54:15,291 --> 00:54:19,291

But there's a lot of things I intended

to do and I just never got around to.

: 1301

00:54:19,291 --> 00:54:20,401

'cause life keeps life

: 1302

00:54:20,401 --> 00:54:20,671

And.

: 1303

00:54:20,911 --> 00:54:21,901

-: 2026

yeah, like our website.

: 1304

00:54:21,901 --> 00:54:22,651

I feel that

: 1305

00:54:23,051 --> 00:54:25,421

-: 2026

we've got plans for this summer, y'all.

: 1306

00:54:25,671 --> 00:54:26,361

do y'all have pride up there?

: 1307

00:54:26,361 --> 00:54:27,711

You got pride at Toledo?

: 1308

00:54:27,756 --> 00:54:29,436

-: 2026

Yeah, but it's never very big and

: 1309

00:54:29,486 --> 00:54:32,486

I'm one of the people afraid to go

to those kinds of events these days.

: 1310

00:54:32,486 --> 00:54:35,456

Like I know you probably shouldn't be,

but there's too many crazy people with

: 1311

00:54:35,456 --> 00:54:38,286

guns in this world, and it just scares me.

: 1312

00:54:38,686 --> 00:54:39,166

-: 2026

: 1313

00:54:39,166 --> 00:54:41,766

I wouldn't, I don't think

I would go to the big ones.

: 1314

00:54:41,916 --> 00:54:44,526

Even like Kentucky,

Anna Pride is enormous.

: 1315

00:54:44,926 --> 00:54:46,246

-: 2026

Those are the only prides I've really been

: 1316

00:54:46,246 --> 00:54:48,846

to are Chicago and and that kind of thing.

: 1317

00:54:48,936 --> 00:54:50,056

So yeah.

: 1318

00:54:50,456 --> 00:54:50,696

-: 2026

: 1319

00:54:50,756 --> 00:54:50,966

Yeah.

: 1320

00:54:50,966 --> 00:54:52,076

Find you a small town.

: 1321

00:54:52,076 --> 00:54:52,856

Pride there.

: 1322

00:54:53,256 --> 00:54:54,666

-: 2026

I've been to Charleston, West Virginia.

: 1323

00:54:55,066 --> 00:54:56,146

-: 2026

that one that sounds like it

: 1324

00:54:56,146 --> 00:54:57,166

was probably big, wasn't it?

: 1325

00:54:57,466 --> 00:54:59,296

-: 2026

No, Charleston is a tiny little town.

: 1326

00:54:59,696 --> 00:55:01,406

-: 2026

yeah, I've been to Charleston,

: 1327

00:55:01,406 --> 00:55:02,516

but not to their pride.

: 1328

00:55:02,546 --> 00:55:02,906

-: 2026

Yeah.

: 1329

00:55:03,306 --> 00:55:06,246

-: 2026

Kentucky, their pride is in September.

: 1330

00:55:06,276 --> 00:55:08,226

They, I don't know, they

always have it in September.

: 1331

00:55:08,626 --> 00:55:13,376

maybe 'cause the college kids are back,

but there's, they're on their seventh year

: 1332

00:55:13,376 --> 00:55:15,126

this year and they've grown quite a lot.

: 1333

00:55:15,126 --> 00:55:18,816

So the small town prides, they don't

stay small, but they're probably not

: 1334

00:55:18,816 --> 00:55:20,736

ever gonna be like the Chicagos or

: 1335

00:55:20,766 --> 00:55:21,216

-: 2026

Right.

: 1336

00:55:21,616 --> 00:55:22,636

-: 2026

San Francisco's.

: 1337

00:55:22,636 --> 00:55:23,716

-: 2026

to be at Chicago the year

: 1338

00:55:23,716 --> 00:55:25,546

that Obergefell passed.

: 1339

00:55:25,856 --> 00:55:27,116

It was like three weeks after.

: 1340

00:55:27,116 --> 00:55:28,736

And the mood was just amazing.

: 1341

00:55:28,736 --> 00:55:29,636

It was really cool.

: 1342

00:55:29,966 --> 00:55:29,996

-: 2026

: 1343

00:55:30,161 --> 00:55:31,391

-: 2026

Yeah, it was great.

: 1344

00:55:31,791 --> 00:55:35,701

-: 2026

time I read that our, this current court,

: 1345

00:55:35,701 --> 00:55:43,571

the Trump Stacked Court, uh, has declined

pretty much all civil rights cases

: 1346

00:55:43,706 --> 00:55:44,036

-: 2026

Yeah.

: 1347

00:55:44,051 --> 00:55:45,861

-: 2026

and minorities, and the ones they

: 1348

00:55:45,936 --> 00:55:49,236

have accepted have been cis white

men complaining about things

: 1349

00:55:49,356 --> 00:55:51,586

-: 2026

Yeah, I read a story yesterday about how

: 1350

00:55:51,586 --> 00:55:56,686

the US led in like 4,500 refugees last

year, and all the three were from South

: 1351

00:55:56,686 --> 00:55:58,906

Africa, white people from South Africa.

: 1352

00:55:59,306 --> 00:56:00,266

-: 2026

: 1353

00:56:00,336 --> 00:56:01,326

-: 2026

I do too.

: 1354

00:56:01,726 --> 00:56:04,776

-: 2026

where could we make our Queernecks haven?

: 1355

00:56:05,176 --> 00:56:07,216

-: 2026

Well, Canada's the easy answer, but

: 1356

00:56:07,616 --> 00:56:08,996

I don't see why they would want me.

: 1357

00:56:09,396 --> 00:56:09,876

-: 2026

: 1358

00:56:09,906 --> 00:56:10,356

Yeah.

: 1359

00:56:10,756 --> 00:56:13,136

the trick is like whole immigration thing.

: 1360

00:56:13,141 --> 00:56:13,261

-: 2026

I,

: 1361

00:56:13,316 --> 00:56:15,116

-: 2026

many places that just say, Hey.

: 1362

00:56:15,116 --> 00:56:16,046

Yeah, come on everybody.

: 1363

00:56:16,446 --> 00:56:17,556

-: 2026

oh, I found out that I get to keep

: 1364

00:56:17,556 --> 00:56:21,596

my job next year for certain, and

I gotta sign my contract, so yes.

: 1365

00:56:21,631 --> 00:56:22,431

-: 2026

a three year contract.

: 1366

00:56:22,831 --> 00:56:23,851

-: 2026

No, just a one year.

: 1367

00:56:23,971 --> 00:56:27,701

But if they offer you, if I, if they

would offer me a fourth year, they would

: 1368

00:56:27,701 --> 00:56:29,321

have to make it a three year contract.

: 1369

00:56:29,721 --> 00:56:30,171

So

: 1370

00:56:30,201 --> 00:56:31,671

-: 2026

thought that we were up to four.

: 1371

00:56:31,761 --> 00:56:32,391

-: 2026

this is my third,

: 1372

00:56:32,451 --> 00:56:33,501

that'll be my third year.

: 1373

00:56:33,901 --> 00:56:34,411

-: 2026

: 1374

00:56:34,651 --> 00:56:35,011

All right.

: 1375

00:56:35,071 --> 00:56:36,821

Well, hell yeah.

: 1376

00:56:36,881 --> 00:56:40,871

One more year of molding young

minds and paying for rent.

: 1377

00:56:40,991 --> 00:56:41,561

-: 2026

Yes.

: 1378

00:56:41,591 --> 00:56:42,251

Wonderful.

: 1379

00:56:42,651 --> 00:56:44,631

I don't know what the hell

I'm gonna do after this, but

: 1380

00:56:45,078 --> 00:56:48,588

if you've got any job leads out

there, uh, listeners, you let me know.

: 1381

00:56:48,988 --> 00:56:49,378

-: 2026

: 1382

00:56:49,378 --> 00:56:54,808

We're both desperate for either to make

money with this podcast or to get jobs.

: 1383

00:56:55,208 --> 00:56:59,438

I'll be podcasting from a hot,

a hotspot from my truck soon.

: 1384

00:56:59,838 --> 00:57:00,438

That's not true.

: 1385

00:57:00,438 --> 00:57:01,428

I'm not homeless yet.

: 1386

00:57:01,768 --> 00:57:05,278

And I have family support and

some friends who are gonna stop me

: 1387

00:57:05,278 --> 00:57:07,118

from being from starving to death.

: 1388

00:57:07,118 --> 00:57:07,448

So

: 1389

00:57:07,848 --> 00:57:09,108

-: 2026

I'll keep you in coconut balls.

: 1390

00:57:09,328 --> 00:57:11,218

-: 2026

all those fucking things already.

: 1391

00:57:12,095 --> 00:57:13,325

-: 2026

They're addictive.

: 1392

00:57:13,725 --> 00:57:14,535

-: 2026

: 1393

00:57:14,540 --> 00:57:16,035

I, I mean, it was so good.

: 1394

00:57:16,035 --> 00:57:19,875

They were delicious and they're so light

and fluffy that they don't even make you

: 1395

00:57:19,875 --> 00:57:21,285

feel sick if you eat too many of them.

: 1396

00:57:21,285 --> 00:57:21,825

And so I was just like,

: 1397

00:57:22,225 --> 00:57:23,425

-: 2026

I'm so glad you enjoyed them.

: 1398

00:57:23,825 --> 00:57:24,515

-: 2026

they were so good.

: 1399

00:57:24,975 --> 00:57:27,525

But between that and I

started my meth back.

: 1400

00:57:27,525 --> 00:57:28,815

I'm back on Adderall.

: 1401

00:57:29,085 --> 00:57:30,885

I'm bouncing off the walls today, so

: 1402

00:57:30,945 --> 00:57:31,335

-: 2026

Yeah.

: 1403

00:57:31,545 --> 00:57:32,535

-: 2026

a real long walk.

: 1404

00:57:32,895 --> 00:57:34,485

-: 2026

Listeners, if you don't know, we,

: 1405

00:57:34,485 --> 00:57:37,121

uh, I, I I sent dash some raffaello.

: 1406

00:57:37,361 --> 00:57:40,355

They're the coconut version

of Ferre Rochet Balls.

: 1407

00:57:40,595 --> 00:57:42,365

They are freaking delicious.

: 1408

00:57:42,365 --> 00:57:43,625

They're coconut and almond.

: 1409

00:57:43,955 --> 00:57:45,455

They are five stars.

: 1410

00:57:45,605 --> 00:57:46,295

Totally worth it.

: 1411

00:57:46,340 --> 00:57:46,400

-: 2026

: 1412

00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:50,900

have this like whipped white chocolate

mousse on the inside around the nut.

: 1413

00:57:50,930 --> 00:57:51,080

Ugh.

: 1414

00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:52,100

So good.

: 1415

00:57:52,235 --> 00:57:53,895

-: 2026

Yeah, they're delicious.

: 1416

00:57:54,090 --> 00:57:55,655

-: 2026

the whole box in like two days.

: 1417

00:57:56,401 --> 00:57:58,021

-: 2026

When I was teaching American Cultural

: 1418

00:57:58,021 --> 00:58:02,491

Studies at BGSU one of the assignments

that I would give my students was a

: 1419

00:58:02,491 --> 00:58:07,141

cultural, it was a culinary tourism

assignment where they had to go try a

: 1420

00:58:07,141 --> 00:58:09,151

food that they had never tried before.

: 1421

00:58:09,151 --> 00:58:12,181

That from a non-American culture,

I was like, I don't care if

: 1422

00:58:12,211 --> 00:58:13,591

that means you go try churros.

: 1423

00:58:13,591 --> 00:58:17,161

You know, if you've never tried churros

before, go try something different.

: 1424

00:58:17,491 --> 00:58:18,421

Wait, what was my point?

: 1425

00:58:18,821 --> 00:58:19,901

What were we just talking about?

: 1426

00:58:20,381 --> 00:58:20,681

-: 2026

: 1427

00:58:21,705 --> 00:58:22,575

-: 2026

Raffaello.

: 1428

00:58:22,975 --> 00:58:26,935

Oh, and I recommended to the students

that they try like the, either South

: 1429

00:58:26,935 --> 00:58:29,095

side six or the kebo that's in town.

: 1430

00:58:29,485 --> 00:58:32,095

And one of the students wrote,

they said, what I learned from

: 1431

00:58:32,095 --> 00:58:35,635

this project is if tells you to

go somewhere to eat, you go there.

: 1432

00:58:37,628 --> 00:58:40,118

So if I tell you she should

eat something, you should eat

: 1433

00:58:40,118 --> 00:58:41,438

it 'cause it's damn delicious.

: 1434

00:58:41,838 --> 00:58:42,648

-: 2026

: 1435

00:58:43,048 --> 00:58:43,288

Yeah.

: 1436

00:58:43,288 --> 00:58:46,798

I went to, uh, I stopped by a Mexican

place in Fargo after I, it took

: 1437

00:58:46,798 --> 00:58:48,388

me seven hours to buy this truck.

: 1438

00:58:48,418 --> 00:58:51,928

That's what it takes to get a deal,

you guys, three weeks of prep and

: 1439

00:58:51,928 --> 00:58:55,498

sociopathy, and then seven hours

of hanging out at a dealership.

: 1440

00:58:55,898 --> 00:58:59,655

So I, I got my great deal on a

truck and then it was like 10

: 1441

00:58:59,655 --> 00:59:01,035

o'clock at night and I was starving.

: 1442

00:59:01,035 --> 00:59:03,825

And so the only thing open was

this Mexican restaurant in Fargo,

: 1443

00:59:04,305 --> 00:59:05,400

that plate of food I sent you.

: 1444

00:59:06,043 --> 00:59:08,803

Was, I swear it was one of,

it wasn't even a normal plate.

: 1445

00:59:08,803 --> 00:59:10,423

It was one of the, you know, the football

: 1446

00:59:10,678 --> 00:59:10,968

-: 2026

Yeah,

: 1447

00:59:11,053 --> 00:59:12,163

-: 2026

the, uh, oval ones.

: 1448

00:59:12,563 --> 00:59:13,463

Those aren't plates.

: 1449

00:59:13,523 --> 00:59:16,553

Nobody tell the Mexican restaurants

this, but those are not plates

: 1450

00:59:18,173 --> 00:59:19,013

-: 2026

those are platters.

: 1451

00:59:19,413 --> 00:59:21,783

-: 2026

they're platters, but they piled

: 1452

00:59:21,783 --> 00:59:26,643

high with carnitas and like, uh,

all these like sauteed vegetables

: 1453

00:59:26,683 --> 00:59:32,893

and pico de Gao, guacamole, uh,

rice, the beans, all the good shit.

: 1454

00:59:33,193 --> 00:59:35,503

A bunch of toasted what are they called?

: 1455

00:59:35,903 --> 00:59:36,593

Tortillas.

: 1456

00:59:36,993 --> 00:59:39,093

He comes out with this plate and I

was like, it's 10 o'clock at night.

: 1457

00:59:39,213 --> 00:59:40,773

I can't do this.

: 1458

00:59:40,863 --> 00:59:42,513

I thought I was ordering something normal.

: 1459

00:59:43,270 --> 00:59:44,920

I was like, oh no.

: 1460

00:59:44,950 --> 00:59:47,260

'cause I had just eaten a bunch

of junk food and popcorn that day,

: 1461

00:59:47,260 --> 00:59:48,460

so I already didn't feel great.

: 1462

00:59:48,460 --> 00:59:50,540

I it was, I was not expecting that.

: 1463

00:59:50,540 --> 00:59:52,190

I still have leftovers.

: 1464

00:59:52,205 --> 00:59:52,775

-: 2026

Wow.

: 1465

00:59:53,246 --> 00:59:56,636

we went out and we got card asada tacos

the other night, and they were so good.

: 1466

00:59:57,036 --> 00:59:57,786

They're my favorite.

: 1467

00:59:58,186 --> 00:59:59,086

They're my absolute favorite.

: 1468

00:59:59,486 --> 01:00:01,221

I want tacos now, to be honest with you.

: 1469

01:00:01,621 --> 01:00:02,701

-: 2026

that sounds good.

: 1470

01:00:03,101 --> 01:00:05,321

That's prob I'm probably

gonna heat up some leftovers.

: 1471

01:00:05,531 --> 01:00:05,891

-: 2026

Yeah,

: 1472

01:00:05,891 --> 01:00:06,431

-: 2026

: 1473

01:00:06,831 --> 01:00:08,661

Well, listeners, it's been real.

: 1474

01:00:08,661 --> 01:00:10,341

Thanks for hanging out with us again.

: 1475

01:00:10,741 --> 01:00:17,468

so next week we will be reviewing the

movie Boots with Joel Edgerton and Chi.

: 1476

01:00:17,678 --> 01:00:22,643

Tell Gio four sign up for Hoopla or

watch it on Pluto ahead of time and

: 1477

01:00:22,643 --> 01:00:24,503

get ready for us to laugh about it.

: 1478

01:00:24,903 --> 01:00:25,533

-: 2026

sounds good.

: 1479

01:00:25,933 --> 01:00:27,523

-: 2026

uh, we'll see you next time.

: 1480

01:00:27,523 --> 01:00:28,333

Say hi to your mom and

: 1481

01:00:28,633 --> 01:00:28,813

-: 2026

Bye.