Episode 36

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2nd Feb 2026

I Panicked And Ate All My Snacks

The Highlights: Melania's 7% Rotten Tomatoes score, queer soap opera dreams, The L Word retrospective, ICE resistance in Minneapolis, and why one-lane bridges are the ultimate test of Appalachian manners.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Welcome

to Queernecks, the podcast that puts

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the Yee Hall in y'all means hall.

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I'm your host, Beck,

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724:

and I'm your host.

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Dash.

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Welcome to today's episode.

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We're gonna get some

more snow this weekend.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

Shut your mouth

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724:

Starting tonight.

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Late tonight into tomorrow morning.

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I, I looked at the, the radar.

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It, it doesn't look to be a storm

or anything, but it's just one strip

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being across the whole country,

so I think it's, it's gonna cloud

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: up

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rain

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: all over you.

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Yeah.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: I, my

ex-girlfriend's grandma always said that.

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She's like, stop it.

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I'm gonna cloud up and rain all over you,

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: man.

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That makes me.

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Sometimes I'll, I'll, uh, like try to

remember like the, the weird sayings and

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things that I, I can feel it all going

away the longer I live away from home.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Yeah,

I bet you haven't said anything

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that didn't happen in a Koons age.

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In a Koons age.

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Have you?

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: No.

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Not in a while.

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Have you, are you gonna

watch the Millennia?

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Oh hell no.

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Documentary.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Not

even if I was paid, like not even,

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if I was getting paid to see it,

would I waste my precious time?

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I'd rather pick my nose

for an hour and a half.

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: It's,

it's got a 7% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Oh, wow.

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: That's the

lowest I think I might've ever heard of.

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Like I've heard of single digits

before, but it's very rare.

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And yeah, the, the reviews

are pretty hysterical.

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But Andy Barr.

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Fucking sell out.

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Right?

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Tea Party, you know, fucking Loser

has been posting on Facebook, uh,

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uh, like he's hosting a free showing

of, of Melania and, you know,

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trying to get people to sell it out.

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And it's like you're, you're begging

on Facebook to sell out a free showing.

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But he posted the pictures today of.

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He said, we pa packed the house and it

was clearly like some lecture classroom

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at a community college with, it was

like a, like a 20 seater, you know?

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And it looked like it,

it was all white people.

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They all looked, I, I said, whose

family reunion did you round up

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and drag to this community college?

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Somebody was like, this is embarrassing.

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You know what though?

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Maybe there's a future in which

we all come to know that film like

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the back of our hand, because some

brilliant drag queen puts together

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a high stupid camp, uh, beat for

beat routine based on it, right?

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Like the way that whole drag routines

have been made around great gardens.

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The way that drag like continues

to find and make art out of the

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weird things that, that people do.

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I have such mixed feelings about Melania.

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'cause on the one hand, Ew,

you know, and also what,

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: right?

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: But

I do have kind of like a game

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respect game kind of thing.

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Right?

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Because that's a hustler.

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Right?

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She hustled her way into the richest

country in the world using just.

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Her two sets of lips and like the visa

she's on like this, this is some like

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big brain type of fucking scheming,

and I kind of respect that, but also

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you just can't respect somebody who's,

I don't know how to put it right, like

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there's only, there's a level of selling

out that you just can't forgive, right?

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There's a, there's a line between

hustling, sucking up to fascism.

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And I don't know where it is, but I

could feel it somewhere around here.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

Yeah, she definitely crossed

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that line a long time ago.

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She's been sleeping with

the enemy for too long.

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Yeah.

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Oh, well, and she's kind of

indentured to him, right?

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Oh, no,

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724:

she can't leave him.

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I know nothing about where

she comes from, you know?

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Uh, I've probably have this like American,

you know, Western centric view of it as

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some like war torn Slavic region, but.

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But like she doesn't, clearly

doesn't wanna go back there.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

I wouldn't wanna go back to

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an eastern European country.

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I don't, I don't think that is, I

know a Western viewpoint, right?

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And then I'm sure that is, there

are lovely, lovely parts of it,

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Uh, I'm so tired of all these

technical errors or technical issues.

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I think, what are we talking about?

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Movies, queer movies.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: There was a

movie where she turns into a guide, just

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one of the guides or something like that.

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724:

Oh, I love that movie

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Yeah, I

watched that a lot when I was a kid.

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Like that was one of my favorites.

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And I think that's pretty telling.

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I, I had such a queer voice,

even when I was a little kid.

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but yeah, so we had access to

a lot of movies, so I've seen a

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lot of movies from the eighties.

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So mom, but mom would bring home things

like, I very specifically remember this

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movie called Humongous, and it was about

I think we've talked about it before.

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It was about some kind

of monster or something.

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And it was scary as hell.

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: from 1982.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Yeah, that

has, I mean, I was four in:

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that's, I mean, uh, probably six or

seven when they brought that movie home.

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I remember it very distinctly, being very

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Yeah.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: But I had

access to the TV anytime I wanted.

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I had to fight my brother for it,

you know, I was third on the totem

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pole when it came to, I was last

man on the totem pole when it got

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to choosing what we got to watch.

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But I still got some of my care

bears and my little pony and I love

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strawberry shortcake especially,

and cartoons and stuff like that.

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: We watched

a lot of, as soon as we got the chance,

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like, when, you know, we started to be

left alone more and we even got a TV in

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our bedroom we would watch USA up all

night, which if y'all don't know about

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that, it was really like the worst movies

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and they would be like, this

host, I don't, what was her name?

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Rhonda Sheer.

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And she like would wear like

lingerie literally, and have

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her, like, her hair was enormous.

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And she would usually have like

her cleavage out and she would

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introduce these, and this, this

was like a, a genre of thing.

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Where Spin GLI is a good op

example, Elvira did this.

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You have a character, you create

a character, and then you host a,

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a show where you play whatever.

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Movie you that's in the public

domain, you know that you can fit

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into whatever your, your niche is.

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And there were plenty of versions of that.

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Mystery Science Theater.

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3000 took that idea and kind of did

something a little different with it.

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But I, the big one at the time

was on the USA network and it was

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USA up all night and absolutely

schlocky, you know, B minus movies.

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And so I went from like not knowing

anything about pop culture to

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only knowing deep, deep niche

cut trash popular culture.

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That's still kind of what I

know about popular culture.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Fair enough.

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Fair enough.

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I remember the up all night commercials.

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I never really got into

those movies at all.

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I've always been kind of

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boring when it comes to my media.

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Well, people,

people can be kind of judgy about the

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stuff you like to watch, but honestly,

to me, anybody that can follow and keep

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up with like the long storylines of the

soaps and stuff, that's impressive to me.

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'cause I can't tell those people apart.

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I remember I always saw them, they were

always playing whenever we were in the

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the beauty parlor to get our hair cut.

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That's what was on the tv.

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And it'd be, there'd be stories on the

TV and then country music on the radio.

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And somehow it worked like neither.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: So you don't

remember like the, you don't remember the

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nineties on, on Days of Our Lives when

Marlena became possessed by the devil and

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when she was floating and green eyes and,

and all that kind of stuff, or the show.

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Oh, what was the, the show that

came on after that where they

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were wizards and stuff like that?

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Uh, oh hell, it's

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Was it the

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: of

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: shadows?

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: No,

NBC soap about little people.

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Passions.

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Passions is what it was called.

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And they

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: No, I don't.

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What?

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: they

had dolls that came alive and

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they were like little people.

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And there were wizards and spells

and all kinds of crazy stuff

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that happened on that show.

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It brought it right

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up though.

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: is passions?

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Can we watch it somewhere?

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: I'm sure

you can, I'm sure it's on YouTube.

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Yeah.

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True.

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Yeah.

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I definitely see, oh man, these,

these, uh, images are pretty great.

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I, I don't really remember.

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Like, I remember noticing things like

their performances, like the, the way the

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actors behaved, the way the camera behaved

versus the other kind, the TV I was used

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to seeing, or like movies and that kinda

stuff, like paying attention to its form.

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But I never really gave a thought

to what they were talking about.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Right.

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724:

remember a lot of slapping, you

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know, people got slapped a lot.

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I, I remember pay like the music cues.

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I also didn't always understand

what was being said on television.

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Especially in, in that

kind of format, but.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

There were other ones.

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There was a, a big soap called

Santa Barbara that went off

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the air in the late eighties.

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That was one of my favorites.

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My mom actually let us stay home from

school to watch the finale of that.

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there was another one called Another

World, which was really good.

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Uh, we watched the NBC soaps.

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I've never watched, like General Hospital

or was General Hospital is what it was.

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They, there weren't days of our lives.

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I said that wrong.

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What are you watching?

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: I, I

was trying to Google queer soap

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opera, but I hit return to early and

AI is describing queer soap to me.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: That

would be soap on a rope, right?

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724:

Listen, handmade, often, vegan

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palm oil free.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: We

gaze are sensitive to the palm oil.

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Did you know we have dainty skin?

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Right.

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It's urethra safe.

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I made that part up.

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Mountains of Pride Soap.

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This one's real.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

I guess we're dirty.

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: True colors.

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Pittsburgh hand made vegans.

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Oh, what a delight.

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These products go beyond

cleansing again, how

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

That sounds kinky to me.

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: it does, I

don't know if I, I don't need this much

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bang for my buck when it comes to soap.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

you gotta be, you gotta be

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careful with a hoo-ha and soap.

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Like it can cause like

lots of damage if you

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724:

Oh, this link looks very

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queer soap opera.

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No, it was storylines, but there's no

like straight up queer soap operas.

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Interesting.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: was a show

called Station 19 that was very gay and

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it was a serial, it was really good.

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It was very gay.

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Oh goodness.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

Gay firefighters.

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Yeah, I see that it's for:

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Yeah,

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Okay.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

a few years ago.

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Is

this is some, uh, it's some trashy

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shit on some network TV these days.

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I'm thinking of watching

starting that show ponies.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: To it

quite a few times here recently.

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I don't even, but I don't

even know where it's at, like

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724:

it's on Peacock.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

I, I have that.

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Yeah.

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Peacock.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Yeah.

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: I know that

there's no, ethical consumption under

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capitalism, for lack of a better way to

put it in terms of media, but like, I'm

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trying not to support Paramount right now.

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Which is really hard because I want to

watch the new Star Trek so fucking bad.

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Holly Hunter is the captain.

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I love Holly Hunter Ros in it.

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You know, maybe, maybe I'll, I'll find

a co maybe, maybe a copy will fall

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off the back of a truck or something.

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stuff and they have some pretty decent

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stuff like, you know, it's, it's

regular old tv, but it's fun shit like

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that Natasha Leone show poker face.

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what a cool premise for a show.

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And I love her.

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She is hysterical.

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Although I think she quit the

show and I heard, I heard tell

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that they were gonna replace her

with Peter Dinklage and that is.

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I'm sure he's great.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Natasha Leone.

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She has broken many a lesbian

heart to find out she is not queer.

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Right.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: my heart.

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Like she has played some

iconic queer characters.

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: You know?

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She, she is so, so queer, I

guess, without being queer.

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And I think she may be bi, I don't know.

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But that she's one of those that has

like a line in her Wikipedia that

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says, you know, she's heterosexual.

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Kinda like Melanie Linsky.

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Melanie Linsky is so goddamn

queer coded that her Wikipedia

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says she's heterosexual,

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which I love.

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You want like, you want to be so

much of an ally, so representative

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and so like, appreciative of and

endorsed by a marginalized community

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that, that somebody has to go outta

their way and say, actually no,

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they're not part of that community.

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But I like Peter Dinkle as well,

but I, I don't wanna watch him

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do the stuff I was appreciating

watching Natasha Leone, do you know?

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But anyway, this pony show has Amelia

Clark in it, and she's good and stuff,

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but this other person, there's one

person in it who's just Blisteringly Hot.

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They're a non-binary person named Vic.

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I, I was reading it earlier,

but I can't remember it now.

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Uh, my ca my callus, it's like

Michael and then is on it.

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So like, just really beautiful,

like smoking hot person and

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funny, they're a comedian too.

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And Hailey, Hailey Lou Richardson

is also very funny, but it's about,

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it's like a spy type thriller show.

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And poker face is similar, right?

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It's kind of like, it's sort of a

procedural, but also not because there's

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this kind of mythical quality to how

she solves the problems in a fun way.

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And I just like seeing women

have stories like that because

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it's always been dudes, right?

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It's always been some, some con artists

that lovable con artists like the

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psych dude or some like, uh, twitchy,

autistic white guy who solves problems.

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Or the, the slick criminal,

like the Hannibal and stuff.

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Love all those things.

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But like.

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Where are the women who get it,

who are, who are getting to solve

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impressive crimes and do fun things?

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

Excellent question.

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Excellent.

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listeners, let us know if you have

watched ponies or if you liked poker

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face in your sad, sad that Natasha

Leone is no longer gonna be in it.

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She said something about how she relapsed.

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So hoping she's taking care of herself.

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I'm sure she's not alone.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: I

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: I

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: re-watched,

but I'm a cheerleader like two weeks ago.

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I, it just breaks my heart

that she's not queer.

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I'm just gonna reiterate that her, when

her, her, her person in Orange is the new

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black, like she, that shower scene, like,

how could you do that and not be queer?

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she's a good actor.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: I get she's

a method actor from what I can see.

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724:

Always Nucle Duval was gay though.

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Yeah.

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My name is Graham and I like girls a lot.

338

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: The

student group shows, but I'm a

339

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cheerleader as one of their events.

340

:

Every year, semester.

341

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I don't know.

342

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They do it pretty regularly, which I love.

343

:

That wasn't even my idea.

344

:

They're, it was like whoever

introduced you to this.

345

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Very cool.

346

:

But I asked them if they had

seen Drop Dead gorgeous during

347

:

our, their meeting two weeks

ago, and they hadn't heard of it.

348

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And so I was like, okay, well I fully

support, you know, but I'm a cheerleader.

349

:

Not saying you should replace it, but

y'all should watch this too, because

350

:

a lot of queer culture, weirdly,

not weirdly, a lot of queer culture.

351

:

references this movie you'd be surprised.

352

:

But did you know that, that,

I think we talked about this

353

:

is based on a real thing.

354

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

Yeah, Serial mom.

355

:

Did you know Serial mom

is based on a true story?

356

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: I don't

know if I could, I I kind of do want

357

:

to, uh, recommend that they get into

the John Waters stuff, but I also

358

:

don't wanna be responsible for it.

359

:

That that was one of those that I

rented from Jellico video and like

360

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re I, but I realized luckily that I

should not watch it with mom and dad

361

:

around like, what was it, the first 15

minutes and he's in like the bedroom

362

:

watching the porno with Chesty Morgan.

363

:

It is gonna be so hard to

stitch this episode together.

364

:

the first, like 20, not 20 minutes,

but 10 minutes, uh, that we were

365

:

talking, this wasn't recording.

366

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Oh no.

367

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Yeah.

368

:

So I just, I panicked and smashed it.

369

:

We'll see where it starts.

370

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beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: That

reminds me one time I went to the

371

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library and I always took snacks with

me when I'd be there for a while.

372

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'cause I'm a fat kid.

373

:

Right.

374

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And one time I went there and I

panicked and I ate all my snacks.

375

:

And that's what I told Shanna.

376

:

And we have had that as an

ongoing joke for years now.

377

:

It's like I panicked

and ate all my snacks.

378

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: I saw

people posting that about the snowstorm.

379

:

They were like, it's,

it just started snowing.

380

:

I've already eaten all my snacks.

381

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: We're

you, you just told me I think

382

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that we're getting more snow

here in the next couple of weeks.

383

:

So

384

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Well,

we are, I don't know, maybe it'll

385

:

peter out before it gets to you.

386

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: though

I, I looked at the 15 day forecast

387

:

and not a single one above freezing,

388

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Mm-hmm.

389

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: but we

are five weeks from spring break.

390

:

So there's that.

391

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724:

God damn it goes fast.

392

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Yep.

393

:

Well, we're starting week four

of the semester this week, so.

394

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Yeah.

395

:

A student told me that they were

having trouble getting to class because

396

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they've got, like, they keep having

this thought that if they go to class,

397

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something terrible's gonna happen.

398

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I'm like, oh God.

399

:

That never goes away.

400

:

I'm not a therapist, but I was

kind of describing, exposure

401

:

therapy to them in a way that like

didn't without using that term.

402

:

Because I was like, besides the fact

that you have to do this, I'm so sorry.

403

:

You have to go to class.

404

:

You, you're also, you know, this is

gonna be doing put, you're gonna be

405

:

putting stuff in the bank for later.

406

:

It's gonna help you out if you

just force yourself to do it.

407

:

The, the more reps you get of going and

doing the shitty thing that makes it

408

:

feel like you're gonna die and, and then

coming back without having died, the

409

:

more your brain will start to go like,

oh, maybe we were wrong about that.

410

:

Maybe, maybe it wasn't that

thing that was the actual threat.

411

:

Maybe it was like standing in for

something else that we're scared of

412

:

and don't have any control over because

people are like, I'm sure we are all

413

:

displacing like a motherfucker right now.

414

:

Is that what it's called?

415

:

Displacement?

416

:

I.

417

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

Uh, dissociating.

418

:

Is

419

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dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724:

Well, that too.

420

:

Well, yeah, that.

421

:

But no, I think it's displacement

where like you're, you're, there's

422

:

something that you're freaking

out about or you're worried about

423

:

or something that's a threat, but

you can't do anything about it.

424

:

So you worry about something

else that you can control.

425

:

I think it's called displacement.

426

:

I don't know.

427

:

Somebody smarter than us let us know.

428

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

We are treating ourselves and

429

:

getting the Texas Roadhouse this

evening and I'm very excited.

430

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Hell yeah.

431

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: That's one

of the best things about living near

432

:

civilization is that you can get just

about anything to go and bring it home.

433

:

it's way cheaper.

434

:

'cause you, I still tip 10%, but when I'm

in the restaurant I always tip 20 to 25%.

435

:

So it's cheaper, and plus you

don't have to buy the appetizer

436

:

or the drinks or whatever.

437

:

So it's, I mean, it's reasonable.

438

:

It's just a little bit more than it go

to go to McDonald's these days, I swear.

439

:

So yeah, I'm excited.

440

:

I'm

441

:

getting a steak tonight.

442

:

Woo-hoo.

443

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724:

uh, I was about to ask what

444

:

your, what your order is.

445

:

I almost bought a steak, uh, to

fix at the store yesterday, but,

446

:

uh, they're $17, so I did not do,

447

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

The Texas Roadhouse has the

448

:

best green beans in the world.

449

:

They are fantastic.

450

:

I always get a loaded baked

potato, green beans, and a steak.

451

:

The, I get their eight ounce, uh,

sirloin, then you can't forget

452

:

the rolls with the honey butter.

453

:

I.

454

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: damn.

455

:

It sounds good.

456

:

I guess I'll, I'll drive the half

hour to the grocery store and if I,

457

:

if I can get some cabbage I could make

this soup I've been wanting to make.

458

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

What is it called?

459

:

Gas soup

460

:

fart soup.

461

:

If cabbage becomes near

me, it, it causes distress.

462

:

yeah, that would

463

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Uh,

464

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: soup for me.

465

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: yeah.

466

:

I mean, it can be a little,

little flatulent, but it's

467

:

one of my favorite things.

468

:

It's tamarind soup, so it's very sour.

469

:

You put a bunch of fish sauce

and soy sauce in it, and it's

470

:

like a, it's a Filipino, uh,

dish called Sang or Sinigang.

471

:

I don't know.

472

:

I don't speak Tagalog, but yeah,

and then put a bunch of tomatoes

473

:

and onions and b choy in it.

474

:

I used to, I'm, I just really

like, uh, cabbage though.

475

:

And so one of my favorite

things is kimchi.

476

:

Have you ever had that?

477

:

It's like.

478

:

It was probably the most like,

non Appalachian or exotic

479

:

thing we ate growing up.

480

:

'cause dad was stationed in Korea when he

was in the Army and he got a taste for it.

481

:

So he would always find it places.

482

:

I don't know.

483

:

I mean they do carry it at,

at like the big box stores,

484

:

Walmart and Kroger and stuff.

485

:

But we, and we also had a Korean

aunt who would make stuff.

486

:

I don't know if she

made him kimchi though.

487

:

I dunno if they were really that in touch.

488

:

But whenever we stayed over

at their house, I just loved

489

:

the smell of their house.

490

:

It was so weird or so good.

491

:

But she had, uh, also like when we

stayed over there, we slept on those

492

:

little mats, you know, instead of beds

493

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Yep.

494

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724:

silk covered mats.

495

:

That's some good sleeping.

496

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: That

would break my old ass in half.

497

:

Now,

498

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Oh yeah.

499

:

Now my bed is currently broken,

but I can't lift it up to fix it

500

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: when we

were moving out of our last apartment

501

:

into mom's house we got redid.

502

:

We had some guys come over and

help us carry some stuff out to

503

:

the, the corner, and one of the

things we got rid of was my bed.

504

:

And so I had to sleep in the

floor one night and my legs nearly

505

:

popped off my body like, yeah.

506

:

So I don't recommend it.

507

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: the way

it just like gets into your hips.

508

:

It's always the hips.

509

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: well, where my

legs swell like if you even think sideways

510

:

about them, look like giant sausages.

511

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Dude,

512

:

my mom has been wearing uh.

513

:

Different com or compression socks she

has to wear now she's got lymphedema.

514

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: yep.

515

:

I have like so many pair

in all bright colors

516

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Yeah.

517

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

them in the box.

518

:

Yeah,

519

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Well, I don't

know why you would try to, is that it?

520

:

Because I was like, you don't

have, we don't have to try to

521

:

make everything fashion right.

522

:

It can be like this.

523

:

I'm okay with the fact that some of the

shit I have to do for my health is ugly.

524

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: yeah.

525

:

Like some of, like, I have an

electric blue pair, I have a red

526

:

pair, I have a neon yellow pair.

527

:

I don't have a black pair.

528

:

We, I had one and I put my thumb

through it and both socks, so I

529

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Hmm.

530

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: rid of those.

531

:

But I've got, they're all bright colors

'cause I have to buy the really big ones.

532

:

It's like I have to buy the

special ones off of Amazon.

533

:

Yeah, super fun

534

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Oh.

535

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

though I have also moved into

536

:

what are called diabetic socks.

537

:

They are very, they're very elastic and

they don't squeeze your feet too much.

538

:

So those are really nice.

539

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: I

think, I mean, you know, I'm not

540

:

beating these diabetic allegations.

541

:

I, I'm, I'm not, I get it now, but like,

there have been things now that I'm

542

:

putting together and I'm like, oh shit.

543

:

That's what that was.

544

:

And for the, recently, for the

past several months, my socks have

545

:

been leaving dent in my ankles,

546

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Yep,

547

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724:

like, like just an imprint of

548

:

the, the inside of the sock.

549

:

I've never really experienced that before.

550

:

Fuck.

551

:

Well, that's fine.

552

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: My dogs are

both curled up under my blanket here.

553

:

It is so

554

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Oh,

555

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: It

was 61 degrees in this apartment

556

:

when I got up this morning.

557

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Vanessa said

that they're, they have a new house.

558

:

It's one of those like you

know, like a company will have

559

:

a certain set of floor plans and

you can go like, I want this one.

560

:

And they just build it

561

:

. beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Yep.

562

:

I live, I

563

:

live in one of those areas.

564

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: they

said it won't stay warm for anything

565

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Yeah.

566

:

All right, Mike, there's something

wrong with my thermostat.

567

:

When you turn it on and it

568

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: still.

569

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: at you.

570

:

Yeah.

571

:

Well, I, we, I still haven't called

to have somebody come look at it.

572

:

'cause either I'm sleeping or working

and I don't think to, to do it.

573

:

I always, it's always like

Sunday afternoon when I think

574

:

about doing it, you know?

575

:

And

576

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Hmm.

577

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: I have,

there's nobody that can come then.

578

:

So, so we got a space heater.

579

:

It keeps it pretty warm in

here and lots of blankets.

580

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: If

there's a peddler's mall or anything

581

:

you could, there's almost always

radiators in there for cheap, like

582

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Oh yeah.

583

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724:

portable radiators.

584

:

Yeah.

585

:

That's where I got mine.

586

:

Like the big, like they're several

hundred dollars new and I get them,

587

:

like, I've picked up several for 20 bucks

588

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Wow.

589

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: and they

just, you roll 'em around, plug them in.

590

:

They're oil, so they

heat up oil inside 'em.

591

:

Yeah.

592

:

So I just sit one of those by

the bed and turn it on at night.

593

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Shanna

was talking about getting an electric

594

:

blanket and I told her about a thing

I read where three different people

595

:

were like an electric blanket started

a fire in my house and I was like,

596

:

Nope, we ain't getting one of those.

597

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724:

I would, I have a couple.

598

:

I would not sleep with them.

599

:

Like I'm sitting under

one right now actually.

600

:

It's it's a throw and it has a safety,

like, uh, if it gets too hot, it pops off.

601

:

And the newer ones, they have timers,

like you can't leave them on for forever.

602

:

They automatically turn them.

603

:

The longest you can have it on is like

six hours, six or eight hours, I think.

604

:

But yeah, still I'm not get, I'm

not curling up into bed for, for

605

:

an eight hour sleep under one

606

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

yeah, nope, me neither.

607

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: for one.

608

:

I mean, even if it doesn't, if even if

it's not a fire hazard it, it can be,

609

:

it can, it can be bad for your skin.

610

:

Like there, people get

burns and stuff from that.

611

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

Yeah, it's so cold in my bedroom.

612

:

I live at the end of the building,

so my bedroom has two windows

613

:

in it, like on, on either wall.

614

:

And so it's, it's drafty in there

just because winds are going 50

615

:

miles an hour outside, you know?

616

:

so our bed is sitting

there and it was so cold.

617

:

The other night I dreamed

I was visiting Siberia.

618

:

I

619

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Oh,

620

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: check

into Facebook from Siberia priorities.

621

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: oh, dude.

622

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Have you

ever read the book, the Price of Salt?

623

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Oh, that rings

a bell, but I don't, I think I would,

624

:

Oh, Patricia Highsmith.

625

:

Okay.

626

:

That's why.

627

:

Yeah.

628

:

No, I don't think I've read it.

629

:

I, there's a movie.

630

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Yeah, I bought

the book so that I could read it, but of

631

:

course I'm have every other thing else to

read in the world besides that right now.

632

:

But I'm trying to get Shannon to read

it so she can tell me what it's about.

633

:

that's our, our book

of the week right now.

634

:

So listeners, if you've read it,

tell us to tell me if it's any good.

635

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Well, I

mean, Patricia Highsmith wrote Carol

636

:

people really love her, her stuff.

637

:

I mean, it's, you know, from the fifties,

but she was writing actual lesbian

638

:

stuff, uh, when a lot of people weren't.

639

:

Maybe I'll read it.

640

:

I don't know.

641

:

Now I have to become, I

have to go back to writing,

642

:

which is, I kind of missed writing,

and this will be, this is a

643

:

different kind of writing, so.

644

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: I need to

get my myself back on the writing train.

645

:

Kroger has these brownie bite things.

646

:

They're not made there.

647

:

They're made by some outside company

and they get delivered there.

648

:

I, I investigated and they are

so fudgy and so delicious that

649

:

I cannot recommend them enough.

650

:

So if you have a Kroger, get the

brownie Bites from the bakery.

651

:

They're fantastic.

652

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724:

We don't have one.

653

:

Uh, there's one about 90 minutes away.

654

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Yeah, but

they might have 'em at other stores.

655

:

They're just called Brownie Bites.

656

:

There's no brand.

657

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: I think

I know what you're talking about.

658

:

Like the, there's, there's a random

bakery items for sale at like the

659

:

little market down the corner here.

660

:

And I'm like, who makes this?

661

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Right.

662

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: And I,

I think it comes on a refrigerated

663

:

truck, but I don't know from where.

664

:

AI said, do you mean Morton table salt?

665

:

I wasn't.

666

:

I didn't literally want you

to gimme the price of salt.

667

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

AI's so stupid.

668

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: It

can be, you hear that robots?

669

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: I have

my students do a group project

670

:

where they have to introduce

the readings for every class.

671

:

And one of the parts of the project is

that they have to come up with discussion

672

:

questions for the rest of the class and

lead a discussion based on the topic.

673

:

And they were like, we

don't know how to do this.

674

:

And I was like, if you, if, if I

have to tell you to use chat GPT

675

:

for this, then you're failing.

676

:

you know, like take your PowerPoint,

put it into chat GPT and ask

677

:

it to generate some questions.

678

:

Like how easy is that?

679

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: or, you

know, there's proprietary AI now in

680

:

every, like, they're, they're using

the Microsoft Office suite as copilot.

681

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: yeah.

682

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: I don't know.

683

:

It, it's kind, I still kind

of think right past it.

684

:

Like I'll forget like, oh yeah, I

could have, I could have asked AI

685

:

that or something, but the kinds

of things I'm doing don't often, I

686

:

don't go into that lane very often.

687

:

You know, I think

students are in that lane.

688

:

They live there.

689

:

Whereas I,

690

:

the temptation must be

incredible, especially if.

691

:

One thing we have known for a really

long time is how over committed,

692

:

how overburdened students are.

693

:

There's a, there's a, a huge chunk

of, of every campus, like every

694

:

residency campus student body that has

more to do than they have time for.

695

:

And it's all expected of 'em.

696

:

It's all needed because it's not

because a bachelor's isn't gonna get

697

:

you shit without extracurriculars.

698

:

You gotta be working on that resume

every minute you're not there.

699

:

And whatever way you choose to do

that is going to eat up your time.

700

:

So, I mean, I don't blame 'em at all for

looking for shortcuts when I know that

701

:

millennials were in the library eating and

snorting Adderall or, uh, taking what's

702

:

it called, where you shot shotgunning

Red Bulls in the library bathroom.

703

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: one time I

was on the, I was on the um, university

704

:

conduct committee for several years when I

was, when was still in active grad school.

705

:

And I really liked it 'cause I'm nosy

and I like to know what's going on.

706

:

Right.

707

:

And you got to be right up

in the middle of everything.

708

:

And there was one kid, he got caught

by the police by the campus police

709

:

and he let them come in his room

and search his room where they found

710

:

like three bottles of Fireball.

711

:

So because they found the fireball, they

checked his backpack as well and they

712

:

found a baggie full of Adderall and $900.

713

:

And he was like, I don't

know where that came from.

714

:

I left my bag sitting at the library

for like an hour with not watching it.

715

:

And somebody put 'em in there

and it was like, where is this

716

:

magical spot in the library where

you get $900 placed into your bag?

717

:

Please tell me

718

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724:

Yeah, I wanna go there and spawn,

719

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Yeah.

720

:

Could carry several bags.

721

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: re refill

your health bar while you're there.

722

:

Oh man.

723

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: It was one of

724

:

my favorite excuses ever.

725

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724:

I left it in there.

726

:

Somebody dropped $900.

727

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

And Adderall and Fireball,

728

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Oh man.

729

:

Never give them probable cause children.

730

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: and never let

him search your room without a warrant.

731

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Yeah.

732

:

I mean, it's, it may be too late to learn

your rights now, so last week while we

733

:

were recording our episode for this week,

Alex Prety was killed in um, Minneapolis.

734

:

And it was so, so fucking obvious.

735

:

It was so well documented and publicized

from every angle and, and the brutality.

736

:

So inarguable.

737

:

That they're actually changing

a couple of things about how

738

:

ICE is operating in Minneapolis.

739

:

Uh, nobody has, I don't think, been silly

enough to suggest that there will be any

740

:

improvements that come about from it.

741

:

Right?

742

:

The what's his name,

Bino has been removed.

743

:

We don't know what he did anyway, right?

744

:

All he did to my knowledge was march

around looking like an SS reject

745

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Right.

746

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: you know,

mug at whoever was there filming.

747

:

He, like, he, he may have given an order

or two, but he was kind of a poster boy.

748

:

That was his job.

749

:

Christie Noam is,

750

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: A

751

:

bird legged hoe.

752

:

I'm sorry.

753

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: she, she's

already played her Nuremberg Defense card.

754

:

She, she did that one.

755

:

I think she, it was on tv.

756

:

She said, yeah, everything

I've done is because of them.

757

:

I was told to do it.

758

:

So she's already made

herself kind of a loose end.

759

:

But now, I mean, we've

got the FBI with masks on.

760

:

We don't know if it's really the

FBI could be ice masquerading as

761

:

FBI because who the fuck knows?

762

:

And how would we know?

763

:

Like detaining people at the Whipple

building, they're arresting, they,

764

:

they arrested three journalists

for documenting a protest.

765

:

So, I don't know, like, like, know your

rights, but also know that I don't think

766

:

anybody intends to respect them anymore.

767

:

I don't think you actually have them.

768

:

Okay.

769

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Yeah,

I think you're right about that.

770

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: The smartest.

771

:

The thing people are doing, and I think

it's incredibly smart, is, is as they

772

:

begin to be detained, they start shouting

their information and their details

773

:

to whoever's filming nearby so that

their identity is actually documented.

774

:

Because once these people are

disappeared into ice custody, we

775

:

don't know where they're going.

776

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Yeah,

777

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: The

National Guard is here though.

778

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: but they're

siting on the, on the side of the

779

:

protestors though, which is fantastic.

780

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Well, the

Minnesota National Guard, there's one

781

:

thing that Minnesota, I don't know

how many states have this, but they

782

:

are sworn to do like, that's their.

783

:

I don't know if you would call them

marching orders, but like that,

784

:

that's kind of why they exist.

785

:

Like in Minnesota, be because

Minnesota's a sanctuary state.

786

:

It's one of the reasons why we're,

it's, it's under siege right now.

787

:

It's also a border state with Canada.

788

:

So anywhere within a hundred miles of

the border, we lose the fourth Amendment.

789

:

So

790

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: I live

791

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: yeah.

792

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

miles of the border.

793

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Do

you, that makes, I bet Yeah.

794

:

You do.

795

:

So Yeah, like our, our National

guard is, is oppose, and they were

796

:

like, we will never be wearing masks.

797

:

We're gonna be wearing our

high, these high biz vests.

798

:

Like nobody will be able

to masquerade as us.

799

:

You'll never be confused.

800

:

You'll, you won't confuse us with eyes.

801

:

But then the FBI shows up and

they're wearing masks too, and

802

:

I'm like, is this real or are they

trying to make it look like it?

803

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: I thought

they couldn't breathe with those masks.

804

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Yeah, just

a few years ago, wasn't it Deadly?

805

:

Weren't, weren't, weren't we?

806

:

We, I was being pelted with

fake statistics about hypoxia.

807

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: And, and

what about these Second Amendment people?

808

:

Uh, when Trump was saying that

you can't have your guns at a

809

:

protest, the fuck, you can't,

810

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Right.

811

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: that's

812

:

one of the most American things there is.

813

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: I

mean, and I know a lot of what we

814

:

see online, like this discourse

is bots, and this is something I

815

:

thought about recently is bots.

816

:

Uh, why are they all right wing?

817

:

Why aren't there left wing bots out there?

818

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

a, good question.

819

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: like,

we are sleeping on this shit, right?

820

:

We stop taking the high road.

821

:

If they sink to something and you see

it working sink right down next to them.

822

:

I want to see an army of, of leftist

progressive bots out there fighting with

823

:

these fucking AI slot bots that can't tell

the difference between somebody, uh, angry

824

:

that this slipped on the ice because it's

wintertime and somebody saying, fuck ice.

825

:

There's somebody on, I think it was

ex posted about falling on the ice

826

:

and being tired of winter and they

said, fuck, I'm so fucking tired of

827

:

ice and winter and all this stuff.

828

:

And, uh, multiple accounts replied

with the same, he was drawing

829

:

his weapon, blah, blah, blah.

830

:

'cause it couldn't, it was a bot and

it couldn't tell the difference between

831

:

fuck, ice and fuck the winter, the frozen

water phenomenon that we all collectively

832

:

despise and in droves, they all come out.

833

:

But where I never see any bots out there.

834

:

Like trans Lives matter

835

:

Free Britney.

836

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

Hey, maybe we should fund

837

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724:

I mean, you know, they're,

838

:

they're doing other cool thing.

839

:

There's, there's like the who

is that hacker that infiltrated

840

:

and deleted the Nazi dating app?

841

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: I didn't

842

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Oh, I'm,

843

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: one.

844

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: uh, I, I need

to open an incognito window for this one.

845

:

Martha Root.

846

:

Yeah.

847

:

Uh, German Hacktivist operating under

the pseudonym Martha Root, gained

848

:

significant attention in January, 2026

for dismantling a network of white

849

:

supremacist websites, one of which was

a dating site, but called White Date

850

:

dubbed Tinder for Nazis.

851

:

So, but, uh, she did it live on, on

stage at this Chaos Communication

852

:

Congress in Hamburg, Germany.

853

:

So it was like a hack,

a hacker conference.

854

:

And so I've seen the video it, I didn't

understand it at all, but the audience

855

:

did, and they were just going nuts.

856

:

And she dressed up like the

Pink Ranger and live deleted.

857

:

The website's white date white

child, which is a site for white

858

:

supremacist, white supremacist,

sperm and egg donors and, and White

859

:

Deal, a racist labor marketplace.

860

:

So she used an AI chat bot to dim to

utilize the platform through users.

861

:

So this was a social engineering hack.

862

:

So just actually duped these people

bypass security checks and gathered

863

:

approximately a hundred gigabytes of

data, including 8,000 user profiles.

864

:

Damn.

865

:

So like we have those people and

they're doing, that's more important

866

:

than programming an army of bots to

go around X and fight with people.

867

:

But there's a TikTok account that I

love though called Maga versus Grok.

868

:

Orrock versus Maga, which

Grok is the AI on X.

869

:

And MAGA will argue with

it about reality, I guess.

870

:

So there's like, this account just

gathers people being proven wrong,

871

:

like their, their MAGA talking

points being proved wrong by rock.

872

:

Just kind of like a, an extra own, because

gr is probably the most compromised

873

:

of like, doesn't it create child porn?

874

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: I think so

875

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: I

think it got caught doing that.

876

:

Yeah.

877

:

What a world we live in.

878

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: that's a

talking point that we, that I bring up

879

:

when we talk about pornography in class.

880

:

Should.

881

:

Child that is AI generated, be legal.

882

:

And they have some very interesting

thoughts on that because on one hand,

883

:

it, who is it hurting if it's all AI

and there's no actual people involved,

884

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Well, AI can't

make anything new though, so it is people.

885

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: there you go.

886

:

That's a good, I that's

a good comeback for that.

887

:

None that my students have come up for

that, but but they, they do talk about

888

:

how it, it leads to further victimization

of children and how it just adds to the

889

:

of voices out there that are pro that.

890

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Yeah,

I mean there's, there's prob social

891

:

psychosocial reasons probably for it, but

892

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: An

893

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: I,

894

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: question

we ask is, should pornography be

895

:

allowed at the public library?

896

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: hmm.

897

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: If

porn, if pornography is a First

898

:

Amendment protected, right?

899

:

Right.

900

:

Then why shouldn't it?

901

:

As long as it's not being used or

consumed in front of children, shouldn't

902

:

you have a, a section of pornography,

903

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: I mean, the

public library, you can't even get them.

904

:

They can't even put up a Black

History month thing right now.

905

:

You know?

906

:

I mean, like public libraries have long

since lost their first amendment freedoms

907

:

especially, I mean, they're, they're kind

of battlegrounds for that kind of thing.

908

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Yeah.

909

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: And because

they're a public service, they're

910

:

under-resourced to fight that battle here.

911

:

Somebody got removed from, uh, for

putting up some sort of black history

912

:

month thing last or a couple years ago.

913

:

I don't know.

914

:

certain university leadership.

915

:

That don't work in DEI that don't have

to, that have not done diversity work

916

:

at all or for a sustained amount of

time over significant sociopolitical

917

:

changes in the way that pretty much

every DEI practitioner above the level

918

:

of assistant director has have decided

it's, it's, I'm trying to, this reminds

919

:

me of when somebody states the obvious

very excitedly, you know, like, but it's

920

:

something everybody else already knew.

921

:

And so they're like, we're just

gonna change what we call everything.

922

:

So they're, they're doing that

here with the pluralism thing.

923

:

They're like diversity of thought and.

924

:

Yada, yada.

925

:

So I think that that's just, I think

I'm not gonna have a job for a while.

926

:

Uh, if, if they actually do that.

927

:

I mean, when they told us they

wanted to do it, we all were

928

:

like, that's fucking stupid.

929

:

It's not gonna work.

930

:

They're not gonna listen to us though.

931

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Yeah, I worry

about what I'm gonna do after next year.

932

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724:

you'll have your PhD and that

933

:

will open things up a little bit.

934

:

I'm gonna be an author, so

I'll be like, I don't know.

935

:

I don't think anybody will, I

don't think that's actually gonna

936

:

impact my employability that much.

937

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

It is still cool though.

938

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: I

can't pronounce the name of.

939

:

Some German thing.

940

:

I don't, I don't remember

Foxworthy cover in that one.

941

:

You, if you can't pronounce the name

of the publishing house for your

942

:

dissertation, you might be a redneck.

943

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: So

many of those fit my family.

944

:

If you've ever mowed the yard and

found a motor, you might be a redneck.

945

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Did,

do you Like, I remember people

946

:

really loving those, like the

people, the rednecks that I knew.

947

:

Like we liked those.

948

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Yeah.

949

:

If you ever buried your mama in the

backyard, you might be a redneck.

950

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: I

wonder what people who, who weren't

951

:

rednecks thought of Jeff Foxworthy.

952

:

Like listeners, if you, if you did not

grow up identifying as a redneck and

953

:

you, if you were aware of Jeff Foxworthy,

let us know how people received.

954

:

I, I know people make a

lot of fun of him, which.

955

:

You should.

956

:

Some of those, some of them are stupid.

957

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Yeah, when

I was in high school, we had like a

958

:

talent show and me and my friend were

the MCs for the talent show, so we got

959

:

up and did a skit of our own and it

was just us reading Jeff Foxworthy.

960

:

You might be a redneck one

liners for like five minutes.

961

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Oh man.

962

:

Did you ever listen to Ray Stevens?

963

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Oh yeah.

964

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: I sing,

uh, the Streak to myself a lot.

965

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: yeah,

yeah, yeah, yeah, Many of his

966

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: look

967

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: Woo.

968

:

Woo.

969

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: Well,

I've been doing deep dives too on

970

:

YouTube and recently I've been, I

have no idea how, because I didn't

971

:

even watch wrestling that much.

972

:

But I've been going down these

like video essays of the history of

973

:

American professional wrestling and

like all the, the dramas and things.

974

:

It started with the

deep dive on Hulk Hogan.

975

:

So now I'm like elbow deep in it.

976

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724: My grandma

977

:

was a big wrestling fan.

978

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: wring.

979

:

Yeah.

980

:

beckc_26_01-31-2026_142724:

That's how you gotta

981

:

say it.

982

:

dashd_25_01-31-2026_132724: so,

983

:

this week's episode of

Queernecks is sponsored by the

984

:

Queernecks Wrestling Alliance.

985

:

I just made it up.

986

:

It's already got beef with at least three

other sponsors and one folding chair.

987

:

The Queernecks Wrestling Alliance

keep your cinematic universes.

988

:

This genderqueer, melodramatic furniture

war has to be smelled to be believed.

989

:

old gems, lighting so bad.

990

:

It's a hate crime.

991

:

Belts made of rubber and tin.

992

:

Everybody's got a championship,

they swear is legitimate.

993

:

Nobody agrees on the rules, but

everyone agrees that it's life or death.

994

:

This is regional logic.

995

:

If it happened near you, it's canon.

996

:

If it happened to your cousin, it's gospel

grudges get passed down like recipes.

997

:

The alliances form based on geography,

memory, and who still brings it

998

:

up unprompted In this alliance,

sponsors don't just support the show.

999

:

They feud.

:

00:43:48,662 --> 00:43:52,502

The pop belly coal stove is undefeated

in the Appalachian territory.

:

00:43:52,832 --> 00:43:56,132

Folgers can of bacon grease

runs midsouth with an iron lid.

:

00:43:56,462 --> 00:43:58,142

Seasonal talents come in hot.

:

00:43:58,347 --> 00:44:00,957

They melt fast, but they

still headline the card.

:

00:44:01,357 --> 00:44:05,587

There are factions forming too,

just like Hulk Hogan's NWO.

:

00:44:05,987 --> 00:44:09,047

Some of them swear an oath to

protect tradition, others cry.

:

00:44:09,047 --> 00:44:13,457

It's time for equity minded New blood

organizing in the corner of the gym

:

00:44:13,457 --> 00:44:18,317

citing the Great Jesse Ventura alliance

is formed based on proximity, whether the

:

00:44:18,317 --> 00:44:20,237

creek is high, and who remembers what.

:

00:44:20,237 --> 00:44:25,917

From the great tussle of 94 interference,

rewrites diva behavior are constant

:

00:44:25,917 --> 00:44:27,926

and the refs are purely ornamental.

:

00:44:28,326 --> 00:44:31,026

No contracts, no canon, no retirement.

:

00:44:31,026 --> 00:44:33,636

Your allegiance goes with

you to the hereafter.

:

00:44:34,036 --> 00:44:38,066

So thank you to the Queernecks Wrestling

Alliance where the sponsors have heat

:

00:44:38,066 --> 00:44:41,726

pageantry as paramount, and the storylines

are longer lived than the buildings that

:

00:44:41,726 --> 00:44:43,976

house them, and we're already mid feud.

:

00:44:44,376 --> 00:44:45,391

-:

You got some beef.

:

00:44:45,791 --> 00:44:47,291

-:

I'm writing up a whole storyline.

:

00:44:48,674 --> 00:44:51,074

-:

one of the professors in my department

:

00:44:51,074 --> 00:44:55,574

has taken on the, the history of some

of the black wrestlers of that time

:

00:44:55,574 --> 00:44:58,394

and he's got some really interesting,

uh, stuff that he's been writing.

:

00:44:58,754 --> 00:45:01,154

So you're not the only one

interested in that timeframe.

:

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remember the boys being so obsessed with

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wrestling and I didn't get it at all, but

I wasn't like, I was friends with the mom,

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but I wasn't a part of that inner circle.

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Like, guys didn't let you in to,

'cause my big question was always

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00:45:13,698 --> 00:45:15,168

like, do they know it's fake or not?

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'cause they would swear up and down that

it wasn't, but that was the joke, right?

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00:45:19,278 --> 00:45:23,088

Like the, the joke was that

no, it's absolutely real.

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But they, they didn't

actually believe that.

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And it's hard to think of straight cis

guys having that level of play, right?

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Like, that's.

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That's kind of queer.

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It's one of the queerest things

they do is, is play pretend

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to the level that they do.

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Hi.

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she's over there bouncing around.

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She's so cute.

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I've been watching pet content too

online because it cheers me up.

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Well, that's why I watch the old

American's Funniest Home videos and news

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00:45:56,137 --> 00:46:01,177

bloopers are usually a minefield for, for

for good, for a good laugh here and there.

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So if you're ever having a bad

day, Google up some news bloopers.

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You seen the one

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00:46:08,897 --> 00:46:12,857

where they were going to, uh, cut to the

footage of the woman who was electrocuted.

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00:46:14,713 --> 00:46:18,613

It's, it wouldn't have been that bad if

the guy had been able to keep a straight

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00:46:18,613 --> 00:46:22,633

face, but like there was, they had

recorded an interview with a woman who

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had been electrocuted and then when they

went to play it, it was all scrambled.

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And so she was like,

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so they had to like scrap it and

they cut back to him and he like

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00:46:34,418 --> 00:46:37,748

halfway through his sentence, it

struck him how fucking funny that was.

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Well, obviously there was

a problem with that tape.

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She doesn't really sound like that.

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She doesn't remember the accident

or the evidence is clear.

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one of my all time favorite videos.

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00:46:51,614 --> 00:46:53,624

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seen the one where they are burning

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00:46:53,624 --> 00:46:57,284

the, the weed, the from the cops found

a, a big supply of weed and they're

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burning it and the guy is standing

next to it and he gets the giggles

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00:47:00,464 --> 00:47:02,114

real hardcore in the middle of it.

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00:47:03,599 --> 00:47:05,999

That's one of the ne best

news bloopers I've ever seen.

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There's one going around right now where

they they were looking for somebody

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and so they used a drawing from his

daughter, and it was like clearly

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00:47:13,339 --> 00:47:16,579

a 5-year-old had done this version

of her dad, but then they put the

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picture up and it looked just like him.

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we would love to hear what you

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all find kind of what makes you

giggle when things are shitty.

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What do you, what do you do?

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I was talking to a student about this

yesterday, how to, if you've got an

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00:47:34,761 --> 00:47:38,871

hour between shitty things you've

gotta do, what, what do you do to like.

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00:47:39,291 --> 00:47:41,841

Give yourself a little bit of boost

until you get to the end of it.

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Is it, is it dumb shit?

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Like we're talking about do you to do

something physically it's too cold to be

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out walking, but maybe you've got a pet.

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I like to pick up one of the cats

and stick my face in their belly.

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Right?

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00:47:54,701 --> 00:47:57,431

Like the fuzziest, softest,

fuzziest part of them.

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They're all pretty used to it now.

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And they'll, they'll put up with it.

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Each of them makes their own kind

of like, ah, get off of me noise.

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But they let me do it

kind of sensory stuff.

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Send us an email and let us

know at mailbag@queernecks.com

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00:48:11,791 --> 00:48:16,831

and I'm gonna put a link to the, the

thing I just said in the show notes and

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00:48:16,831 --> 00:48:18,451

we can put it in the newsletter too.

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Did you bring any noun

of Appalachian interest?

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Well this week's noun of Appalachian

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interest is the hollers one-lane

bridge, a one-lane bridge found up.

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A holler is not just a bridge,

it is a test of nerves.

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It is a lesson in manners.

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It is the place where you lock

eyes with your second cousin, twice

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removed, that lives up on the hill

with his mammal, and you decide

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telepathically who's backing up.

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So these bridges are skinny, like,

why did anyone approve this skinny?

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They cross creeks, rivers, and

occasionally your sense of safety.

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There are no stoplights, no mirrors,

no helpful signs, just vibes in a

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shared understanding that someone

is about to reverse a truck uphill.

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And if you grew up around one,

you learned the rules early.

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If you're closer, you go first.

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If you're already on it, you commit.

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If the other person has a

trailer though, you let them

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through and say a small prayer.

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Sometimes there's a little wave,

sometimes there's a little eye

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contact that lasts too long.

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One lane Bridges teach patients

in a way that no class ever could.

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Long or short, they somehow have

a way of keeping you grounded.

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You can feel real sure of

yourself until a, uh, dually

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00:49:25,561 --> 00:49:29,071

comes around the bend and suddenly

confidence turns into negotiation.

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00:49:29,341 --> 00:49:30,601

Those things are huge.

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These bridges were built for a

different time, uh, a time of fewer

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cars, smaller trucks, more trust.

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They remind you that Appalachia

wasn't designed for speed.

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It was designed for

getting there eventually.

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And if you know, you know, every hollerer

has that bridge that one visitor's hates.

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The one locals defend, the

one that proves you belong.

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Once you cross it without panicking, the

one on big run is by the S-curve and the

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00:49:53,071 --> 00:49:54,691

church folks who've been there get it.

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So that's this week's n of

Appalachian interest, the one

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lane bridge in the holler.

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It's not just infrastructure,

it's part of the culture.

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there were some gnarly passes

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00:50:05,441 --> 00:50:07,991

in the narrows in on 25 w.

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Yeah, well we have an S-curve.

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It's like, so my house was at the

very beginning of the holler, and so

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it was, it was about a quarter mile

up the road where the S-curve was.

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And there's a church that

sits on either side of it.

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There's like a creek that runs through

the, the middle of the road and

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there's a bridge that goes over it.

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00:50:23,871 --> 00:50:28,101

And one person at a time is going like,

you're not passing anybody on that bridge.

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00:50:28,491 --> 00:50:30,441

So you gotta learn to navigate.

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And plus it's in an S so that

doesn't make anything any easier.

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there's never a shoulder or a place to

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00:50:36,451 --> 00:50:38,611

actually like get yourself out of the way.

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They definitely do feel like

they're from another time.

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Like this is made for horses.

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Not this double duly bullshit.

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It doesn't help the cars.

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Some people decide that they need.

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big run is a lot of semi trucks.

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00:50:54,871 --> 00:50:56,551

A lot of truck drivers live up big run.

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00:50:56,641 --> 00:50:59,471

And so you'll be driving and

you'll see, you'll see 'em parked

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00:50:59,471 --> 00:51:00,581

all over the side of the hill.

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00:51:00,911 --> 00:51:03,731

And so you gotta get the semis

through that s-curve too.

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I cannot imagine

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00:51:05,521 --> 00:51:08,011

I would have, I would absolutely

have a panic attack if I tried

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00:51:08,011 --> 00:51:09,181

to drive something that big.

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There's no way

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yeah.

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00:51:11,361 --> 00:51:14,701

My car is bigger than than

anything I've ever driven before.

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00:51:14,701 --> 00:51:17,041

And I, I mean, it's a,

it's off the ground.

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00:51:17,281 --> 00:51:20,521

I've never had an SUV before, so

there's a learning curve there.

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00:51:20,921 --> 00:51:24,551

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was thinking yesterday, like what

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00:51:24,551 --> 00:51:29,661

would be, if I had to say what

the least redneck thing I have is?

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00:51:29,661 --> 00:51:33,801

'cause there's quite a few things that,

that like I have or do in my daily life

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00:51:33,801 --> 00:51:39,581

that are completely anathema to, uh, like

the way I grew up Appalachia One, for

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00:51:39,581 --> 00:51:44,571

instance, I have a, a fucking treadmill

like a fairly fancy treadmill with a

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00:51:44,571 --> 00:51:48,561

computer in it that will like program, you

know, going up and down hills and stuff.

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00:51:48,561 --> 00:51:51,511

Like, that's, that's not

normal from where I'm from.

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So that would be a strong contender for

like the least redneck thing I have.

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00:51:54,631 --> 00:51:57,571

But the other, another one

is, is the car I drive.

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It's.

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00:51:58,911 --> 00:52:03,171

It's like, a hatchback

Subaru all wheel drive.

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00:52:03,571 --> 00:52:06,701

Uh, pretty, pretty hardcore.

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00:52:06,791 --> 00:52:07,751

I won't say fancy.

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00:52:07,751 --> 00:52:11,891

These aren't like luxury cars, but

like they are very nice and they're

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00:52:11,891 --> 00:52:14,471

more expensive than people can afford.

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That's what my best

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00:52:15,289 --> 00:52:16,009

friend drives too,

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driving Japanese cars where I grew up.

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And they're so well safety rated.

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So,

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Oh, it's a great car.

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00:52:23,879 --> 00:52:24,299

Yeah,

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that's why lesbians love them.

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And then they can go anywhere.

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There's a whole thing about

lesbians loving Subarus, so,

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And Subaru knew about it,

like they targeted them.

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The ads and stuff.

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00:52:37,004 --> 00:52:40,994

You can, you can go back to the two

thousands, nineties and two thousands

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00:52:40,994 --> 00:52:45,324

and see the, uh, they had ads in

like Curve Magazine, out magazine

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00:52:45,324 --> 00:52:48,864

advocate, like they were very

early advertisers in queer media.

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00:52:49,264 --> 00:52:51,004

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her best friend is a lesbian.

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00:52:51,004 --> 00:52:54,634

My best friend has been accused of

being a lesbian many times in her day.

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00:52:54,634 --> 00:52:55,474

She's not.

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00:52:55,904 --> 00:52:58,394

But she didn't know that about

Subarus and thought it was

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-:

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cause she had gotten one.

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I I didn't know it either.

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00:53:02,904 --> 00:53:04,704

Uh, well, I didn't know

anything about queer culture.

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00:53:04,704 --> 00:53:06,774

I learned, I learned

about that in college.

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00:53:07,134 --> 00:53:10,134

But then a lot of what I knew

about lesbian culture, I learned

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00:53:10,134 --> 00:53:11,304

from watching the L word.

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00:53:11,644 --> 00:53:12,414

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Did you like that?

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00:53:13,047 --> 00:53:13,947

-:

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00:53:14,127 --> 00:53:15,027

-:

Yeah, me neither.

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00:53:15,427 --> 00:53:17,737

-:

watched most of it, the, the last

:

00:53:17,737 --> 00:53:19,801

season of the original series.

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00:53:19,891 --> 00:53:22,171

I couldn't figure out what

the fuck they wanted from me.

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00:53:22,231 --> 00:53:23,071

You know, I.

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00:53:23,256 --> 00:53:23,971

-:

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00:53:23,971 --> 00:53:26,821

I did, I made it all the way to the last

season and was like, Nope, can't finish

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00:53:26,986 --> 00:53:28,486

-:

was like, what are we doing here?

:

00:53:28,486 --> 00:53:30,016

Is this a murder mystery now?

:

00:53:30,016 --> 00:53:35,206

And I don't think I finished it,

but the first five, I think it

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00:53:35,206 --> 00:53:37,346

was seasons, they weren't good.

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00:53:37,346 --> 00:53:41,336

But like I watched 'em all, and

I don't, you couldn't call 'em

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00:53:41,336 --> 00:53:43,676

compelling, but they were soap opera.

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00:53:43,676 --> 00:53:48,566

It was soap opera, you know, it was

kind of, it was messy and unrealistic.

:

00:53:48,566 --> 00:53:52,046

Like, no, none of those

people were real people.

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00:53:52,446 --> 00:53:54,096

They also weren't anything.

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00:53:54,366 --> 00:53:58,106

Uh, I, I didn't know any queer

people who were like those people.

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00:53:58,106 --> 00:54:00,086

They were so un it was unrelatable, right?

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00:54:00,086 --> 00:54:02,576

They lived in LA and the show

kind of called that out a couple

:

00:54:02,576 --> 00:54:04,346

times, but not in a meaningful way.

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00:54:04,746 --> 00:54:09,578

But the thing that L word did that

was really important was it, brought

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00:54:09,578 --> 00:54:11,888

lesbian culture to the screen.

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00:54:11,888 --> 00:54:14,418

It wasn't the male gaze.

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00:54:14,868 --> 00:54:19,488

Two women just happened to like having sex

with women and their lesbians in that way.

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00:54:19,488 --> 00:54:21,378

It was, it was dyke culture.

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00:54:21,798 --> 00:54:24,318

So like they had the Dina Shore episodes.

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00:54:24,718 --> 00:54:27,898

There was the Subaru subplot,

the Subaru ad subplot.

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00:54:28,198 --> 00:54:31,108

It was that they would always

have a musical guest on there.

:

00:54:31,108 --> 00:54:33,538

That was a, a big figure in queer culture.

:

00:54:33,538 --> 00:54:36,698

I remember the Peaches episode and I

was like, ju, what, what's going on?

:

00:54:36,698 --> 00:54:37,988

And it was like season two.

:

00:54:38,388 --> 00:54:44,018

So, and they would do dumb shit that

they didn't need to be doing, right?

:

00:54:44,018 --> 00:54:47,438

They would have, they would try to

have, write story, write identities

:

00:54:47,438 --> 00:54:49,928

in there that they didn't have

any business trying to tackle.

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00:54:49,928 --> 00:54:50,228

Right?

:

00:54:50,228 --> 00:54:54,828

Like the, the lesbian trans woman,

Lisa, that didn't need to happen.

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00:54:55,228 --> 00:54:57,598

And it certainly didn't need

to happen the way it did.

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00:54:58,028 --> 00:55:02,768

They, they did something strange

with the, the trans man's story arc.

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00:55:03,168 --> 00:55:04,518

They didn't have to be

doing all that shit.

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00:55:04,698 --> 00:55:09,608

I was actually thinking, you know,

the, the drag king subplot with

:

00:55:09,638 --> 00:55:12,956

um, Kelly, I, I love this actress.

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00:55:13,356 --> 00:55:14,166

What's her last name?

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00:55:14,291 --> 00:55:15,711

-:

years since I tr I watched that.

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00:55:16,111 --> 00:55:16,441

-:

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00:55:16,441 --> 00:55:17,551

It's been a long time for me too.

:

00:55:17,551 --> 00:55:21,571

I just, I, I revisit, I I

really liked this actress.

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00:55:21,971 --> 00:55:24,361

Uh, well, I remember the

name of the character too.

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00:55:24,761 --> 00:55:26,981

Google's not gonna know

what to do with Kelly Winch.

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00:55:27,381 --> 00:55:30,741

So there was a drag queen

or a drag king storyline.

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00:55:30,921 --> 00:55:30,981

Yeah.

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00:55:31,401 --> 00:55:37,925

Uh, and the, the dude's name was Ivan

Cock, so it was the dumbest name, but,

:

00:55:38,325 --> 00:55:42,055

and he was, and this part isn't that

farfetched, but he was like a greaser.

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00:55:42,055 --> 00:55:48,015

He, he was, you know, doing, uh,

a bit, uh, his performance to

:

00:55:48,015 --> 00:55:50,325

like a Nick Cave song, I think.

:

00:55:50,725 --> 00:55:52,285

But he was very much like:

:

00:55:52,285 --> 00:55:55,045

But the bit that they didn't

really, they kind of confused

:

00:55:55,045 --> 00:55:56,755

that with being a trans man.

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00:55:56,755 --> 00:56:01,225

And so he was always in drag, like he

identifi identified as his drag persona.

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00:56:01,555 --> 00:56:04,345

I was like, no, a trans man is

not gonna name himself Ivan Cock

:

00:56:04,345 --> 00:56:06,565

and go around like that all the

time, dressed up like a greaser.

:

00:56:06,565 --> 00:56:07,315

What are y'all doing?

:

00:56:07,715 --> 00:56:09,575

So there were plenty of things

that they fucked up about,

:

00:56:09,975 --> 00:56:11,785

but the, the L word was, I.

:

00:56:12,185 --> 00:56:14,105

Even queer as folk didn't really do this.

:

00:56:14,105 --> 00:56:18,815

Queer as folk didn't bring

gay culture to its stories.

:

00:56:18,845 --> 00:56:24,565

It just brought messiness and

faggotry and you know what have you.

:

00:56:24,625 --> 00:56:29,455

And that's probably because Queer

as Folk was an import from a culture

:

00:56:29,455 --> 00:56:32,455

that we don't understand Queer

as Folk was originally a UK show.

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00:56:32,855 --> 00:56:35,645

And even the name doesn't make a

sense in American context because

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00:56:35,645 --> 00:56:36,785

we don't have that expression.

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00:56:37,185 --> 00:56:39,495

The first season of the

L word, I devoured it.

:

00:56:39,895 --> 00:56:42,505

We discovered it actually at the

Blockbuster, me and these, my

:

00:56:42,505 --> 00:56:45,235

roommates, uh, when I, I was in college.

:

00:56:45,235 --> 00:56:46,780

We were at the Blockbuster

and we saw it and we like.

:

00:56:47,180 --> 00:56:48,110

What is this?

:

00:56:48,110 --> 00:56:49,130

This is crazy.

:

00:56:49,550 --> 00:56:51,980

So like, we rented the

DVDs from the Blockbuster.

:

00:56:52,030 --> 00:56:55,640

we like binged the first, when you would

rent stuff from Blockbuster, it would

:

00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:57,140

come in like three or four episodes.

:

00:56:57,140 --> 00:57:00,260

We binged it and turned around and

went right back for the next ones.

:

00:57:00,660 --> 00:57:02,250

But that slowed down over time.

:

00:57:02,250 --> 00:57:03,210

It became less interesting.

:

00:57:03,210 --> 00:57:08,140

It became harder to sympathize with

anybody and harder to figure out what you,

:

00:57:08,350 --> 00:57:10,060

what what you wanted from your viewers.

:

00:57:10,060 --> 00:57:13,940

And I did not at all check

out the generation Q1.

:

00:57:14,340 --> 00:57:15,810

-:

no, I didn't want it either.

:

00:57:16,210 --> 00:57:18,730

-:

a lesbian, that lesbian so hard.

:

00:57:18,730 --> 00:57:20,890

She wrote her dissertation on the L word.

:

00:57:21,310 --> 00:57:22,030

-:

:

00:57:22,430 --> 00:57:22,760

-:

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00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:26,800

Well, maybe we should, uh, call

it and go get something to eat.

:

00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:28,280

-:

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

:

00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:28,880

I'm hungry,

:

00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:29,700

-:

:

00:57:29,835 --> 00:57:31,995

-:

work, so, but I got groceries.

:

00:57:32,395 --> 00:57:32,425

I

:

00:57:32,515 --> 00:57:33,055

-:

:

00:57:33,505 --> 00:57:35,125

-:

bites waiting on me over there.

:

00:57:35,525 --> 00:57:36,390

-:

don't know what I'm gonna do.

:

00:57:36,790 --> 00:57:37,570

I'll find something.

:

00:57:37,630 --> 00:57:41,170

Maybe I'll go up to the, the gas station

and see what they got on the hot bar.

:

00:57:41,570 --> 00:57:43,190

-:

you ever eat at Big Be's to get

:

00:57:43,190 --> 00:57:44,870

coffee from big bees around here?

:

00:57:44,930 --> 00:57:47,630

Did you know the name of like

that particular coffee place?

:

00:57:48,075 --> 00:57:48,365

-:

:

00:57:48,410 --> 00:57:50,750

-:

out with a sausage biscuit with honey

:

00:57:50,750 --> 00:57:52,700

butter and I am dying to try it.

:

00:57:53,060 --> 00:57:53,600

Right.

:

00:57:53,780 --> 00:57:54,290

Yum.

:

00:57:54,590 --> 00:57:55,730

-:

That sounds decadent.

:

00:57:56,180 --> 00:57:56,630

-:

:

00:57:56,990 --> 00:57:59,870

So that's gonna be one of my

next choices when I eat out.

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00:58:00,270 --> 00:58:00,510

-:

:

00:58:00,510 --> 00:58:02,015

You'll have to report back.

:

00:58:02,534 --> 00:58:05,304

-:

sign got me the other day, so, and I

:

00:58:05,304 --> 00:58:08,784

also got the stuff to make chocolate

covered strawberries this week, so

:

00:58:09,184 --> 00:58:09,634

-:

:

00:58:09,979 --> 00:58:11,419

-:

Yeah, they're so expensive.

:

00:58:11,659 --> 00:58:16,099

But if you just buy like a $5 pack of

strawberries and a $3 candy bar, you

:

00:58:16,099 --> 00:58:18,019

can make your own and way cheaper.

:

00:58:18,419 --> 00:58:21,249

-:

that's true of most things, honestly.

:

00:58:21,669 --> 00:58:24,519

-:

not so easy as just washing and drying

:

00:58:24,519 --> 00:58:28,209

your berries and dipping 'em in melted

chocolate, like that's couldn't be easier.

:

00:58:28,609 --> 00:58:28,999

-:

:

00:58:29,399 --> 00:58:33,499

well, RIP, Catherine

O'Hara, we loved you, queen.

:

00:58:33,869 --> 00:58:34,529

Everybody.

:

00:58:34,559 --> 00:58:39,939

Hopefully you could watch a movie of hers

this week and heal your soul a little.

:

00:58:40,189 --> 00:58:40,729

feel guys.

:

00:58:40,729 --> 00:58:41,479

Fuck Donald Trump.

:

00:58:41,479 --> 00:58:42,199

Fuck Christina on.

:

00:58:42,678 --> 00:58:43,288

-:

:

00:58:43,688 --> 00:58:45,758

-:

And I don't know, do your best.

:

00:58:45,848 --> 00:58:46,898

Keep doing what you're doing.

:

00:58:47,168 --> 00:58:48,143

Say hi to your mom and them.

:

00:58:48,543 --> 00:58:48,763

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