Episode 61

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27th Jul 2026

Smoky Tips, West Virginia

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Beck and Dash recap a weekend visit with Beck’s mother-in-law and best friend that led to an ill-fated purchase of Taboo Uncensored, which was too explicit to play, so they switched to the original Taboo. They describe visiting a Michigan dispensary and then Beck vents about ongoing telehealth frustrations with a remote psychiatrist, including app issues, unhelpful messaging, medication side effects complicated by testosterone therapy, and gene test results showing the current medication in the “red” column. The hosts discuss teaching logistics and changing academic titles, then play “Eight Second Holler” and a screen-recorded online Pictionary-style game. A mock sponsor spot celebrates “scrounging” and they critique Marie Kondo’s decluttering ethos. Beck shares a “noun of Appalachian interest” on bluegrass music, plus podcast recommendations and closing plans.

00:00 Podcast Welcome

00:21 Taboo Game Disaster

02:19 Michigan Dispensary Trip

03:26 Telehealth Tech Nightmare

07:48 Gene Test Med Mixup

11:18 Higher Ed Setup Stress

13:09 New Games Introduced

17:07 Eight Second Holler

19:03 Hearing Aids And Masks

20:37 Smell Test Study

22:58 Walmart Bag And Feet

27:11 Bowling Alley Buffer Story

30:05 Lesbian Sheep And Coworkers

34:04 Switching To Pictionary

35:26 Drawing Game Setup

37:05 Medium Round Seahorse Fail

39:57 Hard Round Post Office

41:30 Screenshots and Profit Win

42:42 Final Round Buccaneer Reveal

44:39 Sponsor Scrounging Skit

46:58 Marie Kondo Backlash

52:25 Railroad Scrounging Stories

56:19 Union Corruption Talk

59:11 Bluegrass Noun Segment

01:00:59 Bluegrass Favorites and Fusions

01:07:28 Podcast Recs and Wheel Spin

01:09:37 Wrap Up and Plans

Transcript
Beck:

Welcome to Queernecks, the podcast that puts the yehaw in y'all means all.

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I'm your host, Beck,

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Dash (2): and I'm your host.

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Dash.

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Welcome to today's episode.

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Beck: my mother-in-law and my best

friend came to visit this weekend, and we

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Dash (2): Yeah

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Beck: a game, right?"

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So we were perusing Amazon, and on sale

was Taboo Uncensored, and we thought,

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"Well, that will be fun," right?

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Dash (2): could go wrong?

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Beck: What could possibly go wrong?

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So we, we got the we got it in, uh, in

the mail, and we opened it up, and there

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are some things that I am too delicate

to even pretend that I wanna say.

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They are…

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They were terrible.

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Of the things that they were talking

about, some of the words that they

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wanted you to guess, that I would

never say to my mother-in-law.

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I would never say it to my wife,

let alone my mother-in-law.

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Dash (2): Wow.

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Beck: they were pretty bad.

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I'll tell you one of

them if you'll bleep me.

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Dash (2): Sure.

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Oh!

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Beck: Like, what am I

supposed to do with that?

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With my mother-in-law.

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We were like, "Nope."

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So we bought orig- we bought original

Taboo and we played that instead.

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So that was way more fun.

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Yeah.

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Dash (2): do you want me to bleep

that in such a way that people

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can guess what it is, or entirely?

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Beck: Entirely.

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Dash (2): Okay.

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It's that bad, folks.

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If, if you're feeling froggy, check…

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This is not sponsored,

but get, what is it?

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What is it?

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Uncensored Taboo

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Beck: Uncen- yeah, Taboo Uncensored.

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a midnight one too, but this is the…

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I guess that one's more sexy.

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I don't know.

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This one is just bad, bad,

bad all the way through it.

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And

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that was, like, the third card I pulled

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Dash (2): I can't think of a group of

people I would want to play that with.

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Who's that for?

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Beck: on sale is all I can say

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Dash (2): A select group of people.

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How did they market it?

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You know, like what does

that algorithm look like?

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Beck: Right, a- and when they were,

like, assigning who to write topics,

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they were like, "Go there," you know?

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Like, "Really, really, really go there."

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Dash (2): Well, they scoured the depths

of YouTube and 4chan Well, I mean,

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that was a bonding experience anyway

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Beck: Yes.

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Yes.

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I had a good time with them.

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We had a we couldn't really go in anywhere

because we had the dog, so everything had

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to be an outdoor activity or in the car.

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But we got to show them

all kinds of stuff.

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We, we took Shanna's mom to

a dispensary in Michigan.

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That was a lot of fun.

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Had never seen anything like it, so

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Dash (2): I've never

seen one either, actually

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Beck: Yeah.

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Well, come up and I'll take you.

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They're wild.

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In Michigan, I've never been to

one in Ohio but I know sh- or maybe

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I did go to the one in BG once.

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I don't remember.

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But the, the, it, it's so

different from Ohio to Michigan.

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You go in Michigan and it looks

like an Apple Store in some of them.

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In other ones, it's just

wall-to-wall product.

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Because they don't put the

products out on the floor.

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Everything's behind

the counters, you know?

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And they've got 50 different varieties of

gummies and 100 different vari- varieties

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of weed, and then big containers of, uh,

what they call deli weed, and it's just

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big containers open with weed, and they'll

get them down and let you sme- smell

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it, and they'll get you out four ounces

or whatever you wanna buy or whatever.

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You know what I mean?

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Dash (2): Yeah

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Beck: there'll be all the vapes that you

can imagine and all the disposables and

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all the gummies and it's, it's crazy how

many different things there are up there

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Dash (2): man, I have a, a rant that

I feel not bad about, but like…

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I mean, maybe I need to feel bad about it

depending on what this person's deal is.

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Um, Yeah.

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So somebody is either Fucking with me

intentionally or stupid or maybe suffering

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some sort of medical or mental event.

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But either way, it's, it's a big pro-

like, I have to do something about

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it because it's my psychiatrist.

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Beck: Oh no

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Dash (2): She is so odd.

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And, and it's remote.

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Like, I see her remotely 'cause

there's just not, like, options

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for that kind of thing around here.

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And, you know, they have to…

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Everybody has their own

goddamn app they have to use.

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She doesn't use MyChart.

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It's some, some third-party

janky ass thing.

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Like, it has n- always been a problem

even, you know, for me, and I'm

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accustomed to this kind of thing.

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And so maybe, maybe she

struggles with this.

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She seems to struggle with

technology in general.

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Like, whenever we meet online, her

audio's always cutting in and out because

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she has some, like, noise-canceling

thing behind her, and then she has a

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noise, background noise filter on her,

and so it's filtering out everything.

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And so I tried to tell her, I was

like, "You're cutting entirely out.

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I don't know what the

words you're saying are."

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And she just, she wo- this was our

very first meeting, and she just goes,

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"Well, my audio's up," and was, like,

not interested in troubleshooting.

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She was such a cunt to me on that,

in general, on that first meeting.

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And I was like, "Okay, and she's like,

"It must be something on your end."

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And I was like, "Yeah, I don't have

the fanciest equipment, but I think my

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podcasting studio is probably not the

problem with this, this," you know?

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Beck: Right

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Dash (2): so every time we meet, she has

to, we have to go through that, first of

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all, me going like, "I don't hear you.

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There are no words coming through.

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Turn off the noise-canceling thing

or turn off the background noise

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filter or use a real big girl headset

instead of those Bluetooth headphones.

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Like, something's not working in there."

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And so she then, she's like, "Well,

I'll just call you on the phone."

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So that was kind of like a giveaway.

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But this stupid app, every time I

have to communicate with her, which

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is the only way I can communicate

with her outside of appointments

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So, like, she asked me for something

like I had all this homework, right?

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She wanted me to go in somewhere

to a physical location and get them

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to take my vitals, blood pressure

and whatnot, and send it to her.

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And I was like, "Makes sense."

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So I found a place close by, and

then she wanted a letter from my

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cardiologist that I was- that it

was safe for me to take stimulants.

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And so I, I got that, and so I

sent it to her through this thing

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and I said, you know, "Here's

the cardi- cardiologist letter."

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And she says, " I'm not

able to open document.

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See if you can email it to the office."

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so I was like, " Uh, which office?"

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This is a-- You don't

have a physical location.

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This is a network, you know?

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It's kinda the whole deal.

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And I said, "Which office?

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I can't find an email address on

the main website linked to here.

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I can't find an email for you.

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The, the office that you are listed

at only has a fax number available,

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and I don't have a fax machine."

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And she replies with the physical address

of the thing I just described to her

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Beck: I don't mean to laugh.

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Dash (2): Uh, that's my…

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I w- I saw that and I was like, "What?"

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And then she, she…

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There was also a lot of other stuff

going on in this app that I th- that just

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couldn't, And so I didn't schedule, 'cause

I h- have to schedule through this app.

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And so somebody from the Big

Brother office called me, and

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they're like, "Your provider's

requesting you schedule with her."

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And I was like, "I- she's

not replying to my messages.

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Like, I had a question for her,

and I did the thing, I did the

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scheduling thing through the thing,

and she hasn't looked at it."

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And he was like, "Okay.

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Well, I'll schedule you then."

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And then I was like, "Okay.

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While I have somebody who can speak,

can you take a look at those messages

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and tell me what the hell's going on?"

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And he was like, "That is odd."

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And he goes, "First of all, I can

view that document just fine."

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And I was like, "Okay.

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Can you tell her how to do it?"

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Anyway, so we finally meet, and she gets

me on medication, and I don't like it.

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I'm not living on this medicine.

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It's, the side effects are, they're

side effects on, that are exacerbating

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something I was already dealing with

coming from testosterone therapy,

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which happens sometimes because trans

people, like, the effects on our

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bodies aren't really factored into

what people know or h- the knowledge

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they have readily available about

what side effects can look like.

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So what we thought we were gonna be

expecting was a lot worse, and I'm

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like, I, and I, when I went to that to

the, to the gyno doctor, she was like,

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"You don't have to live that way."

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Like, "You can say this

isn't working for me.

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I'm, I'm not comfortable."

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And I was like, "Yeah, I guess I can."

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And she goes, "Well, why don't we

do that gene test where you can,

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it'll tell us what medications you're

more likely to tolerate, you know?"

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And I, I said, "I, last, I just

heard," and this, ma- mind you,

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this is in like 2019, "that it

costs $3,000 to get that test run."

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She was like, "Maybe, but you're on

Medicaid, so I'm just gonna bill them."

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Beck: It cost Shanna $300 out of pocket

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Dash (2): I'm glad to hear it's

come down 'cause, uh, yeah.

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Beck: Yeah

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Dash (2): And so she did it, we got

the results back, and the medicine

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she has me on is in the red column.

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so it like, on top of that, it's also

just not the best medicine for me.

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So I sent her a message,

Very eh, yes, I say too much.

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I always do in, when I email people.

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I, I'm an over-explainer.

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But I said, "Hi, Dr.

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Last Name.

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I'm having a hard time with these

side effects, especially yada, yada.

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They're exacerbating an issue

I was already dealing with

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from testosterone therapy.

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My primary did a gene test to see,

uh, what meds would be more tolerable.

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Attached is the results.

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Will anything in the green column work

instead of what we have me on right now?"

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This was days ago.

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I was actually fixing to see if I could

call somebody and be like, "Can you

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make this woman check her messages?"

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But this morning she replies with…

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If you had infinite time, you would

never guess what she replied to me with.

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Beck: I'm

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afraid to ask

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Dash (2): She, said, " Michelle-

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Just Michelle

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Beck: That is insane.

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Dash (2): Is she okay?

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Beck: I thought mine was loopy.

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She talks about things like

reincarnation and, and, and,

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and crazy stuff all the time.

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The, not my therapist, the

lady that does my meds,

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Dash (2): Yeah.

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you can be crazy, I don't care, right?

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It, it, as long as it doesn't affect my

ability, you know, what we're here to do.

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Beck: Yeah

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Dash (2): And so this is like,

this should be super simple.

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Like, pick something from column

A that, uh, I mean, not like…

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I'm sure there's research involved.

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I'm sure she would wanna be like,

"Okay, is this medicine gonna do what

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this other, what we were hoping maybe?"

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I don't know.

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I don't know shit about her job,

but I would assume that it can be

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done in a, in a day or something.

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At least send a message and be like,

"Okay, yeah, I'll look into it."

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All I can think is she was trying

to forward the message or, like,

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copy somebody on it, which is

also weird, ' I don't know.

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I, I think she's just not good at the

technology, and you don't need to be…

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This is something I worry about

with teaching asynchronous.

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Like, what if I suck at the technology?

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You don't need to be doing telehealth

if you can't do the technology

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Beck: I started setting up

my large lecture class this

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week, and it is overwhelming.

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Dash (2): Oh, man.

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Beck: TAs, and I have to set up a

section for each of them w- with…

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I have to separate out all 300 students,

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'cause there's 297 the last time

I checked, people in the class.

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And so each, each TA- TI, they're

not TAs anymore, they're TIs.

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The TIs will have their own section

so that they can do all the grading

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independently and, and stuff like that.

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But I started looking at the readings

and the way she has everything

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set up, and it's just, it's a lot.

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But I got the course, like, copied over,

and I got the beginnings of it started.

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So

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Dash (2): That's,

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that's what it looks like when

somebody only has a, a 2.2

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teaching load.

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Beck: Yeah.

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Dash (2): they can go fucking

ham on their courses like that

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Beck: Yeah

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Dash (2): I, I'm glad you get to reuse

the materials, and it's gonna be fine.

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You know, it'll be a little…

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It'll be more work than, than

the other ones just acc- uh,

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like acclimatizing to it.

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Beck: Yeah.

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Dash (2): the I in TI instructor

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Beck: Yes

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Dash (2): I'm seeing that in a lot

of places, like a lot of folks that I

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talk to who work at other universities

Therapy Bro also was one of them, is

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they're changing the names of-- or

the titles of various positions in

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academia to deal with the inflating

requirements for, for getting a job.

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So like you have to have been in-- So

being a TA and it's not technically

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being an instructor of record, So

if it says instructor, the AI and

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credentialing departments are more

likely to see that as work experience

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Beck: Right.

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I'm hoping all of this pans out well for

me, that, like, the next place that I

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go will be like, "Well, you've already

handled some TIs and supervised these

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people and held a large lecture and taught

for 12 years," and that kind of thing.

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So I'm trying, bro

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Dash (2): Yeah, no, you're

doing all the right things.

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This, we've turned into higher

ed ta- cast again, so…

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We came here to play games and fuck around

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Beck: we did.

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Dash (2): and be stupid.

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Beck: Yes, we did.

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Yehaw

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Dash (2): Uh, we landed on…

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The wheel of what have you told

us to pl- to, to play some games

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today, which we said, "Okay."

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So I, I think I've found a way for us

to play my version of online Pictionary,

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s created something.

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We've got a pl- a brand-new game

here, the Queerneck special.

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What did you call it

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Beck: five-second holler.

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You get five seconds to,

I'm gonna give you a topic.

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It could be something like Dolly

Parton movies, and you have five

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seconds to list three of them.

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It could be things you find in a

dumpster, and you have five seconds

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to list three things that you

find in a dumpster, random things

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Dash (2): I'm already a

little stressed out about it.

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Which I think is the point

of games like that, you know?

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Beck: Yeah.

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Dash (2): just to, to up the anxiety a

little bit in the hopes that somebody

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says or does something stupid.

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Well, I'm excited for that.

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Uh, so I think…

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Well, I don't know,

Pictionary is also kinda dumb.

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For us to play Pictionary,

here's what I thought, like, for.

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We are gonna record this.

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We're gonna screen record what we draw

and, and post it on YouTube a- as a video

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instead of where you get the podcast feed,

and then we'll also, include it in the

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newsletter and host it on the Substack.

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W- wherever else, I don't know.

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I don't know where we'll put it.

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But in case you're somebody who doesn't

care to go and hunt down a video what I

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thought to keep it interesting while we're

drawing for the podcast is, like, the rule

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is you have to constantly be guessing.

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So whatever it looks like, the person's

drawing, like say I've just drawn,

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like, I've only gotten as far as,

like, a, a half a circle or something,

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you have to guess what that might be.

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And stupid answers, whatever.

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So like, you know, uh, it, it could be

a butt cheek, or it could be, it could

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be an umbrella, you know, whatever.

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Beck: Right

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Dash (2): you, you have

to constantly be guessing.

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And that way I thought it would be,

like, listeners, if y'all wanna be like,

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"What the hell are they talking about?"

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Like, you could be guessing too

based on what the person is guessing.

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Like, what is appearing on screen

that made Beck say butt cheek?

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Beck: It

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actually takes very little.

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Dash (2): Right?

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We'll see how it goes.

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If it absolutely sucks for audio,

I was gonna s- maybe, I probably

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won't cut it out, or whatever.

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You can just skip ahead if you don't like

it, but we won't do it again on, on…

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We'll save it for, you know,

a, a video only type of thing.

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But I have a feeling it's gonna

be funny, 'cause when I played

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this with the kids, it was…

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My stomach hurt the next day

from how much we laughed.

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My…

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One of the things I drew was

my phone screensaver for years.

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I, I'm gonna send you this thing I

drew, cause it has to be still in my

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phone somewhere, and it, it's, it's

my, one of my, like, pride and joys.

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I want it on my tombstone.

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It's the stupidest

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Beck: awesome.

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Dash (2): I've ever seen.

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Beck: I want a pepperoni on my tombstone

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Dash (2): Specifically

a Giovanni's pepperoni

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Beck: Yeah.

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They're, they're big.

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Dash (2): Do you, which

do you wanna play first?

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Should we just randomly flip a coin

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You can do all things through internet.

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Google flips coins for you.

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Okay, so, heads is

Pictionary, tails is, uh, fi-

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Beck: Five-second

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Dash (2): Second Holler.

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All right, we're gonna flip

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It's really taking…

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That's tails, so we're playing

five second holler first.

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Beck: All right.

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Dash (2): Nice.

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Beck: I thought I would count down.

362

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I would just be like one,

three, like with my fingers.

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Dash (2): Okay.

364

:

Yeah, yeah.

365

:

Beck: see me?

366

:

Dash (2): You are a

little bit out of frame.

367

:

Your hand is out of frame.

368

:

Yeah, there you go.

369

:

Beck: Okay, that's what I'll do.

370

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Dash (2): Yeah

371

:

Beck: cool.

372

:

All right.

373

:

Are we ready to start?

374

:

Dash (2): Yehaw, I'm nervous.

375

:

Beck: Okay.

376

:

All right, your first topic is we'll

do an easy one, campy horror movies

377

:

Dash (2): Um, Oh, I'm freezing.

378

:

H- uh, Halloween, Slaughter part…

379

:

Shit.

380

:

This is like word association

where your brain locks up.

381

:

Campy horror movies?

382

:

Beck: Do you wanna do longer?

383

:

Dash (2): I, I, I think I

do need 10 seconds maybe

384

:

Beck: Okay.

385

:

Or we could do eight second holler.

386

:

Dash (2): Okay, that's fine.

387

:

Beck: All right.

388

:

You ready

389

:

Dash (2): I'm embarrassed.

390

:

Yeah

391

:

Beck: Things Dash would buy at a yard sale

392

:

Dash (2): Uh, a hammock,

a coffee cup shoes,

393

:

Beck: There you

394

:

Dash (2): and a hat.

395

:

Beck: three.

396

:

Yeah.

397

:

You got four.

398

:

That's very good,

399

:

Dash (2): Okay, I'm not gonna be

able to count how many things I'm

400

:

saying while I'm also saying them.

401

:

Beck: w- I'll use two hands, one for each.

402

:

One for counting and one for counting.

403

:

All right things you should

not do at a family reunion

404

:

Dash (2): Talk about religion eat mom's

cookies sit next to my Uncle Ollie

405

:

Beck: You're gonna get belated

birthday whippings, huh?

406

:

Dash (2): No, and he, he has passed,

and he wasn't my uncle, but oh, God, it

407

:

was like losing, losing every lottery

at once being sat next to this guy.

408

:

He…

409

:

And it wasn't even really

anything wrong with him.

410

:

I mean, he was an asshole,

but he wasn't evil, you know?

411

:

He was a Republican but, like, stupid,

and you didn't really have to…

412

:

But he was deaf as a post and didn't

wear his hearing aids and always

413

:

wanted to have complex conversations

because he used to be a doctor.

414

:

And so you're just gonna be screaming

the same banal thing over and…

415

:

"Yeah, the weather in Minnesota.

416

:

Over and over."

417

:

Oh.

418

:

RIP

419

:

Beck: friend is deaf and she wears her

hearing aids, and it's, it's comical

420

:

sometimes having conversations with her.

421

:

I can imagine, I just can't imagine

somebody that doesn't wear them.

422

:

'Cause she tries real hard

and still you'll be like,

423

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"The grass was green today."

424

:

And she'll be like, "You know,

they, they flew the flag today."

425

:

What?

426

:

And you know, she just,

427

:

Dash (2): You know that game where

people, they put on headphones and

428

:

play music really loud in them and then

somebody talks to them and then they

429

:

have to guess what they're talking about?

430

:

Beck: Yeah.

431

:

Dash (2): I love watching

people play that game.

432

:

Beck: That must

433

:

be what it's like to be hard of hearing.

434

:

That's

435

:

Dash (2): It, can be.

436

:

Like I,

437

:

Beck: Yeah

438

:

Dash (2): uh, I go out sometimes now

and I forget my hearing aids because

439

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I d- don't talk to people, so I don't

really need them, and then I'm like,

440

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"Ugh, I don't know what you're saying.

441

:

I'm sorry."

442

:

Beck: I didn't know you

443

:

Dash (2): Wait.

444

:

Mm-hmm.

445

:

Yeah, I'm not…

446

:

Like I had gotten used to kind

of functioning without them.

447

:

I didn't realize I was d- and I knew

something was up, but I didn't realize I

448

:

was like that deaf until COVID, honestly.

449

:

Everybody walking around with masks

on, and I was like, "I have been

450

:

reading lips this whole time."

451

:

and so 'cause I was like it's not

that people were that much quieter

452

:

with the masks on 'cause even…

453

:

I would be like, "I'm

sorry, I can't hear you."

454

:

People would scream at me, and

I'm like, "Goddamn, I don't know

455

:

what the hell you just said."

456

:

And so I was working at SIU, and they had

a clinic there for people to study at.

457

:

That's one of the good things

about being at a university is

458

:

there's usually a resource around.

459

:

And I went over and got

tests done, and they're like,

460

:

"Yeah, you're deaf as a post."

461

:

Beck: Speaking of tests I sign up for

random things on the internet all the time

462

:

to do volunteer work and, and, and things.

463

:

And there was a study being

done for Parkinson's disease,

464

:

and it's a smell test.

465

:

And what they do is they send you

four little booklets, and each of

466

:

the booklets have, uh, 10 different

scratch-and-sniff areas on them.

467

:

And you have to decide, based on the four

options they give you, which one it is.

468

:

And it was things like leather and

peppermint and dandelions or…

469

:

I- that's the first thing.

470

:

I don't know what dandelions smell

like, but you get what I'm saying.

471

:

Dash (2): Yehaw

472

:

Beck: Peaches and, and

wood-burning and, you know, like,

473

:

all kinds of different things.

474

:

And you had to rub a pencil on

it, and then you would smell it

475

:

and mark it in, and then you had

to report your answers online.

476

:

Dash (2): Wow.

477

:

Beck: was really neat.

478

:

And I gave Shannon the booklet.

479

:

She showed it to everybody.

480

:

They've done all the scratch-and-sniffs,

'cause I only did half of the, the square.

481

:

That way sh- you know, she could

482

:

Dash (2): Yeah.

483

:

Beck: She showed it to everybody.

484

:

But it, it was really neat to do

485

:

Dash (2): That's incredible.

486

:

I wonder,

487

:

Beck: it's affiliated with the Michael J.,

488

:

M- M- the Michael J.

489

:

Fox Foundation.

490

:

I don't know what the…

491

:

They said there's a chance you could

be requested to do follow-up, and

492

:

I haven't heard anything from them.

493

:

Dash (2): Is that a bad sign?

494

:

Beck: N- I don't know.

495

:

I don't know if I have good smell or bad

smell or I'm just not in- I, I hope I'm

496

:

not very interesting is, is, is my point.

497

:

My grandmother had Parkinson's, so

498

:

Dash (2): Well, that's cool, I guess.

499

:

Beck: Yeah.

500

:

Dash (2): All right,

I'm ready for round two

501

:

Beck: All right, let's

see what we got here.

502

:

All right, towns in West Virginia

503

:

Dash (2): Oh, uh, Huntington,

that's the only one I know.

504

:

Is, is there a Smoky Tips?

505

:

Is there a Deer Lick?

506

:

Smoky Tips, West Virginia.

507

:

Beck: Smokey tips West Virginia.

508

:

Yeah, there's a Kermit.

509

:

There

510

:

is a, uh, Hurricane, not

hurricane, Hurricane.

511

:

there is, uh, Point Pleasant,

where Mothman is from.

512

:

Dash (2): Oh, damn.

513

:

Beck: Charleston, the capital.

514

:

Yeah.

515

:

Dash (2): that one

516

:

Beck: Yeah.

517

:

Kenova and Cerrito, two little towns

where C- uh, Camden, Camden Park

518

:

is between Huntington and Cerrito.

519

:

Uh, it's, it's, so that's where that's at.

520

:

All kinds of little towns through there.

521

:

Dash (2): Hmm.

522

:

Cool.

523

:

West Virginians.

524

:

Beck: Yeah, that's o- I

don't think they'll mind.

525

:

Nobody knows anything about West Virginia

526

:

Dash (2): They're not gonna be shocked.

527

:

Beck: yeah, exactly.

528

:

All right.

529

:

Uses for a Walmart bag

530

:

Dash (2): Okay.

531

:

Produce skin- uh, string

and beans, and feet.

532

:

Socks.

533

:

Uh, that's…

534

:

We did use them to

waterproof our shoes, so,

535

:

Beck: Okay.

536

:

Dash (2): feet.

537

:

That's all I could come

up with to say was feet.

538

:

Like somebody walking down the

road with some feet in a bag.

539

:

But we didn't have snow boots, so

we'd put socks on and then pull a

540

:

Walmart bag up over the socks and

then tie it with tape and then put our

541

:

shoes maybe rain boots or something.

542

:

But I didn't have rain boots either.

543

:

Just put our tennis shoes on

over that, and it would keep us

544

:

from getting frostbite, I think

545

:

Beck: I don't know how fun this

fact is, but it's a fact anyway.

546

:

Places like in Washington

State, uh, where there will be

547

:

a congruence of like, of, uh…

548

:

Oh, what's the word?

549

:

Uh, the p- the- the flow of the water.

550

:

Currents.

551

:

So the currents will meet

and, and that kind of…

552

:

Dash (2): Confluence

553

:

Beck: Yeah.

554

:

So they have a, a trend where shoes

with feet in them wash up on shore.

555

:

and it's because the body, when it's been

in water, it, like, comes apart, right?

556

:

But the foot, the shoe i-

is really stuffed in there,

557

:

and they are meant to float.

558

:

So the, when the, when the foot detaches

from the body, it gets into the water

559

:

current, and it washes up on shore.

560

:

So it's not like somebody's cutting

off feet and dumping bodies there.

561

:

It's just there's a lot of

people die in the water, and

562

:

their feet end up on the beach.

563

:

So

564

:

Dash (2): Oh.

565

:

Wow.

566

:

Beck: that with, "I don't know

how fun it is, but it's a fact."

567

:

Dash (2): Yeah, that wouldn't happen

in Appalachia 'cause nobody wears shoes

568

:

Beck: Yeah, exactly.

569

:

do.

570

:

I am a

571

:

Dash (2): I don't.

572

:

I hate…

573

:

Oh, God, I hate wearing shoes.

574

:

I'm, I'm barefoot every second I can be.

575

:

I…

576

:

Well, part of it's probably

because they don't fit me.

577

:

One foot is fully three inches

bigger than the other one, and

578

:

so every pair of shoes I wear

579

:

Everything I say about myself

makes me sound more like a hayseed.

580

:

Like, more like s- some mutant

that just rolled down the holler.

581

:

But the, the leg that's longer

also has a bigger foot, and you-

582

:

Beck: tell us you're

bucktoothed everything else

583

:

Dash (2): So I met somebody one time,

this was, uh, this boyfriend I had.

584

:

His dad was a huge asshole, and I

met him, and he learned I was from

585

:

Tennessee, and he's from Florida, right?

586

:

So he's very evolved, highly

evolved people in Florida.

587

:

And he goes, "You got all your teeth?"

588

:

And I said, "Yeah, actually.

589

:

Everybody in my family

has all of their teeth.

590

:

I said, "Do you have all of your teeth?"

591

:

And he said, "No, actually,

I have two falsies."

592

:

Beck: Bad teeth run so deep

in my family, it's crazy.

593

:

I've, I've had a p- veneers

since I was eight years old.

594

:

Like,

595

:

Dash (2): Yehaw

596

:

Beck: major dental work since I was a kid.

597

:

I took a,

598

:

a medicine called phenobarbital.

599

:

I don't know if…

600

:

You've probably

601

:

Dash (2): Yeah, you told me about that

602

:

Beck: yeah.

603

:

And I had calcium deposits in my teeth,

and so I had big brown spots on my teeth.

604

:

My mom was like, "Put 'em on there."

605

:

And so I, I got the

606

:

Dash (2): Now

607

:

Beck: whatever you call 'em

608

:

Dash (2): teeth and, and bone density

are where we hit the genetic jackpot.

609

:

Not much else.

610

:

But

611

:

Beck: I've never broken

a bone, so there's that.

612

:

But my aunt has broken her hip like

three times, so All right, I got

613

:

a couple more of these for you.

614

:

Dash (2): Yeah, let's do it

615

:

Beck: All right let's see here.

616

:

things your papaw keeps in the garage

617

:

Dash (2): Empty collector's liquor

bottles random mower blades, and oil

618

:

Beck: Very good.

619

:

Very good.

620

:

Dash (2): I can smell all

of those things right now

621

:

Beck: Men, man- men smell like

oil a lot, at least my dad did.

622

:

There's a very particular smell.

623

:

He tried to teach me how to change

my own oil, and I ended up with

624

:

more, more oil in my hair and on

the floor than actually in the car.

625

:

He had the biggest laugh from that.

626

:

He never asked me to do it

again, I'll tell you that

627

:

Dash (2): So sometimes, and I'm not saying

he did this, but we, we used to do this at

628

:

the bowling alley sometimes, ask somebody

to do something without showing them

629

:

the right way to do it so that they…

630

:

may- Adam, you know, maybe that happened,

but God, one time, uh, the first day

631

:

this guy showed up, he was a real…

632

:

He's, he was a, a decent guy, could

do just about anything, but didn't

633

:

know the proper way to do it,

like he could just figure it out.

634

:

And he was really proud of

that, and that's f- fine.

635

:

You should be proud of being,

able to do that kinda thing.

636

:

But occasionally, I think our

supervisor wanted him to know

637

:

that, like, these machines are…

638

:

You can't just fuck around

and find out on a pin setter.

639

:

Like, you'll break it.

640

:

There are…

641

:

You do need to read the manuals.

642

:

You do need to get familiar with what

the parts actually are and stuff.

643

:

And so he we h- had this a buffer.

644

:

You know what I'm talking about?

645

:

The f- the thing you put on,

wax the floors with, this.

646

:

Beck: Yehaw.

647

:

Yeah

648

:

Dash (2): If you've ever run

one of those, you can prob- you

649

:

know where this story's going.

650

:

But in case you haven't, they run on

a big wheel that spins all the time,

651

:

and if you don't know how to keep that

level, it, you know, catches either…

652

:

If you…

653

:

So for instance, it's spinning clockwise,

and if you let it go forward like

654

:

this, it just takes off and runs away

because of the centripetal force.

655

:

So that's actually how

you steer it, right?

656

:

Say you wanna, like, move this way,

you just gradually tilt it forward

657

:

and it goes this way, and then you,

to come back around, you gradually

658

:

tilt it back and it goes this way.

659

:

Once you know how to

do it, it's super easy.

660

:

But if you don't, it's

gonna fuck you up, man.

661

:

You're going for a ride,

because they are so powerful.

662

:

The torque on those things is

incredible, 'cause it has to be

663

:

fast enough, it has to be moving

fast enough to be kind of hovering.

664

:

And so he just didn't tell this guy

that, and he, and s- 'cause he was like,

665

:

"Oh, okay, yeah, I'll figure it out."

666

:

Man, he lit that thing up, and it's

got a big yellow switch on the front

667

:

so that you can't accidentally hit it.

668

:

And so he flipped that thing, and

it just vroom, all the way down th-

669

:

all 32 lanes of the bowling alley.

670

:

Beck: Oh,

671

:

wow.

672

:

Dash (2): And, it circled around him,

his legs, and wrapped him in the cord.

673

:

So it didn't…

674

:

It, it tripped him.

675

:

It wasn't strong enough to drag him the

whole way, so it did eventually, like,

676

:

it let go of him, but the first thing

it did was go all the way around him and

677

:

wrap him in the cord, and then the cord,

like, ripped off of his legs, like vroom.

678

:

It made this sound.

679

:

He said it made his jeans burn like

rope burn, and then off it, off

680

:

it went, down the bowling alley.

681

:

Thank God it was 9:00 in the morning

and nobody was in there, 'cause that

682

:

would've killed one of those blue-haired

old ladies that comes in to bowl at…

683

:

Beck: My mom was on a Wednesday afternoon

league and it was all blue hairs and

684

:

Dash (2): Yehaw.

685

:

You know?

686

:

Some, some lesbians that never found love.

687

:

It's mostly what those leagues are.

688

:

Beck: We have had a, we have had a,

Shana's coworkers they are falling in

689

:

love and she's been egging them on.

690

:

She keeps sending her kiss the girl memes

691

:

Dash (2): Aw.

692

:

Beck: yeah, it's

693

:

really cute.

694

:

There's been a whole drama

695

:

Dash (2): is this the first time for them?

696

:

Is this a, like a coming out thing?

697

:

Beck: of, yeah, for, they've

been best friends, quote

698

:

unquote, for a long time now.

699

:

Dash (2): Yeah

700

:

Beck: of them is lesbian, one

of them is so-called straight.

701

:

But she's been sending

every signal in the book.

702

:

She's, she told her she told her

that she, uh, made a Tinder and

703

:

that she put that she liked girls

on there for the first time.

704

:

Like, duh.

705

:

Like, kiss the girl.

706

:

Like, come on.

707

:

Dash (2): out also, you

708

:

Beck: Yeah

709

:

Dash (2): you're besties

already, so you do have to…

710

:

That's tricky.

711

:

I get it.

712

:

And, and lesbians, they're the worst,

713

:

Beck: sheep.

714

:

Have you heard that theory

or that, that, that idea?

715

:

Dash (2): I, I saw a cartoon

about it, but please explain

716

:

Beck: so lesbian sheep, we would

never know if they existed because if

717

:

a sheep woman, if a sheep girl wants

sex, she basically waits to be mounted.

718

:

She presents herself to be mounted.

719

:

So if you have two sh- lesbian sheep

and they are both waiting to be mounted,

720

:

nothing is ever gonna happen, and

that is such a metaphor for lesbianism

721

:

that I can't take it, you know?

722

:

Dash (2): They're just g- they have

to, like, ba- present their butts

723

:

to each other and slowly back up.

724

:

Beck: We

725

:

Dash (2): Beep,

726

:

Beck: landing

727

:

Dash (2): There's something

about gay sheep too.

728

:

Like the male sheep, th- there's a, a lot

of gay ones, and I think it's in Scotland.

729

:

In some place they, if they won't

breed, they sh- they are destroyed.

730

:

And so there's this gay dude who

has a whole farm of these gay sheep

731

:

Beck: about it.

732

:

I heard about that.

733

:

Dash (2): And he sells their wool.

734

:

I think that's how he, he, uh,

runs the thing, and I, I…

735

:

We should look into that and, and see,

see what kind of products he has, 'cause

736

:

that's just so fucking weird and cool.

737

:

It's…

738

:

A- and he seems happy as hell,

so good for everybody involved.

739

:

Happy for those sheep.

740

:

Beck: Yeah

741

:

So I called them, we

called them lesbian sheep.

742

:

They were like, "Call me out, damn it."

743

:

Dash (2): Well, and if it's somebody that

you've been friends with a long time and

744

:

you're start- there, there's a reason

they make movies about this, you know?

745

:

Like, falling in love with your

best friend is complicated.

746

:

Beck: Yeah

747

:

Dash (2): when there's, when it's further

complicated by something like queerness or

748

:

a minoritized identity and for one person

in particular it's they're coming out,

749

:

you wanna get that right, but it can also,

like, wanting to get it right can make you

750

:

fuck it up because you don't do anything

751

:

Beck: Well, Shanna and I were

best friends for about six months

752

:

before anything happened, and

she was a straight girl and I was

753

:

Dash (2): Yehaw

754

:

Beck: And she got jealous.

755

:

I dated while we were friends, 'cause why

756

:

Dash (2): That yeah.

757

:

Beck: got real jealous a couple times.

758

:

But I let her come to me 'cause I

759

:

thought that was the safest bet.

760

:

You know, if she never did, then

I wouldn't ruin our friendship.

761

:

But she did, and worked out.

762

:

22 years

763

:

later, here we are

764

:

Dash (2): b- but like coming to you,

that can look like a lot of things.

765

:

So this girl saying to her friend,

"I made a Tinder and put that I liked

766

:

women on it," that's coming to her.

767

:

Beck: Yeah.

768

:

Exactly.

769

:

Dash (2): it's actually genius, right?

770

:

Because the Tinder piece, that

signals I would like to be asked out.

771

:

You know, like I'm soliciting

invitations to go on dates.

772

:

So yeah, at that point,

if you wanna, you gotta.

773

:

Beck: Yeah.

774

:

Dash (2): Well, keep us updated.

775

:

We wanna know

776

:

Beck: We're all invested in this now.

777

:

Dash (2): Yeah.

778

:

Beck: the same name, so it's extra cute

779

:

Dash (2): It's extra gay too

780

:

Beck: Yeah.

781

:

Dash (2): I'm gonna go

downstairs and get another drink.

782

:

I'll be right back.

783

:

Beck: Okay

784

:

Dash (2): I usually bring a spare

785

:

Did you sing us another song?

786

:

Beck: No, I did not.

787

:

Did you like the last one I did?

788

:

Dash (2): Yeah, do you like what I did?

789

:

I put some music under it.

790

:

Well, that was fun.

791

:

The new game Eight Second

Holler, is now what it is.

792

:

I can't believe I fucked up

campy horror movies so bad.

793

:

I just wasn't expecting it, you know?

794

:

And then y- then you fuck it up

because you're nervous okay.

795

:

Now I'm on the Zoom.

796

:

No.

797

:

How do I draw?

798

:

It's been a minute.

799

:

Oh.

800

:

Oh, there we go

801

:

Maybe not

802

:

All right.

803

:

See, you're, you're already…

804

:

You're gonna beat me at this because

I just can't draw, and this is also m-

805

:

a way more difficult kind of drawing.

806

:

Beck: Yeah,

807

:

with your mouse?

808

:

Dash (2): Well, I'm using a trackpad

809

:

Beck: Ah

810

:

Dash (2): 'cause, uh, I don't have a mouse

811

:

Beck: I insist upon it.

812

:

I'm terrible with the, with the mouse,

the, well, the, the included one.

813

:

I always buy a mouse

814

:

Dash (2): I probably should.

815

:

I mean, this, 'cause I have carpal tunnel.

816

:

This isn't helping me out any.

817

:

Okay, so who goes first?

818

:

We should, we could flip another coin

819

:

Beck: Go for it

820

:

Dash (2): If you, if anybody ever

needs to flip a coin, if you just

821

:

Google coin flip, there's a little

widget in Google that comes up and

822

:

you just click on it and it flips.

823

:

All right.

824

:

So do you want heads or tails?

825

:

Beck: Tails

826

:

Dash (2): All right.

827

:

Let me finish what I was

doing first and then…

828

:

Okay, it's tails.

829

:

So you, you go first, I guess.

830

:

Beck: Okay.

831

:

Familiarize myself with the tools here.

832

:

Okay, tell me when to go.

833

:

Am I drawing first or guessing first?

834

:

Dash (2): Y- you're drawing, so yeah.

835

:

Beck: Okay.

836

:

Are you

837

:

ready to start?

838

:

Dash (2): Yeah, let's do it

839

:

Beck: Okay

840

:

Dash (2): Hammock, canoe, coffee, toilet.

841

:

Uh, uh, what?

842

:

A sundae, ice cream cone?

843

:

Beck: There you go, ice cream cone.

844

:

Dash (2): That's a really good one.

845

:

Beck: Yeah.

846

:

Dash (2): Wow.

847

:

We don't have a timer or anything.

848

:

Should we put a timer on?

849

:

Beck: No, we'll know when

it's time to be dead.

850

:

Dash (2): Right, yeah.

851

:

When it's no longer fun.

852

:

Beck: Clear my drawings.

853

:

All right, so go

854

:

Dash (2): Oh, how did you, how did

you do that where it cleared it all?

855

:

Beck: there's a garbage

can over here in the menu

856

:

Dash (2): Oh, okay.

857

:

Cool.

858

:

All right.

859

:

Let me get my word.

860

:

Oh, this is

861

:

Not gonna be haint.

862

:

All right.

863

:

We ready?

864

:

Beck: Yes

865

:

Dash (2): Uh, okay

866

:

Beck: A barn.

867

:

It's a house.

868

:

It's a milk jug.

869

:

It's a knee.

870

:

Dash (2): Oh, it is a knee.

871

:

How the fuck did you do that?

872

:

Beck: It looks like Anita, me.

873

:

Dash (2): Hell yeah.

874

:

That's the best I've ever done.

875

:

Beck: Woo-hoo Excellent.

876

:

All right, I need a

877

:

Dash (2): Wow.

878

:

Oops

879

:

Beck: It's thinking.

880

:

Dash (2): go up now.

881

:

You gotta go up to medium,

'cause we did easy first

882

:

Beck: Okay.

883

:

Dash (2): Let's d- let's do medium now

884

:

Beck: Oh, God.

885

:

Okay, uh Uh

886

:

Dash (2): Nose.

887

:

Mount Everest

888

:

It's a snake?

889

:

Robin Hood.

890

:

Beck: Oh, this is terrible.

891

:

Let me start over.

892

:

Dash (2): No, you can't.

893

:

Beck: Oh no, that's not what I want.

894

:

No, I need the painter.

895

:

There we go

896

:

Dash (2): Barney.

897

:

Trixie Mattel.

898

:

Snoopy

899

:

Loch Ness Monster.

900

:

A s- a mermaid

901

:

Beck: Mm.

902

:

Dash (2): s-

903

:

Beck: gonna

904

:

Dash (2): a,

905

:

Beck: help

906

:

Dash (2): a sea serpent with ears.

907

:

Beck: Here, we'll give

you a mini ring too.

908

:

Dash (2): A pirate?

909

:

Is it a snake?

910

:

What?

911

:

Beck: No

912

:

Dash (2): That didn't help

913

:

Beck: Hmm.

914

:

Maybe they have this

915

:

Dash (2): Alligator?

916

:

Beck: Oh.

917

:

All right, are you ready to give up?

918

:

Dash (2): Yeah

919

:

Beck: It's a seahorse

920

:

Dash (2): Oh, man.

921

:

That's not bad actually.

922

:

That's pretty good.

923

:

Why the earring?

924

:

Why does it have an earring?

925

:

Beck: 'cause I'm stupid.

926

:

He's a fancy seahorse

927

:

Dash (2): Well, you know, now that

you say it, it's not bad actually.

928

:

I can see it

929

:

Beck: I tried to give you

the sea w- with the water.

930

:

Yeah.

931

:

Dash (2): Y- you could have drawn that

and a horse, although I don't know if

932

:

a horse would be any easier to draw

933

:

Beck: True.

934

:

that.

935

:

All

936

:

Dash (2): that was quite a bit harder.

937

:

Beck: All right, let's try a next one.

938

:

Hi, Rue

939

:

Dash (2): I don't think…

940

:

Okay, I'll do it, but it's,

this feels like cheating.

941

:

I feel like you're gonna

get it based on things

942

:

Beck: All

943

:

Dash (2): What's Peta doing?

944

:

Yeah

945

:

Beck: A butt nugget is what

she is, a nugget of butt

946

:

Dash (2): You don't say.

947

:

All right.

948

:

Uh, okay.

949

:

So

950

:

Beck: It's a barn.

951

:

It's a knee.

952

:

It's a foot.

953

:

It's an ankle

954

:

It's a paw.

955

:

a heel.

956

:

Dash (2): Yehaw, yeah.

957

:

Beck: I guessed all around it.

958

:

Dash (2): Well, and it…

959

:

That's why I said it feels like cheating

because it was so related to the last one.

960

:

I almost

961

:

Beck: Right

962

:

Dash (2): got a new one, but then that

felt like cheating too, so you know

963

:

Beck: I got an easy, I

got an easy one this time.

964

:

Dash (2): Well, did you

remem- did you go up?

965

:

Beck: The hard?

966

:

Dash (2): Yeah.

967

:

We're gonna go up each time.

968

:

Beck: Okay, all right.

969

:

Oh shit.

970

:

right.

971

:

Dash (2): Okay.

972

:

Beck: All

973

:

Dash (2): I will…

974

:

I already know I'm not gonna get it

975

:

The table, a house, a barn, a hospital

976

:

A chapel?

977

:

A church?

978

:

A tower, a lookout tower?

979

:

Mailbox?

980

:

Post office?

981

:

Beck: Post office, there you go.

982

:

Dash (2): Pretty good

983

:

That looks, this looks like

a creature, this mailbox here

984

:

Beck: With a smile.

985

:

Dash (2): Yeah.

986

:

Beck: good with legs of things

987

:

Dash (2): This, I mean,

this was pretty good.

988

:

We got it.

989

:

We, I, I think we've gotten three.

990

:

All but the one, the seahorse, I think

991

:

Beck: Yeah, all but the seahorse.

992

:

All right, your turn

993

:

Dash (2): Okay.

994

:

Beck: It's a man.

995

:

It's a baby.

996

:

It's a linebacker.

997

:

It's a dentist chair.

998

:

It is a It's Mothman.

999

:

It is a torso.

:

00:41:22,190 --> 00:41:25,440

It is the heart, the lungs.

:

00:41:25,700 --> 00:41:26,580

Dash (2): Lung, yeah

:

00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:28,200

Beck: There you go.

:

00:41:31,148 --> 00:41:31,748

Dash (2): Wait a minute.

:

00:41:34,003 --> 00:41:36,143

Uh, we need to take a screenshot of that.

:

00:41:37,943 --> 00:41:38,373

How do we do it?

:

00:41:39,323 --> 00:41:39,673

Beck: Let's see.

:

00:41:39,673 --> 00:41:40,033

I can…

:

00:41:40,053 --> 00:41:41,823

Let me see if my

screenshot here will work.

:

00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:45,550

Dash (2): I remember save.

:

00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,650

Okay, I can save it as a PNG, okay.

:

00:41:49,326 --> 00:41:51,796

Beck: I, I saved it as

a screensaver shot too.

:

00:41:51,852 --> 00:41:52,442

Dash (2): Nice.

:

00:41:52,502 --> 00:41:53,112

Okay.

:

00:41:55,122 --> 00:41:55,502

Whew.

:

00:41:56,202 --> 00:41:56,622

All right.

:

00:41:56,862 --> 00:41:59,772

Now extremely, really hard.

:

00:42:00,236 --> 00:42:00,936

Beck: Oh, God.

:

00:42:00,996 --> 00:42:02,696

All right, let's see what we get here.

:

00:42:04,025 --> 00:42:04,395

What?

:

00:42:06,661 --> 00:42:07,991

I'm, I'm vetoing that one.

:

00:42:08,001 --> 00:42:08,941

That one's too hard.

:

00:42:08,961 --> 00:42:11,901

Okay, that one's really hard too,

but we're, we'll, we'll try it.

:

00:42:12,191 --> 00:42:12,721

Dash (2): Okay.

:

00:42:13,381 --> 00:42:14,991

Beck: Oh God, how do you do this?

:

00:42:16,731 --> 00:42:18,231

All right, let's do

:

00:42:18,931 --> 00:42:19,471

Dash (2): Table

:

00:42:20,171 --> 00:42:24,491

Graph, chart, stock market

:

00:42:26,689 --> 00:42:27,519

Profits?

:

00:42:27,888 --> 00:42:29,148

Beck: There you go, profit.

:

00:42:30,689 --> 00:42:31,709

Dash (2): That was good.

:

00:42:31,729 --> 00:42:32,779

You're good at this

:

00:42:33,479 --> 00:42:36,399

Beck: I'm really good at Taboo

I'm glad you got that from that

:

00:42:37,143 --> 00:42:37,553

Dash (2): Yeah.

:

00:42:37,853 --> 00:42:38,573

It's pretty good.

:

00:42:38,809 --> 00:42:40,019

I was thinking stalks

:

00:42:41,367 --> 00:42:41,707

All right.

:

00:42:42,197 --> 00:42:43,237

Really hard.

:

00:42:43,537 --> 00:42:44,527

Last one.

:

00:42:44,747 --> 00:42:47,657

There is no way you're gonna

get this one, and there's no way

:

00:42:47,657 --> 00:42:49,417

whatever I draw is gonna be helpful.

:

00:42:51,027 --> 00:42:52,667

So just so you know

:

00:42:53,538 --> 00:42:54,818

Beck: It is a banana.

:

00:42:55,458 --> 00:42:56,198

It is a hat.

:

00:42:57,608 --> 00:42:58,568

It's a bird.

:

00:42:59,298 --> 00:43:00,118

It's a snail.

:

00:43:01,188 --> 00:43:03,998

It's a feather.

:

00:43:05,718 --> 00:43:08,618

It is in your cap.

:

00:43:09,928 --> 00:43:13,388

It is a wing.

:

00:43:14,448 --> 00:43:18,868

It is Carmen San Diego.

:

00:43:20,548 --> 00:43:22,278

It is Yankee Doodle Dandy

:

00:43:24,378 --> 00:43:26,748

It is the Easter Bunny.

:

00:43:27,265 --> 00:43:28,295

It is, uh,

:

00:43:30,555 --> 00:43:31,605

shit, I don't know.

:

00:43:31,905 --> 00:43:36,916

It is a scarecrow It is a fisherman.

:

00:43:39,816 --> 00:43:40,226

It is a

:

00:43:42,236 --> 00:43:43,316

Dash (2): Out of signifiers.

:

00:43:43,316 --> 00:43:46,466

I can't think of anything

else associated with this.

:

00:43:49,242 --> 00:43:50,552

Beck: Amateur radio.

:

00:43:54,926 --> 00:43:57,216

Dash (2): Yeah, I can't

think of anything else.

:

00:43:57,346 --> 00:43:58,076

Maybe

:

00:43:58,605 --> 00:43:59,005

Beck: Sailboat?

:

00:44:00,004 --> 00:44:00,764

GPS

:

00:44:01,464 --> 00:44:02,834

Dash (2): Yeah, this isn't gonna happen.

:

00:44:03,534 --> 00:44:04,364

Do you give up?

:

00:44:05,048 --> 00:44:05,508

Beck: I give up

:

00:44:06,208 --> 00:44:07,698

Dash (2): It's a buccaneer.

:

00:44:10,717 --> 00:44:11,557

Beck: Was that a sword?

:

00:44:11,577 --> 00:44:12,297

What is that on his

:

00:44:12,510 --> 00:44:15,520

Dash (2): Yeah, it's a cutlass,

and these, these are feathers.

:

00:44:17,491 --> 00:44:21,631

That's the only thing

you know, was a boner.

:

00:44:22,331 --> 00:44:23,121

Beck: That's funny.

:

00:44:23,235 --> 00:44:24,235

Well, that was fun.

:

00:44:24,286 --> 00:44:26,566

Dash (2): Not one of the worst

things I've drawn, honestly.

:

00:44:29,852 --> 00:44:30,422

Oh, yeah.

:

00:44:32,092 --> 00:44:33,812

Well, thanks for doing that.

:

00:44:33,822 --> 00:44:34,222

That was

:

00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:36,300

Beck: We should do that again soon.

:

00:44:36,300 --> 00:44:36,800

It was fun

:

00:44:37,242 --> 00:44:37,612

Dash (2): Yeah.

:

00:44:39,492 --> 00:44:43,802

Well, let's take a break and

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00:46:58,188 --> 00:46:59,708

Dash (2): Do you remember

her, Marie Kondo?

:

00:47:00,154 --> 00:47:00,724

Beck: Oh yeah.

:

00:47:00,894 --> 00:47:01,404

Oh yeah.

:

00:47:01,578 --> 00:47:02,708

Dash (2): She pissed me off so bad

:

00:47:04,134 --> 00:47:05,544

Beck: I did not follow that at all.

:

00:47:05,974 --> 00:47:09,084

Uh, the, the, when I learned to

declutter was when I had to clean out

:

00:47:09,084 --> 00:47:11,384

my parents' belongings after they died.

:

00:47:11,597 --> 00:47:15,387

cleaning out your family's

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:

00:47:15,607 --> 00:47:16,977

what's the word I'm looking for?

:

00:47:17,447 --> 00:47:19,757

A minimalist, like immediately

:

00:47:19,966 --> 00:47:25,916

Dash (2): Just everything about that

felt so not just tone deaf, it, it felt

:

00:47:25,976 --> 00:47:31,336

oblivious for sure out of touch with what

it's like to really live in the world.

:

00:47:32,166 --> 00:47:34,856

But it also felt disordered to me.

:

00:47:35,756 --> 00:47:36,156

Like

:

00:47:36,330 --> 00:47:39,300

Beck: think it was, uh, big

entertainment's way of getting

:

00:47:39,300 --> 00:47:43,620

everybody to get rid of their DVDs and

CDs and media, and now all you have

:

00:47:43,620 --> 00:47:45,200

to s- you have to stream everything

:

00:47:45,548 --> 00:47:48,508

Dash (2): The fact that it was

a viral sensation on Netflix,

:

00:47:49,258 --> 00:47:52,558

and then at the advent of…

:

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This is getting into the media studies

weeds, but it was called the Netflix

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effect in around:

streaming services began to, to dominate.

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00:48:04,230 --> 00:48:11,000

There was, what you were just talking

about, a, a rhetoric, a culture of get

:

00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:16,190

rid of your physical media, everything

is on demand, streaming, whatever now.

:

00:48:16,250 --> 00:48:19,830

And that actually is, was the

moment I really leaned into

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00:48:19,860 --> 00:48:21,380

collecting physical media.

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That was when my VHS

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Beck: queernecks.captivate.fm

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Dash (2): really started to explode.

:

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I went looking for stuff

a couple times a week.

:

00:48:28,792 --> 00:48:34,032

But this thing, this happened when w-

our fir- first, nah, not first year, but

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00:48:34,042 --> 00:48:37,632

early on in us moving up there to Bowling

Green, and I just remember, like, this

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00:48:37,632 --> 00:48:42,442

feels so class and ugly and judgmental.

:

00:48:42,792 --> 00:48:46,522

And then if you criticize it, people are

like, "Well, it's based in Shinto beliefs,

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00:48:46,532 --> 00:48:49,462

so you're being really xenophobic."

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00:48:49,552 --> 00:48:54,680

And I was like, " you're a white person

in Northwest Ohio, so I don't think that's

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00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:56,390

for you to criticize me for, but whatever.

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00:48:56,630 --> 00:49:03,040

And if that's true, again, incompatible

with what my life requires out

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00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:04,580

of my items and belongings.

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00:49:05,735 --> 00:49:06,195

Beck: Right

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00:49:06,810 --> 00:49:09,800

Dash (2): But then, so I s- I Googled

her before I wrote this, 'cause

:

00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:12,260

I was like, "I don't wanna say

something real fucked up in case…"

:

00:49:12,630 --> 00:49:15,880

But I think I was right about

the disordered piece, 'cause

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00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:17,250

this woman is not well.

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Beck: Yehaw

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Dash (2): She has ki- kind

of a brief Wikipedia page.

:

00:49:21,730 --> 00:49:26,254

Every word of it screams kinda

why she is the way she is.

:

00:49:26,744 --> 00:49:32,484

Kondo claims her study of neatness

began at age five when feng shui

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00:49:32,524 --> 00:49:34,614

became trendy in Tokyo, Japan.

:

00:49:34,857 --> 00:49:38,167

Its Japanese equivalent was called fushui.

:

00:49:38,907 --> 00:49:43,977

Tokyo is in Japan, but I think

this is maybe referring to how

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00:49:44,097 --> 00:49:49,037

Tokyo is very its own thing and

compared to the rest of Japan.

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But I- that's speculation.

:

00:49:51,837 --> 00:49:53,267

I didn't read into these sources.

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00:49:53,337 --> 00:49:57,457

Her mother, quote, "Was applying

the method, but to Kondo's eye,

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00:49:57,497 --> 00:49:59,197

the house was not tidy enough."

:

00:49:59,631 --> 00:50:00,191

End quote.

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00:50:00,321 --> 00:50:01,341

At five.

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00:50:01,655 --> 00:50:06,395

As a result, Kondo began implementing

the tidying up process at this

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00:50:06,425 --> 00:50:08,335

age to help her mother's efforts.

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Beck: Oh, wow

:

00:50:10,905 --> 00:50:11,495

Dash (2): Yeah.

:

00:50:12,115 --> 00:50:19,608

She attended a private Quaker school in

Minato, Tokyo In junior school, Kondo

:

00:50:19,618 --> 00:50:23,218

would run into the classroom to tidy up

bookshelves while her classmates were

:

00:50:23,218 --> 00:50:25,408

playing in physical education class

:

00:50:26,108 --> 00:50:27,288

Beck: You're absolutely right

:

00:50:27,593 --> 00:50:30,083

I had a friend whose husband would

throw away anything you left on

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the counter or the, the table.

:

00:50:32,193 --> 00:50:36,393

Like, it didn't matter if it was your

recent telephone bill or it was a speeding

:

00:50:36,393 --> 00:50:38,373

ticket or it was your birth certificate.

:

00:50:38,373 --> 00:50:40,613

If it was on the table or on the

counter, it was getting thrown away.

:

00:50:40,953 --> 00:50:41,133

And

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Dash (2): What the fuck?

:

00:50:42,353 --> 00:50:44,273

Beck: a pathological thing sometimes

:

00:50:44,549 --> 00:50:46,209

Dash (2): Well, that also sounds punitive.

:

00:50:46,661 --> 00:50:47,441

Beck: He was a dick

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00:50:47,823 --> 00:50:48,263

Dash (2): yeah.

:

00:50:48,495 --> 00:50:51,375

So it goes on, "Whenever there

were nominations for class roles,

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00:50:51,385 --> 00:50:54,435

she did not seek to be class

representative or the pet feeder."

:

00:50:54,475 --> 00:50:56,315

This is so oddly specific who wrote this.

:

00:50:56,595 --> 00:51:02,275

"Instead, she yearned to be the bookshelf

manager to continue tidying up books.

:

00:51:02,545 --> 00:51:06,875

She said she experienced a

breakthrough in organizing one day.

:

00:51:08,695 --> 00:51:11,295

Quote, 'I was obsessed with

what I could throw away.

:

00:51:11,325 --> 00:51:14,585

One day, I had a kind of

nervous breakdown and fainted.

:

00:51:14,905 --> 00:51:16,815

I was unconscious for two hours.

:

00:51:16,835 --> 00:51:21,665

When I came to, I heard a mysterious

voice, like some god of tidying,

:

00:51:21,965 --> 00:51:26,085

telling me to look at my things more

closely, and I realized my mistake.

:

00:51:26,445 --> 00:51:28,665

I was only looking for

things to throw out.

:

00:51:28,675 --> 00:51:31,555

What I've, what I should be

doing is finding the things I

:

00:51:31,555 --> 00:51:34,435

want to keep, identifying the

things that make you happy.

:

00:51:34,465 --> 00:51:36,005

That is the work of tidying.'"

:

00:51:36,705 --> 00:51:38,385

There's, there's more here.

:

00:51:38,385 --> 00:51:39,935

I, I won't go into it.

:

00:51:39,965 --> 00:51:43,835

There's plenty of her words, but yeah,

like this is, this is not a well person

:

00:51:44,535 --> 00:51:45,465

Beck: Doesn't sound like it.

:

00:51:46,165 --> 00:51:48,045

Cleaning does not spark joy for me.

:

00:51:48,045 --> 00:51:51,932

I don't know about other

people, but I find it a chore

:

00:51:52,119 --> 00:51:52,549

Dash (2): Yeah.

:

00:51:53,149 --> 00:51:56,939

See, Kondo says that her method is

partly inspired by Shinto religion,

:

00:51:57,379 --> 00:52:02,454

but not derivative of any of its

tenets Cleaning and organizing can be a

:

00:52:02,464 --> 00:52:09,541

spiritual practice in Shintoism So this

is like their version of Christianity

:

00:52:09,911 --> 00:52:14,621

picking and choosing scripture to

support whatever they feel like.

:

00:52:15,098 --> 00:52:17,418

Beck: I've heard that called

cafeteria Christianity.

:

00:52:17,451 --> 00:52:18,991

Dash (2): Ooh, I like that.

:

00:52:19,458 --> 00:52:19,818

Beck: Yeah

:

00:52:25,610 --> 00:52:30,608

Dash (2): about the, the scrounging,

though, my childhood was filled

:

00:52:30,608 --> 00:52:32,318

with all kinds of things like this.

:

00:52:32,678 --> 00:52:36,288

My dad traveled a lot for

work, but not the, the, like,

:

00:52:36,308 --> 00:52:37,458

middle class kind of traveling.

:

00:52:37,828 --> 00:52:41,208

Like, he drove trains,

and so there were…

:

00:52:41,728 --> 00:52:45,438

He would stay in those, like,

motels that were just a room

:

00:52:45,498 --> 00:52:46,598

with a little bathroom in it.

:

00:52:46,888 --> 00:52:53,408

the trains didn't have plumbing or toilets

on them, so they would shit in these bags.

:

00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:56,640

I'm guessing there's a disposal system.

:

00:52:57,164 --> 00:53:01,794

for, for hygiene, I guess, or to- the,

the railroad would give them these

:

00:53:02,474 --> 00:53:05,274

packs of, like, plastic bags filled…

:

00:53:05,364 --> 00:53:10,594

They would each have a bar of soap, a

roll, or not a roll, but, like, you know

:

00:53:10,594 --> 00:53:16,204

a flat pack of tissue paper that was,

like, the most God-awful single-ply,

:

00:53:16,664 --> 00:53:20,374

crackly, like, y- you couldn't wipe

your nose with it because it would

:

00:53:20,374 --> 00:53:21,934

just disintegrate inside your nose.

:

00:53:22,592 --> 00:53:23,022

Beck: Right

:

00:53:23,704 --> 00:53:29,414

Dash (2): And the plastic bags to shit

in, maybe some tissue oh, alcohol wipes.

:

00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:33,150

And so for every trip he went on,

he would get one of those packs,

:

00:53:33,410 --> 00:53:34,850

and I guess didn't always use them.

:

00:53:34,850 --> 00:53:39,520

So our bathrooms, like the,

the cabinets under the sink,

:

00:53:39,550 --> 00:53:41,140

were stuffed full of those.

:

00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:43,380

There were thousands of

those i- in our house.

:

00:53:44,420 --> 00:53:47,000

That's where our, uh,

paper towels came from.

:

00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:51,790

That's the toilet paper we

used, was that shitty-ass stuff.

:

00:53:52,290 --> 00:53:54,640

That was our soap that we washed with.

:

00:53:54,990 --> 00:53:58,810

He then, at the hotels, you

know the little shampoo bottles

:

00:53:58,850 --> 00:54:00,240

they'll have in the shower there?

:

00:54:00,578 --> 00:54:00,958

Beck: Yeah.

:

00:54:01,350 --> 00:54:02,630

Dash (2): he would always steal those.

:

00:54:03,328 --> 00:54:03,688

Beck: Yep.

:

00:54:04,028 --> 00:54:04,988

I still do that

:

00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:05,780

Dash (2): Yeah.

:

00:54:06,450 --> 00:54:11,370

And he had, again, thousands of

them, and would refill his bottle

:

00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:15,230

of shampoo, all of our bottles

of shampoo, with each of those.

:

00:54:15,830 --> 00:54:17,500

And he wasn't, like,

super strict about it.

:

00:54:17,500 --> 00:54:19,170

Like, he didn't force us to only do that.

:

00:54:19,170 --> 00:54:20,420

Like, 'cause we made money, too.

:

00:54:20,430 --> 00:54:23,060

Like, by the time I was in high

school, I w- had a paycheck, so I

:

00:54:23,060 --> 00:54:24,500

could buy shampoo if I wanted to.

:

00:54:24,660 --> 00:54:27,690

Mom would get us good conditioner

for our hair if we wanted it.

:

00:54:27,690 --> 00:54:30,390

It wasn't like we were forced to

use these things, but there were

:

00:54:30,390 --> 00:54:35,230

the signs of this stuff every

fucking where in our house for years

:

00:54:35,674 --> 00:54:36,404

What a job.

:

00:54:36,434 --> 00:54:36,994

I don't know.

:

00:54:37,104 --> 00:54:39,584

The shitting in a bag thing is hardcore."

:

00:54:39,912 --> 00:54:40,962

Beck: That is hardcore.

:

00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:43,469

Dash (2): Most of the trains

have bathrooms on them now.

:

00:54:43,756 --> 00:54:46,926

Beck: my brother-in-law worked for the

railroad and he got so fat they fired him

:

00:54:49,306 --> 00:54:51,066

I'm not a fan of his if you can't

:

00:54:51,301 --> 00:54:53,161

Dash (2): Uh, wow.

:

00:54:53,801 --> 00:54:56,051

I mean, it was pretty

hard on Dad's health.

:

00:54:56,091 --> 00:54:57,291

That's how he got diabetic

:

00:54:57,394 --> 00:54:57,790

Beck: Yeah.

:

00:54:57,790 --> 00:55:01,170

He lives in the middle of Amish country,

and they basically said, "If you get

:

00:55:01,170 --> 00:55:03,700

out on one of these trains too far and

something happens and you have a heart

:

00:55:03,700 --> 00:55:07,210

attack, you're gonna die, 'cause we

have no way to get anybody to you."

:

00:55:07,780 --> 00:55:10,990

And so they put him off paid for

him to have weight loss surgery, and

:

00:55:10,990 --> 00:55:13,570

he did all that, and he didn't lose

the weight, and he ended up getting

:

00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:15,330

fired because of it, and he was

:

00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:15,570

Dash (2): Wow

:

00:55:15,850 --> 00:55:16,840

Beck: for a long time.

:

00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:17,830

He was a big dude.

:

00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:21,230

He recently did have the weight loss

surgery and has lost weight apparently.

:

00:55:21,290 --> 00:55:23,840

I don't know, but I don't know.

:

00:55:24,210 --> 00:55:24,830

I don't talk to those

:

00:55:25,020 --> 00:55:25,720

Dash (2): Never heard of that.

:

00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:27,530

What railroad was it?

:

00:55:27,790 --> 00:55:28,250

Was it CSX?

:

00:55:29,272 --> 00:55:31,872

Beck: Uh, no.

:

00:55:32,082 --> 00:55:33,532

It's escaping my mind.

:

00:55:33,782 --> 00:55:36,552

It's, they had a, they had a train,

they had a depot right there in

:

00:55:36,552 --> 00:55:40,522

the little town he lived in where

my sister lives, but I can't think

:

00:55:41,177 --> 00:55:43,317

Dash (2): They worked for Norfolk

Southern, but I don't know if

:

00:55:43,317 --> 00:55:47,227

they had s- the, if they had

yards up far, that far up north

:

00:55:47,896 --> 00:55:48,336

Beck: Right.

:

00:55:48,779 --> 00:55:50,509

Dash (2): It could have

been a more local railroad.

:

00:55:51,644 --> 00:55:53,794

Beck: Let, let me Google, see if what

:

00:55:53,799 --> 00:55:56,226

Dash (2): There's one, something

starts with R I don't know.

:

00:55:56,346 --> 00:56:00,496

I, I, I'm mostly familiar with Norfolk

Southern and CSX because they're

:

00:56:00,496 --> 00:56:02,486

the national, you know, competitors

:

00:56:03,158 --> 00:56:04,768

Beck: Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway

:

00:56:05,376 --> 00:56:05,786

Dash (2): Okay.

:

00:56:06,216 --> 00:56:07,386

I've seen signs for that.

:

00:56:07,683 --> 00:56:08,013

Beck: I've been

:

00:56:08,013 --> 00:56:08,903

on their trains before.

:

00:56:08,913 --> 00:56:11,853

Every, every Christmas they have

Santa on the train, and you bring

:

00:56:11,853 --> 00:56:15,203

your kids, and you go for a, a

ride about an hour out and an hour

:

00:56:15,203 --> 00:56:17,093

back, and it's just a

nice little train ride.

:

00:56:17,133 --> 00:56:17,713

It was a lot of fun.

:

00:56:17,713 --> 00:56:18,803

I've done that a couple of times

:

00:56:19,570 --> 00:56:23,850

Dash (2): Dad's experience with the

railroad actually led to me having

:

00:56:23,860 --> 00:56:28,830

some really anti-union sentiments

from, like, my childhood because his

:

00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:31,200

union was so corrupt and predatory.

:

00:56:31,740 --> 00:56:36,580

It was a corporate union, and so

it was compulsory, and it just

:

00:56:36,590 --> 00:56:41,160

reinforced whatever this company

decided, you know, from this, from…

:

00:56:41,290 --> 00:56:42,250

In a lot of ways.

:

00:56:42,530 --> 00:56:43,630

Uh, and it was cronyist.

:

00:56:44,190 --> 00:56:49,810

So that was my only understanding of what

a union looked like for the longest time.

:

00:56:50,230 --> 00:56:53,370

And then I grew up during

the union-busting days of,

:

00:56:53,740 --> 00:56:54,940

of Reagan and all that.

:

00:56:55,310 --> 00:57:00,280

So I've had to unlearn a lot of what

I understand community organizing and

:

00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:04,480

unionizing to actually mean, and what

it's, what the good g- that it can do.

:

00:57:04,980 --> 00:57:09,110

But also, like, whenever I try to talk

about my experience at the hands of a

:

00:57:09,140 --> 00:57:14,260

corrupt union, I've noticed leftists

don't wanna hear that shit from me.

:

00:57:14,386 --> 00:57:14,746

Beck: Why?

:

00:57:14,863 --> 00:57:18,903

Dash (2): Because it feels

like criticism of the entire

:

00:57:18,903 --> 00:57:20,893

concept of unionizing, I think.

:

00:57:21,493 --> 00:57:28,127

It, I think also people are defensive

over their ideologies and the idea

:

00:57:28,127 --> 00:57:33,407

that there are unions that are

corrupt and abusive and whatnot is

:

00:57:33,547 --> 00:57:36,397

troubling to their ideology that…

:

00:57:37,247 --> 00:57:38,287

Not to their ideology.

:

00:57:38,537 --> 00:57:42,007

I think, I think part of believing

in unions is believing that

:

00:57:42,007 --> 00:57:46,927

workers have a solidarity that is

unshakable, and they just don't.

:

00:57:47,367 --> 00:57:49,927

and it's not because they're bad

people or something like that.

:

00:57:49,927 --> 00:57:52,437

It's because capitalism ruins everything.

:

00:57:53,257 --> 00:57:59,327

The union my dad was in was tainted by

the corporate structure that it wound

:

00:57:59,327 --> 00:58:04,357

up being controlled by, and nobody

fucking cares because it's the railroad.

:

00:58:04,367 --> 00:58:06,297

Who cares about the railroad, you know?

:

00:58:06,461 --> 00:58:06,911

Beck: Right?

:

00:58:07,647 --> 00:58:10,243

Dash (2): It's like

miners or something Anyway

:

00:58:10,943 --> 00:58:11,773

Beck: Rue says hello

:

00:58:12,299 --> 00:58:13,379

Dash (2): Hi, Rudy.

:

00:58:13,869 --> 00:58:14,759

You're looking very…

:

00:58:15,279 --> 00:58:16,979

She, she's looking like

she needs a haircut

:

00:58:18,259 --> 00:58:18,819

Beck: He does.

:

00:58:18,819 --> 00:58:20,339

We've, we've got the call in.

:

00:58:20,399 --> 00:58:21,439

We're trying to find somebody.

:

00:58:21,709 --> 00:58:24,899

We don't wanna take her back to the lady

we took her to 'cause the haircut was bad.

:

00:58:25,251 --> 00:58:25,261

Dash (2): Hmm

:

00:58:25,409 --> 00:58:28,129

Beck: it looked like on one of her

legs on the back she, like, started

:

00:58:28,139 --> 00:58:29,639

up with the clipper and just quit

:

00:58:29,689 --> 00:58:35,460

Dash (2): Brisket is, uh, it's common for

cats to get pla- uh, what is they called?

:

00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:40,290

Where they knot up, you know, a mat

in a, in a place where, like, they

:

00:58:40,290 --> 00:58:43,230

can't reach or just don't want to.

:

00:58:43,230 --> 00:58:44,330

Brisket's fat and really fluffy.

:

00:58:45,090 --> 00:58:49,130

So he had a, a big mat sticking up

off of the, right in the middle of his

:

00:58:49,130 --> 00:58:51,170

back, and so I had to shave it off.

:

00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:54,820

So he's just got this little

bald spot on his back there

:

00:58:55,726 --> 00:58:55,736

Beck: Aw.

:

00:58:56,166 --> 00:58:57,206

Trance used to do that.

:

00:58:57,206 --> 00:59:00,106

He would lay on his back so much

and he'd get wet, and he would

:

00:59:00,106 --> 00:59:02,146

just, be mats all up his back.

:

00:59:02,146 --> 00:59:03,256

You'd have to shave them off.

:

00:59:03,976 --> 00:59:05,576

They form, like, overnight

:

00:59:06,042 --> 00:59:06,442

Dash (2): Yeah.

:

00:59:06,632 --> 00:59:07,562

They came out of nowhere.

:

00:59:07,622 --> 00:59:09,872

Like I, all of a sudden

there was like three of them.

:

00:59:10,561 --> 00:59:10,971

Beck: Yeah.

:

00:59:11,491 --> 00:59:13,221

Dash (2): did you bring a

noun of Appalachian interest?

:

00:59:13,919 --> 00:59:16,859

Beck: I did a rather short one this week.

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let's see what we got here.

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All right, this week's noun of

Appalachian interest is bluegrass music.

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Bluegrass music sounds like it has been

echoing through the mountains since

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00:59:27,686 --> 00:59:31,306

the first cabin was built, but the

style we call bluegrass is actually

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00:59:31,306 --> 00:59:33,086

much younger than sliced bread.

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00:59:33,436 --> 00:59:37,426

all came together during the:

when Kentucky musician Bill Monroe

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00:59:37,426 --> 00:59:41,876

and his Bluegrass Boys began playing

older mountain music with more speed

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00:59:41,876 --> 00:59:43,506

and a little competitive energy.

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00:59:44,006 --> 00:59:46,706

Bluegrass musicians take

turns stepping forward for a

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00:59:46,706 --> 00:59:48,266

solo, which they call a break.

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00:59:48,546 --> 00:59:51,366

During that break, the player attacks

their instrument like it has been

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00:59:51,366 --> 00:59:53,056

spreading rumors about their family.

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00:59:53,756 --> 00:59:57,794

The music grew up from several traditions

that had already met in Appalachia.

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00:59:58,164 --> 01:00:01,898

Uh, the fiddle came from Europe, while

the banjo developed from instruments

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01:00:01,908 --> 01:00:04,038

brought to America by enslaved Africans.

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01:00:04,438 --> 01:00:05,998

Blues also shaped the sound.

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01:00:06,008 --> 01:00:10,368

So despite what some old documentaries

might suggest, bluegrass did not appear

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01:00:10,368 --> 01:00:14,566

because one Scottish man wandered Kentucky

carrying a fiddle and a family secret.

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01:00:15,246 --> 01:00:18,096

there's the singing, often

called the high, lonesome sound.

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01:00:18,356 --> 01:00:20,336

It can make any subject feel tragic.

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01:00:20,676 --> 01:00:23,856

A bluegrass singer could announce that

supper is ready, and you would assume

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01:00:23,856 --> 01:00:25,466

that supper had died in a coal mine.

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01:00:26,536 --> 01:00:28,846

may be fast, but it

carries a long history.

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01:00:29,076 --> 01:00:32,296

It is Appalachian music shaped

by people sharing sounds across

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01:00:32,296 --> 01:00:35,686

cultures and then playing them fast

enough to make the banjo smoke.

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01:00:35,902 --> 01:00:39,582

So should you ever find yourself at a

bluegrass festival, do not be fooled by

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01:00:39,582 --> 01:00:41,582

the folding chairs and calm-looking crowd.

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01:00:41,912 --> 01:00:45,162

The minute the banjo starts picking,

feet begin tapping, and heads start

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01:00:45,162 --> 01:00:48,172

nodding like everyone has been waiting

all week for this exact moment.

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01:00:48,562 --> 01:00:51,932

Bluegrass has a way of turning a quiet

field into a gathering where the music

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01:00:51,952 --> 01:00:53,732

carries further than the conversation.

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01:00:54,032 --> 01:00:57,892

It may sound lonesome, but it always has

been music meant to bring people together.

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01:00:58,662 --> 01:00:59,372

That's bluegrass.

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01:00:59,382 --> 01:01:02,072

I gotta say, I don't know a

whole lot about bluegrass music.

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01:01:02,372 --> 01:01:05,882

One of my friends follows a, a group

out of Cincinnati called The Rumpke

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01:01:05,882 --> 01:01:11,292

Mountain Boys and they're really my

only exposure to, uh, to, to bluegrass,

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01:01:11,292 --> 01:01:12,732

like, live music and that kind of thing.

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01:01:12,732 --> 01:01:14,912

But I know her whole friend

group is really into it

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01:01:15,145 --> 01:01:15,465

Dash (2): Yeah.

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01:01:15,770 --> 01:01:16,670

I, I love bluegrass.

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01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:22,100

I grew up on listening to it both,

like, you know, from recordings and

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01:01:22,100 --> 01:01:23,740

things, like from bands and also…

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01:01:24,040 --> 01:01:28,390

But mostly I listened to people

play it live and, like jam style.

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01:01:29,210 --> 01:01:34,920

My dad's friends were all musicians, and

the, ugh, just that, the f- the feeling,

:

01:01:35,030 --> 01:01:38,340

the sound of being like surrounded

by all of that, 'cause they all…

:

01:01:38,430 --> 01:01:39,940

What they do is they sit in a circle.

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01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:41,470

You have to…

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01:01:41,610 --> 01:01:45,070

Like, you don't have to be in the

circle, but it's harder to communicate

:

01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:48,080

if you're not, so, you know, you

might have to like do something

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01:01:48,100 --> 01:01:49,270

to call attention to yourself.

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01:01:49,670 --> 01:01:51,600

But it's just magical watching them.

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01:01:51,600 --> 01:01:55,900

'Cause it, it'd be 30 of them and,

and I'd be in there when I was older

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01:01:55,910 --> 01:01:59,918

f- when I could play better, sitting

in a circle on various milk crates or

:

01:01:59,918 --> 01:02:02,784

whatever in somebody's room off from…

:

01:02:02,794 --> 01:02:05,114

There's always random rooms

in houses in Appalachia that

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01:02:05,114 --> 01:02:06,364

aren't quite for something.

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01:02:06,764 --> 01:02:10,244

And they would just be playing

away and communicating with looks.

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01:02:10,244 --> 01:02:13,489

They always knew what was

gonna happen next based on who

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01:02:13,489 --> 01:02:14,779

looked at who a certain way.

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01:02:14,906 --> 01:02:20,116

I feel so lucky being able to

have been in those environments.

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01:02:25,849 --> 01:02:28,599

Bluegrass now, it's really evolving.

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01:02:28,679 --> 01:02:29,109

I found…

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01:02:29,139 --> 01:02:33,879

I was on social media the other day,

and uh, there's a band I follow.

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01:02:34,019 --> 01:02:35,369

Oh hell, I can't remember their name now.

:

01:02:35,399 --> 01:02:40,599

They're a, they're a hardcore

hardcore Appalachia like metal band.

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01:02:40,989 --> 01:02:41,929

It's a fusion.

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01:02:42,339 --> 01:02:43,349

They are so good.

:

01:02:43,559 --> 01:02:46,859

I, I'll, I gotta get on TikTok

and go through my follows and see.

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01:02:47,239 --> 01:02:51,588

The, uh, Who was the

woman who plays the banjo?

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01:02:51,638 --> 01:02:53,008

Clover Lynn is her name.

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01:02:53,008 --> 01:02:54,078

She's on tour right now.

:

01:02:54,838 --> 01:02:59,818

She went viral on TikTok because she

would stitch you know, dumbass right wing

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01:03:00,078 --> 01:03:05,078

people talking about abortion, say, or

whatever, and just play the banjo very

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01:03:05,078 --> 01:03:06,918

loud over them while they're talking.

:

01:03:06,928 --> 01:03:12,228

It was a really fun just way to,

to clap back at those people.

:

01:03:12,548 --> 01:03:16,438

She goes by Hillbilly Gothic on

social media, on Instagram, and

:

01:03:16,438 --> 01:03:17,708

she's actually a friend of the show.

:

01:03:18,240 --> 01:03:20,370

They're all traditionally trained people.

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01:03:20,380 --> 01:03:23,020

When I say trained, I mean like

just knowledgeable about the

:

01:03:23,020 --> 01:03:26,210

tradition of bluegrass, but they

bring their own thing to it.

:

01:03:26,834 --> 01:03:29,384

Yeah, I've always wanted a

q- a, some Queernecks like

:

01:03:29,704 --> 01:03:31,564

bluegrass music themes for us.

:

01:03:31,564 --> 01:03:34,794

I have to go by just stuff I can

get for free, and some of it's

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01:03:34,794 --> 01:03:36,394

fine, but I don't love all of it

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01:03:37,094 --> 01:03:40,134

Beck: My dad was also a mus-

musician, and he always had a band.

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01:03:40,484 --> 01:03:42,004

And they would practice at our house.

:

01:03:42,044 --> 01:03:44,894

And there was one guy that played

the fiddle, and I hated him.

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01:03:45,194 --> 01:03:47,794

I hated the, the way that

the fiddle would just…

:

01:03:48,264 --> 01:03:49,864

Now I appreciate it, right?

:

01:03:49,864 --> 01:03:52,984

I, I'm a huge Dave Matthews fan, and

the fiddle is a big part of that.

:

01:03:53,314 --> 01:03:57,264

But when I was a kid, it, it

just pierced my ears, is the

:

01:03:57,264 --> 01:03:58,874

best way I can describe it, and I

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01:03:59,055 --> 01:04:00,035

Dash (2): It does cut through

:

01:04:00,074 --> 01:04:00,624

Beck: leave.

:

01:04:00,724 --> 01:04:02,734

Yeah, it was, it was difficult.

:

01:04:03,044 --> 01:04:04,784

Was only in the band for, like,

a year though, so it didn't

:

01:04:04,784 --> 01:04:06,934

work, it didn't, wasn't too bad.

:

01:04:07,163 --> 01:04:08,413

They had a steel guitar.

:

01:04:08,424 --> 01:04:10,184

They had all kinds of stuff in the band

:

01:04:10,563 --> 01:04:13,163

Dash (2): There's a, a,

I mean, that's really it.

:

01:04:13,163 --> 01:04:19,644

Like bluegrass music is a huge mishmash

of instruments that I think because

:

01:04:19,644 --> 01:04:23,194

of bluegrass we think of as similar

to each other, but they're not at all.

:

01:04:23,194 --> 01:04:27,784

It's you know, something like a

banjo and a mandolin have very

:

01:04:27,784 --> 01:04:30,374

little in common, aside from the

fact they have strings on them.

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01:04:30,604 --> 01:04:31,214

They're…

:

01:04:31,554 --> 01:04:33,304

The tunings are totally different.

:

01:04:33,724 --> 01:04:38,274

The, they have, uh, ma- mandolin

has eight strings and they're,

:

01:04:38,374 --> 01:04:43,464

but they're double strings, so

they're like two, two per whatever.

:

01:04:43,474 --> 01:04:44,454

I don't know how to phrase that.

:

01:04:44,454 --> 01:04:45,804

Like a s- like a 12-string guitar.

:

01:04:46,834 --> 01:04:49,854

But all, all stringed instruments

are technically percussion

:

01:04:50,554 --> 01:04:54,563

So that's one of the reasons why bluegrass

has that sound to it is because it's

:

01:04:54,563 --> 01:05:00,033

just a shitload of percussion instruments

trying to meet somewhere in the middle.

:

01:05:00,323 --> 01:05:00,983

It's amazing

:

01:05:01,683 --> 01:05:02,183

Beck: That's awesome

:

01:05:02,883 --> 01:05:06,533

Dash (2): I think I'm, I'm gonna start

seeing if I can play again even though

:

01:05:06,533 --> 01:05:08,533

I can't feel the fingering hand.

:

01:05:08,533 --> 01:05:10,813

It's so unfortunate that's

what it's called, isn't it?

:

01:05:10,943 --> 01:05:11,423

Beck: Yes.

:

01:05:11,763 --> 01:05:12,153

Yes, it

:

01:05:12,153 --> 01:05:12,523

is.

:

01:05:13,004 --> 01:05:15,384

Dash (2): I, I can't feel it, but

maybe it still knows what to do

:

01:05:16,204 --> 01:05:16,684

Beck: Right

:

01:05:16,861 --> 01:05:20,861

Dash (2): There's a woman named Abby

the Spoon Lady who also went viral on

:

01:05:20,861 --> 01:05:23,051

social media, and she plays the spoons.

:

01:05:23,681 --> 01:05:24,781

She has a very distinct look.

:

01:05:24,781 --> 01:05:26,771

She's very petite, skinny.

:

01:05:26,791 --> 01:05:28,521

She has no teeth and

doesn't wear dentures.

:

01:05:28,521 --> 01:05:29,381

You know, she doesn't bother.

:

01:05:29,741 --> 01:05:30,971

She's always barefoot.

:

01:05:30,981 --> 01:05:37,051

She wears her her overalls or, you

know, a, a simple clearly, you know,

:

01:05:37,181 --> 01:05:40,421

mountain dress, and she's amazing.

:

01:05:40,421 --> 01:05:43,861

And she always has these great

collabs with other musicians.

:

01:05:43,861 --> 01:05:50,401

But she started, I think because

of recent political horrors, on

:

01:05:50,411 --> 01:05:54,311

TikTok saying her opinions about

certain things, and the number of

:

01:05:54,311 --> 01:05:56,181

people who are shook that she is…

:

01:05:56,471 --> 01:06:00,561

has progressive ideas and

you know, leftist leanings.

:

01:06:00,571 --> 01:06:03,201

They're like, "Well, I thought you'd,

you'd be on the right side and,

:

01:06:03,201 --> 01:06:04,151

you know, love Trump or whatever."

:

01:06:04,151 --> 01:06:05,301

And she's like, "Who?

:

01:06:05,811 --> 01:06:09,241

What the fuck has he ever

done for people like me?

:

01:06:09,733 --> 01:06:15,393

the, the reason my life has been

so economically the way it is is

:

01:06:15,393 --> 01:06:17,693

because people like him exist at all."

:

01:06:18,163 --> 01:06:22,153

Like, we're not supposed to have

billionaires and trillionaires at

:

01:06:22,153 --> 01:06:26,944

this point, and, and those people

can only exist at the expense of

:

01:06:26,974 --> 01:06:28,934

other people's economic security.

:

01:06:29,054 --> 01:06:34,034

Poverty exists, or poverty is made

possible through wealth hoarding

:

01:06:34,958 --> 01:06:35,298

Beck: Right

:

01:06:35,942 --> 01:06:36,312

Dash (2): I don't know.

:

01:06:36,432 --> 01:06:37,552

Anyway, I like her.

:

01:06:37,782 --> 01:06:39,332

We, I'll, I'll drop some links.

:

01:06:39,392 --> 01:06:43,082

You s- uh, if you don't mind, put a

link to that band you were talking about

:

01:06:43,112 --> 01:06:47,132

in the Slack, and I'll, I'll put those

in the show notes for folks to check

:

01:06:47,132 --> 01:06:50,212

out if you wanna try some bluegrass,

if you've always maybe been curious

:

01:06:50,212 --> 01:06:51,952

or you already are a bluegrass fan.

:

01:06:52,552 --> 01:06:56,172

And let us know who you're

listening to if you like bluegrass

:

01:06:56,649 --> 01:06:58,049

Beck: They call it Trash Grass.

:

01:06:58,610 --> 01:07:00,029

Dash (2): Oh, I love that.

:

01:07:00,489 --> 01:07:02,869

Beck: 'Cause Rumpke

Mountain is the garbage dump

:

01:07:03,300 --> 01:07:03,670

Dash (2): Yeah.

:

01:07:05,179 --> 01:07:06,509

Beck: and so they're Trash Grass.

:

01:07:06,519 --> 01:07:08,038

Trashgrass.com

:

01:07:08,739 --> 01:07:12,599

Dash (2): Possum Rock is another

kind of, uh, fusion music out there.

:

01:07:12,599 --> 01:07:18,579

It's, it's more like a grunge, I think,

mixed with some holler aesthetic.

:

01:07:18,904 --> 01:07:23,105

Oh, I was gonna say the name

of a band that I f- uh, follow,

:

01:07:23,105 --> 01:07:24,782

but it, I can't remember it now.

:

01:07:25,482 --> 01:07:26,602

Cigarettes at Sunset?

:

01:07:26,682 --> 01:07:27,092

I don't know.

:

01:07:27,502 --> 01:07:28,272

I'll have to bleep that out.

:

01:07:28,862 --> 01:07:34,032

Uh, we asked for some suggestions

about podcasts on our last episode.

:

01:07:34,502 --> 01:07:40,232

And so our friend Techno Pop Tart

has delivered with something, uh,

:

01:07:40,252 --> 01:07:45,612

with a c- a suggestion, a, a show

called Queer and Pleasant Strangers.

:

01:07:46,198 --> 01:07:48,968

It's a married couple who talk

about how their week went.

:

01:07:50,618 --> 01:07:53,488

And so, They have two

very interesting jobs.

:

01:07:53,488 --> 01:07:57,388

One is a musician and a coder,

the other is a gaming journalist.

:

01:07:57,762 --> 01:08:00,872

Uh, there's some little skits,

but mostly just them chatting

:

01:08:01,238 --> 01:08:01,908

Beck: Sounds like us

:

01:08:02,576 --> 01:08:02,856

Dash (2): Yep.

:

01:08:03,556 --> 01:08:04,496

Clean vibe

:

01:08:05,196 --> 01:08:06,506

Well, I will check them out.

:

01:08:07,276 --> 01:08:13,226

And then someone on, uh, social

media gave us some, some tips on

:

01:08:13,226 --> 01:08:16,674

where to start with Old Gods of

Appalachia, couple of good suggestions.

:

01:08:16,694 --> 01:08:17,953

Old Gods of Appalachia.

:

01:08:18,004 --> 01:08:20,274

They said start with,

uh, season five, I think

:

01:08:20,499 --> 01:08:20,948

Beck: Gotcha.

:

01:08:21,234 --> 01:08:22,545

I wonder why you start with season five

:

01:08:23,243 --> 01:08:25,813

Dash (2): A lot of podcasts

don't really find their groove

:

01:08:25,843 --> 01:08:27,542

until they've been going a while.

:

01:08:27,663 --> 01:08:33,113

Maybe that's it, or maybe it's a certain

storyline that they like, 'cause it's a,

:

01:08:33,153 --> 01:08:35,243

that's a fiction kind of narrative show

:

01:08:35,943 --> 01:08:39,183

Well, let's spin the wheel

of what have you and see…

:

01:08:40,633 --> 01:08:41,133

Where is it?

:

01:08:41,712 --> 01:08:45,063

It closed because I restarted my computer

:

01:08:45,763 --> 01:08:49,633

Beck: We did get an email this week asking

if we, uh, wanted our offices cleaned,

:

01:08:50,020 --> 01:08:51,447

Dash (2): Oh, wow.

:

01:08:51,819 --> 01:08:54,040

I think, I think I'm good on that

:

01:08:54,740 --> 01:08:56,359

That's what we just did.

:

01:08:56,450 --> 01:08:57,390

Thank you, wheel.

:

01:08:58,700 --> 01:08:59,770

It landed on…

:

01:08:59,990 --> 01:09:02,700

It has now landed on word

game/trivia twice in a row

:

01:09:03,399 --> 01:09:03,990

Beck: Do it again?

:

01:09:04,353 --> 01:09:04,683

Dash (2): Yep

:

01:09:05,145 --> 01:09:05,685

Beck: All right

:

01:09:05,952 --> 01:09:07,502

Dash (2): Definitely

something up with this.

:

01:09:07,532 --> 01:09:07,952

Okay.

:

01:09:08,582 --> 01:09:15,622

So it landed on anecdote,

which we still don't have a, a

:

01:09:15,622 --> 01:09:18,102

wheel to choose a topic for us.

:

01:09:18,761 --> 01:09:22,527

We could We could see if there's

a random topic generator.

:

01:09:25,299 --> 01:09:26,881

Uh, okay

:

01:09:27,582 --> 01:09:28,832

None of these are very good.

:

01:09:29,307 --> 01:09:32,017

This is, this must be like

some writing exercise thing.

:

01:09:32,875 --> 01:09:33,595

Beck: We'll come up with something.

:

01:09:34,202 --> 01:09:34,483

Dash (2): Yeah.

:

01:09:35,183 --> 01:09:37,013

We'll talk about it off

air and surprise everybody.

:

01:09:37,143 --> 01:09:37,473

All right.

:

01:09:39,073 --> 01:09:42,270

Uh, well, thanks for another week.

:

01:09:42,711 --> 01:09:44,171

Thanks for hanging out with us.

:

01:09:44,201 --> 01:09:45,541

I don't know how many

episodes are out now.

:

01:09:45,541 --> 01:09:47,081

It's been enough that we've lost count.

:

01:09:47,921 --> 01:09:49,461

I think 60 maybe.

:

01:09:50,229 --> 01:09:50,680

Beck: Wow

:

01:09:51,321 --> 01:09:51,671

Dash (2): Yeah.

:

01:09:51,901 --> 01:09:53,011

Pretty cool.

:

01:09:53,411 --> 01:09:54,531

We might be getting good at it

:

01:09:55,231 --> 01:09:57,131

Uh, what are you gonna

do the rest of the day?

:

01:09:57,542 --> 01:09:58,792

Beck: I don't know, but

I'm gonna leave the house.

:

01:09:58,792 --> 01:10:02,282

I haven't in a few days, so even if

:

01:10:02,382 --> 01:10:02,692

Dash (2): Yeah.

:

01:10:02,772 --> 01:10:05,292

Beck: something to eat, I don't know,

something, go do something out there.

:

01:10:05,563 --> 01:10:07,446

Chanda gets off work at 3:00, 3:00.

:

01:10:07,446 --> 01:10:09,713

Well, she's off work now,

so she'll be home soon

:

01:10:10,144 --> 01:10:10,474

Dash (2): Cool

:

01:10:10,532 --> 01:10:10,992

Beck: We're at you

:

01:10:11,198 --> 01:10:14,208

Dash (2): Yeah, I'm gonna pick up a,

pick up a couple things, work on the,

:

01:10:14,308 --> 01:10:16,778

the camper and get ready to leave town.

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01:10:16,988 --> 01:10:20,648

Trying to make, I'm making something

stupid, but, like, just, like, a

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01:10:20,658 --> 01:10:24,838

screened-in portion just for the front so

that the cats can come outside the camper.

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01:10:25,528 --> 01:10:29,308

I'm gonna be such, like, a, just a

crazy cat gentleman e- everywhere

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01:10:29,308 --> 01:10:31,608

I camp, but, you know, whatever.

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01:10:31,618 --> 01:10:33,258

I want them to have an experience

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01:10:33,522 --> 01:10:34,262

Beck: That's gonna be great

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01:10:34,598 --> 01:10:35,168

Dash (2): M- I'm excited.

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01:10:35,168 --> 01:10:41,843

I'm nervous and excited, but you know

Well, let's go do it to it, as they say.

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01:10:42,753 --> 01:10:45,093

Uh, everybody, we'll see you next time.

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01:10:45,133 --> 01:10:49,603

Let us know what's your stories and

you know, say hi to your mom and them

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01:10:49,843 --> 01:10:50,393

Beck: Bye

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