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Beck and Dash discuss the frigid weather, recounting humorous anecdotes about snow, including a mud-filled snowman and dog adventures in the snow. They share stories of teaching experiences, highlighting challenges and memorable student interactions. The episode also features a segment about the elusive and delicious pawpaw fruit, its unique characteristics, and cultural significance. The show wraps up with a humorous sponsor segment about wonky mud snowmen and a discussion about favorite fruits. Tune in next week for a review of Muriel's Wedding.
00:00 Introduction and Weather Talk
01:09 Dog Adventures in the Snow
03:19 Parade and Marching Bands
04:41 Drum Corps and City Vibes
06:14 Movie Discussions and Reviews
09:54 Teaching Experiences and Challenges
16:11 Racism and Allyship
19:14 LGBTQ+ Issues in Academia
26:27 Classroom Anecdotes
27:22 Funny Classroom Stories
31:11 Nightmares and Night Terrors
33:56 Sleep Apnea and Snoring
39:51 Winter Memories and Sledding Adventures
48:08 Appalachian Pawpaw: The Hidden Fruit
50:13 Favorite Fruits and Recipes
52:16 Technical Difficulties and Next Week's Preview
Transcript
Welcome to Queernecks, the podcast that puts the Yee Hall in y'all means hall. I'm your host, Beck, and I'm your host. Dash. Welcome to today's episode.
-: -: -: -: -: -: -: -:We've got a little space heater here in the living room. It keeps it nice and toasty so.
-: -: -: -:Shanna has severe a DHD and she gets, um, distracted easily. And so she was looking at something on baby's fur and forgot to buckle her harness all the way. So baby got out in the snow and Shanna went to pull on her to be like, come on. And the harness just slid right off and baby stood the right out there and refused to move a muscle.
She was like, Nope. Shana had to go get boots, put 'em on and go get her, put the harness on her and make her come inside. She was like, Nope, I was staying out here.
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-: -: -: -: -:And those are a lot of fun to go to. Um, or you can go to like band competitions, like high school band competitions. Those are always fun.
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-: -: -: -: -: -:I'm not going to the Twin Cities. going to Fargo, or I'm going to to Mankato or even St. Cloud Did you ever see that movie Fargo, that Cohen Brothers
-: -: -: -: -: -: installment, little of about [:Each film is a genre film, but people, they, they seem to either love 'em or they hate 'em. The first one was called Drive Away Dolls. I will admit I couldn't, I didn't understand what I was looking at for the first half of the movie it was so, hyper stylized and really kind of weird and. Weirdly crude, but not in like, you know, we were talking about like blue comedy versus like, if, if something about the body or sex or something like that comes up, up organically. but Margaret Qually is doing this accent in it I it was kind of annoying at first until I started listening and I was like, wait a minute. She's doing her mom, she was doing an impression of Margaret Qually is, um, Andy McDowell's daughter.
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-: -: -: -:We are very, close upon my, uh, last dose of medicine for the day, I'm high.
-: -: -:So we, and my, I, uh, Thursday I was supposed to have an 8:00 AM final. We moved that to 9:00 AM So, 'cause we're not gonna need the full two and a half hours, we only, like, I've been giving 'em, like, they, they don't probably won't even need a full hour. So if we have it at nine, they'll still have an hour and a half to take it.
So, but nobody wants to be out at eight o'clock in the morning in this weather.
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-: -:But it had nothing to do with that. It had nothing to do with race whatsoever. And so I had to let like five of them rewrite their essays. 'cause I was like, you know, this is, your opinion is whatever, but you did follow the assignment and I failed him on that. So you have to be really a bad writer for me to, or you have to really mess it up for me to give you an F.
after getting some feedback. [: -: -: -: -: -: -: -: -: -:I don't personally enact racism, and it's just a new way of saying I don't see
-: -: -: -: -: -: -:It's in the media, it's in the education, it's in the, in the legal system. It's in everything that we do. So when you're socialized by American culture, you're going to get some of those racist thoughts implanted into you. So to say, oh, I'm not racist. Bullshit. You, we all, we all have racist thoughts. It's what you do with them and the work that you do around that to, to nullify it, you know?
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-: ter and changing topics up I [: -: -: -:shit, man. At SIU Carbondale, a student came to me. I was, I was the coordinator of the LGBT LGBTQ Resource Center there. And I, I was fairly new still, so I was still in that like, building trust with the student stage. And this student, um, came to me and said, I think I, I have an issue with my professor. And I was like, oh, o okay, well, um, I'm a mandated reporter, so these are the things that will happen if you share this, this, this, and this.
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-: -:well, she was, last time I checked, granted that was three years ago.
-: -: -:I, uh, one of my students got to class early today. Um, 'cause I have like a 45 minute break between classes and it's in the same room. So I sit there and read until my next class starts. Um, so one of the kids came in early today, so I sat there and I bullshit with him for like 20 minutes and somehow the conversation turned to, um, some of the more odd things that have happened in class.
out little containers out of [:Yeah. Right in the middle of class. So I have a no Taco Sa or no Taco Bar policy in my, in my syllabus.
-: -: -: -: -: -: -: -:So we cleared off the desk and I arm wrestled the student right there in front of everybody. Yes. I won, I won. I, I defended the honor of my English class that day. It was hilarious.
-: -: -: -: -: -: -:Yeah. That building's weird 'cause it's kind of a circle square thing on the inside. like several, or, well, I don't wanna say several, um, you honestly don't take too many classes for PhD
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-: -: -: -: -: -: -:And I basically forgot. I was in that class for like two weeks and it was only a six week class. So
-: -: -: -: -: -: -: -: -: -:I have that dream probably twice a week, and it'll be a dorm room. It'll be at my mom's house. It'll be varying locations, but it's the same theme.
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-: -: -: -: -: -: -: -: -: ly. lot of people will call, [:But basically that's what a night terror is. And it, it won't go away until you can move something. But it's, they're terrifying because you can see it. It's right there. It's your room there. There's, you're not dreaming, you're, there's no mistaking where you are, who you are, what day and time it is and everything. And here's this god awful monster just leering over you and you're just stuck.
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-: -: -: uh, yeah. Sabrina [:I was just lying there awake. And she like, cos it's like she, you shut off a
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-:So me and my brother-in-law went out and sledding down that, that hill. We did that a few times. then the, holler that I grew up on, um, one of my dad's cousins said we could come up and sled on his hill, and his went pretty. There was nothing in the way, and you could go from the top all the way down to the bottom.
we did that a few times. but [:And after you walk it every day, you just don't wanna go out and play in it.
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-:Don't tell the grocery stores You cannot buy a real pawpaw at Walmart. If you see one there, call for help. That's not a pawpaw, that's a stunt. Double pawpaws only show up for about five minutes each year. And if you blink the raccoons, get every single one. That's the natural order of things.
roup. Trying to eat a papapa [:Poppa's taste amazing, but they also expire in about 14 seconds if you don't eat them right, And they turn brown faster than a banana in a hot car. And because it's Appalachia, every older relative will corner you with a lecture about pawpaw's being the largest native fruit in North America, even though you did not ask and you were just trying to eat your pudding tree fruit in in peace.
So that's your, noun this week. The pawpaw, the mysterious forest desert that shows up once a year disappears like Bigfoot. It makes everyone act like they've discovered it personally.
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-: -: -: Um, just [: -: -: -: -: -: -: -: -: -: -:I would say this, this person's doing the, oh, you want my email? I hate everything,
This is editing dash here to apologize for the abrupt transition to close on this episode. The closing segment for this episode was apparently recorded without Beck's mic being picked up by the software. So we apologize that you will have to say goodbye to you without our customary closing, but rest assured we'll fix a problem next time. And join us next week for our review of Muriel's Wedding starring Tony Collette and Rachel Griffiths.
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