The First Rickroll at Stonewall

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Welcome to Queer Next, 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: and I'm your host.

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Dash.

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Welcome to today's episode.

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did you ever check your mail?

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Beck: I still have not

checked my mail, no.

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It has been so hot.

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I'm so bad at it, I'm telling you.

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Stuff sits there for like … They

get so mad at us at the post office.

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I've got two cases of Red Bull sitting

at the post office waiting on me

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Dash: Oh my God.

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Have you ever gotten like a

note, a passive aggressive note?

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Or

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Beck: Yes.

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Dash: aggressive aggressive.

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Beck: Yeah, 'cause we take up not

only our mail, because our mailbox

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is only like that big, right?

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It's only like so tall because

it's in a bay of, it's like a,

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a, a, a mailbox farm, you know?

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And so we always have a package in

one of the package, uh, containers, so

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we take it up forever, and I, I think

that's why they get mad at us, 'cause

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there's only so many package containers.

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So, oh well, I don't care

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Dash: Like leaving your, laundry

in the dryer a whole weekend in the

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Beck: They should have made one closer.

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They shouldn't have made just one bay.

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They should have made two.

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And the, the issue with my Red Bull

is that I order them from Amazon

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and I specifically do it next day

delivery on like a Tuesday so that

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they won't send it the postal service.

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But for whatever reason, the last two

shipments, they have decided to send it

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postal service anyway, and because we're

in this big complex, the post office

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won't deliver, deliver it to my door.

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So they bring it to the complex and it

goes straight back to the post office and

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it sits there till I go and pick it up,

which is a pain because Shanna works all

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day every day, and when am I supposed to

get to the freaking post office, you know?

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It's ridiculous.

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That's my minor gripe for the day.

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But if that's all that's wrong

in my life, I'm, I'm here for it

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Dash: our post office here is

open I think it's 8:00 to 1:00 PM

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Beck: Wow.

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That's even worse than

the Waterville post office

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Dash: This place, man.

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I told you yesterday…

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So okay, it's 4th of July.

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Happy 4th of America Day,

everybody, or whatever.

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Beck: Happy birthday, America

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Dash: happy 250th

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Beck: look a day over 219

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Dash: Doesn't look a day over 1950.

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We wish we could be happier

for you, but we're just not.

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We'll try again

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Beck: Yeah.

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Dash: America.

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Beck: I could enjoy the fireworks

because I have a, an, anxious chihuahua,

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so we can't even enjoy the fireworks

without, you know, really medicating her.

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So just, I just, last- they

started with the fireworks last

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night, and it was uncalled for.

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So I, I just can't wait for

the fireworks to be done.

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I used to love them, but with a noisy

chiro- chihuahua, it's just impossible

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Dash: Yeah.

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they started here yesterday.

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They're having their little street party.

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Remember the one they had last

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Beck: Yehaw

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Dash: every year.

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Which is why yesterday when I tried to go

get my medicine, the pharmacy was closed.

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And, they don't have weekend hours.

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They don't have any…

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Like, if you m- if you didn't get

your medication, you are fucked.

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And it's a weekend, and I'm like,

I don't, I don't even trust that

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you're gonna be open on Monday

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Beck: Right?

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Dash: considering how

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are And I was completely

out of my metformin.

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So I was like, "This is gonna

be an uncomfortable weekend."

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Beck: Next time call me, I keep jugs of it

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Dash: Uh, I called my old pharmacy up

in, in the next town over, and they were

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like, "No, we've never filled that for

you, so we can't just hand you pills."

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And I was like, "Yeah, that makes sense."

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And they were like, "Can

you call your doctor?"

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And I was like, "Well, the

clinic's closed too, so if you

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need to go to the doctor…"

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I called the hospital.

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The ER was open, and they were

like, "Who's your doctor?"

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And I, I told her, and she goes, "Let

me see if she'll pick up the phone."

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So she called my poor doctor off of

the clock and asked her to put in a

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prescription for me at a different

pharmacy that was actually open.

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so that took the whole…

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That took the entire day yesterday to get

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Beck: Yehaw

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Dash: fucking medication so that I can

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without feeling like garbage

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Beck: Yeah, and that's the least sexy

medicine there is to even need something

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like that, just freaking metformin.

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I've got three, you know the giant

tall, tall pill bottles that come

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with like 180 in it or whatever?

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I've got three of those of

metformin in my medicine box.

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So I just, they, I, they

just keep refilling it and

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that's how much extra I have.

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Dash: Wow

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Beck: I did get some

Adderall this week though, so

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Dash: Ooh.

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Beck: it's the non-extended release one.

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I did get it, so I haven't got the

extended release yet though, so

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Dash: Yeah, I don't have mine either.

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Ma- they said maybe

they'll have it next week.

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Beck: Yeah

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Dash: you guys?

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I mean, of all the shortages to

go around out there right now, I

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guess Adderall's not the worst.

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They're fucking short on…

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They've got rolling power outages

and stuff in northern Kentucky, and

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water shortages from data centers.

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Like, the world is ending, you guys

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Beck: I read an article yesterday

that they have figured out how to

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desalinate, uh, water, uh, cheaper than

it is to bottle it, the fresh water.

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So there might be some

changes coming to that.

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It, it m- the, the use of our water

might not be an issue for much longer.

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We can hope

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Dash: Yeah.

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I mean, we solved the, we've

solved that issue several times

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now and just never actually put it

to use where it will help people.

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The same thing with energy.

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Beck: always too expensive.

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Dash: Yeah, it was expensive.

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What was the name of that power source?

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Beck: Rue's just watching you

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Dash: high ru- high yield beta fusion

Allegedly they had created that and

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everybody kept saying like, "Oh, it's

gonna change energy," or whatever, and

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then like nothing happened for 10 years.

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And I was like, "I don't even care if you

made it because I'm not in a position to

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be excited for breakthroughs right now.

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Like, I need you to make things

better or shut up about it."

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Beck: Yehaw

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Dash: Like, you could go to

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and I'd be like, "Great,

bring back something useful.

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Be excited later when

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Beck: Yeah.

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Dash: Hi, Ziggy

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Beck: Yeah

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I feel that in my soul.

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I am not really proud to

be an American these days

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Dash: It's tough Well, and this I

guess segues us into, we landed on the

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wheel of what have you on social media.

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We don't, that's gonna mean

whatever we feel like it means.

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We'll loosely talk about social media,

the World Cup is I guess still happening.

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I don't know.

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Beck: Yeah, it's like three

weeks long or something

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Dash: Yeah.

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A- a- and that's cool, and I s-

there's all kinds of different

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versions of it to engage with online

on social media, like seeing, you

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know, like we talked about Europeans

experiencing America for the first time

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or, or South Americans experiencing

North America for the first time.

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Cool things like that.

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But one thing that happened was a lot of

Americans realized that we have a men's

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soccer team ' and on TikTok especially,

Europeans, Brits and Aussies, where

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they were trying to shit talk, you know?

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They were like, "Oh, America thinks

they're gonna win this just because

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they have home field advantage."

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And we were all like,

"We're in the World Cup?"

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Who was gonna tell us?

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Like, what, who, what's our mascot?

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Like, we the bits about, like, us not

even realizing we were playing in this.

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Like, I saw people saying like, "Yeah, I

just thought we were having company over."

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Like d- what do, how, what

do, how does scoring work?

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Like um, and then the,

US like beat a couple…

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Like, they, they beat Australia.

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Like, they, they, they won a couple

of key games in people's comments,

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like of those, of like an Australian,

there was one guy in particular

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who was a shit-stirrer in this.

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They were like, "Yeah, we got two

kick downs on the, the home piece."

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Really, I don't know.

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He started it.

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He was like, "America thinks

they're gonna win," or whatever,

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and it's like we did win.

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We just don't really…

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We care less about that than you

do, but we're g- and so somebody

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started talking about that.

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They were like, "Amer- y'all didn't

care about this like a week ago,

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and now you're all in my mentions

talking about the World Cup."

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And, and somebody said, and they put

it in quotation marks, which I think

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means that they're quoting somebody

else, but they didn't attribute it.

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I'll see if I can figure out who said it.

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it said, "America's favorite

sport is competition."

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Beck: a great one

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Dash: isn't it g- it's so true.

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Like, we don't care what it is.

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It can be as dumb as hell, but we're gonna

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Beck: I saw a meme once, about the

pandemic that if we made it like state

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versus state with a, with a reward like

everybody gets free Taco Bell at the

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end if you have the lowest transmission

rate or something, people would've been

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shaming the non-mask wearers left and

right if Taco Bell was on the line.

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Dash: right

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Beck: You know?

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Like, that they should've

taken up that model.

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I know I would've shamed

somebody for a taco

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Did you see that Taco Bell is bringing

back the chili cheese burrito nationwide?

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Dash: Nope

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Beck: They are.

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We- they've had them here

in my area for a long time.

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I got them until I was sick of them, and

now, but now, now they're on the app.

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You can get them anywhere

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Dash: Ah.

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Beck: you ever had a chili

cheese burrito from Taco Bell?

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Dash: I haven't.

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There, there is a Taco Bell over w- in

the, the town I go to my boxing class in.

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said it's called a chili cheese burrito?

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Beck: Yeah.

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I get it with a side of sour

cream and s- and some nachos

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Dash: I was about to say, like, it's

gonna need to be cut with something.

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I'm sure they

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Beck: Yeah, you can add rice,

you can add, uh, tomatoes,

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you can add whatever you want.

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But I just eat it as…

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I get a side of chips.

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So at Taco Bell, here's a, a cheat in

life that, that you can attribute to me.

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If you buy, uh, chips and cheese

at Taco Bell, it's like 2.99,

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but if you buy just chips, no cheese,

it's 75 cents And then you can get

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a side of cheese for like 50 cents.

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So you, if you get them both as

sides, you can get it a lot cheaper.

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But I just, 'cause I don't like the

cheese at, at Taco Bell, so I just get

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the chips and eat it with sour cream.

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Five stars

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Dash: I think there, there's all

kinds of cases of that, like the combo

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actually costs you more money instead of

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Beck: Yehaw.

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Dash: Ziggy, hush, honey.

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You got enough airtime last week.

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So I tried to look it up, and, uh,

the, the quote, "America's favorite

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sport is competition," a meme.

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It's a social media…

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It originated somewhere on

TikTok likely, But nobody knew,

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nobody knows who said it first.

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that's one of the…

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It's like that's one of the most

interesting but also kind of horrifying

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things about social media is it

transmits ideas, information, whatever,

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so quickly that you, you don't, we

don't have time to trace its source.

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has sped up the creation and dissemination

of, of culture to a point that It's

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not easy to k- to be aware of what

we're s- talking about came from.

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Beck: Yeah, memes are their

own language at this point.

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Like, there's, there's so much

context that you have to have and,

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you know, like, to understand.

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Like, you would've had to have

been on the internet for, like,

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100 years at this point to really

understand meme speak, in my opinion.

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There's, there's a lot

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Dash: Especially like the image macros,

like the, the version of meme that most

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people are familiar with, just like

that image and some sort of text on it.

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Beck: Yehaw

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Dash: like with a lot of words that become

part of culture's way of understanding

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itself, meme existed before the internet.

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Sort of like, you know, whenever we

take something and use it as a metaphor

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like we did with patriarchy or rape or

power, its new metaphorical definition

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becomes the real definition to us,

and we kind of like do forget the old.

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And, and that's not…

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I'm not trying to be get off your lawn

about it, 'cause it really doesn't matter.

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But meme is short for mimeme.

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They've been around since…

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Well, first of all, mimeme is just

like how information is transmitted.

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I w- I bet Richard Dawkins is actually

insufferable about this right now because

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he coined the term, the idea that there's

a cultural of a gene that transmits,

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heritable knowledge in a cultural way.

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The Selfish Gene, I think,

is where he talks about it.

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But even before the internet, people

were doing things like with graffiti.

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Graffiti's a good example of places we've

seen, like memes outside of the internet.

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Did you ever hear about

that one Kilroy Was Here?

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Beck: Yeah, from the US Army

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Dash: yeah, was one.

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Frodo Lives is another one.

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People would put that in the, the subway.

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Beck: when I worked at bingo, there was a

couple of old men that would bring folded

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up pieces of paper with memes printed

on them, like jokes or whatever, and

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they would physically hand them around

and people would look at them and laugh.

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Like, that was right before

the internet became…

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Yeah, I remember several of those.

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They were usually dirty in nature

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Dash: wonder where they got them.

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Where did you go for your memes?

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I w- I was on Cheeseburger

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Beck: Oh Lord probably just Facebook.

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I follow a lot of meme

dumping pages that offer…

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Like, there's this one she offers 42

memes every day and they're always

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new and always, you know, yeah.

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So that's, that's where I get

most of mimemes is through those,

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those meme aggregation pages

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I use Facebook a lot.

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I'm old

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Dash: It's just so ingrained

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Beck: Yehaw

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Dash: the first internet meme,

viral internet meme, 4chan invented

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them in, in the West anyway.

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Western internet memes,

they, they came from 4chan.

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A lot of things did actually.

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People don't really know how much of our

culture actually just came from 4chan.

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there's reasons for that too it

was a, it was a place where the

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interactive web, like very s- it, it

was like at the beginning of Web 2.0,

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and it was an image board, so people

could get on there and interact in

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a way that they hadn't been able to.

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It was sort of like right

before social media.

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but the first viral internet meme to break

containment on 4chan was Rickrolling did

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anybody ever get you with Rickrolling?

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Beck: No, but I have rickrolled

a few times in my day.

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Um, Like on, on Canvas, like

in a class, like one semester I

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posted, uh, final exam answers.

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And it was just a link, and if you clicked

it on it, it took you to a, a rickroll.

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It took you to the, you know, the thing.

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I- that was one of my favorite ones.

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Somebody was like, "You got me."

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And I was like, "Why would

I post final answers?

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Duh, like, use your brain, idiots."

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Dash: uh, it's worth checking.

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You found him on Canvas before, so

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Beck: True that.

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True that

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Dash: I out about it because

somebody asked me, Vanessa

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actually asked me, she texted me,

"Have you heard of Rickrolling?"

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And I was like, "No."

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This was 2007, I think.

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I th- maybe a lot of people heard about it

before it happened to them, I don't know.

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But there were all kinds of those, like

the first internet viral internet memes

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were kind of, bait and clicks, you know?

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Like [redacted]

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Uh, yeah, Scares Goatse.

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A lot of them are really

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Beck: Lord.

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Dash: [redacted] nobody Google that.

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I'm gonna have to bleep that

out ' and, and much, much worse.

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but that's kind of like

the internet would do that.

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That's the natural of what the

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Beck: Do you remember

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Do you remember rotten.com?

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Dash: Yeah.

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Beck: that was one of my first

experiences online was watching

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a snuff film on rotten.com.

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'Cause they didn't try to

hide that shit or anything.

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You just clicked and there it was.

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It was, I saw Tupac's autopsy pictures

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Dash: Yeah I'd forgotten about Rotten.

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Beck: and eBaum's World

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Dash: Yeah, Ebaum's

World was, was good too.

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Like, that had some funny stuff on it too.

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I w- I w- like I said, I

was on Cheeseburger a lot.

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That is Where I saw the picture you took

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Beck: yeah?

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Dash: long

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Beck: That's so cool.

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Dash: um

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Beck: The Burger King,

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try our new anus burger

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I was just, uh, I was lucky that

I had my good camera with me

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too, 'cause that was before cell

phones could take good pictures.

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And I just, I was on my way to

somewhere in Huntington, and

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it was the one on the west end.

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And I just pulled in their parking lot

and snapped a picture and drove off.

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It was funny I did call

them to tell them though.

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I'm a spoilsport, I guess.

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I d- you know what I mean?

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'Cause I feel like if it was my Burger

King, I would wanna know that was

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out there and it was inappropriate.

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Um, I don't know if they

believed me or not, but

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Dash: of social media.

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Like, people were commenting on it.

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You weren't really making friends.

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So the image boards, uh, they

weren't really designed to f-

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to, to make relationships that

lasted beyond the interaction.

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So that was definitely Web 2.0

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because people were in, like,

comment sections and stuff.

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But, you know, 4chan's anonymous,

and Cheeseburger, like, you had a

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na- you could have a screen name,

but nobody remembered anybody else

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Beck: You know one interesting

thing I think for me anyway,

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is that when the Web 2.0

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was really becoming a, a thing, that's

when I was working at Amazon.com

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and I got to see Amazon really morph from

a bookstore into what it has become today.

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That was before th- they

had Super Saver Shipping.

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That was before they had Prime.

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Like they got Prime in

like: 2006

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And I've had Prime since it started.

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I've been a Amazon junkie for a long

time now because I saw how it worked and

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they made their employees like owners.

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They vested, they gave you vested

stock and things like that.

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They made you feel like you

were part of the company.

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But it was really interesting to see the

internet alive and well and how it was

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being transformed and the way people were

using it because I had free un- l- if you

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weren't on a call or working on an email,

you had unfettered access to the internet.

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You could basically do whatever you

wanted as long as the calls were

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not in queue and that, and there

were no emails waiting in queue.

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And I did not have high-speed internet

at home, so it was, you know, I did a

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lot of, of searching on Amazon's dime

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Do you know Amazon has something

called Gold Star customers?

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Like, they pick particular customers and

put a literal gold star on their account.

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Like, a customer service puts in your

email address and your account pops up.

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Right beside your name, there's a gold

star, and that means basically customer

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service is supposed to treat you like

royalty, give you whatever you want,

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whatever you need fix the problem

no matter how big it is, just make

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sure they continue to be a customer.

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And I think we have become a gold star

customer because we've been shopping

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under the same account for so long, and we

use Amazon like it's a pantry, you know?

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Dash: There's a reason it has

taken hold the way it has.

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Beck: been in a literal store, like

a Target or a Walmart or a Kroger.

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I've been in Kroger once in the

last, like, five years, and that's

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the only store I've been in.

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: 00:18:44

I just don't go shopping anymore.

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Amazon has it

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Dash: They don't have them here.

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: 00:18:48

You know?

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If it, if it wasn't for online

shopping, I wouldn't, I literally

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wouldn't get the things I needed

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Beck: Hi, Peta But yeah, what, what

version of web point what, what

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point O would you say we're at now?

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Dash: Well We're still in Web 2.0.

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: 00:19:02

Like, the Internet's not progressing.

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in fact, it's kind of we're

using less and less of it.

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: 00:19:09

We don't use the Internet anymore.

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: 00:19:11

Most people use an application

that uses the Internet for them.

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: 00:19:15

We've learned less about how coding works.

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: 00:19:20

So w- we're s- we sort of, um passed on

our opportunity to become part of it.

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B- b- by we, I mean the average person.

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: 00:19:30

And it, and it wasn't that

the choice wasn't obvious.

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: 00:19:33

W- we w- it wasn't being made clear

to us that we were no to that.

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: 00:19:38

It was companies wanted to,

to own the access so that

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: 00:19:42

they could charge us for it.

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: 00:19:44

So, you know, think about how you

interact with the Internet the most

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often for me it's probably through my TV

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: 00:19:54

my phone and everything has an algorithm.

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: 00:19:57

Of course, there always, always

already were algorithms, What

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: 00:20:01

even, what would be Web 3.0?

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: 00:20:03

Beck: Well, what makes Web 2.0

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Web 2.0?

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Dash: Interactivity.

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: 00:20:06

the static web is what it

was called in the old days.

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: 00:20:10

W- so, like, the early days of the

internet were just websites, and

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people could visit and read them.

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: 00:20:17

And the, the capability for building

in opportunities for people who

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: 00:20:22

visited the website to engage with each

other just wasn't really there yet.

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: 00:20:27

So Web 2.0

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: 00:20:29

was the advent of something like a

blog or a comment section or social

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: 00:20:34

media, MySpace, The, like, increased

access to chat rooms, stuff like that.

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: 00:20:41

Like, it, sort of like the editable

web, and we used that to interact more.

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: 00:20:48

And also more people could make their

own websites, so something like…

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: 00:20:52

Do you remember GeoCities?

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: 00:20:54

Y- like, there were ways for people who

weren't formally trained in, computers

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: 00:21:01

and whatnot, to still be a part of it.

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: 00:21:04

also became a piece of the,

the kind of proxy access.

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: 00:21:10

were one step removed if you

used something like GeoCities

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: 00:21:12

to create your website

447

: 00:21:14

Beck: Right

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: 00:21:15

Dash: Uh, so the, uh, Google says

"A defining element of Web 3.0

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: 00:21:22

would be decentralization, moving

away from reliance on massive tech

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: 00:21:26

monopolies like Google, Amazon, and

Meta toward decentralized applications

451

: 00:21:31

and peer-to-peer networks."

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: 00:21:33

Yeah, using blockchain technology.

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: 00:21:36

So basically it would require us

to completely reverse course begin

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: 00:21:43

to learn how shit works again.

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: 00:21:45

I don't know how likely we are to do that

And I just bored myself talking about…

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: 00:21:49

And, and I, it shouldn't be like that.

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: 00:21:51

We should be, we should be excited

to, to have the opportunity to learn

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: 00:21:56

stuff, but everything is so goddamn

hard right now, I just don't want to

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: 00:22:00

Beck: Yehaw.

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: 00:22:01

Dash: Until we become a society that can

feed and house everybody, I don't think…

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: 00:22:05

I think we're gonna be in Web

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: 00:22:07

Beck: Oh, we could, but we just don't

463

: 00:22:09

Dash: Right.

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: 00:22:10

been the case since the '70s.

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: 00:22:12

We've been

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: 00:22:12

Beck: Yehaw

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: 00:22:12

Dash: to feed twice the amount of

people that live on planet Earth since

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: 00:22:17

whenever it was Norman Borlaug, uh,

diversified the wheat down in Mexico.

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: 00:22:24

I'm not gonna Google that.

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: 00:22:25

Nobody cares.

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: 00:22:26

This is- I really need some ADHD medicine.

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: 00:22:30

Beck: Yeah, this is gonna be a fun podcast

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: 00:22:33

Dash: It's gonna be a nightmare to edit.

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: 00:22:36

you sent me this page Facebook page,

You Know You're From Portsmouth,

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: 00:22:42

Beck: Yes.

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: 00:22:44

Dash: And I've just been kinda

scrolling through, and this, post made

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: 00:22:49

me laugh because it just says, " I

went from first through fifth grade

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: 00:22:54

at Highland Elementary, 1940 to 1945."

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: 00:22:59

Beck: That was also the elementary

school that I went to, believe it or not.

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: 00:23:03

Dash: Wow

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: 00:23:03

Beck: Yeah, it's, there were, there were

five elementary schools in Portsmouth,

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: 00:23:06

and that's just the one that I also went

to from kindergarten through fifth grade.

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: 00:23:10

So the thing about the, the Portsmouth,

Ohio, uh, the, the name of the site is

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: 00:23:15

You Know You Are from Portsmouth, Ohio If.

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: 00:23:17

And when this group was originally

created, the, that kind of page,

486

: 00:23:22

that, that format was everywhere.

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: 00:23:25

It was kind of based on the joke, you

know, you're from Ohio if and then

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: 00:23:29

insert, you know, funny line or whatever.

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: 00:23:31

But this t- page kind of evolved

and became, in a, in a county where

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: 00:23:36

there is no historical society, this

has really become the public history

491

: 00:23:40

dispo for the Scioto County area.

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: 00:23:44

Uh, you can find thousands of pictures

of everything from old car shows to

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: 00:23:49

old buildings to old families to old

festivals to old businesses to, you

494

: 00:23:54

know, you name it and it's in there.

495

: 00:23:56

Uh, every once in a while

they'll publish a Valley class

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: 00:23:59

of 1982, the seniors, right?

497

: 00:24:01

And so you get to see all the seniors

from that class of: 1982

498

: 00:24:03

they'll do New Boston, uh, 1995, and

en they'll do West Portsmouth: 1937

499

: 00:24:09

You know, and they just pick random

years, and you get to see the, the,

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: 00:24:12

the yearbook pictures of all of those.

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: 00:24:14

And it has 24,000 members which

isn't a whole lot when it comes to,

502

: 00:24:19

you know, big pages or whatever.

503

: 00:24:21

But I think that this page does a really

good job of being a public history portal

504

: 00:24:27

for people that don't have any other

way to experience that kind of thing.

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: 00:24:31

Portsmouth is really the kind of place

where you grow up there and you leave

506

: 00:24:35

if you want any kind of opportunity.

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: 00:24:37

So a lot of people feel nostalgic

about the area and, you know, it's from

508

: 00:24:41

their childhood, I think it's important

because it allows people to explore those

509

: 00:24:45

avenues and to make old friends again.

510

: 00:24:47

You know, there's all, all kinds of times.

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: 00:24:48

The, like this, this lady that,

that posted the one that you ta-

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: 00:24:51

that you said she said, "I lived in

Portsmouth on Park Avenue in the early

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: 00:24:55

'40s, went to Highland Elementary."

514

: 00:24:57

And then there's a person in the in the

comments that said, it, put their address,

515

: 00:25:01

"Went to Highland School, had the same

t- teachers you mentioned at Highland.

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: 00:25:05

Graduated class of 1961."

517

: 00:25:08

And then the next one is, "I

also went to Highland, and Ms.

518

: 00:25:10

Pray was my first grade teacher,

and I remember blah, blah, blah.

519

: 00:25:13

I graduated in 1957."

520

: 00:25:15

So it, it really is just a good

place for people to come back and

521

: 00:25:18

explore public history in a way

that I think is very 21st century.

522

: 00:25:22

You know?

523

: 00:25:22

There was never anything like this before.

524

: 00:25:24

When I was doing my research for my

master's, uh, program I contacted

525

: 00:25:28

the library to find out what kind of

resources they had about Black history,

526

: 00:25:32

and they basically had a folder on a

shelf, and that was pretty much it.

527

: 00:25:36

And since I've, since I found this page,

some of the Black residents have shared

528

: 00:25:41

different things, and I have gotten more

Black history from this page than I got

529

: 00:25:44

from the actual library doing research.

530

: 00:25:46

So, you know, there's a lot of good ways

for this to be used, and people just

531

: 00:25:49

kind of, you know, offhandedly think

it's n- garbage or nonsense or whatever.

532

: 00:25:53

But it's a really important site of public

history, and I'm glad that it, it exists

533

: 00:26:02

Dash: I'm reading a post right now about

the tunnels, there was a tunnel built to

534

: 00:26:07

help the post office move mail more easily

535

: 00:26:10

Beck: Mmhmm

536

: 00:26:11

Dash: But somebody who

may be related to you

537

: 00:26:15

Beck: It's possible

538

: 00:26:16

Dash: said, "My dad, Reginald Jenkins,

used to work at post office back

539

: 00:26:23

in the day, and he took me a walk

the tunnel when I was a teenager."

540

: 00:26:27

Beck: If they're a Jenkins, a Montgomery,

a Phipps, or a Crabtree in Scioto County,

541

: 00:26:32

I am absolutely the related to them,

so I'm sure that is one of my cousins

542

: 00:26:37

Dash: Just scrolling through and I see the

pictures, like the historical pictures.

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: 00:26:42

It was an, an old

Greyhound bus station there

544

: 00:26:45

Beck: Yeah.

545

: 00:26:46

Yeah, it was really dilapidated by

the time I got to be allowed to drive

546

: 00:26:49

around town, but it looked really fancy.

547

: 00:26:52

And it's o- on the, on the murals,

if you ever get a chance to go to

548

: 00:26:55

Portsmouth, Ohio, make sure you

check out the flood wall murals.

549

: 00:26:58

They're the, the crown jewel in the

Portsmouth public history scenario there.

550

: 00:27:03

It's basically 2,000 feet of mural

space, and it covers the history from

551

: 00:27:07

the Native Americans that s- were

settled there, and when the French came

552

: 00:27:10

in and settled the area, all the way

up to the new bridge they just built.

553

: 00:27:13

And it covers all kinds of

different pieces of history and,

554

: 00:27:15

and the, the Greyhound station is,

is one o- in one of the murals.

555

: 00:27:20

And it looks really neat.

556

: 00:27:22

They had, like, an art deco section.

557

: 00:27:24

There was a lot of art deco design

in Portsmouth in the '40s and '50s

558

: 00:27:28

when it was really in its heyday

559

: 00:27:30

Dash: Yeah, I could spend a lot

of time scrolling through here

560

: 00:27:33

Beck: One time somebody commented they

worked at, at Kmart in the late '80s, and

561

: 00:27:38

I was like, "Oh, my aunt worked there."

562

: 00:27:39

And they were like, "Who was your aunt?"

563

: 00:27:40

I said her name, and they

were like, "I loved her."

564

: 00:27:43

And that was just amazing because, you

know, she's been dead for many years, and

565

: 00:27:46

it w- she was, like, one of my favorite

people in the whole world, and it was

566

: 00:27:49

just good to find somebody that remembered

her for being awesome, you know?

567

: 00:27:52

Dash: Yeah.

568

: 00:27:54

that's, I mean, at, at

its heart, The thing that

569

: 00:27:57

should do, the thing that like w- if it

does it well, then, then that's great.

570

: 00:28:02

It's like give us those connections

571

: 00:28:05

Beck: Mm-hmm.

572

: 00:28:05

I sent you a second page which is

called The Nosy Asses of Toledo, Ohio.

573

: 00:28:12

And so on the surface, this has kind

of the same job that the Portsmouth

574

: 00:28:18

page has but it is much more ornery.

575

: 00:28:23

very, very, very differently.

576

: 00:28:25

It's also got a lot of current

events things that are happening.

577

: 00:28:28

Like for example, one day there were

two people arguing about something on

578

: 00:28:31

the page, and the next day came the

mugshots 'cause they took it offline.

579

: 00:28:35

That totally happened

on the Nosy Asses page.

580

: 00:28:38

There, you know the guy f- the drag,

uh, the drag queen that was running

581

: 00:28:41

for Congress, uh, from around here?

582

: 00:28:43

He got into a fight with a girl at a BP.

583

: 00:28:46

He's, he apparently stole her spot,

like, they're the, they were busy.

584

: 00:28:50

Dash: yeah.

585

: 00:28:52

You told

586

: 00:28:53

know it was

587

: 00:28:55

Beck: yeah, So he s- he stole

her spot, and so long story

588

: 00:28:58

short, she ended up macing him,

pepper spraying him in the eyes.

589

: 00:29:02

And they played the whole argument out

on, on this Nosy Asses of Toledo page,

590

: 00:29:06

which is where I even, even heard of

this guy for the first time, you know?

591

: 00:29:09

Because it was such a thing.

592

: 00:29:11

There will be posts like "If you

were the motherfucker driving the

593

: 00:29:15

red van on, on Secor Avenue at 3:45

today, you better learn how to drive."

594

: 00:29:20

You know, stupid stuff like that, which I

agree, Toledo could learn to drive a lot.

595

: 00:29:26

There are some bad drivers in Toledo.

596

: 00:29:29

Like, I've seen people use the

berm just to get around somebody.

597

: 00:29:33

it's wild the things

I have seen in Toledo.

598

: 00:29:35

But I find it, I find it interesting

because it's the, the same basic idea,

599

: 00:29:40

uh, uh, like a re- a repository of, human

interests from a particular area, but it's

600

: 00:29:46

a very, like you said, a very different

interpretation of how that data is used.

601

: 00:29:51

So the Portsmouth page I think is being

used for good, and I think the Nosy Asses

602

: 00:29:55

of Toledo page is being used for evil.

603

: 00:29:57

For hilarious evil sometimes,

but definitely not being used

604

: 00:30:00

for the g- the betterment of man.

605

: 00:30:02

And it's got 70,000 members,

606

: 00:30:05

Dash: Yeah.

607

: 00:30:05

Man, Facebook is, is wild.

608

: 00:30:07

Did you have MySpace first

609

: 00:30:10

Beck: Yes, MySpace.

610

: 00:30:12

That was one of the things

I did on the Amazon time.

611

: 00:30:16

It is and you can even still s- sign

into your account, but everything is gone

612

: 00:30:20

Dash: Space.com.

613

: 00:30:21

Oh my God, this still exists?

614

: 00:30:24

Beck: Yep

615

: 00:30:25

Dash: It looks sketchy as hell.

616

: 00:30:28

Beck: Yehaw

617

: 00:30:30

Dash: bit like Pinterest,

for music and stuff.

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: 00:30:35

Yeah, I'm, I'm not gonna look at that.

619

: 00:30:37

It makes me sad.

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: 00:30:38

Well,

621

: 00:30:41

the social media I spend

the most time on is TikTok.

622

: 00:30:45

Which is interesting.

623

: 00:30:46

I, it, the, it's really got its claws in

pretty much all of us There are times when

624

: 00:30:52

I'm like, "This is dreadful and I don't

know why I'm doing this," and so I avoid

625

: 00:30:56

it because I don't want to take the time

to figure out how to control my algorithm.

626

: 00:31:01

So if it's not what I want to see,

I just don't log on for a while.

627

: 00:31:05

But sometimes it has the most

beautiful random shit, That I'm

628

: 00:31:14

like, "What, what gave you this idea?

629

: 00:31:16

Like, how did you even come

up with this brilliance?"

630

: 00:31:20

And so this, this little

thing here is one of them.

631

: 00:31:25

Like, when I saw this, I was

like, " Uh, this is so goddamn funny.

632

: 00:31:29

I don't even know who to, to…

633

: 00:31:32

I need to tell somebody about

this You see the screen?

634

: 00:31:35

Beck: Yes.

635

: 00:31:36

Dash: This is If ABBA

were sung by Australians

636

: 00:31:42

Speaker: In the firelight, Fernando,

637

: 00:31:47

you are humming to yourself and

softly strumming your guitar.

638

: 00:31:52

I could hear the distant drums and sounds

and bugle claws were coming from a farm.

639

: 00:32:00

They were closer.

640

: 00:32:01

Now, Fernando.

641

: 00:32:05

Every hour, every minute

seem to last eternally

642

: 00:32:11

Dash: eternally In the oil lamp Eternally

643

: 00:32:16

Australian people aren't real.

644

: 00:32:19

Nobody talks like that.

645

: 00:32:21

Beck: I've wondered that myself.

646

: 00:32:22

Yeah, I've wondered that myself

647

: 00:32:25

That's hilarious.

648

: 00:32:27

It sounds

649

: 00:32:27

like,

650

: 00:32:28

Muriel's Wedding all over again

651

: 00:32:32

Dash: Wenda

652

: 00:32:32

Beck: Are you not worried that the

Chinese government is, is learning

653

: 00:32:35

all of your algorithm stuff?

654

: 00:32:37

Dash: Yeah.

655

: 00:32:38

I mean, every application on

my phone is mining my data.

656

: 00:32:43

I trust the Chinese with it

more than Mark Zuckerberg

657

: 00:32:47

Beck: True that, homie

658

: 00:32:49

Dash: you know,

659

: 00:32:51

Beck: at

660

: 00:32:51

least the Chinese are human

661

: 00:32:52

Dash: Well, and, and they can't…

662

: 00:32:54

What are they gonna do to me, right?

663

: 00:32:55

They're over there.

664

: 00:32:57

This dude is influencing our government,

and, and maybe they are, too.

665

: 00:33:02

I don't know.

666

: 00:33:02

I don't know enough about it.

667

: 00:33:03

But, like, fucking these techno

bros, Bezos and, and Zuckerberg,

668

: 00:33:08

they're literally running our

country, and it's not going well.

669

: 00:33:12

Like, they're, they're killing people.

670

: 00:33:14

So And that's the reason why I'll be

like, every so often I'll be like,

671

: 00:33:18

"Oh, I'm gonna get off of Facebook,"

because I, I have this feeling of being

672

: 00:33:21

watched, and I don't like it But then

I move somewhere that's the middle of

673

: 00:33:25

nowhere where I have to buy shit off of

Facebook Marketplace because there's no,

674

: 00:33:30

like, you know, pawn stores or whatever

675

: 00:33:32

Beck: Yeah.

676

: 00:33:33

I've gotten ripped off so many times

on Marketplace, it's ridiculous.

677

: 00:33:37

Like, one time we bought a Wii, and they

gave us a bunch of games and everything,

678

: 00:33:39

but the Wii didn't work It was bullshit

679

: 00:33:42

Dash: And it's not like you can, like,

check it in the parking lot wherever you

680

: 00:33:46

Beck: Yeah.

681

: 00:33:47

Exactly.

682

: 00:33:48

Dash: Speaking of Facebook Marketplace,

I found this video of this woman

683

: 00:33:53

talking about Facebook Marketplace.

684

: 00:35:12

Um

685

: 00:35:13

Beck: Are there so many

alternative pooping methods?

686

: 00:35:16

Dash: Uh, there's another one

here of, like, old Appalachia

687

: 00:35:18

baby names from the cemeteries.

688

: 00:35:21

We don't need to

689

: 00:35:22

Beck: Ew

690

: 00:35:22

Dash: one.

691

: 00:35:22

It, it's ki- I mean, we can watch it,

but I might not put it in the episode,

692

: 00:35:25

but I will link it in the description.

693

: 00:35:32

Last thing I s- I saved a bunch of

these because they all make me laugh so

694

: 00:35:36

much, is- Lima the Sinister Pawn babe.

695

: 00:35:41

she just does the Google Maps

readings, but somebody…

696

: 00:35:45

she actually, I think she lives

up there by you right now.

697

: 00:35:48

but people have been sending

her to parts of Appalachia.

698

: 00:35:50

But because we were talking about

Lima and the, what she says about

699

: 00:35:53

it, it just, this made me laugh

700

: 00:35:56

Beck: Those Kewpie burgers

have been everywhere

701

: 00:35:59

Speaker 2: Lima.

702

: 00:36:00

No, but nobody likes Lima.

703

: 00:36:04

She's out in the forsaken part

of Ohio, the Western Park.

704

: 00:36:07

I've been all over this state,

but I've never been over

705

: 00:36:09

there and nor do I want to.

706

: 00:36:12

It's a nice courthouse

though a lot of towns have.

707

: 00:36:14

Nice, well, okay.

708

: 00:36:15

It's kind of nice too, you know.

709

: 00:36:17

Old darky teacher.

710

: 00:36:18

That's okay.

711

: 00:36:19

I, I'm saying I'm seeing a nice,

so pu from the 18 hundreds that's.

712

: 00:36:23

You know, little whimsical to me.

713

: 00:36:25

Ooh.

714

: 00:36:25

But you know, it's touch and go.

715

: 00:36:27

'cause what, what's this so tall for?

716

: 00:36:29

What do y'all think?

717

: 00:36:29

You're a city or something?

718

: 00:36:31

Parking garage.

719

: 00:36:33

Hoe on the fuck's going to lime?

720

: 00:36:35

I, I don't know why y'all

have all these tall buildings.

721

: 00:36:37

I didn't think it was that.

722

: 00:36:38

What fucking skyscrapers.

723

: 00:36:40

What's is Coy Hamburgs?

724

: 00:36:42

Hold on.

725

: 00:36:42

What?

726

: 00:36:43

Wait a minute.

727

: 00:36:43

Like the little coy dolls,

they, it's kind of quirky.

728

: 00:36:46

Kay Burgers frogs.

729

: 00:36:48

Ordinarily I wouldn't love thisThe,

but it feels more authentic.

730

: 00:36:52

Look at these.

731

: 00:36:52

I kind of love these little naked dolls.

732

: 00:36:55

They're cute, whimsical.

733

: 00:36:56

Even the Mennonite bitches love it.

734

: 00:36:59

I bet they do have a good burger.

735

: 00:37:00

You know, art space of Lama bang.

736

: 00:37:03

Who the fuck y'all think y'all are?

737

: 00:37:05

Although, look, you

know, it is a reminder.

738

: 00:37:08

And all these small towns across

America, people are doing things.

739

: 00:37:11

People are making art now.

740

: 00:37:13

I feel bad.

741

: 00:37:14

Old City prom, 5,000 babe.

742

: 00:37:18

What's going on in Lymer?

743

: 00:37:19

Who even knew, look, and

this food looks good.

744

: 00:37:23

Who the fuck's taking me here?

745

: 00:37:24

I can't afford this McDowell

house of Victorian mansion.

746

: 00:37:28

Wait now.

747

: 00:37:29

See how I'd sit in that winter and

just ponder, you know, that's what

748

: 00:37:33

they did back in the day, 18 hundreds.

749

: 00:37:35

There wasn't else shit to do.

750

: 00:37:36

You just sat around.

751

: 00:37:37

Look at that desk.

752

: 00:37:38

Hell gorgeous.

753

: 00:37:40

They don't make nothing like that no more.

754

: 00:37:42

You see?

755

: 00:37:43

You could put all your little

things in the compartments, the bin.

756

: 00:37:46

This is my house.

757

: 00:37:48

This where I belong.

758

: 00:37:49

I, I just feel, you know, I'm in

the wrong time period and it's just,

759

: 00:37:52

oh look in a creepy basement too.

760

: 00:37:54

I love the, the ho on main.

761

: 00:37:56

Another 5,000.

762

: 00:37:58

Fuck no, we're not doing this again.

763

: 00:38:00

Y'all are getting cur munch box.

764

: 00:38:03

We are my lesbian.

765

: 00:38:04

Okay.

766

: 00:38:05

Come to the front.

767

: 00:38:05

'cause with Jim Munch this box, man.

768

: 00:38:08

I bet you would.

769

: 00:38:09

This looks good.

770

: 00:38:10

You know, it's very dairy heavy.

771

: 00:38:12

Ice creams and treats and things.

772

: 00:38:14

What's the uh, hold on.

773

: 00:38:15

'cause I smell something, but

something sinister this way comes.

774

: 00:38:20

Oh, this my prison romance.

775

: 00:38:22

Look.

776

: 00:38:22

Look at the barbed wire bag look.

777

: 00:38:24

Allen Oakwood Correctional Facility.

778

: 00:38:27

I say our mains in nearby.

779

: 00:38:28

And what's the, uh, some

kind of big abandoned port.

780

: 00:38:31

I wanna see this.

781

: 00:38:32

I know y'all are exposing

my man to asbestos and.

782

: 00:38:36

Lord knows what Hell moving.

783

: 00:38:38

What's Happy Day next to Burger King?

784

: 00:38:40

Let's, yes, another 50 Donner situation.

785

: 00:38:44

I'm like, what the Furby?

786

: 00:38:45

And y'all dressed them up

to take them out to lunch.

787

: 00:38:48

This is so my vibe.

788

: 00:38:49

I wanna do this.

789

: 00:38:50

Damn.

790

: 00:38:51

Now I need to get a fucking Furby again.

791

: 00:38:53

And then look, y'all got

another Cutey burger.

792

: 00:38:55

Y'all got two of these in the same town.

793

: 00:38:57

I kind of wanna go to Lima just 50 years.

794

: 00:38:59

Look at the ass, pretty and plump.

795

: 00:39:01

I love her.

796

: 00:39:02

This is speaking to me

797

: 00:39:04

Dash: that's her whole

channel, and I love it.

798

: 00:39:06

She just…

799

: 00:39:07

Beck: That was hilarious.

800

: 00:39:08

Dash: gone to…

801

: 00:39:09

Beck: have Pikeville, Kentucky

802

: 00:39:14

Speaker 3: 12 this whole.

803

: 00:39:19

Same SW Treble and Crying

Pain and the Lord's gonna

804

: 00:39:23

come and as heavenly airplane.

805

: 00:39:26

Speaker 4: I like to sing that on my

front porch, uh, in the evening as

806

: 00:39:30

a reminder that the world is ending.

807

: 00:39:33

Now we've been sent to Eastern

Kentucky, you know, heart of Appalachia.

808

: 00:39:38

I've never been to Pikeville, but I, you

know, I'm related to people from here.

809

: 00:39:41

Y'all know the Howard look now, I like to.

810

: 00:39:44

See that they're, uh,

celebrating their downtown.

811

: 00:39:47

Y'all see how it's fixed up?

812

: 00:39:49

You know how they're caring for it.

813

: 00:39:51

This is kind of nice looking, ain't it?

814

: 00:39:53

You'd expect it to all be crumbling and,

you know, meth addicts and crack heads.

815

: 00:39:58

But they're here.

816

: 00:39:59

You know, you lift up one of these cars,

they're gonna scatter like roaches.

817

: 00:40:03

Enjoy downtown.

818

: 00:40:04

I'll save you.

819

: 00:40:05

See that looks like a

drag queen, don't it?

820

: 00:40:07

Are we getting LGBT in the Appalachian?

821

: 00:40:09

This surprises me.

822

: 00:40:10

What's purses place?

823

: 00:40:12

Hey, I go like a panini.

824

: 00:40:13

I like a squished, uh, warm sandwich.

825

: 00:40:16

Like that.

826

: 00:40:16

Look at that pretzel.

827

: 00:40:17

This looks good.

828

: 00:40:18

What are then those deep fried,

uh, scotch eggs or something?

829

: 00:40:21

I like to try those Big sandy

heritage, who's big Sandy.

830

: 00:40:25

They didn't have to put

her on blast like that.

831

: 00:40:27

The building looks nice.

832

: 00:40:29

Some kind of historic museum.

833

: 00:40:31

I mean, I'm not riveting.

834

: 00:40:32

It was, yes, they was getting kinky

with handcuffs or something back.

835

: 00:40:35

Yeah, that's a co.

836

: 00:40:37

You know, because that's all this

party look, the coal miners prayer, I

837

: 00:40:41

mean, that's all the men have to do.

838

: 00:40:43

You know, they're down in their

minds and they still are to this day.

839

: 00:40:46

You might think it's

still like 18 hundreds.

840

: 00:40:48

I mean, they're coming

out all city and shit.

841

: 00:40:50

Okay.

842

: 00:40:51

Hatfield McCoy, don't get me scoring.

843

: 00:40:53

Y'all know what this was.

844

: 00:40:54

It was two white trash

families that kept fighting.

845

: 00:40:58

They want to talk about it for hundreds

of years, and that's all it was.

846

: 00:41:01

You can drive anywhere down

in them hollers right now.

847

: 00:41:04

And you see people screaming at

each other from their trailer parks.

848

: 00:41:08

That's the same thing.

849

: 00:41:09

Oh, captain D's, let's talk

about some real culture boy.

850

: 00:41:13

And it still looks the same, don't it.

851

: 00:41:14

Same killer scheme.

852

: 00:41:15

This where you know, me and

my family would go when it

853

: 00:41:18

was gonna be a fancy dinner.

854

: 00:41:20

In the nineties, you know?

855

: 00:41:21

Oh God, the hushpuppies, God.

856

: 00:41:23

These were simpler times.

857

: 00:41:24

You know, the biggest scandal was

the president getting a blowjob, you

858

: 00:41:27

know, net was, yet he wasn't sucking

the whole country up like this one.

859

: 00:41:31

What's over here?

860

: 00:41:32

Pay ball.

861

: 00:41:32

These boutique little clothing store.

862

: 00:41:34

Oh fuck.

863

: 00:41:35

There's some Appalachian lingerie

with the, uh, trucks and the red lace.

864

: 00:41:40

Okay.

865

: 00:41:40

That gets the men's going.

866

: 00:41:41

I don't know the direction of the

store if it's like for adult babies.

867

: 00:41:45

Oh, it's lesbians, Dolly and Reba.

868

: 00:41:47

You know, I mean, the lesbians

got their own rules, you know?

869

: 00:41:50

I don't know how they dress.

870

: 00:41:51

Moving on.

871

: 00:41:53

What?

872

: 00:41:53

El Oh, David Nail salon.

873

: 00:41:55

You know, I got something to say.

874

: 00:41:56

I'm up here in some forsaken part of Ohio.

875

: 00:41:59

You know, I had to.

876

: 00:42:00

Scour to find an Asian owned

and operated nail salon.

877

: 00:42:04

You know?

878

: 00:42:04

And you could always tell, 'cause

it's either, it's just like beauty

879

: 00:42:06

nail or sexy nails, you know, or

Diva Nail or just nails, you know,

880

: 00:42:12

they're real, you know, to the point.

881

: 00:42:13

Okay.

882

: 00:42:14

None of these, uh, patties

artistic nail salon?

883

: 00:42:17

No.

884

: 00:42:17

'cause I know that's a Caucasian.

885

: 00:42:19

See, I grew up, you know, a

very traditional way and, and

886

: 00:42:22

they were Asian nail salons and

that's what I'm comfortable with.

887

: 00:42:26

That's the only ones I trust.

888

: 00:42:27

They have perfected that craft.

889

: 00:42:29

I do not want to see it in front of

a white woman and make small talk.

890

: 00:42:34

I just don't any y'all go around

and say, you know, they're talking

891

: 00:42:37

about you in their language.

892

: 00:42:38

You know, I don't give a fuck.

893

: 00:42:39

What's that?

894

: 00:42:40

My business, it's not.

895

: 00:42:41

Look, if they don't wanna call me

a fat bitch in their own language

896

: 00:42:44

to each other, okay, I'll never

know and I'm leaving with my nails.

897

: 00:42:48

Okay.

898

: 00:42:49

That don't matter to me.

899

: 00:42:51

Beck: That's hilarious

900

: 00:42:52

Dash: She's a treasure.

901

: 00:42:54

if you don't already, go follow

her, @sisterponbabe on TikTok.

902

: 00:42:59

I actually, just because of doing,

looking up these videos, I found

903

: 00:43:03

out that she has a Facebook page

too, so I followed her on Facebook.

904

: 00:43:06

But that's one thing, like, I like

about the way social media has gone

905

: 00:43:11

kind of more video and stuff is, like,

getting to hear people talk, getting to

906

: 00:43:14

hear the way people talk about things.

907

: 00:43:16

Like That's come in really

clutch lately well, I don't know.

908

: 00:43:20

We could, uh, clearly do this

forever But maybe we should

909

: 00:43:23

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910

: 00:43:24

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911

: 00:43:28

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926

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928

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935

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936

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939

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941

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942

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943

: 00:45:18

I'm wearing my jean

944

: 00:45:20

Beck: I don't even own a pair of

jeans to have jean shorts, so couldn't

945

: 00:45:23

tell you the last time I owned jeans.

946

: 00:45:25

I've either got sweatpants

or teacher pants

947

: 00:45:28

Dash: I wore jeans to work

this, a, a whole past year.

948

: 00:45:32

There's no, like, at the university I

was working at so everybody just wear…

949

: 00:45:39

Some people wear shorts.

950

: 00:45:41

so I'm like,

951

: 00:45:42

Beck: There were some days I would wear

my nice sweatpants under my sweaters

952

: 00:45:45

and nobody knew the difference.

953

: 00:45:46

So that's where I was last semester.

954

: 00:45:48

It was sweatpants to campus kind of days.

955

: 00:45:51

Dash: Yehaw.

956

: 00:45:53

Beck: I also did my entire undergraduate

in, uh, in my pajamas, I'm one of

957

: 00:45:57

those people that wears their pajamas

to Walmart, but I don't go to Walmart

958

: 00:46:01

I just like comfortable clothes

959

: 00:46:02

Jeans feel like a prison

960

: 00:46:04

Dash: yeah I'm a big fan of ball shorts.

961

: 00:46:08

Beck: That's what I'm wearing

962

: 00:46:08

right now is pair of ball shorts

963

: 00:46:11

Dash: when I would get like, when

I would be bloated or something

964

: 00:46:14

from like my period, could gain

15, 20 pounds in a day from that.

965

: 00:46:19

And

966

: 00:46:20

Beck: Yeah

967

: 00:46:20

Dash: you start off the day and

you're okay, and by the time you

968

: 00:46:23

get home you feel like a sausage

roll And then add wearing binders

969

: 00:46:29

or something on top of it, dreadful.

970

: 00:46:32

Like, I just

971

: 00:46:33

Beck: Yeah.

972

: 00:46:33

Dash: by the

973

: 00:46:33

Beck: Oh, I bet

974

: 00:46:34

Dash: some, some days What are

y'all gonna do for the Fourth?

975

: 00:46:37

You gonna do any, you

gonna go see any fireworks?

976

: 00:46:40

Beck: Probably not because of Pita.

977

: 00:46:43

She does not do well with noisy

situations and, and random bangs.

978

: 00:46:47

We have…

979

: 00:46:48

The, the doctor gave us a combination.

980

: 00:46:50

It's a gabapentin and a trazodone that

we give her, and we gave it to her the

981

: 00:46:54

other night, and we went to the drive-in

movie, and she was still barking.

982

: 00:46:57

So I don't know.

983

: 00:46:59

We'll see

984

: 00:47:00

Dash: I saw on Facebook Andy Beshear

Had his dog in it w- it was, uh,

985

: 00:47:10

Yeah, like noise-canceling earmuffs

for dogs, I guess Which I, I don't

986

: 00:47:17

Beck: no

987

: 00:47:18

Dash: I was, my thought was

like, that can't be real.

988

: 00:47:20

If it's a real thing, I mean, that,

that's cool and stuff, but I'm just

989

: 00:47:24

trying to imagine what PETA would do to

you if you tried to put ear muffs on her.

990

: 00:47:30

Beck: I'd come back with some

stubs instead of fingers.

991

: 00:47:32

Dash: You only try

992

: 00:47:34

Beck: 'Cause she bites

993

: 00:47:35

Dash: Yeah

994

: 00:47:35

Beck: she doesn't wanna do something.

995

: 00:47:37

she's a biter.

996

: 00:47:38

She doesn't have a lot of teeth

left, so it doesn't hurt a whole

997

: 00:47:40

lot, but she, she gets in there.

998

: 00:47:43

Dash: If there was some, like, remote

location you could go and park at

999

: 00:47:47

and still see them but, like, not

be close enough to freak her out

: 1000

00:47:55,103 --> 00:47:55,303

Beck: That's a possibility, but, um,

: 1001

00:47:55,303 --> 00:47:56,703

it's also might rain tonight, so there's

a chance for thunderstorms this evening.

: 1002

00:47:57,672 --> 00:47:59,072

Didn't stop 'em last night, though.

: 1003

00:48:00,095 --> 00:48:00,445

were big,

: 1004

00:48:00,445 --> 00:48:00,705

like,

: 1005

00:48:00,789 --> 00:48:01,099

Dash: night

: 1006

00:48:01,265 --> 00:48:03,095

Beck: u- light up the room thunder booms.

: 1007

00:48:03,525 --> 00:48:05,785

Dash: I don't, I mean, I don't know.

: 1008

00:48:05,805 --> 00:48:07,265

I, I sleep through stuff.

: 1009

00:48:07,315 --> 00:48:13,464

Between not being able to hear and my

CPAP machine, if, if the house was on

: 1010

00:48:13,464 --> 00:48:17,584

fire, it w- if, the heat would wake

me up before anything else would.

: 1011

00:48:17,594 --> 00:48:19,724

Like, I would be like, "Ooh, it's sweaty.

: 1012

00:48:19,724 --> 00:48:20,894

Oh, God, the house is on fire.

: 1013

00:48:20,894 --> 00:48:21,444

We should get out."

: 1014

00:48:21,809 --> 00:48:23,789

Beck: It'd be the sprinklers

in my ap- apartment

: 1015

00:48:24,366 --> 00:48:25,426

Dash: Oh, we don't have those.

: 1016

00:48:25,766 --> 00:48:26,856

Beck: We have a sprinkler system.

: 1017

00:48:27,230 --> 00:48:29,330

Dash: I don't even have

smoke detectors actually

: 1018

00:48:29,821 --> 00:48:32,081

Beck: Oh my God, you

need to fix that, friend

: 1019

00:48:33,319 --> 00:48:33,919

Dash: But…

: 1020

00:48:34,256 --> 00:48:36,056

So there might be some

somewhere, I don't know.

: 1021

00:48:36,096 --> 00:48:39,026

There's, there's one right here,

and the battery was taken out

: 1022

00:48:39,026 --> 00:48:40,436

of it, and I didn't know why.

: 1023

00:48:40,446 --> 00:48:43,966

And so when I moved in, I put it

back in there, and then the first

: 1024

00:48:43,966 --> 00:48:45,336

time I took a shower it went off.

: 1025

00:48:45,356 --> 00:48:47,496

And I was like, "That's why

the battery's taken out of it."

: 1026

00:48:47,916 --> 00:48:49,516

The steam from the shower sets it off.

: 1027

00:48:49,526 --> 00:48:50,596

So it's at a stupid spot.

: 1028

00:48:50,996 --> 00:48:54,516

So I did buy some that I can put

places that don't get steamy, 'cause

: 1029

00:48:54,516 --> 00:48:57,266

there's one in the kitchen, but the

kitchen doesn't have any ventilation.

: 1030

00:48:57,306 --> 00:48:58,816

The whole house doesn't

have any ventilation.

: 1031

00:48:59,046 --> 00:49:02,066

And so the slightest

smoke will set them off.

: 1032

00:49:02,076 --> 00:49:04,296

So I've gotta put them other places.

: 1033

00:49:05,246 --> 00:49:06,146

And I've just been lazy,

: 1034

00:49:06,572 --> 00:49:08,352

Beck: Yeah, that's a

problem in my apartment too.

: 1035

00:49:08,676 --> 00:49:10,486

Doesn't even have to be

smoky, just has to be hot

: 1036

00:49:11,083 --> 00:49:15,343

Dash: my mom used to say that my

Aunt Jenny used the smoke detectors

: 1037

00:49:15,343 --> 00:49:17,978

as the, as like the cooking timer.

: 1038

00:49:19,248 --> 00:49:19,488

That's

: 1039

00:49:19,889 --> 00:49:19,899

Beck: Yehaw

: 1040

00:49:21,528 --> 00:49:22,528

Dash: But she also did

: 1041

00:49:24,110 --> 00:49:24,910

Beck: Well, there's that

: 1042

00:49:25,815 --> 00:49:27,475

Dash: Did you bring a noun

of Appalachian interest?

: 1043

00:49:27,957 --> 00:49:30,537

Beck: I did, a very regional one today.

: 1044

00:49:30,898 --> 00:49:31,058

Dash: You

: 1045

00:49:31,137 --> 00:49:32,027

Beck: Let me pull it up here

: 1046

00:49:32,673 --> 00:49:34,533

Something that I love very much.

: 1047

00:49:35,363 --> 00:49:39,393

All right, this week's noun of

Appalachian interest is Heiner's bread.

: 1048

00:49:39,813 --> 00:49:42,903

Now, we're not talking about the kind of

bread that comes in a paper sleeve and

: 1049

00:49:42,903 --> 00:49:44,753

acts like it spent a semester abroad.

: 1050

00:49:45,063 --> 00:49:47,733

We're talking about Heiner's,

which comes in the classic red

: 1051

00:49:47,733 --> 00:49:49,323

bag and is soft as a cloud.

: 1052

00:49:49,563 --> 00:49:52,813

It's made for sandwiches,

just like lunchboxes intended.

: 1053

00:49:53,293 --> 00:49:55,973

Heiner's comes from Huntington, West

Virginia, where Charles and Kate

: 1054

00:49:56,023 --> 00:49:58,433

einer started baking bread in: 1905

: 1055

00:49:58,773 --> 00:50:02,263

That means this bread has been feeding

people for over a century, which is

: 1056

00:50:02,263 --> 00:50:05,393

a long time for anything to survive,

especially something that usually ends

: 1057

00:50:05,393 --> 00:50:06,823

up with peanut butter stuck to it.

: 1058

00:50:07,343 --> 00:50:09,093

And that's part of what

makes Heiner's special.

: 1059

00:50:09,093 --> 00:50:10,193

It's not a fancy bread.

: 1060

00:50:10,209 --> 00:50:11,219

it never needed to be.

: 1061

00:50:11,219 --> 00:50:14,649

Heiner's know what it came here to do,

and it came here to hold fried bologna.

: 1062

00:50:15,009 --> 00:50:16,749

It came here to become grilled cheese.

: 1063

00:50:16,749 --> 00:50:19,909

It came here to wrap itself around

a juicy tomato slice in July

: 1064

00:50:20,139 --> 00:50:22,779

and risk it all, knowing that

bread will hold up to the meal.

: 1065

00:50:23,289 --> 00:50:25,999

There is something very Appalachian

about a thing that does its job

: 1066

00:50:25,999 --> 00:50:27,369

without asking for applause.

: 1067

00:50:27,629 --> 00:50:30,589

Heiner's just sits there in the

bread aisle, soft and dependable,

: 1068

00:50:30,589 --> 00:50:33,459

waiting to go home with somebody

who already knows exactly what kind

: 1069

00:50:33,459 --> 00:50:34,899

of sandwich they are going to make.

: 1070

00:50:35,349 --> 00:50:38,579

Fun fact, I lived down the street

from Heiner's Bakery in the late '90s

: 1071

00:50:38,579 --> 00:50:42,009

and the early: 2000

when they were baking must be what

: 1072

00:50:42,009 --> 00:50:43,299

you smell when you get to heaven.

: 1073

00:50:43,529 --> 00:50:44,879

It was otherworldly.

: 1074

00:50:45,409 --> 00:50:48,569

For people in West Virginia, Southern

Ohio, Eastern Kentucky, and all the

: 1075

00:50:48,569 --> 00:50:52,092

places close enough to feel connected,

Heiner's is one of those grocery

: 1076

00:50:52,092 --> 00:50:53,692

store names that sneaks up on you.

: 1077

00:50:53,942 --> 00:50:57,022

You may not think about it much when you

see it every week, but let somebody move

: 1078

00:50:57,022 --> 00:50:58,702

away and come back home for a visit.

: 1079

00:50:58,962 --> 00:51:01,532

Suddenly, that bread bag

looks like a childhood.

: 1080

00:51:01,722 --> 00:51:04,372

It looks like lunches packed before

school and somebody standing in

: 1081

00:51:04,372 --> 00:51:07,492

the kitchen making food for people

who needed to get out the door.

: 1082

00:51:07,682 --> 00:51:11,522

I know I've purchased endless bags of it

at the Briar Patch on trips to see my mom.

: 1083

00:51:12,062 --> 00:51:15,922

Heiner's was family-owned for many years

before it was sold in, in the: 1990

: 1084

00:51:16,242 --> 00:51:19,502

After that, it passed through bigger

companies because that is what happens,

: 1085

00:51:19,732 --> 00:51:22,362

but folks still call it Heiner's

because that's what it is to them.

: 1086

00:51:22,732 --> 00:51:25,162

And you can change the business

papers, but you cannot change

: 1087

00:51:25,162 --> 00:51:26,632

what something means in a kitchen.

: 1088

00:51:26,882 --> 00:51:29,212

Heiner's will always taste

like my mom's cooking.

: 1089

00:51:29,562 --> 00:51:32,472

So this week, we honor Heiner's

bread, the soft sandwich bread that

: 1090

00:51:32,472 --> 00:51:33,942

never needed to be anything else.

: 1091

00:51:34,202 --> 00:51:37,232

May your loaf be fresh, your

sandwich holds together, and your

: 1092

00:51:37,232 --> 00:51:39,032

tomato behaves itself for once.

: 1093

00:51:39,262 --> 00:51:41,582

And if you see Heiner's in the

store, go ahead and get yourself

: 1094

00:51:41,582 --> 00:51:44,432

a loaf or three, and then squeeze

that little bag there a little.

: 1095

00:51:44,642 --> 00:51:45,722

You were going to anyway.

: 1096

00:51:45,831 --> 00:51:47,121

Someone send me some already.

: 1097

00:51:47,121 --> 00:51:49,191

I've become a northern heathen

and eat wheat bread now.

: 1098

00:51:49,401 --> 00:51:50,951

Heiner's would be so disappointed

: 1099

00:51:56,364 --> 00:51:57,554

Dash: Yeah, they don't…

: 1100

00:51:57,574 --> 00:52:00,424

Well, it's not that they don't

have this where, where I grew up,

: 1101

00:52:00,434 --> 00:52:03,064

but this wasn't really a thing.

: 1102

00:52:03,363 --> 00:52:06,333

it was probably there, but

I don't remember, you know

: 1103

00:52:06,759 --> 00:52:10,869

Beck: Yeah, the, the Heiner's Old

Fashioned bread was, was like the staple.

: 1104

00:52:11,099 --> 00:52:14,539

And then in the '90s in the diet craze,

they came out with Heiner's 35, which

: 1105

00:52:14,539 --> 00:52:16,159

was just very thinly sliced bread.

: 1106

00:52:16,529 --> 00:52:18,759

It was the exact same bread,

just super thinly sliced.

: 1107

00:52:18,769 --> 00:52:22,009

They had a 35 calories for you.

: 1108

00:52:22,019 --> 00:52:23,829

Like, they had a whole little

jingle and everything that

: 1109

00:52:23,829 --> 00:52:25,579

still lives in my head rent-free

: 1110

00:52:26,114 --> 00:52:27,604

Dash: Yeah, I see a picture of it here

: 1111

00:52:27,949 --> 00:52:30,319

Beck: but like I said, I lived a

few blocks down from it, and oh

: 1112

00:52:30,319 --> 00:52:33,739

my God, the smell was amazing.

: 1113

00:52:34,676 --> 00:52:36,366

Just industrial bread baking.

: 1114

00:52:36,386 --> 00:52:40,516

Oh, what I would have given for a

fresh hot loaf off the, off the line.

: 1115

00:52:40,816 --> 00:52:43,566

They used to give tours where they

did that at the end, and they stopped

: 1116

00:52:43,576 --> 00:52:47,986

doing them before I moved to West

Virginia, so I missed that entirely

: 1117

00:52:48,822 --> 00:52:54,562

Dash: And Huntington, I mean, m- m-

ha- makes quite a few food things.

: 1118

00:52:55,009 --> 00:52:56,569

West Virginia in general

: 1119

00:52:56,862 --> 00:52:59,817

Beck: for sure Huntington is

more in the game than people like

: 1120

00:52:59,817 --> 00:53:01,337

to give it a, uh, credit for.

: 1121

00:53:01,611 --> 00:53:01,941

Dash: Mm-hmm.

: 1122

00:53:02,917 --> 00:53:05,677

Beck: Most people have a cousin somewhere

near Huntington too, I have learned

: 1123

00:53:07,037 --> 00:53:09,705

Dash: It is the sixth degree

: 1124

00:53:10,084 --> 00:53:11,584

Beck: My favorite is

you're from West Virginia.

: 1125

00:53:11,604 --> 00:53:12,904

I have a cousin from Richmond

: 1126

00:53:13,882 --> 00:53:14,122

Dash: Right.

: 1127

00:53:15,166 --> 00:53:16,346

Beck: Richmond is in Virginia.

: 1128

00:53:16,532 --> 00:53:17,252

Dash: Sinister

: 1129

00:53:18,422 --> 00:53:23,160

has a, video on, is it Huntington Beach,

: 1130

00:53:23,473 --> 00:53:24,473

Beck: There's Virginia Beach

: 1131

00:53:25,071 --> 00:53:26,851

Dash: Virgi- yeah, maybe

it was Virginia Beach.

: 1132

00:53:27,121 --> 00:53:30,531

And she's like, "Why the fuck would

anybody go to V- Virginia Beach?"

: 1133

00:53:31,479 --> 00:53:33,479

Beck: My nephew lives there,

which I still don't know why

: 1134

00:53:33,802 --> 00:53:36,802

He doesn't have any family down there

or anything, but he likes it, so

: 1135

00:53:37,269 --> 00:53:38,889

Dash: Who knows why we where we do

: 1136

00:53:39,846 --> 00:53:39,946

Beck: His only option otherwise

is to move back to Portsmouth.

: 1137

00:53:39,946 --> 00:53:40,076

Well, nobody wants him to move back

to Portsmouth 'cause there's just no

: 1138

00:53:44,416 --> 00:53:47,426

opport- Like, he can get

different jobs there.

: 1139

00:53:47,516 --> 00:53:50,476

He can work at FedEx, he can work

at Kroger, he can work at Chipotle,

: 1140

00:53:50,736 --> 00:53:54,016

he can work at the gun range,

he can work as a security guard.

: 1141

00:53:54,326 --> 00:53:55,756

There's all kinds of work for him there.

: 1142

00:53:55,956 --> 00:53:58,326

In Portsmouth, there

would be nothing for him.

: 1143

00:53:58,764 --> 00:53:59,224

Taco Bell and Domino's.

: 1144

00:53:59,224 --> 00:54:02,154

Taco Bell drive-throughs and, and pizza

delivery would really be about it.

: 1145

00:54:02,704 --> 00:54:03,774

And he shouldn't be driving.

: 1146

00:54:03,774 --> 00:54:06,494

God, I hope he doesn't hear that,

but he should not be driving

: 1147

00:54:06,835 --> 00:54:09,075

Can't believe somebody gave him

a license, to be honest with you

: 1148

00:54:09,493 --> 00:54:12,223

Dash: As we've learned, they

kind of give those away.

: 1149

00:54:12,453 --> 00:54:14,533

You know, it's, it's harder

to do the fucking paperwork

: 1150

00:54:14,533 --> 00:54:15,883

than it is to pass the test

: 1151

00:54:16,977 --> 00:54:18,817

Beck: Yehaw, for real

: 1152

00:54:19,461 --> 00:54:21,781

Dash: When I was studying for the

Minnesota one though, because I,

: 1153

00:54:21,861 --> 00:54:25,384

I thought they were gonna make

me retake the test when I moved

: 1154

00:54:25,384 --> 00:54:26,414

here, 'cause they said they did.

: 1155

00:54:26,424 --> 00:54:30,634

They said even if you have a license when

you come here, you have to take the test

: 1156

00:54:30,634 --> 00:54:32,234

again, which I was like, "Damn, okay."

: 1157

00:54:33,084 --> 00:54:34,424

it turned out to not be true.

: 1158

00:54:34,683 --> 00:54:38,323

But I learned some interesting things

from it because apparently now, you

: 1159

00:54:38,323 --> 00:54:41,893

know how the, it, the, it used to

be your hands go at: 10:00

: 1160

00:54:41,893 --> 00:54:43,163

Apparently that's not the case anymore.

: 1161

00:54:43,163 --> 00:54:44,573

It's 9:00 and 3:00 now

: 1162

00:54:44,836 --> 00:54:47,656

Beck: Shanna let her license

go expired, expired and didn't

: 1163

00:54:47,656 --> 00:54:49,016

realize it for, like, a year.

: 1164

00:54:49,376 --> 00:54:51,786

So when she went to get her license

renewed, she had to take the whole

: 1165

00:54:51,786 --> 00:54:54,796

test, the driving test, the written

part, all of it all over again.

: 1166

00:54:55,017 --> 00:54:56,767

And we learned a lot about it then too.

: 1167

00:54:56,767 --> 00:54:58,717

Yeah, she had to learn to

re- how to parallel park.

: 1168

00:54:58,737 --> 00:54:59,607

That was not fun.

: 1169

00:54:59,898 --> 00:55:00,568

But she made it.

: 1170

00:55:01,639 --> 00:55:02,149

Maneuver.

: 1171

00:55:02,149 --> 00:55:02,709

Maneuverability.

: 1172

00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:03,909

It's the parallel parking.

: 1173

00:55:03,919 --> 00:55:04,419

It's not.

: 1174

00:55:05,943 --> 00:55:06,573

Shanna's home.

: 1175

00:55:06,973 --> 00:55:07,483

She says hi

: 1176

00:55:09,660 --> 00:55:12,450

Dash: I couldn't parallel park until

all of a sudden one day I could.

: 1177

00:55:12,580 --> 00:55:14,250

It, it's we- it's like the, the

: 1178

00:55:16,742 --> 00:55:17,962

Beck: Yeah, that's kinda how it works

: 1179

00:55:18,934 --> 00:55:20,444

I'm pretty good at it, knock on wood.

: 1180

00:55:20,454 --> 00:55:23,214

Now I won't be able to do it again for

the rest of my life by bragging on it.

: 1181

00:55:23,574 --> 00:55:24,834

But I did it yester- yesterday?

: 1182

00:55:24,834 --> 00:55:26,904

Was that when I got a

haircut was yesterday?

: 1183

00:55:27,354 --> 00:55:27,904

Thursday?

: 1184

00:55:28,494 --> 00:55:32,154

Thursday I got a haircut, and I had to

do it downtown BG, and I did it first try

: 1185

00:55:32,671 --> 00:55:34,211

Dash: Well, I guess let's go have the day.

: 1186

00:55:34,281 --> 00:55:34,301

Um

: 1187

00:55:36,955 --> 00:55:38,315

Beck: Are you gonna go

watch fireworks anywhere?

: 1188

00:55:38,882 --> 00:55:39,232

Dash: know.

: 1189

00:55:39,232 --> 00:55:40,702

I was, I was looking into it.

: 1190

00:55:41,042 --> 00:55:44,692

They're, they, they're having their little

street party here, but it just doesn't

: 1191

00:55:44,692 --> 00:55:46,482

interest me, 'cause all they do is drink.

: 1192

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you know, I'm not really morally

opposed to it, but it's, that's not for

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me, so I don't know what I would do.

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It's not like there's other shit

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Beck: A

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Dash: That's what they're

doing, is drinking.

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Beck: Yehaw

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Dash: somewhere around dusk hopefully a

bad cover band will break out somewhere.

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That will be interesting.

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Beck: Yehaw

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Dash: And then I hope that they blow

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up.

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But I'll, I'll see if I

can, can find something.

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And if nothing else, I definitely

am gonna go for a bike ride, I think

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Beck: Yeah.

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Good.

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Good

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Dash: Oh, you remember you, you gave us…

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We did a photo assignment one

week but that was the week that we

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lost half of the episode because

of the internet connection.

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Beck: Mm-hmm.

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Dash: So it, was it dramatic bitches?

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Beck: Yes, that was the assignment

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Dash: All right.

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You wanna tell the listeners

about the photo assignments again?

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Beck: So long story short, when my mom

passed away the only way that I got myself

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out of bed for a long time was to go to

this very special park near my house.

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It's a flower garden, and I was

taking really fun pictures of

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all kinds of different flowers.

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And I would give myself these little

photo assignments like do something

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red today, do something yellow

today, or do the rainbow this week.

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Or the one that I'm going to assign for

us this week is the dramatic bitches one.

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Basically, if you look at nature, there

are all kinds of dramatic bitches out

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there from different kinds of flowers.

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Like, I remember…

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I'll try to find the photo if I can,

but it was basically a black plant with,

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like, black lace and purple flowers.

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It's the coolest thing I

have, like, have ever seen.

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And I got one of those at the park.

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There's beautyberry.

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There's all kinds of other, of really

cool things that you can do with that.

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And it's a lot of fun.

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It doesn't have to be of flowers.

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If you wanna do this project, it

doesn't have to be of flowers.

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Just anything, you know, in the world.

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Uh, but that's where I

started, was doing pictures.

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That's not where I started.

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That's where I, with this kind of thing.

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I started a photography

studio a long time ago.

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But I just used my cellphone.

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I didn't even break out my good camera.

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I got some really beautiful shots from it.

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And, and it really makes you problem

solve and be a creative thinker.

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So I highly recommend it

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Dash: I saw something on my last bike

ride that seemed really dramatic to

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me, so I'm gonna see if I can find

it again and, and get a photo of it.

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and if you wanna join us, uh,

in our photo assignment for the

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week, go outside, even if…

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Or if you don't wanna go outside, if

you see something out your window.

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Let's, uh, just find something

i- in the world that fits the

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dramatic bitch's nature brief.

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And I'll, I'll post mine on the Facebook

and the Instagram, and you can comment

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yours or post your own and tag us.

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What's, what's the hashtag?

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Tag Queernecks and then the

hashtag is dramaticbitches

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Beck: Sounds good to me

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Dash: All right, well, you know,

America hasn't earned a nice

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birthday party, but we have.

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So go have some fun.

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Have some fun this week.

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By the time this episode comes

out, the Fourth will be over.

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We hope you had some fun.

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And, uh, we'll see you next time.

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So say hi to your mom and them.

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Beck: Bye