The Cats of Queernecks 2027 Calendar

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Welcome to Queernecks, the podcast that puts the

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Yee Hall in y'all means hall.

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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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I don't know what f- I don't know

why she wants to sit here and talk.

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U- unless she really does think

that I'm talking to her, and

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she's like, "What's wrong?

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I'm right here."

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I'm not talking to you.

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I'm talking to Beck

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Beck: Your imaginary friends again,

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Dash: Yeah.

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Beck: That's what she, that's

what she's saying to you

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Dash: Yeah.

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Zoom meetings must

really fuck with, like…

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Well, cats in part- I

don't know about dogs.

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I don't know how bright dogs are, but cats

are very much, like, just bright enough

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to put together that something's different

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Beck: Well, when w- 'cause I w- she calls

on her way home from work and I call on

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my home way home from work, and we both

use speakerphone, so they know that when

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we're on the phone speakerphone that

we're coming home, and the dogs, like,

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get excited and start staring at the door.

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So

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Dash: Yehaw

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Mine, they know the sound of my vehicle.

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Oscar does.

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He always has been able

to tell the vehicle of…

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I've b- gone through so many vehicles

since he's, uh, come to live with me.

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And I think they also can tell,

not time, but, you know, cats know,

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they can tell by the light what,

you know, part of the day it is.

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Beck: smell,

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Dash: Mm-hmm.

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Beck: your smell dissipates

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Dash: Yeah.

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Beck: of him, that means it's

time for him to come home

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Dash: Yeah.

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But even if I am home, they kinda

know when dinnertime is, and it could

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also just be that they're hungry.

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So they start, like, acting up.

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And it's always right, like, at a

really annoying part of the day.

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Like, I'm try- I'm trying to,

like, log off work or something,

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and they're, like, all over me

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Beck: I've read that if you want to

remember, if you have a pill that you

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need to take or something that you need to

remember every day, give your cat a treat

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every time you do it and they'll never let

you forget that it's time to do the thing

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Dash: Ziggy has put together that if I

have insomnia and I can't sleep, then

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I have to get up and go downstairs.

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' Cause if I can't sleep and I, if I

stay in bed and just try to fall back

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asleep, I just get pissed off, and I

get, like, more and more angry, and I'm

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not gonna fall back asleep that way.

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So if I want to get any more sleep,

I have to get up, go do something.

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Like, it's my whole morning.

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Like, I will make coffee and sit

in the recliner and do something

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until I start to feel sleepy again.

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And so she's put together that if I

do that, she can get treats out of me.

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But then that created an issue because

it's 2:00 AM, I have to turn the light

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on in the dining room, and I never do.

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She's got hair, her hair in my mouth.

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So the only time I turn on that

light in the big, like, bright light

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in the dining room is when it's

2:00 AM and I'm walking through to

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the kitchen 'cause I can't sleep.

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And so now if I flip that

switch at all, and it makes…

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That's one of the loudest

switches in the house.

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It makes a really loud, like, pop.

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It travels through the whole house.

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That's, like, a Pavlov switch.

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They all come running like, "Oh, God.

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We're gonna get treats."

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So now I literally can't use

that light, like, not for…

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The world could be ending and it could

be like, you know, somebody could break

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in and be like, "Turn on the light."

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I'm like, "Are you sure?

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' Cause we're gonna get mobbed."

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They put me back on my Adderall.

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I g- I've got a, a new doctor.

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And I'm, I'm really grateful.

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She's really cool, but I hadn't

been used to it anymore, and m- they

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had, they were, like, increasing my

dose, so it's actually kind of high.

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Are you over there, like, chugging pills

now because I reminded you that you're

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supposed to take your afternoon pills?

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Beck: Yeah.

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My afternoon Adderall

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Dash: I used to and I couldn't

remember the second one.

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I never remembered it.

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So they just, what- whatever they

give, whatever I take in the morning

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for the extended release, that's it.

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But they increased it, and so after

having been off of it for several

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weeks, I started back on it today,

and I was trying to do something, and

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I was like, my heart was pounding.

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It was like I kind of

forgot that this is…

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I mean, it's a hardcore drug.

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you know, if you take it right,

then it just kind of helps like

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it's supposed to, or like it…

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Nothing is supposed to do anything,

but, you know, like it does.

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But if for whatever reason you go

off of it and don't, and you're not

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used to it anymore, and it, like,

to go back on, and I jumped right

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back into the higher dose too, and

so that we didn't, like, titrate up.

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I was like, "Whew, I

am Ready to lift a car.

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Did you hear

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Beck: I'm so excited we're

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Dash: her?

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Beck: a cat

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Dash: Okay, you wanna tell

the listeners what happened?

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Beck: The whole thing started

where, you know how most towns

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have, like, a Facebook page where

people post, "Lost dog," "I have

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Dash: Mm-hmm.

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Beck: for sale," or whatever.

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Somebody found a big, fat, uh,

cat that was declawed outside,

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and they took it to the vet.

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They checked the, the, uh, chip, and they

called the owners, and it's been like five

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days now, and there's been no return call.

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So in the meantime, Shana has been looking

at other cats, and she's come upon one.

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This lady, it was a out- She thinks

it was before it was an indoor cat,

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it was a little, tiny outdoor cat

that keeps wanting to come inside.

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So she took it inside last night,

and sh- she's gonna pay for the

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Vetville to get him, uh, fixed.

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It's a boy.

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And so then we're gonna take him

and, and do the rest of it, so.

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get him Monday

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Dash: Well, you've already…

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in the time since we talked

about it, a lot has happened

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Beck: Yeah.

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' Dash: Cause you hadn't found one yet

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Beck: Yeah, no, she found one.

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She's found like three, but I felt like

she had made a commitment to this lady, so

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Dash: I- is it, did she,

did she get a tabby one?

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Beck: Yeah, it's a, it's a gray and

black and white striped kinda calico

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looking kinda without the brown

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Dash: Mail?

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Beck: Yes

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Dash: Huh.

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Well, be sure to show us.

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Uh, we can't wait for pictures.

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It's…

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If it's a calico and a male, that's

a very rare genetic incidence

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Beck: it without the brown.

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Dash: Sabrina had…

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Well, yeah, exactly, like

that cat Sabrina had.

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Link Link actually came from Vanessa.

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Link was Vanessa's cat first.

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I, I think she was Vanessa's first,

you know, like you move out and you

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get, like, your first pet as an adult,

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Beck: Yeah.

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Dash: Yeah.

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That was Link for Vanessa, but then

yeah, Link was just a weird cat.

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She, she was very peculiar,

had very strong personality.

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She had a lot of needs, social needs.

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Like she, she couldn't tolerate

a, a household or an environment

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that was chaotic in any way.

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Like she needed stability, and Vanessa had

roommates, who, like, were popular kids.

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And so they would have, like,

house parties and stuff.

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And as Link got older, and then Vanessa

met Dave, and, you know, he moved in,

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and then life started to happen, right?

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Then it was like they had a dog.

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They inherited a cat from one of Dave's

I think elder relatives who passed.

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And Link was just like, she

would not come out from under…

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She wouldn't come out of the basement.

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She hated her life.

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And then they started having kids.

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And so Sabrina had that one

cat, Joe, and she was, I think,

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interested in a second cat.

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And so we just kinda arranged

for Link to go and live with

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Sabrina, and she was fine there.

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Lived, I think she was

16 or 17 when she died

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Beck: Oh.

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I know Sabrina was very attached to her

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Dash: Yeah.

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Yeah, she, I mean,

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Link

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really leveled up

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Beck: Yeah.

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My Trance was a good boy too.

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He died during my undergrad.

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I got him in my first apartment

with my first girlfriend.

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He was only eight or nine when

he passed, but he was a big boy.

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He was like twice the size of the dogs

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Dash: I, I think, uh, I think

obesity in cats can be a determinant

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of, you know, their longevity,

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just because of the way

their little kidneys are

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Beck: I think he was also part,

like, a Norwegian Forest cat.

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It had to be in his genes 'cause

he had the big tail and the

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big face, and he was gorgeous.

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He was absolutely gorgeous.

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He wasn't as big as they get,

but he was pretty darn near.

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I have a picture of him and Koda,

my little poodle laying next to each

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other in a chair, and he's like three

times the size of Koda curled up

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We should do a Cats of Queernecks

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Dash: Oh, that would be so cool.

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Yeah, we could do a 2027 calendar

for, like, the end of the year

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Beck: Yeah.

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All

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Dash: Care

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Beck: send us some pictures of your cats

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Dash: Or pets,

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It depends on how many we get.

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Beck: I Yeah, I could fill

the calendar myself with pets,

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Dash: We'll do-

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Beck: we're opening it up to pets that

have, that are, uh, of years beyond

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Dash: Yeah, we- let's, like,

limit it to cats this time.

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But you know what?

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If we get a bunch of emails

that are like, "How dare you?"

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Uh, we'll, we'll do something

different next year.

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The…

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That's funny that you say that

because I have Canva again.

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and so I'm back to, I'm back on my

bullshit of designing dumb Queerneck

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stuff with company resources.

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But there's calendar templates in there.

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So yeah, we could do that pretty easy

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I changed, I don't know if you saw, I

changed the artwork for the, the show.

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I swapped it out for that

sticker design I made.

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Beck: Oh.

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Dash: Here, I'll show

you if you didn't see it

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Beck: some of those stickers, so

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Dash: Okay.

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Beck: and I'll

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Dash: Well, now that I have…

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That was just the other day.

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I have, I f- was able

to finish the design.

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We can, we can order, we

could do another, uh…

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There's s- several different

options we could make, but

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yeah, that'd be fun I love…

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Here, I've got mine on my, my

Queer, Queernecks notebook here.

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I've got one of the sparkly ones.

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The…

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Beck: jealous.

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I'm so

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Dash: Yeah, I have some more.

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I, I emailed you, or I emailed.

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I mailed you half of the demo ones

I got, so I still have a quarter

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of them that we could try again.

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I just don't wanna send

them off into nowhere again

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Beck: yeah, you're not the first

person to say that stuff has not

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made it to me through the mail.

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Dash: I think the mail is getting,

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it's getting real erratic

in general in the US.

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Beck: Yeah.

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don't We live in a big complex and

it's just like a bay of, of mailboxes,

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Dash: that doesn't help

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Beck: people's mail before, and

I'm assuming the same thing has

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happened to somebody else, and

maybe they've opened it up and

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thought they were cool or something.

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You know what I mean?

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Dash: Did you see that thing I

posted about my fucking paycheck?

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Beck: Y- ye- yeah, that you

can't get it c- c- cashed?

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Dash: Yeah.

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I, so all of this, like, onboarding thing

is weird because I work for the state now.

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It's a state system, and so

they have to do this, like,

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arduous credentialing process.

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They're still not done credentialing.

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I still don't know how much money I make.

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Right now I'm getting, like, the

base rate, and then they're gonna

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back pay me whenever they decide

how much I'm actually worth when…

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I guess one person does credentialing

at this, this, there's two campuses

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that are part of my system, and

so we're a month into the semester

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and she's still not done with it.

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But you can't get into the e-services

portal, which is the state employee

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portal, until you have an employee ID,

which isn't until after your official

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start date, but I started before my start

date because the official start date was

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the start of the semester for faculty.

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So I was getting paid before I had

an employee ID, so I couldn't log in

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and set up my direct deposit, which

is the only reason this happened.

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So if, as soon as I can get

my direct deposit, hopefully

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this won't happen again.

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But apparently this is what they

do if you don't agree to direct

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deposit, is they send you an IOU

that you can't mobile deposit.

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You can't…

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No bank, uh, like, no bank's

mobile deposit will accept this

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thing because it's not a check.

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It's literally, it's called a warrant,

and I had to Google it, and it's

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such a thing that the state, the

website has an FAQ page about this.

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It was like, "Yeah, so your bank

has the right to not honor this

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because it's not actually a check.

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It's, Uh, I keep saying IOU like

it's a joke, but it really is.

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A warrant is, is an IOU from a

federal or state government office.

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A f- it's just from one

specific budget line.

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So because it's not a check, it doesn't

have an ID number on it, and so the

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bank is like, "I'm not cashing that.

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What are you talking about?"

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So I was like, "What do I do?"

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And the FAQ says, you

know, if your bank won't…

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A bank could do it if they, they have

to go into this government database

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and look up a specific number that

corresponds to the government entity.

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To do that, you have to go in,

a, a teller can't even do that.

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You have to talk to, you have

to go into one of the offices

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with the, the clear walls.

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And my bank, I have an East Coast

bank, so there's not a physical

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location anywhere in Minnesota.

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So I was like, "All right,

what does that leave?"

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And it leaves going in person to St.

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Paul and handing the department

that wrote the thing, it, handing it

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back to them and saying, "Can I have

some cash for this instead, please?"

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So That's about a 50% c- check cashing

fee because the amount of money, like

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the amount of gas it would take to get

there and do that, 'cause that, so even

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if I didn't have to navigate the city

and, and parking and the time it would

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take, that's a seven-hour round trip.

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by like the state really does act like

it's the one that makes the case that

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it's not a state, it's just the Twin

Cities and fucking corn, you know?

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Like,

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Beck: Right?

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Dash: don't wanna see it that way,

but that's how it sees itself.

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It's like if you live somewhere else

than the Twin Cities, then fuck you

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Beck: Right?

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Dash: Like, no wonder they're like this.

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There's a meme that's something…

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It was in respo- it was, like, the,

the bootlickers who live in the rural

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part of the state in response to the

protests against ICE in the cities.

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There was a meme that

was like, "Minnesota, not

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Minneapolis," or something.

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And so they're like, "We, you know,

we're bootlickers out here because we've

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never actually faced any adversity."

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It's like that dumbass I work with

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Beck: How's that going?

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Dash: Well, I haven't, I

haven't seen her since.

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I think I also didn't tell that story.

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But so my new job is great,

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Like, 94% of my co-work- uh, everybody

I have met except for this one

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person is excellent, cares a lot, is

welcoming, supportive, is generous.

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They've all offered resources and

support to help me adjust to this

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thing I've never done before.

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Like, I was basically hired

because I have a big brain, not

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because I know how to do this yet.

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I've never taught asynchronous before.

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And, and this woman even was

like that, too, until she

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realized that I wasn't like her.

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' Cause I think she saw me, and I th-

well, I, I'm pretty sure I'm right

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about this, that she assumed that,

like, my redneck exterior contained

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a fellow bootlicker, that, that I

was a secretly trapped Trumper who

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couldn't, you know, come out in the,

the commie higher ed space or whatever.

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And so I, I just broke her heart, I think.

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And so she was rude as hell

to me on my very first day.

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She called me a liar when I said…

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I was…

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We were talking…

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We weren't even talking politics,

but we were talking about um,

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first-generation college students and

how, you know, we're a community college.

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So, you know, what, j- we were

talking about our students, right?

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Which should be neutral territory.

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This should be something

everybody can agree on.

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I was talking about how this idea of

the college search is not something that

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first-generation college students do.

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You, you don't…

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Maybe it's different now, but,

our generation, you went to

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college if college came to you.

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Like, it, the EKU recruiters came

to my high school and explained very

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clearly the way the scholarships

worked, and I would never have gone

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and gotten that information myself.

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And I would never have thought

to because my assumption was

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that college was out of reach.

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And I got to the part about how

the military recruiters prey on

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rural, isolated areas where they

know that students maybe have fewer

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options cause there's not maybe

an economy or something there.

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And she, she stopped me, and she goes,

"Well, I think if that were true, JD Vance

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would have written it in Hillbilly Elegy."

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And I said…

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Well, at first I didn't say

anything, 'cause I was like, I

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was really stunned, you know?

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Like, I've heard a lot of shit.

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Beck: Camera?

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Dash: I've heard, I've heard s- what

I thought was the dumbest of the dumb

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and the, and the meanest and whatever.

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But there was, there was, this was such

a combination of condescending and mean

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and rude and stupid And I was, so I was

like, " I, I don't know what to say.

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I don't have a middle class

response to this, first of all."

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You know?

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Beck: Right

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Dash: are fighting words that you just

said, so what I'm supposed to do is call

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my sister to drag you by your bleached

ponytail out into the parking lot.

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Like, that is my right now by law.

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By the trailer park law, I'm now

entitled to do that because you called

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me a liar And so I started, I was

like, "Do these people not know that?

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Do they not know that you're not

supposed to just call somebody a liar?"

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But yeah, she's, she's the one

weirdo, and I haven't seen her since.

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And I didn't know how to respond,

like this is my first time

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having protected speech at work.

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In 16 years of working in higher

education, I've never had protected speech

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before, 'cause I've always been staff.

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Even when I was adjuncting,

I was also staff.

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So I didn't know that I could have

simply said, like, "The next time you

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say some shit like that to me will be

the last unmoderated thing you say."

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Beck: Right

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: 00:17:13

Dash: which is what I'll say next time

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But I left though, 'cause I want-

just wanted to get away from her.

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: 00:17:21

She wouldn't stop pushing me about

it, 'cause I was like, "I didn't read

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Hillbilly Elegy, and I'm not going to."

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And she, like, made me take her copy

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Beck: Oh, wow

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Dash: still sitting in my office.

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And

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Beck: burn it

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Dash: well, you know, I did crack it open.

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: 00:17:35

I read the first couple pages, and

it, it, it was what I expected, right?

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Just coming in, it's not a fucking memoir.

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: 00:17:41

Even if it had been true, it's

not written like a memoir.

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: 00:17:43

It's written like a diatribe.

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: 00:17:45

It's a harangue.

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It's a polemic

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Beck: He goes on for like 10 pages about

welfare at one point in the middle of it.

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Like I, I wasn't even in grad school.

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I hadn't even done, redone my undergrad at

that point when I read it, and even then

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I knew it was fucking bullshit, you know?

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Like that's before I had any education

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: 00:18:03

Dash: Yeah, because, because we know

what it's- what the truth sounds like.

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even if someb- so maybe let me rephrase.

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: 00:18:09

We, we can tell…

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: 00:18:11

It's easier to tell when somebody

is telling their version of the

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truth than when they're trying to

convince you of something, when

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they're trying to manipulate you.

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: 00:18:18

He didn't utter a word of truth

in the, the pages I read anyway.

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: 00:18:22

But the other disturbing thing that

I couldn't stop getting tripped

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up on was her marginalia, like

the notes that she was taking.

413

: 00:18:29

It was clear that she was, like, eating it

up, and she was arranging it in categories

414

: 00:18:35

so that she could use it as justification.

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: 00:18:37

She was using it as evidence for whatever.

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: 00:18:39

"This is how these people are."

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: 00:18:41

So I was like, "Ugh,

no, I'm not doing this."

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: 00:18:43

But there's a woman on the other

side of me in my office who heard it

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: 00:18:47

happen, and so I- she asked me, she

was like, "Were you just talking to,

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: 00:18:52

And I was like, "Yeah, I, I just

said g- good morning to her,

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: 00:18:55

and somehow we wound up there."

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: 00:18:57

And she was like, "Okay.

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: 00:19:00

J- you don't have to do that.

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: 00:19:01

You don't have to talk to her.

425

: 00:19:02

You know, you don't have to

give her that amount of time.

426

: 00:19:04

Like, she's doing that on purpose.

427

: 00:19:06

She does that to everybody.

428

: 00:19:07

She wants to start fights."

429

: 00:19:08

So…

430

: 00:19:09

But apparently that woman told the

dean about it, and the dean came

431

: 00:19:12

to talk to me, and she was like,

"Do you want me to intervene?"

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: 00:19:14

And I was like, "No.

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: 00:19:16

What do you mean?

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: 00:19:16

What would that even look like?"

435

: 00:19:18

Beck: Right?

436

: 00:19:19

Dash: Even with her though, it's,

it's just such a different environment

437

: 00:19:23

Boy, students have not changed

438

: 00:19:25

Beck: Nope except now they

use ChatGPT for everything

439

: 00:19:28

Dash: Yeah, there's quite a bit of that.

440

: 00:19:30

Beck: g- with grading and writing?

441

: 00:19:31

Dash: So I have, I'm, I'm mixed modal,

so I've got in-person English 101,

442

: 00:19:36

I've got fully asynchronous 101, and

then I've got 102, which is, you know,

443

: 00:19:41

the, uh, research-specific, course.

444

: 00:19:45

The, the in-person kids, for surprising-

like, they, they have not given

445

: 00:19:50

me very much, if, if any ChatGPT.

446

: 00:19:53

It's, was really surprising.

447

: 00:19:54

I think I have a suspicion

that it's because it's not

448

: 00:19:59

a victimless crime anymore.

449

: 00:20:01

They can see my face, right?

450

: 00:20:02

We ha- we have to see each other.

451

: 00:20:05

I can speak to them.

452

: 00:20:06

They can't really get away from me.

453

: 00:20:07

You know?

454

: 00:20:07

They can't just ignore

an email or whatever.

455

: 00:20:10

Uh, but the online ones,

they, I have read…

456

: 00:20:13

So, you know how ChatGPT, like, it can't

interpret, uh, literature or anything.

457

: 00:20:18

And

458

: 00:20:19

Beck: Right

459

: 00:20:19

Dash: them, I've got them reading Me Talk

Pretty One Day, and, and of course I did,

460

: 00:20:23

I asked, I don't think it was ChatGPT.

461

: 00:20:27

You know how there's AI

stuffed into everything?

462

: 00:20:29

I think it was Claude.

463

: 00:20:30

It's o- it's o- the one

that's in Microsoft.

464

: 00:20:33

I s- I said, I gave it my prompt,

and I said, "Yeah, write me a

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: 00:20:36

response essay on this chapter."

466

: 00:20:38

And what it gave me, I was like, "Holy

shit, I'm gonna be able to s- pick this

467

: 00:20:42

out a mile away," because it's wrong.

468

: 00:20:44

It, it is absolutely wrong.

469

: 00:20:47

Even the plot summary's incorrect.

470

: 00:20:49

Which, that's crazy.

471

: 00:20:50

You're telling me it can't

summarize a plot from…

472

: 00:20:54

' Cause that book's gotta be online places.

473

: 00:20:56

So what it tries to do is glean

from Reddit mostly and Goodreads and

474

: 00:21:02

stuff, I think, what the book might

be about, and it hallucinates this

475

: 00:21:07

crazy thing about how Sedaris is

using humor to overcome a disability.

476

: 00:21:12

It doesn't mention his

homosexuality at all.

477

: 00:21:15

And so I was…

478

: 00:21:16

I got like paper after paper about how

Sedaris is using humor to, make himself

479

: 00:21:21

feel better And so many of them are

like just, I don't know, just completely

480

: 00:21:25

wrong about what the book is about.

481

: 00:21:26

It's really weird.

482

: 00:21:27

And s- and it's…

483

: 00:21:28

I have to be careful because it's possible

the person could be that wrong too

484

: 00:21:31

Beck: Right.

485

: 00:21:32

I, you say that you, you

don't think they're using it.

486

: 00:21:34

I gave a final last semester that was

closed note but on the computer, and

487

: 00:21:39

they were opening ChatGPT and putting

the questions in there during the exam,

488

: 00:21:43

Dash: Yehaw

489

: 00:21:44

Beck: because I can see every time

they left the quiz or the, they call

490

: 00:21:47

them quizzes, not exams in, on online.

491

: 00:21:49

Every time they left the, the test

it showed me that they left the room.

492

: 00:21:53

So caught them and failed them

493

: 00:21:56

Dash: Yehaw

494

: 00:21:57

Beck: you, you can't,

you can't trust them.

495

: 00:22:00

Dash: Oh no

496

: 00:22:01

Beck: in the face while clicking on it

497

: 00:22:02

Dash: I know.

498

: 00:22:03

It's kinda wild.

499

: 00:22:04

The, the ones that I do, I'll put in

the feedback, like, "Okay, so this is,

500

: 00:22:07

uh, this is AI generated, but even if

it wasn't, here's why this paper fails."

501

: 00:22:13

Because I'm not fighting

with them about…

502

: 00:22:15

Like, because luckily, ChatGPT is stupid.

503

: 00:22:19

Generative AI

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: 00:22:26

is stupid.

505

: 00:22:27

It can't write the assignments

I'm setting these students.

506

: 00:22:27

And I, I think they didn't

believe me when I told them that

507

: 00:22:30

Beck: When I was teaching English down,

uh, at home one of the assignments was

508

: 00:22:34

to take a favorite song and interpret the

song lyrics and write a paper about it.

509

: 00:22:38

I showed them, I took one of my favorite

songs, which is Lie in Our Graves by

510

: 00:22:41

Dave Matthews, and it was wildly off.

511

: 00:22:44

It just made up lyrics whole cloth like,

that aren't even in there, and that's

512

: 00:22:48

a widely available song, you know?

513

: 00:22:51

And I showed them how it totally just made

stuff up, and they were pretty by that,

514

: 00:22:55

you know, how bad and how wrong it was.

515

: 00:22:57

So I, I hope I at least got

through to those 20 students

516

: 00:23:00

Dash: Yeah, that's- I'm gonna have to

probably spend this weekend doing that

517

: 00:23:04

now that I know that they're doing it.

518

: 00:23:06

some of them would, would reply,

like, "I didn't, I didn't use any AI."

519

: 00:23:10

One of them tried to call me ableist,

which I kind of … I s- they didn't know

520

: 00:23:16

the word ableist, though, which was funny.

521

: 00:23:18

But they, they sent an … So

this one was egregious.

522

: 00:23:21

It wasn't just a copy and paste

certain elements from ChatGPT, which

523

: 00:23:26

a lot of them will do because it

doesn't feel like cheating to them

524

: 00:23:28

it was just a full-on four-page

essay written by some sort of AI.

525

: 00:23:34

Usually ChatGPT can't produce

that much text unless they

526

: 00:23:39

What they could've done was,

like, ask follow-up questions.

527

: 00:23:43

So, like, now talk about the major

themes, 'cause there was a lot of

528

: 00:23:45

repetition as well, and that's the only

thing ChatGPT can do is, is try to, it

529

: 00:23:50

can try to summarize the plot and it

can try to identify the major themes.

530

: 00:23:54

It's not gonna give you quotes.

531

: 00:23:56

It's not gonna be able to accurately

… It's not gonna be able to make a claim.

532

: 00:23:59

So, like, the one thing I need you

to do is make an interpretive claim.

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: 00:24:03

That's a thesis, right?

534

: 00:24:04

And Chap- it's, like, literally

incapable of doing that.

535

: 00:24:07

But so I, it was 100%, she didn't,

there was nothing human in it.

536

: 00:24:11

And so I failed her, and I was

like, you know, it's kind of a dead

537

: 00:24:15

giveaway that there's not a single

spelling or grammar or citation error.

538

: 00:24:19

This is flawless MLA

citation format, in-text,

539

: 00:24:23

Beck: Right

540

: 00:24:24

Dash: cited, yet it's

not formatted correctly.

541

: 00:24:27

It's formatted like it was

copy and pasted from ChatGPT.

542

: 00:24:29

What happened there?

543

: 00:24:30

You're, you're j- you know everything

about citation, but not formatting?

544

: 00:24:34

That's interesting.

545

: 00:24:35

And so she emailed me and she was

like, "I didn't use any- I used

546

: 00:24:38

Speechify to read it back to me

so that I could check for errors."

547

: 00:24:41

And I was like, "That is the

dumbest thing I've ever heard."

548

: 00:24:50

Beck: The online university that I work

for, they allow use of AI, except they

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: 00:24:55

have to cite it, including a link to the

conversation in their, in their citations.

550

: 00:25:02

Which is great if it works, but like

Copilot, if they use Copilot, it won't

551

: 00:25:07

let you see the individual conversations.

552

: 00:25:09

It says they're restricted.

553

: 00:25:11

But if you use ChatGPT, it

will show you the conversation.

554

: 00:25:14

So on what technology you're using,

it really changes how much control you

555

: 00:25:19

have over seeing what they're doing.

556

: 00:25:21

Dash: I just, I don't see

how that is a solution.

557

: 00:25:24

Like, if, if you paid somebody to write

an essay for you That's not, like you're

558

: 00:25:29

not, you're not getting off the hook

just because you showed me the receipt

559

: 00:25:32

Beck: Right

560

: 00:25:33

Dash: But I also understand that

institutions are really struggling

561

: 00:25:35

to grapple with this issue

562

: 00:25:37

Beck: Yehaw.

563

: 00:25:37

' Cause

564

: 00:25:38

prove it

565

: 00:25:39

Dash: it's tough,

566

: 00:25:40

Beck: it's like one of those things

when you see it, you know it, you know?

567

: 00:25:43

Dash: Oh yeah

568

: 00:25:44

Beck: AI is for the most

part very easy to pick out.

569

: 00:25:48

You know, sometimes I think it flies under

the radar, especially when they paraphrase

570

: 00:25:51

and do some, some edits and changes to it.

571

: 00:25:54

But the, it's bolded in the middle

or set up with a li- Uh, there's

572

: 00:25:59

the list of three in all of them.

573

: 00:26:00

There's a list of three things in every

ChatGPT response ever known to man.

574

: 00:26:05

And there's some words that they use

like heartfelt and, and, and, and like,

575

: 00:26:10

and what's another word that they use?

576

: 00:26:12

Uh, heart- robust is another

577

: 00:26:14

they use a lot.

578

: 00:26:17

Dash: quietly.

579

: 00:26:18

Yeah.

580

: 00:26:18

Beck: yeah

581

: 00:26:19

Dash: Original.

582

: 00:26:20

Yeah, I don't know.

583

: 00:26:21

It, it sounds good to somebody who

doesn't know anything about writing,

584

: 00:26:26

and that's the issue, you know?

585

: 00:26:27

It

586

: 00:26:28

If, if you don't know enough about writing

to tell the difference between good and

587

: 00:26:31

bad writing, it seems like I'm up in

your shit over something stupid, right?

588

: 00:26:37

'Cause you're like, "What?

589

: 00:26:38

I was able to do the assignment.

590

: 00:26:40

Obviously this is correct."

591

: 00:26:42

And they're coming from an environment,

most of them, from high school, where

592

: 00:26:44

just turning something in is enough.

593

: 00:26:46

Like, that's all you have to do

594

: 00:26:47

Beck: Right

595

: 00:26:49

week who f- for the first time

in class had talked about Anita

596

: 00:26:52

Hill and Clarence Thomas before.

597

: 00:26:54

She said it was, like, her fourth time

learning about it, and I was like, "Wow."

598

: 00:26:57

Dash: There at BGSU?

599

: 00:26:59

Beck: no as a, in high school."

600

: 00:27:01

Most

601

: 00:27:02

ever heard of this before."

602

: 00:27:04

Dash: Yehaw

603

: 00:27:05

Beck: was, I was really impressed by that.

604

: 00:27:06

She said that she went to a,

a really progressive school

605

: 00:27:09

district outside of Cleveland.

606

: 00:27:11

I was like, "I guess so,

607

: 00:27:12

Dash: Yeah, sounds like it

608

: 00:27:14

Beck: Yeah.

609

: 00:27:14

'Cause that's one of my questions after

we learn all about that, why do you

610

: 00:27:17

think that's not taught in high school?

611

: 00:27:19

You know, if, if, if voters start

at 18, shouldn't they come out at

612

: 00:27:23

18 understanding politics a little

and some of the history behind

613

: 00:27:27

the politics and things like that?

614

: 00:27:28

And I would think, you know, the, the

Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas or the Brett

615

: 00:27:33

Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, I

think those would be things that you would

616

: 00:27:36

wanna teach about sexual harassment, about

gender issues, about all of those things.

617

: 00:27:41

Dash: Yehaw

618

: 00:27:43

Beck: think…

619

: 00:27:44

And a lot of the times their answer

is because people don't want,

620

: 00:27:47

you know, underage kids talking

about sexually based things.

621

: 00:27:51

And to which I say, that's

a huge problem, right?

622

: 00:27:54

Because we should be talking to

kids about sex ed and, and bodily

623

: 00:27:57

autonomy as young as five, you know?

624

: 00:28:00

I'm not s- when I s- when I say

sex ed for five years old, I'm

625

: 00:28:03

not talking, "Hey, five-year-old,

here's a penis and here's a vagina.

626

: 00:28:06

You put them together

and have a baby," right?

627

: 00:28:08

I'm saying you tell them that it's okay

if they don't wanna kiss Uncle Bob.

628

: 00:28:11

They're allowed to say no.

629

: 00:28:13

Dash: Yehaw

630

: 00:28:14

Beck: suit parts, and that they're only

for them, and if anybody else touches

631

: 00:28:17

them, they should tell Mommy, and these

are the right words for these parts.

632

: 00:28:21

So if I say s- if I'm five years

old and I say, "Grandpa touched my

633

: 00:28:24

cookie," I would have some context

for that i- if she actually said,

634

: 00:28:28

"Grandpa touched my vagina," right?

635

: 00:28:30

It, giving kids that knowledge is power.

636

: 00:28:33

Uh, there's so many kids that

are abused, that if you give them

637

: 00:28:36

the language and tell them what's

right and wrong and you give them

638

: 00:28:39

examples of, of proper relationships,

then that's much better for them.

639

: 00:28:43

So where I stand on that.

640

: 00:28:45

Dash: Yeah.

641

: 00:28:45

Well, people also love to, like, wring

their hands and clutch their pearls about

642

: 00:28:52

interpersonal relationships in gen- all

interpersonal relationships except for the

643

: 00:28:56

ones that we're all forced to think about

all the time, which are the straight ones.

644

: 00:28:59

For like, you know, people love to go

like, "Oh, every October I- you're gonna

645

: 00:29:04

force me to think about the fact that

dudes fuck each other up the butt."

646

: 00:29:08

And it's like, "What?

647

: 00:29:09

Nope.

648

: 00:29:10

Nobody's forcing you to think that."

649

: 00:29:14

Beck: That's only if you only think of

gay people as in a sexual manner, and

650

: 00:29:17

Dash: That's right

651

: 00:29:18

Beck: to, to homose- to homosexuality

than there is just having sex.

652

: 00:29:22

Like, like any other

relationship, you know?

653

: 00:29:26

Dash: Yeah, there's, uh, like the

straight people at work who's like

654

: 00:29:29

their whole personality is their kids.

655

: 00:29:31

Great job, you fucked three times

656

: 00:29:32

Beck: Right?

657

: 00:29:33

Dash: Why do we have to talk about it?

658

: 00:29:35

That's something that really blows my

mind, that people will sit around and

659

: 00:29:38

talk to strangers about their kids

660

: 00:29:40

Beck: Yeah.

661

: 00:29:41

Well, I show people pictures

of my dogs, so I'm no better

662

: 00:29:44

Dash: Well, good.

663

: 00:29:45

You know?

664

: 00:29:45

Give them a taste of their own medicine.

665

: 00:29:47

Beck: Right

666

: 00:29:48

Dash: Here's a splinter

I had removed a year ago.

667

: 00:29:51

Isn't it great?

668

: 00:29:52

Like, this, this means as much

to you as your kid means to me.

669

: 00:29:57

And we're equally grossed out also.

670

: 00:30:00

Oh, I guess we should say, like, we didn't

watch Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

671

: 00:30:05

Beck: Oh yeah, that

didn't happen this week.

672

: 00:30:07

I, it was just a crazy week.

673

: 00:30:09

Like, it went by so fast for me

674

: 00:30:11

Dash: Yeah.

675

: 00:30:12

Well, it was a short week 'cause we had

the holiday in there, and I think that

676

: 00:30:17

um, during the school year anyway, for

me, this year is just, just getting used

677

: 00:30:22

to all this stuff, the grading and the

email and learning how to use this LMS

678

: 00:30:27

You know, obviously we're g- you

know, we're still gonna record

679

: 00:30:30

unless we decide we're gonna do

something, you know, kind of special,

680

: 00:30:34

not a ton of prep goes into this

681

: 00:30:38

Beck: What do you mean?

682

: 00:30:39

I spend hours working on my weekly down.

683

: 00:30:41

Dash: Well, I, I spent,

684

: 00:30:43

Beck: don't

685

: 00:30:44

Dash: I spent hours on this sponsor

today because I was so brain dead.

686

: 00:30:47

I kept, like, coming up with ideas,

getting halfway through them, and

687

: 00:30:50

being like, "No, that's stupid."

688

: 00:30:52

Okay.

689

: 00:30:53

Yeah, Zeke

690

: 00:30:55

It's like

691

: 00:30:56

Beck: Meow.

692

: 00:30:56

Kitty, kitty, about getting a kitty.

693

: 00:30:57

Its name currently is Ricky,

and we can't have that 'cause

694

: 00:30:59

that was my first boyfriend,

695

: 00:31:01

Dash: Oh

696

: 00:31:01

Beck: can't have a Ricky running around.

697

: 00:31:03

My dad called him Hickey

698

: 00:31:05

Dash: How old is it?

699

: 00:31:05

Beck: Uh, we don't know,

but still a, a kitten-ish

700

: 00:31:08

Dash: Oh.

701

: 00:31:09

Uh, yeah, you can change the name

702

: 00:31:10

Beck: So we'll find something.

703

: 00:31:11

Uh, we always let them

tell us what their name is,

704

: 00:31:14

Dash: Yehaw Yep

705

: 00:31:17

Beck: was named after an Ewok.

706

: 00:31:19

She was, uh, Wicket's sister

707

: 00:31:21

Dash: Wha- ha- wait, why do

you know so much about Ewoks?

708

: 00:31:24

Beck: Because that's what

it, Wenda looked like.

709

: 00:31:24

I mean, one of my friends, 'cause I

have lots of nerd friends, n- well,

710

: 00:31:24

one of my nerd friends was like,

"She looks like blah, blah, blah."

711

: 00:31:24

And I was like, "Okay."

712

: 00:31:25

Ted,

713

: 00:31:26

Dash: Oh, you researched it?

714

: 00:31:33

Is it, uh, fall weather there yet?

715

: 00:31:36

Beck: It's, it's still in the,

uh, the 80 range around here.

716

: 00:31:40

It's not too cold yet.

717

: 00:31:41

Dash: It's currently 65 degrees.

718

: 00:31:44

It started out around

50 to turn my fan off

719

: 00:31:48

Beck: I'm sitting here covered up in

a blanket It's currently 77 degrees

720

: 00:31:52

here The high of 79, a low of 65

721

: 00:31:55

Dash: Yeah, we really did have like

722

: 00:31:57

a three-week long summer here

723

: 00:32:00

How's the All-American…

724

: 00:32:02

It's not that called that anymore, is it?

725

: 00:32:04

It's the, the women's

professional baseball.

726

: 00:32:07

Y- yeah

727

: 00:32:08

Beck: it's, they're in

the playoffs right now.

728

: 00:32:10

I've been watching that, uh, just

about every night, trying to not

729

: 00:32:13

drive Shana crazy with it, but you

know, watching as much as I can.

730

: 00:32:17

Dash: Is your team winning?

731

: 00:32:18

Beck: they are, they're the

number one team right now,

732

: 00:32:20

Dash: Is it the queens?

733

: 00:32:21

Beck: No, it's the Fire Bells

734

: 00:32:23

Dash: Okay.

735

: 00:32:24

All right.

736

: 00:32:24

Beck: They've been my fa- favorite

because it's the only city I've

737

: 00:32:27

been to, which is San Francisco.

738

: 00:32:29

I've never been to LA,

Boston, or, or New York City.

739

: 00:32:32

I've been to New York State,

but never New York City

740

: 00:32:34

Dash: Oh, they have a cool little logo

741

: 00:32:36

Beck: Yeah.

742

: 00:32:37

But their merch sells out

so fast you can't get it I

743

: 00:32:40

would for sure have a T-shirt.

744

: 00:32:42

Aw, pet that kitty

745

: 00:32:44

Dash: She's r- she's getting attention.

746

: 00:32:46

Well, maybe she's not

getting enough attention

747

: 00:32:48

Beck: Look at that poor baby.

748

: 00:32:49

She's just throwing herself at you

749

: 00:32:51

Dash: She is, yeah.

750

: 00:32:57

Each of them has, like, their

environment where they feel like

751

: 00:33:00

they're in charge, and the, the

bedroom area is definitely hers.

752

: 00:33:05

She loves bedtime

753

: 00:33:07

Beck: Yeah.

754

: 00:33:08

That's how Rue is.

755

: 00:33:08

She's like um, Shana usually goes to bed

first because she has to get up so early.

756

: 00:33:12

And when I push my table out, like to get

up to go to the bathroom or something,

757

: 00:33:16

Rue, like jumps down and runs towards

the bedroom like, "Yes, let's go."

758

: 00:33:21

She is ready for bed at any given hour

759

: 00:33:24

Dash: Yeah, The, well, so the, I, I've

got four of them, and the three of them,

760

: 00:33:28

Oscar, Felix, and Ziggy, they're a trio.

761

: 00:33:31

Like, Ziggy's obsessed with Oscar.

762

: 00:33:33

Felix is obsessed with Oscar.

763

: 00:33:35

They're all together, and they're

typically always on the bed, and I think

764

: 00:33:39

they're just waiting on me to go to bed.

765

: 00:33:41

Uh, in the evening after their

dinner, Oscar will sit in my

766

: 00:33:44

lap if I'm in front of the TV or

something, but lately I haven't been.

767

: 00:33:48

Brisket's always downstairs by

himself He doesn't wanna sleep

768

: 00:33:52

with him, and they would let him

769

: 00:33:53

Beck: How do you feel about this big

beef shipment that came through that

770

: 00:33:56

was denied by China or whatever?

771

: 00:33:59

Do you know about that

772

: 00:34:00

Dash: No, what are you talking about?

773

: 00:34:01

Beck: There was a huge shipment

of beef, like millions of pounds.

774

: 00:34:05

It was denied by Ch- it's

either China or Argentina, one

775

: 00:34:09

Dash: Argentina

776

: 00:34:10

Beck: going to China or China

going to Argen- one or the other.

777

: 00:34:13

But they accepted it here, and

it's being bought by companies like

778

: 00:34:16

McDonald's and Burger King and yeah, and

Kroger and Walmart are all buying it.

779

: 00:34:24

So we have decided we're not gonna

buy meat from any of those places.

780

: 00:34:27

We're gonna go to the butcher for a while

781

: 00:34:29

Dash: August 7th, the US Department

of Agriculture Announced that

782

: 00:34:35

Corte Argentino's USA LLC is

recalling a bunch of pounds of beef.

783

: 00:34:41

Okay, so I don't think that's

what you're talking about

784

: 00:34:42

Beck: No, this has just

been very recently.

785

: 00:34:44

It's in the news Right now

786

: 00:34:46

Dash: Okay.

787

: 00:34:46

I'm just…

788

: 00:34:47

What if I just put beef?

789

: 00:34:48

News.

790

: 00:34:49

Beef news

791

: 00:34:50

Trump's beef import

792

: 00:34:52

Beck: There you go.

793

: 00:34:53

Dash: It's a 90-day suspension on tariffs.

794

: 00:34:56

Why is there so much fuckery?

795

: 00:34:58

Beck: Let me see if I can

find one of the articles.

796

: 00:35:00

I've read a c- a couple of them

today Which is probably showing me

797

: 00:35:03

more 'cause I'm interested in it

798

: 00:35:05

Dash: Mystery meat

799

: 00:35:06

Beck: That sounds right.

800

: 00:35:07

That was the, yeah, the

801

: 00:35:08

Dash: Ah.

802

: 00:35:09

Beck: if it was horse or

803

: 00:35:11

Dash: Okay

804

: 00:35:11

Beck: Why you shouldn't

get your news secondhand

805

: 00:35:13

Dash: Apply a plan to bolster dwindling

US beef supply by waiving tariffs.

806

: 00:35:18

Stop trying to get me to subscribe.

807

: 00:35:20

Meat is coming from Argentina,

it's coming from Brazil, as well

808

: 00:35:24

as a couple of other places.

809

: 00:35:26

Trump promised the meat is very clean.

810

: 00:35:28

After American ranchers and lawmakers

expressed concern The beef would flood

811

: 00:35:33

inspection stations and introduce

lower quality beef into the food supply

812

: 00:35:37

Oh, so he announced this after

having a closed-door Oval Office

813

: 00:35:42

meeting with Brazilian billionaire

Somebody Batista, who co-owns the

814

: 00:35:46

world's largest meatpacking company

815

: 00:35:48

Beck: Oh, surprise, surprise

816

: 00:35:50

Dash: Trump is literally

shitting himself to death.

817

: 00:35:53

He is on death's doorstep, and he

still can only think about scheming

818

: 00:35:58

Beck: Yeah

819

: 00:35:59

Dash: Oh, okay, here it is.

820

: 00:36:00

Brazilian beef exporters who

usually are subjected to a 26.4%

821

: 00:36:05

tariff recently found themselves with

a large backstock of beef after the

822

: 00:36:09

EU announced it would no longer accept

imports from the country because

823

: 00:36:12

it wasn't meeting safety standards.

824

: 00:36:14

Okay

825

: 00:36:15

So now, so that's what we're buying.

826

: 00:36:16

Okay, great.

827

: 00:36:17

Yeah

828

: 00:36:18

Beck: your shirt say m-

does your shirt say mangina?

829

: 00:36:21

Dash: I don't know what it

says honestly, but king…

830

: 00:36:25

K-

831

: 00:36:26

Beck: Kingin.

832

: 00:36:26

Dash: what does it say?

833

: 00:36:28

Beck: Kingin.

834

: 00:36:28

K-I-N-G-I-N.

835

: 00:36:31

Dash: Kinging all day.

836

: 00:36:32

Beck: I couldn't see the…

837

: 00:36:34

Dash: Oh, I…

838

: 00:36:35

Beck: That would, you

839

: 00:36:35

Dash: S-

840

: 00:36:36

Beck: it.

841

: 00:36:37

Dash: So that, that reminds me of

this thought I had for, like, a

842

: 00:36:40

dumb thing for us to do that doesn't

require a bunch of brain power.

843

: 00:36:43

But, uh, I was talking to Vanessa

about the Harry Potter thing, right?

844

: 00:36:48

And I sent her…

845

: 00:36:49

There's a, a YouTuber that does,

like, pop culture analysis videos

846

: 00:36:55

that are kind of- that are funny.

847

: 00:36:56

Their name is Queen Coke Francis.

848

: 00:36:59

So they get in drag, and they make

a video about some sort of thing.

849

: 00:37:03

And so their, their most recent one

was about the Harry Potter thing,

850

: 00:37:06

and basically, like, "Guys, I get it.

851

: 00:37:09

We loved Potter, but we're adults

now, and this is harming people."

852

: 00:37:12

So I sent it to Vanessa, and 'cause

she's struggling with, like, the kids

853

: 00:37:16

love Harry Potter because all kids love

Harry Potter, and they- they're wanting

854

: 00:37:21

to go do Harry Potter things because

the world is saturated with Harry Potter

855

: 00:37:25

shit, and they want to buy, you know,

robes and toys and whatever, play sets.

856

: 00:37:33

And so she hasn't been

letting them do that.

857

: 00:37:35

They've been making their own,

and they're great at that.

858

: 00:37:37

Kids have imaginations, so

they create their own games.

859

: 00:37:40

They have these, like, off-brand

like, generic wizard robe Halloween

860

: 00:37:45

costume things, and they just

play Harry Potter on their own.

861

: 00:37:48

But, like, the obsession, she didn't

tell me why she's c- but she said she's

862

: 00:37:53

thinking of stopping after this book

because of just h- the, the fervor that

863

: 00:37:57

people get for this, especially kids their

a- this is crack to them, these books.

864

: 00:38:02

They were a capitalist juggernaut

because of how addicted they are.

865

: 00:38:08

So anyway, so she's like, "I'm, I'm…

866

: 00:38:11

We're gonna stop with the Harry Potter."

867

: 00:38:13

But it got me thinking about, like,

what to do, for those of us who maybe

868

: 00:38:17

were into Harry Potter the first time

before we knew she was a monster if you

869

: 00:38:20

still have Harry Potter stuff, you know?

870

: 00:38:23

You can't…

871

: 00:38:23

It's not like you can take the

money back from whatever evil

872

: 00:38:27

organization she used it for.

873

: 00:38:29

So I was thinking about, like, the

problematic fave, merch reclamation

874

: 00:38:34

project, 'cause I have a bunch of

T-shirts from Buc-ee's that I really love.

875

: 00:38:39

You know Buc-ee's this, uh,

876

: 00:38:41

Beck: Yeah.

877

: 00:38:41

Dash: yeah

878

: 00:38:44

slash theme park,

879

: 00:38:46

you know, I, w- when it first

came to, to Richmond, I loved it.

880

: 00:38:50

It was so funny.

881

: 00:38:51

You could always go

there and get good food.

882

: 00:38:53

They had a little bit of everything.

883

: 00:38:54

It was just crazy.

884

: 00:38:55

It was insane.

885

: 00:38:56

But the, the owner has now, like,

expressed and committed to some really,

886

: 00:39:01

like, anti-worker ideologies and policies.

887

: 00:39:05

And also, even if I wasn't, you

don't have to be some hardcore

888

: 00:39:08

lefty socialist to care about that.

889

: 00:39:09

Because what he's saying

890

: 00:39:11

Beck: Right

891

: 00:39:11

Dash: when he says shit like

that is, "I'm only going to build

892

: 00:39:15

places where people don't have the

privilege of demanding better."

893

: 00:39:20

I am…

894

: 00:39:21

What h- what he means by, "I'm only

going to red states because they

895

: 00:39:24

don't organize," is, "I'm only gonna

build places where people have to

896

: 00:39:28

just take whatever I offer them."

897

: 00:39:30

Because that's, that's what the

union busting did back in, back

898

: 00:39:33

when the auto companies left

Detroit and they went down south.

899

: 00:39:37

They did that because nobody

by then could, could organize.

900

: 00:39:40

The union busting had taken such a toll.

901

: 00:39:42

Anyway, that's a side plot.

902

: 00:39:44

But I have these, like, just really

cute tank tops that I just don't

903

: 00:39:48

wanna get rid of, and I, it's not

like I can undo the financial thing.

904

: 00:39:53

It's not like I can,

like, take the money back.

905

: 00:39:55

So I thought, like, I could um, s- like,

print, decorate them, or deface them

906

: 00:39:59

somehow with, like, you know, pro-worker

s- like, slogans or whatever, ' there's

907

: 00:40:04

so many things, like especially nostalgic

things, that you grow up later and they

908

: 00:40:08

have become evil or horrible in some way

909

: 00:40:10

Beck: Right.

910

: 00:40:11

Yeah.

911

: 00:40:12

to be a big Ellen

DeGeneres fan, for example

912

: 00:40:15

Dash: Yeah, but I mean, I don't

know if Ellen really had merch.

913

: 00:40:17

But I think I'm gonna do that.

914

: 00:40:19

I need, I need some slogans to

print on these kinda gay tank tops

915

: 00:40:23

I got from Buc-ee's, 'cause I'm

just, I'm not gonna give them up.

916

: 00:40:26

I don't care that much about Harry

Potter anymore, but I think I probably

917

: 00:40:28

do still have some stuff around here.

918

: 00:40:29

I got the books at least

919

: 00:40:31

Beck: Yeah.

920

: 00:40:31

lost my Harry Potter books a

long time ago in one of my moves.

921

: 00:40:34

I, I took a lot of stuff to, uh Is it

Half Price Books that'll buy your stuff?

922

: 00:40:40

Dash: Yeah

923

: 00:40:40

Beck: Or one of, one of those

companies that buy your media.

924

: 00:40:43

I took, like, four big boxes

of stuff, of DVDs and books and

925

: 00:40:47

all that, and sold it, and my

926

: 00:40:49

Dash: I think Skeschel does too

927

: 00:40:51

Beck: I've never heard of that one

928

: 00:40:52

Dash: Oh, it's in, for a minute, it's

in Lexington, but It was probably

929

: 00:40:55

there when you lived there, but

you didn't live there very long.

930

: 00:40:59

Beck: was only there for…

931

: 00:41:00

Lexington, I loved Lexington.

932

: 00:41:01

It ha- it hated me.

933

: 00:41:03

Dash: Sometimes it's like that.

934

: 00:41:05

Beck: yeah, the whole universe was telling

me to go home, go back to Huntington

935

: 00:41:09

Dash: That's kinda how this place

has treated me Like I move here

936

: 00:41:11

and everything went to shit.

937

: 00:41:14

Like seriously, nothing

about my life improved

938

: 00:41:18

That's okay.

939

: 00:41:19

It's in the past.

940

: 00:41:26

Beck: a job?

941

: 00:41:27

Dash: Yeah, if you want

942

: 00:41:28

Beck: I do

943

: 00:41:29

Dash: You, so, uh, there's a, this

is other thing that's very real,

944

: 00:41:32

which is that if you stay there,

you're not gonna increase your pay.

945

: 00:41:36

You have to move to get a pay increase.

946

: 00:41:40

That's true.

947

: 00:41:41

I, I don't know about industry to

industry, but in a lot of the, a lot

948

: 00:41:44

of the people I know who work, who

especially come from, like, a background

949

: 00:41:48

like ours and then go into a middle

class space, that's their reality.

950

: 00:41:51

You have to wh- whole- leave a whole

company or a university or whatever

951

: 00:41:55

to increase your pay in any way.

952

: 00:41:58

So if they, even if they offer you,

they're just dangling carrots in

953

: 00:42:02

front of you semester by semester.

954

: 00:42:04

You have so much experience, you

don't have to settle for that anymore

955

: 00:42:07

Beck: Let's hope.

956

: 00:42:09

I can't go back to the phones.

957

: 00:42:11

I cannot do it.

958

: 00:42:12

I cannot do it.

959

: 00:42:13

And I feel like that's the only

other skill I have besides teaching

960

: 00:42:16

Dash: It's tough because you've

spent so much time developing in this

961

: 00:42:19

one field . It is very hard to go

back to or, or just change course.

962

: 00:42:27

Like even for me, just going from staff

to faculty was apparently a Herculean task

963

: 00:42:33

I'll see if they'll hire you here though

964

: 00:42:35

Beck: Okay.

965

: 00:42:35

I'd move there

966

: 00:42:36

Dash: The town the school is

in is actually kind of cute.

967

: 00:42:38

It's, it's not bad at all.

968

: 00:42:40

It's large.

969

: 00:42:41

It has actual things in it.

970

: 00:42:43

A bunch of parks and trails and stuff.

971

: 00:42:45

It's not as, like, flat and

cornfield-y as it is out here.

972

: 00:42:50

You know, you, like I say, I

live on the prairie, and I do

973

: 00:42:52

technically, yet I don't see prairie.

974

: 00:42:54

All I see is corn and soy farms

975

: 00:42:57

Beck: That's all it is here too.

976

: 00:42:59

Though I did find a

pumpkin patch this week

977

: 00:43:01

Dash: Ooh, that's a good thought.

978

: 00:43:03

That's a good thought.

979

: 00:43:03

I need to, I need to look and see if…

980

: 00:43:05

'Cause if you, you can get to

nature, you can get to a prairie.

981

: 00:43:09

You have to drive half an

hour to an hour to do it.

982

: 00:43:12

But people will do cute

things a- around here.

983

: 00:43:15

You just can only do,

like, one thing a week

984

: 00:43:17

Beck: Yeah.

985

: 00:43:17

We like to drive around and look at

houses is our favorite thing to do

986

: 00:43:20

Dash: Interesting.

987

: 00:43:21

What, what kinds of things are, are,

are, do you notice when you do that?

988

: 00:43:26

Beck: Um, The land, uh, how many

floors it is, how nice it is, the

989

: 00:43:30

type of cars they have the entryway.

990

: 00:43:33

Like, I like, I like, apparently I

like stuff with columns in the front of

991

: 00:43:36

them if they're trying to look classic.

992

: 00:43:38

Shana doesn't like that.

993

: 00:43:39

She likes more mid-century

modern kind of aesthetic.

994

: 00:43:43

We look for creepy houses,

just, just whatever.

995

: 00:43:45

We, we just like looking at houses

996

: 00:43:47

Dash: And that's not something

I've ever really done.

997

: 00:43:49

But

998

: 00:43:49

Beck: driving the back roads

999

: 00:43:51

Dash: it sounds fun

: 1000

00:43:52,489 --> 00:43:56,109

I have a friend who all she does

is just go out and drive around.

: 1001

00:43:56,309 --> 00:44:00,309

I didn't realize it, and when I say all

she does, she actually has two jobs.

: 1002

00:44:00,319 --> 00:44:04,399

She teaches, she's a, a typical

butch lesbian stereotype.

: 1003

00:44:04,399 --> 00:44:08,729

She teaches gym class for elementary

kids during the day, and then she

: 1004

00:44:08,749 --> 00:44:12,498

works a f- uh, you know, a half a

shift at Walmart I don't know how

: 1005

00:44:12,498 --> 00:44:15,568

she finds the time to do this, but

she literally, she doesn't go home.

: 1006

00:44:15,578 --> 00:44:19,638

She just drives around all hours

of the night in her pickup truck.

: 1007

00:44:19,838 --> 00:44:23,408

So much so that she, it's inevitable that

she's gonna get in a horrible accident.

: 1008

00:44:23,408 --> 00:44:25,388

She's been hit by,

like, six drunk drivers.

: 1009

00:44:25,798 --> 00:44:26,108

It's…

: 1010

00:44:26,448 --> 00:44:27,028

Beck: Oh, wow

: 1011

00:44:27,228 --> 00:44:30,348

Dash: Like, sh- she spends so much

of her time just driving around.

: 1012

00:44:30,358 --> 00:44:32,988

It's all she wants to do, and

I, I kinda wanna know, like,

: 1013

00:44:32,998 --> 00:44:34,598

are you looking at things?

: 1014

00:44:34,878 --> 00:44:36,268

Are you just thinking?

: 1015

00:44:36,468 --> 00:44:40,628

It's kind of a, the way she talks about

it, it's like this romantic cowboy

: 1016

00:44:40,678 --> 00:44:44,778

type of thing, which, and I, I think

driving around is fun too, but the, I…

: 1017

00:44:44,788 --> 00:44:47,508

Wait, I'm gonna have to, this thing's

gonna keep blowing on my ears until I

: 1018

00:44:47,508 --> 00:44:49,428

take it off, so put something else on

: 1019

00:44:49,628 --> 00:44:54,738

I got these really shitty

earphone or earbuds on a plane

: 1020

00:44:54,938 --> 00:44:57,638

If I ever get paid, I

will get some nicer things

: 1021

00:44:57,838 --> 00:44:58,498

Beck: Amen to that.

: 1022

00:44:58,698 --> 00:45:01,008

I get paid, but then everything

I turn around, every time I turn

: 1023

00:45:01,008 --> 00:45:02,648

around something costs $1,000

: 1024

00:45:03,122 --> 00:45:03,582

Dash: No.

: 1025

00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:05,549

Well, let's see if I…

: 1026

00:45:05,779 --> 00:45:08,149

I don't even remember what I wound

up doing, but I did eventually

: 1027

00:45:08,149 --> 00:45:11,609

write a sponsor, so let's

hear from this week's sponsor.

: 1028

00:45:22,915 --> 00:45:28,105

All right, this episode of Queernecks is

sponsored by the family desktop computer.

: 1029

00:45:29,729 --> 00:45:33,149

just like how party line telephones

hung on way too long in the

: 1030

00:45:33,149 --> 00:45:36,689

hollers of Appalachia, well

into the: 2010

: 1031

00:45:36,689 --> 00:45:41,009

still keeping that centralized

family computer tradition alive.

: 1032

00:45:41,209 --> 00:45:45,599

It lived in a little desk in the corner of

the family room or whatever room you had

: 1033

00:45:45,599 --> 00:45:47,509

that wasn't where anyone slept or shat.

: 1034

00:45:47,985 --> 00:45:52,165

The size of a donkey and surrounded by

a nest of cables nobody was allowed to

: 1035

00:45:52,165 --> 00:45:54,575

touch, it was truly a Renaissance machine.

: 1036

00:45:54,775 --> 00:45:59,779

It had the tax office, MapQuest,

WebMD, Yahoo Mail, Limewire,

: 1037

00:45:59,779 --> 00:46:04,659

Napster, AOL Messenger, whatever

virus-mined pixel games mom was into.

: 1038

00:46:04,859 --> 00:46:08,639

There were countless accounts and

no memory of passwords, so the rule

: 1039

00:46:08,649 --> 00:46:10,869

was, by God, don't ever turn it off.

: 1040

00:46:11,069 --> 00:46:12,909

Dad used it to look up truck parts.

: 1041

00:46:12,919 --> 00:46:17,039

Some teenager or other used it to talk

to strangers on AOL Instant Messenger.

: 1042

00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:19,909

The youngest child was allowed

to play Solitaire, but only after

: 1043

00:46:19,909 --> 00:46:21,289

everybody else was finished with it.

: 1044

00:46:21,489 --> 00:46:25,729

It would take 15 minutes to wake up and

sounded like a small aircraft taking off.

: 1045

00:46:26,209 --> 00:46:29,319

The internet may have come in

the mail back then, but modems

: 1046

00:46:29,319 --> 00:46:32,259

were still screeching the song

of their people to get connected.

: 1047

00:46:32,657 --> 00:46:36,427

Nobody got away with unobserved

browsing between all the racket.

: 1048

00:46:36,627 --> 00:46:40,717

There was a printer beside it that

had been out of cyan since: 2006

: 1049

00:46:40,717 --> 00:46:43,537

but nobody was throwing it away

because we might need it, and one

: 1050

00:46:43,537 --> 00:46:45,707

day we might find out what cyan is.

: 1051

00:46:45,907 --> 00:46:50,467

And the family desktop had one sacred

rule: do not download anything.

: 1052

00:46:50,667 --> 00:46:54,317

When you're your own tech support and

the thing costs more than the pickup, you

: 1053

00:46:54,317 --> 00:46:56,537

are in preservation mode at all times.

: 1054

00:46:56,907 --> 00:46:58,907

The family desktop

wasn't really a computer.

: 1055

00:46:58,917 --> 00:47:02,577

It was the household's public information

portal, and everybody knew better than to

: 1056

00:47:02,577 --> 00:47:06,137

do anything on it that they wouldn't want

the entire family discovering six months

: 1057

00:47:06,137 --> 00:47:08,887

later or during discovery in a trial.

: 1058

00:47:09,355 --> 00:47:13,185

To the family desktop, where we learned

a little risk was worth either a

: 1059

00:47:13,185 --> 00:47:15,695

lot of reward or a legendary beating

: 1060

00:47:17,850 --> 00:47:21,010

Man, one time David thought he was

gonna get away with calling a 900 number

: 1061

00:47:21,417 --> 00:47:22,147

Beck: Oh, wow

: 1062

00:47:22,347 --> 00:47:24,147

Dash: He was so fucking stupid sometimes

: 1063

00:47:24,541 --> 00:47:25,641

Beck: What kind of 900 number?

: 1064

00:47:25,641 --> 00:47:27,251

Was it a sex talk or a psychic?

: 1065

00:47:27,557 --> 00:47:28,487

Dash: That was a sex talk one

: 1066

00:47:29,052 --> 00:47:31,532

I did not know that the internet

liked to spill its secrets

: 1067

00:47:32,274 --> 00:47:36,924

I think the first person I ever called

a girlfriend was somebody I met in a

: 1068

00:47:36,924 --> 00:47:41,544

chat room, and then we, like, switched

over to AOL Instant Messenger, and

: 1069

00:47:41,544 --> 00:47:45,494

then we would use phone cards, to

talk to, 'cause she lived in Scotland

: 1070

00:47:45,822 --> 00:47:47,255

Beck: Wow That's cool

: 1071

00:47:47,455 --> 00:47:47,905

Dash: Very random.

: 1072

00:47:47,915 --> 00:47:50,115

Did you have any internet

boyfriends or girlfriends?

: 1073

00:47:50,646 --> 00:47:54,046

Beck: That's where I met all of my gay

friends in Huntington was on the internet.

: 1074

00:47:54,396 --> 00:47:57,856

I was much better with that than I was,

like, going to the bar and meeting people.

: 1075

00:47:58,146 --> 00:48:02,075

And a girl that I met on the internet

through AIM um, is the person who I

: 1076

00:48:02,075 --> 00:48:04,835

met Shana from, uh, weirdly enough.

: 1077

00:48:04,985 --> 00:48:06,185

So that worked out.

: 1078

00:48:06,415 --> 00:48:07,875

There was a girl that I dated.

: 1079

00:48:08,015 --> 00:48:08,475

I, I…

: 1080

00:48:08,825 --> 00:48:09,935

One girl maybe.

: 1081

00:48:09,985 --> 00:48:10,935

That's, that's about it.

: 1082

00:48:10,935 --> 00:48:11,505

I didn't…

: 1083

00:48:11,885 --> 00:48:12,295

I don't know.

: 1084

00:48:12,295 --> 00:48:12,965

I didn't…

: 1085

00:48:13,165 --> 00:48:15,555

I, I pretend like I was

a big whore, but I wasn't

: 1086

00:48:15,755 --> 00:48:16,705

Dash: I don't know if I was or not.

: 1087

00:48:16,825 --> 00:48:21,905

I mean, I, I kinda was in college for

a while, but high school, I mean it-

: 1088

00:48:21,975 --> 00:48:24,675

Beck: I have been together

since: 2004

: 1089

00:48:24,931 --> 00:48:25,957

Dash: Yehaw

: 1090

00:48:25,957 --> 00:48:27,247

Beck: not a lot of chances.

: 1091

00:48:27,247 --> 00:48:29,637

We did, like I've, I've never

been on a dating app before.

: 1092

00:48:29,637 --> 00:48:30,837

I have no idea how they work

: 1093

00:48:31,037 --> 00:48:32,317

Dash: They don't anymore.

: 1094

00:48:32,397 --> 00:48:37,557

They u- so, like, I have been on them,

like, at certain points in my life.

: 1095

00:48:37,607 --> 00:48:39,477

Mostly I make friends on them.

: 1096

00:48:39,677 --> 00:48:42,977

It's kinda like, so a lot of

those apps, y- you can do that.

: 1097

00:48:42,977 --> 00:48:43,877

You can just make friends.

: 1098

00:48:43,877 --> 00:48:47,807

It's sort of like how there are all

kinds of creators on OnlyFans, but

: 1099

00:48:47,807 --> 00:48:49,357

everybody only knows it for the porn.

: 1100

00:48:49,557 --> 00:48:54,157

So I, I was on it there in Bowling

Green and made a couple friends and

: 1101

00:48:54,157 --> 00:48:59,477

then dated some people from it, and I

was on it for, I can't remember, some

: 1102

00:48:59,477 --> 00:49:01,147

other time that I had downloaded it.

: 1103

00:49:01,347 --> 00:49:05,317

But, but, uh, lately I had

decided, like, there's gotta be

: 1104

00:49:05,317 --> 00:49:06,607

some queer people around here.

: 1105

00:49:06,807 --> 00:49:08,107

And I don't know about lately.

: 1106

00:49:08,107 --> 00:49:10,687

It was probably shortly after I

moved here, maybe like 18 months ago.

: 1107

00:49:10,947 --> 00:49:13,437

So I'd started, like,

looking for apps to download.

: 1108

00:49:13,637 --> 00:49:15,047

You can't use them anymore.

: 1109

00:49:15,047 --> 00:49:15,227

You…

: 1110

00:49:15,417 --> 00:49:18,907

Like, first of all, you have to have

a paid subscription to use them.

: 1111

00:49:19,197 --> 00:49:20,597

There's no free version anymore.

: 1112

00:49:21,057 --> 00:49:22,567

You can't speak to anybody.

: 1113

00:49:22,667 --> 00:49:26,317

You just have to, like, trade hearts

and likes back and forth, and if you

: 1114

00:49:26,317 --> 00:49:28,167

match, then you can talk to people.

: 1115

00:49:28,187 --> 00:49:32,937

But that, what that means is that you

have to spend all your time on there just

: 1116

00:49:32,947 --> 00:49:37,587

browsing and swiping, hoping that you

swipe at the same time as another person.

: 1117

00:49:37,737 --> 00:49:41,987

Like, technically it doesn't expire, but

they're really just, like, trying to…

: 1118

00:49:41,997 --> 00:49:46,467

It's, they're just another

vehicle for ads So not anymore

: 1119

00:49:46,477 --> 00:49:47,857

can you meet people that way.

: 1120

00:49:47,957 --> 00:49:48,317

Beck: Yeah

: 1121

00:49:48,517 --> 00:49:50,297

Dash: I don't think people do meet anymore

: 1122

00:49:50,497 --> 00:49:54,577

Let's go back to communicating via

books in the back of the sex shop

: 1123

00:49:59,777 --> 00:50:01,617

Beck: Well, I guess

that's actually not true.

: 1124

00:50:01,777 --> 00:50:04,267

Uh, right before Shana and I

started dating and I worked at

: 1125

00:50:04,267 --> 00:50:08,777

the photography studio there was

a website called Her She Kisses.

: 1126

00:50:08,981 --> 00:50:09,191

Dash: Yeah.

: 1127

00:50:09,237 --> 00:50:10,817

Beck: Like her, sh- yeah, you get it.

: 1128

00:50:11,107 --> 00:50:14,357

And I put up, like, a little,

like, profile or whatever.

: 1129

00:50:14,567 --> 00:50:15,477

I did the free version.

: 1130

00:50:15,477 --> 00:50:19,067

I didn't pay anything, and somebody,

this woman I can't even remember her

: 1131

00:50:19,067 --> 00:50:23,477

name now she saw the commercial that I

did for the studio, 'cause I was in a

: 1132

00:50:23,477 --> 00:50:25,217

local commercial at the same time, too.

: 1133

00:50:25,527 --> 00:50:29,117

Now, you have to remember this is when I

was thin, had cute hair, like was wearing

: 1134

00:50:29,586 --> 00:50:31,146

Dash: Is this the woman

that got obsessed with you?

: 1135

00:50:31,419 --> 00:50:35,129

Beck: well, she w- I think she found

out, realized my name was Becky,

: 1136

00:50:35,129 --> 00:50:39,759

and her ex-girlfriend's name was

Becky, and she was trying to, like,

: 1137

00:50:40,119 --> 00:50:41,559

make her jealous or something.

: 1138

00:50:41,559 --> 00:50:42,829

I don't know, but it was weird.

: 1139

00:50:43,059 --> 00:50:45,609

She told a bunch of people that

we had sex when we never did.

: 1140

00:50:45,979 --> 00:50:48,809

I found that out 'cause we had a mutual

friend, and she's like, "I can't believe

: 1141

00:50:48,809 --> 00:50:50,369

you had sex with," whatever her name was.

: 1142

00:50:50,369 --> 00:50:51,649

And I was like, "I did not."

: 1143

00:50:52,039 --> 00:50:52,599

You know?

: 1144

00:50:52,799 --> 00:50:53,599

N- no, thank you.

: 1145

00:50:53,619 --> 00:50:54,819

No, ma'am, I did not.

: 1146

00:50:55,249 --> 00:50:55,939

That was my ass.

: 1147

00:50:55,969 --> 00:50:58,209

That w- that whole thing was

a mess, and then I found out

: 1148

00:50:58,209 --> 00:51:01,579

about the Becky connection and

was like, "That's really weird."

: 1149

00:51:01,779 --> 00:51:04,379

last I heard, she had gone

and married some man, so

: 1150

00:51:05,054 --> 00:51:08,654

one experience, but there was no

swiping left or right back then, so

: 1151

00:51:08,896 --> 00:51:09,066

Dash: No,

: 1152

00:51:09,114 --> 00:51:09,724

Beck: would've been probably

: 1153

00:51:10,685 --> 00:51:12,915

Dash: they weren't

phones really that, that

: 1154

00:51:13,115 --> 00:51:13,595

Beck: Yeah

: 1155

00:51:13,795 --> 00:51:19,365

Dash: I do remember, uh, Craigslist

dating, which was mostly sex work.

: 1156

00:51:19,545 --> 00:51:22,105

So it was like you weren't

gonna really find…

: 1157

00:51:22,115 --> 00:51:24,975

It was mostly just sex

workers talking to each other.

: 1158

00:51:25,465 --> 00:51:25,975

Not really.

: 1159

00:51:25,975 --> 00:51:28,005

Like, they, they didn't talk to

each other, but y- they would,

: 1160

00:51:28,005 --> 00:51:29,195

like, meet their clients there.

: 1161

00:51:29,645 --> 00:51:31,825

So that wasn't really dating, but still.

: 1162

00:51:31,865 --> 00:51:33,815

Some people did, like with

the missed connections thing

: 1163

00:51:34,015 --> 00:51:35,375

I watched a movie…

: 1164

00:51:35,575 --> 00:51:39,325

Well, I've watched a lot of movies since

we recorded last, but the, there's a

: 1165

00:51:39,335 --> 00:51:43,845

movie called The Invite that came out

recently with, uh, Olivia Wilde, Seth

: 1166

00:51:43,865 --> 00:51:49,575

Rogen, Ed Norton, and Penelope Cruz,

which is an eclectic cast, right?

: 1167

00:51:49,615 --> 00:51:54,535

Like, that is, even if the mo- if

the premise wasn't intriguing and

: 1168

00:51:54,535 --> 00:51:59,195

the execution w- wasn't marvelous,

that cast would get my attention.

: 1169

00:51:59,395 --> 00:52:01,225

Like, what are these four doing together?

: 1170

00:52:01,793 --> 00:52:05,233

And then I really appreciate

Olivia Wilde as a director.

: 1171

00:52:05,253 --> 00:52:09,193

I think that, like, sh- more and

more she distinguishes herself

: 1172

00:52:09,583 --> 00:52:10,973

with every film she puts out.

: 1173

00:52:11,173 --> 00:52:15,323

But it's, the premise is these, uh,

it's this one, this couple, Olivia

: 1174

00:52:15,323 --> 00:52:20,320

Wilde and Seth Rogen, who make a really

interesting couple together, who are…

: 1175

00:52:20,670 --> 00:52:22,130

They're sort of falling out of love.

: 1176

00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:27,020

They have a lot of conflict and a

lot of resentment around who the,

: 1177

00:52:27,090 --> 00:52:30,100

uh, who, who they feel they've

become in the relationship.

: 1178

00:52:30,300 --> 00:52:35,500

And then, uh, Ed Norton and Penelope

Cruz are this kind of like sophisticated

: 1179

00:52:35,510 --> 00:52:41,810

and slick, but also like, you know,

desirable couple, and they come down and

: 1180

00:52:41,810 --> 00:52:43,470

invite them to have group sex basically.

: 1181

00:52:43,510 --> 00:52:48,267

This is the premise of the whole movie,

and it all takes place just in their

: 1182

00:52:48,287 --> 00:52:51,017

apartment, just in this one apartment,

and it's only the four of them.

: 1183

00:52:51,467 --> 00:52:51,767

It's…

: 1184

00:52:51,797 --> 00:52:56,927

It feels like those old Hitchcock

movies that all took place in one

: 1185

00:52:56,927 --> 00:53:03,101

location, and the characters really

just balloon into these big, full

: 1186

00:53:03,101 --> 00:53:07,351

narratives of people through,

over the course of the, the story.

: 1187

00:53:07,551 --> 00:53:08,701

I really loved it.

: 1188

00:53:08,841 --> 00:53:09,571

I thought it was great.

: 1189

00:53:09,731 --> 00:53:13,421

And Olivia Wilde, like, she

has this eye as a director.

: 1190

00:53:13,511 --> 00:53:17,331

But it got me thinking though, like,

you know, we, we, we talk about auteurs

: 1191

00:53:17,351 --> 00:53:19,081

in film, and they're always men.

: 1192

00:53:19,281 --> 00:53:23,161

It's not a surprise that, you know,

uh, cinema, like all everything

: 1193

00:53:23,161 --> 00:53:27,491

else in our society, is patriarchal

or male-centric, but even just the

: 1194

00:53:27,491 --> 00:53:31,301

concept of auteur, there is no, like,

there's not a feminine version of it.

: 1195

00:53:31,501 --> 00:53:34,791

Not even that, like, s- y- you, I wouldn't

even know how to make the case that Olivia

: 1196

00:53:34,791 --> 00:53:39,261

Wilde is an auteur because auteur means

something specific to the male gaze.

: 1197

00:53:39,461 --> 00:53:43,991

So we haven't created the possibility

yet of a feminine version of

: 1198

00:53:44,011 --> 00:53:46,951

auteur, and I think, I think

about that a lot all the time.

: 1199

00:53:46,951 --> 00:53:49,271

Like, I've constantly gone back

to that idea ever since I started

: 1200

00:53:49,271 --> 00:53:51,051

learning about, like, film studies.

: 1201

00:53:51,251 --> 00:53:55,911

But with her, there's always these,

like, smear campaigns and stuff

: 1202

00:53:55,921 --> 00:53:57,831

for every film that she's made.

: 1203

00:53:58,251 --> 00:53:59,981

So the first one she made was Booksmart.

: 1204

00:54:00,131 --> 00:54:00,871

Did you see it?

: 1205

00:54:01,071 --> 00:54:01,441

Beck: No

: 1206

00:54:01,565 --> 00:54:01,775

Dash: It…

: 1207

00:54:01,835 --> 00:54:02,745

You would like it.

: 1208

00:54:02,755 --> 00:54:03,905

It's very good.

: 1209

00:54:03,905 --> 00:54:10,005

It's, it's a raunchy, queer, teen, uh,

you know, like, Dazed and Confused type

: 1210

00:54:10,075 --> 00:54:14,115

going, you know, coming-of-age type of

thing, last party of the school year.

: 1211

00:54:14,585 --> 00:54:19,375

And everybody kept comparing it to

Superbad, which I guess is fair.

: 1212

00:54:19,775 --> 00:54:22,605

Well, no, it's not fair because

like I just said, there's a

: 1213

00:54:22,815 --> 00:54:24,825

ton of versions of that film.

: 1214

00:54:24,825 --> 00:54:26,135

That genre is vast.

: 1215

00:54:26,135 --> 00:54:27,755

They could've compared it

to all kinds of things.

: 1216

00:54:28,095 --> 00:54:30,695

I think Dazed and Confused

would be a more apt comparison.

: 1217

00:54:30,895 --> 00:54:33,885

And so they reduced-- They kept

calling it the, the lesbian Superbad.

: 1218

00:54:34,308 --> 00:54:37,268

P- like, people kept saying, like, "Oh,

yeah, it's just the lesbian Superbad."

: 1219

00:54:37,358 --> 00:54:39,218

It's n- it wasn't like Superbad at all.

: 1220

00:54:39,258 --> 00:54:42,988

Superbad was fine, but,

like, s- Booksmart was…

: 1221

00:54:43,398 --> 00:54:46,068

It was about this whole community of kids.

: 1222

00:54:46,148 --> 00:54:48,978

Like, it was about, like,

what we do to young people.

: 1223

00:54:49,018 --> 00:54:50,178

It was just about so much more.

: 1224

00:54:50,378 --> 00:54:54,928

And then she made that Don't Worry

Darling movie with, uh, Harry

: 1225

00:54:54,928 --> 00:54:57,571

Styles and Florence Pugh, and

: 1226

00:54:57,609 --> 00:54:58,369

Beck: to watch list

: 1227

00:54:58,591 --> 00:54:59,271

Dash: very good.

: 1228

00:54:59,371 --> 00:55:00,251

I really liked it.

: 1229

00:55:00,451 --> 00:55:05,491

Uh, but I almost didn't watch it because

the smear campaign was so influential.

: 1230

00:55:05,521 --> 00:55:06,281

Like, and it's…

: 1231

00:55:06,321 --> 00:55:07,871

A- now I can't even

remember what it was about.

: 1232

00:55:07,871 --> 00:55:11,451

It was something to do with,

like, an affair and, uh, casting

: 1233

00:55:11,461 --> 00:55:13,941

drama, which isn't within…

: 1234

00:55:14,201 --> 00:55:17,381

And somehow this all got laid at

her feet or associated with her.

: 1235

00:55:17,501 --> 00:55:23,281

But it actually was just a f- fabulous

movie with this incredible, like, feminist

: 1236

00:55:23,331 --> 00:55:28,591

messaging and exploration of even, like,

a treatment of incel culture that was

: 1237

00:55:28,601 --> 00:55:30,751

really compassionate and interesting.

: 1238

00:55:30,751 --> 00:55:32,831

Like, it was, it was masculinity theory.

: 1239

00:55:33,111 --> 00:55:34,191

So, so smart.

: 1240

00:55:34,391 --> 00:55:38,251

And then the invite, the way that,

like, she invokes this, like, this

: 1241

00:55:38,281 --> 00:55:40,101

pressure in a relationship, it's…

: 1242

00:55:40,131 --> 00:55:43,561

I just don't think we make movies like

that anymore, and I think she's doing

: 1243

00:55:43,621 --> 00:55:45,961

interesting things, and nobody ever…

: 1244

00:55:46,231 --> 00:55:48,531

It's, like, I, I think

I would even feel…

: 1245

00:55:48,561 --> 00:55:51,991

I'm, I'm gonna feel, like, embarrassed

to be talking like this about somebody

: 1246

00:55:51,991 --> 00:55:55,561

who's seen as so normal as Olivia

Wilde, as though she's this fabulous

: 1247

00:55:55,561 --> 00:55:58,111

director, 'cause we're just not

supposed to talk about women this way.

: 1248

00:55:58,261 --> 00:56:00,561

When is the last time somebody

gushed over a female director?

: 1249

00:56:00,761 --> 00:56:01,111

Beck: Right?

: 1250

00:56:01,311 --> 00:56:03,281

Dash: Can't think of, uh, any.

: 1251

00:56:03,341 --> 00:56:05,691

And a lot of times people will go like,

"Well, we just don't, you know, women

: 1252

00:56:05,691 --> 00:56:07,841

don't get to direct as many movies."

: 1253

00:56:08,121 --> 00:56:12,677

Sure, that's true too It doesn't mean

none of them do , and it doesn't mean

: 1254

00:56:12,967 --> 00:56:15,917

that there aren't plenty of women

who have directed multiple films that

: 1255

00:56:15,917 --> 00:56:17,677

are excellent, and she's one of them.

: 1256

00:56:18,127 --> 00:56:21,107

So I'm determined to bring,

to make autress a thing or

: 1257

00:56:21,107 --> 00:56:22,097

whatever we would call it

: 1258

00:56:22,297 --> 00:56:22,657

Beck: Right

: 1259

00:56:23,174 --> 00:56:24,314

Dash: Penelope Cruz is so hot

: 1260

00:56:24,514 --> 00:56:25,294

Beck: Oh, I agree.

: 1261

00:56:25,604 --> 00:56:27,564

Do you know who Hannah Waddingham

: 1262

00:56:27,726 --> 00:56:28,266

Dash: Yes.

: 1263

00:56:28,384 --> 00:56:29,004

Beck: Have you watched…

: 1264

00:56:29,484 --> 00:56:30,954

She is gorgeous.

: 1265

00:56:30,974 --> 00:56:33,984

She is not my type at

all, but I am like, damn.

: 1266

00:56:34,324 --> 00:56:36,054

She is absolutely beautiful.

: 1267

00:56:36,064 --> 00:56:37,314

Have you watched Ted Lasso?

: 1268

00:56:37,340 --> 00:56:37,650

Dash: Yeah.

: 1269

00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:40,120

I, well, I watched the

first season and a half.

: 1270

00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:42,450

I, I, I think there's four now, right?

: 1271

00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:43,150

Beck: Yeah.

: 1272

00:56:43,180 --> 00:56:43,450

Dash: Yeah

: 1273

00:56:43,720 --> 00:56:45,330

Beck: we're caught up to current events.

: 1274

00:56:45,430 --> 00:56:47,260

But she is just stunning.

: 1275

00:56:47,566 --> 00:56:48,506

Dash: Where are you getting it?

: 1276

00:56:48,556 --> 00:56:52,206

Are you, are you stealing it from

somewhere or are you actually…

: 1277

00:56:52,510 --> 00:56:53,190

Beck: f- we paid for

: 1278

00:56:53,306 --> 00:56:53,996

Dash: You pay for it?

: 1279

00:56:53,996 --> 00:56:54,356

Okay.

: 1280

00:56:54,446 --> 00:56:55,496

I, I was thinking,

: 1281

00:56:55,860 --> 00:56:56,040

Beck: yeah

: 1282

00:56:56,226 --> 00:56:57,766

Dash: gonna have to do that too probably

: 1283

00:56:57,966 --> 00:56:58,386

Beck: Yeah

: 1284

00:56:58,462 --> 00:56:59,662

Dash: 'cause there's a

couple things on there.

: 1285

00:56:59,662 --> 00:57:01,532

I would like to also watch Widow's Bay.

: 1286

00:57:01,982 --> 00:57:05,952

I've heard great things about it, and

I liked that guy, that, that actor.

: 1287

00:57:05,952 --> 00:57:09,122

He was in The Beast in Me

Hannah Waddingham played…

: 1288

00:57:09,122 --> 00:57:12,752

a lesbian in s- uh, Sex

Education, I'm pretty sure.

: 1289

00:57:12,952 --> 00:57:14,112

What's the name of the show?

: 1290

00:57:14,312 --> 00:57:17,312

Like she, she's like this

high, high-pressure mo-

: 1291

00:57:17,402 --> 00:57:18,692

like a sports mom, right?

: 1292

00:57:18,712 --> 00:57:20,902

Her son is very, like she

wants him to be really, really

: 1293

00:57:20,902 --> 00:57:22,912

competitive in, I think, swimming.

: 1294

00:57:22,912 --> 00:57:24,162

Well, probably all sports.

: 1295

00:57:24,362 --> 00:57:27,462

So she's, she's funny and also

kind of scary in that Did you know,

: 1296

00:57:27,482 --> 00:57:29,882

well, of course you know because

you've watched Ted Lasso, she's

: 1297

00:57:29,882 --> 00:57:31,182

like a very accomplished singer

: 1298

00:57:31,555 --> 00:57:33,295

Beck: Oh yeah I have Googled her rightly

: 1299

00:57:33,495 --> 00:57:35,815

Dash: Oh, well, did you bring

a noun of Appalachian interest?

: 1300

00:57:36,015 --> 00:57:39,145

Beck: I did an interesting

one this week, in my opinion.

: 1301

00:57:44,245 --> 00:57:48,115

This week's Noun of Appalachian Interest

is the Greenbrier Ghost, because

: 1302

00:57:48,115 --> 00:57:52,215

apparently in West Virginia, dying does

not get you out of a court appearance.

: 1303

00:57:52,695 --> 00:57:58,135

As the story goes anyway, in: 1897

woman named Zona Heaster Shue was found

: 1304

00:57:58,135 --> 00:57:59,945

dead in her home in Greenbrier County.

: 1305

00:58:00,405 --> 00:58:03,705

Her husband, Edward, kept the doctor

from properly examining her neck.

: 1306

00:58:03,905 --> 00:58:07,635

Her death was initially ruled

as natural, but Zona's mother,

: 1307

00:58:07,665 --> 00:58:09,225

Mary Jane, wasn't buying it.

: 1308

00:58:09,265 --> 00:58:11,595

She hadn't liked Edward

before the wedding either.

: 1309

00:58:11,815 --> 00:58:14,205

Some mothers need the time

to warm up to the son-in-law.

: 1310

00:58:14,415 --> 00:58:15,935

This one needed a prosecutor.

: 1311

00:58:16,410 --> 00:58:19,980

Then Mary Jane said that Zona

started appearing to her at night.

: 1312

00:58:20,270 --> 00:58:22,980

According to her account, her

daughter's spirit told her that Edward

: 1313

00:58:22,980 --> 00:58:24,480

had killed her by breaking her neck.

: 1314

00:58:24,870 --> 00:58:27,460

Many ghosts apparently settle

for rattling a cabinet.

: 1315

00:58:27,470 --> 00:58:29,620

This one had information

for the authorities.

: 1316

00:58:30,010 --> 00:58:32,330

Mary Jane took her

story to the prosecutor.

: 1317

00:58:32,420 --> 00:58:36,050

He investigated, learned about the

incomplete examination, and had Zona's

: 1318

00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:40,365

body dug up, and an autopsy found a broken

neck and evidence of a strangulation.

: 1319

00:58:40,755 --> 00:58:44,285

Edward was tried, convicted of murder,

and sentenced to life in prison.

: 1320

00:58:44,585 --> 00:58:48,355

Mary Jane's account of the ghostly

visits even came up in her testimony.

: 1321

00:58:48,695 --> 00:58:52,385

Now, before anyone goes and starts

hiring a medium instead of a lawyer,

: 1322

00:58:52,615 --> 00:58:54,535

the injuries were physical evidence.

: 1323

00:58:54,535 --> 00:58:56,295

The ghost story was Mary Jane's account.

: 1324

00:58:56,325 --> 00:58:57,815

Those are two different things.

: 1325

00:58:58,195 --> 00:59:02,075

But West Virginia commemorated the

case with a roadside marker crediting a

: 1326

00:59:02,075 --> 00:59:03,925

ghost with helping convict a murderer.

: 1327

00:59:04,165 --> 00:59:06,915

Imagine pulling over for a little

local history and finding a

: 1328

00:59:06,915 --> 00:59:09,382

supernatural episode of Dateline.

: 1329

00:59:09,882 --> 00:59:13,362

Whether you believe Zona came back

or her mother simply refused to let

: 1330

00:59:13,362 --> 00:59:17,112

the case rest, Mary Jane kept asking

questions until somebody listened,

: 1331

00:59:17,472 --> 00:59:20,422

and if I ever become a ghost, I

hope that I'm that determined.

: 1332

00:59:20,682 --> 00:59:24,012

I'll probably spend six months trying to

remember who I came upstairs to haunt,

: 1333

00:59:24,012 --> 00:59:27,782

but that's another story, and that's

this week's Noun of Appalachian Interest.

: 1334

00:59:28,892 --> 00:59:29,632

Dash: Oh.

: 1335

00:59:29,972 --> 00:59:31,852

Oh, there's books written

about it and everything.

: 1336

00:59:32,022 --> 00:59:33,962

Oh, there was an episode

of Drunk History about it

: 1337

00:59:34,443 --> 00:59:34,923

Beck: Oh, cool

: 1338

00:59:35,123 --> 00:59:37,573

Dash: Episode, season six, episode nine

: 1339

00:59:37,773 --> 00:59:40,243

I think there's a kid who likes to…

: 1340

00:59:40,303 --> 00:59:44,973

He makes those, like, compilation videos

of stories where he plays, like, Minecraft

: 1341

00:59:44,973 --> 00:59:50,883

and then just talks about stuff, and he

is from North Carolina, and he did, he

: 1342

00:59:50,893 --> 00:59:52,743

did one on the Greenbrier Ghost as well.

: 1343

00:59:52,753 --> 00:59:54,353

Well, there's nothing on this webpage.

: 1344

00:59:54,837 --> 00:59:56,157

Please tell me some information

: 1345

00:59:56,510 --> 00:59:57,620

Okay, here it is

: 1346

00:59:57,820 --> 00:59:58,470

This is Paramount+.

: 1347

00:59:58,870 --> 01:00:01,460

Can we s- we can s- watch these?

: 1348

01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:03,260

You can watch some of these

without having to subscribe

: 1349

01:00:03,857 --> 01:00:04,847

Beck: I have Paramount Plus

: 1350

01:00:05,047 --> 01:00:07,527

Dash: I got rid of mine because

they're just so fucking crooked

: 1351

01:00:07,727 --> 01:00:09,487

Beck: Yeah, I went to do it

and it was like, "How about

: 1352

01:00:09,487 --> 01:00:10,867

$299 a month for three months?"

: 1353

01:00:10,867 --> 01:00:11,707

And I was like, "Shit.

: 1354

01:00:12,030 --> 01:00:12,490

Dash: Amy.

: 1355

01:00:12,883 --> 01:00:13,643

Goddamn it

: 1356

01:00:13,843 --> 01:00:14,643

Let's see if I can find…

: 1357

01:00:14,799 --> 01:00:16,009

Beck: do like NCIS.

: 1358

01:00:16,179 --> 01:00:18,949

NCS is probably my, NCIS is

probably my favorite TV show,

: 1359

01:00:19,249 --> 01:00:20,529

which is very odd, I think.

: 1360

01:00:20,529 --> 01:00:23,379

I don't seem like the cop

procedural kind of person.

: 1361

01:00:23,699 --> 01:00:26,059

But they're good mysteries

is which I like, why I like

: 1362

01:00:26,271 --> 01:00:27,751

Dash: I love a procedural.

: 1363

01:00:27,951 --> 01:00:28,451

Beck: Yeah.

: 1364

01:00:29,111 --> 01:00:29,201

I…

: 1365

01:00:29,201 --> 01:00:29,681

watch FBI.

: 1366

01:00:30,289 --> 01:00:34,479

Dash: Fuck cops and everything,

but, like, I like a mystery.

: 1367

01:00:34,479 --> 01:00:36,959

I, I, I like the, the deductive reasoning.

: 1368

01:00:36,959 --> 01:00:39,529

I like the emphasis on credible evidence.

: 1369

01:00:39,549 --> 01:00:42,009

It's, they're very dorky things

: 1370

01:00:42,209 --> 01:00:43,679

Beck: Yeah, I agree

: 1371

01:00:43,879 --> 01:00:45,339

Dash: Are you gonna watch anything…

: 1372

01:00:45,349 --> 01:00:47,599

You gonna watch spooky

movies this Halloween?

: 1373

01:00:48,089 --> 01:00:49,749

I get you to watch anything spooky?

: 1374

01:00:49,949 --> 01:00:51,039

Beck: I, I will for you.

: 1375

01:00:51,049 --> 01:00:51,849

How about we'll say that?

: 1376

01:00:51,849 --> 01:00:52,899

I'll watch one for you.

: 1377

01:00:53,199 --> 01:00:54,629

I'll let you pick one out for me.

: 1378

01:00:54,649 --> 01:00:55,139

Dash: All right

: 1379

01:00:55,409 --> 01:00:58,209

Beck: we d- I mean, I mean,

Casper is about as haunted

: 1380

01:00:58,209 --> 01:00:59,619

as I usually get around here.

: 1381

01:01:00,049 --> 01:01:01,829

I'm just, it's just not my thing.

: 1382

01:01:01,829 --> 01:01:04,449

But I will, I would t- I,

I will trust your opinion.

: 1383

01:01:04,749 --> 01:01:07,699

I will trust your picking skills,

and I will let you pick one for us to

: 1384

01:01:07,849 --> 01:01:08,679

Dash: Oh, shit.

: 1385

01:01:08,719 --> 01:01:09,099

Okay.

: 1386

01:01:09,109 --> 01:01:12,364

I guess we should probably spin this

wheel didn't do that last time 'cause

: 1387

01:01:12,364 --> 01:01:14,314

we decided to lie about watching

: 1388

01:01:16,351 --> 01:01:18,791

… Our eyes were bigger

than our stomach, okay?

: 1389

01:01:18,841 --> 01:01:23,411

Like, we'll, we'll come back to Dolly when

we can give her more of our attention.

: 1390

01:01:23,611 --> 01:01:24,161

There it is.

: 1391

01:01:24,361 --> 01:01:24,571

All right

: 1392

01:01:24,901 --> 01:01:25,801

It's not opening.

: 1393

01:01:25,861 --> 01:01:26,371

I wonder

: 1394

01:01:26,571 --> 01:01:27,251

Aren't you opening?

: 1395

01:01:27,289 --> 01:01:29,079

Beck: students belly laugh this week.

: 1396

01:01:29,409 --> 01:01:33,386

We watched a video, we were talking about

fourth wave feminism, and so I showed

: 1397

01:01:33,386 --> 01:01:38,156

them a video of Christine Blasey Ford

and, uh, Brett Kavanaugh, the hearing,

: 1398

01:01:38,166 --> 01:01:42,256

the Senate judiciary hearing before

he became, uh, on the Supreme Court.

: 1399

01:01:42,606 --> 01:01:45,756

And at the end of it, Lindsey

Graham is speaking and he says,

: 1400

01:01:45,986 --> 01:01:50,336

"You tell Sotomayor," and somebody,

whoever else, "Kagan and Sotomayor

: 1401

01:01:50,336 --> 01:01:53,626

that Lindsey said hello, and I've

never seen anything so corrupt."

: 1402

01:01:53,626 --> 01:01:54,416

And he just went off.

: 1403

01:01:54,416 --> 01:01:59,436

And after, I just, like I pushed pause

or end, and I just went, "He died."

: 1404

01:01:59,636 --> 01:02:00,886

Dash: He sure did

: 1405

01:02:02,289 --> 01:02:03,239

Beck: He died.

: 1406

01:02:03,439 --> 01:02:04,559

So it was funny

: 1407

01:02:04,759 --> 01:02:08,509

Dash: Well, I guess our Spin app

has, just doesn't work anymore.

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01:02:08,709 --> 01:02:13,479

It's not opening and I can't do

anything to troubleshoot it So

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01:02:13,679 --> 01:02:14,599

We can

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01:02:14,827 --> 01:02:17,957

Beck: What a Fool Believes by the

Doobie Brothers in my head currently.

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01:02:17,957 --> 01:02:20,577

It's been there for several days

and I can't get it to go away

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01:02:20,777 --> 01:02:21,557

Dash: I, I don't think…

: 1413

01:02:21,977 --> 01:02:23,687

I haven't had anything stuck

in my head for a while.

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01:02:23,887 --> 01:02:27,267

I, I got rid of all of my, a lo- I

have just not been on a lot of media

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01:02:27,267 --> 01:02:30,777

lately just 'cause I'm so busy, and

I just g- get like that sometimes.

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01:02:30,787 --> 01:02:31,897

Sometimes I just don't wanna

: 1417

01:02:31,953 --> 01:02:34,323

Beck: Yeah Shana always

listens to music in the car.

: 1418

01:02:34,323 --> 01:02:35,873

I'm always listening to an audiobook.

: 1419

01:02:35,913 --> 01:02:39,893

We're different, so her music gets

stuck in my head, and that song,

: 1420

01:02:39,903 --> 01:02:41,173

I just can't get out of my head

: 1421

01:02:41,373 --> 01:02:45,253

I didn't know that Doobie Brothers was

Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins.

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01:02:45,253 --> 01:02:46,093

I didn't know that

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01:02:46,561 --> 01:02:47,041

Dash: Really?

: 1424

01:02:47,554 --> 01:02:48,084

Beck: Yeah.

: 1425

01:02:48,154 --> 01:02:50,994

Dash: That's like the only thing

I know about those two people.

: 1426

01:02:53,228 --> 01:02:55,738

Well, I'll- and Islands

in the Stream, obviously

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01:02:55,938 --> 01:02:56,468

Beck: Right

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01:02:56,668 --> 01:02:58,148

Dash: That was in my head for a while

: 1429

01:02:58,348 --> 01:03:02,728

Beck: The song that was in my head I think

the longest was the, uh, Goodbye Earl,

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01:03:03,045 --> 01:03:03,205

Dash: Bien

: 1431

01:03:03,598 --> 01:03:05,868

Beck: and the Eminem song, the You

: 1432

01:03:05,922 --> 01:03:06,292

Dash: You can make peepee

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01:03:06,368 --> 01:03:06,618

Beck: Pee

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01:03:06,662 --> 01:03:07,042

Dash: go.

: 1435

01:03:07,368 --> 01:03:08,098

Beck: Badoing-doing-doing.

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01:03:08,798 --> 01:03:09,248

Yeah.

: 1437

01:03:09,448 --> 01:03:12,108

Very inappropriate for a

lesbian gender studies teacher,

: 1438

01:03:12,108 --> 01:03:13,788

but that's what it was, so

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01:03:13,988 --> 01:03:18,488

Dash: Well, I guess we're not gonna choose

anything from the wheel for next time,

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01:03:18,498 --> 01:03:21,048

so we'll just come back and fuck around.

: 1441

01:03:21,058 --> 01:03:24,348

Or if we think of something brilliant in

between, we'll surprise y'all with that

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01:03:24,628 --> 01:03:27,398

Beck: Don't forget to email us your,

your pet pictures, especially your cat

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01:03:27,398 --> 01:03:30,758

pictures, at mailbag@queernecks.com

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01:03:31,214 --> 01:03:31,484

Dash: Yep.

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01:03:31,684 --> 01:03:36,384

Pictures of cats, names, whatever you

want us to call you, within reason.

: 1446

01:03:37,514 --> 01:03:40,184

if we don't get anything, we've,

we've, me and you together have had

: 1447

01:03:40,184 --> 01:03:41,654

enough cats to make a full calendar.

: 1448

01:03:41,954 --> 01:03:45,334

But I would rather have, you

know, other people's cats in them.

: 1449

01:03:45,484 --> 01:03:46,663

I'll post it on the Facebook too.

: 1450

01:03:46,663 --> 01:03:48,534

That's the only social media I kept.

: 1451

01:03:48,734 --> 01:03:54,454

And yeah, if you, uh, know of anybody that

you think would, would, would be a Queer

: 1452

01:03:54,454 --> 01:03:56,944

Neck, send them a link to the episode.

: 1453

01:03:57,144 --> 01:04:00,604

And hopefully, hopefully the

weather's not too bad where you are.

: 1454

01:04:00,804 --> 01:04:04,974

Let me go get this, uh,

soup off of the slow cooker

: 1455

01:04:05,174 --> 01:04:07,134

Beck: I, I think I'm gonna

make me a grilled cheese, so

: 1456

01:04:07,172 --> 01:04:07,922

Dash: Hell yeah.

: 1457

01:04:08,122 --> 01:04:11,822

Well, we hope y'all eat you

something nummy as well, and be

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01:04:11,822 --> 01:04:13,732

good, and say hi to your mom and them

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01:04:13,932 --> 01:04:14,472

Beck: Bye