Episode 22

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27th Oct 2025

We're Team Pillowcase

The hosts touch on everything from rural living to academia mishaps, interwoven with laughter and camaraderie. They discuss the quirky Kentucky Derby horse names game, the significance of food traditions, and the whimsical world of Halloween costumes. Additionally, they introduce listeners to the charming web comic 'Little Bubby Child' and reminisce about the cultural nuances of growing up in Appalachia. This episode celebrates queer creativity, Appalachian resourcefulness, and the joys of community and friendship.

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Transcript
Speaker:

Welcome to Queernecks, the podcast that

puts the Yeehaw in y'all means all.

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I'm your host, Beck, and I'm your host.

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Dash.

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Welcome to today's episode.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

I cannot play it.

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Cool.

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when my back is injured, not back, I guess

it's my shoulder and it's like a muscle

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that's all wrapped around the nerve.

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, You know that feeling when you

bang your funny bone on something?

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That's what my shoulder

has felt like for six days.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

Oh, bless your heart.

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That sucks.

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, dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I knew

that like a massage would help,

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but I don't know how to get one.

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Like, I don't know how

people arrange those.

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And especially here, there's not like,

people don't keep websites or anything,

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so I just called a chiropractor and I

said, do you know a massage therapist?

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And they gave me some woman's number and

so I texted her and so I went and saw

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her on Tuesday like, as soon as she like

felt of it, she goes like, multiple times

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under her breath, she goes, oh my God.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

That's always good.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Yeah,

it's what you want to hear.

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And she's like, have you ever

been diagnosed with anything?

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And I was like, uh, I have a,

a connective tissue disorder.

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And she goes, it is

ehlers-danlos syndrome.

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And I was like, it is.

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And she was like, yeah, there's only

one thing that could lead to this.

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My God, she pummeled me to, and

then she put those, um, those cups.

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Have you ever had this done?

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: no.

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I've never had a massage.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Yeah,

this is my first, like real one.

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normally back home I just find somebody

bigger than me to beat up on me and,

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um, don't quite have that connection here.

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But I mean, she was strong as hell

and she took her thumbs and stuck 'em

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right in the middle of the muscle and

then put all of her weight on them.

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And I was like, I both love and hate you.

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But, but the, the cup thing, I've

never, I've heard of it, but You know,

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obviously never had it done before.

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And just outta the blue, she

goes, I think I need to cup you.

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And I was like, that is

such a terrifying sentence.

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'cause it was a long time before

I understood what she meant,

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but I was too nervous to ask

her what she was talking about.

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I was like, oh, okay, okay.

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And so she was like, it's gonna hurt.

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And I was like, all of this has hurt.

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Are you telling me you got something worse

than what you've already been doing to me?

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All right.

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and it was a grade, a funky ass feeling.

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'cause it goes on your skin.

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And then she like, there's a pump.

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I don't know if it's a pump

or, 'cause I couldn't see it.

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Obviously she could have

been turning a crank too.

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And it just sucks your

whole muscle up into it.

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And it hurts.

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It feels just like a titty

twister, but on your back.

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And then they just, she

just leaves it there.

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It was on there for like 10 minutes.

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Oh

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: wow.

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Do you have

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: bruises.

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Oh yeah, here, hang on.

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I took a, uh, she put four of them

on there, but the first one, I don't

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know if it's the first one she put

the one she left on the longest or,

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what, but it's right on the shoulder.

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I don't know if you'll be

able, it looks like it.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Well, Lord.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Giovanni's pizza

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pepperoni, because she said like,

yeah, you'll have some hickeys.

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And I was like, yeah, I'm sure I will.

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That, um, makes sense.

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But also with EDS, like the

capillaries are really close to

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the skin and, bust pretty easy.

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And I just like, all right,

I'm gonna stand up from here

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and it's gonna be all better.

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Shirley to God, after all that, no.

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She's like, you gotta come back next week.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Oh wow.

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I had a hell of a day myself.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Yeah.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: so I'm

giving exams this week, midterms in

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both of my classes, um, in all four

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All four sections and so

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Tuesday

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Tuesday I printed them all.

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'em in envelopes.

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That way I keep 'em from

getting rippled or, or whatever.

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And so,

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: So

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: the two

packets from my ethnic studies class

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today, threw 'em in my backpack,

got to campus, started handing out

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the exams, and they were like, oh.

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And I had brought

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I had,

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

studies exams to the ethnic

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: oh

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: class, and

I had left their exams here in my

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here at my apartment.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: So I had to,

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: the

class and I said, I guess you

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guys will just take it Tuesday.

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So that's going to eat

up a whole nother day.

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And I let them leave early

and then I booked it back

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: here

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: I live and

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I live

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exams for the second

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

second class because,

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: in between.

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And so

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: and so I barely

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: and I had to get

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: to.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: twice and

had to walk across campus twice.

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And Oh, it was just a, a comedy of errors.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: That, I mean,

that's some A DHD shit right there.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Yeah.

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For real.

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'cause I swear

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I swear I

double checked that I had the right ones,

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but it is what it is on

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: on Monday, I

forgot my flash drive for the first time.

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Oh.

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Um, get one and put it on your key chain.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Yeah, well,

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Well, I,

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: well I would

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I would probably leave my,

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Um, I'm pretty good

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I'm pretty good about it.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: one

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: one semester

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: through

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I went through

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drives in one semester.

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Um, but this semester,

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: this semester,

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: haven't

forgotten it until the, this Monday

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and of course it was the day that

Canvas was down so I couldn't go

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in and get it off their, their

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: so I

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: So I had to call

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: to call

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: I was

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and I was like, Hey.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: 'cause I

don't take my computer with me to

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class 'cause there's no reason to

carry it across campus, you know?

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so I, I couldn't get in my email

or I couldn't get into my OneDrive

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and I couldn't get into Canvas,

so I had to have her email me.

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It, it's, it's been a, a trying few days.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Was

that, that, um, Amazon outage.

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The AWS outage.

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Yeah, it

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: had

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: had,

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: too,

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yeah, it had us too.

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boy, that's something when one company

can take out the whole information grid.

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Amazon is very powerful.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Yeah.

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my guitar finally showed up.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Oh yeah.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I can't play it because my arm's frozen,

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Oh

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: but

it's here and it's beautiful.

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Uh, did you see that thread

on our Facebook of the, um,

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Kentucky Derby horse names?

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: I

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Yeah, I was part of it.

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I, okay.

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I thought you were on there.

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that was really cracking me up and I would

like to read some of their favorites.

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Um, so this, if you don't follow us

on, on Facebook or, um, I posted,

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I didn't do this one on Instagram.

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I don't have the link together.

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I, I just posted the, someone had

said, your Kentucky Derby horse name

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is a symptom of one of your mental

illnesses plus the last thing you ate.

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And I just, these are

so irresistible to me.

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Sometimes and so I put inattentive

sausage with hypervigilant eggs

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We got manic Dorito, which

that just sounds like a flavor

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that they would actually make,

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Taco Bell.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Taco Bell?

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Yeah.

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Come and get the manic

Dorito Baha Blast Crunch.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: exactly.

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Executive dysfunction coffee.

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A panic attack breakfast sandwich.

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Your dissociation McGriddle.

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anxiety soup in the lead.

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What does in the lead mean?

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: I

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: In the lead?

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I don't, I don't understand that one.

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McCall.

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Tell me what you're talking about, bro.

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Constant Vigilance Garden,

veggie tortilla chip.

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That is a legit derby

name, like Stress Toast.

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Oh, I love that one.

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That's a great band name I thought.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Yeah.

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Dissociating Pancake.

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Um,

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irritable Tuna Salad.

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Oh God.

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Oh, this one's killed me.

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Anxiety cracker,

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

We serve everyone here.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: right?

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Oh man.

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procrastination Pizza.

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That's a pretty good one.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: I've ordered

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I've ordered many of those.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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Emotional dysregulation.

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Quesadilla.

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Oh, it's of course some fancy,

actual doctor, a psychologist

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comes in with something I have

to Google per perseveration

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spam when it's perseveration.

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Sabrina, you're making me feel stupid.

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it's a thought process disorder.

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Consistent repetition of thoughts,

words, or actions despite

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attempts to stop or change them.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Oh, I have that.

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I do a thing with, uh, food.

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Um, it might not be exactly the right

thing here, but I go through patterns

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where I just, I'll eat one thing for,

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Sometimes

it's two weeks, sometimes six months.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: I'll eat

the same thing every single day,

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and then I never want it again

after that, or very sparingly.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Uh,

all over the summer I ate, peanut

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butter and jelly sandwiches with a

glass of milk or a bowl of cereal.

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That was it.

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That was what I ate all summer long.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: My most

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My most disgusting one was

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: ate

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I ate.

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for six months straight.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I mean,

that's not really disgusting,

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it is after six months.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: a bit hardcore

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Every

day I wanted it, and now I, I

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I can't even,

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: of it.

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Like, I'm sure it's

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sure it's tasty and delicious.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: I just

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I cannot,

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I have ruined, I have had

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I had my lifetime.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: it.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Was it

because you were like, I can't wait

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to get that sweet taste in my mouth?

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Or was it because like, I know how to

do this because I did it yesterday.

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No,

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: No, it's,

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it's, it's a, it's a craving.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: actual food.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: okay.

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I don't think that's what, I

don't think that's why I do it.

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I think it's because like muscle memory,

like, oh, I, I did this yesterday

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so I know I knew how to do it today

because feeding myself is a struggle.

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Just like every other damn

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thing.

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The average person can do just

fine and I apparently can't,

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Yeah, no,

I hyper fixate on individual foods.

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When I was a kid, there

was, I don't know if

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I dunno, had a big

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: stores where you

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Where you were.

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there were a chain

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Chain.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: stores.

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we had a big bear and, they made in their,

their bakery, they made these rolls and

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they came in a, a circle and they were

like one in the out layer and then a

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middle layer and then a very middle layer.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Oh yeah.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: a sucker

for the inside parts of bread.

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Right.

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Because, you know, a fat girl.

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And my mom would buy those for

me and I would devour them.

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And that's all I ate for months.

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For months.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Yeah.

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. I think my mom might have done what you're

describing because There was this like,

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for instance, dessert type thing she would

make with fresh fruit and I think cream

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cheese and some other creamed element.

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I don't, I, my brain is telling me

it's sour cream, but that ain't right.

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It maybe it was cool whip or

something, and she ate that I think

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every day for years, and then I

haven't seen her eat it since.

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there have been some

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Castleberry hotdog sauce.

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when they cleaned out my grandparents'

house after they both passed away,

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they found a closet in the bathroom

and in the back of that closet was

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a case of Castleberry hotdog sauce

because they would go and find it.

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Because I liked it so much and my

parents would, my grandparents would

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buy it for me, a case at a time.

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'cause it was like 39 cents

a can back in the day.

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don't like hot dogs, I only like hot dog

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The sauce, what's it called?

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Castleberry

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It is mostly being,

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Mostly I see.

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I did not eat that one growing up.

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we did eat hot dogs, but

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just can't, with a hot dog.

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with mystery meat, I can't With

lunch meats, I can't with hot dogs.

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If it was ever a pink slime, I'm

probably not gonna want to eat it.

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Another one

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of mine

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one of mine was, uh, rice

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: and

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: cinnamon.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

and butter in it.

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White rice.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Okay.

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Is there a name for that or

is this something you made up?

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My dad used to make it,

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there is a name for it.

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but I would get those minute rice

bowls that you can get and I would

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add butter and cinnamon sugar

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: so that's

kind of like, it's a little like

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grits, but with rice instead of corn.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: right?

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I could see it.

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I mean, I'm sure I would never

have thought to do it, but you do

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gotta do something to, something

to that rice andoni, uh, minute

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rice stuff though, because it just

tastes, it tastes like nothing.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: and

I, just like with, um, canned

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asparagus, I really thought that I

didn't like rice because that's what

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we ate was the, the minute rice.

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And I was like, what is this?

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It tastes like worse than air.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Right.

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My mom wouldn't make it.

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It was too foreign.

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My mom never once made rice.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: So you were,

introduced to it at the, was this at

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the Chinese place that you went to?

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Yeah.

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was the first time I'd ever had rice.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: yeah.

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The fir, that was the first

time I had real white rice.

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that was, made in the, the proper

method, not like made once parboiled

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and then freeze dried and then remade.

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And I was like, oh, I get it now.

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I get rice.

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Like it has a flavor.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

I'm a big fan of rice.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Fuck.

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Yeah.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Yeah.

365

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I've been,

there's this guy on TikTok named

366

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Logan, who, um, makes his own kimchi.

367

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Yeah,

the, the, the bowls with the cream

368

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: cheese

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: the cucumber,

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: he

makes all kinds of things.

371

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: is either

one that says sometimes you just

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need to eat a whole cucumber.

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And I'm gonna show you how

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I don't know,

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

does he have like

376

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shock blonde hair.

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Yeah.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Yeah.

379

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That's him.

380

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one of my favorite, Dishes of

any, like Asian cuisine is kimchi.

381

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I crave it.

382

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I'm craving it right now.

383

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I actually was trying to find some, but

of course you're not gonna find any here.

384

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I would have to.

385

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I don't know where I would get this shit.

386

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I was just thinking of that.

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I was like, there maybe there's

some subscription service that

388

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can, can get some food to me.

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Wide variety

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: variety of

food items, all kinds of stuff that

391

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: of stuff.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

in the regular store.

393

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Yeah.

394

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And Kim GI mean, they can

ship just about anything.

395

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They can ship ice cream.

396

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I know that graders, ships ice cream

to people like you can order it in

397

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the mail, which is just fucking crazy.

398

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: You can get

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: You get

mild pizza in the mail now too.

400

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Why would you though?

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

Yeah, I'm with you on that.

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I'm not a big fan myself,

403

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but a lot of people like it.

404

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

I know that stuff.

405

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it's, the crust is like

way too much for me.

406

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It blows my stomach up so that

it's probably a me problem.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Right.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I did have

a gas station pizza today though, so

409

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

We've been on a Jets

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Jet

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Did you ever eat

412

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that in bg?

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

Yeah, Jet's is pretty good.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Yeah.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: You know

what's funny is like how often

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we wind up talking about food?

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

Well, I'm a big girl.

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I like food.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I mean,

whatever like you know, leaving that

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aside, food is, when I think about

like, going back home, just being in

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Appalachia, food is a big fucking deal.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: I would, if I

could have my mom's biscuits and gravy

423

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one more time, like it breaks my heart

that I'll never get to have that again.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Yeah.

425

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Yeah, I know.

426

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I mean, did she ever

teach you how to make 'em,

427

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: No,

428

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: you know.

429

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: how to

make her, uh, mashed potatoes,

430

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so at least we have that.

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best mashed potatoes in the world.

432

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They're so good.

433

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I've been

thinking about all these people who's

434

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not gonna have their snap for November.

435

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: I know.

436

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: And just first

of all, just how monstrous that is.

437

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And heinous Thanksgiving,

you know, I mean, whatever.

438

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Fuck yeah.

439

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Columbus, Um, fuck colonialism.

440

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But that's a meal some people who

don't have a lot of access to food.

441

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Look forward to all year long,

you know, look forward to making.

442

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The big Turkey and there was

casseroles that my, um, aunt Jenny

443

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made that I got to eat once a year

and I fucking looked forward to 'em.

444

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because, and I tried to recreate

her, uh, green bean casserole.

445

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'cause I'm like, what is it?

446

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It's just, you know, green beans

and mushrooms and, and some french

447

:

onions and I couldn't do it.

448

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Like, whatever she did

to it was different.

449

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And now to think that, like,

something that seemingly silly, right?

450

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It's not the end of the world if I

can't have a gigantic Turkey leg on

451

:

the day that I would typically have one

But it just seems significant to me.

452

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

It is un-American.

453

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It really is.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

Maybe, maybe it's not anymore.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: I don't know.

456

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: But you know,

I've seen people posting like, here's

457

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how you can get your Thanksgiving

dinner done for $40 with an Aldi.

458

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I love that shit.

459

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Walmart's

doing the same thing, though.

460

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I hate to encourage

anybody to shop at Walmart.

461

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That's their, their cost is

under 40 bucks for 10 people.

462

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Yeah.

463

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you could also, I know that a lot of the

mutual aid, uh, networks are working with

464

:

food banks and, whatever their network

is to corral resources and some dry goods

465

:

and stuff to, to put your meal together.

466

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It just, it just makes it so that

you have to work even more hard on

467

:

something that was already harder.

468

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Right.

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Did

you, were you ever involved in

470

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the, Thanksgiving day cooking?

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Um,

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: yeah.

473

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: when I, was

a little bit older, mom always had me

474

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doing stuff like making the deviled

eggs and, uh, the small side things

475

:

that I couldn't mess up too much.

476

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I was a baker, so I would usually

make a dessert or two or three

477

:

and I'd make a cheese ball.

478

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and the sweet potatoes stuff

that, the side stuff, um, Shannon

479

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could make a hell of a Turkey.

480

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For

481

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several years?

482

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It

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was, it was just me, Shanna, and my friend

484

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: my friend.

485

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Mm-hmm.

486

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: he would come

over and he would get us a big fancy bird

487

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from a farm somewhere upstate in New York

and it would be like organic or whatever.

488

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And they were, uh, it was the best

Turkey I've ever had in my life.

489

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Have you ever had

490

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: You had,

491

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: cake?

492

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: yes.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: That's one of my

494

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: My aunt,

495

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: aunt

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: aunt.

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

make that every Thanksgiving.

498

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I'm gonna go see her in a couple of weeks.

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I have one aunt on my mom's side

and one half aunt on my dad's side

500

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left, and I'm gonna go see my, my

mom's sister in a couple of weeks.

501

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Awesome.

502

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Yeah.

503

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

Thanksgiving would be at, at

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somebody's different's house.

505

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We had to go to like our grandmother

and Papa Cooper's Thanksgiving.

506

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And then until my granny and Papa

Parrot died, we went to theirs.

507

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And then after that it became like a

rotation of my mom and her sister's houses

508

:

because they all lived around the Jellico

LaFollet Oak Ridge area for a while.

509

:

so it was like what Thanksgiving was

like and whether you had duties or

510

:

not, depended on whose house it was at.

511

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Right.

512

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Did

y'all do the kids' table thing?

513

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Yeah,

514

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Yeah, always.

515

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Um, but

that was usually at Christmas.

516

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At Thanksgiving we didn't

have big family ones.

517

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It would be like, 'cause everybody

518

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Everybody lived

519

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: out,

like, so we lived in Portsmouth.

520

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Um, my aunt, one of my aunts lived

in Columbus, one lived in North

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: in Philadelphia.

522

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

or New Philadelphia, Ohio.

523

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One.

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Then another set lived in Cleveland.

525

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So it wasn't feasible for everybody

to get together at Thanksgiving.

526

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And there were a lot of us.

527

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I

528

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Yeah.

529

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: 15, 15 of the

41 come from mom's side, I think it is.

530

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and so there would be a lot of

us, but at Christmas we would

531

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

Christmas, we'd all get together.

532

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My grandma's

533

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

That was a lot of

534

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: lot of fun.

535

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: She had a

536

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dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: She

had a two bedroom, one bath.

537

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: in a

basement apartment in this, this

538

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complex, and we would literally

fit like 40 people in there.

539

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Yeah.

540

:

I I, that's something I remember

like some years Thanksgiving or

541

:

Christmas would be so claustrophobic.

542

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Yeah,

543

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: cause

it's not like, you know, summer

544

:

holidays, 4th of July where you can

go outside and, you know, light things

545

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on fire and be away from people.

546

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It's like you are stuck inside.

547

:

And as I got older, it got to be so

much like about my gender presentation

548

:

and about like, whether I was

gonna be dating boys or anything.

549

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And ' I just got started to

get so stressed out about

550

:

like, what I was gonna wear.

551

:

and then I stopped caring for a long

time and I just started, especially

552

:

once I got into my, like later

twenties, I was like, uh, don't care.

553

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I'm just gonna.

554

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Be how I want to.

555

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But then I started transitioning and I

didn't tell anybody for like 18 months.

556

:

I was still going to see them and stuff.

557

:

And I would, shave my beard off to do

the best I could to get rid of that.

558

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And I would do vocal

exercises on the drive down.

559

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'cause I was driving from

BG down to, Kentucky, down

560

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to Williamsburg, Geico area.

561

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And I would do vocal exercises to raise

my voice back up on the, on the drive

562

:

down, and it didn't even work, right?

563

:

You get down there and they're

like, what happened to your voice?

564

:

Like, I just spent six

hours trying to fix that.

565

:

Oh, well.

566

:

And then after a point there's,

you know, once it fully drops you

567

:

or not doing anything to hide it.

568

:

and I still hadn't really told anybody.

569

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Well, I told Vanessa, but

I hadn't told mom or dad.

570

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And I certainly hadn't told my

grandparents and I didn't tell 'em until.

571

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I moved to Carbondale, Illinois, so I,

it was like a couple years in and the

572

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only reason I told 'em was because I

was having top surgery and I was like,

573

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okay, we're committed to this now.

574

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beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: I am so

575

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I'm so glad.

576

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: you now.

577

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Yeah.

578

:

Oh my God, did you see Vanessa

sent me this, the White

579

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House posted about this like.

580

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Garish, ballroom.

581

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They're building, they posted like a,

a timeline of major events in the life

582

:

of the White House structure building.

583

:

And there is this just, it's hard to

explain shit inserted into the timeline.

584

:

There's a, there's an AI picture of, Obama

in a turban, um, meeting with Al-Qaeda.

585

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And it says, in 2012, Obama, um,

welcomes the Muslim Brotherhood

586

:

to the, to the White House.

587

:

there's one about, Biden brings the

transsexuals to the White House.

588

:

there's a p it starts off real because I

was like, normal, normal, normal, right?

589

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Like, uh, Truman did this.

590

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They built the, the press box stuff

and then all of a sudden it's,

591

:

Clinton and Lewinsky, and I was like.

592

:

Okay.

593

:

we're we're doing stupid shit here.

594

:

Um, I think I still have it open,

595

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: So that's why

people were talking about Monica Lewinsky.

596

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I suppose.

597

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: I buried my

head in the sand this week and really

598

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have, I've been reading all week.

599

:

I read

600

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a really good book from the gay book club.

601

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It's called the, called

the Prettiest Star.

602

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Um, it was written by a trans man, and

it's about, it's set in the eighties and

603

:

it's about a man, um, a gay man that had

left his small southern Ohio town and had

604

:

gone to New York City, and had a full gay

605

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Gay life.

606

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

a partner and all that.

607

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

That's Carter Sickle's book.

608

:

Yeah.

609

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

then, yeah, and then

610

:

AIDS hit and he comes home to

die in his, in his hometown.

611

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

Carter teaches at EKU.

612

:

Oh, wow.

613

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: wow.

614

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Yeah.

615

:

Um, I only worked with, you know,

like, uh, with him a couple times,

616

:

but, yeah, he That's so cool.

617

:

I actually haven't read that book.

618

:

I, I only, I only know him because

I literally met him at work,

619

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Yeah,

620

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

so I was like, oh, hello.

621

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: was a

sad book, but it was, it was well

622

:

written and it was worth a read.

623

:

So.

624

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Yeah.

625

:

Cool.

626

:

Um, I'm gonna write, now that you bring

that up, I'm gonna write that down.

627

:

Uh, yeah.

628

:

He taught WGS with us there at EKU and he

taught some creative writing courses too.

629

:

He, they would host like, um, writers

sort of in residence to teach courses

630

:

there Silas House was there for a while.

631

:

Yeah.

632

:

Here's the Muslim Brotherhood visit.

633

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Oh,

634

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Yeah.

635

:

I am pretty sure they put

him in blackface as well.

636

:

And then tennis pavilion.

637

:

Uh, here's poor is this Hunter Biden

638

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: oh man.

639

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: strung out

in a bathtubs, cocaine discovered

640

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

this was shared by the White

641

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: this.

642

:

is on White house.gov.

643

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Oh, Jesus.

644

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Yeah.

645

:

And then, um, here's the trans people.

646

:

That's not even, this is a topless woman.

647

:

Why, like, are they she was

not topless at the White House.

648

:

What?

649

:

I don't know if, what,

what's happening here?

650

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Well,

they, I think they clearly used

651

:

AI and for looking for like most

popular search terms or whatever,

652

:

or news items or, the trans day

of visibility stuff wouldn't

653

:

have anything like, that wouldn't

be the top search for Biden.

654

:

That would, that's like a footnote.

655

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: The

what they're, this is trying

656

:

to say that Biden started TDO

because they're so fucking stupid.

657

:

They don't know that this

is a very old holiday.

658

:

And so it says the Biden Harris

administration hosts transsexuals

659

:

at the White House in 2023 and goes

on to establish the transgender

660

:

day of visibility on the same

day as Easter Sunday in:

661

:

So it's trying to like it's rage baiting,

trying to make it sound like Biden

662

:

created TDO and chose Easter Sunday.

663

:

But T Ddo always falls on

the same day every year.

664

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And it just happened to be Sunday

that year because sometimes it is, I

665

:

mean, sometimes TDO R is Thanksgiving.

666

:

Are you mad about that too?

667

:

Or you didn't know TDO R existed?

668

:

It's fucking, we live in North Korea

669

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: It's getting

670

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: getting wilder.

671

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: I'm terrified to

672

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: to

673

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: every

674

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: teach every day.

675

:

I know, I know.

676

:

I'm sure like you're just front lines.

677

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: I did

678

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I,

679

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: this week,

and I was like, what happens if

680

:

somebody gets offended because I show

a video that's a condom demonstration.

681

:

You know what I mean?

682

:

I've been showing that

video for 12 years now.

683

:

I

684

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: well,

685

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: they're

686

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: they're adults,

687

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: but

688

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

but people about things.

689

:

it's just trans and queer people.

690

:

Right.

691

:

It's As long as it's

straight, you should be fine.

692

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Well,

693

:

I try to

694

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

I tried to do an I Sex

695

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: ed because

696

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

because I talk about anal sex.

697

:

Why We talk about it.

698

:

I talk about,

699

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: that kind of

700

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: yeah.

701

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: And

then on my last slide I say I

702

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: say

703

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: cover

704

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

can't cover everything.

705

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: put up links to

706

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Mm-hmm.

707

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: about, sex

with trans people, sex with disabilities.

708

:

Sex with autism.

709

:

Um, so that way it's asexual people

like I, I put a link for all kinds

710

:

of different things, um, so that

you can go and watch it yourself.

711

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Um,

712

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: so, one of my

713

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

one of my friends is teaching

714

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

culture, the pop C:

715

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: mm-hmm.

716

:

And, um,

717

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

a video that I also show.

718

:

It's a, it's a probably a

719

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: a year

720

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: John

721

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Oliver,

722

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: where he

723

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: he talk about

724

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: of sex

725

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

of sex in America.

726

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: it's a

727

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

It's really great clip.

728

:

And I show it every time I teach sex ed.

729

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: because it

730

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: because

it tells you, like in Ohio

731

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: only,

732

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: it's

only, you only have to be men.

733

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

in 22 states, like sex

734

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

Like sex ed only has to be men

735

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: in 22 states.

736

:

That's wild to me.

737

:

And so

738

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

and talk about these things.

739

:

Right.

740

:

And so John Oliver being

a comedian, because

741

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

news, he makes a joke.

742

:

they're talking

743

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

talking about how bad masturbate.

744

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: or that's

how parents would say, right?

745

:

And he's like, don't forget

if you masturbate, the, the

746

:

fluid coming out are his tears.

747

:

Right?

748

:

Talking about God's, it's funny,

and somebody complained about

749

:

it to, to my friend's boss.

750

:

And I've shown

751

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I showed

that video, I dunno how many times.

752

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

You know what I mean?

753

:

Like that's my standard when

it comes to teaching sex ed.

754

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I mean,

these fucking weenies, you know, just

755

:

rub some dirt on it and get used to

being made fun of like the rest of us

756

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Yeah.

757

:

I tell 'em first

758

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I

759

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: we're gonna

760

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: day

761

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

themes in our class.

762

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: class

763

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: with that,

you need to find another section.

764

:

We're also gonna use humor a lot.

765

:

And if that offends you, you

need to find another section

766

:

because we're gonna talk about

767

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: talk

768

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: we

769

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: like.

770

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: and I'm not

gonna show them pornography, right.

771

:

But I do show them a video of porn

stars talking about the difference

772

:

between porn, sex and real sex.

773

:

And it's a really interesting

video because they basically point

774

:

out that when you do porn sex,

you're performing to the camera.

775

:

Like you have to open up to the

camera and that kind of thing.

776

:

When you're doing regular sex, it's more,

much more intimate and and whatever.

777

:

and it's a really great

video because a lot

778

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Kids have

779

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: kids have never

780

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: never thought

about the difference between two.

781

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: they

use it as sex ed, you know?

782

:

But so we're gonna

783

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: We're gonna have

784

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: We're gonna talk

785

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

talk about adult days because

786

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: adults.

787

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Right.

788

:

And you signed up for this class.

789

:

Yeah.

790

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Literally.

791

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Like,

I don't have to change my content

792

:

because you don't like it.

793

:

You can get the fuck out.

794

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: I am

795

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I

really worried about teaching

796

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: and I

am having a guest speaker this

797

:

semester, so we'll see how that goes.

798

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Yeah.

799

:

I mean, we can know that.

800

:

We can know that, you know, you

have the rights to do this and

801

:

that all we want to, but it,

doesn't mean as much as it used to.

802

:

well this is fun.

803

:

Maybe we should spin the wheel.

804

:

What have you,

805

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

You don't like talking

806

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

we're talking about abortion.

807

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: in Ohio?

808

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: well,

well, God dang, this is on theme.

809

:

We've got Halloween costumes.

810

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: a good one.

811

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Yeah.

812

:

Oh man.

813

:

well, there's a lot of documentation

of some of our Halloween costumes

814

:

When we were kids, a lot of pictures.

815

:

My dad especially was a shutterbug.

816

:

He loved to take pictures.

817

:

can you remember your very first

818

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: There, there's

pictographic, uh, evidence of the

819

:

first time I went trick or treating.

820

:

Um, I was

821

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I

was the youngest of three kids.

822

:

My sister was six years

823

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

six years older and my

824

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: and

my brother, three years older.

825

:

Mom dressed us,

826

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: She put my

827

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: put my sister,

828

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: my

829

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: my brother.

830

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Claus, and she

put me in a box and made me a present.

831

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

What's in the box?

832

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

Wouldn't you like to

833

:

know?

834

:

I, I was just sitting there

with my arm sticking out.

835

:

I have a picture of it somewhere

with my arm sticking out of

836

:

the box and a bow on my head.

837

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Oh, Lord.

838

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Yeah.

839

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

That's pretty good.

840

:

That's creative.

841

:

I mean, I, Dr.

842

:

I, I think I dressed as

a cowboy several times.

843

:

Um, we dressed as ninjas a

lot, which was, I'm I, maybe

844

:

cultural appropriation probably.

845

:

And, you know, it's not like we

put on face paint or anything, but

846

:

still we've made outfits out of like

spandex and, and mom's stockings.

847

:

she dressed Vanessa up as a

southern belle so many times.

848

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

Uh, would've died.

849

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

She made this hoop skirt.

850

:

She took a bunch of, um.

851

:

hangers like clothes hangers and

made a gigantic hoop out of it and

852

:

put it in the hem of this skirt

she made and made her wear gloves.

853

:

And I mean, I say all of this,

I'm speaking from my perspective.

854

:

Maybe Vanessa had fun.

855

:

I don't know.

856

:

I would've fucking hated it.

857

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Right.

858

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: it's

likely that she tried with me.

859

:

I remember we had to squeeze

that thing into a shape.

860

:

She could get through doors

861

:

getting outta the car and stuff.

862

:

It was like up above her head.

863

:

I mean, even if she felt, you know,

fierce or whatever, it can't have

864

:

been a fun costume to get around in,

865

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: It feels like so

866

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: like, so

867

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: get

868

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: pressure

869

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: for your

870

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

for your kid every year.

871

:

Yeah, I'm sure oh, I remember when

we were, we dressed up like ninjas.

872

:

We, um, like put bruises all

over us and we were like,

873

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

So you were bad ninjas.

874

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: were bad.

875

:

Yeah.

876

:

We were very bad at fighting apparently.

877

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: One

878

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: One

879

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: I went as a

880

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: year I went,

881

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

and I remember somebody

882

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: yeah.

883

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: me

884

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Somebody

885

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: in their

886

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: in

their house and take a picture of,

887

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

as an adult I'm like,

888

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I'm like, what?

889

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Let's

rewind that back a little.

890

:

What?

891

:

What happened there?

892

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Probably

wouldn't happen these days.

893

:

I would say

894

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Yeah.

895

:

And then I went in the eight, like I, I

896

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I

897

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

kindergarten in 83.

898

:

Yeah, 83.

899

:

And Cabbage

900

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: ca Patch.

901

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

brand new back then.

902

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Then they

903

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: they had

904

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: had,

905

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: costumes

that were just the plastic mask,

906

:

uh, with a string on it and uh, a

plastic cape that you would wear.

907

:

Um, I

908

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I remember

909

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: that

I've seen of me in kindergarten,

910

:

I was a Cabbage patch kid.

911

:

by the

912

:

time I was, I remember

913

:

doing trick or treat, my brother

914

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

my brother and sister.

915

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: yeah.

916

:

And then mom kind of petered out.

917

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Yeah.

918

:

I guess if you with a big age gap like

that and you being the youngest, I.

919

:

Went as a clown several times.

920

:

I had a, a red nose and a

wild jumpsuit and a wig.

921

:

do you remember how, uh,

store-bought costumes used to be.

922

:

They used to be plastic.

923

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

Yeah, that's what I was talking

924

:

about, the the little ones.

925

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Yeah.

926

:

I used to be so jealous of those.

927

:

like of the kids who could afford those.

928

:

And I wanted one real bad.

929

:

And then one year, I managed

to get one and it was so hot.

930

:

I was miserable.

931

:

I ripped it off.

932

:

I was so fucking miserable.

933

:

And I was like, never again.

934

:

I mean, yeah.

935

:

I like, I think I liked it as a class

signifier, but oh God, that was brutal.

936

:

I.

937

:

And I had worn it to a haunted house, so

I was like running away from chainsaw,

938

:

wielding mad men just sweating my ass off.

939

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: I have a

940

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

I have a memory of

941

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

being taken to a haunted

942

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: being haunted.

943

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: when I was

old enough to be still carried, so like

944

:

five, six years old, and they tried to

945

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: They

tried to take, all I remember

946

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202:

this long stairwell up the

947

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: up.

948

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: the off,

off the side of this building, and

949

:

I got all the way to the top and was

like, Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.

950

:

And I refused to go in.

951

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: I was actually

thinking it would be fun to go to a

952

:

haunted like forest or something this year

there are a, I see flyers for them around.

953

:

and I have a feeling my friend Elise

would go with me her husband would not.

954

:

He's, uh, seven foot tall.

955

:

Um.

956

:

that sounds mean.

957

:

Uh, he just doesn't like scary things.

958

:

Right?

959

:

He's like, I'm, I'm good.

960

:

This isn't my thing.

961

:

we didn't do as many like, haunted

houses, but we did do a lot of,

962

:

um, decorating and going to look

at decorations for Halloween.

963

:

Halloween costumes when I was like

old enough to choose what I wanted

964

:

to be, especially like I remember,

uh, in college I got real lazy about

965

:

it . And so I would, just put on my

own clothes, but in a unconventional

966

:

combination and called a costume.

967

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: I'm a hobo.

968

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Yeah.

969

:

Right.

970

:

I'm a, a hippie.

971

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: Yeah.

972

:

I had several of those

kinds of lame costumes.

973

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: Yeah.

974

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: never

975

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

I just never had kind of,

976

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: you

needed to do that kind of thing.

977

:

I love going to a gay bar on Halloween.

978

:

That's like the most fun thing ever.

979

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203: yeah.

980

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: crowded,

but it's, it's really fun to go.

981

:

I haven't done that in

probably 15, 20 years now.

982

:

dash_9_10-23-2025_184203:

I am sure I did it.

983

:

I, I know I went to the bar complex,

um, on Halloween a couple times.

984

:

Uh, they would also do the Rocky Horror

Picture show there at the Kentucky

985

:

Theater on Halloween at midnight.

986

:

Uh, and I did that exactly once and

I was like, okay, that's enough.

987

:

but I loved a house party.

988

:

Like that was what we did in college.

989

:

The, and that was just the culture of

Richmond when I was there, was house

990

:

parties because they were trying to, like,

I got there in time for them to start,

991

:

you had to be 21 to get into the bars.

992

:

And um, like for my first year

anyway, they was still 18 and up

993

:

for everything so you could go

dancing and sneak drinks and things.

994

:

And then they transitioned over

to 21 and up for a lot of things.

995

:

They were trying to make it

not a party school anymore.

996

:

And so then we just switched

over to house parties.

997

:

And we'd get, like I had some friends

who were actually DJs and we would

998

:

get, you know, a $75 keg and Natty

Light and then it would be a party

999

:

beck_9_10-23-2025_194202: All right.

:

00:34:05,812 --> 00:34:06,862

I remember we got a keg one

:

00:34:06,907 --> 00:34:07,087

-:

:

00:34:07,102 --> 00:34:08,032

-:

:

00:34:08,391 --> 00:34:13,042

Um, my friend, he always liked to show

off his money and so I invited, it

:

00:34:13,072 --> 00:34:14,567

-:

invited my 23rd birthday.

:

00:34:14,567 --> 00:34:15,877

He's like, let's get a keg.

:

00:34:15,922 --> 00:34:16,132

-:

:

00:34:16,357 --> 00:34:18,217

-:

a keg and there were like 10 of us there.

:

00:34:18,252 --> 00:34:18,831

Oh my God.

:

00:34:18,891 --> 00:34:19,462

-:

:

00:34:19,661 --> 00:34:19,952

-:

:

00:34:20,242 --> 00:34:21,681

-:

shit-faced that night.

:

00:34:21,782 --> 00:34:22,632

-:

That night I ended

:

00:34:22,911 --> 00:34:25,462

-:

and I left my car unlocked and

:

00:34:25,462 --> 00:34:26,782

somebody broke into my car.

:

00:34:26,871 --> 00:34:29,962

And to get into my house, somebody

had to climb up the side and go

:

00:34:29,962 --> 00:34:30,982

in through the bathroom window.

:

00:34:30,982 --> 00:34:32,812

She scaled the side of my house and

:

00:34:32,822 --> 00:34:33,042

-:

:

00:34:33,081 --> 00:34:35,302

-:

second story window into my bathroom

:

00:34:35,391 --> 00:34:35,552

-:

:

00:34:35,661 --> 00:34:36,411

-:

:

00:34:37,222 --> 00:34:37,672

keys were

:

00:34:37,882 --> 00:34:38,172

-:

:

00:34:38,331 --> 00:34:39,442

-:

in somebody's floorboard.

:

00:34:39,877 --> 00:34:42,577

but that night, like a group

of people got me ready for bed.

:

00:34:42,577 --> 00:34:44,407

It was one of the drunkest times I've ever

:

00:34:44,607 --> 00:34:48,322

-:

either I was just a super lightweight

:

00:34:48,322 --> 00:34:49,527

this time or whatever, but my.

:

00:34:50,183 --> 00:34:53,422

When I was 19, I went to a Halloween

party and I'm pretty sure I got roof

:

00:34:53,422 --> 00:34:58,826

feeded, because it was a keg and

so it was solo cup and I had one

:

00:34:59,156 --> 00:35:01,856

beer and like couldn't walk home.

:

00:35:01,856 --> 00:35:04,556

I had to be like, carried

up into my dorm room.

:

00:35:04,646 --> 00:35:05,276

-:

:

00:35:05,276 --> 00:35:08,486

-:

everything and I was like, interesting.

:

00:35:08,636 --> 00:35:11,606

So I'm pretty sure

somebody, somebody got me.

:

00:35:11,656 --> 00:35:13,691

-:

we got laced weed one time.

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00:35:13,691 --> 00:35:14,261

-:

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00:35:14,261 --> 00:35:14,321

Yeah.

:

00:35:14,381 --> 00:35:14,741

-:

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00:35:14,741 --> 00:35:16,481

They had put it in embalming fluid.

:

00:35:16,481 --> 00:35:18,581

-:

it wasn't like PCP or something?

:

00:35:18,671 --> 00:35:19,631

-:

but it was still like,

:

00:35:19,631 --> 00:35:20,501

-:

:

00:35:20,531 --> 00:35:22,391

-:

like one joint and gave it away

:

00:35:22,481 --> 00:35:22,811

-:

:

00:35:23,051 --> 00:35:24,101

-:

after they smoked it, they were

:

00:35:24,101 --> 00:35:25,061

like, can you get any more of that?

:

00:35:25,061 --> 00:35:25,781

And I was like, Nope.

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00:35:25,951 --> 00:35:26,491

-:

:

00:35:26,491 --> 00:35:26,551

Yeah.

:

00:35:26,551 --> 00:35:27,271

-:

:

00:35:27,271 --> 00:35:28,021

girl was crazy.

:

00:35:28,021 --> 00:35:28,741

It was a friend of a

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00:35:29,116 --> 00:35:29,266

-:

:

00:35:29,521 --> 00:35:31,441

-:

normally never bought anything from.

:

00:35:31,594 --> 00:35:33,994

and so we never fooled with her again.

:

00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,170

-:

the, for the drinking holidays.

:

00:35:41,170 --> 00:35:44,950

Halloween is unique because you've

gotta consider your costume.

:

00:35:44,950 --> 00:35:47,020

So like, the costume has to be party.

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00:35:47,803 --> 00:35:47,883

-:

:

00:35:48,548 --> 00:35:49,658

-:

:

00:35:49,658 --> 00:35:51,728

Like, okay, how am I gonna go pee?

:

00:35:51,728 --> 00:35:56,528

Or what happens when, um, you

know, is my, like, am I gonna be

:

00:35:56,528 --> 00:35:58,808

tripping on my tail or something?

:

00:35:59,708 --> 00:36:03,848

Uh, and one year I made, I did not

make a good decision because again,

:

00:36:03,848 --> 00:36:06,578

a lazy costume this is another one.

:

00:36:06,878 --> 00:36:10,268

Oh, I cringe about this one a lot because

it's very culturally insensitive because

:

00:36:10,268 --> 00:36:16,448

I'm, I was dressed up like a fortune

teller, which is just like a shade off of.

:

00:36:16,898 --> 00:36:21,038

You know, Romani, um, if not

just dead on it, you know?

:

00:36:21,638 --> 00:36:27,748

. But I had just, um, taken a bunch

of, sarongs and saris and tied them

:

00:36:27,748 --> 00:36:31,518

around me, it was, it was difficult

to maneuver as a sober person with

:

00:36:31,518 --> 00:36:32,718

those things all tied around me.

:

00:36:32,808 --> 00:36:34,248

So by the end of the night,

they were mostly gone

:

00:36:34,608 --> 00:36:35,898

-:

just had a memory, and I don't

:

00:36:35,898 --> 00:36:37,368

know why this was suppressed.

:

00:36:37,638 --> 00:36:39,618

Um, at one point my mom was a shopper.

:

00:36:39,678 --> 00:36:40,968

We've talked about that before.

:

00:36:40,968 --> 00:36:42,228

And she owned the porn shop.

:

00:36:42,588 --> 00:36:45,078

Well, somebody gave her the

opportunity to buy out the local

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00:36:45,338 --> 00:36:45,828

-:

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00:36:46,758 --> 00:36:47,118

-:

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00:36:47,248 --> 00:36:48,153

-:

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00:36:48,198 --> 00:36:48,378

-:

:

00:36:48,608 --> 00:36:49,028

-:

:

00:36:49,458 --> 00:36:51,738

-:

also became a costume rental place.

:

00:36:51,738 --> 00:36:53,958

and so I had some interesting

ones in high school.

:

00:36:53,958 --> 00:36:55,218

One year I went as a genie.

:

00:36:55,578 --> 00:36:56,598

Um, one year

:

00:36:56,673 --> 00:36:57,033

-:

:

00:36:57,168 --> 00:36:58,428

-:

went as Fred and Barney.

:

00:36:59,088 --> 00:37:01,428

I have a friend named Lisa,

who's much shorter than me.

:

00:37:01,728 --> 00:37:05,418

and they were like full body costumes

with like, felt heads that went over.

:

00:37:05,718 --> 00:37:09,768

they were like full ass costumes

and we won the costume of the,

:

00:37:09,768 --> 00:37:12,978

of the year when we, like for

the pep rally we had that day.

:

00:37:13,128 --> 00:37:15,378

Lisa and I won, one year for Bingo.

:

00:37:15,423 --> 00:37:15,773

-:

:

00:37:15,858 --> 00:37:18,258

-:

chicken and a full chicken costume.

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00:37:18,495 --> 00:37:19,935

-:

You had an unfair advantage.

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00:37:19,935 --> 00:37:20,385

-:

:

00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:21,090

-:

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00:37:22,246 --> 00:37:22,486

-:

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00:37:22,531 --> 00:37:23,921

-:

lemme take whatever I wanted.

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00:37:23,921 --> 00:37:24,221

-:

:

00:37:24,366 --> 00:37:25,786

-:

so my friend dressed up an egg

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00:37:25,841 --> 00:37:26,411

-:

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00:37:26,576 --> 00:37:27,066

-:

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00:37:28,451 --> 00:37:29,471

-:

to try to win a contest.

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00:37:29,471 --> 00:37:31,091

We did not win, so.

:

00:37:31,091 --> 00:37:34,811

-:

in bg, um, Sabrina's, department would

:

00:37:34,811 --> 00:37:40,751

have a Halloween party that had a costume

contest and I was in it, a group contest.

:

00:37:40,751 --> 00:37:42,521

So each cohort would do a group.

:

00:37:43,046 --> 00:37:45,446

Um, costume, so like an ensemble.

:

00:37:45,896 --> 00:37:51,806

And so I was, I was in it one year when

we did Stranger Things, and I think about

:

00:37:51,806 --> 00:37:55,946

that a lot because I wasn't particularly,

I, I had a very easy character to do.

:

00:37:55,946 --> 00:37:57,476

I had the Dustin character.

:

00:37:58,046 --> 00:38:02,576

so that's just a sweatshirt and a

baseball hat, um, and like a curly wig.

:

00:38:02,726 --> 00:38:07,226

But the, the person who dressed up as

Barb, did you ever watch Stranger Things?

:

00:38:07,316 --> 00:38:07,676

-:

:

00:38:07,676 --> 00:38:08,456

-:

watched the first two scenes.

:

00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:10,930

you remember how everybody

was like, justice for Barb

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00:38:11,020 --> 00:38:11,680

-:

:

00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:13,510

-:

person who, who was our barb,

:

00:38:13,780 --> 00:38:16,000

they just fucking slate it.

:

00:38:16,390 --> 00:38:21,400

They like did the whole, I, I think it

was their hair, but it, they like sprayed

:

00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:25,480

it red so that, because to be like barbs,

they had the trapper keeper and they like

:

00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,810

even practiced like posture and standing

like, I was like, you're incredible.

:

00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:34,450

And the person who was Winona Rider's

character, she looked exactly like her.

:

00:38:34,450 --> 00:38:36,100

She carried, she wore the green jacket.

:

00:38:36,100 --> 00:38:37,600

She carried around a phone.

:

00:38:37,743 --> 00:38:39,093

It was dead on.

:

00:38:39,093 --> 00:38:41,883

You know how she like screams into

the phone in the first season,

:

00:38:41,898 --> 00:38:42,468

-:

:

00:38:42,513 --> 00:38:46,893

-:

son and somebody else was the lights.

:

00:38:46,923 --> 00:38:51,153

So somebody like, they, the wall

of the lights and it just looked,

:

00:38:51,153 --> 00:38:52,773

it was so clear what it was.

:

00:38:53,253 --> 00:38:56,763

And then, and I was like, oh

my God, we are killing it.

:

00:38:56,763 --> 00:39:02,020

Like we're gonna get this Then, uh,

I, I can't remember who the, the,

:

00:39:02,020 --> 00:39:06,920

there was another cohort they beat

us and they were, I mean, fine or

:

00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:08,723

whatever, but we were way better.

:

00:39:08,723 --> 00:39:10,613

And I was like, what the hell happened?

:

00:39:10,613 --> 00:39:12,173

And Sabrina was like, they didn't know.

:

00:39:12,233 --> 00:39:13,463

They haven't seen Stranger Things.

:

00:39:13,463 --> 00:39:14,663

They didn't know what we were doing.

:

00:39:16,223 --> 00:39:17,483

And I was like, we did this to you.

:

00:39:17,483 --> 00:39:19,523

This is the cultural studies influence.

:

00:39:23,243 --> 00:39:25,223

Like, it's gonna go over, it is

gonna be great, but it's gonna

:

00:39:25,223 --> 00:39:26,993

go over 90% of people's heads.

:

00:39:27,953 --> 00:39:29,003

-:

Isn't that mostly what we do?

:

00:39:29,003 --> 00:39:29,243

You,

:

00:39:29,633 --> 00:39:30,083

-:

:

00:39:30,323 --> 00:39:31,673

Because it had just come out.

:

00:39:31,673 --> 00:39:33,443

And so we were like,

this is gonna be huge.

:

00:39:33,638 --> 00:39:34,088

-:

:

00:39:34,368 --> 00:39:35,508

-:

did you ever finish wayward?

:

00:39:35,508 --> 00:39:36,693

-:

:

00:39:36,999 --> 00:39:38,229

-:

:

00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:39,970

Boots yesterday.

:

00:39:39,970 --> 00:39:42,850

I've been like, over the past two

days, I like binged the whole thing.

:

00:39:42,850 --> 00:39:47,440

It's, it's another Netflix one it's based

on a book called The Pink Marine, and

:

00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,320

it's a gay person who joins the Marines.

:

00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:50,700

-:

:

00:39:50,820 --> 00:39:51,260

anywhere good?

:

00:39:51,625 --> 00:39:53,305

-:

I watched it, the whole thing.

:

00:39:53,745 --> 00:39:57,585

I don't know what it was trying to do,

you know, throughout the whole thing

:

00:39:57,585 --> 00:40:01,485

there's this tension about kind of loving

something that doesn't love you back.

:

00:40:01,485 --> 00:40:05,175

Like he, he grows, he joins the Marines

kind of on a whim because his friend

:

00:40:05,175 --> 00:40:06,855

invites him to join in the buddy system.

:

00:40:06,855 --> 00:40:10,935

They had all these like recruitment

tactics in the, in the set in:

:

00:40:11,475 --> 00:40:13,365

So still very much not allowed to be gay.

:

00:40:13,670 --> 00:40:17,330

And it's throughout the whole thing,

it's doing this tension of like, do I

:

00:40:17,330 --> 00:40:20,450

be myself or do I stay in the closet?

:

00:40:20,510 --> 00:40:21,140

And.

:

00:40:21,500 --> 00:40:24,560

You know, become a Marine

and it's never answered.

:

00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:25,640

It's never resolved.

:

00:40:25,730 --> 00:40:28,880

At the end, it becomes, there's

like this whole other thing about

:

00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:33,620

whether he's of age or not, because

his mom is a pathological liar and

:

00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:39,020

the question of whether he ever

comes out or not is just dropped.

:

00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:44,621

And then at the end of it, the, first Iraq

war starts . I mean, it was fine until

:

00:40:44,651 --> 00:40:47,171

it just ended and nothing was resolved.

:

00:40:47,321 --> 00:40:47,861

-:

:

00:40:47,946 --> 00:40:48,956

-:

That would be frustrating.

:

00:40:48,956 --> 00:40:52,771

But it's based on a memoir

and so can be difficult.

:

00:40:53,296 --> 00:40:55,846

You know how I posted, that I

hadn't seen Twilight yet, but

:

00:40:55,846 --> 00:40:56,866

I was thinking about doing it.

:

00:40:56,866 --> 00:40:57,196

-:

:

00:40:57,196 --> 00:40:58,426

Have you watched it yet?

:

00:40:58,636 --> 00:41:00,526

-:

and I watched the first one.

:

00:41:00,631 --> 00:41:00,751

I.

:

00:41:00,751 --> 00:41:02,881

The other night, and man,

:

00:41:03,745 --> 00:41:04,015

-:

:

00:41:04,015 --> 00:41:05,365

know what you were missing, did you?

:

00:41:05,397 --> 00:41:08,025

-:

you know, it's so, it was so in the

:

00:41:08,025 --> 00:41:12,945

zeitgeist and there were clips of it

everywhere and I'd read the first book.

:

00:41:13,005 --> 00:41:15,135

and so I just kind of

felt like I had seen it.

:

00:41:15,135 --> 00:41:19,754

But no, man, it hits different, like

watching it beginning to end like the

:

00:41:19,754 --> 00:41:25,544

decisions they made with the editing,

with the soundtrack, with the way

:

00:41:25,544 --> 00:41:26,894

that they like painted everybody.

:

00:41:26,894 --> 00:41:28,394

These people are corpses.

:

00:41:28,544 --> 00:41:31,454

I don't understand, like why

does nobody put it together?

:

00:41:31,724 --> 00:41:33,104

Carlisle, he's white.

:

00:41:33,259 --> 00:41:33,609

-:

:

00:41:33,614 --> 00:41:35,054

-:

looks like he's rotting.

:

00:41:35,316 --> 00:41:40,266

and then, the, him running really

fast, just fucking slayed me, dude.

:

00:41:40,266 --> 00:41:42,006

I was not ready for that one.

:

00:41:43,236 --> 00:41:44,076

-:

Does he sparkle in the

:

00:41:44,076 --> 00:41:44,556

first one.

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00:41:45,066 --> 00:41:45,486

-:

:

00:41:45,696 --> 00:41:45,936

Yeah.

:

00:41:45,936 --> 00:41:50,406

This, and I knew about the sparkling,

and I had seen like gif of it and

:

00:41:50,636 --> 00:41:52,556

I still don't fully understand it.

:

00:41:52,556 --> 00:41:55,196

you know, like wouldn't, there's

no way that secret would've been

:

00:41:55,196 --> 00:42:00,326

kept, if vampires sparkle, that

would firmly be a part of the lo of

:

00:42:00,326 --> 00:42:02,606

vampires in the, in the universe.

:

00:42:03,192 --> 00:42:08,112

. But yeah, him, him running around with

her on his back, running up trees, like

:

00:42:08,262 --> 00:42:12,582

he wasn't, can he, like, he's somewhere

between flying and like superpowers

:

00:42:12,582 --> 00:42:15,582

and super strength because I was like,

well that's, he's not holding onto it.

:

00:42:15,582 --> 00:42:17,232

He's literally just running up this tree.

:

00:42:17,565 --> 00:42:18,525

so yeah, it was fun.

:

00:42:18,525 --> 00:42:19,575

It was an experience.

:

00:42:24,702 --> 00:42:29,122

And, so another way that I was familiar

with it without having seen it, was

:

00:42:29,122 --> 00:42:34,364

through that TikTok account of the

person who, does an impression of Jasper.

:

00:42:34,777 --> 00:42:36,067

Have you seen this person on TikTok?

:

00:42:36,282 --> 00:42:36,502

-:

:

00:42:38,167 --> 00:42:40,237

-:

just this expression he makes

:

00:42:40,237 --> 00:42:43,057

throughout the entire movie that looks

like he's like trying not to fart.

:

00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:49,740

and his, his red eyes, they all have

red, red, brown eyes and then his

:

00:42:49,740 --> 00:42:54,360

like frosted tip hair and pale face

and it, it was just every time he was

:

00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,730

on screen, all I could do was laugh.

:

00:42:57,045 --> 00:42:57,795

-:

Did you ever watch the

:

00:42:57,855 --> 00:42:58,035

-:

:

00:42:58,125 --> 00:42:58,995

-:

episode where he talks

:

00:42:59,030 --> 00:42:59,565

-:

:

00:43:00,225 --> 00:43:00,585

-:

:

00:43:00,585 --> 00:43:01,005

-:

:

00:43:04,345 --> 00:43:04,355

that.

:

00:43:04,355 --> 00:43:05,615

Maybe that's what they were doing.

:

00:43:05,675 --> 00:43:08,435

I don't know because I asked

Sabrina 'cause I was like, why

:

00:43:08,435 --> 00:43:10,235

is everybody making this face?

:

00:43:10,235 --> 00:43:12,035

Like they're about to sneeze?

:

00:43:13,565 --> 00:43:14,975

Because it was all of 'em.,

:

00:43:14,975 --> 00:43:19,145

It was, it was Edward and Bella and

Carlisle She said that she thought it

:

00:43:19,145 --> 00:43:25,205

was, they were trying to, portray like,

barely restrained desire or something.

:

00:43:25,255 --> 00:43:25,765

So yeah.

:

00:43:25,915 --> 00:43:28,465

Next up is I, I guess

it's called New Moon.

:

00:43:28,876 --> 00:43:30,676

and Sabrina says it's even angst here.

:

00:43:30,856 --> 00:43:32,026

So I'm excited for that.

:

00:43:32,491 --> 00:43:32,971

-:

:

00:43:34,561 --> 00:43:34,771

I

:

00:43:34,901 --> 00:43:35,261

-:

:

00:43:35,281 --> 00:43:36,841

-:

niece, uh, so I read

:

00:43:36,911 --> 00:43:37,911

-:

I read all the t,

:

00:43:37,951 --> 00:43:38,281

-:

:

00:43:38,391 --> 00:43:39,951

-:

all the Harry Potter books read,

:

00:43:40,771 --> 00:43:43,711

-:

of those with her over the years, and

:

00:43:43,971 --> 00:43:45,351

-:

and I enjoyed the T.

:

00:43:45,391 --> 00:43:46,481

-:

but I mean, they were like.

:

00:43:47,311 --> 00:43:49,021

Candy to, you know what I mean?

:

00:43:49,591 --> 00:43:49,791

-:

:

00:43:50,131 --> 00:43:52,809

-:

sugary sweet and culturey.

:

00:43:52,809 --> 00:43:53,099

-:

:

00:43:53,264 --> 00:43:56,054

I think you had to be It's demographic.

:

00:43:56,538 --> 00:43:58,304

you know what Sabrina was

saying was that she was.

:

00:43:58,828 --> 00:43:59,788

15, 16.

:

00:44:00,208 --> 00:44:03,898

And so it cut straight into the

brain, you know, like hit exactly

:

00:44:03,898 --> 00:44:07,408

wavelength and I would've been 27.

:

00:44:08,663 --> 00:44:10,943

but I did read the first one

and I was like, yeah, okay.

:

00:44:10,943 --> 00:44:14,573

I mean, I, I remember like not hating

it, but also not really getting it.

:

00:44:14,963 --> 00:44:19,553

And, um, I guess I just

decided not to read anymore.

:

00:44:20,282 --> 00:44:23,492

I remember the, Hunger Games

and the Harry Potters of course,

:

00:44:23,492 --> 00:44:26,132

and then the, the Percy Jacksons

:

00:44:26,192 --> 00:44:27,182

-:

I didn't read those

:

00:44:27,332 --> 00:44:29,042

-:

he loves mythology a lot.

:

00:44:29,042 --> 00:44:32,402

Rick Roan, the guy who wrote, he

brought, he, he wrote like Percy Jackson.

:

00:44:32,402 --> 00:44:35,672

There's another one, Percy

Jackson is Greek mythology.

:

00:44:35,672 --> 00:44:39,182

There's another one whose name

I'm blanking on, that's Roman.

:

00:44:39,182 --> 00:44:40,682

And there's another one that's Egyptian.

:

00:44:41,333 --> 00:44:46,073

And he does this thing, which is

like all writers know you don't do.

:

00:44:46,373 --> 00:44:48,563

He writes in the present tense.

:

00:44:48,563 --> 00:44:52,493

and so it's not possible for any

of the characters to be in danger.

:

00:44:52,823 --> 00:44:56,633

The, the, the Egyptian one

in particular, it's dictated.

:

00:44:56,903 --> 00:45:00,563

So it's, these characters have dictated

everything that happened to them.

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00:45:00,563 --> 00:45:01,913

And it's like, okay, well they survived.

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I guess

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made it back to tell the story.

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so that annoyed me.

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Like his, he's just not as good

a writer as, What's her name?

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Who wrote the Hunger Games?

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I think Suzanne Collins is actually

a pretty good, she's a decent writer.

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the last book that came out, the

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one that the movie's based on.

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they no that, because they came out

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with a of, of Bards and Songbirds.

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I did not read it.

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Yeah, I read that one too.

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I figured I read the other

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I'm just not a reader anymore, I guess.

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maybe one day

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my brain needed a break, and

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I read a little bit for fun.

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So

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needed a break from the news

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sponsor is actually on theme, so

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let's hear from them while we're here.

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This week's episode of Queernecks is

sponsored by DIY Halloween costumes,

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Halloween costumes made entirely from

yard sale fines, quilting scraps,

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um, wheel power, some glitter glue,

because even if there was a spirit

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Halloween around these parts, Who

would spend 69, 9 9 on a culturally

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insensitive caricature from a box?

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When you can make your own with

just a little creativity and a lot

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of pre-planning, you'll leave the

neighbor's speechless when you mount

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their porch with balloon stuffed down

the front of your cow print vest,

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straw blonde wig under a ragged felt

hat proclaiming to be Dolly Parton.

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The items that make up your look

weren't purchased in a store with

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their current use in mind, but you

like to think of it as upcycling.

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They didn't come in a plastic

bag with their characterization

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printed on the label.

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You are free to make the

items into anything you want.

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A little lace, a little desperation, and

a lot of glitter holding it all together.

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You're not wearing a

costume but a character.

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You're Barbie, but the year the creek

reached the church steps or zombie

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apocalypse cowboy, you don't need to

label costume when you are the concept.

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Sexy ghost.

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How about Appalachian spectral realness?

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Yard sale.

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Halloween costumes don't tear

like they're plastic, single

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use store-bought counterparts.

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Next year, the same three items can

be rearranged into something new

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and after trick or treatment's done,

and you dutifully wait while mommy

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checks your Tootsie rolls for razor

blades, you'll already be planning

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next year's fantasy thinking.

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How lucky your dreary holler is

to have such creative genius in

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their midst, your welcome world.

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homemade Halloween costumes

because queer creativity and rural

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resourcefulness are the same muscle.

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Did you have to, did you have to

check your candy for razor plates?

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mom was not paranoid whatsoever.

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man, it took me a long time to

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realize how fucking crazy that was.

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Yeah,

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Some

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Who's got X-ray candy money?

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did you take like the

jack-o-lantern or were you a

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Pillowcase person?

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Pillowcase, yeah.

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Pillowcase all the way.

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thing like fill it up, wide it up and

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throw it over your shoulder like a

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Does it wobble?

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Two and fro?

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Can you tie it in a knot?

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Can you

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Can you tie it in a bow

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Throw it over your shoulder like a

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like continental soldier?

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turn to sing this week.

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Listeners.

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was like we would drive to trick or treat.

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Somebody would like drive us to

the street and we'd walk down it.

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I remember that for some years.

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And then once I got old

enough, I just had to walk.

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Everybody

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go, did you, did you go to the good

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the big candy bars?

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There were no good

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were in our trailer park and people,

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we would go down, we would, you know,

go down the line in the trailer park.

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And then there was the street that went

the rest of the way down to the street

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that there were two, red lights, Angelico.

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and we lived down from one of them

and we would go to other streets,

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but not because they had particularly

good candy, but some people decorated

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a little more fierce than others.

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So like.

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Especially the older, the people that

actually lived on the mountainside,

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they would like, I think we've talked

about this before, they would go

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all out on decorations, up in the

hills, in the hollers and stuff.

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So we wouldn't go for candy and

sometimes they wouldn't even

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be out there giving out candy.

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It'd just be like, you here,

we made you this amazing view.

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somewhere else for you Snickers bar.

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all of our money on this.

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And apparently that

was fine with everyone.

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Pennies.

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They just had buckets of

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up, they'd give you a couple pennies.

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Is that a superstition?

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That was

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was just one of our neighbors.

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I mean, I remember like having candy

that I, I would be hoping for, you

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know, like go to a house and it'd be

like, they would give us a, I'm trying

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to think of some sort of candy, like a,

a sucker, you know, like a dot sucker.

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And I didn't want those.

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and so sometimes I'd be

like, Aw, this sucks.

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And I would try to trick the other

kids into giving me their good K.

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job as the oldest, uh, child.

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you'd come home and you'd turn up

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all your sack and there's a mountain

of candy in the floor and you're

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immediately told you can't eat it all.

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You can have two pieces tonight.

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What

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he tells the, the parents tell the

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kids he's, they've eaten their candy.

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the day after trick or treat.

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The kids wake up and they go

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parents are like, well, we ate

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Oh my God.

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tantrums they throw are hilarious.

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That's so mean.

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Jimmy Kimmel does stuff like that, but

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it doesn't hurt the kid in any way.

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You know what I

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They, they finally tell 'em,

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you know, we didn't eat it.

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Here it is, or whatever.

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Um, but the, the, the way

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the kids freak out is, well, you

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know, they worked hard for that shit.

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They, you can dressed up like somebody

else and walked around all night.

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Debase themselves.

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and you wanna watch something

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a good one to, to pull up.

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Do you wanna give us a noun

of Appalachian interest?

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I have a special one for

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Appalachians might not always agree

on how to pronounce Appalachia

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instruments belong in church, but

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just about every holler adjacent

soul under 40 agrees on this little

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bubby child is good for the spirit.

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The artist is Kenneth

Pergram, a Gen Z creator from

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as a family flavored web comic turned

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into an ensemble that feels like home.

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Oddly relatable.

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A little sentimental.

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Sentimental, and

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title character comes from

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Red hair, braided

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clogging championships under his belt.

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You'll also

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Sweet as a church lady with a taste for

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and Papa's Zenith

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once inspired the classic.

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If God didn't want us to eat

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wouldn't have give us dynamite to

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The drawings hit like a crazy quilt of

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family reunion chatter.

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blue-haired church Lady whispers.

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Usually a single

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There's a squat team with a

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because them chips meant so much and

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the old timer of the cap that reads in

backer, we trust that's tobacco for the

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uninitiated complaining that the TV news

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captured him like

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What

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makes little child special is how

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The everyday weird, the

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shows that the beauty of a place

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can live in the small stuff.

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Storm talk, porch talk

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and jokes only tell on own.

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bubby child is Appalachian through and

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through and internet ready to boot.

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of Appalachian interest

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criter object or concept mailbag.

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you would like us to feature it.

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Yeah, please let us know.

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Oh God, that's a good pull.

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Uh, when I do the newsletter,

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I'll make sure.

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little bubby child cartoons.

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And, and obviously listeners, if you

don't know about Little Bubby Child Go,

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that.

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related to the Dale Sibbles page?

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You know, Dale Sibbles, he's

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artist, but the other, I think

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Okay because I see them interacting

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a lot online and I'm like, okay,

these are either the same person

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or they're just very good friends.

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and I certainly see my mamaw in his mamaw.

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it kind of reminds me of is one of the

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few times I ever felt like I actually

saw something that I vibed with as an

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Appalachian in my flavor of it, I guess,

because obviously Appalachia's, not

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a monolith was when I saw that show.

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Squid Billies.

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Did you ever see that show?

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It, it was on Adult Swim

in the two thousands.

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I think it was a guy named Unknown

Henson, who's from Knoxville, I believe,

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from the Cumberland Gap area voiced.

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And they're squids.

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They're squids, but they live above

ground and they live in, in a holler.

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And the main squid's name is Early Kyler.

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And he,

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um, man, you got, you

gotta watch Squid Billies.

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It is.

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It's too good.

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And he's a musician, but he has

a very, like, he does this voice

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for early, that is you, you

won't be able to stop listening

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and he does stuff like cut up a boat.

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He cuts a boat in half so he

can put a truck inside it and he

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calls it his truck, boat truck.

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Uh, or I guess it'd be

the other way around.

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He cut the truck in half and put a

boat in the middle, it's ridiculous.

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But everything he does, I'm like,

God, that's So, I've of course

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never seen somebody do that in real

life, but I can totally imagine it.

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A hundred percent.

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little Bubby child makes me

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think of squid Billies a lot.

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He makes me think of my cousins.

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I do love me some little bubby child.

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I just thought he would be a good

one to, because I was hoping to

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in, to introduce him to some more,

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listeners because his work

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needs to be spread far and wide,

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I've got a, Sabrina got me for my

birthday, the certified hos cat hat.

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It's a trucker hat and it's got certified

hos cat airbrushed on the top of it.

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It's one of my prize possessions,

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That's, that's really the,

the detail that does it,

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Do you remember

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you could buy those at the

fair and stuff like that?

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You could sit down and they'd

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do it in front of you there.

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Do you remember puff paint shirts?

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Yeah.

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Oh man.

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Let's bring those back.

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I don't see right now if

you can, you get puff paint.

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The hyper color.

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I loved hyper color shirts too.

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Do you remember those?

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They

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You wore 'em.

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. Uh, yeah, there is still puff paint.

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They got the old school stuff at Walmart.

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Ooh, let's make us some queer neck shirts.

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Get the hot pink paint.

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Well,

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I think by the time

this episode comes out.

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No, it won't be Halloween yet.

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It's gonna come out on the

27th, but I guess this will

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be our pre Halloween episode.

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So by, by the time you hear this

y'all, it'll be time to get ready

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for that Halloween live show.

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we're making some games and we're

gonna just hang out and be dorks in our

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costumes and we're gonna watch a movie.

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So make sure to subscribe to the YouTube.

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That's where we'll be.

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I'll put that link in

the, in the show notes.

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Beck will put it in the newsletter.

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make sure to get you what you need to get

there and we'll just hang out and have

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a good time you, if it's your pre-game.

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Awesome.

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We'll be glad that you spent it with us.

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And if it's all you do for

Halloween, you did great.

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least you're doing something.

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wants to make some Rice Krispy treats

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and send them to me, that's okay too.

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'cause what's Halloween

without Rice Krispy treats?

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Is that your go-to?

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Yeah, I love a Rice Krispy treat.

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Um, also love some puppy chow.

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that's Shannon's one of her favorites.

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let's make some treats for show and tell.

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to make myself do more fun things.

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well, thanks to the listeners.

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we, would, uh, be having a lot less

fun doing this if it wasn't for

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y'all being so participatory and

commenting and interacting with us

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online and stuff, and just kind of

make it, make it all the more special.

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So thanks for being here every week.

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And, um, tell a friend if you

haven't yet, rate us on iTunes

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or, or wherever you listen.

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give us a five star rating or write

a review that helps people find us.

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what else?

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Subscribe to the newsletter so you can

see what Beck puts together every week.

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And we'll see you on Halloween.

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first time I'm up in like, yeah.

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last year I did dress up as a redneck

wizard, which was just, I put on

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coveralls and a robe I already had

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and carried around a

slingshot instead of a wand.

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so I'll do better this year.

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probably still involve overall, so

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Well that's fine.

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Be comfortable.

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see you on Halloween and every Monday

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after that, say hi to your mom and them.

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Bye.

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