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Speaker 1: Podcast starts now. Hello everyone, UM from c to Shining

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Speaker 1: Sea wherever those seas, maybe you are listening to Stradia

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Speaker 1: lab Um, the world's um fastest growing podcast. It's growing

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Speaker 1: so fast that it's unsustainable, to be honest, and we

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Speaker 1: are hiring community Uh what's the word moderators? Community moderators

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Speaker 1: you know, emerging economies, emerging territories. It is highly unethical

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Speaker 1: and we apologize, but ultimately we can't control how quickly

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Speaker 1: our podcast is growing. Yeah, it's grown so large, and

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Speaker 1: the fan community just you know, the way they connect

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Speaker 1: and they talk to each other. It was awesome at

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Speaker 1: first until the misinformation started. Of course, there's misinformation, there's negativity.

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Speaker 1: It is I would say it has, I would say

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Speaker 1: made a hard right turn, and I would say that

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Speaker 1: it is a branch of the Republican Party in a

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Speaker 1: way that we don't indoors. But so, but we're not

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Speaker 1: gonna say no to listeners. No, we're not gonna sen

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Speaker 1: no listeners. And it's not our fault. We live in

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Speaker 1: a capitalist society and if our podcast isn't constantly growing,

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Speaker 1: then we'll get our literal homes taken away from us,

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Speaker 1: which are big, by the way, and if you have

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Speaker 1: a problem with living in a capital society, taking it

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Speaker 1: up with economists because we didn't invent that. We didn't

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Speaker 1: invent that. I was born this way, baby, Um so um, George,

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Speaker 1: how's it going? Honestly? So bad? You have no idea? Really?

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Speaker 1: Are you cranky? I know it's not that I'm cranky.

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Speaker 1: I am. I am still recovering from food poisoning that

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Speaker 1: I got on Monday night. Oh no, And I hate

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Speaker 1: being I sort of made a pretty game changing realization recently,

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Speaker 1: which is that I was doing another podcast and the host,

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Speaker 1: who is someone we love on this podcast we've had

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Speaker 1: on before, asked me, do you consider yourself a sickly person?

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Speaker 1: And my instinct was to, of course deny that and be,

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Speaker 1: like me sickly, I'm I'm one of the strongest men

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Speaker 1: where it is and has ever lived, actually, And then

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Speaker 1: I sort of thought about it and tried to use

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Speaker 1: I guess I am someone who gets sick more than

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Speaker 1: the average person. And making that realization about myself for

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Speaker 1: the first time ever in my thirties has been kind

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Speaker 1: of a game changer, like the fact that I had

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Speaker 1: Oh no, it's like I had I got food poison

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Speaker 1: on Monday night. I had a terrible twenty four hours.

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Speaker 1: I don't I you wouldn't want to know the details, mama,

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Speaker 1: but let's just say it was not fit for television.

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Speaker 1: And then after that, it's been truly like three days

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Speaker 1: of just I'm still unable to eat normally. I'm still

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Speaker 1: exhausted every time I get up. I'm like, okay, this

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Speaker 1: was like one meal. Okay. Also, this is crazy. Is

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Speaker 1: there a trend of food poisoning right now? I feel

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Speaker 1: like everyone has food poisoning, Like Richard Perez had food

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Speaker 1: poisoning this week too, and like that's a trend. Watch

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Speaker 1: if you and Richard had it. It's going through the

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Speaker 1: gay community. It's an LGBTQ plus trend. Yeah, soon everyone's

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Speaker 1: going to be having food poisoning. That's how this start's

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Speaker 1: going to start getting you know how, you know, through

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Speaker 1: getting food poisoning, and you'll know you're not a good

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Speaker 1: alley if you don't have. My question is is there

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Speaker 1: is giving them food poisoning? Is that where you got it?

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Speaker 1: did get it from cock? Oh okay, it was undercooked. Ladies.

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Speaker 1: Don't let ladies make sure to order your cock well done, ye, Ladies,

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Speaker 1: to consume some call um. Wow. So yeah, that's how

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Speaker 1: I've been. How are you? Oh, I'm fine. I was today.

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Speaker 1: My day was absolutely rocked and wrecked because I went

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Speaker 1: like and then I, as I was doing this, somebody

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Speaker 1: funny because that what we're talking about almost harkens back

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Speaker 1: creating more chaos in the world. And I actually had

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Speaker 1: that experience recently with I'm sorry to say, Domino's pizza.

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Speaker 1: Oh so, I I haven't ordered Domino's pizza since I

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Speaker 1: then I thought, I'm gonna check which branch of Dominos

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Speaker 1: of America. Wow. I mean, we're really on the edge.

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Speaker 1: thank you. Um, well, I'm sorry you had food poisoning. Um,

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Speaker 1: It's like you're saying you're a petty and that's what

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Speaker 1: a wealthy woman. Well, I mean I wish I had

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Speaker 1: that outlook Listen, I wish I had yours. Well, be

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Speaker 1: careful and that's why we make a perfect team. It

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Speaker 1: seems like we're about to Freaky Friday ourselves or something.

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Speaker 1: Um And speaking of the opposite of freaky, which is

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Speaker 1: and it is none other than our friend joy L. Johnson. Hello, gentlemen, good,

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Speaker 1: how are you jail? I got sort of I got

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Speaker 1: in the middle of saying your name. I know, of

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Speaker 1: course professional you go by Joel and Nicole Johnson. And

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Speaker 1: said that. So I apologize, and you know, open to

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Speaker 1: already on the way, and I just I am the

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Speaker 1: three names in the credits. You know, it really is.

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Speaker 1: It's such a Hollywood power move to decide to do

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Speaker 1: is joy L Johnson? Is Joel Nicole Johnson? And I

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Speaker 1: do is abortion work. So yeah, we've been doing all

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Speaker 1: the traveling. Actually, the day row fell, I was on

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Speaker 1: a plane to West Virginia to perform at their clinics

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Speaker 1: first gala in fifteen years and it was the day

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Speaker 1: Row fell. And it was literally like I was doing

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Speaker 1: stand up at a funeral because everyone was just crying.

427
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Speaker 1: And then they were like, coming to the stage is

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Speaker 1: Joel And I was like, hey, guys, Everyone's said, alright,

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Speaker 1: how did you handle that? Oh? I handled it like

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Speaker 1: a professional because I was like, there's nothing. We can't

431
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Speaker 1: only go up, we can only go up. Everybody said,

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Speaker 1: so let's go up. And my favorite moment was that

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Speaker 1: I have a joke about like Antis telling me what

434
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Speaker 1: if you aborted you know, Lebron James. And then I'm whenever,

435
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Speaker 1: wherever I am, I'll be like, what if I aborted

436
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Speaker 1: insert person? And since I was in West Virginia, I

437
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Speaker 1: was like, what if I aborted Joe Mansion? And the

438
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Speaker 1: whole crowd went crazy, and the one woman who used

439
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Speaker 1: to work for Joe Mansion walked out of the room

440
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Speaker 1: and I was like, yes, there was a woman who

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Speaker 1: used to work for Joe Mansion at the Pro Choice like, yes,

442
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Speaker 1: because they are fake democrats. Yes, well makes sense, that

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Speaker 1: makes sense. Wow, well you are braver than the Marines

444
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Speaker 1: and yeah, and I have saying nothing so straight culture

445
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Speaker 1: than restricting abortion access. And so the fact that you're

446
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Speaker 1: on the front lines means that you are aligned with

447
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Speaker 1: this podcast absolutely yes, straight culture indeed, and just intimidating

448
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Speaker 1: people into having babies that they don't want. No, thank you.

449
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Speaker 1: It really is the most forceful, violent version of streat culture. Yes, yes, yes,

450
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Speaker 1: it's the part we don't want. So yes, well, I

451
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Speaker 1: mean this could be an insane turn. But should we

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Speaker 1: do our first segment? Oh my God, yeah, yeah, this

453
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Speaker 1: is the way that this will give our listeners whiplash

454
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Speaker 1: and even our side. You know, it's there are very

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Speaker 1: few times on this pod where I'm like, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm sort of like, oh, I wish we were doing

457
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Speaker 1: like a serious interview because I actually want to learn

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Speaker 1: more about what we're talking about, But sadly that's not

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Speaker 1: what they pay us for being paid a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: I love that for you. Yeah. Um. And and when

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Speaker 1: I say they pay us, I mean the Mansion campaign,

462
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Speaker 1: So you know, there's obviously a conflict of interest. They

463
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Speaker 1: We were both getting a lot of textmosges while we

464
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Speaker 1: were talking that we're like, change the subject, change the subject, pivot, pivot, pivot.

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Speaker 1: I kept hitting, declined to cline the climb, but he

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Speaker 1: just keeps calling, so joyl. Our first segment is called

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Speaker 1: straight Shooters, and in this segment, we gauge your familiarity

468
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Speaker 1: with and complicity and straight culture by asking you a

469
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Speaker 1: series of rapid fire simple questions where you have to

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Speaker 1: pick this thing or this other thing, and it makes

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Speaker 1: no sense. There's no rhyme or reason for what we're asking.

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Speaker 1: And the one rule is you can't ask any follow

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Speaker 1: up questions, do you copy, copy, copy, Sam, take it away? Okay, Joel,

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Speaker 1: the Cold War or a hot plate? Hot plate? Okay, Joelle.

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Speaker 1: Everyone's a critic, or everybody loves Raymond. Everyone's a critic.

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Speaker 1: I'm a critical as jagas Okay, being in the Philharmonic,

477
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Speaker 1: being philanthropic, or being phil of the future Philharmonic. I

478
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Speaker 1: was a marching band nerds, played flute and piano, so

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Speaker 1: if I could be of the Philharmonic, that would be amazing, okay,

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Speaker 1: joy l powering from pain or summering in Spain. Well,

481
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Speaker 1: I was just cowering from pain from my surgery. I

482
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Speaker 1: caught a U T I after right terrible times, so

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go for the other one. Yeah, okay, Yeah,

484
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Speaker 1: I mean we could all use a summer in Spain,

485
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Speaker 1: of course. Hello, Okay. Stocks and bonds or subs and doms.

486
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Speaker 1: I don't think I'm gonna go stocks and bonds. I

487
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Speaker 1: gotta go get into my white man villain ever and

488
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Speaker 1: give me some stocks and bonds. Okay. Watching Magic Mike's

489
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Speaker 1: Last Dance or playing Magic the Gathering with Lance bass Um,

490
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Speaker 1: I don't like meals strip with Yeah, and that's actually

491
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Speaker 1: a good enough answer. Yeah, that's my answer. Okay, being

492
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Speaker 1: on the no fly list or having no woman, no

493
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Speaker 1: cry on the playlist, Oh gosh, obviously no woman. I

494
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 1: got places to be. I mean, no kids team, no kids,

495
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Speaker 1: gotta fly around the world. Okay, drel the racial politics

496
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Speaker 1: of Saved the Last Dance or the gender politics of

497
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Speaker 1: the new clothing line from tan France, Um teap tan

498
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Speaker 1: France all the way. But I hate all the movies

499
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Speaker 1: that was like, oh, that white girl could dance, No,

500
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Speaker 1: she came. It's so funny because I was like, um,

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Speaker 1: the only reason that was on my mind because I

502
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Speaker 1: was trying to work out another one where I was

503
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Speaker 1: like I was trying to do Harry Styles winning a

504
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Speaker 1: Grammy or Julia Styles and then I was like trying

505
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Speaker 1: to find the end of that and I just couldn't.

506
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Speaker 1: So then I got into the google hole of like

507
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Speaker 1: Julia Styles blah blah, and then I remember to Save

508
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Speaker 1: the Last Dance, which was such a formative. Maybe this

509
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Speaker 1: is just me, but like for people our age, I

510
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Speaker 1: feel like it's very formative. Am I wrong? No? When

511
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Speaker 1: it came out, it was like huge. It was like

512
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Speaker 1: everyone was like, no, you gotta check out this movie,

513
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Speaker 1: Like and I don't know why, and like scenes of

514
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Speaker 1: it are burned in my mind, like when who is it?

515
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Speaker 1: Is it Carry? Like when she's wearing everyone again, just

516
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Speaker 1: bring a card again and then Carry Washington takes the

517
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Speaker 1: card again and then puts it on Julius styles his

518
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Speaker 1: head as a rap and we're like problem solved. Yes,

519
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Speaker 1: I would just like to speak for the old black

520
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Speaker 1: delegation that was not formative, right, I know? And that

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Speaker 1: is honestly fair. And I don't even mean formative in

522
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Speaker 1: like a positive I guess formative sounds like it was.

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Speaker 1: I don't even mean format positive way, just like sort

524
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Speaker 1: of made an impression, yeah, because I feel like for

525
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Speaker 1: people who didn't like it, it it also made an impression.

526
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Speaker 1: And I like, wasn't it sort of like a thing

527
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Speaker 1: people made fun of? Two? Oh yeah, I still don't

528
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Speaker 1: know that black dude's name. I know he sort of

529
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Speaker 1: didn't do much after. I hope he's doing. I'm sure

530
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Speaker 1: he's fine. Who is doing all right? Kara Washington? And

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Speaker 1: you know, you know, actually the most thankless role in

532
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Speaker 1: that film is Karrie Washington, which is it's really nice

533
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Speaker 1: that she's the one not doing better than all of them.

534
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Speaker 1: Also the styles we have to talk about. How has

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Speaker 1: she ended up in every single spam ad. It was

536
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Speaker 1: like this woman used to be an actress, now she

537
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Speaker 1: works in Massachusetts. Like it's like, legally, how can they

538
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Speaker 1: do that? And why her? Like that's gonna be like

539
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Speaker 1: the worst army hammer started selling with vacation homes islands.

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Speaker 1: I mean, honestly those discounted, Like I would sort of,

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Speaker 1: I would, I would, you know, turn a blind eye

542
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Speaker 1: to some of the ethics of that if I could

543
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Speaker 1: just have a free room. Yes, I get a free

544
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Speaker 1: room and let him toward me. I'm signing up. I'm

545
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Speaker 1: bringing friends. Make sure you don't eat, but I'm signing up. Um. Okay.

546
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Speaker 1: So here's the thing. Today for everyone listening is Valentine's Day.

547
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Speaker 1: We realized this mere seconds before pressing record on this podcast.

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Speaker 1: And by today is Valentaine's to day, we mean for

549
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Speaker 1: you listening at Vuntaine's to day. For us recording, it's

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Speaker 1: a few days before. It's a few days before. And

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Speaker 1: you know, I know all three of us have romantic,

552
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 1: beautiful plans with our romantic partners on actual Valentine's Day.

553
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 1: But I also think it's a completely valid way to

554
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Speaker 1: spend it by listening to our podcast. Totally, you're gonna

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00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: be on a train. There's actually nothing more romantic than

556
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: being on a train. In some ways, there's actually nothing

557
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: more romantic than listening to a podcast. Even being that's

558
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 1: good by yourself, loving yourself. Um, if you're on the

559
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: train to work, that's loving you know, stability, And I

560
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 1: think that's a beautiful thing. Right. Oh my god, paying

561
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 1: rent is so romantic. Actually supporting landlords of any kind

562
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 1: is one of the most beautiful things can do this

563
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Speaker 1: Valentine's Day, you know, And this is a straighter lab

564
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Speaker 1: challenge this Valentine's Day. Send your a landlord of Valentine. Yeah,

565
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: because it's February fourteenth, which is like it's so far

566
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Speaker 1: away from the first of the month in both directions,

567
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: and that must be really hard for them. And so,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, that is such a good point, Sam,

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Speaker 1: thank you. And I just think people don't talk enough

570
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Speaker 1: about how hard Valentine's Day is for landlord because it's

571
00:31:57,960 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 1: like they're trying to be happy, but it's like such

572
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 1: a fake smile because they can't really fully be themselves,

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Speaker 1: and it's just like like send them an extra two

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Speaker 1: today if you can, like, Wow, yeah, say dinners on

575
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Speaker 1: me tonight, sweetheart. Um s a door day, do day,

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Speaker 1: It's thanks for letting me pay for my house. Wow.

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00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: That would be the most misguided way to rebrand Valentine's

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Speaker 1: Day to be like, oh, it's a capitalist institution, We're

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Speaker 1: gonna rebrand it as pro landlord. No, we'll be upset

580
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: with that at all. But we have tasked ourselves with

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Speaker 1: um approving the point the Valentine's Day is in fact

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Speaker 1: straight yes, and so let the games begin, Joyo. What

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Speaker 1: is your opinion on Valentine's Day? What is your history

584
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Speaker 1: with Valentine's Day? Where do you stand on it? I

585
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 1: was single for like twenty years, so every Valentine's Day

586
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 1: I would want to hang out just with my girlfriends.

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00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: I would have the gallant minds fun um and try

588
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Speaker 1: not to be too pressured about it, you know, by

589
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 1: your friends and flowers if you're single. And and I

590
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 1: would also gauge it for when I'm dating a guy,

591
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 1: to see whether or not to continue dating that dude

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Speaker 1: by how they would judge on Valentine's Day. And um,

593
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 1: so now I'm out of the woods and I have

594
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Speaker 1: a boot and we're gonna, you know, my favorite thing

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Speaker 1: to do. We're gonna get some crab legs and are

596
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 1: we talking? Oh, I was about to say restaurant or

597
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:36,480
Speaker 1: take out. We're talking takeout. I love being in the house. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So we're just gonna because it's like Valentine's like, going

599
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Speaker 1: out on is insane, I know. And you know what,

600
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 1: like the fact that it actually because we're doing that

601
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Speaker 1: this year too, and the fact that it took me

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00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: this long to fully grapple with that is humiliating. I was.

603
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: I would always be, even though I don't, you know,

604
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Speaker 1: technically care about it. I don't religiously I'm not, you know,

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Speaker 1: I it doesn't mean anything to me. But the day

606
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Speaker 1: comes every year and you're like, well we have to

607
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Speaker 1: go to a restaurant, we have to do something, do something. Yeah,

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00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: you have to buy present, right something? Yeah? I I

609
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,320
Speaker 1: do the thing, you know, uh in Christmas vacation, the

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00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,800
Speaker 1: like rich couple next door that's like Julia Louis Dreyfist

611
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Speaker 1: where they're like where they're like, oh, we're not gonna

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00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,319
Speaker 1: celebrate Christmas. I do that every year with Valentine's Day,

613
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,360
Speaker 1: and I'm like, who cares? I don't want to do anything,

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00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:25,359
Speaker 1: and then like four pm rolls along, it's like, well

615
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Speaker 1: we should get dinner, right, like we should go out somewhere,

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00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:29,839
Speaker 1: and then of course everywhere is like booked up, and

617
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:33,439
Speaker 1: it's like insane and why would I try to do that? Um?

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Speaker 1: So I think I end up doing take out a

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Speaker 1: lot of times by default. By default. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: We looked into a couple of our favorite restaurants and

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Speaker 1: they were like, clothes, well, or they'll do like a

622
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 1: prefixed menu that's like more expensive than normal and worse

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Speaker 1: quality than normal. Yeah. Absolutely, yeah. And also it's like

624
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Speaker 1: we go out all the time. You know, we're outside people,

625
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: so I'd rather be inside on the major holidays unless

626
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Speaker 1: I'm making money. If you want to put me on

627
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 1: stage to make some money, I'll come out. But downtimes

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Speaker 1: they I completely agree, I really like. UM. I have

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Speaker 1: to say this pains me to say it, but as

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Speaker 1: someone who is a huge fan of restaurants and always

631
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: has been, UM, I would say to my financial detriment,

632
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 1: often I sort of am hitting a wall where I'm like,

633
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:21,759
Speaker 1: I think part of it is also just inflation and

634
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: how expensive everything is, but I'm hitting them all where

635
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, maybe this isn't the best use of my money. Yeah,

636
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:29,320
Speaker 1: I mean, you're not gonna get me to help you

637
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: that I'm an enabler. I have the devil yer shoulder

638
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:38,399
Speaker 1: or a rout go to restaurant, go to Michelin Star,

639
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:44,240
Speaker 1: rest fancy. I'm very like binary when it comes to restaurants,

640
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 1: Like I'll like really be like, okay, I'm all in,

641
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 1: I'm throwing all caution to the wind. I'm spending as

642
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: much money as I humanly can at this restaurant. Or

643
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:54,919
Speaker 1: it's like I'm eating like nothing, Like I'm at home

644
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,359
Speaker 1: and I'm like eating a peanut butter sandwich. And it's

645
00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,319
Speaker 1: like there is a middle ground and that I need

646
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 1: to be say, do you take out leftovers? Do you

647
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 1: do leftover? But sometimes I get so hungry that I

648
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 1: eat it all in one go eat it all. Okay,

649
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 1: I'm the person that orders a bunch of stuff and

650
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 1: then don't finish it and take it ome and have

651
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 1: like meals for two days. And of course, you know

652
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: I've always said this, when you heat up leftovers of takeout,

653
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 1: that actually counts as home cooking, so it's healthier. Absolutely,

654
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 1: Hello air fryar I love that. I love that reasoning

655
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: so much, thank you. Okay, So the straight elements of it,

656
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:43,320
Speaker 1: of course, are like public romance, yes, of course, gendered

657
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 1: gendered romance, like just simply gendered romance, heteronormativity also though

658
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 1: it's also aside from the gendered element of like a

659
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: couple of a man and a woman, Valentine's itself, it's

660
00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 1: like gendered female. It's like hank hard and like girls

661
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:03,840
Speaker 1: like it's so guys are like, what's my girl want? Like?

662
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:05,880
Speaker 1: What do I gotta do to make my girl happy

663
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:10,359
Speaker 1: on Valentine' Today? I just want to cut this wood? Yeah. Yeah.

664
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 1: My favorite thing I saw one Valentine's Day is just like, oh,

665
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 1: put asked dude with some timbalidzo and it's just so masculine.

666
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,399
Speaker 1: And he just had some milar balloons and a big

667
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,320
Speaker 1: old teddy bear and he's just walking from the Eastern

668
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:28,280
Speaker 1: Parkway stop. And I was like, yeah, it's so funny

669
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 1: because even you know, as a gay man, when I

670
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 1: buy like if I buy flowers on Valentine's Day, I'm like,

671
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: oh no, everyone thinks I'm like a cranky straight guy

672
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 1: that like just thought of this. And then maybe you

673
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 1: gotta skipped down here literal exactly in my life, I

674
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 1: just went up to the cast. I just and be like,

675
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:50,320
Speaker 1: I'll get too of the red ones. So many times

676
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 1: in my life I just feel like I need a

677
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 1: shirt that's like I'm gay, by the way, like because

678
00:37:56,640 --> 00:38:00,080
Speaker 1: like this is cool because I'm gay. Um, like I

679
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 1: even feel that way. There's just been I feel like

680
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 1: I've see a lot of videos at the gym now

681
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:07,359
Speaker 1: of like a girl filming herself and then like being

682
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 1: like that guy keeps staring at me, and it's like

683
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:11,760
Speaker 1: there's been like controversy about whether the guy is actually

684
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 1: staring at them, and I've always been like, like it's

685
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 1: made me paranoid at the gym, but I'm like and

686
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 1: I just want to be like just so everyone knows

687
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 1: I'm gay, like I'm not staring. I think about this

688
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:24,360
Speaker 1: all all the time because when I am in a

689
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 1: you know, let's say a yoga class, a pilates class,

690
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 1: even I am essentially constantly staring, like intently staring at

691
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 1: the body of the closest women to me because I'm

692
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: trying to emulate what she's doing, right, and if and

693
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 1: the you know, optics of that would simply be different

694
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:42,840
Speaker 1: if I were straight. I mean, I really look like

695
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 1: I'm ogling women, and maybe I should actually take that

696
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: into account and stop doing it, to be honest now

697
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 1: what I'm thinking about it. But I mean it's like

698
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 1: or you know, or even if the instructor is showing

699
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:56,800
Speaker 1: us something, I'm really like laser focused. Yeah, yeah, looking

700
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 1: looking straight at somebody's but like, yeah, straight at somebody's.

701
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,279
Speaker 1: But sometimes I'll say it, like I'll do that even

702
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 1: on the street. I'll be like, you know, sort of

703
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: looking at someone's outfit or even you know, and maybe

704
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 1: that outfit includes cleavage. So then suddenly I find myself

705
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 1: literally staring at a women's cleavage and I'm like, well

706
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: that's not good. Yeah. I compliment women's cleavage a lot,

707
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 1: and I'm very happy that I'm a woman for that

708
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:23,360
Speaker 1: because I'll be like, look at you, but look at you.

709
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 1: And I realized, like, if I was a straight man,

710
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 1: I would be sexually harassing people in the streets. But

711
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:35,320
Speaker 1: since I'm, you know, a straight woman, boom, and that

712
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 1: is the capital is very sexual. Well say that straight,

713
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 1: and so we have we have basically the marriage of

714
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 1: romance and commerce. Is there anything more straight. One more thing.

715
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: I think actually the implication of like tonight is special

716
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 1: because we're going to have sex, where it's the pressure pressure,

717
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: because it also implies like sex is almost something we

718
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:05,319
Speaker 1: don't like, Like it's like we like it's it's that

719
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 1: gendered thing again of like well, the man wants sex

720
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 1: and the woman doesn't but puts up with it. And

721
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:14,399
Speaker 1: it's like in Valentine's Day is like the trade off

722
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 1: of like, well, he gives me gifts and I give sex,

723
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 1: and it's like hold on, everyone stopped, Like you you're

724
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:24,760
Speaker 1: gonna do a blow job for that girl? Oh you're bad,

725
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 1: you're nutty, or you're just in a relationship, and along

726
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 1: those lines. The sort of it's sort of like, all right,

727
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 1: this is our one chance. We have to prove that

728
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:40,759
Speaker 1: we still want to be in a relationship. Tonight we

729
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: have to have a good time. Otherwise what the fund

730
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:47,439
Speaker 1: is the point? I'll see you next Christmas? Yeah, And

731
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 1: and it sucks and Valentine's Days on like a Tuesday

732
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:53,400
Speaker 1: like it is this year and all you people with

733
00:40:53,440 --> 00:41:00,399
Speaker 1: your regular jobs. Yeah, okay, it's well, do we feel

734
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 1: about like a box of chocolates? Boom boom, I will

735
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 1: boot that of chocolate, because here's why, I only like

736
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 1: milk chocolate, and they go and put dark chocolate and

737
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 1: white chocolate in there, and I don't want neither one.

738
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:25,839
Speaker 1: It up. You're right, I actually completely agree with just

739
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 1: the futility of a box of chocolates. Like you, it

740
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:32,800
Speaker 1: is the compromise that pleases no one. No one likes

741
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:36,879
Speaker 1: all of them, so I'm getting emotional. No one likes

742
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,399
Speaker 1: all of them, and you're rarely bringing them. I mean, yes,

743
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 1: sometimes you bring them to a group of people, but

744
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:43,719
Speaker 1: usually you're just bringing them to one person. So what

745
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 1: are you doing. You're literally giving someone twenty five things,

746
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:50,920
Speaker 1: of which they were like approximately three, and of which

747
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 1: approximately six of them will have some fucking liquid oozing

748
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: out of them. Did a cherry just burst in my mouth?

749
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 1: What is I was and expecting a cherry? It's the

750
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:05,400
Speaker 1: idea that, like what you know, there's chocolate available all

751
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: year round, but what we really want is some some disgusting,

752
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 1: viscous liquid oozing out of the chocolate. It's like finally

753
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,279
Speaker 1: the one day year when that's okay, yes, yes, if

754
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 1: you're gonna do it, do like the heart. That's one

755
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:21,240
Speaker 1: thing A chocolate like a brick of Yes, I agree,

756
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: heart of some ships. You know, I like, don't be

757
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: bringing me no box of chocolates from CBS. We You're

758
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 1: so right, because that's the other thing is like Valentine's

759
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:33,439
Speaker 1: Day allegedly is like the one day we're doing something

760
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 1: for your partner. So to to give them something that

761
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 1: is literally meant for the broadest possible palette is actually

762
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 1: an insult, like you should give them the one thing

763
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 1: you know is their favorite. Like to give someone a

764
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:49,760
Speaker 1: box of chocolates is is essentially a corporate Christmas gift.

765
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 1: That is, it's going to read gift as well. Yeah, yeah, no,

766
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 1: nobody wants that, you know. I have to say I

767
00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 1: do sort of like the mystery, and I also sort

768
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 1: of like feeling like a little bit of a king

769
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 1: to be able to like to bite it in half

770
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 1: and be like you, this one's not good and then

771
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 1: like throw it in the garbage, totally spit it out

772
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:14,399
Speaker 1: on the floor. That one slaps somebody was horrible, take

773
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,439
Speaker 1: it away. No, I don't like to waste. I also

774
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: think it's a time and place thing, like I genuinely

775
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: do think. Let's say I had a big dinner party

776
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: at my home and someone a friend and acquaintance, brought

777
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 1: me an expensive box of chocolates. I would actually appreciate that,

778
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 1: and I would keep them and like occasionally like snack

779
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 1: on one. But for a partner to give you something

780
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 1: that is so impersonal, impersonal, Yes, yes, I got very

781
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 1: personal this year. I think you guys will appreciate my gifts.

782
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 1: I got him a little miniature Lego figure and also

783
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: a T shirt that says butt stuff. For some reason,

784
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 1: pay a big Lego ahead. I like that that. I

785
00:43:56,760 --> 00:43:59,839
Speaker 1: was smart. I'm like butt stuff. Okay, we're on board,

786
00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:03,279
Speaker 1: but it's with the Legos, the Lego because we just

787
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:06,359
Speaker 1: we just got a bonds Eye Lego tree and it's

788
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 1: so cute. Legos has a botanical collection that's adorable, and

789
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 1: he made the Bonsai tree. So I was like, oh,

790
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:15,439
Speaker 1: let's put a little guy on the Bonsai tree. So

791
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 1: the Legos has a T shirt on that says butt

792
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: stuff as well, So I I will be presenting these

793
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 1: to him um at a Lego spider man. See, this

794
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 1: is like, this is the definition of personal. Like this person,

795
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: I can already sort of imagine what your boyfriend or

796
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:39,320
Speaker 1: husband if you don't mind me asking domestic domestic partner

797
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:43,319
Speaker 1: is like, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's fun, he's sweet, he's

798
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: I can imagine when he's like I can imagine what

799
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 1: your relationship is like. If you had told me you

800
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:49,720
Speaker 1: got him a box of chocolates, I'd be like, okay,

801
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 1: well you could live anywhere, you know, Kansas or Helsinki.

802
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 1: I wouldn't know. Yes, and you've been together for three days, right, yeah,

803
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 1: well that sounds beautif full. I mean it is like

804
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: the general esthetics of Valentine's Day are off putting, like

805
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:11,840
Speaker 1: the heart, chocolate, the bear, the rose like roses has

806
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 1: never spoken to me either. Interesting. Yeah, yeah, no, I'm

807
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:18,799
Speaker 1: not a flowers person, just because I hate watching them

808
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:21,319
Speaker 1: die and then I have to throw them away very

809
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 1: much a plant person to try to keep it alive.

810
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,400
Speaker 1: At least you can try to keep it alive. But

811
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:29,720
Speaker 1: flat wasn't living. So yeah, I don't want to roses

812
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:34,280
Speaker 1: a rose bush? No, no, God, no, no. The teddy

813
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:36,439
Speaker 1: bear Wait, okay, so this points to another thing, which

814
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: is a sort of infantilization of the whole thing, like

815
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:42,719
Speaker 1: like getting a grown woman a teddy bear, like a

816
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,840
Speaker 1: pink teddy bear. Yeah, and being like here you go.

817
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 1: Babe's like yeah, She's like, thank you daddy, here you go, babe.

818
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:02,320
Speaker 1: Actually really it's like pretty I don't like that. Yeah,

819
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: Like okay, so Teddy Bears, hearts, all that mainstream ship

820
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 1: I don't want. I've never wanted any of that. Also,

821
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:15,359
Speaker 1: the can't I'm sorry, but the heart candies that all

822
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:18,440
Speaker 1: say like, you know, kiss me, hug me, they taste bad.

823
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:23,279
Speaker 1: Chalk literally, chalk that sugar chalke are we is this

824
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 1: algebra two? Because I'm ready to still have an equation

825
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 1: on there's a blockboard? Because it's like, why is that

826
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:31,480
Speaker 1: still a thing? It's crazy. They should have made it

827
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:34,840
Speaker 1: a skittle or something like something that we like to ingest.

828
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 1: That's a weird one. I can't think of any of

829
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: those mainstream gifts that I liked. So what do you get,

830
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 1: the straight man? What do you get, right man? For

831
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day? A leather wooden mug, leather wooden mug that

832
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 1: says mug and then and then just the giant cable. Ladies,

833
00:46:58,239 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. If you're looking for a

834
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:05,320
Speaker 1: days holiday, last minute leather wooden mug or a huge

835
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:12,880
Speaker 1: cable we're talking yards long. Yes, get that bitch across

836
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 1: the house. You want to be able to plug in

837
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 1: a toaster oven in the kitchen, have the toast ready

838
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:24,800
Speaker 1: in the master bedroom? Yes, exactly exactly. Men love and

839
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:27,680
Speaker 1: extension thing. He pulled out something. I was like, that's

840
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:30,399
Speaker 1: been in our closet. Why has that not been out

841
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 1: one of those places you plug a whole bunch of

842
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 1: things and you just had that in the closet. That

843
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 1: is really like those um ways to either extend electric

844
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:47,919
Speaker 1: electricity or divide it. That's like meditation for straight men,

845
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 1: it really is. They love to sort of play with

846
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:57,759
Speaker 1: the idea of electricity. Yes, yes, my my, my DP Yeah,

847
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 1: and my stepdad are very much like that. Yeah, they

848
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: really get a kick out of it. Yeah, I can't relate.

849
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 1: I don't have that. Get them a good they're like

850
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:08,960
Speaker 1: a little like get them a good plug to play with,

851
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 1: just like not attached to anything so they don't hurt themselves.

852
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 1: They can just like put a plug in and out

853
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 1: of like a fake outlet so they don't hurt themselves. Honestly,

854
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 1: Like that is a good gift. Like a gift for

855
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:23,880
Speaker 1: dad is like is he feeling stressed? Give him the

856
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:27,239
Speaker 1: little I plug? Give him the plug. Maybe it makes

857
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 1: a little sound every time it in. It's like maybe

858
00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 1: like a little steely Dan riff or something. Yeah, that

859
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:43,200
Speaker 1: would be beautiful. Yeah, like it starts playing the shotsh ank. Yeah.

860
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 1: Holiday gift guide for your for the men in your life.

861
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:50,279
Speaker 1: Um get So I want to address one more thing,

862
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:54,760
Speaker 1: which is that I almost feel like, you know, hating

863
00:48:54,760 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 1: on Valentine's Day is almost like it's like for generations

864
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:05,000
Speaker 1: people have been saying that, oh, Valentine's Day is like

865
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 1: a fake holiday and it's created by card companies and

866
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:10,440
Speaker 1: it's created by chocolate companies and blah blah. So it

867
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:13,480
Speaker 1: almost feels like, you know, obvious to be. Yeah, it's

868
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:15,480
Speaker 1: like it almost feels like obvious to be like, oh,

869
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:19,399
Speaker 1: it's lame, blah blah blah. And that makes me think

870
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:23,400
Speaker 1: that in some ways, it's almost like like how do

871
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:27,760
Speaker 1: we feel about Valentine's Day alternatives? Like are those straight too?

872
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:30,959
Speaker 1: You mean like a Galantine's Day, Like a Galantine's Day?

873
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 1: Is that? Or I think that is straight because it's

874
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:37,280
Speaker 1: the pressure to have to do something on that day

875
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:39,719
Speaker 1: so you don't feel lonely or you don't feel like

876
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:42,919
Speaker 1: nobody wants you and all that type of stuff. So yeah,

877
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:45,840
Speaker 1: that's matched straight. Yeah, it's like it's like if it

878
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:49,040
Speaker 1: didn't have that big of an effect in your life,

879
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 1: at the big of an impact in your life, then

880
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:54,959
Speaker 1: you wouldn't feel the need to create counterprogramming. Yeah. And also,

881
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 1: what's is that the side chick? Oh yeah, I mean

882
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:05,879
Speaker 1: that's you know, it's kind of progressive polyamory as long

883
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:10,400
Speaker 1: as this consensual guy. Yeah, yeah, of course. Um yeah,

884
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:14,400
Speaker 1: I interested you know. Okay, the only genuinely queer Valentine's

885
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:18,399
Speaker 1: Day I've ever had, um is because I actually feel

886
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 1: like as a gay couple, it's like I am straight

887
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 1: for a night. Like if we got to dinner, we

888
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:25,520
Speaker 1: are like cosplaying as a straight couple, and it's like fun,

889
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:28,400
Speaker 1: there's something to it. It's like straight people going to

890
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 1: a pride parade. That's what it's like when you're a

891
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:33,439
Speaker 1: gay person that's going out for Valentine's tyre Like, okay,

892
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:35,319
Speaker 1: like we have to be respectful, it's their culture. I'll

893
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 1: wear the flag. Well, yeah, we put our American flag

894
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 1: pins on when we go to Valentine's Yeah exactly, You're like,

895
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:44,279
Speaker 1: all right, tonight, we're Republican and that's Okay, tomorrow, we'll

896
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 1: go back to like voting in favor of human rights.

897
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:52,040
Speaker 1: Love doesn't win tonight, when you know, you sort of go,

898
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:53,400
Speaker 1: you sort of go to the restaurant or like, this

899
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:58,920
Speaker 1: is my roommate. Yeah. So the only truly queer Valentine's

900
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:01,480
Speaker 1: Day I've ever had was the one right before the

901
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 1: pandemic where me and thirteen gay friends went to the

902
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:10,960
Speaker 1: club and did Molly and had the best night of

903
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:14,840
Speaker 1: our entire lives. Oh that's fun. It was so fun.

904
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:18,279
Speaker 1: It was truly like a magical night. And and you know,

905
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:21,359
Speaker 1: just one month later the pandemic happened, so you see

906
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 1: where it came from. Now, um, just your friend grew.

907
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 1: But it was I mean, it is sort of ye

908
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:34,360
Speaker 1: sacrilegious really, like you guys dared to be yourself the

909
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:37,400
Speaker 1: one day you're where we all have to succumb to

910
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:40,440
Speaker 1: the to the evil of the powers that be, And

911
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:43,360
Speaker 1: it really didn't even feel like counter programming. It just

912
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:45,279
Speaker 1: sort of felt like, oh, we're also going to do this,

913
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 1: Like it didn't feel like we're rebelling against Valentine's Day.

914
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 1: It was just like, oh, actually we're all going to

915
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 1: this tonight. And it was like half of us. I

916
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 1: feel like we're in relationships and like it wasn't like

917
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:57,799
Speaker 1: we're anti couple, nor was it like couples night. It

918
00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:02,120
Speaker 1: was like truly blurred line of all of them in

919
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:06,799
Speaker 1: a way that was, um, I'll say, groundbreaking, beautiful. I've

920
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 1: never been done well. As always. It does go back

921
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 1: to chosen family. I mean, you decided that rather than

922
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:16,840
Speaker 1: rather than putting the focus on Valentine's down, the heteronormative

923
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 1: nuclear family you are going to, you are embracing a

924
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:28,680
Speaker 1: multi generational, multi cultural, chosen family that comes from every

925
00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:31,920
Speaker 1: country in the world. Yeah, it was so beautiful. I

926
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:42,879
Speaker 1: didn't choose to be straight. It's it's a prison. Oh

927
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 1: here's my question. With a lot of these holidays, and

928
00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:58,879
Speaker 1: I feel this way about like a lot of these

929
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 1: holidays like thanks give you know, things people sort of

930
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:04,840
Speaker 1: roll their eyes at. I'm like, if you have the option,

931
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 1: would you ban them? Or is it sort of fun

932
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:13,400
Speaker 1: to have something that you can feel superior to? Mm hmmm. Wow,

933
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 1: that's a tough question. That's a beautiful question. I mean,

934
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:21,560
Speaker 1: single bitches love when they get in love. I mean,

935
00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:26,719
Speaker 1: I'm I'm so happy I'm in a good relationship. You know,

936
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 1: like I want to buy stuff for him he's getting

937
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:35,279
Speaker 1: for me, Like I'm so happy. So um, I guess

938
00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:39,239
Speaker 1: it does, like you feel good. But let's say I

939
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 1: want all my boots to get in relationships too, because

940
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 1: it feels really good. But I was also a single

941
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:49,239
Speaker 1: bitch for a very long time. So but yeah, I'm

942
00:53:49,239 --> 00:53:53,240
Speaker 1: not gonna say superior. That's a very dramatic word. Of course,

943
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:58,000
Speaker 1: of course, were never good. Yeah, wow, Yeah, I wouldn't

944
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:00,279
Speaker 1: ban it. I think. No, I wouldn't ban it either,

945
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:03,080
Speaker 1: Like there is there is something to it, like I

946
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:05,800
Speaker 1: actually do, like when holidays forced us to act a

947
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 1: little bit different. Absolutely, I agree, I think there's I

948
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:13,360
Speaker 1: think traditions exist for well, I don't know if traditions

949
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:15,680
Speaker 1: exist for a reason, but it's I guess more. I mean,

950
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:18,840
Speaker 1: like you can choose which parts of a tradition to

951
00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:20,719
Speaker 1: follow in which ones not to follow, Like if you

952
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:24,040
Speaker 1: think something is created by card companies, then don't buy

953
00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:28,360
Speaker 1: a card. Do something else. Like you can always choose

954
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:31,440
Speaker 1: how you want to celebrate something, and it can be

955
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:33,799
Speaker 1: completely wrong. The only thing you shouldn't do is wear

956
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:39,759
Speaker 1: converse at your wedding. Oh I know who did that?

957
00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:42,839
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, It's like people do that.

958
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:45,879
Speaker 1: But my mother always said to me, you can tell

959
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:48,560
Speaker 1: by how a man feels about you through the holidays.

960
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:51,719
Speaker 1: So if you're dating, you know, and then you get

961
00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:55,239
Speaker 1: to a Valentine's there or Thanksgaming or a New Year's

962
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 1: and their ghosts in you or whatever. She's like, that

963
00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:00,200
Speaker 1: is a judge of how much they care about you.

964
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:03,200
Speaker 1: Because you don't have to care about Valentine's Day, but

965
00:55:03,239 --> 00:55:05,800
Speaker 1: if you're a significant other cares about it, then you

966
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:09,319
Speaker 1: should care about it. It's like being a contrariant, even

967
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:12,799
Speaker 1: in a relationship that's not sustainable. And it's also like

968
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 1: if you're a contrarian and if you don't care about

969
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:17,560
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day, then maybe find a partner who shares those

970
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:19,440
Speaker 1: values and then you can both be contrarians and you

971
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:21,719
Speaker 1: can be sort of like goths and go to uh,

972
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:26,160
Speaker 1: you know, go to the woods and sacrifice a goat.

973
00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:32,680
Speaker 1: Yes have red blood, which going back. Now, you celebrate Valentine,

974
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:40,080
Speaker 1: so we all basic bitches and any I mean, that's

975
00:55:40,080 --> 00:55:43,480
Speaker 1: the thing is. It's almost like every tradition is in

976
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:47,320
Speaker 1: its own way lame just because it is something everyone

977
00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:49,920
Speaker 1: because it's unoriginal it's like something everyone does at the

978
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 1: same time, so you there can be no tradition that

979
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 1: is completely like cool and Indian authentic. So I guess

980
00:55:57,600 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 1: the best we can do is embrace it. Yeah, and

981
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:03,440
Speaker 1: also just spend time with people. That's what I love

982
00:56:03,480 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 1: about it, where it's like, oh, let's spend time together.

983
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:09,800
Speaker 1: That's all Thanksgiving is, That's all Christmas. Spend time with

984
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:13,880
Speaker 1: somebody and don't work, like, calm down for a second,

985
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:19,440
Speaker 1: have fun, some molly, do some molly. Well. So our

986
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:22,160
Speaker 1: message to everyone listening to this on Valentine's Day is

987
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:26,839
Speaker 1: spend time with the people you love, do molly, and

988
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:29,759
Speaker 1: don't buy your significant other a box of chocolates. Yeah,

989
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:34,759
Speaker 1: instead buy your and give your landlord whatever extra you

990
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 1: have after the buttstuff shirt. Yes, give your landlord a gift.

991
00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:41,439
Speaker 1: It would be funny if everyone's takeaway was to buy

992
00:56:41,719 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 1: Joel's exact gifts to partner. I'm like, no, you missed

993
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:49,200
Speaker 1: the know. Like the reason that was charming is because,

994
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:51,560
Speaker 1: like he specifically would like it. Don't buy not everyone

995
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:54,840
Speaker 1: should buy their boyfriends. They're like to predibly smart podcast,

996
00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:56,839
Speaker 1: and it was like, apparently you're supposed to buy your

997
00:56:56,880 --> 00:56:59,840
Speaker 1: boyfriend like a lego and a shirt. It's like a

998
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,200
Speaker 1: gets the new tradition. Everyone buys their boyfriend legos, and

999
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:04,680
Speaker 1: the boyfriends are like, I don't like legos, Like where

1000
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 1: is this coming from? Yes? Yes, please please make sure

1001
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:15,120
Speaker 1: you have an open boyfriend. Wow. Well I love that. Um,

1002
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:18,320
Speaker 1: I love it. I mean, should we do our final segment?

1003
00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:21,200
Speaker 1: I think it's time. I really think. Um. You know,

1004
00:57:21,240 --> 00:57:23,560
Speaker 1: as much as we started out critical and did some

1005
00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:27,919
Speaker 1: hardcore critical analysis, I think we've come out pro love.

1006
00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:32,600
Speaker 1: We actually have we um. You know, our ice cold

1007
00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:35,680
Speaker 1: hearts have melted a bit um in a way that

1008
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:40,440
Speaker 1: speak for yourself. Well, listen, you're the one that's already

1009
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:42,919
Speaker 1: with your gifts for Valentine's Day. I know I haven't

1010
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:46,400
Speaker 1: even I was like, what can be delivered quickly? I know,

1011
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:49,120
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm always paying extra ship in for

1012
00:57:49,240 --> 00:57:51,800
Speaker 1: something Mother's Day of Valentine's Day. I'm always caught up.

1013
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:56,480
Speaker 1: And the extra shipping you needed it about tomorrow? Boy

1014
00:57:56,480 --> 00:58:03,080
Speaker 1: thought out? Oh no, oh no, Um, well okay. Our

1015
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:06,520
Speaker 1: final segment is called Shoutouts, and in this segment we

1016
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:09,360
Speaker 1: pay manage to the classic street tradition of the radio

1017
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:11,800
Speaker 1: shout out and give a shout out to anything that

1018
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:14,480
Speaker 1: we enjoy. So imagine it's, you know, two thousand one

1019
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:16,320
Speaker 1: year at TRL, and you're shouting out to your squad

1020
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 1: back home just about anything that you like. George, do

1021
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:26,680
Speaker 1: you happen to I love to have one? Um? Okay, uh,

1022
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 1: what's up? Love birds celebrating Valentine's Day and listeners across

1023
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:33,200
Speaker 1: the globe, I want you to put your headphones on

1024
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:35,560
Speaker 1: tight and listen to the shoutout that I'm about to give.

1025
00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:37,600
Speaker 1: I want to give a quick shout out to the

1026
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:42,520
Speaker 1: New York Philarmonic. Why he sophisticated, it has a PhD

1027
00:58:42,600 --> 00:58:46,200
Speaker 1: in ethnol musicology. I had no idea. That's right, folks,

1028
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:49,160
Speaker 1: spell to the next. I recently purchased tickets to see

1029
00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:51,800
Speaker 1: the Philharmonic in New York for the first time, and

1030
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 1: I know very little about classical music. I it was

1031
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:57,520
Speaker 1: a risk, I do not I didn't know what I

1032
00:58:57,560 --> 00:58:59,560
Speaker 1: was in for. But let me tell you something. I

1033
00:58:59,640 --> 00:59:02,080
Speaker 1: had the time of my damn life. It is also

1034
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:04,520
Speaker 1: cheaper than a Broadway show. It is much you know,

1035
00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 1: it's it's definitely like a night out, but it's more

1036
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:09,240
Speaker 1: affordable than you think. And you are there around some

1037
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:12,800
Speaker 1: of the oldest people you've ever met, and rather than

1038
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:16,720
Speaker 1: but but you know what they love. Many of them

1039
00:59:16,720 --> 00:59:20,160
Speaker 1: are asleep, but they love the music and it you

1040
00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:22,560
Speaker 1: get so much energy from being around them. Some of

1041
00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:24,800
Speaker 1: them are sort of bobbing their heads along and you're like, wow,

1042
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:27,240
Speaker 1: this is you know, this is such a great night

1043
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:28,960
Speaker 1: in your life. And then because of that, you're like, wait,

1044
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:30,560
Speaker 1: it's also a great night in my life. And guess

1045
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:33,640
Speaker 1: what I heard Beethoven seventh, which I didn't really know

1046
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Speaker 1: much about. You know. Um, Like I said, I'm sort

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Speaker 1: of a nude when I tell you it was like

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Speaker 1: being at a Dualipa concert. It was dance dance, dance

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Speaker 1: revolution up in that venue. And by that venue I

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Speaker 1: mean David get from the hall, newly renovated. I'm telling you,

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Speaker 1: go online, purchase some tickets. We are taking back classical

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Speaker 1: music from uh the old moneyed families of New York

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00:59:57,720 --> 01:00:00,520
Speaker 1: and we are making a trendy and gen Z starting

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Speaker 1: in And that's on Lydia. Tar Wow, what a beautiful

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Speaker 1: shout out. Thank you. Okay, what's up freaks, losers, and

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Speaker 1: yes I'll include you the perverts. I want to give

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Speaker 1: a huge shout out on this Valentine's Day too, Ethel Cane.

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Speaker 1: George has been telling me to listen to Ethel Cane

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Speaker 1: for a month straight. Every single day. George's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: by the way, but listen Ethel Cane. I'm like, no, George,

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Speaker 1: I'm not ready yet. I'm not ready to listen to

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Speaker 1: new music. And finally I was in a place where

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Speaker 1: I actually got bored of every single song I had

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Speaker 1: ever heard in my entire life. And I said, you

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01:00:41,800 --> 01:00:44,919
Speaker 1: know what, Sam, Let's take the dive. Let's hear something new.

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Speaker 1: And I listened to Ethel Cane and that song American Teenager.

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Speaker 1: At first, I was like, h, kind of boring, and

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Speaker 1: then I found myself wanting to go back and wanting

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Speaker 1: to go back. I wanting to go back and now

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Speaker 1: as to this song, and I get fucking REVVD up

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Speaker 1: in his emotions. It is uh, it feels throwback he

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Speaker 1: in a weird way. And I have to say, I

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Speaker 1: am loving it. Um. I love whenever I find a

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Speaker 1: new sad girl in the world, and uh, they're out

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Speaker 1: there and there's plenty of them. Um. And so shout

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Speaker 1: out to side girl, shout Hcane, and shout out to

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Speaker 1: my co host George for pushing me to New Heights. Wow.

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Speaker 1: That is It's an honor and a privilege. And I

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Speaker 1: have to say, you know, part of me is offended

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Speaker 1: that it took you almost a full year to listen

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Speaker 1: to a single recommendation I gave you. But at the

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Speaker 1: same time, it's better late than never, and Ethel, if

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Speaker 1: you're listening, we would be honored to have you on

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Speaker 1: the I love it. Okay, whenever you're ready. Okay, what

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Speaker 1: out Pucci, Mama's Baby, Mama's slutsloords and hors. It's your girl,

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Speaker 1: Joy yea. And I want to give a shout out

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Speaker 1: to the show Sleep No More, which I finally saw.

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Speaker 1: We shout it out event. I went to Sleep No

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Speaker 1: More and I did some mushrooms with my friend Ends

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01:02:00,920 --> 01:02:02,760
Speaker 1: And this was like a month ago and it was

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01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:04,919
Speaker 1: my first time seeing it. So a micro dose, which

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01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:08,200
Speaker 1: was a great idea, and I also had a little

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01:02:08,240 --> 01:02:11,160
Speaker 1: bit of an edible so I didn't drink and oh man,

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Speaker 1: Sleep No More. It's crazy. It's Macbeth and I wanted.

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Speaker 1: There was this one black girl, her name is Joy.

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01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:20,840
Speaker 1: She was amazing and at one point she looked me

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Speaker 1: in my eyes and she whispered, let's go baby, and

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01:02:23,680 --> 01:02:25,880
Speaker 1: she ran away from me and ran up the stairs.

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Speaker 1: And that's when I realized I was not in good shape,

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01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:33,120
Speaker 1: so I could no longer follow her. But I definitely

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01:02:33,160 --> 01:02:36,280
Speaker 1: need to go back to Sleep No More and pay

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Speaker 1: the extra money to skip the line because it makes

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01:02:39,040 --> 01:02:42,640
Speaker 1: you feel superior. Um. Yeah, so shout out to Sleep

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Speaker 1: No More for being running and sucking awesome. Oh my god, wow,

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Speaker 1: core memory unlock. I've never been. Yeah. Oh, I I

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Speaker 1: went like a I mean years years, years ago, Like

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Speaker 1: I feel like when it was because it's sort of

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01:02:57,080 --> 01:02:59,080
Speaker 1: one of those things that now is just an institution

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01:02:59,200 --> 01:03:01,960
Speaker 1: that ever going to end. But I feel like I

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01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:04,160
Speaker 1: went when people were like when it was like new

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01:03:04,240 --> 01:03:07,160
Speaker 1: and it was and I feel like immersive Theater was

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01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:10,320
Speaker 1: really having a moment. Yeah, and I feel like it's

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Speaker 1: it's one of those things like, um, you know, almost

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Speaker 1: like Stomp, which is now ending I think after like

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01:03:15,680 --> 01:03:20,600
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred decades where it's like, oh my god, I

1116
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Speaker 1: got to like the second call back. That's amazing. My god.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what is my favorite thing of all

1118
01:03:24,720 --> 01:03:31,240
Speaker 1: those things? Blue Man Group. Yeah. I love Blomen Group

1119
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Speaker 1: because like so many like improvisers that we know are like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I auditioned like yeah, and I think that is so

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Speaker 1: juicy to find out. Yeah, I was like, what are

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01:03:39,680 --> 01:03:41,480
Speaker 1: they gonna make me do to my hair? I was

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Speaker 1: happy when they were like, we don't know. I was like,

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Speaker 1: good first for Blue mag Groups, for Blue Man Group too,

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Speaker 1: huh yeah, And I got to like the second call

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Speaker 1: back for Stomp, but I only went to the first

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Speaker 1: one for Blue Man Group, and I was like, you

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Speaker 1: know what, I don't want to put all that blue

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Speaker 1: sh it on my finger that it sounds like hell,

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Speaker 1: what what did they? I'm sorry to ask this, do

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01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:06,800
Speaker 1: they I didn't realize it was gender inclusive, yes, gender

1132
01:04:06,840 --> 01:04:10,000
Speaker 1: and Rachel. I didn't realize it was raciel inclusive. I

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Speaker 1: thought those are white boys just the well, actually, joy

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Speaker 1: there blue and you're right, You're right. So yeah, I

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Speaker 1: was very surprised. Did they make you how did they

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01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:22,480
Speaker 1: make your audition for Stomp? Did you have to like

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Speaker 1: sweep a broom or something like? Rhythmically? The first part

1138
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Speaker 1: of the audition was who can keep a beat? And

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Speaker 1: it's so funny because you'll think you're like, people don't

1140
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Speaker 1: show up to this audition not being able to keep

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01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:41,000
Speaker 1: a beat. Oh yes, the hell they do. And the

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01:04:41,040 --> 01:04:44,120
Speaker 1: first part is simply like here is a step and

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Speaker 1: keep up with it. And people were looking like, okay,

1144
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:52,920
Speaker 1: bye bye, go home. Do you think that one actors?

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01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:54,600
Speaker 1: It's it's like actors that are like, well, this is

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01:04:54,600 --> 01:04:57,760
Speaker 1: one way to get on stage. Absolutely, yeah, because it's

1147
01:04:57,800 --> 01:05:01,640
Speaker 1: like a different physicality. Because, um, like black fraternities and

1148
01:05:01,680 --> 01:05:05,320
Speaker 1: sororities do stepping and I was familiar with that from college.

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01:05:05,800 --> 01:05:08,440
Speaker 1: So that was part of why I was able to

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01:05:08,560 --> 01:05:11,120
Speaker 1: keep with the beats of the things. Um. But then

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01:05:11,160 --> 01:05:14,040
Speaker 1: once again, once they started doing jump twists and splits

1152
01:05:14,040 --> 01:05:16,720
Speaker 1: and ship with trash cans, I was like, you know what,

1153
01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:20,440
Speaker 1: let me go get get on a stand up stage.

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01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:25,240
Speaker 1: Stand still. Wow, well that is amazing. Wow. Now I

1155
01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:26,720
Speaker 1: want to Now I want to go see star you

1156
01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:29,400
Speaker 1: know what are we gonna it's great stop great before

1157
01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:32,360
Speaker 1: before it closes forever. I know. That's sort of happy.

1158
01:05:32,440 --> 01:05:33,680
Speaker 1: It's like all these things that I never had any

1159
01:05:33,720 --> 01:05:35,600
Speaker 1: interest in, Like Phantom of the Opera is closing. I've

1160
01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:37,200
Speaker 1: never cared about Phantom of the Opera, and I'm like,

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01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:39,640
Speaker 1: why I have to go right right? Yeah? You just

1162
01:05:39,640 --> 01:05:42,320
Speaker 1: want that in the core memory, so you can superior

1163
01:05:42,360 --> 01:05:44,720
Speaker 1: and bring it out to Yeah, so I can be

1164
01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:48,760
Speaker 1: so sophisticated and be like, oh, yeah, I've seen Phantom

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01:05:48,840 --> 01:05:51,880
Speaker 1: on Broadway. Yeah yeah, and not just the movie with

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Speaker 1: Amy Rossum, I saw it on stage, sweetheart, Amy Rassam

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Speaker 1: my birthday twin. Let's just say I I know which

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01:06:00,760 --> 01:06:05,160
Speaker 1: one of you is my favorite and she was not

1169
01:06:05,240 --> 01:06:09,160
Speaker 1: the star of Shameless. Yeah. Well, Joel, thank you so

1170
01:06:09,240 --> 01:06:11,640
Speaker 1: much for doing this podcast. It's been a pleasure to

1171
01:06:11,720 --> 01:06:20,880
Speaker 1: have you you You're both such a delight. But forever forever. Um,

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Speaker 1: any anything you want to plug? Dare I ask? Oh

1173
01:06:25,560 --> 01:06:27,520
Speaker 1: my gosh, I got big news. I can't mention yet,

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Speaker 1: but check out my special on Peacock and my album

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Speaker 1: Yelled Joy. So my special love joints on Peacock my

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Speaker 1: album Yell Joy is available where albums are available that

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Speaker 1: have not pulled comedians off their thanks. So there you go,

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Speaker 1: you know the ones who kept the comedians. That's where

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Speaker 1: it's available. Perfect. Um, well guess what what? Oh well?

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Speaker 1: Actually do want to say? This is the last time

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Speaker 1: I can say my tickets Club commack if you haven't already,

1182
01:06:54,600 --> 01:06:59,400
Speaker 1: it's this Friday at the Bellhouse. Um yeah, ticket and

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Speaker 1: I'll be there so if you see me, say hello.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, subscribe to our Patreon. It's only

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Speaker 1: five dollars a month. Then you get honestly quite a

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Speaker 1: bit of tount in every month. Yeah, two bonus EPs

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Speaker 1: um all right and fine yah