Speaker 1: Look man, oh I see you? Why and look over there?
Speaker 1: How is that culture? Yes? Goodness ding dong last cultures
Speaker 1: calling back for a third day of culture. On the
Speaker 1: third day of culture. Oh we did how we did?
Speaker 1: Create a catchphrase? Didn't listeners? Readers were recording these sort
Speaker 1: of spread out and these insanely concentrated sessions. We were
Speaker 1: supposed to say on the third day of culture, the
Speaker 1: gifts that the day they gave me on the third
Speaker 1: day of culture, it was yes, that's right. Let's and
Speaker 1: even if it was slightly different from what we originally said,
Speaker 1: that is from now on, just before we get into
Speaker 1: a you know, it's not that I have a sty.
Speaker 1: It's just that I have eye problem and I need
Speaker 1: to ask you, the doctor in my life about it. Yes,
Speaker 1: every day I wake up and only my one eye, know,
Speaker 1: just my one eye. Can you see it looks weird? Well,
Speaker 1: you need to come up closer to the lens I'm
Speaker 1: getting up. What makes you think it's not a sty
Speaker 1: because the sty happens below your eyeball? Like, okay, so
Speaker 1: just readers, can I just describe what's happening. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's true. When you when I wake up in
Speaker 1: the morning. For some reason, my one eye, the eyelid
Speaker 1: is a little sorry. I I know you guys see
Speaker 1: me as like this sort of dainty, hot little twink,
Speaker 1: but my one iselid is crusty. It is like something
Speaker 1: is going on with my one eyelid, and I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is as a contact dermatitis. Can you
Speaker 1: tell I've looked something up. I can tell what you
Speaker 1: have not looked up, which is dies. And all of
Speaker 1: the images that are popping up are on the top eyelid.
Speaker 1: Oh ship, all right, so maybe I have a sty
Speaker 1: but girl, I don't know. Warm compress. Here's what you
Speaker 1: do. Do Do you do you like dry rice or something
Speaker 1: in the house? You don't. Do you think I have
Speaker 1: dry rice? You're supposed to put like rice in a
Speaker 1: saw tie at microve it for thirty five seconds and
Speaker 1: then just just or whatever hot calm preuss you can
Speaker 1: you can reheat, Doug says pink Eye. I can see
Speaker 1: it from here. I certainly don't have. And if that's
Speaker 1: some sort of anal sex joke, it really isn't. It's
Speaker 1: not acceptable. We don't use eyes with anal sex, Doug.
Speaker 1: We don't pay our eyes in the butt. I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not nineteen years old putting my eyes and butts.
Speaker 1: I've learned since then, just kidding, never once did that.
Speaker 1: I have many times You've just accidentally had sex with
Speaker 1: your sucker, you sick fucker while I've been down there,
Speaker 1: and then I just kind of I kind of brushed
Speaker 1: past it with my my little my eyelash, gives it
Speaker 1: a little butterfly kiss your little feckles, gout in your eye,
Speaker 1: his feckles, dear darling, I don't really know you to
Speaker 1: be some sort of hole mancher. I just don't talk
Speaker 1: about it. It's kind of yeah, you really don't about it.
Speaker 1: You don't talk about it enough, talk about it? What
Speaker 1: having sex? Or or have you eaten? But hole? Have
Speaker 1: I ever you've done it? And you're like, yes, of course,
Speaker 1: what about you? What about you? I'm on the record
Speaker 1: that I am a fan of it, but but you
Speaker 1: never really you always seem to be you know. But
Speaker 1: that's something that's like very easily, very easily reciprocable. It's
Speaker 1: really because some I meet some gay man in their
Speaker 1: life who don't do it, okay, but you won't do it,
Speaker 1: So are you like a DJ Khalid? But you're gay,
Speaker 1: DJ Kalen. No, I don't know. I'm not. First of all,
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about me. I'm talking about other people
Speaker 1: and other people who who are like no, I will
Speaker 1: never eat someone's ask, but I demand you eat mine.
Speaker 1: That's not who I'm That's not the type of girl
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. I'm talking about these types of girls
Speaker 1: who are just completely just sort of like, no, the
Speaker 1: butt holes off the table. They'll have anal sex. But
Speaker 1: when it comes to you know, the ship getting you know,
Speaker 1: let's say, a mouth on it, people are, you know,
Speaker 1: feeling a little bit dainty about it. They feel a
Speaker 1: little bit Victorian about it. They feel a little chase,
Speaker 1: they feel like a Victorian woman. M I don't understand that.
Speaker 1: I feel these men need to discover their butt holes.
Speaker 1: And I wish that straight men would discover their butt holes.
Speaker 1: I really do. God bless the ones who have who
Speaker 1: understand they're out there, who have seen God the way
Speaker 1: that we have. Oh, hon. And I actually spoke to
Speaker 1: a straight woman recently who said she has eaten butt hole.
Speaker 1: And then I thought to myself, man's butthole a straight
Speaker 1: man's butt hole, And I thought to myself, Wow, that
Speaker 1: must be a true m Night's Shamalan horror moving. That
Speaker 1: must be truly that because when you when you pull
Speaker 1: down the pants, you know there's going to be a twist.
Speaker 1: And the twist is it's dirty in a way you
Speaker 1: can't imagine straight men. I know they don't take care
Speaker 1: of their butth holes. I know, and let's just say
Speaker 1: this far straight engineer to be telling me, accusing me
Speaker 1: of pink I it's really gross, really because he would
Speaker 1: get pink I have even looked, if he even looked
Speaker 1: at his butt hole in a mirror. That's that's that
Speaker 1: is cold. Matt. Wow, you really smoked him out, Speaking
Speaker 1: of which I said, smoked him out. No, Doug said out.
Speaker 1: Doug hurt. He's hurt by it. He's hurt by what
Speaker 1: We're hurt by what he said. Um, it's the third
Speaker 1: day of culture. I'm sorry about your sty I I
Speaker 1: don't think. I don't think it's just I think I
Speaker 1: just have to moisturize more. I don't know what it is,
Speaker 1: but maybe it is a style. But the size last
Speaker 1: week's stuff. Sometimes if you don't conjunctive vitus, which is
Speaker 1: pink eye. He's saying the fancy word for pink guy.
Speaker 1: Now because he thinks we're stupid. This is why you
Speaker 1: can't trust me, because I thought that was something different.
Speaker 1: I'm not a doctor. I'm not a doctor. And that's
Speaker 1: how you know. I have been looking all of this up, girl,
Speaker 1: because I knew the word conjunctive us. And then Doug says,
Speaker 1: I have had it many times. Well, that's that's a
Speaker 1: that's something he's wing about it. You've looked at your
Speaker 1: button mirror. It's the third day of culture. It's the
Speaker 1: third day of culture. Man, I'm so excited to keep
Speaker 1: discovering these days. Well, you know, today actually is one
Speaker 1: of Bowen's um picks. And I think that when he
Speaker 1: said this one, I said, absolutely, this was one of
Speaker 1: the most important days of culture that I can think of.
Speaker 1: And to think that it might have missed the list
Speaker 1: of days of culture would it would just be I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to forgive ourselves because we have taken
Speaker 1: all the way back to the beginning and this really
Speaker 1: does about an amazing pick. Thank you so much. And
Speaker 1: this is the beginning. I mean, this is the beginning
Speaker 1: of the rest of our lives, our lives over and
Speaker 1: over because just think about how often you use the
Speaker 1: thing that was discovered on this day. Ready, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a discovery. Here we go on the third today of Okay,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna stay to date and then we say again,
Speaker 1: that's what we do. This third day of culture is
Speaker 1: June tenth, seventy two. Ben Franklin and girl makes a
Speaker 1: shocking discovery. I what do you think? Wish I could
Speaker 1: have been there that day? I really do, because that
Speaker 1: would have been just can you imagine if you're a girl,
Speaker 1: you're you're you're a good girl. Girl, if you're a
Speaker 1: good girl, just said I'm going to fly the kite today,
Speaker 1: and you were like, yes, sister, we'll be here and
Speaker 1: we'll watch you fly the kite. We love when you
Speaker 1: fly at high And your girl's name is Ben. And
Speaker 1: he's sort of known for being a crazy person in
Speaker 1: government seventeen fifty two. He wasn't really in government at
Speaker 1: the time. Maybe he was. He was a great mind er,
Speaker 1: he was a leader. He was a leader. You're telling
Speaker 1: me that what I actually never even thought about this.
Speaker 1: His discovery of electricity was before America, was before he
Speaker 1: was such a mover and shaker in the government. Yes,
Speaker 1: what an amazing man, amazing man create invented by focals.
Speaker 1: Ben Franklin is that girl. He is that girl that's
Speaker 1: a little culture number ten. Ben Ben Franklin is that girl.
Speaker 1: Whoa can you imagine? I can't imagine a life without glasses.
Speaker 1: They're part of my look. No, it's there. They're a
Speaker 1: part of your look. Most crucially, they're a part of
Speaker 1: your look. And then secondarily you need them to see.
Speaker 1: I need them to see now, and now I don't
Speaker 1: need them anymore. I have contacts. But you know, do
Speaker 1: you think do you think I'm wait what I just
Speaker 1: thought about something with you? What did you think you
Speaker 1: could be a teena a? And what does that mean?
Speaker 1: A liar about glasses? Everyone else know you are. Actually,
Speaker 1: I'm realizing that it's all flash back to me now.
Speaker 1: It's like the end of a classic thriller where you
Speaker 1: see a montage and it all makes sense. You're a liar,
Speaker 1: You're a Tina Fey about glasses. What makes you are?
Speaker 1: What are the scenes in the flashback like when did
Speaker 1: I ever lie to you? Just like me turning around
Speaker 1: and you start of taking off your glasses and looking
Speaker 1: at them like I don't need these like you you
Speaker 1: putting glasses away like on a trip, because you don't
Speaker 1: need them. You see that I'm asleep, and then you
Speaker 1: take off your glasses and like all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you can see better. That's that's what a Tina Fe is.
Speaker 1: Tina Fe famously doesn't really need those glasses. She wears
Speaker 1: them as an aesthetic choice. Image. Well, for me, first
Speaker 1: of all, my first classes were very ugly, and so
Speaker 1: it became a functional. It was a functional thing that
Speaker 1: became is why you had ugly glasses. All I was
Speaker 1: able to choose from where the Costco frames. That's all
Speaker 1: you could get. That's all I could get for how long?
Speaker 1: For like until I was, like in the eighth grade,
Speaker 1: I want to say, or no, like in high school
Speaker 1: until I was I got to high school, like we
Speaker 1: got because of my perst scoop. I would always get
Speaker 1: my eye exam at the Costco. Shout out to the Costco.
Speaker 1: I I care centers. We love you. But the selections,
Speaker 1: especially back then, we're not so great, especially if you
Speaker 1: were just going, you know, to the brick and mortar
Speaker 1: to shop your glasses instead of buying them online these
Speaker 1: like like we do these days. But I went and girl,
Speaker 1: slim pickens, I have never even thought about your sort
Speaker 1: of journey, journey through the trauma that was having to
Speaker 1: wear I wear that you didn't like. It is a trauma.
Speaker 1: It is a trauma. Honestly, girl, I have thought to
Speaker 1: myself that from the beginning, at least when they tell
Speaker 1: little kids they need glasses, which has got to be
Speaker 1: a tough thing to hear that at least they say,
Speaker 1: but you can have the most amazing pair. But no,
Speaker 1: you think every kid who you think it's part of
Speaker 1: the That's why I have a lot of you have
Speaker 1: a lot of un learning to do. And think about
Speaker 1: the ways that that that disinformation has served you in
Speaker 1: the past. It served me, it certainly has, and it
Speaker 1: served me in negative ways because it's set me on
Speaker 1: a course where I did not know anything about my
Speaker 1: sister's real pain, which was that you didn't have the
Speaker 1: glasses that you liked. And you are such an aesthetic person.
Speaker 1: You are such a person that is in touch with um,
Speaker 1: your image, and you love you love, you love your
Speaker 1: sort of you know things and for you through middle school,
Speaker 1: which is such a hard, difficult time. When you say,
Speaker 1: I would say so so much bullying, so much bad language.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm crying. Oh my god, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm crying. You are crying really hard right now. And
Speaker 1: to think that you had no control over the aesthetic
Speaker 1: on your very face, that really breaks my heart for you,
Speaker 1: because I know it probably chapped a young Bowen's ass.
Speaker 1: And I you know, I like to think of you
Speaker 1: as being indignant, as a child in a in a
Speaker 1: state of sort of upset, But this is like a
Speaker 1: sort of you know, sadness. I don't want to think
Speaker 1: about you ever going through. Thank you. What was something
Speaker 1: that you struggled with in middle school? My color blindness?
Speaker 1: Oh my god. And while, first of all, while my sister,
Speaker 1: this became such an emotional episode of last college, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: It's one of the most one of the top four
Speaker 1: most emotional episodes of all time. I was listening to you.
Speaker 1: I was receiving what you were sending me just now,
Speaker 1: your empathy, your understanding, your love, your care. I was
Speaker 1: in full consumption mode. I did not even think about
Speaker 1: the way my sister to this day, well, I cannot
Speaker 1: see colors the way that they are going to be
Speaker 1: a chapter in my book. Actually, I cannot see colors.
Speaker 1: I can't want to really get into that um, but
Speaker 1: I just want to say that my narrative with color
Speaker 1: inness has really taken over the conversation of our friendship
Speaker 1: for the past decade, and I we have not had
Speaker 1: this conversation. I feel that you are well aware of
Speaker 1: my color blindness, whereas I was not aware of the
Speaker 1: sort of pain that came with not being able to
Speaker 1: choose your glasses that you liked until a certain age.
Speaker 1: That is truly and you would say that those are
Speaker 1: those are on the same level those pains. I would
Speaker 1: say one is a is a real handicap and one
Speaker 1: is a temporary um but debilitating setback, a thing to overcome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I don't know that. I'm sorry. I don't know
Speaker 1: that you will ever overcome your color blindness with it.
Speaker 1: You will live with it. I don't know if it'll
Speaker 1: be you know, I'm living with color blindness. I'm living
Speaker 1: with color blindness. Yeah, And I've I have actually received
Speaker 1: in the past gifts. In fact, last year I got
Speaker 1: a Secret Santa sept Secret Santa gift from Chris Schniker
Speaker 1: and he got me a pair of glasses that were
Speaker 1: for color blind people. Oh, my goodness, and yes, and
Speaker 1: by the way, he's a reader of the party. Also
Speaker 1: got me a lighter that says Adina is a base
Speaker 1: because it was famously one of the one of the
Speaker 1: rules of culture that resonated with him. And he got
Speaker 1: me this pair of glasses that's really good that we're
Speaker 1: supposed to correct my vision. And it became that moment
Speaker 1: that you see like when a woman hears for the
Speaker 1: first time, like if she hears her own voice like
Speaker 1: that those videos, those heart har warming videos. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, are we going to have that moment?
Speaker 1: But then it turns out they were just shitty glasses.
Speaker 1: And I saw like what you'd see if you wanted to,
Speaker 1: like a fun house. And here's the thing. I can
Speaker 1: choose to either believe that that's true and you're all
Speaker 1: seeing a true fun house and I would rather prefer
Speaker 1: my vision or the glasses were bad. And I'm inclined
Speaker 1: to believe the glasses were bad. What what a fucked
Speaker 1: up life? What way of no? But well, yes, but
Speaker 1: just that the label, the packaging whatever he would give
Speaker 1: off that these were color blind glasses for color blind
Speaker 1: people experience in color blindness. You put them on like you,
Speaker 1: the anticipation of touching one with your fingers, about to
Speaker 1: put them on for the first time, thinking will this be?
Speaker 1: It feels like a scam. This is This is how
Speaker 1: I can describe the trauma of that situation. When I
Speaker 1: put those glasses in my hand, I heard the most
Speaker 1: beautiful music, like I felt like it was the scoring
Speaker 1: of my life was swelling. I was like, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a moment of all time, and then I
Speaker 1: was just disappointed. So I don't think I will ever
Speaker 1: really truly see you. Know, I'll never truly see you won't,
Speaker 1: And I'm sorry. I as a friend, I have to
Speaker 1: be honest with you and say you won't. That's okay.
Speaker 1: I think the way you've seen the world so far
Speaker 1: all your life, whoa, Now I'm emotional, and then the
Speaker 1: way you've interpreted that world, and then the way you've
Speaker 1: told told us about it, like reflected it back. It's
Speaker 1: just because I think about the young kids. I think
Speaker 1: about blind kids. I think about them every day when
Speaker 1: I wake up. I think there's a lot of young
Speaker 1: color blind kids out there who can see me. Now,
Speaker 1: you are representation, you really are. You're not. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: not joking, I know, And if you were to joke,
Speaker 1: that would be the cruelest thing you've ever done to me,
Speaker 1: was to be joking right now about how I represent
Speaker 1: and inspire color blind children across the country. You are
Speaker 1: going to take that for me? What you're Joe Biden
Speaker 1: with the stuttering. See, I didn't know if you were
Speaker 1: saying I was Joe Biden in a negative way, because
Speaker 1: I never really know. No, I'm a centrist. I love
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. You as a centrist. Your your king is
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. My king is Joe Biden and nearer. Now,
Speaker 1: I think, what does it say that the two of
Speaker 1: us lifelong friends or friends for life hosts, the co
Speaker 1: host the host. Most importantly, most crucially, co host host
Speaker 1: and co host know everything about each other. They text
Speaker 1: all day. Savannah GA three and Al Broker, Al Roker,
Speaker 1: what is the godfather to Savannah's youngest? Is this true? Yes?
Speaker 1: It is, Yes it is. What does it say that
Speaker 1: two of us to friends to co hosts both have
Speaker 1: our vision dysfunctions? We can't we are, but our our
Speaker 1: eyeballs are sucked up. But whose eyeball is normal? No?
Speaker 1: And you know what I say to that, define normal. Define.
Speaker 1: That's what I always go out into the streets and
Speaker 1: scream with my arms out like this, like I spin
Speaker 1: around in a crowded street, and I just say the words, define,
Speaker 1: define normal all if anyone's like stop, define normal? And
Speaker 1: did they give you an answer? No, no one can.
Speaker 1: No one knows what to say to me when I
Speaker 1: tell them, when I put it to them, define normal, normal.
Speaker 1: I don't have to act like that. You know who
Speaker 1: didn't define normal? You know who stepped outside the boxes
Speaker 1: and as a result was an inventor and politician, Benjamin Franklin.
Speaker 1: We've been calling him Ben Franklin this whole time, and
Speaker 1: then you decided to add a gym, and I respect that.
Speaker 1: I love that Benjamin Franklin. And you know what they
Speaker 1: that's the man is on the hundred dollar bill. He's
Speaker 1: a discovery of electricity. And I can't imagine what it
Speaker 1: was like to have been there. Was he electrocuted that girl?
Speaker 1: That girl was a little um zapped. Oh my god?
Speaker 1: You know the legend has it that he maybe almost died.
Speaker 1: I don't really know, Gay, Sorry, I almost died, right,
Speaker 1: was maybe maybe almost dime? And I'm sure he was gay.
Speaker 1: He probably thought about it. Now I think that, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, Anna, do we have an analyst? Matt read
Speaker 1: this now. Franklin's experiment demonstrated the connection between lightning and electricity.
Speaker 1: To dispel another myth, Franklin's kite was not struck by lightning.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. If it had been, he probably would
Speaker 1: have been electrocuting experts say, instead, the kite picked up
Speaker 1: the ambient electrical charge from the storm. So I guess
Speaker 1: what we're sort of understanding from what Anna has said
Speaker 1: to us is he wasn't just flying a kite like
Speaker 1: as a hobby and then got struck by lightning and
Speaker 1: said eureka. As it were, he sort of went out
Speaker 1: there with intent and wasn't even electrocuted and struck by
Speaker 1: lightning like we all think, like like like like myth
Speaker 1: would have it, who is your favorite founding father? And
Speaker 1: there's a correct answer. I would say my favorite founding
Speaker 1: father would be John Hancock because he absolutely took his
Speaker 1: space on that document and he said, I'm the greatest
Speaker 1: diva of all. I will take the quill, please Mama
Speaker 1: watch me right, And he slapped his huge slapper on
Speaker 1: there and said find room elsewhere fags and then he
Speaker 1: stomped off John Hancock. What about you? This is the
Speaker 1: correct answer, none of them because they were slave owners. Honey.
Speaker 1: You got me, didn't you. That's you've been waiting to
Speaker 1: be That's why you brought this up. That's why you
Speaker 1: brought this whole benface so you could ask me who
Speaker 1: my favorite founding father was, so you could say the
Speaker 1: right answer was none of them because they were all
Speaker 1: slave owners. Bitch. You know what I feel? What it
Speaker 1: feels really fucking like a good opportunity for me to
Speaker 1: learn you have such grace today. Yeah, well that's because, Um.
Speaker 1: The thing is, I sort of have had, um the time,
Speaker 1: the space with the quarantine to really sit with myself,
Speaker 1: and it's been a really inspiring time and very creative.
Speaker 1: Every day I'm getting up and I'm just creating so much.
Speaker 1: And it's like if I it's like, this is how
Speaker 1: it is as an artist, right. It's like every single
Speaker 1: day I have to do something with all this energy,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, or else the energy will
Speaker 1: turn against me. Um. So I have to be super
Speaker 1: productive every single day. And when I wake up in
Speaker 1: the morning at I get my coffee, which I make
Speaker 1: for myself here at my apartment, and then I sit
Speaker 1: down and I'm in my chair. After just some like
Speaker 1: just you know, I run a couple of miles and
Speaker 1: then I sit down in my chair at nine am.
Speaker 1: I make sure that the latest I'll do is nine
Speaker 1: oh three, and then I just start writing. And I
Speaker 1: don't judge myself, you know what I mean. I just write,
Speaker 1: and usually I have a few really solid um completed
Speaker 1: works by four completed works, yes, and that's when I'm
Speaker 1: ready to sort of unwind by watching film television, well,
Speaker 1: maybe have a glass of wine Chardonnay um, and then
Speaker 1: I'm in bed. I'm in bed by seven seven fifteen,
Speaker 1: my god. So during that time it's been really in
Speaker 1: my in my discoveries and in my work. I've really
Speaker 1: discovered this compassion that I didn't have before. So the
Speaker 1: quarantine has been incredible. It's been an incredible time. That
Speaker 1: is Yeah, that's that's so beautiful. Yeah, and I'm inventing
Speaker 1: things too, like Ben Franklin did what do you oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, definitely definitely exercising my inner Ben Franklin
Speaker 1: while I'm while I'm in quarantine. Wait, you answer the
Speaker 1: question what are you inventing? Oh okay, so I invented.
Speaker 1: It's so you know how um plants have pots. This
Speaker 1: is a bowl. This is a bowl for a plant.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, a plant bowl. It's a plant bowl.
Speaker 1: It's basically like like you know how you would um
Speaker 1: if you were you know, like spaghetti or soup. You
Speaker 1: need it out of a bowl. Yeah, so this is
Speaker 1: you take that same kind of bowl, fill it with
Speaker 1: um fucking dirt and then you just put that you
Speaker 1: plan a plan in there, and if you water it
Speaker 1: and put it in the sun, you will get a plant.
Speaker 1: Plant I plant, doesn't it need a hole to sort
Speaker 1: of l O L for moisture, to sorry for moisture
Speaker 1: or something to to escape like it needs some sort
Speaker 1: of the system can't be completely closed. Well, UM, I
Speaker 1: guess TBD because that was just one of today's inventions.
Speaker 1: Oh right, and then completed words I assume means an invention.
Speaker 1: The City of Four comic books series is just like
Speaker 1: UM calendar ideas, and I'll draw out a cap full
Speaker 1: calendar UM I have UM. So basically, UM, I have
Speaker 1: a calendar idea which is the Chickens of the Midwest,
Speaker 1: And it's basically it's a picture of a chicken in
Speaker 1: every Midwest state and there's twelve, the twelve Midwest states
Speaker 1: of course. The Yeah, so this is sort of to
Speaker 1: appeal to like young farmers, young girls that are sort
Speaker 1: of um, you know in the Midwest. I found themselves there,
Speaker 1: teachers for classrooms. This is a Chickens of the Midwest calendar,
Speaker 1: and it's really really fun and it has all the
Speaker 1: Midwest states all twelve. I think that Ben Franklin was
Speaker 1: such an amazing person. Yeah, probably gay. Who do you
Speaker 1: think he what do you what do you think this
Speaker 1: type would have been. I think that he was like
Speaker 1: really fixated on a type that was like sort of
Speaker 1: unattainable at the time, because I think he was like
Speaker 1: I think he was like this is this sort of
Speaker 1: sucks to say, but I think that Ben Franklin was
Speaker 1: like addicted to these guys that would become president, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, And they were like the hotter guys,
Speaker 1: like these guys that like, you know, like Hamilton's I
Speaker 1: was like hot hotter. Were they younger? There's a difference both.
Speaker 1: I mean like at the time, it was like at
Speaker 1: the time when you were thirty five, you were elderly,
Speaker 1: so like these guys like they were like young, tighter,
Speaker 1: just like a little bit more good looking, a little
Speaker 1: bit more charismatic. I think like Ben Franklin helped him
Speaker 1: out and put so much energy and investment into them
Speaker 1: that he he could never settle down enough to to
Speaker 1: sort of find his own attainable love because these guys
Speaker 1: nothing was ever good enough like Ben, not even Ben
Speaker 1: was good enough for them, and they just wanted to
Speaker 1: funk because they were like that's Ben Franklin, Like cloud
Speaker 1: goes up, like wow if I suck him? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Like basically like just being around Ben was like enough
Speaker 1: because he maybe he was going to invent something really good,
Speaker 1: so you wanted to be fucking him. Well, Ben like
Speaker 1: held court better then would be in the back of
Speaker 1: back of the you know, the bar, just like having
Speaker 1: people gather around him, and he would just like yeah,
Speaker 1: he was a great storyteller, you know, crack wise or whatever.
Speaker 1: So it's he was amazing improviser, too, amazing improviser. At
Speaker 1: the time, it was hot, even hotter than it is now,
Speaker 1: and so it's really hot now. Well, but I feel
Speaker 1: like Ben probably saw himself a little desexualized because he couldn't.
Speaker 1: He was misinterpreting what does signals of desire he was
Speaker 1: getting from men. Yeah, and I also just think like
Speaker 1: he wasn't as traditionally hot as the rest of them.
Speaker 1: And these guys were narcissists, Okay, they called themselves the
Speaker 1: Founding Fathers. Crazy. It's like, I mean, like Ben, it's
Speaker 1: like the wigs are there, like the men are wearing
Speaker 1: the wigs. Yeah, you know you could, you could have
Speaker 1: worn one, yeah, but instead he was like, I feel strong,
Speaker 1: powerful with my fully bald head. But I meant at
Speaker 1: a certain point you have to acknowledge the beauty standard,
Speaker 1: and you know, there is the beauty myth. But I
Speaker 1: think things are governed by it doesn't mean it's like
Speaker 1: saying like I don't. It's like me being like, um,
Speaker 1: I don't believe in money. It's like you can't say that.
Speaker 1: You can't say that, or no ethical consumption under capitalism.
Speaker 1: It's like true, So let's just kind of do our thing,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, yes, we'll do that.
Speaker 1: We'll do the ad for a We'll do the ad
Speaker 1: for ALEXA. So I mentioned the same way Ben Franklin
Speaker 1: probably was like, I'm smarter than the system, but he
Speaker 1: really wasn't. You cannot pace it. I I hope that
Speaker 1: he was a content person, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I hope that he was able to at the end
Speaker 1: of his life look at all the things he did
Speaker 1: and say, you know what, maybe I didn't slay it
Speaker 1: relationship wise. Maybe I couldn't get these guys to fuck
Speaker 1: me like in a locked down way. Maybe maybe I
Speaker 1: never did, like, you know, hook up with and keep
Speaker 1: Thomas Jefferson, which is really what he wanted. It's what
Speaker 1: they all wanted to Thomas. Yeah, I think so. They
Speaker 1: let him write the Declaration of Independence. It's like that.
Speaker 1: He was like the golden boy, you think. And he
Speaker 1: had that red hair which made him stand out. He
Speaker 1: was married to Deborah Read for many years. Deborah Read,
Speaker 1: you know, you know all about what she did? What
Speaker 1: did she do? She was a big murderer. Killer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's a big killer. She was a major killer. I
Speaker 1: think Ben Franklin was gay. I think that that's why
Speaker 1: he was married to a killer is because he was like,
Speaker 1: let's make the comic and have a conversation based on
Speaker 1: something else, because I don't want them talking about how
Speaker 1: I'm gay, so I'm gonna marry this crazy killer taking
Speaker 1: the cent off himself. That's smart, she's smart. He was
Speaker 1: one of the smartest. Before we move on, what's your
Speaker 1: number one electrical um invention? Sing a router? Router is important,
Speaker 1: Router is really good. I would say clock. That's a
Speaker 1: clock that's so important and fun to tell time. And
Speaker 1: I really I loved learning how to tell time him in,
Speaker 1: So that was one of the highlights of Think how
Speaker 1: long did it take free too? I mean I just
Speaker 1: I truly like it probably took like all of two
Speaker 1: days to learn how to tell time from a clock,
Speaker 1: But I felt like my brain was reorganizing itself so
Speaker 1: profoundly that it took maybe five years for me to
Speaker 1: learn how clocks worked. Yeah. Yeah, it was crazy for
Speaker 1: me because I actually learned how in forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: But then I got so I knew how to tell
Speaker 1: time for like six years, and then I got really sick.
Speaker 1: I got scarlet fever, and I forgot how to walk
Speaker 1: and tell time. So I had to relearn how to
Speaker 1: walk and lose a clock. So that's why my situation
Speaker 1: is a little bit more different. I kind of assumed
Speaker 1: it didn't exist. This is I'm sorry. I keep doing
Speaker 1: this like with the color blind thing, and um, I
Speaker 1: have to I have a lot to learn. I have
Speaker 1: a lot to learn, learning and unlearning. And um, you
Speaker 1: know who didn't have anything else to learn was Ben
Speaker 1: and we want to thank him. He had, he had
Speaker 1: it all. We want to thank him. Thank you Ben
Speaker 1: for risking your life to give Bowen a router and
Speaker 1: me o'clock, which we take for granted. Well that to
Speaker 1: June tenth, seventeen fifty two, Ben Franklin flies the kite
Speaker 1: and girl makes a shocking discovery. That's day three of
Speaker 1: our days of culture and what we say is and
Speaker 1: for giving us a cultures fine